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They can to take advantage of this great political landscape they face. >> in fact, they took 33 staff members and paid for them. they weren't paying their own way. >> that's right. at least 33 staff members went. 29 of them were given some form of reimbursement. we know they were in hawaii as well as another four of them who are rnc officials, including former chief of staff ken mckay, chairman mike steele, treasurer randy poland and the koe chairwoman, janua larimer. they were all out there. it was a pretty hefty expense. >> jon shrum, this is pretty lavish. what happens when democrats and r...

"the washington post" reporting today, guys, is a very high percentage not going towards the actual political effort. >> that's right. >> the overhead is way too high. >> there's a lot of money being spent on raising the money itself. we've seen that over the last couple of years. especially in some of these other -- the dnc is not immune from spending too much money -- i shouldn't say too much. from spending a lot of money on their own meetings. at their annual winter meeting out here when the snowstorm hit d.c. so hard they spent about $170,000 on a downtown hotel. so you're right. there is ...

i haven't seen it yet. i've been talking to people on the committee. until i have an ability to look at it and respond to it, i can't answer your question is it too tough or not too tough. clearly we need a sense of balance about it. >> let me ask you this. you just said senator shelby, others are talking to you. at the same time the republican national committee has produced a web video still calling what you guys are working on a bailout bill because of that $50 billion fund that would be paid for by the banks. this is what the rnc has put up on the web today. >> journey through ou...