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darrell issa. >> have you and your attorneys produced internally the materials responsive to the subpoenas? >> we believe that we have responded to the subpoenas -- >> 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 have you responsive to it? or have you simply invented a privilege that doesn't exist? >> you are saying internally -- >> internally! have you pulled all of that information? >> we have looked at 240 custodians and produced millions of electronic records and reviewed 1 40,000 documents. >> 140,000 documents. how many are responsive that you are withholding at this time? >> we have produced sticks00 --
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>> look, i don't want to hear about the 7600 -- >> the lady is out of order. >> i appreciate that there was hostility between the attorney general and myself -- >> just for the record i. i would hope that the ranking member would understand that -- 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 is asking questions and i am trying to respond. i am not feeling hostile. i'm 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 soily mistaken. >> with the greatest respect, i would say that i believe the effort here has become politically motivated in an attempt to embarrass the administration. and that diminishes the process.
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>> greta: sew so how does chairman issa think the hearing went? we spoke with him earlier? >> you have had quite a morning today. did you get what you wanted 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 did not 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. >> greta: all right. you are pending a threat to threat. >> we do. >> greta: the speak of the house, john boehner got involved in it to persuade the justice department to comply. >> he asked for a very reduced, very limited, very targeted portion of the subpoenas, in hopes that that would be
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sufficient. certainly, he cut it down to the minimum we would need to find out how congress was lied to on february 4 of last year. and this is the problem we have. 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. >> greta: all right. so did you get today, the answers to everything you have asked for, from the attorney general? >> no. >> greta: okay. and so now, the attorney general came today. you had the go-round, i heard that exchange. which it got hot. right? >> we asked questions, he wanted to not give straight are sws and i tended to cut him off to get to the next one. but i think by the time we got down to jason chafits, his answer was that he had superior knowledge to the verbatim reading of an email we were able to discover. this is the problem. he wants to say he has superior knowledge, he knows things, but he doesn't want to provide them. the most important thing was
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multiple members of our committee -- career attorneys and members of congress have read the wiretaps that were supplied to us and reached the conclusion, if you read them, you knew, they knew they were gun walking. >> greta: at what point, obviously before the agent was killed in december of 2010? >> all of it. all six of them were well before it, in the summer. more importantly, the attorney general didn't say he didn't see gun help-walking in cover sheets. he said, i read these wire taps, i do not believe you would see gun walking in them. we have read them, i read them. yes, you do. you see no question that you know that guns are going, being bought by specific individuals and ending up in mexico. it's conclusive in the wire-tap request. that to us says he's willing to be disingen with us in sworn testimony before the congress. ultimately, we can't make the documents believe public, but our intention is to have
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additional people read them, ones that understand they are sealed and can't be released and make independent decisions. i bet that if i found 50 career attorneys, 50 would determine it gun walking. >> greta: you said disingen with us. i assume he lied? >> let me rephrase that. he found his own truth and that is not consistent with the facts. i say that because that's what he kept saying throughout the day. it is not consistent with the facts. the facts are these six, fairly thick document it's. >> greta: that were leaked to you. >> that were leaked to us, that we read -- >> greta: did he read them? >> he said he read them and that we are disother to the facts. >> greta: is there any indications how high up the wire taps went? >> lenny brewer. jason weinstein. >> greta: that's number 2, under the attorney general? >> correct. >> greta: has the attorney general said he gu nothing about
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it? >> yes. >> greta: you accept that sympt there was no reason for him to see wire taps. the question is, when did he become aware of it? today, he said he read the six wire taps and he's still not aware of it. that's where it is troubling, he can say he read the documents and he still doesn't see what it seems the rest of us do see. >> greta: have you outrage on this. representative tasich is outraged, the outstanding subpoena that has been complied w. where is the holdup? either the attorney general complies or you subpoena them, with speaker boehner agrees, because i assume you can't end-run the speaker. >> a contempt floor vote is eric canter canter and john boehner's decision. we have additional tools and 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 is not going to cooperate. >> greta: have you asked the
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speaker to go forward with contempt? >> we are in a process in which -- >> greta: that's a slow-walk answer. what's the truth -- have you asked him -- you must have said, you have had conversations -- >> we have had lots of conversations itching he says what. >> we have agreed to a process and we are continuing that process. the timeline for that process is pretty much over. so do i believe is that we are in within weeks of it? yes. do i have additional hearings i can hold to allow 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? >> greta:r -- >> yes. >> greta: this is a sleeper. this has been going on for a year and-a-half. i don't know if the justice department is right or you are right. but we have a border agent's family that wants answers and we got answers quite swiftly with the scandal in peru.
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so i know it can be had. so there is either the justice department's refusing or the speaker's posturing and not letting you, or you enjoy the subpoena and the hot seat. something's not right t. doesn't take that long not to get the answers? >> we have sufficient answers to know that justice is not well run. that there is not real account ability in approving the wire taps and controlling the actions of the atf and other agencies. that, we know. but, greta, knowing 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 the documents based on a cover sheet, not based on the documentation that the judge sees, but based on a summary sheet.
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so they don't know what is in them, they only know the summary says. so you look and say, we are relying on a summary, congress didn't said, you shall be accountable for a summary. you are accountable for the 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 you know -- >> greta: but the problem is, okay, i give it to you that it's broken. we have a border agent murdered and a family who wants information and we have -- we have a series of people who have that information and have the ability to get it. we have the justice department, which has the information and you have congress which provides oversights to get the information from justice. every time there is a hearings, it is exclusive, time, everything. the family doesn't get the information and if there is somebody who is incompetent in the justice department making these decisions and the justice department admits it's a flawed investigation, that person could be there, making other flawed ones. so the fact that this is taking
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so long is rather -- it really isn't necessary -- i mean, it's appalling. >> it is appalling. particularly because, you pension inned 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. the president's standing behind eric holder and eric holder is standing behind his lieutenants and if he's not responsible, who is? he says, we will call you when the i.g. is done. >> greta: why doesn't the speaker fish or cut bait? issue the contempt -- i don't know if you are right or wrong, but that would move it forward? >> i believe that the speaker is close to the end of his rope. my job, of course, is to do my job until the speaker makes that decision. i am comfortable that heel make the decision relatively soon, what is relatively soon? a week, a month, two months? >> i don't expect to go home for
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4th of july without a wrapup of this investigation and admit that justice is not transparent, that you are not going to get the cooperation that you want. >> greta: has the bortder agent's family been in congress congress -- been in contact with congress? >> 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 -- >> greta: they are anxious to get this information. >> they are n. early september, we will be deet dedicating the brian terry border proehl control station in arizona. it is my target that this has to be wrapped up, in terms that they get the accountability that they deserve. he was killed 18 months ago, it's a very long time to not have anyone fired or abilitiable. >> greta: there is more on gretawire for the complete interview. now to the latest off message, on camera, remarks by a major democrat. earlier this week, form early
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president bill clinton seemed to oppose president obama's position on tax cut exemptions, which he has dialed back. and now ed rendell, taking a swipe at president obam appraising secretary of state, hillary clinton. >> you supported hillary clinton strongly -- >> sure. >> do you think we would be in a different place if he had been elected. >> she would have come in with more executive experience. the president was hurt by being a legislator. health care and stimulus, two things i think did good for the american people. but he said, to the congress, here's my concept, you flesh it out. i think hillary clinton would have sent a bill and said, here's what i want. >> greta: the off-message remarks, will they hurt the obama campaign? rick klein is here. it looks like ed rendell is off the reservation? >> liberating about being a former governor, not having to
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face the voters and the obama campaign. >> greta: this is stunning. i am surprised that governor rendell did that. he has been outspoken and has his own mind. but this was bolder and sharper than i expected? >> he is trying to sell a book, it helps to say controversial things things and you are beginning to see, for folks who supported hillary clinton last tite time around, reminding people that they had their bets somewhere else. if the obama presidency does not succeed, they can play the told you so game is and have more credibility. this is a dangerous game for democrats to play this early and to be out there questioning, in any way, the leadership of the president, when he is up there in a very tough re-election campaign. we have been thinking about the republican splits. now to see the democratic splits emerging is problematic. >> greta: i wonder if he held his fire for a couple of years. he was a hillary clinton supporter, the former governor. i wonder if in light of
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president obama going off the reservation on the tax cut issues, which he has dialed back, i wonder if that was liberating? >> i think a lot of democrats, 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, you know, it may not have been so bad if i had gotten my way a couple ever years ago. >> greta: early june. november is a distance off. a lot can happen between now and then f. however, this is not a particularly good seven or eight days for president obama. >> june has been a terrible stretch. the bad economic news a week ago. you extend it to the clinton and now the rendell comments and the results in wisconsin and the news that mitt romney out-fund-raised president obam a. this is a difficult stretch. there is going to be ups and downs. but right now, this is a real down for the obama campaign. they cannot buy a break. >> greta: i think it's stunning,
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the fact -- i keep harping on this. i don't want to overlyharp on this. president obama doesn't seem to bes on the ground campaigning for others. have you to build up your loyalty within your party and show that you care. i don't see him as the factories with the sleeves rolled up and revving up the unions and the people. instead, he has to make some money, he is out hustling money for himself. >> he is doing that, breaking his own flight data recorder number of fund-raisers for a president. he is going out there quite a bit. there is 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. the people were upset about that. and wisconsin, the past couple of days, he didn't show up. so you have people in the party saying, where exactly are you going to be paying the chips back? >> greta: is the campaign rattled at all? or they figure, yes, this is early and let's go out and get money and put it in the bank and then we can campaign and people
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will forget it? >> better to have a bad june than a bad october. >> greta: i get that. >> they can defend against that with a lot of money. both campaigns, they don't get rattled. they have a long campaign strategy. both teams teams have played tht to the end and they see a way to the finish line that involves for president obama, a lot of fund-raising. >> greta: president obama is leading leading with women and governor romney has to pick up. >> and president obama has to keep that. he has to be careful to hold on to that and mitt romney has shown some opportunity to slice into that, just a tad. >> greta: health care's going to be tied up at the end of the month. f if that is struck down, is that just more in a bad month? or more severe? >> i think that would be a huge statement to take out the
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centerpiece of his agend a. but the democratic base fthey weren't awake, they have found occasion to wake up. >> greta: he may win the supreme court battle. that's a real whodunit. >> talk about close ones. >> greta: indeed. >> greta: straight ahead, dick morris is here next. and a new red flag signaling the u.s. is on a dangerous path that the explosive debt will lead to economic disaster. paul ryan goes "on the record." first the boardroom and then television and is it now the movies? donald trump is next.
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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
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these numbers? >> 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 tell you all about it. he's here to go "on the record." follow the wings.
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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,
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we are back to a divided 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.
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our 10 electoral votes -- i am 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 information leaks. ♪ how are things on the west coast? ♪
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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. [ male announcer ] it's back again at red lobster, but not for long! your very own four course seafood feast for jt $14.99.
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>> greta: $70 billion of your tax money wasted. tom coburn is coming up. but first, the headlines. >> hi, gret a. united nations observers come under fire in syria, as they try to get to the latest massacre scene. activists say government troops killed nearly 80 people, many, women and children. the syrian government blamed terrorists. the danger of a full-scale war is imminent and real and the consequences would be catastrophic for the entire region. police spending hours combing through the home of a suspected murderer in a decades-old missing child kiss, confessing to killing etan patz. i'm marianne rafferty. now back to "on the record."
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>> greta: almost $16 trillion. 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.
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i mean, it's been over 16 years. >> 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
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need to do to fix the problems 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.
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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
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you thought about tonight's show. good night from washington see you tomorrow night for our special. be there. be awesome nonetheless. >> laura: the o'reilly factor is on tonight. >> we produced 7600. >> look, i don't want to hear about the 7600. >> chairman i would beg to allow -- >> -- the lady is out of order. >> attorney general eric holder under fire today over the botched fast and furious mexican gun walking sting. what did the attorney general know? when did he know it? how much trouble is he in and and should he be worried? >> i'm pretty calm. i'm okay. >> you supported hillary clinton strongly. >> sure. do you think we would have been in a different place if she had been elected. >> i think she would have come in with a lot more experience. >> democrats in disarray even as president obama raises massive amounts of money. some are questioning his leadership. >> we all know who b