is those that cooperate after being incarcerated are giving us a clear picture as to how the mexican cartel s are operating. that helped us and mexico because we share that information and determine the best way to go after the cartel and it is traffickers. >> how many have been convicted and sentenced? >> i can get you those numbers. i don't know. many have pled guilty. a good number of them have pled guilty and many have been convicted. >> how is it impacted the drug trafficking and violence along the border. >> especially of the high value targets or the heads or lieutenants of the cartel s that we have been able to incarcerate. it helped mexico because they have been able to take the people that have been able to have the power to corrupt mexican officials. they now are in jail cells in the united states. no longer able to run their operations. it affected the drug supply as well. we have done together such damage to the cartel s that that is why you see these drops in availability of cocaine on the streets of the united states and the price appears to be down. >> the gentlemen's time h

got a bunch of people in the water. >> reporter: next, cartel members in boats rush in to save their bales of drugs and whisk them back to the mexicaniver. >> here comes another one back over. if why are they so determined to get those drugs back to mexico? >> well, the cartels that are controlling these situations are... they're very ruthless. their life literally depends on them either getting the load to where it's going or safely getting it back. >> reporter: police say the drug trafficers have made these splashdown get aways at least 65 times in the past three years. texas police don't have the boats they need to stop them and the drug runners know it. >> they know once they get back into the water they're safe. all they've got to do is swim home. >> there's nothing we can do. >> roger that. that was a good effort, guys. >> reporter: the texas-style solution? launching its own mini navy. six boats like this one equipped with multiple machine guns will soon be patrolling a 54-mile stretch of the rio grande. steve mccraw heads the texas department of public safety. >> we're not going to creed any part of texas to mexican cartels

tire swing to show how rigid his penis has become. ( laughter ) ( applause ) folks, there is one mexican cartel i grudgingly respect. it is mexico's ninth templar, who draw inspiration from the medieval christian warriors of the same name who muled franken sense filled. but down in mexico, these knights of the "let's do coke off the roundtable" have gone too far. >> doritos, cheetos, ruffles under attack by mexican drug cartels. >> the pepsico subsidiary distributes snack foods in mexico. >> stephen: mistakeo-grandy, mi harm manose. just because you run around rocket-propelled a.k., and leave coolers filled with severed heads outside the city hall but you just crossed bot wrong aisle of the supermarkets, muchachos. you are small patoit'ses compared to the snack cartels who fry our potatoes. you do not ( bleep ) with pepsico. ( cheers and applause ) in fact, may i remind you, may i remind you back in 1984, michael jackson crossed them, and they set his head on fire. ( laughter ) nice temped lar. you have made anymores of the most powerful names in chip trafficking. of los fritos. and don pringle

cartel leader. agents videotaped suspected dealers from mexican drug cartels buying weapons. the case grew to include thousands of weapons. then in december 2010, two fast and furious rifles turned up at the murder of a border patrol agent in arizona, brian terry. the justice department publicly insisted no gun walking had gone on. that denial prompted one of the lead agents on the case, john dodson, to step forward and speak to cbs news. >> here i am. tell me i didn't do the things that i did. tell me you didn't order me to do the things that i did. tell me it didn't happen. now you have a name on it and you have a face to put it with. here i am. someone now. tell me it didn't happen. >> reporter: cbs news learned there were other alleged gun walking operations dating back to the bush administration in 2005. no drug kingpins were ever arrested, but the drug cartels became well armed. records obtained by cbs news show the weapons were used in a u.s. immigration agent's murder last year in mexico. they were also used by drug cartels that assassinated a mexican official's broth

agents encouraging the sale of thousands of guns to middlemen from mexican cartels in an attempt to gainccess to senior level figures within mexico's criminal organizations. at least four democrats are expected to vote with republicans in an attempt to retain the endorsement of the national rifle association, which backs the effort against eric holder. we will have more on the boat and operation fast and furious later in the broadcast. senate leaders have finalized a tentative deal to avoid a doubling of low-interest rates on student loans. the washington post reports students are still facing major changes that will lead to billions of dollars in increases on student loan payments. starting on sunday, students pursuing graduate degrees will need to start paying their federal loans while they're still in school and immediately after graduation. leading to an increase of $18 billion in loan payments over the coming decade. the government felt also stopped covering interest on undergraduate loans -- also stepped covering interest on undergraduate loans, meaning students will start accumula

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 cartel network. the problem twice of these guns ended up at the murder scene of a border patrol agent and it turns out that actually they weren't tracking these guns. they sent 2500 guns into mexico on and on 2500 of them they put two g.h.a.s.p. recording devices. doesn't sound like a very serious tracing program to me. >> host: did this program, fast and fewer house, have in the antecedents in the bush administration? that comes up a lot. was it the same program? the same intent? what are the similarities and differences? >> guest: we have heard that argument this start under the bush administration. there was a prostarted under the bush organization using straw purchasers and arresting them, stopping guys from buying guns and transferring them into mexico. they ran an prognosis called operation wide receiver, working with the mexican government, surveils guys and cartel members transferring gun

to order gun shops to sell guns to mexican drug cartels and then lose track of them thereby panicking americans to gin up support for the draconian gun control measures that obama has never introduced. (laughter) complicated? yes. the fevered rambles of a syphilitic brain, perhaps? but occam's razor says my answer is right or i will cut you with a razor. (laughter) well, folks, to put a stop to this very clear plot, today congress took action. >> the vote has just come through here. issa and the house panel has found holder in contempt of congress. >> stephen: shocking that they found someone who didn't already hold congress in contempt. (laughter) and, folks, we know our gun rights are precious. as ohio congressional hopeful joe "the candidate the plumber" illuminates in his powerful new ad. >> in 1911, turkey established gun control. from 1915 to 19171.5 million armenians unable to defend themselves were exterminated. in 1939, germany established gun control. from 1939 to 1945, six million jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated. i love america. (

a new movie related to the drug war, mexican cartels issues that are topical here today with everything going on. >> less of a documentary. traffic, i loved it, it told me a lot but this is more of a hypothetical fiction. it's based on a novel by don winslow and proposes the idea because california has a big growing industry and medical marv and we have the best we'd in the world. i'm telling you that from my own experience of 40 years. jamaican we'd, and because americans are techy minded and mad chemists, they have taken the afghan seeds and brought them to california, rededicated themselves and made the finest seeds in the world finest grass you can smoke and as a result the mexican cartels which basically produce a lot of [bleep] insectside we'd and sell it in heavy volume want to get into the california business with our young people, and they offer them a deal that's hard to refuse. it's certainly like a wal-mart coming in and saying i want to be your partner. but the boys fight back and the girl fights back and it turns into quite a debacle. >> you look at the history of your fil

that is the atf operation that put guns in hands of mexican cartels. is scheduled for noon if the documents are not received. former d.c. councilman harry thomas jr. will report to a federal prison in alabama today where he will begin serving a sentence for stealing city funds. he was sentenced to 38 months in jail after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $350,000. he told the washington times that he spent his final days of freedom tending to his lawn, spending time with his children and visiting his father's grave. >> d.c. council will hold hearings today on a proposal to add new signs to the verizon center exterior. the complex could apply to add nine graphics to the flip side. the images could be digital and animated, but the legislation requires the not impaired drivers on nearby streets or adversely impact the character or integrity of the verizon center. >> the man suspected of killing a woman at a dewey beach motel has been found deead. pawan kumar's body was found at a hotel in northern new jersey. investigators believe that he stabbed a

we didn't give them to the mexican drug cartel. the opposite. our atf agents were desperately trying to stop those guns from going to mexico, but there were people aligned against them. let me tell you the whole story. first the conclusions from the report. atf had no such tactic. they said they seized weapons whenever they could but they were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws that stymied them at every turn. the nra are the ones who had the weak laws passed in the first place. in arizona to buy a gun you just have to be 18 and pass a background check. you can buy not just one gun but 10 guns or 100 guns. here are these agents saying, oh my gosh, this is going to the drug cartels. they go to the prosecutors, and the prosecutors say the law says you can't bother anyone with a gun even if ten minutes later they change their mind and they sell it to someone else, they can take all that. those weak laws passed by republicans and the nra to make sure that you could sell as many guns as you want and take them wherever you want. you know who did a

so-called straw buyers from mexican drug cartels were allowed to buy guns in the southwest, then those guns, thousands of them, were allowed to walk or be smuggled into mexico with an eye towards tracing their way through the cartels. instead as we, the house oversight committee and ore news organizations were led to believe, the atf lost track of those weapons. some made it back into the country. two were found at the scene where border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now tonight, though, after six months of reporting, "fortune" magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line -- letting guns walk was not, i repeat not, part of the plan. she writes five law enforcement agents directory involved in fast and furious tell fortune that the atf had no such tactic. she goes on to say, they insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. just the opposite. they say they seized weapons whenever they could, but were ham strung by prosecutors and weak laws, which stymied them at every tur

straw purchasers in the transfers to cartel members and trace these guns into this extensive mexican cartel network in an effort to take down what they called the big fish in the cartel, take down the cartel network. problem is, these gun actually ended up at the murder scene of one of our border patrol agents, border patrol agent brian terry on december 15, 2010, and it turns out that, actually, they weren't tracking these guns. they sent 2500 guns into mexico, and of 2500 of them, they put two gps recording devices on them. now, that doesn't sound like a very serious tracing program to me. >> host: and did this program, fast and furious, have any antisee departments in the bush administration? because that's something that comes up a lot. well, this was authorized by the bush administration. was it the same program, did it have the same intent, what are the similarities and differences? >> guest: so there -- we have heard that argument, that this started under the bush administration. now, there's an umbrella program called project gun runner that was started under the bush administration

. >> reporter: next, cartel members in boats rush in to save their bales of drugs and wisp them back to the mexicanof the river. >> here comes another one back over. >> reporter: why are they so determined to get those drugs back to mexico? >> the cartels that are controlling these situations, they're very ruthless. their life literally depends on them either getting the load to where it's going or safely getting it back. >> reporter: police say the drug traffickers have made these splashdown getaways at least 65 times in the past three years. texas police don't have the boats they need to stop them, and the drug runners know it. >> they know once they get back into the water, they're safe. all they've got to do is swim home. >> we're done. there's nothing else we can do. >> roger that. that was a good effort, guys. >> reporter: the texas-style solution? launching its own mini navy. six boats like this one equipped with multiple machine guns will soon be atrolling a 54-mile stretch of the rio grande. steve mccraw heads the texas department of public safety. >> we're not going to siege any part of t

people of arizona, california, new mexico and texas who deal with unsecure borders and violent, mexican cartels on a regular basis must also live in fear of these firearms. these citizens deserve for contempt charges to begin because it is with contempt for their safety they this operation was carried out. what is perhaps most discouraging is that people whose job it is to protect and promote justice failed the american people so badly. we are dealing with the department of justice, the lawyers who worked there and took an old to uphold the constitution and we are sending congress a false letter to continue stonewalling, these lawyers have brought a great shame to the profession. i think it is the only way to send a strong message to this administration and future ones that no one is above the law including the nation's top law enforcement officer. i continue to believe that attorney general eric holder brought this upon himself by refusing to cooperate with congress and i believe the contempt charges are the way to go forward. i applaud his result. we deserve better. i yield back my time. >> i

as soon as the guns of going to the mexican gun cartels then it's a problem. give me a break.we'll take your calls. more after this. >> that's wrong. >>it would be terrible if america lost faith in wall street insiders wouldn't it. junk like it did at any an arby's in colorado. yikes. >> stephanie: i guess we do know where the beef is. [ buzzer ] >> that's wrong. ♪ take just one more ♪ it's been dumbed down ♪ long before romney ♪ ever did ♪ >> thank you . >> stephanie: 45 minutes after the hour. we'll be back as we close "the stephanie miller show." >> on "the stephanie miller show" in suburban america this >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: hey, it is 24 minutes after the hour. talking about jeb bush yesterday coming down, clasping down hard on the -- on today's republican >> david shuster in for bill. we're taking your calls. you know, maybe i'm wrong with this. maybe i just don't have it -- maybe i just don't know what i'm talking about republicans claiming executive privilege the obama administration must h

of arizona, california, new mexico, and texas who deal with the unsecure borders and violent mexican cartels on a regular basis now must also live in fear of the firearms. some have said these charges against attorney general eric holderer racially motivated and i couldn't disagree more. the violent cartels armed by our government have no regard for party i.d. or race. throughout our nation and specifically in arizona, folks are all political parties and all races are now living in danger of this lethal violence due to the actions of this administration. make no mistakes about it, today's vote is to deliver justice and accountability for the brian terry family and the over 300 mexicans who have died as a result of fast and furious. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has ex-priored. mr. cummings: i yield the gentleman from m.d. 30 second. mr. hoyer: in 2009, our speaker stood on this floor outraged about the process. we, too, areout raged about the process. will not stand for this. i would ask my house republican colleagues and those who believwe should be here protecting the ameri

>> the mexican cartel, poly drugs.it's cocaine, meth, heroin, marijuana. >> marijuana is number four. would you agree that mayor wanted causes less harm to individuals and meth, crack, cocaine and heroin? >> as a former police officer, as a 32 year dea agent, i can tell you that i think marijuana is an insidious drug -- >> that's not the question i asked you to does it cause less damage to the american society, individuals and meth, crack, heroin? doesn't make people have to kill to get their fix? >> i can tell you that more teams enter treatment -- >> can you answer my question? answer my question, please. >> i am trying to. it causes harm because it's young people that are using it. if you're talking about -- >> it's not just young people that you're trying to answer the question like i'm jeff sessions. i'm not senator sessions. i'm asking you a question. does meth, does crack, heroin, cause more damage to society and cause -- does meth and heroin cause more deaths than marijua marijuana? >> all drug trafficking caus

the cartel and mexican nationals using their money to purchase those guns that were ultimately traced back to the fbi? >> that's right. >> they were being funded by the fbi. they were being paid by the fbi. >> that's right. this is the theory that nothing went as planned and expected. but the top two targets turned out to be on the fbi payroll. >> why has no one from the department of justice said in fast and furious there was no gun running. gun walking, excuse me. why has no one from the department of justice said in fast and furious, there was no gun walking? period. send of story. that's what your article says .but they have not said that. why not? >> i don't know exactly why. one sense is that, you know, when this scandal first broke and congress made the allegations, the justice department went to their political folks and asked what happened. they never went to dave, the citizens group and say sit down and tell us what happen. to this day he has not been questioned. so there's a sense that the justice department immediately wanted to deal with the political repercussions withou

they were targeting the sonoa mexican drug cartel.track of the most of the firearms, some of which were find at crime scenes in mexico and the united states. two were connected to a botched operation were found at the arizona site where u.s. customs and border protection agent brian terri was killed in december, 2010. you can imagine why the right-wing conservatives are going crazy over this. oh, my god. the justice department allowed guns to go into mexico. the guns ended up being used in a crime against a federal agent. gee, eric holder must have known be bethis. right? he must have known and that document the justice department provided two years ago that said, oh no, this was basically handled at the local level, well, that was wrong. so you have the republicans going nuts. 1866 -- 1866-5577377. 186655-press. the question is: what do you make of this really unprecedented effort to hold the attorney general in contempt? we have not had a contempt vote vote for an attorney general until decades. no u.s. attorney general for 40 years

that is the atf operation that put guns in the hands of mexican cartels. -- representative darrell issaharry thomas jr. is enjoying the last hours of freedom. will report to a federal prison in montgomery, alabama, today. he will serve a three-year sentence for stealing $350,000 in city funds. funds he said that he spent the last few days tending to his lawn, spending time with his children, and visiting his father's grave. >> now to the sandusky trial, or the defense could rest its case today after presenting more testimony. it is still not clear if the former penn state football coach will take the stand in his own defense. his wife did yesterday in court. dottie sandusky defended him against charges that he sexually abused boys. when asked about the first alleged victim to come forth she said that victim was conniving, demanding, and wanted his way. >> we are hearing the 911 call made by rodney king's fiancee after she found him face down in her swimming pool on sunday. >> rodney king, the guy that got beat by the police. >> how old is the? >> 47 years old [speaking excitedly] >> he

it seems to me if you really wanted to keep the guns while they are going to mexican cartels, why not advocate for stronger laws? why not make it easier to prosecute someone's who buying 476 weapons who appears to be on food stamps at the same time? wouldn't that actually be a good step toward reform? >> it could raise -- that could raise a good question but the question at hand here is someone in the department of justice at whatever level that devises a scheme -- >> but that's not my question. >> -- to supply guns and one of those weapons was used in the death of a federal agent and hundreds of other -- >> and if you wanted to stop that from happening again, why not make the laws stronger? why not make the law so that one person cannot buy 476 guns over six months who, by the way, seems to be on food stamps and has no money? >> well, what we should do, first of all, is make certain that the department of justice isn't buying those weapons and supplying them to drug dealers and murderers and those weapons are used against an agent, find out what went wrong, make certain that with an

. >>> also a mexican drug cartel, how he laundered over a million dollars a month here in the u.s. >>> we will tell you more about the morning commute and the bay area weather, stay tuned. . >>> a mexican drug cartel allegedly laundered money through bets on horse racing. they arrested 7 people including the head of that drug cartel. he purchased breeding and racing american -- they bread and they raced american quarter horses and the suspects attracted attention by giving them the names of cartels and also they won several races. >>> well new this morning, syrian says they have taken control of the village of halfer. this follows a report by peace keeping that syria is in full scale civil war. syrian troops have used children as human shields and also tortured children whose parents are suspected dissidents. >>> they apologized to congress for a brutal loss. the bank's $2 billion loss rattled financial markets and raised questions about whether they needed better oversight. scott? >> reporter: jp morgan will call that loss embarrassing and say he will face fierce questions about how

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cartel members. you said in a letter the program cost lives in support of an antigun agenda. i would assume that you would be against having guns in the hands of mexicancartel members, right? >> absolutely. let me make the difference. it is not being said between what president bush was doing and what the obama people are doing. what president bush was doing with a small number of guns, is they informed the mexican government they were tracking the guns. what the obama people were doing is they had a massive communication effort to sell the american public that 90% of the guns the cartels were getting were coming from the united states. that was not true. yet this program sure made it seem like it was true. after all said and done, they ran thousands of guns to the cartels. they have no prosecutions. they didn't keep track of the guns at all as to where they weren't. they had a massive campaign with this whole phoney 90% thing to manipulate public opinion and they were ruining the lives of honest gun dealers in the united states letting the american media write stories saying gun dealers like bill carter in georgia, i mean, in texas, were dirty dealer

the plan was to trace the guns to mexican cartels. instead, they reappear as murder weapons.ed in front of congressional committees. some documents, he's not turning over. he may be held in contempt next week. good morning, alan. we hear about this contempt of congress. just briefly, in simple terms, what does that mean and what kind of penalty could the attorney general be hit with here? >> there are two kinds of contempt. one, criminal contempt, which is what the house is considering imposing. it's a punishment. if you or i went up to a congressional hearing and tried to disrupt the hearing or refused to show up when properly subpoenaed we would be punished, put in jail, penalized for 30 days just like a criminal case. that's criminal contempt. the other is civil contempt in which, in essence, the person held in contempt has the keys to get out of contempt. that's usually used when the question is whether the documents should be properly turned over or not. in this case, if the house really wanted to get the documents, they would do what the house did with the bush debate a

they found two of of the guns that were allowed to flow to the mexican cartels.ocrat on issa's committee has accused the republicans of politics over the facts and the law. >> it is regrettable we are here and we would like for not be hereen and if the president and attorney general holder would simply start producing the documents they know they could produce to us that are not by any means going to be covered by executive privilege, this could be delayed or even eliminated. >> i think that i'm calling on speaker boehner to come forth and show the strong leadership i know he will and sit down with the attorney general to resolve this matter. attorney general has made it clear that he is willing to work with this congress. >> the justice department has acknowledged that some of the information it has provided to congress on fast and furious turned out to be inaccurate. in washington, james rosen, fox news. >>> the controversy surrounding a new york bus monitor has encouraged other bus drivers and monitors to stand up to bullying on buses. ever spes a video of kar

straw purchasers in the transfers to cartel members and trace these guns into these expensive mexican cartels that works in an effort to take down what they call the big fish in the cartel network. problem as they ended up at the murder scene of one of the border patrol agent brian terrie on december 15th, 2010, and it turns out that actually they were not tracking the guns they sent 2500 guns into mexico on 2500 of them they took that to gps recording devices on them. that doesn't sound like a very serious program to me. >> did this program fast and furious have any antecedents in the bush administration. is that something that comes up a lot? was authorized by the bush administration on the same intent, what are the similarities and differences? >> we've heard that argument >> guest: this project got under under the bush administration and arresting them at stopping the guys from buying guns and transferring them into mexico they ran a program called operation wide receiver under the bush administration which they were working with the mexican government surveying the guys and cartel member

fast and furious was an atf program thaa aalooed guns to go to mexican drug cartels in the hopps of finding their arms dealers. an american border agent wasskilled by a gunnthat the atf allowed to cross into mexico. ppesident obama has tried to protect his top cop, and house democrats even walked out on the vote in protest. tonight republicans takkng the fight tt the white house. weehave shown more than enough good faiih but the whitt house hhs chosen to invoke executive privilege that leaves us no other options. the only recourse left or the house is to continue seeking the truth and hold the attorney geneeal in contempt of congress. with some of the democrats walking out, the contempt vote passed by an overwhelming mmrgin 255 for and only 67 agaanst. this is the first time in history an attorney general has been held in connempt of congress. ...is... forced... - to... cut out... a chunk... after... an... - airline worker... allegedly ddopped... ásuper glueá... on her head. head.karen reee... was... boarding a flight... to houston... from san diego... / when.... a... maintenance man... app

. >> gun running, mexican cartels and charges of contempt. >> this morning a new controversy is brewingpitol hill centered on attorney general eric holder and controversial investigation south of the border. tracie potts joins us live in washington, d.c. this morning. will holder be arrested? could this go to court? >> reporter: possible, not likely, though. democrats say this is all politically motivated. to understand why this committee is recommending the contempt citation you need to understand what happened at the arizona/mexico border. gun running is against u.s. policy. u.s. agents see guns in the hands of criminals but don't confiscate them hoping to trace the guns back to the larger traffickers. that's against policy and lawmakers want to know did the attorney general maybe even the president know that this was going on? that's why they subpoenaed certain documents, documents that holder has not produced among the many. and the committee has decided he should be held in contempt of congress. the full house would have to vote on that. and laura, it is unlikely they would go to c

a mexican cartel connection. in moments, what we just learned about the the startling crime. also, a symbolic back drop for a historic visit to vietnam by the u.s. defense secretary leon panetta and our correspondent on the scene with an exclusive interview. fox reports what formal editing plays in our future. and they protect our national interest and our u.s. president. the secret service rocked by a sex scandal in recent days. do you know the vital role they play. >> you just don't die on my watch. i go first, this person regardless of his politics, the the party, doesn't matter, he'll stay alive while i'm working. >> harris: we'll dig into the history of the agency where it comban. we begin tonight with a discovery in arizona in an area between the cities of tucson and phoenix, the bodies of five people burned beyond recognition. inside a white s.u.v. investigators say u.s. border patrol agents had been tracking the vehicle overnight on friday. and they saw a fire in the distance and someone torched the s.u.v.en when they reached it. one body on the rear passenger seat an

investigate recent intelligence leaks and they accuse holder which let guns walk into the hands of mexican cartels> i'm the attorney general that put an end to the misguided tactic that is were used in fast and furious. an attorney general i suppose you would hold in higher regard was briefed on these kind of tactics in an operation called wide receiver and did nothing to stop them. nothing. >> reporter: attorney general holder was referring to a bush administration drug operation. >>> actress anne rutherford has died. many know her for the small but memorable role of scarlet ohara's little sister. she also played nikki rooney's girlfriend. rutherford had been in declining health. rutherford was 94. >>> we now have new information on that fire burning in san francisco on the line right now is joe malaka from pg & e. joe, we understand this fire on san bruno avenue next to highway 101 in the city's portola neighborhood involved some type of gas line, what do you know about that? >> it appear that is a third party contractor had blocked a gas line late this afternoon. we do have crews on-site they'r

administration refused to hand over certain documents regarding the program which hoped to hunt down mexican drug cartels. after the vote holder dismissed it as a cheap political stunt. >> today's vote is the regrettable culmination of what became a misguided and politically motivated investigation during an election year. >> holder is the first ever cabinet member to be held in contempt of congress. u.s. attorney for dc must now decide whether to press charges against holder or not. >>> ahead this morning, the wizards give a once in a lifetime birthday present. >> that's right. plus, sweltering heat today chasing some records, actually. weather and traffic on the ones. >>> and the unusual reason some children's clothing is being recalled, coming up on 6:09 on [ obama ] i'm barack obama9 on and i approve this message. [ male announcer ] it started like this... i speak the language of business. i know how jobs are created. [ male announcer ] but it ended like this. one of the worst economic records in the country. when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs. a rate twice th

if you want to deal with guns running out of arizona to mexican cartels, that's the issue, but focusingnot going to stop that, is it? >> there are two questions. one, we need to make sure we secure the integrity of our board e, not only from folks crossing in illegally, but to make sure you don't have illegal drugs and weapons going from either country. the fact of the matter with the attorney general, you can't have the chief law enforcement officer of the united states come up to congress and testify that the department of justice and atf had nothing to do with this program. >> it involved one individual. >> we're talking 2,000 weapons, martin -- >> that is not true, but i'm afraid we have to go to a break. thank you so much. coming up on "hardball," chris matthews talks about the supreme surprise. john roberts rules in favor of the president. stay with us. much more ahead. by continuing to help you do more and focus on the things that matter to you. home protector plus, from liberty mutual insurance, where the costs to both repair your home and replace your possessions are covered. a