committee congresswoman, are also pointing to brian terry s family saying they deserve answers while there s no evidence that a gun from this program was used in his death, there were guns found near that scene. well, the program started under the prior administration. and we have turned over or rather the democrats have they turned over the department of justice 7,000 pages of documents authorizing an ig to investigate and testified nine times before congress. and the documents that they re looking at now have nothing to do with terry or the terrible tragedy that happened to him and his family. but it concerns a letter that was sent to senator grassley that was incorrect when they said something like, that the ag s office was not involved and did not know anything about fast and furious. and fast and furious was a
we are. look at what s happening in the last 20 years, the year since the year 2000. what happened in the last five years. it s downhill. so what do we get? education for kids. they re graduating have more debt, no education and no jobs. that s what your social contract is getting you. a bit of a personal question, are you on social security? do you get social security checks? i do. well, i mean, is there you just told younger generations to ween off this social contract. that is true. but you haven t done it yourself. social security like i said i would preserve the social security the best i can, but we want to get off. but this is one program we were supposed to be paying into an insurance program. i understand that. don t you think you should have set a good example for the future generations. you re not the wealthiest man in congress, i know that, but you have enough means to take care of yourself in retirement. do you know not to be sank mow nous about it.
a witness and is the wife just supporting her husband or is she ignoring some signs that could have been there for her? we ll see how it plays out for everybody. keeping a very close eye on this and bringing minute by minute updates. former prosecutor, defense attorney, b.j. bernstein, great to have you on and maybe bring you back if we get more details out of bellefonte, pennsylvania. thank you. i m waiting to see, as well. thanks. all right. a house committee voting shortly on whether to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress. shortly before the vote, though, the white house stepped in and invoked executive privilege. i ll talk with congressman mica about the temperature inside that room. this message. back from the worst economic depression. almost 4.3 million new jobs we re still not creating them president s jobs plan firefighters, police officers, work. right now. wealthiest americans congress refuses to act. tell congress we can t wait.
big ones, plus health care, and health care is the biggest of them all and it could come on the last day which is next thursday. that s exactly right. the court is only scheduled to sit next week on monday but they always end up adding days. what they ve done basically in their own calendar is reserve next week and based on their past practice and it s a very tradition-bound place, they would probably finish up next thursday. the biggest, hardest case would come down on the last day. that means health care. immigration, the arizona law is also a very big case. that could be next week, it could be monday. the impact of that as well is being widely followed. there s no question. if it weren t for health care, that would be what everyone was looking at. it s a once an every few term case because it has political overtones, racial overtones, balance of power between congress and the states. it was argued on the very last day of arguments in april, so they ve had even less time to wor
is instructed, it s his duty, the law says, to convene a grand jury to decide whether to prosecute. couple things about that. number one, the justice department has long taken the position under both democratic and republican administrations that congress can t tell the u.s. attorney what to do. so that s unresolved in court. secondly, justice departments most recently in the bush administration, both republicans and democrats again have further taken the position when there s an executive privilege claim, the u.s. attorney absolutely cannot do anything. all these questions are unresolved in court and in fact, in past cases, most recently the battle over harriet myers and the firings of the u.s. attorneys under the bush administration, the judge said you know, i m begging you guys to work this out and not come to court. so who knows what the end game here is. what you have right now is darrell issa, chairman of this committee, saying give us the documents and if they satisfy us, we won