intentionally slow walking hoping that chairman issa would move on. that of course did not happen, and this contempt vote is really acting more like a gun to the head of the department of justice and now eric holder himself says he wants to negotiate over the documents that issa has been demanding since october. back to you. shannon: thank you very much. for more on this let's bring in kristen powers, daily beast columnist and fox news contributor. tony sayak, national correspondent for talk radio news service. tony, i want to start wurbgs the attorney general today says he has no intention of resigning. he also did extend this discussion that he wanted to have with representative issa, he says he's willing to talk about compromise and what other documents he can release. he says the other side hasn't been willing to play ball with him. >> shannon, the attorney general clearly fails to realize that he is the one who was compelled by the congress to turn over

documents via this subpoena, and if there was nothing in these documents that are incriminating, or damming to him he should just do it, because the truth shall set you free. that's my advice to the attorney general. instead he's object strubted, avoided and delayed his way into this corner where now all of a sudden a year later he seems to be suggesting there is a need for an accommodation. you heard him use that word, and a compromise. no there is the need for justice and the truth. and that will only happen if this attorney general complies with the law and full tpeup fulfills the obligation of what the subpoena power of the committee has over him. and he obviously feels like he can manipulate and talk and spin his way out of this. where i do think the truth has to be found somewhere in these 150,000 pages of documents related to this very serious issue of fast and furious. shannon: kirsten what do you think is behind the decision not to release the full documents that the oversight committee has been asking for? would it just behoove the attorney general and the doj to release the documents and let

the chips fall where they may? >> well, what the attorney general said is that it's deliberative material which has been withheld by previous administrations, republican and democrat, and they reserve the right to do that, that's why they haven't released it. i think they feel and i agree with them that this is a political witch hunt. off the between these situations you have one party who decides to go after the administration and get them tied up in things like this. and, look, don't get me wrong, the death of this border agent is a serious thing, and the department of justice has said that this was a bad program. it also happens to be a program that started in 2006, before obama was president. this is a bad program. the program has been discontinued. so what are we really trying to prove here? i mean what they are really trying to do is somehow convince people that eric holder knew about it. okay. let's just say eric holder did know about it. he hasn't done anything illegal. >> then release the documents, kirsten. >> no, no, no, no, no, why are

we spending taxpayer money? i was against the valerie plane witch hunt as well by the way why are we spending taxpayer money, time on this to prove nothing, really? they've said the program is a bad program and it doesn't exist any more. why are they tying up so much of government time on this issue, except for the fact that they want to go after attorney general holder to hurt barack obama. shannon: tony, let me ask you this. any chance that this back tphaoeurs on the g.o.p.? they've been very vocal. they have hammered this again and again, this is the response from the doj yesterday. chairman issa has distorted the facts, ignored testimony and flung facts at the attorney general and others that has so many americans disallusioned with washington. any chance it blows up in their face. >> absolutely there is a chance it's going to blow up in their face, which is exactly while kirsten's point and the point the doj tries to make that this

is politically motivated is ludicrous. very often republicans have argued cases on the merits that they thought they were right on but public opinion went the opposite way. let's remember the monica lewinsky trial. we thought we had that dead to rights and it was a political liability for hreps. th republicans. the same thing could happen here. three whistle-blowers brought this to our attention. there was a dead border agent and an attorney general obstructing at every turn this investigation to get to the truth. contrary to kr*eurs ten i think it's important to find out, what people knew, when they knew it and was this authorized, was this operation authorized at the senior level of this administration? that's why the february 4th 2011 letter that eric holder and the department of justice sent to congress, which claimed that there was no senior official who was aware of these eupl proceed paoeurts improprieties, and then that same letter retracted

by eric holder is what is the case at hand there. we need to know what they discovered as a result. >> no we don't. we don't. shannon: a final word to kirsten here. >> we actually don't need to know that. >> nothing to see here, nothing to see. >> you've talked enough. let me finish. chairman issa said in an interview the other day that this was just a dumb program. this is not about the program any more, it's about the cover up. and to them i say, no your job is not to persecute people because you don't like the fact that they didn't release information about a dumb program that's been -- it doesn't exist any more. >> isn't the cover up worse than the crime sometimes? >> i criticized what they did with the valerie plane situation where people went to jail for nothing, for nothing. >> good no for you. >> your colleagues simply don't feel that way. shannon: maybe that is a particular point you two can agree on. we have to leave it there. kristen and tony thank you very much. good to see you. >> thank you. shannon: we've got disturbing images of a domestic dispute

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shannon: a horrifying attack caught on surveillance camera. some of what you are going to see is upsetting. it happened when a mother agreed to meet her ex to pick up her son. but instead of meeting her by the ex brought a gas can. >> reporter: the meeting was at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. the ex pulls out his gas

container, walks over and begins dousing the woman with gas. she then ran into the store trying to get away from this guy. there is video and still pictures of her trying to hold the door inside closed. he's outside. not only is he pulling the door, he has a large knife and maybe a machete. he grabs her and pulls her out. he grabs her, pulls her out and lights her on fire. you don't even want to see the video. the woman suffers severe burns though though she is suspected to live. the suspect is in jail. police had been called to his home in south florida a number of times on domestic issues. before he allegedly set his son's mother on fire he sent hear text message saying i'm all

about revenge. now he's in jail and she tonight hospital recovering from very severe burns, shannon. shannon: that horrifying. the outcome of the presidential race hinge on a few key swing states. the showdown intensifying between the justice department and the state of florida over removing illegals from the voter rolls. did you know the feds are suing more than a third of the states for doing the exact same thing? our legal panel of constitutional scholars debates it. >> this is not a partisan issue. this is protecting the rights of u.s. citizens and not diluting their vote by non-u.s. citizens. a party?

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shannon: upping the ante in the

battle over national security leaks. it's a brand-new hour of live already. i'm shannon bream in for megyn kelly. john mccain and lindsey graham introduced a resolution calling for the appointment of an independent counsel. >> i ask unanimous consent that the senate receive in consideration a resolution regarding recent intelligence leaks which means the appointment of a special counsel. i ask that the resolution be agreed to. shannon: that resolution meeting heavy resistance from democrats that last week condemned the leaks. >> reporter: senators mccain and graham are calling for a special counsel to investigate the leaks.

>> as always with these leaks that goes on in this town though not at the level i have ever seen, i think we need to ask ourselves first is who benefits. certainly not national security. not our military intelligence professionals or partners abroad who are more exposed as a result of these leaks. >> reporter: the wide-ranging hearing dealt with the gun running scandal fast and furious as well as the intelligence leaks investigation. one senior republican named names. john brennan and tom donnelly. >> so the question is how could there not be a conflict of interest if the evidence points to one or more of those people who according to the reporting were the sources. without and potential conflict

of interest if it pointed to tom donilon or john brennan? >> reporter: they have the authority to follow the evidence wherever it leads in these investigations. >> we have tried more leak cases, brought more leak cases during the course of this administration than any other administration. i was getting hammered by the left for that two weeks ago. now i'm getting hammered by the right for not potentially going after leaks. >> reporter: one of the main criticisms we heard is the two u.s. attorneys, one in the district of columbia and the other in maryland may have personal relationships. they would recuse themselves and

the department of justice would go outside geographically to find another u.s. attorney to lead those cases. but this story just continues to ramp up. shannon: washington has a long history of leaks, some to make somebody look good, on thers to make somebody look bad. president reagan had more than his share. coming up, michael reagan joins us with suggestions that the leaks could come from very high up in this administration. we have breaking news from the campaign trail with new numbers out from a critical battleground state. the swing states will make all the difference in the race between president obama and governor romney. it's pretty much a dead heat in iowa. scott rasmussen is an

independent pollster and the author of "the people's money." >> we numbers are so close to the national average. that's why the swing state with either barack obama or mitt romney open up a big lead they will take iowa with them. we are seeing 45% of voters in iowa say they are not excited about the choice, they will make a selection of the lesser of two evils. when it comes to the economy they trust mitt romney more than barack obama. shannon: we see that is at the top of the list when you ask vote wears they care most about. when folks head to the polls and that 1% or 2% they give to romney will put him over the top? >> if the economy does not get better by november, absolutely.

he doesn't need a new speech he needs the economy to improve. the net worth of americans net worth has fallen by 40%. americans have known it for a long time. people believe their housing values have collapsed and they are look for something to turn it around. shannon: we have other polls that we can look at. let's look at pennsylvania. that has been back and forth. it's been very close. in the most recent polling we see president obama maintains a lead there. but you think about issues through ohio as well. why do you think the president is still on top in those particular states? >> this has been a fairly safe democratic state in recent elections. you have two big urban areas philadelphia and pittsburgh hat give the president the lead at

this time. the fact that we are even talking about pennsylvania tells us something brand-new the electoral college situation. there is not a single state john mccain won in 2008 that barack obama is seriously contesting. the only question is how many obama states will he lose this time around. pennsylvania still a stretch for the republicans but it is moving into perhaps an area that you would salines only to president obama at this time. shannon: let's talk about another state that has been getting a lot of attention. wisconsin. the polling shows president obama when this poll was taken with a 4-point advantage. in the wake of what happened with scott walker do you think that holds? >> this is huge news. president obama won this by 14 points. the gap has been reduced by 10. it's a difficult state for republicans. george bush almost pulled it off. we are looking at a state with

white working class democrats sensitive to the economy. i doubt this would be the state to put mitt romney over the top. but if wisconsin is competitive or leading romney on election day it will be a very good night for the republicans. shannon: thank you, sir. shocking new numbers from the federal reserve on how big a hit americans took and a great recession between 2011 and 2010. the median family met worth fell 40%. levels not seen since 1992. 20 years of gain gone. the main reason the housing collapse that sent home values plunging. social mobility decline which means people fell to lower income brackets than rose to higher ones. new questions over the president's healthcare law and its impact on small businesses after the president suggests his

legislation isn't hurting employers and workers. stu varney joins us with more. stu, were you surprised that the president seemed surprised there may be some concerns among small businesses over the impact of the law? >>it is a surprising it was a local reporter from sioux city, iowa, he said a company in my business has gone out of business because of upcoming obama-care. the president seems surprised saying the only companies that have been affected by obama-care have been health insurers. he seemed surprised it had been. it was. the company in question, they are the manufacturer of hospital equipment. they dropped 111 people from

their manufacturing operation and they said specifically it was the added costs of obama-care that had driven them out of sioux city, iowa. the president was surprised at this. prance he shouldn't have been. it suggests the president is not firmly in touch with what's going on with small business and private enterprise where obama-care is concerned. shannon: so many businesses anecdotally. it's not that they are so dead set against it, they are worried about the uncertainty. where you see surveys where one in eight small businesses have lost their insurance or told they are going to be phased out. they don't know what's going to come next. >> if you are running a business and planning the future you want to know what's coming at you. what is the risk of future regulations and taxation. if you are a small business you don't know exactly what

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shannon: a looming battle over how to investigate what some are calling the worst intelligence leaks in our history. today republicans are calling for a special council and that is meeting resistance from the attorney general and setting off a spat between republican senator lindsey graham and patrick leahy, a deal krat. >> there is no doubt in my mind if the shoe were on the other

few and everybody on that side would be screaming for the appointment of a special prosecutor. given the record of how you and colleagues bind, this cries out for corrective action. shannon: the leaks include the cyber attack on iran. details on the pakistani doctor who helped us catch bin laden and the names on the president's kill list and how he makes decisions on targets. michael reagan is my guest. shannon: it's nice to have this discussion with you because you have experience and inside information on how this works. is it fair to say just about every administration has leaked some information at one time or another. and it can be a useful device? >> normally you have a leaker

within the white house who is charged with leak together media to get your story out to beat the press and make yourself look good. david gergen was leaking information to the media. every administration has had it. but how far do you go with what you leak out? this so much smells like the obama administration because they are so much into themselves and patting themselves on the back and say look at me, when you have the republicans who say this man is not strong with defense, you have a president picking out the exact targets that the drones are going to go in and fire at and take out. this is outrageous, these kinds of leaks going out. it puts the president of the united states in harm's way in the future because you have taken plausible deniability away. they need to find the person who might have leaked all this information. and i think they are right. it's not from the white house.

i would check at the vice president's house today. shannon: the attorney general has tapped two attorneys general to lead the investigation. he wouldn't say what they are after. but you saw senator lindsey graham suggesting they don't think those u.s. attorneys can be independent. do you think it's enough to have those two -- they have praise for both sides of the aisle and people talk about what strong good prosecutors and attorneys they are. is it good enough? >> they will spend a lot of money trying to search out who is the leaker in all of this. they will come up with absolutely nothing. everybody will pat themselves on the back and say we did our jobs. because they will find out the leaker is probably a friend of both sides of the aisle and they don't want to take that person down. this seems to be the problem with special prosecutors when we go after people. we don't get the person we are

after, we get everybody around them. it seems the collateral damage is very high and the person we are after never gets to be found. i would worry about our friends in israel and other places that we work with to gather information and use that information for the united states of america to be able to use to take down iraq or whatever it might be. those are the problems we'll face in the future. shannon: there were accusations it might trace back to the white house. the president said those types of suggestions are wrong and they are offensive. you suggested these folks might want to check with the vice president. any possibility that he would go rogue and be leaking information on behalf of the administration without the president's express knowledge or consent? >> i don't think he goes rogue at all. i think joe biden knowing exactly what he's doing. i remember in my father's administration joe biden would

sit in on national security matters because he was in the senate. joe biden would threaten the united states that he would leak information to the media if that's the only way he could stop ronald reagan from carrying out a covert operation. this smells so much like joe biden at the presidential house. i think that's the way they framed the phrases when they say the white house had nothing to do with it. i think joe biden is at the bottom of all this because he has a history of leak together media on both sides of the fence. shannon: do you think it' an issue of semantics when the president says it didn't come from us. do you think bind would have leaked the information without the white house knowing? >> no. i think within the white house joe biden became that person to leak the information out. the president may not have said please leak this out, but it

smells like this administration patting themselves on the back saying look what we are doing, we are tough, we are strong and defense. we are taking out the paid guys. the president of the united states is picking those people to take out with the drones. the president doesn't understand the position the "new york times" and the leakers put him in in the future. now he's in harm's way before, during and after the presidency of the united states. shannon: we'll follow this and see if your predictions come true. thank you for your time. there are dueling lawsuits from the justice department and the state of florida over effort to clean up the voter rolls. did you know the d.o.j. is suing a third of the states over changes to their voting processes. it was widely considered the crime caper of the 20th

century. the 1962 escape from alcatraz. now it's getting new attention a half century later. >> blackwell tells how the prisoners accomplished the daring break, explaining how they used dummies to beguile the guards making the nightly checks. them suction cuted cardboard replicas in their vents.

>> alcatraz, the federal penitentiary in san francisco bay, other rock as it's known to the criminal world stands you mill yaitd in term of its security.

shannon: they got away using stolen spoons, dummy heads and raincoats. it's been 50 years since the great escape from alcatraz since three men broke out of the so-called escape-proof prison and disappeared. their bodies were never found. that's the beginning of a 50-year-old mystery. >> reporter: the u.s. marshal who is assigned to this case says these guys turn themselves in tomorrow he would arrest them then congratulations them because this escape was so meticulous. of 36 inmates to tried to escape, only these three made it. 50 years ago. they spent months using those forks and spoons to dig holes in the crumbling brick walls.

they made life jackets out of raincoats and a life raft. they had an 8-hour jump on the prison guards. many believe they would have drowned. of every two of three people who drown in the san francisco bay, their bodies are recovered. none of the escapees found to this game. some people even swim back and forth to alcatraz for exercise. there is a lot of proof that these guys were sending cards to their mother every year and they were at her funeral dressed up like women. and we want to show you. this is what they would look like today. this is an older version of those wanted pictures. the investigator says right there the investigator says he gets new leads every couple

months. listen to him. we have to operate under the assumption they made it because there is no proof that they didn't. >> reporter: it was unbelievable to this day nobody knows what happened out there. shannon: it' got to eat you up if you are the one trying to solve that case. thank you. you showed the pictures, maybe somebody will recognize something. as the weather heats up, think twice about faking that sun-kissed glow. some serious warnings for people who use spray tanners. did you know the department of justice is suing a third of the states over voter i.d. laws even as more states report problems with their voting systems and

why florida's governor is refusing to back down. >> we don't want non-u.s. citizens voting. we have found 100 non-citizens are on our voter rolls. over 50 have voted in past elections. i have got to enforce the law of the land. i have to make sure florida voters aren't delude by non-u.s. citizens. i'm new ensure clear. clear, huh? my nutritional standards are high. i'm not juice or fancy water, i'm different. i've got nine grams of protein. twist my lid. that's three times more than me! twenty-one vitamins and minerals and zero fat! hmmm. you'll bring a lot to the party. [ all ] yay! [ female announcer ] new ensure clear. nine grams protein. zero fat. twenty-one vitamins and minerals. in blueberry/pomegranate and peach. refreshing nutrition in charge!

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shannon: now to the efforts to contain a killer wild fire in colorado. the flames spreading fast. at the height of the winds the fire was moving 20-40 feet per minutes. >> right below that whitewater tower is where all our houses are. >> there is no telling what's going to happen. when you move into a place like that, you know you are taking your chances and it's a matter of time, not if. just when. shannon: adam housley is live from if fort collins, colorado. >> reporter: the winds 35 miles per hour with temperatures into the 90s. but the last few days it has changed to a fuel-driven fire.

difficult terrain but a different type of terrain that allows it to get a handle on it. they are hoping by 10 to the end of the day. 43,000 acres burned so far, 70% of those acres are private land. also air tankers have come in from as far away as canada. at the same time they have a chance to roll back initial evacuations. there are people hat refuse to leave in the evacuation area. >> it's not only their safety but it can hinder the traffic going through there. it's moving all different directions. it could be very quick and they are not expecting to see citizens without emergency lights driving through there. >> reporter: south of us in new mexico the fire is 30% contained. that was burning fast it's no longer a wind-driven fire, now a

fuel-driven fire. things are very dry in the west. 35 structures have burned. firefighters are cautiously optimistic there as well. as we come back live in fort col even, the temperatures were cooler. it allowed the fire to pick up bit. but since there is no wind it's helping firefighters now dealing with the topography and the dry conditions. they are saying normally 80% to 90% of the fuel is considered moist. it's significantly lower than the normal time of year. shannon: adam, thank you very much. this is a fox news alert on the battle over voter fraud in florida. the department of justice announce it's planning to sue the state within 24-48 hours.

florida locked in a major dispute with the justice department over its voter purge program making sure no illegal immigrants are on its rolls. the feds claim they are violating the law. but governor scott claimed it's his job to protect the rights of american citizens to elect their leaders. >> this is protecting the rights of i.s. citizens and not diluting their vote by non-u.s. citizens. when non-citizens register to vote and vote, it's illegal, it's a crime. shannon: the d.o.j. is suing a third of the states all in connection to changes over their vote were laws. check out the map. we are going to be joined by david ripkin. also julian epstein. gentlemen, welcome to you both.

david, the feds say florida is breaking the law. is it? >> no, the arguments are entirely specious. the d.o.j. is using section five of the voting rights act for five counties in case of change in voting rules or procedures. there is supreme court precedence that removing ineligible voters from voting rolls is not changes. section 8 deals with rye move of individuals who were previously eligible but are no longer eligible because they moved out of state. once begin the has nothing to do with non-citizens. the arguments are utterly political, legally incoherent. and under the existing federal law 303a, the help america vote

act of 2002. the state is aloud and directed to insure accuracy of the voter rolls by comparing it to data base unthe state's control including the databases containing driver's license base. this state is doing what it's supposed to do. shannon: julian, what's wrong with a state who says we want to clean up our rolls. >> i think david has a different reading of both of those statutes that most lawyers would. the national voter registration act says no state, undertake a voter purge within 90 days of either a primary or federal election. we are well within 90 days of the election. every single election commissioner including 30 election commissioners in florida say they think this would be a violation of the law and they are not going to participate in the voter purge. the requirement under the second

statute they cited which is the voter rights act, florida is a state that requires preclearance of changes in voting procedures. it's a debatable point whether this is a change in voting procedure. but most lawyers would say because of the potential discriminatory impact it would require preclearance. even the republican election commissioners in florida say they think this is a violation of the law. using department of motor vehicle records to check against the voter polls is a very, very clumsy way, and state officials including republicans say this purge has been riddled with inaccuracies including a world war ii veteran being potentially purnlgd and florida will not win this case. shannon: the attorney general is testifying on a different matter saying the d. sovment j. has done everything it could to try to work something out with florida and it was left with no

option but to sue. any chance you think they work out a lastm-minute deal? >> i don't think so given the position of the department. what the d.o.j. is doing, as a matter of law section 5 and 8 is incoherent. they don't acknowledge at all the help america vote act that i referenced. even more importantly this is a department that is utterly polite cried r -- that is utterly politicized. it's truly deplorable. you have to go back to the nixon days to see that level of politicalization in the justice department. nobody seems to care except for fox and a few on the store outlets. >> david is a superb constitutional lawyer. he's prone to flowery language sometimes. the statute is relatively clear.

it says you should not do voter purges within 90 days of an election. florida could have done it well before this period. the reason for it is you do not give people that are purnlgd an opportunity to challenge it. you create confusion and the impact is very discriminatory. shannon: for months the state of florida has been asking the department of homeland security to help florida appropriately cull the list, not knock out world war ii veterans. it's suing the dhs because it says it was never given access to information it needed so it could weed people out. >> the response first it's not a department of homeland security it, the department of health and human services. the program has limited utility. it can tell you whether a person

was -- has become naturalized not whether someone was eligible to vote or not. and secondly the department of justice point out florida has failed to provide the necessary information so they can match the votes to the records. if they wanted to participate they needed to provide the necessarily identifiers and florida failed to do that. shannon: it is suing the department of homeland security in relation to that program. >> not only is doj wrong. i have nod heard julian say anything about section 303 that directs states to insure the accuracy of voter rolls by comparing databases to voter rolls. what people are saying is the

program in question is partially useful in the state provides the necessary information to the feds so you can have a useful match. two, what it does not say and does not conflict with the law, the national voter registration act says you don't conduct these purges within 90 days. shannon: we'll leave it there. we'll see whether either of these lawsuits are settled before voters head to the polls. thank you both for weighing in. here is a question. could your self-tanner kill you? they have new worries about the main ingredient those tanners. in the case of texas justice going to the grand jury. a rancher catches a man molesting his young daughter and he beats the man to death. >> we were sitting right there,

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shannon: an accused gangster gicial girlfriend sentenced to 18 years in prison. she was convicted for helping whitey bulger hide from the law. he is wanted in connection with 19 murders. molly line has the details from boston. >> reporter: the family members of the victims of james whitey bulger's crimes have asked the judge to throw the book at catherine gregg. but the judge gave her 8 years in prison and a $150 fine. this stems from the actions she took to help hide bulger. gregg and bulger used aliases and fake i.d.s to travel the country posing as a retired

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he worked as an undercover informant for the fbi. he is slated to go on trial later in the fall. shannon: new details on an alleged yacht explosion. the coast guard says it was all a hoax and they are getting closer to finding out who is responsible for the fake may day calls. they found to signs of a boat or its passengers. the medicare debate continues in washington...

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fired right back. details on that coming up. and a false report of a yacht explosion on the new jersey coast yesterday sparking a massive search and recuse effort. over 200 responders and a fleeted of him corporates and boats in the atlantic ocean. it was a hoax. and the united states and canada granted a high wire walker a rare exemption from the no stunt policy at niagara falls. all ahead unless breaking news

this is "studio b." but, first from fox at 3:00, new evidence of just how damaging the economic crisis has been for american