holder seemed more disturbed by commissioner kelly s attempts to prevent terrorism than he was to take responsibility for a program run by his department called fast and furious that put illegal guns in the hands of mexican drug lords and resulted in the murder of an american border agent. and finally, there s the really stupid vote of the senate this week to kill a bill by senator tom coburn which would have implemented a government accounting office recommendation that would have eliminated $10 billion of duplicative government programs. sounds real simple. a government agency finds $10 billion of pure waste of your money, and recommends we turn off the leaky faucet. the senate s response? defeat the bill and turn the spigots on full, and that is stupid. comedian ron white has it right when he says this. you can t fix stupid.
holder seemed more disturbed by commissioner kelly s attempts to prevent terrorism than he was to take responsibility for a program run by his department called fast and furious that put illegal guns in the hands of mexican drug lords and resulted in the murder of an american border agent. and finally, there s the really stupid vote of the senate this week to kill a bill by senator tom coburn which would have implemented a government accounting office recommendation that would have eliminated $10 billion of duplicative government programs. sounds real simple. a government agency finds $10 billion of pure waste of your money, and recommends we turn off the leaky faucet. the senate s response? defeat the bill and turn the spigots on full, and that is stupid. comedian ron white has it right when he says this. you can t fix stupid.
we ll hear more about on fox news tonight. i think you are hearing some pushback from conservatives, saying basically that this is another example of the liberal press trying to bring down a black conservative. they re namedropping clarence thomas and drawing comparisons to that. but it does seem like he has stumbled into a real big mess here, primarily because there s that clear flip-flop, there s that clear reversal from earlier in the day, when he said he had no idea of this settlement, which i think to some people s ears, did strike them as odd. there seemed to be an acknowledgement that the complaints were made. and then to sort of say, he had no idea that a settlement was made when it was made, i think, struck people as odd. so now we have him here, clearly contradicting himself from earlier today. he s definitely developing this story as he goes along. this is called what s it called? rolling disclosure, we call it in our business, right, j., jonathan, j-mar. this is when yo
contradicting himself from earlier today. he s definitely developing this story as he goes along. this is called what s it called? rolling disclosure, we call it in our business, right, j., jonathan, j-mar. this is when you put out information like a leaky faucet and it looks worse for you all the time, right? look, chris, he had ten days to respond to this story. his campaign was made aware of our reporting on thursday, october 20th. they did not respond until the following week on monday. we were not satisfied with the nature of their response. we wanted to make sure mr. cain himself, not his staff, mr. cain himself, had a chance to respond to these very serious questions. so i asked him directly, outside of cbs news yesterday morning, have you, sir, ever been accused of sexual harassment in your life? i gave him four chances to answer that very straightforward question. he didn t do it. and not until today did he finally admit that, yes, he was accused of sexual harassment. he
information like a leaky faucet and it looks worse for you all the time, right? look, chris, he had ten days to respond to this story. his campaign was made aware of our reporting on thursday, october 20th. they did not respond until the following week on monday. we were not satisfied with the nature of their response. we wanted to make sure mr. cain himself, not his staff, mr. cain himself, had a chance to respond to these very serious questions. so i asked him directly, outside of cbs news yesterday morning, have you, sir, ever been accused of sexual harassment in your life? i gave him four chances to answer that very straightforward question. he didn t do it. and not until today did he finally admit that, yes, he was accused of sexual harassment. he denied it. and said that there was one charge. a half a dozen sources tell us that there were at least two female employees who complain about their treatment by mr. cain. nia, i want to ask you, is anybody out there pushing this sto