. >> believe it, darrell issa, and you're at the center of the storm. >>> also, weathered mitt romney. he's just like you if you eat fast food and live in a mcmansion. >> the great middle class, the 80 to 90% of us in this country. >>> and i am innocent. troy davis's final words, his death reviving the debate over an unjust system of justice. tonight i'll talk with barley sheck of the innocence project. >> just so much doubt. if never occurred me to me that the government would go ahead and murder this man. >> welcome to "politics nation." tonight's lead, republicans get ready, because the president is just getting warmed up. today president obama took his jobs satisfying to the home turf of two top republicans in congress, and he challenged speaker boehner and senator mitch mcconnell to stand in the way of progress. he challenged them. stand in the way of job growth, and he challenged them to pass his jobs bill so the country can fix the crumbling infrastructure in their own backyards. >> it's in such poor condition it's been labeled functionally obsolete. think about that. functiona

it were not for the tireless pursuit of the facts by senator charles grassley and congressman darrell issahe house oversight and government reform committee. congressman issa joins us now. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for covering this story, it is so important we get it right and behind us, meaning they don't do it again. >> sean: this is the point here. all these guns go out on the street. i want to make sure our facts right, still missing, 1600 unaccounted for, right? >> roughly 1600. they will turn up over the next decade, i'm sure. >> sean: we have two dead agents as a result. you and i discussed at one point congressman, there would have been a very simple way, because of technology, to track this. i have a friend who has an 18-year-old son who got a speeding ticket. the way now he monitors his son's driving he puts a gps in the car and he goes on every time he drives he's able to look at the gps data, is what you call it and see when the kid was driving. where he was driving. how fast he was driving. and you would think they could put that in the guns and that would bring us

caller: is the reaction from republican darrell issa. he says this -- guest: i would question chairman darrell issa's characterization. here's why. the epa is doing rulemaking process right now on carbon dioxide that affects a global warming. they had a rule making a proposal that was due this month which there recently and delayed indefinitely. reason they gave is their wont to go as slowly and carefully as possible to make sure every piece of that -- that they are really as progressive as they can possibly be. hthat the greenhouse gases. here's why this whole issue -- the epa is in the midst of rolling output an unprecedented school of new rules and regulations. it's not as a global warming rules. this one on smog and another on mercury and another on sulfur dioxide. there's a whole big pile of them. they're not coming out very quickly. however i differ with the chairman eisa, a lot of these goals greeted i'm sorry, i spoke about the clean-air act from the 1970 oppose it, but there is a follow all that was passed in 1990, the clean air

joining us congressman darrell issa. good evening.like everyone is blaming the white house tonight. you are too? >> well, i like to say the administration. because the administration naturally wants to make lots of regulations. if a president signals it is a good time to do it, they will. democrats in today's hearing were proud to say in the first two years, this administration did less than president bush did during his last two years. righ they did legislation up created lots of new laws. when they lost that ability to do it they went into overdrive over 2,000 regulations, effectively laws. there's a pattern, one is they claim these things cost less than 100 million dollars of impact. so they don't have to do as much. when they cost more, like the livestock bill that going to ruin a lot of livestock operations they don't want to reopen it and have public comment. a lot of what we did was talk about there's going to be regulations let's not shortcut the ability get it right. >> greta: i get the sense that the chief of staff they are

>> darrell issa is doing great work for fast and furious. >> sean: in case you didn't know this.that darrell issa himself launched an investigation into solyndra and lightsquared. >> he has subpoena power. >> beyond that, this is a question with respect to the satellite situation, a threat to national security. president obama must give leadership. who must articulate transparency in government. he's the one who should be saying let's find out what the heck is going on here. he cannot get -- have it both ways. he's got to partways with these so-called big donors and the big money and speeches. and' has give leadership to transparency and accountability in government which not. >> sean: we are doing it here. congrats just launched this week your daytime talk show you had the twins on today. i thought at any moment you would call them spoiled brats and it didn't happen. >> i'm like dr. phil with jerry springer's audience. i attack nobody. i'm warm and fuzzy and will have able. >> sean: that's how you are in real life. >> and i'm the voice of sanity and you're the voice of hannity.

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republican congressman darrell issa says this about the office tasked with the internal probe into thet allowed thousands of weapons purchased illegally to be carried into mexico. >> how would you describe the cooperation from the justice department right now? >> i'd describe it as stonewalling. in this case, the ig has compromised sensitive material that we've gained through discovery by making sure it got to one of the objects of our investigation. >> issa, head of the house oversight and government reform committee has sent a letter to cynthia snader. issa wants to know why her office prematurely gave audiotapes critical to the investigation over to a person a target of the probe someone he says, would at the u.s. attorney's office in arizona. >> literally giving somebody their own recording so they would be able to prepare before they ever testify with us. >> in his letter, issa says the disclosure undermines our ability to assess the candor of whites in our investigation and thus obstructs it. contacted by cnn, the inspector general's office would only say it's received the letter

congressman darrell issa has legislation to reform it.enator john mccain has introduced a companion legislation similar to that legislation. are you willing to make concessions, and what are they? guest: we just went to negotiations and made a lot of compromises. representative lynch has a bill in congress which has 220 code- sponsors, -- co-sponsors, which will reform the post office. on the other side, senator carpenter has introduced legislation that would support the postal service. john mccain's rubberstamp of darrell issa's bill will help destroy the post office and layoff toyota thousand people. host: what are the concessions so far? guest: week relaxed rules on flexibility so the postal service -- the post office could be open longer. there would be no legacy costs. we recognize it is in flux, in transition to a whole new world. we started out with lower level tried our best to meet their needs. over the last three years, 100,000 jobs have been removed from our workforce. we have done it without laying off people. we thought that

that's 13.6 tweets a day by darrell issa out in california. that's tonight's big number. >>> up next, conservatives want to muzzle warren buffett by saying his taxes are lower than they should be. and lower than his secretary's. he's become conservative enemy number one by speaking the truth about the tax code in this country, the tax code under which the rich have gotten richer and the poor struggle. you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. >>> any reform should follow another simple principle. middle class families shouldn't pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires. that's pretty straightforward. it's hard to argue against that. warren buffett's secretary shouldn't pay a higher tax rate than warren buffett. >> welcome back to "hardball." though president obama made that speech in the rose garden, it was effectively the kickoff to the 2012 campaign. and he made clear that fairness will be a pillar of economic reform in his 2012 message. today in a column entitled why warren buffett is conservative enemy number one, e.j. dionne wr

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today, house chairman darrell issa of southern california is questioning all loans to the solar industry and saying they're a poor bet. issa thinks it's reasonable to predict the entire solar panel industry will collapse. an industry analyst quickly disputed the comments and issued a report that showed solar panel installations were up nearly 70% this year alone. now, tomorrow, two solyndra executives will be asked by a federal committee trying to get to the bottom of what led up to the company's bankruptcy. and they're expected to plead the fifth. >>> a large-scale walkout today at the u.n. general assembly as iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad made bombastic remarks about the holocaust and 9/11. this is nothing new. much like previous speeches, ahmadinejad raised questions about the holocaust. the u.s. delegation was the first to leave when the iranian president referred to the september 11th attacks as, quote, mysterious. he also suggested that osama bin laden's hasty burial at sea was designed to bury the truth of who sent the planes to attack new york city and washington, d.c. >>

you are on the air with darrell issa.ler: of want to know something about the fast and furious program. guest: is there a specific question? caller: i know from watching you and the hearing that you are a no bs died. you will make sure that this investigation gets done completely and thoroughly. because of these bats and the road operators, i hear from them because i am a gun owner in this country. when and if you find out how high and how far it went up, are you going to prosecute the people involved with this? guest: except for the word prosecute, i win with you. we will expose and see that they are prosecuted. we are following this to find that every place the system should have said stop, do not do this breaking down. when we get to the last and highest, we need to make sure that there are assurances and the system that this never happen again. i am a republican so i used the example of a iran-contras. there should have been people saying stop, do not do this long before falling north was able to launch this program a

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job delivering pizza delivery in your bills personal mail and checks for pizza wages ironically darrell issa of california republican who's leading the charge to destroy the post office would probably himself not actually be able to be hired by the post office as a letter carrier because of his criminal past any of what the republicans are up to democrats on the other hand are suggesting that the post office just paid for its retirement benefits the same way every other government agency and most corporations do which would instantly solve the problem the problem is republicans like their allies control the house of representatives which is where all taxing and spending legislation must originate huge obstacles still stand in the way of a rescue package for the postal service which expects to lose more than eight billion dollars this year and while waiting for congress the administration actually agree on a plan the postal service is desperately trying to cut costs on its own including plans to close thousands of post offices all across the country but at this point future is very much in th

darrell issa and charles grassley are demanding answers what went wrong here.e details of the operation that allowed 2,000 guns to turn in the hand of the mexican drug cartels and causing the death of border patrol agent brian terry. what do you think went wrong here? >> i think what went wrong was the initial thought that somehow this would assist in combating weapons being trafficked to the country of mexico. the strategy clearly is ill-fated from the beginning and contrary to all the experiences in the training that atf field agents had had in terms of combating guns getting into the hands of prohibited persons. kelly: the lead u.s. attorney has left his post and our reporter william lajeunesse learned three white house officials were briefed on operation fast and furious and the president's national security staff knew about the operation as well. now there is evidence the u.s. attorney''s office was perhaps involved in a coverup operation. the president says he knew nothing about this operation but the justice department has been slow in responding. do you

according to a letter from congressman darrell issa and senator charles grassley, they say assistantorney tried to conceal the fact that apparently engaged in communications in the hours after agent terry's death that both contemplated the connection and sought to prevent the connection from being disclosed and there are allegations the u.s. attorney's office tried to stop atf agents from stopping the guns going to mexico and they retaliated against the whistleblowers and finally, even after the operation was apparently shut down, the atf in phoenix was trying to buy a 50 caliber weapon that they would have then represented and sold to the cartel representatives. martha? martha: this gets deeper and deeper, all the time. william, thank you. you laid it out really well for us and we appreciate the update on the new developments on fast and furious, senator chuck grassley, also at the center of the investigation, he will join us, less than 30 minutes from now, and we're going to get his take on this. you don't want to miss that, coming up in a half-hour. bill: in the meantime, four min

it's darrell issa.s on capitol hill that has oversight over the administration and darrell issa, to say he's attack dog of the obama administration would be very light. in fact, let's listen or look at a couple of things that he has done reports on the obama administration. a report on the obama green jobs program failures. issa has also put another one out called obama regulations putting family ranchers at risk. so big endorsement for mitt romney from an attack dog on capitol hill. >> thanks. that does it for us.

and to make it worse, congresswoman darrell issa has a plan to hand postal service business to the privatens have been made about closures. but communities are getting nervous. thousands of jobs are on the line. and the effect, well, it will be felt far beyond the postal workers. rural communities, local newspapers, small businesses, folks, i'm telling you, they're going to be hurt. this is the infrastructure of america under attack by the conservative agenda. so the conservatives love to talk about how they are fans and proponents of small business. well, let's leave politics out of it tonight and let's just talk about business. let's me bring in regina calderwood in cosby, missouri, one of the cities in danger of losing its post office. regina, you own a restaurant, gina's cafe and catering and a wedding rental business. what will happen to your businesses if the post office closes? >> well, our business on the wedding side relies heavily on our post office. we have to ship things back and forth between our branches. we also have a branch in oklahoma and a branch in st. louis. and we nee

and republican darrell issa plans to investigate government loan programs that benefit other private companies. >>> a bay area school district says it's a bright idea that will pump millions of dollars back into the classrooms. a massive solar energy project in contra costa county. but as ann notarangelo reports, some parents say the numbers just don't add up. ann. >> reporter: nearly every school in the mount diablo unified school district will get solar panels. the district says it's the largest solar panel project of its kind in the nation. by the end of the school year, the mount diablo unified school district says it will be able to get 91% of its electricity from solar panels. they are going up at the district headquarters and nearly every school and because of their location provides shade for the vehicles. the school board president says including there, the solar project will cost about $94 million. how much do you think the district is going to save? >> about $225 million over the life of the project. >> it's wrong. they did a math error and it is wrong. >> reporter: linda

darrell issa involved. >> more than a little. >> this has turned into, many ways, they've politicizede're trying to separate this. what's the best case spin the administration can make on this? >> the best case spin is that the administration was so eager to get this green jobs initiative out there, and to try to create jobs in clean energy industry, which is also part of their idealogical touch stone, that they just pushed and pushed and pushed to get this done. there were certainly people who were doubters at the time about the viability of the company, but there were also people who thought this was a promising technology worth the risk. i think that's really the best you get out of it. so far the e-mails do not suggest any kind of untoward political influence, but were just really getting into this. >> lisa myers, senior investigative correspondent. thanks very much. >> you bet. >> it's easy to look back at america's presidents and recognize how their time in office changed the country. several presidential also rans have done their fair share to shape the landscape of american hi

darrell issa a republican fl the house wants to assign a committee to run the post office until theyct together. a lot of folks from the post office say no, that's too extreme. then a lot of other senators they don't want to end saturday delivery, people in rural areas they depend on their news on saturday. when you have a congress so divided it's hard to see how they're going to come together where such massive changes have to occur in order for the post office to survive. >> unless something changes dramatically, the post office's future is ugly. >>> speaking of ugly did you see the terms uniforms? i couldn't let you go. how would you describe these things? >> reporter: craig, we're taught here in washington to fear the turtle. i fear looking like the turtle after seeing those things. those were god awful. we're talking about maryland football which has been irrelevant for the last ten years. they have accomplished one thing. and we're talking about under armor. in terms of advertising notoriety we're speaking about it. they've got to change that up. that is terrible. that's not ev

it seems like the goal of republican darrell issa who headed up a hearing this morning entitled how obama'sgy agenda is killing jobs. issa also touted his message on c-span earlier this week. >> there's been this attitude that somehow government can weigh in with loan guarantees and money and pick specific company winners and losers. we see that as a backdoor easy way to end up with corruption in government. >> well, he may be taking a stand there, but as it turns out, the california congressman has fought for dollars to fund clean energy programs in his own state. as recently in 2009, r in a letter to the energy secretary in 2009, issa played up the potential of an electric car company many his home state. "awarding this opportunity to apter motors will help this developer in my district." well, i guess the "in my district" part is the deciding factor for issa. so much for job killing. >>> up next, it's the latest installment of tea party takeover of the republican party. tea party republicans in the house voted down a republican spending bill that would have provided disaster relief to vi

republican representative darrell issa joins us at 8:30 a.m. eastern, tearing the government ove

you are on the phone with congressman darrell issa. caller: congressman, i want to know something about the fast and furious program. guest: well, i think -- host: we're listening. guest: frank, is there a specific question on fast and furious? caller: i know you from watching you in the hearings that you're a no b.s. guy and i want your assurance that you will make sure that this investigation gets done completely and thoroughly because of the datf and their road operators. i see some people like them because i am a gun owner in this country and i just want to know if -- when and if you find out how high and how far this went up are you going to prosecute the people that were involved in this? comboip except for the word prosecute i'd be with you. we'll expose and we'll do our best to see if they are prosecuted if appropriate. we are trying to figure out every place the system should have said, stop, don't do this, broke down. when you get to, if you will, the last and highest, it's because we need to make sure there are assurances in

now conversation with congressman carroll darrell issa. he joined us on "washington journal" for 45 minutes. the postal service's $10 billion loss this year is the failure to make reforms and appropriately right size their work force. >> the administration also underlined a trend that would return overpayments that accrued and the federal employee retirement service back to the postal service. >> the own account -- the president's own accountings showed that there was no overpayment. they must of had some epiphany. the so-called prepayment was mandated in order to ensure that the postal system at all of the reserves necessary for their own health care, and for their own actual retirement. this is an agency that if it under pays now as it shrinks, it clearly will continue to shrink, we will be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars of payments that they should be making today. >> the atwu, the postal worker'' union. >> there's so many postal workers unions, we do not have time on the set to name them. >> it said debt it needs to be

caller: is the reaction from republican darrell issa. he says this -- guest: i would question chairman darrell issa's characterization. here's why. the epa is doing rulemaking process right now on carbon dioxide that affects a global warming. they had a rule making a proposal that was due this month which there recently and delayed indefinitely. reason they gave is their wont to go as slowly and carefully as possible to make sure every piece of that -- that they are really as progressive as they can possibly be. hthat the greenhouse gases. here's why this whole issue -- the epa is in the midst of rolling output an unprecedented school of new rules and regulations. it's not as a global warming rules. this one on smog and another on mercury and another on sulfur dioxide. there's a whole big pile of them. they're not coming out very quickly. however i differ with the chairman eisa, a lot of these goals greeted i'm sorry, i spoke about the clean-air act from the 1970 oppose it, but there is a follow all that was passed in 1990, the clean air

according to california republican darrell issa who head the oversight committee, the committee investigatingnyone from the justice department is involved if that large coverup. meanwhile we are learning brand-new details about a rumored coverup. fox news has obtained exclusive interviews with an atf agent turned whistleblower. tell us everything, william? >> we are hearing from the gun store that was recruited by the government to sell the weapons to the cartels. and we have two hours of audiotapes that we obtained that basically were done by the gun store and it shows the atf and that owner were in a panic after their weapons were found at the murder scene of border agent brian terry. >> he many the biggest snitch ever in this industry or i'm working for you. >> reporter: that's the owner of the lone wolf gun store speaking to the atf agent. he secretly taped mcalister after being convinced the atf lied to him about stopping the guns he sold before they reached the drug cartels have you * he was acting under the direct supervision of the department of justice and atf. he those was making a

green energy that don't work but environmentalists, crazy nuts believe in. >> and congressman darrell issatly what he said. investigate, investigate and it coast back how do you shut progress down. not being able to get things done. it's throughs the investigations. there isn't a scandal here. this is one failed business out of 40 loans. if you look at billions of dollars in r and development f oil companies, billions of dollars in research and development for defense. this -- it has everything to do with trying to cut obama at his legs around not about actually embracing technology, embracing the next frontier. >> where are the green jobs? >> we shouldn't be losing to china when it comes to solar energy. in the past three years, they are intensifying ten times more than we are in solar energy they have taken the market share. >> bottom line, with solyndra, president obama's shining star with regard to the energy industry and it failed. let's take a better look and investigation is going to be a peripheral thing but more center stage look at the industry as a whole and how we could benefit

according to a letter from congressman darrell issa and senator charles grassley, and i'm quoting: >>orter: the motivation? apparently not to complicate an fbi investigation. now, remember, once these guns were sold and there was no attempt to stop them from being distributed to criminals, people would die. it was only a question of how many. well, initially the doj said it had proof of 11 violent crimes committed with these guns? the now we know their math was wrong, the clarification was issued, it could be as many as 28. >> everybody in america should be outraged. they were used as collateral. they could have cared less that guns were being handed to criminals, to people that should not have them, and they didn't take into account our lives, the mexican people's lives, our property and our safety. >> reporter: so the question is, where does this go now? well, the investigative committees of congress are looking at all the e-mails that, within the u.s. attorney's office of all the deputy u.s. attorneys, where that information may lead. just as important we have the white house conne

congressman darrell issa is a republican from california.e chairs the house committee on oversight and government reform which is looking into exactly that question. sir, thank you so much for being here. our viewers definitely going to be as steeped in this story as you are. in a nutshell your concern is what, doj had this dangerous guy handed to it by atf, and doj left the guy go and now you're trying to figure out why they did that? >> we now see that he will in fact be brought to justice, which is the good part of the story. megyn: he's ultimately been apprehended. there were months there where he wasn't. >> absolutely. and this is part of a pattern we saw in fast and furious, and we saw in the southwest, which was atf wanted to grab the people at the first point in which they could get a legitimate prosecution and stop the guns, or in this case grenade from being trafficked. unfortunately the u.s. attorney's office, department of justice wanted to wait and wait and wait, and unfortunately they waited until precursors, basically bomb-mak

darrell issa oversees the reform committee.ake your questions about the agenda and his proposals to eliminate mail delivery on saturday. we will be joined by the christian science monitor's anna mulrine. she recently returned from afghanistan. it is a live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. a discussion of the relationship between congress and the ministration with former senate majority leader trent lott and former senator of norse dakota. the iraqi washington center for an hour and a half. the event was moderated by c- span. >> my name is that doctor alan gross. i am the director of economic affairs. it is my pleasure to welcome you to the first conversation since the series. it is sounded in the her lifelong friendship of two leaders from opposite sides of the aisle. alan simpson and republican who served for many years and norman mineta from california who served as the secretary of commerce and the clintons administration and is he secretary for transportation in the bushes ministration. they met during world war ii when the

. >> darrell issa's committee is investigating. they're going to figure out how deep these ties go back because a lot of those e-mails going back and forth talk about how much money they'll be giving to the obama campaign come this cycle. >> they talk about campaign donations and then they talk about policy and the same thing, does that seem right? uh-uh. >> what kind of odds do you think these are? 1 in 3,200. you think probably it won't happen to me. if it does, you might not be so lucky today. i'm talking about that satellite that may be coming down now somewhere between antarctica and south america. it's a wide range and supposedly going to hit tomorrow. it's a 20-year-old research satellite. the biggest chunk, if it happens to fall on you, it will only be 300 pounds. >> all right. so your tinfoil hat, perhaps, will not help but nasa says don't worry because the chances are slim that you'd be hurt and nobody has ever been killed by one of these things falling out of the sky before because they say most of the planet is water an

good luck, darrell issa with that one. >> southern baptist and evangelical christians asking why theycut out of the special service marking the 10th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. a rabbi and buddhist nun, hindu priest and a muslim imam are among the religious leaders invited to the interfaith service at the national cathedral in washington sunday night. the head of the baptist convention asking president obama to reconsider. i didn't know that there was such thing as a buddhist nun. >> i'm looking into it. >> ok. thank you. >> meanwhile, call it the great government mail out. the white house now asking lawmakers to give the postal service three extra months to pay off billions of dollars in mandatory retirement payments. it's also working on a more long-term solution to help save the cash-strapped agency which is now $10 billion in the hole and expected to run out of money by next summer. brian? >> talk about unnecessary roughness. you have a cheerleader who gets tackled by a high school football player in south carolina by mistake. he was too enthusiastic all caught on c

. >> and as fox reported last week, darrell issa, one of those republicans, did push for clean energy money, even though he's attacked the administration. there. the l.a.times, though, yesterday, reported not after the fact, but in real time, in october of 2010, people inside the white house, democrats -- larry summers, secretary geithner -- said that this loan program has problems, it doesn't have enough oversight. and they wrote him -- at one point, i think it was larry summers wrote a memo to the president saying, this could undermine your clean energy agenda. so my question is -- i understand the back-and-forth with the republicans, but why would people inside this white house who are saying there may be real problems here, why was that ignored? >> well, i think -- just to make clear -- i think the memo you're talking about was authored by a number of people. it was a memo that represented the discussion internally within the administration about this program. and i think it's entirely to be expected that the president's advisors would scrutinize a program like this, and might hav

then we will hear wedarrell -- we will hear from darrell issa. >> eugene robinson on black america, and isabel wilkerson on african-american possum migration north and west. douglas wallace on spymasters. woodrow wilson's first lady and david mccullough on the greater journey. " our and our national foot -- our entire schedule -- look for our entire schedule at our website. u.s. military has officially repealed this policy which had an openly gay americans from serving in the armed forces. don't ask don't tell instituted during the clinton administration cost 14,000 men and women to be discharged in the last 18 years. we will hear from defense secretary leon panetta and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen for they also talk about the pentagon's budget at this 40- minute briefing. abnormal and will retire from his post at the end of the month. -- admiral mullen will retire from his post at the end of the month. >> let me acknowledge this is a historic day for the pentagon and for the nation. as of talk 0 1:00 a.m. this morning, we had to repeal of don't ask don't te

they are going after darrell i issa.ite that would create an oversight board that could order cost cutting measures and avoid the union contracts. the union fired back with this statement, representative issa who likes to show himself as a fierce opponent of union's money has created a click hi tech website that bashess the postal service, using, you guessed it, taxpayerers money. jaime: court action resumes in the case of an american student convicted of murder in italy. will it be enough to win the appeal and free her? a scam targeting your cellphone. you've got to listen up and see this one. why it could end up costing you big bucks. now we can help you find ways to protect yourself. that's next. jaime: they are calling it a giant crocodile. i say it's enormous and it heused quite a stir in t the villagers captured this 21-foot long monster weighing in at 2300-pound. do they even have a zale that big? officials say that the saltwater croc killed a water buffalo and may have killed a local fisherman. they love him any

the fact one proposed by the democratic senator from delaware, and the other one in the house by darrell issa should demonstrate the potential gridlock that lies ahead since these days house and senate leaders can rarely agree on legislation to move forward and finally vote on it. host: there is a picture this morning of cliff and the caption of the "washington post" story is they preside over two of the largest unions. what's been their reaction? >> they hang their hat on this very complex issue regarding future retiree health benefits. and this c-span audience i think can understand the wonkiness and the details, in 2006 congress required them to start prepaying future retiree health benefits to the tune of about $5.4 billion a year. the argument by the postal service is if we even had to pay a fifth, we would be in a better shape. if we paid as we went we would be in better shape. we wouldn't experience these big of losses. the issue is -- what the unions have proposed is that back in the 1970's and 198 o's when the civil service retirement system, the old federal worker retirement pension

congressman darrell issa has legislation to reform it.senator john mccain has introduced a companion legislation similar to that legislation. are you willing to make concessions, and what are they? guest: we just went to negotiations and made a lot of compromises. representative lynch has a bill in congress which has 220 code- sponsors, -- co-sponsors, which will reform the post office. on the other side, senator carpenter has introduced legislation that would support the postal service. john mccain's rubberstamp of darrell issa's bill will help destroy the post office and layoff toyota thousand people. host: what are the concessions so far? guest: week relaxed rules on flexibility so the postal service -- the post office could be open longer. there would be no legacy costs. we recognize it is in flux, in transition to a whole new world. we started out with lower level tried our best to meet their needs. over the last three years, 100,000 jobs have been removed from our workforce. we have done it without laying off people. we thought that