or some of the other working groups, lanny participated in. those of us in the room have participated on. the reason we form the working groups because they work. they have led to significant results when people are coming together. people who have -- are focusing on similar -- enforcement challenges. we are bringing together, the full panaply of civil, federal. criminal, state authorities to bear on these common problems. when you add to that in this context of bringing in the ideas of so many consumer advocates. i think we have a recipe for success again. so i am very, very pleased that all of you were here. it is really a privilege to be able to be engaged in this effort with you. with that, let me untroep deuin friend and colleague, lanny brewer. >> well, thank you, tony. i want to echo what tony was saying. the working groups as only as good as the people involved, they're only as good as our willingness to deal with the issues at hand. and try to find as comprehensive approach as we can. my view of all of these, use is to say, that to so

lanny breuer of the criminal division. andr birotte, of the central district of california. director david vladeck of the bureau of consumer protection and kent markus, the head of the enforcement. today is the work -- today as the working group gathers for the second time since its inaugural meeting, i want to express my gratitude for your leadership and for your dedication and protecting the safety and economic security of consumers across the country. these are goals and these are responsibilities that we all share. each one of us has a role in fulfilling them. for me, and for today's department of justice, protecting american consumers is a top priority. as we have rededicate ourselves to this work in recent years, we have also learned some lessons. primarily, fully understanding the threats that consumers face and protecting their interests in a comprehensive way is not

andre, david, ed, tony, lanny. and, now, if, if other than david, if you don't mind, allow our panelists to come up to the stage. we can begin with the next portion of our summit. ladies and gentlemen, the next portion of the summit on the el. the moderator will be michael bloom, director of the consumer branch of the civil division. panelists, david vladic, you heard from, elizabeth koesel director of state affairs of aarp, naomi carp, association of older americans, deputy jay rush, fraud section of the criminal disvision department of justice, jeffrey stieger senior litigation counsel consumer protection branch, civil division, department of justice. and, abby kuzma, from the office of the indiana attorney general. with that i give you michael bloom, our moderator, thank you. >> thanks, folks. good afternoon. it, it, this panel -- i suspect will be very interesting and informative. let's just get right to it. we are going to talk about fraud directed at the elderly. and seems to be a natural question is, why do

likewise, the assistant attorney general of the criminal division, lanny brewer. they are menintegrity. and i do not believe the stevens case not withstanding that the public should labor under the notion that what happened in the stevens case happens as a matter of course. >> mr. schuelke, i agree with you that the attorney general is entitled to credit for after the fact in inthe charges. unfortunately, the damage to n senator stevens and to the adversarial system of justice had already been done and there's nothing that the attorney general or anyone else could do to undo it. and so i know you -- let me just ask in conclusion, since time is short here. in those instances where the character and integrity and professional responsibility of overcome their desire to win at any cost, is there anything that congress can or should do? or is there any further action that you would recommend that we take in order to make sure that abuses like this do not occur? because i worry when they do sometimes occur -- i agree with you that in the main prosecutors or honorable pe

what about the candidate and the state of his campaign right now. >> i find jeff zell lanny incredible annoying. just kidding. >> only because he beats and scoops all of you. >> exactly. jeff was intrigued by a piece of rhetoric that i had heard in puerto rico right before the primary there which is it sounded like rick santorum was saying he's the worst candidate we could nominate on any issue. clearly what he means is health care. he's responsible for keeping his words and rhetoric neat and clean. jeff was asking, worst candidate overall, worst person we can nominate in the country overall or worse worst on health care. senator santorum got angry and sort of corrected him. to chris's point earlier, this is one of the strongest arguments any of the republicans running against romney could have made, in the general election he would be defamed on health care because of the mandate in massachusetts. at the hurts himself when he loses his temper and he makes the argument and turns the argument away from mitt romney and more about his temperament. >> and chrysalis sysaliis cilli stakes fo

lanny? [applause] >> thank you, tony. i want too echo what tony was just saying. the working groups are only as good as the people who are involved. not only good with our willingness to deal with the issues at hand and try to find this comprehensive approach as we can. my view of all of these issues is to say that to some degree we have different topic areas but on some level all different levels of fraud and criminality morph -- they morph both nationally and internationally and they morph candidly by the subject matter. so right now what the working group does is exactly what tony says. it gives us an opportunity to have real discussions with real life experts. you started hearing from people today and i think -- at least my criminal division will be better as a result because we're going to start focusing and i'll give you a very real example. i grabbed one of my deputy chiefs in my department and said i wanted us to deal with the issue. in the very same way that a few weeks ago in the residential mortgage-backed security group in exchanging ideas with others

highway looks pretty good with no delays or incidents and here's live look at the north side at due lannyy road on -- dulaney valley road on 695 light from the parkville overly area as you continue on the outer loop to towson. let's check the foreforecast with lynette charles. >> good morning. and we are looking at temperatures and we can see a few different air masses on the map. so we see the blues that's the cold air mass that we were in yesterday. and today, we are in a more cool air mass because we are in the 40s and the temperatures are above average. and we look back off towards the yellows there. quite mild quite warm. that's surging into the area as we go later into the afternoon. i am forecasting in the 70s today. a far cry from below average temperatures coming in at 56 yesterday. so our winds will have a factor in this warm surge. and we are starting to see winds sustained at 5 miles an hour in baltimore and 8 in easton and 13 in dc and these will pick up going throughout the day. we could see gusts up to 25 to 30 miles an hour. the satellite and radar are picking up on the cl

on the north side of 695, limited visibility on the top side as we get a live look at 695 and due lanny valley road -- dulaney valley road. those are the conditions between perring parkway and 795. >>> the sanford police chief stepping down temporarily. this is in florida all over the death of a teenage trayvon martin. the shooter says he pulled the trigger but has not been arrested. ashley glass is in sanford, florida with the latest details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. huge rally held last night in support of trayvon martin and his family. the signs save the next child and arrest zimmerman now. and this was the main demand of last night's rally. thousands of people packed the entire park. civil rights leader reverend al sharpton spoke and all the people gathered here and they had a similar reason they are demanding the arrest of zimmerman and zimmerman and neighborhood watch captain shot and killed trayvon martin who was on his way home from the store. only candy and iced tea and he was not armed. zimmerman claimed stive defense and some say it was racially motivat

on wednesday which will result on the operation in our sites program featuring lanny brewer from doj and the director of i.c.e., john morton, moving to 11:00 a.m. we're very pleased that secretary can join us. as you know he was a crucial partner in the multi-state over long servicing and foreclosures. of course, it wouldn't be a nag spring meeting without the traditional sage reception tonight hosted by former state attorneys general which will be at 5:30 p.m. and then tomorrow we have our traditional supreme court reception where a couple of the justices will be joining us. i'd like to thank members of the planning committee for this meeting. attorneys general roy cooper, martha coakley, doug glanceler, david louie, bill shuty, john smothers and, of course, the fantastic nag staff for their considerable time and effort in organizing our meeting. if you could join me in thanking them for their hard work, we would appreciate it. as we move into our first session i would just remind you that there are written speaker biographies in your materials. so as is our custom rather than provi

lanni hancock had expressed his support for the demonstrators. >>> we are learning they will likely stick with the decision to close doyle park. they will open a french american charter school in its place. last week they demanded the board rescind its decision because they had a conflict of interest. he said he is interested in having his children attend the school. the school board said there is no illegal decision to close. >>> they decided to install 1,000 parking meters in the downtown area. these downtown meters will accept credit cards as well. they are more user friendly because drivers will not have to wait for a receipt or even remember a parking space number. >>> sal, any problems for the commute we should know about? >> you know this is the first day we started off dry and you are beginning to see how much better it is. winds are not gusting like it was the other day and it is having a positive affect. now let's not get too happy, you will see slowed traffic in some usual spots but as i look at the chp's list, there are not a lot of crashes here, there are a few. i will mentio

find whatever money we can find and return it to consumers and refer it to lanny, tony, and andre, and hope the justice department puts these guys in jail. let me talk briefly about the breath of our enforcement work. as long as we're gripped with this economic down turn, people, homeowners will be in default or face foreclosure. that's a breeding ground for abuse by fraud steers. earlier this week, we filed our 35th case against hundreds of defendants engaged in loan modification scams issue and we'll continue to do this work at a high volume until we root this problem out. our emergency servicing, yes, there's -- our mortgage servicing, yes, there's a tremendously good settlement against the top five, more servicers out there who need to see the federal government. we're working, i know, i know the cfpb and department of justice working on these issues. a debt. debt is in terms of resources the largest issue we confronted, and we confront it in multiple ways. one is, there's a lot of debt settling scams. if you listen to the tv at night, here's the come-on. if you owe more than $10,0

lanni hancock had expressed their support for the demonstrators. >>> this morning president barack obama continues his push to end tax breaks for oil companies. coming up 5:15 why republicans are saying this is not the time to end the oil company subsidies. >>> now they have a chance to create artwork with some east bay commuters. they are holding a student art contest to spruce up the tunnel. they are submitting original art deco drawing. you have to be in kindergarten. you can't submit your art. and you have to be in contra coster county. >> what kind of picture are you painting about the commute? >> well we are painting a decent picture, good morning. it is thursday and we'll see what we have out there on the roads. we'll see what we have on interstate 880 and that traffic is moving along nicely passing the coliseum. no major problems, it has been a nice commute all the way through and continues to be a nice drive all the way up to downtown oakland. also this morning's commute is looking good at the bay bridge toll plaza, no major problems westbound coming up to the pay gates and on t

tony, lanny. and now other than david, if you don't mind, allow or panelists to come up to the stage and we can begin with the next portion. the next portion of the summit will be a panel on fraud on the eldery. the moderatoril be michael bloom, the director of the civil branch of the civil division. the panelisted will be dana, elizabeth, director of consumer and state affairs aarp, anyway ohm in the keep, jonathan rush, deputy chief forking extra and poll circumstance fraud section of the criminal division, department of justice. jeffrey steger, the senior litigation counsel from the consumer protection branch, department of justice. and abby, the director of consumer protection in the office of the indiana attorney general. and with that i give you michael bloom, our moderator. thank you. [applause] >> thanks, and good afternoon. this panel, i suspect, will be very interesting and informative and let's get to it. we're going to talk about fraud directed at the elderly, and a natural question is

. >> lanny, we got to that park.ou are wasting valuable airtime. >> you won't let me compliment you? >> the second point i want to make, other than sean hannity being a good guy, is this is really not a significant risk to america. i don't know why he made those changes, to answer your question, but there's no risk here because every president needs authority in times of emergency such as a nuclear attack or something that is another 9/11, and this has already been on the books. president obama won't misuse it. the real question is why are the extremes on the left and the right so quick to jump beyond the facts and look at the worst possible interpretation? you look at some of these -- >> because -- because of the way the president has acted. for example, we have a very specific process for recess appointments. and with the national labor board appointments. the president, remember he didn't go through that process. >> that's right. >> conserve defense like myself, jay, i think would argue the healthcare man date is

supposed to know what you're doing, and you can't look for walden, which evolves into an argument about lanny, and straightforward information. how incredibly passe. it's about as old thymy as rotary phones, vcrs, and genuine human interaction. it's hard to believe that it was revolutionary. >> why not help your kids to succeed by having the information they need right at home with encyclopedia brittania, the library that never closes. >> it's true, back in the day, if you had to do a report on space, the encyclopedia was the only game in town. >> this is the greatest encyclopedia in the world. helped me get a b plus. >> why not an a? >> too long. i found so much information. i put it in all. the next report was about the human body. >> today kids can find out a whole lot more about the human body just by googling. maybe there should be no more books at all, no more of any kind. let's fahrenheit 451 this baby one for all. and the most cogent commentary comes from loewis ck. >> nobody takes in life unless it's through this. if jesus comes back and starts telling everyone everything, everyone i

ultimately, we know that lanny breuer, jason weinstein and people that directly deal with eric holdervery day knew enough that eric holder either knew or should have known and ultimately he has to be accountable for firing nobody in his offices so far over this. martha: you know, separately 100 republican lawmakers have asked for the procedure to begin to request resignation of eric holder. where do you stand on that issue? >> we are moving toward the met not call process of -- methodical process for creating a vote on contempt. that is the jurisdiction i have. that is something we can control. only the president can control whether or not eric holder resigns. we can control whether or not we hold justice and eric holder for willfully and almost a year refusing to answer senator grassley's lawful request or our request in any meaningful way. martha: congressman issa. thank you very much. >> thank you, martha. bill: a chopper landing like you have never seen before. take a look at this dramatic new video. roll it. >> holy [bleep]. oh, my god. bill: that is a u.s. apache helicopter. how

lanny breuer, the head of the criminal division i don't think he was candid and forthright, he had tock and apologize. there is lot of growing evidence to suggest there was a cover-up at the department of justice. we can't stand for that. we can not have this. bill: we'll see where that leads. if indeed in the end that is the case. jason chaffetz out of salt lake city. >> thank you. bill: patti ann. patti ann: rick santorum telling voters he is only true conservative in the gop field. fighting words for team romney. his campaign answers in just minutes. also? >> you want to be let out of here, you're welcome to go. now, wait a minute. wait a minute. now wait a minute. now wait a minute. wait a minute. bill: remember that scene? arlen specter responding to questions about his, to his voters about a support for the health care law. it may have cost the party changing democrat his job. now more than two years later why the former senator is slamming the president and the vice president. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v

clear on the way he views gun control and the way that gun control should be implemented -- megyn: and lannyeuer, his deputy, has led the charge against the assault weapons ban which the nra doesn't like at all. >> absolutely. and it takes it a step further. this, again, is not an unintentional consequence, this is an intentional act. i do want to say this, i think it's important, because as a conservative i do agree with julian on the fact that when it comes to, you know, glorifying the improper use of guns, nobody should be condoning that, and no one does that has any sense about this. but you cannot eliminate, excite out, remove the second amendment which gives the right. and the administration, you've given a list of cases, some of which i know, some of which i'm not familiar with at all because the reality is in heller and some of these other cases the administration was very disappointed with where the court went -- megyn: yeah. i've got to leave it at that, but i'm going to leave you with a homework assignment because we have got a big case going up to the supreme court next week, and

donovan joining us at 10:00 am on wednesday, which will result in the operation in our sights program lannierui and director of i.c.e. john morton moving to 11:00 am but we're very pleased that secretary donovan can join us, as you know he was a crucial partner in the multistate over loan servicing and foreclosures. of course, it wouldn't be a n.a.g. spring meeting without the traditional sage reception tonight hosted by former state attorneys general which will be at 5:30 pm and then tomorrow we have our traditional supreme court reception where a couple of the justices will be joining us. i'd like to thank members of the planning committee for this meeting. attorneys general roy cooper, martha coakley, doug gansler, doug luy, john southers, and, of course, the fantastic n.a.g. staff for their considerable time and effort in organizing our meeting. if you could join me in thanking them for their hard work, we'd appreciate it. mra[applause] >> as we move into our first session i'd just remind you that there are written speaker biographies in your materials so is our couple rather than actual

tony, lanny. and, now, if other than david, if you don't mind, allow our panelists to come up to the stage and we can begin with the next portion of our summit. ladies and gentlemen, the next portion of the summit will be a panel on fraud on the elderly. the moderator will be michael bloom, the director of the consumer branch of the civil division. the panelists will be david blatick who you just heard from. elizabeth. c kassel. director of consumer affairs of aarp. naomi carp, office of older americans consumer financial protection bureau. jonathan rush, deputy chief for strategy and policy, fraud section of the criminal division, department of justice. jeffrey steiger, the senior litigation counsel from the consumer protection branch, civil division, the department of justice and abby kuzma. director of consumer protection in the office of the indiana attorney general. with that, i give you michael bloom, our moderator. thank you. [applause] >> well, thanks, folks and good afternoon. this panel

likewise his deputy, jim cole, likewise the assistant attorney general of the criminal division lanny brewer. they are men of integrity, and i do not believe the stevens case notwithstanding that the public should labor under the notion that what happened in mr. stevens case happens as a matter of course. >> mr. schuelke i agree with you that the attorney general is entitled to credit for after-the-fact raising this issue with the court in seeking the dismissal of the charges. unfortunately the damage to senator stevens and to the adversarial system of justice has already been done and there's nothing the attorney general or anyone else could do to undo it. and so, let me just ask you in conclusion since time is short here, in those instances where the character and integrity and professional responsibility of a prosecutor did do not seem to overcome their desire to win at any cost, is there anything that congress can or should do or is there any further action you would recommend that we take in order to make sure that abuses like this do not occur? because i worry that when they do