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The gun dealers in the greater phoenix area and said despite being against the law, let's allow 2,000 mostly ak-47s purposely get in the hands of the drug lords. that's just so wrong, chris. and if that was bush, you'd be all over it. >> no, no. i think it was bush that started this program, don't you? >> well, under operation gun runner it was stopped in 2007. >> okay. >> then brewer comes along in 2009 and they start fast and furious. it's not right now. >> well said. thank you congressman of utah. next back to health care. under the politics, what the supreme court did was good for real p...

Thousands of these weekly reports. is that a fair statement of what his letter says? >> i can't. greta, you heard the gentleman talk about the activity that's been on our southern border. over 40,000 mexican people have lost their lives. and to make sure this wasn't a priority item, give me a break. in april 2nd of 2009, he outlines tactical changes to operation gun runner that he's going to implement and the president amplifies that again on april 16th right after that in mexico. so you can't tell me that they didn't understand this and this wasn't a bullet point they were going to concentrat...

Thousands of these weekly reports. is that a fair statement of what his letter says? >> i can't. greta, you heard the gentleman talk about the activity that's been on our southern border. over 40,000 mexican people have lost their lives. and to make sure this wasn't a priority item, give me a break. in april 2nd of 2009, he outlines tactical changes to operation gun runner that he's going to implement and the president amplifies that again on april 16th right after that in mexico. so you can't tell me that they didn't understand this and this wasn't a bullet point they were going to concentrat...

>> thanks, shannon. >> shannon: the chair of the committee says he will hold the atf in contempt if he does not the get answers. has any information been forthcoming to you? >> chairman issa issued documents wanting to understand what happened with operation gun runner and operation fast and furious. this was an operation where we put over 1500 guns in an effort to figure out how the bad guys were moving guns across the border. the problem is we now have two agents dead. one an i.c.e. officer and the other a border patrol agent and gun tion found in the proximity of the crime scenes. we are no...

Their case this time around they dropped racketeering charges which caused jury instructions last time to be so convoluted the only thing the jury could agree upon is rod blagojevich lied to the f.b.i. they have had a chance to study what caused the jury to hang in the first trial. to try to get it right with the second go-around. bret? >> bret: mike tobin live in chicago. thank you. house oversight committee chairman darrell issa is threatening contempt proceeding against acting director of the atf. he says the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms refused to produce subpoena documents abou...