I want the firewood records. Where are the firewood records?

We have a dead Border Patrol agent, nearly 2,000 AK-47s released, hundreds of dead Mexicans...

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The idea of rooting out corruption, fraud, abuse is something I think that we are all dedicated to.

We knowingly gave the drug cartels nearly 2,000 weapons. Mostly AK-47s. And there didn't seem to be an adult in the room that said, do we really do that? Maybe this is a bad idea.

I think it's a larger, more systemic problem because part of what the report cites is the lack of communication between ATF, the DEA, the FBI and certainly the Department of Justice and also Homeland Security, because ICE was also heavily…

I mean one of the things that brother me personally is you have the acting director of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, in almost 2 1/2 years that he was there, he met with his boss, the attorney general, Attorney General Holder, one time.

One of the things that brother me personally is you have the acting director of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, in almost 2 1/2 years that he was there, he met with his boss, the attorney general, Attorney General Holder, one time.

Well, just because the Bush administration did it and did it poorly doesn't mean they have an excuse to continue to do it.

Well, remember, that the House held Attorney General Holder, the Department of Justice, in contempt. It wasn't about him personally.

Just because the Bush administration did it and did it poorly doesn't mean they have an excuse to continue to do it.