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the campaign season and hodding them up for a close examination. and, as always, were in the taking political sides here. were simply trying to figure out what is true and what is not. we begin tonight with the romney ad. >> in 1996, president clinton and a bipartisan congress helped welfare as we know it. but on july 12th, president obama quietly announced a program to gut welfare reform by gutting work requirements. you wouldnt have to work. they just send you your welfare check. >> ...

announcing work for welfare. under obamas plan, you wouldnt have to work and wouldnt have to train for a job. they just send you your welfare check. and welfare to work goes back to being plain old welfare. >> in a moment, youll hear from newt gingrich, who joins us to defend that ad but also makes a pretty stunning admission about whether the ad hes defending is true to the facts. but first i want you to hear how romney is campaigning on the claims made in the ad. >> with a very caref...

-- there are about 4 million kids like that, you will receive welfare benefits for your child, which come right into the illegal immigrant household. the welfare system is very supportive of illegal immigrants, even though on the surface it is not supposed to be. shannon: robert rector, thank you for giving us an insight. they have asked the secretaries respond why august 20. we will see what happens. thank you, sir. disturbing new reports suggest the obama administration may have sacrificed ben...

The video coming out over a lawsuit against sea world and death of another trainer who was killed by a killer whale at sea world in 2010. they forgot to put the u-n in unemployment. the latest jobs bill called for a freeze of regulations until the unemployment was at 6%. that means 94% would be out of a job. they plan to correct the error by unanimous consent. steve? >> oops. thanks, brian. the obama administration now looking the other way on a welfare reform law signed by president clinton. th...

>> good morning. >> first of all, what the obama administration is trying to do with welfare, saying -- weve got a list of activitys that they say would qualify as work. they say you could be getting bed rest and doing some motivational reading and getting a massage, writing in your journal, stopping smoking, losing weight, doing a pta meeting or helping somebody with chores. thats what its come to. but this, what the administration is doing, robert is illegal. >> its clearly illegal. the core o...

Both chambers of the house. why is it, robert, that so many on the left say, you know what? if youre on welfare, you shouldnt have to work at all. why is that? >> they -- they believe that welfare recipients are the victims of social injustice, the victims of racism and that really requiring them to step up and contribute to their own lives particularly forcing them to do that is really adding insult to injury. its abusing the victim. and in reality, thats not true. the recipient gains a lot by ...

This was one of his signature initiatives and you got to figure hes up in chappaqua right now eating his toast and drinking some orange juice going what are they doing? >> bill clinton won the white house on the issue of ending welfare as we know it. the core to ending welfare as we know it was to require welfare recipients to work or prepare for work. the left never wanted this policy. but again, the left understands 85% of the public is against them so they have to flimflam. they have to wrap ...

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Advocate of food stamps, robert rector of the heritage foundation is the great skeptic. >> the hunger ads are distort the data and creating a huge mirage of a problem that doesnt really exist. it distracts our attention from the real issues, how you really help the poor error than making them more dependent on government. >> it denied you because your income changed. >> berg says 80% of the people who turn to his coalition for help are ultimately approved. some people they spoke to never thought...