170 billion in as you say, but they re now asking for $15 billion more to cover losses just in the last quarter. i actually introduced this bill on christmas, during the christmas break when the white house announced that an unlimited bailout of fannie and freddie back in 2009 and introduced it again in march and with this latest announcement of not only that they pay that $35 million to the top six executives that you mentioned but they also want to give them $13 million in bonuses. which is just obscene. jenna: if i could, congressman, this argument has been made for fannie and freddie going back years and years, not just right now, if you don t highly compensate the individuals that are running these enterprises then they will not be competitive. then the taxpayers will miss out because they re not going to be managed appropriately. what is your response to that? oh, the government has never had problems hiring.
that president obama supports. one of the things that s interesting to me, jon, is that he, you know, in looking at states like ohio and pennsylvania, those are states where when mitt romney was growing up, labor unions were very powerful, and people believed very strongly that business was somehow an adversary. many voters were against management. but in this case i think that romney is betting that people will like the idea that you want businesses to do well, and the polling number bees tend to back him up numbers tend to back him up. right now the big government solutions of the obama democrats evidently don t seem to be work anything the opinion of a majority of ohio, florida and pennsylvania voters. jon: let me play a clip for you of herman cain last night, and i want to touch on the scandal that s enveloped his campaign on the other side of this. take a listen. my character and my integrity more than anything else, and for
this is senior day for them. okay? they deserve to have this day. okay, that is what they worked for this whole year and, my job is to facilitate that that happens. you know, i think the reputation that penn state will go about it, in the proper manner and restore the foundation and principles of the pennsylvania state university. andrew? tom, right here, tom. in light of the, first of all your thoughts about the rye ots last night and in the wake of the decision about joe paterno? do you worry about the safety and atmosphere for players and fans in the stadium on saturday given everything taken place? i understand there was some activity last night. no, i do not worry about the safety of our players on saturday. meeting with the players last night, how are they handling such a monumental change at this point in the season? obviously a lot of them are in shock. they have mixed emotions. when i called up an spoke to the captains, a whole bunch of guys come over to the
handle this and i told him i would do it last night and i will proceed in the manner that penn state expects as i met with the players last night and today, i told them the expectations are the expectations. we re not going to waiver from that. and that s where we are right now. we, the players came over last evening to the lash building. we talked about certain things. we went over certain ways. we proceeded this morning to have a staff meeting, and then a team meeting at 8:00. [inaudible]. i have no reservations about taking this job. tom, when and how did you learn that you would become the interrim head coach? i was actually down in my office watching film last night like i do every wednesday night and the phone rang and it was rod ericson calling on the phone about, about 20, quarter to 10:00 and he asked me if i
connected to the case, megyn wright has become part of the story because she got a call on her cell phone the night baby lisa disappeared, and that call was from one of the cell phones that lisa s parents told police were missing from their house the morning they discovered lisa was gone. megyn wright has spoken to the police and the fbi, she s actually also started her own facebook page to defend herself from any accusations that she s somehow involved in this. and this morning she posted a message that she s moving away from kansas city because of the scrutiny. investigators have followed hundreds of tips, but they still have no solid leads about what happened to her. back the you. jenna: a mystery it remains, at least for now, rick. thank you. jon: emotions running high across the country with word the winningest coach in college football history was fired. penn state making the announcement last night. angry students then poured into the streets to show their support for joe patern