after the campaign trail raising money, et cetera. president obama was no exception. number one, nothing new about this. and i think it s always good for presidents, this one in particular, getting in touch with the fwoeolks who voted for him. it s always a relief to get out of the white house as he s learning to and a good thing to do. on that point, does it help mr. trump to get out of white house and among the people? it helps him sure, with his base but lingering questions i don t think get resolved if you stay on the campaign trail. jeffrey is right. the doctrine of the permanent campaign but it s how you promoted policy and engaged, not just your core but reached across the aisle. it seems like he s just trying to yell at the media, bark back at people who challenge him, and castigate anyone who s in disagreement with him and really try to gloss over a troubling
i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we re counting down to the results in maine and we could learn those results within minutes. our reporters are standing by, shannon travis is over at gop headquarters in maine, where we will see the results announced. mary snow is over at ron paul s headquarters in maine tonight. we also have members of the best political team, glornlgia borger, donna brazile, david frum and of course john king at the magic wall to map out all the numbers for us, where we re going from here. let s go to maine, shannon travis is over at gop headquarters. we will see the results announced fairly soon, shannon, walk us through what s going on right now. reporter: let me just tell you first off, wolf, it s getting pretty crowded where i am. this is the portland regency in portland, maine, where they are going to be announcing the results. i ll have my cameraman pan over and show
greta: do you mean the money has again out to the agencies or they can have it if they need it and we go further in debt. on the ledger we recognize this has been assigned but the money isn t necessarily there. isn t it more borrowing? in some cases the money has been handed over to the agencies that are to do the spending. in other cases it is just they have a line of credit on the treasury that they can draw on when these projects are ready. my point is, the dollars have not been spent on these infrastructure projects so it is not probably too late to return the money. you have one program that i just mentioned the electronic records for the hospitals. almost none of that money has been spent at all this was something the obama administration greta: why? i m not sure almost 20 months for any of that money to be spent. i think the hospitals weren t set up to do this program. greta: that one seemed like
mike pence who says return that money to the taxpayers. we ve had this big experiment we ve spent so much already. it doesn t seem to be creating jobs. why not return treasury and use it for debt retirement we are borrowing over 100 billion dollars a month. greta: you say return treasury. do we have it? didn t we borrow this money to begin with or print it or something? this concept of returning it to the treasury it is not like we are going to get a check from the federal government. am i wrong? well, you are partly right and partly wrong. it is true that the money has been authorized to the agencies to spend it. congress has the authority to tell these agencies, time out don t spend the money we can t afford it, our debt is so gigantic that it makes sense to return it to the treasury. if the money hasn t been spent on the considerers it could be returned to the taxpayers and be used to retire the debt.
greta: here s a look at what is coming up after this show on the o reilly factor. bill: the far left counterattacks on the ross being contraversy. you are not going to believe this a wild miller time. he s also getting into the mosque deal, coming up on the factor. greta: o reilly is at 11. we are live in alaska until the top of the hour. guess how much stimulus money is left. here s a hint, it stars with a b steve more knows what she should be doing with the money. plus behind the scenes of our trip, you get the inside story minutes away. me neither. it beneful incredibites. it s just the way you like it with carbohydrates for energy and protein for muscles. [ woman announcing ] beneful incredibites. another healthful, flavorful beneful.