whose states have been hit hard. and finally, colorado on fire with their governor. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. twice a week for the white house, a major victory in the supreme court followed by history of a different sort on the house floor. the president used the trappings of the white house in this case the formality of the east room to suggest in picture and in word that the supreme court ruling settled the controversy over his health care law. today s decision was a victory for people all over this country. as the president tried to close the book on the health care debate, his republican rival was writing the next chapter. obama care was bad policy yesterday. it s bad policy today. well, trying to ring the politics out of health care, the administration was equally determined to underscore the politics of capitol hill s investigation into a botched federal gun running sting. the resolution is agreed to. the republican-led house cited
we have got breaking news in the case of missing baby lisa irwin. a critical update on the piece of evidence that may have focused the police on the parents. you will hear it only here. top of the hour. plus president obama taking aim at gop yesterday on his jobs bill but was the president telling it straight? a fact check right here. and nine u.s. sheriffs want to know more about the attorney general s role in the botched federal gun running sting, operation fast & furious . so does the family of murdered border patrol agent brian terry. they join us live. all that plus rick santorum. see you at the top of the hour. jon: a fox news alert. a school on lockdown in the houston area. north forest high school on lockdown after a report of a student bringing a gun onto the campus. this all began 45 minutes ago. you see in the pictures from the kriv chopper, that the authorities are walking the
megyn: new reaction from president obama after calls for a special counsel to investigate mayor cap chief law enforcement officer. house republicans demanding an independent investigator to determine whether attorney general eric holder lied to congress. questioning his testimony about the botched federal gun running sting that may have led to the rder of an american border agent. mr. holder said he only learned about operation fast and furious in april or may of 2011. but memos show he was told about this operation nearly a year before that. so why did he tell congress it was in may or april? a short time ago president obama made it clear he stands behind his justice department. i have complete confidence in attorney general eric holder. he has been aggressive in going
mig fox news alert on call for a special counsel to probe whether attorney general eric holder lied to congress. back in may, eric holder testified about operation fast & furious, that s the botched federal gun running sting that inadvertently armed some of mexico s most dangerous criminals. we were trying to track them, instead, we armed them. the issue now is the question the attorney general was asked and his response in this exchange before congress in may of 2011: mr. attorney general, we have two border patrol agents who are dead, who were killed by guns that were allowed as far as we can tell were allowed to deliberately walk out of gun shops due to a program called fast & furious.
general eric holder cannot investigate himself. this all started back in may, when eric holder testified before congress about operation fast & furious. now, that s the botched federal gun running sting that may have led to the death of an american border agent, where we were letting people take guns down to mexico, we were going to track them to track down drug cartels. it didn t work out. we wound up basically giving guns away in a lethal way. in any event, eric holder told a story to congress about when he knew about this operation, and now, congress is firing back, suggesting he may have directly misled them in this exchange. as attorney general, we have two border patrol agents who are dead, who were killed by guns that were allowed, as far as we can tell, to deliberately walk out of gun shops under the program often called fast & furious.