the bush administration. then, in 2009, in step the obama administration trying to fix the problems that the bush administration created and then ignored. the coal industry has said that the epa and obama administration are trying to shut down coal. the coal industry is perpetuating a lie that there is a war on coal and coal mining wars are under attack. this is the same false crisis that is created by this industry each time that they don't get what they want. according to recent reports by ken at the charleston gazette, coal mining jobs have actually increased by 7.4% since 2009 when the obama administration took office. ted with the west virginia center budget and policy looked at mining jobs over the last two decades, annual west virginia coal mining jobs was higher in 2011 than any other time in the last 17 years. quoting the title of daniel's article on climate progress, the war on coal is a lie invented by the coal industry. it's a multimillion dollar misinformation campaign funded by big coal polluters to distract americans from the deadly effects of coal's pollution on public health. there is a war in

the obama administration is now appealing that decision. from earlier this month, this is an hour and 40 minutes. >> under committee rule 3 e is two members. the subcommittee on energy and resources is meeting today to hear testimony on obama administration's actions against the spruce coal mine, cancelled permits, lawsuits and lost jobs. under committee rule 4 f, opening statements are limited to the chairman and ranking member. i ask any other members opening statements is submitted to the clerk by business of today. hearing no objection, so ord ordered. i also ask unanimous consent to have congressman david mckin lee of west virginia's first district with us on the day as today and participate in today's hearing. okay. so ordered. i now recognize myself for five minutes. today we will hear an update on the ongoing legacy that is the spruce coal mine in logan county, west virginia. this saga is one of the most disappointing legacies of federal bur rack si in american history. this is the story of how one agency, the obama administration's

the obama administration's war on coal could be felt throughout the country. americans should be deeply concerned with this friend and the administration's ongoing effort to retroactively pull permits, destroy jobs and hurt the committee. they would we will learn from folks that will talk about other topics than the reference for the law as demonstrated by the epa in this instance. none of that is the topic of today's hearing. >> mountain top removal mining can be one of the most destructive practices on earth for the health of local communities, our climate and our environment. according to the environmental protection agency, since 1992, nearly 2,000 miles of appalachian streams have been filled with debris resulting from mountain top removal mining. streams in appalachian are being buried at a rate of 120 miles per year. mountain top removal mining has also did forested an area the size of delaware. the epa has concluded that these mines will transform the appalachians from high quality habitats into sources of pollutants. since the bush administration appr

>> one thing that today is damning the obama administration is remember how we said a couple of nightsder was willing to show this committee documents if they stopped the investigation. yesterday the obama administration said now we're going to assert executive privilege over these same documents. here is republican from utah. >> why is it that president obama is suddenly invoking executive privilege on documents that we were told yesterday they would be glad to give us? that doesn't really add up. there's something here that we need to know about. >> hmm. there's something here. there's something going on. let's stop before we play more sound byte. here are a couple things you should know. ok? this is widely reported. basically, there's been no evidence so far no evidence that attorney general eric holder was involved in fast and furious in any way that he was involved in the operations, that he even really sort of knew what was going on until perhaps a year ago. secondly on this issue of executive privilege and whether the justice department deliberations should be turned over there

she took her case to the eeoc, the obama administration got behind her. ourt and the obama administration argued that the eeoc, the government should decide for religious institutions who were religious workers and who weren't religious workers, taking this away from the authorities of those churches and those religious organizations, and arguing that a religious institution has no more special protection under the first amendment than a country club. their position was so radical that they got a 9-0 vote against them in the supreme court. even justice sotomayor and justice kagan voted against them and john roberts who is developing a reputation for remarkable succinctness said in his opinion he found the obama administration's position remarkable, that there would be no special protection for religion in the first amendment since religion is mentioned twice. now the hhs mandate is another example of the ugly face of secularism. they want to take us from the broad uplands of religious freedom to down to a valley of freedom of worship where they will tolera

neutrogena®. >>> wednesday, july 1st, 2010 was a very big day for the obama administration. ident obama that day signed into law one of the signature achievements of his entire presidency. it was four months after signing health reform into law, but the new president put pen to paper once again and he signed into law wall street reform. two years after wall street imploded and nearly took of rest of us down with them, president obama and democrats p in congress finally brought some rules back to a banking industry that had run amuck. after signing the bill into law, the president announced to those in attendance, it's done. wednesday, july 21st, 2010, a huge day for the obama administration. a bill like that is the kind of thing presidencies are made of, and this is how "nbc nightly news" opened its show on that historic night. >> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nighy news" with brian williams. >> a short time ago in washington the secretary of agriculture entered a press conference and apologize it had to a low level employee he fired after a short

from the administration and the administration at some point says no and we have a back-and-forth that usually involves executive privilege and/or contempt and the sense of a blowup and this was the obama administration's turn at that. gwen: this was this week's blowup. i wish we had another hour and a half to talk about this. it was a fascinating week. about the more immigration decision online tonight in a special town hall. our partners in tucson and san diego are part of the fronterra staging america desk will join in. you can when we post it online. wherever you are have weekend, stay cool. have a wonderful fourth. funding for this washington week is provided by -- >> a line is a powerful thing. it connects the global economy to your living room, cleaner air to stronger markets, factory floors to less crowded roads. today's progress to tomorrow's promise. norfolk southern, one line, infinite possibilities. >> corporate funding is also provided by prudential financial, at&t, rethink possible. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.

the new york times has revealed president obama has waged a major cyberweapons operation against iran since the early days of his administration. the program, known as olympic games, has been used to sabotage the computer systems at iran's nuclear facilities. it began under the bush administration, but was significantly expanded when obama took office in 2009. obama decided to continue the program in 2010, even after part of it became public when it accidentally unleashed a computer worm known as suxtenet, -- across the global internet. developed with the help of israeli intelligence, suxtenet is said to have destroyed some of iran's centrifuges, but the full extent of the damage is unclear. the obama administration's cybercampaign in iran is believed to be the first sustained effort by one country to destroy another's infrastructure through computer attacks. house lawmakers have defeated the bill that would have banned abortions based on the sex of the fetus. while most legislators voted in favor of the prenatal nondiscrimination act, or prenda, it fell 30 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass. the bill would

now, i think that is fancifcifu but the iranians play on that concern of the obama administration which means if the europeans are feeling weak at the knee i'm afraid the obama administration may go along with them. >> eric: and we find out today, there may be one bright spot, ambassador, we will not have mahmoud ahmadinejad to kick around any more. the iranian president, saying this weekend, he's going to retire from politics, next year when his two terms are up. what is your reaction? >> right, well, term limits came to iran sometime back, so he couldn't succeed himself and i think he recognizes that once he leaves office his opposition as the supreme leader left him in a very difficult position. but i wouldn't take this as a sign of good news, because his likely successor will be more hard-line, more attuned to the revolutionary guards and supreme leader khomeini. >> eric: that is not good news. >> is not at all. >> dave: ambassador john bolton, good to see you, as we do every sunday. >> jamie: thank you, and next hour i'll talk to former israeli ambassador to the united nations, dan

the theory here is the obama administration sold too many guns in order to create gun violence in order to cause revolt in the american people about the horrible thing those guns are doing in order to make people feel more positive about gun control so then they could get away with taking everyone's guns away secretly some day after they stop selling the extra guns to get there. they're being super laxed in gun control as a conspiracy to be super tough on gun control. what? yes, what? this is a theory cooked up by the break their windows guy, and this is the republicans fast and furious thing that led to today's political news. this guy became the fox news channel authority on the subject of the fast and furious investigation. here he is being interviewed on fox news about fast and furious. look at him identifying himself as an online journalist. this is the break their windows break them now guy. he expounded his conspiracy theory on fox news, he fed it to jeff sessions of alabama, to chuck grassley of iowa. they listened to it, believed it, and republicans in congress have been runnin

the bush administration. and the same people who were held over into the obama administration conducted one subsequent to that. so why is not mr. issa asking for all of these records? >> and joining me now republican trey gowdy from south carolina. these are live pictures. chairman issa speaking at the rules committee meeting. thank you for your time. >> yes. >> as we see it, the ball is moving forward. there were some holding out hope that perhaps we would not see this go before the full house. i hope your mic is working here. we've got live moots. chairman issa speaking here. we just heard from james clyburn who says that this program started under the previous administration and he is wondering why the records that have been requested are not going further back from this chairman. what's your reaction to that? >> is that question to me? >> yes, sir, it is. >> well, this may shock you. i actually would agree with anyone who wants all the information irrespective of which administration it starred under. i made that point when we marked up the reasonable contempt of congress. i don't care if it's republicans

for the obama administration. this was fantastic. the fact that chief justice roberts joined in the majority and also that justice alito joined in much of the decision cast a different light as well. it's not just two blocks. there seems to be some thinking that's going on case by case and the constitution was the big winner here. >> tonight moores, thank you. always a pleasure to have you with me. >> you too, jc. >>> howard is coming up next with a very important forecast and of course the storms are in alabama and florida. i think i said something else but it's alabama and florida. howard is up next. stay with us. >>> we're watching a cold front coming through right now. a few showers and isolated thunderstorms going o. we'll take you to break with a look at live 9000 hd. keep your fingers nothing bigger pops up. the full forecast and serious heat in the seven-day coming up when 9news now at noon returns. >>> we've been coaching through the day's daily deals, e-mails and retailer websites to find you some deep d

the obama administration's has been -- usually on the condition of an nemity. mr. rikes in pakistan in january arguing they were aimed at al qaeda. so it seems as if the obama administration at least wants something known about the drone program. it makes no bones about it but says we have to stop these leaks. >> again, i think that points to the balance that i think will and i are talking about. let's be very clear. none of that was classified information that either the president was talking about or either the white house or top administration officials. if there is a consistency that needs to be fixed. if there are leaks going on that is the question and that is the investigation that needs to be had. but to go overboard and accuse the administration of doing this on purpose for political gain is beyond the pail. >> i'm going to pivot and end the conversation with something we probably can agree on. all three of us maybe. >> a great thursday. >> so bill press wants to ditch "the star spangled banner." he calls it an abomination and the lyrics are stupid, too. >>

and the democrats criticizing the obama administration. and i hope that everybody in the room duly notes that. i would point out that since the faa amendments of 2008, there has been no federal court to my knowledge that has declared any part of the faa amendments. called a clapper versus amnesty international but that is on the question of standing, rather than on the question of fourth amendment violations. it is now my pleasure to produce today's witnesses. his practice focuses on corporate internal investigation. he is also anned a junkets procedure-. mr. winestein served in the southern district of new york and the district of columbia. the area served as u.s. attorney in d.c. anding then was assistant general for national security. he is served as fbi director robert muller's chief of staff. mr. waynestein got his law degree from the university of california at berkeley. mark rottenberg is the executive director of the electronity privacy information center, known as epic in washington, d.c. and is also an adjunct professor of law. he

now we have the obama administration. we have not seen any graffiti in the oval office the we have seen the human rights envoy then went to north korea to my talk with north koreans, raised human-rights even though that was probably a relatively short conversation. with the ec as the merits and demerits of each of those approaches? >> guest: at think it's great that the obama administration has been able to make a trip to north korea, two trips are more. i think that's great. the more we can open a dialogue on these sorts of issues the better. admittedly part of what he was doing was to try to negotiate a humanitarian assistance package in terms of food more than it was to talk about human rights abuses. the fact that he was there i think is very important. the dialogue with the north koreans on human rights this kind of ridiculous. you can tell them you need to improve your human rights situation, and their response will be -- and we have had this conversation. their response will be, well, you, the united states, have hu

the bush administration. then in 2009, in steps the obama administration trying to mix the problems that the bush administration created and then ignored. the coal industry has said that the epa and the obama administration are trying to shut down coal. the coal industry is perpetuating a lie that there is a war on coal and that coal mining jobs are under attack. this is the same false crisis that is created by this industry each time that they don't get what they want. according to recent reports by ken ward of the west virginia gas set, goal mining has actually increased since 2009 when the obama administration took office. annual west virginia coal mining jobs were higher in 2011 than in the last 23 years. the war on coal is a lie invented by the coal industry. it's a multimillion dollar misinformation campaign funded by big coal polluters to distract americans from the deadly effects of coal's pollution on public health. there is a war in appalachia, believe this. this war is not on coal. this war is on the people of appalachia, coal is not our king, god is, coal is only the dictator of some. expanding any

what does the obama administration think of this new development? are reportedly relieved. this according to the new york times story. they said president obama, quote, the crisis in egypt has put him in an awkward position, champion of america's long time go and critic of america's long time ally. but who is this administration relieved to have as the egypt's next leader? well, in the past morsi has called israelis vampires and killers. and he is quoted he intends to reconsider the camp david accord. yet despite these outrageous comments, the white house is relieved? joining me now with reaction is fox news contributor liz cheney. relieved to have the muslim brotherhood? let's see, they refer to the israelis at killers, vampires, a known killer. and i want to get your take. >> you are exactly right. they said they were relieved, they have welcomed it. and, in fact, even more troubling i have heard from a number of liberals in egypt, people who should be with the united states asking why is it that the united states is now backing the muslim brother

what they're now demanding from the obama administration. ing to have more on that. >>> plus, a judge orders the mother of a 13-year-old girl to cut off her hair after her daughter is accused of cutting off another little girl's hair. are these so-called shame punishments really the answer? are they even legal? can a judge do that? our legal panel weighs in. >>> and turkey is now threatening syria with retaliation over the downing of a turkish military jet. what happens if tensions escalate even further between the two countries? does that mean we have to get involved? good questions for next hour. gregg: new fallout over executive privilege in the fast and furious investigation with the white house defending the use of the presidential power over documents related to the botched gun-walking sting. well, this as the vote looms to hold the attorney general, eric holder, in contempt of congress for not turning over the subpoenaed records. congressman darrell issa, who chairs the committee investigating fast and furious, writing in a letter that

the bottom of this. this is on going through two administrations. it started in the bush administration and ended in the obamaey general holder. the question of contempt, such a serious question. many of us on our side felt we had to lay the foundation to justify such an extreme action. the foundation would have included bringing in the attorney general during the bush administration. also, the original subpoena was very overly broad until last friday. it was literally asking the attorney general to provide information that the law prohibits him from providing like grand jury testimony. >> congressman. now we found out that attorney general holder misspoke. right? i don't think he did know. in fact, i think he hasn't been apologized to. didn't it come out as another thing that holder had to backtrack on about what was uh true? that's what started this in the first place -- erroneous statements. >> mistaken statements that the justice department has acknowledged. but if we are getting to the bottom of this, who knew what, when? that kind of question. you have to start in the beginning. the beginning was during

so this is a victory of the obama administration? is in the details, we'll have to see what that ruling says and if it is a complete victory for to the government and their case. obviously this first headline is welcome news to many in the immigrant community and many who are advocating for them and it's probably not good news author foez who figure the u.s. government isn't doing its job and that the states have to intervene and protect their own borders. as i told you, most of the folks that we usually speak with on this issue, were expecting a ruling that would be adverse to the government. obviously this changes the perception, we're going to have to see what the ruling really says, but it's very important moment for this issue of immigration and border security. as i said, carol, we're going to have to wait what the details bring, but at least this headlines creates a new scena o scenario. >> let me explain what the u.s. supreme court was deciding about this u.s. immigration law in arizona, one, as you said, whether states have

advising germany not to bail out greece and on the other side larry summers who worked for the obama administration was one of obama's advisors in that his presidency early on in response are not exactly in response but in similar timing in the washington post wrote his own op ed proposing of course the opposite a bailout and massive spending plan for europe so is this at the end of the day just a political election year strategy disguised as economic analysis and economic advice and what does that do for the presidential hopefuls we're going to talk about it also while we're on them we know that mitt romney is a little weird we know that maybe americans have a hard time relating to him for evidence just look at his saturday night live version of his sons let's watch that. well we connect with the younger voters are over thirty six war median age is thirty five we like the same things as young people such as sport. or. whether or not they're just like you america you can decide but there has been an argument that when it comes to candidates on either side of the aisle they are just like each other

. >>> washington, the debate over immigration is heating up following the obama administration's shift in immigration policy. it could affect 1 million young people in the country illegally but who president obama says are americans in every single way but one, on paper, they are immigrant as who came no-to-the was continuously resided in the country for five years. they must currently be in school, graduated from high school or be a u.s. military veteran. they cannot have been convicted of a crime and cannot be older than 30. let's talk to athena jones about this. what's the reaction to the obama administration's new policy there on capitol hill? >> reporter: well, good morning, randi. as it may not be a surprise to you, democrats are applauding this move, celebrating it. illinois senator dick durbin called it historic humanitarian moment. new jersey senator robert menendez said it's something that will change young people's lives forever. republicans are angry. they say this is an end run around congress, questioning the president's legal authority to make the move and say it could h

hand, i have to tell you that many people in the hispanic community have been ailuated by the obama administrationhas carried out over this first term for president obama. an average of 400,000 people deported every year. as you can image, most of them have been hispanics. i was talking to leaders in the hispanic community. they were telling me, we don't know which way to go in november because on the one hand, romney as a candidate has been unfriendly to our community. on the other hand, president obama has been deporting hundreds of thousands of people every year. so i'm sure this announcement today is probably going to change the equation in november. >> i think that's probably what the obama administration is looking for as well. stick with me. let's bring in jason as well as ron. candy crowley even talked about it. a majority of latinos disapproved of the obama administration's policy on immigration. i think this changes the calculous. jason, what's your take, though. voters are smart. they understand that we're in an election season. do you think this could -- is there a risk that this could

the obama administration's war on coal can be felt. east, west, apallachia and farmington, new mexico. americans should be concerned with this trend to pull permits, destroy jobs and hurt the economy. today we will hear from folks that are interested in talking about other topics than the reckless disregard for the law as demonstrated by the epa in this instance. they crew said against domestic jobs and domestic energy. i will now recognize the ranking member from new jersey, representative holt for five minutes for his opening statement. >> thank you. mountain top removable mining can be one of the most destructive practices on earth. appalachian stream has been filled with debris from mountain top removal mining. mountain top removal mining has deforced to a size of delaware. the proposed spruce number one mine in west virginia could cover seven times. it would be one of the largest individuals. the epa represent some of the last remaining resources. the epa has concluded this mine will quote transform these head water streams from hi

the obama administration is saying -- say you're with me on affordable care. they're trying to raise money. who do you think will benefit more when it comes to fund-raising off this? the winner barack obama or the seeming loser mitt romney? >> i know we love to go right to the heart of the political issue. but, again, i will say the very people out there, the millions of people who are now covered, the folks with pre-existing conditions, the folks who are sitting there, if you're a young person on your parents' health care -- let me tell you something, erin. look, i know how this feels, okay. 2000, covering the democratic national convention. my appendix ruptured. five days in a hospital in l.a. $100,000. no health insurance. had to file for bankruptcy. house almost foreclosed on. i know what it feels like not to have health insurance. and so we can get caught up in the political arena. but the reality is, we now have to deal with people who now can be protected. and so now, how do you fortify this? how do you make it better? how do you bring down costs? this i

is robust here that there might be some prospects of a solution between the obama administration and so it's doing all it can and obama from now at least from what with seen on till now. has gained the reputation of giving in and not being very strong when it comes to confronting leaders really precious so now in election year and especially where obama is trying to get the support of the conservative jewish votes i don't expect anything significant will happen from now at least until the elections take place the sanctions which the american administration has imposed to some extent that has been a factor in preventing the israelis from actually going ahead and launching a strike it's always possible that israel especially this current government might go ahead and launch a strike and this is something related to netanyahu and his own personal mission of the u.s. and that the obama administration keeps on reassuring for example that it is tackling the situation it has made the statement time and again and that actually builds genuine fears on the part of the obama administration that