jobs. greta: seven million jobs to americans? not all but most, that will be a huge help. greta: i thought many of the jobs that illegal immigrants had were jobs that people said americans were not inclined to take. maybe picking fruit or doing agriculture agricultural jobs. people say that. there is no job american won t do. half of those jobs are being worked by illegal legal immigrants and citizens. in other areas like the high paying jobs in construction that pays $17.50 those jobs should be going to americans. greta: in the manufacturing area, where there might be illegal immigrants being hired,
greta: there s much more ahead but first to ainsley air hard. ainsley: navy captain owen honors relieved of command of the uss enterprise. he made lewd videos shown on the aircraft carrier four years ago. navy officials said he showed extremely poor judgment. the navy is looking into what other officers might have known about the videos. honors was reassigned to administrative work. federal prosecutors in new york city investigating charges involving the up efforts after last week s blizzard. there are allegations that city workers who plowed the snow staged an intentional work slow down protesting the budget cuts. some neighborhoods remained unplowed for days. union officials are denying
waste of your money, admit it. that should unclue you. here to tell you about it ed o keefe. really 640 million in fraud and waste. that may or may not have been improperly distributed to 160,000 victims or survivors of hurricanes. it has been sitting there since about 2007 when a federal court ordered fema to look at this pause there was confusion about how money had gone out and how it was trying to take money they had accidentally given to people who fraudulently applied. greta: not chomp change. 160,000 possibly fraudulent payment, how does that happen? in a number of ways. in short it is not necessarily the government s fault. people applied when they knew they weren t supposed to. or not realizing they were making a mistake.
everyone would pitch in to keep the cost down. good idea? yes. greta: tell me why 222 corporations and unions got a waiver? special interests, lobbyists they get out of this pool. getting to the point where you have in the pool to transition. eventually everyone has to follow that rule. let me say this, the reason you need individual mandate is pause we someone guess to the emergency room tonight and doesn t have health insurance, someone else pays their bill. right now that is insured middle class americans. we think people that use the system have a response be ability to pay for their care. greta: the american people want health care reform. i think they object to the one that was passed number one. number two, it is hard to understand why this is supposed to be he can with it able, and then i ve to be equitable. and international brotherhood
because of a preexisting condition. greta: i don t think that was the debate. that was the way the democrats posed it to republicans. i think the republicans said, as i recall they were for fixing the system. they didn t agree as to how. and they are held hostage like they hate old people and somehow hate people that sick. i heard my friend david talk about the process in the house in the fall of 2009, the republicans were offered their own version, there was an up-down vote on that plan. that plan added to the number of uninsured. it did not cover people with preexisting conditions there wasn t enough money. they were given a chance to put their ideas on the floor. we had a fair debate. they should do that for us. greta: you heard me give the congressman my view on that the idea of the mandate now in the courts. the hope point is that