nation, join me please in celebrating chuck grassley's artistic breakthrough and tweet like grassley. it won't be easy, but you can take inspiration from the senator's stirring message of hope. peace. a truer consonant has never been typed. nation, you know, i don't need to tell you what i think. i need to tell you what you think. this is "tip of the hat, wag of the finger." [cheering and applause] >> folks, i am sick and tired of obama's job-killing environmental regulations. although i could just be sick and tired from all the heavy metals in my water. well, now the e.p.a.-hole has her sights set on an industry near and deer to america's hearts in that it is in our lungs. jim, do it. >> the e.p.a. has issued new regulations that can virtually put the coal industry out of business. >> the environmental protection agency plans to put limits on power plant carbon emissions. >> stephen: putting limits on carbon emissions? what's next, putting limits on how fast we can drive? what? really? welcome to obama's america. [laughter] now, fortunately the coal industry is taking a stand here. s

until you want them to be of course but that's not even why tonights full time when he tried grassley should be calling anybody stupid on twitter face it no these tweets mostly consist of in comprehensible drivel and grassley insists on doing his own tweeting he loves to tweet and interview last friday is another explain why is tweets are like that which is in comprehensible he said it's because of auto correct and because he didn't like to type out unfortunately to make his tweet any less stupid and in fact it's quite the joke of the twitter verse but tonight it deserves to be called out on t.v. we just take a look at some of these tweets here tucker announces he has a new i phone clearly he's doing just a little bit and here are some examples of his nonsensical accounts from town hall meetings in iowa. ninety nine county tour and college of uni students condom very good variety of cues see these students you know we have great supply teacher or this one has tag nine counties who are grand junction colorado tell me issue help small town f. and f. twenty of thirty people expressed gre

from iowa so over the weekend grassley sent out a tweet that sent shock waves around the country see president obama made some comments last week saying the supreme court should no overturn obamacare kind of possibility an unprecedented extraordinary step and in response grassley tweeted the following the constituents asked why i'm not outraged at pres attack on supreme court independence because american people are not stupid as this x. prof of con law yes a senior senator just called the president of the united states stupid playground style but what might be even more interesting here in the adolescent name calling it obvious lack of respect for the office of the president is that this usually goes the other way around the republicans attacked democrats defending the judiciary as a grass he had to say about judicial independence and may of two thousand and eleven those who get their policy views enact it through the legislative process as our constitution requires was returned to the koch but i flatly reject that notion the constitution various legislative power in the congress no

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grassley -- >> dana: is that short of hand? >> eric: put up grassley's twitter up, tweet up.terpretation. it could be wrong. pull it up. constituents ask why i'm not outraged at president "o" attack on supreme court independence. we know about that, the american people are not stupid as this exprofessor of constitutional law may have us believe. maybe he didn't finish the thought. >> dana: ran out of room. >> greg: old people on twitter cannot keep it under 140 characters. icharacters. he kept writing. >> bob: all we know what is up there. it says that the american people are not as stupid as -- >> dana: this is interesting that a senator of the united states and person running a presidential campaign has enough time on saturday and sunday, because if they really want to see how a twitter war is done, they would check out how you attacked me senselessly on friday night. greg gutfeld started a twitter war with me. i passed 100,000 followers. thank you, everybody for following. greg has 70,000 or so and he said he would overtake me by july 6 by ruining my reputation. look what

i think senator grassley had a fine suggestion. have inspector generals look at it. they do good job everywhere. >> he is just asking the question. this story will dispate rather than get bigger. >> we should havethe same kind of demand for accountability when it comes to the nancial we are having all these demands foheads to roll over this one little incident. >> do you think the press will kill it by ignoring it? >> no. [ laughter ] >> i think the solution is to only -- >> only accessible to being shaken down for information which could be used >>>ish yew three -- issue three back to school. >> we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago. that wasn't that long ago. and that wasn't easy. especially because when we had malia and sasha we were supposed to save up for their college education and we are paying off our college education. >> president obama says that college education must become more affordable for all american students. but get this, one month from now student loan interest rates will double. from 3.4% to 6.4%. a move the white h

senator grassley said go ahead and we will. secretary, senator kyl is from the state of arizona, i believe. i suspect you do. i want to welcome secretary napolitano back to the judiciary committee. we'll continue our important oversight of the department of homeland security. she's been here before and i can speak for every member of the committee she's always been responsive when we called with questions and in between the testimony. this is our oversight department of homeland security and the work that the women and men of the agencies within the department do every day to keep america safe. now, much attention has been focused on incidents prior to president obama's attendance at the summit of americas in colombia. i've spoken a number of times with secret service director sullivan about this. in fact, we met privately for about an hour yesterday, and probably been on the phone half a dozen or a dozen times. i've known the director from the time that he was an agent. i knew him when president bush appointed him as director

david axelrod said this to grassley. a think a 6-year-old hijacked your account and is accepteding out tweets just to embarrass you. >> grassley, the ranking member of the judiciary, actually did have his twitter account hacked in january by the group anonymous. we reached out to grassley's office for a reaction, but haven't heard anything back. >> happy easter, everyone. hope benedict 16th is marking the holiday at st. peters square with his traditional greeting and blessings to the city of rome and to the world. earlier the pope was resided over easter mass. christians around the world celebrate easter as a day that their lord and savior jesus christ rose from the death after his crucifixion. >>> the syrian military is keeping up its onslaught against rebel fighters just two days before the cease-fire deadline. on tuesday a cease-fire agreement is supposed to take affect in syria, but the syrian government is for you demanding a written guarantee from the opposition that they will stand down. activists say more than 12

senior administration officials bristled at grassley's letter, calling it pure politics. on friday, the white house press secretary also addressed the issue. >> i have no reason to beliebelieve, i do not know otherwise that this did not involve anything but the agents and the military personnel. >> reporter: now nbc news has learned investigators confirmed the identity of the women involved with the help of surveillance video taken from that hotel. lester? >> thank you. >>> prominent member of the nixon white house who became a key member in the watergate scandal today. we get more tonight from nbc's pete williams. >> reporter: the life of charles colson was marked by a profound met mor metomorphosous once said he would walk over his own grandmother to get nixon re-elected. he worked on the 1972 campaign. he was never charged directly with anything due to the watergate break-in. instead he pled guilty to trying to block an investigation of another break-in, the office opsychiatrist treating daniel elsburg who leaked the pentagon papers. after serving seven months of his p

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senator grassley is outfront tonight. good to see you, sir, as always. i know you've been critical of a lot of the investigations we have seen so far. what questions do you have that are not getting answered? >> well, right now, none of this stuff is given to us. we told it's been investigated, there's no problem with the people in the white house, we're told that the -- so that needs to be clarified. the inspector general, is he doing his own investigation or is he just overlooking and kind of reviewing what the director sullivan is doing. and then we have the incident that came to our attention today where some top people on the armed services committee asked to be briefed on how the -- it's being handled within the defense department, and the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff couldn't even answer their questions. so what's the big mystery? you know, we ought to get this out in the open. this is the public's business, and protection of the public -- or protection of the president ought to be a top priority. >> as you know, sir, we've learned t

that's all well and good with chuck grassley. the ranking republican on the senate judiciary committee, which oversees the secret service. the new rules don't negate what happened in columbia and says quote, it remains necessary to hold the agency and agents accountable. following a complete and independent investigation. part of that independent investigation, grassley says, includes booking into whether any house staffers were involved. the white house says katherine is in house lawyer looked into it and found no wrong doing, but grassley says an outsider needs to do the investigating. he sent a letter with 14 questions about white house staff on the trip to the white house and asked for a response by this past thursday night. he says he never got an answer. in washington, molly, fox news. >>> four virginia republicans vying to be the candidate faced off in a debate this afternoon. all four said they would not force the state to recognize same sex marriage and when asked, none of them said they were ready to endorse. george all

senior administration officials today bristled at grassley's letter call it pure politics. on fris the white house press secretary also addressed the issue. >> noif reason to believe, i do not know otherwise that this did not involve anything but the agents and the military personnel. >> reporter: nbc news has learned that investigators confirmed the identity of the women involved with the help of surveillance video taken from that hotel in caragena. lester. >> thank you. >>> a prominent member of the nixon white house who became a key figure in the watergate scandal died. charles colson served time in prison and became an advocate of reform. >> reporter: his life was marked by a profound met more physician. he was a hard driving hatchet man for nixon and said he'd walk over his own grandmother to get nixon re-elected. he was never charged with anything directly connected to that year's watergate break-in that led to nixon's downfall. instead he pleaded guilty to block an investigation of another break-in at the office of a psychiatrist treating daniel elsburg who leaked th

thank you, senator grassley. this isn't the first time that senator feinstein and i seemed to have been thinking about exactly the same thing. let me just quickly touch on the three things that she mentioned which were also concern to me. on student visas, it's not just a matter of the sham schools but also the failure of i.c.e. to follow up with students how have overstayed their visas and the very poor record of schools providing information to i.c.e. second on the ag worker, the h 2 a regulars could be reformed. it's not just a matter of our failure to pass legislation here. h 2 a regulations were reformed toward the end of the bush administration. they were more workable i'm told. that was then changed with the obama administration. if we could the work more toward the kind of regulars that existed toward the end of the bush administration, i think that might be at least a help for some. and on the vis sals overstays and the exit system, i was going to ask about that. i think your budget actually was denied $

and charles grassley voted for that.pid vote. >> you may not have a conservative friend in the country after that. thank you. >> start asking me about conservatives. you're not asking me. >> like mitt romney, don't make the mistake, you said is not a conservative. thank you very much. we'll see you later. a quick programming note tomorrow morning on the "today" show. you can see the exclusive interview with republican congressman paul ryan. >>> a new autism study tops the news. obesity during pregnancy may increase charges for a child to be diagnosed as autistic. that is according to a new university of davis study. researchers say it does not cause autism but pregnant women who are obese are 67% more likely to have autistic children. >>> tim tebow. a big draw on easter sun. a crowd of about 15,000. some reports say there were up to 30,000 gathered in the small town of georgetown, texas, to hear the jets quarterback speak at an outdoor service. he told the congregation, it is okay to be outspoken about your faith and his

we'll talk to charles grassley a little later in the show. he is wondering all about the details of that internal investigation. he wants to know more and we'll talk to him in "america's newsroom" in the next hour. >>> it is primary day in five states. commit romney and any speculation of a, could there be, mitt romney looks to basically clear all of these states this evening and shut out his remaining opponents. voters go to the polls in new york, in connecticut, in rhode island and delaware and the swing state of pennsylvania. as they head out to do that, today you have 219 delegates, big pull tonight. look at those numbers. highly populated states in the northeast. mitt romney hitting the trail trail in the keystone state. >> what a terrific welcome. this is just extraordinary. i appreciate your generosity, your willingness to come out. i need your vote tomorrow. get out and vote in the primary. [applause] bill: so now the question is who will romney pick as his running mate? this is really become a major focus of interest. marco rubio, no

the hutchinson-grassley substitute protects due process rights that the majority bill threatance. and i'll give you an instance. the majority bill said that college campuses must provide for -- quote -- "prompt and equitable investigation and resolution" -- end of quote of charges of violence or stalking. this would -- this would have codified a proposed rule of the department of education that would have required imposition of a civil standard or preponderance of the evidence for what is essentially a criminal charge, one that if proved, rightly should have -- rightly should harm reputation. but if established on a barely more probable than not standard reputations can be ruined unfairly and very quickly. the substitute eliminates this provision. now the majority has changed their own bill's language. i thank them for that. i take that as an implicit recognition of the injustice of the original language. the substitute also eliminates a provision that allowed the victim who could not prove such a charge to appeal if she lost, creating double jeopardy. the majority bill also would

>> senator grassley is lying, this say lie.ho don't like it when a court does judicial activism. senator grassley is known for the death panel mean, the same policy he had fought for things earlier. >> senator harry reid made outrageous comments regarding president george w. bush. whether you're a republican or democrat you do not have people who have respect for the office of the president of the united states. when i watch television and see people call him barack as if that's their buddy when actually it's president obama. i called president bush president bush so you respect the office so whether you're republican or democrat. >> i agree with what roland had to say and couldn't disagree with john more. if that's demonstrably false is what president obama said at the press gathering, this was passed by a strong majority. prove to me in any way that's possible and also said unprecedented for the supreme court to overturn the laws? 'unprecedented except for 250 years of american jurisprudence history of judicial review, there'

sot grassley says: "... we ad &psecretary napolitano before u they've gone bbck 2-and-a-half yearssandwe've had these repprts come oou and we need an independent nvestigation." ggrssley's ire was further inflamed because a 48-hour deadline passed &pwithout thh white house ressonding to his letter. it asked white house counssl house staff may have been involved in the colombian house coonsel's own investigation cleared all agency are eeerging. he - president with 30-years of wooring with the secret serviie expressss one view.sot - beeedi says: "... i've done thousand of trips ith the secret service and i've never their integrity, r their honestyyor their characttr.. this security consultant offfrs a profoundly different view. sot - smith pays:: "... it's almost a "what happens in vegas stays to overseas environmeet." for some, such disparity suggests problem of poor management. sot grassley says: "... if it goes much deeper &pnothing's changed in ns, washington if heads don't roll." asked hhrsday about alleged military involvement in the sann salvador affair, seccetary of defense leon p

chuck grassley is holding this thing up in part because it extends protections to women who are here illegally why republicans want to choose some women who it's ok to abuse or rape and other women who it's not ok to abuse rape. that's a pretty hard. you know what you should bear you just prove it honestly i don't care why chuck grassley is holding it up i'm kind of happy that he is being sold in and out because of his objection to know to illegal immigrant women and to get into lesbian kiss me in the set been the victims of sexual or physical violence that's fine but the reason i say i'm perfectly happy to do so we get up i worked for twenty four years as a lawyer to this prosecutor forty was criminal defense lawyer the volleyball is it's called in the legal community is probably one of the most abused laws that has ever been created it in truth the federal government intrudes into areas of state law that has no business it creates massive problems be mandatory arrest programs restraining orders that are given out faster than can be at halloween you know you can have somebody who yo

of course, senator grassley disputes those claims.gations going on. and all of this happening while we're getting new reports of possible misconduct. the latest report comes from a local reporter in seattle who claims that he spoke with a government subcontractor. an unnamed source who says he joined several secret service agents, as well as military personnel, ahead of president obama's trip to el salvador in 2011. he said they went out for a night of heavy drinking, partying and also hanging out with some escorts. so of course those are incredibly heated allegations, if you will. the secret service looking into those allegations. representative peter king is also investigating this matter, has been briefed on these latest allegations in the secret service efforts to look into the allegations. here's what representative peter king had to say. take a listen. >> they've gone through the records and there is no trace at all. no indication that anything occurred on that trip, based on theç official records. >> now, tamron, all of this r

his campaign chief, david axelrod fired back saying this to grassley. i think a 6-year-old hijack the your account and is sending out tweets just to embarrass you. pretty good stuff there. grassley, the ranking member of the judiciary committee actually did have his twitter account hacked in january by the group anonymous. we reached out to grassley's office for a reaction, but we haven't heard back yet. here's a rundown on stories that we're working on for you. one airline is telling flight attendants to shed their extra baggage and, no, they don't mean luggage. >>> and dogs may be man's best friend, but they're also heroes. we'll introduce you to a special group of military dogs. >>> in 15 minutes we take ow a tour around the world to see how other cultures are celebrating easter. you're watching weekend early start with news doesn't take a weekend off. >> this is pfc ruben. i'm at camp delta. i want to say i love my wife and my mom, my brother, and my -- i love you guys, and i'll see you soon. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't alwa

senators leahy, grassley, and johannes are waiting for committee chairperson debbie stabenow. it was originally scheduled for yesterday, but it was postponed amid opposition to some of the cuts and subsidies to rice, peanut, and cotton farmers. >>> the "national journal" writes that 2012 farm bill would cut payments and counter cyclical payments intended to act as a backstop for when market prices fall below a set level and it will cree re place those programs with stronger crop insurance. >>> the chairwoman of the committee just entered the room. she's talking with senator leahy. it would also constitute new tigers programs saving $10 billion. the total deficit reduction from the bill is $26 billion over ten years. >>> politico writes that the new approach to payment with farmers is most popular in the midwest corn belt, and senator pat roberts who chairwoman stabenow talks with right now is close to wheat and crop insurance is supportive, but southern crops which typically benefit more from the current cash payments have more to lose. the senator is saying they're not going

>> wolf, i share with senator grassley are the legitimate question that the senator asked which was were denial by this administration is not good enough and they want an actual accounting of individuals, and i think that's only fair, particularly when you consider that the lack of judgment and drew did it very well, it's not about a crime. this was not a crime in colombia. it is about the poor judgment and can we continue to have anybody this close to the president who has such poor judgment. >> do you have any evidence you or senator grassley or anyone else that white house officials may have been involved? >> i think what senator grassley is seeing is this pattern of some of the most responsible doing irresponsible things. we know that white house people were down there and they were going to clubs, too, and they were drinking. we don't know whether or not they made such poor judgments as to have an unknown foreign national back in their hotel room or anything of the sort. the important thing, though, wolf, is this is about the secret service and other professionals cleaning up what w

that's right. >> what do you think about what senator grassley is saying? i know he said he was making a rhetorical point but it seems to be more than that. pro prostitutes has been used throughout human history as spies and agents. it could have been the case in cartegena or not, but that's not the point. if this is more common in the agency it could be happening and it could be threatening the president. >> absolutely. >> is that too paranoid? >> no, no. it's a worthwhile point. look, and they get trained. erin, the thing about this that's so astounding, the agents are trained in counterintelligence, to look for people who are trying to approach them for that reason. so they know better than this. they know better than to put themselves in a vulnerable position like that which is what makes it so astounding. look, you have a large number of agents for a short period of time on the ground caught up in this. it's a natural question, is it a cultural problem? first, we have to understand this incident and then you need to take it further and say is it a broa

gop senator chuck grassley isn't. >> i'm not going to be satisfied until we get some independent look at this. >> reporter: grassley, the top republican on the senate judiciary committee, says he wants an outside probe. the homeland security department's inspector general should investigate there was there any misconduct in colombia by any white house staff. his reason? >> so that there's no political implications with it and the reason for all of this is this is a serious matter. this isn't just a case of prostitution being used some place. this is a case of national security and the protection of the president of the united states. >> with all due respect, he knows that's not going to happen. >> reporter: the judiciary committee's democratic chairman says he sees no evidence of white house wrongdoing and dismissed grassley's call for an independent investigation of the white house advance team in colombia. >> with all of the press that's down there, with all of the conference, the white house has been involved this thing would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country b