cutting its own and doing it the right way? well, eric, let s look at the cal graph, they get paid 30 to $50 an hour. there are ceremonial functions for the presidency. i think we should go after big cuts like getting out of afghanistan. hold on, hold on. hold on. nickel and diming? you tell me if this is nickel and diming. ii went to white house.gov and downloaded the employees. 28 pages long. listen to this. $130,000, special assistant to the president. $102,000, special assistant to the president. $138,000, special assistant. associate director of public engagement. the list goes on and on and on. we re not nickel and diming here. no, these jobs have been it takes years to get these jobs approved and get them listed. it doesn t mean they re going to be hired. in fact, every agency, all 15 are making cuts and it is
chair dancing? you never danced in your car while you drive? one thing you probably haven t done in your car. bob: can you get a picture of gutfeld with the santa claus? first, the problem with that is no kid can sit on your lap without greg: the worst experience of my life. i was on the turnpike leaving a mall in philadelphia. i made a u and they took a picture. dana: one of the accusations is some of the cities have shortened the yellow light. bob: absolutely. dana: to catch more people running a red light or speeding. andrea: i don t like. then they are nickel and diming you in to complete submission. i do there is safety benefit to them. they get me to drive slower. dana: they cause people to leave certain neighborhoods. if they know they are there, they won t frequent stores in the area so it has unintended consequence of hurting the economy of that neighborhood. bob: what else they do is lower the cameras and they lower the speed. if it s 35, they will drop it
contractors in iraq. is there is anyone monitoring or auditing these contracts? we re trying to, i m on the oversight trying to? why can t you? i ve got the numbers, the numbers are very real. the president says we re out of iraq and he replaced them with his own private army. greta: are we paying like $100 for an aspirin? does anyone actually nickel and diming, i realize small potatoes compared to the money spent, but is anyone actually looking? what dollar goes out of the pentagon to a contractor in iraq and what we re getting. we pay a premium, the green zone is very limited. a lot of these people are literally sitting there twiddling their thumbs because they can t get away from the embassy compound. i think it s a huge waste. greta: why are we paying them a premium if they can t do anything? again, this is where we re trying to push the president to say, this should not stand. greta: we ve been in iraq for, you know, for 10 or 11
greta: let me go to the contractors in iraq. is there is anyone monitoring or auditing these contracts? we re trying to, i m on the oversight trying to? why can t you? i ve got the numbers, the numbers are very real. the president says we re out of iraq and he replaced them with his own private army. greta: are we paying like $100 for an aspirin? does anyone actually nickel and diming, i realize small potatoes compared to the money spent, but is anyone actually looking? what dollar goes out of the pentagon to a contractor in iraq and what we re getting. we pay a premium, the green zone is very limited. a lot of these people are literally sitting there twiddling their thumbs because they can t get away from the embassy compound. i think it s a huge waste. greta: why are we paying them a premium if they can t do anything? again, this is where we re trying to push the president to say, this should not stand. greta: we ve been in iraq for, you know, for 10 or 11
ironically found themselves trapped in the 24-hour news cycle in which they come off looking bad. i don t know if it s coincidence than ed henry is with fox and fox really loves this story. they re hypocrites because they claimed this under bush and they try to do it and they missed the opportunity to sort of side with progressives sometimes. and on the issue of transparency, a lot of progressives are unhappy with obama. it s not about whether or not he plays golf with tiger woods, it s how transparent is this white house and they do have a problem. you re right, like this is the nickel and diming of this kinds of access. this is fighting over the pennies on the table when you ve ceded all the other things the white house can control so you re letting them have it and fighting over this. from your perch in dallas, texas, not washington, d.c., as the head of a media company that has syndicated black radio stations and shows, and tom joiner has interviewed the president i think about