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>> no, i don't think he was. there was never any real allegation the president was involved in it. let's go back to what fast and furious was. >> please. >> this was the name of an atf operation intended to track the flow of guns bought illegally in the u.s. and smuggled into mexico. and agents were instructed to simply watch them. let the guns go in and help find out where they ended up. well over a thousand guns were allowed to walk. never were found. two showed up at the scene where a u.s. border patrol agent named brian terry was killed in a shoot-out with drug dealers. though there has ne...

Bin laden's compound and the others. it is pattern together of all the leaks over the past few months that give credence to the idea it is an administration campaign. bill: i don't know if you ever been inside any of these high-level meetings. to a degree i'm certain you have but when this kind of information is brought forward, i don't know to the extent that you have experience hearing it first-hand. but as a former ambassador, did someone break the law here? >> i think very possibly they did. look, a lot of this information you read in intelligence reports or classified documents that you k...

Operation by the justice department and others that have taken lives. being from arizona people have died, you know, south of the border and even on our side of the border. we need to understand who knew, when they knew it, and why this was done the way it was. martha: so, what do you think congress might do, you know, about this use of executive privilege? i mean where do you begin i guess is my question? >> well, i think we begin exactly where darrell issa is taking his committee today. it's time for a contempt of congress. it is time for the voice of congress to be heard, but also the voice...

Scene, they were later traced to an operation conducted -- bill: this story has just gone to a whole new level. back in a moment right after this. >> 16 months ago this committee --

To show why executive privilege does not apply. the last time this happened, 40 years ago in the nixon/watergate saga a federal district court judge got involved and he ruled against the president and the supreme court upheld his ruling. we may be seeing this going in that direction now if there is a standoff between the president and the congress, the attorney general and the congress, the court, the courts will resolve that standoff. bill: back to the comment you made two answers prior, if the attorney general had a conversation about this atf operation in phoenix, arizona, with the presiden...