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People about guns walking. >>reporter: aides say he wants to come to an agreement that will make a contempt of congress vote unnecessary. but the very same aides say that the committee has not been in a position tonight to permanently take contempt of congress off the table. >>shepard: it sounds like the attorney general has different expectations. >>reporter: that is right. the chairman wanted the documents to start coming over from the justice department first thing this morning. so his people could start going through them. the attorney general prefers to bring the documents with him. he wr...

In 2004, serve know what it's like to belong to a club you don't want membership in. my heart goes out to the terry family, no question. i:believe of should have apologized to the family but not to congress. i say this because this should not be his loss, the situation, a political circus, sensationalized or made for gain on either side of the political spectrum. this certainly -- attorney general holder should have afollow joyed. i agree with the mother, plastery when she said he should have c come to the family and apologized sooner. but i don't believe of should have done it before congress...

Knew about the most controversialing a expects of this program that i have seen. but there is this october 2010 memo between some top dogs at justice department that show they knew about -- and i quote, they say i'm not sure how much grief we get for guns walking. they are talking about this program. they are talking about guns walking in october 2010. these are top d.o.j. officials. if they knew about guns walking in october 2010. why didn't eric holder know about it then? >> guns walking has been a policy of the federal government long before barack obama's administration came on. it was a c...

Seem to be saying is there is a pattern. they are pointing to some other instances where they believe the doj misled them about what it knew on this very controversial operation, fast and furious, where we were basically letting bad guys have guns and take them down to mexico because we were going to track the guns and get the bad guys but we didn't. they lost the guns, they didn't get the bad guys, this is bad. what issa pointed to among other things, he says in february of 2011 that the department of justice told congress that it had never let guns walk, that's what they call it when you let...

Walk, and now we have actual memos in which they're concerned about so many guns walking. they can't square that circle for us, and that concerns us, because the american people, and to a certain extent, more importantly, our partners in mexico. the attorney general, they don't want to deal with us, because we have been disingenuous with them in a war in which we're asking them to give their lives to stop drugs from coming to our country. this is a partnership with mexico in which we have to renew confidence with the mexican people if we want to have help stopping the flow of drugs from mexico...