and sean hannity stands up and p walks up the stairs and he looki at me and goes, what happened? i just i told him i was hurt as a medical student. but it just told me that even somebody i had been on the air with wouldn t know. ha is apparent is that charles krauthammer has theppa attention of people in high places. just one example, his oppositiom to white house counsel harriette myers not only helped block her nomination to the supreme court, a comment on the panel,a co apparently gave president bush a way out. i remember thinking, how do they get out of this. and it came to me while on the set c of special report. i think what the administration ought to do is say look. his solution? basically went like this. because myers legal writings were covered by executived privilege, the senate couldn tte vet her. so she had to withdraw. a few days later, that s whet they did. are you surprised by the
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.
1975 who was cited for contempt, the bottom line is, you don t want your legacy to contain a contempt order of congress. that s serious stuff. gregg: some people regard it as a badge of honor. karl rove, harriette myers. but at the end of the day, what you have shear a borrowed patrol agent who is dead, because the department of justice allowed 2,000 ar 15s to walk across the border with nothing connected to them other than we ll find these guns in a homicide scene. the problem is that no one has been fired. no one has been accountable. eric holder, although he has testified at six or seven hearings said he didn t know, then he did know, then he didn t know until then, but now he knew sooner and we re only finding this out because congress is getting information in response to the subpoena. gregg: the administration always asserts executive privilege and the lawyer under privilege law says there is a presumption of privilege and it s almost impossible for