[Blitzer:] We'll be speaking later this hour with the head coach of the Rutgers University basketball team. That's coming up more on the Don Imus uproar. But there's some other important news we're following. Over at the Justice Department specifically, there's even more heat on the attorney general, Alberto Gonzales tonight. And it's coming from the U.S. Congress. Let's bring in our congressional correspondent Andrea Koppel. Andrea, the gloves sort of came off today, didn't they?
[Andrea Koppel, Cnn Congressional Correspondent:] They really did, Wolf, and you saw House Democrats really flexing their new legislative majority when they slapped the attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, with the very first subpoena since the investigation into the firings of those eight U.S. attorneys first began. They say they want lots of documents, new documents and big sections from existing documents that they have that they say were blacked out the Department of Justice said for privacy concerns Wolf.
[Blitzer:] So is the Department of Justice going to go along with this or will they resist?
[Koppel:] Well it's hard to say right now. I think it's really a case of who's going to blink first. They say that they want to cooperate, but they say they already have cooperated. Remember, next Tuesday, Gonzales is going to be in the hot seat over in the Senate. He's going to be testifying before the Judiciary Committee. And we heard one of the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Schumer today saying, hey, if we don't get those documents, not just in the House, but over in the Senate before he testifies, he may have to come back a second time Wolf.
[Blitzer:] Well, OK, we'll cover that next week as well. Thank you, Andrea, for that. Meanwhile, the vice president, Dick Cheney's old company Halliburton says it has finally wrapped up its work in Iran this, years after the U.S. government began investigating a possible violation of a ban on such activity. Let's go to CNN's Tom Foreman for the latest Tom.
[Tom Foreman, Cnn Correspondent:] Wolf, Halliburton says they finished phasing out their work in Iran, but the big question for many people here in Washington is what were they doing there in the first place?
[Foreman:] American companies and citizens cannot legally do business with Iran. It is forbidden under the U.S. government's economic sanctions against that country, but Halliburton got around that problem by using a foreign subsidiary, which they own. And that's why critics say Halliburton was relying on a loophole.
[Charlie Cray, Dir. Center For Corporate Policy:] Well, Halliburton set up this bogus brass plate subsidiary in the Caymans in order to effectively say that they had this company that was incorporated offshore.
[Foreman:] Halliburton was subpoenaed by the government in 2004 over transactions with Iran. Its subsidiary provided about 30 million to $40 million worth of services to Iran each year, but Halliburton says that's only one percent of its overall business. It maintains the subsidiary's work in Iran complied with U.S. law and was carried out by non-American personnel. Halliburton has not reported any further investigative activity, but at least one senator still wants to close the loophole that Halliburton used.
[Sen. Frank Lautenberg , New Jersey:] This should have been done some time ago, during the time that they were helping Iran increase its revenues. Helping them produce their oil.
[Foreman:] The issue has become political in part because when Vice President Dick Cheney was head of Halliburton, he opposed the sanctions on Iran, saying quote, "we're kept out of there primarily by our own government. I think that's a mistake." But asked about it in a 2004 debate, the vice president seemed to reverse himself, saying he supports U.S. sanctions on Iran.
[Richard B. Cheney, Vice President Of The United States:] At the time I was talking specifically about this question of unilateral sanctions.
[Foreman:] Next door to Iran in Iraq Halliburton has one fewer headache than last week. The company says it has finished splitting off Kellogg Brown and the KBR unit which the Pentagon's inspector general accused of mishandling government contracts there in Iraq Wolf.
[Blitzer:] We're also following that other development, Halliburton's decision to move their offices, at least for the chairman and the CEO, to Dubai from Houston. I know congressional investigations are underway and the full impact of what that means for this company. Tom Foreman reporting thank you. Still ahead tonight here in THE SITUATION ROOM, the coach of the Rutgers University women's basketball team joining us here in THE SITUATION ROOM what will she say when she meets Don Imus face-to- face? Plus, the test results are now in. We're going to find out who the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby really is and why this isn't necessarily the end of the story. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM.