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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120731:14:06:00

almost $270,000. that event coming just four weeks after an $823,000 gsa spending spree at a las vegas hotel. bill: breaking news on the economy now, this number is just out now consumer confidence after four months of a decline the number is up, almost 66. the number is up, it is still well below 90. 90 is the number which indicates a healthy economy. you think, five, ten years ago that number was well over 100. 120 at times. 65.9 is your marker at the moment. martha: and more on this story, another massive black out in india, more than 600 million people without power in the sweltering heat. hospitals switching to back up generators, people stranded on trains and traffic jamming the roads. this is the third grid collapse in india in just two days. greg palkot is in london for us this morning with the latest. what is going on now.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120731:23:36:00

>> this is all preventible. that's the tragedy here. the administration is intentionally practicing an immigration policy of lax enforcement of our immigration laws and the results are americans are being hurt and killed as a result of this administration's policies. >> congressman smith also says the administration's policy is reckless, shep. >> the administration responds that the numbers really aren't that clear cut, catherine. >> that's right. according to this statement from the homeland security branch that handles deportations some vendors were real estate leased by local cops before the cops could get involved. many of the individuals cited in the report were not removable under current federal law or released by local officials before ice could respond. and democratic congressman says it's a mistake to confuse undocumented immigrants who work hard in country to pursue the american dream with criminals. >> i will say this. gangs, drugs, criminal activity, nobody should ever be released. people should go to jail.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120731:14:14:00

outrageous and the president is so busy trying to do damage control. we have a report coming out showing individuals and documentation and what they had to do with it. bill: matthew boil is a reporter for the daly call ir. good morning to you. thousands of pages in this report. it's a lot to go through but i want to take it simply. you believe the investigation is in two parts. explain that. >> basically what we've got here is that there is the actual wrongdoing that happened in operation fast and furious that is being explored in this first report. there are going to be two more reports that are going to come out in the near future that are going to actually look into the political level cover up at -- from high ranking officials in the obama administration, including potentially the president himself, because he has exerted executive privilege over the documents. bill: how would they get at that if there is executive privilege, matthew? >> well, when they voted attorney general holder in contempt of congress a little

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120731:14:18:00

little over a month ago about how there was one emailer that melson told investigators about that showed high ranking officials, potentially including attorney general holder knew that the false letter to senator grassley was false nine months before they withdrew it. but we know that high-ranking officials inside the department of justice knew that there was a false statement on the books to congress, according to kenneth melson. he's already testified against this administration. he's already gone in and done this. he did it during a secret deposition last summer. bill: two more reports are forthcoming. one is about the department of justice. when does that go public? >> we are not sure yet. we are waiting for darrell issa and senator grassley to come out with them. i would fully expect them to come out as soon as they can get them out. bill: you mean before the election. >> i fully expect them to come out before the election, absolutely. bill: thank you from the daily caller, thank you i know you've

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120731:17:21:00

megyn: matt, even as of today the white house spokesman jay carney talked about how he thinks that the administration has found a place that respects religious liberty and talked about how no religious institution or university has to provide contraception coverage. he, that excludes small businesses like that of paul's. and the judge who sided with you was a jimmy carter appointee. one presumes he is not some die-hard righty. >> that's right. i can hear in president's spokesman that he is picking and choosing what faith is, who can practice faith and he is violating the constitution and congress which clearly protect religious freedom for every american to empower them to be free, to live and do business according to their faith. megyn: we will see where this goes now on the legal front as this challenge has met with its first success. paul newland, matt bowman, thank you so much, sir. >> thank you, megyn. megyn: coming up a dramatic

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120731:23:52:00

it's every level of spending. in a written statement gsa responded as of april 2012 all spending for events including training conferences, team building exercises, award ceremonies were suspended. the 2010 award ceremony was an annual event and has been in existence going back to 2002. under the new gsa leadership, these events on this type of spending are not tolerated. there you have it, shep. chairman michael will ask for questions about that tomorrow. >> shepard: they certainly will. this kind of spend something not the biggest concern for congressional investigators. >> that's true. gsa spending on conferences pails in comparison to what gsa spends on vacant or underused federal buildings. there are literally thousands of them across the country. they cost the gsa billions every year. shep? >> shepard: doug mckelway in d.c. tonight. there is word the city of scranton p.a. will give public workers the money they lost after the mayor slashed salaries to minimum wage.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120731:19:29:00

conferences which certainly do not seem to be a big spending the money is easy. keeping track is the problem throughout the government. it is not just conferences, it is every level of spending. >>reporter: the chairman of the house of representatives transportation infrastructure committee will open a new round of hearings tomorrow. >>shepard: any response from the g.s.a.? >>reporter: they provided a statement to us which read, in part, and i quote, "as of april 1212 all spending for events including trading conferences and team building exercises and award ceremonies were suspended." the 2010 award senator moan has been in existence going back 2002 under the new g.s.a. leadership, these events and this type of spending are not tolerated. the congressman says the spending on conferences appeal -- pales to the thousands of

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120731:18:21:00

>> hopefully soon then we'll take the appropriate actions at that point. jay said that he disagreed with guns walking whether done in conjunction with the mexican government or not. so i will continue to points out this program of guns walking started under the bush administration. secondly. melson has testified repeatedly that he did not inform people higher up in the justice department that this program was ongoing. and as to the appropriate -- as to reassigning or firing which i think will probably occur with lower-level officials in the field office, the guys doing this without proper supervision, i think that will occur when you have a proper investigation by the inspector general. megyn: i have got to run. >> this did not go through the proper channels. >> it many amateur hour. megyn: all right, boys. always fun seeing you. thank you both. coming up.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120731:18:20:00

agency was are of it in washington, d.c., that's about as high as you are going to get. i'm stuff with something was started under bush. operation wide receiver under the bush administration was in conjunction with the mexican government. here the atf agents and the officials within the atf and doj didn't want any information out on this to the mexican authorities because now we know a brother of an attorney general for one of the states in mexico was assassinated at the hands our own weapons. megyn: let him finish the point. >> very quickly here. here is the problem. there is enough testified to reassign these people, there is enough evidence to remove these people. this has been going upon for almost two years. this is a stall game through the election. a lot of this information is new, at least new to the american people. megyn: can you answer me this. when will the doj's inspector general's report come out? do we know?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120731:13:03:00

bill: there is a lot in that report, william. what about the warnings this was a bad idea to begin with? >> reporter: well, you know, there was this previous case from the bush administration known as wide receiver, hey, it happened over here. it was a bad idea. well actually there is a memo from the previous prosecutor in the bush administration, i'm going to quote here. bill: it says, it was wrong to allow hundreds of guns to go to mexico to drug people knowing that that is where they were going. well the bush administration did not prosecute wide receiver however the obama administration revived that prosecution and they talked about this memo, rather about the problem of sending guns to mexico at the department of justice and basically went ahead with the "fast and furious" case even though there were problems with the previous case and decided to go forward. bill? bill: clearly there is a lot to get into this we will again next hour with a guest looking at this report. william, thank you for your first reporting in l.a. on that. heather has more now. heather: this began back in

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