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Case. >> in other words, they were trying to use this tragedy to build a case for these demand letters. >> reporter: the attorney general disagrees. >> clearly an attempt to use "fast and furious" as a way to bolster the request for that long gun regulation would have been foolhardy. >> reporter: that demand letter really does go to the heart of what this regulation was. well, the justice department went forward in april, ordering 8,000 gun dealers in four border states to report multiple sales of semiautomatic rifles. nra among others filed a lawsuit to stop it. jon? jon: william la jeunesse,...

Letters. >> reporter: the attorney general disagrees. >> clearly, an attempt to use fast and furious as a way to bolster the requests for that long gun regulation would have been foolhardy. >> reporter: bill n april the justice department went forward with that regulation anyway. back to you. bill: william, thank you. we're going to talk to joe walsh, member of congress, coming up about this in 20 minutes. martha: a little bit more background, more than 1400 guns were sold to smugglers as part of this program enroute to mexico, and only 370 weapons of those were ever retrieved, okay? so that l...

ask cain's former employer to lift that confidentiality agreement so she could break her silence. she wants to file a written statement contradicting his claims that he did nothing improper. the stress on the presidential candidate, as you can see, is showing. >> don't even bother asking me all of these other questions that you all are curious about. okay. don't even bother. excuse me. excuse me. >> cain's not just snapping at reporters. now lashing out at rick perry. a perry campaign adviser actually leaked old allegations. gloria borger just spoke with the man who is the target of ...

Been on top of the story since the very begin something breaking this news for us this morning. william, good morning and what have you got? >> reporter: martha out of the dozens of demand letters so far from senator grassley and congressman issa there has only been one ish subpoena issued back in march. it only focused on the atf director, kennel son. it asks for specific documents related to murder of border patrol agent brian terry to resolve the conflicting accounts on type and number of guns found at the scene and where those came from. there is evidence that an fbi informant bought those...