they ll pack they ll get on every single slice. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re expecting a vote in the house of representatives. the house oversight committee at any moment now on whether to hold the attorney general of the united states, eric holder, in contempt of congress. at issue, his refusal to turn over documents about the botched gun-running sting operation called fast and furious. the republican-led panel going forward even after president obama today invoked executive privilege claiming the release of the documents would have in his words, significant damaging consequences. the attorney general has refused to cooperate offering to provide subpoenaed documents only if the committee agrees in advance to close the investigation. no investigator would ever agree to that. the likes of the committee chairman. he will call the role call momentarily. want to know if senior justice officials knew if the fast and furious program was flawed. fe
on cnn. good monday morning to you, everyone. it s good to have you with us, welcome to early start. i m ashley banfield. we re bringing you the news from a to z. big developments in greece that are sure to have a ripple effect. winning yesterday s parliamentary election in a vote seen by many as an endorsement for the survival of the euro. i will make sure that the sacrifices of the greek people will bring the country back to prosperity. so now it s up to samaras to form a coalition government to quickly keep greece afloat. something that other euro nations are hopes that we can do. christine romans is monitoring markets. as we started, we said, ah, good news here. features have turned lower. and i saw this described as a stay of execution for greece. others have called it the status quo. what is the status quo? relying on other monies from other countries to stay afloat, to basically not go broke and it still has an awful lot of work to do here. but voters dec
congressman arthur davis says he s voting for mitt romney this time around. he s going to tell us why. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the cold war is long over, but a chill has settled in in the relations right now. the key shoous, moscow s support in the regime for syria. it may help fuel a brutal crackdown. president obama is addressing that issue headon at the g-20 summit in mexico. dan lothian is joining us right now. dan, what s the latest on this tension between the u.s. and russia? the two leaders met for about two hours. president obama saying the meeting was candid and thorough. i have to tell you, you take a look at the body language, and it gives you a sense of what the meeting was like. they did not sit close together. president obama was leaning towards president putin. president putin was leaning away. you didn t see any smiles at the end of the remarks. they had a quick handshake. sort of half a smile. president obama patting him briefly on
they are americans in their heart, in their minds, in every single way but one. it s a dream come true for more than 1 million undocumented immigrants in the u.s. the dramatic shift in policy as a humanitarian moment in history. critics called it arrogant. we put it in focus. later families so devastated by the economy, they are abandoning their children in orphanages. where it s a crisis tearing families apart. it is it is saturdays, june 16th. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. we ll get to the headlines in a minute. on this father s day weekend, i wanted to make sure you knew what one texas father did to protect his daughter. it s captured the attention of ours. i visited a neighborhood ranch that is now a crime scene. here is what we know. a 23-year-old father was working his horses and getting a barbecue started when he heard his 5-year-old daughter screaming in the barn. he ran toward her and found a 47-year-old man, an acquaintance of the family trying
arming the assad regime. we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to syr syria. we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria, which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically. moscow insists any arms supplies sent to syria are not being used against anti-government protesters. the suspect in the auburn triple murder is in custody after a three day manhunt. desmonte leonard turned himself into authorities at the federal courthouse in montgomery, alabama. facing three counts of capital murder. he gunned down three people and wounded three others after a fight broke out in an off campus party. two of those killed were former auburn football players. gabrielle giffords former aide will serve out the remainder of her term in the house. barber defeating kelly by 6 points. he ll fill giffords seat until november. in virginia, george allen easily defeated three