this gunrunning operation? that is the most important thing for people to understand. the justice department is not my best blaming atf. but in fact committees combined task force are all about the justice department and along with the homeland security putting together a team that is supposed to work together and coordinate, and nothing could have been further from the truth. information was not shared. clearly the dea and others have culpability. our report exposes some of those problems. problems which of the atf has problems and we have people we would like to see fired. but we also see problems all the way up to the top of justice and candidly, still piping also goes over to homeland security and the fact that there were people from that cabinet position who were on the elizabeth but when something goes wrong, pretends like they were just along for the ride. that is something that the american people want us to do on the reforms i heard they don t just want a investigation.
america. you fallout today after a dismissive justice department reaction to a scathing report about operation fast and furious. that is the gunrunning sting that resulted in some 2000 weapons being put in the hands of some very dangerous mexican drug cartels by her own government. five high-ranking members of the atf are singled out as responsible for that operation in a report just issued by some house members. not one of these men has been fired. they have all been reassigned. the justice department is now calling the substance of this congressional report distorted and debunked. joining me now is the man who led this investigation, congressman darrell issa. he is chairman of the house committee on oversight and government reform. mr. chairman, this is the first of three reports in which he tried to get to the bottom what happened here and who is behind it. the first report focuses on what happened at the atf and he was
defense workers face pink slips in coming months. the obama administration has too come up with a plan to cut $100 billion by october 1. these cuts will translate into a loss of 1 million defense industry jobs with billions in lost income. reporter: the white house was adamant that knighters the defense department or the pentagon were planning for these defense cuts to go into effect. today for the first time they sent the acting director of the office of management and budget to capitol hill to answer questions from the house armed services committee. it immediately got heated and political. does it concern you in a democratically controlled senate by harry reid that harry reid would not even bring up the president s budget for a vote?