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It took about three weeks to get the pleadings filed and three months to get a resolution in a prior case. that's the only road map we have is that prior contempt under john conyers judiciary committee several years ago. three weeks is a reasonable amount of time, what the speaker we would take. >> greta: you're a former assistant united states attorney, but i would not see this as either/or or. i would take both contempt citations, take one down to the u.s. district court right away, the terry family has waited a year and a half. the only thing to wait for is the department of justice decides...

Deem. let's give pat some credit. >> pat is the singer. i will say this, didn't he write the songs? >> they were a great team, i think that was a good way to put it. >> let's leave it at that. let's get to your headlines as well. attorney general eric holder is now the first sitting cabinet member ever to be held in contempt of congress. the republican-controlled house handing him a criminal citation and civil citation. all over the botched fast & furious operation in which border patrol agent brian terry was killed, the terry family responded to the news. >> what happened today was very, very...

Do you agree. >> i think that all of us want to make sure that we bring this investigation to a close. we are looking at the contempt citations now. many of us feel it's time for the attorney general to go. he should be leading on this investigation, again, not trying to stop it. but we still hope that he will bring over the information that we need, as i mention in the hearing the other day, it doesn't matter if he has been there 7 times or 70 times, if he keeps saying he doesn't know. it doesn't matter how many documents he gives if he doesn't give the right documents. we want to get to the ...

and we've got a lot of breaking news today. the jury in the john edwards' federal corruption trial reaches a verdict on just one of the six counts against the one-time presidential hopeful. the defense asks for a mistrial, but the judge tells the jury they've got to keep at it. let's go straight to cnn's senior correspondent, joe johns. he's in greensboro, north carolina. joe, what is going on down there? >> reporter: well, you know, it gets stranger and stranger every minute. quite frankly, just a few minutes ago, gloria, we got the word to stay tuned. it may not be over yet, even f...

House republicans are beginning up more outrage over the fast and furious gun walking sting. and what's contemptible for democrats is fine for the gop. daryle isa in laying out the case to eric hold ner contempt of congress. >> we have got ton that point where it's clear their not giving us the documents that they sort of closed up and covered up the people they now want to protect. general holder testified about fast and furious seven times, and the justice department turned over more than 7,000 pages of documents. that's apparently not enough. they were singing a very different tune the last...