small but aggressive segment of the charity world seems to care little about helping others. instead, it generates six-figure salaries for people that run them and feeds a multi-billion-dollar facility that only cares about profit and what we also found out is no matter how blatant the scam, or how obvious the proof is that donations are being squandered, no one seems to be going after them. cnn s investigative correspondent drew griffin tonight keeping them honest. reporter: drive down these country roads in knoxville, tennessee and into this small industrial park and you ll find the headquarters of a family conglomerate of cancer charities that return lavish salaries to the owners but according to their tax records donate very little to dying cancer patients and the last thing the people running this charity do is answer questions. don t don t turn your camera on me. okay?
a year-long investigation with the tampa bay times shows a small but aggressive segment of the charity world seems to care little about helping others. instead, it generates six-figure salaries for people that run them and feeds a multi-billion-dollar facility that only cares about profit and what we also found out is no matter how blatant the scam, or how obvious the proof is that donations are being squandered, no one seems to be going after them. cnn s investigative correspondent drew griffin tonight keeping them honest. reporter: drive down these country roads in knoxville, tennessee and into this small industrial park and you ll find the head quautders of a family conglomerate of cancer charities that return lavish salaries to the owners but according to their tax records donate very little to dying cancer patients and the last thing the people
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in 1996, president clinton and a bipartisan congress helped end welfare as we know it. but on july 12th president obama announced a program to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements. under obama s plan you wouldn t have to work or train for a job. they just send you your check. and welfare to work goes back to being plain old welfare. in a moment you ll hear from newt gingrich to defend the ad. he also makes a pretty stunning admission about whether the ad he is defending is true to the facts. but first, i want to show you how mitt romney is campaigning on the claims made in that very ad. with a very careful executive action, he removed the requirement of work from welfare. it is wrong to make any change that would make america a nation of government dependency. we must restore and i will restore work into welfare. listening to that and watching the ad you would think that the white house somehow managed to undo what the elected representatives accomplished
obama was asked about the negative ads his campaign was running. here s what he said. first of all, we ve done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don t get attention in the news. the president said they ve run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to we wanted to check and see if maybe we d overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive. according to other reports, since the general campaign began, as many as 3 in 4 of president obama s campaign ads have been negative. 3 in 4. to be sure, both campaigns are playing hard ball