wanted this to be an open session. sorted the attorney general himself. which side wins today here? i think we ll see after testimony. who will come out on top as for how this goes. i think jeff sessions has said, he has nothing to hide. he wants to get it all out in the open. absent, it is dangerous waters when you start talking about an investigation with the special counsel. all the things that have been set already. in sessions will sit on. the other thing that is interesting. if you talk about attorney general, you have relent out lynch who s in the spotlight as the clinton email investigation. you had the previous attorney general, who was censured for fast and furious, and recently, i knew fast and furious information that he was lying to the brian terry family. this is not a great succession of attorney generals.
taken almost seven years since eric holder at the attorney general of the united states lied to congress lied in contempt of congress. the only cabinet member in our history to ever be found in contempt of congress and we are now seeing we hope it a change that will mean partnership rather than opposition between the governments of mexico and the united states. and justice for the brian terry family, all border patrol agents and all americans who care about this country and law and order. kimberly: absolutely. it s almost as shocking and appalling that former prosecutors it took them this long to get these arrests and make it happen but let let s talk a little bit about the president s immigration policy. we are already seeing a deterrent effect and at the numbers really dramatically different and they were under president obama in terms of people saying wait, maybe i better not come in here.
general of the united states lied to congress lied in contempt of congress. the only cabinet member in our history to ever be found in contempt of congress and we are now seeing we hope it a change that will mean partnership rather than opposition between the governments of mexico and thepa united states. and justice for the brian terry family, all border patrol agents and all americans who care about this country and law and order. kimberly: absolutely. it s almost as shocking and appalling that former prosecutors it took them this long to get these arrests and make it happen but let let s talk a little bit about the president s immigration policy. we are already seeing a deterrent effect and at the numbers really dramatically different and they were under president obama in terms of people saying wait, maybe i better not come in here.
in all, the justice department approved the sale of some 2,000 weapons to the mexican cartel. now i am told that he is tied to the scene by according to five others who are already in prison, he fired the shot that killed agent terry. kimberly, back to you. kimberly: william, thank you. it joining us now with reaction from the fox business network, lou dobbs. you covered the story extensively. how big of a disaster was this fast and furious operation? a disaster for the obama it administration, the family of brian terry, for all americans who care about our border security and law and order. this was a disaster for the obama administration in retrospect now because what happens after two months of president trump being in office? another one of brian terry s killers has been released in mexico. under president obama, for nothing to happen now
writing about the issue arising from his or her duties, while still acting in the special agent capacity. so if he wants to write the book, veal to quit. he ll have to quit. but the problem with this is that the atf is being inconsistent. i asked them for that statement. they came back with that. but there was nothing in the denial letter that stated anything about compensation or profiting. the letter specifically stated they didn t want him to publish this book, which is already written, by the way. they ve seen the manuscript. they know what he s going to say. they don t want it published because it will hurt morale. it has nothing it do with compensation and atf didn t ask him if he was being compensated, not to mention i reached out to the brian terry family to see how they feel about this. they want it published and they ve also said if atf has nothing to hide, why not let john doddson publish the book? brian: thanks so much. thanks for doing the research and we ll see if the