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Stamp recipients. >> it's basic. the obama administration went out of its way to encourage people to sign up for food stamps like liars loans during the housing bubble. they didn't look and signed them up and provided. and had the administration would have the work requirement on the 44 million out there now at least 20 million will drop off. david: bruce, if you can afford, even at half price, if you can afford to buy streaming videos every month, can't you afford to make it on your own without food stamps? >> you could be preventing a poor person from buying a great book by warren buffett or...

Of those so-called liars loans which helped drive up prices. but in this one area, there just may be more area for common ground. >> all right. thank you very much, lynn. thank you, sherry. you're watching the president arriving in phoenix, arizona. then traveling on to burbank, california, to be live on "the jay leno show." it may be the first time we hear from the president on camera regarding this latest terror threat and a litany of other issues likely to be addressed on leno's show. not just an entertainment show. certainly more serious topics addressed there later this evening when he ta...

Duties. >> i'm going to ask you the $30 trillion question. william bratton shows up and wants crime rates in the city. put the cops where the crime is. you roll in, william black, federal prosecutor. here to hot spot crime. here's how you do it. fraud task force. go after the liars loans. you know where the states are. go to nevada. go to south florida. go to southern california. if you do that, unlike crime, you disrupt a massive, very profitable business that is perpetuating that fraud. whereas street crime, it's politically advantageous. >> and you have insufficient resources so you look fo...

We studied it, god forbid. we spent resources. we looked for hot spots of crime. >> you madman. >> we looked for broken windows in civility that leads to crime. we looked for gangs that created crime. >> what would be the equivalent of the braten method for white collar crime? >> maybe mortgage banking when they started making liar's loans. that wasn't subtle. >> there might be fraud? that could be an indication of misrepresented security? >> i have a ph.d. in criminology and that's what i focused on. i think anybody in the world might figure out that a loan called fraudulent might be fraudule...

Here's what we know. mortgage fraud was systematic and systemic. there was a whole category of mortgages known as liars loans. federal regulator and the department of justice have done nothing. today we learned that the california attorney general settled predatory lending claims with countrywide for a paltry and insultingly low $6.5 million. can't make it up. the huffington post put it best. -- as a result, this is not sitting well with the public. distrust of the government continues to be high and perhaps