assure you unless there s some truly circumstance, those people will be removed from federal service. we re in the process of investigating that murder and the people who are responsible for it will be held accountable. i expect you will hear something about that soon. what has made this so controversial is not only the policy itself of allowing guns to be purchased by known or expected straw buyer and atf agents were instructed to watch as they were taken across the border and given to mexican drug cartel figures on the theory they could investigate the people would led it to them. they lost track of something like 2,000 of those guns. that s controversy a. controversy b is the fact some of the guns allowed to walk across the border was found at the scene where the border patrol agent was killed. there s a new development along
he s not posted that bail? that s right. his attorney said that because the arraignment wasn t until 3:00 today, that he probably wasn t going to be able to get $250,000 cash or in the form of a bail bondsman ortega-hernandez in the form of property posted so he would be spending night in jail. his attorney wasn t happy about it. he said if jerry sandusky was going to flee, he would have done it a long time ago. he s known he s been under investigation since late 2008 and he s been cooperative. es he offered to turn himself in. he did turn himself back in november when charges were accidentally posted to the state court website and everyone found out he was going to be charged before they planned it. the prosecutors asked for $1 million, they didn t get it psh it was a happy medium. the second wave of charges, a case that affects not only jerry sandusky but the penn state community, the college is in a way under investigation. what s the impact in the community of the sec
reporter: he never thought atf phoenix might walk guns a second time, and memos do show the attorney general in phoenix showed him, quote, we do not walk guns. senator grassley released his own set of documents that make doj s argument seem implausible. two justice lawyers from washington have been assigned to fast and furious. several top justice officials saw this presentation showing one straw buyer had bought 13 excuse me, 313 guns and another bought 230 guns in just a matter of months. all this is news, jon, because last night the department of justice dumped 650 pages of records on congress. the media got about 100 pages revealing one memo shows on december 14th eric holder planned to attend the news conference up veiling fast and furious, but around midnight that same day, agent brian terry was killed. back to you.
one else in justice. we started off by knowing that the u.s. border patrol agent was dead and a lot of weapons had been let walk. after that we started being told things like by a justice department designated official we never let weapons walk. now, we have literally e-mails in which they are concerned about so many walking. and you said something and i don t mean to correct you but to expand, we didn t just have a few not be tracked. the whole program was about not tracking them until they were found at the scene of crimes and they didn t just allow, they facilitated just in one gun buyer, one straw buyer bought over 700 weapons. chris: specifically what are the subpoenas about? we want to know what did they know and when did they know it. more importantly, we have to understand at what level did the authorization really come. it wasn t an atf authorization. they were part of that. it was a joint operation in which d.e.a. knew you more than
states to sell guns to mexico. conspiracy or poor judgment in letting guns walk? fast and yofurious was uniqu. an arrested straw buyer would be raised down the street. in fast and furious the stores were recruited by the atf. no rayses and no sur slains outside of the store. that allowed a handful of young thugs to buy guns. a straw buyer is a kid 18-25 maybe up to 30 years old to make a couple extra bucks who knows somebody who knows somebody who knows a way to make a couple extra bucks. they walk in the store fill out a form buy a rifle and they walk out. he recruited a dozen straw booirs out of the body shop in phoenix. including this man who bought