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U.s. ambassador to china was damaged. he was in the car at the time but he was not injured. >> 350,000 chicago students are waking up this morning heading back to school. chicago teachers among the heist paid in the country finally satisfied with district concessions on evaluations and job security. the union didnt vote on the contract deal they just agreed to end the strike. a long-awaited report on the fast and furious gun running operation is due out today. an inspector general has been rev...

Quicker as the colleague mike emanuel pointed out. the criminal vote, it would have to kick this to a u.s. u.s. attorney. meaning, somebody who works under eric holder. it could take months or years and there is a huge conflict of interest. the civil vote as we saw when bush was in office proceeded quicker. thats what issa and the republicans want because it allows hem to go to a court on their own and try to get the documents. thats what they want to use it immediately against the administratio...

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 mehan. has eric holder be disrespected by your committee previously? >> i dont believe he has been disrespected by the committee. and we cant look at this as some...

Agents name who was killed in december of 2010 by some of the guns that came through to traffickers in this program. i think by invoking executive privilege yesterday it opened it up to another level where republicans can say what is the white house hiding. what dont they want us to know about this. whether right or wrong extended the story another day, week, month. i dont know that it will last through to election time but it will consume this week. >> mike, i mean -- >> why not just let the in...

They dealt with them. martha johnson stepped down. >> the congressman saying he, himself, congress issa want a conclusion to this. whats the political ground to be gained by seeing it drawn out? >> well, thomas, let me say first of all theres the campaign and then theres the responsibility to govern. and actually, this committee has a responsibility to do oversight over the department of justice. and lets not kid ourselves. the department of justice had a lot of big problems lately. they lost th...

Summer. brian terrys mother says he loved being a border agent. he died two years ago in arizona. as we reported here, investigators found guns from fast and furious at the scene where he died. although ballistics tests never conclusively linked those weapons to the bullet that killed him. today his mother told auto radio interviewer in philadelphia about her son. >> my son was a person that believed in justice and he believed in telling the truth. he was a man of his honor and if anybody knew h...

Given the death of a border agent, it requires and demands that they see all these documents. even though they know that some of these documents refer to confidential informants and if that information were ever to fall into the wrong hands, those self-same informants might be endangered themselves. again, it just seems completely contradictory. >> well, theres absolutely nothing in terms of reason and common sense that would make their protection of this slain officer a priority. what theyre do...

Identified as fatally flawed. >> i guess i asked the question because you heard congressman cummings say he thinks this is partisan-driven and there have been references made as well to him having -- the attorney general of the united states being referred to as a liar by chairman issa. so it takes on a life of its own that its antipathy driven. you say no to that. >> i try to separate myself from that and i think in the passion and the news clips that will be generated people will look for thos...

Assertion, republicans on the committee say it should have happened long ago. they raise questions about was the white house involved in this when the attorney general had said he had had no discussions with the president. democrats on this committee say eric holder has not been treated fairly, hes not been treated with respect, that this kind of a step of going for contempt of congress is just too big and too sweeping for someone they believe is honorably serving the public and trying to do the...