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Made in february of this year and the months before they admitd that they had been untruthful to congress we do question whether or not there was communication with people including the white house. greta: the attorney general issued a statement almost 5:00 tonight that says in participle maniy put any claims into the justice department has been unresponsive to requests for information are untrue. are in the beginning chairman issa and certain members of the committee made unsub stasubstad allegations first. that does little to uncover the truth or address the problems associated with thissed a spin straiks and dating back to the previous administration. he always wants to talk about the previous administration and a different failed program. we never tried to pretend it wasn t a different failed program and we are not happy with the bush administration activities either. in the case of fast and furious where brian terry s guns came from we first became aware of this when a whistle ....
Those guns walk into mexico and for brian terry s murder. patti ann: judd also says people in the justice department, quote, have blood on their hands. bill: as president obama claims executive privilege, fox news contributor charles krauthamer blasting the white house. they leaked national security information but lock down the details on fast and furious. . if it s national security then they have no regard for secrets and here all of a sudden extremely guarded. makes you wonder what they re hiding. bill: here is what the actions of the white house mean. executive privilege allows the president to with hold from congress documents revealing internal white house communications and also decision-making of the executive branch of government. historically a challenge of executive privilege rarely reaches the courts. the idea of executive privilege is not explicitly mentioned in the constitution but the supreme court ruled it to be part of ....
Big press problem for the president here especially in the minds of independent voters. if you re someone who likes president obama you probably don t mind that he would invoke executive privilege. if you don t like him and you re not going to vote for him any way, it s those in the middle, undecideds, that might look at the prereceived hypocrisy and be upset about it. rick, you re right who is concerned about this probably won t vote for obama any way. the problem is, is there a cover up? as we ve seen in the nixon administration and other administrations it s not about the act it s a cover up. barack obama said he didn t know anything about fast and furious and brian terry s murder. earlier he said his administration would be about accountability, and transparency and fast and furious has been just the opposite. for eric holder to say he ll meet with darrell issa and turn over the documents and then for the president to say oh this is ....
And the months before they admitd that they had been untruthful to congress we do question whether or not there was communication with people including the white house. greta: the attorney general issued a statement almost 5:00 tonight that says in participle maniy put any claims into the justice department has been unresponsive to requests for information are untrue. are in the beginning chairman issa and certain members of the committee made unsub stasubstad allegations first. that does little to uncover the truth or address the problems associated with thissed a spin straiks and dating back to the previous administration. he always wants to talk about the previous administration and a different failed program. we never tried to pretend it wasn t a different failed program and we are not happy with the bush administration activities either. in the case of fast and furious where brian terry s guns came from we first became aware of this when a whistle blower went ....
I m very disappointed that you would take this stand because when president bush had problems on his watch, almost all of you insisted that the valerie plame investigation involving outing a cia agent be done by someone outside the bush administration. jake abramoff was a allegation of a lobbyist dealing with high-ranking republicans. all of you insisted a special counsel, independent counsel be appointed for the good of the nation. you re silent now and that unacceptable. i am resolved to make sure that eric holder has to pick someone different and new with the powers of a special counsel that he doesn t control that could do this in a way good for the nation and it is unacceptable the process, he laid out is unacceptable. the damage being done is enormous. we will not let this stand. this is not good for the country. bill: two questions, you re not letting this go? no. why should we let it go? ....