they ll pack they ll get on every single slice. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re expecting a vote in the house of representatives. the house oversight committee at any moment now on whether to hold the attorney general of the united states, eric holder, in contempt of congress. at issue, his refusal to turn over documents about the botched gun-running sting operation called fast and furious. the republican-led panel going forward even after president obama today invoked executive privilege claiming the release of the documents would have in his words, significant damaging consequences. the attorney general has refused to cooperate offering to provide subpoenaed documents only if the committee agrees in advance to close the investigation. no investigator would ever agree to that. the likes of the committee chairman. he will call the role call momentarily. want to know if senior justice officials knew if the fast and furious program was flawed. fe
chiefs of staff and dennis blare. clinton met with pat rhysia espinoza and later with mexican president felipe calderon. the meeting was to expand and improve programs under what s called the merida initiative. it s a $1.4 billion multi-year aid program to fight drug crime. this includes also modernizing border crossings, better inspection of vehicles and people crossing the border, but one of the really main strategy expansions here is to do more on the social economic front, helping poor communities where instability is so bad that young people have fallen into crime. so when you talk about security it s not just the obvious security presence, but also the social and economic security that many mexicans have been lacking. one of the cities that s been a reference point as far as the mexican drug violence is juarez with more than 400 drug-related deaths there since january. okay. let s do this.
today. the bret: what about the politics and national security implications here? let s bring in our panel. steve hayes, senior writer for the weekly standard. jennifer lofn chief white house correspondent for the associated press and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. jennifer, what about this briefing and their defense, the white house defense of telling all that they did? well, one thing we have to remember is that the dni, dennis blare, blair opened a door here last week in a hearing in congress he was asked if the christmas bomber suspect was still talking and he said yes. and that sort of opened the door to these conversations and the decision as you described last night for the white house to describe some of what is happening in those interviews. so, he opened the door. the white house walked through it and i think, you know, they realize that there is a
today. the bret: what about the politics and national security implications here? let s bring in our panel. steve hayes, senior writer for the weekly standard. jennifer lofn chief white house correspondent for the associated press and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. jennifer, what about this briefing and their defense, the white house defense of telling all that they did? well, one thing we have to remember is that the dni, dennis blare, blair opened a door here last week in a hearing in congress he was asked if the christmas bomber suspect was still talking and he said yes. and that sort of opened the door to these conversations and the decision as you described last night for the white house to describe some of what is happening in those interviews. so, he opened the door. the white house walked through it and i think, you know, they