and i ll tell you what can get me going. i will not i will not do a joe here, but i will come close. we need to quit calling this a freaking audit in arizona. it s not an audit. i spent eight years as a government auditor. there are standards for a government auditor. they are called the yellow book standards. there are certain transparencies that are required. this isn t an audit. this is a conspiracy party this this is just a little get-together, let s see if we can play to the right wing cable news channels. let s see if we can make the other guy sitting down playing golf at mar-a-lago happy. the on seekousness of this party to donald trump is astounding.
done by none other than megan repino, go girls. no pressure there, the world cup only on the line, she scored a goal, made it happen, absolutely, 1-0 usa. love it. we will keep you posted. outrage with democrats and republicans trading blame, the overcrowded conditions at detention camps, kristina coleman live in los angeles bureau, hi, kristina. mike, this morning the new york times releasing what s being called a scathing report on texas detention center, 5 days after the department of homeland s security office of inspector general released their own disturbing at, ig report roughly 8,000 immigrants held in border patrol detention facilities in south texas were subjected to, quote, serious overcrowding and prolonged detention, government auditor said they observed children lacking full access to showers
jon: take you to capitol hill now. just about a year ago you remember what congress said? we don t want them. talking about earmarks. there was a moratorium declared. those unrelated items that lawmakers attach to a larger bill to get their pet projects approved in their states, their home districts they were going to go away. well they can cost taxpayers tons of money of the guess what. they re back. jim angle live in washington. so earmarks are on the rise again. i guess some lawmakers are calling out their colleagues because of it? reporter: that s right. there is a bipartisan effort led by republican senator pat toomey and democratic senator claire mccaskill to park legislation to tighten restrictions on earmarks. both of them told fox today, this practice has to stop. listen. i was government auditor. i said this is wrong. i am not going to play this game where you go in the back room and sprinkle fairy dust and you all of sudden get all the money for your
night vision advance technology. senator toomey, is this the kind of stuff you re talking about? sounds like it. you know, i think it s just really important that we change the culture of congress. the culture has historically been let s see how much money we can spend. well, when you re running $1.3 trillion deficits and you ve got a $15 trillion debt, it s time to develop a culture that says how much can we save? and i m delighted to be working with senator mccaskill on this. it s interesting, senator mccaskill. you made it a pledge when you came into the senate along with a handful of other senators that you would never take an earmark and i find that fascinating because one of the reasons that politicians do it is because they think that it helps them in the re-election efforts to bring things home to their people, right? well, i didn t really campaign against earmarks when i got here, gretchen and i saw the process, i said this was i was a government auditor and i said thi