espionage act. the president can do anything he wants to do but until we get to the bottom of those scandals, and we have new policy controversies it will be very hard for him to change the subject. martha: there will be plenty of subjects as you get ready for the weekend. we have a great person to talk about this. which is rand paul, he s very concerned about government s role, he was concerned about it about drones. i think he ll be more concerned when he talks about listening to our phone calls, our internet communications, and now apparently our credit cards as well finding out what they say. i would like to know what mrs. wallace is doing with a credit card. i might see if i can get into that one. bill: that would be a good use of the law, wouldn t it, for every husband out there? martha: the gps tracking devices on the phone raises concerns. if they are tracking all of this
significant threat to public safety. reporter: the government had released a few hundred of the illegal immigrants being held. there is no fresh word from the white house yet on the higher number of immigrants released. it costs the government $164 a day to keep the detainees in immigration jails. those who have been released will face deportation and follow then will have to comply with mandatory check-ins and gps tracking devices. but there is concern that given the budgetary restraints that many more may have to be released causing a further outcry. eric: thanks for the latest on the member numbers. jamie: i can t believe this. but former nba bad boy dennis rodman has a bizarre message to send to president obama. this is fresh off the controversial athlete s visit to of all place it s north korea. he met there with the north korean dictator last week. and now he says the repressive
february 15. the white house has said it would [inaudible] and the homeland security has acknowledged they occurred in a manner that she regrets. jay carney blames the decision on i.c.e. the agency released these low-risk, non-criminal detainees under a less extensive form of monitoring to insure levels stayed within i.c.e. s overall budget. priority for detention remains on serious criminal offends and other who is pose a significant threat to public safety. reporter: it looks like they will be released. it costs the government $164 a day to keep the detainees in immigration jails. those who have been released will have to face deportation and until then, they will have to comply with check-ins, home visits and gps tracking devices, but the controversy will continue as they continue to
jon: right now a legal case pitting the rights of innocent civilians. this was sparked by eight bank robbery in aurora, colorado. police, in their case, tracking a gps device that was passed in the stolen money. here is where the controversy begins. they only had the famous description of the getaway car and the suspect. so police wound up training their weapons on nearly two dozen cars at an intersection where the signal said that the gps device was stopped. the cops ordered all of the drivers and passengers out of their cars. some folks were slapping handcuffs before the cops from the perpetrator in the stolen cash. did they actually take you out of your car? just come and they didn t come until figured out who did what. investigative detentions are lawful for a reasonable period of time. jon: is this an abuse of police power? or is it necessary in this age of gps tracking devices?
the government may soon yet have another way to squeeze more money out of it. this is what they want to do here. several states are now conducting pilot programs testing cars equipped with g.p.s. tracking devices in hopes they can eventually monitor and tax us for every mile we drive. you would get taxed by the mile. you know what we should do? let s put a tracking device on the money we send to government. how much goes to hookers. how about the smoking clowns? the people booing that plan should make sure they know what the people they re voting for, what policies they agree with. sure. jay leno, one of america s biggest car collectors and did you realize, folks, as we look ti big screen over there. we re coming up july 13, 2012,