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There were political firings. but, in fact, what happened, it got pushed and pushed, but then karl rove testifies in private and everything goes away. >> they were able to restovl it. >> did the president do the right thing here? >> obama in the kinds of withholding, yeah, i think there are times when executive privileges are rare. >> when you said that, they did not withhold all the documents. they've only exerted executive privilege over the documents after february 4th related specifically to the executive prognosis and internal communications. they have nothing to do with the operation of ...

>> they were able to restore it. >> did the president do the right thing here? >> obama in the kinds of withholding, yeah, i think there are times when executive privileges are rare. >> when you said that, they did not withhold all the documents. they've only exerted executive privilege over the documents after february 4th related specifically to the executive prognosis and internal communications. they have nothing to do with the operation of the program. >> but at the same time -- >> the supreme court? >> remember jao couldn't go after cheney's dvrgss about the energy task force. they said ...

Are times when executive privileges are rare. >> when you said that, they did not withhold all the documents. they've only exerted executive privilege over the documents after february 4th related specifically to the executive prognosis and internal communications. they have nothing to do with the operation of the program. >> but at the same time -- >> the supreme court? >> remember jao couldn't go after cheney's dvrgss about the energy task force. they said those are privileged communications. >> the only reason i think this may not backfire on the republicans horribly is because with the pre...

A gun-running operation. that one done in cooperation with the mexican government unlike "fast and furious." there were two. i want to ask you this, lanny, you seem to be expressing some consternation more democrats have not come to the defense of eric holder as they might have have if it had been somebody else. why haven't they? you call it stunning and shocking. you want nancy pelosi to do more. the white house to do more. why aren't they? >> there is institutional memory when democrats subpoenaed the bush administration and vice president cheney on the energy task force used same argument a...

If these projections, and i'm sure they will be, anything like what the geologists are telling us, this is going to be the new saudi arabia. if we got anything out of this, it was the opening up of this new saudi arabia for the world's oil markets. and i've said all along the reason dick cheney wanted this war had nothing to do with wmd or al qaeda or freedom and democracy and had everything to do with oil. >> so american soldiers and iraqi civilians died for oil? to get put on the open market? >> yeah, i'm a soldier, ed. i made contingency plans and did things like this my whole career for th...