point, partisan politics and a sitting u.s. attorney general cot in the cross fire. eric holder is in copenhagen this morning. yesterday a house committee voted to recommend citing him for contempt of congress for not turning over documents from that botched fast and furious gun operation. you will remember that program allowed guns to end up in the hands of mexican drug cartels and is connected to the death of at least one u.s. law enforcement officer. those documents are now off limits to republicans and everybody else because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep them under wraps. it brings us to joe jons live from washington, d.c. this morning. good morning. good morning, soledad, the contempt issue moves to the full house of representatives as early as neck week. holder is the first obama administration official to be held in contempt by congressional committee. the point man on all of this for the republicans, of course, is chairman darrell issa. he ta
country. i m wondering, the tuition, or the cost of college is paid for either by taxpayers, by students, or by debt. i m all for making tuition be lower, but part of that includes not spending so much money on these colleges. i see, you know, you ve got dorms, you ve got middle level administrators, all being funded in unprecedented levels. these campuses often look like four-year resorts. i don t know about the uc campuses, but i see on campuses all over. so is there any way in which a little bit of, say, austerity, could be used to make sure that the tuition hike, tuition cuts you re calling for, aren t falling on the back of taxpayers? or i want to add one thing to that, natalia, on the transparency front, do the students even know where their tuition money goes? and is it clear whether it even goes to learning things, or whether it goes to adding prestige that may not even benefit the students? right. like, buildings and stuff.
if they are large enough, they may quite simply ignore that. there is a relatively small police presence. they tell me they are prepared to move in in greater numbers if it is required. there has been a police helicopter overhead. all are able to contact each other through the social media and talk with the other protesters there in new york and across the united states. it has that accepts of a global gathering. keir, how much attention have folks in england been paying to what s going on in new york? we got a lot of news here in the states about two sort of moments in british politics. the u.k. uncut movement which was a large movement against tuition cuts and austerity measures. that was largely nonviolent. we have a lot of news about the riots that happened. how much have folks in england been watching what s going on down in wall street. we have been paying attention. there has been in the news, and in the newspapers but i think if this protest begins to build some steam, then
business. if you run a business and you fail, you re not going to be making money. reporter: absolutely. you know, ted, ted, ted i have a question. reporter: very well taken. they want education up there is the number one priority for politicians. ted,vy a question. i m just sitting here listening. they may have a very good beef with the state, but i m just wondering what alternative do they propose? i mean, look, everybody seems to be tightening their belts these days. if they don t make the tuition cuts where do they think the cuts should be made? the money has got to come from somewhere. reporter: basically everywhere else but education. and the theory is here is that education s been cut enough. these people say, hey, we ve done our share. if you cut education any more you re really going to hit the fabric of this country. ted, ted, hold on. ted, hold on. hold on. ted, hold on. we re looking at reporter:
that should be a very interesting meeting, what comes out of that here at the white house late krr this morning. thank you so much from the white house. tickets to a baseball game, that s at the center of a scandal with patterson. he accepted free yankee tickets for last year s world series. the case has been referred to authorities for a possible criminal investigation. they want to know whether he violated the gift ban and whether or not he lied about paying for the tickets. fed up with the rising cost of education. they are protesting higher tuition cuts in student services and reductions in funding for higher education. this is atlanta, georgia, where the university system plans a 35% tuition hike, and a possible $1,000 student fee. in colorado, lawmakers looking at cutting $1.3 billion in their