Schumer voices confidence in Holder and says immigration reform is on track
Source: NBC
Amid a furor over a Justice Department subpoena of Associated Press phone records and an investigation of leaks to Fox News correspondent James Rosen, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the third-ranking senator in the Democratic leadership, voiced confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday.
“I haven’t seen anything that would prevent him from continuing to do his job,” Schumer told NBC’s David Gregory. “The president has confidence in Holder and I believe he’s going to stay,” the New York Democrat said.
In the Rosen case, Schumer said, “I don’t think there’s perjury” in what Holder told the House Judiciary Committee last month when the attorney general said that he doubted it would “wise policy” to prosecute news media organizations for publishing classified information in the national security leaks case.
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Schumer said, “We’re going to put immigration on the (Senate) floor starting on June 10. I predict it will pass the Senate by July 4. We are hoping to get 70 votes, up to 70 votes, which means a lot of Republicans. And we’re willing to entertain amendments that don’t damage the core principles of the bill, but improve the bill – just as we did in (the Judiciary) committee.”
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I wish they would leave Eric Holder alone he is a great Attorney General. The GOP needs to shut the f---k up. LEAVE ERIC HOLDER ALONE!!!! AND LEAVE PRESIDENT OBAMA ALONE ALSO F---K WITH YOUR PARTY NOT MINE A--HOLES.
