duke and wisconsin scare square off in the men s basketball championship game tomorrow night. it raised eye brows this week when it said it is not responsible for the education of student athletes. joining me is cnn sports able list christine brenen and espn writer. i want to read the statement from ncaa. it opens up the conversation well. and they worked for a long time on this statement. it s very well crafted. do you buy it? well i i understand that the ncaa is being buffetted in all ways. you want people paying athletes. on the other hand you want people saying what about the student in student athlete? i understand both of the conversations fop me it s a
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
lot of women. and then he stopped. it is almost like he decides no one else can have fun because he had his fun, right? has he stopped having fun? well i i did not know that. you should read up on this before coming to the show. well, he is a jehovah s witness. part of the religion is nobody should be celebrating anything. so it doesn t surprise me. his comments were strong, and then he backtracks and he starts talking about how tradition and tradition and there will always be naysayers and people are unhappy with everything. what was interesting in the story is he is angry with the way he is not making money with music and he has a meeting with the president coming up to discuss financial incentives for musicians? that s prince though.
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to direct his ire to him once the wall street journal reported that his wife ran for a democratic state senate seat in 2015 abaccepted money from the clinton family friend. it was the in exyear andrew mccabe oversaw the clinton email the server email probe. and so he believes that s one reason. but also, don, he told me in the interview he believes because he could be a witness and robert mueller s probe and the firing of the former fbi director james comey, he believes that s a big reason why he is being targeted, why he is being turned into a political punching bag. now, i asked him because as you know the inspector general is supposed to be non-partisan. the i.g. worked under both administrations, the obama administration as well. i i asked him whether the thought the i.g. was unduly influenced because this stems from a i.g. report. he says i don t know. the investigation escalated once it became clear i was a witness