grew up in the detroit area. congressman dingle who has been very supportive of the border patrol and a strong advocate for law enforcement, unfortunately, let the terry family down when he walked out hand in hand with nancy pelosi and others. but the other encouraging aspect of that were that there were a handful of lawmakers that decided to stand their ground, stay in chambers and vote on the issue. one of those individuals was the brand new congressman from tucson, ron barber. and on the day of the vote, congressman barber reached out to the terry family to explain how he was going to vote and although he said i m not going to vote for criminal contempt, i will vote for civil contempt because i believe you deserve the truth. the terry family deserves the truth. and we respect that.
in a woodward and bernstein book. this is like nancy drew column. if the president was john mccain michael moore would be handcuffed to the white house fence. that is how seriously we take it. if the terry family is seeking answers politics or not we re obligated to talk about, obligated to pursue it. presidential debate they re obligated to ask that question. andrea: i think holder should resign. kimberly: why hasn t me? bob: he wanted to resign and was talked out of it by valley jarret. for him sake, get out from underneath it if he could. it s not possibly politically. obama couldn t lem him do it. kimberly: nice to have friends in high places. bob: he is subject to a witch hunt. typical republicans. greg: eric holder spent time suggesting strongly that americans were racist.
this will be a nonstory next week. i feel as much as anybody for the terry family. but issa is using this guy as political boy. eric: you did this yesterday. how is it political? how is it politics? he s dead and family wants answers. gunwhat happens when the next american is shot, next kid is shot at the board killed with a gun that came from america. is it still politics then? bob: everybody is politics. eric: you are a great friend of mine but stop calling it politics. it s not. bob: if you don t think issa is plague politics maybe you re not playing politics but he is. eric: this was brought up 18 months ago. andrea: can i ask greg a question? don t you think it s exerting executive privilege that the president is playing politics? greg: absolutely. why isn t this a big deal in the media? this is a plot that would fit
and it still hasn t moved the needle. i want to move to the eric holder issue because that was the other big news of course on capitol hill today. you walked out on the vote, the criminal contempt vote that was held today along with a number of your democratic colleagues. bill o reilly earlier in the program said that in effect, you walked out on the terry family who suffered a horrible loss by losing their son that federal agent down in mexico because of that gun that was walked across the border. your response to bill? well, we certainly have to have compassion for the terry family. their loss was extraordinary. we also have to be very careful that we don t throw the constitution out the window on this. or to change congress wants role. congress has an obligation to investigate things. i support that. remember. you re looking at the one person who sued president obama over the war in libya saying it exceeded its powers. i m not afraid to challenge the white house. the question here
shouldn t have to explain what happened here. that s what the democratic party believes. they walked out on this family. this family has a right to know how their son was killed. who ordered the program? when the attorney general and the president knew about the program, and what the attorney general did after he knew. we have a right, but more importantly, the terry family has a right as americans to know how their son was killed. and the democratic party and the president of the united states says to the terry family blank you, we re not going to tell you. that s what it is all about. all of the other stuff is b.s. it s telling the family we re not going to tell you how your son was killed. we are not going t it. that s outrageous. instead, all of this stuff is being lost in the political morass. so i want to boil it all down.