harriet miers testified to the house judiciary committee that rove called her in a very agitated manner in the fall of 2006 to report that david iglesias had become a big problem this and that he wanted something done about it. >> according to testimony, it says harriet miers said of rove, my bestrection recollection is that he was very agitated about the u.s. attorney in new mexico and that he wanted something done about it. michael isikoff in the sproenz when tony wants something done about it, we understand it. he doesn't have to be more specific than that. how do you read this. >> exactly the way anybody would read it, that rove was playing a direct role had, taken it upon himself to try to get rid of david iglesias as the u.s. attorney. and what's important to realize here, rove put out a statement last night which is almost as stunning as the testimony in which he says the new material shows politics played no role in the bush administration's removal of the u.s. attorneys and i played no role in deciding which attorneys were retained and which replaced. in the case of iglesias, l

according to transcripts of closed door testimony, former white hou counsel harriet miers say rove was, quote, very disappointed with an attorney in new mexico. in her words, rove, quote, wanted something done bit. >>> in the latest development in the ongoing investigation into michael jackson's death, yesterday police officers and drug enforcement administration agents raided a fire department si in western las vegas. propofol administered by jackson's fekz as a sleep aid came from applied pharmacy services in las vegas. an earlier search at the home of dr. conrad murray reportedly led police to believe that the pharmacy filled the prescription. they would not release details about jackson's death while the investigation continues. >>> a driver in california hit speeds of 100 miles per hour as he attempted to escape a police traffic stop. officials say the suspect ran several stop lights and even drove on the wrong side of the road before being cornered in a residential driveway. no one was hurt but that man is in custody. >>> michigan police are questioning a suspect they believe pul

committee staffers say harriet miers when she was questioned said i don't remember something like 150 this doesn't change i don't think the broad framework here, but it is adding in new detail. >> pete williams, justice correspondent for nbc news. thanks for the update. >>> up next, rush limbaugh comparing democrats to nazis. >> does rush really believe what he says, and is he poisoning the national debate? that's ahead on msnbc. mr. evans? this is janice from onstar. i have received an automatic signal you've been in a front-end crash. do you need help? yeah. i'll contact emergency services and stay with you. you okay? yeah. onstar. standard for one year on 14 chevy models. on the inside. my inner-workings a work of art. a digestive tract that should be bronzed. and an immune system so stunning... [ low growl ] my vet thinks i'm the eighth wonder of the world. [ female announcer ] introducing iams with prebiotics. prebiotics work inside, clinically proven to promote strong defenses. healthy inside... healthy outside. [ dog ] oh hi girls, nice day, huh? i am an iams dog. [ female anno

what he was doing was contacting harriet miers to inform her david iglesi sunshine was a problem. "karl" was agitated about the attorney in new mexico. he may have said, can't we get rid of this guy or something like that?" weeks later, david iglesius found himself on a list of attorneys set to be fired. why was he seen as such a serious problem? karl rove is still making the case in the "wall street journal" today he should have been prosecuting that darn democrat. rove's great defense, quote, despite all their digging, judiciary democrats produced not a shred of evidence that he inkormed mr. iglesias to undertake a prosecution. the idea the press should apologize for making the flood-lit inference here is ridiculous. mr. rove addresses the fact one of his proteges was installed to replace a fired u.s. attorney in arkansas. according to mr. rove, this, too, was entirely proper and his aide was only suggested for the job. quote, after i learned the then u.s. attorney was likely to leave his post." the then-u.s. attorney was a man named bud cummins. while he did speculate leaving t

the other thing i thought was shocking in terps of harriet miers is rove asked myers to intervene with the justice department to try to clear rick rensy's name, republican congressman under investigation, and she knows it violates doj policy to confirm or deny investigation but she does call doj, and anonymous doj sources or administration sources then call multiple press outlets and try to exonerate the republican congressman. totally inappropriate. and i found it just shocking. >> congressman, good to have you with us tonight. adam schiff, california, with us here on "the ed show." we'll follow up on that story. lots more to talk about. >>> it's been quite a week. we've had quite of week of these town hall meetings. there's some really seriously scary stuff going on in this country i think. the secret service is investigating a town hall protester in maryland who was holding up a sign reading "death to obama." "death to michelle and her two stupid kids." there was a guy outside obama's new hampshire town hall carrying a loaded gun. what are we supposed to make of that? now, look. i'm

harriet miers told investigators that rove was aggravated about david iglesias. attorneys being fired, some say for not being loyal enough to the bush administration. it is said politics play nod role in the firing. joining us is david markie. rove says there is no political motivation at all. does this confirm that so many people thought, that this was politically motivated. >> right. whether or not this was illegal, this does play into the hands of the long time critics of the bush administration that each decision was motivated by politics and the white house political team was getting involved in places they had no place being involved in. >> and you mentioned how this could be proven to be illegal, could we see karl rove going off to jail. can they prove that? >> prosecutors would have to prove he interfered with a specific justice department investigation. that's an awfully tough decision to be made. and i haven't heard even the toughest critics make that yet. >> there is a lot of e-mails and contacted harriet miers but there was -- there was not an exact a

today they released transcripts of closed-door testimony by bush's white house counsel, harriet miers, and bush's political guru, karl rove. ms. miers testified that the white house, specifically karl rove and his staff, were intimately involved in the decision-making process about whether or not the supposedly independent u.s. attorneys, the supposedly apolitical prosecutors, were going to be allowed to keep their jobs. ms. miers told the committee that she received a call from mr. rove, in which he said that the u.s. attorney in new mexico, mr. iglesias was, quote, a serious problem, and he wanted something done about it. miers told the committee, quote, my best recollection is that he was very agitated about the u.s. attorney in new mexico. why would karl rove be so agitated by david iglesias? why was iglesias such a serious problem, according to karl rove? well, e-mails released today from the committee showed rove's deputy, a man named scott jennings, explicitly saying ig lanous should be fired and complaining that mr. iglesias was, quote, shy about doing his job on madrid. madri

harriet miers testified carl rove ordered something done about u.s. attorney david iglasius fired by the bush administration. mr. iglesias joins us. >>> and is this the face of the republican party's presidential nominee for 2012? well, he won't get votes of any of the dog lovers if you know what i mean. these stories ahead. >>> first, time for "countdown's" "best persons in the world." dateline cluster fox land number three best admission. you have imaginary friends. steve doocy, the fixed news offering some friendly advice to health care town forum attendees. from one of my friends, i got a lot of friends who send me stuff. this is one of those things where if you find yourself at a town hall meeting and need to ask a really hard question, that would be hard for these guys and gals to wheeeasel out of, ask t one of these five questions. the questions turned out to be identical usually word for word to a list of talking points called five questions americans should press their leaders on from the website of the heritage foundation. so steve doocy's f

we got the harriet miers nomination. >> the crowd is getting restless. >> maybe we need to investigatewhether we have not kind of lost our allegiance to republicans. >> i got the question. this is why i am pleading with you all to run for office. make money now so you can run for office when you are old enough, young man. you are very attractive. i think you would make a fine candidate. we are not very happy with republicans. i will be another a prism. there are a lot of bad republicans. there are no good democrats. i do not think we have to worry very much about the obama administration. i have been my usual pollyanna self since the night of obama's election. every time a republican has lost, even with bob dole or whomever, i was always really depressed election night, even when you can see it coming from 100 miles. the night became lost, i did not feel a thing. i just thought, i am sick of apologizing for these republicans. what has happened historically, it is historically a republican country. 38% will call themselves conservatives. only the 18% will call themselves liberal. the mo

then white house counsel harriet miers told investigators that rove was, quote, very agitated about a u.s. attorney in new mexico and wanted something done about it. rove denies politics played any role in those firings. >>> police in brazil are accusing the host of a reality tv crime show of ordering at least five murders to boost his ratings. police became suspicious when his show was always first at the scene of violent crime. >>> a new study finds that colon cancer patients who take aspirin cut the risk of dying from the disease by 30%. and that aspirin can help keep colon cancer from coming back. the study is in the journal of the american cancer association. >>> overseas markets are lower this morning. cnbc's melissa francis is at the new york stock exchange. all eyes today are on the fed. >> that's right. a fed meeting kicks off today with a decision and a statement tomorrow. almost no one expects the fed to raise rates right now but will be listening for language of an exit strategy and timing of when it might raise rates. also begs the question if ben bernanke will be stickin

we got the harriet miers nomination. >> the crowd is getting restless. >> maybe we need to investigatehether we have not kind of lost our allegiance to republicans. >> i got the question. this is why i am pleading with you all to run for office. make money now so you can run for office when you are old enough, young man. you are very attractive. i think you would make a fine candidate. we are not very happy with republicans. i will be another a prism. there are a lot of bad republicans. there are no good democrats. i do not think we have to worry very much about the obama administration. i have been my usual pollyanna self since the night of obama's election. every time a republican has lost, even with bob dole or whomever, i was always really depressed election night, even when you can see it coming from 100 miles. the night became lost, i did not feel a thing. i just thought, i am sick of apologizing for these republicans. what has happened historically, it is historically a republican country. 38% will call themselves conservatives. only the 18% will call themselves liberal. the mor

we took on george bush on harriet miers and we fought among immigration and the bank bailouts and tarp we were willing to speak our mind. we get criticized among republicans is that we frequently throw harder punches at our own side than the democrats. host: let me share with you this headline. the vice president on cloaks his frustration with bush. did you see th peace? > guest: i did, it was very interesting. i don't know the background there. i saw it described in the story. i know there was tension there. there are many republicans, particularly among the conservatives, that believe that the second bush white house was really a different white house altogether than the first bush term in 2000. by and large, that seems to be because dick cheney was marginalized in the second term. many people on the left don't like to believe that. that's that seems to be the case. host: the support of the vice- president -- he said," when the president made decisions that i did not agree with, i still supported him and did not go out and undercut him. now, i have strong feelings about what happened

i was reading a long article in late 2005 about the harriet miers nomination, and the issue of roosevelt has lost the battle and won the war. and that was interesting to me. so i dove into it then. only really in a way, last fall, when i was reading the galleys for the book, i felt like it was deja vu all over again. because the economy collapsed last fall, very much like it had in the 30s, after a decade of too much prosperity and too much craziness going on, and everything felt similar to the way it is now. to the extent that the supreme court was set up in the same way, four liberals and conservatives and a big swing vote there was economic problems, and the electorate chose a pioneering democratic president, and a lopsidedly democratic congress, and some of the parallels were astonishing. >> host: who are the major cast of characters. >> guest: president roosevelt, who was pushing to policy amibitions brought into effect. the supreme court, where the swing vote turned out to be a man named roberts, owen roberts. >> host: we have a photograph of them. which is roberts. >> guest: secon

we got the harriet miers nomination. >> the crowd is getting restless. >> maybe we need to investigate this is why i am pleading with you all to run for office. make money now so you can run for office when you are old enough, young man. you are very attractive. i think you would make a fine candidate. we are not very happy with republicans. i will be another a prism. there are a lot of bad republicans. there are no good democrats. i do not think we have to worry very much about the obama administration. i have been my usual pollyanna self since the night of obama's election. every time a republican has lost, even with bob dole or whomever, i w i just thought i am sick of apologizing for these republicans. what has happened historically is that it is a conservative country. you see there are a lot more republicans. 38% will call themselves conservatives. the more the republican party is identified as the conservative party, the more support we have -- we will have. what happens is you have eight or 12 year dominance by republicans, and then jimmy carter for four years and that american

we got the harriet miers nomination. >> the crowd is getting restless. >> maybe we need to investigate whether we have not kind of lost our allegiance to republicans. >> i got the question. this is why i am pleading with you all to run for office. make money now so you can run for office when you are old enough, young man. you are very attractive. i think you would make a fine candidate. we are not very happy with republicans. i will be another a prism. there are a lot of bad republicans. there are no good democrats. i do not think we have to worry very much about the obama administration. i have been my usual pollyanna self since the night of obama's election. every time a republican has lost, even with bob dole or whomever, i was always really depressed election night, even when you can see it coming from 100 miles. the night became lost, i did not feel a thing. i just thought, i am sick of apologizing for these republicans. what has happened historically, it is historically a republican country. 38% will call themselves conservatives. only the 18% will call themselves liberal. the m