point, partisan politics and a sitting u.s. attorney general cot in the cross fire. eric holder is in copenhagen this morning. yesterday a house committee voted to recommend citing him for contempt of congress for not turning over documents from that botched fast and furious gun operation. you will remember that program allowed guns to end up in the hands of mexican drug cartels and is connected to the death of at least one u.s. law enforcement officer. those documents are now off limits to republicans and everybody else because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep them under wraps. it brings us to joe jons live from washington, d.c. this morning. good morning. good morning, soledad, the contempt issue moves to the full house of representatives as early as neck week. holder is the first obama administration official to be held in contempt by congressional committee. the point man on all of this for the republicans, of course, is chairman darrell issa. he ta
guns because u.s. authorities never bothered to tell mexican authorities about the scheme. they never had a way to actually track the guns. that is, not until people started dying. the only way you re going to find those guns in mexico is where? at crime scenes. at the death, at the site of somebody who s dead. at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. that makes no sense to me. between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no, there is no reasonable explanation to let these guns walk. two of those guns made their way back north to the scene where border agent brian terry was shot dead a year and a half ago. he just finished buying christmas presents for his family. two months later, atf agent sopada was shot by a batch of ten firearms sold in a part of fast and furious. but the big headlines tod
police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. that makes no sense to me. between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no, there is no reasonable explanation to let these guns walk. two of those guns made their way back north to the scene where border agent brian terry was shot dead a year and a half ago. he just finished buying christmas presents for his family. two months later, atf agent sopada was killed in mexico by a one of a batch of ten firearms as sold in a part of fast and furious. but the big headlines today were in washington, d.c. after initially cooperating with the house oversight committee, which is investigating fast and furious. attorney general eric holder refused to turn over more internal justice department documents. in a letter today, the deputy attorney general james cole notified the committee chairman darr
that is, not until people started dying. the only way you re going to find those guns in mexico is where? at crime scenes. at the death, at the site of somebody who s dead. at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. that makes no sense to me. between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no, there is no reasonable explanation to let these guns walk. two of those guns made their way back north to the scene where border agent brian terry was shot dead a year and a half ago. he just finished buying christmas presents for his family. two months later, atf agent sopada was killed in mexico by a batch of ten firearm as sold in a part of fast and furious. but the big headlines today were in washington, d.c. after initially cooperating with the house oversight committee, which is investigating fast and fu
track the guns. that is, not until people started dying. the only way you re going to find those guns in mexico is where? at crime scenes. at the death, at the site of somebody who s dead. at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. that makes no sense to me. between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no, there is no reasonable explanation to let these guns walk. two of those guns made their way back north to the scene where border agent brian terry was shot dead a year and a half ago. he just finished buying christmas presents for his family. two months later, atf agent sopada was shot by a batch of ten firearms sold in a part of fast and furious. but the big headlines today were in washington, d.c. after initially cooperating with the house oversight committee, which is investigating fast and