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Also you said dsk is getting another $75,000. actually the salary was 421 grand. and then mike says he has a 75k allow allowance to live on a scale appropriate to his position. this is what he was getting before. thats gone since he resigned. >> really? >> oh yeah. >> thats a months rent. >> it is hard being a french man in this country. >> but the simple rule, dont rape maids. >> well say it in french at least. >> i cannot agree with you more about shuning -- what the world needs now is shun, s...

Entrepreneurs that can say that. >> reporter: casey wian, cnn, los angeles. >> speaking of college grads, its graduation season. for some of you this means your children are going to college or starting work. yesterday financial planner karen lee joined me with ways to make sure that kids are financially savvy. we started with keeping a budget. >> youre already paying for their room and their board. what kind of bills do they have? well do it with spending money. set them up, well have to decide...

>> by definition, it means that the parties themselves, israelis and palestinians, will negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on june 4th, 1967. thats what mutually agreed upon swaps means. it is a well known formula to all who have worked on this issue for a generation. it allows the parties themselves to account for the changes that have taken place over the last 44 years. >> cnns senior u.s. state department producer elyse labben is in washington right now. ...

Each month. >> my mom did that. thanks mom. she did that a while back. >> well set a pretty low limit. the other thing real important is help them understand what a late fee is, what a finance or interest charge is. again, they dont know. >> so youve got to really hammer the message home about budgeting, though. you know what? you dont have it. dont spend it. that will come later. >> it will. when i thought about this, i thought this is going to be a hard one, to teach a college kid because real...

surgery. police in mexico arrested the leader of one of the countrys most notorious drug reasons. balderas operated the gang. i talked to a former dea agent a short time ago. >> this is major. youve got to remember this gang was responsible for large shipments over a long period of time, over ten years, coming from mexico to united states. youre talking about cocaine, marijuana. also, because they were able to free up the borders and get control over the borders, there is methampheta...

Has no criminal record, he has strong family ties, for example, two daughters that live here in new york, and hes not a flight risk. when he left -- tried to leave, get on a plane to head to paris, late on saturday, that he was not rushing away from an alleged attack, instead he said he was in a hurry to leave the hotel to have lunch with his daughter and go on to the airport. will the district attorney accept these charges? will the judge? if the judge does, then he could walk out of court a fr...

Listen to this. in 2010 his contract called for a base salary of almost $442,000 with an added allowance of om $80,000. no strings attached. he could spend it as he wishes. oh, and no taxes, either, by the way. first class airfare was covered for strauss-khan and his family whenever he was on "official business." hotel expenses as well. now to the middle east. as you may have heard live right here on cnn, president obama just reset the course of u.s. policy in the wake of the arab uprisings, o...

Who was actually living an incredible lavish lifestyle from all i have read but his salary, really, is not enough to support that. >>guest: at international monetary fund he got $420,000 year, the base salary. on top of that, he got $80,000 in an allowance for anything he wanted, anything with that money. can you imagine getting $80,000 allowance. and there is more money than that, he married very, very well. his note worth according to defense attorneys, around $2 million. and he has a bank acc...

Thats more than president obama and strauss-kahn pays for taxes on it. this at a time when one critic says the institution imposes stark conditions on the governments it lends money to. >> not only are taxpayers paying for that salary, but then theyre having to pay the cost in a second way which is that they have to undertake the policies that the imf demands which often hurt ordinary working class people. >> reporter: an imf spokesman responds pay increases are below the rate of inflation. but ...

President reagan, shortly after he was inaugurated in 1981. >> over the past decades, weve talked of curtailing government spending, so that we can then lower the tax burden. sometimes wave even taken a run at doing that. but there were always those who told us taxes couldnt be cut until spending was reduced. you know, we can lecture our children about extravagance until we run out of voice and breath. or we can cure their extravagance by simply reducing their allowance. >> simply reducing their...