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Dems, only 74,000 to the g.o.p. >> then you go on to the service employees international union, you know about that one. that's the seiu. their president, andy stern who i think is one of the number one visitors to the white house is paid $306,388 in salary and benefits in 2009 and they gave almost $2 million to dems. $8500 to the g.o.p. >> finally, the international brotherhood of teamsters known as the teamsters. look at these stats. look at how much this guy makes. james hoffa, familiar last name. $362,000 and we know where he is. and in the past two years, the teamsters have donated $2.3 m...

>> you want to look into his expenses. for example, a $900 breakfast. these are expenses that could have kept some teachers in jobs. >> yes. absolutely. >> so you as a teacher, you had no idea this was going on? was this kept secret? >> yes. and i left the school system in 2004. however, i had been very active in the school system with p.t.o., sports, working the concession stands. i had no idea this was going on. i had actually even attended meetings where the former school superintendent contacted our legislators because we're going to be running out of money and i had no idea that he was go...

To federal funding totalling $6.5 billion which is a lot of money. but it's a lot less than the $61 billion in cuts the house passed last month. so they are still very far apart even after this meeting that had vice president biden, white house chief of staff daley, budget director, senate leaders mcconnell and reid and house leaders boehner and pelosi and after the hour long meeting, the vice president's office put out a very official statement. that read. "we had a good meeting and the conversation will continue." that's it. there are no other meetings on the calendar right you now. but some...

♪ >> 29-year-old tony blair was a big man. 6'8", nearly 575 pounds. but he didn't die of a heart attack. ed he had pneumonia. his giant meals will live on. some over 8,000 calories. >> inspiration to some. former president george w. bush and defense secretary robert gates headlined a friends of scouting dinner last night. gates said scouting was a force for good in a chaotic world. mr. bush focused on the individual. >> love the fact that people take time out of their lives to nurture to strengthen one's soul. >> president looking pretty fit. he never got past cub scouts but gates was an eag...

Ohio goes, so goes the presidency. in fact, ohio voters have picked a president in every election. so how will the union bill affect the 2012 race? we're back with our political panel. all right, jerry, let me let you take a stab at this one first. how will this whole controversial thing about the unions affect who ohioans are going to vote for in two years? >> he think the unions see this as an opportunity to sort of re-establish themselves. they've been in decline a long time and i think that this is an opportunity for them to sort of gather around one particular issue, get a few of their ho...