i m anxious because i have a trade that i love, and have loved since i was 4 years old. it s all i have ever really wanted to do. it s the possibility of seeing the end of an american trade. i feel threatened. report are makes about 12 guy stars a year. but they are worth $9,000 to $10,000 apiece. he says one fine bill from the department of fish and game would put him out of business. the amendment to the lacy act to help protect against illegal logging. but there doesn t appear to be illegal logging. the indian government says the wood it exported to gibson is legal. but the u.s. government says now it s not legal to import into the united states. this created a massive amount of confusion. the national association of music merchants wrote a lower the president and members of congress complaining about the
in the north california. town is county is cupertino and the town is santa clara. a gunman opened fire after an employee meeting earlier today. this is at a cement company called lehigh. other own claudia cowan is en route to the scene. we ll talk to claudia if they can find the gunman. 7:00 in california. martha: there are calls for a special counsel to look into allegations that america s chief law enforcer may have lied to congress. house republicans sending a letter to president obama telling him that eric holder can not investigate himself. back in may the attorney general testified about operation fast & furious . the botched federal gun running sting that may have led to the death of an american border agent. and now the attorney general is being accused of perjury. that is how we start a brand
does that protect him? well, what protects him is what his intention was. if his intention was to mislead the congress, then he could be prosecuted and tried for a crime equivalent to perjury. the punishment is the same. it is five years in jail per lie whether you re under oath or not. so if they were going to prosecute him and this only happened once in modern times where the attorney general was prosecuted that would be john mitchell. they we have to demonstrate to a jury that he intentionally misled. that it wasn t a memory failure. there was some sort of misleading here, there is no question about it. the issue is did he do so intentionally or was just human nature that caused him to forget this. martha: what about the claim coming from the justice department that he was aware of the program and that he wasn t aware of the controversy related to the program. so what he was referring to, i guess is the indication that he became aware there was a controversy surrounding all of thi
president s tax plan. listen to all of this. you know who this who this guy was? it wasn t a democrat. wasn t some crazy socialist. it was ronald reagan. it was ronald reagan [. [applause] last time i checked republicans all thought reagan made some sense. so the next time you hear one of those republicans in congress accusing you of class warfare you just tell them, i m with ronald reagan. martha: how about that. so here is ronald reagan in the quote that president obama was referencing. reagan in his own words back in 1985. we re going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that had the wealthyvoiding paying
new hour of america s newsroom. i m martha maccallum. good morning, everybody once again. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning, everyone. congress demanding answers after brian terry was shot dead by a gun thought to be from that failed operation. the key question is this, to the attorney general, when did you know about fast & furious . when did you first know about the program, officially i believe called fast & furious , to the best of your knowledge, what date? i m not sure the exact date but i probably heard about fast & furious for the first time over the last few weeks. martha: that is the problem, that answer. because a memo to eric holder about a year before that referred to this covert mission known as fast & furious . joined by judge andrew napolitano. host of freedom watch on fox news business network and a fox news judicial analyst. good morning, judge. good morning, martha. martha: i can t say the date for sure. it was probably around this date.