large, the former jackson insider alleges that giant concert promoter aeg set michael jackson up for failure when they booked the ailing star for 50 shows and hired the doctor who administered the fatal dose of propanol. and they had him sign an ironclad contract making him exclusive to aeg. even inserting an penalty for nonperformance. they only wanted to take from michael everything that he had worked for his entire life. item, roe alleges that aeg after investing millions in concert preparations soon realized their fragile star would not be able to complete the sold out 50 concert schedule. did michael ever tell you specifically, roe, that he was not able to make this sure? he told me that specifically on march 21st about 10:00 at
large, the former jackson insider alleges that giant concert promoter aeg set michael jackson up for failure when they booked the ailing star for 50 shows and hired the doctor who administered the fatal dose of propanol. and they had him sign an ironclad contract making him exclusive to aeg. even inserting an penalty for nonperformance. they only wanted to take from michael everything that he had worked for his entire life. item, roe alleges that aeg after investing millions in concert preparations soon realized their fragile star would not be able to complete the sold out 50 concert schedule. did michael ever tell you specifically, roe, that he was not able to make this sure? he told me that specifically on march 21st about 10:00 at
released exclusively to at large, the former jackson insider alleges that giant concert promoter aeg set michael jackson up for failure when they booked the ailing star for 50 shows and hired the doctor who administered the fatal dose of propanol. and they had him sign an ironclad contract making him exclusive to aeg. even inserting an penalty for nonperformance. they only wanted to take from michael everything that he had worked for his entire life. item, roe alleges that aeg after investing millions in concert preparations soon realized their fragile star would not be able to complete the sold out 50 concert schedule. did michael ever tell you specifically, roe, that he was not able to make this sure? he told me that specifically
down schools to help close a $2 billion budget gap. these are very tough times. how do you handle the protests in new york and elsewhere, communities are upset. in kansas city the argument in favor when we interviewed the mayor yesterday was declining population can t support these schools, property taxes everywhere evaporating with the decline in housing values. what is the solution? well, this is a tough time, as you say, and for local and state governments like new york or kansas city, it s very difficult and so they ve had to close down almost half their schools and, you know, at a time when their citizens are going through a lot economically so this is difficult. to me we re doing something different in new york. we re not closing schools for an economic reason. we re closing schools for nonperformance and we ve already closed under mayor bloomberg s tenure something like about 90 schools and what we ve found is the replacement schools are much, much better. but what you sai
fannie mae has lost money in 16 of the last 17-quarters. you can t be rewarding that kind of nonperformance. that s what has people outraged. but to your point about whether or not congress can do anything about it, they can but it takes some time to get things through the congress. my question is where is the president in all of this? why can t the president, these people work for him, he sets the pay, and they set the pay, he should come in and suspend the bonuses right now. but there is legislation working its way through the congress. the house, as you said, has already acted. there was a vote yesterday in the committee, financial services committee, 52-4 in favor of suspending the bonuses. the senate has a couple amendments filed we are hoping to get action on it soon. it has congress worked up and i think it has the american people worked up and with good reason. where is the president. has he said anything?