that particularly looking at what was disclosed during the trial of the twin towers bombers that michael mccasey is federal judge presided over. there was information disclosed during that trial that was used by al qaeda to pull off 9/11. i don't think we want to change the law so that that happens ever again. my time is up. i'd like to thank the witnesses for appearing. this has been very useful hearing. let me say the thursday of next week, we will have a classified briefing where many of the members of this committee who have had questions can ask and yet to be determined representative of the justice department, whatever they want. that will be a classified briefing. i would encourage the members to come and re-ask the questions they don't think they got an answer to today. without objection, the hearing is adjourned. >>> tonight, john skipper on the network's expansion to media platforms the john king on the ways technology has changed cnn and cox business senior vice president phil meeks and the small business focus on the communicators tonight at 8. tomorrow morning attorney general eric

pursuant to the statement that he referred to about michael mccasey it has been retracted by eric holder were he said his predecessors have been briefed about gun walking in operation wide receiving. now the department is retracting. they are claiming he inadvertently made that claim. >> adobe wonderful if we presented him as a witness. this was to find out what it really was. there should be no reason why shut the able to testify. we just want the people to testify. moving on in nine what happened was to the rest of the job. >> d do you see a recognition? >> we're here because eric holder has dealt to meet his obligations pursuant to the subpoena issued to him by this committee. we promise that we would get to the bottom of this matter in order to make sure this type of operation never occurs again. many republicans and democrats demanded to know the answers about this a year ago when all of this started. what started as a pursuit of fax has turned -- facts has turned into a slow crawl of evidence. internally they have 80,000 documents. they turned over to our committees 7000. i have no

the difference between what republicans are doing with eric holder and what democrats did to michael mccasey? >> in the house, our contempt of congress was addressed to josh bolten. i cannot speak to those cases, they never came to a vote on the senate floor. in the house, we took a hat -- a vote. the circumstances were quite different. we were talking about political intervention in the hiring of u.s. attorneys, having them retain their position through political innovation -- political intervention from the white house. it is important for me to speak about this issue because our e leisure cummings -- elijah cummings, who we are proud of the role he played -- the particulars of the cases are very different. as you know, we want our case. a judge ruled in our table. i can only speak -- speak to our experiences. >> a ranking member of congress said that, if speaker boehner were to bring up the vote to hold holder in content, he would become one of the most extreme members of congress ever. do you agree? >> i defer to the superior knowledge and wisdom of mr. cummings on the suspect -- subject

the difference between what republicans are doing with eric holder and what democrats did to michael mccasey? >> in the house, our contempt of congress was addressed to josh bolten. i cannot speak to those cases, they never came to a vote on the senate floor. in the house, we took a hat -- a vote. the circumstances were quite different. we were talking about political intervention in the hiring of u.s. attorneys, having them retain their position through political innovation -- political intervention from the white house. it is important for me to speak about this issue because our e leisure cummings -- elijah cummings, who we are proud of the role he played -- the particulars of the cases are very different. as you know, we want our case. a judge ruled in our table. i can only speak -- speak to our experiences. >> a ranking member of congress said that, if speaker boehner were to bring up the vote to hold holder in content, he would become one of the most extreme members of congress ever. do you agree? >> i defer to the superior knowledge and wisdom of mr. cummings on the suspect -- subject

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