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Thats twhar arguing about, but the whole point was, in fact, people are running guns and buying them, quote, legally as strawmen and shuttling them through and theyre committing crimes. >> no one is doing anything about it. thats the problem. this is why the party is an issue. we had a conversation about this in the green room. we could talk to each other civilly. "the new york times" had a great editorial about it today. why cant the two sides get together and resolve this? why get to this stag...

About it. thats the problem. this is why the party is an issue. we had a conversation about this in the green room. we could talk to each other civilly. "the new york times" had a great editorial about it today. why cant the two sides get together and resolve this? why get to this stage? why did the republicans make this a contempt issue? >> theres a lack of leadership on darrell issas part. he doesnt bring in key players to testify in front the committee. whole mess has turned out to be right...

Contempt issue is surrounding what happened creating that february 4th letter, which was less than two months after the instigating event. >> keith, what about that? what about the timing of this, and, of course, nancy pelosi says today she thinks its because he did a good job going after the voter purge? >> this is about getting holder and embarrassing barack obama. not smooch about fast and furious, susan agreed and katherine pointed out they could have done other things to purr stew that. you...

Also warrant, lie to or misled originally, they wouldnt have gotten to this situation. >> in less than two months -- >> five months before the election. >> over christmas is when this con stern nation and the only thing being debated in the contempt issue is surrounding what happened creating that february 4th letter, which was less than two months after the instigating event. >> keith, what about that? what about the timing of this, and, of course, nancy pelosi says today she thinks its because...

>> in less than two months -- >> five months before the election. >> over christmas is when this con stern nation and the only thing being debated in the contempt issue is surrounding what happened creating that february 4th letter, which was less than two months after the instigating event. >> keith, what about that? what about the timing of this, and, of course, nancy pelosi says today she thinks its because he did a good job going after the voter purge? >> this is about getting holder and emb...

Upset about having. as nancy pelosi says, they can say look theres no scandal here. lets talk about jobs. meanwhile, a guy like boehner because his base is pushing this. hes not trusted by the conservative base. he has to be appeasing them as speaker. he has no choice but to carry the water on this one. and it does excite the republican base. but they were always excited about this. >> mark, does the nra -- put on notice that their votes on the contempt issue were being watched. the nras chief l...

Upset about having. as nancy pelosi says, they can say look theres no scandal here. lets talk about jobs. meanwhile, a guy like boehner because his base is pushing this. hes not trusted by the conservative base. he has to be appeasing them as speaker. he has no choice but to carry the water on this one. and it does excite the republican base. but they were always excited about this. >> mark, does the nra -- put on notice that their votes on the contempt issue were being watched. the nras chief l...

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 limi...

Maybe nobody actually said we were walking guns, but thats what were doing. as for the contempt issue, to me, thats chilling. i dont want content t condolee. the department of justice shouldnt be in a position where people are accusing it of being in contempt of congress. >> greta: time is running out for attorney general eric holder. hes staring down a contempt of congress vote on wednesday, and tomorrow, only 24 hours before the vote on wednesday, attorney general holer will go back to capitol...