in particular emails to or from buckman. bureau release ad statement saying it quote, takes allegations of fraud by its employees very seriously. it says we carefully cross-check and verify the work of our staff to insure the data's validity. commerce department inspector general who oversees the census bureau told fox news and i'm quoting. we are aware of media reports and our office is evaluating what action might be warranted. important to note that julius buckman retired from the census bureau in 2011 but the post piece alleges fabrications escalated after his departure. melissa? melissa: doug mckelway, thank you very much. >> you bet. melissa: this is not the first time that the jobs number is questioned. if the "new york post" report proves true there are big implications for your money. with me, art laffer, president reagan's former economic visor and economist peter morici and fox news contributor jonathan hoenig from capitalistpig.com. thanks for all of you joining us. this is causing a huge controversy. i did my ow

late today, fox spoke to julius buckman who is now retired. he said the post piece was inaccurate. he said he asked the post not to quote him but was quoted anyway. they told fox news they're 100% sure that issue of quoting never came up. the allegations have been referred to the inspector general. they said, and i'm quoting, we are aware of the media reports and our office is evaluating what action may be warranted. and late today, fox received internal documents from 2010 in which buckman complains a supervisor tells him to turn in cases as completed interviews which in fact he had not done the interviews. >> thank you. >>> fbi agents say several dozen suspected terrorists, some who have attacked troops, may have been allowed into this country as war refugees. they have been trying to work to track them down using evidence from roadside bombs in iraq and afghanistan and new fingerprinting lab will follow this story. >> talks on iran's nuclear program resumed today in geneva. he did say the main goal of the talks should be the stabilization of his country's nuclear runs. iran is t

buckman. it takes allegations of fraud very seriously. to ensure the data's validity. we are aware of the media reports and our office is evaluating what action may be war ranned. it is important to note that he is retired in 2011. that is the latest that we have for you. >> his new tv show may have been cancelled after one airing but rob ford seems to be taking power. check this out. fans mobbing ford at every turn. what is up with that? while his popularity has taken a nose dive in the polls 40% say they still approve of his job performance. time for our man panel. gentlemen, let me start with you david. what do you make of this? >> what does it say about our culture. >> they are our 51st state. we like our canadian neighbors. they have the worst of us. they have these terrible officials look our generation is kind of a pop culture generation the same one that made snookie a star. >> he will be re-elected. >> do you agree with that? >> no way. this guy is a complete train wreck. there is a reason why i think so that those poll numbers a

his name is julius buckman today. when we first telephoned him after many telephone call, he said he was unaware of the new york post story. he then admitted that he talked to the new york post reporter. >> the inspector general's now going to investigate. >>> coming up next, the victim of a dangerous knockout game. she will tell you her terrifying story, next. >>> we've been telling you about the cruel and violent knockout game. the game? well, young turns try to knockout a random victim with one brutal punch, sometimes killing them. one woman was knocked out and luckily she survived. tell me, phoebe, take me back. it was last friday night. tell me what happened. >> friday night i was biking home. it was just before 10:00. and i was making my way up 11th street in columbia heights. and while i was biking up the hill, there was a group of teenagers who were on bikes about 16 meters or so ahead of me. and they made it to the top of the hill, and at that point they stopped. and i continued biking my way up the hill. and

his name is julius buckman, according to confidential census documents obtained by the post. he was told to make up numbers by the higher-ups in census. that was 2010. but then the reporting claimed that it escalated right before the presidential election so that it was not just a 2010 problem. i want to ask you this, congressman. so far it was just "the post" out there with its article, citing anonymous sources. now we have the census bureau directly weighing in. and here is what they say. i'll read it. we have no reason to believe that there was a systemic manipulation of the data. we carefully cross check the viewing of our staff, including looking for false reporting. they are admitting that they have conducted or started an inspector general report. do we know whether that was ever reported up to labor, as "the new york post" claims it was not or whether anybody in the government was informed that even they believed there was reason to question the data? >> we see no immediate evidence that the census bureau gave this information to the department of labor. now, we need

the new york post quotes an unnamed source saying, quote, he's not the only one, speaking of julius buckmand of the 2012 election. cnbc cannot confirm these allegations and president obama's spokesman, jay carney, denied these allegations today. >> that story is misleading. i think a lot of people shed a lot of credibility in engaging in conspiracy theories about rigged jobs number. month after month after month the jobs numbers came in and later revised upward, sure didn't feel like they were helping us. >> the unemployment rate did decline sharply in september 2012 ahead of that november elections. dropping from 8.1% to 7.8%. that tied it for the third biggest monthly decline since 1990. the data showed there was a huge spike in the number of employed household survey. it remains unclear from "the post" story if numbers were fake, were they fake for political gain or was the employee just trying short-circuit his work? why unemployment has declined and stayed down over this time period. the separate payroll survey, jobs have remained strong there. did all the allegedly fake data lower the

the worker, julius buckman, was told to make up stuff by higher-ups.ider says the deception happened during a time when obama really needed help. to win re-election, of course. i'd say this is deja vu, but i don't want to offend the french, but this is getting really old. fast and furious, the irs, doj, benghazi, obama care, the irs again. now the census. it's like the scandals are chocolates on a conveyor belt and president obama is lucy. if you remember that. so what did "the new york times" do? they blame republicans for questioning their lack of trust in obama. amazing. that's like blaming a sane person for not being as crazy as you. politicians lie. that's how they reproduce. it's about the willingness to report them to the masses. the real culprit is the propaganda machine, the columnists that will say anything to protect their guy. the media are the paid witnesses to come forward not to report a crime but to establish an alibi. he didn't lie. it's a glitch. it's your fault for having subpar policies. so the media swallows the lies and regurgitat

his name is julius buckman today.hen we first telephoned him after many phone calls he said he was unaware of the "new york post" story. totally unaware of it he then admitted that he talked to the "new york post" reporter. >> inspector general report now going to investigate. we will find out more. doug, thank you. >> you bet. >> coming up next, the woman victim of the dangerous knockout game. she will tell you her terrifying story. that's next. >>> we have been telling you about the cruel and violent knockout game. the game? well, young teens try to knock out a random victim with one brutal punch, sometimes even killing them. conley was biking in washington, d.c. recently when she was hit with a single punch. luckily, she survived. p.b. -- phoebe conley joins us. nice to see you. >> thanks. >> tell me, phoebe, take me back, it was last friday night, tell me what happened. >> friday night i was biking home. it was just before 10:00. and i was making my way up 11th street in colombia heights. and while i was biking up

julius buckman who worked at census bureau admitted to fabricating data. he he he was instructed by superiors to fabricate the data to fill in some gaps. those are serious charges that need to be looked into. martha: jack welch tweeted that that couldn't possibly be true. now it's looking like he might have been right. >> we talked about it here and on special report. it seems to be an anomalous jobs report. nobody could come up with a good explanation at the time. i think we are a long way before concluded something like that did happen. it's interesting that this columnist at the post is willing to talk to congress about it and willing to share that information. it certainly deserves further investigation. martha: steve, thank you very much. bill: a congressman appearing in court facing charges of cocaine possession. elizabeth is live in washington. >> reporter: days arraignment day for tre radel. the documents charge he unlawfully, knowingly and intentionally processed cocaine. he said he struggles with alcoholism and intend to seek health. it ride in p

they talk about one guy this particular, a guy named julius buckman who was caught, i guess, faking somee up information by higher-ups at census. it sounds eerily like some of the other scandals that we've heard where pressure came from higher-ups to do -- stuart: but that's only one person. >> that's only one person -- stuart: he does not name the higher-ups who allegedly told him -- >> the source does say, quote, he's not the only one s. it's one of these things where the source is anonymous. i think the bottom line is we've got some reporting that's matching what we all call common sense. so it's all kind of dovetailing together, but it's after the fact. it's almost like everything else leading up to the election -- stuart: hold on, you could also say that the decline in the unemployment rate was the direct result of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people dropping out of the work force. that's what pushed the rate down, not so much manipulation of the numbers. >> although, you know, when you make up numbers and you make up numbers in a way your bosses would like, that helps a

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there was a name, julius buckman, according to confidential sentences documents obtained by the post.ation as he went along. this is on crucial information as we headed into an election season. >> fill out these forms for people that didn't exist. >> well, because they had to have a 90% return rate and because they couldn't get 90% in the new york and the philly areas, what this guy was told on the phone by one of his bosses, just make the stuff up. >> go ahead and fabricate it. >> what that did then was that made -- by making up, somebody has a job, that reduced the number. back in 2010, the guy who used to run ge got on the cavuto show in 2012 and said this. >> this whole number is made up of a whole mess of assumptions, who is participating, who is not work, who is trying to work but has dropped out. all these things. it just makes this a question -- i think there ought to be a good discussion about how this number is calculated. >> he says it's simple math. he can not get 150,000 people joining the eligible work force, creating 14,000 jobs and simultaneously is the percentage of u