two other officials at atf headquarters were named. william hoover and mark chait had several opportunities to end "fast and furious" but failed to do so. the scandal has taken on a political tone as well. in june, congressional republicans voted to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress, but democrats, infuriated by the vote, walked out of the capitol. the vote came after the obama administration invoked executive privilege and refusing to hand over documents related to "fast and furious." the documents are being sought by congressman issa. his name is at the top of the new report. a lawyer for one of the atf agents named by investigators is quoted by the "wall street journal" as calling it a witch hunt. >>> james holmes, the suspect in the colorado shooting massacre faces 142 felony counts, including two first-degree murder charges for each of the 12 people he's accused of killing. prosecutors are still deciding whether to pursue the death penalty. john blackstone has our report. >> reporter: this was holmes in cou

this was not just a doj/atf operation. homeland security was involved, the f.b.i. was involved. the irs was involved and so moving forward -- jenna: as far as, does involve mean an email passed someone's desk. this report seems particularly bad for the atf, but it's difficult from the outside looking in what it means for the department of justice or even the white house. what would you say about that? >> we are talking about extensive involvement, about the same reports filed with atf being filed with ice and dhs headquarters. a could he agen headquarters. you have bill newell the special agent in charge of the phoenix office at the time of fast and furious was e-mailing back and forth with a man named kevin o'reilly at the white house, who was on the white house national security team. as soon as we found out about that connection mr. o'reilly was shipped overseas to iraq where he was unavailable for comment or questioning by oversight investigators. and so, yes, this report comes down hard on these atf officials in phoen

two other officials at atf headquarters were named. william hoover and mark chait had several opportunities to end "fast and furious" but failed to do so. the scandal has taken on a political tone as well. in june, congressional republicans voted to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress, but democrats, infuriated by the vote, walked out of the capitol. the vote came after the obama administration invoked executive privilege and refusing to hand over documents related to "fast and furious." the documents are being sought by congressman issa. his name is at the top of the new report. a lawyer for one of the atf agents named by investigators is quoted by the "wall street journal" as calling the report a witch hunt. >>> james holmes, the suspect in the colorado theater massacre has been formally charge. in all, he faces 142 felony counts, including two first-degree murder charges, for each of the 12 people he's accused of killing. prosecutors are still deciding whether to pursue the death penalty. john blackstone has ou

two other officials at atf headquarters were named. william hoover and mark had several opportunities to end "fast and furious" but failed to do so. the scandal has taken on a political tone as well. in june, congressional republicans voted to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress, but democrats, infuriated by the vote, walked out of the capitol. the vote came after the obama administration invoked executive privilege and refusing to hand over documents related to "fast and furious." the documents are being sought by congressman issa. his name is at the top of the report. a lawyer for one of the investigators is quoted by the "wall street journal" calling it a witchhunt. >>> james holmes, suspects in the colorado shooting massacre faces 142 felony counts, including two first-degree murder charges for each of the 12 people he's accused of killing. prosecutors are still deciding whether to pursue the death penalty. john blackstone has our report. >> reporter: this was holmes in court last week, the last time we saw hi

because he was already a target of the atf. the report says atf dropped the ball. quote, if atf bothered to conduct a thorough review of all the information contained in the wire intercepts. operation fast & furious might have concluded a year earlier than it did. the atf was knee deep in this. the fbi did not stop them but a million dollars was spent on guns. 2,500 of them. they refuse to tell congress how much of that was taxpayer money and why they never told the atf their suspects were already working for the u.s. government. i just got a statement from the department of justice a moment ago. basically it says, quote, predictably this republican report shows the debunks conspiracy theories representative issa has been advancing for a year and a half. this is the first of three reports. the next will focus on what they consider obstruction of justice. megyn: william, before i let you go. these five men have been reassigned, reassigned from their positions. they are still working on the federal taxpayers' dime? >> reporter: we just heard deputy director hoofer su

the atf can't trace them until they are used in a crime and recovered. this is where some of the illegal guns are stored recovered from the street. agents have seen a greater demand for more dangerous guns. criminals are no longer satisfied with a smaller gun like this .25. they are demanding traffickers bring them something like this, a .9 mm. this one can do more harm. andrew was an agent in chicago at the time. he says an illegal gun may stay on the streets for decades. >> we recovered a gun purchased in the '70s. they can bounce around and be used in multiple crimes. >> guns are trafficked into illinois from 25 states because there are no gun stores in chicago. how much money do they stand to make? >> close to 100% profit on the guns they sell. in this case, gates made a few hundred dollars profit on the gun that fired the fatal shot. in the game of gun trafficking, the price of a policeman's life. the drug trafficker in this case was caught and is serving a ten-year sentence. >>> our next guest deals with this violence on a daily basis. he's a traum

he was responsible for not forming atf agent working in mexico about the program. who was responsible for not informing the mexican government in trafficking, in approving the trafficking of guns across an international border. questions like that. and the problem is, the reason that eric holder, attorney general eric holder was subpoenaed was because in may 2011, about a year ago, testified before congress for the first time about fast and furious, was asked at what point did you find out about operation fast and furious. at that point he said i probably learned about operation fast and furious a few weeks ago. memos surfaced showing five of them, showing he addressed directly to attorney general eric holder talk about operation fast and furious dated july and august 2010, nearly a year before he claimed that he knew for a few weeks. spink is a clear he saw those members of? >> he claims that he didn't do however, they are addressed to record to the attorney general. >> is there any of his writing on the? >> no. spent that would be one way of proving he had some i

atf director was an agent in chicago at the time. he says an illegal gun may stay on the streets for decades. >> we've recovered guns originally purchased in the '70s that turn up in homicides here. they can bounce around and be used in multiple crimes. >> trayver says guns are trafficked into illinois from at least 25 states because there are no gun stores in chicago. how much money do the traffickers stand to make? >> i'm sure they're making close to 100% profit on the guns they sell. >> reporter: in the case of officer thomas wortham, gates made a few hundred dollars profit on the gun that fired the fatal shot. in the game of gun trafficking, the price of a policeman's life. >> and the drug trafficker in that case was caught and is currently serving out a 10-year sentence. >>> the olympics is supposed to be all about good sportsmanship and team spirit. but for one u.s. olympic team member there's more to it. we'll explain. this is our pool. ♪ our fireworks. ♪ and our slip and slide. you have your idea of summer fun, and we hav

she has written a follow-up piece called fast and furious follow up, atf and gun stores. i hah the privilege of interviewing her last week on the eliot spitzer show. i was shocked at the amount of disinformation that has been flooding the airwaves. good morning. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you. i have a lot of questions to ask, but i think the greatest misconception is people don't realize the atf had no policy to intentionally permit weapons to be trafficked. >> people have referred to gun walking or fast and furious as a, quote unquote, program. the issue is what were the tactics used in the case of fast and furious? and what we say in our article is that the atf had no operational tactic to allow guns to flow across the border into the hands of mexican drug cartels. >> none whatsoever this was done independently and it wasn't a government or atf program, correct? >> what i focused on in my reporting was what actually happened in fast and furious. and the allegation has been made that the agents tactic was to sit back let straw purchasers who were fronting for the

named this lethal program after the hollywood movie, and i have the official government slide show, atf slide show cover to prove it. they actually took a screen shot of the hollywood movie cover and put it into their official documents as an official name. so the unfortunate thing is that this operation fast and furious isn't about racing and stealing fancy cars, it's about, um, something that the justice department claimed to be a program where they were going to allow straw purchasers who are people who go into gun shops and buy guns for people who cannot buy them. their claim was that they were going to follow these guns, allow them to be transferred to these cartel members in order to take down the big fish or what they called cut off the head of the snake, stressing that this was a tracing program. but the problem is out of 2500 wells that they -- weapons that they allowed to go into mexico and into the hands of the same cartels who we recently saw dumping those headless, feetless, handless bodies of women and men on the sides of the roads in mexico, um, out of 2500 guns there wer

. >> greta: were your whistle blowers atf? >> yes. >> greta: i guess you drought conclusion this video was a statement to other whistle blowers within atf? >> when law enforcement closes ranks even when things are wrong that is exactly what the american people are concerned about. and especially when you have a u.s. attorney who helps cover it up and then an attorney general who ultimately won't turn over the facts related to it, of course, you are worried about it. if not for the whistle blowers senator grassley and our investigation would have never gotten started. whistle blowers were critical to us understanding and ultimately knowing what to ask for and in most cases the most meaningful information we never got in justice, we got from whistle blowers. >> greta: atf is denying this was an effort to tell whistle blowers they better shut up. the spokesperson said it addressed topics ranging from trust to mission and morale and this one dealt with choices and consequences but was not meant to discourage legally protected acti

atf agents in phoenix, in headquarters, they do not work for the u.s. attorney's office in arizona, all right? u.s. attorneys office, yes, they prosecute the cases that are brought to them by atf, but at anytime, they could have shut this case down. and they knew that straw buyers were coming in, young kids, 20, 21 years old on public assistance with shopping bags full of cash to buy weapons for $50,000, $75,000. and these weapons, 100, 200 ak-47s at a time were leaving the gun shop. >> without any way to track them down in mexico? >> well, again, that's what the kwh whistleblowers were saying at the time. these agents who raised their concerns to management said we can't allow to happen and they were told, discontinue their surveillance, let these guns walk. they're legal purchases is what they were being told. and our point is, it shouldn't have happened. although these were legal purchases, everyone knew these re trau buyers working for the criminal illment, namely the cartels in mexico, and these weapons were going to flow to the criminal element, c

with atf say they are in the process of tracing the weapons. no far they feel they were bought legally. >> neil prescott, he was wearing a questionable t-shirt, saying guns don't kill peoples i do. what else do we know about this guy? >> officers are saying prescott has nothing more than a speeding ticket on his record. >> thank you so much. >>> he has two days left on the job and wednesday, police commissioner takes his badge off for the final time after more than 30 years of protecting us in maryland. yesterday, this was a memorial good-bye present, he got to throw out the first pitch for the o's game. the o's beat the a's 6-1. fred is stepping down after 30 years of service. beginning today, you will see changes to the roads in downtown baltimore, not talking about water mains or sink holes, it's construction. getting ready for the grand prix race. linda so is live downtown with more on how this could be affecting everyone's commute today. >> reporter: today you are not going to really see it. today they are going to talk to us about what wi

>>su jefe directo atf william nigman, aprobó documentos criticos de la operación sin siquiera leerlos. dio falso testimonio a la justicia. >>su supervisor director asíste de operaciónes jugó un rol pasivo, falló en la supervision, algo inherente a su cargo william hober fue negligente en su responsabilidad de no comprometerse. >>este es el primero de tres informes que producirá la comisión. los otros dos informes mostrarán las devastadoras fallas en la operación y liderazgo en la justicia, por parte de altos ncionarios de ese departamento en la investigación >>seguiremos viendo hasta donde llegaran las responsabilidades en este caso >>hoy comparece por segunda vez a corte james holmes, el juez no permitió ingreso de cámaras al recinto, recibió 142 cargos en su contra, dos por cada personas que murió, intento por asesinato, explosivos. >>la tragedia parece no haber cambiado mucho la opinión de los estadounidenses por la tenencia de armas. antes de la tragedia el 45% consideraba que el control de armas era importante. >>en julio después de la masacre le porcentaje permane

>>su jefe directo atf william nigman, aprobó documentos criticos de la operación sin siquiera leerlos. dio falso testimonio a la justicia. >>su supervisor director asíste de operaciónes jugó un rol pasivo, falló en la supervision, algo inherente a su cargo william hober fue negligente en su responsabilidad de no comprometerse. >>este es el primero de tres informes que producirá la comisión. los otros dos informes mostrarán las devastadoras fallas en la operación y liderazgo en la justicia, por parte de altos funcionarios de ese departamento en la investigación >>seguiremos viendo hasta donde llegaran las responsabilidades en este caso >>hoy comparece por segunda vez a corte james holmes, el juez no permitió ingreso de cámaras al recinto, recibió 142 cargos en su contra, dos por cada personas que murió, intento por asesinato, explosivos. >>la tragedia parece no haber cambiado mucho la opinión de los estadounidenses por la tenencia de armas. antes de la tragedia el 45% consideraba que el control de armas era importante. >>en julio después de la masacre le porcentaje perma

atf agents in phoenix, in headquarters, they do not work for the u.s. attorney's office in arizona, all right? u.s. attorneys office, yes, they prosecute the cases that are brought to them by atf, but at anytime, they could have shut this case down. and they knew that straw buyers were coming in, young kids, 20, 21 years old on public assistance with shopping bags full of cash to buy weapons for $50,000, $75,000. and these weapons, 100, 200 ak-47s at a time were leaving the gun shop. >> without any way to track them down in mexico? >> well, again, that's what the kwh whistleblowers were saying at the time. these agents who raised their concerns to management said we can't allow to happen and they were told, discontinue their surveillance, let these guns walk. they're legal purchases is what they were being told. and our point is, it shouldn't have happened. although these were legal purchases, everyone knew these were trau buyers working for the criminal illment, namely the cartels in mexico, and these weapons were going to flow to the criminal element,

atf agents in phoenix, in headquarters, they do not work for the u.s. attorney's office in arizona, all right? u.s. attorneys office, yes, they prosecute the cases that are brought to them by atf, but at anytime, they could have shut this case down. and they knew that straw buyers were coming in, young kids, 20, 21 years old on public assistance with shopping bags full of cash to buy weapons for $50,000, $75,000. and these weapons, 100, 200 ak-47s at a time were leaving out the doors of the gun shop. >> without any way to track them down in mexico? >> well, again, that's what the whistleblowers were saying at the time. these agents who raised their concerns to management said we can't allow this to happen and they were told, just continue the surveillance and let the guns walk. they're legal purchases is what they were being told. and our point is, it shouldn't have happened. although these were legal purchases, everyone knew these was straw buyers working for the criminal element, namely the cartels in mexico, and these weapons were going to flow to th

atf agents in phoenix, in headquarters, they do not work for the u.s. attorney's office in arizona, all right? u.s. attorneys office, yes, they prosecute the cases that are brought to them by atf, but at anytime, they could have shut this case down. and they knew that straw buyers were coming in, young kids, 20, 21 years old on public assistance with shopping bags full of cash to buy weapons for $50,000, $75,000. and these weapons, 100, 200 ak-47s at a time were leaving out the doors of the gun shop. >> without any way to track them down in mexico? >> well, again, that's what the whistleblowers were saying at the time. these agents who raised their concerns to management said we can't allow this to happen and they were toll, discontinue the surveillance, let the guns walk. they're legal purchases is what they were being told. and our point is, it shouldn't have happened. although these were legal purchases, everyone knew these was straw buyers working for the criminal element, namely the cartels in mexico, and these weapons were going to flow to the cri

they say the atf has now put these two "fast and furious" whistleblowers, special agent shawn dodson and pete fraselli under a boss who threatened to take them down. in a letter, issa and grassley say their supervisor had it in for the pair. quote, we stated we need to get whatever dirt we can on these guys, the whistleblowers, and take them down. the letter also crites another incident in which it was allegedly said that atf needs to f these guys. with us now are brian terry's mom josephine and his cousin robert hire. josephine, our condolences for the loss of your son, i can't imagine what this last two years having like, more than two years now. i wanted first of all to get your reaction to the recent indictments the u.s. attorney announced in san diego. >> i think it's a good thing. i'm pleased the way everything is going and i think laura duffy and her team are really doing an excellent job. and i think something good is going to come out of this. >> robert, has anyone from the department of justice given you an indication as to why the indictment is just now being unsealed? >>

[take bin 'atf long video'] [sot in atf director video] sot in 1:01: 25 "if you don't abide by the rules, if you don't respect the chain of command, if you don't find the appropriate way to raise your concerns to your leadership there will be consequences." trt=:12 tough talk from atf acting director b.todd jones. part of a video series titled "changecasts" that were distributed to bureau 5:34:27] we showed our exclusive video to iowa senator chuck grassley. [sot grassley ]sot in 5:37:35 "it ought to be a wake up signal for everybody in the congress who wants to do their job of constitutional oversight. you can't put up with agency heads like this having this attitude."trt=:13grassely says the remarks were intentionally designed to "chill" - to scare a-t-f agents from coming forward like those that showed up at grassley's door 18 months agg -- to lift the curtain of secrecy behind a federal gun running program that failed miserably and left a border patrol agent dead. [sot in steve kohn]sot in "53:49 "if that's the culture at atf the "fast and ffrious" scandal shouldn't suprise anyone."t

you know, there's now stories out there that say atf did not intentionally want to walk weapons. well, that's baloney. all right. they could have shut down this operation at anytime due to public safety concerns. all right? atf agents in phoenix, in headquarters, they do not work for the u.s. attorney's office in arizona. all right? u.s. attorneys office, yes, they prosecute the cases that are brought to them by atf, but at anytime, they could have shut this case down. and they knew that straw buyers were coming in, young kids, 20, 21 years old on public assistance with shopping bags full of cash to buy weapons for $50,000, $75,000. and these weapons, 100, 200 ak 47s at the time, were moving out the doors of the gun shop. >> without any way to track them down in mexico? >> well, and again, that's what the whistle-blowers were saying at the time. these agents who raised their concerns to management said we can't allow this to happen, and they were told, discontinue their surveillance, let these guns walk. they're legal purchases is what they were being told. and our point is, it s

said that atf needs to f these guys. with us now are brian terry's mom josephine and his cousin robert hire. appreciate both of you being on with us. josephine, our condolences for the loss of your son, i can't imagine what this last two years have been like, more than two years now. i wanted first of all to get your reaction to the recent indictments the u.s. attorney announced in san diego. >> i think it's a good thing. i'm pleased the way everything is going and i think laura duffy and her team are really doing an excellent job. and i think something good is going to come out of this. >> robert, has anyone from the department of justice given you an indication as to why the indictment is just now being unsealed? >> well, if you mean the department of justice, we talked with laura duffy and her team of prosecutors. we don't talk much with the department of justice in washington. and we have been consulted by u.s. attorney laura duffy and her team of prosecutors over the past year. they even flew to detroit to

this is most likely important for the blame that it lays on five people at atf. william la jeunesse is live at our west coast news hub. william, if you would, tell us about those five. >> shepard be the report is based on some 7,000 subpoenaed documents, basically accuses then atf director ken melson of being aloof. assistant. bill mcmahon of giving false testimony to congress. mark chait failure to supervise and bill newell of incompetence. >> if heads don't roll, nothing changes. in other words, if we are going to make these agencies accountable, the people that are responsible for the wrongdoing are responsible for policies that lead to murder, even though they didn't do the murder, you know, heads have to roll. >> now, the report claims that the atf had all the evidence and probable cause it needed to take down the smuggling ring within sweex. not 18 months. they could have arrested the buyer of the guns found at agent terry terry's murder scene weeks before they were sold. shepard. >> any response from the staffers or department of justice, william? >> the a

the atf, f.b.i. are both here, as well as local authorities. atf and f.b.i. have been bringing out some of the articles from inside the apartment. some it's evidence. other stuff which will be used as evidence, is the actual material that was used to make these device. they test them, they determine how dangerous they are. and then they proceed from there. that work has been continuing as we speak under that tent you're seeing in our video. we come back live, one of the fire trucks is moving in closer. it gives you the idea that they're not so much worried about explosives. they're more worried about potentially a fire starting with all the stuff that's inside. so fire trucks moved in closer, as have some of the other personnel. that's a good sign. but there is still a lot of work to be done. there is stale danger involved inside, and the good news is nobody has been injured and they're doing their absolute best right now to get as much evidence out to prosecute james holmes and at the same time, preserve other apartments in the nearby area. back to you guys.

investigators are there, the fbi is there, atf is there. they are trying to figure out how to get inside that booby-trapped apartment there on the third floor of that apartment building. they're still just trying to figure out how to get safely inside that suspect's apartment. james holmes told them that it was booby-trapped, and this morning they're saying that they may actually have to set off what they call a controlled detonation to make it safe to enter. >> i see an awful lot of wires, trip wires, jars full of ammunition, jars full of liquid, some things that look like mortar rounds. we have a lot of challenges to get in there safely. >> former fbi assistant director tom fuentes joins me now from washington. good morning, tom. >> hi, randi. >> let's talk about this detonation. how do you see this working? >> this is a very difficult situation. i've been at bombings where the original construction of the bomb was designed to set off other devices, and other devices did not go off, other mortar shells or ammunition or, you know, other as

you can seent atf agents along with f.b.i. agents took out parts of each device, a little to go to the national laboratork as part of their investigation. there will bevi prosecution in b regards to employees on a federal level. they took apr little bit of each out and that will be taken away. then they took each device out individually after the threat was taken out and put them piano a dumpvi truck and drove that dp truck out to the eastern part of town to a dump near the airport actually, and then disposed of the items there. either a burning them or putting small explosive devices to setng them off. that's taking place as we speak. we come back here live. people are going to bees allowed in. if we come to the t t right, lot this apartment complex next door. 1678 paris street, they'll be allowed back in here. buses bringing people back in, are expected in the next half hour. so everybody in theex surroundig apartment complexes will be allowed back in. you see some of the people walking in for the first time since this all s

you have atf and fbi here. they sent in robots on friday to assess the situation, get some video, see how bad it is before men and women in uniform try to go in there today to see what has actually happened. of course the suspected gunman james holmes told police when they arrested him right after the shooting in the movie theater parking lot that he had booby-trapped his apartment, that there were indeed explosives inside. i want you to listen to a neighbor, jackie mitchell. he actually had a beer with the suspected gunman just last tuesday. take a listen. >> you couldn't see this coming, no. >> what was he like? >> like i say, if you looked at the mug shot on tv, the same guy you see on tv is the same guy looking at you. just intelligent-looking guy. so, i mean, i don't -- you don't know what a killer looks like but it don't look like him. >> i can also tell you something very strange that police saw when they first came to holmes's apartment, there was techno music loud blairing out of his one bedroom apartm

i just spoke with one of the atf members. we're going to the try to get someone on camera right after this. they have just arrived as well, so they're preparing to assess the situation in the apartment, randi, assess how bad it is, possibly go inside, but just getting on scene in the last half an hour, randi. >> and poppy, i was actually at the apartment last night for "anderson cooper 360," and from what i understand, they had sent these robots in yesterday, right, to get a look at what was inside, and they found trip wires and a whole bunch of incendiaries. are they possibly going to send those robots back in to detonate what's inside? >> reporter: that's a very good yes. i don't know the answer. i will ask that, try to get an answer for you. but they sent the robots in to get pictures and film of what it was and how bad it was. and then as you know, the police chief, dan oates called it a vexing situation, unlike anything he'd ever seen. i can tell you that they brought in federal government officials, people from outside

that lie would have allowed the atf to stop or arrest him. six weeks before he bought the guns found at terry's murder. "if atf bothered to conduct a thorough review of all the information contained in the dea wire intercepts, "fast and furious" might have concluded a year earlier than it did." >> when gun showed up at the mexican crime scene, rather than concern, they wrote wow, cheeking-a! they were already across the border heading south? they were used to kill the brother of a mexican state attorney general and atf supervisor wanted to bury it. my thought is not to release any information. >> if there is concern about the border patrol government agent being murdered you can see there is less concern about the murders on the southside of the border. >> the justice department claims it distorts the fact. the next report is weeks away focus on the deputy attorney general. in the time report, attorneyien holder, himself, obstruction of justice. bret? >> bret: thank you. another house panel is claiming the obama administration for a nearly on

.. and we turned that investigation also over to the atf." prescott has been under mental evaluation at anne arundel medical center for most of the day. we just checked tonight.. and police still have not charged him with a crime yet. but again, he is in custody. live in crofton, keith daniels, fox 45 news late edition. a... 67-year-old man... faces... charges... after stabbing a man... at... a post office... in silver spring. witnesses say... the suspect... did not... like that the man.. who... stepped out of line... to do business.../ was allowed to get back... to the front of the line... when he was finished..../ so... the suspect pulled a knife... as the man was leaving..../ and... the... two began fighting.../. two... employees... are credited... for breaking up the fight... after... spraying them both... with... pepper spray..../ the... victim's... in serious condition.../ "nats of girl singing" singing"family and friends came together to mourn the loss of man who was fatally shot during a robbery in west baltimore. dozens turned out fo

the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, the atf. tonight, we're getting our first look at a report that says several people from top to bottom at atf failed to do their jobs in connection with the operation called fast and furious. that's the bottom line of a report by house and senate republicans and it contains new allegations as well that we're going to talk about. we obtained a copy of it. the bottom line, from the outset, the case was marred by missteps and an inherently reckless strategy. that strategy was to go beyond simply seizing firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. his death came at the end of a long chain of mistakes startin

atf says the colorado style tragedy could have happened independent maryland. sherrie johnson is here with what is next for the man accused of being behind this suspected massacre. >> we have learned that kneel prescott maybe held for a week in a hospital before authorities decide whether to charge him with a crime, he is held at arundel for a mental evaluation. authorities say prescott was ready to commit a mass shooting. investigators say the suspect facing termination threatened to two supervisors. he said i am a joker. i'm going to load my guns and blow everybody up. plus another graphic threat was phoned in to prince georges county police leading them and authorities to take prescott in to custody friday. investigators found 25 high powered automatic firearms and a spiked tactical assault rifle and handguns and a night scope or high powered rifle along with 40 boxes of ammunition. neighbors heard police come to arrest prescott. >> loud boom. like, i don't know -- it sounded like one of the big boom fire crackers. i thought it was kids playing in the parkin

atf, f.b.i. is here as well as the local authorities that are working together and they have been going on for 30 hours trying to diffuse the situation. what they found was a circuit board in the kitchen of the apartment of the suspect and that connected to the makeshift hand grenade. he had bottles filled with explosives and chemicals if mixed together and then 30 mick sheriff grenades he put together and tied into the circuit board. what the water did was eliminate the circuit board. now, they are in the inside the apartment trying to determine what the next course of action is. they got rid of all the trip wires that were preventing them from getting inside. what they are going to do, they are getting small pieces of samples of these different devices they are finding. taking it out to f.b.i. and locals are going through and testing it to see how explosive and dangerous it is. as they find these, if there is one or two or however many they find, there are dangerous enough they will bring in a

tactic, i know it sounds crazy to us, but it's something that the police departments are doing and atf long before barack obama was on the scene. what happened in the situation, incompetence and they lost the guns and this came out if you're following this. no question about it. doj apologized for it, shut down the program and appointed an investigation. i think the media should have been following this back when this was happening. at this point, i think it's-- i think it's totally partisan, you know, the reason they invoked executive privilege because they say it's deliberate documents, i don't agree with it, but it's their privilege. >> jon: we have more news watch to come. if you see something that you feel shows evidence of media violence, e-mail us at fox watch@foxnews.com. next, your trust in tv news is not what it used to be. >> when it comes to covering key issues, do americans have trust in the the news media? and nbc dumped ann curry from today. was it bad ratings or bad politics at the peacock network? details next see life in the best light. outdoors, or in. transitions®