prosecutor cannot come and testify is outrageous and goes against the clinton administration and janet renodent obama's interview with bill o'rielly. he used words bonehead decision making and not a smidgeon of corruption. but the investigation continues. and so where do we go from here? >> it is interesting. how can he say there is an ongoing investigation and multiple investigations yet he can state that there is nothing going to come from them? that is very upsetting to the conservatives on the committee and that's why they are asking tough questions. if he is a donor and supporter of barak obama. does he understand that nothing comes from it? >> thank you for the shame time we appreciate. it >> you know there is a major nasty winter storm out there. it is on the move. millions of americans are feeling. this word of a another storm that is behind it. what is up for that? >> and a new ad campaign to kick the habit. will it be convincing? ?. >>> the nation's second largest drugstore chain kicking the habit. cvs phasing out cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco from its stores starting octob

if janet reno can call a special prosecutor to look into whitewater or a special prosecutor to look intocarter administration, this is calling in credibility of the tax system of the united states, we're running up to a rough filing season right now. so political manipulation is taboo and it's taboo since the irs was started. stuart: they should not do anything like that, this is the united states of america, but who had the authority to bring in a special prosecutor? who's got that authority? >> congress? >> it would be eric holder to call it as janet reno called for a special prosecutor to look into whitehitewater. stuart: what are the odds? >> probably slim to none. stuart: exactly, they got away with it. liz, that's my editorial there, not yours. i'm allowed to do that. president obama says the welfare state has not grown under him. what? new at 10:00 the numbers that show otherwise. the pill you take so you don't have to remember your passwords anymore? our tech guy loves it. would you take it? all of that, charles payne and more, he joins us for a fresh hour of varney next. life's

offered a plan to take out osama bin laden, they pulled the plug here at the white house, janet reno thought it was all too risky. >> for sure. mike viqueira for us at the white house. mike, appreciate it. thank you. doctors without borders say lives are at risk in myanmar after the government moved to expel the organization. the decision came after th treag muslim victims. doctors without borders said they were deeply shocked about the decision after two decades of work in the southeast asian nation. >>> parts of the state is expected to see ten inches. mandatory evacuation orders were issued above los angeles over fears of landslide. and drought and land fires have severely effected vegetation on the hills since january. in 1969 91 people were killed in island slidelandslides in that . >> reporter: this is a wild storm, tony. take a look at the radar behind me. you can see the moisture pushing off the pacific. the area of low pressure bringing in gusting winds. we had a severe storm warning around fresno california along i-5. it's not going to get better tonight into tomorrow. in s

likewise, janet reno.od up to robert fisk and i asked eric holder why won't you show he that same independence, that same integrity to appoint a special prosecutor to get to the truth? i says he see no, sir problem with a partisan democrat doing this investigation you are a lawyer clerked for the supreme court so you more so than i am thousands of lawyers in the justice department. and can't ask political afill united states when you appoint. i got that i actually am sympathetic to him making his choice. i do not understand why this woman lawyer, why this justice department accepted the responsibility. simply because i think the code of professional responsibility -- i'm not saying she is biased but that she at least we know that people might think she is and that would poison or jeopardize people's view of the integrity of it. i don't think she should have accepted it. >> let me press back slightly on you can't ask political affiliation. the department of justice ethics guidelines say that if the impartia

was janet reno, 150 years after william wirt she got closer to anyone else in history to his record whend nearly eight years under president bill clinton. what about the guy who's there now? what about eric holder? at the start of president obama's second term, a lot of the other really high profile members of the president's cabinet left. not necessarily because of the scandal or disagreement with the president, or something, but because, you know, first term's up. time to move on. hillary clinton left as secretary of state. tim geithner left as treasury secretary. steven chu left as energy secretary. all the marquee names left but not attorney general eric holder. he stayed. sort of quiet assurances at the time that he did not intend to stay for the whole second term, but he did want to stay at least a little while longer so he is till there now. five years into it and counting. nobody's quite sure exactly how much longer attorney general eric holder is planning to stay in office. while he's still around, though, turns out he's making it crystal clear he's going to make the most of the

during the clinton administration, attorney general janet reno adopted a policy under which the department of justice would defend an agency's use of a foia exemption only one the -- when the agency could reasonably foresee that disclosure would harm an interest protected by that exemption. in the bush administration, attorney general john ashcroft reversed the standard and directed the justice department decisions to cy withhold records as long as they had a legal basis for doing. so president obama, to his credit, on his first day in office, directed agencies to implement a foy -- to implement foia with a presumption of openness. attorney general holder overturned the ashcroft standard and reinstated the foreseeable harm standard. the legislation before us today would codify in law this resumption in fare of disclosure, no matter who is president. under this bill, an agency would not be allowed to withhold information in response to a foia request unless disclosure is prohibited by law or would cause specific, identifiable harm to an interest protected by one of foia's exemptions. this b