and this is the issue. you have our own service members making i don t know. $19,000 a year that this is their tax money that he wants to give half a billion to. he comes from a state unfunded liability. this is symptomatic largely of the democratic party, not just senator blumenthal. they want to change that nobody understands the dynamic of half a billion dollars. ainsley: think about that. $500million. we would all love to have a million dollars. and who pays for it? the guy making $1,500 a month. that s who s paying for this. ainsley: you re right. let s put up the full screen. he s talking about exactly what our military men and women are making. average monthly salary is $1,567. that is less than $19,000, as you can see, every year. so you re saying when we are giving money to the ukrainian soldiers, we re taking money out of our military pocket. right. coming out of their paycheck. and richard blumenthal is one
jobs to be particular here, also there s wage issue, 19 billion in lost wages every year because of obamacare. now, they looked at companies that have 20 and 99 employees, the biggest losses that we have saw as far as wage, florida, ohio, texas, pennsylvania, loss wages, but what this shows is that because of premiums and regulations it s been a dire hit on small businesses that was obamacare, of course, donald trump has promised to repeal and replace that law. abby: there are some numbers to prove it. president obama trying to squeeze a lot before he leaves office now. a un climate fund payment. cheryl: we just decided to give 500 million-dollars to that climate fund right before he left office. $500million of taxpayer money. a lot of this money goes to other countries, programs in other countries, so this is american tax money going to
$600 million. but don t get too excited if you actually win the thing it s only worth about $377 million. arthel: that s all? jon: of course the government gets its share of it. people have been buying tickets like mad, driving that number up. $600million the new powerball drawing to be taking place this weekend. the obama administration facing possibly its worst week ever with the ongoing i.r.s. chief in the congressional hot seat outgoing i should say, as well as major developments concerning benghazi and the a associated press. but is scandal fatigue already setting in among the main-stream media? we ll ask our question of our news watch panel. plus, bombshell testimony today from the woman at the tenth tere of a sex scandal involving a former italian premiere, slyvio berlesconi.
night. he anchors special report right here on fox news channel. jenna: a little closer to home we re awaiting a major ruling from a judge on whether stockton, california will become the most populous u.s. city to get bankruptcy protection. schakowsky is livcould you claudia cowan is live. it could test whether federal bankruptcy law triumphs the california law that says the city has to honor debts to the state pension fund. they want to reduce what they pay back on a loan they took back in 2007 money they used to pay calpers, the retirement system. $900million in pension obligation represent the city s biggest debt. they faced a shortfall last summer when they filed for bankruptcy after cutting a quarter of is police force and other city services to the bone. officials argue bankruptcy is
in aid to help the country as it struggles with a syrian refugee crisis. he also talked expectations for peace in the middle east. this was a trip to make sure i m doing my homework. we set expectations low, precisely because there has been a lot of talk over decades, but it hasn t produced the results that everybody wants to see. let me listen to the parties first. straight to cnn s john king who is in amman, jordan. john, what is the most important agenda item in jordan for the president? reporter: don, the most important item is that aid you mentioned. jordan is being overwhelmed, swamped by refugees from syria coming in, several thousand a day, approaching the half million mark here. this country s economy was already struggling to begin with. and officials here say it spent somewhere in the ballpark of a billion dollars to deal with the refugees. the united states is already number one. the president noted in the international community, in putting up both cash and other hum