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Its a complete lack of respect for law and order. border patrol this to protect us. the men and women who serve in highway patrols are there to protect us.wa its an anti-law enforcement mentality i thats dangerous. in saturday in seattle we are seeing a domestic terror attack that occurred right here on our soil. mike: you said pro terrorist several times. can you defend that. >> absolutely. you have somebody with an ar-15t a firebomb coming after an i.c.e. facility, if thats not a domestic terr...

He said, i believe as strongly as ever we should take on illegal immigration. thats why my administration has put more boots on the border than ever before, fewer illegal crossings since i took office. the points of action are out of excuses. we should be working on immigration reform now. this is this enforcement mentality. border security is a threshold issue. once you get that, then you can talk about everything else. thats what weve seen has been institutionalized in the senate program. i wo...

Well, unlike mr. toyoda, ray lahood is not a brand name. he is the secretary of transportation and today, he, too, was on the hot seat for what the safety watchdogs in his department did and perhaps did not do about the toyota problem. more on that angle from joe johns. >> reporter: toyota is on the hot seat this week in washington but its nhtsa, the national highway traffic safety administration, the feds who were supposed to be looking out for motorists, who are taking a real beating here, acc...

And getting caught completely by surprise when the story blew up in their faces last year. joan claybrook used to run nhtsa during the carter administration. now shes a consumer advocate. >> i think they lack leadership. i dont think there was an enforcement mentality. this agencys a cop. its a policeman. it should act like a cop. >> reporter: so just how asleep at the switch was nhtsa? the house energy and commerce committee says that since the year 2000, nhtsa has received 2600 complaints abou...

>> i think they lack leadership. i dont think there was an enforcement mentality. this agency is a cop t is a policeman. it should act like a cop. >> reporter: so, just how asleep at the switch was nhtsa? the house energy and commerce committee says that since the year 2000, nhtsa has received 2600 complaints about sudden, unintended acceleration in toyota cars, along with six petitions requesting investigations. state farm insurance company is now confirming that it first alerted the agency to ...

Fall, it had been treated as a routine matter. six investigations were open based on consumer complaints. toyota talked the government into closing them. what they ignored is the enormous danger of this type of a defect. and it requires the full bore of an investigators effort and authority to make sure they figure out what the problem is and require the company to do the recall. i think that -- >> what happened, though, along the way that -- was this just sorlt of laziness, was it the bureaucra...