standing on end. he sent a letter to a congressional committee, where you said it was justified and should go to this conference birth said he ll look more carefully in the future about the line items. the next big question for dimarco, the overseer of fannie and freddie, will be the 2011 bonuses paid to fannie and freddie executives. he has already supported them. he has already come out and said it s to attract good talent. he had $35 million in bonuses in the last two years already for fannie and freddie. they have to allocate new bonuses this year so that will be the next phase where we ll see whether they re big spenders, like they have been, or if they pull in the reins. this is almost insane, and regulator who is overseen freddie mac and fannie are spending 64,000 on a fancy convention they don t need to go
we paid $190 billion already, it s cost the taxpayers, and there s about 50 billion or more to come, so to somehow assume that people can t do their job correctly without millions of dollars in bonuses when every day we have men and women who are serving, some who are putting their lives on the lines, they re not getting millions of dollars worth of bonuses. somehow, the overseer, a man named demarco, somehow said this is a good idea. he should be fired. greta: one of them gets $900,000 a year. which is more than any civil servant or anyone else. greta: no question about it. it s a significant sum of money, but what was so stunning is demarco said if they don t give bonuses that we re not going to attract so-called good people to the job to replace them which is bizarre to me at $900,000, but secondly, you say they re doing
taxpayers today. we paid $190 billion already, it s cost the taxpayers, and there s about 50 billion or more to come, so to somehow assume that people can t do their job correctly without millions of dollars in bonuses when every day we have men and women who are serving, some who are putting their lives on the lines, they re not getting millions of dollars worth of bonuses. somehow, the overseer, a man named demarco, somehow said this is a good idea. he should be fired. greta: one of them gets $900,000 a year. which is more than any civil servant or anyone else. greta: no question about it. it s a significant sum of money, but what was so stunning is demarco said if they don t give bonuses that we re not going to attract so-called good people to the job to replace them which is bizarre to me at $900,000, but secondly, you say they re doing
right now on cnn, what is going on in rochester, new york? i m not deserving what they re doing, and they re arrested me. i don t understand what s going on. i did nothing. i did nothing. all right. that s not good being arrested for videotaping an arrest from her own front yard. i ll talk with a local lawmaker who says he s been the target of police retaliation. plus, we investigate deeper. the outburst you see there probably won t help this woman s case. she s accused of attacking her husband. caught on tape, attacking the judge sentencing her. we re going to talk to the officer who grabbed her. and i want you to meet mama jazz and her very unique fingernail style. her longest nail, 26 inches. the one her thumb. we ll visit her house to see how she goes about her daily life. and she ll be here to answer in questions for me. i m don lemon at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. a lost news to get you caught a lot of news to get you caught up on so let s do it.
unilaterally, one person gets to decide, no appeal, no process, no local decision making whatsoever. in benton harbor, the overseer has now stripped the mayor and the city commission of all of their duties, and you can see how happy some of the people in benton harbor are about their new state-appointed boss. benton harbor and the detroit public schools are both flat broke. the state s position also seems to be that they are broken and that for them, democracy itself is part of the problem. with this emergency law in michigan, the state says that these places can t be fixed with their democracy in place and functioning. that the solution for them depends on doing away with that democracy, doing away with representative government, doing away with their elected officials. the repair for their brokenness begins with ending their democratic decision making. and impose something shocking name to it, but imposing a kind of dictatorship, with the dictator being a person of the