lanny! paul ryan did not take the mon! it's a matter of reducing the rate of growth, in terms of medicare spending and the pressure is not put on mom and dad. the pressure's put on the service providers, sean, of the guarantee for service under medicare remains -- [overlapping dialogue] >> same number as paul ryan, yes or no? >> we have been asking these undecided voters, the people in this center how they react. and the danger for you, lanny, the language of barack obama at this convention will be what it was four years ago. that happened at the republican national convention, word for word, barack obama saying the same thing, the same hope, the same change as he did in 2008 and the american people say, you know what? he's a politician. he's a good politician. he's an effective politician, but he's a politician and the words don't mean anything, sean. >> sean: unemployment is up 7.8, with what he inherited, 8.3%, gas was $1.85 a gallon, it's now $3.78. the average length of unemployment has nearly doubled, home prices dow

calling for possible disciplinary action, including lanny brewer. justice department official tells fox news attorney general holder admonished brewer and no further discipline is expected. meanwhile, the white house continues to effectively stonewall a number of issues. a white house national security staff member, a request for an interview was refused and the white house refused to produce any internal documents for his investigation because the white house said it is beyond the view of the inspector general. joining us now is one of the leaders of the congressional investigation into "fast and furious", congressman trey gowdy. a member of the house oversight and judiciary committee. congressman, thank you for being here. secondly, this report, i'm going to say, at the very outset, a year and a half in the making. was it worth the wait? >> probably not from this the standpoint. i don't offer that as an indictment on mr. borowitz. i think that mr. borowitz did as good a job in secret. twenty months ago when i came on your show, i could tell you th

lanny davis. thank you. why did the federal court block of voter i.d. lot in texas? they are appealing to the supreme court and the texas attorney general at it is here next. >> unfortunately that, it was reported by a conservative newspaper not surprising. lou: misquote? is chairwoman denied calling the g.o.p. dangerous to israel. but she denies a lot of stuff. lucky for her we have her comments on tape. we will help her out to free your listening pleasure. the first day of the convention and a video that claims we the people belong to our government. >> that is the only thing we all belong to. >> they never to promises to be just as good will the big dog deliver? want to try to crack it? yeah, that's the way to do it! now we need a little bit more... a little bit more vanilla? this is great! [ male announcer ] at humana, we believe there's never been a better time to share your passions because the results... are you having fun doing this? yeah. that's a very nice cake! [ male announcer ] well, you can't beat them. [ giggles ] ohh! you got something huh? whoa... [

lanny davis. thank you. why did the federal court block of voter i.d. lot in texas? they are appealing to the supreme court and the texas attorney general at it is here next. >> unfortunately that, it was reported by a conservative newspaper not surprising. lou: misquote? is chairwoman denied calling the g.o.p. dangerous to israel. but she denies a lot of stuff. lucky for her we have her comments on tape. we will help her out to free your listening pleasure. the first day of the convention and a video that claims we the people belong to our government. >> that is the only thing we all belong to. >> they never to promises to be just as good will the big dog deliver? lou: we have just recede word if federal judge ruled arizona authority may question the immigration status of than a one lot officers stop expecting to be in the country illegally in accordance with the supreme court decision. the original judge that blocked the arizona law to block the show me your papers argument leads to racial profiling the original judge agrees with the supreme court to uphold the pro

lanny brueur was not candid and onest.e missed an opportunity to correct a record he had to know was false. >> should the attorney general have used -- to use tray's words, to can him and why don't you think he did? >> he has want the us to believe he acted quickly and decisively and made corrections. >> as soon as the report, as soon as he became aware of it, he killed it, got rid of it. >> actually fast and furious was already dead before that. >> is that dishonest? is that wrong? >> let's just say we already opened our investigation before he got to an ig. clearly the death of brian tray is what ended fast and furious and it should have ended long before that. the real question is why did we wait 19 months? why did we go through all this time waiting for an i. g. to come up with findings when jazz son -- when jason was in and out of his office. the people who have had bad judgment, and they have been key allies of the attorney general. the president said he has full faith and confidence in the attorney general. i asked

megyn: can you speak to lanny breuer?can tell you what we have been led to believe, lanny breuer according to the report is that lanny breuer did not know about gun walking prior to the public being told about it. i will tell you, i just got this released from chairman darrell issa, he says the ig report confirms findings by congress that there was total disregard for public safety and contrary to the denials of the attorney general and his defenders in congress that it was approved by senior justice officials that there were no red flags. megyn: thank you, william. this again we are going through the report. literally i'm look on my blackberry at this moment. that is significant. it's the head of the department of justice is being referred for possible disciplinary action. that's significant because the department of justice is thought to downplay lanny breuer's connection to operation fast & furious. yet his name comes up repeatedly in this report. i haven't read the report. i'm going by what i hear in my ear. eric hold

now, all right, lanny, your turn.p on in here. >> well i appreciate some truth in what monica just said but as usual i do disagree with part of what she said. let's start out with what president clinton said is indisputable, the day barack obama took office, it was the worst economic crisis since the great depression. nobody disagrees with that. and president clinton says, no president, including himself could have fixed the depth of that crisis over a four-year time period. but we were losing 750,000 jobs a month in the last several months of the bush administration. and we have gained 4.5 million new private sector jobs, so in that respect, we are better off. bill: but her point, her point, lanny, bill clinton was setting up president obama making his case later tonight. you can not avoid the following comment from "the today show" a few years ago. here is what the president said if he does not get things straightened out. roll this. >> one nice thing about the situation i find myself in is that i will be held accou

. >> lanny, lanny, this president, when they asked him what his grade was said he deserves an incomplete. >> the students who came in and asked for incomplete are the ones that knew they hadn't done anything all term, the one who is failed in their responsibility, the one who is didn't deliver what they were expected to deliver. and that respect, the president's right. he gets an incomplete because he's a failure. the only quick answer, john, is that barack obama's current unemployment level is disappointing for all of us. as a political issue, why is mitt romney not ahead of him in a single poll -- >> happening on. we have new poll numbers today-- >>> wait a minute. the approval rating of the president is 40%, the lowest popularity since 1980. we know what happened that year. he is 46-50 with women, upside down. and romney got a five-point bounce out of his convention. >> let me ask you about leadership. bill clinton passed budgets, he was a governor, he passed budgets as a gmpl he passed budgets as a president. barack obama hasn't passed a budget. the one budget he did send down, 414-0

he is the deputy to lanny breuer.t will be interesting to see in the wake of the report and this hearing whether republicans seek to ratchet up the pressure for breuer himself to resign. >> and we'll have more on this when iowa senator chuck grassley joins us in 30 minutes, he's the ranking republican on the judiciary committee. jon: republican presidential nominee governor mitt romney kicking his campaign into high gear. the associated press reports the republican nominee will begin a more aggressive schedule of campaign events in key battleground states. governor romney also refocusing his message saying he and president obama both care ant the poor and mid -- about the poor and middle class, but the president's policies have not worked for them. >> the choice is pretty stark. the president cares a about the people of america, i care about the people of america. but he doesn't know what it takes to help the people of america, and i do. i'll get 'em working again with a brighter, prosperous future! [cheers and applau

i'm told by an official that he admonished lanny breuer for his failings here. what we expect now is that there's going to be an internal process, some of these people are covered by civil servant rules and it takes time to see who is going to get forced out or any other punishments will come forward. >> brown: i don't know how much you've been able to talk to people at justice today. are they taking this as a damning report or as in some sense clearing-- certainly clearing? >> well, both, on one hand it's a damning report, it really tells you that there are a lot of signs that people had that they could have stopped this. that they could have prevented hundreds of these weapons from going across the border. at the same time there's been a cloud that's hung over the department with the attorney general under fire and this clears him of any responsibility necessarily of the actions directly here at the same time, this shows there was terrible management failures at the justice department, at a.t.f., they failed to manage the situation and failed to prevent in the

place in line steam reported to lanny brewer. as this -- adjacent winds been reported to lanie brewer, and -- jason weinstein reported to lanny brewer. a letter that was totally false about the atf activities -- the letter does not even mention fast and furious. says that these guns were allowed to walk, that atf does not allow guns to what in any way, shape or form. i would port to the february memorandum about oregon to mexico. in mexico, he proposed to the mexican government, his suggested allowing stock purchases to cross into mexico. we have in black and white a document suggesting he is not only approving of these types of activities, he is advocating for these types of activities. to answer mr. cummings question, it is crystal clear. the head of the criminal division was out -- down there pitching to mexico that we ought to be doing more. the person in charge was advocating for it. he knew about it previously and when he did hear about it, he did nothing about it. he had seen it and he said nothing about it. after the lett

do you know whether lanny brewer read the letter before it was distributed to senator grassley? >> utility did not recall reviewing it and we found nothing and e-mails indicating that he had actually reviewed it were made a comment about the content of the letter. >> did he give you any indication as to why he would she would forward a draft of that to his personal, private e-mail account? >> you twice have used the word recall. that is not the same as saying that i did not read it. that is thing that i did not recall reading it. there is a difference, is there not? >> again, i am concerned as to what letter you would forward a personal e-mail account if you are not an archivist, you are not teaching grammar to the person writing or drafting the letter. what other explanation is there before you, other than to read it? that would assume the reason to do that. >> my time is up, but i feel that my time and i think the gentleman from michigan for his time. >> mr. horwitz, just to make the record clear, you said that he didn't comment, but isn't the response, good job, isn't that a

. >> the inspector general however, did find direct fault with lannie brewer.istant attorney general in charge of d. o.j.'s criminal division. he found fault for what did he or didn't do after he learnd about operation wide receiver. that's the similar gun walking operation that the atf field office in phoenix conducted in 2006 and 07. >> what we found is to mr. brewer was frankly of whether he read the letter, given what he knew about wide receiver, his responsibility should have been to come forward and explain what happened in wide receiver because the people who were drafting the letter told us it would have made a difference. that's what troubled us. >> the letter you heard referred to there, was the one that doj sent to republican senator chuck grassley of iowa on february 4, 2011, in which the department falsely claimed it always tried to intercept weapons headed into mexico. it took doj ten months to correct that false information and the i.g. concluded senior holder aides should have done that much sooner. >> you had people who didn't know information,

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>> for lanny. >> for lanny. based upon his chat, rudy was being very romantic. ways, if it hadn't been an underage girl, you would have considered it kind of a sweet courtship. the problem is, you know, that sweet chat turned sexually explicit and it occurred with somebody who said they were underage. and in florida, that's against the law. you brought a rose, alcohol and some condoms. what does that add up to? >> i'm sorry? >> i'm sorry. >> i don't know, sir. you don't know. >> i thought something else. >> you thought what? >> that i was going to have fun and to meet a girl. >> have fun. what kind of fun? >> you know, party and, you know, drink. >> party, drink, sex. >> yes, sir. >> rudy is one of those guys who finally just said i'm not going to try to trip you around anymore. this is what i was doing. i know it was wrong. i justified it by saying this to myself. yeah, so what's going to happen next? it's almost like, okay, i admitted this. let's get the rest of this over as quick as possible. >> i know if something would happen and it did, i would get in trou

place in line steam reported to lanny brewer. as this -- adjacent winds been reported to lanie brewer, and -- jason weinstein reported to lanny brewer. a letter that was totally false about the atf activities -- the letter does not even mention fast and furious. says that these guns were allowed to walk, that atf does not allow guns to what in any way, shape or form. i would port to the february memorandum about oregon to mexico. in mexico, he proposed to the mexican government, his suggested allowing stock purchases to cross into mexico. we have in black and white a document suggesting he is not only approving of these types of activities, he is advocating for these types of activities. to answer mr. cummings question, it is crystal clear. the head of the criminal division was out -- down there pitching to mexico that we ought to be doing more. the person in charge was advocating for it. he knew about it previously and when he did hear about it, he did nothing about it. he had seen it and he said nothing about it. after the lett

and lan se lanny davis, also a fox news contributor. let me start with you.t do you make of the president's statement there. >> it's accurate. the polls show right now that he got a pretty good bump from the convention and he's now significantly ahead by statistical margins at least in "the new york times" poll that was published this morning. rasmussen has mitt romney ahead. this is going to be a close contest. he did acknowledge the economy hasn't performed the way he liked it to and i think he's made an accurate statement. >> marry catherine you say when he's confident he tends to be more gracious? >> this is sort of my gut feeling on this is that this perhaps is not an indication that he's worried, maybe more an indication that he sees that he's in a more solid position than he's been in the past. i think he's willing to give a little bit morey tore i can lee speaking and be a little more gracious in public when he feels like he's doing so way. when he's not and he has something to lose and he feels more worried about that he and his campaign have been pe

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it's never stopped at attorney general holder or lannie brewer.idn't know and why they didn't know it. lannie brewer, for example, on the day that congress was being lied to in which they said there was no gun walking, he was in mexico selling -- trying to sell another gun walking scheme and yet, he would have the i.g. believe that he never read the lie said to us. and for ten months as an attorney, never saw any reason to correct the record even though if he had read this letter that he said good job on in the response to the e-mail, he would have known it was a lie. >> steve: all right. i know you're going to keep on that. something else that came to light yesterday, the daily caller through a freedom of information act request discovered apparently the department of justice headed up by mr. holder, apparently they have been collaborating with far left attack dog blog, media matters. they're targeting their critics, including fox news channel, including people who work at the department of justice, including you, congressman. >> you know, it's g

the attorney general lanny brewer said i'm depending on the pipeline to bring me cases.c holder said he was going to make this a top priority. but they only announced the formation of the task force so they would have something to show and tell at the hearing. it was mere window dressing. a year later senator chuck grassley said the task force was just a press release committee. they were not making it a priority and now there were these generalities how by any objecttive measure they were bringing cases but they were all small-fry cases. they were not addressing why they were not investigating high level wall street executives, and it left us very frustrated. it left me feeling like its nothing less than an outrage, a stain on the american justice system. i felt like i had to leave town to tell the truth as i saw it at the committee. >> eliot: you have one of those platinum resumÉs. i'm not going to list everything but law school, the white house most skilled lawyer, and then for you to hear pipeline cases. either you sit at the top and you ask the hard questions and cr

actually five co-chairs of this mortgage task force and when when the announcement happened i think lanny breuer who is idea j. and one of the co-chairs didn't actually bother to show up to the announcement so it was not there was never really a serious endeavor. but the you know the the reason that there no one has been held accountable for the mortgage crisis is because that's the policy of the bush administration and the obama administration they believe in protecting the capital structure of the large banks and the pay packages of wall street executives over the you know the property and political and legal rights of americans. and just to add a little bit to that to give a little perspective to this story kind of what you're saying the department of justice had ninety three investigators looking into allegations that former major league pitcher roger clemens used performance enhancing drugs and then lied about it before congress now this group as we said looking into fraud into all the big banks has fifty five investigators do you think matthew i mean do you think it was never going

where they were mandated by their superiors -- including senior officials and the number two with man, lanny breuer, in the justice department -- to allow these guns to go to mexico, not to arrest these guys. they watched them buy guns over and over and over again and transfer them over and other again without watching them or seeing where they were going. and so now, more than 18 months later, we've seen -- and fast and furious is such a big scandal, i really don't have time to get into all the details of it, but just catching you up on the current events, we saw the contempt charges of civil and criminal against attorneyeric holder -- attorney general eric holder, the first sitting cabinet member to be held in contempt of congress, and yet the media doesn't seem to think that this is a big deal. they've been complicit in the cover-up, they have decided that mitt romney's tax returns are more important than, you know, hundreds of people being killed in mexico and getting to the bottom of a scandal that resulted in two of the murders of our own federal agents. out of 240,000 documents that e

nancy skinner and lanni hancock says more needs to be done to say this should not happen again. they issued an alert about the pipe failure which caused the fire. >>> now it has been an ongoing debate whether or not treasure island is to blame for some people's health problems. they have more on how it can finally provide answers on who is calling the home. >> can we talk football now? >> >>> now the nfl referee lock out is over. we will hear more on how the teams are reacting. >>> and now we are back here at the headquarters for the 49ers where you can see ongoing construction at the new stadium. we are told they are back at ohio practicing for their game against the new york jets but many of the players here have been eager to get the referees back on the field. last night they reached a tentative agreement to end the lock out from oh anybody waiting. -- officiating. several of their calls have triggered outrage and on monday night, they made calls between seattle and green bay. many say green bay intercepted the ball but a referee ruled it was a touchdown. >> that is a league

skinner and lanni hancock said a lot needs to be done to make sure this never happens again.y need to issue an alert to other refineries about the pipe failure which caused the fire. >>> they have power outages a lot and coming up at 6:47 how many power outages are out there and coming to understand why. >>> they are talking about a lock out and tentative -- and a tentative agreement. >> it is going on and many of the players have been eager to get the refs back on the field. so far fans have been incredibly frustrated some vowing to stopwatching the game but they are excited the regular referees will be back. they ended a 10 year lock out and there has been an much nor them working for the last few weeks. they say it is one of the worst, he clearly intercepted the ball and they ruled it was a touchdown. >> i think having -- the guys that had it didn't exactly know how to deal with the game but having the right guys they know how to look at professional football and it makes sense. >> this time it hinged on pension and retirement benefits and regular referees will be officiat

we will try, lanny.: as long as i have known him, converting enemies into friend and has not made friends into enemies. >>guest: he is great speaker and beloved but he will call attention to the fact during his leadership we had we economic prosperity. >>shepard: those were good times. >>guest: now we have economic turmoil. >>shepard: it was good times. >>guest: that will call attention to that and it will certainly be great, hopefully they -- they do not have the one hour time limit as in 1998. i was there. i saw it. >>shepard: it was a long speech. undecided voters, are you even out there? i read that you exist, right? i know you do because i read it the if you read it, if it is on the intent, it has to be true. there are undecided voters, people, here on the day after labor day, have not decided whether they want the one we have now or the one who wants do do it. stick around. i'm freaking out man. he's, he's on my back about providing for his little girl. hey don't worry. e-trade's got a killer inves

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. >> go ahead, lanny. >> we had mayoral control in chicago for 17 years. before this, we had arnie duncan and paul ball last running the schools. dai daley was in charge. if there hasn't been good progress, it's because we're doing the wrong things. >> that's not true. >> right now -- can i say something? if you look at the polling in chicago, the vast majority of voters and parents are on the side of the teachers, not the mayor. >> that goes to the stockholm syndrome that afflicts the city which is why it should be quarantined. >> you're talking politics. i can tell you rahm emanuel has very little sympathy among the parents in chicago who see that the teachers have the best interests of their kids at heart, not the mayor. >> what i do not understand, i'll be very sincere. i don't live in chicago but i've done some homework on this. 15% of fourth graders -- 15% of fourth graders are proficient in reading and roughly half graduate from high school. those are what i call real bad numbers. >> absolutely. >> for the teachers' union to object to any decent per

done by the time this matter had come to the administration, the new administration reviewed this, lannyer traveled down to new mexico. the attorney general and the department of homeland security secretary went to mexico and talked about the importance of these kinds of prosecutions. but in a s.e.a.zeal, rather tha taking the atf to account for these tactics, they encouraged thept further by moving forward with the prosecution. >> as you said, congressman schiff, the investigators characterize this gun walking operation as one driven by field agents. they did single out 17 officials. two have already assigned, the others reassigned. but to your colleague's point, does more need to be done and should more have been done? >> i think the attorney general took all the steps that should prudently be taken which was immediately change the policy of the department, make sure things are vetted more carefully, that any tactic like this is disallowed in the future and that's clear and communicated through the department. all those things have been done. we also have to hold people accountable and

and romney's policy director lanny chen told "the new york times," quote, while there may be differences of opinion regarding issues of timing, i think everyone stands behind the critique of the administration which we believe conducted its foreign policy in a feckless manner. so the romney campaign evaluated the situation and they decided cooly this was a way they wanted to respond. this was the appropriate path, the right path to pick. they doubled down on it and tripled down on it. this is part of a broader pattern here where in recent months the romney campaign has become unpredictable as polls turned on them. instead of sticking to their strategy of making it a ref ren referendum on obama, it's two very different and competing economic visions. during a trip abroad romney made a decision to criticize his host country of england for their preparations surrounding the london olympics during a convention to introduce the candidate to the nation, romney chose to have an unvetted clint eastwood engage in art on the night of his speech. with the polls turning against him they begun switch