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Probably just about two or three hours away from when this will wrap up. so almost five hours on the hill for eric holder. shep: not fun. thanks very much. nice to see you. a lot first amendment questions here. let s bring in lucy, the dean of the college of journalism at the university of maryland. nice to see you. thank you. pleasure to be here, shep. shep: where do you see this? is this all it s being made out to be or what is your thinking? this subpoena is truly alarming. we have had subpoenas of this type on a much more limited scale over the years, but nothing that i m aware of and i ve been doing this for 25 years off and on and nothing that would seek this many records over this broad of a period of time from so many different reporters. nothing that was as overall intrusive into the operations of an entire news organization. shep: it sounds as if what ....
As they say, recuse himself from the ap case. shep: the hearing divided, as everything is right along political lines. predictably so. senior democrat slammed the republican leadership as hypocrites. this committee s republican leadership demanded aggressive investigation of press leaks, accusing the administration itself of orchestrating those leaks. then members of this committee wanted reporters subpoenaed, put in front of grand juries and potentially grailed for contempt. now, of course, it is convenient to attack the attorney general for being too aggressive. earlier today the white house calling on democratic senator charles schumer to resurrect this pressure shield legislation. at the hearingness we heard support from democrats who backed the move. this inconsistency on the part of mirin colleagues should not distract us from legitimate questions worthy of congressional oversite. to give you context, we are ....
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My stuff. even though they claimed they didn t steal it. shep: he also claims he did not know any of his friends had guns that night. but they did. he says he never fathomed in his wild dreams, as he put it, that they would carry weapons and that they even told him they did not have guns. now, o. j. simpson s current lawyers argued the former attorney was incompetent. the former attorney and shouldn t even have been handling that case. the fox report s jonathan hunt covered that trial and at one point visited the hotel room in which it occurred. remind us what supposedly happened in there. it was at the palace station hotel, hardly the most selubrious establishment in vegas. but we saw o. j. simpson and his cohorts in that famous security camera video walking through the hotel lobby. they went up to the 12th floor and knocked on the door of the room where those sports memorabilia collectors were at the time. a room we visited back during the trial in 2008. ....
Mike emmanuel is live on capitol hill for us this afternoon. republicans are demanding the president and the administration officials cooperate with this irs investigation. that s right, shep. all 45 republican senators have signed a letter to president obama calling on him to make administration officials available so the american public can have a full accounting of the irs s actions. there has been some talk about the idea of appoint ago special counsel to investigate the irs. the senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell told me earlier today, congress will do its own digging. the administration can do what it will if they decide to have a special counsel, fine of the but nothing they do is going to derail a thorough detailed investigation by the congress of the united states and the people, americans elected to this institution to deal with issues like this. mcconnell says that he feels like this all shows that this is an administration that ....