director, robert muller, and pledged all federal resources to assist in this investigation, help state and local authorities. as i mentioned in terms of the fiscal cliff, the president was supposed to travel to maine next wednesday. pressure republicans out on the road about getting a fiscal cliff deal. i'm told that trip has been canceled. they may obviously have to be dealing with a memorial service next week, bill. >> bill: ed, there was a mention today where the president seemed to make news on gun control. what was said there? >> he did. earlier when there had been other tragedies, whether it be tucson or aurora, the president spoke generally about a national conversation on this issue, but had not followed up with action. today he suggested very clearly that in a second term, that may change. take a listen. >> these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods and these children are our children. we're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics. >> bill: captain mark kelly, the husband of former congresswoman g

. >> brian: i understand the president gets briefed regularly by robert muller. how did that not come up, by the way, we're investigating the c.i.a. director? >> now we've got the intelligence apparatus investigating itself. there is one of two things happening. either there is a complete break down in respect and communication with the white house and nobody is talking to anybody else, or, in fact, this is also a lie, leading up to the election, there are a lots of things hidden. we know that the administration lied about benghazi effectively. we know they didn't tell us about iran shooting at a drone a week out before the election. we know that their economic numbers that they held before the election. so the american people have got a lot of soul searching about what it is we're being told and when we're being told. >> brian: and we're out of time. i'm only kidding. [ laughter ] pen, in particular, what is going on here? is it that big of a teal? how does general petraeus' behavior reflect poorly on the president? >> i'm afraid i blame everything on technology

we know robert muller knew about it, f.b.i. director, almost immediately. we know that he was briefing the president on a regular basis. what are the chances that the president actually didn't know until election day that this all was going down and this investigation was taking place? >> it's difficult to say. certainly the house and senate intelligence committees were not notified. we know that from senator diane feinstein. panetta said they had to look why the intelligence committees were not informed. there's a difference of opinion here in washington about whether the f.b.i. needed to -- and whether the justice department and robert muller needed to tell the president. so i think they wanted to see where the investigation ended up. >> steve: it's ended up on the front page of the paper. thank you very much. let's dial in laura ingraham. she joinses from washington, d.c., scandal central. are you buying the whole business, laura, the president didn't know about it until two days after the election? >> before i answer that question, can we just talk abou

director robert muller for this operation more than four hundred defendants have been charged and we have a paid one hundred seventy three convictions in crimes that accounted for more than one billion dollars in estimated losses the f.b.i. first warned of this fraud epidemic in two thousand and four reporting also though that their corporate crime units had been downsized to join the fight against terrorism some criminal cases are reported in the press but not all are prosecuted with companies often paying fines rather than facing a judge or a jury goldman sachs paid sixty million dollars to settle a so brian complain the massachusetts authorities said they had this zine mortgages to fail and they paid sixty million dollars but they did not meet any of that standard standard when wall street firms negotiate. what are in effect plea bargains with regulators for them not to admit guilt according to an investigation by the center for public integrity twenty five of the sleaziest subprime lenders were backed by the biggest banks in the united states citi group wells fargo j.p. morgan ch

director, robert muller. thank you, director. his leadership and support for local and state law enforcement are well-known and deeply appreciated. we're also very pleased to welcome the deputy attorney general, jim cole, who is also with us this year. thank you. also very pleased to welcome last year's key note speaker who is joining us again, the department of homeland security secretary, janet napolitano. and finally, it's with great honor and privilege to have with us today, the president of the united states, barack obama , who i will introduce more fully in a few minutes. mr. president. on behalf of the 333,000 members of the f.o.p., i want to welcome you all to the national peace officers memorial service. we come here today to honor members of the law enforcement family who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. president teddy roosevelt said, life brings sorrow and joyce alike. it is what a man does with them, not what they coto him, that is a true test of their medal. the fact that you are all here today to honor your loved

muller the current director determined how deep president bush's electronic surveillance was going spawning on americans he pushed back and he told the president you get this program that inside the law side the boundaries of the law or i quit now what would have happened if the f.b.i. director had resigned in protest bush's government were to fall ok but at the same time we'd then saw congress step in and decide to just change the laws so that the wiretapping program could also neatly fit into a if we also talked about this file of war crimes what was the result of it i think there may have been some good intentions there by you know but hasn't it also been expanded in many ways that haven't necessarily actually produced good results that have brought liberty back to the american people in that sense. well look back over the history of the f.b.i. which is dominated by j. edgar hoover who ran the f.b.i. for forty eight consecutive years bugging wiretapping stung on americans breaking and entering over was the law today i think we have a better balance we've got a president who understands t

tourist jeremy he could of course he represents exactly the kind of strict curfew i direct to robert muller and his experts have warned about new york's top cop says the suspect was radicalized by the teachings of the u.s. born cleric a lot. so the conditions are perfect he was said to have ties to al a larky plan building a bomb and converted to islam on the surface it looks like a cut and dry terrorism incident stop before anything could happen and of course mayor michael bloomberg and y.p. chief ray kelly held a press conference praising law enforcement for stopping this attack before was carried out. he was exactly the kind of spread. the robber is exclusive one of them. now it's funny that bloomberg added f.b.i. is robert mueller interest because the f.b.i. wasn't actually involved in this case at all in fact the f.b.i. was aware the n.y.p.d. had been tracking them intel for two years but the feds never felt that he was a serious threat that he was mentally unstable and they declined opportunities to take the man down so that's why the fan was would depend it was arrested by the

director robert muller says the new york police department and its commissioner ray kelly are doing a great job. >> that's a big story. hundreds of thousands of financially strapped homeowners getting some much needed help thanks to a side deal struck between bank of america and the federal government over its foreclosure practices so under the terms, bank of america will not have to pay $850 million in penalties. this will allow the bank to help households reduce their mortgage balances, some even cutting them to their home's current market value. eric? >> call him fast feud. a police officer getting into a supersized brawl with a would-be thief inside a mcdonald's. >> kind of pushed off and threw me off of him and the fight was on! >> that was deputy kevin meyer, the florida police officer called to the scene after the thug tried robbing another customer of his backpack. as you can see, the suspect didn't go down without a fight. deputy meyer says he couldn't even call for backup because his radio was knocked off. lucky for him, three homeless men stepped in and subdued the suspect.

director robert muller. this is about 2-1/2 hours. sm for the committee to ask questions of our intelligence leaders in public. today is also an opportunity to take stock of what has happened in the last year and what we can expect for 2012. before looking ahead, i want to congratulate the leaders of the intelligence community before us today. and the tens of thousands of civilian and military intelligence professionals they represent. through their efforts, 2011 was a year of numerous major intelligence successes. including first and foremost the operation that located and killed osama bin laden. this past year also saw the removal of top terrorist leaders, plotters, and recruiters including anwar alawalkie in yemen. al qaeda's lynch pin in pakistan, ralkman and numerous others resulting in the disruption of specific terrorist plots and casting into disarray al qaeda's senior leadership. closer to home since our hearing last year, there were at least 20 individuals arrested in the united states on terrorism related charges in 17 diff