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Checkpoints just like this one. we are told that ice agents at this port ever entry in sassaby stopped at least two loads of guns that belonged to an atf operation. then there was a confrontation and ice was told to back off and not interview with future loads that were being smuggled to the cartels. it turns out multiple federal agencies questioned the reason and the risk of letting guns go south. >> a disaster that is going to happen. someone is going to get killed. unfortunately brian terry is that nightmare that came through. >> reporter: former tucson drug enforcement shaoef tony coleson ...

That you are supposed to. the liaison from the attorney general's office who said they never let giuseppes walk thatthy had nothing to do with that. then you have the security of homeland security come in my quick and she says she never talked to eric holder and says it was an atf operation. we had an agent also assigned to the operation. she said she couldn't talk to attorney general holder because he immediately put an investigator general in place. that is not true. the death of ryan try was december 14. they didn't put an inspector general in place until february 28. what happened in the n...

Killed in the line of duty? >> oh, too many. >> do you know, do you have any number? >> well, i would, i would have to double check, but i would say at least 12. >> how many guns from fast and furious operation were detected crossing the border? >> i do not know. >> how many guns from fast and furious were seized at the border? >> i do not know. >> why is it that an operation that big and that important and that much in the news you don't have the details of? >> well, representative, as you know, it was an atf operation. >> how is it that you can make a claim that the border is now more secure...

Comply with them, but what i want the american people to understand, in complying with the subpoenas, that inquiry, that will not detract with the business we have to do with the justice department, including the matters like the one we have announced today. thank you. >> megyn: and that was the end of the press conference. joining me now, monica crowley, fox news contributor and dan gersey, host of gothham ghost writers and a the heat continues to go up on this case and many believe this goes much higher than the government has admitted to thus far. the department of justice said the whistleb...

The old adage is never the actual crime that gets you in trouble or the event, it's the coverup. i don't know if there's a coverup or not here. what i think darrell issa is trying to do and the republicans on the oversight committee is trying to get to the bottom of this, trying to investigate. because remember, the attorney general of the united states went before congress and claimed in may that he had just heard several weeks before about the program. megyn: and he's doubled down on that. >> right. now we've got e-mails, we've got other documentation that suggests that the attorney general ...