i will be back tomorrow. stay here for "the war room" with guest host john [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> good morning, everybody. david shuster here bill is out for just a couple of days. i am sitting in. what a great show we have today. big news coming out of the u.s. congress. it appears the attorney general, eric holder will face a vote for contempt of congress. the iran darryl isa's pushing forward. what a great day for mitch daniels in the state of indiana.

going to be named the president of perdue university the boilermakers in west lafayette. this comes a couple of years after he gutted higher education funding in indiana. we will talk about that and more. now, it's time for current news update with jacki schechner. >> good morning, david. good morning, everybody. president obama is back in d.c. with a relatively quiet public schedule after spending a couple of days in mexico for the g20 summit. he comes back with a hope that unification will strengthen the euro. meanwhile, the president's reelection campaign has filed a complaint with the sec saying it wants crossroads gps to disclose it's donors the sister organization of the karl rove american cross records they spend to help $3 billion helping

candidates. gps calls itself a social welfare organization and refuses to release names. the obama campaign's top lawyer says gps is really a political operation and shouldn't be able to hide funding. he said if the sec won't act, lawyers plan to take them to court. big bundlers from 2008, many who were awarded with ambassadorships don't have plans to do it again. this is not a new trend. more xwoshlth not necessarilyimportantly not necessarily not how they feel about the president. like the ambassadors in spain and germany, old guard of bundlers are better where they are because they have experience and relationships helping out in this tough economic climate. join us online and chat live during the show. talk about this and anything else. go to current.com/billpress.

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spent two minutes from a guy who thought he saw something on the beltway. what a day in congress. doesn't happen very often. it looks like the attorney general may be held in contempt by house government oversight reform committee. this isn't your standard boiler plate clash. representative elijah cummings you know you are in trouble when the ranking democrat says part of the mission of the committee is appropriate and it is appropriate mission to investigation. so eric holder this may not be a great day for you. here is what holder said about the documents and where things stand with this investigation. >> i think we are actually involved more in political gamesmanship as opposed to trying to get the information they say they want. >> holder says that the justice department has given darryl isa's committee related to fast and furious, the effort by the prosecutors in the u.s.

attorney's office in phoenix to try to track some of the guns going to mexico. they didn't do a good john of them. some were used in murders, including one of a fred recall official. they say holder is withholding key documents related to justice department deliberations over the last year about how the justice department would handle this. we will talk more about this in just a second. they are banning soda again. not just in new york city but now in cambridge, massachusetts. listen. >> our government needs to tell us what size drink we need with our meal, what else are they going to try to tell us? >> they may tell us smoking is bad for us? >> fatty foods. >> candy is bad. by the way, speaking of bad action oklahoma city thunder, one of the best teams in basketball over the past season they are up against it following their loss to the miami heat. here is how the call was at the end. >> hold onto the basketball. after a westbrook turnover and the miami heat wins game 4,

104-98 and leads 3 games to 1 in the nba finals. oh, my. what a fourth quarter for mario chalmers. >> it sounds like he was saying chalbers. >> russell westbrook scored 43 points last night and they still continue beat the heat. >> i think the series is gone. dan henning has full-court press this morning. >> this is the full court press. >> i am great. thanks for asking. no one ever asks me that. other headlines. >> read the news. >> wednesday harry reid showed he is hip with the times and follows baseball. he channeled washington national slugger bryce harper who last week answered a question from a reporter about drinking beer in canada since he is only 19 and mormon by answering, that's a clown question bro. yesterday, senator reid was

asked about immigration to which reed responded, that's a clown question, bro. reporters got it right away had a good chuckle. >> i don't want to answer that question. >> that's a clown question bro. >> there he is. >> bryce harper. he is like 18 years old. >> 19 years old. >> didn't want to drink in canada. when he was asked employed it, he said that's a clown question. harry reid doesn't want to talk about immigration. i think the two are similar. >> forbes magazine's list is topped by kristin stewart, a 22-year-old bumped angelina jolie from a top spot earned 34 and a half million dollar for the year ending in may. cameron diaz and sandra bullock round out the top 2. >> sandra bullock is making a lot of money? wow. >> cameron diaz? >> bad teacher which was a surprise hit for her. she made like $34 million off of that movie.

yeah. and everyone knows the print industry is struggling. circulation for magazines and newspapers is way down. but no one is feeling the effect worse than al-qaeda. circulation of the terrorist organization's magazine has tanked. the atlantic reporting "inspire magazine". >> that's the name? "inspire"? >> on satan and other horrible topics started at about 5,000 readers two years ago, dropped 85% in rooerpd. now circulation is under 700? >> when they went to the pay wall. that was the problemeadership. now circulation is under 700? >> when they went to the pay wall. that was the problem. >> what a day in the u.s. house of representatives. this is not going to be a very easy day for the u.s. justice department, this investigation into fast and furious, the idea that the federal prosecutors are trying to keep track of how guns were going into mexico has been

a problem for the obama administration for a couple of years. it gets back to some documents that were initially provided by the justice department which sort of denied who knew or what was going on. the justice department had to retract some statements that they made. so ever since then eric holder has been under the gun and darryl iso has smelled blood. the last couple of days, isa has said wait a second: remember going to hold you in contempt if you do not provide us with documents that talk about the justice department deliberations on this very investigation. we want to know how you were responding to us. how are you planning to explain the story? and eric holder has provided as he said, more than 7,000 documents but knows they are not enough for darryl isa. here is holder explaining what he has turned over so far? >> e-mails, documents of that nature that really go into the way in which the department handled itself from february of 2010 until december of 2011 and

i think pretty clearly demonstrates there was no intention to mislead or deceive. >> no intention. saying it was an innocent mistake. we didn't realize part of the problem, what was really going on. and the house republicans are trying to figure out well, how high did this go? how many people in the justice garment knew that this effort had been botched? again, operation fast and furious is run out of the phoenix division the top ac. they were targeting the sonoa mexican drug cartel. the atf lost track of the most of the firearms, some of which were find at crime scenes in mexico and the united states. two were connected to a botched operation were found at the arizona site where u.s. customs and border protection agent brian terri was killed in december, 2010. you can imagine why the right-wing conservatives are going crazy over this. oh, my god. the justice department allowed guns to go into mexico. the guns ended up being used in a crime against a federal agent.

gee, eric holder must have known be bethis. right? he must have known and that document the justice department provided two years ago that said, oh no, this was basically handled at the local level, well, that was wrong. so you have the republicans going nuts. 1866 -- 1866-5577377. 186655-press. the question is: what do you make of this really unprecedented effort to hold the attorney general in contempt? we have not had a contempt vote vote for an attorney general until decades. no u.s. attorney general for 40 years has been required to provide the kind of deliberative internal documents that the house is asking for right now. so you have eric holder say this is a political witch hunt the republicans are trying to score point and the committee saying we need to know if there was some sort of cover-up within the justice department to try to tamp down this story. here is what else is going on and not going on capitol hill.

while the house government oversight commit is looking at this and looking at whether or not eric holder should be held in contempt. there is a thing called the transportation bill, transportation bill that has been sitting in front of the house now for a couple of weeks. it passed with more than 70 votes in the u.s. senate by conservative estimates text would create more than 2 million jobs. right? 2 million jobs. john boehner, the speaker of the house, refuses to even bring this bi-partisan bill up for a vote because some members of the house republican caucus represented to a certain extent by some republicans who serve on darryl isa's committee don't like the way that this is paid for. by the way, they want to attach some things regarding the keystone oil pipeline to the transportation bill. so as a result, as a result the transportation bill is stuck. industry experts say it's going nowhere. there are these transportation projects that are due to expire the funding runs out at the end of this month and then all of the projects underway, those

have to stop until congress passes essentially a short-term fix. it used to be that there was nothing easier to pass in the u.s. congress than a transportation bill. they all sort of joked, the senate version would come in at say $30,000,000,000. the house version would come in at $35 million and the compromise wobble $40,000,000,000. that's the way they used to compromise. now, the house is like, oh no, 2 million jobs that may be created, so what. doesn't matter. we need to figure out how this is paid for. we don't care about bi-partisan in the u.s. senate. we are the house and not going to let this move forward. as a result, the transportation bill is dead. unbelievable. you know what else is dead right now? remember that bill that was supposed to help students with student loans that said, wait a second, we need to keep student loan rates at about 3% and if we don't so something by the end of june, they will double to 6%? >> another piece of legislation that is just sitting in the u.s. house because the house republicans, again, are blocking that one because they don't like how the obama administration

democrats, and some republicans in the senate want to pay for it. and yet, there is so much activity in the houses government reform and oversight committee. it's so important that we hold attorney general eric holder in contempt today. amazing. armed from panama city florida, you are on the bill press show this morning. >> good morning. >> good to have you. >> if they would do their job well well, the wall street bankers who are the pup tears of the republican partypetters of the republican party. and the republicans would be fast and fewerurious in eric holder's face. >> there are better things to do it on than this fast and furious operation. nobody likes that gun running in mexico and the way the justice department handled it but to suggest eric holder knew about it is crazy. go after that there have been no

wall street bankers who brought the economy to the knees. but going after the gun running thing shows the politics mark from denver. >> good morning. >> how are you doing this morning? >> i wanted to say that i really think that this investigation by isa is just more of the narrative building that republicans have been trying to do about, you know, corruption in the obama administration, you know, everything that they can pick up and try to spin in a certain direction. it's all about corruption, you know, michelle malkin coming out with her book two months into the administration about the culture of corruption, et cetera, et cetera. and i guess one thing i would like to, you know point out is that wasn't this whole program gun under george bush? >> yeah. it was gun under george w. bush at the end of his administration. the problem is that the u.s.

justice department under eric holder, about 15 months ago eric holder's justice department sent a letter to congress denying the use of gunk blocking tactics. it was done in the it was eric holder's department that denied it and now you have republicans in congress saying ah-ha a cover-up. oh, man. back with bill press show on the other side of this break. >> this is the bill press show. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ]

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tv. >> welcome back, everybody david shuster sitting in for bill on this wednesday morning. last night, attorney general eric holder met with darryl isa to try to work out some deal for the reform and government oversight commit hoping they would not vote today on an attempt charge related to the fast and furious gun-walking program. holder has turned over 7,000 pages of documents he promised last night he promised he would turn over more if the committee would give him an opportunity to explain some of the documents in the form of a hearing. darryl isa said no. we just want the documents. now, it's said if eric holder did not produce the documents by 10:00 o'clock this morning, the house oversight and government reform committee would vote on contempt charges against eric holder. is it just politics, or is there something there? again, as we mentioned in the last segment one of the problems that the holder justis department denied some of the

tactics used in the gun-walking fast and furious project, they then had to take back that explanation, retract it. and since then, republicans have smelled blood in the water ever since. is it politics or what else is going on here? tim from detroit, you are on the bill press show. good morning. >> good morning, david. how are you? >> good. good to have you on board today? >>. >> i would noter if they are after holder to distract him from going after voter suppression, the stuff that's happening all around in the states where they suppress and what is it? the voters' rights act allows the attorney general to overthrow some of that stuff and if he is distracted by this stupid investigation. it makes the republicans look bad. he has given them thousands of documents. all of the sudden, they are saying we are going to hold you in contempt for this? it looks ridiculous when the

thing was started by george bush. so it could be a distraction keeping him from actually working on the voter suppression laws. >> republicans are going to do anything they can to try to focus the attorney general and, in fact, the public's minds on this fast and furious because it was a botched operation. nobody likes it. of course republicans would want to focus on that and get the attorney general somehow distracted. i think the attorney general can do several things at once. hopefully they will continue looking at voter suppression efforts. here is why i think eric holder is in a little bit of trouble today, from the representative elijah cummings. he said after this meeting last night with eric holder in which holder tried to convince darryl isa, don't have this contempt vote. let's have another hearing and i am provide you some more documents. he like a cummings says holder has been quote very reasonable in addressing congressional concerns but added the inquiry, quote, is a legitimate duty of our committee. our commit has as part of its

commission to investigate. when the ranking democrat comes out and says well, yeah, eric holder has been reasonable but our committee is on to something, you know eric holder is in trouble. the justice department might be wiser to give them documents even if they are somewhat embarrassing and show the attorney general has cooperated and if they didn't have complete information or maybe the information they released publically was incomplete. get it out there because the longer this drags on i think there is more of a distraction for the attorney general and it feeds right into what republicans want. republicans want to talk about eric holder fast and furious and the botched operation in mexico. the more they can talk about it, the more eric holder gives them ammunition for that. i think it's a problem for democrats. tim from california, you are on the bill press show. good morning. >> hey. how are you doing? >> good. how are you this morning? >> all righty. i wanted to say that first off, it started under the bush administration and we have to go

back and remember during that bush administration, they got rid of a lot of the department of justice attorneys. so if darryl isa is looking for that smoking gun he is pretty sure someone there has it because, i believe they had the receipt. >> well, i am not sure there is such a thing as a receipt but eric holder will have to deal with it one way or another. it should be interesting in the house. interesting to see what the democrats do and whether or not they hold the line. coming up, we are going to talk a little bit more about eric holder and some strange things happening on the beltway including a ufo sighting. an unbelievable sfwour how a 9-1-1 dispatcher handled this. you are listening to the bill press show and you are watching on current tv. >> this is the bill press show.

. >> /* ♪ >> this is the full court press. the bill press show, live on your radio and on current tv. >> welcome back again everybody. david shuster sitting in for bill press for the next couple of days. what a great story yesterday morning, jonathan carl of abc news reported thatmitmit had not gun the process of vetting marco rubio for the vice presidential search and this caused something of a stir. first, here is jonathan carl's report. >> for months, even before romney secured the nomination, marco rubio had been at the top of everybody's list of potential running mates. what i have learned is he has

not been asked to do even the first step. he has not been asked to fill out any questionnaires, not been asked to turn over personal documents by the romney vetting term. that is exactly the kind of stuff you begin to do. >> con serbtives heard this report and went nuts. they we want absolutely crazy. marco rubio is a darryling of the right. a lot of conservatives believe he is the party's hope for recapturing the hispanic vote. they went crazy and by late afternoon, mitt romney was forced today issue -- i don't know know. what do we call this? a clarification? listen. >> what mitt romney said, he said the story is entirely false. >> the story was entirely false. marco rubio is being thoroughly vetted as part of our process. he is being thoroughly vetted. what does that mean? joining us, yahoo political reporter from news.yahoo.com.

welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me on. >> you are welcome. good to have you on board. what happened when from the time that jonathan carl's reporting that there had been nothing to vet marco rubio and take us through what happened yesterday. >> well, first you have to look at the timing of that news story. yesterday, marco rubio's autobiography, an american son came out to much fanfare. and then, boom that morning, the story comes out with unnamed sources completely taking the wind out of his sails for his book book. marco rubio was supposed to dominate news cycle yesterday and he did, but not in the way he wanted toe. now, it seems like what happened is somebody with some history with marco rubio -- and this is entirely possible, somebody who had it in for him we want to john carl and wanted to completely take away his big news day with his book. but it was very interesting to

see romney come out and actually say he is vetting him because that's the first time we have really had romney come out and say something so forthright about the vetting process. >> earlier in the day, mitt romney was being cagey refusing to say anything about the process. >> he has been like that the entire campaign. we haven't gotten him to say anything. the romney campaign is holding their cards very close to their chest here so, maybe we all just need to write stories that all of these guys aren't being vetted through unnamed sources and we will get romney to tell us some more details. >> a question for you regarding something that mit romt romney said yesterday. he said the only people who know is myself and beth myers and beth myers is not talking. he says those are the only two who know whether someone is being vetted. but vetting processes usually require you to provide all sorts of financial documents and accounting documents and tax documents that cannot be reviewed one single campaign manage manager but have to be handled by a team, by an outside law firm. so even when romney said, it's just me and beth myers.

we are the only ones who know whether somebody is being vetted. that seemed a little bit disingenuous. >> i can't see romney and beth buyers getting together and putting on a pot of coffee and is he let's get to tim pawlenty tonight. there has to be some other people. he said ann romney his wife doesn't know. the minute, they send out the documents to these candidates or possible con denieders, you have topics of people who are going to know. all of their staff all of the candidates, all of their arrives. so if the circle is small now it's going to get very big very soon. >> abc i imagine, is still standing by itself report. >> jonathan carl is a wonderful reporter. i have absolutely no doubt he had a person high up in the romney campaign give him that information, but the timing was very curious about it. it had to be somebody who really wanted to undercut rubio on his big day with his book. >> speaking of timing, there have been a lot of indications that the romney campaign wants to make the choice earlier than normal. they are not going to wait until the republican convention.

they want a running mate out there campaigning perhaps for most of the summer. does that seem to indicate that we might be within a week or two or three of a possible naming of the vp nominee. >> the timing is going to be very interesting. romney is extremely calculated politician. he doesn't have big surprises often. maybe his big surprise is that he will do this. we have to consider the olympics are coming up. and, you know when a presidential candidate announces their vp, they want to win the week with the news cycle. he is not going to compete with the olympics. so it's going to have to be now or we are going to wait another month for this or even just the traditional time and he is going to do it near the convention but we still don't know. again, they are really holding cards close to their chest. >> in terms of trying to keep things quiet presidential candidates will go to great lengths to try to sneak in meetings with various potential running mates, through back doors into hotels and to undisclosed locations. how much chris, are the press

corps following romney? how much are they allowed to know what his sort of day-to-day schedule is? >> they have a lot of inside information they can't report a lot of the times as far as his personal schedule going forward. but, you know, in the new immediatemedia landscape all you need is some guy walking down the street and he sees tim pawlenty in a backdoor and he will tweet, just saw tim pawlenty walking in with mitt romney or something like that. those kind of things are possible to happen. i think politicians have to be a lot sneakier than they were 25 or 10 years ago. >> chris before we let you go i know the relationship between the press corps and the romney campaign had been notoriously bad for several months to the point even the romney campaign would literally blackball anybody who seemed to ask tough questions or wrote a tough story story. by point of comparison when i covered john mckay cain they would be mad but invite you to spend time with the candidate so the candidate could try to convince you, here is why your story was unfair or here is why you are being unfair to me. the romney campaign handles it

incredibly differently. has the relationship improved or is it still poisonous with the press? >> he still has a full press bus so he is making this ongoing relationship. i think he is working on it. this is an interesting campaign because you actually have two cam pangs, the obama can a campaign and the romney campaign that are not orously sensitive about stories the press writes. i can only imagine we will have more fun stories about tangles between the media and the campains. i don't think we have seen anything yet? >> chris moody from yahoo news. follow him at chris underscore mahmoud i can't and catch hism. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me on. >> coming up we will take a couple of calls, both on romney's vice presidential choice and who a lot of democrats and progressives want to see and a couple of your calls on eric holder, the contempt vote in congress over fast and furious. you are listening and watching

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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] on your radio and on current tv this is the bill press show. david shuster in this morning for bill and lynn from houston, texas. you are on the program. good morning. >> good morning. you know, darryl isa won't go back any further than 2010. wouldn't you think in an

investigation, you should just take it where it leads you? is that the thing. most investigations normally get you not on the original crime but on the cover-up. that seems to be what the house republicans are aiming for. it they cared about who came up with this plan the fast and furious, the gun running, the effort to try to track the mexican cartels, they would ask members of the bush administration who started the program. but the most that the justice department under eric holder provided something to congress that wasn't complete or accurate, a memo back in february 2011, denying some of the existence of this program, that's when the republicans: wait a second. now we have the justice department in a cover-up. >> that's what we are going to get them on. >> didn't holder discontinue the program? >> yeah, but the fact of the matter is that the republicans, they don't care. they simply want to know whether the justice department has been straight with congress which has these oversight 60tys over the justice department. >> yeah.

>> i get what the republicans are trying to do politically? >> sure. >> it's brilliant for the republicans. the people who watch fox news can site chapter and verse on fast and furious and how eric holder has dropped the ball. so it's so it's smart for them. it gins up their political bates. it's a waste of time. we have so much the justice department needs to be doing so many things congress needs to be doing right now and they are focused on this? give me a break. >> i have one other comment. >> go ahead. >> about the republicans going after the unions. >> yeah. >> don't they vote in a block, and isn't that what unions do? >> not necessarily. i was in wisconsin. some 38% voted for scott walker. unionez don't vote in a block at all. look. it's something we are going to be talking about throughout the morning, 1-866-55 bill press the. we are going to talk more about eric holder and what's going to happen today in congress as far

as contempt vote against him but i have to get some news up now. to do this properly to give proper respect to that great big 10 university in west laugh "-- lafayette indian, we are talking about the boilermakers. hail perdue. it looks like the boilermakers are going to have a new university president. the news came out yesterday that former indiana governor mitch daniels, who is also -- was also once considered a possible presidential candidate headed to west lafayette indiana to be the president of perdue university. now, why is this so great and people think, why is schuster focusing on perdue university? surely he is from indiana. but why does he care about mitch daniels becoming the president of perdue. mitch daniels, when he was governor of indiana, he slashed higher education for the state of indiana across the board. his second to last year in

office, he caught $122,000,000,000 -- cut $122,000,000,000 for universities like indiana state, like iup. he slashed funding. in his last year he cut another $60 million out of funding for public universities. so isn't it great that the there is mitch daniels going to have to go to we felt laugh yellow indiana and going to have to deal with the university of that is struggling to make up the shortfall because of his work as governor? god bless you, mitch daniels, not only should you spend time in west lafayette where tuition has been raised by 8 1/2% for students though costs have gone up by 6% but if you get to west lafayette, that is because of your cuts to higher education. not only should you spend time in west lafayette. i invite you to spend time in bloomington, home of indiana university where the students there have had to face tuition increases of over 8% because of

your cuts. how about indiana state, the indiana state sycamores in terra haute, indiana. mitch daniels, good luck as president of perdue. good luck trying to make up for the shortfalls that you imposed on every public university in the state of indiana. maybe this is the way to do it. go to your private koch brother friends and say, i messed up when i was governor of indiana. i need to write a couple of $10 million checks to perdue university so that we can pay our professors and so that we can continue to have indiana students come here without facing hardship. go ahead. go for it. see if you can raise the money in this election year in a tough economy from private donors. the rest of us who know what you did as governor, we are going to be laughing. hail, hail perdue. more of bill press show after this. at the local level, among the ranks of teachers. >> radio meets television, the bill press show. now on current tv.

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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> this is the bill press show, live on your radio and current tv. >> david shuster sitting in for bill this wednesday morning, 1866-55-press if you want to call and be part of the conversation. we were just talking about what a difficult time this is for university presidents, especially presidents who are headed to public universities like perdue university which has seen its funding slashed by the state of scana by governor

mitchdan mitch daniels. the irony is sdliksindian the irony is sdliksindiana by governor mitch daniels. the irony is indian. i don't know whether bill gives recommendations about what people should read. dana milbeck talks about heck ling obama and compares tucker carlson to a smelly outhouse in missoula montana. >> that seems appropriate. >> what dana does is describes the incident which hasn't gotten a lot of attention but it will now in which there was a republican con convention in missoula a montana. outside of the convention, there was an outhouse that was labeled obama presidential library. >> can i stop you there? i loved it when they have a con convention in montana. they don't have, you know, like actual working restrool facilities. they have an outhouse. >> they have anouthouse theypated as though it had been

shot full ofholes. gunfire painted as obama presidential library. according to the local paper, inside, there was a fake birth certificate for barack obama. it was stamped with an exlet expletive referring to bovine droppings. gave fake numbers for nancy pelosi and said for a good time. >> oh, no. >> the state party chairman said the structure was not in real good taste. no kidding. he says we have a president of the united states. we have to honor that but dismissed the matter as a side show and not something i am going to agonize over. let me get this straight. members of your party show up at a con convention with an outhouse belittling the president and other crazy stuff and you are not -- you don't care. what dana milbank does is a terrific job of tying in this belittling of the obama presidency, whether it was the rose garden heck ling last week

or this just horrible language that you are seeing across the country and, yes dana milbank points out there are extremists. there are the right-wing nut jobs and lunatics. even some on the left. we know that. but the point that dana mil banks makes he will wantly in the washington post today is that this ties together. we are continuing to coarsen our dialogue. it endangers the president and the presidency. it endangers all of us because it lessens our ability to have any sort of faith in institutions, whether it's the presidency, whether it's congress and that when people can throw around this language and this violent imagery it hurts all of us. when people no longer respect the presidency to the point that an editor like tucker carlson can say he wants to give a raise to his reporter for interrupting and heck ling the president, as dana milbank points out, it all smells, and it's not something that should be done and that be

littling the presidency, as the daily caller did smells just as bad as the outhouse in the missoula summer. >> wow. >> it's a great read. i encourage everybody to read it. dana milbank in today's washington post. we have worked with tucker carlson before. >> we have. >> he is a good guy. i am personally fond of him. i wonder peter, if this is one of the instances that maybe he didn't like what his reporter did but as a boss he had to show a united front and say, i am standing by this guy. i am going to reprimand him away from the public outrage. i am going to do it in private. >> that's exactly what bill said the other day. tucker is a friend of bill's. he stands by him as a friend. but he even said this is a bone-headed thing to say to compare what neil monroe, the white house heckler, did to sam donaldson, it's not based on any kind of logic or any kind of fact and you are probably right

i think these people who run these websites push their reporters to make news, make news, make news and sometimes they become the news and then you just have to stand by it. >> i was called -- am i allowed to say, ass-hole on the air? >> you just did. >> the election which was settled in december to the inauguration because at the end of the press conference in which he only spoke for two minutes, he announced cabinet sectaries as he was walking away, i said mr. president elect, why are you in such a rush to leave and he turned and glared and said -- corehoreographed it but he had started walking away from the podium. i wasn't interrupting him. sam donaldson wasn't interrupting ronald reagan. >> that's the difference. anyway, more of the bill press show on the other side of this break. a lot to talk about, including eric holder. will he be held in contempt today? >> this is the bill press show.

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> good morning, everybody. david shuster here sitting in for bill press on the bill press show on current. this is wednesday, june the 20th. what a great hour we have coming ahead. this is the day when eric holder will face a contempt vote in the u.s. house of representatives. this relates to documents that the justice department is not turning over to republican darryl isa, documents about internal justice department deliberations over that fast and furious gun-running program. we will talk about the politics and whether this is actually good for republicans or not. and perhaps it might actually be

good for democrats, and i will explain. also, this is the hour when we are going to talk about something incredibly bizarre that happened on the capitol beltway. people sawthought they were seeing a ufa. a 911 operator played along. whats it's time for the news update with jacki schechner. >> good morning, david. good morning, everybody. the rnc is applying a new strategy trying to cut into president obama's support among hispanic voters by pointing out how they are strollinguggling comically. >> unemployment rates rose . >> hispanic voters concerned about the economy. >> the president got a bump from his announcement last week that he would stop the deportations of young undocumented immigrants and a bloomberg hole has shown 64% of likely voters. independent are favoring by a margin of 2 to 1. with mitt romney refusing to

give any specs of what he would do with regards to immigration and trailing with the hispanic vote by more than 35 points, it makes sense republicans would try out this new tact ilk. to paraphrase mark twain, the rumors of the death of marco rubio's vp potential have been greatly exaggerated the we reported yesterday abc discovered rubio had not turned over any disclosure forms two months into the vetting process for romney's vice president. the conclusion is that rubio wasn't in contention of the spot. he is a favorite among conservatives. the news spread far and wide. by the afternoon, the romney campaign countered by saying rubio absolutely was being vetted. david spoke being this a little bit earlier on the though with chris moody from yahoo. moody has a theory as to what happened. he says last timing, somebody had a beef against rubio and was trying to take the wind out of his sails on the day that his book was being released. they said abc broke the story in

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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] broadcasting across the nation on your radio, and on current tv. this is the bill press show. >> good morning, everybody. david shuster in for bill press. this is wednesday, june 20th. what a great show we have ahead. lots to talk about this morning. we are going to be talking about the conservative outrage over andrea mitchells and some deceptive editing and her refusal to offer an apology. i will explain why this is bat for democrats and enables the republicans. we will get into that in just a moment. also, big day over at the u.s.

justice department and on capitol hill. it does look like republicans, despite a meeting last night with attorney general eric holder they will move forward in a couple of hours to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt for his refusal to turnover documents related to internal justice department discussions about how to respond to a congressional inquiry into that fast and furious gun-running operation in mexico. it's complicated but the issue here is simple. republicans are trying to score political gain here they feel they have got eric holder cornered. here is how he responded. >> i think we are involved more in political gamesmanship as opposed to trying to get the information they say they want. >> more than 7,000 pages of documents but republicans on the house government reform and oversight committee are looking for documents that they believe may show that holder or perhaps some of the lieutenants are trying to figure out a way to bury some of the mistakes that were made at the justice

department, including mistakes that were made in the bush administration when this program started. vice president joe biden had a pretty amazing speech yesterday at the american federation of state and county municipal employees. this was an asme conference in los angeles. listen to joe biden talk about unions. >> i don't know where romney and these guys, this new republican party is from. i don't know where they were raised. the way they characterize you as carry caring om about yourself. they call you selfish. they don't know you. >> the fact joe biden is out there, delivering stem liners is probably why mitt romney is thinking of a vice president nominee so he can have someone making speeches on his behalf. the texas ranger's long time announcer dave barrett had some strange mumbo-jumbo he said on

the air. it sounded as if he underwent a stroke. listen how he described something that was going on in the middle i am game. >> run is at 5th on what adams is insisting on calling a botched robbery. >> that's not right. >> no. so hopefully, he is okay. maybe he was just trying to pull a joke on everybody. >> maybe. hopefully his health is fine. >> okay. dan henning with full-court press. >> this is the full court press. >> continuing on the sports theme, miami heat took a 3 to 1 series lead last night even with an injured lebron james who had to sit out for a few minutes because of the pain and the oklahoma city thunder's russell westbrook scored 43 points. miami won 104 to 98. they can win the championship in game 5 tomorrow night. >> i think they will. this is the miami heat series. this is not going to a 6th game i am just saying. >> who knows. i hate watching them win.

>> more allegations of the secret service partying it up. this time from the folks on martha's vineyards. fox is reporting wild parties and late-night fights have become commonplace in recent years for off-duty officers. they are protecting not just the president on vacation but other dignitaries visiting the massachusetts island as well. secret service spokesman says he has not heard of any problems but is looking into t resident claim their rental properties were often left trashed and they vow to never respect to agents again. >> late-night fights involving guys with all sorts of high-tech guns. >> what could tosspossibly go wrong is it. >> get out on the road and drive. gas prices have dropped again. now, for the 10th week in a row. national average down $0.04 from last week to 3.58 a gallon. almost $4 a gallon int this past april. some stakes information south carolina and mississippi selling

gas for under $3 a gallon. >> gas prices dropping. on fox, this is a sign of the comic apocalypse. >> low gas prices are a bad thing. >> dan henning, thank you. i am about the media canning for mistakes. the fact of the matter is that i am absolutely convinced and in fact, i think there is some empirical proof fox news, for example, makes far more mistakes in terms of editing, selective editing, deceptive editing, specifically of president obama. they make far more mistakes than the rest of the news organizations combined. however, there was something that happened on msnbc and given my experiences at msnbc, people i know over there, given how i know how things tend to operate, i must say i was shocked and a little bit confused by something that happened on andrea mitchell's show. on monday, she was playing a clip of mitt romney talking about his experience having gone

to a wawa store in pennsylvania. here is how the clip got played by andrea mitchell. >> by the way, where do you get your hoagies here?