lawmaker leading the charge against what he is suggesting has been a coverup at justice. congressman darrell issa. welcome back to the program. this is a different committee today the attorney general was before. i want your reaction to that. at the end of the day he stopped it. thin want to talk to you about something else he said. one of the reasons we doubt legitimacy of that claim is because on february 4 when we received what was a false letter that has been retracted, lanny breuer, one of his chief aids, was in mexico lobbying for more gun walking. additionally the evidence shows humane zapata was killed with a similarly controlled weapons. we need to get to the bottom of it. the inspector general has 80,000
past practices with the doj, what more do you want? everyone can talk about what s consistent. we have lots of examples for the documents we wants. but there is nothing consistent in doj with lying to congress and delivering a document that was falls on its face that had to be retract, and last but not least it s inconceivable that lanny breuer didn t tell eric holder that he was in fact going to mexico to support and promote more gun walking even on the day we were being given a false document. megyn: lanny breuer heads up the criminal division at the doj. he s trying to extend gun walking in connection with the mexican authorities who flat turned him down. here is the point you won t hear from juice is. they have give d you won t hear from justice. we could have a document fights,
isn t this the height of using some kind of demagogic kind of politician politics when we ought to seriously be trying to find out what went wrong and how to correct it? no doubt about it. i don t in many instances it was an effort to truly address what did happen. now keep in mind as you said at the beginning of your broadcast, this stuff started this actual gun walking started back in 2006. went on in 2007. and then it continued for actually three operations under president bush. when the justice department higher ups found out about gun walking, the first thing they did, they said, look. we ve got to stop this. basically it was run from the phoenix office of the atf. and it was a bottom-up operation. again, eric holder never did not know about these tactics. when he found out, he immediately requested an ig investigation and immediately said we are simply not going to
holder was not aware of. now is seems to be clear. if holder says i didn t know about it months later and now says weeks later. he knew about fast and furious not the gun walking, two issues here. to be candid and honest with the house government committee and apparent to me that he wasn t. the media, the difference between the gun selling and gun walking. you re not answering my question. i didn t hear the question. my point was as always, the issue and coverup. holder knows about the issue and certainly the coverup we re about to take a break, if you see something of media bias, e-mail us, news watch the@foxnews.com. why hasn t president obama done more sit-down interviews than presidents of the past. guess what? president obama has done more media interviews than the past presidents, what does it tell us. and supporters prepare to battle against obama and the
telling holder about fast and furious. did you ever authorize the controversial tactics employed in operation fast and furious, the noninterdiction of illegal forms in order to build a bigger case? not only did i not authorize those tactics, when i found out about them, i told the field and everybody in the united states department of justice that those tactics had to stop, that they were not acceptable and that gun walking was to stop. reporter: now, big picture the intent of fast and furious as we go back 13 months or more was to go after a gun-smuggling unit. now, specifically the atf was after three people. the ringleader and two cartel associates, the money men, jon. this report, a report released last night by the committee says that the atf knew the identity of the ringleader within three days of starting the investigation and had the names of the big fish or the cartel