mainstream media until now. fox news pounds eric holder after a house committee votes to hold him in contempt while msnbc acts as the attorney general s defense lawyer. nobody in the mainstream media was paying any attention to this scandal. fox news was. nobody else was covering it. well, not quite. but have journalists blown the story, or is this scandal manufactured by the right wing media? and we ll tackle these television topics. ann curry appears to be on her way out at the to dashow. why was her partnership with matt lauer such a flop? 20/20 sits down with rielle hunter. do you think he wanted the baby? i think that he thought the timing was terrible. do we really need to hear more from john edwards s mercurial mistress? and erin sorkin s the newsroom debuts tonight. i didn t know people didn t like working for me. do you care? of course i care. anybody would care. but honestly, i don t. i do. i am a perfectly nice guy. i have the focus group data to
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we want more ben and we want him now. but tonight, the truth. there s not enough ben for america. more ben is bad. i m talking, of course, about this ben, fed chair ben bernanke. today he announced he ll continue so-called operation twist. the goal is to bring down interest rates. theoretically that would spark borrowing, spending and hiring. it would be a panacea to fix the whole problem. but even ben admits his supply of money is drying up. monetary policy is not a panacea, it s not going to solve our economic problems. the fed fed s drugs didn t come cheap either. there have been three rounds of fed stimulus with a total price tag of $2.7 trillion. and that doesn t include the $267 billion extension to operation twist that was announced today. so the question is, were the highs we got worth the price of $2.7 trillion? check this out. when the financial crisis hit, the fed stepped in with an unprecedented plan to lower interest rates. it was called q.e. 1 or quantitativ
hiding by using this privilege. gregg: sure. so we have to beg the question, what is he hiding now? and also is he really fulfilling the campaign promise having coequal branch and having a transparent government. gregg: hold the thought. on the left-hand side of the screen, representative clay. we ll go back into the committee as it warrants. gretchen and juan will stick around. we ll squeeze in a quick break here but a fast-changing series of events on capitol hill and the white house as the president of the united states invokes executive privilege to protect documents of his attorney general. we ll be right back. i m a home in a high-risk flood area. it doesn t look risky. i mean, phil, does this look risky to you? nancy? fred? no. well it is. in a high-risk area, there s a 1-in-4 chance homes like us will flood. i m glad i got flood insurance. fred, you should look into it.