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Declassify just on their own so that raised the question maybe they wouldnt release classif classified information but did they declassify it before they released it. took a long time. he finally flatly denied it. i asked him whether or not he is going to order every member of his administration as bush did to come forward and tell what they know as bush did in the plame investigation. he wouldnt go there. i asked him what about a special prosecutor because obama called for a special prosecutor ...

That case again the seven-time cy young award winner following 26 days of testimony. the rocket, as he is known accused of lying to congress about use of performance enhanced drugs. shan and breams live in washington on that. exactly what is the jury deliberating on this. >> there are six different charges. we are talking about perjury, obstruction of justice and also making false statements. the bottom line is, if clemens was convicted on all of these charges he would be facing up to 30 years i...

Against you or you are tkpefrpbding someone who has deadly force being used against them you are allowed to use deadly force to defend yourself or that person. clearly this 4-year-old continue defend herself and her father had that right as they would anywhere in the state. bill: the grand jury will convene within days. >> sometimes they take days, sometimes they take months to get a case in. i have a feeling this will go in sooner than later. bill: nicole debore thank you. martha: apparently je...

It, if you want to quantify the answer to your question, when they cough up the other 74,000 pages. martha: nothing short of all of the documents that pertain to this case would satisfy this subpoena in your opinion, right? >> yeah. i would be willing to compromise to this extent, the extent to which we got all those documents, and they had certain restrictions on the use of those documents, i would be willing to accept those restrictions, but everybody on the committee has to have access to tha...

Motivated by politics, coming from the highest level of government. and he said, when i asked him, do you think it was good to have a special counsel in the valerie plame case. and he said yes. do you agree it was good to have a special counsel in the abramoff case. he said yes. how in the world could all my democratic colleagues including senator biden an obama at the time, every democrat told the bush administration we dont trust you when it comes to investigating valerie plame. we dont trust ...

Information or reason to charge this person with a crime, then probably that is going to be the opinion that that district attorney gives to the grand jury as well. bill: one more comment here and we heard it in lead in to you by the shiver. his level of remorse is apparently very high. does that factor into this. and if so in what way? >> well, it certainly can. it is a terrible tragedy for the man who ended up having to kill another human being to protect his daughter, because hes going to hav...

His resignation and most of the news media is not interested in the story. bill: let me get to both of those points in a moment. here is what cornyn wrote though. this is part of what he said. he writes, the gun-walking scandal has destroyed mr. holders credibility. he continues, we need an attorney general will put justice before politics. is that typical talk? >> no. i think it is tougher than what you usually hear from john cornyn in particular. i think republicans are very frustrated and the...

Shannon, do you think is going to be the most critical in this case? >> well, of course you have brian mcnamee who was a trainer an was the one who was accused of and has talked about injecting roger clemens with these different performance-enhancing drugs. its not about whether or not he use he the drugs its about whether he lied to congress about using them. mcimcnamees testimony is critical. you have his former teammate andy pettitte who was on the stand in this trial as he was in the previou...

And the current narrative about progress misses the opportunity to connect and point forward. what carville talks about is having empathy. he worked for bill clinton. is barack obama capable of that empathy. >> hes very disconnected from the ordinary people and the congress. this is a guy who basically takes his own counsel and most of the positions that hes taken have been his own positions. now he has to go out and defend them. its not the campaign hed like to run but at the same time there ar...

As such. bill: that vote in effect is scheduled for june 20th, a week from today. >> right. bill: what do you think republicans do in the house? >> i think republicans will almost unanimously or overwhelmingingly vote to hold him in contempt. the question is what democrats do? i think that puts democrats in a very difficult position because anybody who followed the facts of this case understands what the justice department is doing. they havent been forthcoming. they havent been cooperative. dem...