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someone if you feel that you are in danger. that your personal safety or life is in danger -- >> sean: we will pick up on this tomorrow. thank you for being with us. >> greta: this is a fox news alert. blasts rocking the home of a man accused of gunning down 3 children and a jewish school. that man in that standoff with a man suspected of al qaeda ties in france. greg? >> reporter: greta, it has been a long night, nathr -- in fact a long 24 hours, that's how long the siege has lasted. in the past hour, hour and-a-half or so, we have heard another blast from the apartment building where the suspected killer, mumamd hammed marra is staying, fending off the police.
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we have heard, we believe, three gunshots, but we do not know which way they were coming -- from the police inside or outside, from the suspected killer. again, this has been going on for 24 hours. it started in a noisy fashion, as well. the suspected killer, again shooting at the police when they started to make their move, early in the morning, yesterday. and then a long siege. negotiations going back and forth, between the police and the suspected gunman. and then the claims came out. the claims coming from this gentleman, this 24-year-old french citizen of algerian dissent. he claims that he has ties with al qaeda and in fact, the officials here say that he has spent time in terror training camps along the border, with afghanistan and pakistan. but more crucially, concerning the crimes crimes that have beeg here the last week and-a-half.
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he claimed that he was responsible for the killings, the killings of three french soldiers last week, the killings of a rabbi and three children in a jewish school this week. and his most gruesome claim that in fact, that he only wished he could kill more and he had another soldier and two policemen in his sights. greta, we had a few reminders today of the gruesome murders and killings that he has been responsible for today. 3 frerve soldiers marked in a memorial in a base not far from here. french president sarkozy was there and paid his respects and said that justice would be served. awls in israel -- also, the israeli rabbi and the three students killed in the jewish school on monday, brought back to israel for a funeral. quickly, wrapping up here, it is quiet right now.
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the siege continues, however. the individual remains inside this apartment building. the police want to get him, but they want to get him alive. we'll see what happens when we keep you posted. back to you. >> greta: greg, thank you. we will be monitoring developments all night. >> it's a done deal. denver bronco star tim tebow is packing for new york and heading to the new york jets. just hours ago, the trade hit a snag. but now, it's back on track. how does this play out? mvp, pro-bowl, waltor peyton, man of the year, but joe thighsman is here. >> good to be with you. thank you. >> greta: so was this a good deal for the jets? >> no! i don't see it as a good deal whatsoever. as i look at this, you are bringing in tim tebow, after you signed mark sanchez to a three-year extension for $40 million. have you guaranteed a quarterback controversy. the jets don't need him to sell
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merchandise. they don't need him to do that. as far as the competition, to be able to throw the football, that's where he has to get better. but i don't understand the thinking of rex ryan and the jets to bring in a tim tebow to be a wildcat or part-time quarterback. you have a full-time quarterback. from mark sanchez' perspective, i don't want to come off the field. i like playing. all of a si have to leave the field because the wildcat is coming in. it's going to be a very interesting balancing act in new york. >> greta: could he have learned from peyton manning? let me say this -- is peyton manning going to rescue the broncos in the afc playoffs last year -- is he going to rescue the broncos? >> i think anybody can learn from peyton manning. heck, i could go back to play behind peyton and learn from him-- why not keep tebow and train him, instead of sitting on the bench behind sanchez? >> you will wind up with a
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similar situation. let's say that peyton does struggle. he throws an interception or. two all of a sudden, have you the "put tim in. " that's not something that peyton or john elway wanted. peyton signed the contract yesterday. tim tebow's out the door for a sixth and a seventh in a heartbeat. i don't think they could co-exist. if he didn't have the year he had, maybe he could have co-existed. but tim needs to become a much more accurate passer. you don't want anything in peyton's world. it has to be left alone. he needs to be the guy without any kind of distractions. >> greta: new orleans saints were slammed today, they got big penalties. your thoughts on the penalties? >> i think the penalties were justified. when you look at the commissioner, he has tried to drive the point home that safety is very, very important in the national football league. i want to protect the players. you bring the term bounty in and malicious, heinous connotations
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to it. now you start to pay players to hit other players. i had bounties on me when i played. if you didn't have one, the other people didn't think that much to you. you didn't pay attention to it. >> greta: drew brees is up, he is trying to -- he is trying to get the record, but the johnny unidas record. now he has lost and the coach is suspenned and his team has been punished with a bounty. that team must be psychologically turned upside down. >> i am not sure that they are. nothing has happened. the draft hasn't help happened. the general manager is out. greg williams's gone indefinitely. >> greta: but to lose the coach -- i mean, they have been punished and told they are bad. >> not just the coach. but the play caller. he's the guy who called the plays. he is in charge of the offense. this will put a tremendous pressure on drew brees and pressure on the saints to say, we need to figure out a way to
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sign drew brees because if we don't have that for the fans, what do we have? we have been punished. it's a point that roger made and said, i will not tolerate this action, when it places the safety of the players in the national football league in harm's way? >> i am outing you, you are a new owner. >> i bought my one share. i'm a green bay packer. >> greta: joe thighsman is an owner of the green bay packers. >> good to see you? >> president obama touting his green energy policy. but is the president advertising his own energy goals? newt gingrich is here from louisiana. good evening, mr. speaker. you have been very harsh on the president. you thought he was traveling around four state, telling everybody he's doing a great gobble. >> i am excited by having joe thiesman join us. i also own green bay stock. so this is very exciting that
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joe will be part of the team. >> greta: my next guest also has a share. wait until you hear who also has a share -- we all have shares tonight. we have a meeting tonight. >> listen. let me say, first of all, the news from france that you started the show with, should be a reminder in dealing with radical islamists that we need an american energy policy so we become independent of the middle-east, so we can truly confront the saudis and others who are the largest funders of al qaeda and terrorism. it's a reminer that for national security reasons, we need an american energy policy. it's a grim reminder of how dangerous these radical islamists are. the president's first day, by the way, i think is truly weird. you know, he went to nevada to a site in which five people -- five have full-time employment for an average cost of
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$10,800,000 a job. it's a solar-powered site. it has nothing to do with the price of gasoline, the number 1 concern of the american people. it illustrates why electricity's going up in most american states at a dramatic rate because obama's policies both raise the cost of electricity and raise the cost of gasoline and diesel fuel. he doesn't have a green energy policy. he has a greenback energy policy. he keeps shoveling out greenbacks to failing ideas and propping them up with our tax money and with our children's moan. money. >> greta: i am a big fan of renewable energies. i want us to find a successful path with renewable energies that really works and it's cheap for the american people. and we become less dependent on foreign oil, maybe independent of t. but i don't understand, the effort by him on solyndra and this -- today where he went with only five jobs after they got $50 million, to pee me, that
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torpedoes the environmental movement. that gives the republicans, a lot of ammunition against something, you know, against the environmental movement. that's where i think the message that a lot of people are missing. >> let me draw a distinction. i taught environmental studies. i am for green energy. but i want to draw a distinction between green energy and greenback energy. green energy has to be commercially competitive. the president said that drilling wasn't the answer. he proposed algae. my newsletter today is on algae. we talked to the experts. they think it's 10 years away and they think the equivalent cost is $140 to $800 a barrel. the goal has to be what you said -- how can you get to a truly green energy instead of a greenback energy? there is no indication that barack obama has a clue about economics. and every indication that he has raised the cost of oil and gas
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for the american people, raising the cost of electricity, deepening the recession and hurting the pocketbook of every american family. >> nothing that sparks people like success, there is nothing like blowing $550 million on solyndra, which was obviously bad in the beginning to give the ammunition to those who don't want it. let me turn to another question. the etch-a-sketch issue today. is it fair to go -- it's been brutal, i saw you with the etch-a-sketch t. wasn't governor romney who made the remark, it was one of his senior advisers, i don't know if he was a senior adviser. but you have been having a field day with him. is that fair? >> first of all, it's a communications director. so he's pretty high up in the organization. second, the reason that the etch-a-sketch comment iso powerful is it reminds everybody of romney's initial problem. he had been a fairly liberal governor of massachusetts. he invented romneycare.
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his senior collaborator was teddy kennedy. he wrote planned parenthood into romneycare by name. he raised tacks, he was pro gun control as governor. he was basically a pro-choice as governor, in terms of functions. then he switched and he said, you know, i'm running for president, none of the things i did as governor is what i will do now. he went so far to say he had been a quote, severely conservative governor, which is an absurdity. now you get one of his senior advisers remining everybody that romney could turn on a disme he could say, i have to rin win the election and let me sell everybody conservative principle i promised. he tells us he won't do it. maybe he won't do t. but it was so powerful because of the idea of a mini-sketch fit his past record made you think that there is something there and maybe
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they have been talking in the senior staff about how they will jet jette -- jettison the conservative stuff. >> greta: a national journal said, gingrich ignores obama muslim comment. you were asked by a louisiana voter and the person said, you know, made some crack about president obama being a muslim. number 1, i take it you don't think that president obama's a muslim. and number 2, why didn't you correct him? >> you know, that is such total baloney. i was asked by a reporter, of course, i accept that he's a christian. the guy didn't ask me a question. he stated his opinion. i don't have an obligation to correct every single voter about every single topic. i also didn't agree with him. for someone to turn that do into a big deal is stupid. let's accept that he's a christian, his policies are to apologize to muslim extremists
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who are killing americans at the same time he's waging war against the catholic church and every right-to-life institution in this country. i went today to louisiana college, which is a baptist college, which is very right to life. the president said publicly, they will close the university before they will give in to obamacare because they are not going to provide abortifics to students or employees. let's accept he's a christian. he went to a christian church over 20 years. why is it he's more sensitive to radical islamists who are killing young americans than he is to the catholic church, to baptists, to fundamentalists, to people who are pro-life? this is a very strange presidency. he carries this out in other ways. why does he want to pump oil in saudi arabia, which he called for last week and he is against pumping oil in louisiana. why does he want the jobs in saudi arabia and not in
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louisiana? i think it's a strange presidency. you don't have to attack whatever his personal religious beliefs are to attack his behavior. >> greta: i am not going to answer all of those question, there are so many of them. i will leave that for and you for another day. speaker, thank you, sir. >> good to be with you. >> greta: two years and 11 months, that's how long it's been since the senate passedded a budget. yesterday, house republicans are unveiling a new budget, calling for deep spending and big changes in medicare. every other proposed budget has been a bust. will this be any different? senator thewn -- senator john thune is here. >> a green bay packer owner. >> greta: we're all packer owners tone. is the senate going to pass a budget? >> it doesn't look like it. as you said, the house -- they submitted their budget this week. they voted it.
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it will be on the floor next week. under the budget law, the senate budget committee, should produce a budget as well by april 1 and the house is supposed to back it by april 15. i don't see any -- i don't think there is going to be any chance that the senate will pass a budget this year. >> greta: i don't understand that. as i understand the way it works is that, senator harry reed is stopping it. the president submitted his. the house has his, tell go through the committee. and the senate doesn't have any budget and if one did show up, it won't be voted on. right? >> i think that's right. the budget committee has talked about it, the chairman's talked about the budget. although that's gone back and forth. but the message is coming down from the leadership from, senator reid is that you can do a budget, the budget committee, but we won't vote on it. >> who made him king? the whole job is to guide the country, vote on things and create legislation. because of his position, he --
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he does a pocket veto to stop the whole chance of us having a budget, whatever budget we should have. but we don't get a chance to have it considered? >> that's the power of the majority. you get to set the agenda in the senate. that's why elections matter f. we get the majority back, the responsibility will be on us to do a budget next year, the first time in four years to have acted on that. it's unfortunate because you are not setting out for the american people, your plan to get the spending and debt under control, what you will do to creations and grow the economy. that's what the house budget does, whether you like it or not. they have made an ernest effort to show the american people where they would lead the counselry? >> i want to ask you about the new farm rules in the secretary of labor was subject. >> we have maintained for sometime that the administration's policies are making it more expensive and more difficult for businesses to create jobs in this counselry.
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this is an example of regulatory overreach, run amok. this is big government gone crazy-- on farms. >> you are telling young people on farms, in 85 pages of regulations what they can and can't do, things that young people on farms have been doing for generations. >> greta: where i grew up eye went to school with a lot of people who grew up on farms, they did chores and they all want to run the farm. i mean, the concept of the government telling them what to do on the farm -- i'm surprised. >> it's insanity, if you look at how preptive it is, you can't work with farm animals, older than six months old and you can't work with certain equipment, like lawnmowers and electric tools. >> greta: the farmers in wisconsin think that washington's insane. >> we didn't get a response back. so i introduced a bill to prevent the regulations from going into effect. we have 38 co-sponsors, nearly every farm organization is
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supporting it. this is insanity. this is an example of just regulations, excessive regulations. >> greta: she could have the diseens tow respond. but i'm taking the last word on that. thank you. >> thanks, greta. >> greta: who do you want to make decisions about how much medicare's available for you or your family -- or are the number crunchers making decisions to delay or kit your care? we go on record. and imagine filing the tax return, expecting a hefty refurngd bue find out that someone else has cashed in on your refund so the irs won't pay you? that's coming up. breaking news, three children murdered in france and a standoff. we are watching developments on the ground. if anything happens, we will bring it to you live. and john bolton with live developments on tonight's breaking news. [ male announcer ] how can power consumption in china,
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>> two years after president obama signed his health care plan into law, we're getting closer to finding out if the law's constitutional. next week, the supreme court hears arguments about the individual mandates, but republicans are gearing up for a fight in november. what is their game plan for
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taking on president obama and changing health care? we spoke to jon kyl here. assume the supreme court does not declare the national health care unstiewgdzal and it will go forward. between now and november, is there anything that the republicans in the senate plan to do or can do, vis-a-vis the national health care bill? >> first, the democrats control the senate. so we won't be able to pass a bill that repeals any part of crare obamacare. but if it is not unconstitutional, it will be the biggest issue in the campaign. we will try to bring attention in any weigh we can with amendments and floor speeches. >> greta: all right. let's assume that governor mitt romney is the candidate, the republican nominee. how you can make that an issue, an effective issue for the republican party, in light of the fact that massachusetts has a state health care is very much
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similar to the national health care? >> i think if that occurs, mitt romney's going to have to be very specific and say, look, the court has spoken, by the way, i am hoping the court will rule the other way, but let's take your hypothetical forward. i believe that candidate romney has to say, look, we need to repeal the twhoal thing and here are the three reasons why. if we can't do that, we need to repeal this piece and this piece and this piece and here's the reasons why. in other words, it can't be general because they did something like that in massachusetts. so people are going to be skeptical unless he can be very specific about what he is talking about and why. >> greta: how can anyone, though, as a viewer, have great confidence in that? he was an advocate for the system in massachusetts. i realize that's a state. but he was an advocate and if that's what the republicans are aggressively going to go at the president with, if he has it in his back yard, this issue, just saying, i am going to do away
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with it, may not be persuasive. >> that's the point that rick santorum has been making. the answer is, as i said, i think eye am not his campaign manager and i am not the smartest campaign guy -- but i think you have to be very specific and if you say, here are two specific things or three specific things that are wrong and that's why we have to repeal it and i am committing to do that, then the public begins to see that you are serious about it and you have something concrete. now, what he valid to do then is to say, and that's unlike massachusetts, or one of those things is actually a little bit like with we did in massachusetts and i don't see it working out so well. you would have to have another reason to distinguish it from what happened in massachusetts. >> greta: is there anything implemented that the economy or we are feeling you should the national health care. >> great question. i think that the experts would say, just the fact that it's hanging over our head and about
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to be imp lemmed in most of his pieces, some of it is being richelemented, but the big pieces are yet to be implemented, the fact that that is hanging over our head is dampening our economy, job growth and job creation. why add more people to our roles, if we skeed [inaudible] and then obamacare applies to us. why buy health insurance for our folks when as soon as obamacare comes in, we will have to scrapthat, go to a whole different plan, or pay a $2,000 fine as an alternative. that's why people are going to leave the private sector because it will be cheaper for the companies to spend $2,000 on a fine than it is to spend $10- or $15- or $20,000 for insurance. >> greta: the republicans object to the advisory boards thatville control over prices and
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services. do you oppose thosism that's the second worse thing about the bill. the i.p.a.b., a board which is appointed by the president. he could make recess appointments. it doesn't have to be politically balanced. these people have one job and that is to make sure that some arbitrary number that is assigned for medicare payments is not exceeded. in other words, here's the budget. and everything has to fit within it. and if it turns out that there are people that need more care, they have to find a way either to delay that care into the next year, or reduce the amount of care so that it fits in with the money part of the budget. it's a little like indian health service. i represent a lot of native americans. there is a saying in arizona, you better get sick before july. twha do they mean? theyor a budget. if you get sick in the latter part of the year, they probably run out of money and have you to
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wait until next year to get the operation or the care. so it's a sick joke, but that same thing could apply to medicare, with the i.p.a.b., that means they have to ration care. >> greta: there are a lot of people that make decisions who are not elected. i understand that. but in this instance, these are decisions on the budget, essentially. these are budgetary decisions, not made by members of congress, so if we don't like it, we can't throw you out. they are appointees of this president, the next president. is there any objection to the fact that it is nonelected officials that would serve on this? >> sure. that's one of the problems. the first problem is that inevitably, whoever you put in that position will have to ration care. and that should not be in america. we shouldn't have a government program that has -- that is contained contained in such a way that the
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only way to make it work is to ration health care. >> greta: don't we ration it now? some people are on medicare, some have better medical care than others. don't we ration? >> very good care. very good question. in medicaid, which is the program for poorer people, we pay doctors even less than we do in medicare. and guess what? those are probably the last people in the waiting room to be taken care of, if the doctor gets around to them. a lot of people say that care is being rationed to some extent in the medicaid program because we don't reimburse the hospitals and the doctors enough. so why would they want to do that work? that will creep into medicare and become a big part of medicare. itville to do the same thing that is being done with medicaid to a little extent. we are trying to prevent that. it's already happening with the indian health shefers. >> thank you. nice to see you. >> thank you. >> greta: coming up, tax refund
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children and a rabbi is holed up. this is a live picture. heavily armed police in a standoff with the suspect, claiming links to al qaeda. john bolton joins us. this has the feel of a lone wolf. but ties to al qaeda's bad. >> there are a lot of reports that he trained with taliban in al qaeda across the border, inside pakistan. the killings that he has undertaken, obviously, number 1, directed against this jewish school. but the free french soldiers he killed, all american muslims, all apparently north african in dissent, i suppose that means algerian, so a very clear signal to muslims in france that you integrate into french society and become part of the society, at your peril. >> greta: also, it shows the danger of one person in al qaeda. you don't have to be part of a group of 19 people doing harm. you can do it as one. >> that as a mode of terrorism
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is a lot safer for al qaeda, send them out one by one. you can't trace them back. very effective technique. it has gotten france's attention? >> the oil sanctions. the united states announcing there will be exemptions to those who will be punished for getting oil from iran. >> another triumph for the sanks mechanism -- you say it with sarcasm? >> heaven forbid. this is the most anybody will have to do. you will notice, no decision made on china, india -- does anybody think that the obama administration is going to slap sanctions on chinese and indian financial institutions? i believe this is on the verm of collapse. >> greta: sanctions are hard on everybody. our countria a richer country and the wealthy don't suffer as much as others, but sanctions for everyone to join together and put the squeeze on something to achieve a goal.
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the minute we give exemptions, we lose all the power or potency of sanctions. >> the 10 european countries are being given the waiver because of the european union decision to cut off oil exports this summer. however, the european union on its own is going to consider giving exemptions to fwrees and italy, spain and portugal. so the waivers and the exemptions begin to build a head of steam. >> greta: i was looking at the u.u -- france, germany, belgium, greece, germany, poland, spain, u.k -- it's almost, there are more, but it's unbelievable. the list. >> it is only for the promise that they are going to give up importing oil this summer that. hasn't happened yet. so i think what is going on, the waiver mechanism that the obama administration insisted on really begins to open up gaps for everybody else. what are the turks going to do? are they going to comply and then seek a waiver?
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yes. will the administration refuse to give them a waiver? i don't believe it? >> greta: is it remain ago even though there are sanctions that the iranian economy will have -- will have some effect, some punitive effect, but it is not going to have the squeeze to get them, perhaps, to stop with the iranian nuclear program? >> exactly. there are incremental costs here. there is no dispute about that. but there their has been no evidence that any of this has affected the iranian nuclear weapons program, which is the ultimate objective here. >> greta: i would love to be a fly on the wall in israel tonight to see what the leaders think about this. nice to see you, sir. >> thank you. >> greta: coming up, the irs is coming under heavy fire. rebundfund robbery. that's next. have you wanted to own a piece of michael jackson history? if you have a mere $24 million and you are not afraid of ghost,
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>> greta: could someone steal your tax refund. >> greta: find out why the odds are pretty high this year. ainsley earhardt has the headlines. >> a huge march in new york city, protesting the killing of an unarmed teenager in florida. the parents of tray von martin, joining hundreds of demonstrators for the million-hoodie march. martin, walking home in a hooded sweatshirt with a neighborhood watch volunteer said he shot the teenager in self-defense. the volunteer has not been charged. the pentagon discussing robert bales, back here in the u.s., expected to be formally charged on friday. afghan villagers say they believe he carried out the retaliation for the earlier
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bombing that killed a u.s. soldier. >> greta: could someone be stealing your 2011 tax refund -- right now isn't answer is yes. there is a growing crime epidemic, costing hundreds of millions of dollars. identity thieves are filing false tax claims and the ierrors can't seem to stop the problem from spiraling out of control. grif jenkins hit the ground. >> reporter: greta, it's tax season, millions of americans getting ready to file their taxes, hundreds of thousands who have diabetic so and found out the hard way that they became victims of identity theft. a criminal stole their social security and file aid claim in their name and got their money. we are here in tampa, florida, where the problem is significant. over 20,000 case this is year, according to officials. nationally, the problem has grown, according to the irs, from nearly 50,000 cases in
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2010, to over 250,000 cases last year. so we hit the ground to find out what is going on. >> it was like, wow. you know, to me, for somebody to sit back and just do this, for all of us who get up and go to work every day, for somebody to take what we worked for -- i don't understand how -- irs or anybody has let that happen. why? >> is the first time your identity has been stolen? if so, do you have any idea how it happend? >> we have no idea. 53 years, nothing like this has happened. i am sick over this. >> is the irs doing enough i. hell no! hell no! they're not. you know? no. that's not fair to us. >> for them to beo arrogant and treat us because we are working people, where you got corporations owing millions of dollars and woo are working people and we work everything,
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and something needs to be done about this procedure. >> reporter: did they get a refund in your name? >> $8,000 in our name. >> reporter: $8,000? >> yes. >> reporter: we spoke with the mayor of tampa to find out how bad of a problem this is? >> it's emdemic proportion. i think -- epidemic proportions. this fraud perpetrated on those getting the identities stolen and it is fueling a subculture of criminals. we estimate $100 million, in our latest operation, we identified over 20,000 fraudulent tax returns. drug dealers have moved from the corner to their houses and a laptop. simple as that. it has moved into the prisons. prisoners are now getting fake i.d.s, from legitimate people like you and i, filing tax returns with our i.d.s and our names and getting the benefits of that and spending it on
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bentleys, drugs, criminal activities. it is epidemic proportions. not just in tampa. i would submit to you, it's going on in every city in the country. >> reporter: according to the irs, the number of tax dollars, involving fraud activity is in the millions and it was the focus of a senate hearing on capitol hill. what is the irs doing about it? steve miller is the deputy commissioner for enforcement. >> from the hearing, this is a big issue. what are you doing about it? >> we have taken tobviously, very seriously. we are increasing the amount of what we do up front to prevent the fraud for the refund goes out. so we have top stopped, obviously, we have stopped as much refund fraud to date as we did last year. when you consider the number of refunds that we are looking at. before we take a full look at the refunds, we're not going to
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know how much of that is identity theft. but clearly, we are on the right track nterms of stopping these guys up front before they get the money. >> the irs has pointed on their own number, showing it has risen dramatically, tripled from 2010, 2011 tseems to be out of control. what can the folks in washington do? the irs, to help you try to get your hans around this? >> we need them to show up, first of all. we are not in this alone. this should be a team effort. we understand the privacy issue there's the irs deals with. but there has to be a way to balance the need for speed, if you will, in terms of getting the tax returns back and the irs's ability to check and make sure it's a legitimate recipient and it's a legitimate tax refund. and it's a legitimate individual. they can do that. i think any legitimate taxpayer would sacrifice two or three days to know their names are not hijacked, their social security numbers are not being hijacked
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>> greta: 11:00 is almost here, flash the studio lights, it's time for last call. congressman ron paul sits down with jay leno and telling his secret autos paul the candidate reveals code names, i think code name for romney was javelin, santorum, i know you don't have secret service names. what would your secret service code name be? >> bull dog. >> i think i know why you don't need protection. i saw what happened when you confronted a gentleman. take a look, here. >> that is your last call. lights are blinking and we're closing down shop. make sure you go to greta wire.com. people are really mad at me.

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