this investigation and the evidence that proves otherwise. jon: eric holder has to testify before congress tomorrow right? yes, he is scheduled to testify tomorrow, which chairman of the oversight committee darrell issa will sit on. this will be a cause for many interesting conversations between the two and questions, especially since in a letter that congressman issa sent to the justice department and eric holder yesterday, which said it s time for you mr. attorney general, to hold those accountable, who in these wiretaps approved these gun walking. jon: katy pavlich. jenna: salty, bitter, sweet. a new one emerges. is fat actually a taste? we know we like things that are fattening. jon: ice cream. jenna: can we actually taste fat? if we can identify it can it
want to do a wire tap, you have to get approval from the doj. they did that in operation fast & furious and congress has been trying to figure out who signed on that at doj which claims they didn t know big about fast & furious and what do the wire taps say, because if they say a lot of stuff about the bad aspects of fast & furious, it would undermine doj s claim they didn t know anything about fast & furious or how controversial it was. here s attorney general eric holder last year: i would be surprised if the tactics themselves, about gun walking, were actually contained in those applications. i ve not seen them, but i would be surprised if that were the case. megyn: now chairman issa says the applicables for the wire taps do have the specific details and he believes that they ve been misled by the doj. joining me now to discuss t. david rifkin, constitutional law attorney, former counsel under presidents george w.
we will break down the new evidence that has the chairman of the house oversight committee suggesting the attorney general has flat out lied to the u.s. congress. plenty of shaoepl who work and continue to work for eric holder and are not being held accountable knew they were gun walking and knew they were continuing to gun-walk. as a culinary manager i make sure our guests
in february, federal agents posed as african leaders seek to go elicit bribes from u.s. firms ended when some 20 prosecution targets were acquitted or saw their cases drops. in march al jurors acquitted them legally lobbying for gameling. this was not just botched prosecutions from sort of a managerial perspective, but it was an over aggressive view of the law. if i had known what i know now, i would have told the attorney general. when brewer apologized for not raising red flags for the practice of gun walking. saying he might have been able to avert the fast and furious scandal. it. lanny brewer needs to answer further about what he knew and when he knew it. lanny brewer, the head of the criminal division, i don t think he was candid and forthright. it was overseen by the public
reporter: the administration of justice is always bound to strike some observers as tainted or politicized. privately however even justice department officials have described brewer s tenure as troubled, unwilling to categorize it as a failure but conceding a series of high profile missteps by him and his team. cases in point, doj has yet to bring charges against any big fish for the wall street meltdown. brewer had to apologize publicly for failing to raise alarms about the practice of gun walking which might have aeu srerbted the fast and furious scandal. as well his division was forced to abandon a high profile sting operation in which fed red light officials posed as representatives of an african nation looking to extract bribes from u.s. firms. there is the perjury trial of roger clemens, accused of lying to congress about his alleged use of steroids which he denies. they are presenting the case in federal district court in washington. it s the us attorney s second