0 get it has to be a self-standing press conference on all of these issues and get it out. didn t i hear you say yesterday, lie, cheat, steal, i just want to win. that s okay? i didn t i didn t i m pretty sure i heard that. i said, lie, cheat, steal to win. i said that when you have a presidential campaign going on there s a lot of bad news that is trying to be held back so it s not brought out during the presidential campaigns. that s poll six. i ve done it myself. i understand that. that doesn t mean that you are going to allow the irs thing the others are going to be surviveable. does anybody believe that two people in cincinnati were responsible for this? no. we didn t come up with that. they told us that. dana, you ve been you ve seen this before from the inside, behind stage. what are the optics? what are they showing us? well, so this press conference is not called to what is everybody talking about. the word optics. he s going to vanish. such a stu
politics. that doesn t excuse doing this. dana, what do you think? i heard a joke and it was so funny. nobody heard it. i heard it. i heard it. you said they can t stand i can t even do the imitation. i can t stand his voice. it drives me insane. no wonder nobody watches. i think the tingle on his leg zblsh he s making julian bond, you remember when he said the tea party was like the taliban. alan coombs said, they re against women s rights. like what? he can t answer. they re just like the taliban. it becomes so preposterous. no wonder people turn to other places to find out their news because you re not going to get it from there. now that you ve mentioned the junian von cut, can we listen to that for a second? they re hostile to women s rights, so is the taliban. they re enraptured by a sort of stalinist religion. i m going to get in real trouble about this. you know, in which they obey
credibility. from the man who promised transparency, we sure don t seem to be getting very much. can you assure the american people that nobody in the white house knew about the agency s actions before your counsel s office found out on april 22nd? i can assure you that i certainly did not know anything about the ig report before the ig report had been leaked through press through the press. and it looks like attorney general eric holder is taking the cue from the boss. he was grilled on capitol hill yesterday about the ap and irs scandals and we sure did hear a lot of this. i don t know. i don t know what has happened in this matter. i don t know. i don t know. i assume he was, but i don t know. that i don t know. i don t know why that didn t happen. i don t know. that i m not sure. we probably have to get back to you on an apes. i just don t know. i don t know whether or not what funds are being used or whether that letter would apply to that effort. i just don
limit without conditions, and spending just won t keep going on. it means that we re going to have to have real spending reductions and budget reform in order to move ahead. i think that s an important signal to send that we re serious about our debt, that we re not just going to keep spending as if there were no problems. bill: the credit card is maxed out, $14.4 trillion counting as the clock is ticking down toward a default. stuart varney, fox business network, good morning to you. first a meeting at the white house, you say there are three wild cards in this meeting. what are they? number one, new house republicans demand huge spending cuts and they re digging in their deals their heels, what s that they want out of the negotiations. number two, we have new figures showing the economy is in serious trouble. i hesitate to say tanking but seriously in trouble, and the president will say you can t cut spending when the economy is in such trouble. and number three, what s
you ve got a better chance of getting into harvard than you do getting turned down for a waiver. bill: let me put a specific question to you. if you got that answer, tucker, where would that lead you on the story? look, here s the problem. getting a waiver helps a business in a lot of cases. this system, because it is wholly not transparent, is ripe for political abuses. you give your political allies waivers. that could happen. in order to prevent that, we need to know what the criteria are that the government is using to grant these waivers. bill: i understand that. what about all this, alan? why not tell snus. i m a little confused. first you said we want to know the list of the people denied waiver, then you said well, everybody is getting them, so there not everyone is getting them. most all of them. some aren t. if you go to the senate for center for the medicare and medicaid services, cms.gov, you will actually see a list of who gets the waivers, what kind of ins