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Some now call for him to either resign or be fired. national correspondent is live in washington. steve? >> pressure clearly is mounting on attorney general holder to explain why he told congress one thing or apparently told congress one thing but did something different. may 15, he testified in congress that he played no part in any potential criminal probe of any reporters. the justice department says he did sign off on that investigation of fox reporter james rosen. some say the attorney general committed perjury and they are demanding he explain himself. >> is it fair to say you are invest...

Mexican cartels used to murder innocent civilians and a border patrol and i.c.e. agents. i believe the following is in order. an indictment. one that contains the following charges. count one, perjury for the may 15 statement before the house judiciary that you eric holder know nothing about the potential prosetion of the press, that it is not something you have been involved in when in truth you not only knew the statement was not true you but you actually personally approved the seeking of a warrant for those records. count two. knowingly making a false statement in relation to a matter with...

No radio people were invited. >> jon: noah, there is an msnbc contributor, michael eric dicen, who labeled eric holder the moses of our time. we've got a lot of religious references in the hour thus far. how does he get away with that statement? he's talking about the right wing effort to smear the attorney general. >> he's a law giver. he's the equivalent of handing down the laws from on high. yeah, it was a very stream of thought and consciousness kind of effort to exonerate eric holder and make him some sort of a victim here. and it was very handled handed and relatively correctly lampooned...

Serious new questions about the attorney general eric holder right now as the calls grow louder for the nation's top law enforcement officer to resign. this as the justice department is vigorously defending his testimony before congress last month when he gave apparently contradictory explanations about his own role in a leak investigation targeting fox news reporter james rosen and now lawmakers on two powerful committees are gearing up for new hearings on all of this next week. molly henneberg is live in washington. good to see you. one of those committees trying to determine if holder told ...

First it was five phone lines. >> thousands. >> this is not a drip. it's a fire house. >> that's the point. the more dave goes on the more drips out. not just the a.p., it's fox news and you have to wonder who else. >> here's the quote that will lead into what you're going to say. >> okay. >> with regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material that's something i haven't been involved of, heard of or think is wise policy. the problem is he did exactly that. he signed off on it and discussed it. back to you. >> you're talking about attorney general eric holder. that ...