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chuck grassley is the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee, they've also closely trackednd investigated fast and furious issue. senator, the attorney general says this is unnecessary, unwarranted and says this vote to hold him in contempt, it is election year tactic intended to distract attention and as a result distracted critical resources from fulfilling my responsibilities, top priority to department of justice, protecting the american people. answer the attorney general. >> if it was last february or march when we started this, he might have credibility when he says that. after 18 months of being stone walled by the attorney general, i think that's intellectually dishonest. >> pat leahy says this. the bush justice department was not nearly this forthcoming and never tried to reach a reasonable accommodation in response to oversite effort. he tried to make the case that attorney general holder is trying. is he? >> i can tell you this, when the democrats were investigating the u.s. attorneys that were accused of responding to political pressure that i joined senator le

that same month, iowa senator chuck grassley began an investigation in the botched operation. he asked attorney general eric holder for answers. >> days later, justice department insisted to grassley atf never let guns walk. within weeks, holder directed the attorney general to investigate further. shortly after that in march, president obama said in a television interview he was not informed about operation fast and furious. adding he did not authorize it and attorney general holder did not authorize it. in december they were forced to retract that letter and called it flawed and admit in fact they let guns go. very few if any on capitol hill saw this coming. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has that part of the story tonight. >> the exective privilege assertion caught many off-guard since republicans say there was no mention before today. still the house oversight committee moved forward. >> 23 aye, 17 noes. >> the ayes have it. >> a contempt report is ordered. >> with that, they voted to eric holder hold in contempt of congress. it followed a -- lar ration of

and endorsed by orrin hatch and chuck grassley. e the administration stood by work on a compromise in the senate and grassley said leaders have told me i can't compromise unless 70% of republicans in the senate are for it. the notion that obama was not willing to compromise is nonsense. >> we can agree there has not been enough compromise, there has not been enough of the stuff. stephen moore, it may take two to tango. why can't republicans step up and say, we need to change this country, this isn't working the way it's working. you elect us, we're all about compromise. that's not the message they're giving. >> divisions between the country should go, that's why this is a an important election. the health care bill, 30 more million people put on medicaid. explain this to me, how is it that if it's republicans are the problem for gridlock in washington, there have been 40 bills passed through the house which is controlled by the republicans and you know where they are now? >> they're not the big stuff. >> they're in the graveyard of

that steven mentioned republican al tern toif to plan to the clinton alternative endorsed by chuck grassleypent seven months while the administration stood by rk woing on the compromise in the senate and grassley said, i can't compromise unless 70% of the republicans in the senate are for it. the noelgs that bum obama was not willing to compromise it's nonsense. >> there has not been enough compromise. steven, it may take two to tan goe. why can't the republicans step up and say, we need a change in this country. this isn't working the way it's working. you elect us and we'll be all about compromise. that's not the message they're giving. >> that's why this is an important election. by the way, norm, health care bill, 30 more people were put on medicare. is that something republicans wanted to see. explain this to me, how is it if republicans are the problem for gridlock in washington, there have been 40 bills passed through the house which is controlled by the republicans and they're -- you know where they are now, they are in the graveyard of the united states senate. they can't get throu

republican senators chuck grassley and jeff sessions are demanding details.he chief judge says these meetings where you have face to face standoffs with people encourages good hard exchange. an went on to say, our conferences are renowned for the quality and depth of their educational programs. some 27, by the way, meetings at this meeting. but it's not all work and no play. they will have paddle board lessons, sports fishing, yoga and zumba which i'm told is some kinds of a dance exercise i never heard of. in the interest of journalistic efforts, i'm jumping on a plane to go to maui to to some research. i'll write the whole thing off as research. megyn: google the judge alex kazinski. yoga doesn't qualify. it would be hard for me to take them seriously if i had seen any of them doing yoga or zumba. zumba is hard. it's a latin dance routine you do in the aerobics studio. you never felt so awkward in your life. you are looking dumb. >> reporter: yeah, all right. just learned about zumba, but i appreciate it. megyn: have you had that same feeling? i. a new repo

senator chuck grassley says how can the president assert the privilege for documents he claims he has not seen? so this is complicated, thomas, in part, because there's, of course, politics at play. there is also the reasonable role of congress that both democrats and republicans here acknowledge must have some oversight over things like what the department of yus tis does. there is also the controversy about the underlying issue of this program that went so terribly wrong. allowing guns to cross in to mexico and did result in the death of a brian agent, brian terry, and many mexican citizens. the department of justice okay knowledges it had the flaws but the fight is over who knew what when? we know that they provided incorrect information to congress saying that the program had not existed and that really raised all of these suspicions aenl set the ball rolling. the attorney general has taken steps including an independent investigation with an inspector general, he's also made some personnel moves. he says he's forthcoming and would be willing to give more documents but this is a p

department of justice called fast and furious. 16 months ago, this committee along with senator chuck grassley launched an investigation into whistle blowers' allegations regarding fast and furious. we became involved only after senator grassley was told he would not receive answers from the justice department because in fact, he did not have subpoena power and was not the chairman. in the course of our investigation, the committee has uncovered serious wrongdoing by the justice department. that wrongdoing led to 2,000 weapons crossing the mexican border that cost lives on both sides of the border, including brian terry's. a year and a half later, the terry family is still searching for answers. the operation contributed to the deaths of countless mexican citizens. it has soured our relationship with our neighbor to the south. it's created an ongoing safety problem here in the united states in which even the attorney general has admitted more lives could be lost. the department of justice has fought this committee's investigation every step of the way, starting with an unequivocal denial that

older senator from iowa had an ad with two senior citizens, to a mincing around saying i hear chuck grassley has a twitter. and it is very funny. it is humor, but it brings you to social media. one of the most fascinating things to me is when you see the ipod, the ipad and you say that young people will like this. but this is a senior center, anywhere in america. older voters, the more reliable voters, are more technologically savvy than there were five years ago. why? because they can communicate with their children. their grandchildren prefer to text. the most important things in their life? texting with their grandchildren. it is that targeting younger voters is wrong. that may have been true five years ago. no longer. it is like in a competitive business. somebody's doing something right, you borrow their idea. >> twitter, facebook, and global, -- to go -- google in a sense it is old school. >> people are using them in different ways. even facebook, you campaign through their facebook pages. what i watch for is the niches. i am a demographic and organize our guy. how do you turn people o

who knew about it, who sent a letter to chuck grassley.'t know much more about it than in 211. if he wanted to comply with the subpoena he should have returned the documents when they were due. the other thing i find vexing said the president knew nothing about fast and furious, he knew nothing about it, he didn't approve it. how can he assert executive privilege over something he knew nothing about? if that i his version of executive privilege is abg receipaccurate we won't be able too get any documents on anything. bill: he wants to resolve this and he says it can be resolved on the proposal offered earlier this week. is that a possibility? >> bill, you wouldn't think very highly of us if we accepted his extraordinary accommodation or proposal or whatever you've nice eupl he is going to use today. he proposed to chairman issa, give a verbal briefing, no documents, and you take contempt of congress after the table. it's been a little over a year and a half since i negotiated in criminal cases, that is not a very good negotiation from the

this time, it happened to iowa senator, chuck grassley, while he was addressing congress about an obamaourt appointee. >> he expressed -- [ cell phone ringing ] >> oops. >> of course, that familiar marimba sound means that grassley forgot to turn his iphone off. he didn't apologize, either. just fumbled for his phone and turns it off. it could have been more embarrassing if he had -- a different kind of ring, you know what i mean? >> like what cannot ring. that would have been embarrassing. but he pulled it off. good for him. anyway. well done, senator. >>> can breathe a sigh of relief. the spectacular new jersey spot will be without its most famous cast of characters after this summer. >> say it ain't so. we're told this will be the last season of "jersey shore," at least with the original gang. they apparently got the word after production got under works. there's major changes on the show because snooki's pregnant and the situation is clean and sober. >> so, nice run, guys. they made a ton of money. >>> speaking of clean. cleaning up the house could be a scary task. but some guys in

it was chuck grassley, republican of iowa, ranking member of the senate judiciary committee, who was the first to raise questions about this. because we lacked the subpoena power and really the majority backing, he couldn't compel the justice department and the white house to answer his questions. he went across the capitol to his colleague darrell issa and says you have subpoena power. could you check this out. since then issa has done it and grassley has been by his side. he was at the meetings the other day with the attorney general to cut a deal that would have staved off this contempt vote. they'll be asked about it. if the house votes on this, it would get referred directly to the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia. >> and in fact you write in your article, ed o'keefe, if the full house votes to find holder in contempt, the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia who is employed by the justice department will have to decide whether to criminally prosecute him. who is the u.s. attorney for the district? >> he's a man whose name i'm forgetting. ronald -- you caught me.

acknowledge is flawed on the very same day the department of justice was denying the tactic to senator chuck grassley? not only does congress have a right to ask these questions, we have a fundamental duty to ask these questions. our fellow citizens, the ones we're supposed to work for, when they get a jury summons, do you think they have a choice on whether or not to comply? when they get a subpoena from a law enforcement agency do you think our fellow citizens get to offer an extraordinary accommodation in lieu of providing documents? either congress has the authority to send a subpoena and require full compliance or what we have been doing for the past 12 months is a fool's errand and we should have never discussed contempt of congress. either we have the right to the documents and we should get all of them or we have no business here. and with respect to executive privilege, mr. chairman, i'm going to resist the temptation to contrast senator obama's decision on executive privilege with president obama's position on executive privilege, but i would note the juxtaposition is stark. if he was not p

open to technological lead advances the other candidates but if you go back to the last campaign chuck grassley had one of the memorable ads in all the senator from iowa that opened with two senior citizens sitting around the table a year that he has twitter and she's thinking that some kind of disease or something and it's very funny and its humor that brings you to social media. one of the most fascinating things to me is when you see the ipod, the ipad and technology you think younger people are going to love this. this is the senior center anywhere in america. >> older voters the are the most reliable voters are now much more technologically savvy than they were ten years ago. why? the only way to talk to their grandchildren. they don't take telephone calls. maybe they don't have a land line at home and so by force of nature what's most important in your life talking to my grandchildren, they've become technologically savvy. to think of this for any campaign it's wrong if you go of the country is a different campaigns are better at the one from each other very quickly get a competitive busi

express -- [ phone ringing ] >> that's the, i must say, usually very proper and traditional senator chuck grassleying about judicial appointments b

express -- [ phone ringing ] >> that's the, i must say, usually very proper and traditional senator chuck grassleying about judicial appointments before his ringer interrupted. he muttered, pushed mute and then continued like a pro. it's pretty funny. ha you ever had a terrible cell moment? >> i haven't. but i usually leave my phone on mute. people can never reach me because it's on vibrate. >> mine once went off when i was live on air. i said, oh, i'm always getting source calls, went right on. >>> that's all from us tonight. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> outfront next, secret talks to save america from economic disaster going on tonight. >>> and bill clinton says i'm very sorry. but does his apology add up? >>> and reports of a growing problem with american soldiers using a drug linked to the zombie-like attack in miami. let's go outfront. >>> i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, secret talks. secret talks in congress to save america from fiscal implosion. secret talks happen all the ,

an embarrassing interruption on the senate floor for republican senator chuck grassley. >> the standards [cell phone ringing] >> that's happened to all of us. grassley's iphone going off to his own speech to the senate. stumbling for a minute and picking up where he left off. finally the ugly. new york city targeting food carts. announcing a crackdown against the supersized food street kartsz. they say the vendors are taking up too much space on the sidewalk and last week, you may remember the mayor proposed a ban on those supersized sodas as well. time to get scrambled up. gretchen carlson here to help us out with our wof

an embarrassing interruption on the senate floor for republican senator chuck grassley. >> the standards-- [cell phone ringing] >> that's happened to all of us. grassley's iphone going off to his own speech to the senate. stumbling for a minute and picking up where he left off. finally the ugly. new york city targeting food carts. announcing a crackdown against the supersized food street kartsz. they say the vendors are taking up too much space on the sidewalk and last week, you may remember the mayor proposed a ban on those supersized sodas as well. time to get scrambled up. gretchen carlson here to help us out with our word of the day. >> good morning! >> good morning, gretchen. >> mega man! >> argentina? >> no. >> engagement. >> took so long for me, i can't even think of that word. >> have a great show, gretchen. >> you, too. have a fantastic day. >> thanks for joining us. see you later. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> good morning, everyone. today is thursday, june 7, 2012. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks so much for spending part of your day with us. unprecedented leaks related to

in just about 15 minutes two of the top investigators for senator chuck grassley who has been at the center of this investigation from the beginning are going to meet with the press. that comes after president obama used executive privilege earlier this week to block the release of documents on a gun-running sting operation that led to 2,000 weapons winding up in the hands of some mexican drug cartels, hundreds of deaths in mexico, and the death of this man here, border patrol agent brian terry. his parents, kent and josephine terry now a cushion the department of justice and the obama administration of, quote, lying. saying they are hiding something, preventing these parents from getting the truth about how their son, brian, died. >> if everybody would come out and tell the truth and whoever is responsible face the consequences, this would all be over. he would have closure, and i would have closure. we could mourn for your son, which we never have done. megyn: william la jeunesse had an exclusive interview with the terry family an joins us live in the next hour of "america live" he

he expounded his conspiracy theory on fox news, he fed it to jeff sessions of alabama, to chuck grassley of iowa. they listened to it, believed it, and republicans in congress have been running with it. >> frankly, i believe it was set up to deal with second amendment liberties of law abiding citizens and pushing into a perception that it was the problem of the second amendment as opposed to law enforcement. >> very clearly, they made a crisis and they're using this crisis to somehow take away or limit people's second amendment rights. >> to somehow -- somehow being the key term there, right? the idea is by selling guns, the obama administration is going to block people from selling guns, right? it's obvious. take the blinders off, america. they're being super lax on gun control for gun control. see, if you were a person who watched fox news all day, it is possible you have been marinating in this conspiracy theory for long enough now that this seems feasible, therefore, today's vote to hold the attorney general under contempt in this scandal is understand able to you. for the rest of us

starers for republican senator chuck grassley briefed reporters today. adding more detail between tuesday's meeting between holder, grassley and they said the justice department position was a nonstarter. it was nothing. >> we'll stay on it. thank you. >> bret: historical note today. a boog printed for george washington fetched almost $10 million at auction. the volume includes a copy of the constitution. draft of the bill of rights. it was printed in 1789. it includes many personal annotations. by the first president. still ahead, ad war on the campaign trail. first, catholics pray for relief from president obama's contraception mandate. hey. hey eddie. i brought your stuff. you don't have to do this. yes i do. i want you to keep this. it'd be weird. take care. you too. [ sighs ] so how did it go? he's upset. [ male announcer ] spend less time at gas stations. with best in class fuel economy. it's our most innovative altima ever. ♪ how much coffee are you fellows mosgoing to need today?ever. three...four cups? [dumbfounded] well, we... doesn't last long

just ask iowa republican chuck grassley. he learned the hard way. >> when i apply the standard that i mentioned and the standards which senator obama laid out or the standards in expressed -- [ phone ringing ] >> we know what his ring tone is, don't we? anyway, catch the dog gone it there? what a mid westerner. here he is on cbs this morning. >> have you made the decision that you do not want to be president? >> i've not made that decision, although i think there is a window of opportunity in life for all sorts of reasons, and this was probably my time. although i don't know given kind of what i believe and how i believe it, i'm not sure i would have been successful as a candidate, either. these are different times than just six years ago when i last ran. >> wow. it's moved too right for him. that republican debate when all the candidates raised their hands saying they would refuse ten dowryes in spending cuts. this man said he wished he had been the odd man out. >> this will prove i'm not running for anything. if you could

capitol hill to meet privately with lawmakers including house oversight chair iss and senator chuck grassley. we spoke with senator grassley a short time ago. senator, tomorrow you're going to meet with the attorney general of the united states, eric holder. at least you've been invited to the meeting. where do we stand on fast and furious and the attorney general? >> well, first of all, the documents have been subpoenaed, only a very small percentage of those documents have actually been delivered, and they would not have been delivered without a espn. there's been several hearings before the house committee under chairman issa, and there haven't really been answers, and we have plenty of information to know that there's a lot more documents out there that are going to tell the truth about justice officials being involved in fast and furious and knowing about it a long time before they admitted to us that they knew about it, and so tomorrow we hope to get the documents that we wouldn't otherwise get. >> greta: why would you think you would get them? he said he wants to meet with you. if you

now, we go to the opposite of advance technology, iowa senator chuck grassley yesterday, he was speakinghe senate floor and his cell phone started ringing. he tried to get to it as quickly as he can, but he had trouble turning it off. >> in a few individual cases, it was very troublesome. the domination fell into that category. when i apply the standard that i mention, and the standards which then-senator obama laid out or -- ♪ who let the dogs out ♪ who let the dogs out ♪ who let the dogs out >> when i apply the standards i mentioned -- >> jimmy: he's the one that let the dogs out, it turns out. [ applause ] thank you. thank you. as you may have heard, nadya suleman, also known as the octo-mom, booshged herself a job stripping in florida. it was supposed to happen next month but reports say she's pulled out of the deal. after 14 kids, now she pulls out. [ applause ] can women pull out? you know what i mean. she reportedly canceled the appearance because the employees at the strip club said some things about her she didn't like. but even though she canceled, i'm still going to blind myse

. >> and now senator chuck grassley taking on the press secretary. in a memo late tonight senator grassley writing carney's statement that the administration has provided congress every document that pertains to the operation itself is hogwash. senator grassley also saying the accusation that i have motivated by political scalp is baseless. >> nice to see you, senator. >> nice to see you too. >> do you agree with leader pelosi the republicans are using contempt as a means to suppress the vote in november? >> you know, i certainly agree that the republicans are using this as an attempt to discredit the attorney general and discredit his work. not only on this issue, but also on a vote of suppression on a whole range of issues. the same committee members that are leading this charge have been leading the charge, attacking him on a whole range of things. whether it's part of a broader scheme, i won go there. but frankly i think the most important point is that this is a -- just another partisan political tool that is disexacting us from the important wor