none of those troops have arrived at the border. they are still at lackland airbase in san antonio. the pentagon, not dhs will pay for this deployment of troops and the comptroller is working on this. it s illegal to simply reprogram the defense budget without going to congress. in the past dhs has reimbursed the pentagon when troops were sent to the border but bottom line, is it expensive, when the pentagon sent u.s. troops to the border it cost $185 billion. a senior u.s. official tells me that in addition to the 5200 or so troops order to the border, an additional 2,000 active-duty u.s. troops are ready to deploy. most of these trips will be engineers. u.s. air force plans to airlift 400 border patrol positions as
affairs. i worked at the v.a. from 2009 to 2012. it s a $185 billion budget. this is not something he has the experience to do. you got to remember that previous v.a. secretaries, one was an arm a chief of staff, secretary mcdonald was the former ceo of procter & gamble and they faced a lot of serious challenges with this. you re going to take a guy who is the white house physician and never managed more than a few dozen people at a time in his life and throw him in that crucible. not only are you setting him up for failure butt 20 million veterans in america up for failure. do your other veteran friends work you say they agree with what you just said? well, i can t speak for everybody but i ve talked to a lot of people i m sure you re having conversations. right. i ve talked to a lot of veteran
should consider moving him from his job because of his leadership capacity. and the white house didn t remove him. we know that multiple presidents have again liked him being their doctor both obama and trump recommended he get navy promotions still serving as the white house doctor. but this nomination to lead the veterans administration would be a very different job in a very different promotion the va has a budget of $185 billion. become. it has 360,000 employees. it streets 9 million veterans in terms of their health care. it s one of the hardest jobs in government. however well people like dr. jackson as a doctor, it brought people out of the woodwork in the military to caution against it. earlier this afternoon, cnn report thad two former white house medical staff had come forward, both to the senate
on our party. the information was withheld. neil: you took the bullet from that. you have a defamation suit going against spitzer. yes. neil: what do you hope to do there? hope to have them pay for the defamation of character that he had been talking about publicly. neil: how much? i forget the numb. david neil: more than the nine million. i would think so. neil: okay. you know that whole period when we go back to that was sort of like the incenter that when aig was rescued, $185 billion, you argue that would have been totally unnecessary had you still been at the helm. no question about it. neil: what makes you so sure? everything was imploding. yeah. we were managing the company. we had meetings every week on our financial exposure. it wasn t something that we did neil: how do you know if you
section bureau, a vast bureaucracy with no congressional oversight digs through hundreds of millions of your credit records to detect fraud. barney frank b, you have 30 seconds to respond. no, go ahead. they want to go back to the days when aig could run up $185 billion in credit default swap derivatives they couldn t pay off. they want to go back to where people were getting loans they shouldn t have gotten and lost their houses. they have this great hunger for the situation that caused the terrible crisis of 2008. i m glad to say among those who, by the way, were among the leading financial regulators under the george w. bush administration. people ought to see what hank paulson and former federal reserve chairman of ben bernanke said in their look. this is nostalgia for allowing the financial speculation that brought us the worst crisis in 80 years.