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William la jeunesse following this live in los angeles. william? >> reporter: well, megyn, the implications are big. the subpoena goes to the substance of the investigation, but it escalates the political battle with the top democrat on the committee that issued this subpoena calling this a republican abuse of power and a fishing expedition. it also heightens the congressional fight with the obama administration which many lawmakers say has stonewalled this investigation for months. so today's subpoena asks for all communications sent and received from 16 top justice officials, including the a...

International border, megyn. this is not an operation between arizona and new mexico. this is between two countries. the attorney general wants us to believe that he had no idea, was not briefed on it, not paying attention to the memos. megyn: not even when brian terry was killed. >> that was my next point. this operation went so awry at some point that now we have these guns that were being filtered to mexican drug cartels, for goodness sakes, traced to the death of a federal agent, the border agent brian terry. you're telling me that the -- >> megyn: that was december, he said he didn't know...

supported us. and especially amanda. >> yeah. all i can say is, again, thank you. because of the letters and the calls and just amazing support that we received from people all over the world, especially here in seattle, that we've been able to endure and that we've been able to, you know, make sure amanda had the support she needed. there there's no way we can thank everybody. so here individually, so here's our way to just say thank you. >> i'd like to add in one more thing. we would also like to send our appreciation to our italian lawye lawyers. they did a fantastic job on that s...

all i can say is, again, thank you. because of the letters and the calls and just amazing support that we received from people all over the world, especially here in seattle, that we've been able to endure and that we've been able to, you know, make sure amanda had the support she needed. there there's no way we can thank everybody. so here individually, so here's our way to just say thank you. >> i'd like to add in one more thing. we would also like to send our appreciation to our italian lawyers. they did a fantastic job on that side of the pond and ted was phenomenal on this side ...

positioned himself very much as the grown-up in the room, the reasonable one, something that the president's advisors thought would help him appeal to the independent voters that he needs if he's going to win relection next year. we're seeing a very different tact now. a very aggressive tact, especially after the president saw dismal approval ratings following that bruising debt ceiling battle. we've seen the president taking his message to the home turf, as you mentioned, of his rivals and calling them out by name. we saw that this past week when he went to the brent spence bridge w...