jon: chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill. distill this all down for us. mike. what's happening? >> reporter: jon, good morning. some republican lawmakers think an irs lawyer who works at white house may have useful information about the missing e-mails. let's take you live to the hearing. the white house lawyer is

mike emanuel on the hill. mike, thank you. jenna: add to that senators announcing a bipartisan deal to help our veterans get the medical care they need. this plan would spend $500 million to fix what some are calling a broken va system while allowing veterans to go outside that system for treatment. it is just a framework at this time. douglas mckelway is live in washington a proposed solution all the same. doug? >> reporter: that's right, jenna. this deal worked out in the senate yesterday by senator john mccain and bernie sanders is very similar to a bill passed in the house in it would allow vets that experience inordinant wait time or vets that live 40 miles or more from a va facility to get a coast card that allows them to seek care from a physician from a private facility. the bill would also allow firing senior level va officials who are incompetent or perform poorly. there is caveat to that. sanders wants fired employees to have expedited 2-day appeals process. listen up. >> when you have incompetent people in the va o

mike emanuel. my colleague will be here to talk about the writings in bergdahl's journal. they were very dark. did you notice any signs that he could be disturbed or need help? >> no nothing like that. he never approached me or came to me with any kind of concerns whether they were mental or he didn't want to be there anymore or he didn't want to be part of the army or he wanted to purposefully walk away. i never heard that one bit. not a single time. >> i am sure you heard he was discharged from the united states coast guard before he enrolled in the army and reports say josh it was for psychological reasons. is this typical in the military? i talked to one who said not typical when it's psychological reasons. how did he get to it from the coast guard to the army and do you think maybe that was a failure. >> i'm not a recruiter. i was never a recruiter. i don't know what the actual, you know, transferring from one service to the next all he know is when he came to the unit i was there he was a very quiet guy. he kept to himself. he never showed any kind of glaring signs o

mike emanuel over how the deal was struck. we begin with ed henry who was with the president in war saw, poland. >> reporter: the president is here to reassure that the situation in ukraine is okay but he's dealing with a problem at home. his handling of foreign policy dipped to a low of 41% amid yet another crises. with questions back home mounting about whether president obama broke the law with the taliban prisoner swap, he used a news conference in poland to start pushing back hard. >> the united states has always had a pretty sacred rule, and that is we don't leave our men or women in uniform behind. >> reporter: well, the president said that rule applies to sergeant bowe bergdahl, regardless of the circumstances. republicans are slamming the fact that the conditions this time involved releasing five taliban commanders from the u.s. military prison at guantanamo. >> these are people that are most likely to go back and once again launch strikes or attacks against americans, our friends and allies in the region. the odds ar

mike emanuel is live on capitol will have this. what are concerns. >> that these five guys the united states gave up to get sergeant bergdahl back are really hard corps dangerous -- hard-core dangerous guy, senator behind digraham calling them the taliban dream team and there's suggestion this makes america less safe. national security members are furious they were not kept in the loop at all. >> this is absolutely ludicrous, and the thing is some notion that you couldn't do this for sensitivity reasons, the national security committees were briefed the entire time of the osama bin laden information and then raid planning, and then the raid itself. they have blood of thousands of afghans and americans on their hands, and we're releasing them to qatar and that's all we know. >> lawmakers want specifics about what is being done to make sure these identify guys do not return to the fight at a time the troops are expected to be in afghanistan -- >> to be clear there's no suggestion they well by returning to the fight. we don't know the

chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill with the latest. mike, didn't seem like a great night for the administration on capitol hill after this meeting. >> reporter: a lot of hurt feelings on capitol hill. arizona senator john mccain leased the senate armed services closed-door meeting. he heard nothing new there. he didn't even understand why this briefing was classified. he herd house speaker john boehner express his own concerns with the bergdahl swap a short time ago. >> listen, we're glad that bergdahl is back but the biggest issue here is the violations of a policy that the united states has had for many, many years that we don't negotiate with terrorists. >> reporter: lawmakers have been told that 80 to 90 government officials were aware of the bowe bergdahl-taliban five swap while key members of congress were never told. boehner and others seem insulted that congressional leaders were entrusted for the plans for usama bin laden raid but not this deal. west virginia democrat joe manchin just told reporters he can not understand the de

mike emanuel on that part of the story for us. it is raising echoes on capitol hill. >> imac reporter: good morning to you. they said prefers up to capitol hill to make the case for the actions they took in the swap. much of the concern on capitol hill has been what they gave up, the five tele man detainees. the board of directors and five of the most dangerous people in the world. lindsey graham tha said he lefte classified reefing for disturbed then when he went in. >> i can only imagine how young women in afghanistan feel today. that we have just let out of jail the people who organized the hell in which they live. the whole concept of releasing these prisoners would empower the moderate element of the taliban just offense be to my core. reporter: a big problem for the white house has been response from democrats like senate intelligence chair dianne feinstein on the issue of notification. she said it is disappointing there was not a level of trust to tell her and other key lawmakers about the trade before it happened. a fellow

jon: chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill. distill this all down for us. mike. what's happening? >> reporter: jon, good morning. some republican lawmakers think an irs lawyer who works at white house may have useful information about the missing e-mails. let's take you live to the hearing. the white house lawyer is testifying alongside an official from the national archives and records administration about thousands of missing external emails from 2009 to 2011. jennifer o'connor worked at the irs for six months last year and lawmakers are asking about why it took so long for the agency to figure out emails were missing. she was subpoenaed to testify and there was a question if she is a non-cooperative witness. >> miss owe connor, you declined to come here voluntarily. we subpoenaed you. you're clearly not pleased to be here but is it is important that you're here. you were at the irs and hired when we began our investigation and requested selected documents of lois lerner in may of 2013, is that correct. >> i started on may 30t

fox news chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with the latest. y where invitations were issued by an organization to senator grassley and to lois lerner but apparently the ini have stations were swamped until lois lerner received senator grassley's. this group looks like they are offering to pay for mrs. grassley, his wife's travel, and that ma

now he's in washington, to our mike emanuel on capitol hill on how that went. michael?ntel is clearly fired up and worried the nation's focus has shifted away from the veterans affairs scandal. >> you know, i came down to knock on doors today because i think as i have been watching this for the last day and a half now, we're starting to get off point. what the point needs to be is there are 22 soldiers a day dying in this country because they're taking their own lives. you can't believe what i have been hearing in the last nine days from family members, wives, sisters, mothers, of soldiers who have committed suicide in the last 20 days. >> today, house republican leaders called on president obama to take more aggressive action to address the v.a. scandal. speaker boehner, majority leader cantor, and mcmorris rodgers wrote eric shinseki's resignation does not address the fundamental problem at the v.a., the abject failure to meet the needs of our veterans. meanwhile, the scandal has spread beyond phoenix across the midwest. delayed care and wait lists found at seven faci

to mike emanuel on whether they got them. mike? >> well, stewart, not enough answers and so now some top republicans are calling on president obama to help get to the truth. >> we believe that the american people deserve answers, and the president needs to come forward and get personally involved in this matter and make clear to the american people what exactly happened to the missing e-mails and what exactly happened when it comes to targeting of conservative groups. >> reporter: former irs official lois lerner isn't talking. more than two years of her outside e-mails from 2009 to 2011 disappeared. today a former irs lawyer now at the white house was on the hot seat about those missing e-mails. >> i'm happy to answer questions about my time at the irs. >> i'm asking did your boss, did the folks you work for at the white house counsel's office when they got this critical information, did they share it with the justice department? >> mr. egleston started the day i did so our tenures are the same. >> reporter: this came after a tense

let's get to mike emanuel on capitol hill.t confrontation there, it's note just some, i'm asking you questions and you're getting me answers. we are to tell the truth and subjected himself to perjury, and paul ryan not once but twice or maybe even three times called him a bolds-faced liar. >> as feisty as you'll see a congressional hearing get and there's clearly frustration about th is kind of dribbled out in this investigation. we found another that the white house was told there was an issue with lois lerner others e-mail a while ago and lawmakerrers didn't hear about it until recently. >> why didn't the irs inform the white house but kept it a secret from congress. >> it was our public report that provide you this information. there's been no attempt to keep it's secret. >> some republicans take that dribbling out of information as a sign that he is not being totally candid with them. now, democrats have a totally different take on them. some were defending him and some were giving him their time so he had more time explai

mike emanuel is live in washington. >> the number of lawmakers have called out the obama administration for shifting arguments to justify their action. some are calling absurd the suggestion that top national security lawmakers would share information with an american's life on the line. >> i don't know of anybody among the folks who historically have been given classified information that would leak anything. we all get classified information daily. you don't see leaks coming out of us. >> a very senior defense official tells fox's jim angle that senior military officials recommended to the president that he not make the trade, calling it like handing over five four-star generals of the taliban. another prominent lawmaker says the white house knew if they told congress, there would have been bipartisan opposition to the proposed deal. >> i also believe that the white house did not want to hear those kinds of objections and that is the true reason that it did not consult before the exchange was made. >> sources say intelligence showed that sergeant bergdahl was not as much a prisoner as

lou: mike emanuel from capitol hill. our first best inside the contentious hearing joining us by phone. congressman mike kelly, a member of the house ways and means committee. congressman, to imagine you're about ready to spit nails as you listen, basically playing word games with the committee. >> i'm i met with him on tuesday for over an hour. we both agreed that this is a reputable damage to the irs and its reputation. when i saw him today and i talked to him after the hearing, i said this is exactly what we talked about. you're not being able to give us clear information. not just us, but the american people and we are talking about a violation of constitutional rights. we were told we were looking into it great we didn't know when this would be done, but they knew that these e-mails were not available. it was 2011 that they knew that the e-mails were lost. so why now? why did you wait until last friday, about 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon to let us know and then come back again on monday when there were others that w

for the latest, let's go straight to fox news chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel. mike? >> hi, dana. yeah, the top democrat on the house armed services committee, adam smith says that the white house should have gone to at least a few members of congress about this bowe bergdahl deal but they did not because they don't trust congress. arizona republican senator john mccain says what's been said behind closed doors in these classified briefings is not any more compelling or riveting than what the administration is saying in public. and he says he doesn't understand why these briefings are are even classified. nothing interesting in there. meanwhile, house lawmakers, a number of them were furious about the headline coming out of last night's briefing before house lawmakers where administration briefers said 80 to 90 officials across the united states government, the white house, the pentagon, the state department were in the loop on the bowe bergdahl deal, but zero members of congress. now, the white house today said that number was a little exaggerated. that was number of

mike emanuel joining us from capitol hill. lot of fireworks this morning. >> a lot of fireworks with john koskinen on the hot seat in a line of fire about the issues of missing e-mails. let's take a look at the house ways and means committee room. chairman dave camp asked about bringing in a special prosecutor for the tax collection agency and the irs chief says that would be "a monumental waste of taxpayer dollars." this aggravation they told obama administration officials there were e-mails in april but didn't tell congress until last week. chairman dave camp says his committee is fed up. >> what i didn't hear in that is a apology for this committee. >> i don't think an apology is owed. madison lima has been lost since the start of this investigation, every e-mail has been preserved that we have, we have producer will produce. >> you don't think the time. back between generally 2009 and april 2011 is relevant to this investigation? reporter: emphasizing irs emphasis in the process of turning over about 67,000 lois lerner e-m

fox news chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with the latest. it is a bizarre story where invitations were issued by an organization to senator grassley and to lois lerner but apparently the ini have stations were swamped until lois lerner received senator grassley's. this group looks like they are offering to pay for mrs. grassley, his wife's travel,

chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has the latest. >> reporter: house committee investigationsppear to be intensifying after the irs blamed a computer crash for losing the e-mails of former executive lois lerner and six other agency officials. >> time for the administration to come clean and to be honest and truthful to the american people. >> reporter: lois lerner admits that those aren't very forgiving to the audit. >> missing, of course, if you're sending potentially illegal e-mails based on targeting specific groups, based on their political beliefs, you delete records immediately. >> press secretary jay carney says has not found that learner e-mailed. we found zero e-mails. >> reporter: the house committee has subpoenaed learner's hard drive and electronic devices. and the ways and means committee are about to grill them about the e-mails lost. the top democrat on ways and mean, sander levin calls it unfortunate that an irs equipment failure led to several computers crashing but notes, quote, every is not a conspiracy. they don't seem convinced that a more in-depth investi

. >> chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel tells us the digital detectives on capitol hill are pressing the administration for more information on the crashed drives. >> late today, asked the white house and treasury how they learned of lois learn's hard drive crash, who told them and more. >> the committee is also requesting all communications between five other irs employees who had hard drive crashes and the white house, treasury justice, epa, federal election commission, and osha. on capitol hill, calls from congressional republicans for a special prosecutor to investigate the irs are getting louder. all of this garbage about oh, they had old equipment, old computers. that's ridiculous. the irs has the best software, the best hardware -- >> he says money should be overed to get to the bottom of the missing e-mails. one million to recover them and a half million dollars for information on who destroyed them. >> we know the e-mails are out there. we know they can be found. we just need the people to help find them and don't forget the other carrot but stick, we reduce everybo

right now fox news correspondent mike emanuel has more from the hill. >> we are expecting him to expecting about the disappearing email. we know that darrell issa has already questioned whether he has been telling the truth when he has come up here to capitol hill.

fox news chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with the latest. mike? >> it is a bizarre story where invitations were issued by an organization to senator grassley and to lois lerner but apparently the ini have stations were swamped until lois lerner received senator grassley's. this group looks like they are offering to pay for mrs. grassley, his wife's travel, and that may be inappropriate so she referred it to some of her colleagues and said we should give it closer scrutiny. republicans say out of all the thousands of emails they are looking for, they have this email, imagine what her instincts were in other cases because her first instinct in this case was to go after a sitting republican united states senator democrat say the system worked. her colleagues talked her down and didn't go any further with it bottom line they have gone through all the emails that they have. still looking for other emails. kind of an ah-ha moment ways and means committee. not so much. we will let your viewers decide what they think. bottom line, the investigation c

congressional correspondent mike emanuel has been there step by step and he join us now. mike. >> reporter: there seems to be a lot of digging and fact-finding off-camara outside of the hearing room trying to get answers to some questions about those missing emails. >> they're claiming they lost emails. in the 21st century, emails just don't go missing. it just doesn't happen. and there doesn't seem to be an explanation other than, we don't know where they are. >> reporter: three intense hearings in the house are done and headline came from official with national archives who said in questioning, the irs did not comply with the federal records act. so it broke the law but not telling national archives those emails disappeared. more than two years, a former official lois lerner's external emails to outside groups and other agencies are missing and lerner is not talking to congress. irs blamed hard drive crash and democrats blamed old technology or lack of proper funding. leading democrats are trying to contain the scandal from spreading. >> regardless of how many times the

chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is doing just that tonight. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner ripped president obama calling the irs scandal phony early on, and now more than two years' worth of e-mail are missing from the central figure in this investigation. >> this is outrageous. the white house has not lifted a finger to help us get to the bottom of this. he owes the american people the truth about what happened at the irs. >> reporter: the democratic leader isn't blaming people at the irs, she fought the agency's machinery. >> they need to upgrade their technology, get it right, so that there's no suspicion about what agenda anyone may have. >> reporter: irs commissioner is due to testify before the house ways and means committee friday. and house oversight on monday on the missing e-mail matter. >> all i can say is, it looks to me that this may be a cover-up. >> reporter: utah republican orrin hatch and john wyden are leading the investigation in the senate finance committee targeting conservative groups. in the meeting with the senators this week, hatch sai

chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel joins us with more on the briefings.o you know? >> house speaker john boehner says the administration has invited serious questions about how this exchange went down. we have learned from congressional sources in late 2011 and early 2012, there were very quiet, high-level talks between the administration and some key lawmakers here on capitol hill about the notion of trading five guantanamo detainees for sergeant bowe bergdahl. i'm told that lawmakers raised some serious concerns and then the talks then cooled off. house speaker john boehner issued a statement just moments ago saying, quote, there was every expectation that the administration would reengage with congress as it did before. and the only reason it did not is because the administration knew it faced serious and sober bipartisan concern and opposition. the top republican on the senate intelligence committee tells me lawmakers knew plenty about these five guantanamo detainees. >> these five have been reviewed on a systematic basis, like we do every other priso

mike emanuel is live in washington.t else are we learning about the search for the lost e-mails? >> the notion these e-mails vanished makes no sense whatsoever and there into be an extensive paper trail of who handled lois lerner's hard drive and what was done. the irs commissioner admitted the e-mail disappearance was suspicious but reiterated he doesn't believe a crime was committed. house republicans are calling for a special prosecutor to investigate and wants outside government agencies towwñbb÷j h for those missing messages. >> every department that lois lerner had any blind copies or ccs to we want their e-mails, want them to go through e-mails correspondence with lois lerner, we want copies of those. >> expect lawmakers to keep up the pressure to make sure they track down more of the missing e-mails. >> what this latest from president obama on all of this? >> remember, the president telling bill o'reilly there was not a smidgen of corruption at the irs even though there were investigations taking place inch min

chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is here tonight. >> at the first open hearing about the swap, defense secretary chuck hagel said the commander in chief made the call. >> the president's decision to move forward with the transfer of these detainees fses a tough call. i supported it. i stand by it. >> with that, then there were questions about those given up in the deal. >> who specifically selected the particular detainees that were transferred? the five detainees that were transferred have been the subject of conversation, a negotiation over a period of time. >> and an ongoing issue has been the fear that the taliban five will return to terror activities or the battlefield. >> we put american lives at risk to go after individuals if they rejoin the fight? >> yes. you could use the same argument on yemen and everything else. >> concerns about this being dangerous for american troops and civilians overseas. >> the result is somewhere in this world, in this moment, that there are terrorists watching this hearing in complete jub i lags. >> as i said before, our military is a

washington, senior white house correspondent wendell goler, also chief congressional correspondent mike emanuelrs hearing going on right now. wendell, i mean, he was playing games with you. he knows what you were talking about. two years of emails pertaining to this investigation went missing, not all the emails. they always do this kind of stuff. did that get you angry that they always kind of pars it? >> no. sticking with the story. which is that the targeting of tea party groups looking for tax exempt status may have been bad management, there is no evidence that it was politically motivated. now the current irs had promised to provide all the emails sent by lois learn his or her was the former head of the department that dealt with tax exempt status. the fact is that the irs told the white house council's office two months before it told the irs told the white house counsel's office two months before it told congress that some of ms. lerner's e-mails were lost when the computer failed. now they are trying to find if the irs did all they could to recover those e-mails. the government does i.

mike emanuel has -- >> this is a pattern of abuse, and pattern of behavior that is not giving us any confidence that the agency is being impartial. i don't believe you. this is incredible. >> i have a long career, and that is the first time that anybody has said that you do not believe me. >> i don't believe you. >> and the last week the irs revealed in a news dump that more than two years of lois lerner's e-mails were lost in a computer crash, the members of the house ways and means blasted the commissioner john koskinen when he said that backup tapes were only kept for six months, and then there was something more basic seen by the chairman. >> i don't hear an apology to this committee. >> i don't believe one is owed. there has not been a single e-mail lost. >> and he is going to investigate the e-mails that are missing as untruthful. >> in is just as much a hearing as inquisition, and you deserve bet better, and you are certainly obligated to give us truthful answers, and we appreciate that you are trying to. >> and there were references to this letter from the white house counsel

one of which you just discussed with mike emanuel. requiring the 30 days notice prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars or federal funds to pay for the removal of anybody from gitmo if the congress has not been given 30 days notice. first challenge to the government's behavior is that he unlawfully spent known physically get these guys out of gitmo and to qatar. >> congress couldn't have said no. he just had the obligation to notify them. >> correct. he signed the statute into law. the other problem that's far more -- the other unlawful behavior is far more problematic for the president and that is the argument that by releasing these guys into the theater of war in the middle east, he has provided material assistance to a terrorist organization. fact, the taliban has been declared by the congress and the president to be a nonstate terrorist organization. fact. federal statute makes it a crime punishable by ten years in jail up to life in prison for materially aiding a terrorist organization. fact. the courts have ruled any assistance,

tonight chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel reports on the behind-the-scenes power play to move up the political ladder. >> reporter: with eric cantor announcing plans to end his leadership, instantly his colleagues began jockeying for position. john boehner has set the leadership election for next thursday, trying to avoid a prolonged gop battle. >> we're going to do 0 it next week. i'm sure some will argue it's too soon, some will argue it's too long. but it's important we resolve this issue in a fair amount of time. >> cantor gave his blessing to kevin mccarthy asaending to leader. pete sessions from texas is planning to challenge and worked his home state delegation today. >> as i look at what the new role would be asma jort leader, it's to establish what would be the agenda moving forward and the agenda moving forward needs to be a conservative agenda. >> kevin mccarthy is a fine guy. i have no concern. he's my friend, but i am a texan. >> reporter: fellow texan, chairman of the financial services committee, was being encouraged to run, representing movement conservati

chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. what's the latest on those who want to put their ribbon into the hat or -- whatever you call it. >> those who are interested in rising up the ranks, increasing their ranking in the house gop are actively seeking support from colleagues. california's kevin mccarthy who is currently the republican whip and has majority leader eric cantor's support is seen as the larger successor by many. pete sessions is the house rules committee chairman and just met with his home state delegation trying to round up support. fellow texan jeb hensarling has dropped out saying, although i'm humbled by the calls from my colleagues, encouraging me to return to leadership, i will not be a candidate for majority leader next week. here's house speaker john boehner. >> i do think the members are going to make this decision. we're going to do it next week. i'm sure some will argue it was too soon, some will argue it was too long. but it's important we resolve this issue in a fair amount of time so that we can d

mike emanuel is there with the very latest. his refusal to apologize last week rankled some folks.ct something tough stuff. since we were told about ten days ago about the hard drive failure, killing lois lerner's e-mails, some are asking about backup systems. the irs had a contract with a company that develops software that automates the backup and recovery pros for microsoft exchanges and servers. the company says it provides automated backup and recovery solutions and the irs contract ran through august 31, 2011, according to the web site fed spending.org, which would cover the period of the lerner crash but it's not clear the firm had the capability to archive every e-mail at the irs. the tea party groups suing the irs say the commissioner's explanation is too simple. >> he wanted everybody to believe that lois lerner's hard drive, her little computer in her office, somehow had a faulty hard drive and, oops, all of the e-mails are gone, and i've received e-mails and communications from government employees, forensic experts from all over the country who say, anybody with half a

. >> chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill with the latest. what is the latest from some of the leading democrats on this deal to bring bergdahl home? >> there are still some frustrations here on capitol hill for those who thought that congress should have been notified before this deal was done. those supporting the administration's story line, the efforts to bring home sergeant bowe bergdahl say it was the right thing to do. and they support the notion that there were serious concerns about his survival. >> we do know that his health is not good. that's obvious. but that's not the -- let's assume he was in vibrant health and he was faking all this. he is an american soldier. he's been in captivity for five years. the war is winding down. let's bring him home. we did. >> and reid went on to say that every day that he was there with the taliban, bowe bergdahl was one day closer to dying. gretchen? >> so did last night's classified briefering help matters with prominent senators, then? >> sounds like it did not. i'm told a lot of times they go

by this morning i was talking to ed henry and mike emanuel about it. let's not overreact. afternoon, now we've got enthrough the day, what is the mood in washington now? are people still scrambling or settled in a little bit? >> still shock but there is a scramble now. in fact cantor i want to point out is behind closed doors with his fellow house republicans. he is formally announcing that he is going to step down at the end of july. and this is setting off of course a mad scramble to succeed him as majority leader. they want, republicans want to assure some kind of a transition in the house. one aide saying they don't want this to turn into lord of the flies. and i do have a punch list of three of the candidates reportedly who are in the running to replace him. kevin mccarthy of california, texan jeb hensarling, chairman of the house financial services committee and pete sessions who runs the republican congressional campaign committee as well. liz: cory, can you comment on those names? when you hear about those who sit on certain financial committees, they surely have r

fox news chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill with the latest. mike? >> well, greta. good evening. this comes as 90 more u.s. troops have arrived on the ground in iraq. we are told that 50 more are due in the coming days. of the 300 u.s. troops that president obama could send to iraq, 130 are there right now. and i'm told from some senators who are in that classified briefing that there are grave concerns about the situations on the ground there in iraq. changing very rapidly. some of the senators expressed concern saying the president's hesitation or his team's lack of decisiveness may be costing the u.s. and its allies in the reasoning. they have expressed concern about other allies in the region being in jeopardy as this terrorist army, isis is marching across iraq and so, there has been some talk from senators about the need for air strikes to attack the von i haves as they are crisscrossing iraq, cut off their supply line. some have been talking about the need to wait for a coalition government, a new government to be formed in iraq. but senator m

of executive powers, and for the very latest we turn to fox's chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel who is standing by live on capitol hill with the latest. mike? >> reporter: house sources say there's a big picture covenent to this, not just about this particular congress and president obama, although house republicans have certainly expressed plenty of frustration about the president tweaking or fine tuning laws. house speaker john boehner says he's suing from stopping this president from going around congress. >> what we've seen clearly over the last five years is an effort to erode the power of the legislative branch, and i believe the president is not faithfully executing the laws of our country, and on behalf of the institution and our constitution standing up and fighting for this is in the best long-term interest of the congress. >> president obama has done fewer executive orders so far than three out of the last four presidents, but gop sources note all the delays and tweaks of his signature health care law, obamacare, as a prime example for why they are suing. at the white

mike emanuel has more on what all this means for the balance of power in washington. >> what we have seen over the last five years is an effort to erode the power of the legislative branch. >> john boehner announced wednesday the house will sue president obama for exceeding his constitutional authority. >> believe the president is not constitutionally executing the laws of our country, and on behalf of the institution and our constitution, standing up and fighting for this is in the best long term interest of the congress. >> mr. obama has issued executive orders to offer gay couples family leave, raising the minmage wage for federal contractors and more than two dozen unilateral changes to obamacare. >> i'm not sure which of the things i have done they find most offensive. but they have decided they're going to sue me for doing my job. >> then thursday, in a unanimous opinion, the supreme court said president obama exceeding the limits of his executive power when he decided in january 2012 to bypass the senate and name three new members the senate relations board. stephen breyer fou

right now fox news correspondent mike emanuel has more from the hill. >> we are expecting him to expecting tough questions about the disappearing email. we know that darrell issa has already questioned whether he has been telling the truth when he has come up here to capitol hill. we saw a lot of fireworks on friday before the house ways and means committee. we expect even more tonight in front of the house oversight committee, we do expect koskinen to come out. looking into what happened to lois lerner's emay that the treasury inspector general, the independent body is also investigating. if you don't take does kinnen's word for it. he will tell lawmakers there is somebody else investigating, somebody else who can can get to the bottom of the computer crash and whatever happened to lois lerner's enile outside agencies and outside organizations. but we do expect a lot of tough stuff and this is also the committee where tempers have flared between republicans and democrats. so that will be something to watch for as lawmakers try to get to the bottom of this email situation more than two yea

right now fox news correspondent mike emanuel has more from the hill. >> we are expecting him to expectingisappearing email. we know that darrell issa has already questioned whether he has been telling the truth when he has come up here to capitol hill.

bill: mike emanuel picked up the case. story you are getting from lawmakers on how this plays out? >> a small group were briefed about the idea of trading five taliban fighters. among the questions to be asked by lawmakers, how can we guarantee the terrorists did not return to the battlefield and in the exhaust all appropriate means to avoid the exchange? john boehner says humanization cap the deal a secret over the weekend because it new congress oppose the deal and they did not find out it was done on till after the fact. we heard from diane feinstein, the top republican on these committees had to be very outspoken saying they should have been consulted, the law should have been followed and they are pretty fired up on capitol hill. bill: what are they saying about them? >> i have had several people tell me to look at president obama's 2008 pledge to close guantanamo bay. the only way he has a chance of doing that is getting rid of these five guys through a separate deal. top republican on the senate committee telling th