would talk about the american people s right to know what s going on in the government. talk about waste fraud, abuse mismanagement, taxpayer collars. fi dollars haves hearings about fast and furious, benghazi, holding people in contempt of congress for not cooperating with the investigations. now the same people are turning the other way and the ignorance and flagrantly violating check and balance of the congress. mindblowing as someone who worked with these very people and heard them aalk about overs and now they re completely abandoning it. i can t believe what i m seeing every day. i so wanted to talk to you as you were entrenched with the republican party and knew what they wanted and how it s playing out right now. the other point is, again, these republicans are criticizing the process, not the substance of these allegations. right? you have the south carolina
parties they want to keep it quiet. paying a huge severance check out of your office budget that no one in leadership has any kind of oversight over that you can just use it as a slush fund, taxpayer collars to pay off people that you ve gloroped or assaulted or whatever is horrifying. the members know this happens which is why i do think they want to pass a law and never answer an interview question about this again. i totally agree. i mean, it doesn t make sense. i think they took a practice that does happen in business and applied it to the government but, you know, these people should are supposed to be the public servants, shouldn t have these cases to begin with. if you re the victim, you re the one hiring an employment attorney out of your own pocket and if you re the victim, chances are you are a young junior person and you don t have the money and alas, the big boss, those who are committing these things, they get it all covered. it s time to change that. we re going to
executive order that is executive branch and cabinet members, strong guidelines on how they use taxpayer collars and government resources moving forward. he sets the tone for his administration. but he also sets the tone for future administrations that we re not going to tolerate this behavior anymore. abby: this is not the first time this has happened. exactly. abby: taking advantage of things in the past. you mentioned the way president trump handle. this and regardless of where you fall politically. somebody said i m coming in to drain the scwamp. when you heard about, this you could see it in his face. he was irate. he was upset. he was upset because it s taxpayer money. when i m here in washington that s not what i m here to do. i m here to help people that need money back in their pockets. contrast in this as we are going into tax reform debate. a lot of peopled a up federal state local food and gas tax intind they are paying over 50% of their money in taxes to a government t
25 might be the number in the end. you re doing it because you think you re saving taxpayer collars i collars in your state. how much money do you think you re saving taxpayers because of this decision in. well it is an unknown amount. first of all we do know not know what the requirements are going to be for administrative costs. it is obviously in the millions of dollars every year and certainly something that our state budget cannot absorb. bill: are the services for the people who live in your state, will they now be worse off than perhaps somebody who is living somewhere else that actually has one of these exchanges? i don t see how that is the issue. if they have an insurance policy, and if all insurance policies are going to have to meet the criteria of government, then if they have a policy that is issued by state exchange or a federal exchange presumably their benefits would be the same. bill: if the federal government is slow to set up one of these
now anywhere in the united states. cops say they believe he is still holding the 8 and 12-year-old sisters after abducting the family last month in tennessee. investigators say they found the girl s mother and old oar sister buried at the suspect s home in northern mississippi. the suspect is charged with their murders. today, his mother-in-law gave an emotional plea. here. please, you have destroyed one family. you are destroying my family. you took my daughter from me. please, turn yourself in. don t hurt anybody else. shepard: she says her daughter, the suspect s wife, was tired of her husband claiming the girls were his. that wife is also charged with murder. lawmakers just approved billions of taxpayer collars for a missile defense system. but folks at the pentagon say we don t need it. we ll explain in a live report from the pentagon ahead.