greta: it is not constructive if he didn t answer the question transferring other money. you have the administrator saying i agree this is no way to run a government but we are complying with the law. he is not being creative and not trying. you say it is constructive and i think it is not. we pointed out, i mean several times in the hearing last week in their budget all of the areas that are not personnel related that aren t air traffic controller related that are what we would call overhead. $500 million for consultant contracts. $179 million for travel. $134 million for office supplies. those are the types of things they should have been looking at. greta: what do they say when you say get that money and move it over here? they say we already cut these areas back and it is not enough. if you look at, of course, the point you made earlier the larger d.o.p o.t. budget is a $70 billion budget.
greta: it is not constructive if he didn t answer the question transferring other money. you have the administrator saying i agree this is no way to run a government but we are complying with the law. he is not being creative and not trying. you say it is constructive and i think it is not. we pointed out, i mean several times in the hearing last week in their budget all of the areas that are not personnel related that aren t air traffic controller related that are what we would call overhead. $500 million for consultant contracts. $179 million for travel. $134 million for office supplies. those are the types of things they should have been looking at. greta: what do they say when you say get that money and move it over here? they say we already cut these areas back and it is not enough. if you look at, of course, the point you made earlier the larger d.o.p o.t. budget is a
increased and rove and his colleagues have benefited tremendously from legal developments in the interim. the supreme court s decision in citizens united has added an accelerant to this fire. but rove has an essential point correct, which is that this is not something republicans invented. these peculiar groups, the super pacs, the social welfare organizations as they re known, these existed before and they were fully in use as long ago as 2004 so in a sense, he s playing the same game but this cycle, the republicans are playing it more aggressively, more successfully. i want to put a chart up that chris cillizza from the washington post had in an article which is about total ad spending which is fascinating. if you take campaigns plus outside group, pro-romney, $179 million. pro-obama, $128 million. the campaigns alone, romney spent $35 million, obama, $108 million. is it fair to say that without
the outside world with william cohen. it is a new day hopefully a far safer one for sunlts at a los angeles school at the center of a shobi ishocking child abu n scandal. they were greeted with an entirely new staff. the whole staff was replaced after the arrest of at least two teachers accused of committing lewd acts with students. eight alleged victims are expected to announce the first lawsuits in that case. president obama is let sing states off the hook when it comes to the no child left behind law. the president is expected to announce this hour that he s freeing ten states from stricter parts of the law in return for a promise to improve how they evaluate and prepare students. those states will no longer be forced to meet the requirement that all students be proficient in reading and math by 2014. mr. obama s announcement is due to start at 1:55 eastern time and we ll bring it to you live. finally big relief to the tune of 26 billion for distressed homeowners. if y
accident see the ads congressman. it s so nice to call you congressman, by the way. congressman, he didn t see the ad. either he is running for president he s like the only person i know in this country that didn t see the ads that they put out either he is not being completely straight with us or he is on a couch. who gets all of the money from fannie mae and freddie mac. $1.6 million. oh stop it. i want everybody to know yes they do. we are going to go there. everyone watching geraldo s show the new york times article read what the speaker talked about. very important article about one of the companies bane they left with $179 million and 1700 people unemployed. if you don t believe it talk to the ombudsman. it s not about believing it. this country needs it is a 99 percent climb and this is a problem.