mr. eric howes? director of government and public affairs maine yankee. and daniel s. metlay, senior professional staff, u.s. nuclear waste tactical review board. dr. metlay, good to see you. is it mr. or doctor? which do you like to be called? all right. mr. it is. mr. andrew -- and is it orrell? with the emphasis on the first or second syllable? orrell. like oral surgery? all right. we'll alternate that. dr. andrew orrell, director of nuclear energy and fuel cycle programs, sandia national laboratories. we'll ask you to hold your statements to about five minutes. if you go way beyond that we'll have to rein you in. we're glad you're here. appreciate your participation and preparation. mr. fettus. [ inaudible ] >> there you go. might want to turn that mike on so we can hear you. >> i thank the chairman and ranking member for inviting nrdc to share its views on the potential legislative outcomes of the president's blue ribbon commission. i've submitted written testimony to be submitted in the record. and i'll focus believely on two points now. point one, in new legislat

mr. terry's death if you didn't do that how do you respond to that. >> and eric hold certificate first attorneyeral to make a mistake or do something slightly outside of the law. in this cubs ry we have never had an attorney general do anything illegal or immorallal. where is john ashcroft, i would like to talk to him about that. >> john: exactly. the project gun runner which is umbrella this began under you know who has president. i want to turn to the campaign trail. i have been dieing to ask you about the governor, please listen to how mitt romney described the president's health care reform today. >> i will repeal obama care. i can't afford another 2 trillion-dollar entitle: everybody likes free stuff there is no free stuff when government has to pay and tax american people or when it borrows from future generations. and obama care is depressing job growth. >> john: that is funny for so many reasons. the cb on. said it would help the deficit. it hasn't been implemented yet. corporations want to hire young people because under obama care they are covered under their parent's insurance until

how a bill becomes law, but a civics answer to what mr. romney said was that bill was never going to become law. the mouse of representatives, eric representatives, eric cantor, the majority leader said today will vote july 11th and the republican controlled house will presumably vote to appeal the affordable care act. it will go to the senate where the democrats control the game and will not pass there. even if there's a president romney next year and even if he has a republican controlled house and senate, the democrats have enough votes in the senate to hang up a full repeal besides which even the republicans want to hold onto some of the provisions, the elements that require or allow the coverage of adult children up to the age of 26 and there are other provisions that are politically popular. so it's understandable from a political sense that the candidate would say something so black and white as he would repeal it, but in actual fact that's not going to happen. >> michael doyle, certainly a historic day and very interesting watching all this unfold today. thanks for being with us tonight. >> my pleasure. pleasure. >>> mean

how they feel about it? they'll never do it again. >> kimberly: do you think they shouldn't be suspended? >> dana: i don't know. i've neverren in that position of authority. >> kimberly: mr. bolling? >> ericar-old. they're brutal, mean. i can see in groups they can be even worse. there is a case in florida, i think a 14-year-old, kimberly, killed somebody and tried as an adult; is that right? why the heck can't we go harder? forget suspension. throw the kids in juvenile for a year or two. i mean this is terrible. people die from bullying. kids are killing themselveses from being bullied. >> kimberly: you are preaching to choir here, being juvenile prosecutor. >> juan: kids are jerks a lot of times. throw them in jail now? you are cranky tonight. look, these guys, behaved horribly. don't suspend them. it's not about suspending. they should stay in school. i think they should be held up to scorn, public scorn. i like having them have to account for what they did. let them try to explain to the peers this was a cool thing to humiliate them. >> kimberly: greg, you had, did a monologue on this. you had interesting perspective. >> greg: singapore has the right, institute caning. i like to be ca

how serious it is. megyn: meantime amid the heat that mr. holder is getting from the republicans, a long-time political friend of eric holder, and a top democrat, is now taking issue with the fact that not more members of his party are doing more to defend the embattled attorney general, calling the silence among democrats, stunning and shocking. lanny davis is the former special counsel for the clinton administration and he joins us now by phone. lanny, thanks so much for being with us. apologize to our viewers for the phone because that is best we could do for today. we've heard so much from the republican side of the aisle but you're right very little comparatively from the democrats to defend mr. holder. why do you think that is? >> well, i'm not sure, to be fair here, i have a great deal of respect for senator mccain and senator graham and when they're serious about something it is in my judgment not by partisan motives. i will disagree with their view of the facts and ask fellow democrats to say what imabout to say. number one, eric holder's integrity is beyond reapproach. the suggestion by senator cornyn which is very disappointing impu

eric holder. we're going to hear a lot of folks say how historic this day is. mr. nugent: this historicness is why it provides for separate debate on the charges as well as motions to recommit both resolutions. i don't want to put words in his mouth but i'm sure and willing to met that mr. mcgovern is sitting over there getting ready to tell me it's not enough time. i'm not going to disagree. as we all know before we leave friday evening to go to work in our districts, we have a lot to get done here. we need to re-authorize our highway and infrastructure systems work need to save college students and recent graduates from student loan interest rates two days away from doubling. we need to move forward with the open amendment process and consider bills to fund our transportation and housing perhaps programs. that's a lot to get done in two days and if we didn't put a time limit on today's contempt debate, we could spend days on end talking about just this one issue. but behind all that, behind floor schedules and expiring authorizations, we're left with this truth.

how are you doing? martha: i'm doing fine. good morning. i'm martha maccallum. this morning's hearing comes on the heel after that big meeting yesterday evening between eric holder and congressional republicans. mr. holder showed up empty-handed in terms what they were looking for and the 20-minute sit-down fell flat. >> we hope and some news services reported they expected documents to be delivered. we never expected to get all the documents. >> i want you all to understand we never moved toward contempt until the flow of meaningful documents dried up. brian terry is dead. he is dead with weapons allowed to walk by our government. in fact then false statements were made about letting guns walk. holding the people responsible for brian terry's death within the justice department is critical to the family and to me. holding responsible for false statements made to congress on, that the american people relied on for eight months is also important. bill: now a vote on contempt. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on the hill. what do we expect today, mike? >> reporter: hi, bill. in about an hour we expect the house oversight committee to get together to meet to prepare a contempt

how are you doing? martha: i'm doing fine. good morning. i'm martha maccallum. this morning's hearing comes on the heel after that big meeting yesterday evening between eric holder and congressional republicans. mrute sit-down fell flat. >> we hope and some news services reported they expected documents to be delivered. we never expected to get all the documents. >> i want you all to understand we never moved toward contempt until the flow of meaningful documents ie