the call never comes. is he s going to send him $25,000. the check isn t sent today when the story gets out. these are two reports we have tonight. we begin with how the president and his white house are dealing with the criticism of another family of a fallen soldier, one of four u.s. servicemen killed by enemy fire in niger. he was 25 years old with a wife, two young children and a third on the way. today the woman who raised him said the president disrespected her son with what he said in the condo lessons call. we know about the call because of a local congresswoman who was in the car when it came. sergeant johnson grew up in her community in miami gardens. his father was a student at the school where she was plan. congresswoman wilson knows the family and as we mentioned was in the car with johnson s young widow when the president called. she said the president told johnson s wife that her husband, quote, knew what he signed up for, but i guess it still hurt. here is representativ
about u.s. government employees and their targets are the tens of thousands of government workers who have applied for top secret security clearances. the department of homeland security says no critically important information was taken, though they are still investigating. if the u.s. government were a private company you can bet that heads would roll. uncle sam mistakenly paid out, wait for it, $106 billion last year everything from tax refunds, unemployment, social security benefits, and chief business correspondent christine romans joining us to answer the question that everyone would want to know, christine, how the heck does something like this happen? heck isn t even the word i would use. i know. but yes. it happens, brianna, over and over again. you can t even audit the entire government as a whole because in some quarters there is so much money lost, missing or misspent that an accountant doesn t do a balance sheet on it.
a game for tax breaks at the top. yeah. and that, i think, a lot of people unfortunately don t see because that s all disguised. this isn t about taxing the middle class to pay for this. the is about the taxes at the top that aren t paid. and we have our biggest companies putting money in bermuda, putting money in the cayman islands. earning profits and paying no taxes on them at all and lo and behold, we re told there s no money for the poorest people in the country. here s the other thing i would say. you have in your hand here, these are pay fors, right? money revenue you can raise. absolutely. this is what i would say n. the absence of being able to pass this, just have a bigger deficit. i m serious, i would prefer a bigger deficit in the amount of $4 billion than literally taking food out of the mouths of hungry people which we are doing today in the most shameful way imaginable. absolutely. and if it doesn t agree with you, fine, but you re in new york city alone.
perpetui perpetuity. i don t want to add further fuel to your anger, which is well chosen, by the way, but the fact of the matter is everything is subject so a filibuster in the senate right now. everything all but the most routine piece of the legislation subject to 60-vote thresholds. you know this and i m sure most of your viewers know this, but the fact of the matter is, the requirement for 60 votes isn t in the constitution nope. and sure as heck isn t in the rules of the senate either. nope. it s an artificial threshold these guys set up a few years ago as they tried to undermine the entire democratic agenda. something s got to give. i m not so sure what it is. but the fact of the matter is, you know, the anger level as you mentioned is rising once more in the caucus. and i m not so sure what senator reid s going to do. but i m confidence he s going to do the right thing in the end. well, i think the right thing is just scrapping this whole antidemocratic institutio
they re lying and push back in their face. it s not in obama s nature to do it, but it sure as heck isn t joe biden s nature to do it. i think biden really provided a lot of energy the base needed. it s about democrats feeling like they don t have that same sort of aggressiveness that republicans have. they want it. joe biden really provides it. matt, do you think we see that on tuesday, or do you think that it s not in the president s nature, that the president represents a wing of the party that is sort of above some of that. you know, if the president comes out acting like joe biden, it s going to look a little clownish. joe biden, you know, he rallies both bases, as we were saying before. the democrats get riled up and the republicans say, my god, this guy is in charge of anything? no, i don t think obama is going to go there. i think he is going to hit these concepts of facts. you re wrong, your tax policy