from this investigation has joined earlier by john key's wrecked his reporter with the milwaukee journal sentinel was investigating this story when first asked him to walk us through some of the other arm rests of people who assisted the atm we started living entity being here in milwaukee that had all kinds of problems including steam engine at the outset that meant we did in normandy news to promote the operation. we've been investigating it on here and what we found a demonstration at the beach and that the nominee to lead the team and we get to get mentally gifted people in several locations around the country to promote the storefront and then turned around and charge them. at the end. i want to talk about some of the other discoveries in your investigation and things like losing lap and things like damaging buildings can you walk this earth and all the points that year investigation found. sure it to begin in europe are too lucky. when was the shocking findings in an initial investigation said atf agent themselves lost their guns in the team can't use of weapons including a fully man. rifle

from this investigation i was joined earlier by john di direct he's a reporter with the milwaukee journal sentinel who has been investigating this story for quite some time now and i first asked him to walk us through some of the other arrests of people who assisted the a.t.f. . the way this started was we had a sting here in milwaukee that had all kinds of problems including you mentioned at the outset a mentally disabled man being used to promote the operation we've been investigating this all year and what we've found in our most recent event gauging is this was not an isolated incident at the a.t.f. it used mentally disabled people at several locations around the country to promote their storefronts and then turned around and charge them at the end now i want to go ahead and talk about some of the other discoveries in your investigation things like a losing weapon things like damaging buildings can you walk us through some of the bullet points that your investigation found sure at the beginning and you're referring to a walkie one of the most shocking findings in that initial investigation was

their undercover sting operations before arresting and charging them reporters with the milwaukee journal sentinel sifted through thousands of pages of court records and found numerous cases of the agency's abuse and family are now in one case twenty eight year old chauncey wright was hired to hand out flyers promoting a fake store right has the i.q. of a mid fifty's which is it's considered extremely low paid right with cigarettes merchandise and money they eventually convinced him to bring them drugs and guns off the street a month later he was arrested and charged he now faces up to life in prison chauncey writes relatives say. agents knowingly took advantage of a mentally disabled man and wright isn't alone there are a list of four other instances where a.t.f. agents use mentally disabled men before arresting them now congress and apartment of justice want answer the talk about some of the other findings from this investigation i was joined earlier by john dietrich he's a reporter for at the milwaukee journal sentinel who has been investigating this story and i first asked him to walk us throu

from this investigation i was joined earlier by john diedrich he's a reporter with the milwaukee journal sentinel who has been investigating this story and i first asked him to walk us through some of the other arrests of people who assisted the a.t.f. . the way this started was we had a sting here in milwaukee the had all kinds of problems including you mentioned at the outset a mentally disabled man being used to promote the operation we've been investigating this all year and what we've found in our most recent event gauging is this was not an isolated incident at the a.t.f. it used mentally disabled people in several locations around the country to promote their storefronts and then turned around and charged them at the end now i want to go ahead and talk about some of the other discoveries in your investigation things like are losing weapons things like damaging buildings can you walk us through some of the ball a point that your investigation found sure at the beginning and you're referring to a walkie one of the most shocking findings in that initial investigation was that a.t.f. agents th

the milwaukee journal sentinel spoke to the economist who wrote the grant.n can continue to rise up the list. economists called on governor walker to lower the state tkt for the wealthiest individuals, to slash the upcoming tax rate and the economists told the journal sentinel, this is not rocket surgery. indeed. this is not rocket surgery. that is a very eloquent way of saying something important about the quality of the scholarship you get when you buy your own scholarship. indeed, it is not rocket surgery. "first look" is up next. >> good tuesday morning. merry christmas eve. right now, another change to the new health care law as the obama administration extends a key enrollment deadline. >>> two astronauts aboard the space sayings gear up for a christmas eve spacewalk. target suffers blow back and a holiday shopping bust for retailers. the end of an era for san francisco's famed candlestick park and santa's had helpers making a difference for sick children. good morning. all right. if you are up early to do last-minute shopping you've got a couple hours

the milwaukee journal sentinel spoke to the economist who wrote the grant.isconsin can continue to rise up the list. economists called on governor walker to lower the state tkt for the wealthiest this is not rocket surgery. >> indeed, it is not rocket surgery. that does it for us. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> exactly one shopping day left for christmas. >> want insurance by new year's day? >> new deadline will be tomorrow for the aca. >> the obama administration

milwaukee journal sentinel columnist writing, only suckers participate in the knockout game. writer james cozi joins us. good evening, sir. >> good evening. >> how did this start? how does this spread? do you have any thought on this? >> well, this is not a new phenomena. it's been going on for quite some time. now it's just getting all the media attention because they're starting to connect the dots. but this is something that's been going on even when i was younger, it used to happen. so -- but now it's starting to pick up because people are talking about it. and really starting to put it all together. >> you know, it's funny, everyone objects to robbery, it's a horrible crime. but, you know, this for some reason almost steps it up one to me because it's so gratuitous. it's not robbery. not even because you need the money or you want to go buy something with money you robbed. this is just to be vicious. it's just to hurt somebody. you oftentimes get a crowd laughing. >> yes. you know, and i credit a lot of that to the rise in social media. if you look at some of the website