secretary jim mattis. the president has seen this. we do not know exactly how it got to the white house. oracle executives tell me it did not come directly from oracle s offices here. . white house has not responded for comments. politics is not supposed to ent fe interfere with any kind of contracting process. does this a problem? it s not usual for lobbyists to influence the way things go but what is unusual is this direct appeal to the president. using a flow chart that does appeal to the president s own way of taking in information. the president can t simply wave his hand or make this contract go away or delay it or someh
trump seems willing to weigh in on amazon s chances at winning a $10 billion government contract and his long-time perm rival with the company s founder, jeff bezos, may have something to do with it. michael warren joins me now. break it down for us. what s at issue here? reporter: that s right. there s cnn reporting that the president in recent days has seen a document prepared by one of amazon s rival, the tech company oracle. this document essentially suggests a conspiracy theory at the pentagon to grease the wheels for amazon to get this $10 billion, ten-year cloud computing contract. we should note there s so far been no evidence that suggests any conflicts of interest have affected this contract, but what s interesting is this document. it s a sort of a flow chart that shows a lot of photographs of former pentagon officials, amazon employees and even includes former defense
start. nice to have you with us. i m ashleigh banfield and i m zoraida sambolin. it s 5:00 a.m. here in the east. let s get started. attorney eric holder to be held in contempt in congress. yesterday the members of the government oversight and reform committee voted along party lines to recommend citing him for contempt for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents from the botched fast and furious gun operation, documents that are now off limits to republicans, and everyone else, because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep all of those documents now under wraps. joe johns is live from washington, d.c., this morning. joe, this is the first time that president obama has used the executive privilege. i think it was president clinton that maybe used it 14 times. how rare is this, and what is going to happen next to the attorney general? reporter: it is rare, but on the other hand, presidents do it, and most presidents do it at least once or twice during