today there was a report showing consumer spending was down for the first time in a year. that sets the table in a negative way for the president this coming friday. a new jobs report coming out for the month of july. take a look how things have been sort of panning out over the first six months of this year. it was strong for the president in january-february. 259,000 created in february. you look at march and april it started slowing down. may and june also far below expectations in june. just 80,000 jobs created. that s why all eyes will be on this new report friday. when jay carney got some of those questions on the economy today he acknowledged things are not where they should be. the president is not satisfied with where the economy is. he knows the american people by and large are not satisfied with where the economy is and that s why he s doing everything he can and he s urging congress to do
a democratic consultant who worked on several high-profile campaigns sanjay sekulow. the republicans in the house are going to come out and talk about what they call doj obstruction. this is focused on atf and who is to blame for this mess. do we learn anything from this report that we didn t know before? we sure did. number one, the gun running program was known by officals in washington, d.c. remember that the attorney general previously testified it was a local operation and washington, d.c. wasn t involved tonight. that myth has been debunked. we know guns taken from operation fast & furious and used as part of the operation fast & furious project were used to kill the brother of the attorney general in one of the
but the. er four out of the five are still work on the taxpayer dime. the attorney general says he s waiting on the i.g. report to see what the report says who is responsible. megyn: the deputy director resigned. four other people involved end up shuffled off to another desk job. five minutes to that part of the story. another fox news alert. the white house briefing wrapping up a few minutes ago and lots of tough questions on the economy today ahead of a highly anticipated jobs report due out this friday. this after last week s commerce department report showed the economy slowing to an annual growth rate of 1.5% from april through june. they had predicted it would be at 2%. it wound up disappointing even that number. even those who believed it would be there. our chief white house correspondent ed henry is live in the north lawn.
about this address when he first bought operation fast & furious weapons. atf had the form but ignored the lie that would have allowed him to arrest him. the report also criticizes atf for not arresting the ring leader acosta sooner. why? because he was already a target of the atf. the report says atf dropped the ball. quote, if atf bothered to conduct a thorough review of all the information contained in the wire intercepts. operation fast & furious might have concluded a year earlier than it did. the atf was knee deep in this. the fbi did not stop them but a million dollars was spent on guns. 2,500 of them. they refuse to tell congress how much of that was taxpayer money and why they never told the atf
their suspects were already working for the u.s. government. i just got a statement from the department of justice a moment ago. basically it says, quote, predictably this republican report shows the debunks conspiracy theories representative issa has been advancing for a year and a half. this is the first of three reports. the next will focus on what they consider obstruction of justice. megyn: william, before i let you go. these five men have been reassigned, reassigned from their positions. they are still working on the federal taxpayers dime? reporter: we just heard deputy director hoofer submitted his re d director hoover submit his resignation.