this week katie pavlich and her first book, "fast and furious." she explores the controversial gun supply operation currently under congressional investigation. she discusses her findings with national journal's white house correspondent major garrett. >> host: katie pavlich, what is fast and furious, why does it justify a book? what is the essence of this story from your vantage point? >> guest: well, essentially, we'll start with what the justice department and this administration claimed fast and furious was going to be, and then we can get into what actually happened. the justice department, in partnership with other agencies and departments like homeland security, claimed that their goal was to send and allow straw purchasers who are people who come in -- >> host: straw purchasers of -- >> guest: i'll explain it. people who come into gun shops and buy guns for other people, transfer them to criminals and criminal organizations. so what this program, fast and furious, basically was going to do was allow these straw purchasers to come into gun

this week, katie pavlich and fast and furious. he discuss her findings with major garrett. >> host: katie pavlich, what is the essence of this story, fast and furious. >> guest: we'll start with what the justice department and this administration claimed fast and furious would be and then we can get into what actually happened. the justice department in partnership with other agencies and departments like homeland security, claim their goal was to send and allow straw purchasers, people who come -- >> host: straw purchasers of? straw purchasers are people who come into gun shops and buy guns for other people, transfer them to criminals criminal organizations. what this program fast and furious claimed it was going to do is allow these straw purchasers to come into gun shops in arizona, purchase these guns. they were going to surveil the straw purchases and the transfers to cartel members and trace these guns into the extensive mexican cartel effort in an effort to take down what they call the big fish in the cartel, take down the

. >> this weekend on "afterwards" -- katie pavlich details fast and furious. >> this was something swepthe rug and kept not only from the american people, but the mexican people as well. there are hundreds of faceless, innocent mexican citizens who have been murdered as a result of this, but the only thing that we knew outside of the government program was that guns from american gun dealers were going into mexico and causing all these problems with the cartel, when really, the government was sanctioning these sales and sending them into mexico. >> she's interviewed by national journal white house correspondent major garrett, sunday night at 9:00, part of book tv, this weekend on c-span2. >> today on "washington journal" -- a discussion about the farm bill that the senate recently passed. bloomberg news reporter alan bjergs will discuss it. then a look at the supreme court decision last week that threw out existing s.e.c. penalties on networks for nudity and profanity. our guest is dan isett from the parents television council. in the final hour, we'll look al the 40th anniversary of tit

katie pavlich is back. it is very sobering to see that.ou call this obama's bloodiest scanneddal and shameless coverup. >> li call at this time bloodiest scandal because we are dealing with hundreds of lives south of the border and the murder of brian terry in this case, as a result of operation fast & furious. something that president obama is willing to stand in full faith and confidence next to his attorney general to defend. he claims he knew nothing about tdespite the white house having its fingerprints all over this, multiple national security advisers were informed about operation fast & furious. eric holder has changed his testimony multiple timesurn oath in front of congress. it took him nearly a year to apologize to the terry family. the only reason he apologized was baize he was embarrassed in front of congress, by senator john cornyn when he was asked if he had been in contact with the family and he said no. and he leaked the apology to the press before the family could read it. >> sean: why not be forthcoming and say, our inte

. >> host: katie pavlich, thank you for your time. >> guest: thank you. >> this summer i want to read the book by robert jay per about a sort of inside look at house speaker john boehner and the way he manages the tea party conference. there are great wines that i have read in the book that show just how crazy it can get with a lot of these freshmen that are put in by the tea party that arguably are controlling the way that the health is running even though they're freshmen and john boehner is in charge there is a line i have right here, he told people get your in line, and i think that's how congress has been so polarizing that a book like this would be great for some summer reading to just back and figure out what is going on behind the scenes. another would like to read. >> host: it's written by someone from rolling stone about how he fell in love with someone and also fell in love with him and there is very unlikely pair and from what understand she died and he's devastated but then he -- the use to make each of the next tapes which is something i did for years and years and years

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