congressman bobby scott from virginia.l kick off this hour by going up to boston to find out the latest about what's happening with whitey bulger. but first -- >> this is the "full court press." >> quick check of other headlines making news. the man who is famous for telling us you're going to liability way you look, i guarantee it, has been fired from the company that he, himself, founded. talking about george zimmer. founder of men's wearhouse. he was pushed out by the board of directors yesterday. he said in a statement they chose to silence his concerns about the direction of the company. he's not hurting for money though. $1.9 million in salary last year. he's got stock options worth nearly $70 million. what will happen to the deep voice commercials about the suits and ties? the company actually owns the rights to his name and image so he may actually still appear in them for awhile even though if he doesn't want to be there. >> bill: i can't believe that story. he's like the persona of the company. he founded it. i'v

that's -- that would be a major step back. >> bobby scott, congressman, thank you very much.. >> thank you. >>> and joining me here at the table, jeremy bash, former chief of staff to leon panetta at both defense and cia. when you were on the hill in house intelligence, you were dealing with the rewritten patriot act and fisa provisions. what we have seen with the new documents released guy the "guardian" the rules of the road are supposed restrict information aimed at domestic targets when sweeping up foreign conversations. yet at the same time, there are waivers. and there are a lot of cases where they can use and can then act on information on domestic targets if they are useful in criminal investigations or because of a threatened terror plot. . great to be back, andrea. let's break it down. this morning we saw out of the "guardian" and "washington post" two sets of documents posted. one are the guidelines approved by the court, by the federal court, that says that all these targets are overseas, not americans. the second document says that if americans' conversations are

congressman illinois senator dick durbin maryland congressman elijah cummings and virginia congressman bobby scott who all highlighted the lack of public information on the practice so is putting inmates in a hole making prison actually safer our cheesemonger hell has more the whole segregation isolation lockdown i'm standing here in a cell just like the one that private bradley manning was held in for over three hundred days aside by eleven cell with just a toilet and a cot prisoners eat here he sleeps here and most of the time they're alone for twenty three hours a day only getting for an hour or so to exercise for a long time we didn't know much about solitary confinement in the u.s. now we know a little bit more after the government accountability office released a report last month solitary confinement is used what a prisoner is considered a danger to himself or to others or if they have gang affiliations a day in this tiny cell cost as much as a night in a hotel room it can cost taxpayers one hundred twenty to two hundred sixteen dollars per day for just one prisoner insult here in confineme

the ranking member of the full committee, subcommittee, myself, jim sensenbrenner, jim con yores, bobby scotthe kim case, the leaker in the rosen matter is still under prosecution, he can't answer everything in public, we'll talk to him in private. we'll judge if the answers are fullsome or we need to do more. >> he denied any knowledge or information about potential prosecution of journalists. is that what you are interested in or not? >> i'm interested in three things, getting the abcs to our questions, which are focused on the james rosen matter. came before the committee, he said with regard to the potential prosecution of reporters. i hadder in heard of that. a judge, watching with the ap says, oops, i haven't released this search warrant that i was to seal for 18 months, i unseal it three years later, and took the time to apologize to the american people for being a year and a half late. it give us the information in the warrant, which said not only did they accuse rosen of being a -- a coconspirator in a violation of the he is be on e espionage law, i don't know how they jive, but we'v

the senate on a safety valve bill on drug -- on sentencing, rather, and also in the house with bobby scott and thomas massey. so there is bipartisan work, bipartisanship at work in the house and the senate on things that you wouldn't necessarily think you could find common ground on, but i think it's absolutely critical if we aren't trying to get both party toss the table to discuss these issues, we'll never win anything. >> thanks, julie. julie stewart, chapter four. [laughter] well, it's almost 4:00, and i -- we've provided refreshments for all of you, and we want you to get our your wallets and buy books and get, give beth a chance to autograph them for you. the aclu's not making any profit from the sale of these books. we just profit from people who tell the truth. and i think we all profit from that. >> thank you, laura. >> and i want to say how honored i am to have worked with you on your first book in 2000 and this latest book and how honored i am to be included in this book. when am i -- what chapter am i? >> five. >> i'm chapter five. [laughter] that'll be a running joke in my off

and also in the house with the bobby scott and thomas massie. so there is bipartisan work, bipartisanship at work and house and the senate on things that you wouldn't necessarily think that you could find common ground on. but it think is absolutely critical, and if we aren't trying to get both parties to the table to discuss these issues we will never win anything. >> thanks, julie. julie stewart, chapter four. [laughter] well, it's almost 4:00, and we've provided refreshments for all of you, and we want you to get out your wallets and buy books and get them -- the aclu is not making any profit from the sale of these books. we just profit from people who tell the truth. and i think we all profit from that. and i want to say how honored i am to have worked with you on your first book in 2000, and his latest book, and how honored i am to be included in this book -- which chapter and my? >> five. >> i'm chapter five. [laughter] that would be a running joke in my office for a while. and i just think your work and the work of the other political sci

principal of the chertoff group, general michael hayden, democratic congressman from virginia, bobby scottnational security journalist for "the new york times," author of "state of war: the secret history of the cia and bush administration," james risen. and back again, david ignatius of the "washington post" and our own andrea mitchell. welcome to all of you. general hayden, you have been in the thick of this debate in your past as one of the nation's top spies. the politics of this are interesting in terms of where the american people are. and we'll put some of the polling on the screen. 56% believe that the secret court ordering the tracking of calls of millions of americans is something that is acceptable to the american people. do you think that still holds? will it hold as more information is known about it? >> i actually think as more accurate information is known about it, it will hold, and perhaps even expand. now, there's a natural instinct in the united states, a natural instinct by the way we cover these sorts of things to rush the story to the darkest corner of the room, but i

>> well, i was on another panel earlier today with congressman bobby scott of virginia and he was quite about this. -the-thinks there is mow men numb congress across the aisle to do a do-over if you will. congress can systematically look at voting conditions for minorities from coast to coast, from maine to california, florida to washington. and do thorough analysis of what is happening today. they can identify repeat offenders who are intentionally disenfranchising or deluding the votes of minorities then those jurisdictions can be targeted by congress and section 5 will have an opportunity to prevent phlegm doing that in the future. >> suarez: now that it's moved across the street the supreme court to capitol hill, what do you think the chance chances are? >> we feel confident. the voting rights act has been reauthorized several times and always with a bipartisan congress signed the reauthorization in 192 by president ronald reagan. the reauthorization signed by president george w. bush in 2006. it's never been a democratic statute or republican statute. it's always been bipartisan. i

leahy and the senate on the safety valves bill on sentencing weather and also in the house with bobby scott and thomas massie so there is bipartisan work and bipartisanship network and a house in the senate on things you wouldn't necessarily think you could find on the ground on but i think it's absolutely critical in if we are trying to get both parties to the table to discuss these issues we will never win anything. >> thanks julie. julie stewart, chapter 4. while it's almost 4:00 and we have provided refreshments for all of you. we want you to get out your wallets and buy books and give beth a chance to autograph them for you. the aclu is not taking any profit from the sale of these books. we just profit from people who tell the truth and i think we all profit from that. i want to say how honored i am to have worked with you on your first book in 2000 this latest book on how honored i am to be included in this book. what chapter and my? >> five. >> i'm chapter 5. that will be a running joke in my office for a wild. i just think your work and the work of the other political scientists who

bobby scott is here live. >> thank you. >> shannon: congressman, thank you for coming inform i know have significant concerns about how broad this is. you will get a briefing on tuesday, as all house members will. what questions do you hope to have answered. >> what is done with the information after we get t. the concern i had with the original act was that it allowed the collection of data to change the law along it is way from the purpose of the warrant was terrorism to a significant purpose of the warrant information was dealing with terrorism. if it is not the primary purpose, the question many of us have, what could be the purpose? you if you are getting the informs and terrorism is related but that's not the primary reason you are getting it, what is the reason? are we running casual criminal justice investigation without probable cause of crimes? you the question is, what is done with this information? early on, we got all the -- from one of the problems we were trying to address is the information wasn't shared. you have the cia, fbi and they were not sharing information am once

on friday, he came to the hill and met with myself and jim sensenbrenner and bobby scott, the reason for the meeting being private was that we wanted to ask about the accusations of mr. rosen being a co-conspirator with mr. kim. mr. kim is under indictment and in the process of that trial -- hasn't take place, but will take place, i assume, sometime in the future. in order for him to answer questions about a matter currently under prosecution, he needed to meet with us privately. we will issue a full report on this, probably within a week or so. and we will detail our concerns about how the attorney general's testimony collides clearly with what was done in the rosen case, accusing a... a chief washington correspondent of fox news of being a co-conspirator in a major espionage case. there are also concerns about whether this is standard operating procedure for the justice department to accuse reporters in order to get at their emails and do their investigation. leakers. they do need to do the investigation, with regard to langs, no question about that, but]aÑ6 they need to follow th

and listen, rick scott from florida, bobby jindal from louisiana, governor martinez from new mexico and mary fallin from oklahoma, i can promise you they're looking at tax, regulatory, and legal policies that they can go talk to businesses in texas and -- >> sam brownback from kansas. >> you betcha. >> scott walker from wisconsin. >> yes, sir. hicken looper in colorado. >> you're a right to work state. >> we are. how about let's keep zpecompete? i don't have a problem with those governors coming to texas and trying to lure our businesses away because it will make me go back and do something like we did back in 2011, which was pass lose or pay to make texas be even more competitive on the legal side. >> what do you did with the criticism that people know texas is outperforming, creating a lot of jobs, but it's all about oil? it's all about the oil and gas is now particularly the shale revolution. what's your reaction? >> i wouldn't trade the oil and gas industry for anything. but it is a smaller percentage today of our gross state product than it was in 1984. texas's economy is very, ver