was trying to lead a revolution. greta: so on he is not a different man in that respect of established speaker but you had a different vantage point? after i tried to sit down and govern putting together compromise on big emotional issues, it s difficult. what he was able to accomplish with president clinton is pretty historic. he did have an erratic nature. on monday we would say we re not going to give a 3500 tax credit to people who don t pay taxes. he goes to the white house on tuesday bind wednesday we re giving $500 tax credit to people that don t pay taxes. that was to me, that drove us crazy to a certain extent. now i understand how difficult it is to put deals together. i think i matured and i think he has mellowed and those that
estimated in one night. they had high end fund-raisers and republicans are blasting president obama spending more time campaigning than governing. how are you greta. greta: i love this. i want to ask you about this. what is the story in florida. you obviously know this is going to be a problem. december 21 letter from you. copy of the secretary of state. greta: this is not a speaker letter, oh but. this is not a secret. greta: so you saw it coming? yes. and we re going to blow the listening for our rules but when state violates a rule of rnc and there are certain penalties that they can level. we have leveled every single
penalty against florida. if there is a further complaint the rnc has a committee called the committee on contest. there are very few standing committees in rnc but there are committee on contest whose sole purpose is to hear complaints of delegates or delegates that have a problem. greta: but the winner take all. i don t see it as policy. they are stripped away of 50 delegates moving the primary up. that was the penalty. it says in the letter, those who have their contests before march 6th have to do the proportional and those that do it after is winner take all. it s one category or the other. they have their march 6th. they are proportional? that is why they suffered 50% loss. it was an area when they weren t supposed to. you are looking for a double
outraged. they saw at a time when freddie and fannie were losing. this posted losses in the last 16 quarters. they came to the congress for federal infusion in the multiple billions of dollars. the base compensation for ceo fannie mae was $5 million which is 14 times what the president of the united states makes. i hope we can get a vote. greta: it s bipartisan? so far. greta: both sides of the aisle are on this? that is correct. there is an amendment on this that senator mccain that we re voting on this week that would ban bonuses into the future. but this legislation is still, i hope, is something we can get done in the near future. we ll look for an opportunity. if we can t get a straight up and down vote. greta: acting director is authorized the bonuses, saying
they are still there for the next bad judgment? they are and there has been a lot of unbridled power in the executive branch in this administration. all the czars that were created and all the ways in which they tried to accomplish their agenda through agency regulations and things they can t get through the political process in congress. these appointments are example of that where he put people into positions went around it. this was unconstitutional power grab. it will be litigated. there will be a lot of lawsuits and challenges that are filed and many of us in congress will join in briefs in support of those lawsuits. greta: harry reid, in support why wouldn t he? you have democrats that support the bill? i would think he would. my guess is there is opposition to it because administration is opposed to this.