shakedown spepgsz they ve had them in new york, chicago, they re going to texas, california, boston, florida, trying to get people to join the national finance council. willie, if you have your checkbook ready, spots are available, $61,000 a couple. donation to the dnc, that s where you start talking. is a billion dollars the big? that s what we keep hearing this time around. president obama may raise a billion bucks? that s a dumb figure by the media. it s much more than that. the president raised, last time when he was an underdog most of the time, $900 million, if you count the money he personally raids for the dnc. it will be well more than that figure, certainly going to be a $2 billion election, the first in american history. wow. that s almost obscene. he ll rope in all the hillary clinton donors, too. he doesn t have to fight them this time around. george will has a column coming out sunday on his take
he was amazing. three people saw it from 1976 to 1977. fred willard. yes. he s great. always funny. congratulations, hickory. if you haven t heard, the new york mets in financial trouble. come on. the owner, fred wilpon being sued for a billion bucks or so afl after financial dealings he and the team had with bernie madoff. now he s seeking a buyer for minority stake in the club. one man who expressed interest, donald j. trump. except he doesn t let the minority interest. here s what he told the times, the wilpons are friends of mine. i hope it work out great for them. but if anything doesn t work out, i d be interested in the team. can you do this in his voice. he s only interested in things he can control. that is correct. sew says if you want to give
the show. and cooking. everything else we do regularly except you dance, people are don t look so surprised! da, da, da, da. there you go. fantastic. and brian and that s the answer. the jib jab guys easier. i m trying to wake up neil cavuto, okay? it s the last day before voters head to the polls and the unions are making a final get out the vote push and may be the biggest spenders this election season. neil, can you think about unions and election or you want to see more dancing. no, but if you could dance one more time. stick to the topic. no, it s funny because we have i ve been following a lot of this. money going to the races and obviously, you guys report as well. you know, this election cycle. if you count all outside union moneys, direct moneys, moneys that are channeled through the usual sources, outside sources and still a billion bucks this
grate in the. jon: i want to believe the government s getting smarter, but if we ve spent a billion bucks to cover 53 miles of a 2,000-mile border and that billion dollars didn t get us a system that works, that sounds a little nuts. there are, there have been problems with the system, jon, and you have to keep it in the context too. unfortunately, this is not that unusual when you talk about major technology programs by the government. you look at something like i just looked at fox news for an old article this morning where for 13 years the army invested over $6 billion in the crusader artillery system which never fielded a single system, and that was all sunk money. this by comparison isn t as bad, but it still hurts. we spent a lot of money with boeing and didn t get what the government wanted in rush. jon: all right. thad, thanks for your insights. sure. thanks, jon. jenna: this election season we ve heard lots of talks about tax cuts and that being a way to
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