with the investigation from this on the gsa so solyndra, and high gas prices and all of this stealing the president s thunder. guest: great to be here, thank for having me. neil: this goes on and on. guest: particularly the energy issue, the keystone xl pipeline, the rising gas prices are tough issues to get over. right new he has the benefit of the republican nomination dominating the news but in the summer when gas prices continue to rise it will be were more difficult to runaway from the headlines. neil: the gsa smacks of hypocrisy you would think necessity would catch reading the speeches lambasting corporate america and fat cat c.e.o. s about not doing this kind of stuff, this is how they waste money and you could make the argument that a lot of the companies were wasting their own money and the case of those
a searing indictment of mitt romney s good friends at goldman sachs couldn t have come at a worse time for willard. greg smith pulls no punches in his resignation op-ed today lambasting his former employer for putting profit as head of clients and their own moral and ethical obligations. however, he might as well have been talking about their man mitt when he writes, it astounds me how little senior management gets a basic truth: if clients don t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. it doesn t matter how smart you are. joining us now is democratic congressman peter welsh of vermont who sits on the committee on oversight and government reform. good afternoon, sir. good afternoon. let me read to you a part of what goldman sachs s ceo wrote, workers there in reply to this
don t want to get married to mitt romney. so they re going to stick it out with herman cain as long as they humanly can. goldie, do you think it makes any difference, the race of the complainants involved in this? actually i don t. i think it s a factor that people will consider, but at the end of the day, it doesn t matter if these women were white, black, green or purple, if hay had blond hair, brown hair or green hair. it doesn t matter. inappropriate behavior is inappropriate behavior on behalf of any person in a public square, in a corporate square like that. i think it s just unfortunate that anybody would purportedly conduct themselves this way and then turn around and say i don t remember them or they were people who didn t do their jobs, they did bad jobs so that s why they were separated from the company. i think that s probably the most unfortunate part of this is how they come out and lambasted these women. i saw an e-mail today from the cain campaign, oh yesterday from
complainants involved in this? actually i don t. i think it s a factor that people will consider, but at the end of the day, it doesn t matter if these women were white, black, green or purple, if hay had blond hair, brown hair or green hair. it doesn t matter. inappropriate behavior is inappropriate behavior on behalf of any person in a public square, in a corporate square like that. i think it s just unfortunate that anybody would purportedly conduct themselves this way and then turn around and say i don t remember them or they were people who didn t do their jobs, they did bad jobs so that s why they were separated from the company. i think that s probably the most unfortunate part of this is how they come out and lambasted these women. i saw an e-mail today from the cain campaign, oh yesterday from the cain campaign, lambasting, you know, accuser number 4. you know, it s just really, really unfortunate how the right wing has turned on these women rather than to listen to, you
running. it would be wiser just to sit back. he s got some time. but, look, it is chaotic in there. there say lot of people. it is cementing. y you could be president. that s big. that sounds like someone is dabbling, that s for sure. there is a big speech at the reagan presidential library tonight. republican fund-raisers across the country this week and word from friend and the former new jersey governor tom kean that christie is now seriously considering a late entry into the gop race. here is tonight s truth. he isn t running. and while he s listening closely, very closely, to friends and fund-raisers begging him to reconsider, the best bet is that governor christie stays on the sidelines. why? well, for starters, the governor s greatest strength as a politician is he s viewed as a straight shooter, a guy who calls it like he sees it. and this is how he sees himself. i don t feel like i m ready to be president. i don t want to run for president. i don t have the f