that's what an atf agent total a civil rights group.anti militia governments are popping up at an alarming rate, opposing tax skbs liberal policies. the report also says others might be reacting to the country's first african-american president. but the atf agents did say there are not as many violent threats and acts right now compared to the 1990s. >>> new video shows massive mudslides and hundreds of people stranded in mountain towns. a deadly typhoon triggered mud slides and floods in china. helicopters are plucking survivors from villages. and food and water is being dropped for people waiting to be rescued. rain may ease up today, helping rescue efforts. >>> a police report shows that a famous college coach admits to having sex with a woman, accused of trying to extort millions of dollars from him. problem. he's married. hi, rafer. >> yeah, robin, there are so many salacious alleged details to this. let me give you the bullet points and the one i found particularly interesting. a police report obtained by the "louisville courier j

>> there's our atf agency. but they limited resources. >> what are they doing? >> hay are visiting the license -- they are going to the licensees, they are doing inspection. >> are they doing any undercover work? >> yes, they are. and they are sharing it with lots of agencies. it's not fair to be critical of our agents. with the resources they have, every day they are serving the american people well. >> i'm not critical of them. i'm critical of the your leadership. i'm talking about what it takes to dismantle the gun cartel in this country that is not only enabling but making possible. >> your time has expired. >> let me first thank you for your testimony. again i apologize for the delay. but, you know, i'm just wondering if you could hold the record open, if you could get some information for us, you know, the rest seems to be very aggressive in terms of what's happening in mexico. but can you get us some information on the convictions in it's one thing to make a lot of arrests. but i want to know in terms if we can get some information in terms of the percent

i also met atf supervisor agents now. nothing has been changed. i think the documentary showed that it was different. the full title of my book, if you are interested, is "no boundaires: transnational latino gangs and american law enforcement." when i talk about the book i just call it "no boundaries". yesterday somebody asked me what the title was. i could not remember any of it. i don't know. i came to this conference three years ago. i was hoping to get an interview with wes. i did not realize how busy he was. he told me graciously told me come on out. i got about two minutes. he said come back when i'm not so busy. i did. i had a very long and interesting conversation with them. another person i did meet in 2006 when i came out hear was bruce riordan. he is now the director of the anti-gay operations for the city attorney of los angeles. in 2006 when i cannot hear he was an assistant district attorney in los angeles and he was and present time won a landmark federal racketeering case. they were doing extortion under the command of frank pablo

the problem with the e t f i personally prefer to buy individual commodity in the now be appropriate atf's maybe easier to handle but this you must not make sense to me i read the be trading sugar or just have a smoother portfolio. it doesn't make much sense to me. commodity to watch here is the dollar if narghile necessarily a commodity rate quick remark until we start to see real pickup in demand and and maybe another three to four months before we actually see the engine startup buyer. kevin from kirk trading international with us or read the cme. thank you tom. b02 online items the red ink on uncle sam's tab continues to grow...on our website...a look at what's contributing to the nation's debt...and what average americans think about it. plus...why at&t is being accused of age discrimination...and how the recession is impacting older workers. and...the president wants fed chair, ben bernanke to stick around another four years...what it could mean for the future of the u.s. economy. and straight ahead on the show.... medicare part d...how the prescription plan has affected both, patien

>> i don't think that's a correct statement from atf.e've always had instances of the left and the right. homeland security warned about both. remember the unabomber. he was on the fringes of the left. remember the big protest of the left wing anarchist. thousands of them running wild in the streets in seattle. and remember all the threats against bush's motorcade in portland, oregon, saying about the same kind of stuff as you're now condemning from the town hall protestors. >> what do you think is causing this right now? >> i think you've always got people upset on the left and the right. and the people, whoever they see as in power, they'll see, you know, you'll have the people in opposition to them will come more to the surface. but they're both there on both sides all the time. that is not a reason to discount the justifiable concerns of the vast majority of the people turning out at town hall meetings. >> i would think a two-part question, i would think that when the representatives and senators come back after all these town halls,

delayed buying in the meantime the gold exchange traded fund is seen and hasn't seen any been back in atf since may and a lot of confusing signals on the supply side. you're seeing that in terms of the market your seen 40 or 50 always come to the market. the biggest is than i can see is what you described is a movement from weaker hands into stronger hands. and you have an awful lot of inflationary or reflation mary dollars out there that are going to be chased as we go to the fall. after action about silver right in the coattails of gold or trying to lead the way? i think silver and copper are providing the very strong leadership. it there were battered much harder than go we have a breakdown to the lowest in as the economy picks up in the demand for the industrials were probably start outstripping the the man from the silver ronstadt fence between a precious metal and industrial metal copper no doubt isn't economically sensitive metal called a ph.d. in the economy is double-year period is one of the best forward indicators that you have of what the overall economy not only domestically

and since 2006, atf has identified more than 700 instanlss where dealers sold guns to people they suspectedeing felons, fugitives and mentally ill. there can be deadly consequences. in new orleans, three employees of elliot's gun shop were sent to prison last year for selling firearms to iminals. guns from the store were traced to 127 murders and more than 500 drug related crimes. >> those guns are going to be used in drive-by shootings. they're going to be used by gang members. >> what does a .38 run? >> three and a half for that. >> reporter: this black market gun dealer is caught on surveillance tape showing off his product to men he thinks are convicted felons. >> can we do those four for $1,900? >> just give me like $1,850. >> reporter: one of thousands of guns sold illegally in the u.s. every year. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >> our "closer look" for nitot. >>> and still ahead, he brought us some of the most memorable moments in television history. when sixty percent off is at stake, so today, she's talking to her doctor about overactive bladder. teri decided she's tired of a

that night, laurie says, the fed sent in an army, atf, fbi, you name it. by morning, she was in the local jail telling jokes to the agents who stood guard. after all, she says, if you don't have a sense of humor, what do you have? six months later, laurie arnold's crank empire fell down of one count of continuing a criminal enterprise, two counts of money laundering, one count of carrying and using a firearm in conjunction with drug trafficking and multiple counts of distribution and carrying of methamphetamine. floyd was tried separately and sentenced to 15 years in lev leavenworth prison where he died of a heart attack before he would have paroled. laurie got ten years in the federal penitentiary and was released after serving eight in july of 1999. her son and only child was 15 years old. laurie had been gone for half of his life. by then, the meth business in the midwest had mutated into something that laurie couldn't believe. though she was quick to comprehend that it was a new, much more fully developed phenomenon than that which she had created. and

the atf has taken over the investigation. >>> in idaho, a missing 8-year-old boy may be the victim oftragic event." robert manuel of boise hasn't been seen for a week. evidence found last night at his mother's apartment indicates suspicious circumstances. the mother pleaded guilty in march to willfully injured another son, an infant, by striking his head against the surface calling a skull fracture. >>> there are new photos of the president's airplane, the flight over lower manhattan in april. hardly anybody knew about it which caused panic and outrage in new york and new jersey. memories of september 11th still very fresh. 150 images, you are seeing a quick recap of the flight released. the official who ordered the beauty shots resigned shortly after that photo session. >>> the kids turned away from a philadelphia area swim club will have plenty to write in the what i did in my summer essay come september. actor tyler perry made good on his promise to an all-explens paid trip to disney world. the swim club denies allegations of racism. perry told the kids to live their lives to the b

11 cabinet agencies, department of defense, state justice and work for the f.b.i., for the irs, for atf. even the director of national intelligence. they credit that on the website but they don't mention they work for the executive office of the president. guess what? the white house admitting they were hired after january 1st and before january 20th to do work at the white house. >> let me ask you this, what are the critics having to say about this. >> the critics are just wondering why did the white house use an outside government contractor for government work what is political e-mails supporting health care. a congressman demanded the full truth and response to our report and chairman of the republican policy committee today is calling the white house use of delivery another ominous chapter in the campaign to jam the radical health care scheme on to an unwilling public by any means necessary. white house in a statement to us says that they were not removed in any lists and they have worked for some republicans such as governor perry and miss daniels of indiana. >> eric, that is toug

work with the fbi, the atf, the irs -- i could not find whether they represent the executive office of the president, white house, the white house said they were hired after january 1 before jen returned it two -- june 20 to send out e-mail. in other words the white house is admitting to use this company to send out e-mail. >> julie: this begs the question, where is the outcry which market president bush were in office today, you know the liberal media would be all over this -- in the present. another is some criticism aimed at the white house. >> people are beginning to ask why was a government contractor that does government work used to send what the critics say is a political e-mail. how much money was used? is taxpayer money used? located and who approved this russian ark lot of criticism coming from capitol hill. congressman darrell i sent once a investigation and in response to this story today ahead of the republican house committee, congressman from michigan, give us the following statement. "he said this is yet another ominous chapter in the ministrations rabid campaign to ja

government agencies, by my count, 11 cabinets, including the department of defense, justice, f.b.i., atf, irs, and others. i could not find where they say they represent the executive office of the president. but the white house says they did hire them between january 1, but before january 20 when the president took office to send out those e-mails. >> the irs, that always raise has red flag. what do critics have to say about all of this? >> the white house says they just were at the end product, the distributor. in other words, sending them out. they are being criticized heavily, some questioning where why would the white house use a government contractor to send what they think is a political e-mail. they want an investigation. here is a quote, statement from the head of the house republican policy committee, congressman there michigan, said, quote, this is yet another ominous chapter in the administration's to jam its scheme by any means necessary. that congressman is concerned about using a general government contractor for these kinds of e-mails and this type of use. >> the name of

in june of 2008 blackwater's armory here in the united states was raided by atf agents and they seizedak-47s. you can't have an ak-47 unless you're military active duty, you're some kind of government official, or you're law enforcement. so now that, combined with the testimony, really, really begs for a very serious investigation of blackwater and weapons. >> so does this story about the exploding bullets. we know now about them. one blackwater employee had already pleaded guilty to unwarranted shooting of iraqis in that baghdad massacre in september of 2007. what else does john doe number one the former marine who worked for them say about the killing of the iraqis? >> can i tell you something about this? i wrote about this in my book years ago. a blackwater operative by the name of ben thomas bragged openly of having used these weapons while he worked for blackwater to shoot an iraqi in the buttocks and it killed him and ben thomas described it exploding the entire left side of his body. he went on to talk as though he was working for the company. the military had not been authorize

that's the silver atf. it's trading around $14.34 a share. it's highly correlated to gold. if you're a gold fan, you can use silver as a proxy. it's cheaper, it's slightly more volatile, and believe it or not, it's performed better this year than gold. the other effect silver seems to have is an adverse effect to the dollar. if you think the dollar will weaken, silver is a good investment for that. obviously with the bank of england making its move this morning, that puts pressure on our dollar, sending silver lower. that might provide a good buying opportunity. >> jared, got to leave it there. thanks so much. >>> "final trade" right after this. >>> all right. you see there sonia sotomayor leaving the new york courthouse where she works. of course this is after historic confirmation as the first hispanic justice on the smoerup court. the third woman ever to sit on that court. >> very exciting. >>> time now to reveal who lost the most money today. hank greenberg doled out a whopping $15 million to settle fraud charges with the sec. don't feel too bad for old hank. he still h

. >> vwo, vanguard, and solar select atf. ticker symbol t.a.n. >> solar's so cute.ike pinto, what you got? >> i actually sold a lot of my precious metal and base metal holdings, i think we are overextended in the short-term. and i would look to buy tbt. >> tbt. >> yep, double the inverse. >> and it shorts the long end of the treasury. >> 20-year plus, lehman brothers 20-year plus. >> joe miller, wall street capital. >> i'm not a stock picker, i would say buy a house. >> buy a house. >> hey, i went shopping for apartments this weekend, looked at two of them and the price is looking pretty good. dan north, what are you buying? >> well, we're a credit shop and bottom up, we look at companies to see if they're paying their bills or can, and from an economic point of view, we strongly believe the economy is is recovering, going to look good from the third quarter on. that said our business looking forward from bankruptcies we still think it's kind of risky everywhere so we wouldn't favor a particular industry in the the moment. >> harry dent you have a dark view of the w

you don't have to do it with yourself, do it with a mutual fund or atf. short it once, twice, that's what some of these funds do. >> a two-times selector. so something goes down 5%, your fund gains 10%. >> exactly. and vice versa. so that's -- >> that's not a long-term strategy. >> these are trading strategies, short term. i would put to you that all of these, we're going to hell in a hand basket kind of scenarios, unless you really think we're going there for good, have an end game. it's not a buy in whole and forget. you have to think about it. >> flynn got his start in the business from the 1989 debacle, so he knows what it's like to be true. he's got a lot of experience. >> for real people who come with their real problems and tell us how to fix it. doug, thanks a lot. >>> in's some real signs the housing market is at least stabilizing here. we'll tell you what it means for the value of the biggest asset, your house. >>> why the photocopy could save the u.s. government half a million a year. >>> welcome back to "your money." now it's time for the tick

the atf is investigating. >>> honda is expanding a recall due to faulty airbags.se airbags are suspected of causing at least six injuries and one death. the issue here, the defective airbags and over-pressurize. allows metal fragments to cut through them and injure or kill passengers. the models include 2001 and 2002 honda accords. 2001 honda civics. and 2002 and 2003 accra tl models. >>> hair color and your dentist. connection? maybe you don't see it immediately. get this. new research published in the "journal of the american dental association" finds redheads are twice as likely to avoid the dentist as people with dark hair. why? i'm going to tell you. turns out redheads are more sensitive to pain and require more anesthesia which ups their anxiety levels when it comes to going to the dentist. >> what about nitrous oxide? do you get nitrous oxide at the dentist? >> laughing gas? >> yes. >> i think when i had my wisdom teeth out i had it. >> it's incredible. >> crazy stuff. apparently redheads in some cases require 20% more anesthesia. >> they should give the la

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that's the silver atf. it's trading around $14.34 a share. it's highly correlated to gold.you're a gold fan, you can use silver as a proxy. it's cheaper, it's slightly more volatile, and believe it or not, it's performed better this year than gold. the other effect silver seems to have is an adverse effect to the dollar. if you think the dollar will weaken, silver is a good investment for that. you buy silver if you feel the dollar is going weaker from here. obviously with the bank of england making its move this morning, that puts pressure on our dollar, sending silver lower. that might provide a good buying opportunity. >> jared, got to leave it there. thanks so much. >>> "final trade" right after this. mr. evans? this is janice from onstar. i have received an automatic signal you've been in a front-end crash. do you need help? yeah. i'll contact emergency services and stay with you. you okay? yeah. onstar. standard for one year on 14 chevy models. ♪ ♪ i'm cool like that, i'm cool like that ♪ ♪ i'm cool like that [ female announcer ] there's a smarter, cooler way to get y

since 2006 atf has identified more than 7,000 instances where dealers sold guns to people they suspectedng felons, fugitives or mentally ill. in new orleans three employees of elliott's gun shop were sent to prison last year for selling firearms to criminals. guns from the store were traced to 127 murders and more than 500 drug-related crimes. >> those guns are going to be used in drive-by shootings, used by gang members. >> reporter: this black market gun dealer is caught on surveillance tape showing off his product to men he thinks are convicted felons. >> can we do those four for 1,900? >> just give me 1,850. >> one of thousands of guns sold illegally in the u.s. every year. pierre thomas, abc news. >> such a divisive issue. people who rally mind gun rights are quick to say most of the people who are going to buy guns are not ill intentioned. these are examples of those who are and how easy it is to get ahold of them. >> it's interesting because arizona has just started really a big crackdown and a public campaign awareness. it started last week. it's aimed at people who buy guns for

worked with the 11 cabinet departments including the department of defense, state, justice, irs, fbi, atfdirector of national intelligence, and even the federal reserve. the aclu says if the white house used the firm, it is as if they set up the e-mails. >> if the government is directing a third party to gather political views of americans, knowing that the americans did not give permission for their views to be shared, that is very troubling under the first amendment. it raises the potential for abuse. >> we have contacted other web firms and google has commented that they were not involved. since this controversy exploded, the white house has changed their in the procedures to prevent unwanted e-mails. trace: thank you. with us more -- with us now with more is bill sammon, our washington editor. just to expound, we are not saying this company said ms. e- mails, because we do not know that, that if they did, there is a good point here that someone had to approve them sending out days e-mails. >> that is a good point. also the fact that they have apparently been working with cabinet level

by my count 11 cabinet agencies as clients including the department of defense, state, justice, the atf, the f.b.i. and i.r.s. but i could not find if they claim client was the executive office of president, which the white house. we broke the story because fox news viewers sent us their copy of the axelrod e-mail which investigation showed it came from gov delivery. scott burns the president of gov delivery refused comment and would have no comment whether his firm sent the e-mails to theous, but now they admit gov delivery was used and only used as inproduct e-mail dlis tribbor. not having anything to -- e-mail delivery. and not having anything to do with the content. they point out that gov delivery works for republicans rick perry and mitch daniels. a lot of controversy centers on what role it could have been where the company. the white house saying yes, they used the company that is a massive government contractor to sent out the e-mails. >> shannon: there is the admission. eric shawn has been on it all day long. thank you for joining us. >> major garrett has been on this also and

what they have done is destroyed atf's single most important investigative lead.ven if it was well-intentioned, that is questionable in its own right. even if it was not, what they're doing and what they think they are doing are sometimes very different things. they do not know what they're doing in the first place. it might be nice if some of these politicians in some of these states actually asked those law enforcement officers who have been involved in this issue for a long time if what they want to do makes any sense. often, it does not. host: tulsa, okla., we have kirk on the republican line. caller: [unintelligible] you talked about the amendment going on in the united nations. they're talking about illegal trafficking of guns. i am from jamaica where a lot of illegal guns come into the united states. a lot of people can see how many people got killed in jamaica from gun violence. that is what the u.n. really wants to work on. it is not really about gun ownership in america. it is about illegal trafficking of firearms. guest: that may be true. if it is true

you just showed john mccain, that is why i did not vote for that atf. i will tell you, i thought that obama would be a change, but he is as stubborn as a bush. 10,000 years from now afghanistan will be back in the stone age and we will be throwing money away. host: you said you did not vote for mccain or obama, did you vote? caller: obama, we thought that he was a change. but he is stubborn. that health bill is bad medicine. he is trying to ram it through with a nuclear option. i think that america is against it. people in town hall meetings have the right to organize just like the left. host: this is an op-ed piece from "the new york times" this morning. "the legal america -- american needs to prepare for an early iraq exit. america's legal relationship with iraq is falling apart. nouri al maliki has announced a referendum next january on the agreement governs u.s. military operations. under the terms, military troops will have to leave the country in january, 2011, nearly one year earlier than planned." lisa, independent line. caller: i feel the same

what they have done is destroyed atf's single most important investigative lead.ven if it was well-intentioned, that is questionable in its own right. even if it was not, what they're doing and what they think they are doing are sometimes very different things. they do not know what they're doing in the first place. it might be nice if some of these politicians in some of these states actually asked those law enforcement officers who have been involved in this issue for a long time if what they want to do makes any sense. often, it does not. host: tulsa, okla., we have kirk on the republican line. caller: [unintelligible] you talked about the amendment going on in the united nations. they're talking about illegal trafficking of guns. i am from jamaica where a lot of illegal guns come into the united states. a lot of people can see how many people got killed in jamaica from gun violence. that is what the u.n. really wants to work on. it is not really about gun ownership in america. it is about illegal trafficking of firearms. guest: that may be true. if it is true

light of the june 28 to the 600 american soldiers, sailors and airmen space so chicano as part of the atfvo have ceased conducting the operations and exercises with the honduran military. >> so, the u.s. troops on the base and a administration didn't know about the flight until after president zelaya had already taken off from the air base? >> the emerging crisis in honduras and think at the ambassadorial level we expressed concerns to honduran authorities prior to the coop. i don't think we have advanced knowledge of what took place. >> on columbia, united states and colombia have reached provisional agreements on a referendum that means there is a text agreed to on both sides reviewing the draft. prior to signature this bilateral agreement seeks to ensure effective bilateral cooperation for activities undertaken in colombia to address security concerns such as illegal narcotics trafficking, he illegal armed groups, and terrorism. in fact i think that the secretary and a colombian foreign minister will meet tomorrow and i think they will have more to say about the bilateral agreement. >>