Page 494 - Abuses News Today

Recommendations are ultimately honored by congress or not? >> i think the president made clear in his speech today he thinks these intelligence officials by and large are patriotic in trying to protect the country, but also careful about civil liberties. youre right there have been abuses that have been pointed out in recent months, and the president was initially dismisssive of edward snowden, calling him a hacker that wasnt worth our time to chase down will military assets. now todays acknowle...

Accomplishments is being called into question as they are auditing $25 million in federal relief funds. some of which his critics accuse him of using as political purposes while the governor tries to refocus on the future, many remain focused on alleged abuses of power in the past. for more on that, joined by the long serving mayor of elizabeth, christian bollwage. lets start with this fundraiser tonight. we know the governor will spend time raising money for conservative steve lonergan, who lau...

Impact and we dont run and hand them a check. so thats steve loner g eer gan. why would governor christie associate with i a guy like that? similar to the state of the state exist and para dox, hes moving to a sure district to run while hes critical of sandy aid which makes no sense. the people who live in this district, were hit by hurricane sandy and they are going to rely on additional sandy aid. now you have a guy running for congress who doesnt believe the federal government should help tho...

Youve got new jersey drove ive suing him. now wheres the president just before his election with romney, and he gets the big bear hug, where is he now? >> memo to establishment gop, democrats are not your friends. you need to understand that. theres a lot of give and no take. but i agree with kiersten here. i will not defend christie on this matter. one thing that bothers me than anything is abuses of government power. and while i dont think christie was directly involved he did surround himself...

Obama has done wrong. the countless abuses of power that he has done, and the media has not so much as asked a question, what did you know and when did you know about the "fast & furious"? what did you know and when did you know about the irs scandal, solyndra, while he was trying to get more funds for it. and there are countless scandals that the media has suppressed to deliberately help obama and to shield him. >> one thing you said about christie, he put his neck on the line, he left no wiggl...

Millions of things obama has done wrong, the countless abuses of power and the media doesnt even ask a question, what did you know and when did you know it about "fast & furious," about solyndra. and theres countless scandals all the way through that the media has deliberately helped to shield obama. >> the one thing about christie, he put his neck on the line. he left no wilg room. he fired people, took the heat and answered the questions, and when you compare it to fast and fewer ruuriou furio...

I think shes on methadone. shes had three marriages, kids all over the place. the father isnt there. thats a part of the equation. its a huge part of the equation here. money just doesnt address that. >> you can even argue we had the money back then. we dont have the money right now. you really got to look at, all right, you want to address something bad going on, throwing good money after bad isnt the answer, when you question how much is going, you will come off mean spirited. >> you come off ...

Investigation for all the reasons were sitting here and talking about. no, i dont support that. we keep getting away from the point. the point is supposed to be does the irs deserve a reasonable budget to get their job done. again, liz went back to all the problems of the irs doing its job. they didnt ask for this job, congress gave them this job, why are you going to punish them in the process of doing the best job they can do. >> $11 billion a lot of money when agents tell me yes we can do it,...

Thompson -- it was a 40/40 club. >> what i like about this is we have all of this outrage that is built up overall of this time from people who are outraged from very little. i have never seen more misinformed and because of all of that and the emotion that is involved the president is about possibly to make some significant changes to programs that actually are very sound and has not contributed to abuses and are well balanced. and there are checks and balances. of course it is all about politi...

It makes the court more likely to defer to court arguments. i do give the presidents panel credit for recommended that change. what do you think of that and should the president embrace it? >> one change that actually would be meaningful is if you actually put a public advocate at the court, basically a devils advocate. right now the only party that can be heard in that court is the government. if only one side gets to have a lawyer making an argument, you can pretty much prove anything, no matt...