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southwest, then those guns, thousands of them, were allowed to walk or be smuggled into mexico with an eye towards tracing their way through the cartels. instead as we, the house oversight committee and ore news organizations were led to believe, the atf lost track of those weapons. some made it back into the country. two were found at the scene where border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now tonight, though, after six m...

toward tracing their way through the cartels. instead, as we, the house oversight committee and other organizations were led to believe, the atf lost track of those weapons. some were brought back into the country. two were found at the scene were border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now, tonight though, after six months of reporting, "fortune" magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line, letting...

trard toward tracing their way through the cartels. instead, we, the oversight committee lost track of those weapons. some made them back into the country. two were found at the scene were border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now, tonight though, after six months of reporting, "fortunes" magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line, letting guns walk was not -- i repeat, not part of the plan. she ...

story. just hours from whether to cite attorney general eric holder for contempt of congress, a heavily researched story suggests that the scandal at the center of tomorrows vote may not have been a scandal at all, or at least not the scandal weve been led to believe it is. heres what they thought we knew about the atf operation known as fast and furious. so-called straw buyers from mexican drug cartels were allowed to buy guns in the southwest. then those guns, thousands of them, were...

Is they want to distract the attorney general from those lawsuits? >> i dont subscribe to that. i think its an effort in an election year to put the heat on the attorney general and thus obama. there was a predicate called wide receiver. the same program did not result thankfully in the death of a border agent. it could have but it didnt. and of course we hardly heard anything about it at the time. we didnt hear people going after the bush administration for it. there seems to be a double standa...

>> no, i dont think he was. there was never any real allegation the president was involved in it. lets go back to what fast and furious was. >> please. >> this was the name of an atf operation intended to track the flow of guns bought illegally in the u.s. and smuggled into mexico. and agents were instructed to simply watch them. let the guns go in and help find out where they ended up. well over a thousand guns were allowed to walk. never were found. two showed up at the scene where a u.s. bord...

Bin ladens compound and the others. it is pattern together of all the leaks over the past few months that give credence to the idea it is an administration campaign. bill: i dont know if you ever been inside any of these high-level meetings. to a degree im certain you have but when this kind of information is brought forward, i dont know to the extent that you have experience hearing it first-hand. but as a former ambassador, did someone break the law here? >> i think very possibly they did. loo...

Operation by the justice department and others that have taken lives. being from arizona people have died, you know, south of the border and even on our side of the border. we need to understand who knew, when they knew it, and why this was done the way it was. martha: so, what do you think congress might do, you know, about this use of executive privilege? i mean where do you begin i guess is my question? >> well, i think we begin exactly where darrell issa is taking his committee today. its ti...

Scene, they were later traced to an operation conducted -- bill: this story has just gone to a whole new level. back in a moment right after this. >> 16 months ago this committee --

To show why executive privilege does not apply. the last time this happened, 40 years ago in the nixon/watergate saga a federal district court judge got involved and he ruled against the president and the supreme court upheld his ruling. we may be seeing this going in that direction now if there is a standoff between the president and the congress, the attorney general and the congress, the court, the courts will resolve that standoff. bill: back to the comment you made two answers prior, if the...