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When he can do so, he moves the goalposts and moves on to something else. megyn: so the summaries of those wiretap applications may not have had the most nefarious details. senior officials may not have known about the most nefarious stuff. we could see that somebody at doj had to sign off on the more nefarious operations and aspects because somebody did sign off on those wiretap applications, which typically happened to be very detailed. >> no one at justice, and there has never been any evidence that anyone in a senior official position -- [talking over each other] megyn: somebody at doj had...

It is a ocdef case and getting ocdef funding, it is a main justification they continue to watch it carefully, to make sure that all of that funding continues -- megyn: is it possible that the atf was doing this rogue program within a broader operation that the administration had approved. they were doing a rogue program, letting guns walk that they never talked to anybody about that doj to . >> if that is how it happens, there will be a paper trail that says that. they should just release it. the one that could end the whole matter. end of story. >> don't forget, issa's committee says that in ...

Another challenge against that law, the remaining provision already winding its way up through the courts. but health care is just days away, and so is the contempt of congress vote that is now scheduled also for thursday for attorney general eric holder. just ahead, what did eric holder really know? and when did he know it? we could get closer than ever today to answers as a former top aide to mr. holder who was there, he says, when the attorney general found out about operation fast and furious. i will ask him when was that. i will ask him how extensive this operation was, how -- to what ext...

For a response, we are joined by andrew mccarthy. he is a former assistant u.s. attorney. he writes for national review online and other outlets of media. great to have you here. you wrote a piece about this ocdef operation. you will come as a former u.s. attorney and doj official. he said this is a huge deal, and if this really did have -- if this was a ocdef program back in 2010, 12 months before brian terry was killed, 12 months before the attorney general said he knew about it, it is highly likely that somebody high up at the doj did sign off on it. >> yeah, high up. there were two numbers...

Murdered. he claims that he is getting all the bells and whistles treatment. twelve months before you say your former boss knew about it. is that -- could that be true? >> well, i will take chairman i says word for it. even if it was, he has really gotten all of the facts and documents from everything leading up to when "fast and furious" was stopped. he has gotten all the documents from doj. to find out what happened. and he hasn't been able to show that anyone in senior leadership knew about the illegitimate gun walking tactic. there were, of course, people injustice who had been informed th...