it s interesting because not only did he continue to deny it, the few days ago when he announced he was resigning, he actually continued to blame george w. bush. where do you fall on that? well, you know, there s no question that they were both political parties that were pushing this idea. let s use fannie and freddie as a mechanism to encourage more home ownership which is a laudible goal. a lot of times they have unintended consequences and the unintended consequences is banks were encouraged to make risky loans to people that have bad credit. there were both political parties doing that but the fact is that also in 2003/2004, the bush administration was pushing aggressively for more oversight , better accounting starnndards for both fannie and freddie and congressional democrats including barney frank resisted it. we knew the books were cooked almost a decade ago but barney frank and others resisted efforts to look into that and effectively deal with it. well, one thing that
Already very stretched and carries large burdens all around the world and whenever possible for us to be able to get international cooperation, not just in terms of words but also in terms ever planes and pi lots and resources, that s something that we should actively seek and embrace because it relieves the burden on our military and it relieves the burden on u.s. taxpayers to fulfill what is an international mission and not simply a u.s. mission. nick, as i was listening to that, he s absolutely right the american people are tired of war, tired of paying for war in terms of the financial cost and human toll. i never heard a president of the united states say we re there but boy are we happy to get in the back seat as quickly as possible. well i think it is laudible the president want our european partners to do more. here s the problem, john.
That one of the higher level people of royalty in saudi arabia wanted the u.s. to blow up iran, ok? so that was a first that we had heard that and now we re haring how china feels about the situation in north korea. i think this actually how do i want to say this? it may move diplomatic relations along a little bit more. i don t know. i don t know. it might but here s the catch. will anyone want to tell the u.s. anything anymore? that s the problem. i think that s yesterday responded to that. there is nothing laudible about endangering innocent people and brave about sabotaging the peaceful relations where our security depends. hillary as secretary of state has it do some spinning because secret stuff that has been told to us is now displayed out there for the whole world to hear about and julian assange, the guy who and gretchen was
Cry as a person it seems to me and i think in so many ways, he s a very laudible and a great man. they talk him being a great communicator. he really is not. a lot of the ideas that he prefers are not really that thought out because he shoots from the hip too much. and because he s a very intelligent man, images come to him quickly. the fact of the matter is that it s absurd to think that someone could ok, you made enough money. who is going to be the judge? who is going to be the committee? no committee, it s me. call me up and i ll tell you. bringing us back to jay s original point, how would you ever decide that? panel, thank you so much for your thoughts this morning. have a great weekend. thank you. let s go out to the green room to see steve and brian. all right, gretchen, thanks very much. disaster in the gulf as that enormous oil spill reaches land. we ll hear from the u.s. coast guard on how they re handling the crisis. that s coming up next. and he got loose on a
Battling? well, certainly cynics will say that. we do have one about him, buddy calwell in louisiana. we ll have more. i joined with democrats and sued republican administration officials if we believe their actions have violated states rights. it has nothing to do with the policy. many parts of this health care reform are laudible. doesn t matter how good it is, you have to do it right and legal in this country and they haven t done that, so we have to stand up for states rights in the tenth amendment, i believe more democrats, a.g.s, will join in as they see the responsibility to their state and as states pass the laws that prohibit the mandate as utah and virginia and other states have done, more a.g.s will be required to join the suit. we have a great court in virginia and we have a good chance of winning this suit. jon: you where written, along a oren hatch, that this law is a threat to liberty itself. what do you mean by that?