hearing, too, they seem to be stabilizing right now, 31 dead, 130 injured, 20 of those, critical, ten in serious condition. it happened at the bustiest airport that moscow has, the dulvow airport that handles most of the foreign air traffic coming in and out of moscow, including american air traffic. authorities are saying it happened in the international arrivals area of the airport. it s not exactly clear whether it happened in the public meet and greet area or behind security inside the baggage handling area, but both areas as we ve been seeing from this vivid video coming in in the last few minutes, both areas have been affected. there are several reports it could have been, as you noted, too a. suicide, a homicide bomber, strapped with explosives, including shrapnel. there are reports of shrapnel around the airport, seven kyleoes of 17 pounds of tnt, the equivalent of what we ve been hearing about, panic throughout the airport, walls coming down, ceilings coming down, sm
and leanne spencer, the former controller. the taxpayer has shelled out a total of $63 million to defend those three executives going back many years. this is not the housing crash. this is the financial scandal at fannie and freddie before the crash. we re still shelling out tax dollars to pay for the defense of those executives. bill: how is that possible, how did they pass that on to us that simply? it sounds so cavalier. it s written into their contracts, and it is a point that you pay the tax the taxpayer pays the legal bills of these people employed by a semigovernment organization, unless they are convicted of wrongdoing. well, franklin raines, for example, paid back 20 odd million dollars because of his role in this fraud, but that was not considered wrongdoing. so we re still picking up the tab. and you know, freddie and fannie have had a lot of political protection, they are financial institutions but they re not part of