ma'am, you can't get much higher than lanny breuer without getting to eric holder. clearly lanny breuer not only knew about the programs but advocated for them even after brian terry was gunned down. jenna: sew what are the questions you have for the attorney general on thursday? >> what do you think you're doing if you can't know people in justice at high level are doing it? what are you doing when you're going to say that in fact the bush administration did it and it was wrong but you not only continued doing tt but expanded >> the investigation into "fast and furious" leaves no doubt this administration allowed 2,000 guns to walk and did sew with approvals at justice, including u.s. attorneys including dea and atf that is not debatable regardless what the minority almost dill legsal way put out last night -- delusional. jenna: will you finally ask the attorney general to step down? >> that is a decision only the president can make. i said i don't have confidence in him. i'm deeply disappointed justice has not been able to respond quickly an honestly. the fa

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attorney's office in phoenix and clears all the major players in washington including lanny breuer, garyll wilkinson and jason weinstein, all close aides of eric holder, and ken nelson, billy hoover and bill mcmahon as the top team at atf. according to the report all these guys either didn't know or couldn't recall being told these guns were deliberately going to mexico. martha? martha: so how does that square with the evidence in this case? is that true? >> reporter: well, it is if you believe their version of events, republicans don't. documents show many of these guys received weekly reports that showed hundreds of guns were being bought every week and ending up in mexico. agents tell me it's impossible for a career law enforcement guy not to conclude that this was being done on purpose, otherwise, of course, they'd be in jail. the report claims that these assistant u.s. attorneys and the atf brass in phoenix unnecessarily prolonged the case, lied or failed to explain exactly what they were doing. back to you. martha: all right. william, thank you. bill: she says she has not endorsed

lanny breuer, khuzami, john walsh and tony west. this got negative reaction from the banks.ggressive and lil and the task force can look back a decade. they are looking at mail, wire fraud, false claims and perjury and the goal is to bring criminal charges. that is why this is so negative for the banks. jamie dimon said this new task force has a good chance of derailing the foreclosure settlement talks between the banks and government that have been ongoing and seemed so close to fruition the past couple of weeks. now maybe not so much. >> we know how splintered the ags are. >>> when we come back, the latest how america feels about the economy, markets and how the president is doing. >>> latest nbc/"wall street journal" poll says americans still have negative feelings about the republican party and congress as a whole. >>> good morning, john. >> good morning. this poll is good news for obama. there is a rising sense of economic optimism among americans. obama ticked up in his own poll ratings. more importantly, the right track number has improved to 30% which is pretty low.