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Rat hole. a bailout with tax benefits costs $100 billion is currently on our books, our our taxpayers s' book. only a third. is this a course correction adding a billion here and a billion there? maybe. but that is not the issue. this is another manifestation of people at the top deciding who the winers and losers are rather than merit or accomplishment. >>neil: we got wind of this on the same week we learned that the way they paid for the transportation pill was to take money out of the pension benefit guarantee corporation that is the back stop for the government when pensions go bad. it is ...

What's happening on the ground. they'll make decisions based on washington, d.c., political expediency and that's exactly what you get so the feel on the ground in afghanistan is just that. we're setting a timeline for what? not to be successful on the battlefield but because someone in washington wants to make sure they're hedging their bets. >> guys like you, captain, will say that as you take troops out, it's more dangerous for those that are still left behind. and if the mission isn't clear in the white house, how do you get up every day and go on your missions to take out the taliban and ...

Because we will do that we will give you an extra week vacation and bonuses. sort of like the greeks saying we are having a hard final getting off the 14 months worth of pay for 12 months of work. >>neil: i welcome getting up to speed, but they are doing everything that a private bankruptcy who is done, the only difference, including shuttering the plants and laying off workers. >>guest: we are the back stop, the taxpayers and the stop has to double to break even and we own 500 million shares. and $30 billion in liability on the pensions, and maybe we have to bail them out again. what i don't ...

assessing the presidential field with republican national committee chairman reince priebus. and america's cities, our first installment today with los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. >> that's why we're here today. because l.a. is not waiting on washington. i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." on his way out of town friday, president obama called the two chairs of the super committee from air force one to tell them they needed to make a debt deal -- soon. that is not breaking news to panel members who have been spinning their wheels for nearly three months....

Not materialize until 2021. >> we will slow the growth of medicare cost by strengthening the independent commission of doctors, nurses, medical expert and consumers. >> last week, president obama sought to bolster ipab authority asking congress to rewrite the law so the trigger for the panel recommendation to kick in would be cost growth of only half a percentage point. >> the ipab is a back stop. it's something that will be used if the other initiatives like quality initiatives and better drug control, cost control don't work. i think this is a way of putting to the test the kind of failsafe ...