time for the lid. panel is back, e wlrliana,. we have a couple confirmation hiccups, speed bumps. the question is are any of them going to be debilitating? eliana, we have the tom price thing, we litigated that, you heard patty murray. there seems to be a second stock issue, a second issue that s not well litigated because mike pence didn t seem to have the whole story. congressman of south carolina, pick for budget director, basically has unpaid taxes on a former domestic worker. you can usually survive one of them, it s hard to survive two. the thing to keep in mind, these are very normal problems have with nominees. it seems like every time we have, you know, nominees, somebody goes down for not paying taxes. it s unbelievable to me i know, it s like fourth
i m going to set that aside. this stock issue, is that enough to disqualify him if you didn t disagree? let s say you agreed with everything he did, do you think that stock issue is enough to disqualify him from the job? the ethics investigation shows or any other investigations show as the facts. that s what we need to judge our opinion on. and i m going to every on the side of caution here. and every member of the senate should be asking this. at the end of the day if they get that to a secretary of hhs who six months down the road is doing the same thing that he allegedly may have done already and signing contracts or making decisions that put profits in his own pocket ahead of our citizens, they don t want to be accountable to that either. that s why it s important to get this answer.
martha stewart involving the stock issue that eventually caused her to serve some time behind bars. he was a u.s. attorney in rich monday, virginia. a prosecutor, rather, and helped to get guns off the street and then became the number two official, the deputy attorney general under john ashcroft at the justice department. that s when that dramatic episode happened that you were talking about, march 2004. we never knew it at the time. comey ended up testifying about it saying he rushed to the bed side of john ashcroft who was in the hospital with pancreas trouble as officials were asking ashcroft to sign off on the government s warrant list surveillance program. something ashcroft had done several times before. but there had been new objections raised by comey. and at this dramatic scene at the hospital bed side, comey said the attorney general said, don t ask me. i m not going to sign off on it. comey is now the acting attorney general. and comey said that he and the fbi director robe
the stock issue. it is not where we will recoup our investment. it is at $19 a near. it was $33 when they launched. eric: thank you, jeff flock, outside of chicago. now in texas the chevrolet volt is alive and well in an austin neighborhood. they have so many volts it is called voltville and the neighborhood home is to the high the concentration of volts in the world, 55 voles in all and now more than 10 million of your tax dollars fund a smart grid test. john stossel is here. you are revolting? guest: a smart grid, what is smart about it? smart that we give this money away? i am revoting on dave ramsey say i have to kick out my kid. he is 23 and i like him being
and we went to the capital market. we have stock issue. and we got the money to raise more stores. we did that constantly through our career. now, why newt would attack the free market and the capitalist system is beyond me. it is what made america great and what, you walk around and you see poverty not united states but you see everyone with a cell phone, everyone with a tv in their house, poverty here is helped bit impact that capitalism has created jobs in america so i don t buy that issue and i think that newt gingrich and i know him well, he went off on a wrong thankent and i am sorry who did it, i don t think it helped the republican party and it is not going to help in the final analysis when we go to elect the president. neil: thank you, we will watch closely. guest: good to talk to you. neil: what can i tell you, the ladies are still in love? did you see this? the president made me family something, a special quality. my god. it was so . talk about . it