decision saying montana can't keep corporate money out of its elections we'll talk with congressman adam schiff and see where the fight to get money out of politics stands after this latest blow and questions are flying around romney and obama as the campaigns heat up but there is one question no one in america is asking that maybe the most important question there is explained tonight steely take. in the best of the rest of the news with the supreme court's decision looming progressives across the nation are organizing to take advantage of a possible ruling against obamacare several progressive gloop groups including the national nurses united and the progressive change campaign committee arguing that a supreme court strike down of obamacare could renew hope for a national single payer system like medicare for all is that of green the co-founder of the p.c.c. c told t.p.m. if the supreme court opens the door for democrats to campaign in two thousand and twelve on medicare for all the republicans are left campaigning and paul ryan's plan to end medicare that clean contrasts could be the game ch

thank you for being here, congressman schiff. >> you bet.ure to join you. >> congressman, do you think that republicans will definitely go ahead with this contempt vote? >> i think they will. that's been the game plan all along. i wish i could say otherwise but this looks like a completely political exercise. in the beginning, the -- committee was demanding grand jury materials, wiretap application materials the justice department was precluded from providing. they had to walk back from that. now they are demanding information part of the deliberative process of the doj. they never turned over. but the attorney general made an extraordinary offer to do that, to provide additional extensive materials and that -- good faith offer appears has been rejected out of hand by the committee. >> let me walk through this slowly because i want -- to make sure that we all listening and myself included understand. the justice department has already handed over 140,000 documents. 7600 pages turned over. eight hearings before congress. you said that they th

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thank you congressman schiff, dana milbank, and katherine eban of "fortune" magazine.'ll be right back. i went to a small high school. the teacher that comes to mind for me is my high school math teacher, dr. gilmore. i mean he could teach. he was there for us, even if we needed him in college. you could call him, you had his phone number. he was just focused on making sure we were gonna be successful. he would never give up on any of us. >>> the republican congress may vote to hold the attorney general in context. why? i'll ask republican congressman john mica. next. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today. responsibility. what's your policy? with two times the points on dining in restaurants, you may find yourself asking why not, a lot. chase sapphire preferred. >>> we're back with more on efforts to hold eric holder in contempt of congress. some republicans have a theory on the re

we have representative adam schiff. he has specific opinions about that, and we'll discuss that.'ll go to "the war room" jeff danielss, a michigan guy and a good friend, and we're going to talk to him what it's like to be playing one of us. it will be a great night in "the war room"." >> john: brilliant. schiff is a brilliant guy and i like "the newsroom." >> i love it. >> john: more "viewpoint" coming up next.

of these numbers on a larger scale economically and politically so joining us now we've got peter schiff the president of euro pacific capital also author of the real crash how to save yourself and your country. hey there peter welcome back let's just get this out of the way how much is this a punch in the gut for the obama administration well you know i think it's going to take several more body blows between now and the election i've long been forecasting that there is a good chance that call november statistically we will be back in recession and i think the only way that maybe of lloyd that is for a huge round of quantitative easing a lot more money pretty by the fed but of course that's actually going to inflict more long term damage on economy that is already you know on the mat i want to throw sort of save the politics of this for a moment mitt romney of course took this opportunity you know to stomp on president obama's record here he was on c n b c this morning take a look. well the president's policies and his handling of the economy has been dealt a harsh indictment this morni

that was peter schiff president that europe pacific capital he also wrote the real crash how to save yourself and your country. are let's move on to a secret war that's been waged from inside the white house basically from the first day president took office it seems the u.s. has been engaged in a series of cyber attacks as part of a program called the olympic games you might remember back that cyber worm that outsiders named stuxnet that it was sent in to iran to disrupt certain aspects of their nuclear program well it turns out it was the u.s. and israel that were behind that they developed it and carried out the attack are you surprised and well you shouldn't be because we've been telling you about this for more than a year now but now david sanger of the new york times is saying it as well in his article published today it says it appears to be the first time the united states has repeatedly used cyber weapons to cripple another country's infrastructure achieving with computer code what in till then could only be accomplished by bombing a country or sending agents to plant explos

we have representative adam schiff. he has specific opinions about that and we'll discuss that.go to "the war room" jeff danielss, a michigan guy and a good friend, and we're going to talk to him what it's like to be playing one of us. it will be a great night in "the war room"." >> john: brilliant. schiff is a brilliant guy and i like "the newsroom the real world and politics collide on "the gavin newsom show." for elon musk what could possibly be next? watch "the gavin newsom show." rr >> john: know, i have to say that it's hard to be a christian and a fan of rand. that guy jesus shows up and ruins everything. that brings us to rand paul of the great state of kentucky. senator paul is the son of ron paul and he's named after ian rand. one of his heroes. ms. rand, she believe in the inherent morality of unrestrained capitalism and the inherent evil of regulation. senator paul he also believes in the government based on christian values although not necessarily christ's values because he's not really into that whole helping the poor thing jesus talked about. not government based

among those who have got holder's back and are going to vote against contempt is adam schiff, democratic congressman from california. he comes to us from washington d.c. welcome into the war room. >> governor, it's good to be with you. >> we are hearing records that democrats plan to walk out of tomorrow's vote. any truth to this? and who will they be? >> well i think some of the cbc members say they plan to walk out. >> cbc, congressional black congress. could it be more than the congressional black caucus members? >> you know, i don't know. i think a great many of us will want to be there to vote against the resolution but frankly, i can understand people wanting to get up and walk out. it's a colossal waste of time and a terrible abuse of the contempt power which ought to be used in very select circumstances, and not as a political tool but unfortunately, just about everything has become a partisan political tool these days. and that includes the use of the contempt power of congress. >>ty wonder if this fortune magazine article, i am assuming you have seen it isn't the big scandal so

schiff, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. schiff: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i rise in strong opposition to these contempt resolutions. i spent six years as an assistant u.s. attorney and i have greated a mir mation and respect for the hardworking men and women of the department. i have great respect for our attorney general who i think has been a superb attorney general and is a man of integrity. i like most americans would like to know about the facts of fast and furious, about the problem of guns crossing our border, the horrendous violence south of our border, but what we do today will shed no light on that. what we do today will not improve the situation in terms of gun violence that's claimed the lives of 10's of thousands of -- tens of tusands of mexican citizens and claimed the lives of americans. what we are doing today is simply a partisan abuse of the contempt power. 13% of the american people think highly of congr

schiff, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. schiff: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i rise in strong opposition to these contempt resolutions. i spent six years as an assistant u.s. attorney and i have greated a mir mation and respect for the hardworking men and women of the department. i have great respect for our attorney general who i think has been a superb attorney general and is a man of integrity. i like most americans would like to know about the facts of fast and furious, about the problem of guns crossing our border, the horrendous violence south of our border, but what we do today will shed no light on that. what we do today will not improve the situation in terms of gun violence that's claimed the lives of 10's of thousands of -- tens of thousands of mexican citizens and claimed the lives of americans. what we are doing today is simply a partisan abuse of the contempt power. 13% of the american people think highly of con

fifty two percent of the vote after the runoff last week his rival mubarak era prime minister ahmed schiff secured just over forty eight percent artie's paullus leader is entire here a square with the latest. the mood here is just simply electrifying when those results were announced that mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood is egypt's an ex-president the crowd filled with supreme mad and since then they've been cheering they've been shouting they've been waving flags i will cost a group of women who had linked arms and were crying they've been raining melt down in paris at the same time to see him behind me there's this constant explosion of fireworks over the streets leading to to his square are completely jam packed and they choose to cause a honk in their horns as they drive up and down the most effects announced that he is resigning from the muslim brotherhood this is a pledge he gave that he would be a non potus and president now the congratulations have started coming in one of the first to congratulate morsi was the head of the ruling military from a time tal we at the same time

be protests no one is going to be pleased with the results because the extreme in my opinion is mr schiff he wins the elections there will be massive protests and demonstrations and i think a lot of the people whether or not you are muslim brotherhood supporters or revolutionaries or reformers will actually retreat to the streets of the here and actually shout weyerhaeuser revolution gone because you cannot have a remnant of the expert lead into this new wave of transition but in the case that the muslim brotherhood candidate dr morsi wins there will be a lot of depressed revolutionaries and anti muslim brotherhood supporters will feel that egypt now is now in you know embarking on and on a different level of knowledge which will actually take place if dr morsi wins. still ahead for you this hour here on out of decision time for the u.n. trying to lead efforts to end the syrian crisis a separate war of unconfirmed reports and wild allegations heats up. also find out how america's so-called war on terror is angering the people of pakistan you can find all of this out in julian assange has

let me go back to you congressman schiff. you heard what she has said after her investigation.f her investigation is true and "fortune" magazine has printed it, why are we so far away from the truth and why is the american public led to believe there was this gunwalking operation when in fact it was not. i mean, how could this possibly happen and why are we on the verge of the attorney general in contempt. >> if those facts are correct, the reason they haven't come to the surfaceç until now is that not really been the focus of the government reforms investigation. they haven't really been interesting. how did guns so-called walk across the border, who's responsible, how did this idea come about. or did the idea in fact come about which has been popularly understood. i think the way in addition to this reporter's diligent work that we're going to get though bottom of this is not through committee work but through the inspector general investigation that the attorney general himself got initiated. i would imagine the i.g. is looking into issues that have been raised today in you

you better get out there and say the emperor has clothes congressma schiff first visit to our full-court one final question: it doesn't then go to the senate. right? >> right. >> this is a house deal? >> this is a house deal. and it will, you know go to the courts essentially. they will have to file an injunctive action after this to seek the documents. >> congressman one of the other issues that you have been very involved in and out spoken on this issue of campaign finance reform, the supreme court had an opportunity this week to say, maybe we could take another look at citizens united two years later and see how it's working and what the impact of it is. they had that opportunity with the montana law and they chose not to do so, basically saying we are going to stick with citizenship united come hell or high water. right? >> that's right. it's tragic. in the citizens united indicates, they took a narrow set of facts and which they could have had a narrow holding which would not have opened the flood gates for all of this money and decided to write the opinion in such a way that it com

and thomas peters cultural director for the national organization on marriage first thomas peter schiff peter shared his views on same sex marriage take a listen well i mean as an explanation for marriage we strongly stand by the rights of gay and lesbian people around the world to have their core civil liberties understood and respected where we draw the line is the issue of marriage we believe marriage is the issue is a union of one man and one woman and so as far as you know things are nationally we support human rights of all people but the question i think is really where you draw human rights where you draw that line well that's a good point thomas you know the greatest threat to gay people around the world is the spread of radical islam and brutal dictators and in some places gay people are actually killed simply for being gay and i believe that freedom is freedom for everyone and it shouldn't in our borders and freedom is freedom thomas and you have arbitrarily drawn the line but the fact of the matter is it is our moral obligation as americans to spread freedom throughout the w

schiff, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. schiff: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i rise in strong opposition to these contempt resolutions. i spent six years as an assistant u.s. attorney and i have greated a mir mation and spect for the harorking men and women of the department. i have great respect for our attorney general who i think has been asuperb attorney general and is a man of integrity. i like most americans would like to know about the facts of fast and furious, about the problem of guns crossing our border, the horrendous violence south of our borr, but what we do today will shed no light on that. what we do today will not improve the situation in terms of gun violence that's claimed e lives of 10's of thousands of -- tens of thousands of mexican citizens and claed the lives of americans. what we are doing today is simply a partisan abuse of the contempt power. 13% of the american people think highly of congress and t

and the owner of the post dorothy schiff said don't be ridiculous. if they can parody the post they can write for it. hire them. and that is how i got a tryout. >> rose: so you are now reporting and now a reporter. >> yes. >> rose: this must have been a happy time, huh. this was what -- >> oh, i was in-- it was bliss. >> rose: why did you grow tired of journalism? >> well, i done think i grew tired of journalism. but i mean i don't-- i had never made a decision that i was going to leave journalism. but when i had my first child, i had just started to write movies. and i thought well, i can't go on doing journalism because i have a baby and i can't go and do these long reporting pieces that i was doing in esquire. and i was writing columns. and they all required sometimes a week, a month of going away and reporting the story. i couldn't see how i would do it. so i thought well, i will just go on writing movies for a wile and then i'll get back to my real work. but then hi a movie made. >> rose: what was that. >> silkwood. >> rose: the first one. >> an

i saw you last night and talking to adam schiff. he said this is about politics. is that's what's going on here? >> i think that clearly the way it appears. when you look at the fact that the attorney general has said i will hand over the documents, met with issa and it seems like whatever it is that issa wanted was being made available, that's not good enough. they want a contempt vote. and where will the contempt vote go? it goes before the house, likely pass because it's majority republican. and then it goes in the court. so we're not really going to see answers to why this agent was killed. we really going to see a cloud over the attorney general's head which is good for commercials during an election. if they really want to pursue what happened and what made fast and furious go where it went, they would start at the beginning which happened in '06 under the bush administration, we'd be talking about what started the program, how it went through hernandez and '07. >> you are not arguing there's not legitimate questions. >> not only am i not arguing it, i don't

er schiff -- sheriff dive teams have searched this reservoir and others many times before. video from their numerous searches. this is the first time they are using this equipment. it was paid for from private donations. this new equipment is supposed to provide them with a much legaller -- clearer picture of this water and they hope to find more clues in the disappearance of sierra lamar. she disappeared about three months ago. investigators believe she was kidnapped and murdered. but she's not been found and this case has unfortunately generated some hoaxes. somebody created a facebook account with the picture of her, took an instagram picture of a message and that post went viral. there was an address mentioned and the police checked out the address and determined it was all a hoax. dive teams and search crews are gonna be out here. they will be combing through the reservoir here, back to you. >> thank you. >>> 7:31. in vacaville, investigators are trying to figure out what started a fire that damaged three homes. the fire started just before 8:30 last night on ironwood

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and they've let ron paul and peter schiff have the conversation.hink, is shocking and jarring for several years into it. there's this understanding that we all circled around wagons and we don't air our dirty laundry. you tell other economists we need to be doing more, but nobody else has allowed. >> i think also part of the problem with the whole monetary discussion is when we talk about the fed, it seems like we're only talking about the issues within the fed. and i don't hear people generally talk about in ways that the average person could understand how it relates to the larger jobs. any idea that ben bernanke without the idea that he, too, is part of a larger political structure and problem challenge that we need to deal with the whole i shall shoes of the kind of political roadblock of going around the economy. >> and that's where these critiqu critiques, there's interesting axes upon which these debates are about. it's sort of left right and there's also long term, short term. there's also did we have this coming, in a way, this crisis? or

institute for america's future and the co-director for the campaign for america's future and peter schiffeuro pacific capital and author of the book "the real crash: america's coming bankruptcy, how to save yourself and your country." welcome, gentlemen, nice to have you. >> pleasure to be here. >> thank you. jenna: we have two big campaign speeches coming up today, both supposed to be on the economy. when we keep on seeing numbers like this, bob, one has to question what we're hearing about there being no new ideas presented by either side when it comes to the economy. are there any new ideas out there that the american people should be asking for? >> well, i think there's some new bad ideas out there that the american -- jenna: ah, but that's not the question, bob. >> in terms of getting the economy going, i think there's been a set of ideas put out, it's just we have gridlock here in washington and a republican congress that's intent on doing nothing as far as we can cel. jenna: republican congress, peter. if that was different, would things be better? >> well, i doubt it. first of all

by the way representative adam schiff who sat right in that chair before from the great state of californiaructive trade we have with mexico. >> stephanie: gawker fun facts. not the place you would normally go. >> it was really well -- >> stephanie: john cooke at gawker. [ applause ] the fox news -- the republican party has concluded obama is a 21st century nixon because he tried to cover up his manifest crimes. hey, only republicans are allowed to do that. he breaks it down, right chris? he basically says here is a list of the things you're likely to hear and why they're lies. number one obama's attempting to cover up the white house's role in fast and furious. we just heard that clip on -- chris wallace, do you have any evidence? no. i do not. >> but i have spidey sense. it tells me that the fact that there's no evidence proves there's evidence. >> stephanie: right. gawker says [ bleep ] investigating an operation that took place from november 2009 and was launched in january of 2011 when the indictments that resulted were unsealed. obama only inserted privilege over post-february 4th doc

york city as a tabloid reporter at "the new york post" when it was owned by a woman named dorothy schiff. and i had the time of my life there. working for a tabloid is so much fun be, and it's forgiving. and the times is unforgiving because of what it is, because of who reads it. um, so i always thought that someday again i would have a life outside the times, and i also believed that most opinion columnists, most pundits stay too long. they stay to the point that readers open the paper in the morning and say, oh, that again. and i never wanted anyone to say, oh, that again about one of my columns. so i stayed just long enough to feel like i was pretty good at what i did, and then i left to be a novelist. and it, it's been a very happy confluence of crafts. >> host: anna quindlen, how long were you as "newsweek" writing columns? >> guest: for nine years, but that column was only every other week. the times' op-ed page, as most readers know, is two columns a week every week. and to have a column every other week really opens up more writing room for you. and in some ways it was a very, ve

. >> i think has congressman schiff was saying earlier, a program started under bush that eric holdercompletely unnecessary. jay carney yesterday. >> the documents over which the privilege is being inserted are internal executive branch documents that have to do with -- with response to a congressional inquiries, response to media inquiries. those kind of deliberations have been protected as a matter of separation of powers by administrations of both parties dating back 30 years. >> and the -- >> bush did it what six times? >> six times. >> and issa calls this -- this is untimely it's like he only did it because -- i'm sure he couldn't believe you were going this far with this. they were making every effort to resolve this, and they did it because they felt they had no other choice. >> and issa is doing it because it's an election year. >> that's right. >> daryle mccarthy has -- [♪ circus music ♪] >> joe mccarthy. >> yes. >> they are on a fishing expedition. >> yes. i'm sorry i screwed that up. joe mccarthy. that's what a listener pointed out. [♪ circus music ♪] >> what a tax hole. >>

two members of congress, joe courtney and adam schiff joining us with all of the rest of you right here"