joining me now is that congressman, john mica. republican of florida.ngressman, first of all, thank you very much for coming on the show tonight. >> good to be with you and good to talk about an important topic tonight. >> fine. andç we just played a piece of your interview. >> right. >> do you believe the obama administration was hoping for gun violence? >> no. i think that they were trying to find a way to impose more restrictions and gun control in the united states. and blame, again, the violence on drug trafficking and the murders that were taking place in mexico on arms from the united states entering mexico. >> so you believe that they concocted this program to have guns going to mexico so something could happen that they could then come in and deal more with gun control? >> absolutely. that was the purpose of it. a and the whole thing became terribly botched. they lost control of the guns. this is the department of justice using hard earned taxpayer money to buy weapons then supplies them to drug dealers and murderers in mexico. it's unbelievab

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ray suarez asks two house members-- republican john mica and democrat dennis kucinich. >> ifill: organized labor reaches a political crossroads, as the nation's largest public sector union debates new leadership. >> brown: poetry and the preservation of a native american language. we profile mojave writer natalie diaz. >> dreams are coming to the kids, but maybe they're coming in mojave and maybe they don't understand that. and so they're not going to know what their gifts are. they're not going to know what they should be doing because they don't speak the language. >> ifill: and margaret warner has a conversation with author andrew nagorski about his new book, an account of hitler's rise to power, as seen through the eyes of americans living in germany. >> what did they know, when did they know it, and what did they get wrong and why did they get it wrong, because even in getting it wrong, you began to understand why something like this could happen, and the world not necessarily wake up to it in time. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour

i'm congressman john mica from florida. you know, it's been said the power to tax is the power to destroy and today a lot of destruction was done by this discussion. i'm concerned about two things and first the impact on our senior citizens. this is probably the most devastating blow to american senior citizens who will have a half a trillion dollars cut from medicaid, medicare and they will also limit the choices of our senior seniors, both for care and their choices as far as freedom in this country which individual freedom is being destroyed for seniors and also for citizens under this decision. the second thing, as a business person, this is death mill for businesses in this country. small business has been reeling from just the thought of this going into effect. today's decision will do more to hurt our economy than anything we can do in washington, in the statehouses or across this country. so this is a bad day for business. it's a bad day for our senior citizens and it's a bad day for america and congress needs to re

. >> that was florida congressman john mica speaking. he's joining me live. welcome. you have the president using executive privilege for the very first time during his presidency, we should remind our viewers of that to block your committee from seeing the fast and furious documents. we just heard you say it's a very, very sad day. what i this about the executive privilege that irks you so much? >> here you have one of the highest judicial offices of the united states, the chief officer, the attorney general, his office and possibly the attorney general was involved in selling weapons to drug dealers in mexico where an agent of the united states was murdered with those weapons. all we're trying to do is get information to conduct an investigation about that matter. here, again, the president of the united states has done a great disservice to this whole process by trying to close down what we're trying to do. this may go back to another administration. what he's doing is wrong and it subverts the investigative process. >> just to go back to what you said, eric holder

john mica explained the case it to the fox news faithful. >> this administration is a gun control administration. they tried to put the violence in mexico on the blame of the united states so they concocted this scheme and actually sending our federal agents sending guns down there and trying to cook some little deal to say that we've got to get more guns under control. that's how it started. >> we need to bring back psycho talk on "the ed show." that's outrageous. john's explanation probably didn't make sense if you're a normal person. he said the obama administration created a scheme to send guns to mexico in order to create more gun control in the united states. at least three other members of the house committee have also gone on the record with this ridiculous theory. it sounds insane, but it's actually very calculated. the national rifle association has pushed this conspiracy theory for over a year. the nra says they're conspireing to take away the guns. this helps the firearm industry. since 2008 the impact of gun sales on the economy has gone up 66%. republicans are also firing up the he

mike killie and john mica and paul gosa. disay that right? thank you. it.f all, it's been how many months? 18 months since the -- you have been asking the attorney general to hand over information, documents, right? >> i have toking tell you, as a father and a grandfather, the hearing that had the most impact on me was watching the terry family sit there-- >>> the agent -- >> yeah and his colleagues. you could see what they were going through. this investigation that goes a lot further and deeper. you know, just in order to give the terrys peace of mind and closure, we have to finish this out and get to the bottom of why it happened to guarantee them it will never happen again. >> sean: just to remind people, congressmen, these guns were given to these cartels, these organizations and then they were used, in this case, brian terry was killed with a weapon provide to the cartels by the united states government? >> okay. people forget how all of this started. this administration... is a gun-control administration. they tried to put the violence in mexico on t

with me is congressman john mica. thank you for your time. i know you've had a chance to read the article. >> i haven't had a chance to read the article. >> forgive me. >> sometimes i try not to read too much fiction or novels. >> well, i know you've had a chance to listen to the interview that we just did. she says that there are five people at the atf who are involved in this -- what was happening in phoenix who says there was no policy of gun walking, it did not happen. >> well, first of all, you just showed a clip of the attorney general saying that gun walking happened. quite frankly, i'm a member of the investigative committee, one of the senior members of the panel. i don't take our investigative facts and information from a magazine or some article. all we're responsible for doing is finding out who did what, getting the pertinent documents. there is no reason why we should be denied the documents to get to the truth of this. we're not -- you know, this isn't some -- we're going to make up fantasy stories or take parts of information

this is congressman john mica of florida and earlier today the president asserted executive privilegeddition to the 7,600 already turned over, executive privilege over the request of the republicans on that committee. that wraps up this hour. i'm chris jansing. thomas roberts is next. >> hi, chris. we are going to don't watch that hearing. as chris pointed out, congressman mica is talking and scheduled to be our guest at the 11:30 point of our show. we'll watch all of the goings on in that meeting about ericpoten in contempt of congress regarding fast and furious. so the contempt is easily expected to pass. another thing we're watching for you is former egyptian president hosni mubarak reportedly suffering a stroke. why think eve gone silent about updating his condition. >>> also, as you watch in the last hour, today may be the day that jerry sandusky takes the stand to defend himself. we'll know coming up at the top of the hour as they're in recess right now but the trial scheduled to resume at the top of the hour. we'll bring you details from bellefonte, pennsylvania. ♪ uh-huh... uh

. >> i thought this was -- let's play representative john mica on fox talking about this, giving credenceotion theory. >> people forget how all this started. this administration is a gun control administration. they tried to put the violence in mexico on the blame of the united states so they concocted this scheme and actually sending our federal agents sending guns down tre and trying to cook some little deal to say that we've got to get more guns under control. >> i love that like this is a gun control administration as if that's like the worst thing you could possibly be. >> first off, full disclosure, my wife has worked in the department of justice on fast and furious matters so i have to put that out there. >> thank you for the disclosure. >> i appreciate that. secondly, it's insane to suggest this is a gun control administration. they have done virtually nothing. in light of massive gun violence episodes, including gabby giffords. that is pure black helicopter stuff right there. >> to say nothing of the fact that maybe being a gun control administration, if they were a gun control a

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john mica has written a letter demanding more answers. >> we need to find out who knew what when andtook a year to take disciplinary action against these people. >> reporter: this is just the latest embarrassment for the tsa. last year in honolulu 43 were fire order suspended for not taking backs. in newark ten were punished for sleeping on the job and last month a man boarded a flight out of los angeles coming out of jail without a ticket before getting caught. >> this nonsense with tsa has to stop. >> reporter: to put the ft. myers incident in perspective, the tsa says while 400 passengers were not properly screened, another 4.3 million were. >> chersharyl attkisson, thank so much. john miller is with us. who's to plame here? >> i think it's straight-up issue. every airport has an fsd, a federal security director. that's who's in charge. that means everything from the perimeter fencing to the police operations and how that meshes with the buyer operations to the screeners, but most directly the screeners. and this is a clear instance where you have a federal security director who w

florida congressman john mica helped blow the lid off the scandal. he joins us live from florida. looks like t.s.a. is up to a new game trying to keep the public in the dark and the media in the dark and late on friday afternoon, they sent out a very sparse statement about what was going on, trying to keep congress in the dark, too. >> well, the statement they released to us is all passengers and their bags were screened and travelers were never in any danger. do you agree with that? >> well, that may be the case but we've had successive meltdowns, you know, we had 36 in honolulu. we've had newark. we've had charlotte. we've had los angeles. this happens now on a regular basis. but the new game is they waited until friday afternoon and we got leaked information that this involved employees and, you know, dozens of them. but it also involves administrative personnel and i think it's a cover-up. i really do. they don't want the public to know how bad this expensive bureaucracy is operating from the management level down. >> so what actually happened here? >> well, we don't know exac

but john mica has written a letter demanding more answers. >> if necessary we'll speen at documents and what when and why it took a year, a year to take disciplinary action against these people. >> reporter: this is just the latest embarrassment for the a tsa. last year workers were fired in honolulu. last week in san diego a man fresh out of jail boarded a flight to los angeles without a ticket before getting caught. >> tsa cries out for reform, totally out of control. the nonsense with tsa has to stop. >> reporter: to put the ft. myers incident in perspective, the while 400 passengers were not properly screened, another 3.8 million were. >> sharyl attkisson, thank you so much. with us, senior correspondent john miller, former national deputy of intelligence. >> good morning, charlie. >> who is to blame? >> this is clearly a straight up leadership issue. every airport has a federal security director. that's the person who is in charge of the overall security picture for the entire airport. that means everything from the perimeter fencing to the police operations and how that meshes wit

the chair of the house transportation committee, republican congressman john mica, just told fox thatstill in play at this hour on transportation. and that the overall bill is just a struggle. earlier this hour the house speaker had this to say about the bill. >> it is clear that there are significant reforms in this bill. which will reduce the number of programs funded out of the highway bill, streamline the regulatory process and allow us to focus our highway dollars on fixing america's highways, not planting more flowers around the country. >> reporter: as of this morning, though, congressional leaders did not have updated figures from the congressional budget office on a cost for the bill. heather: molly, what's the time frame we're looking at on this bill? >> reporter: they're aiming to get it done, you know, all put together before midnight tonight in order to vote on it by friday before the holiday weekend begins. the top democrat on the committee says it's key for the overall national economy to get this bill done this week. >> it's important that we send out a message of cert

john mica telling the agency to come clean.ark about something he calls another operations meltdown. in a statement, micah said, quote: when confirmed, the significant security system failure at the florida airport once again highlights the need to get t.s.a. out of the human resources business and back into the nation's security business a spokesperson for the tsa implied several high ranking officials may be losing their jobs still no word on what exactly this meltdown may have been. and if bill clinton's life is made into a movie. he has a star in mind who would do the job he would pick george clooney. he would pick him over brad pitt. bill clinton think some prosthetic may be in order to make anymore. >> protest set particulars. >> okay. now i'm more comfortable. christina applegate. >> jonathan scheetz. >> he was in the movie. >> myself? >> go back to the one you think for me. >> that's you. that's you. you were nefarious character. >> that's clayton. that is clayton. there is me. ryan reynolds, perhaps. and threaten there