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Hold the attorney attorney o attorney general of the united states in congress. the meeting was delayed as republicans hupb republicans huddled behind closed doors to determine what they should do now. it's opened up a whole lot of questions. a spokesman for jon boehner says an assertion of privy sepbgs alley suggests that the white house was involved in the fast and furious or in solved in the cover up. now they are asking a lot of questions. another leading republican on this panel asked this question, check this out. >> now the president of the united states has claimed executive privilege....

Until after the election because you're going to litigate in courts? >> they have been behind the curve. in fairness, alan, you would admit this, "fast and furious" was a horrendous program. >> yeah. >> they have not gotten their stories straight from the beginning about how it started and who approved it. they had this infamous letter in february 202011. this is big deal. this is what happened. then to backtrack and say whoops, we got it wrong. gregg: holder today made his third retraction. >> this is terrible program and gun-running which is horrible. did holder know this particular thing ta...

About the fact that a border agent lost his life. we know there were violations of atf policies in the gun-walking. we know this was sanctioned at highest levels of the atf. ultimately when the whistle was blown, when they were asked a question about gun-walking those whistle-blowers have been further intimidated by people within the justice department. the justice department changed their answer weather request to that specific question. and real answer that we're asking right now is, if you changed your answer, we know this occurred, why did it occur and, who knew about it? and there's a gre...

From inquiry. and the question is going to be, what is this issue, what is it that attorney general eric holder does not want to turn over? i think it does connect the white house to fast and furious more, the fact that they are using executive privilege probe plea means the white house had some direct involvement in the program. gregg: the counter argument would be that the president isn't trying to protect national security or military or border patrol secrets. what congress is trying to get to the bottom of is who was misrepresenting, maybe even lying and covering up all of the events surro...

Nobody likes doing this. this is not about eric holder. it is about the department of justice and justice in the united states of america. have the guts, i hope we have the guts and the per veerance to get to the bottom of this. we have nearly 2000 weapons purposefully, purposefully given to drug cartels. we have hundreds of dead people in mexico. we have a dead united states border patrol agent. and we have a government that is with holding information that we can not only get to the bottom of it but that we can fix it. gregg: jason chaffetz. that begs the question who did authorize it? the p...