but peta has pounced on grassley.re taking bets on how long it will take the senator to succumb to heart disease or cancer or some other meat related disease. you know who doesn't have enough of this, shopping cart kitty. wow! that was fantastic. >> for your title role, you went on an extensive all meat diet. is peda being classless? >> when i was on the all meat diet it didn't have anything to do with food. i don't know where to start with this. peta, is a temporary cause for young people before they get pregnant. once a woman gets pregnant. she stops thinking about little animals and starts to think about eating them. >> i'm a vegetarian. >> i cheat a little, i eat veal. [ laughter ] >> that is fantastic. that is fantastic. [ laughter ] >> you cheat a little, you eat a baby calf. >> it's so tender. >> you can't argue with that. >> oh, my goodness, you are such a bad person. >> anna, the newsletter suggested meatless monday, to be environmentally friendly. does that make sense? two plus three equals four, that doesn'

sent people like chuck grassley people you know democrats republicans everyone involved here a lot of people who work for the f.d.a. simply concerned about some things that were taking place in their jobs in their agency and felt that if they spoke up they would be terminated so they wanted to sort of bring light of this right to members of congress and they do it which is exactly right the first amendment provides that you can petition congress for redress of grievances and as it was they were doing exactly that going through a proper channel by going to congress and strangely congressman van hollen ends up on an enemy's list of sort of yeah they created and i mean he was number fourteen i think and his staff were was thirteen and then a bunch of grassley staffers are on the enemy's list so these people are doing nothing wrong by going to congress about concerns they have about a danger of a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety and medical imaging devices that we use for mammograms and colonoscopies and the idea that these devices are emit in too much radiation

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here's what senator grassley read. the notion that somehow i can just change the law unilaterally is not true, the president said. the fact of the matter is there are laws on the books i have to enforce and i think there's been a great disservice done to the cause of getting the dream act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetuating the notion that somehow by myself i can go and do these things. it's just not true. that's what senator grassley read. here is the rest of the quote: what we can do is prioritize enforcement. since there are limited enforcement resources and say we're not going to go chasing after this young man or anybody else who's been acting responsibly and would otherwise qualify for legal status if the dream act passed. that's what the president said. i wish senator grassley had read that in the record. the president has done what he has the authority to do, as our chief executive officer to exercise prosecutorial discretion. i personally discuss this had with secretary in in a

when information they have they think is in their purview gets leaked and then they can i have a grassley said as a fed this was like the gestapo that's exactly what grassley said and so i hope this will subsidize congress to the fact that. this information yet that this happened they were being surveilled which is completely outrageous but this is happening on a vast scale to employees in particular those who more often than not are was. no blowers and it's to tamp down any kind of criticism or dissent now if an employer wants to brand only monitor employee emails to see how many people are playing facebook or are on facebook or playing games fine but not drilling down on five people who specifically have complaints and here i should mention the complaints are not about national security they're about industry they're about g.e. which is enjoyed a very favorable relationship with the f.d.a. and that's why we've seen so many lawsuits over faulty devices heart stints. there and there there. other items that i gave as you know you make i want to talk also about some other stuff just little

so -- >> had a retort on grassley. >> they did. >> peta did.> first, the usda said, you know, that was really a bad idea. and whoever put that in the newsletter was not authorized to do that. but when peta saw what charles grassley said, they -- remember, they're the people for the ethical treatment of animals, they are against eating meat and so apparently around the office, they started taking informal bets when charles grassley would die. >> and how. >> they're also taking bets on how he will die. >> yeah. >> so they are for the ethical treatment of animals, just not humans in terms of making bets on someone's mortality. >> german shepherds you're fine, grassley, you're not. let's talk about the news. >> one of the biggest mysteries in the colorado midnight movie massacre will remain unanswered for right now. live in aurora, colorado with a move by the judge in the james holmes case. good morning to you. >> good morning. you're absolutely right. there's a gag order on any information from authorities to the media so right now, we won't be le

>> senator grassley got the first whistle blower and we worked with senator grassley and a other whistle blowers. >> greta: in the letter that you and senator grassley have signed to the acting director the man we saw on the video you asked him to respond to the letter by july 25. what do you want from him? >> we would like to see an answer of what he says is in context. we would like to look at all of the video. >> greta: to you have all this particular video? >> we have the full video and we did not take it out of context. more importantly, we would like to see all of the videos and training material because it does look to us as a thinly veiled threat. and i can reach no other conclusion and the people that helped get it to us could reach no other conclusion. >> greta: i would love to have mr. b. todd jones come on and elus what he meant. >> send him an invitation. >> greta: he always has an open invitation. nice to see you, sir. now, to the government gone wild. remember the taxpayer funded lavish party in vegas? well, listen to this. ♪ that is not a friday night concert. that is ano

senator grassley and i had recently questions.amental ones, let's see the contract that you have. they say they can't breach the contract, therefore, they have to go forward with this year's conference. >> greta: i'm sure there is a cancellation fee but not nearly as expensive to have the conference? >> well, that is true. i do say that i think congress would be entitled to see the contract. the court executed it with taxpayer money funded by the united states congress. we have not gotten that. there are some other questions we've asked we really should believed that has not been answered. >> you got a letter from the republican governor of hawaii. she sent a letter to you and senator grassley about sort of waving you off. she recognizes the financial impact to her state? >> she has been governor. she would like to have tourism in hawaii. they are advocating for it and they don't want to see it collapse. but overall the jew dirge conference do they need to have it four times out of nine years in hawaii? some of the other states wo

that's senator grassley's words. he wants to take another look at it. there have been 9,600 or so reported cases of this. you know, last march, we reported on your show, anderson about an internal testing document we got out of toyota, which seemed to indicate to us and a lot of electrical engineers we talked to that they did find electrical sudden intended acceleration in one of its proto-type vehicles. toyota says that is not the case. the key thing is, we don't have any evidence that test was part of the government's review. we'll see what happens. senator grassley asking for a whole nother investigation into unintended acceleration with toyota vehicles. >> appreciate the update. we received a statement from a toyota spokesman. there's no problem with the electronic throttle control systems in toyota vehicles. you can read the rest of toyota's statement on our website. let us know what you think. we're on facebook. follow me on twitter. @andersoncooper. mitt romney says he left bain capital in 1999 to run the utah olympics. lists him as chairman and

and iowa senator chuck grassley has an ongoing streak of more than 6, 400 votes.ssley, collins has never missed a senate vote, not once since her arrival in the state. a democrat, she's not always lockstep with her party. she was one of five republicans to vote to acquit president clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice charges in 1999. >> ms. collins -- ms. collins, not guilty. >> one of three republicans to approve president obama's 2009 $838 billion stimulus package. >> ms. collins? ms. collins, aye. >> and one of eight republicans to help repeal the military's don't ask, don't tell. >> ms. collins, ms. collins, aye. >> that is one of the two votes collins is proudest of. the other one is one she sponsored, a landmark 2004 intelligence reform bill that passed on a near unanimous vote. >> i think this is a day that reflects well on the senate for responding quickly and wisely to the recommendations of the 9/11 commission. >> collins' 5,000th vote thursday was on a motion to sets aside a proposal on tax cuts for small businesses. >> senators voting in the n

senator grassley? >> thank you. thanks to all the witnesses. withhave a practice an political candidates. most of the witnesses today only see positive results that could come from the right of actions. could you describe some in the negative affects a private right of actions and practice under the constitution with a deceptive statements in the context of political campaigning? >> going back to my experience with the alabama judicial inquiry commission, when it the effect of bringing charges against eight candidates -- one of the effect of bringing charges against a candidate judge was the further service. they brought charges against one of the candidates for chief justice in a campaign with respect to certain candidate statements made in advertisements. that affected the court's business and affected his ability to do his job. as it turned out, the cannons were substantially unconstitutional. it was within the scope of the first amendment. moving to this bill, you are empowering people to file lawsuits to seek to stop speech with which they

i'm not fighting with chairman issa or senator grassley. what i am looking at is the evidence of the justice department complying with the freedom of reformation act, sending back blank pages, not responding to e-mails about inquiries, sending reporters to sources like media matters for information about twitter.com/booktv, rather than submitting their own information and so that is where it comes down to, where we getting our information from. it's not really chairman issa and senator c-span2. we have the documentation. i talked to some many people in arizona, travel back to arizona, talked to many different was a low-risk who are participating in "fast and furious" while it was going on. it's about the evidence, not partisan politics. >> if there is no content, if the leaders decide we're not going to proceed with the contempt citation and the justice department continues to slow walk this from your vantage point, where does this go? what is the terminus? where is the story and in your estimation? >> well -- >> does it come to any resotio

iowa senator chuck grassley sent a letter to federal housing officials last year outlining conerns about waste and mismanagement in the agency charged with managing public housing in baltimore. the senator received a response which he says does little to end his concerns that the federal government is not holding cities like baltimore accountable. 44:06 "this is a shortcoming of the department of housing on urban development here in washington d.c. they aren't doing their job of oversight to make sure that the tax money's spent wisely" wisely"baltimore housing authority officials say the senator's concerns are baseless. a brush fire leads investigators to a drug operation on the eastern shore. paul gessler spent the afternoon on kent island.paul, what did firefighters find? marijuana plants, jeff... several of them burned up in the brush fire off romancoke road last month.others that were found were destroyed. forestry officials discovered the grow operation during last month's 50- acre brush fire. the fire threatened several homes off romancoke road.a queen anne county sheriff's office

grassley -- who's 78 years old -- would die. ooh.you to post when he might succumb to heart disease, diabetes, cancer or some other meat-related disease. i think you mentioned you have elk in your fridge? jenna: i am admitting that. it's good, too. harris, thank you. we'll be right back. , our current dividend tax rate will expire this year, sending taxes through the roof and hindering economic recovery. the consequences? millions of americans will see their taxes on dividend income spike, slowing investment in u.s. companies and jeopardizing development in energy projects that create american jobs. ask congress to stop a dividend tax hike -- for all of us. diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend against digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'. an accident doesn't have to slow you down... with better car replacement, available only from liberty mutual insurance, if your car is totaled, we give yo

grassley: mr. president, i didn't come to the floor to speak about the wind energy tax credit but i want to say to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle i agree with them and they probably know i agree with them because i'm the author of the wind energy tax credit of 1992 and i often tell people when we worked so hard on that i didn't have the slightest idea that it would turn out to be such a big thing that iowa would be second in wind -- wind energy production in the nation, i think texas is number one. and for sure i didn't know that we would have manufacturing in our state as a result of it and we've had companies come from spain, from -- from germany, and then we've had from colorado or arizona component manufacturers have come to iowa and there's about 4,000 people, maybe 5,000 people employed in my state in that. so i hope that we can get it reauthorized. mr. whitehouse: would the senator yield for a question on that? mr. grassley: yes. mr. whitehouse: i not only salute what you've do

two investigations found that was not the case, grassley is asking whether the probes may have been too narrow. >>> well, here is a story that folks will be talking about today. how about some starbuck's while you are grieving for a lost loved one. yeah, pretty soon a funeral home in south carolina will be offering families just that. >> yes, the fourth generation robinson funeral home is adding a starbuck's. the owner says it is all about making people mourning the dearly departed feel more comfortable. >> he says those not wanting starbuck's will be able to get the usual coffee they have always served. seems odd to have a commercial business. at a funeral home, a sad time. >> imagine that will attract people that aren't actually at the funeral home to mourn for loved ones. people off the street. >> ironically, the funeral is probably cheaper than the coffee. >> good point. >>> coming up -- outrage over team usa olympic uniforms made in china. at least one leader in congress now saying they should be burned. >>> later, why so many people feel so scared and so superstitious on friday th

in a letter, issa and grassley say their supervisor had it in for the pair. quote, we stated we need to get whatever dirt we can on these guys, the whistleblowers, and take them down. the letter also crites another incident in which it was allegedly said that atf needs to f these guys. with us now are brian terry's mom josephine and his cousin robert hire. josephine, our condolences for the loess of your son, i can't imagine what this last two years having like, more than two years now. i wanted first of all to get your reaction to the recent indoomi indictments the u.s. attorney announced in san diego. >> i think it's a good thing. i'm pleased the way everything is going and i think laura duffy and her team are really doing an excellent job. and i think something good is going to come out of this. >> robert, has anyone from the department of justice given you an indication as to why the indictment is just now being sealed? >> well, if you mean the department of justice, we talked with laura duffy and her team of prosecutors. we don't talk much with the depar

the investigation, led by republican congressman darrell issa and gop senator charles grassley, found the operation was plagued by reckless behavior, missed red flags and failure of leadership at the atf's highest level. much of the blame is put on bill newell, the lead field agent in the atf phoenix office. the report says newell "had a history of using reckless gun-walking tactics during his investigations." newell's direct supervisor, william mcmahon, was also named. according to the report, he had vast knowledge of "fast and furious" but "did not view his role as supervisor to ask questions about events in the field." the report also finds fault with former atf director kenneth melson. the investigators say melson was concerned about the size of "fast and furious," but "never ordered it shut down." melson resigned from the atf once the so-called gun-walking scandal came to light. two other officials at atf headquarters were named. william hoover and mark chait had several opportunities to end "fast and furious" but failed to do so. the scandal has taken on a political tone as well

grassley: i'd like to speak for maintenance. mr. leahy: i'll give to the senator from iowa he did not give to me. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. leahy: usually, mr. president, it's been my experience in 37 years in this senate, the second most senior member here, if a senator wants to come and attack another senator, they have the courtesy of giving him notice before they do. i'm sorry my friend from iowa didn't follow the normal courtesy. i withhold the balance of my time. mr. grassley: mr. president -- the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: i'll respond to that simply by saying this: i'm talking about the institutions of the united states senate and not one single senator personally. i yield the floor, back the balance of my time, put the balance of my statement in the record. mr. leahy: mr. president, how much time do i have remaining? the presiding officer: the senator has 45 seconds. mr. leahy: mr. president, i yield to no member of this body in the fact that i uphold not

senator chuck grassley of iowa, the top republican on the senate judiciary committee, has urged u.s. law enforcement officials to investigate whether the fda violated the law in its surveillance of employee email. in a letter to fda commissioner margaret hamburg sent monday, grassley wrote -- the fda has denied any wrongdoing in response "democracy now!" to a for comment, the agency said the -- to talk more about the implications of this case, we go to washington, d.c., to speak with stephen kohn, the attorney for the fda whistleblowers, an executive director of the national was a lower center who is brought suit against the government. welcome to "democracy now!" kenny first explain what happened, how you found out this extensive monitoring was taking place, and you exactly you represent? >> i am representing the seven fda doctors and scientists who blew the whistle on serious health and safety violations and medical devices of being approved by the fda. one crt colonoscopy device they expose that made it onto the market, 600-800 times the radius radiation of devices are on the mark

grassley is no stranger to pfg. he knows the founder and chairman.y live in the general area here. they have appeared at events together so this is an interesting twist in all of this. this is the scene at the home a few miles from here as the family comes to grips with the fact that the 40-year futures industry veteran, his business gone belly up, gone bankrupt. attempted suicide earlier this week and multiple reports not confirmed not only recovered and up and around and alert and presumably can shed some light on the bizarre circumstances. he was a big man in this community, for sure. philanthropist. donated to charities. owned a group of restaurants and, of course, this firm which was an important employer and important economic engine here and gone bankrupt, the sequence of events is bizarre. june 5th, announced a big wedding to his fiancee and then june 30th they went to las vegas and eloped according to official records. got married then on june 30th and three days later, russell sr. handed over power of attorney to his son. something clearly

nor for this allegation levelled by issa and republican senator charles grassley. they say the atf has now put these two fast and furious whistleblowers, special agent shawn dodson and pete fraselli under the supervision of a boss who allegedly threatened to take them down. in a letter, issa and grassley make the case that his supervisor had it in for the pair. quote, he stated we need to get whatever dirt we can on these guys, the whistleblowers, and take them down. the letter also cites another incident in which it was alleged said that atf needs to f these guys. with us now are brian terry's mom josephine and his cousin robert hire. appreciate both of you being on with us. josephine, our condolences for the loss of your son, i can't imagine what this last two years have been like, more than two years now. i wanted first of all to get your reaction to the recent indictments the u.s. attorney announced in san diego. >> i think it's a good thing. i'm pleased the way everything is going and i think laura duffy and her team are really doing an excellent job. and i th

senator chuck grassley is here to tackle this issue. stick around. "squawk" will be back out.wly introduced senate bill the sec's act would impose harsher fines for misconduct on wall street. joining us is one of the authors of the bill, senator grassley, and senator, what would this bill do? >> basically simple principle, if you tell the sec you're going to do something or stop doing something you're doing that's wrong, that you're going to keep your word, and we've had studies that have shown over a 15-year period of time, 19 firms broke 51 different agreements that they had with this security and exchange commission. also in the process, we want to get the security and exchange commission's attention that they aren't doing an adequate job of enforcing the law, but maybe the penalties aren't enough that the penalties almost become a cost of doing business, and they really aren't considered a penalty or a fine. >> we've seen some judges who have gotten a little more activist with this, who have pushed back and said that they want to see tougher fines, too. i would guess that