hardball special, obama s america. that s tonight, 7:00 eastern, right here on msnbc. but first, after a week off, we bring back by popular demand the white house soup of the day. and they re serving up lentil at the white house mess today. although it is a federal holiday. well, lentil me your ear oh, jeff has been working on his funs. i again, lentil soup. i think it s a soup that deserves more respect. okay. and we ll be right back. [ tires squeal ] an accident doesn t have to slow you down. introducing better car replacement, available only with liberty mutual auto insurance if your car s totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today.
surprising. we ve heard before u.s. official cables describing karzai as not of sufficient strategic partner. the corruption of the afghan government is no secret, but of course seeing it laid out in such detail is, you know, quite disappointing to all concerned. and since 2001 the u.s. has thrown roughly $52 billion or so in aid at afghanistan. how much is the u.s. really to blame here? we are in many ways fueling the corruption with the funs we re providing, aren t we? absolutely. and that corruption pushes people to support the insurgency. if you understand that a lot of the insurgency, a lot of the fighting in afghanistan is really very localized, it s almost like a hatfield and mccoy type situation. not only are we backing up the hatfields against the mccoys, we re also making the hatfields rich and the mccoys don t see any value in all that money
reporter: well, you know, multiple officials that i ve spoken to over the last couple of days were bracing for these revelations, they re obviously very concerned about what these cables would contain and what would be publicized. you know, in the big picture, none of this is enormously surprising. we ve heard before u.s. official cables describing karzai as not of sufficient strategic partner. the corruption of the afghan government is no secret, but of course seeing it laid out in such detail is, you know, quite disappointing to all concerned. and since 2001 the u.s. has thrown roughly $52 billion or so in aid at afghanistan. how much is the u.s. really to blame here? we are in many ways fueling the corruption with the funs we re providing, aren t we? absolutely. and that corruption pushes people to support the
buy them. these foreclosures runt risk of revealing how many of these loans did not comply to the standards required to be sold to the government and the retirement. i ask you, richard, how far do you think the 50 states state attorneys general are prepared to take this? in other words, are they prepared to go right up to the very end of this which goes to the state and pending funs that mortgage machine? i think first of all, everybody has agreed that defrauding a court is a serious matter it would be serious in an individual case it is more serious if it is done in a mass of cases. they have to clean that process up. and it behooves the financial institutions to take this seriously to work with us and to share information quickly. we will get it eventually and let s see how far this goes and see what needs to be done. but i will tell that you we do have be in ohio, we have cases on behalf of our pension
lot of oversight. republicans are saying this was not fair. it essentially would compel an unfair amount of hiring of women and minorities and do not believe it to be correct and fair. it will be interesting and a sensitive issue. a lot of folks in support saying this was a financial services industry and that has been dominated for a long time by white affluent men. if the government is putting all the funs in here, there should be representation of the rest of the country. a lot of groups are saying minorities are hit hard by the financial melt down by the predatory lending practices of the mortgage industry and they deserved their minority-owned companies that deserve to have a piece of this pie. this is a debate that will play into november because it really pulls on really sensitive strings with voters on both sides. it brings up a bigger can of