go along and here is the question in afghanistan right now, do you support the president s decision to at least begin the withdrawal process next july? i share the goal of transitioning as soon as possible, but the way he has done it has created an impediment, and announcing we will leave next july no matter what em boldens the enemy. he didn t say well, it does embolden the enemy, and by next summer, we can transition to afghanistan control in parts of afghanistan and bring some troops home which is possible give ten progren th but i wish he would back off the idea of we are leaving in june. it is getting worse in some parts? well, there is progress that i have not seen. we have chances to break through on corruption. if the three cases pending could
security threat in afghanistan. we had the ability in iraq. he has to get all in on corruption. he is right about pakistan and quite frankly our contracting practices have undermined the afghan government. so there are things on our side that we can do to help him. when you say pakistan, and pakistani military intelligence service part of the problem or the service? both. they have taken casualties and taken the fight to the front tier regions, but they are double dealing. they don t know whether we are going to stay or leave. our president needs to say that we want to get it right, and history will judge him not by when he left, but what he leaves behind. are you talking to the president and rahm emanuel? yes, why not? we have young men and women literally shot at as we speak. it is inconceivable to me that the partisan politics in washington continues to affect war policy. i don t want to do in afghanistan what we did in iraq. let me switch gears briefly, your colleague in
destroys the case. i think a lot of democratic straft gists would say he needed to step down before this came forward. i hope these allegations are not true. but i think it s probably better for the party governor patterson not seek reelection. he had too many distractions and it was death by a thousand cuts. we ve got charlie wrangle. here is the head of the powerful house ways and means committee which writes tax law. now, he admits to the ethics violations. his bigger troubles i think are on the bigger side of this in terms of the income, oops, forgot to report. we ve got tax chief and a culture of corruption. i thought nancy pelosi was going to drain the swamp. democrat goes do not have a monopoly on corruption. she said she s going to drain the swamp. charlie wrangle is being censured. that is the right thing to do. he s being admonished. he s so powerful, being
i think governor patterson had to step down. a lot of democratic strategists would say he needed to step down before in allegation came for. i hope these allegations are not true. but i think it is better for the party that governor patterson not seek reelection. he had too many distractions. it was death by a thousand cuts. sean: we charlie rangel. head of the powerful house, ways and means committee, which writes tax law. he admits to the ethics violations. i think his bigger troubles are on the other side of this, in terms of the income that he had that oops, he forgot to report. we got tax cheat tim geithner. a culture of corruption. i thought nancy pelosi was going to drain the swamp. certainly democrats do not have a monopoly on corruption. sean: she said she was going to drain the swamp. rangel is being censured, he s being admonished. there s a difference.
declared war. on corruption, george washington again said we re a late nation of laws, not of men. you get caught with bribe money in the freezer, jail. this isn t this is suppossupposn t a get out of jail free card. you re not supposed to be v a full-time gig in washington. salaries were supposed to be low. if you work for the federal government, the average salary of federal employ owe this is mindboggling. the average salary is $71,206. $71,000. how much is your salary if you don t work for the federal government? $40,000. how is that? they work for you. you are paying them this. and that doesn t even count all the six-figure jobs the government that s actually increasing. and the people in washington, they make, i believe it s $179,000 a year.