you analyzed coverage of stories like this, steve. there are a lot of things going on in this country, a lot of things withhold hold at the center. but not one, 30 minutes, i m looking at the transcript. the russian spy case, eight questions including what happens to their children much that s enough for him to inquire into but not whether the department of justice as alleged by the whistle-blower has a policy now of not enforcing the law in an equal way in a nondiscriminatory way. they should have asked a question i think. eric holder is in the news for a lot of reasons. there is the arizona immigrati immigration. guantanamo. i don t think it s fair to put it owl on bob schef tp-rbs er. megyn: i haven t seen a sit down with the attorney general of the united states since it broke. we haven t seen the obama anministration weigh in on any level. that s because people aren t asking this question. megyn: you saw one thing, your guy asked robert gibbs about it
chinese goods. more stuff would be made here, a bigger gdp. to some extent we would have more tax revenue, but that would only provide a partial solution, just like cutting healthcare spending, or reforming healthcare spending would be a partial solution. the deficit represents the whole series of very bad choices made by both the bush and obama anministration. jenna: i m glad you brought that up. it s choices from years and years. real quick peter, when we talk about the economy we tend to say everything is really bad and then we end the segment. we don t believe anybody with anything that is useful. is it possible, i mean can we actually get the economy back on track? can we actually get the debt under follow or is it really impossible? reporter: strictly speaking it s very possible to do. the basic problem is we ve had ideologs in the white house. barack obama is a got i can liberal.
spoke to this morning says that is overly simplistic to say the least. the files may not have been in the best order but he believes what the obama anministration has run into is the same problem that the bush team ran into which is that you have this hard-core group that is left and it s hard to find countries that are willing to step up and take them from guantanamo bay, jon. jon: some of these guys are supposed to go to trial, right. reporter: that s right. i think one of the great things that has been lost in this whole discussion of the politics of guantanamo bay and i felt that especially when i was at the military detention camps last week is you have two key trials that are about to hit their ninth and 10th anniversaries since the attack. the uss cole will be ten years old. in september you re going to have the nine-year anniversary of the september 11th attacks. and the expectation is that there will be no month. on either of these cases by the
is resistance in congress, not only republicans but also democrats have reservations about moving ultimately more than 60 detainees to the united states for indefinite detention because there is not enough information or evidence to prosecution them in the system. this administration also feels that they remain a security risk jon. jon: and the obama anministration i guess is blaming the previous administration for leaching the gitmo records a mess. reporter: this is a narrative that is really starting to take shape i would say in the last six to eight months over the weekend aeufd axelrod told cnn one of the reasons the obama seem has failed to goes gitmo in time is the records were left in disarray by the bush administration. there was no case history on everybody there. we had to reconstruct who the folks were, and now some have been transferred, others are bound for transfer, others for trial. reporter: well, one critic i
whether or not the commission has the power to enforce that subpoena. megyn: because normally when somebody blows off their subpoena they go to the department of justice to seek enforcement. in this case the department of justice is the target of the subpoena which is why the commission has asked the department of justice to appoint a special prosecutor, and the doj has said no. trace gallagher we ll be back to you in a bit. thank you, buddy. this story is far from over. we have new reaction today. coming up bishop e. w. jackson is here live. bishop jackson now a cushion the obama anministration of engaging in racial pay back politics. j. christian adams how saw in trace s hit testified that his former employer instructed attorneys within the civil rights division not to pursue voter rights or voter intimidation cases if the defendant is back and the victim is white. bishop jackson now explains why he is now demanding a congressional investigation into this case.