place and a pleasant lunch with valerie jared who is one of the three most important people in the white house after the president and first lady, and though it was a policy lunch, the subject of joe biden came up, and although valerie didn t really offer the job, because that is up to the president, for the vice-president, she indicate thad she wondered what hillary felt about it? and hillary said she had no interest in runog that ticket. for the simple reason, that if it won, she would have to run in 2016 and defend the obama record which i don t think is going to be so great if he wins. or if he lost, then she would be smeared as a loser and she decided it was a lose-lose preposition for her and she said no thanks. the attack ads are personal and nasty and i think they could get worse.
place and a pleasant lunch with valerie jared who is one of the three most important people in the white house after the president and first lady, and though it was a policy lunch, the subject of joe biden came up, and although valerie didn t really offer the job, because that is up to the president, for the vice-president, she indicate thad she wondered what hillary felt about it? and hillary said she had no interest in runog that ticket. for the simple reason, that if it won, she would have to run in 2016 and defend the obama record which i don t think is going to be so great if he wins. or if he lost, then she would be smeared as a loser and she decided it was a lose-lose preposition for her and she said no thanks. the attack ads are personal and nasty and i think they could get worse.
p.a.c. that was run by the employees. the p.a.c. was run by the employees? totally. totally. and given out by the employees. the ceo never got near it. if i ever got near it, every guy at nbc would have been there with a mike announcing that i have directed the p.a.c. money to someone. get out of here. i didn t touch it. never got near it. but the point is, though, you look at how unions continue to dwindle. private sector unions down to 7%. and we can debate about public sector unions. let s just talk for a second about private sector unions. even though you had an adversarial relationship with unions when you were ceo, that was your role, just like a union leader s role was to get as much from you as possible. we understand that. isn t it a threat to american s middle class that private sector unions dwindle the way they do? t. won t be if in fact we create
you, too. do you think the proposed cuts as we are hearing about them also painless have any chance of cutting this budget? i am kinds of like you. it s a lot of rhetoric where the rubber meets the road it s not going to happen. you can t add 32 million people to the medicare. where are you going to cut? it s a joke. you can t cut. he s going to say that. he s going to say all of those things but the devil is in the details t. won t happen. the thing is, nobody wants to cut what they like. even military spending. if you are a congressman and they are building their engine for the f 35 the second alternate engine or to the marine expedition air revehicle, however flawed it may be and it s in your district you are going to lose 1,000 jobs you are going to take the bullet? absolutely not. nobody is going to cut what they want. we saw in greece where they tried to cut back entitlements if you will and the people got in the streets.
you, too. do you think the proposed cuts as we are hearing about them also painless have any chance of cutting this budget? i am kinds of like you. it s a lot of rhetoric where the rubber meets the road it s not going to happen. you can t add 32 million people to the medicare. where are you going to cut? it s a joke. you can t cut. he s going to say that. he s going to say all of those things but the devil is in the details t. won t happen. the thing is, nobody wants to cut what they like. even military spending. if you are a congressman and they are building their engine for the f 35 the second alternate engine or to the marine expedition air revehicle, however flawed it may be and it s in your district you are going to lose 1,000 jobs you are going to take the bullet? absolutely not. nobody is going to cut what they want. we saw in greece where they tried to cut back entitlements if you will and the people got in the streets.