cut our costs down and who said, who are you going to recruit? i went over leon panetta. we are very budget conscious. sam, talk about, you know, senator chuck schumer, dick durbin. two of the most powerful guys in the senate right now. what are they like as room mates? it was great, actually, because congressman miller and myself, you know, knew what were going on in the house that day. we could check with our senate colleagues what was happening in the senate anded there be some collaboration. there were some differences. we sometimes would fought as our districts had different interests. but it was actually a good way to live. you were in washington from tuesday night to thursday night and it meant that you had to work all the time. you didn t have to feel guilty of not going home to see your family. and then you ahad somebody to collaborate with. you just didn t go back to a place by yourself. it was a good deal economically. i want to complain to congressman russo, the couch w
retiring from congress and he has decided to sell the house effective now. which means that congressman miller, senator dick durbin, senator chuck schumer were all forced to move out of the house last week. miller bought the place back in 1977 and started offering beds in 1982 and the house has seen an interesting cast of room mates over the years. leon panetta lived there until president clinton appointed him the director of office and budget and then he was forced to move out because ethic laws prevent a white house official from paying rent to a member of congress. now i m joined by bill de la hunt and sam gottenson and all of them have lived in the house. the real-life alpha house at various points over the last several decades. congressman, it is your son who is buying this house. he just opened a new bar called dennison s and he has a
many of us have assumed or maybe we just hoped it would go on forever. lawmakers bunking together like any other room mates eating someone else s cereal, neglecting to make their beds and ignoring a rodent problem in hopes it might just go away. this two-story row house in washington has received a lot of attention over the years. most recently, including from us, when the amazon series alpha house premiered. it s what you re looking at here. the real-life alpha house where democratic members of congress have crashed during the week. senators, congressmen we re talking about here is the kind of place that you better be sure the cleaning woman is a legal immigrant and tip o neill would call up in the house and what kind of trouble are you guys going to create for me tomorrow? once described the house as mtv s real world with power brokers. but now the owner of the real house george miller, well he s
because of being room mates i knew his parents. but i have become a little bit closer to them since this whole thing started. what is your reaction when you hear the father praising allah in the rose garden and wanting more gitmo detainee, terrorists who killed americans freed, what is your reaction when you hear that the person you were so close to he s ashamed of being an american and america is disgusting. what s your reaction to that? you know, i don t know what to think. i don t know his state of mind at that point, was it somebody being frustrated with their job because as i have said before, you know, we always look at the military in a different light. but when you join the military that is your job. and i m not sure any american, any person in general has ever been 100% satisfied with their job and not had a bad day where they have said they wanted to quit, they wanted to kill their boss, they wanted to do
that he took ballet. how long did he do that? he started taking ballet when he was about 17 and continued taking until he was about 22, 23. did he ever express any opinions about america that you found troubling? not the entire time we were room mates. i didn t have any of these conversations with him at all. what about the decision when he decided to sign up and serve in the military. what was his reason? you know what? we went to lunch one day and told me he sign up and leaving within 24 to 48 hours to go to basic training and i wasn t surprised by his decision to do this. it was something that i think he felt he wanted to do and should do. so it wasn t a surprise decision when he told me about it. how well did you know his family, his father? i met them and became closer to them after he was captured. before that i knew we knew