the administration has defend edits immigration policy saying its focus is on true criminals not the average undocumented immigrant. this report focuses on that criminal sector to make the case the policy is not working enough. the recidivism rate is much higher about 67%, but the president s critics here are saying these people should have been deported not released to commit new crimes. heather. reporter: steve centanni live for us from washington. thank you. bill: new revelations in the government spending scandal, investigators looking into at least 70 more questionable events funded by taxpayer dollars. remember this? agency boss jeff nealy from the tsa gsa, rather in a vegas hot tub was tha at a conference that cost taxpayers more than half a million dollars. everyone was taken by the fella in the hot tub who thumbed his nose at congress, and u
the report says the operation was quote, marched by missteps, poor judgment and inherently recollectionless strategy. william la jeunesse is on the story in l.a. what else is in the. reporter: report the report has 10,000 documents most obtained under subpoena. paints poor oversight, sloppily significant tiff work and lying. saying director ken melson that he failed to supervise. assistant directors and bill hoover and bill mcmahon complained about sending guns to mexico but never did anything to stop it. it says bill newell, the agent in charge of phoenix, he was accused of running this rogue operation. he was reprimanded for doing it in the past but didn t stop. it finds atf dropped the ball. if atf had bothered to conduct a thorough review of all the information contained in the dea intercept, that fast and fire just may have concluded a year earlier. that atf repeatedly failed to follow up on dea leads. they knew dates, times, places flight numbers of guns being smuggle
quote here. bill: it says, it was wrong to allow hundreds of guns to go to mexico to drug people knowing that that is where they were going. well the bush administration did not prosecute wide receiver however the obama administration revived that prosecution and they talked about this memo, rather about the problem of sending guns to mexico at the department of justice and basically went ahead with the fast and furious case even though there were problems with the previous case and decided to go forward. bill? bill: clearly there is a lot to get into this we will again next hour with a guest looking at this report. william, thank you for your first reporting in l.a. on that. heather has more now. heather: this began back in the fall of 2009. that is when a group of phoenix area gun trafficking cases was dubbed operation fast and furious . it was the largest of several known operations involving thousands of weapons including hundreds of assault rifles. reports say the vas
steve: if your alarm clockk was supposed to go off at 6:22 now is your call . bonuses for most gsa employees getting the axe . a hiring freeze after they were holding a lavish las vegas conference including jeff nealy, the hot tub guy that planned an event that can cost over $800,000. that is a big splash. millions of americans have a drug to help them lose weight. fda approved the diet drug that qsymia that helps a person s appetite. they lost 10 percent of their weight. eric: imagine to go home to work locked out of your home
extraordinary that a philosophy of that nature would be spoken by a president of the united states. steve: but he did. eric: what was nice mitt romney was on the defense. he was defending his tax record and time a bain capital and depending he wanted to be booed at the naacp and maybe it was this comment from president obama that awoke the sleeping giant and put him on offense . that was a mitt romney that we haven t seen before and needs to last next four months. gretchen: it is interesting, the way he described it was not only the top of the line ceo s that are depended but the average joe. i said joe. remember yesterday i was equating this comment to the joe the plumber moment in the 2008 campaign it will be interesting to see whether or not it keeps its legs as it moves forward. steve: the president of the united states was in san antonio where he declared that texas would be a swing state. that was a jaw dropping. he did his best to clarify what he had said a cou