>> i think it's a twice super seeding indie. it could be something as innocuous as fixing a grammatical error or adding a count. and usually indictments are sealed to allow law enforcement an opportunity to apprehend the person who is were indicted without him knowing you are coming. also, sometimes you seal them to protect an informant. it strikes me that some of the charged defendants may be cooperating with the prosecutors. >> and according -- obviously, some are on the run? >> four are on the run. >> in mexico. >> right. >> i assume that -- at least, maybe -- it's a false assumption, but i assume that mexico is aggressively looking for them as well? >> i think the $1 million fine by the bureau will help also. >> did you know this was coming down? there has been a lot of action on capitol hill, holding the

attorney general in contempt of congress because it is the view of congress is that he is withholding documents he should surrender? >> i didn't know it was coming down. but the nature of sealed documents is such that i should not have known it was coming down. i read accounts today that some of my colleagues and some other attorneys, i think the timing is curious. i have no reason to suspect that this unsealing of the indictment was calculated to draw attention away from the attorney general. i think the u.s. attorney in the southern district of california -- because that's who is prosecuting the case, is entitled to a presumption of good faith until it is proven otherwise. i don't have any reason to suspect the timing of it. >> bottom line, everything about this super seeding indictment -- superseding indictment is not unusual, with the timing, who is bringing it, the content, there is nothing peculiar about it. >> the thing that's most unusual is the timing because the

indictment was true billed or delivered last fall. and here it is 8 months later and it is being unsealed. the explanation we are looking for the suspects and we gave it a good eight-month effort and there is no reason to keep it secret, i have no reason to cross-examine or dispute that explanation. maybe i am biased toward prosecutors, but i am inclined to give career prosecutors the benefit of the doubt. >> but the unsealing, would not a reasonable unsealing now is that they are unsuccessful getting them by keeping it a secret. now they have to go public with the reward and that's an effort to get them. it's a different strategy to try to catch up with the people, the ones who are indicted. >> per usual, you are correct t. may well be that they tried various schemes to lure these four into the united states, in an undercover capacity and those schemes were unsuccessful. so after 8 months, announced to

everyone, these are the four people we are looking for and if you help us find them, you will goat $1 million. >> does this change your view on the contempt of the attorney general? the attorney general, i assume, was well aware of this indictment all along? >> not one iota. he was not held in contempt of congress for his actions with respect to fast & furious. he was held in contempt of congress because he refuses to turn over documents not related to this case, but related to a february 4 letter demonstrably false letter. senator grassley made a letter public last week that makes me even more convinced that we did the right thing, sanctioning the attorney general, it is proven beyond any doubt, higher-level d.o.j. officials knew there were problems with gun walking before they sent the letter. this is other than the about a false letter to congress. i am happy that they are making progress, especially for the

brian terry family. they are one step closer to holding all of this people accountable. we as americans should be grateful. that has nothing to do with the documents being turned over by the attorney general. >> do you have any idea when congress will take the civil contempt and get enforcement or seek enforcement on it? >> i will see mr. boehner tomorrow. i promise i will ask him t. will be done by house coble, not by oversight judiciary. >> is that someone on staff for the house of representatives? the reason i ask, you know, i am always suspicious when people owts source to law firms and do it by billable hours. this is taking -- this could have been done faster. >> you would think somebody was being paid billable hours. no. it is done in house by staff members who are not paid any more whether they do it tomorrow or a year from tomorrow. the only president is harriet

myers and josh bolon. i read that the g.o.p. is on the verge of commit something legal malpractice theory of the case, we don't want to draft the pleadings and get bounced out of court. that would be humiliating, at a minimum. so if it takes another week to get it right. i know you are thinking, it's been a week since i asked you last time. you are right. i will anticipate your question. i will ask speaker boehner tomorrow and i will ask him to do it as quickly as we can gsht that the pleadings are correct. >> thank you, sir. >> yes, ma'am. thank you. >> now to the knock-down-drag-out fight over tax cuts. you can expect blood on the floor. president obama asking for a one-year extekz of the bush tax cuts for households making less than $250,000. republicans say that's a tax hike on small businesses. they want a one-year extension on everyone. why can't congress come up with a permanent fix?

congressman michael grim is on the footage services committee. >> good evening. >> first of all, why can't we get a permanent fix? >> the answer is simple. i think the house republicans would like to extend the bush tax cuts and make them permanent. but the september is not going to -- let's say, agree to that. so, rather than just have politics as usual, we want to get something done and bring some certainty. i think one of the biggest problems with our economy is that we have record uncertainty, unprecedented. that -- taxes have a lot to do with it. it is want just the president's health care plafnl but taxes, corporations, small businesses don't know whether taxes are going up, down. they are sitting in cash. they are not hiring more employees. that's not good for the economy. what it means is youville less jobs. we saw that in a very dismal jobs report. >> if certainty is so important to this. this is the thing, i asked

congressman about it as well. i suspect much of this is going to be done in a lame-duck session, am i right? >> i agree. >> which is very annoying. >> very much. that's after the taxpayers have a chance to weigh in on how it's done. it also means there is a six-month period between now and november when -- you are losing six months to try to solve something. why doesn't congress -- republican, democrats, house, senate, stay and do it now instead of wait? >> i think we are willing to do that. that's part of the frustration of the freshman class. as a freshman, one of the words i would describe how i feel and a lot of my colleagues is frustrated. but we are not going to be able to change this overnight. we are pushing. i agree, look, the bottom line is that i think the overwhelming support in the house on the republican side to make these permanent. let's bring the certainty that we need. but it is not going to go

anywhere in the senate. >> if i were in congress -- i would actually stay here and hold down the fort and say, i am going to stay here and work. i am going to shame everybody else to do the same -- >> well, they are here. we are here. we are all this week and next week -- >> and what about august? >> listen, i would ba happy to stay. if you told me the senate is willing to pass a bill, i would be here without any problem. we came here to work. we do work a lot of hour, seven days a week. the frustration is that we know it's going to die in the senate. >> so the senate should stay and work. >> absolutely. if you look at the last year and-a-half, how much has the senate done isn't house has been extremely active, passing a lots of bills. but the september came out early on, very early on and said, we won't deal with anything controversial because it's an election year. i think that's disgraceful. the senate doesn't want to do it. it is frustrating and the american people should be frustrated right now. they should hold their senators

responsible. >> is there any way you would agree for a temporary tax cut for people under $250,000? or you wouldn't consider it. >> i think that's a bad policy. wooer ignoring the real problem that we spend too much. we hit $1 trillion. we have $1 trillion deficits. that's a problem we have to deal with it. the only tax problem is that the taxes are too high. we are not competitive corporate taxwise. if you want to take those who create the jobs and tax them more, you are going to have less jobs created. it's bad policy for the united states and i can't support it. >> i hope you stick around in the next segment. we will report on the $14 billion in overpayment in unemployment last year. when you think of resolving the money problems. you might look to see where we are wasting. >> from the day we got here, the freshmen class talked about the

waste. the american people should be so disgusted with the amount of waste in the federal government. we should be looking to cut it. every did time we do, it's like hitting a brick wall. it's something that i think that both sides should come together on. i am willing to try to work across the aisle and i would like to see more on both sides. >> you are a former fbi agent. i said that congressman dowdy was a former prosecutor. >> great colleague. thank you. >> tax hike? tax relief or both? we talked to congressman chris van hollen a short time ago. >> great to be with you. >> 200 19, i am insure sure you expect this. president obama said the last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in a recession. a lot of people feel we are in a recession. now, taxes under president obama's plan would go up for those making $250,000 or more. >> at the end of this year. there are two parts to the

president's plan. the first part is the jobs initiative, which has been sitting before the republican congress since last september to boost the economy. the other part of the president's plan is to have a long-term deficit reduction plan that is credible, which is what every bipartisan commission's recommended. as part of that, you would have cuts over a period of time and raise revenue from the wealthiest americans over a period of time. >> over $250,000 and up. if you raise taxes on those people, do you agree with president obama's 2009 statement that that is the last thing you want to do? i realize have you to throw out name billionaire, but $250,000 to $1 million, those people. >> let's be clear on the statistics. we're talking about providing tax relief to 98% of the american people. 97% of businesses. the issue for the economy is two-fold. one, getting things kicked in gear and providing real confidence that we are going to

tackle the deficit over a period of time. you can't continue to say you are serious about the deficit without combining cuts which we need to do more of, with revenues from closing tax loopholes and getting rid of the tax breaks for the wealthiest americans. if you are serious about deficit reduction, you should couple the two things together. >> every time i hear talk about serious about handling our deficit, the first thing i think of is that everyone -- republicans and democrats, i realize your party doesn't run the house right now, but everybody has gone off and is looking forward lame duck to handle things like the deficit ceiling, all the bush tax cuts and those issues, lame duck, after the election. if everyone's so serious about handling the problems, why isn't everyone right here, right now, working 24/7 on the problem? >> what the president's proposing is that we could get this done right now -- >> but all of it. it can't be cher cherry-pick

what you want, both parties working around the clock, here in washington, handling the problems that have been lingering for years. >> that's right. there are two pieces. the first is to provide some revenue, asking folks at the very top to pay more. that's what the president has called for, at the same time he has called for tax relief for the vast middle class. he has said he's willing to make cuts. we made $1 trillion in 10 years, we need to do more through a number of reforms. but the president has been very clear that he is willing to get it done now. what he is calling for today is to say, let's provide the certainty that 98% of the american people will get tax releetch we can argue about the rest later. >> i don't think we can argue about the rest later. that's my objection, a lot is going to be done in a lame duck. i don't get t. i do my job. i show up every night to do my job, i don't put it off until lame duck time. one issue is the debt ceiling,

whether we raise it or not, that's not going to be addressed before november. that's an important issue. >> well, the debt ceiling will probably hit before the end of the year, probably not before the election -- >> it is going to happen, though. >> just to be clear -- >> we have to deal with the sequestration issue. >> why aren't we doing that now? >> we put forward a proposal on the house of representatives to prevent the sequestration from taking place, a balanced approach for 10 years and an immediate one for one year. it was a mix of rev new and additional cuts -- cuts lots of subsidies, agricultural subsidies that are wasteful. >> both parties hit on this. if you go to the senate, which is dominated by your party, is that senator harry reid has not put up a budget to be discussed in 3 1/2 years. it's both parties. i am equal opportunity on this. there is a lot of gamesmanship. the job's not being done. most americans don't have the

pleasure of putting their jobs off. >> that's true. but one job we should be able to get done and vote on is the jobs package, the jobs plan the president submitted to the house in september, give us an up-or-down vote. give people the opportunity to show where they are. >> i am game on the up-or-down vote. >> the senate h their up-or-down vote on the jobs plan. >> not on the budget. not on the budget. senator harry reed put it in his pocket and that was the end of that. >> we had a number of votes. we had lots of alternatives, the republican his a budget. we presented a democratic alternative budget. we should be clear. the president submit aid budget to the united states. >> he did. the president submit aid budget. it was senator harry reed who put it in the pocket. >> we had our votes in the house on the republican budget. >> i realize you are in the house. >> just on the issue of today. which is the sending a very clear signal that 98% of the

american people should get tax releetch we have a difference is of opinion-- the issue of deficit reduction. we think we should pursue it in a balanced way, like every bipartisan commission has proposed. that's what the president is saying, let's provide relief, certainty for 98% of the american people. let's get it done, today. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> straight ahead, everyone knows our country is in financial trouble. so you would think the government would be extra careful with your money. right? well, so how did our government flush $14 billion down the toilet. where did the money really go? find out and you are not going to like this. also, remember scott peterson, convicted of murdering his wife and unborn son? he is rotting on death row. but that could change big time. one secret weapon could be an interview we did right here "on the record." who did we talk to?

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>> here we go again. more proof that the government is really good at one thing, wasting your money. this time $14 billion going right down the drain. last year the federal government and the states overpaid, yes, overpaid $14 billion in unemployment benefits. another way to look at it, 11% of jobless benefits paid were wrong, should not have been paid. why? well, there were clerical mistakes or in some cases, even fraud. how can that happen and don't they care? here's the co-anchor of markets now on the fox bissonette works. this is pretty outrageous. >> infuriating to think of $125 billion paid out in total benefits last year, $14 billion was overpaid. now, here's the thing. the feds say fraud is actually a really small amount. 2700 convictions last year and we had 10 or 15 million people getting payments. i think fraud is actually

rampant. in 70% of the cases, the labor department says this is because people are taking payments they're not entitled to, because either they quit their job or were fired for cause. you're not eligible. they get a job and they still take the check they were getting before, or because various other reasons. these people know that they're not entitled to that government check, and they take it anyway, greta, and worse, even after we know, this is what we know. i bet you it's higher than that in terms of bogus payments. we recover only 25% of it. it's lewi lunacy. >> the state of indiana gets the prize. report noted that indiana was the worst offender. the state made more improper payments than correct payments. they get that prize. >> over half of the benefits wasted. there's real people in trouble who are not getting money because their benefits ran out and who are at least unemployed. i mean, there's a case of a guy

who was convicted for taking checks while he was in jail, although that kind of identity fraud is rare, they say. overall, here's our problem. when the government floods any market with billions of dollars in extra money. >> it's billions. we throw these numbers around so much, and i think people sort of get used to the term, what a billion dollars is. this is $14 billion. do you have any idea what that could do to any state that's in trouble or anything? $14 billion. >> here's how lackadaisical the labor department is about its spending. as they tried to fix it and they're talking with states, they paid out $192 million in integrity awards to state labor departments to help them learn more about the guidelines and let's do a better job of making sure we don't pay this money to the wrong people. it's unbelievable. $200 million to help us do what was obvious in the first place. >> you diswrux at a pos juxtapot

the work in washington that's crushed and done at lame duck. right now. go figure. anyway, dennis, thank you. >> thank you. coming up, the r word. repeal. and it is starting. house republicans officially starting their push to repeal obama care. what are republican senators doing? senator orrin hatch goes on the record next. also, do you remember scott peterson? it's been eight years since he was sent to death row to await execution for the murder of his wife lacy and unborn son conner. now his future may be different and it may hinge on what one juror told us on the record. you'll see that interview again [ male announcer ] you get in the zone long before the race. ♪ and it starts every morning with gillette fusion proglide. get your great start... with gillette fusion proglide. ♪

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>> republicans have vowing to repeal obama care, and today's promise house republicans officially launched their efforts. the rules committee met tonight and getting the health care repeal ready for tomorrow's debate. the vote comes wednesday, but that's the house. what do republicans in the democratly controlled senate plan to do. senator hatch, nice to see you. >> i know you're opposed to the president's health care, i know you know what the supreme court decided. i know how the house will vote on it, but the united states senate dominated by the democrats. is there anything the republicans in the senate intend to do or can do?

>> i have to say that when do believe the selection is important to determine whether we have to go with this awful health care bill or whether we're going to repeal it and replace it. i believe the way that has to happen is for mitt romney to get elected president, and i think bringing in enough republicans to take over control of the senate. at that point i would be chairman of the finance committee. of course, one of my biggest goals would be to straighten this whole mess out. >> have you heard at all from senator majority leader harry reid since the supreme court decision? has he said anything at all about health care? >> not much. the democrats were elated that the health care bill was held to be constitutional. however, that's maybe too small of an opinion because actually when the chief justice basically called the medicare expansion unconstitutional, that was a very, very big part of that. i've been predicting that. i think i'm the only one who was predicting if i had my way, i would have held the individual mandate unconstitutional, but i would have certainly said you

can't force the state to take more and more medicaid recipients and when they know that the monies aren't going to be thei there in the future. >> how does governor romney get out of the two-step he's in? his assistant or his campaign leader said that it is not a tax, and then the governor comes out and he says it's a tax. he's getting hammered from both sides. how does he walk out of this? >> i think the flip-flop is really on the part of president because the president argued that it was tax all the way through the legislative process here. the president and his allies argued that it was a penalty, and now all of a sudden it's a tax so that it would defeat the republicans approach toward the individual mandate. now they're trying to say well, it's just really a penalty. unfortunately for them, the majority of the members of the supreme court held that it is a tax, and therefore, that means

that well, if you talk about a tax, that means about 77% of people earning less than $120,000 a year are going to have to pay it. by the way, 10% of the people earning less than $23,000 a year, the poverty level, have to pay that tax as well. it's going to be a devastating think tthing to those not earnit of money in our society. they're trying to get away from it by saying oh, well, it's a penalty. no. the supreme court has held it's a tax. it's a tax. >> the news of the day, of course, is president obama wants to extend the bush tax cuts to those who make under $250,000 a year. vice-president biden is in missouri campaigning. he said that the g.o.p. is deliberately hurting the economy. your response to the vice-president and also to the new tax. >> you know wha what's going tot the economy? if we go to what the "washington

post" called taxmaggedon. it will be the highest increase in the country and it will hit just about everybody. >> president obama said he did 18 tax cuts. he threw out the number of tax cuts. is he cutting taxes for americans? >> anybody who believes that hasn't looked at the record. $500 billion in tax increases alone in the obama care bill. their whole goal is to get more money so they can spend more money and claim they're doing a lot of good for the american people as they run us into bankruptcy. i just found out today, and i knew it was so, that we're now -- that our national debt is 103% of the gdp. think about that. 103% of the gdp. spain, which is in real trouble, is like, what, less than 70% of gdp. that tells you something. >> you know, i'm curious. we expect a very busy lame duck activity here on capitol hill

after the election. there are issues having to do with the bush tax cuts, the extension, there's the question about the debt ceiling, whether that's going to be raised because we're pushed up against it. why not do this now? why not all the republicans and democrats start working on this right now before the election? they have six months to get ahead of the game. instead, everyone is waiting until after the election. >> the republicans i think are willing to do that. they're not willing to go with the largest tax increase in history. >> let's start talking about it. let's start moving the ball forward. >> i think we should. we've actually said look, let's put this over for a year during which we really concentrate all of the efforts of the congress on reforming this awful tax code, and getting things under control. i think that makes sense, and i think at least six democrats now seem to be saying that makes sense. there will be more than six as time goes on. >> you can see more of our have interview with senator hatch. coming up, scott peterson's

fight to avoid execution by lethal injection. he was convicted of murdering his wife and unborn son, but now could a juror interview be the key to setting peterson free? it's an interview that happened right here on the record. you'll see it for yourself and our legal panel joins us next. and in a few minutes, pat buchanan gets himself in a bit of a bind, especially with women. what did pat say that was caught on camera? you can see for yourself. ♪ [ male announcer ] we believe small things can make a big difference. like how a little oil from here can be such a big thing in an old friend's life. purina one discovered that by blending enhanced botanical oils into our food, we can help brighten an old dog's mind so he's up to his old tricks. with this kind of thinking going into our food, imagine all the goodness that can come out of it. just one way we're making the world a better place... one pet at a time. vibrant maturity. from purina one smartblend.

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expects the constitution to be respected. cell phone companies getting more than a million requests for customers' records. a congressional committee investigating cell phone privacy finds the number of requests by law enforcement agencies is going up rapidly. mobile carriers says they are asked for text messages and more. civil liberties unions are concerned there is no clear law for consumer protection. i'm ainsley earhardt. now back to record roar. death? right now he rots on california's death row, eight years ago in a trial that became a national tv event. he was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, lacy, and unborn child. prosecors said he dumped her body from his boat into the san francisco bay. he appealed his death sentence on pretrial pu publicity, and

perhaps most importantly the jurors experiment in the boat. while viewing the boat, some jurors went in the boat and one of them went on the record and told us why. could it be the interview that gets peterson a new trial? take a look. >> why did you want to get in the boat? >> because there were questions about the stability of the boat, that when we listened to expert, i don't think those questions were answered in our minds. we needed to have a little bit more to that, and i climbed in the boat, and you know, to look like everybody was saying, at pictures, it didn't mean much to us. not being able to get in the boat originally, when we walked out there, we were like hands off, kind of walked around with our hands in you ar our pockets. we didn't know what we could co. when we got to the deliberation, we said can we look at the boat? can we physically get inside the boat? when the judge agreed to it and he asked i believe the rest, you know, the defense and the

prosecution and they said okay, that's what we did. we did it. it was just a a matter of getting an idea of the boat, looking at it and a picture didn't speak much. >> greg, the description the judge gave in court is that you got in it and you rocked back and forth or jumped up in and down. how would you describe what was done in that boat? >> we tried rocking it. one of them was standing -- one person was standing up and another person was kneeling. i was the person kneeling, and we were trying to show what was the boya buoyancy. we were directed to realize the boat was not in the water and the situation, the reaction would be different. we took that into account. we said that we understood that. we acknowledged that. >> rocking the boat, does that alone give scott peterson a shot at a new trial? our legal panelist is here. jim, as a former prosecutor, your thoughts about the fact

that the jurors were allowed to get into the -- into this boat on a trailer in a garage during deliberations, you're shaking your head. >> yeah. you and i were there, greta, and when it went down, we talked in real-time in redwood city, and i knew instantly it was a big problem. in temps the appeal, was it a mistake? yes. jurors can't create evidence. they can't experiment. the defense doesn't get to comment or cross-examination or comment on it. is it an important mistake? yeah. the important question, is it harmless error. >> how can hav a violation -- wa second. how can the violation of a constitutional right of cross-examination ever, ever be a harmless error? it's a constitutional right. do you agree he was denied his right to cross examine the evidence? >> technically speaking, but greta, i've seen court of appeals opinion and so have you with very m minor violations.

>> i have not. >> the court rules the evidence is so overwhelming. they could frame it otherwise and say it's a reenactment. a tough case on appeal, no doubt about it. >> i believe scott peterson is guilty. i saw the trial. the constitution is the constitution. >> i mean, for our viewers out there, what jim is talking about is let's say everything described i to that juror, that they did is absolutely fundamentally constitutional wrong. if there's other evidence, a confession or an eyewitness, it will make it harmless beyond a reasonable doubt meaning no harm, no for you this isn't a close call. this is a death case. jurors are trying to determine the buoyancy of a boat on land. i was born at night but i wasn't born last night. >> the question was whether or not scott peterson could have thrown the body from the boat, whether the boat would have stood up. there's another very important piece of information. ted, you may remember this.

the defense lawyer at the time had actually done a video reenabilitiment ienactment to se stability or instability. he wanted to introduce it in evidence and the judge said no as to water, yet he let the jurors get on it on the trailer in the garage. >> i think if the judge walk it back, he would. he cannot walk it back. it is certainly a constitutional error. there was no possibility and opportunity to cross examine these jurors. you never want to dawrk he has a constitutional right. out in california the evidence in this case in one instance was overwhelming. as a result of that, don't be surprised if they hold it up as harmless error. >> jim, whether or not the boat was stable or not really makes a difference whether he could have committed the crime or not. it's not an insignificant or

collateral issue. it's key to the case. >> i agree. greta, quick example. this is what the debate will be involved. the question is, is this more like looking a gun, perhaps pointing it and looking at it or is it like going to the internet and finding new evidence. the layer, of course, looking on the internet, the conviction gets tossed out. if he look at tha at the gun, it reversible. >> the juror said it's about the stability of the boat. we've gotta go. thank you. straight ahead, former secretary of state condoleeza rice said she didn't want to get back into politics. did they change her mind? the latest coming up. that's next. he's done it again. governor chris christie. what did he say this time? you'll hear it for yourself because we got it caught on tape coming up. [ morgan ] right now when you use your visa card, you're entered for a chance to win a trip to the olympic gam

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