in question even after the september announcement by eric holder that this administration is going to do something they're still saying what has been done i can tell you what's been done eric holder said that we're going to indict three hundred bankers that has not occurred there hasn't been a any meaningful investigation all that we've seen and this is been a problem this is this is absolutely been a problem for people in florida who have followed this issue i think not just in florida but throughout this country but what they've noticed is that the very people who seem to be most responsible for this mortgage scam burned down the goldman sachs crowd were the very people that obama seemed to be hanging out with they were on his abbott they were the tim geithner's in the larry summers so i think eric holder saw there was a problem here that people were becoming more sophisticated about understanding what happened to him and i think in september we saw their effort to say hey we don't we haven't done anything for three and a half years but we're here to tell you we're doing something n

therefore, eric holder he is okay.w what in the end, the inspector general said not exactly because eric holder still has to account for a lot of people that were under him. >> sean: darrell issa who is doing his job. he has been trying to get to the bottom of this from day one. all they have done is they have stonewalled and stonewalled. then we get to the point there is going to be a contempt charge. then at the last minute, in comes executive privilege so they can stone wall further. >> this is case where justice of blacked out material,000 means transparency. president obama coming in 15 minutes to oversight committee on capitol hill and you have eric holder continually saying low level rogue operation, if that was the case --. >> sean: they also said, great skepticism in terms of what eric holder knew. everybody around him knew, they find a little bit difficult to believe he had no knowledge of this at all. >> if you notice, the i.g. also mentioned the justice department was not forthcoming in giving out materials

but it raises the question of what was -- what did eric holder know.as it so inconsequential that it would be a bother to the president during an election season and something he would get worried about for no reason? if that's the concern he must not have known very much. but nephew that personal e-mail of this cia director was being examined and that it involved a journalist who was at one point doing a biography of him and had written extensively about him. to me that seems like a potential problem and not just a political problem. but a potential national security problem. everything we know about how you have to be vetted before you enter the administration. i was just a junior speech writer. as a junior speech writer right out off college i had to go through this ridiculously -- you know, background check. this is what you have to do. when you are an intelligence official you really have to go through a backgrounds check for security clearances. david petraeus had been under the microscope. to me the fact that this came up and eric holder is clai

attorney general eric holder explains why he didn't tell the president about the affair. does it add up? and a democratic leerd offers a solution to the fiscal cliff. so far, even the president may not be going for it. let's go "outfront." >>> good evening, everyone. "outfront" tonight, developing story. petraeus corrects the record. there are new details coming in about the former cia director's highly anticipated testimony tomorrow on capitol hill. cnn has learned david petraeus will acknowledge he knew almost immediately after the attack that it was the work of al sharia, a militia group linked to al-qaeda. this is a significant dwom. it was five days after the benghazi incident when susan rice went on the sunday talk shows an said the attack grew out of a spontaneous demonstration against an antimuslim video. let's get right to the breaking report right now. barbara starr is at the pentagon. you've been breaking this. tell us what you're learning tonight about david petraeus' testimony on benghazi. >> i've spoken to a source close to petraeus, directly familiar with p

therefore, eric holder he is okay.al said not exactly because eric holder still has to account for a lot of people that were under him. >> sean: darrell issa who is doing his job. he has been trying to get to the bottom of this from day one. all they have done is they have stonewalled and stonewalled. then we get to the point there is going to be a contempt charge. then at the last minute, in comes executive privilege so they can stone wall further. >> this is case where justice department giving them 7,000 pages of blacked out material means transparency. president obama coming in 15 minutes to oversight committee on capitol hill and you have eric holder continually saying low level rogue operation, if that was the case --. >> sean: they also said, great skepticism in terms of what eric holder knew. everybody around him knew, they find a little bit difficult to believe he had no knowledge of this at all. >> if you notice, the i.g. also mentioned the justice department was not forthcoming in giving out materials that t

you covered this extensively when it happened in 2010 and a chance to hear eric holder there.says in addition to these charges, it also means that bp will continue to do business there in the gulf but with a monitor. explain more on that. >> reporter: well, there were two monitors, process monitor and an ethics monitor that will essentially i guess be the eyes and ears of the federal government as bp continues to operate. they're also under a five-year probation with this settlement announcement. so as they continue to operate, which i guess in some people wondered if they might be allowed to continue to operate here in the united states. but obviously, that heavy of a fine or a penalty has not been issued. they'll allowed to continue to do business here in the united states but this does not mean that this is the end of this story for bp. just before this press conference started, fredericka, i wanted to mention that this is by no means the end of the lawsuits and the financial fines that bp faces. there are still fines having to do with the clean water act. if you remember b

the national transportation safety board is investigating. >>> attorney general eric holder says the investigation into the bp gulf oil spill isn't over even though bp has agreed to pay the highest fine in history. the settlement comes 2 1/2 years after the rig explosion killed 11 oil riggers. >> reporter: the two former bp employees charged with manslaughter were the two highest ranking supervisors. they were in charge with the task of grave danger. combustible gas was seeping into the well. the indictment alleges bp managers failed to call engineers on shore to discuss the abnormal readings. instead they allowed work on the well to continue. the gas came up the well and exploded. u.s. attorney general eric holder. >> this is an indication, perhaps a vindication that we have shown as a result of their actions people died there unnecessarily. >> federal authorities charged former bp vice president with lying to investigators about the amount of oil leak being from the oil. according to the indictment he insisted 5,000 barrels of oil were leaking every day when he was affair bp's own

the law and for being the one man and body image of a two tiered justice system attorney general eric holder jr you are today's villain . looking for a good ever seen anything like that. you know i really don't even want to talk about general petraeus is ready resignation you know seems to get more ridiculous by the day but as the scandal on unravels it leaves a lot of questions that the corporate media has failed to address which isn't surprising because whenever the media focuses on a torrid love affair and web of lies it's usually for a reason to distract us from more pressing issues so what does this scandal really boil down to and is it really a matter of national security to break that down and more i'm joined by mark weisbrot co-director of the center for economic and policy research thanks so much for coming on martin have a great to hear so i know you've been following the scandal as it's been unraveling the bottom line here can you break it down for our audience well it is it's got a lot of things it was a lot of. you know. the late night comedy who will bear making a big thing out

eric holder knew about it and the c.i.a. director could have been blackmailed.al security threat. aren't there better thing for the f.b.i. to worry about? >> bob: exactly. >> andrea: how about general petraeus and general mullen, sending thousands of pages of e-mails? forget the american people. our -- allen. general allen. our enemy is looking that going what is the united states doing? they look crazy. final point, the dad saying that more is going to come out and the fact that broadwell, we have her on tape, in october saying there were militia men held in the compound. a bell went off. how does she know there were militia men that could have triggered the benghazi attack. this woman knows and we were sold a story about the video by her lover. >> bob: what was the f.b.i. going through 30,000 pages of general allen's e-mails when it's none of their business? >> dana: you have a good point that americans will be scratching their heads saying that means any e-mail i have, i think because it is a cyber crime, there were threats. an agent is friend of kellys. i'll

she's the hero is the villain well that dishonor goes to none other than the us attorney general eric holder and no this is not about the fast and furious scandal that was inexcusable and no this is not about him starting the whole look forward not backward mentality instead of holding the bush administration accountable for war crimes no today eric holder is our villain for a different reason you see it all starts with the two thousand and ten b.p. oil spill where eleven crewmen were killed in the rig explosion and more than one hundred million gallons of crude oil spilled into the gulf of mexico causing one of the worst environmental disasters in history well now it's two years later and this is the announcement mr holder made regarding a resolution to the disaster. b.p. has agreed to plead guilty to all fourteen little charges including responsibility for the guests of eleven people and events that led to an. environmental catastrophe the company has also agreed to pay for billion dollars in fines and penalties oh my god also four point five billion dollars in criminal fines acknowledgeme

there are big questions surrounding eric holder, why would holder not tell the president that his c.i.achief was potentially compromised. if he tell d the tell them it should have gone to the president himself. >> the time line is objectively weird. you couldn't write this that the white house wouldn't know about sex scandal involving the c.i.a. director. obviously there are a lot of questions about benghazi and petraeus. this whole period of last week, it's been a week ago tonight we were calling ohio. it's overshadowed a lot of the potential the president had coming out of the electing. he is going to have it in the news conference. this lab major focus of it. i don't think the white house wants any more distractions because there are questions about the f.b.i., c.i.a., military. all of this is mixed up in what a increasingly weird sex scandal. >> greta: there is a story, general kip ward was stripped of a star because he accused of spending tax money extravagantly. do you know if any of us stole $82,000. we would end up in the slammer. the military had a very bad day today? >> this i

is it a big surprise to anybody that eric holder, the attorney general, is going to stay for another year? >> not a big surprise. one, a lot of big names have already tried to leave and said they're on their way out the door, soon. geithner, clinton, panetta, these are people headed out soon. president obama does not want, you know, all of his a-team, as it were, leaving. the second thing is even though many members of the cabinet don't necessarily understand it, eric holder is one of president obama's favorite cabinet officials. they're close personal friends, and whatever others think, president obama thinks eric holder has done a good job. >> is hillary clinton leaving on inauguration day? when is she leaving. >> sooner rather than later. that's what i've been told. she might be the first one to leave. she's expected to leave quickly. >> let's get back to your book. the outpost is a tremendous book. like i said, i felt like i was there and i knew the guys. i think some people have a very different impression of what happened in afghanistan, and whether or not we should have been t

eric holder's future is once again a question.ing news this morning as well from capitol hill. after much speculation, house minority leader nancy pelosi will keep her job. a brand-new our starts right now of "america's newsroom" i am martha mccallum. bill: and i am bill hemmer. nancy pelosi and her move coming after democrats failed to win the house majority. peter is live from washington. did she she explained why she wants to stay? reporter: our sources inside the caucus room where she made her announcement, congresswoman nancy pelosi was standing with a handful of democratic elected members of congress. they say a picture is worth a million words come welcome in this picture is worth millions of aspirations of the american people. this makes our caucus is stored for the first time in legislative history. she also told the group that the message is clear from the american people that they must work together to get things done. that is what these folks are here to do, just like all of you. now, the democrats hold their leadershi

attorney general eric holder is an outspoken critic against these and similar voter i.d.ling them the equivalent of a modern day poll tax. i caught up with the attorney general in washington, d.c. busy time for you. >> always is. the justice department is an interesting place and a lot of issues we are constantly conare fronting. it's always busy here. >> i know why it's especially busy, everyone is debating whether or not this is discrimination, whether or not this is something we shouldn't even be talking about. >> the justice department has a unique responsibility inñ that regard. we're the enforcers of the voting rights act of 1965 and in particular section five of that act which deals with the whole question of voting and so we've been active in that regard. we file suits against certain states where we thought the practices that they sought to introduce were." inappropriate. we have precleared other states where we think the changes they have made are in fact appropriate so we have a good number of lawyers in our civil rights division who are engaged at this moment

eric holder knows about it in august.te house, somebody from the white house said that the president asked petraeus to reconsider. but it sound to me if clapper went to him and asked him to resign -- some of this stinks. >> eric: there are a thousand questions surrounding the probe. number one, first and foremost, joe kelly, how does she get an f.b.i. probe? when the f.b.i. probe finds out there is no criminal activity, how did it shoot straight up the ladder and jump over to the politics? how did representative reichert contacted by rogue f.b.i. agent -- i call rogue because he is going beyond what the scope of duty should be. he contacts representative reichert who contact cantor's office? why does the representative's office sit on it for two weeks? is there no process, method in which a congressional committee, hearing could have been heard weeks ago if not months ago regarding all they found? >> dana: i agree. juan, so do you remember when seven u.s. attorneys let go in the bush administration. they were political ap

this video shows how easy it is to attempt to steal attorney general eric holder's vote when an idea is not required i should forget my id. yet places that do ask for a government issued photo id can affect over ten percent of americans that simply don't have one there is an attempt to prevent large numbers of people from actually exercising the ballot election monitors usually serve the purpose of keeping track of and discrepancies and while the u.s. likes to keep a close eye on the way elections are handled abroad even the carter center which grows a rod and does the great work of monitoring elections. refuses to monitor u.s. elections on the grounds it don't meet the basic standards of integrity when election ideals are not met elsewhere criticism runs rampant elections in venezuela elections in iran elections in russia. the press will go to town on any sign that the outcome was fixed and while nitpicking abroad is all the rage the elephant in the room remains unnoticed at home policymakers and to a great extent our media and and trickle down to the american people have literally

i mean, eric holder at least knew about it. >> if holder new it. when obama smelt it holder dealt it. >> eric holder didn't talk to one of his closest friends? that's barack obama. >> i'm joined by karen finney, former communications director for the dnc. a lot it to unpack here. everybody on that network happens to believe there is some huge, shiny object the right wing should be focused on totally. this is what they need and want. your thoughts on the narrative out there, that this is some big conspiracy and cover-up? >> you know, poppycock. how about that? this is a network that was convinced, convinced that mitt romney was going to win last tuesday. take it with a mound of salt. i think it's pretty clear and i wrote in my column for "the hill" about this this week. from the beginning they were more interested in figuring out how to use this to attack eric holder and the obama administration broadly? what's similar the way they deal with the benghazi situation, there really are significant, important questions that need to be asked. we shouldn't

we know eric holder found out about it in august.e knew about it but the president didn't know about it and mike rogers and the senate intel chair didn't know. why wasn't congress told about this high level investigation, again they stumbled upon? i'm just not buying. i don't think a lot of people are buying the answers we've been given. martha: even the administration said, jemu, in the morning papers they understand that the timing looks odd. that the day after the election general petraeus would put forward his resignation. but in your mind jehmu, what do you think is the reason for not allowing this to come out sooner? why did they hold back and they slow walked as catherine herridge said? >> i think you also have to look at the timing of when the investigation first started. does it, they understand that it does look fishy from a timing standpoint. if there was going to be a cover-up or any sort of conspiracy here, wouldn't they want this to come out way before we were close to the election? it just seems people are wanting to j

eric holder was told in september about it.hen they spend weeks on an investigation that went so far as to open the cia director's e-mail, all without ever even mentioning it to the white house. joining me now is the former u.s. attorney general under george w. bush. there is an article in time magazine talking about you. about how you were the attorney general back in 2007. he wrote a memo that would have dissuaded or prohibited any contact between fbi justice and the white house when there is an ongoing criminal probe. you say that's nonsense. that's not what your mama said. >> that's correct. in fairness, "time" magazine, they got it right. but what the memo was meant to do and what it did was to stop contact in criminal investigation, ordinary investigation and restricted. it is permitted to have contact. megyn: so when there is an fbi investigation of this sort going on, saying mr. president, you need to know something -- >> to go further, it says in consideration, anybody ought to be disclosing information to whoever need

this video shows how easy it is to attempt to steal attorney general eric holder's vote when an idea is not required actually forgot my id. yet places that do ask for a government issued photo id can affect over ten percent of americans that simply don't have one there is an attempt to prevent large numbers of people from actually exercising the ballot election monitors usually serve the purpose of keeping track of in discrepancies and while the us likes to keep a close eye on the way elections are handled abroad we have the right to monitor other people's elections of course and if they don't do it they're clearly they're cheating that's not democracy it's rigged it's a dictatorship what the hell the need for monitors at home is vastly undermined when you're looking at an election where the votes are counted in public are humans that's the kind of election that it's possible to observe there really is virtually no opportunity for international observation but the same goes for domestic observers even the carter center which grows a rod and does the great we're monitoring elections a