arizona, for name of the brian terry border patrol station yesterday. they want answers and they want everyone held accountable ifer the initial failure. they want answers on the cover up where for ten months the miles per hour people were told they don t let guns walk. those false statements came from justice. all the way to the very top. including brewer and ultimatelier rick holder. bret: eric holder released a statement and in part it said it s unfortunate people were quick to make accusations, accusations that turned out to be without foundation and caused great deal of unnecessary harm and confusion. i hope today s report is a reminder of danger as adopting as fact unsubstantiateed conclusions before an investigation of the circumstances is completed. your reaction? one of the critical people required to brief him, hand picked by him, resigned today. it s still only the tip of the
also eric holder s chief of staff. sources said he knew about this program yet he signed off on a letter as well. i m told there are some videotapes out there with these straw buyers buying guns. the atf and the doj don t want to us see those tapes. and i m being told the investigation may be expanding. megyn: this lanny brewer is high up in the justice department. didn t he say i don t remember seeing that letter sent to senator grassley. now it turns out he did review this? there is evidence in these documents that that testimony was either intentionally misleading or at the very least, not true? reporter: i can tell you the letter was reviewed brewer was in mexico city at the time but he did see drafts of the letter before it came out.
office entirely blameless? many don t think so. 25 people reviewed that letter before it went out, including brewer and several deputy attorneys general. people in justice knew that letter going to congress contained inaccuracies and they signed off it anyway. plus they released this nasty email throwing burke under the bus. i m quoting. what is so offensive is grassley s staff acted as willing stooges for the gun lobby. there could be payback coming because i m told burke will be appearing before congressional investigators sometime next week, and he may want to release some emails of his own.
there is nothing to look at, there is nothing wrong, there is nothing to worry about and that is a flat-out lie. it s not acceptable. megyn: william lajeunesse with more. reporter: that information was in a letter to senator grassley. three agencies prepared the letter. the assistant attorney general on behalf all three said we didn t knowingly let illegal guns go to mexico and none of our guns showed up at terry s murder scene. brewer blamed the atf acting director and agent in charge saying that he relied on their unequivocal denials. but is the attorney general s