exchange could be impacting the coverage of what the president calls his signature achievement. plus new details on the botched gun running program fast and furious. why it may no longer be guns that were smuggled and how it s impacting violence south of our border in mexico.
[gunfire] that video was captured recently between mexican police and a cartel that killed three officers. now according to a doj, department of justice document, police received fire from a 50 caliber rifle and recovered at least 10 grenades, evidence of one being a kingery grenade. now that refers to john baptist ink kingery. in 2009 they knew kingery was making grenades from parts in the u.s. and converting weapons to full automatics. like fast and furious they wanted him to continue to hoping to track his explosives which never happened. a year later he was arrested at the border with hundreds of empty grenade holes but this time the u.s. attorney refuse to prosecute, referring to the parts as harmless toys and the case lacked jury appeal.
kingery made some 2,000 explosives until mexican authorities raided his factory in 2011. when you have the attorney general s own offices being informed about a very dangerous person exporting hand grenades and converting ak-47s into machine guns not part of fast & furious but separate failure, under dennis burke and main justice you re seeing an administration i think really wanted to let bad things happens in the hopes they would get an assault weapons ban. reporter: now today kingery is in a mexican jail on terrorism charges. no comment from the u.s. attorney s office but atf agents tell me like fast & furious this is another example of what happens when criminals are allowed to walk free despite probable cause and in this case, a confession. back to you he. jenna: what a story. william, thank you. jon: doctors finding a new way to discover cancer.
sunday, 11:00 a.m. eastern. howard, thank you. thanks, jon. jenna: another big story we re watching, during operation fast & furious guns were allowed to cross the border over the pretense of tracking criminal activity. as you know the gun-running operation had deadly results and lot of questions. we re learning of apparently similar incident with parts of grenades. when we look back at fast & furious guns like these were used to track drug cartels for u.s. and mexican border agents. that is one of the things we were looking at. now there is an explosive attack in central mexico during a deadly shootout with police and linked to a u.s. smuggling operation as well. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with more on the story. william? reporter: jenna, police believe explosives found at that murder scene in mexico likely came from an american bomb-maker. the u.s. attorney in arizona refused to prosecute.
our government is going to fall apart if you let somebody get away with it. judge jeanine: democratic strategic julian epistein joins us. good evening, julian. good evening, judge. do you think that attorney general eric holder should resign? no, and there are important points that weren t covered in the package or in the interviews. the most important point is that this program was started under the bush administration. elements occurred under the regan administration. attorney general holder was the first person to stop the program and call for an independent investigation and to remove the people that were involved in the operation of the program from their positions. judge jeanine: julian, you say that you were correcting the package. let me correct you, number one, fast and furious was under eric holder s administration. number two, operation wide receiver under the bush administration had trackers or devices on the guns. this administration unlike the prior administrati