just referred to, what was their involvement? reporter: well, that s the remarkable thing that we re learning over the past 24 hours. okay, so the dea has a wire tap, and in this wire tap, it s revealed that a guy is wanting to buy guns. let s go to the graphic here and i think this will help show what is happening. so this guy in the middle, who is the wire tap drug dealer, the middle man, he puts in contact the guy who wants to buy the guns, the buy who wants to buy the guns is the fbi informant. he is now talking to the straw buyers, he s ordering the guns, if you will, to go into these gun stores and buy the guns. the atf is trying to do this investigation, unbee knownst to these investigators over a period of 18 months, the guy they want is actually an fbi informant, an fbi informant who they want for counterterrorism information, the point being in all of this is that the atf had no idea that the guy that they want, who is
next week, and to speak to the inspector general on thursday. however, in a secret meeting, on july 4th, the holiday, nelson, with his personal attorney, went in and spoke to congressman darrell issa and senator charles grassley and basically revealed this. let s go to the full screen. he said that atf leadership appears to have been effectively muzzled by the department of justice, and while the doj sent over false denials and buried its head in the sand, that approach according to issa distorted the truth and obstructed our investigation. issa has been attempting as you know to get reames of documents out of the department of justice which is claiming that and he subpoenaed those, and they re knoll giving them to him, so now you have the atf director confirming the suspicions of investigators, that doj is covering up a botched operation through the doj, which runs the alcohol, tobacco and firearms. alisyn: what about those other agency that is you
regulations on the internet, i m against regulations and i m surprised you as a republican would be calling for more regulatory regulations zero. i m for regulations so that people are not fooled, i m also for regulation that prevents the government from taking power away from the people and directing them to their own sites unbee knownst to the people who use them. megyn: we ll have that debate once the administration and some branch in congress tries to crack down on the internet even more so. dick, thank you. brad, thanks to you as well. merry christmas! and to you! american amanda knox was convicted of murdering her roomate in italy and many americans assume she did it. she had a weird demeanor, the press coverage over here was very unflattering, but she just got a major break in her case and there are real questions today about whether this young woman is innocent and getting railroaded by an unfair italian justice system. plus we get rare insight into this case from the
up and going to die as well as he gets out, i mean, it s just it s despicable and i m so happy not happy, that s not the right word but i m so glad the jury came back with the verdict they did. jon: there must be a huge sense of relief among the hawk-petit family members. yes. jon: one not guilty count, a lot of people might not be surprised by i got but i got to give it to this jury, i suppose it s not exactly possible to know who lit the match or the lighter or whatever. exactly. jon: during the conflagration and that is probably why they gave one not guilty count out of 17. yeah, you re right, jon. but the problem with that is, i m surprised the prosecutors didn t argue this, there s a felony murder count they didn t argue, in other words, if i go into a store with you and we re going to rob the clerk and unbee knownst to me you got a gun and kill the clerk, i m still charged with felony murder, it doesn t matter who lit the match or who fired the shot. that s my point.