never any connection with this program with gun control. in fact, it started under the bush administration, all these kinds of programs, and that administration was not exactly for gun control. what role does the president play in this in talking to his party members in the house to get their heads screwed on right about this? does he play any role at all? i you know, i don t know that the president is going to be persuasive of these guys, from west virginia, the guy mathison from utah, but john dingell, the dean of the house, and always stood with the nra had the decency today to stand up and say i m not going to vote with this. it s out of bounds. this is an improper investigation. if the nra really cared about gun walking which didn t happen here, but really cared about gun walking, guns getting into the hands of drug dealers, they wouldn t be stopping background checks at drug shows because an awful lot of guns walk out of those shows. what is the political faloét of this?
toward tracing their way through the cartels. instead, as we, the house oversight committee and other organizations were led to believe, the atf lost track of those weapons. some were brought back into the country. two were found at the scene were border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now, tonight though, after six months of reporting, fortune magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line, letting guns walk was not i repeat, not part of the plan. she writes, five law enforcement agents directly involved in fast and furious tell fortune that the atf had no such tactic. she goes on to say, they insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. just the opposite. they say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws which stimied them at every turn. the house oversight committee is slamming is the story. we ll get to that in
trard toward tracing their way through the cartels. instead, we, the oversight committee lost track of those weapons. some made them back into the country. two were found at the scene were border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now, tonight though, after six months of reporting, fortune s magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line, letting guns walk was not i repeat, not part of the plan. she writes, five law enforcement agents directly involved in fast and furious tell fortune that the atf had no such tactic. she goes on to say, they insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. just the opposite. they say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws which stimied them at every turn. however, committee chairman, darryl issa, declined to come on this program to elaborate. committee member john is going to join us in
story. just hours from whether to cite attorney general eric holder for contempt of congress, a heavily researched story suggests that the scandal at the center of tomorrow s vote may not have been a scandal at all, or at least not the scandal we ve been led to believe it is. here s what they thought we knew about the atf operation known as fast and furious. so-called straw buyers from mexican drug cartels were allowed to buy guns in the southwest. then those guns, thousands of them, were allowed to walk or be smuggled into mexico with an eye of tracing them through the cartels. instead, we, the oversight committee lost track of those weapons. some made them back into the country. two were found at the scene were border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now, tonight though, after six months of reporting, fortune s magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line, letting guns walk was not i
we want to get right to it now. we are less than 24 hours away from a supreme court rule ing that will affect a president and the legacy and the race for the white house and the future of medical care in this country. of course, we are talking about the decision on president obama s health care reform law. been dubbed as obama care as it has been become known here. and as we count down to the ruling tomorrow, we are taking an in-depth look at what is at stake, and the possible outcomes and the court s impact on the decision of all of our lives. and starting us off is athena jones, and jeffrey toobin with a breakdown of the legal issues. athena, the nation is on pins and needles, and do you get that sense at the white house? the mood, what is going on? well, certainly, something that they are watching very, very closely and the president s biggest and cigsignature legislative domestic accomplishment here. he has spent a lot of political capital on this, and the president con