economy. nonetheless, the democrats won the election. and they had control of the house and senate and they decided to smend the money. if it s going to be spent and you are the head of the corporation and the government offers you in one of your divisions, let s say a green project, i think it s all nonsense, but if the government offers you that you take it. why not? that s what business is about. bill: then you lay off 18,000. that s not connected to the money. it s bill: the appearance of greedy big corporation letting the little guy go out the door when they they are getting taxpayer money. look, look, look. hold on one second. you have know the fallacy there go hawk you are the harvard man, meaning if x happens before y it doesn t mean x caused y. there is no connection between stimulus money thrown thrown out of an airplane sprinkled all over america where a minuscule amount lands on g.e. g.e. shedding jobs which is what
that doesn t have to do with the 1.1 billion that hadn t gotten there yet. the 1.1 billion that hadn t got therein is entirely the responsibility of the state department. it has already been appropriated. it was appropriated. bill: i don t want to get too confusing you say the state department has $1.1 billion in their budget that could go to haiti at any time. well, they have to meet the requirements of the emergency supplemental bill that appropriated that money, which is you have got to say how are you going to make sure the money doesn t get wasted and how are you going to give us the bench marks for metrics that you are measuring. bill: secretary clinton has not been able to meet that measure? oh, she did this week. bill: how long does it take? well, it s been months. it s been months since we passed the supplemental funding bill that had $1.1 billion in it for haiti. bill: this week she met the measure when is it going over to hatey. i m sure whenever they want to
bill: the argument is that you are the mean guy because people are dying and suffering in haiti and you are not going to send the 500 million because it s unfunded. and you answer that? well, this 500 million isn t for housing. this is for infrastructure only. bill: you know what i m talking about. it s chaos over there. they haven t gotten the money they haven t gotten the private money. we re talking to the clinton initiative people. we want to find out what s holding that up. the hollywood celebrities who asked everybody for money all day long and americans as always responded generously. they won t come back and say where is the money. the foreign nations haven t ponied up 15%. that s nothing. and the united states is holding up 1.1 for whatever reason, you say hillary clinton. and you are north going to fund it, you know, you are not going to send it if it s not funded. well, there are two different no, it s not a mess. we have already sent almost a billion dollars dow
administration. when asked about this, the administration points to oklahoma senator come coburn who has put a hold on the money and senator coburn joins us now from tulsa. so, what very simply, what s going on here, senator? i mean, you know, you have got a 1.5 million people living in the streets of haiti. nothing has been accomplished since the earthquake earlier this year. what s going on here? well, i think really some poor reporting on the part of the a.p. let me give you kind of three points on it number one, i don t ever hold anything in secret. i m the only one in the senate that always admits to what i m holding. and i send every senator a list at the beginning of the year that if, in fact, you are going to try to pass a bill by union must consent which means it doesn t get debated or amended that i, of course in, will object unless you have off set set the cost. that was a kerry billion $500 billion which was brought for unanimous consent. they knew i would object.
bill: tough parents on you. they weren t certify ford parents i was a happy child. they held to you a high standard. they did, indeed. bill: that s tough. when you are in a family and you have to perform as a child, had you to perform. but i didn t feel that way about it i felt that they were giving me every possible opportunity. i was taking advantage of some and not of others. bill: you kroncke, they structured you correct me if i am wrong, they structured your day had you to learn the pena. piano. bill: had you to do this stuff you weren t allowed like i was, i wasn t allowed i just did it you weren t a little thug a thugette? i was actually a little tom boy. bill: your parents shaped you. they shaped me but they allowed me i was the one who wanted to play the piano. i was the one who wanted to figure skate. i was the one who would run around and jump on their bed and turn in t. into a trampoline from time to time. i thought we had a wonderful