is gone. bret: very quickly. 15 years ago, fox news channel started. what about our impact? well, bret, i just want to say the first time i caught special report on tv i thought it was a network special report that you used to get on nbc, abc, break in primetime, we bombed somebody. i keep waiting for the news, like what is the special report. oh, no, it s a show. [ laughter ] clearly i kept watching. now i m on the show and i really enjoy the show. but i think it s always good for journalists when we have competition. more outlets you have going after things, the better is it for people that are interested in news getting out there, news of any kind. bret: we re going to leave it at david s wise words. that s it for panel. stay tuned for a look back at 15 years of fox news channel.
explanation, the story will not go away. like so much of what happens on capitol hill, it s not the original offense, it s the coverup that causes so much problem. bret: late today, another document dump. letter from the attorney general to committee investigating saying i have no recollection of knowing about fast and furious or hearing the name prior to the public controversy about it. he says he receives hundreds of pages of so-called weekly reports. hearings surfaced about the report. and oversight said if the attorney general said it five months ago when congress asked about operation fast and furious, it might have been more believable, but it s hard to take at face value. it goes on. david, where is this headed? we ll find out. i think obama values holder and i don t think he is going anywhere, unless he becomes a true liability. next year is a re-election year. they won t keep holder to dump obama. chance of holder going are low unless there is a smoking gun. interesting
pe f you poll half of post-9/11 veterans are against it. so i think that, you know, i frankly don t see this being that much of a success, because when we leave, the place is almost definitely going to fall apart. so i don t know how much you call that a success. bret: david? if she is right and terrorists are able to reconstitute there and in the future there are attacks launched from there, it will then be a problem. decision to pull out, prematurely will turn out to be a bad decision but we won t know yet. bret: operation fast and furious causing problems for the attorney general. here is what the president said yesterday. i complete confidence in attorney general holder. he indicated huh was not aware of what was happening in fast and furious. certainly, i was not. as long as they continue to stone wall this thing and not come forward with a full
guarantee. he previously, of course now he is the chicago mayor, rahm emanuel, had said this when asked about solyndra you know, i m focusing on a major announcement today for the city of chicago. i don t actually remember that or know about it. so, what i m dealing with is what i ve got to deal with here today. bret: okay. so we ll pin point the specific e-mails. bottom line is that the e-mails don t paint a great picture and the committee that is investigating it is jumping all over these e-mails late friday night. bring in the panel. david zucke for roll call. kirsten powers for daily beast. jonah goldberg, editor of national review online. david, you know the energy commerce committee has been asking for all of these documents and now they re getting hundreds of them there may be more than 1,000 documents. we re going through them. some are raising eyebrows already. it will be a feeding frenzy on the hill. i think for a while. and i think the problem here for the administra
explanation, the story will not go away. like so much of what happens on capitol hill, it s not the original offense, it s the coverup that causes so much problem. bret: late today, another document dump. letter from the attorney general to committee investigating saying i have no recollection of knowing about fast and furious or hearing the name prior to the public controversy about it. he says he receives hundreds of pages of so-called weekly reports. hearings surfaced about the report. and oversight said if the attorney general said it five months ago when congress asked about operation fast and furious, it might have been more believable, but it s hard to take at face value. it goes on. david, where is this headed? we ll find out. i think obama values holder and i don t think he is going anywhere, unless he becomes a true liability. next year is a re-election year. they won t keep holder to dump obama. chance of holder going are low unless there is a smoking gun. interesting