full disclosure, i am a member of the white house press corps. well, technically the white house press corps reserved. one weekend a month. and last friday i even mixed it up with the president. >> it is the right thing to do. >> hey, that's willford brimly's catch-phrase. >> excuse me, sir. >> stephen: it's the right thing to do. that is willford brimly's oatmeal catch-phrase. why are you stealing from willford brimly. >> it's not time for questions. >> you want some oatmeal? >> not while i'm -- >> it's the right thing to do. let's argue about it. >> i didn't ask for an argument. i'm answering your question. >> you don't want to argue. you don't want oatmeal. there's no open bar. this wedding sucks. i'm out of here. (cheers and applause) >> after that exchange, this bowl of oatmeal got a show on box news-- fox news. we'll be right back. chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. geico, see how much you could save. >> well-- welcome back, everybody. folks, thank you so much. i don't have to tell you i have th

full disclosure, i am a member of the white house press corps. cally the white house press corps reserves. one weekend a month. >> it is the right thing to do -- >> hey! that's wilfred bremley's catch phrase. it's the right thing to do. that's wilfred brem lee's oatmeal catch phrase. >> it's not time for questions, sir. not while i'm speaking. i didn't ask for an argument. i'm answering your question. >> you don't want to argue. you don't want oatmeal. there's no open bar. this wedding sucks! i'm out of here. >>> still ahead on "way too early", your tweets, texts and e-mails are next. ♪ i'd like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios! mom, are those my jeans? [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios and he didn't stop for three days and nights as he escaped life as a child soldier. twenty years later, he was still running, he just had a different thing driving him. every step of the way. ♪ visa. supporting athletes and the olympic games for 25 years. join

. >> the white house press secretary was pushed to explain why the administration was so confident the leak did not come from pennsylvania avenue. >> internal investigation. >> i can tell you that this administration -- i mean this white house under the guidance of the president takes very seriously the need to protect classified and sensitive information. >> veteran of the bush justice department the attorney general seems to follow well established procedure. >> but i think one slight twist it's unusual in that he is having a u.s. attorney from the district of columbia investigate conduct that apparently occurred in the district of columbia. >> in addition to fast and furious, the attorney general could expect aggressive questioning from lawmakers tuesday on the scope and the independence of the leak investigation. holder's aperience on capitol hill is the first since the two u.s. attorneys were appointed. >> pick this up with the panel as well. thank you. >> commerce secretary bryson is back in washington after being cited for felony hit-and-run tied to two traffic accidents in los

he was one of the more disruptive journalists in the white house press corps. im and i think he is a good reporter but this raises a question in my mind, why in the world, dana explained that the white house press association gives out passes. i would no more give a pass to daily caller as want to get a bad case of measures. they are a right wing group, they're not reporters. who is this jerk? >> eric: there are two issues. was the guy right in questioning the president? right in the meth of doing it? was domson right to bring in racecars? should they be allowed in the press conference? >> dana: sometimes a president takes question after a statement. sometimes they don't. you don't usually do it in the middle of somebody's statement. more like as ending. i understand the frustration you have a big announcement. why now? the timing was in question. they probably had a feeling that obama wasn't going to answer any questions. at least nobody threw a shoe at the president. got to remember that. >> greg: good point. i am so against this gazing. do you think the left

or not people in the white house knew of this operation at the time and provided that, provided that -- let me finish please, ed and provided that last fall. >> jon: the white house press secretary jay carney this week giving us take on the fast and furious investigation to our chief white house correspondent at fox news channel, ed henry and jim, i guess he's right about one thing, because fox news has been covering this story since the get-go, but so many other news organizations have not been. why not? >> well, it would almost make you think that they're thinking more like political partisans than investigators. it's astonishing to see from "the washington post," oh, yes, normally i'm from full disclosure and normally letting truth-- after all i'm a reporter and a journalist, of course in this case, no, no, we can't do anything to hurt president obama. that's pretty astonishing, where you forfeit your journalistic credentials in favor of supporting just a politician. >> and the coverage of this story from nbc, not a lot from the new york times. why do you think the story was ignored so long. >> i don't think the story is ignored. we heard about it in many, many plac

so it's hard to swawl oh the white house press corps not asking specific questions like when i was the white house press secretary. in that issue, no one died. no u.s. agents were killed because of guns allowed to walk into mexico that we lost track of. i don't think it's unreasonable for the american people and the congress to be asking for those answers. >> greta: if you dig into it, you get way into the weeds and do the hair-splitting and why this is different. but the bottom line is that congress has asked for documents and subpoenaed them and the justice department is saying no. and the president says executive privilege. so, you know, it does nothing but raise suspicion. it is completely rational to be suspicious. even if they have an air-tight, legitimate reason, especially when you have the justice department recalling the letter for having false information, republicans say it was deceitful, they say it was a mistake. there is enough smoke for people to be suspicious. >> you would imagine they could reach an accommodation where issa could look -- >> greta: justice claims they

he addressed the economy and debt crisis in europe had a brief press conference this morning in washington. >> the president took the podium in the white houseress briefing room to talk about the economy. he has an eye on your query debt crisis could tip the region back into recession. >> the sooner that they act, and the more decisive and concrete their actions, the more markets will regain confidence. >> with a weakness in the world economy he presses congress to pass a jobs bill that he sent to the last year. >> they left most of the jobs plan just sitting there and in light of that witness that we're facing right now, i urge them to reconsider. >> he says that there is already money set aside for projects that will give construction workers, teachers, police, and firefighters, back on the job. as the president fights to keep his job he is hearing from voters that the economy is the number-one issue and the republican white house hopeful sees it as the president's number one weakness. >> my douby list is written on my part in the first three entries are these " jobs, jobs, jobs " i will go to work to get america working again. >> the jobs

then he also found out that the white house press room and the white house mail room was receiving lots of black umbrellas reminiscent of chamberlain's yielding at mun itch saying that kennedy was like chamberlain. he couldn't take it. he decided he had to do something. the person who was the head of usia at the time was edward r. moro. a great man. he happened to be in berlin at the time. he went into east berlin and looked around. that's why he sent a cable to kepd. the american people were very upset. kennedy had to do something. so he called a man whose name he knew. called lucius clay. general lucius clay who had run the berlin airlift 1948, 1949. a prominent republican, more responsible than anybody else for the nomination of general president eisenhower. and he wanted something from the other party to be with him. and he asked clay what he should do. clay said this is a very serious moment. you have to do something. you have to react. if you don't react. they'll keep piling in. what should i do, kennedy said. what you should do, clay said is send extra brigade to west berlin to s

so it's hard to swawl oh the white house press corps not asking specific questions like when i was the white house press secretary. in that issue, no one died. no u.s. agents were killed because of guns allowed to walk into mexico that we lost track of. i don't think it's unreasonable for the american people and the congress to be asking for those answers. >> greta: if you dig into it, you get way into the weeds and do the hair-splitting and why this is different. but the bottom line is that congress has asked for documents and subpoenaed them and the justice department is saying no. and the president says executive privilege. so, you know, it does nothing but raise suspicion. it is completely rational to be suspicious. even if they have an air-tight, legitimate reason, especially when you have the justice department recalling the letter for having false information, republicans say it was deceitful, they say it was a mistake. there is enough smoke for people to be suspicious. >> you would imagine they could reach an accommodation where issa could look -- >> greta: justice claims they

this is a message you will hear from the white house briefing today. the white house is pressing the message if americans think the economy is struggling now it would be worse if the republicans had the white house. here it is from the president. megyn: molly, we'll stand you by. our apologies. we want to dip into this white house press briefing right now. jay carney being asked about syria. not preparing to cancel this helicopter contract with the same firm in russia is is providing choppers to syria which is killing its own civilians. >> -- in different forums, the united nations the friends of syria and elsewhere to isolate and pressure assad. we've taken new steps regularly with our partners to do that through sanctions and other means to help prop up or stand up the opposition, help it organize itself. provide it nonlethal assistance and humanitarian aid to the syrian people. we'll continue to do that. meanwhile the situation in syria is obviously terrible. assad's brutality is unacceptable. he will go down in history as a tyrant who will be loathed by generations of syrians

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and if you want to be president, as you know, you have to actually speak to the white house press corpsch has members from print and tv outlets from all over the country. so if you want to look like a president and act like a president, you need to actually engage on ideas and engage the free press. >> and now the white house press corps has crazy hecklers. karen finney and ari melber, thank you both very much for joining me tonight. >> thanks. >>> coming up, one tax deduction that we know mitt romney will never want to eliminate. he actually used it on his tax return to deduct $77,000. guess what it is. little hint -- it involves a horse. and it's in tonight's "rewrite." >>> and the author of the va gina monologues here. eve ensler's play was performed on the steps of the michigan state capital tonight by the state representative who was banned from the house for using the word "vagina." [ male announcer ] trophies and awards lift you up. but they can also hold you back. unless you ask, "what's next?" introducing the all-new rx f sport. this is the pursuit of perfection. ttd#: 1-800-34

the white house press secretary bristled during questions yesterday. >> is there not a reason to find out what the department of justtijus justice knew when they were giving false information to congress? >> that was discussed including the 7,600 document provide. the issue -- i would refer to you a leading member of congress what in the republican party who said this is politics. >> do you believe there is nothing being covered up by the justice department and the white house -- >> again, the attorney general -- the attorney general -- >> and the -- >> -- referred this matter to the inspector general. the inspector general has full access to all documents we are discussing right now. >> jake tapper got a lot of face time there. the investigation began in 2010 after border patrol agent brian terry was shot and killed by a gun involved in the fast and furious program. >>> moving along, this morning jurors pick up deliberations in the jerry sandusky trial after a startling revelation. sandusky's adopted son, matt, claimed through his attorney that the former penn state coach abused him

i heard the white house press officer say the white house has absolute confidence in me. i don't have a reason to believe that's not the case. >> joining us with the fallout is doug lou sglazer. >> this -- doug luzader. >> this is turning ugly fast. holder had a tough time they refused him of stone walling. he is not playing ball refusing to disclose e-mails that could shed light on the disastrous fast and furious situation that allowed guns to go in mexico. one of the weapons was used to kill a border patrol agency. someone high up in the justice department must have known what was going on. >>> we could demonstrate that high level justice department officials know about it. he has just obstructed the congressional investigation of this to get to the bottom of it. >> holder said he was the guy who cleaned up the mess. >> i am the attorney general let's put an end to the misgu e misguided tactics that were used in fast and furious. i am the attorney general who called on an inspector general to look into this matter to investigate this matter. i am also the attorney gener

. >> kudos to jake tapper of abc who challenged the white house press secretary saying there is almost a quality of guilty until proven innocent and carney said well, this is kind of new technology that the previous administration didn't have. also not a lot of debate in the media about the wisdom of killing these guys as opposed to capturing them and getting intelligence. these people have information that could prevent other terrorists a attacks. >> we are talking about the actions of the president here. let's shift our attention to the guy from the other party who wants that office o, mitt romney. earned enough delegates this week, kirsten, to officially become the republican nominee assuming everything goes well for him at the convention and yet the press seemed to pay more attention to his associations with donald trump all week. >> it is not big news that he is the nominee. i will give them a pass on that. the obsession with donald trump is little strange. he is being asked to disassociate himself from donald trump when you rarely here barack obama being asked to disassociate fro

i read a book about obama, and i am on the list of the white house press room. what is the difference in the economical promises between obama and romney? >> they're pretty stark and straightforward. >> what romney wants to do is propose taxes and he wants to reduce regulation and i don't know exactly, he's got a number of proposals for reducing what he says are these questioning regulations on small business. he wants to roll back the dodd-frank financial reform measure that somehow would increase lending and banking ability to help the economy grow, but his essential argument is the 20% across the board tax reduction rates on businesses and individuals and also somehow capping government spending as 20% of gdp? is that what he wants to do? i don't know how he figures these numbers and they don't add up to me, but what obama wants to do is and he wants the highest salaries to lapse and extend the bush tax cuts and rest of corporate america. he essentially wants to keep the regulations in place this we have and that's just the basic argument between democrats and

. >> brenda: jonas, the white house press secretary did make clear this week that the president will not extend the tax cuts to the wealthiest americans. is that going to hurt the economy? is that going to hurt job creation? >> there's no part of the economy you can tax and not cause some sort of drag on job creation or the economy. whether it's on the upper brackets or the lower brackets. you can tax workers and all of a sudden want higher wages and that's going to hurt job creators as well. and one thing worse than raising taxes in an economy. it's when the government collapses and that's really what's happened in the other countries, not that they raised taxes and increases, but they are going under because they spend more than they raise in taxes and that's worse than what we're doing, and the reason that taxes are going up automatically next year and cuts are kicking in, because we have to do both to prevent that from happening, a good emergency solution in a government that doesn't get together and make any deals. it will be a drive, but prevent greece from happening here. >> b

yesterday a lot of people thought it sounded like booing from the boston fans, but jay carney, the white house presscretary attempted to clarify that reaction yesterday on air force one. he took up the issue telling reporters quote anyone who knows boston knows the red sox and in the room last night knows the preponderance of people shourting in response to what the president said about kevin youkilis were saying "youk" and not boo, for god's sake. with that in mind, the president may have been looking for some sports redemption last night in miami as he waded into the seemingly safer territory of congratulating the nba heat on their nba title. >> it would be incomplete if i did not congratulate the city of miami for having the world champion miami heat here in town. >> he gets a pat, miami heat, we know he knows basketball. lebron james's victory continue last night on the "late show" with david letterman, the finals mvp came out to a standing ovation. once he took his seat, dave letterman grilled him about why he took his talents to south beach. >> well now that you got this out of your system, yo

the house intelligence committee said shows how complicated this can get. some republicans, including senator john mccain, have said the leaks are coming from members of the obama administration looking to score political points. the white house press secretary jay carney says any suggestion that the white house has leaked sensitive information for political purposes has no basis in fact. senator feinstein said she expects to see some progress in the next month or so. >> what is congress looking for from the white house? >> a couple of things. they would like two notification in advance if the white house is going to release any information. >> hallie jackson, thank you. >> more big crowds expected this weekend as maryland live! experiences their first weekend open for business. even more cars jammed the road trying to get in. >> it took me an hour and have. lf. >> i turned around and went home. >> that roared should be wrapped up sometime next week -- that roadwork should be wrapped up. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. will the traffic problems at arundel mills keep you from visiting the arundel mills casino this weekend? you can share your response on wbaltv.com, on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail t

to watch the white house press core side with the president against a fellow reporter on an issue like this is gnaws yaiting. it highlights that this group is born by the white house. >> i don't want to go on adnauseam about this. just because you say you shouldn't interrupt the president in the middle of a speech -- i don't think so. >> the white house never acts in a way but will help it politically and reporters shouldn't be a part of that, and yet they are day after day. >> why are you protecting the president? >> he knows things. >> not a lot. >> by the way, quickly on the wawa thing you were talking about, here is something not being reported. the larger point, he was age the private industry is bigger than the government. he was talking about how easy it is to order a sandwich at wawa scw how hard it is to change your -- >> if only we had read the entire story. >> that's why i am hear. >> were you aware of this amazing, magical ability to use a touch pad to create a sandwich? >> no, but it doesn't strike me as magical. >> i would have the same excitement the same way you had abo

megyn: remember when president clinton came out to the white house press briefing and completely tookthe white house press briefing? remember this? they tried to warn him. it's not like they didn't know. there is the st. bernard. >> president clinton is going to joint secret service. see you guys. coming up next the high school track star running in the state championship. we saw one of her big rivals collapse. wait until you see what she did next. it's our best story of the day. up next after the break. he fought for our country in iraq and afghanistan. then he returned home to massachusetts and found himself in a battle with his would-be landlord. he wanted a place to live and she wanted to make a point. >> i personally hope everything that's happening right now is she is exposed. people like her are exposed. that situations like this which do occur brought to light. ♪[music pys] ♪[music plays] ♪[music plays] purina one beyond. food for your cat orog. to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin to