us with his piece printed in the wall street journal today, it s a single i shal issue election. we have a blizzard of events coming on, a lot of incoming, fast and furious. at the end of the day the american voters, the one deciding the election in november are focused on one thing and that is the state of the economy, because it hasn t been good and it hasn t been good for a pretty longtime now. the federal reserve just yesterday said they think through next year the unemployment rate is going to be 8%. that s very high unemployment for an economy of $15 trillion, and so i think most voters are going to be looking at those two men very closely to try to figure out which one is going to take them into a better economy. jenna: one of the things you reference in your speech was the economic speech the president gave last week. a question everybody is asking from republicans and the president as well are there any new ideas out there when it
how in the world can he assert executive privilege where he had no conversations about it. the president s assertion of executive privilege creates more questions. one of the big issues we ve been dealing with is who knew about fast and furious, what did they know about it and how high up did it go. we owe it to the people of this country to get to the bottom of this. the american people are willing to forgive a mistake if somebody comes up and says, yes i made a mistake, i m sorry, i m not going to do it again. but when the cover up starts the american people do not tolerate being lied to, they do not tolerate their elected officials being lied to, and they do not appreciate not knowing, and not having a transparent government. this culture of stonewalling has got to stop. jenna: republicans up in arms over the president asserting executive privilege, charging the white house and attorney general holder are now trying to block its investigation of operation fast and furious. thi
there is word a deal of some sort could be in the works. hi, everybody, we are glad you are with us pwa, i today, i m jenna lee. rick: and i m rick folbaum days before the full house is set to vote the ap is reporting house republicans would like to negotiate an end to the document dispute. the standoff escalated even further yesterday. you saw it live right here on happening now, the president asserting executive privilege, preventing the release of the department of justice records on operation fast and furious. that as we mentioned, debotched gun running sting that sent weapons into mexico. some of those guns turned up at crime scenes on both sides of the border, including at the shootout that killed u.s. border agent brian terry. his mother now speaking out. my son was a person who believed in justice and he believed in telling the truth. he was a man of his honor, and if anybody knew him they knew
monitored over the course of two administrations. actually step back, take a breath, work with the attorney general to get more documents because i do support the effort to get as many documents as we need as long as it s not asking the attorney general to violate the law. jenna: one of the reports from the associated press this morning that potentially there was a deal being worked out and still work being done between the republicans in the house and the justice department for some more, additional documents. we ll see if that comes to pass n. the meantime, we re likely to hear more about this story in the white house press briefing. we re awaiting that, we ll bring you news as we get it. rick: right now a desperate situation in the south pacific. a boat filled with refugees who were seeking asylum in australia capsizing. julie banderas is following this. reporter: off the coast of australia with up to 200 refugees onboard, and right now australian and indonesian crews are currentl
executive privilege, it looks like there is a cover up there and it could be a big problem for obama. i disagree with that. this is the problem that i have here. i think that americans need to believe in the integrity of our government whether it s run by democrats ea democrats or republicans or one day maybe someone out of both parties. we need an investigation to get to the raoft it. that s what we want. i don t hear that. that s what we want, but you know what i say then what we need to do is get to the heart of this. go back to 2006, let s speak with attorney general mukasey, let s speak with the atf officials and agents. i agree. let s speak with everybody. we cannot do that if we have a witch hunt atmosphere. we can t both speak at the same time. rick: we are returning out of time here. let me get in here before we get cut off. the idea of a deal being struck before the full house gets to vote on these contempt charges, angela would you like to see that happen?