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Retaliation against the whistle blower in the operation fast and fewer scandal, one not recently mentioned here in washington. as correspondent william lage la jeunesse explains, it will not be tolerated. the guns we saw individuals buy were turning up in crime scenes in the united states and mexico and we did nothing. >> reporter: atf whistle blower john dodson appeared before congress in 2011 and made a stunning claim that the u.s. government knowingly approved and executed a plan to help crim...

taking lives, many of them children who were trapped when that school collapsed. we have fox team cover building tonight. ed henry looks at how the president is addressing the danger in oklahoma. janice dean looks at more strong storms in the midwest. alicia acunya is at a shelter. we go to casey stegall live on the ground with the latest from moore. good evening, casey. >> reporter: bret, good evening to you. the state medical examiners office initially said more than 50 people were k...

Secondly, dozens knew at the beginning this violated policy if not the law but no one was willing to put their career on the line to stop it until brian terry died and atf agent john dodson blue l blew the whistle. uma: such an unfortunate situation, william, thank you very much. jon: there are signs that the presidents honeymoon is so over. we told but the presidents poll numbers taking a dive. new data could suggest why. look at this graphic. it is a republican consulting firm that tracks ever...

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>> pelley: good evening. there is a growing perception among voters that the economy is improving. and our new poll out today shows that its helping president obamas prospects for reelection. 48 days now before election day, here is how the race looks. it takes 270 electoral votes to win the white house, and our cbs news election teams estimates 237 are solid for the president toweaning toward him. mitt romney has 206. t for the next seven weeks, theyll be fighting over the remaining 9...

You were intentionally letting guns go to mexico. >> yes, maam. the agency was. im boots on the ground in phoenix. we have been doing it every day since i have been here. here i am. tell me i didnt do the things i did. tell me you didnt order me to do the things i did. tell me. >> that was john dodson, an atf agent. thats the explosive interview he gave in march alleging the core of the scandal which is that atf agents were instructed to intentionally let guns walk, as it were, these straw purch...

>> well, first of all, and john dodson may not have been privy to this although they talked about it every day, but prosecutors repeatedly told the group supervisor and the other case agents that they did not have grounds to seize these weapons. there is a long record of e-mails which clearly supports the contention. >> a huge difference between we ird letting guns walk as part of a strategic vision of how we are going to bring down the drug cartels and what you say and the reporting indicates h...

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the official rules that guide the supreme court are preciously few in number. a majority of justices can pretty much issue any ruling they want. constrained by the distant threat of i will peachment or a cut in funding from congress, they are the final sayn what is or isnt constitutional. thats why the norms for the court are so important and the subject of such intense and constant debate. should the court be like the house of representatives, partisan and ideological, a place where ...

Two months later atf agents observed notorious gun runners buying weapons without stopping them. two months after that atf agent john dodson blew the whistle sparking an investigation by the judiciary committee. on september 14th of 2010 border patrol agent brian terry was shot and killed with a gun that was involved in the fast and furious operation. in may 2011 attorney general eric holder testified before the house judiciary committee that he first learned about the gun-walking scandal just s...