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Small but aggressive segment of the charity world seems to care little about helping others. instead, it generates six-figure salaries for people that run them and feeds a multi-billion-dollar facility that only cares about profit and what we also found out is no matter how blatant the scam, or how obvious the proof is that donations are being squandered, no one seems to be going after them. cnn's investigative correspondent drew griffin tonight keeping them honest. >> reporter: drive down these country roads in knoxville, tennessee and into this small industrial park and you'll find the headq...

A year-long investigation with the "tampa bay times" shows a small but aggressive segment of the charity world seems to care little about helping others. instead, it generates six-figure salaries for people that run them and feeds a multi-billion-dollar facility that only cares about profit and what we also found out is no matter how blatant the scam, or how obvious the proof is that donations are being squandered, no one seems to be going after them. cnn's investigative correspondent drew griffin tonight keeping them honest. >> reporter: drive down these country roads in knoxville, tennesse...

>> in 1996, president clinton and a bipartisan congress helped end welfare as we know it. but on july 12th president obama announced a program to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements. under obama's plan you wouldn't have to work or train for a job. they just send you your check. and welfare to work goes back to being plain old welfare. >> in a moment you'll hear from newt gingrich to defend the ad. he also makes a pretty stunning admission about whether the ad he is defending is true to the facts. but first, i want to show you how mitt romney is campaigning on the claims ...

obama was asked about the negative ads his campaign was running. here's what he said. >> first of all, we've done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don't get attention in the news. >> the president said they've run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to -- we wanted to check and see if maybe we'd overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-ma...

running. here's what he said. >> first of all, we've done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don't get attention in the news. >> the president said they've run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to -- we wanted to check and see if maybe we'd overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they to...