again, i can't talk about the contents, i would align myself with the letter that -- >> is that james cole's letter? no -- >> the letter that congressman cummings -- >> okay. >> -- sent out a couple days ago or so as he went through his analysis of that same material. i think that his -- his perspective is the correct one as opposed to what chairman issa -- >> since then, my understanding, there was a letter, january 27th, of this year, to chairman issa, from attorney general, deputy attorney general james cole that indicated changes had been made. two of the changes included department of justice has changed its way of response to congressional inquiries and also changed the internal process for wiretap reviews. in fact, they -- your office tripled the number of attorneys now reviewing wiretaps. is that correct? >> correct. >> is that an indication what was done before was done inadequately and inappropriately? >> it was in response to office visits. people were saying it was taking too long for them to make requests in the field and get them processed in washington and get the approvals ba

. >> james cole has written that the department has a greater obligation than just checking the legal sufficiency and approving the wiretap applications. is that correct? >> applications have to agree with doj policy? >> that's what he said. >> sure. >> okay. during a tlaransscribed intervi, jason winestein testified that they do not read the wiretap applications. is this practice acceptable to you? >> they read summaries of the applications. that is a process that has been us

holding the attorney general in contempt the committee received a letter from deputy attorney general james cole claiming that the president asserted executive privilege over certain documents covered by this subpoena. the committee has a number of concerns about the validity of this assertion. one, the assertion was transparently not a valid claim of privilege given its last-minute nature. two, the assertion was obstructive given that it could have and should have been asserted months ago but was not until the day of the contempt markup. three, the assertion is eight months late. it should have been made by october 25th, 2011, the subpoena return date. four, to this moment the president has not indicating he is asserting executive privilege. five the assertion is transparently invalid in that it is not credible, that every document withheld involves a communication authored or solicited and received by those members of an immediate white house adviser staff who have brought significant responsibility for formulating the advice to be given the president on the particular matter to which the comm

james cole, deputy attorney general, has written that the department has a greater obligation than just checking the legal sufficiency and approving wiretap application. he thinks that applications also have to comply with doj policy. is that correct? >> applications have to agree with doj policy? >> that's what he said. >> sure. >> okay. during the transcribed interview, deputy assistant attorney general jason weinstein testified that senior officials approving the wiretap applications do not read the right wiretap applications. is this practice acceptable to you? >> they read summaries of the applications. that is a process that has been used by this administration and by all previous administrations. it is the way in which the office of enforcement -- >> and are you aware that federal -- are federal judges -- >> can i answer my question? the question -- >> no, you've given me a sufficient answer considering the amount of questions i have and the amount of time i have. are you -- you're okay with that practice? you've already answered that. so would you agree senior officials are resp

issa from james cole. in it he says i stress that the department remains willing to work toward a mutually satisfactory resolution of this matter, so why can't we work together? i would like to publicly thank mr. micca for working across the aisle on the transportation bill and hopefully this can move forward in a bipartisan way, and i think we should work across the aisle on getting this resolved in a way that satisfies the chairman and the members on both sides of the aisle and the fact that he has made an offer to continue discussions we should follow up, and i think that this offer reinforces the points that my good friend the congressman norton was making that the justice department is opened to working towards some type of conclusion. i would like to say we have never censureed a cabinet offer. i think it was people or had a contempt vote and i can't remember. you can probably remember. never a cabinet officer and never the highest ranking member of law enforcement for our country who is willing to w

. >> now, yesterday, deputy attorney general james cole said he did not think it was necessary to appoint a special prosecutor to find out who was leaking. what do you think? is a special prosecutor appropriate in this kags? >> you know, jessica, i served in both the clinton and the bush administrations. every time i served in the executive branch, i can't remember a time when the executive branch thought a special prosecutor was a good idea. look, that means the executive bran branch seeds that is right to an inpent pers independent person. very little oversight. executive branches of both parties don't like special prosecutors when they are in power. what you need a special prosecutor is if you believe that the leak came from inside the executive branch, it is difficult to ask them to investigate themselves. i don't think we have enough facts to know whether or not a special prosecutor is warranted here. i will tell you, it is true what senator dianne feinstein said, they tend to have two broad mandates that take them too long and they cost a lot of money before you get to any result. s

. >> you delegated that to james cole? >> i didn't delegate it to him. he thought it was appropriate for him to respond. >> you didn't think it was appropriate for you to respond. >> no, but what i've indicated in my opening statement -- i'm certainly willing to indicate right now -- i'm willing to personally engage with the four people who signed that letter and try to come to an accommodation so we can get you the information you need consistent with what i think is our need to protect ongoing investigations. i want to be as flexible as we can and as you said, get to the end -- >> i have a hard time buying that when you don't sit down with a guy like me tsh. >> gentleman's time has expired. chair recognizes gentleman from puerto rico. >> welcome back, attorney general. and i realize it's been a long hearing. and as you say, the eighth occasion on which you appear before us. as i stated before, first thing i'll say, i have to commend your demeanor, your patience, your decorum in appearing before us. and in subjecting yourself sometimes to process that i

late today, james cole sent a letter to issa expressing surprise to suggest they meet to try to resol tv matter. >> bret: more on this on the panel. thank you. g.o.p. lawmakers set sights on the president attorney general, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle looking for answers in the probe over high-level leaks of national security secrets. chief intelligence correspondent herron has the latest on that. >> -- catherine herridge has the latest on that. >> i don't think there is any doubt it came from the administration. we need to find out who and what as best we can. >> speaking to fox and friends, senior republican senator john mccain said the appointment of two u.s. attorneys by the justice department to investigate leaks was not enough given severity. >> they are two of our most important ongoing intelligence operations. our allies. it's revealed israelis were with us in the cyber effort. i can't imagine how they feel today. >> late friday, the justice department sent out announce fire department the attorney general who says two u.s. attorneys, one from the district of columbia

in a letter today, the deputy attorney general james cole notified the committee chairman darryl issa that president obama was holding them on the basis of executive privilege. the move came after threats to site holder for contempt. and negotiations yesterday between the attorney general and committee members. today's decision to invoke executive privilege led republicans on the committee to say their search for accountability is being stymied. >> if congress has time to look into major league baseball, the bcs and invite stephen colbert to come to a committee hearing, surely to goodness, we have time to get answers only fundamentally flawed lethal investigation like fast and furious. >> well, democrats accused chairman issa and his republican colleagues of conducting a witch hunt. republicans say the administration is using executive privilege to impede the investigation. keeping both sides honest, it's worth points out facts. this is the first time president obama has invoked executive privilege. back when democrats controlled the house, any republican administration was claiming e

james cole, deputy attorney general, has written that the department has a greater obligation than just checking the legal sufficiency and approving wiretap application. he thinks that applications also have to comply with doj policy, is that correct? >> applications have to agree with doj policy? >> that's what he said. >> sure. spirit during a transcript in the deputy assistant attorney general jason weinstein testified that senior officials approving the wiretap applications do not read the wiretap applications. is this practice acceptable to you? >> they read summaries of the application. that's a process that's been used by this administration and by all previous administration. it is the way in which the office of -- >> are you aware that federal judges,. >> can answer my question speak with you give me a sufficient answer and considered him a question i have an amount of time i have. you're okay with that practice what you already answered that. so would you agree that senior officials are responsible for doctors they signed? i would assume the answer is yes to let me ask you the

. >> greta: and late tonight deputy attorney general james cole send agler to congressman issa. the deputy attorney general writes we had hoped that you shared our interest in bringing this matter to an amicable solution an and we regret thatu reejected our extraordinary proprosal to do so. >>> now, to news developing tonight out of egypt. conflicting reports whether the former president hosni mubarak is dead. earlier tonight, 84-year-old mubarak was rushed from his prison cell to a military hospital. ousted egyptian president is serving a life sentence and right now you are looking at live pictures from egypt. people are gathering outside mubarak's hospital. his health crisis is adding more uncertainty to egypt's already political unrest. egyptians are waiting to find out the results for a successor to mubarak. your thoughts of what ising if on in egypt? >> i think the situation could deteriorate very quickly through a kind of judicial co p coop, the parliamentary elections were ruled invalid. the muslim brotherhood and its allies had close to 75% of the seats. those are gone.

. >> greta: and late tonight deputy attorney general james cole send agler to congressman issa. the deputy attorney general writes we had hoped that you shared our interest in bringing this matter to an amicable solution an and we regret thatu reejected our extraordinary proprosal to do so. >>> now, to news developing tonight out of egypt. conflicting reports whether the former president hosni mubarak is dead. earlier tonight, 84-year-old mubarak was rushed from his prison cell to a military hospital. ousted egyptian president is serving a life sentence and right now you are looking at live pictures from egypt. people are gathering outside mubarak's hospital. his health crisis is adding more uncertainty to egypt's already political unrest. egyptians are waiting to find out the results for a successor to mubarak. your thoughts of what ising if on in egypt? >> i think the situation could deteriorate very quickly through a kind of judicial co p coop, the parliamentary elections were ruled invalid. the muslim brotherhood and its allies had close to 75% of the seats. those are gone.

reporting today e-mails from february and march of 2011, in which he and deputy attorney general james cole went back and forth. he was saying we can't, we need real answers. no defensive b.s., we need real answers. and when is up boardnants were exchanging -- su subordinates were saying do they know we didn't run guns for sure? it was forwarded to eric holder who said do they really know? do they really, really know? it wasn't that it was his operation. but he wasn't totally accountable for when he knew and what was revealed. the fight over the documents will continue, because the president invokeed executive privilege to protect. they said hey, the executive branch deliberation. that is as old as the hills between the two bodies, administrations. president bush did the same thing in december of 2006 -- excuse me, 2001. i think it is -- there is a lot of meat to this. politically it's tricky for the republicans to take this too far. >> bret: it did raise a lot of eyebrows in washington when the executive privilege was issued. and it led to this standoff. in a different level than it was. >

james cole, the deputy attorney general, has written that the department has a greater obligation than to approve wiretap applications. he thinks wiretap applications have to comply with department of justice policy. >> sure. >> during a transcribed interview, a deputy assistant attorney general testified that senior officials approving the wiretap of applications do not read the applications. is this practice acceptable to you? >> that is the process used by this administration and all previous administrations. >> are you aware that federal judges to your knowledge -- >> can i answer your question? >> you have given me a sufficient answer considering the amount of time i have. would you agree senior officials are responsible for documents they signed? i will assume the answer is yes. jason weinstein, is he's responsible for what is in these wiretaps? -- is he responsible for what is in these wiretaps? >> he did not create that material. he would have been the person who would have reviewed the material. >> when congress writes a statute requiring certain individuals to be responsible

detectives james cole and sean solar of the new york city police department's emergency services unit are on duty when the call comes in. >> we started our shift at 3:15 that afternoon. and almost immediately as soon as we finished loading up and checking our equipment, a call came over that there was a jumper up on the top of 30 rockefeller plaza. >> the detectives race to midtown manhattan where the 23-year-old man dangles his legs precariously from the 70th floor observation deck of 30 rock. >> the first thing i see when i get up there is him furiously scribbling at the notepad. i tried to communicate with him as much as possible. >> several onlookers and the local nbc affiliate's sky cam records the action as it unfolds. >> he was on the northeast corner standing on approximately a 2 foot by 2 foot wide piece of the building. >> there was a seven-foot glass partition between us and him. what i initially did was climbed up on top of a piece of the building where i could talk down over the partition at him. seeing them helps you communicate. >> i want to position myself to the other

they're ghana, what i would again do, i would align myself with the letter that -- >> is that james cole's letter? >> the letter that congressman cummings set out i guess a couple days ago as he went through his analysis of that same attorney. i think that his perspective is a correctly as opposed to what chairman issa -- >> my understanding is there was a letter january 27 of this year to chairman issa from attorney general, the deputy attorney general james cole indicated that changes have been made. two of those changes included department of justice is change its way of response to inquiries and is also change into process for wiretap reviews but, in fact, your office has tripled the number of attorneys now rethink wiretap, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> is that an indication what was done before was an adequate? >> also with office visits were people saying it was an taking too long and get them processed in washington and get the approvals but. >> who has nothing to do with another level of review as to the accuracy of the content? >> one of the changes does. when we require

. >> i know you had a conversation with james cole he wouldn't say whether or not they would do thison. take a look at what he said. >> i don't mean to dodge the question but obviously we are talking about material that if it exists would be very classified and the existence of it would be classified. it is a difficult topic to talk about without confirming or denying that such information exists. >> in a way you are saying you could make the problem worse by holding a hearing and compromise what you are trying to protect against. >> what deputy attorney general said is exactly the sort of defensive posture that we would expect when it is the administration itself which is expected to be the source of the leaks. an investigation into the leaks is not classified. maybe the subject matter of that leak. right now we have seen both of those displayed on the pages of the new york times. one story on the president's kill list on al qaeda documents that david axelrod was sitting in on meetings where those kill lists were compiled. this is a serious matter. it's much bigger than party or pol

attorney general, james cole, deputy attorney general has written that the department has a greater obligation than just check the legal sufficiency and approving wiretap application. he thinks that applications also have to apply with doj policy, is that correct? >> applications have to agree with doj policy? >> that's what he said. >> sure. >> okay. during a transcribed interview deputy assistant attorney then jason weinstein testified that senior officials approving the wiretap applications do not read the wiretap applications. is this practice acceptable to you? >> they read summaries he of the applications, that is a process that has been used by this administration and by all previous administrations. it is the way in which the office of enforcement -- >> are you aware that a -- >> can i answer my question? the question you've asked me. >> you've given me a sufficient answer considering the amount of questions and the amount of time i've had. you're okay with that practice, you've already answered that. would you agree that senior officials are responsible for documents they sign? i woul

again, i can't talk about the contents, i would align myself with the letter that -- >> is that james coles letter? >> the letter that congressman cummings set out a couple of days or so ago as he went through his analysis of that same material. i think that his perspective is the correct one as opposed. >> and my understanding, there was a letter january 12, 27 of this year, attorney-general, a deputy attorney general indicated changes have been made two of those changes included. the department of justice changed its way of response, congressional inquiries and has also changed the internal process for wiretappers used. in fact to your office has tripled the number of attorneys our using wiretaps. >> that is correct. >> is that an indication that was done before is inadequate and inappropriate? >> it is in response to office visits i was making were people were saying it was taking too long for them to make request sent to get them processed and washington. get the approvals back. >> nothing to do with another level of review to make sure. >> one of the changes actually does. we now requi

james cole, deputy attorney general, has written that the department has agreed out obligation than just checking the legal sufficiency and approving wiretap application. he thinks that applications also have to comply with doj policy. is that correct? >> applications have to agree with doj policy? >> that's what he said. >> sure. >> during a transcribed interview, deputy attorney general testified that senior officials approving the wiretap applications do not read the wiretap applications. is this practice acceptable to you? >> summaries of the applications -- that is a process that has been used by this administration and all previous administrations. it is the way in which the office of enforcement -- >> are you aware that federal judges, to your knowledge. >> can i answer your question? >> know, -- would you agree, senior officials are responsible for documents they signed? i would assume the answer is yes, let me ask you the question. jason weinstein, is he responsible for what is in these wiretaps? >> is he responsible? >> is he responsible even if he only read a summary? >> he di

issa from james cole. in it, he says i stress that the department remains willing to work toward a mutually satisfactory resolution of this matter. so why can't we work together? and i would like to publicly tank o. mr. mica, chairman mike mica really for working across the aisle on the transportation bill and hopefully we can move forward in a bipartisan way, and i think we should work across the aisle on getting this resolved in a way that satisfies the chairman and the members on both sides of the aisle and the fact that he has made an offer to continue discussion we should follow up and i think this offer reinforces the point that my good friend the congressman norton was making that the justice department is open to working towards some type of conclusion. i would like to say, we have never ventured a cabinet officer into the government reform and oversight committee. i think -- or had a contempt of faux. i think there was one on the epa officials. you can probably remember but never a cabinet officer

issa from james cole, in it he says i stress that the department remains willing to work toward a mutually satisfactory resolution of this matter. so why can't we work together? and i would like to publicly thank mr. mica, chairman mica, really for working across the aisle on the transportation bill. and hopefully this can move forward in a bipartisan way. i think we should work across the aisle on getting this resolved in a way that satisfies the chairman and the members on both sides of the aisle. and the fact that he has made an offer to continue discussions, we should follow up. and i think that this offer reinforces the points that my good friend, the congresswoman norton was making, that the justice department is open to working towards some type of conclusion. and i would like to say, we have never van hollen -- we have never common senseured a government officer. there was some e.p.a. officials. i can't remember. you can probably remember, but never a cabinet officer. and never the highest ranking member of law enforcement for our country. who is willing to work with the chairman.

as we mentioned the department of justice will not pursue this, in a letter from deputy attorney james cole a crime. your reaction? >> predictable, but disappointing. unfortunately, they are relying on precedent that was set by a republican administration. there have been republican u.s. attorneys who have refu refused to prosecute contempt of congress and we move to civil prosecution. but we were under no illusion that the u.s. attorney of district of columbia would prosecute his boss. all of us who were prosecutors before had to prosecute skass perhaps we didn't believe in or didn't think the law was accurate, that's why you want prosecutors to be independent, so, i'm disappointed, but we are not surprised and that's why we're going forward with civil contempt. >> dave: you are moving forward. not a done issue there. earlier we spoke with the family of brian terry, disgusted at the walkouts of democrats. 17 democrats joined you in the contempt vote, but meanwhile, nancy pelosi and others of the black caucus walked out. what did you think of that tactic? >> well, we knew it was come, we he

james cole, deputy attorney general, has written that the department has a greater obligation than just checking the legal sufficiency in approving wiretap applications. he thinks that applications also have to comply with the energy policy, is that correct? >> applications have to agree with dj policy? >> that's what he said. >> sure. >> okay. during a transcribed interview, deputy assistant attorney general jason weinstein testified that senior officials approving the wiretap applications do not read the wiretap applications. is this practice acceptable to you? >> they read summaries of the applications. that is a process that has been used by this administration and by all previous administration. it is the way in which the office of enforcement -- >> are you aware that federal judges to your knowledge -- >> cannot answer my question? the question you asked. >> no. you give a sufficient answer considering the amount of questions that i have any amount of time that i had. are you okay with that practice? you've already answer that. would you agree that senior officials responsible for

james buescher. mike. >> catching up with the fourth place finisher, cole whitt. pretty solid day out there, how would you assess it? >> it feels good to get a good run especially after rebounding, getting a little buried back in the back. it's cool, shows how strong we are. testament to the team, you know, it's pretty cool. it's been fun getting them involved. they've been great, showing a lot of hospitality. the nationwide series is pretty cool. i was having fun watching james and them back there and austin gave me a good run for my money. it's cool to have nationwide insurance make this happen to us. thanks to everybody who makes it happen and junior motorsports for giving me a chance. >> congratulations, have a good run. >> thank you. >> allen, when the crew chief came on board his job was get this kid's confidence back and de a good job there. >> he did. cole whitt in fourth today. the man in victory lane, joey logano, celebrating a win. >> whoo! >> well, the hottest driver in nascar, just got hotter after winning a cup race, last week's sprint cup race, now

james buescher. mike. >> catching up with the fourth place finisher, cole whitt. pretty solid day out there, how would you assess it? >> it feels good to get a good run especially after rebounding, getting a little buried back in the back. it's cool, shows how strong we are. testament to the team, you know, it's pretty cool. it's been fun getting them involved. they've been great, showing a lot of hospitality. the nationwide series is pretty cool. i was having fun watching james and them back there and austin gave me a good run for my money. it's cool to have nationwide insurance make this happen to us. thanks to everybody who makes it happen and junior motorsports for giving me a chance. >> congratulations, have a good run. >> thank you. >> allen, when the crew chief came on board his job was get this kid's confidence back and de a good job there. >> he did. cole whitt in fourth today. the man in victory lane, joey logano, celebrating a win. >> whoo! >> well, the hottest driver in nascar, just got hotter after winning a cup race, last week's sprint cup race, now

. >> mike: say so much about lebron james, rightfully, so, but so much help that he had tonight, mike miller, shane battier or mario chalmers or norris cole. so many players contributed. miller with the seven three-pointers. miami heat are the nba champions. and so many people to thank. outstanding crew that we have all season long, talk about sacrifice and hard work, they are the epitome of that. for jeff van gundy, doris burke, producer tim corrigan, director jimmy moore and this great, great crew we are honored to work with, mike breen saying thank you for watching our coverage of the nba finals. coming up next, it's your late local news, "nightline" and "jimmy kimmel live" over most of these abc stations. on the west coast, it's "jimmy kimmel game night." after these messages, we'll be back with one final look at the miami heat and their road to a title, right after these messages. ♪ [ male announcer ] the 5th quarter. the 60 minutes after the game when you finish the competition for good. ♪ take in protein. start rebuilding muscle. ♪ and stay in the game. ♪ he's in the 5th quarter. are you? protein to rebuild muscle. gatorade recover

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