republlcans disagree.issa says, "lanny breuer knew, approved and continued to approve this kind offaned down with fast and &pfurious weapons." issa points to three memo's: in april 2010 weinstein tells breuer "the a-t-f let a bunch of guns walk" in a previous case, months later breuer suggests allowing straw buyers justice departtent said the alllgation that "a-t-f knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a strrw purchaser who then transported them intoomexico - is false." fast and furious was not just about who knew. it was who was kept from knowing; the u-s ambassador to mexico city,,the a-t-f agents in mexico." the report clearsstop a-t-f melson, billyyhoover or bill &pmacmahon and instead blames a-t-f ann the u-s attorneyss office in phoenix for lying orr cass. late today, congressman issa said hee belleved holder was actively engaged in a cover up and unless he turned over subpoena week, the oversight committee would begin contempt attorney general. holder appeared before hat committee thursday morning. in los angeles, william la jeunesse, fox news. 3 bad day for a color

breuer to leave the department of justice. he misled congress about whether he was aware of the letter to me. to this day he is still the highest ranking official in any administration that we know was aware of gun walking in any federal program. yet he took no action to stop gun walking. he failed to alert the attorney general or the inspector general. if mr. breuer the justice department and the american people, this failure raises important questions. why did attorney general holder determine that mr. lanny breuer was allowing straw purchasers to reach mexico with trafficked weapons? what has he done about it? will mr. breuer be held accountable for hatching a plan to directly violate the attorney general's antigun walking policy? the attorney general clearly testified that the proposal was in contravention of that policy. how does the justice department know other senior criminal division officials weren't proposing operations similar to fast and furious? these are just a subset of some of the major questions remaining in

lanny breuer is not going to be criminally indicted or anything else, but when mr. mchenry was asking about holding people accountable, he was really asking about people who work for you. is your management style a hands-off, or is it a hands-on? do you want to know what's going on, or do you want others to handle it and brief you at a relatively high level? >> i think i've got a hands-on style. >> okay. well, if you've got a hands-on style, have you read any of or been fully briefed on the wiretaps including the march 10th wiretap in this case? >> these wiretaps are very voluminous, i have not read them. >> okay. well, kenneth nelson told us, and this has been publicly reported, that, n., he was sick to his stomach when he discovered it. this was approved by lanny breuer's office. indications are that your chief deputy knew about this. i mean, it comes through criminal division at some point. the question is, will you or isn't it a appropriate that you know about these wiretaps so that you could know what former acting atf director knew which was these wiretaps are

megyn: lanny breuer heads up the criminal division at the doj. >> he's trying to extend gun walking inth the mexican authorities who flat turned him down. here is the point you won't hear from juice is. they have give d you won't hear from justice. we could have a document fights, but here what is we need. we need to know who approved "operation fast & furious." each and every person along that chain. megyn: he says they don't know. >> if he would give us the documents, we believe they do know. whistleblowers have told us several things, and we are trying to confirm with legitimate document. we congress were given false written and oral testimony. we deserve the document that show the details of who did it. we have a witness we tried to interview who took the fifth, patrick cunningham who headed the criminal division in arizona. last but not least we have two informants given a pass on any kind of criminal prosecution because quote they are cooperating witnesses. they were front and center on financing these guns. we have a right and obligation to know on behalf of the cherry family wh

guys have time for happy hour and joining me this evening artsy correspondent christine and jake breuer chief strategy officer at vision strategy hey guys thanks for joining me i think there is it did you know that there was really huge news that was going to happen day the thing that we covered on our show everybody was waiting for donald trump to announce his endorsement of a republican candidate i could. it's my honor real honor and privilege to endorse mitt romney. our it's what we did there is we got to make sure that every single network every single cable network went live with this i'm not even kidding you we were checking out earlier editorial meeting this morning and that same b.c. had a countdown clock like three hours and twenty minutes until drawn from panelled announcement all the while i was looking up to you again by the way although it said all the while egypt was rocking and here's what i think it should have been was actually that and my wife pointed this out this morning was that punxsutawney phil woke up this morning and made one appearance and then he had to fly to

breuer going to be joining us then a grief was burning this week at protests and riots broke out after the parliament approved a strict austerity package so at the end of this we have to wonder if it's even going to help and admiral william mcraven is now asking for more off already to move special ops forces faster and outside of the normal pentagon channels so is that what we need or will it only allow for less accountability we have all that and more fear not including a dose of happy hour but first take a look what the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so today the obama administration released a budget for fiscal year two thousand and thirteen that was a lot to discuss within this breakdown and we'll get to that during our panel after the break but the mainstream media are also talking about this today and looking at some of the details. president obama delivered his twenty thirteen budget plan to capitol hill and it's sure to fan well morally debate over your tax money and how the government wants to spend it the plan calls for spending three point eight trillion in

lanny breuer's people signed basically wiretaps and they signed them that allowed dea and other agencies to know things and justice to know things even atf didn't know. more importantly, to hide from atf and the embassy in mexico city the existence of this operation wasn't done at atf. it was done at justice. again, bill, we only have about 8% of the documents that we know to exist and we already have one after another things that lead up to justice to show us this operation may have been very popular with u.s. attorney burke. it may have in fact included some rogue atf individuals but in order for this to happen and happen again and being sought to happen yet again it took justice to do what they shouldn't do, which is allow men and women on both sides of the border to be put in harm's way because of weapons they let walk. bill: the hearing tomorrow, and eric holder told you his office is working tirelessly on this. i know you don't buy it. i think the tally on paperwork was 6,000 pages for your committee where there were 70,000 given the private investigator at the government level loo

is because on february 4 when we received what was a false letter that has been retracted, lanny breuere of his chief aids, was in mexico lobbying for more gun walking. additionally the evidence shows humane zapata was killed with a similarly controlled weapons. we need to get to the bottom of it. the inspector general has 80,000 pages and we have 6,000 pages. but even in those 6,000 pages we find damning evidence that high-ranking people at justice knew all along and not only did not stop this program, but believed in it. megyn: here is what he said before congress this morning. i have never said or tried to defend the program. what has kind of bothered me is we have taken something we share a concern about and it's gone from that and mushroomed into the political sphere where people ask for resignations, where i'm threatened with contempt. i think he's talking about you. >> i never asked for his resignation. megyn: not necessarily his, but somebody's. >> i he never asked for resignations. i asked for people to come before our committee. others have taken the fifth. others we are still

breuer. that "60 minutes" piece sort of portrait -- you may not be able to talk about that particular instance with countrywide -- but when a lot of people look at, that is when it they said that a person is out here and has this information. is that a way that maybe the visceral -- obviously, i understand you are limited in what you could take got, but if you could respond to that -- >> absolutely. for those of you who missed "60 minutes," my mother may forgive you for missing it. [laughter] i went on "60 minutes" to talk about these issues. somebody from countrywide said, ", i know about the wrongdoing of countrywide and the fbi never spoke to me." not to be defensive, but that predated me and it was prosecuted by the attorney of los angeles. i know the current attorney of los angeles. he is a terrific person and he works very hard. look, we are a big country. i cannot explain in particular case why somebody wasn't interviewed. people who work with me know that i find that completely unacce

issa blamed holder for failing to discipline assistant ag lanny breuer for not vetting a wiretap applicationrevealed agents were letting guns go south. it was unbelievable that holder hadn't disciplined anyone after 13 months when it was obvious some people didn't do their job, and congressman dan burton of indiana suggested holder is hiding something. >> there's 93,000 documents, 93,000 documents that you're not giving this committee, and you're saying, well, the separation of powers prohibits you from doing that. that's bologna. that is just bologna. >> in terms of making available, um, i'm not sure where you get the number of 93,000 documents. the redactions that have occurred are only because there are things that are either not relevant or are protected by grand jury secrecy rules. >> reporter: now, the attorney general said he's been before congress six times on this issue. democrats defended his reputation and pointed out a similar operation did occur under president bush. they also say there's no evidence anyone, including the chief of staff of the atf, ever telling holder about fast