stamp recipients. it s basic. the obama administration went out of its way to encourage people to sign up for food stamps like liars loans during the housing bubble. they didn t look and signed them up and provided. and had the administration would have the work requirement on the 44 million out there now at least 20 million will drop off. david: bruce, if you can afford, even at half price, if you can afford to buy streaming videos every month, can t you afford to make it on your own without food stamps? you could be preventing a poor person from buying a great book by warren buffett or steve forbes it better themselves. david: that s up to them, not up to me, the taxpayers. listen, people on medicare and social security, seniors get discounts on things, i just don t see a problem with it. david: sabrina, what do you think? i think that amazon has its head and heart in the right place, doing a number of things to sort of assist people in need
of those so-called liars loans which helped drive up prices. but in this one area, there just may be more area for common ground. all right. thank you very much, lynn. thank you, sherry. you re watching the president arriving in phoenix, arizona. then traveling on to burbank, california, to be live on the jay leno show. it may be the first time we hear from the president on camera regarding this latest terror threat and a litany of other issues likely to be addressed on leno s show. not just an entertainment show. certainly more serious topics addressed there later this evening when he talks with jay leno. we ll keep you posted on that. meanwhile, still ahead, a heartbreaking end to a story that touched so many. the 2-year-old known as the world s youngest best man has passed away after serving in his parents wedding just last week. how the toddler s parents are remembering him today. the world s most advanced
duties. i m going to ask you the $30 trillion question. william bratton shows up and wants crime rates in the city. put the cops where the crime is. you roll in, william black, federal prosecutor. here to hot spot crime. here s how you do it. fraud task force. go after the liars loans. you know where the states are. go to nevada. go to south florida. go to southern california. if you do that, unlike crime, you disrupt a massive, very profitable business that is perpetuating that fraud. whereas street crime, it s politically advantageous. and you have insufficient resources so you look for choke points. with few resources, you can get
the biggest bang for your buck. there are three credit rating agencies. you velgt who was giving the liars loans. you would have shut down the market. there are only five investment banks. if you had gone after one of them, lehman brothers, the entity that did tens of billions of dollars of liars loans. they fired their fraud guy because he made a criminal referral. that s a good solution. that s a good solution. then with very few resources, you could have prevented this entire crisis. we can debate the amount. that s the point of hot spotting. when you know where to go, investigate the fraud. look at the funds at lehman brothers. you don t need a nationwide task force of investigators. you need smart investigators going to the choke point. you want to go the way of
we studied it, god forbid. we spent resources. we looked for hot spots of crime. you madman. we looked for broken windows in civility that leads to crime. we looked for gangs that created crime. what would be the equivalent of the braten method for white collar crime? maybe mortgage banking when they started making liar s loans. that wasn t subtle. there might be fraud? that could be an indication of misrepresented security? i have a ph.d. in criminology and that s what i focused on. i think anybody in the world might figure out that a loan called fraudulent might be fraudulent. since one-third of all loans by 2006 were liars loans and nobody stopped it, nobody intervened in the hot spots. since we weakened the fiduciary