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These contempt proceedings to some kind of conclusion and he is offering to sit down with house leadership and work it out and i hope we do that. i really do. >> let me get to you, congres congressman issa. let's assume that in fact the house votes this week to hold holder in contempt. then what? because you can refer it to the u.s. attorney who works for holder and all likelihood will say he is not going to prosecute his boss. file a lawsuit in federal court which will take years. then you can impeach him. you can arrest him or try to arrest him and have a standoff between a sergeant and arms...

From fast and furious were found at the site of his murd r murder. >> i told her that we will continue regardless of what the vote is this week. we have an obligation to get to the truth about fast and furious and about those responsible specifically rela related to both his death and the cover up. having said that mine is not automatically to look at post contempt. mine is to continue investiga e investigating and doing my job along with mr. cummings of a host of other abuses and failures gsa and other scandals because we need to get corrective action. i would take exception with my colleague...

I'm really kind of saddened that at this point in the history of the congress we would be finding this attorney general in contempt. and you know, chris, i think that -- and i'm calling on speaker boehner to come forth and show the strong leadership this i know he will and sit down with the attorney general to resolve this matter. the attorney general has made it clear that he is willing to work with this congress. he has already turned over 7,600 documents and gone through millions of e-mails. and has even given up what is called internal deliberative documents. these are the types of documen...

Known that that february 4 letter was untrue. >> chris: congressman cummings we will get to the whole question of nelson because it is important in a little bit. let me just ask you in this overall question do you believe that the house is going to vote failing a.b. agreemen agree --g an agreement is going to vote holder in contempt and this would be the first time in history that either house has ever voted the attorney gener l general, the chief law enforcement officer of the land in contempt. what do you think of this kind of action? >> first of all, i think it is extremely unfortunate and ...

I'm really kind of saddened that at this point in the history of the congress we would be finding this attorney general in contempt. and you know, chris, i think that -- and i'm calling on speaker boehner to come forth and show the strong leadership this i know he will and sit down with the attorney general to resolve this matter. the attorney general has made it clear that he is willing to work with this congress. he has already turned over 7,600 documents and gone through millions of e-mails. and has even given up what is called internal deliberative documents. these are the types of documen...