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. >> assistant attorney general lanny brewer telling congress today he should have taken more aggressivegovernment's repeated use. controversial gunwalking tactics. but will him taking the blame give more senior officials like eric holder off the hook? homeland security editor rob joins us. nice to see you. >> thank you. >> were members of congress particularly impressed with lanny's admission? >> they seemed impressed by the admission that they appreciated it. i don't think it will help the justice department any further than that, though. >> what did he know and when did he know it? >> what he knew was about a previous operation called wide receiver in 2007. >> gunwalking, as well? >> counter gun running but there was alleged gunwalking. the idea of guns flowing into mexico with the atf knowing about it but not doing anything. he found out about it last year as fast and furious was actually happening. and he actually told his staff to talk to the atf, say that these tactics were problematic and unacceptable. >> problematic and unacceptable, that's not like saying don't do it. it's like

>> i do not know. >> yes, lanny breuer -- right. lanny breuer -- i get that next up. the two lannys. here is what i asked. can it go back and look at the files or have someone do that and get in summation as to whether these people were part of briefings or meetings that might have related to wide receiver, to that program, wide receiver? >> we are, as part of the process and responded to requests for information from layhill we are trying to gather information and may be able to gather from the e-mail and other information we are gathering a better sense of who was actually briefed regarding wide receiver. >> one other thing -- in a prepared remarks made by the attorney general mukasey regarding the trip to mexico he made january 16, he said "i reiterated to the attorney general as i do now states is committed to addressing the flow of illegal guns into mexico. i indicated we deploy additional resources to arrest and prosecute violent criminals, trace the firearms, tools of the trade, used by criminal gangs. this indicates the and walking may be discussed at this mee

>> i do not know. >> yes, lanny breuer -- right. lanny breuer -- i get that next up. the two lannys. here is what i asked. can it go back and look at the files or have someone do that and get in summation as to -- get us information as to whether these people were part of briefings or meetings that might have related to wide receiver, to that program, wide receiver? >> we are, as part of the process and responded to requests for information from layhill we are trying to gather information and may be able to gather from the e-mail and other information we are gathering a better sense of who was actually briefed regarding wide receiver. >> one other thing -- in a prepared remarks made by the attorney general mukasey regarding the trip to mexico he made january 16, he said "i reiterated to the attorney general as i do now states is committed to addressing the flow of illegal guns into mexico. i indicated we deploy additional resources to arrest and prosecute violent criminals, trace the firearms, tools of the trade, used by criminal gangs. this indicates the and walking

varsity soccer team did the victory dance after they beat due lanny. the school principal thought it was taunting the other team and ended the season. now according to other published reports, principal george roberts spent 8 hours on wednesday talking to players and coaches about this incident. he said the best course of action was to terminate the rest of the season. the principal says yes, terrell suggs and ray rice can do the dance because they are professional athletes but these are high school athletes we are talking about and there's a difference. players right now are devastated. >> i rather go out and lose 15- 0 in the semifinals than have it end like that by a principal. >> reporter: now school officials say they received several e-mails from family members of due lanny players saying that -- dulaney players saying the players from perry hall ran across to their side and did the bernie dance and they said not only that but they had lewd and disgusting behaviors. according to the baltimore sun some players pointed to their private parts and th

do you think there is a double standard here in the media, lanny? >> i think on this program, he was asked a lot of questions -- >> sean: no, no, no. he didn't have the courage to come on -- >> he got a lot of criticism about bill ayers -- >> sean: no, one question. herman cain is answering questions. >> my advice to anyone whether it's president obama or certainly in the case of mr. cain -- >> sean: i agree -- >> well, he answered plenty of questions about ayers -- >> sean: no, he didn't. >> but there is no doubt. there is a double -- there is a double standard. but you know what? that doesn't help herman cain. what helps herman cain is tomorrow morning, call a press conference, say exactly what lanny and i have been talking about. sean, you know what happens, if the fifth or 10th person comes out, it doesn't matter. he should be campaigning. he should make the statement and be back in the campaign, 15 minutes later. nobody's talking about 9-9-9. everybody's talking about this. he needs to make the definitive statement. get it overwith. >> sean: i

lanny breuer -- so what did they do, anderson?y try to hide that program, that dumb program, and then they start an even bigger program that does the same thing under fast and furious. that has members of congress furious. lanny breuer on capitol hill today trying to explain he knew about the first program in 2009 that let guns walk in to mexico. and then knew about the second program in 2010, "fast and furious" that let guns walk in to mexico. but didn't put the two together and then didn't alert the attorney general eric holder. here's his explanation. >> i regret that at that point that i knowing then, knowing now what -- knowing now i wish at that at that time i said to the deputy attorney general and the attorney general that in this case, wide receiver, we had determined in 2006 and 2007 guns had walked. i did not do that and i regret not doing that. >> sure does, anderson. certainly regrets it now. >> yeah. so i mean, it's incredible to think a program be allowed to happen not only once but twice and under two different adm

bill: he mentioned the top deputy for eric holder, lanny breuer.more than a year ago about the gun program. >> did you ever inform attorney general holder and deputy attorney general about it and if so when and if not why not. >> i can be no clear if i know then what i know now i would have told the attorney general. bill: brewer insists the gun walking tactics he learned about in april 2010 were not part of operation "fast and furious". instead they were part of a previous investigation of a bush administration prays known as wide receiver. that started about 2005. brewer says he failed to draw the connection between that operation and "fast and furious". let's give you context on all of that. "fast and furious" was hatched in the early months of the obama administration. the bureau of alcohol, tobacco firearms and explosives launched the operation in the fall of twine. so the plan was for atf agents to allow suspects to walk away will legally-bought guns in the hopes of then following them and tracking those guns in order to expose large-scale gu

right now we don't have confidence that the attorney general, lanny brewer or anybody else in this long chain of multiple abc organizations, fbi, dea, atf, can actually tell us this isn't happening and won't happen again. our obligation is to make sure they're not another brian terry murder. >> let me ask about the district. columbia. the local government you have jurisdiction over, $10 billion budget, what are the big issues for d.c. thaw focus? >> one is to get control of their own budget. right now their budget is held hostage to a relatively small amount of appropriations through congress. we need to detach that. never again should they have to wait to finalize their budget for school kids until we finish our budget, and never again if there's a delay, a so-called government shutdown, should they be on a day-to-day basis about whether kids go to school. that's the number one issue. >> what about voting rights? >> the district of columbia has and i am responsible to enforce what is there. they have a constitutional situation where they're not a state, never intended to be a state. if

lanny breuer's statement said he told the attorney general in january or february.that doesn't jive. so we've just got a mass of contradictions here and it looks like many unanswered questions that need to be answered. bill: the illegality on all this, appears listening to i and following this story, the program it telephone was not illegal. it may have been ill advised starting in 2010 and beyond the legal issue whether or not the truth is being told by the attorney general under oath on the hill, do you have that right? >> that is one of the issues, bill. there is also a major diplomatic issue. here we have the united states government in effect watching guns go across the border and end up in the hand of the drinking cartels and the mexican government itself apparently was not told. this is a this is terrible way to treat the mexican government fighting literally for their country's life for these drug wars in mexico. the legality of this is one thing. the other thing who is accountable for this botched program. how did wide receiver somehow morph into "fast and

>> i do not know. >> lanny brewer. lanny brewer. i get those two mixed up. okay. could you go back and look at the files or have someone do that and get us information with these people were part of briefings or meetings that might have related to that program wide receiver? >> we are as part of the process of responding to requests for information from the hill, we're trying to gather information from the e-mails to get a better sense of what was brief with regard to wide receiver. >> okay. one other thing, in the prepared remarks made by the attorney-general regarding the trip to mexico which he made on january 16th, he said i reiterated for the attorney general as i do now the united states is committed to addressing the flow of illegal guns into mexico and indicated deployed additional resources to arrest and prosecute violent criminals and trace firearms and tools of the trade used by criminal gangs. this indicates that gun walking might have been discussed at this meeting as well. once again, is there anything you are able to say without out for anybody's at

was suspended last week for doing the bernie dance on the field after winning a game against the due lanny valley high school. the principal reversed the decision and they went onto beat james hubert blake high school saturday to make it to the finals again tonight, the game for the winner of tonight's game will go onto the state championship. >>> bowie police are on the lookout for two suspects who stole money from a group of girlscouts. yes, that's correct. girl scouts. it happened outside a wall mort in bowie where they were -- wal- mart in bowie where they were selling the cookies. they asked how much they were and grabbed the cash box and ran off. the troop leader took off after the suspect trying to run him down but a man offered to help and she stopped running. he was the second suspect. >> don't steal the girl scouit' the girl scouts to not let the money get stealed. >> give us back the girl scout money. >> yeah. the thieves made off with around $200 and police have two men on video leaving the store. and if you have information, take a look at your screen, any information give pol

but basically, school officials say that the due lanny parents called and complained about -- dulaney parents called and complained about it and that's when they ended the soccer season. the students hear say they were simply celebrating. >>> fighting with libyan locals matthew vandyke will be heading home. this morning new reaction from his mother as she waits patientently to count down one more day -- patiently to count down one more day until she sees her son. >>> keith urban is rescheduled his shows to have surgery. you are watching "good morning maryland" first and only at 4:30a live look at the nation's capital. >>> now "good morning maryland" at 4:30. >>> welcome back. we first heard from sharon vandyke wednesday and said her son will be coming home and this morning we have all new reaction to matthew vandyke's soon arrival in baltimore. he spent 8 month supporting libyan rebels and 166 days in sol tarry confinement. tomorrow morning he will -- solitary confinement. tomorrow morning he will leave and this is what his mother has so say. >> i know he is okay. once i see him, all

one of the person who is been leading the effort for the department of justice is lanny breuer to the head of our criminal division who's devoted a huge amount of time to this fight, has established good relationships with his counterparts in mexico and has been a person has really stood for this country in developing good tech takes to reduce that level of violence. and the danger that the cartels post to this country. >> i'd like to turn to another subject that i think it's equally important, not necessary at this point a topic of criminal investigation, but the mortgage foreclosure crisis i know has been very much on your mind and the departments focus. and i wonder whether we can expect criminal investigations or other investigations that will be aimed at going after friday of documents that are considered in court, inconsistent and contradictory information of homeowners that have sought and sometimes received loan modifications, a series of practices and abuses that in no have been under investigation by my former colleague, the state attorneys general with the cooperation of th

lannie brewer admitted wrongdoing and failure.lder corrected the record on what he knew and when he knew it. obviously, we have agents that are involved at the lowest levels. we have to look at the chain of failures. operation fast and furious should not have occur and find out why it never seemed to have happened. never let the guns walk. >> bret: you are saltsfied with the attorney general correction of the record? >> i'm not. i'm on record saying i don't have full confidence in eric holder, particularly, when he hasn't seen fit to dismiss brewer or the other individuals who knew a lot about the program and didn't stop it. we're not satisfied but at least we know that there was knowledge at the top. eric holder did not apologize to brian terry's family. under oath, he told us essentially he didn't feel that that was appropriate. and more importantly he didn't feel there was a link between the two fast and furious weapons found at brian terry's murder site. that would cause there to be a direction connection. we're not happy with

. >> attorney general eric holder and criminal division chief lannie brewer both claimed ignorance about the operation. terrys don't buy it. >> i know they're lying. i know they're lying. nothing but liars. >> tuesday, lawmakers asked if holder wanted to apologize. he declined saying. >> i certainly regret what happened. >> if he lost his son he would think different. >> holder has since said he is sorry in an e-mail to the family. while the murder weapons are linked to fast and furious he testified it didn't lead to the agent's death. >> i disagree with that. i think they are. the brand new ak-47s recovered. >> if they would have never left the guns walk, maybe brian would haven't been in the desert. >> to some officials maybe he was collateral damage. to his parents he was everything. >> you love him very much. >> they want those who knew, executed and approved fast and furious held responsible. that means filing a wrongful death claim against the government and lawsuit. i'm told it will be big. william la jeunesse, fox news. >> bret: now to subject of prevents deaths. catherine herrid

. >> lanny brewer statement said he told the attorney general in january or february so that doesn't jive. so we just got a massive con that diction here. >> the attorney general there were no chargeable offenses. the bottom line is atf and doj wanted a big case. a lot of gups and many feel they waited too long. back to you. >> we will continue to dig. no grapevine to make room for herman cain in the center seat segment. fox all-stars ask questions and i'll relay yours when we come back. in the break, log on to foxnews. >> bret: we are starting our panel early tonight with the center seat segment featuring republican presidential candidate herman cain. steve hayes, a.b. stoddard and charles krauthammer. thank you for being here. >> pleasure to be here. >> bret: you've been dealing with the allegation and you talked a lot about them in various interviews. one of the accusers wants to tell her story but is barred by confidentiality agreement. will you call for the national restaurant association to waive details to speak freely? >> i can't answer that because there are legal implicatio

well, that question was put today, essentially, to the assistant attorney general, lanny breuer, who in turn was told the atf was walking guns in this previous case known as wide receiver but, quote, never drew the connection between that case and fast and furious. >> at the time i thought that leagues dealing with the leadership of atf was sufficient and reasonable and, frankly, given the amount of work i do at the time, i thought that was the appropriate way of dealing with it. but i cannot be more clear that knows now, if i'd known then what i know now i, of course, would have told the deputy and the attorney general. >> reporter: he never thought atf phoenix might walk guns a second time, and memos do show the attorney general in phoenix showed him, quote, we do not walk guns. senator grassley released his own set of documents that make doj's argument seem implausible. two justice lawyers from washington have been assigned to fast and furious. several top justice officials saw this presentation showing one straw buyer had bought 13 -- excuse me, 313 guns and another bought 230 gu

. >> reporter: we have an accident on the due lanny valley road between sweet air road and maryman's road. be careful there. let's look out there and see if improvement to the fog. we are at 95 southbound at 32. your ride through savage towards laurel should be okay to. me it looks like the fog is getting better at this point. taking a look at the inner loop at 295, we had an accident reported here that is now over on the right shoulder. can't see it on the camera but looks like it's not affecting traffic that much. so we are doing okay there. drive times are normal right now. so if you leave right now on your way to work, 38-- 38 southbound is -- 38 southbound is five minutes. -- 83 southbound is five minutes. >>> police in riot gear confronting penn state students. one student hangs from a street sign before it rips from the post. a large group starts shaking a newsvan until the van tips over. there are reports of one photographer had the by a rock. officers used pepper spray tocontrol the crowd and at this point there's no word of any arrests. so for more on this as it has been de

say they haven't received e-mails of holder's staff and it appears the leading sacrificial lamb is lannywithheld information in this case, holder faces a much tougher grilling next month in the house. >> bret: we'll continue to follow it. thank you. investigators found remains of u.s. war dead were not always handled properly at dover air force base in delaware. the site that receives the bodies and repairs them for burial at the u.s. military. there were whistle blower reports of lost body parts and other problems. the former mortuary commander and other senior officials were disciplined but not fired. federal appeals court in washington upheld president obama's healthcare law as constitutional. the panel dismissed a lawsuit by a christian legal group saying it was violation of religious freedom. decision whether to take up appeals over the healthcare law is expected soon. there is a bit of a shuffle in terms of job descriptions going on at the white house tonight. president obama chief of staff is handing off many of his duty. the big story is why? here is chief white house corresponde

. >> lanny brewer statement said he told the attorney general in january or february so that doesn'twe just got a massive con that diction here. >> the attorney general there were no chargeable offenses. the bottom line is atf and doj wanted a big case. a lot of gups and many feel they waited too long. back to you. >> we will continue to dig. no grapevine to make room for herman cain in the center seat segment. fox all-stars ask questions and i'll relay yours when we come back. in the break, log on to foxnews.com/sronline to submit question ideas. stay here. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. executor of efficiency. you can spot an amateur from a mile away... while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choo any car in the aisle...and go. you can even take a full-se or above, and still pay the mid-size price. now this...will work. [ ale announcer ] just like you, business pro. just like you. go national. go like a o. the other office devices? they don't get me. they're all like, "hey, brother, doesn't it bother y

lanny brewer said that while he learned of these controversial gun walking tactics, he did not speakat the time and even after atf whistleblowers went public in fast and furious and were accused of lying he still did not speak up. >> i regret that in april of 2010 that i did not draw the connection between wide receiver and fast and furious. and moreover, i regret that even in earlier this you're that i didn't draw that connection. >> now, some in congress with questioning that explanation. why? because breuer learned about wide receiver at the same time as fast and furious, which was run by the same agents and the same u.s. attorney's office. now, in that case, more than 2,000 guns were sold and, of course, a border agent was killed. a week from today, shepard, the attorney general will be on the hot seat answering questions from senate judiciary. back to you. >> shepard: william la jeunesse reporting live from los angeles. china's space program took another giant leap forward today. engineers launched an unmanned space craft that they say will play a key role in their building effo

assistant attorney lanny brewer says he regrets not alerting others within the department.ars before a senate subcommittee later today. >>> the justice department has issues with south carolina. it says the state's new immigration is unconstitutional and preempts federal law. it says the south carolina law could lead to authorized visitors and immigrants being harassed or detained and say they it's time for the feds to do their jobs. >>> warmer weather is expected in the northeast after a rare october snowstorm caught many by surprise. nearly 2 million people in at least five states remain in the dark this morning. it could be friday before their power is back on. the storm dumped more than two feet of snow in some areas. one new jersey mayor even postponed trick-or-treating. >> if you look at our streets, we really don't have one full street that's passable. it's just a disaster area throughout if community. >> of course, power lines are still down. so it's dangerous. that's why they canceled halloween. you know the storm is blamed for 13 deaths. >>> some of the big banks

holder has said -- attorney general holder has said that those responsible be held accountable but lannymewhere other direct reports who had direct knowledge in large amounts have not yet been held accountable. candy, my job is to connect the dots as chief investigator of the house on behalf of the american people. my job is to get all of the facts, i'm going to do that. i believe that there is a systemic problem at justice that allows this kind of activity from the bottom to the top to go on. there were too many places and too many people who should have said stop about. i believe eric holder is one of those people. we're going to line up all places in which the system failed to protect the american people and brian terry, and present that. that's our job. >> congressman daryl issa, thank you for your time. appreciate it. >> you're very welcome. >>> which presidential candidate called a rival privileged? it wasn't a compliment. congratulations. congratulations. today, the city of charlotte can use verizon technology to inspire businesses to conserve energy and monitor costs. making comm

that official, lanny brewer, acknowledged yesterday that he learned about the gun walking at least 18ontroversial techniques were not being used in other of their federal investigations. breuer said in a statement yesterday he now regrets not alerting others within the department of justice to those controversial tactics when they first came to his attention. when new gun walking allegations arose earlier this year, bruer said he did not draw a connection to the unacceptable tactics of atf agents years earlier. last night, senator chuck grassley of iowa said, quote, despite their denials of gun walking, it appears that senior justice department officials clearly knew that gun walking had happened previously and ignored the red flags that it was happening again in a newer case called fast and furious. breuer, that high ranking justice official is scheduled to testified before a senate southbound committee today and will likely be asked about all of this. >> it's chris. how did the material come to life? >> the justice department turned over about 650 pages the of documents due to a con

next they blame the assistant attorney general lanny brewer for not stopping "operation fast & furiouslping argument cartels. finally they blame all those at atf, washington and the department of justice who knew and approved this operation, including attorney general eric holder. >> i say to him, you could have been a man and at least come to the family, the mother and father of brian terry and give your condolences. you had a chance to do that when you were in washington. you didn't do that. you acted like it was going to foe away and it didn't. >> holder knew about it, the president knew about it. i think anybody should be prosecuted for the innocent people that were murdered in mexico. >> reporter: the family was convinced there were enough bright people at atf and doj who knew about this and could have or should have stopped it and their son would be alive today if they had don't right thing. the family is going to file a wrongful death claim against the government and i'll i'm told it will be big. megyn: now to the penn state child aintiews scandal. we are learning a key anything

tucker, a lot of folks, including lanny davis are calling for the president to sand up say, go back topson-bowles and debt commission findings. go back in a room with the starting point. >> hard to remember last time we had a president so passive in the face of so many different crises. literally from the first week of the administration the idea congress would formulate a recovery plan. congress would do it. kicked the can to congress with the super-committee. >> it is not passive. >> it is utterly passive. this is the executive branch government. what is the plan? >> gives obama exactly what he wanted. 7 trillion dollars in cuts. 7 trillion dollars in cuts. >> alan, listen to the president speak again he refers to his ludicrous second jobs bill. things by no means bold, no serious economist thinks that right the economy. purely a matter of passing to congress. martha: alan is right the president may get exactly what he wants in terms of defense cuts that will kick in. >> $7 trillion. martha: doing it in sort of a passive, position. >> how much he was able to get -- >> is there anythi

. >> reporter: attorney general eric holder and chief deputy lanny brewer claimed ignorance about then't buy it. >> i know they're lying. they're just nothing but liars. >> reporter: tuesday lawmakers asked if holder wanted to apologized. he declined. saying only -- >> i certainly receipt what what happened. >> if he lost his son he would think different. >> reporter: holder said since then he is sorry and while the weapons are linked to "fast and furious", holder claims the operation did not directly lead to the agent's death. >> i disagree with that i think they are. brand new ak-47's they were carrying. >> if they never let these guns walk maybe brian wouldn't be out in that desert. >> reporter: so some officials brian was collateral damage. to his parents, he was everything. >> i can't sleep thinking about him. i love him very much. >> reporter: i can tell you, jon, that the family is planning shortly to file a claim and eventually a lawsuit against the federal government for wrongful death. when they do, it is going to be big. there is a fund-raiser this weekend for the family to

yes, i believe eric holder should have taken responsibility for failures on his watch as lanny breuer to a certain extent has. more importantly should have made a sincere apology to the terry family for his justice department's actions led to the death of their son, or cousin various family members. he didn't do that. i'm deeply disappointed of that, that is kind of change, the sign of change that american people believe this is admission this was wrong and wouldn't happen again. jenna: if i play the other side the american people want a system that works. that is the argument of the other side. regardless who you have in office what "fast and furious" shows is a dysfunctional department. people not talking to each other. things happening that shouldn't be happening and no one really held accountable for an operation that goes wrong. that is why some are suggesting you look back and see a pattern going back to the bush administration. that is systemic problem no one is touching on. how do we address that, congressman? >> i think first of all there are some big differences. we have in