they ll pack they ll get on every single slice. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re expecting a vote in the house of representatives. the house oversight committee at any moment now on whether to hold the attorney general of the united states, eric holder, in contempt of congress. at issue, his refusal to turn over documents about the botched gun-running sting operation called fast and furious. the republican-led panel going forward even after president obama today invoked executive privilege claiming the release of the documents would have in his words, significant damaging consequences. the attorney general has refused to cooperate offering to provide subpoenaed documents only if the committee agrees in advance to close the investigation. no investigator would ever agree to that. the likes of the committee chairman. he will call the role call momentarily. want to know if senior justice officials knew if the fast and furious program was flawed. fe
religious beliefs fueled his rampage. hassan is charged with murdering 13 people and injuring 30 others in the shooting rampage that happened in 2009. his trial is scheduled for the end of august, now in the year 2012. we ll continue to bring you the latest from this developing story on happening now. . jon: a chilly meeting between the leaders of two top world powers and no agreement on what to do about the continued massacre of syrians by their own government. ambassador bolton joins us to weigh in own the tense relationship between the u.s. and russia. jenna: back on capitol hill the attorney general and members of congress investigating fast and furious struggling to even set a time to meet today. some members want more documents on that botched mexican gun-walking operation before they call off a potential contempt vote against eric holder. we have more exclusive access to the whistle-blower who blew the controversy wide open.
darrell issa has seen the wire tab requests, which have to be approved at the highest levels of the justice department, right? that s right. holder has argued that even though it may indicate some of what was going on with the gun running operation, he was saying that these officials really don t study these affidavits in detail, that they are sort of cursory and it didn t really signal to them the debacle that was to come. and so holder is still saying that nobody in his office really did anything wrong. and that is frustrating republicans as well them. want someone to be held accountable within the department of justice who knew this was happening, let it continue, and of course it resulted in the death of border patrol agent brian terry. jon: that is a little bit like richard tphaeubgs o nixon saying i didn t tell anybody to break into the watergate building. that is part of their frustration. they feel holder is not taking real responsibility. he says he s the one that put an e
and he s called for his own independent investigation into the gun-running program although everybody thinks that that is a little bit like how effective is that going to be if it s his own people investigating his own department. jon: he didn t specifically say that he put an end or ordered an end to fast and furious, right? he was talking about the previous operation that had some similar elements to it. no, i think he was saying that he the original gun-walking operation actually originated in the previous administration. he argues that he actually put an end to the entire thing, that he stopped the whole operation and that it was he who decided to cull for an investigation. he s trying to take credit for that. but of course republicans want to know how long did they know this was going on for, and what did they do to stop it, and whether or not they tried to really punish the whistle-blowers who came forward after brian terry s death and shed light on this whole operation. jo
to our nation s highest court. what a moment. but today, 45 years later, republicans are in the midst of a vicious attack campaign against the nation s first african-american attorney general. it s part of an ugly effort that began even before holder took office. and hasn t let up since. republican lawmakers are now threatening to hold him in contempt of congress. they re also calling on him to resign. it s an escalation of their attempt to attack him over a program called fast and furious. a so-called gun walking operation that was dreamed up by the bush administration and ended by holder. he made that very point yesterday. if you want to talk about fast and furious, i m the attorney general that put an end to the misguided tactics that were used in fast and furious. an attorney general who i