Of defense robert gates my staff and i learned that it was nearly impossible to get Accurate Information to questions such as much money did you spend and how many people do you have. Secretary robert gates in 2011. A cspan democrat on twitter asks, is there some a slide on which the dod can begin a comprehensive accounting . How would they audit this behemoth, 40 of the federal budget . Guest that is an enormous problem. When you have a baseline, you have to have a starting place. The records are so screwed up, they do not have that. Most of these systems have existed for years and years and had data put into them manually, people putting in long alphanumeric strings of code, and of course people made typos and that means the data disappears or is erroneous. There is no way of knowing where the Defense Department is today. One way they are trying to get around this, they were supposed to do a big audit after 2014, a big chunk of the pentagons accounts, and they are scaling it back to
Be that divided government created a space for deliberation, but now has created gridlock. Yesterday democrats weakened the filibuster. Im curious about your thinking in wisconsin, what you think of the filibuster debate in washington. I remember and a lot of conservatives remember that were frustrated during the bush presidency times when more was not done. It is always interesting when there are debates like this that videos of opposing party members, from the past and make for interesting discussions out there. I think in general that executives, be it a governor, be it a county executive, or a president , if he or she wants to put people into run portions of their administration among my belief is efforts should begin peopleven as long as are competent and ethical and difference should be given to the chief executive in terms of the appointments they make to executive positions. Where i understand why there is a larger concern about judicial appointments is those are much more last
That it is not random. I remember in my earlier time thinking, well, if you have one woman already in one of those top three positions, then no one is going to want to elect the second one because they will think theyre overdoing it, you know . People in the state have gotten used to electing a woman. It could be that there is a role modeling that is going on and more women are really thinking about becoming political. The women themselves, and some of the women in those positions have said, no, actually, i showed the next woman where the pockets of energy or the pockets of money were. It is like bringing the next one along. It is so exciting, because we have to find ways to really expand these numbers. We cannot just keep moving along. It takes 200 years at the rate we are going. I am not kidding. Literally. You have to find ways to say, we already have one woman in this state come hell or high water. We are going to run a woman for governor and a woman for senator in that very state.
Now after today ill be the former side kick to gretchen carlson. No way. I know youre going to be fantastic. We have so much news to get to today. Looking forward to it. He me as well. Thank you so much, governor. Breaking right now. Torontos rehabilitated cracksmoking mayor may be spending his last day in charge. Mayor rob ford reportedly dropping his bid for mayor in next months election. Apparently not for the reasons you may think. Trace gallagher live with mosh on that. Ill till, gretchen. We thought the News Conference was going to be the top of the hour, but we still have not gotten a signal. It might be at mount sinai hospital where rob ford is being treated for a mass in his stomach or it might be at city hall where his brother doug ford might make a statement. Now, heres the reason. You might want to get a score card because we have some Musical Chairs going on in the toronto mayors race. We have just learned an hour ago that rob ford has pulled out of the race because he was
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