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Ongoing special counsel investigations. the question is whether it was compromised. i think the american people deserve to know whether it was and they deserve to know whether the wiretap application was in anyway related related to the dossier. >> chris: we need to point out those are good questions. there is no evidence right now. >> everyone has been stonewalling and obstructing. >> chris: christopher wray was appointed by donald trump. he says its being investigated by the inspector general....

guns because u.s. authorities never bothered to tell mexican authorities about the scheme. they never had a way to actually track the guns. that is, not until people started dying. >> the only way youre going to find those guns in mexico is where? >> at crime scenes. at the death, at the site of somebody whos dead. at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in whic...

police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. >> that makes no sense to me. >> between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no, there is no reasonable explanation to let these guns walk. >> two of those guns made their way back north to the scene where border agent brian terry was shot dead a year and a half ago. he just finished buying christmas...

that is, not until people started dying. >> the only way youre going to find those guns in mexico is where? >> at crime scenes. at the death, at the site of somebody whos dead. at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. >> that makes no sense to me. >> between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no, there is no rea...

track the guns. that is, not until people started dying. >> the only way youre going to find those guns in mexico is where? >> at crime scenes. at the death, at the site of somebody whos dead. at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. >> that makes no sense to me. >> between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no,...

Likely determine whether the house oversight committee actually attempts to vote on a contempt citation against the attorney general for failure to turn over records. now today, again, holder basically said that his top staff did not know about the tactics in fast and furious. >> neither mr. brewer, nor mr. weinstein had information about the use of -- they were, in fact, assured that gun-walking tactics were not employed with regard to operation fast and furious. >> reporter: now, this is a cop...

Lets talk about it with katy p a alich. the author of fast and furious barack obamas famous cover occupy. jon: what does this tell us? >> we are not talking about one wiretap here, we are talking about at least six of them. what that means is law enforcement tools require that you cant apply for a wiretap until youve exhausted all other techniques of getting information in an investigation. in order to commit a wiretap application for approval you have to commit excruciating details about a case...

Testimony in the house getting very heated, some republicans accuse the justice department of a cover up. well, now general holder and democrats are responding. william la jeunesse whos been on this story from the beginning joins us live from los angeles. william? >> reporter: jon, its been less contentious than previous appearances by the ag, and yet after a yearlong investigation there is no clear evidence that the attorney general was aware that one of his agencies, the atf, was deliberately ...

And furious were known. they were known and are contained in these wiretaps. i understand youve read these wiretaps since weve brought them tour attention, is that correct. >> i have read them and i disagree with the conclusion you just reached. >> let me go threw a very simple line of questioning if i may, mr. attorney general, james cole, deputy attorney general has written that the department has a greater obligation than just check the legal sufficiency and approving wiretap application. he ...