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Post-february 4th cover-ups by the justice department. you know, there was 10 months in which they said there were no guns walking, until they said oh, yes there was and they retracted the february 4th letter to senator grassley. thats what we liekd to have. if we can have those documents we can postpone or cancel the contempt. >> the underlying problem here is a policy where federal agents allowed gun walking. so they didnt arrest purchasers of illegal guns they let them go back into mexico. ul...

The justice department. you know, there was 10 months in which they said there were no guns walking, until they said oh, yes there was and they retracted the february 4th letter to senator grassley. thats what we liekd to have. if we can have those documents we can postpone or cancel the contempt. >> the underlying problem here is a policy where federal agents allowed gun walking. so they didnt arrest purchasers of illegal guns they let them go back into mexico. ultimately those guns got into ci...

And wed like to have those. they dont involve executive privilege. pretty clear theyre communications about post-february 4th cover-ups by the justice department. you know, there was 10 months in which they said there were no guns walking, until they said oh, yes there was and they retracted the february 4th letter to senator grassley. thats what we like to have. if we can have those documents we can postpone or cancel the contempt. >> the underlying problem here is a policy where federal agents...

Were joined live by msnbc contributor, a democratic strategist and republican strategist. julian, i want to start with you. given your considered spear advertise in law as you watch out these events being played out do you believe this amounts to anything short of a witch-hunt? >> no. this has been a fishing expedition. the committee wont win this fight with hoerld. i used to be a staff director of that committee. they never win fights when they are on these fishing expeditions. guns walking was...

Conceded anything. now we have 1,000 documents in question. i think holders position -- i totally disagree with jay that this is badly lawyered. badly lawyered by the committee asking for things they shouldnt have gotten. but holder saying i will make an accommodation to you. the privilege will be the deliberative process privilege. ill make a concession to you that other administrations have not made concessions on if we can have an agreement the contempt citation is taken off the table. its po...

People about guns walking. >>reporter: aides say he wants to come to an agreement that will make a contempt of congress vote unnecessary. but the very same aides say that the committee has not been in a position tonight to permanently take contempt of congress off the table. >>shepard: it sounds like the attorney general has different expectations. >>reporter: that is right. the chairman wanted the documents to start coming over from the justice department first thing this morning. so his people...

In 2004, serve know what its like to belong to a club you dont want membership in. my heart goes out to the terry family, no question. i:believe of should have apologized to the family but not to congress. i say this because this should not be his loss, the situation, a political circus, sensationalized or made for gain on either side of the political spectrum. this certainly -- attorney general holder should have afollow joyed. i agree with the mother, plastery when she said he should have c co...

Knew about the most controversialing a expects of this program that i have seen. but there is this october 2010 memo between some top dogs at justice department that show they knew about -- and i quote, they say im not sure how much grief we get for guns walking. they are talking about this program. they are talking about guns walking in october 2010. these are top d.o.j. officials. if they knew about guns walking in october 2010. why didnt eric holder know about it then? >> guns walking has bee...

Seem to be saying is there is a pattern. they are pointing to some other instances where they believe the doj misled them about what it knew on this very controversial operation, fast and furious, where we were basically letting bad guys have guns and take them down to mexico because we were going to track the guns and get the bad guys but we didnt. they lost the guns, they didnt get the bad guys, this is bad. what issa pointed to among other things, he says in february of 2011 that the departme...

Walk, and now we have actual memos in which theyre concerned about so many guns walking. they cant square that circle for us, and that concerns us, because the american people, and to a certain extent, more importantly, our partners in mexico. the attorney general, they dont want to deal with us, because we have been disingenuous with them in a war in which were asking them to give their lives to stop drugs from coming to our country. this is a partnership with mexico in which we have to renew c...