minds is the economy. time spent on this is time that isn't spent on the economy. if i'm northward i want to be talking about the economy, not operation fast & furious. americans already think washington is dysfunctional. they already think it many partisan politics. so they are coming into it with that viewpoint. bill: what about the charge that issa says i have to figure out why the justice department quote-unquote lied about the operation. is that not legitimate? >> at the end of the date justice department sent a letter that denied they now about the program or denied the program. it's from the atf. then they provided all this information saying we were wrong. here is all the information. is a was pretty transparent. this has nothing to do with getting to bottom of why it