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Attorney general eric holder facing a simple question, did he lie to congress about his role in targeting a fox news reporter and the other scandals shaking up washington. plenty to go through today. you're live in america's newsroom. >> and good morning to you. and an investigation into whether mr. holder lied about the larger topic under oath. after he had this to say specifically to weeks ago today. watch this. >> with regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that i have ever been involved of.

"fire eric holder." top lawyer doesn't have credibility to investigate anyone, let alone himself. and here is what was what was told to gretta last night. >> i think the president ought to fire him to restore faith in the justice department. congress is entitled to answers. the only answer we have gotten is the administration wants to have a press shield law. if it's like the press shield law like they proposed in the last congress, this would not have covered the rosen or a.p. incident. who's fooling who? >> reporter: there is plenty scepticism about that media shield law the president is hop...

>> how do you evaluate this based on what we know at the moment? >> what eric holder said under oath was not true. he has been involved with it and he certainly should have known about the potential prosecution of reporters. it's plain as day. you have got his signature and we know he was involved in the discussions. he basically admitted to it. what his actions have shown us. >> any possible explanations? he lied or forgot? >> i don't know that eric holder has earned much of a benefit of the doubt here. somebody who has got a history of this. whatever suspension of disbelief people would have...

Can do to not have this happen in the future. >> reporter: the president directed the attorney general to conduct a look at justice department policies regarding leak investigation. that can give them the opportunity to explain for fully what happened in the ap and james rosen cases to reassure everybody. but the attorney general is reaching out to numerous media organizations to say let's get together and talk this over. but with all the growing calls for him to be fired from the right and the left increasingly. it remains to be seen if these actions will be enough. the president says holder ...

>> we just rolled a clip during the hearing on may 15. that same day he gave an interview to npr and this is part of that interview. >> i'm not sure how many of those cases that i have actually signed off on. i know i have refused to sign a few, pushed a few back for modifications. >> i'm curious. does that advance the story for you at all? >> look, i mean, i think that raises real questions. how many of these did eric holder actually sign off on? why doesn't he know what the routine that eric holder didn't have anyway to recall how many times he had done something like that. i would like to k...