brian sigritz joins us. first, this news update from c- span radio. >> republican carol issa is challenging president obama's claim of executive privilege. the president claimed broadly covers documents about the program called operation fast and furious, not just those prepared for the president. but rep issa claims of those were to his senior advisor is. he questions whether president obama was asserting executive power solely to interfere with the investigation. eric schultze spoke yesterday saying that congressman issa's assertion merely promotes contention. on capitol hill today, were the illinois democratic congressman jesse jackson jr. is on medical leave for exhaustion. the chicago tribune stated that it was the first public disclosure that he has been on medical leave since june 10. during that time, his office has issued at least 10 news releases. as to why jackson's office waited two weeks to tell his constituents, as the spokesman says it was a family request. those are some of the headlines on c

we will also talk to brian sigritz. "washington journal" is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> it could be that the republicans look feeble. there would be a nominee, and the republicans would then rally around that nominee. it is going to be close. i would have told you that the media would eat that up. this is a race. and i tell you what the next phase is going to be. the next phase is going to be that the media is going to be more alert to the fact that mitt romney has been completely evasive about his positions. he has been all over on many of them, and he has tried to play a game of hide and seek with the american people, and i think the news media will be challenged to challenge him to b more forthcoming, and then the story is going to be that for a while. that is the nature of this business. >> look beyond the process when you want on line with the c-span video library. >> in a few moments, the head of the export import banks talks about those financing tra