we've seen this with other asks you bring up janet reno and our own joe scarborough after waco and janet he doesn't see that the eric holder situation is different than the pattern we've seen in the past. at least that's his opinion. >> right. to a certain extent i can see what joe is saying, but underlying the frustration there is that -- that janet reno and eric holder as attorney general are being treated differently and as the attorney general pointed out in his remarks that you showed he ratcheted it up to even the president is being treated differently, and treated in a way that no other president has been treated before and while the attorney general doesn't go there in terms of talking about race, when you bring the president in there, and then you take into account where those remarks were made, race is a part of it. look, no other president of the united states has ever had his citizenship and, thus, his authority to be president of the united states questioned before and no president has had to produce his birth certificate to prove that he is right to be president of the unit

do you think republicans were hard on janet reno? >> what? >> do you think republicans were hard on janet reno? >> yes. >> because she was a woman? >> i was just checking. >> no. not because she was a woman necessarily. >> both sides argue that the treatment of their attorney generals have been harsh. what i find to be nauseating is that he stands in front of al sharpton's organization and get out your violin and tries to say he's the victim. eric holder is the most above the law anti-constitution, race-baiting, racially nostalgic attorney general we've ever had. it's not just that he has specifically made civil rights an issue for him. he doesn't go after cases specifically involving the persecution of whites. >> can we replay that video? you show me what he said. >> black on white violence, he did z not address these issues at the justice department. there's this little fraction you keep talking about of race in america. that's his job to just focus on that little bit. >> i want to see on that tape where he said race. >> no, he didn't. >> t

look at janet reno, alberto gonzales. happens on the both sides of the aisle. congress has a responsibility to make sure the justice department is doing their job in overseeing and now, they're not. i doubt we're going to see anything with the referral of lerner. you've got holder just stone walling and covering for the white house. >> when you're referring to janet reno and gonzalez, you're talking about the fact that other attorney generals have been drilled by congress. this in response to eric holder, who was saying to an audience that he felt that he was being unfairly treated and has been going through something like this that no other attorney general has gone through. >> yeah, i wish you guys would dig up some tape of reno gonzalez and play it to -- i'd love to see some of that videotape. >> right now, where things stand with your committee, where are you going to go from now? particularly, the late e dealing with lerner? >> we voted in the government oversight committee to hold her in contempt. that would go to the whole floor of the house and get refe

let's go back, janet reno, democrat, george w. bush as president? far worse i think poor mr.ow about alberto gonzales? >> another great example. >> how about colin powell? >> condoleezza rice. there is a vicious double standard you know eric holder, unfortunately i say with disappointment the president of the united states used race card as a political weapon of mass destruction. >> this administration is questioning on a lot of lawlessness and lies about benghazi, the nsa and irs. lies about health care. you know, seems anyone there is questioning it. is this the, i guess, way to intimidate people into silence? playing the race card? >> i won't go that far. i can understand there are folks out there, i can understand you, sean, upset how the administration handled benghazi or the irs. i think what the attorney general is al you'ding to, that no attorney general ever went through this type of treatment. >> that is false. go back and check what is looking at videotape. >> excuse me. >> there has never been administration as lawless as this one. look at what jonathan turley, li

i even if, think about janet reno and john ashcroft, alberto gonzalez and now we have this with eric holder here, but it has gotten worse in each case, and now it has reached this fever pitch. so we have to ask yourselves, why has this occurred here? and to pair phase louie gohmert, i don't want to cast apersians on anybody'sasparagus here, but we have to ask the questions. nobody know what is's going on any individual's mind or heart at any given time, but it's been a couple of years since holder was held in contempt by this congress. now they're going to go after lois learner from the irs. but you have to ask, why is he being singled out and it's a fair question. >> but even before we get to lerner, which is another point i would argue against them, let me go gook you on this one, karen, let's not forget the attacks on reno, yes. the attacks on ashcroft, yes. but it's unprecedented on this attorney general. in american history, congress has never cited, never cited a sitting attorney general for contempt until eric holder, which dana just said. not one time. >> and the thing is act

unless, of course, you talk about janet reno, accused of murder by republicans after waco.at happened yesterday, if louis go ert were interviews janet reno in 1993 after waco, or 1994 after waco or after ruby ridge, it would have been at least that tough, would it not? i'm not asking for your opinion. this is just a matter of history. and we always hear this about barack obama as well, oh, he's treated worse than anybody. really? talk to bill clinton. the clinton chronicles. oh -- hold on a second. clinton chronicles. people accused bill clinton of murdering political rivals in arkansas. national figures accused bill clinton of murder in arkansas. so when you're going to say to barack obama and eric holder, they've been treated worse than anybody else in the history of american politics because of their race? well -- you just -- you're not even going back 20 years lit alone 200. i'm sorry, go ahead. >> saying he was treated that way because republicans in washington regarded him as an arkansas hayseed, not part of the establishment. everyone has their own victimhood narrati

janet reno sent in the troops.ou haven't seen eric holder shoot anybody, except anybody in -- but that wasn't the feds. host: a question we have asked some of the earlier callers. do you think the job has become too political? perhaps. as americans, we have a hard time agreeing on anything. warannot agree to go to over russia violating the thing in ukraine. what ist seem to agree constitutional. other people say it is anti-constitutional. not one of them holds a degree or is a constitutional lawyer. thereby they have no opinion and i think it is moot. host: want to show you a few other headlines, stories we will be discussing later this morning on "washington journal." company began supplying ukraine with natural gas on tuesday. the deal underscores the extent to which europe has depended on russian gas. we will talk about the subject of russian gas and the role of the conflict in ukraine in our 9:00 hour. coming up next, money chase puts some democrats ahead, is the headline from "the wall street journal." primary

to meet with attorney general janet reno at the time to ask her to initiate a federal investigation. ultimately there was no federal prosecution of the case. we did convince the u.s. commission on civil rights to come out to sonoma county and hold multi-day hearings to look at the issues, the patterns of police killings, of people of color and those suffering from mental illness. my work at the caucus also included being part of the national defense team for dr. win ho lee, chinese american in new mexico who was falsely accused of being a foreign spy based upon racial profiling and selective prosecution. in partnership with the national lawyers guild, the aclu and lawyers committee for civil rights, we worked as part of a statewide coalition to fight racial profiling both on the state level while driving black and brown as well as on the national level by all levels of government. i left the caucus in 2001 and became the managing attorney of api legal outreach, a nonprofit devoted to serving the survivors of domestic violence, of human trafficking, of elder abuse as well as immigrant

martha: i don't remember gonzalez or janet reno when they were under intense fire saying it's becauseatinoer to because i'm a woman. does it diminish your position to fall back on that position? >> i think he's telling you what he's thinking. i think that's the way the man feels. i don't think there is a lot of argument in the minorityre is a different standard. he has been given rough treatment without any understanding he was available, he did make the papers available and there was never ever any kinding of wrongdoing in terms of fast and furious and you would have thought at the time it was a scandal that was going to explode and blow out eric holder. nobody ever found such a thing. it's like irs. we are all looking, we are all curious, no wrongdoing has been found. >> lois lerner looking for a job with ofa while she is sending letters on how conservatives should be screened it does present a problem. it does present a problem when eric holder's office is trafficking guns to mexican drug cartels. they are real deals an has to answer for them and this is a way for not answering for

the attorney general at the time,ant recent -- janet reno, stonewalled it and it doesn't happen. the administration can win in these. >> i want to take your attention to the kosher of wall and broad. we had a big selloff today but normally -- we're still flat on the year. it's what propelled this one that is g.i.ing -- gaining currency and interest. what is going on here that has folks worried. it'sen improving economy, and it's the notion that because the economy is improving, the federal reserve can continue weaning the market off what hass been its mother's milk of joy. to keep this thing afloat. that is in doubt. so this great laissez-faire institution is complaining. we'll have more after this. @e@ why relocating manufacturingpany to upstate new york? i tell people it's for the climate. the conditions in new york state are great for business. new york is ranked #2 in the nation for new private sector job creation. and now it's even better because they've introduced startup new york - dozens of tax-free zones where businesses pay no taxes for ten years. you'll get a warm we

. >> janet reno was in contempt through the clinton administration. for the 2014 midterm elections, polls show the democratic party facing an enthusia enthusiasm g. >> democratic strategists say firing up women and minority voters will be crucial to their party, and claims of sexism or racism could help. >> in some conservative districts attacks help republicans. >> it doesn't mean the executions on both sides have no merit. >> hillary clinton was speaking in los angeles, but faced hostility from a member of the audience. the former secretary of state dodged and police took the woman who throughit in custody. >> apparently clinton made it through unscathed and cracked a few jokes after it was over. >> in eastern washington state, a crack in a dam is having a ripple effect on the region's power and water. engineers lowered the water to put pressure on the dam which could mean a long dry summer for the area. we are joined from the dam in haven'tage washington. how is the community preparing david shuster >> people have been getting ready for a number of

, that needs to be done by the attorney general, we have had attorney generals in the past like janet reno, who was a democrat, but she appointed a special prosecutor when she thought there was cause to do so. so so it's going to take some public pressure to get this particular attorney general to move. you mentioned the ways and means letter, that is just saying what they think, holder can throw that in his trash can. now we in the house are going to hold learner in contempt when we get back from easter and the doj is at least required to bring that in front of a grand jury. so i'm hoping that they'll at least move forward on that. but that's a couple weeks out and we'll have to see what happens. >> very quickly, we just have a few seconds left, but i want to make sure to get your response from the ranking member's statement that all of these investigations are nothing more than a quote, witch hunt. >> well, talk to the people who were targeted, shannon, we have had them come before your committee, when your rights are being under the microscope, when the machine of government is trying t

>> let's see, john ashcroft, janet reno to name a few. what exactly was holder talking about?tion with loui louie gohmert. >> it's important that we have proper oversight. >> you don't want to go there. >> i don't want to go there? >> no. >> about the contempt? >> you should not assume that that is not a big deal to me. i think it was inappropriate, it was unjust. never think that was not a big deal to me. don't ever think that. >> i know a lot of conservatives that have been treated much, much worse than what happened here. here is reaction. nigh -- nigel, what do you think? >> no question. how about alberto gonzalez? >> another great example. >> how about colin powell? >> yes. >> condoleezza rice. it's a vicious double standard. eric holder was a disappointment to use the race card as a political weapon of mass destruction. >> richard, i have to be honest. those are legitimate questions. this administration has a lot of lawlessness. lies about the irs and health care that they sold to the american people. is this the way to intimidate people into silence, to play the race ca

debate about racism and race and accusations of racism and whether eric holder has it worse than janet reno or if barack obama has it worse than bill clinton, there are some basic, really basic facts out there about what this country looks like. what it looks like through the prism of race. questions whether or not history will travel forward about what history will write about this era. indeed, there is the very real question about whether in the era of the first black president what we call racial progress has stalled, whether we are watching before our eyes and probably at this moment history move in reverse at the very moment of one of the peak achievements of the civil rights movement, the presidency of a man named barack obama. and if that seems to you like an outlandish question posed, look at what has happened over the last several decades. the progress that was made to desegregate the our schools after the civil rights act has been almost entirely reversed. today almost three-quarters of black children attend schools that are over 50% nonwhite. now keep in mind the modern civil rig

attorney general have butted heads before back in the clinton administration, house committee voted janet reno, who was the attorney general at the time in contempt over a campaign finance scandal at that time. this is kind of thing happens and it was kind of heated yesterday but i don't think really out of the ordinary has happened with this attorney general. >> rick, your thoughts? was the attorney general being mistreated, bull idea or is he, you know, rightfully socking them right back? >> it comes with the game. you have to know that if you are attorney general, actually if you any cabinet official there is going to be times when you go before the ritual of going before congress and getting beat up a little bit. what's interesting is the strength of the attorney general's response to all of this. i don't know how it does him any favors, honestly, one thing to say that in the room today but even the jousting, the sparring with members of congress, a lot of members of congress that's kind of what they're after. they want to get a rise after him. they want' to get on the news and attention f

if you go back and look at how janet reno was treated, she was bill clinton's attorney general, she wasublican-led congress as well. i don't know -- listen, people are saying, and holder has intimated this might be a racially motivated thing. i don't know the answer to that. what i can tell you is this. you have an angry southern white man treating the black attorney general of the united states very, very disrespectfully. by doing so, that is not a good way about leading your life. it's certainly not the role of a congressman to do that. you can get your questions in, and your oversight in and not be rude at the same time. >> ron, i'm going to have you weigh in quickly before i ask you another question. because we were talking about this during the commercial break. >> the attorney general is trying to have it both ways, trying to insinuate because he's black and the president is black that they're treated unfairly by the republican-led congress, by the republicans who are looking into a number of scandals fast and furious. let's not forget, alex, the reason the former texas judge was

. >> or the civility paid to ashcroft, janet reno, meese, john mitchell. look at those in the position eric holders has held and the resistance or criticism they faced for different reasons. some may say this is not about race. this is about the lack of providing documents, the fast and furious issue and why the truths has not been given to the american people. >> if congress will have oversight and you ask the executive branch to provide documents and they never come, that's a big problem. >> i think this is about ginning up the base of the party. not getting ratted out of the house again. having them be more over ruled than before. here is dr. ben carson and reverend faulkner. >> i think it is one of the oldest tricks in politics. if you don't like the story, divert attention away from it. the democrats are simply trying to rally your base. using the race card. we don't need more division in our country. race is a very touchy subject for all of us. we may disagree. it's ideas that win the day or lose the day. >> you can't oppose anything that a progressi

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