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>> it's undermining the message. >> he thinks that romney -- >> we are out of time. greta's next. see you tomorrow night. debt and waste pushing our economy to the brink of disaster. senator ryan and tom coburn are both here. and donald trump has big news and he has lots of it. all of that is minutes away. but first, fireworks exploding on capital hill and it got loud -- it got very loud. skewering eric holder over operation fast & furious.
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but it is causing frustration, especially for darrell issa. >> have and you your attorneys produced internally, the materials responsive to the subpoenas? >> we believe that we have respond to the subpoena it's. >> no, mr. attorney general. you are not a good witness. a good witness answers the question asked. let's go back again -- have you and your attorneys produced internally the materials responsive, in other words, have you taken the time to look up our subpoena and find out what material you have responsive to it? or are you simply invented a privilege that doesn't exist? >> you are saying internally i. internally! have you pulled all of that information? >> we have looked at 240 custodians, we have produced over 140,000 documents and produced to you about 7600. >> 140,000 documents. how many are responsive that you are withholding at this time? >> we produced it 7600 -- >> look, i don't want to hear
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about the 7600. >> chairman, i would beg to allow. >> the lady is out of order! >> you know, i appreciate there was hostility between the attorney gym and myself -- >> just for the record -- just for the record. >> that in fact most of it was produced by the fact that i have a great many questions and a relatively little period of time in which to get answers -- >> with all due respect to chairman issa, he says there is hostility between us. i don't feel that. i understand he's asking questions, i am trying to respond as best i can. i am pretty calm. i'm okay. >> if you think you are being singled out because of political ideology or race or any other characteristic or factor when it comes to fast & furious, you are sorely mistaken. >> with the greatest respect, i would say that the effort here has become politically motivated in an attempt to embarrass the administration. and that... diminishes the
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process. >> how does chairman issa think the hearing went? we spoke with him earlier tonight? you have had quite a morning today. did you get what you want from the attorney general? >> i think we got the impression that we needed to know -- will he cooperate with the request of the speaker? it was very clear he wanted to talk about cooperation, while in fact, clearly, he didn't answer any questions about new discovery, it's been since may 18, obviously the speaker has to judge now whether or not no answer in this long a period of time means he's not going to answer questions that the speaker of the house believes are legitimate. >> all right. you are pending a draft to hold him in contempt to congress for fail tower respond to the subpoena? >> we do. >> mid-may, the speaker of the house, john boehner got involved in an effort to sort of persuade the justice department to comply? >> he asked for a very reduced, very limited, very targeted portion of all of our subpoenas, in hopes that that would be sufficient. he cut it dun to the minimum we
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would need in order to find out how congress was lied to on february 4 of last year. and this is the problem we have, is that the attorney general only wants to answer questions before february, when we were lied to, not about the 10 months in which they didn't come clean. >> so did you get today, the answers to everything you have asked for? from the attorney general? >> no. >> okay. and so now the attorney general came today. you had that little go round, i heard that exchange, which it got hot -- right? >> i think we asked questions. he wanted to not give straight answers and i 10ed to cut him off so i could get to the next one. but by the time i got down to jason chafits, his answer was that he had superior knowledge to the verbatim email that we were able to discover. this is the problem. he wants to say he knows things, but he doesn't want to actually provide them. the most important thing that we had today was multiple members of our committee, both
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attorneys, career attorneys and members of congress, have read the wire taps that were supplied to us by whistle-blowers and reached the conclusion that if you read them, you knew they knew they were gun walking. >> at what point? before agent terry was killed december of 2010? >> all six were well before it, in the summer. more importantly, the attorney general didn't say he didn't see gun walking in some cover sheet. he said, i read these wire taps and i don't -- i do not believe you would see gun walking in them. we have read them. i have read them. yes, you do. you see no question at all that you know the guns are going, being bought by specific individuals and ending up in mexico. it's conclusive in these wire tap requests. that, to us, says that he is willing to be disiningenious in lied, sworn testimony. our intention now is to have additional people read them,
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ones that understand they are under seal and can't be released and reach independent decisions. i bet you if i found 50 career attorneys, 50 would read it and 50 would determine it's gun walking. >> you used the term disingenuous, i assume he lied? >> yes. let me rephrase. he found his own truth and that's not consistent with the facts. that's what he kept saying throughout the day, it is not consistent with the facts. lthe facts are, these six fairly thick document it's. >> that were leaked to you? >> that were leaked to us that we have read that he never wanteditous read. >> did he read them? >> he said he read them and they don't say what we believe they say. so the justice department said you are distorting the facts. >> the facts that they won't release. >> is there any indication how high up it went? >> lenny brewer -- jason weinstein. >> that's the number-2 level, under the attorney general? >> correct. >> has the attorney general said that he knew nothing about it? >> yes.
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>> you accept that? >> yes, he said he knew nothing about it. there was no reason for him to see wire taps. the question is, when did he become aware of it? he said he read the six wire taps and he's still not aware of t. that's troubling because he says he read the documents and doesn't see what we see. >> you have outrage on this. you have the outstanding subpoena that has been complied with. so where's the holdup? either the justice department, the attorney general comply, or you get enforcement of the subpoena, provided that you're leadership, speaker baker agrees to it because i assume you can't end run the speaker. >> a contempt is eric canter and john boehner's decision. we have additional tools. we will continue to use them. we have additional witnesses we expect to bring. my choice at this point would be to go to contempt because i think today the attorney general made it very clear he's not going to cooperate. >> have you asked the speaker to
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go forward with contempt? >> we are in a process in which -- >> that's a slow-walk answer. what's the truth? have you asked him? you must have said view had to have conversations? -- >> we have had lots of conversations. >> he says, what? >> we have agreed tie process and we are continuing that process. the timeline for that process is really pretty much over. so do i believe that we are within weeks of it in yes. do i have additional hearings i can hold to allow at least the public to better understand? yes. but do i believe that we should be going to contempt -- and planning it based on the fact that the attorney general clearly is not going to cooperate? yes. >> all right. from my perspective, this is a sleeper in the sense that this has been going on for a year and-a-half. i don't know if the justice department's right or you are right, but there isn't a resolution. you have the border agent's family who wants answers. we got answers quite swiftly with the scandal in south america, peru, that was in a week or two.
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so i know it can be had. so it is the justice department's refusing or the speaker's posturing and not letting you do this or you enjoy subpoenaing the people, putting them on the hot seat, something's not right t. doesn't take that long not to get these answers? >> we have sufficient answers to know that justice is not well run, that there is not real accountability, particularly in approving these wire taps and in controlling the a-of the atf and other agencies. that, we know. but, gret aknowing that there is a problem is not about fixing the problem. we want to know enough to be able to fix the problem. i will give you one that is very important. from what we can tell, the approval process for wire taps -- pretty darn important document, the approval process seems to be broken because everyone up to jason weinstein signs these documents, based on a cover sheet, not based on the documentation that the -- that the judge sees, but based on a cover sheet, a summary sheet. so they don't know what is in
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them, they know a sheet that is pulled says. you look and say, we are relying on a summary. congress didn't say you shall be accountable for a summary, you are accountable for the underlying documents. that means the system is broken from an approval standpoint. this isn't the first time we have seen robo-signing in government -- >> but the problem is that, okay, i give it to you that it's broken. we have a border agent who has been murdered. we is have a family who wants information. we have a series of people who have that information and have the ability to get t. we have the justice department, which has the information. you have congress, which provides oversights. the hearings are expensive, it's time. the family doesn't get the information and if there is someone incompetent in the justice department who is making these decisions and the justice department admits this is a flawed investigation, that person could be making other flawed ones. so the fact this is taking so
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long, it really isn't necessary, it's appalling. >> it's appalling. it's particularly appalling because you mentioned it gsa once it became public, action was quick. secret service, once it became public, action was quick. in this case, it's been very public for a long time. eric -- sorry, the president's standing behind eric holder and eric holder is standing behind his lieutenants and if they are not responsible, who is? he is saying, we will call when you the i.g. is done and that's been over a year. >> why doesn't the speaker cut bait and run. why not issue the koch contemp? >> i believe the speaker is close to the end of his rope. my job is to do my job until the peeker makes that decision. i am comfortable that he will make that decision relatively soon. >> what's relatively soon? week? two weeks? a month? two months? >> i don't expect to go home for fourth quarter fourth quarter
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without a contempt or admit that justice is not transparent, you are not going to get the cooperation that you want. >> one last question, has the border agent's family been in contact with the members of congress? this is extremely raw and personal to them. >> i met with brian terry's cousin a few days ago in san diego. i continue to stay in touch with the family, including the mother. >> they are anxious to get this information? >> they are. in early september, we are going to be dedicating the brian terry border patrol station in arizona. it's one of my targets for this has to be wrapped up in the sense that they get the accountability that they deserve. brian terry was killed over 18 months ago. it's a very long time not to have anyone fired or held accountable. >> there is more to our interview with darrell issa. you can go to gretawire.com posted on gretawire. now to the latest off message, on camera remarks by a major democrat. earlier this week, former
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president bill clinton seemed to oppose president obama's tax cut extensions, which president clinton has dialed back. now pennsylvania governor ed rendell taking a swipe at president obam appraising secretary of state hillary clinton. >> you supported hillary clinton strongly -- >> sure. >> you think we would be in a different place if she had been elected? >> i think she would have come in with a lot more executive experience. the president was a legislator only, health care and stimulus, two bills i think did good things for the american people. too much was left up to the congress. he said, here's my concept septs, you flesh it out. i think that hillary clinton would have sent them a bill and said, here's what i want. >> will all the off-message remarks hurt the obama campaign. rick klein is here. it looks like former governor ed rendell has gone off the reservation a bit? >> something liberating about being a former governor, not having to face the voters, you don't have to answer to the
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obama campaign message. >> this is stunning. i am actually viseed that governor rendell did that. he has been an outspoken man with his own mind. but this was, i guess this was bolder and sharper than i expected. >> a couple of thoughts. he is trying to sell a book t. helps to say controversial thing when you are doing that. i think you are beginning it see, for folks who supportedded hillary clinton, a little bit reminding people that they had their bets elsewhere. so if the obama presidency doesn't succeed, they can play the told-ya-so game. this is a dangerous game for democrats to play this early and to be questioning, in any way, the leadership of the president when he is up there in a very tough re-election campaign, we have been seeing it a lot with republican splits. now to see democratic splits this early in the campaign has to be problematic. >> i wonder if he held his fire and bit his lip for a couple of years because he was a hillary clinton supportener '08. i wonder if light of president obama going off the reservation
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on the tax cuts issues, which he has dialed back, i wonder if that was liberating? >> i think a lot of democrats, as the administration's gone on, there has been more opportunity to not agree with everything that has happened. as public opinion polls sour on the president, it's tempting if you supported someone else before to say, it may not have been so bad if i had gotten my way a couple of years ago. >> only early june. the election is quite a distance off. however, this is not been a particularly good seven or eight days for president obama. >> june has been a terrible stretch. it's remarkable. you start with the bad economic news and extend to the bill clinton comments and now ed rendell comments. obviously the results in wisconsin, the news that mitt romney out-fund-raised president obama. this is a difficult stretch and earlier than i think a lot of people anticipated. there will be ups and downs, there is no doubt about t. but this is a real down for the obama campaign. they cannot buy a break. >> i think it's stunning eye
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keep harping on this and i don't want to overly harp on it... president obama doesn't seem to be on the ground campaigning for others. you know, you do have to build up your loyalty within the party to show that you care. i don't see him as the factories with the sleeves rolled up and revving up the unions unions and revving up the people. instead -- he has to make some money -- he is hustling money for himself. >> he is doing that consistently. he is breaking his own numbers for fund-raising for a president. there was some whispers of this after the north carolina gay marriage proposal ended up being approved to ban gay marriage and then the next day, he supported gay marriage and people were upset and wisconsin, he didn't show up there. so you have people in the democratic party saying, where are you going to be paying the chips back and showing up on the ground? >> is the obama campaign rattled? or they figure, yes, let's get money and put it in the bank and we will campaign and people will
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forget that we spent time getting money. >> better to have a bad june than a bad november. >> i get that. >> these are bold campaigns. they have a long game strategy. they are changing strategy on the fly. but both teams have played this out to the end and see a way to the finish line, which for president obama is fund-raising. >> and the women vote is a gap that mitt romney has to pick up. >> yes. but president obama has to keep that gap intact. because we will certainly lose among men. he has to be careful to hold on to that and mitt romney has shown some opportunity to slice into that just a tad. >> health care's going to be decided by the end of the month. if it goes down, struck down, is that just another dish into his bad month? president obama? or is that more severe? >> i think that would be a huge body blow, a huge statement to take out the centerpiece of his first-term agend a. but the flip
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side, as with a lot of setback, the democratic base, if they weren't awake, they have found occasion to wake up. >> who knows? he may win the supreme court battle. that's a real whodunit. >> talk about close ones. >> indeed. >> straight ahead, president obama's campaign manager telling supporters, we got beat. now, what does he mean by that? dick morris is here next. a new red flag signaling the u.s. is on a dangerous path, warnings that the explosive debt will lead to economic disaster. paul ryan goes "on the record." plus, first the board room, then television, now the movies. is donald trump going hollywood? that's coming up. by what's getting done. the twenty billion doars bp committed has helped fund economic and environmental recovery. long-term, bp's made a five hundred million dollar commitment to support scientists studying the environment. and the gulf is open for business - the beaches are beautiful, the seafood is delicious. last year, many areas even reported record tourism seasons.
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>> greta: governor mitt romney and republicans are cell brailting a victory, a financial one. governor romney tops president obama in fund-raising, raising nearly $77 million in may and president obama, only $60 million, nearly $17 million less. why the big jump for republicans? does it add up to trouble for the barack obama re-election bid? dick morris is here. looking at the numbers -- it is so much funny business with the numbers and what people read into it and how they add it totogether. is there anything unusual with these numbers?
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>> yeah, there sure is. before we do it, you were find to mention by book, screwed. if you want a signed copy for father's day, go to my web site. in the previous segment, you mentioned the gender gap. romney has closed the gender gap, according to the gallup 12-state poll. he was 19 points behind among women in april and 12 points behind in may and only 3 points behind now, the same as among men. that's a huge development for romney. on the fund-raising thing, i think the big thing is the trajectory of the romney fund-raising. in march, he raised $15 million. in april, he raised $42 million. in may, he raised $76 million. that's an unbelievable trajectory -- >> greta: let me ask you -- [overlapping dialogue] >> greta: just so i understand this -- all right. just so i understand the
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trajectory. correct me if i am wrong, didn't in april, wasn't governor romney able to raise mon wet rnc? or they joined forces at that time? or not? >> that is correct. but obama has always been able do it jointly with the democratic committee. so you are now comparing apples and apples -- >> greta: in terms of looking at the trend eye am not deny that this $76.8 million is huge. but looking at the trend, you would expect the beginning of april when the rnc and governor romney joined together, you would expect at that time it would climb, so that's not so peculiar or unusual? it is unusual that he is beating obama in that? >> yeah. but i mean, come on, if he sustains the pace of $78 million raised a month -- holy cow! he will end up with a huge advantage over obama. the other thing that is significant is that among the pacs, the super pacs, other
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than the presidential campaigns and the party committees, romney has a $200 million edge. dwl 250-50. so when you put this together, there is a certainly the that romney will outspend obama and a serious possibility that it might be by a very substantial margin. >> greta: should we look at -- is it significant who, is making the contributions? that the numbers, whether they are under $200 or whether they are huge multi-,000-dollar plates? >> everybody plays that game. to you about raise this kind of money, you are talking about big money. what is interesting here is that jewish money and wall street money seems to be dropping off for obama. he is replacing that with money he got as a result of his endorsement of gay marriage. i think his endorsement, which hurt him in virginia and north carolina now comes into perspective because of his need
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for financial resources. let me make one other point. beth of these candidates are really vulnerable if they are outspent. obama because of the ability of the romney people and the super pacs to get disenchanted democrats to stay home because there is a lot of dissatisfaction like with rendell. and romney fhe is outspent, may not be able to defend himself on the attacks on bain capital. usually paid media does not play that critical a role in a presidential race. but here, it is and it's very significant that romney has the lead. >> greta: only 20 seconds left. the june numbers will be a real big sign, isn't it? >> yeah. well, romney raised $15 million in texas this week. in houston. there was a guy at my event who said, we raised $4.5 million for
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him last night. that's significant -- this is a situation where obama is hurting financially. >> greta: thank you very much. coming up, powell paul ryan is warn that this united states is on the verge of a debt crisis like europe's. how soon in congressman ryan is here to tell you. and a story that will light your hair on fire. we will let senator tom coburn we will let senator tom coburn tell you all about remember when taking a bath and going for a swim became the same thing for a few days? then keep the tradition going at bass pro shops' family summer camp. plus, don't miss the final days of free shipping on orders of 50 dollars or more at basspro.com.
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>> a dire warn from this congressional budget office, the cbo with new information that if the federal government doesn't change course soon, the debt will crash the economy. we spoke to the house budget committee chair, paul ryan, a short time ago. the cbo has issued a new report with new estimates, which is grimmer, much grimmer, that in fact, it has disturbed quite a lot of people. they warned last year in the next 25 years, the debt/gdp ratio would be 187% and now they are protecting 199%, 12% increase. >> every year we don't fix this, we go deeper in the hole, we go closer toward a debt crisis. they are telling us by 2025, programs, medicare, medicaid and social security will bankrupt us. and they are telling us, it is important for the economy's
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sake, to keep the tax rates down. if we raise income tax rates, which president obama is proposing, it is going to slow down the economy. we are proposing to form a lower tax rate. you don't cost revenues doing that. the key for the economy. and also they are telling us, they can't even measure the economy past the 2030s because of the debt burden. they only have confidence that the economy can survive the american american economy in the 20s and 30s. >> greta: we have the fiscal cliff we are -- about to go over and the republicans say cut taxes and rev up the economy. the democrats say the way is to increase the taxes. you both have solutions, but you can both agree that we are really headed in the wrong direction. >> we are headed in the wrong direct. we want growth. tax rate increases, taxing small businesses at much higher rates
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than competitors will hurt the economy and lose jobs, which loses revenue. so we want economic growth and job creation and spending cuts entitlement reforms to get the debt under control. >> greta: whether the republicans or the in things are right, you agree that we are in deep trouble. what can the american people do? besides vote -- the animosity between the two sides is far deeper. this is a serious crisis, not just a political fight. >> we can control our own actions, in the house, we have passed two budgets, that shows significantly how we are going to get the debt under control and grow the economy and how we can prevent a debt crisis from hitting america. we have to get problems under control. so the problem we have the senate has chosen not to pass a budget in 3 years. you know this. the president's given us four budgets with no solutions, more taxes, trillion-dollar deficits,
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no attempt to try to fix this fiscal cliff. we need new partners. i don't think after four budgets that the president is likely to change his tune. and the senate fthey are choosing not even to try to budget, we are at an impasse. we have shown -- what we did in wisconsin, we said, here's specifically wawe are going to do to fix the problems we have facing our state. we took it to the country, took it to the state and they made a decision. i think could you remember is on the ballot in wois condition sin and won. we are showing courage. we are saying specifically what wev should do to grow the economy. we are asking for the count tree give us the ability to put it in place. >> greta: let me look at this as a worst-case scenario. let's assume nobody has the white house, house and senate, so we have a divided government. we are back to beginning in january, or in november, actually, after it is election, we are back to a divided
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government and go off the fiscal cliff with the republicans saying, cut taxes and cut spending -- >> we are a divided government now. >> greta: now what do we do? >> we need leader who is are willing to put up ideas. what we thought we dolled when we passed the budget, we would pass our plan and show the senate, here's how we want to fix the problem. let's see your ideas and let's compromise. we have yet to see that. they have decided not to put their ideas on the table so you can't get to the table. >> greta: i am assuming worst-case scenario. if we keep the same leaders in place, i don't -- how do i know we will see anything different from that? so what we're saying is that we need to go to the country with a referendum -- tell people in washington, fix this mess before it gets out of control. we are offering solutions. the other side's offering demagoguery, distortion and no
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solutions. i know that's fairly partisan. i don't enjoy saying that. i want to fix this problem. i want to get people back to work. but we need people who are part of the solution, not part of the problem. so far, we have nothing but gridlock. a lot of folks here have decided to do nothing and they would rather not pass anything than show, i think, the country, what they really want to do. the kind of tax increases you valid to have to slow down the economy, if huto pay for the gusher spending here with all the new taxes we have to come. >> greta: both of us from the state of wisconsin. i am curious if you have thoughts on november. very interesting results two days ago? >> we are clearly a tossup swing state now. we were in 2000, 2004. not in 2008. the mccain campaign pulled ut -- pulled out in august. i believe that this is going to be a hugely contested state. our 10 electoral votes -- i am
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not going to say we are going to win, but i believe we have an excellent chance of winning. >> greta: how about president obama not showing up for mayor barrett. >> when the issues that, you know, was up, he decided not to campaign with tom barrett. i think they knew the polls were not looking so good, that tom was going to lose. so they decided want to come in and help him. >> greta: i don't know what's going to happen, but when i was there, i heard a lot of people were unhappy. >> people felt like they were left hanging a little bit, coming up, why senators tom coburn's calling it money for nothing. he will tell you. he goes "on the record" next. in 2 minutes, the battle over national security secrets heats up. in thees and republicans are calling for a stop to sensitive ♪ how are things on the west coast? ♪ ♪ i hear you... ♪ rocky mountain high
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ethe battle over national security secrets is heating up. many are blaming the white house. and now, top democratic and republican lawmakers are teaming up to stop the leaks. >> not only have leaks occurred, but there has been just a cascade of leaks coming out of the intelligence community that puts lives in danger and it infrinks upon the ability of the intelligence community to do their job. >> this has to stop. when people say they don't want to work with the united states because they can't trust us to keep a secret, that's serious. >> greta: leaders of the senate and house intelligence committees are drafting legislation to limit access to classified information. republicans have accused the white house of leaking information to help the president's re-election bid. the white house denies that. go to gretawire.com and tell us what you think. back in 2. as a culinary manager i make sure our guests have an over the top experience. being hands ons key! i make sure every plate looks just right.
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>> from america's news headquarters, i'm marianne rafferty. a plane breaking apart, mid-flight, killing a kansas family of six. it crashed in a swampy area in central florida. the pilot, his wife and four children were all killed. they were heading home after a trip to the bahamas. the aircraft, a single turboprop fixed-wing plane crashed a half hour after takeoff. former football players taking the nfl to court over concussions. lawyers are filing the biggest lawsuit of its kind t. combines dozens of claims, accusing the nfl of covering up links between player injuries and brain damage and increasing the health risks, by promoting violent hits. the nfl denies all allegations. for the latest headlines, go to foxnews.com. you are watching the most powerful name in news, fox newschannel. >> greta: almost $16 trillion.
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that's the federal debt right now. shouldn't the government be doing everything it can to pay down the debt? that does seem obvious. but get this -- more than $70 billion in federal funds is sitting in old accounts, unspent and wasted. that's right congress appropriates that money for everything from education to highways, but it sits in bank accounts, never spent. how could that be possible? we asked tom coburn? >> $70 billion, doing nothing, no effort's being made to get it back. but it's money that we are paying interest on, sitting, doing nothing. >> greta: >> reporter: explain it, this is money that the federal government has appropriated, sent out to the agencies and even to state and local government -- >> and to grantees. >> greta: grantees, never spent. sitting there. $70 billion, over what period of time? >> well, take -- the 1996 olympics in atlanta -- $2.6 million. i mean, it's been over 16 years.
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>> greta: is there no way i. sure! >> greta: why aren't we going to get it? itch that's a question we ought to be asking the oversight committee and the appropriators. >> greta: i go through the list. one of my, quote favorite is detroit, michigan, with a deplorable school system and it has tens of millions of dollars that it has been granted to fix their school system, never used. just siting there. >> yeah. unspent. think about. it have you hiv pates that can't get drurks but there are millions of dollars sitting in programs for hiv patients. we can't give them the money to buy the drugs. >> greta: is $70 billion the full universe or could it be worse? >> it could be worse. that's with we can find. that's what my office found. i don't have the access that the appropriators have to all of these accounts. fidi am sure i could find more. but $70 billion's enough. let's get that back and not borrow $70 billion more this
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year and not -- $70 billion could delay the time at which we face a debt limit. >> greta: why wouldn't the detroit school system use the mon? >> i don't recall the details -- incompetency. >> greta: anybody have a good reason -- >> not that we have heard of. >> greta: do they know the money's sitting there? >> yes. >> greta: how about the agencies that are sending it out? do they have a reason to force it to be used? >> not unless neigh are oversighted and held accountability, which requires work and try to find out where this is. we have an earmark for a train from nevada to california, $46 million. it's been siting there -- it is not ever going to go anywhere. because it's not politically right to bring it back, it is not ever going to come back. so we have it sitting there, doing nothing. now it has competition from a private train running between las vegas and california. tell me when we are going to get
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it back? >> greta: you hear about raising taxes and republicans don't want to raise taxes and in thees want to. it's hard when you have the discussion about raising taxes when we see that the government has parceled money, looked the other way, $70 billion and never bothered to see it be used or we recover it back into the treasury. >> look, big picture, at least $400 million a year is in duplication, waste or fraud -- >> greta: that's another category! that's another category! >> that's per year! per year. we are talking about raising taxes. we are talking about the federal government borrowing $1.4 trillion and here's $400 million. and they refuse in amendment after amendment to buy into ways to solve that because every one of these programs have a constituent. and nobody wants to buck a constituent by doing the right thing. the real constituent is our kids and our country. and so we are not doing when we need to do to fix the problems
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in front of us. >> greta: of this $70 billion currently that you were able to locate, sitting somewhere, never used -- this goes on for years, right? since 1996, the olympics. there is at least an effort, a bill that senator warner is introducing to give the ability to recover and return the mony? is that going to be a unanimous vote to do that? >> i doubt it. >> greta: really?! >> first of all, the agencies don't want to give it back. if you take it back, it lower the baseline so they daint don't get as much the next year. that's number 1. number 2, if you take it back, they can't reallocate money without anybody knowing where it went, staff on appropriation can reprogram money without the rest of us, nobody in america know where is it went. so you take away the flexibility to be enhance parolial interest, the politicians irk it's
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>> greta: here's the best of the rest. donald trump heads a new message for the former miss pennsylvania -- time is up. and we are suing. that's the message. tmz is reporting that trump is going forward with legal action against miss usa contestant sheena monan t. started when he accused the beauty pageant of pre-determining the winners. trump's company owns the pag an. yesterday he gave her a 24-hour ultimatum, apologize or face a lawsuit. monan did not say she was story and now trump's lawyers are drafting a defamation lawsuit. other news from trump tower, the donald's going hollywood -- sort of. he is planning to build a major tv and movie studio in florida. the miami dade county commission is discussing plans for trump studio city. it would be twice the size of
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>> greta: 11:00 is almost here flash studio lights, it's time for last call. the governor wants more tax money from you. but how do they plan to get it? here is jay leno.
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>> looks like the governor may soon have yet another way to squeeze more money out of us. several states are now contesting pilot programs testing cars including a gps devices folks can monitor and tax us for every mile we drive. you would get taxed by the mile. you know what we should do? put a tracking device on the money we spent the government. how much goes to hookers... make it a two-way street. >> that is your last call. lights are blinking and we're closing down shop. be hur to join us tomorrow night for our on the record special. health care law. supreme court showdown. you'll here from michelle bachmann and attorneys general will be here. that is tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern, right now go to greta wire.com and let us know what you tht

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