rick, have you heard congressman darrell issa we were talking about the t.a.r.p.id you get to hear any of that? >> especially heard the part where mr. issa you don't really believe -- how can you not think t.a.r.p. saved the orlando? yes i heard part of it. >> rick, what i said to our friend mr. sorkin afterwards was that the beautiful thing about t.a.r.p. and you can have whatever opinions you want to have on it, but it is a return that ten years from now you'll be able to make a determination whether that was a good investment or not. i'm not talking about whether it was a good social investment, whether it was a good arithmetic investment. ten years from now will he look back on it as an arithmetic investment and say it was a good deal? >> look at the article today in the "journal" that shows us how far we are off on gas demand. my answer to your question is if there's siphoning going on within the government arithmetically i need to draw conclusions over the next ten years to come up with the right answer i won't come up with the right answer. i don't need ten

firestorm of bad publicity and exit stampede of his advertisers because it was only after darrell issaf refusing to allow a woman's voice to be heard at his hearing on contraception that rush limbaugh felt compelled to attack georgetown law student, sandra fluke. rush knew nothing about sandra fluke other than a republican committee chairman suppressed her voice. that was good enough for rush to go on the attack. rush and darrell issa inadvertently gave the country a much needed reminder of the importance of a woman's voice in our political and governing decision making. when barbara boxer started running for the senate, there was one democratic woman and one republican woman in the senate. and when barbara boxer was sworn in as a senator, suddenly there were five democratic women in the senate. on one election night, the senate was transformed into a place where women had a real shot at getting elected and earning power. today, there are 12 democratic women and 5 republican women in the united states senate. barbara boxer would like to see that number go up to, oh, say, maybe 51%? whi

but chairman issa is very interested in open government and transparency, and we actually have quite a few foia projects that we've been working on. one is our foia scorecard on government agencies. last year we requested foia logs from every government agency. most of them i'm glad to say were very responsive. they produced the records that we requested, and the logs had the information that we were looking for. the logs were -- they were graded based on five things. they were graced based on the name of the requester, the subject matter, the status of the request, the final disposition, and -- sorry. i'm blanking on the last one. >> the format. >> yes, the stormate. because a lot of them were unable to produce electronic copies. sometimes we got hard copies only. sometimes we got heavily redacted pdf formats that were not searchable. so many agencies were not tracking key information. some of them were missing tracking information. the tracking number that's legally required to be put on foia requests that are open more than ten days. some agencies did very well. some departments d

let's get her in front of issa's committee, all right. there she is, sandra fluke. let's get her in front of that committee and then we will turn it around. we will get the separation of church and state issue off the table into women's rice. she sympathetic and articulate and it works. i just wonder who that is. >> big conspiracy. apparatus. i don't believe that's what happened at all. >> bill: no? >> you use the word pivot in your talking points. >> bill: you won't believe it happened. magically appeared. >> i don't believe there was a big conspiracy to make this happen. and, in fact,. >> bill: i told you it was conspiracy. it was strategy. >> the strategy should have been by the republicans to let her testify. >> bill: you just believe this woman studying at georgetown just wandered on over to the issa committee knock knock hello, i would like to testify. >> why do we keep going after this woman. >> i'm not going after her. >> this is the problem. >> bill: you don't believe. >> it was a set-up. you are trying to make it believe it was a set-up. >> bill: orchestra

chairman bernanke. >> thank you, chairman issa and ranking member cummings. as you know for about two years, developments in europe have had an important influence on global financial markets and the global economy. high debts, large deficits and poor growth prospectes the led to big increases in borrowing costs, first for greece but subsequently for other countries, as well. and pescy mix about countries fiscal and economic situations has undermined confidence in the strength of european financial institutions. this has had an impact on the u.s. economy. the european union accounts for about one-fifth of u.s. exports of goods and services and we have seen those exports underperform and, of course, europe also affects the rest of the world. financial strains have been evident during times when financial conditions in europe were at their most turbulent. we saw a global retreat from riskier assets. notice united states those risks increases the cost of issuing corporate debt and affected consumer and business confidence. we've also seen our own financial insti

as for chairman issa's report, which came out yesterday, i'm sure that the grades were very carefully thought out and a lot of consideration went into them. one thing that was a bit of a surprise to some of us looking at the grades was that particularly in the lower levels it appeared that perhaps to us, who hadn't seen all the information, it appeared that there were some agencies that were at the same very bad level who had made very different responses, that there were some agencies who hadn't responded at all who ended up with an f and that there were some who had responded but in the wrong format and it seemed a little surprising that those would be sins of the same level, if that makes sense. so certainly not asking you to go into detail about all of the very hard work i'm sure you all did on that. but it would be form and function -- of course form and substance are two different things and the form is very important. but it would be wonderful perhaps if it was possible to distinguish between the agencies that have the information available and have provided the information, th

darryl issa, a republican, i talked to him about this a short time ago.an issa, two guns recovered were traced to gun buyers in mexico. you've been tracing the operation in arizona. are you concerned that what happened in arizona was also happening in texas? >> well, we are. and there are similarities. these were known straw buyers that were not intercepted or stopped and ultimately gun walking, everyone has a different definition but when you let weapons go from the control of a federally licensed gun dealer to a straw purchaser to an intermediary and ultimately to the scene of a crime, if you don't interdict that immediately and or follow the weapons and interdict it before you lose control, you're gun walking, and clearly that appears to have happened in texas. >> the parents say they feel their questions surrounding the murder of their son have fallen on deaf ears. you have pressed the atf, the department of justice for answers. what have they told you? >> well, they've continued to give us a great deal of inappropriate answers inconsistent. as you kn

let's get her in front of issa's committee, all right. there she is, sandra fluke. get her in front of that committee and then we will turn it around. we will get the separation of church and state issue off the table into women's rice. she sympathetic and articulate and it works. i just wonder who that is. >> big conspiracy. apparatus. i don't believe that's what happened at all. >> bill: no? >> you use the word pivot in your talking points. >> bill: you won't believe it happened. magically appeared. >> i don't believe there was a big conspiracy to make this happen. and, in fact,. >> bill: i told you it was conspiracy. it was strategy. >> the strategy should have been by the republicans to let her testify. >> bill: you just believe this woman studying at georgetown just wandered on over to the issa committee knock knock hello, i would like to testify. >> why do we keep going after this woman. >> i'm not going after her. >> this is the problem. >> bill: you don't believe. >> it was a set-up. you are trying to make it believe it was a set-up. >> bill: orchestrated. i

newell from the email, as well as his testimony before congressman issa's committee. that's half of the story. we want the rest of the story from mr. o'reilly and we are writing to the white house to get permission. now, mr. o'reilly is in iraq and we will have to communicate by telephone. but we are willing to do so so he doesn't have to come back here. and his lawyer says he's willing to communicate with us, but obviously, he can't come under testimony without the permission of the white house. and we want the white house to say that it's okay for us to question on the roar, mr. o'reilly to get the other half of the story about who in the white house and why were people in the white house involved in fast & furious, when we are led to believe that the white house doesn't know anything about it? here's what i find most curious, william newell who was the special agent in charge of the phoenix field division, is not communicating with the justice department -- or maybe he is -- but he is surprisingly communicating with mr. o'reilly at the white house. what i find so c

the republicans in the house darrell issa's committee called this panel of witnesses to testify on the issue of contraception being covered by health insurance. when the democrats realized the republicans were not calling any women in their initial panel of witnesses at a contraception hearing, they asked sandra fluke be called as their democratic witness, to testify about getting insurance through a catholic institution, that would not cover birth control and how it had cost a friend of hers one of her ovaries. the friend needed contraception not for birth control purposes, but for therapeutic purposes, birth control has a lot of therapeutic purposes other than preventing getting pregnant. but because ms. fluke's friend had to navigate around the georgetown universities objections to her prescription, it ended up being too late for her. she suffered serious consequences, she lost an ovary. that would be sandra fluke's testimony about the importance of health insurance covering contraception. the republican chairman darrell issa said she was not qualified to testify on the issue of con

the testimony that darrell issa would not allow. republicans wouldn't allow it at the official hearing, the reason the president ended up calling sandra fluke today while waiting to go on andrea mitchell's show, because conservative radio host rush limbaugh has been making the case on his show for the republicans position against contraception coverage. and he has been making that case by personally attacking ms. flu fluke. it's not like mr. limbaugh slipped up and accidentally said something offensive and maybe he'll apologize because he didn't mean it. he has been doing it for are three straight days now. this was day one. >> a georgetown university c oed told nancy pelosi's hearing that the women in her law school program are having so much sex they are going broke apparently four out of ten coeds are having so much sex that it's hard to make ends meet if they have to pay for their own contraception. said sandra fluke's research. can you imagine if you're her parents? how proud of sandra fluke you would be? your daughter goes up

darrell issa is here. mortgage giant fannie mae is trying to grab more cash from you. company has cost you billions of dollars. what do they want now? you'll have to hear this one. but first, here comes super tuesday. last night, governor mitt romney took michigan and arizona by a landslide but that was last night. already the g.o.p. candidates are turning to the next ten states, setting their sights on big prize of super tuesday. that is 419 delegates. newt gingrich banking on the south to keep his campaign alive. fred thompson hitting the campaign trail with speaker gingrich. >> i think we're in the tipping point in this country in a bad way. when you have a debt that is big as the entire economy of the country which is three or four european countries in worse shape than we are, you have a serious problem. you have a president who intent not doing anything about it but demagogue go anybody that tries to do anything about it. he is trying to divide the american people. you got a serious situation on your hands. >> greta: in 2008, senator thompson ran for president hi

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congressman issa welcome.ood to have you here today. >> martha, thank you for continuing to cover this as we get sort of to the end of our patience with the justice department last friday gave us 350 documents out of some 75,000 documents still due. most of those documents, as we've gone through them we discover were basically off of public web sites. this is, this is frustrating people in both the house and senate. we're reaching out right now to the 31 democrats who asked the attorney general in their letter to cooperate, who i believe agree with me that he is just not doing it. martha: you have really nailed down all the time lines on this in terms of when eric holder, at least publicly admitted that he knew about this program. and it seems that, the initial impetus was to allow these guns to cross the border in order to have the guns lead them to some of their top suspects and figure out what was going on with the drug cartels. so this man, man well chaos sta was the number one -- why did they have him whe

people like darrell issa who's very committee deemed her unqualified to speak on the matter. she's a regular guest. i'm beginning to wonder if the only conspiracy here is that of certain congressmen at a timers flailing about trying to find a coherent line of attack. they went for the culture wars in contraception. that didn't work. they love to focus on the economy, but that's improving. they went for gas prices, but people are not stupid and they understand that the administration has very little control over the cost of a gallon. in the absence of creative thought or evidence they went back to the tried and the trusted, insult the president. >> barack obama has never been, i think seen in the conventional, traditional way of we who describe man of valor. >> diversion, make believe, victimhood and insults. they think bill maher is a bad guy. joining me now is karen finney, jonathan capehart and julian epstein. good day to all of you. karen, just so that we can understand her argument, ms. palin says that rush limbaugh is a good guy because she was called a four-letter word

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issa. just to make sure we have my question in context, let me repeat the remarks i made that morning that mr. issa and some found so objectionable. i said, and i quote, what i want to know is where are the women? i look at this panel and i don't see one single individual representing the tens of millions of women across this country who want and need insurance coverage for basic preventive health care services, including family planning and contraception. where are the women? end quote. i still maintain, without fear of any contradiction, there is no one on this panel who is a woman, or who represents the tens of millions of women who want and need insurance basic coverage for family planning. now if mr. issa believes or tries to argue that that statement is somehow false because there were two women witnesses who appeared later that day on a second and separate panel, i would draw his attention to the fact that those witnesses were not there to represent the woman's point of view that is

apologies to darrell issa for being women. you and i were live on air when this whole thing erupted. both of us were disgusted. you decided to take action. what have you done? >> i got on twitter and i started voicing my concerns there. then, someone suggested to me the idea of let's put some pressure on his advertisers. the reason this guy is on air is because companies are sponsoring this vile trash. say to them, do you support these comments. if not, pull your ads. we are not going to patronize your companies until you do so. we started a twitter hashtag boycott o rush. this morning we launched a petition at boycottrush.org. it's really in its infancy. it has close to 10,000 signatures. this has struck a nerve. >> sleep train mattress said we don't condone negative comments directed toward any group. in response, we are pulling our ads with rush limbaugh and a second advertiser is also withdrawn. it's having an effect. >> that's right. select comfort said they will be pulling ads. other companies said they are considering d

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well, darrell issa, admitted drilling his way out but gas prices are still rising?he republicans logic makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. the real culprit behind high gas prices, oh, those wonderful speculate tors on wall street. oil speculation, that's it. congress and peter welch says speculation adds 56 cent as gal-to the price of gas. part of the dodd-frank act limits speculation in the energy markets. republicans in congress are trying to block the rule from going in effect in october. joining me now is senator bernie sanders of vermont. good to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> if i said anything wrong i want you to correct me. >> i don't think you have. here's the interesting point. most people think that oil prices have something to do with supply and demand. supply today is greater than it was three years ago when the price of gas was 1.90 a gallon. it's greater. demand today is lower than it was in 1997. you have to go back to 1997. so the issue is not supply and demand in the united states. what is the issue? the issue has to do with the fac

what he didn't realize is issa will defend anything if he gets paid to do it. volt is the most fuel efficient car in the united states of america and it's an american company. you're obviously going to defend that right? apparently not. >> lets not forget that the real car of the year of the left foot decade has typically been an s.u.v. or the ford f150 pickup. when you think about the automobile that's most desirable, bought in large numbers, profitable to the auto companies and quite good for the workers to produce it's not likely to have ever been the volt and it never will be in the near term. >> can't be the volt, it's got to be a good gas-floodsling car because those guys pay me $120,000 in contributions. i'll do what they tell me to do. these guys are so corrupt it's painful. >> they are not alone, of course. this tweet: >> they are celebrating the demise that they stopped production on the volt, g.m. did, so the republicans did yes an american car company has done poorly, we love it. that's how much they care about partisan politics and how little about

does darrell issa have anything to do with this? he is the chairman of the committee that would not allow sandra fluke to testify. if he let her testify she would have been another american citizen going up on capitol hill, giving her take and insight and story of a friend had real problems, medical problems and needs the contraception medication. he's also ignoring one person who created a controversy out of the sandra fluke testimony, not just darrell issa, it's rush limbaugh. republicans, i tell you what, they have stepped in it day after day on this. number one, they don't have the character to call limbaugh out on it. in fact they don't want to wade into it. why? they'll need him in the general election. the secondtotally disregarding the feelings of sandra fluke. no where have they said anything about sandra fluke and what she has been through. the republican party has now ripped off the scab and let all americans to see and voters to see that they just don't know anything about women's health care and they refuse to learn abo

this attack started long before darrell issa's all male congressional hearing.he war on women's health is at the top of the agenda for the right wing lawmakers. how do i know? mike pence of indiana introduced count them three separate bills, three bills to ban federal funding from family planning clinics. anti-abortion activists like pence have framed these restrictions and these measures as cost-saving measures. yeah, right. that is where there is more than 1100 reproductive health provisions introduced across the country just last year alone. it's not their agenda. the ability for women to access contra shin and reproductive health services is being targeted in the most aggressive way we have ever seen in this country. it is more important than ever for americans to hear the voice of people like sandra fluke, she plays an important role right now. the right wingers, they can try to silence her by brow-beating her on cable. it isn't going to happen. she has her allies. they can't spin their way out of this one. as o'reilly says, he has no proof that the white h