mandated to investigate. the documents you re going over are not from any of those three. they re not from any of those three. but we will in consultation with our attorney and as a committee as a whole deal with the issue of the assertion of fifth amendment constitutional rights. now, when the senator says, kendall, they are not a criminal investigative body, does that mean they have no options available to them, they would have to refer to a prosecutor if that is their choosing, and then how do they deal with the fact that state prosecutors are connected to the governor? well, i think from the standpoint of the subject of an investigation, whether or not they re facing an investigation that is purely criminal in nature, they still have fifth amendment rights. the question really here is this going to get them anywhere in terms of withholding documents. the fifth protects testimony. it doesn t protect preexisting documents. perhaps you can hold your
oversight chair ice issa issues subpoenas. good morning. good morning. darrella att darrell issa has sent a letter, this time directly to the secretary of state, asking for information, saying that the state s withholding documents. . does this have any impact? does this even move the cause forward to get these documents? if i were secretary kerry, i would cooperate with the committee fully. the only thing we ever learned about benghazi, the irs, the a.p., is subpoenas, whistle blowers, congress pulling things out like pulling teeth. so the subpoena is designed to get all the documents around who changed the talking points, the 100 e-mails that were released by the white house leads up to the saturday meeting. there was a meeting in the white house saturday before susan rice
shepard: lawmakers in the house of representatives today filed a lawsuit against the attorney general of the united states eric holder. this move aimed at getting documents related to the fast and furious gun sting. that s the operation that was meant to track weapons to mexican drug cartels. the feds didn t track some of those weapons. and the band left two of them shootout border patrol agent brian terry died. republic led house has been investigating this situation. in june lawmakers voted to hold the attorney general in contempt of congress for withholding documents they want. the attorney general still has not handed over those documents. and the president is using executive privilege to keep the files under wraps. so now, the house oversight committee is taking the executive branch to court. asking a judge to force the attorney general holder to turn over those documents. a justice spokeswoman responded that the department was always willing to work with the committee, instead,
government for withholding documents. for instance, that would basically breach the government s claim. for instance yesterday there was a story in the washington guardian that showed that the doj withheld from congress memos showing that the administration s political appointees were going off whistle-blowers while others were trying to protect them. will this money generate someone to drop documents? we ll see. back to you. jenna: as you mention quality control key here as well for whatever information if any comes forward. william, thank you. jon: new information for you on the job market in this country and it s pretty dismal. listen to this. the u.s. economy so bad over the last three months more americans went on disability than found jobs. that s according to a new study released by republicans on the senate budget committee. let s talk about it with charlie hurt a columnist for the washington times. char lease, just over the last three months there have been more people going o
to drain the swamp. what has he done? he s drained the swamp and turned it into a cesspool. gregg: the bush administration invoked executive privileges a bunch of times and president obama has only done it once. you remember the josh fuel ton-harriette myers, how is this different than their withholding documents. in many ways you re making the point. we have a president, an administration. it ran on the fact they would be open, let the sunshine in. when they get up against the wall where okay this may not be great news for them, it looks like they screwed up, but they haven t been willing to come clean. so gregg: i got ya. if the president was flip and this was a republican president the left would be going berserk right now. gregg: congressman david schweikert thank you for taking the time this holiday.