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He was someone who believed in the system and believed he was interested in doing right. as patty said, he never took a bribe, never took a kickback, the only elected officials that have ever been prosecuted for corruption. fund-raising and doing fits political deals. they went after him, and when the federal government invest resources and their credibility in making the case that someone is corrupt, they will do whatever it takes. laura: if their job is to prosecute, and you have come up empty, he didn t take a bribe, he didn t fly in a fancy jet, he didn t take vacations on someone else s time. but the court will convince a jury to say, he believed that he might have to do something that a donor wanted him to do. that is crazy. bob mcdonald ultimately got exonerated for that. ....
Fighter. a very fansy fighter jet. also the subject of a lot of advertising in washington, d.c. based publications. why does it star in so many beltway advertisements, get so much attention? congress decided in its infinite wisdom it wants to fund part of this plane that the pentagon doesn t want. this fancy jet comes with a spare engine. full disclosure, one of our parent companies, ge, helps make this spare engine. the way congress designed this now, for every joint strike fighter that s built, there is a backup engine built for it, too. why do you need a backup engine built for this jet? good question. the pentagon doesn t know either. they do not want it. but despite the fak that the military keeps saying they don t want it, congress keeps funding it. today, that spare engine offered another bull pucky detection moment. president obama s spending plan put out today follows the ....
This plane that the pentagon doesn t want. this fancy jet comes with a spare engine. full disclosure, one of our parent companies, ge, helps make this spare engine. the way congress designed this now, for every joint strike fighter that s built, there is a backup engine built for it, too. why do you need a backup engine built for this jet? good question. the pentagon doesn t know either. they do not want it. but despite the fact that the military keeps saying they don t want it, congress keeps funding it. today, that spare engine offered another bull pucky detection moment. president obama s spending plan put out today follows the military s advice, eliminates funding for this spare engine that the military does not want. house republicans, on the other hand, they want to keep it. their spending plan for the rest of the fiscal year includes $450 million for the random backup engine that the military doesn t ....
People who can say i bring in a ton of money for the company and if i want to fly on the fancy jet, i will fly it and if you want to fire me, fire me and it is not that kind of situation and looks like they are behaving like it is. right. and in terms of bottom line, okay, we spent an enormous amount of money and what did we get for it in the sense of copenhagen we got absolutely nothing. there is no treaty, no meaningful agreement. and the other thing, i think that taxpayers need to understand is there is no transparency on these congressional travel expenses and we need to know what they are doing and all of the money and all of the cost of the military jets they are using. martha: you are right, anybody ought to log onto a government web site, gov.com or whatever and say what did we spend on this and should be able to find out where this money went, we have to go but thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. bill: did a great job. martha: $8,000 for four people traveli ....