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Hiding by using this privilege. gregg: sure. >> so we have to beg the question, what is he hiding now? and also is he really fulfilling the campaign promise having coequal branch and having a transparent government. gregg: hold the thought. on the left-hand side of the screen, representative clay. well go back into the committee as it warrants. gretchen and juan will stick around. well squeeze in a quick break here but a fast-changing series of events on capitol hill and the white house as the p...

To get into the white house somehow? >> i think it was totally political. gregg: really? >> if you look at the facts of the case, and we just heard a rescitation of some of those facts from the committee, it largely involves that letter which had false information from justice about whether or not weapons had gone into mexico, weapons were found at the scene of the killing. gregg: february 14th letter. >> nobody ever has proven those guns were used to kill brian terry. what the white house and j...

President spoke to univision and he said there may be a situation here where serious mistakes were made. if that is the case we will find out and we will hold someone accountable. may the 2nd of 2011, doj again stated to congress it remains our understanding that atfs operation "fast and furious" did not knowingly permit straw purchasers to take guns into mexico, a very carefully worded statement to state something that --. gregg: and at the very moment that the deadline was supposed to be met b...

They have made an extraordinary offer. those who have been investigating "fast and furious" saying we havent subpoena ad briefing from the attorney general. weve been subpoenaing documents. it is time to turn over documents. so that is why theyre going forward with the contempt resolution. jenna: the three branches of government at work today. an extraordinary story well continue to follow. back to mike emanuel as news warrants, gregg. certainly one of our biggest stories if not the biggest stor...

Until after the election because youre going to litigate in courts? >> they have been behind the curve. in fairness, alan, you would admit this, "fast and furious" was a horrendous program. >> yeah. >> they have not gotten their stories straight from the beginning about how it started and who approved it. they had this infamous letter in february 202011. this is big deal. this is what happened. then to backtrack and say whoops, we got it wrong. gregg: holder today made his third retraction. >> t...

From inquiry. and the question is going to be, what is this issue, what is it that attorney general eric holder does not want to turn over? i think it does connect the white house to fast and furious more, the fact that they are using executive privilege probe plea means the white house had some direct involvement in the program. gregg: the counter argument would be that the president isnt trying to protect national security or military or border patrol secrets. what congress is trying to get to...

Amateur at best, and its not just us the conservative movement that is criticizing the president, but the supreme court is questioning his healthcare, and now congress is calling the attorney general for contempt. its a flat out attack on the executive branch going on right now. gregg: at first blurb it would appear to be troublesome for the president but it could go the other way, couldnt it douglas? typically when americans care about jobs and the economy and growth they may feel that this is ...

Nobody likes doing this. this is not about eric holder. it is about the department of justice and justice in the united states of america. have the guts, i hope we have the guts and the per veerance to get to the bottom of this. we have nearly 2000 weapons purposefully, purposefully given to drug cartels. we have hundreds of dead people in mexico. we have a dead united states border patrol agent. and we have a government that is with holding information that we can not only get to the bottom of ...

An admission that this scandal reaches all the way into the white house, either the, earlier stages of it or the efforts to sort of deal with with the fallout of it. that as you point out, that is a major development and something that we were, very clearly led not to believe before today. gregg: now i was just talking to our white house correspondent ed henry who says look, the white house is making a distinction here. theyre saying yes, its true the president never had anything to do or advanc...

Deliberations part of a process of which government policies are formulated. then president obama spoke out by the use of the executive privilege by the bush administration when the bush administration was called before congressional committees over firings of some attorneys. then he said this. theres been a tendency on the part of this administration, the bush administration that is to hide behind executive privilege every time there is something a little shakey taking place. the administration...