as we reported last night. cbs news investigative correspondent sharyl attkinson has uncovered some justice department memos that show attorney general holder knew about the fast and furious gun sting long before he said he did. ms. atkinson joins us from washington. let s walk through this so even i can understand it. when you found these memos, then you called the white house for comment as any reporter would. and some guy actually yelled at you? is that what happened. well, it was during reporting on some of these documents, not those particular ones. we had a conversation which you well know about and have reported on and has been duly noted. ever since and i have been moving on and trying to work on the next developments in the case. there have been quite a few. bill: let s not try to get away from this too quickly sheryl. eric schultz is hired by this white house to handle this story the fast and furious story. you call eric up and you say he was hostile?
testify and who briefed him. if you are briefing the attorney general on the fast and furious you would say here is the communications you received. he is surrounded by a bunch of nincompoops who didn t prepare him. he gets a memo in july and october. remember what the first response was when the memos circulated when the memos were known to be in existences? their response was well, he doesn t read all of the memos that arrive in front of him. where is his chief of staff making certain that every piece of paper that the attorney general gets is read and reviewed by somebody? who is reading it so that they can raise warning flags to the attorney general. and nobody in the department of justice thought that there was anything to worry about. when they get a piece of paper that says we got a program going on in which we are
i read the story and he said he didn t know about the stuff that went wrong. he didn t say he never heard about the program. he had no reason to lie period. bill: you are talking to me now, not talking to the millions of people who think you are pinhead. you are talking to me, okay. you want me to believe that the attorney general of the united states is called into a congressional hearing to investigate fast and furious. prepared by the top deputies as anybody would when you go in front of congress. he just didn t waltz in after a dunkin doughnut. was briefed. then sbs comes up with a memo and says you are telling me it is just a mistake, just a mis some misstatement? who is going to believe that
obama because he has not been radical enough. mr. obama rightly knows the vast majority of americans do not want socialism and while some of his programs are designed to redistribute income the president knows he would be doomed if he through in with the hardcore radicals. in the end the protesters don t mean very much. america is a great country. if you want to be a far left zealot you can be. just don t hurt anybody. the pro he tests remind me of the late 1960s when the power to the people movement was at its apex. eventually many of the woodstock protesters turned into ardent capitalists. just ask anybody on wall street. that is the memo. now, for the top story tonight. fury growing over fast and furious, the botched federal sting that sent american guns south of the border to trace who was buying them in mexico. the attorney general said he didn t know about fast and furious until late in the game. cbs news uncovered information
if you are briefing the attorney general on the fast and furious you would say here is the communications you received. he is surrounded by a bunch of nincompoops who didn t prepare him. he gets a memo in july and october. remember what the first response was when the memos circulated when the memos were known to be in existences? their response was well, he doesn t read all of the memos that arrive in front of him. where is his chief of staff making certain that every piece of paper that the attorney general gets is read and reviewed by somebody? who is reading it so that they can raise warning flags to the attorney general. and nobody in the department of justice thought that there was anything to worry about. when they get a piece of paper that says we got a program going on in which we are