pursuant to the statement that you referred to about attorney general michael mccasy, it has now been retracted from the testimony of attorney general eric holder where he claimed that his predecessor then attorney general mccase i had been briefed about gun walking in operation and now the department is retracting that statement and claiming holder inadvertently made the claim to the committee. >> i re claim my time. it would be wonderful if he came in here as a witness and found out what the actual matters were and facts were. we shouldn't be predetermining them. the idea of asking for evidence testimony is to find out what it was. no reason he shouldn't be allowed to testify about who knew what, when and where. we're not afraid to have the information come out. we just want the people to testify. now moving on and knowing what happened in this case, let's do the rest of the job. let's get the reform. >> i appreciate the gentleman. i might note that kenneth nelson testified for two days before this committee and may well be back before the committee in the future. the gentleman from