point, partisan politics and a sitting u.s. attorney general cot in the cross fire. eric holder is in copenhagen this morning. yesterday a house committee voted to recommend citing him for contempt of congress for not turning over documents from that botched fast and furious gun operation. you will remember that program allowed guns to end up in the hands of mexican drug cartels and is connected to the death of at least one u.s. law enforcement officer. those documents are now off limits to republicans and everybody else because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep them under wraps. it brings us to joe jons live from washington, d.c. this morning. good morning. >> good morning, soledad, the contempt issue moves to the full house of representatives as early as neck week. holder is the first obama administration official to be held in contempt by congressional committee. the point man on all of this for the republicans, of course, is chairman darrell issa. he talked about what he wants from the justice department. >> it is my position of the committee that if we're given the documents we have been seeking, that i will ask for there not to be a vote on the floor. our direction has always been not about any one individual but about in fact the documents required. >> it is also the obama administration's first assertion of executive privilege. holder responded to the vote in the committee just yesterday. he said i met with chairman issa to offer additional internal department documents and information that would satisfy what he identified as the committee's single outstanding question. unfortunately chairman issa rejected all of those efforts to reach a reasonable accommodation. instead he's chosen to use his authority to take an extraordinarily unprecedent and unnecessary action intended to invoke unavoidable conflict. what happens next, a vote on contempt in the full house would be next assuming there is no negotiated settlement which is typically what happens in these cases. after that, it will be referred to of all places the united states attorney for the district of columbia who works for the justice department headed by attorney general holder. very unlikely the justice department would agree to prosecute their own attorney general. that throws it all into the courts and if they don't get an agreement they could go on for years with this. >> joe johns updating us there. thank you, joe. appreciate it. right to christine romans with a look at some of the other stories making news this morning. i want to remind everybody we're going to be talking more about that particular store with elooij acummings, my guest in just a moment. >> let's talk about the brutal heat wave striking the northeast. temperatures expected to break records again today. meteorologist rob marciano here with the details. >> off to a fast start already, 82 in the big apple and doesn't include humidity. humidity does not allow your body to breathe basically. temperatures yesterday were records, 97 in boston, 99 today maybe, and 94 central park, 99 expected today, so we'll be a couple degrees warmer today. if you thought yesterday was hot, today even hotter heat advisories and warning for ten states across the northeast. there is a little bit of relief coming but really not until late tomorrow and really not until saturday and sunday. there is a slow moving front and huge rain in duluth and cooler and dryer air in chicago. the next two days or day and a half across the northeast will be brutal. >> you mentioned duluth. in minnesota it wasn't heat but high water roaring through the streets leaving a seal on the road. torrential over night flooding in duluth forcing the evacuation of low lying homes and even zoo animals. workers safely recovered two seals and a polar bear that managed to escape and the water wiping out a bridge and all of that softening up the roads and on opening up a sink hole that swallowed a car. no reports of serious injuries. a live report next hour. closing arguments less than two hours away in the child sex abuse trial of jerry sandusky. the defense rested yesterday without calling the former penn state football coach to testify. he is accused of sexually abusing ten boys over a 15 year period. the jury is expected to begin deliberating after today's closing arguments. after refusing to accept his resignation in april, city managers have fired police chief bill lee. he came under fire for his handling of the trayvon martin shooting after deciding not to arrest gunman george zimmerman. the interim chief will remain on the job while searching for a replacement. middle school kids brutally aharassing and bullying a school bus monitor so bad they made her cry. one of the students posted the disturbing video online. >> oh, my god, you're so fat. >> you're fat. >> you're so fat. >> oh, no, look. >> oh, my god, your glasses are fogging. >> that's funny. >> why is there water on your face? >> i am crying. >> the relentless bullying went on for nearly 10 minutes. karen kline, a hearing impaired grandmoth grandmother, has worked for the school district for 23 years. support for kline pouring in from all over the world. a website is raising if unds to send her on vacation and so far raised more than $100,000 and all of the children who were doing that taunting have been identified and even the police have been called in now to take a look. >> it is so brutal to watch that entire thing. it goes on for ten minutes. they're awful, awful, awful, really words don't describe it accurately. thank you for the update. back to the top story this morning, attorney general eric holder could be held in contempt of congress after a party line today by the house oversight committee. the recommendation goes to the full house. congressman elijah cummings is the ranking democrat on the house oversight committee joining me. nice to see you as always. did you know before it happened the president would assert his executive privilege in this case? >> we knew about a half an hour before it was done. >> you were not surprised it came as a surprise to a lot of people. what do you think about the president doing that? >> i thought the president had no choice. first of all, this is a situation that could have been avoided if the republicans had been a little bit reasonable. he had no choice. these were dlib ra active documents that all attorney generals have held close and not released. this attorney general released about 1,000 of those documents voluntarily, and mr.i issa wantd more and more. as the attorney general said in the meeting last friday, this is his watch. he had to do what attorney generals have done overall the years that attorney generals have been in existence, that is protect the office, and basically that's what the president did. he had to inject himself into the process. >> congressman issa said that eric holder told him the other day it was about embarrassment. take a look. >> there has been a tendency on the part of this administration to try to hide behind executive privilege. >> my apologies, sir. that obviously is not the right clip. do we have that, guys? this is chairman issa. i will read it he said i can tell you he told me just last night that many of these documents he was willing to have us obtain if we agree to settle the case would be very embarrassing. you were in that meeting. is that correct? is that what eric holder told him? >> i didn't hear that. i did not hear that. again, chairman issa said several things that i didn't hear in the meeting. i was there the entire time. i think clearly this was a situation where attorney general has cooperated to the nth degree and the only thing he asked for is that we come to some type of conclusion with regard to this contempt situation and again what this happened yesterday was extreme, soledad. understand in all of the years in existence of the congress no attorney general has been brought up for contempt in the house, and basically i think you have once again the far right of this party pushing and pushing and i just find it extremely alarming that we have gotten to this point and it is very unfortunate. >> there are republicans that would say asserting executive privilege is an indication that maybe the white house was involved. is that how you read it? >> not at all. i think this is a situation where this president has done what presidents have done for years, and again, it seems as if when he does it, or when eric holder does what attorney generals have done, suddenly it is a major criminal case and has to be taken to the floor of the house. keep in mind back in the 1990s janet reno was voted for contempt in a committee but even newt gingrich said, no, we cannot take this to the floor of the house, so this is -- we are seeing the far right operating at its very best. >> president obama is not the first president to use executive privilege as you well know although this is the first time he is claiming it. when president bush used it for his sixth time, the president obama then a senator said he talked about he thought that it was about coming clean, not to use executive privilege because the people deserved to hear and it was about coming clean. sounds like he is contradicting himself in that position now that he is not a senator and he is the president. >> not at all. we have a situation here, keep in mind what i just said. this attorney general voluntarily released 1,000 pages of deliberate communications. that's unprecedented. in other words, he bent over backwards to give the republicans what they want. understand, this is not about the facts. this is about politics. anybody who looks at this knows that. the chairman made up his mind and this is the result that i guess he wanted and now we see where we are. again, this could have been avoided, just if the chairman had been the least bit reasonable. >> elijah cummings is a congressman democrat from the state of maryland. nice to see you as always. appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. >> still ahead on "starting point," mitt romney facing a latino test. can he win over hispanic voters? 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>> good morning. it is great to be here in the sunshine state to kick off the convention and we're all anxiously awaiting both the president and governor romney. governor romney will speak today and we're going to sit and listen and hope that he does address all the issues that really impact latino families and latino communities throughout this country. >> so give me some of those issues. obviously what people i think often point to is immigration. i think if you look at the actual polling, latinos vote on issues like the economy and other issue that is people who are not latino also have on the top of their list. how important do you think immigration will be to both of these candidates if you will and the president and mitt romney? >> well, you're absolutely right. it is more than immigration. i think that the thing that probably is in everyone's mind in the latino community is just like all americans, the economy, about having good jobs and that keep families together and also about access to health care and to health insurance. it is also about a good system of education, and of course as you mentioned it is also about immigration and full comprehensive immigration reform. >> let's talk about that. you know well about the president's plan for young immigrants and young illegal immigrants in this country. do you think what he has done over the last week will be significant enough to pull more voters to him? >> well, i think it was a very important step. it was very significant, particularly for all of our students, our dreamers who have been dreaming about this day and it came and it was a very monumental step for us. we also recognize that the pathway to citizenship and full immigration reform is still a battle that continues, and we will work with the administration. we will work with the department of homeland security to make sure we find something that works and that works to make sure that everyone does have a pathway to citizenship and that we take people out of the shadows all over this country. >> mitt romney has been a little unclear about whether he supports a policy. i will play you a chunk of a standard answer he has been given when pressed about t let's listen. >> it would be over taken by events if you will by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution with legislation which creates law that relates to these individuals such that they know what the setting will be and understand just for the term of the president but a permanent basis. >> with regards to the law and the capacity to do what's been proposed or what he has asked the department of homeland security to do that. it is something we'll let the lawyers and i presume it will be challenged in the courts determine. >> he hasn't exactly said, yes, i support the policy or, no, i think the policy is wrong. do you think that will have impact that he gets from naleo today? >> i think that is the number one question this morning. we were advised by the campaign that he is going to use this opportunity to clarify his position. it has evolved and we know he had a rough primary and we're anxious to see what he says. i think everyone will be at the lunch today with great anticipation to see what he says, not only about full comprehensive immigration reform but particularly the dream act and the policy change of last week. >> sylvia garcia is the president of naleo joining us this morning. nice to have you. thanks for being with me. i appreciate it. >> sure. thank you for having me. >> you bet. still ahead on "starting point" a big change coming to college football, winning a national championship could literally be a whole new ball game. and say it ain't so, joe the plumber is comparing gun control to one of the greatest atrocities in in history. is it time for him to get real? the starting point team is heading in. we have celeste joining us and margaret hoover as well and will cain and we always start with margaret's playlist, shiny happy people. are you shiny and happy today? 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