influence that impartial justice right now. it s kind of pathetic. did rudy giuliani give the special counsel a gift with all these comments? i think he did. you ve got to remember, he is the attorney for the president is his agent. he s speaking same as the president himself were speaking. and the president might be held accountable. rudy giuliani may lose his law license before this is all over as well. john josh, thank you gentlemen. i appreciate it. when we come back, sources tell cnn the president s legal team was blind sided by rudy giuliani s comments last night, including the latest one. one of many explanations for why fbi director james comey was fired. more on the legal headaches giuliani may be making for his boss.
0 i think the strength chris is going to sell is not just that he is going to flip some blue states. places that used to be competitive. can these other kand kates i m running against do that? i any conservatives will object to things like him taking the medicaid expansion. public employee commissions. what conservative policy accomplishments does ted cruz have or rand pal have? getting half a loaf, he has gotten something done and his opponents have gotten none. john, i would like you to weigh in on this question. rsh i just don t see how ronald reagan would be accepted by anybody in the tea party. because, for him, it was the only practical version of compromise that he could come up with in order to be fiscally responsible as a republican. and i don t see any tea party members accepting this. i agree with you. i don t think that he would pass the smell test and he did raise taxes when it was necessary. he was a moderate by today s standards. which, you know, those moderates have
administration, you ll see it. so big question, i guess, what happens next. a vote on contempt in the full house would be next, assuming there s no negotiated settlement, which is typically what happens in these cases. after that, it would be referred to the united states attorney for the district of columbia, which, by the way, is headed by attorney general holder. that s the justice department. so kind of unlikely that the justice department would agree to prosecutor its own attorney general. that, of course, means a thing like this could be thrown into the courts which could go on for years. most of the time what you see in situations like this is some type of negotiated settlement. the question would be whether disclosure of the information the committee is seeking could be arranged by letting just a few people look at it or narrowing the kinds of questions that are asked of a witness, something to that effect. but still, given what s going on in washington, you could cer
start. nice to have you with us. i m ashleigh banfield and i m zoraida sambolin. it s 5:00 a.m. here in the east. let s get started. attorney eric holder to be held in contempt in congress. yesterday the members of the government oversight and reform committee voted along party lines to recommend citing him for contempt for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents from the botched fast and furious gun operation, documents that are now off limits to republicans, and everyone else, because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep all of those documents now under wraps. joe johns is live from washington, d.c., this morning. joe, this is the first time that president obama has used the executive privilege. i think it was president clinton that maybe used it 14 times. how rare is this, and what is going to happen next to the attorney general? reporter: it is rare, but on the other hand, presidents do it, and most presidents do it at least once or twice during