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Shoot out that showed up at border agent. ed henry is at the white house and on capitol hill, it is fiery in the election year. we had arts on each side. mike, tell us about contempt arguments against the attorney general. >>reporter: a lot of lawmakers were irritated at the last moment the administration asserted executive privilege saying this was not any mention before today of the possibility of going to that, the possibility of executive privilege. so, they are saying essentially 18 months ...

About this specific case and about executive privilege more broadly. martha: and, you know when you get down to the heart of what darrell issa and his committee has been asking for, they want to know how this happened, how did 2,000 guns walk across the border as part after program u. had atf agents screaming to high heaven that there was a huge problem here and they wanted the program to be stopped. their cries were not listened to. you had a border agent killed and their guns were found at the...

Standard. >> both sides accused the other of playing election year politics and called at it sad moment for committee. and for congress. >> some might be forgiven for describing the proceedings today as akin to kangaroo court. as former prosecutor, i assure you there is nothing kangaroo about the death of a border agent. this is a very sad day. >> democrats insist the justice department provided many of the key answers. though consistent republican argument has been that a year-and-a-half after ...

Justice and justice in the united states of america. have the guts. i hope we have the guts and perseverance to get to the bottom of this. >> in all of my 30 years of being in the united states congress, the way he was treated when he was here testifying before this committee, i must admit i have never seen anybody treated in that fashion. >> congressman patrick meehan. is a pennsylvania republican. good to see you. has eric holder be disrespected by your committee previously? >> i dont believe ...

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eric holder. there is a hearing right now from an oversight committee to ask for contempt order from eric holder. and the situation existed when issa asked for information, and they were denied documents. and it is the time of year to limit your sun exposure and wear light clothing and things should cool down by the weekend. more of the legal and the botched gun sting operation. president obama and the white house are now involved. the house oversight committee is seeking contempt ...

No knowledge of gun running here. they retracted it for a reason. something had to happen that they realized maybe we do have -- >> bob: the guy that wrote the first letter. do you know how big the bureaucracys are? >> eric: this isnt document or e-mail. on the evening of december 14, 2010, the u.s. border agent and others patrolling in arizona, 11-miles from the mexican border. the group came across five suspected immigrants when they fired nonlethal bean bag guns and suspects responded to thei...

Border agent his life. issa said he had not received the documents. congresswoman jan is a democratic from illinois and the chief deputy whip. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, martin. >> mr. sa and other -- they were deup and downing that the attorney general publish all of these documents, but were they cognizant of the fact that if he were to do so, he himself would be in breach of the law because these documents include confidential wiretap applications and confidential details about inform...

>> well, what the attorney general said is that its deliberative material which has been withheld by previous administrations, republican and democrat, and they reserve the right to do that, thats why they havent released it. i think they feel and i agree with them that this is a political witch hunt. off the between these situations you have one party who decides to go after the administration and get them tied up in things like this. and, look, dont get me wrong, the death of this border agent...