law professor jonathan turley says, quote, holder should be fired. he describes him as a sin eater and has shielded president obama saying he is supervised a comprehensive of due process making him unfit to execute the duties of his office. chris is host of power play. jonathan turley, i read his blog all the time and it's really good. unlike the rnc that was the first i'm another no the a republican or conservative and i believe holder should be fired. he calls it a crackdown on the journalists the greatest attack on the free press in decades. he says that it is proof that president obama's response to this whole thing by appointing eric holder is proof that these are obama's sins. we targets the attorney general and the president. this is jonathan turley, let me remind you when with this whole press snooping scandal. your reaction. >> quite a bind that the attorney general has put him in. holder can't stay and he can't go either. he can't go now. he has got to leave eventually, but he can't go right now because they are doing everything they can to

jonathan turley, professor of public interest law at george washington university. was the deal breaker for you? >> holder has been criticized for years by civil libertarians for all the policies that we know of, the kill list policy, the president claims he can kill a citizen on his own authority. there is a host of roll backs that holder has overseen. this crossed the rube con, the attack on the free press. the free press is in my view the most important guarantee of liberty in this country. the framers viewed it that way. that is why it is in the first amendment. it is there because it is often the press that hold the government accountable, forces them to take responsibility. what's astonishing to me is how the supporters of this president have sort of cast this aside. they belittle the attack on the media. you see them saying well as long as people like rosen weren't prosecuted it is not an attack on the media. that's really ridiculous. the fourth amendment protects against unlawful searches whether or not you're prosecuted or not. the first amendment protects

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jonathan turley is a professor of law.k you to sort this all out for us. explain this 501 c 4. why would a political organization qualify for this? >> well, it's unusual to have this category. what is at issue is whether there was a target to go after conservative groups. that's what raises violations of regulations. there can be ample reason to question the legitimacy of having 501 doctor 4 status. -- owe 501 c 4 status. we rarely see this type of expolice statement coming from supervisors to target dhooips types of groups. now, whether that ams to a crime or a simple wrong doing is the question we're going to have to look at. i can tell you, care, it's very rare for these types of issues to become criminal matters unless someone lied, lying to federal officers in an investigation. >> before you move on with that thought, the house republican speaker john boehner is now speaking. he is talking about benghazi, let's listen. >> i don't want to prolong this. what i want is the truth. in addition to that, the irs has admitted

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honestly, press, jonathan turley is liberal academic says time for him to go. >> as a long time member of the freak caucus i would say that it is a little premature but as we said in washington we say ie years death by a thousand cuts and i think that right now holder is being besieged from so many different directions on so many different things he has to be saying to himself i should have listened to my own conscience and gotten out last year. they talked him into staying in the job. i have a feeling that the rosen piece is the one that the big one is a a smoking gun or not, i don't necessarily know. the legal technicalities is -- >> i want to get to kimberly again. the legal pundits say this is what should happen. do you think this is what may happen. what do you think should happen? >> you said already. >> i think that it reached a point now where he is besieged from so many different directions for his sake and i have known him for a long time it probably makes sense for him to resign. >> he was held in content for his testimony on fast and furious. being held in contempt is a lit

hot they could come, potentially, from our washington studio is george washington law professor jonathan turley. i'm so glad to have you on the hot seat. as the hot seat, now you are hearing even further plit i politicalization of something that may not be so political. when you start hearing the cry for potential jail terms, the specifically when it comes to the irs issue in targeting of conservative groups, do you see this as going that far? this could potentially end up as a criminal matter? >> ashleigh, criminal history would suggest no one is likely to go to juvenile. this comes up with almost like se ka da regularity. republicans have been accused of this, it is misconduct. it is wrong, it's a violation of federal law. rarely do people go to juvenile for it. an interesting analogy, president obama said his first term cia employees would not be investigated for waterboarding people. i assume he doesn't take taxes more seriously than he does torture. they previously have followed this precedent that people follow these orders even if they might be wrong. i expect that's what they will say h

liberal democrats in the house or senate who have done that a little noise from the huffington post jonathan turley. they don't amount to much in the scheme of things. >> bill: you saw what axelrod saw on sunday. >> the president says he supports holder but doesn't support the justice department going after journalists criminally for just doing their jobs. that's important. the president has said with some pretty loud his whispers coming outs of 1600 pennsylvania avenue and they are echoing down this end of the street the capital does know it he they are not happy with what holder did and wants something to change. this idea that the president assigning holder to go on an apology tour to washington media bureau chiefs and that is somehow going to undo the wrong that was done to rosen or the a.p. for that matter is ridiculous. when holder stayed over the second term, it was pretty much made clear by the administration and him that he didn't plan to stay the entire second term. so, if the tide turns and democrats start saying this is totally unacceptable and maybe we should have holder's head, too. i

liberal democrats in the house or senate who have done that a little noise from the huffington post jonathan turley. they don't amount to much in the scheme of things. >> bill: you saw what axelrod saw on sunday. >> the president says he supports holder but doesn't support the justice department going after journalists criminally for just doing their jobs. that's important. the president has said with some pretty loud his whispers coming outs of 1600 pennsylvania avenue and they are echoing down this end of the street the capital does know it he they are not happy with what holder did and wants something to change. this idea that the president assigning holder to go on an apology tour to washington media bureau chiefs and that is somehow going to undo the wrong that was done to rosen or the a.p. for that matter is ridiculous. when holder stayed over the second term, it was pretty much made clear by the administration and him that he didn't plan to stay the entire second term. so, if the tide turns and democrats start saying this is totally unacceptable and maybe we should have holder's head, too. i

jonathan turley, who has been on your show numerous times, is a liberal democrat that i respect as aonservative. he is pretty much saying that eric holder is damaged goods and he has to go. he pretty much lied under oath in front of congress, saying he did not know anything or did not know the details of signing the warrant or order regarding the -- regarding the investigation of james fox. people need to lose their jobs and they need be held accountable. no more un-accountability. more politicos as organizations are planning meetings today. the los angeles times and chicago tribune also accepted invitations and will attend meetings on friday. here is what josh ernest told reporters -- what do you think about this story? let us reflect on what brought us here. says it comes in the wake of -- we are talking about this because president obama has called for stronger shield laws, something we have talked about here on saturday, a law that would go farther than the first amendment to protect the freedom of the press. here is where the shield law is in congress. a bipartisan house group i

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let's continue the conversation right now with george washington university law professor jonathan turleypropriate for eric holder to be in charge of the review of the justice department the way it conducted all of the news media leak issues, for example, since he's right in the middle of it and a lot of people are saying that is inappropriate for him to be investigating in effect himself? should he recuse himself? >> i don't see any reason for him to do that. this is a policy question. this is an issue that the president of the united states said, look. i care about leaks. i want leaks investigated and eric holder has been investigating them. the issue isn't as far as i understand some sort of improper conduct. it is whether we should have a policy of investigating leaks in that way. this is justice department issue. he is the head of the justice department. i don't see any alternative to him running this policy question analysis. >> the argument republicans make and i'll bring jonathan in, the argument a lot of republicans make is he supposedly at least misled if didn't lie to congress

in today's "usa today," liberal professor jonathan turley calls for holder's resignation saying the obamatration should be fatal for any attorney general. >>> circling the media wagons. when first amendment advocates say rosen was falsely characterized as a coconspirator, they didn't know the law. the person or persons who told the associated press about the cia operation that infiltrated al qaeda in the araban peninsula were not whistle-blowers. they harmed national security and broke the law. another point of view on this. >> i know he was involved in the valerie plame affair and refused to give up his source in the administration a while when fitzpatrick deposed him. i didn't hear this kind of talk during the bush administration. i find it refreshing that certainly journalists are suddenly concerned about national security and that trump is actually going out angle figuring out what the truth is. let's go back to eric holder, if that is okay. mike, fascinating eric holder or somebody close to eric holder leaking he is starting to feel refor remor remorseful. what is that about? >> i th

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