the parties together. we have a new administration coming in. they will make a new initiative. unfortunately, this moves israel further away from being willing to negotiate with the palestinians and makes the palestinians less likely to negotiate, which is difficult. outgoing labor secretary tom perez is challenging president-elect donald trump s transition team, even calling its actions illegal. speaking with cbs news radio, perez discussed the transition team questionnaires sent to the energy department earlier this month, which called for identifying employees that worked on climate change issues. the department rejected the request and later told the washington post the letter was not authorized and the person behind it had been properly counseled. perez says questions like that has no place in a transition and moves like that are against the law. nearly a dozen democratic senators have called for an
it was just yesterday that the white house national security adviser tom donnellin came out and said the u.s. made a good case for extradition in an interview with cbs news radio. furthermore he said the white house was expecting hong kong to comply with the extradition treaty in the case of edward snowden. but a few hours ago the hong kong government came out and said snowden left lawfully. reportedly using the flight, they reported he was ongoing a flight to russia and that same edward snowden ticketed on a separate flight to havana, cuba, tomorrow, a flight scheduled to leave at 2:05 p.m. moscow time. we have no idea if cuba is his final destination at this point, but we have reason to believe it is not, because wikileaks has tweeted they had a hand in helping snowden secure political asylum in a democratic country.
of any significant, in my opinion, any significant help to gov. romney. and that is 23 million people without work, who are working without, you know, a full-time job who want them or have given up work being all together. so you, lou dobbs, take the exact opposite stance that cbs news radio takes? exactly the opposite? imagine that. but look, come on now, cbs radio goes out to thousands of radio stations, people like me list to it in their car or when you get up, this and that. you respect are a respected economic reporter. you say i don t think it s logical. you know they have to spin it the president s way. what it portrays a lack of understanding what is happening here and the numbers tell the
he is hard at work, they say, on a jobs plan, which he will unveil in september. part of that plan we re getting a glimpse of that and it will include tax cuts as well as investing in construction projects. they also, veronica, made the point that, look, he is a father, he is a husband, and they don t think the american people will begrudge him a little bit of quality time with his family. any comparison to presidents past? he is only taking, what, like, 60 days in comparison to other president who s have taken, what, like 100 like double or triple even? yeah. right. even more. that s absolutely right. this is according to the unofficial white house historian mark knoller who is with cbs news radio, and really tracks these things. even the white house refers to him according to mark knoller, president obama has taken 61 vacation days so far. president george w. bush had taken 180 vacation days at this point in his presidency. ronald reagan had taken 112. interestingly, bill clint
indication. reporter: i think you re right about that. i think there is going to be golf, i think there s going to be ice cream. we passed some really good-looking cupcake shops as well. i bet there will be cupcakes and swimming time with his family. little bit of a fun fact, by the way, about presidential vacations. the president s gotten a lot of criticism. the unofficial white house historian who works with cbs news radio kind of took a look at all the presidential vacations. turns out president obama has actually taken fewer vacation days than some of his predecessors. he s taken 61 vacation days at this point in his presidency. george w. bush had taken 180 vacation days and ronald reagan had taken 112. clinton, fewer, he s down in the 20s. so a fun fact there from someone i know you know very well. indeed. as you know, the vacation is always a little bit, has air quotes around it but i ll just give you a warning, from one white house correspondent to another, some crisis alway