on electricity. what happens is it catches fire. bill: oh that would be a detriment. this is considered a negative when we re trying to move an automobile. bill: are you kidding me? the volt catches fire? it catches fire and one of the things and i try as the humble reporter on these issues, i try desperately, bill. you ve got to know this. your audience has got to know this. i tried hard to find out why, with fewer than 8,000 of these volts sold, they ve recalled now this week 8,000 of them, but they haven t sold that many cars. so we re bill: they recalled cars that haven t been sold, because they catch fire. they catch fire. and they want to find them before they do. bill: which would contribute, i think to global warming because fire is hot. that s right. bill: so the whole thing is a boondoggle. it s unfortunate because the volt itself is an electric car, may end up a fossil fuel itself. bill: they catch fire.
surveillance state? i don t understand what that is. what is that, lesley? if you re going to continue in the former administration which we had the ability to have illegal and wantless wire taps on people s phones, be able to round somebody up and arrest them and that s being continued in this bill: do you know anybody who has been rounded up and arrested on an illegal wire tap? do you know anybody? do i know somebody personally? or a case being looked at in los angeles? yeah. bill: i can t find a news account of anybody being rounded up on a wireless, you know, tap. i don t find anybody. they basically use that for information to try to see who is calling in here from uzbekistan. so i don t know. lesley, i ll give you an assignment for next week, find one human being rounded up and then tell us about it cause i m very concerned about this, too. now, barak obama will get the
ron paul: what is the surveillance state? i don t understand what that is. what is that, lesley? if you re going to continue in the former administration which we had the ability to have illegal and wantless wire taps on people s phones, be able to round somebody up and arrest them and that s being continued in this bill: do you know anybody who has been rounded up and arrested on an illegal wire tap? do you know anybody? do i know somebody personally? or a case being looked at in los angeles? yeah. bill: i can t find a news account of anybody being rounded up on a wireless, you know, tap. i don t find anybody. they basically use that for information to try to see who is calling in here from uzbekistan. so i don t know. lesley, i ll give you an assignment for next week, find one human being rounded up and then tell us about it cause i m very concerned about this, too.
everybody bill: but gingrich is national television, it s his turn now. bill: gingrich is saying this week he wants to be an ally with him. he wants to be then he turned around and attacked him this week. he called him the junior senator. he said, well, he was kind of like a junior partner in this. he was being dismisssive. one of the things you got to always understand, when people run for office, especially at this level, this is not a beauty contest so that the prettiest person left standing is the winner. this is the tough man competition and the baddest son of a gun in the room is the one who probably is going to still be on his feet when everybody else is carried away. bill: we re over a little bit. it looks like mitt romney is pretty much unstoppable to me right now. do you get that feeling? not unstoppable. this thing could change. but mitt romney is the deny s and i say this with great affection. this is not a bad statement. when i say that, he s the menu you k
they did gm did start working on the volt pre-the obama administration. $2.3 billion flowed directly toward the volt. bill: from whom? in the form of loans, comes in the form of direct subsidies. it even comes in the form of subsidies to the lithium battery makers. bill: $2.3 billion has gone into the development of this car that barak obama is now getting behind the wheel. federal money. bill: was bush responsible for some of that? no. he s not responsible. bill: so it s a 2.3 under the obama administration? correct. bill: all right. and the idea is that in addition to that, the michigan the state government of michigan, which is already foundering under the weight of debt, throws in another $600 million. bill: so they threw in on top of it. so now we re over $3 billion? correct. bill: of taxpayer money, federal and michigan people. but the good news is, general