important one colied. i guess my first question is what didn t make air that should have? what was blocked? i decided for many reasons not to go into a lot of detail. i ll probably write a lot in the book when i can think it out and word it carefully. but it was a huge variety of stories. i m not the only one complaining about that and it s not the only network where correspondents think this is going on. watch dog stories in the powerful. be it charities, government, corporations. in general there s a sense now that anything about government and i m not even saying politically, it may be the same no matter who s in charge. you just don t want to go up against the government. if you re not saying at this point what were blocked or could you say what shows or who blocked them? cbs evening news was definitely a tough nut to crack the last couple of years. virtually i can t think of there may be a story or two. no one expects all of their
you are going to pick out your own insurance policy. you re not going to. you have to. you have to. that s an offense. that s an offense. you have to have both these guys back. we have about 20 more questions we need to get to but i have one left. now, listen. the constitution says you have to keep your salaries. americans are mad about that. you ve got congress people in the senate. you ve got a young veteran who says she will give her salary back. people will give their salaries to charity. who are you giving your salaries away to? i m sure you won t keep them because your poor staffers are suffering. my staffers are working. without pay. no, no, my staffers are working with pay. right now. they re doing oversight on the federal government. they re continuing to work on the 800,000 federal boringers are not. noeg is for that. i m going to keep my salary and make sure i spend it and tithe and it give to it
i don t understand why liberals would prefer to fund the government through a mechanism that hit charities, the housing industry and high tax states than by cutting defense spending. and i don t understand why republicans prefer to cut defense spending than to hit charities, high tax, mostly through blue states that get subsidiz subsidized. the sequester is bad policy, terrible economic policy. i would like to get rid of it altogether. but if we keep it, we absolutely have to give the agencies the ability to make decisions about how to make those cuts. but if we did that, and we can t get rid of it, if we gave agencies that discretion, then if you give me a choice between 5 billion by cutting spending on homes and charities and state and local taxes, i think i would take the defense cuts. every other time we ended our wars we have brought defense spending way down. if this time is different, if we allow ourselves to get trapped
that hit charities, the housing industry and high tax states than by cutting defense spending. and i don t understand why republicans prefer to cut defense spending than to hit charities, high tax, mostly through blue states that get subsidized. the sequester is bad policy, terrible economic policy. i would like to get rid of it altogether. but if we keep it, we absolutely have to give the agencies the ability to make decisions about how to make those cuts. but if we did that, and we can t get rid of it, if we gave agencies that discretion, then if you give me a choice between 5 billion by cutting spending on homes and charities and state and local taxes, i think i would take the defense cuts. every other time we ended our wars we have brought defense spending way down. if this time is different, if we allow ourselves to get trapped in a mind set of being in a permanent war and require the