. >> did lanny breuer nknow? >> he had engaged in gun walking in the wide receiver operation. >> soviets would be yes, that lanny brewer knew that any state that atf makes any ever to interdict guns and not allow them to go to mexico, he knew that state and would have been false? >> he said he made a mistake in not connecting that which he knew about wide receiver and did not apply that knowledge to what happened in february. >> what about jason wine stain and james trustee -- jason weinstein? in arizona,t ausa's these are senior doj officials, and i cannot believe that they just learned recently that a demonstrably false letter had been mailed to a member of congress. why not correct it the moment he realized it was wrong? >> they admit that they made mistakes with regard to what the level of knowledge was and what they should have done in the preparation of the letter. they relied on people who they thought had the best knowledge in arizona and did not bring into their calculation information that they had prev

megyn: speak to lanny breuer. can you defend lanny breuer? hasn't had that. >> full discloses -- full disclosure lanny is a friend of mine. he acknowledged it was a gun running operation that started under the bush administration. with respect to lanny breuer. he has thousands of letters, ems crossing his desk. he sent an email saying good job, guys. megyn: he forward it to his personal gmail. >> i don't think that's a big issue. megyn: why do you do that in government service. >> i think people make copies of stuff they want to look at later for all kinds of reasons. lanny may have said good job, guys, to the people who wrote the letter, not appreciating the details. this was february of twefer. only several weeks after this tragedy occurred with brian terry. >> nobody at the departments of justice is taking responsibility for this. no one has said wrote this letter, read this letter. and it was a mistake. they are saying now it's inaccurate. megyn: i want to get julians take on this before we go. here is way want to ask you. you said that e

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materially false statements, people who told the investors one thing and did something different. >> lannyat's absolutely right. and we're... we're doing exactly that. >> kroft: we spoke to a woman at countrywide who was a senior vice president for investigating fraud. and she said that the fraud inside countrywide was systemic, that it was basically a way of doing business. >> breuer: well, it's hard for me to talk about a particular case. of course, in the countrywide case, steve, as you know, terrific office, u.s. attorney's office in los angeles, investigated that, interviewed many, many people-- hundreds of people, perhaps-- and reviewed millions of documents. >> kroft: they never talked to the senior vice president inside countrywide who is charged with investigating fraud. >> breuer: well, i... we... look, i can't speak about that, because i actually don't know about that particular case. but if the senior vice president of any company believes they know about fraud, i want them to contact us. >> kroft: breuer says the department has brought major financial prosecutions involving he

megyn: this lanny brewer is high up in the justice department. say i don't remember seeing that letter sent to senator grassley. now it turns out he did review this? there is evidence in these documents that that testimony was either intentionally misleading or at the very least, not true? >> reporter: i can tell you the letter was reviewed -- brewer was in mexico city at the time but he did see drafts of the letter before it came out. he did deny saying i didn't make the connection between gun walking in wide receiver and gun walking in fast and furious. i don't recall if he did deny seeing this letter before. megyn: i think that's what he said, i don't recall. i'll look into it. my information is he testified i don't recall. now we find out it was sent to him and as you points out, 25 people reviewed the letter before it went out. now the department of justice has had to withdraw their letter to a u.s. senator which is very, very rare. william, thank you. congressman darrell issa is leading the investigation into "operation fast & furious" in t

charles grassley took to the floor and called for the assistant attorney general lanny breuer to getoined by the arizona republican on the house government fan oversight committee. talk to me about what is your reaction to what grassley called for this morning? >> i think it's an appropriate response when we saw the dump of documents last friday and we see the outright lie to congress. there has got to be -- we have to showed bureaucrats to the law. lie to congress, you have got to go. martha: what were the contradictions on what he knew and didn't know. >> they were hearing lanny breuer talking about he didn't know about documents. then in the document dump it shows he downloaded copies this email two his gmail account twice. which shows he knew about what was going on with this horrible agenda. martha: you are going to be questioning attorney general eric holder. you are among several who called for his resignation. >> i don't get the chance to talk with him. at judiciary, they took the that over. next week we'll be able to talk with government oversight with regards to the former

>> reporter: lanny breuer is head of the criminal division. some would argue he is the number two man at justice. he basically admitted he made mistakes in this that he knew of gun running in "wide receiver" but didn't bring it up even when the whistle-blowers came forward said it was happening he had a duty to say yeah, this is a problem and it should have been included in this letter that was written to congress. yesterday charles grassley of iowa said, listen it is time for him to step down. not only did he not speak up but number two he misled congress about reviewing the letter. there is e-mail chain, four e-mails that went to lanny breuer he did not at mitt knowing about and for that reason charles grassley says he should go down. holder expressed confidence in him. that is the biggest issue here, bill, confidence and credibility of the attorney general's office. bill: thank you, william la jeunesse with that from l.a. martha with more here in new york. martha: we'll take a little look back how all this started. back in 2006, the atf cre

sensenbrenner joined the call yesterday from senator charles grassley that assistant attorney general lanny breuer be fired for misleading and in his words lying to congress. holder claims that brewer didn't lie. he was just inaccurate. jon? jon: what are republicans trying to accomplish? >> reporter: to republicans the question is this. is it plausible the operation the size of "fast and furious" goes across more than a year across international boundaries in violation of the law with a task force involving multiple agencies costing tens of millions of dollars that neither the attorney general nor his staff knew about it despite receiving briefing, updates and signing off on multiple wiretap applications. congressman issa, spear heeding the investigation claims the attorney general is covering up the facts and withholding evidence. >> mr. attorney general, the blame must go to your desk and you must today take the real responsibility. why haven't you terminated the many people involved? why is it that we're still hearing about inconsistencies inconsistencies --. >> reporter: now they're in

senator chuck grassley is pushing for lannie brewer to resign.arned of it in 2010 was bad enough, but this is the final straw. mr. brewer lost my confidence and his ability to effectively serve the justice department. if you can't be straight with the congress, you don't need to be running the criminal division. it's time to stop spinning and start taking responsibility. >> gretchen: all right. so that's what he's asking for. here is the response from the drug enforcement administration. they say that they have been working collaboratively with the mexican government to fight money laundering for years as part of that collaboration, dea works with mexican authorities to gather and use information to counter the threats they pose to both of our countries. does that explanation suit you, congressman issa? >> you remember justice told us in writing and in testimony that they never let guns walk, so don't trust, do verify on behalf of the american people becomes a responsibility. that's the whole point. if you have confidence, it becomes performa to

. >> chris: the obvious question is, do you think eric holder and lanny brewer, do you think they should resign or if they fail to, be fired by the president. >> guest: i am not calling for anyone's resignation today. but i am calling for them to be more accountable and asking them to do. and so far, we haven't gotten straight ansrs. >> chris: senator mcconnell thank you foring and we'll stay on top of all of these. gop candidates try to rough them up in last night's debate. we'll ask our sunday panel how it went. impact life expectancy in the u.s., real estate in hong kong, d the optics industry in germany? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. wwe need a new sofa.rmation, risks, fees and expenses something i can stretch out on. oh! that will go with those lamps my mother gave us. o

meantime, lanny brewer was saying i got the e-mails and i sent them along.ile away. brewer is going -- >> kimberly: he will take the hit on that. that is what i think. prediction, bob? >> bob: do you think it matters that issa now has his former aides were the ones who did the funding for solyndra, the lobbying for solyndra and now he has another in his district? do you trust him? he was also indicted for being lousy used car salesman. >> eric: perfect for it. >> bob: one criminal knows another? >> eric: not afraid to go after eric holder and vehemently. >> kimberly: we'll move on, because this is investigation thursday. we have another one brewing. oh, yeah. corzine, remember him? he is in big trouble. he gave testimony today. people didn't expect him to. they expected him to take the fifth. he didn't. gave some statements and said i resign and so therefore i don't even know what happened since i left. take a listen to what he had to say. >> i remain deeply concerned about the impact that the unreconcile and frozen funds have on m.f. global customers and ot

. >> charles grassley today called for lanny brewer chief of the justice department criminal divisionfor allegedly failing to help run guns to mexico and misleading congress about a leader he claimed not have seen. >> i cannot say for sure whether i saw a draft of the letter. >> critics find it implausible. that so many top officials had so little knowledge of large long running operation to violate u.s. and international law. >> i did not know of fast and furious. >> he was not aware of what was happening in fast and furious. certainly, i was not. >> from the president and attorney general and chief of staff. >> i did not read that weekly report. >> to the state department, we have no record of any kind of notice or heads up. homeland security. >> i did not know about the fast and furious. >> even the atf. >> fast and furious was just another operation. >> no one was aware that guns were walking. >> senior most people saying they didn't know about it. but memo after memo that >> underlings telling them what is going on. >> the department of justice responded saying that brewer admits

>> reporter: expecting several civil suits, penn state has hired former white house legal counsel lanny davis to provide legal advice to the university. we also luearned penn state wil no longer license the image of coach joe paterno at penn state. >> that is a huge cultural shift with joe paterno. >> absolutely. >> t.j., thank you. >> you bet. >>> shifting to different gears now. a missing american in iran. an fbi veteran that disappeared your year -- four years ago is on a video tape. his wife is now taking to the air waves doing everything she can to keep attention on her husband's case. david kerley is covering the story in washington. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. two desperate pleas. one from the family hoping to bring the loved one home. and that man, in the video, pleading to his family and to the government. >> 33 years of service to the united states deserves something. please help me. >> reporter: that was a year ago. more than four years since bob levinson, a former fbi agent was nabbed. >> to my beautiful, loving, loyal wife, christine. >> the shir

including lanny brewer for defeating congress. back with the panel., your take? >> a bad day for attorney general. when he is telling congress there is a difference between misleading and lying. there was misleading going on there. seems to have been lying, too. we have to find out more. the assistant attorney general knowingly misled the committee. that is quite serious. holder will have to do something about it. i think that eric holder is the weakest link in the obama chain of cabinet members. there was a threat to prosecute the c.i.a. agents. involved in the interrogation technique to pull back from that. a lot of trouble. obama doesn't want to go to the election defending eric holder. >> bret: do you agree with that? holder accused the republicans of playing politics. but it seems like fast and furious is not going away. >> it was fascinating to me. i thought that maybe he would under the pressure and the promise of continuing scrutin scrutiny, there will be more, he would maybe resign. in the weeks and months to talk about this. he made it clear

. >> judge jeanine: you called for the resignation of lanny brewer and he is apparently the chief ofhe criminal division. why did you want his resignation. >> i think it is the first time i have gone to the senate floor in the 30 years i have been in the senate and asked for a resignation. i have gotten people to resign but never that way. he knew about gun running back in the middle of 2010. he didn't tell th attorney genl or the chief of staff or the inspector general and should have. because he isn't serving his higher ups right he is not serving the american people right and he should not be in that job. >> judge jeanine: should eric holder resign. >> if he is the highest person in government that approved this yes and i will call for his resignation at that time. >> judge jeanine: do you think there is a possibility of a perjury charge coming out of these hearings? >> i don't know but we have got to follow up on that. you can't have anybody lying to congress because the whole checks and balances system of our government is going to fall apart if you let somebody get away with it

as you might know, i have not called for his resignation, i've raised concerns about eric holder, lanny brewer, burke who did step down, wine stein, a number of other, hoover, a number of other individual that we've found knew about the program and failed to stop it. we're not looking for politic al pointes or career professionals we're looking for many points in which a program destined to fail was put together and continued on for a long time, leading to the death of brian terry and clearly in the neighborhood of 200 people in mexico have died with the weapons, and more will die. it's the safeguards. it's the management. is eric holder ultimately accountable? yes. do i have confidence in him? no. understand there's other safeguards that failed and our responsibility to the democrats, as you said, is to make sure the justice department fixes these, not for this administration, but for any administration. there should have been career professionals who put a stop to this, not just political appointees. >> talk about the money laundering case. a yes or no question. in theory, it's a good

he came in -- is that lanny brewer? >> yes.me in and said, yeah, there was misinformation in that letter. >> so now james kohl, deputy attorney general, sends a letter saying they gave you misinformation on february 4th. why did that happen and what's the reaction now? >> well, okay. what happened was basically they did not want to admit that there was an operation like fast and furious going on, and they would say at that time they didn't know that. but we got plenty of evidence that they did know it. we had not only evidence that people in the alcohol, tobacco and firearms knew it, but we know that people within the justice department knew it. >> let me ask you, did they not want you to know it for legitimate investigative reasons or were they being deceitful? >> well, it looks like now they are being deceitful from this standpoint that we knew that they knew about it. they sent us a letter and said that none of this was true. they sent us basically two letters that none of it was true and finally it was nine months before th

they tightened the focus on a very close holder deputy named lanny brewer who heads up the criminal divisionhis is no laughing matter. this is guy is high up in doj. he went before the u.s. senate in november. a month ago. and testified that he could not remember whether he had ever seen a draft of that critical letter which now so wrong they had to withdraw it. i don't remember whether i ever saw a draft. he doubled down on that testimony in written form. to the u.s. senate. well, these documents that just came out on friday show that it was sent to him. and not only was it sent to him at least four times. at least four times. he forwarded it from his doj email to his private g mail. >> bill: is that fair? >> you tell me. when he is forwarding to private g mail is he praising lt. who is heavily involved in the drafting complaining who him this is worse than drafting the magna car attachment forward to the private email. big deal on doj and other agencies. he doesn't remember? he doesn't remember ever seeing the draft? >> take the fall then? >> i don't know i don't know whether he is going t

. >> trace, today senator charles grassley from iowa called on lanny brewer, holder's number two man at the justice department to resign. basically accusing him of misleading and deceiving congress as chief of the criminal division about materials he sent to congress. denying that he reviewed a letter that document show brewer did receive, read, and even forwarded to his own email. >> mr. brewer's failure to be candid and forth coming before this bod irreparablably harms his credibility. >> tomorrow, the house judiciary committee will grill attorney general holder about fast and furious. so far some 50 republic lawmakers and three senators have called on holder to resign. holder will say his department did not know about the controversial tactics of fast and furious and in his prepared remarks show that combative tone showing lawmakers should arrive above partisan gotcha games and not turn mistakes into a political side show or media opportunity. expect push back from republicans. >> we have a dead u.s. agent and yet we have an administration with people saying i didn't really read t

. >> the obvious question is do you think eric holder and lanny brewer the assistant attorney general do you think they should either resign or if they fail to be fired the president? >> look, i am not calling for anybody's resignation today but i am calling for them to be more forthcoming to be more accountable to tell us what happened. that's what we have been asking them to do and so far we haven't gotten straight answers. >> senator mcconnell we have to thank you so much for coming in today. we will stay on top of all of these stories. >> thank you. >> up next the gop candidates trying to rough them up at last night's debate. we will ask the sunday panel how it went. ♪ ♪ ♪ mom? dad? guys? [ engine turns over ] [ engine revs ] ♪ he'll be fine. [ male announcer ] more people are leaving bmw, mercedes, and lexus for audi than ever before. take advantage of exceptional values during the season of audi event. the newest droid armed with motocast. granting you wireless access to files on your home computer from almost anywhere. 4g lte equipped to pull pictures, music, and movies. all at