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attorney general james cole notified the committee chairman darryl issa that president obama was holding them on the basis of executive privilege. the move came after threats to site holder for contempt. and negotiations yesterday between the attorney general and committee members. todays decision to invoke executive privilege led republicans on the committee to say their search for accountability is being stymied. >> if congress has time to look into major league baseball, the bcs and...

attorney general james cole notified the committee chairman darrell issa that president obama was holding them on the basis of executive privilege. the move came after threats to site holder for contempt. and negotiations yesterday between the attorney general and committee members. todays decision to invoke executive privilege led republicans on the committee to say their search for accountability is being stymied. >> if congress has time to look into major league baseball, the bcs an...

guns because u.s. authorities never bothered to tell mexican authorities about the scheme. they never had a way to actually track the guns. that is, not until people started dying. >> the only way youre going to find those guns in mexico is where? >> at crime scenes. at the death, at the site of somebody whos dead. at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in whic...

police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. >> that makes no sense to me. >> between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no, there is no reasonable explanation to let these guns walk. >> two of those guns made their way back north to the scene where border agent brian terry was shot dead a year and a half ago. he just finished buying christmas...

that is, not until people started dying. >> the only way youre going to find those guns in mexico is where? >> at crime scenes. at the death, at the site of somebody whos dead. at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. >> that makes no sense to me. >> between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no, there is no rea...

track the guns. that is, not until people started dying. >> the only way youre going to find those guns in mexico is where? >> at crime scenes. at the death, at the site of somebody whos dead. at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. >> that makes no sense to me. >> between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no,...

with michael shermer. mr. shermer is the author of "the believing brain" and he talks about how her rational beliefs are formed. this is about 50 minutes. >> good morning. i am michael shermer is the director of the skeptic society. i think we actually have a slight of that. there we go. we are the quarterly publication of the skeptic society which is a five o. one c. organizations with claims of all kinds between good science, bad science, pathological science non-science and plain ol...

oprah: back in 1995, one of the best surprises we ever pulled off was on the scherber family. they were a true modern family of their time. take a look. jim and kayla, i understand that your adoption--stand up, if you will--is coming through on sunday. is that true? why did particular children from india? >> we decided that india was a country that had a lot of children that needed homes. so we phoned--we were going to start out with a little girl, -- en it ended up being-- oprah: have...

death. and he didnt write another major novel, he didnt write a novel at all in those last 20 years. and there was a story there that i felt like needed to be told. and his legacy deserved it. >> rose: we conclude this evening with the author and journalist james stewart, his new book "tangled webs" is about perjury and lying. >> im really pleased with it. i was able mostly with the freedom of information, getting the actual transcripts which were recorded of people under oath that fac...

came 20 years before his death. and he didnt write another major novel, he didnt write a novel at all in those last 20 years. and there was a story there that i felt like needed to be told. and his legacy deserved it. >> rose: we conclude this evening with the author and journalist james stewart, his new book "tangled webs" is about perjury and lying. >> im really pleased with it. i was able mostly with the freedom of information, getting the actual transcripts which were recorded of p...