>> announced for purposes of tracing this gun trafficking problem and we're doing so and finding the straw purchasers and arresting them as well. i could not agree more that this is a serious, serious problem that needs the attention of the entire country's law enforcement and the justice department is very much involved in the fight. >> i'm going to be meeting with those federal law enforcement agencies to talk about the strike force and what they are doing. how they are cooperating with state and local law enforcement. i hope to do it maybe even this week on a private basis and then see what more i can do. i think we all have a responsibility when it comes to this issue. let me ask you about the home confinement issue. we all know under the cares act there was allowance for that possibility and we know that since march of last year more than 33,000 inmates have been released to home confinement. including those released under the cares act expanded