she said it may not ab glamorous job but an important one. people are asked to serve there because there is a need. it is without regard to politics and many of these employees are happy to help but want to give substantive work like handling classified information or dealing with former governments named in the documents. they want to know why they are being asked to do the most menial of tasks when a month ago they were negotiating with foreign governments and advising the national security adviser, even the president, on national security matters. now they are asked to do data entry and google searches alongside interns and civil service employees ten grades below them. they can say this is not entirely will politics. it could be ad hoc or simple magistrate but a widespread moral problem at the state department that the lawmakers are demanding be looked at. brent and jack are back with us now. jack, to you first.
he s clinging to dwindling republican support around the state while still slamming his accusers. the scandal showing signs it may be taking a toll on the race. a new fox news poll now shows moore trailing his democratic opponent by eight points. gabe gutierrez is in montgomery, alabama with the very latest. do we expect the candidate himself will show up at this rally today? reporter: hi there, andrea, good afternoon. right now roy moore is not here at this event, but his wife kayla is, and we expect her to speak in just a few minutes at this news conference from the women supporters of roy moore has been ongoing for about a half hour or more. andrea, one of his steadfast supporters has been his wife. she s been very active on social media and their facebook page saying these actions are menial. she says she is standing by her husband she has known for more than 30 years and has never
is there theater involved here? it a pierce thappears that w. whether they are using twitter or making an interview with david ax rad or. i m talk about theater on the part of donald trump. no. this is typical donald trump. but the good news is out of all of this, what we are all hearing is it reminds me of be like a duck. stay calm on the surface and paddle like he can underneath. at times there are everything smooth on the surface with obama and trump and meanwhile the staff are paddling like he can. and the duck is inverts right now and things are kicking around the top. the good news, the nuts and bolts of the transition is moving smoothly. and i will say this, hats off for obama and his team for helping with the peaceful transition of power with regards to the meanal not the menial. but the difficult part of getting one staff ready to leave and one staff ready to enter. that duck is getting vertigo in this transition. i m just going to say that.
free. okay. every house member gets at least a million dollars to run his office and every senate member gets $2 million to run their office. dana they could put things as menial or trivial as water bottles on their expense. if you were bringing constituents in would you offer them water? yes, probably so. listen i just guarantee, eric when you get there, it will be different. i don t think we should pick up the tab for all of these incidentals. it s bottled water. i love tap. you didn t like what about fresca? i love fresca. this is what i m telling you it happens all the time. rt willall right. i take it back. are you going to recant? also married. his wife would have a real
it s like, well, it s $10,000 a year to go to this school, and i ll take out a loan of $10,000. and then they jack up tuition, and then there s pressure , so that the loan can be $12,000, and that cycle keeps repeating itself. and the flip side is kids more than ever feel that they have to go to college to get even the most menial kind of job. the new york times did this study involving a law firm in atlanta, where even the clerks and the runners in the law firm had to have college degrees, just to work there. if you want any kind of job, you ve got to do this and you ve got to ride this debt dragon, and there s no way out of it. and so, even kids who are who have their eyes wide open are faced with this incredibly difficult choice, very early in life. i want to bring in the conversation, author of the book generation debt and diyu. and robert kelson, contributor to the washington monthly. robert helped devise washington monthly s best bang for the buck