mr. chairman, it did not have to be this way. it really didn't. >> suarez: the road that led to the looming confrontation goes back a year and a half, and the start of the committee's investigation. under "fast and furious", federal agents let drug smugglers buy thousands of guns, so law enforcers could track the weapons. instead, they lost track of the guns, and many were used in crimes, including the 2010 killing of a u.s. border agent. so far, the justice department has handed over 7,600 pages of material, and holder said tuesday, that should be enough. >> i have to say given extraordinary nature of the offer that we made and given the extraordinary way in which we have shared materials to date, that i think we are involved more in political gamesmanship as opposed to trying to get the information they say they want. >> suarez: but republicans, including utah's jason chaffetz, insist they've not been told everything. >> we have hundreds of dead people in mexico, we have a dead united states border patrol agent and we have a government that's withholding