bought illegally, but a gun that he bought. this story begins the day after thanksgiving when mexican police get in a shootout with the sinaloa cartel. they recover several weapons including a powerful belgian made semi-automatic traced back to the assistant in charge of atf phoenix. police trace a second weapon to the biggest buyer of guns in operation fast and furious. now investigators want to know, is this a coincidence? how does a gun belonging to the guy running the fast and furious investigation show up alongside a gun from his chief suspect at the same place, same day, same city, three years later after they are purchased a thousand miles away? why was the assistant in charge of that office buying guns in the first place? and that would raise a question,
as well, martha, quickly, the former chairman of the joint chiefs, admiral mullen said that the military could not respond in time. there are today people saying looking at this report and the timing, they didn t know where ambassador stevens was for three and a half hours. at that time they didn t know he was dead. almost five hours they didn t know where he was. and there are people questioning whether somewhere, somehow some element of the u.s. military could have responded in that time. martha: yeah, a lot of questions remain, and as you say we ll stay on it. catherine herridge has been on it as well talking about why they would have encouraged a lighter fingerprint at the same time they were saying that they thought al-qaida s presence was growing in that area which doesn t seem to add up either. thank you we ll look for you tonight on special report. bill: new details on how another gun from fast and furious wound up at another furnished scene.
supporters right now, to people who love the man. we have a combat veteran here, iraq, fallujah, who comes back to the united states with pros traumatic stress disorder. goes through a nine-month program, wants to take a vacation in costa rica, wants to bring an antique gun handed down to him by his grandfather, that was a mistake, you don t take anything into mexico. all right, mexico is a corrupt nation. he s passing through mexico to get down to coast tariq kafplt he checks in with the u.s. border authorities in brownsville, they say fine here is the paperwork, walk it across, they ll stamp it for you and you can go. they see the paperwork, all right, looks at the guy, sees the gun, arrests the guy. why did they do that? because they wanted to extort money from his family. that is what they do in mexico. it s a corrupt country. period. martha: he shouldn t have brought the gun in the first place.
we are learning the gun found at the site of a shootout where this beauty queen was killed belonged to a top official at the atf, now what was going on there? martha: an extreme rage, oh, my god, look at this video, the man goes pwe berserk in the back of the police car, what set him off. he kicked the officer in the face. he was still resisting. he would not get inside the vehicle. he was tazed in the upper torso and then retracted his legs to allow them to place him inside the video.
bochino was initially handcuffed for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. when he found out he was going to jail he lost it in the back of that car. the suspect kicked a police officer in the face, broke his nose. that is a bad scene. he was eventually tazered, and he faces a slew of charges. bad, bad situation. bill: that it will be. that shall leave a mark. martha: oh, yeah. bill: maybe a few of them. there are new developments now in the botched gun running sting fast and furious. investigators in mexico have reportedly linked a gun found at the site where this mexican beauty queen was killed, and now we are learning another gun recovered at the scene is linked to a former assistant special agent in charge of the atf in phoenix. what is going on here? william la jeunesse linking this together. tell the story, william what is up? reporter: it s a little bizarre. investigators want to know if the second man in charge of atf phoenix broke the law and ran guns to mexico. not just