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Try 9/11 conspirators in new york and fast and furious and now you have this. the question and the big problem eric holder faces is on the democratic side. there are lots of democrats i talked to who are very unhappy with the way the justice department has handled these leak investigations. theyre hold tlg fire. no democrat is coming out and saying eric holder should resign as have republicans. once you start hearing top democrats questioning the justice department, thats going to really affect ...

Publicly. that would mean our bosses couldnt talk to us about what the attorney general was saying. now, in their defense, i spoke with reid weingarten today, a long-time friend of the attorney general, who understands his thinking on this and he is also an attorney himself. this is what he said, wolf. he said, this session were talking about is not about eric holder giving his defense. this is a policy discussion. eric has been instructed to do this by the president. he wants people to sit down...

Ground tracking yet another round of severe weather. the pictures right now very, very ominous. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." the embattled attorney general eric holder is sitting down this afternoon with members of the news media to talk about the justice department investigation into leaks that led to subpoenas for reporters phone records and more. cnn and other news organizations are declining to attend the meeting because it is, quote, off the record. lets dig a little bit ...

Purcell. we do think as this continues to rotate and circulate and get stronger as it continues to get stronger the past 20 minutes a tornado could fall out here at any time, wolf. >> let us know whats going on. well check back with you and continue to follow this storm. chad is on the scene in purcell, oklahoma. up next why news organizations including cnn are now boycotting a meeting with the embattled attorney general eric holder. big thing, isnt a thing at all? its lots of things. all waki...

And ill bring jonathan in, the argument a lot of republicans make is he supposedly at least misled if didnt lie to congress in sworn testimony on the issue of the fox news reporter james rosen whose records were monitored if you will. >> thats right. i have to disagree with my friend jeff and i do think it is grossly inappropriate for the attorney general to be asked to do this meeting. this meeting, itself, is a bit of a spin. i think it is designed to give cover for the president. this is not ...

Meeting is rather strange. you can throw a stick in any corner and hit 20 high ranks justice officials in downtown d.c. i think hes in charge of the meeting to give him and the president cover. >> the president did ask eric holder to review the entire media issue as far as these leak investigations are concerned. and thats why -- and the president said he was going to meet with news media executives. now a lot of these news media executives dont want to meet with him because its supposedly off t...

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Input from the press not do a mea culpa before the press about the problems hes been confronting with them. >> as you know congressman darrell issa had an interesting exchange with eric holder the other day at a house committee hearing about releasing records. >> right. >> listen to this. >> mr. attorney general, knowing the to and from -- >> im not going to stop talking now. you characterized something -- >> mr. chairman, would you inform the witness as to the rules of this committee? >> -- is ...

Jeffrey toobin. is it appropriate for eric holder to be in charge of the review of the justice department the way it conducted all of the news media leak issues, for example, since hes right in the middle of it and a lot of people are saying that is inappropriate for him to be investigating in effect himself? should he recuse himself? >> i dont see any reason for him to do that. this is a policy question. this is an issue that the president of the united states said, look. i care about leaks. i ...