get because they were members of congress or working for members of congress. what i found amazing in your report is that according to the report, these sweetheart deals basically came about because so many congressional staffers were actually complaining to the countrywide lobbyists about their own personal loans, so the lobbyists would spend the first 30 minutes of meetings dealing with people s personal complaints. that just seems outrageous to me. it does. particularly when you re on the committees that are charged with tightening up the rules and regulations. we were dealing with all these bad loans and whatnot. and these people, they were complaining about them but then so they took this program, internal program and called it friends of angelo and decided to go ahead and sta helping thesel. and it s just wrong. it didn t smell right, didn t look right because it wasn t right. it would be as if i went to interview the head of countrywide and spent the first 30 m
quo. we could not tie anybody s vote directly to getting this benefit as the report points out but it skirts awfully close. you re given a benefit to some your friends and neighbors or somebody off the street wouldn t get because they were members of congress or working for members of congress. what i found amazing in your report is that according to the report, these sweetheart deals basically came about because so many congressional staffers were actually complaining to the countrywide lobbyists about their own personal loans, so the lobbyists would spend the first 30 minutes of meetings dealing with people s personal complaints. that just seems outrageous to me. it does. particularly when you re on the committees that are charged with tightening up the rules and regulations. we were dealing with all these bad loans and whatnot. and these people, they were complaining about them but then so they took this program, internal program and called it friends of angelo and d
his role as america s favorite sheriff on the andy griffith show and he starred in the long running series matlock in the 80 s and 90 s. he is buried near his home in north carolina. he was 86 years old. let s talk politics now. president obama s swing state bus tour is coinciding with today s jobs report and that s set to be released in just a few hours. we ll talking about the monthly jobs report. molly henneberg is live for us now in washington with more. hey, molly, the last jobs report we got out was not good for the president and the nation, how is this one looking? the may unemployment report was, i believe, 8.2% or 8.3%. we ll have to see what june is. those numbers come out in 3 1/2 hours. they re significant not just as a measure of the nation s economic picture but as part of the campaign narrative. the june numbers set the tone for an economic discussion for the good part of the summer before a lot of people go on vacation in august. today, the president w
pat benetar was rocking it out last friday and today it is thompson square. welcome, everyone. hope you ll have a fantastic friday and dave briggs is sitting in for steve today. welcome to you. good to be here. good to see you both. yeah, we have a packed show and we are obviously going to the hispanic vote because we have both jose baez and geraldo rivera on the same show. they are good friends and thousands of miles away from each other. i didn t know that was the reason we booked them. it wasn t. maybe i m too much in the political mode! that we are talking politics. that and the stealing mode all the way from tuesday, folks! at least i hold on to my items. yep, you do. and your friends. now to your headlines, it s been almost a week since severe storms slammed the midwest and mid atlantic regions and more than 500,000 homes and businesses still without power from ohio to virginia. about half of those outages actually are in west virginia. even worse,
no, on the east coast we call carbonated beverages soda. this is midwest term. you are in manhattan now, young man. well, we might as well make the best of a mentally deficient situation. name of the band pop goes yeah. no time left. all right. should we consider the toll before changing their roll. the marine corps has taken big stems to allow women to serve. one female veteran says that a bad idea. that is right, a female says it. the latest issue of marine corps gazette. katie argues that quote, we are not all yid created equal. and there is career ending conditions for females. she was hockey player that could squat 200 pounds but after tours she developed muscle atrophy. she says the toll is much hard other women, politically incorrect. this is the closest to the front line i ll ever get. gregg: like i said, after gay marriage, this is what we re seeing, more of bird-cat stuff. dana, before the show you asked me, you said please come to me first? yes. you sai