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Lawyers obviously and it didnt get time i was there. its a very delicate procedure and everybody knows it. >> megyn: what do you make of the separate case of them looking, suggesting james rosen is a criminal for doing his job as a reporter and seeking out information from a source? >> that is incredible. what is more incredible they got somebody to sign that. they went to a magistrate judge. these are jv judges, they are appointed by the court but he signed a search warrant based on assertions ...

This morning. you have made an opening statement in which you made assertions of your innocence, assertions you did nothing wrong, assertions you broke no laws or rules. additionally, you have authenticated earlier answers to the i.g. at this point, i believe you have not asserted your rights but effectively waived your rights. will you please seek counsel for further guidance while we wait? >> i will not answer any questions or testify about the subject matter of this committees meeting. >> we ...

Department said that all that secretary warren was informed about was that an investigation was beginning. gave the same heads up to congressman ice is a. there was no details and no evidence and as congressman issa said as to why he didnt talk about this publicly when you are dealing with a nonpartisan agency like the irs you wait until you have the actual facts and go out and make assertions. >> chris: you are saying that nobody told the white house that the irs ig investigation was going. >> ...

Committee that flew under the radar amidst talk about again gassy, irs and ap. pentagon leaders were question betd 2001 authorization to use military force, which is of course the resolution passed just after the/1 9 dsh /* /- 9/1 1. at least one member of congress was shocked by the breath of the assertions that were made by michael shee han, assistant secretary of defense for special operations in support of the grounding document for the unending open-ended global war we found ourselves in. >...

Where we left off the ig testified that not that this was not political he had nothing to contradict the irs assertions to him this was not based on political reasons. i ask you, jay, if this was not the repeated targeting of conservatives over a period of 18 plus months and then it resumed later, so lets call it two years rounded up, if it wasnt for political reasons, what other possible reason could there have been? >> none. of course it has to be political because look who was targeted. you h...

That be changed but when we asked you about it, you didnt mention anything about it, you didnt disclose it you didnt tell anybody. and thats how miller sounded today, too. that he had been telling you about he refused to testify about it when asked by the congress. its like the irs believed they didnt tell congress about it would somehow go away. >> yeah, well, you know, be on the lookout list sounds pretty direct and targeted to me. by the way, miller said today, the acting commissioner now lea...

The justice department says it followed all of its own internal guidelines, its own regulations that are supposed to control how they handle reporters when they are chasing down a leak like this, but the a.p., despite the justice departments explanations, they say they do not buy the justice departments assertions, they absolutely had to do it this way, couldnt have done it in a more narrow way, targeted way, less damaging to the associated press as a news organization. the a.p. says had they be...

Aserghdz in it. it contradicts some of the assertions ma was made by the letter obtained from the ap. i would refer you to that in response to that question. >> the ach story, there are times in administration that civil liberties have not lived up to the promises that you and others made beginning in 2008. looking broadly at this administrations civil liberties record, are you disappointed and why hasnt more been done? >> im proud of what we have done. the policies that we put in place with reg...

I wont be surprised if this latest revelation ends with eric holders resignation, and it will be deserved. just imagine the reaction to this, say, if michael mukasey, one of george w. bushs attorney generals, presided over this? or janet reno of the clinton administration had had this on her watch? white house, the liberal media, and democratic elected officials have swatted away these assertion assertions as nothing more than right wing conspiracy political propaganda, black helicopter paranoia...

To the a.p. letter. i dont know if it has been made available yet but that has a number of factual assertions in it. that contradict some of the assertions that were made by the letter that came from the a.p. i would refer you to that with regard to the response to that question. >> the a.p. story, the irs story, guantanamo, there is a growing sense that this administrations record on civil liberties has not lived up to the promises that you and others made beginning in 2008. and the criticisms ...