• With: Judy Miller, Deneen Borelli, Jim Pinkerton, Ellen Ratner

    This is a rush transcript from "Fox News Watch," June 23, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

    RICK FOLBAUM, GUEST HOST (voice-over): On "Fox News Watch," Congress prepares to push forward with contempt charges against Attorney General Eric Holder for holding on to key documents related to the bungled Fast and Furious gun-running operation. Mr. Obama goes on the defense, claiming executive privilege, and the White House tries to spin the media coverage.

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    JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Congressional republicans are focused on this politically motivated, tax-funded, election-year fishing expedition.

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    FOLBAUM: Are the mainstream media finally interested?

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    BRIAN WILLIAMS, ANCHOR OF "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS": It just looks more like of our broken politics and vicious fights now out in the open.

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    FOLBAUM: NBC News at it again.

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    MITT ROMNEY, (R), FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR &PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I went to a place today called Wawa's.

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    FOLBAUM: Andrea Mitchell and her pals at the peacock network try to pull a fast one, editing Mitt Romney's word to make him look out of touch. And Lawrence O'Donnell taking heat for taking shots at Ann Romney and her therapy for M.S. And one more NBC blunder. The interview Bob Costas had left one thing out -- the evidence. What's going on over there at 30 Rock?

    HBO has a new series. It's about the TV news business. Will it also have a bias?

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    UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE).

    UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You, too. You, too.

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    UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- the crazy guy --

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    SCOTT (on camera): On the panel this week, writer and Fox News contributor, Judy Miller; Daily Caller columnist, Deneen Borelli; Jim Pinkerton, contributing editor, American Conservative magazine; and Talk Radio News Service bureau chief, Ellen Ratner.

    I'm Rick Folbaum. "Fox News Watch" is on right now.

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    CARNEY: To advise you, I think perhaps more than others by giving the interest in this, your network knows the administration, principally the Department of Justice, has cooperated extensively with congressional investigators, provided extensive documentation. The administration has even provided documents related to an interest in whether or not people in the White House knew of this operation at the time --

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    CARNEY: -- and provided that --

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    CARNEY: -- provided that -- let me finish, please, Ed -- and provided that last fall.

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    FOLBAUM: The White House press secretary, Jay Carney, this week, giving his take on the Fast and Furious investigation to our chief White House correspondent at Fox News channel, Ed Henry.

    Jim, I guess he's right about one thing, because Fox News has been covering this story since the get-go, but so many other news organizations have not been. Why not?

    JIM PINKERTON, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE: Well, it would almost make you think that they're thinking more like political partisans than investigators. It's astonishing to me when you see people like Eugene Robinson, from The Washington Post, saying, oh, yes, normally, I'm from full disclosure and, normally, letting truth -- after all I'm a reporter and a journalist, but in this case, of course, no, no, we can't do anything to hurt President Obama. That's pretty astonishing, where you forfeit your journalistic credentials in favor of supporting just a politician.

    FOLBAUM: Ellen, not a whole lot of coverage of this story from NBC, not a lot from The New York Times. Why do you think the story was ignored so long?

    ELLEN RATNER, BUREAU CHIEF, TALK RADIO NEWS SERVICE: I don't think the story is ignored. We heard about it in many, many places. And I mean everything from The Washington Post who really did something on it. And MSNBC did something on it. They didn't do it in a conservative way. But, also, want to say that none of the press really scored what the deal was that was offered. There's a lot of leaks in this town, or the town in Washington D.C.

    FOLBAUM: Right.

    RATNER: And why did they say, what happened between Holder isolating (ph).

    FOLBAUM: Well, that was a meeting.

    Judy, let me ask you. The chairman of this network, Roger Ailes, says bias is what you exclude, as often as what's included in a news report. The exclusion of this story from so many newspapers and broadcasts, why?