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Something. issas office specifically did request and wanted the privilege laws which would give specific line-by-line assertion of as to why certain documents in that log contained should be excluded. that was denied. thats why then the contempt proceeding proceeded forward because the only thing that attorney general holders office said they would give is fair compilation of what they believe is a summary and they want the investigation stopped immediately. that comes from inside the room of th...

Secondly, this is not a contempt proceeding over someone who hasnt come before the house. hes come before the committees nine times. hes presented more than 6700 pages of documents to the committee. what we are talking about is inner office conversations, memos that took place after february 4th when a letter had been sent to senator grassley saying that there had been no knowledge within the ags office. that letter was rescinded in december of last year. that the ag has been totally forth comin...

Issuing subpoenas. you havent seen a flurry of them coming from his committee to the white house. if the president is reelected and the peps hold the house i would expect that to change fairly tramatically. martha: theres been a question of whether issa has the backing of g.o.p. leadership on capitol hill if he goes ahead with this contempt proceeding. what do you think? >> our reporter mac boil has been on the story six months and i think hes counted over 120 separate members of congress, most ...

Its a culture that didnt know and we need to find out why. we need to know who knew about the policies policies and who ad them. one is the contempt proceeding and the other is a resolution that has been signed by almost 150 members of congress, expressing a lack of confidence in the attorney general because of how hes hamming this program. >> shannon: what would you hope to accomplish in that resolution? i know you are a co-sponsor. do you think tell put hote on the attorney gym so he will turn...

Their case this time around they dropped racketeering charges which caused jury instructions last time to be so convoluted the only thing the jury could agree upon is rod blagojevich lied to the f.b.i. they have had a chance to study what caused the jury to hang in the first trial. to try to get it right with the second go-around. bret? >> bret: mike tobin live in chicago. thank you. house oversight committee chairman darrell issa is threatening contempt proceeding against acting director of the...

>> prosecutors simplified the, their case this time around they dropped racketeering charges which caused jury instructions last time to be so convoluted the only thing the jury could agree upon is rod blagojevich lied to the f.b.i. they have had a chance to study what caused the jury to hang in the first trial. to try to get it right with the second go-around. bret? >> bret: mike tobin live in chicago. thank you. house oversight committee chairman darrell issa is threatening contempt proceeding...

American people for yet another show of got ya politics in this body. we have received 7,000 documents. we have the a.g. more than willing to negotiate with us for the documents which frankly have nothing to do with the actual activities of atf. >> you were saying what? what were you -- expound upon that. i mean, it was clear what you were saying, but tell us why such passion and why you were directly going after chairman issa. >> the problem is that on the one hand, republicans in the committee...

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