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Chills well below zero. happy spring, buffalo. a new lawsuit raising questions about the future of those traffic cameras. have you been busted? i have. officials in sioux city, iowa are challenging new rules now put in place by the d.o.t. those new rules say red light and speed cameras should not be used as long-term enforcement tools and require cities to turn in reports annually on each of their cameras on state roads. well, city officials say the new regulations are too broad and the camera...

Aggressively and effectively. im a prosecutor for 20 years, i was a state attorney general and i was the federal prosecutor here in connecticut for four and a half years. im all in on better prosecutions and more resources, which is what we really need, for better prosecutions by the atf, by the department of justice, and better factual data that support those prosecutions which the nra has opposed over the years. but we can improve these laws at the same time and what were talking about here, c...

Inappropriate and misguided tactics of fast and furious to light they also sounded the alarm for more effective laws to combat gun trafficking and improve subject safety. atf agents who testified this summer explained that the agencys ability to stem the flow from the united states into mexico suffers from a lack of effective enforcement tools. one critical first step should be for congress to provide atf with the tools and the authorities that it needs. unfortunately earlier this year the major...

lets talk about what he gets bailed out. we do know that just about half an hour ago his wife left his home which is located about 20 minutes from now. not sure if thats any sort of indication in terms of whether or not he might be released soon. currently being held on $250,000 bail. if hes able to post bail, don, hell be unvery tight restrictions. hell essentially be under house arrest. hell have to wear an electronic monitoring device while hes under house arrest. in addition to tha...

New enforcement? is this just too fierce and going to go at it? >> in a word, no. number one, the if you look at jan brewers polling she has dramatically changed her life politically, standings politically by sign thing into law, not only do they want this law, they want to go on with other things. what they say is they dont trust washington. the obama administrations answer is look, we are not perfect. we are doing a lot more along the border than the bush administration did. previous administr...

Thanks to both of you for joining us. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> well start with you, who i mispronounced your name. this is obamas first speech on immigration as president. he said he would get to this. he would get to it in his first year of presidency and why now and why did he wait over a year? >> he will say in his speech and has said before, we need bipartisan commitment to this and the key thing to remember i served under president bush that legislation to congress would consider not ...

Anxiety over jobs? >> she is no stranger to this debate, jon. when she was governor of arizona, janet napolitano resisted and in fact vetoed similar efforts to put local police in the role they are now going to carry out in arizona. she says the president and she are aware of and sympathetic to american concerns about jobs. but says there is a larger issue at stake? >> this is a security issue for us in addition to a labor issue. its important for us to know who is in the country, how long they ...

Who specializes in representing miners and their families had to say. quote, in this instance, i dont think they did enough to protect the miners in the mine. they did not use all the enforcement tools at their disposal. could it be that the government bears some responsibility or blame for failing to protect the miners because the government had the power to go to a federal judge to shut down the mine if the violations were egregious enough? >> absolutely. there is a lot of responsibility to go...

>> and you cant end up in jail, but when you have a serious offense, when the ventilation is not working they can issue a withdrawal order. we saw that. theyve issued four withdrawal orders at this mine since january. msha has been using enforcement tools. as far as shutting the mine under a temporary bases, msha does not have that power. what theyve done is tried to shut down two mines recently because the mine operators havent paid civil penalties at all, but if -- but the mine operator has to...

Take up immigration reform and he looks to forging a bipartisan consensus with which to do it. thats the big hole here. >> political dynamite. >> it is and it isnt. ive dealt with immigration politics a long time and the plain fact of the matter is that the system needs reform. we need updated enforcement tools. we need to deal realistically with those already in the country and we need to have some way to deal with the worker issues that are involved. congress knows that. actually major parts o...