jarret, along with just the news.com founder and ceo found and editor in chief ceo john solomon, john , they offered the guy a milliondd and they paid the sub sauce and hired him. yeah, well, listen, to think about what this is the significance of what brian orton said today a month before the election, two weeks before they go to the fisa court, brian martin said the fbi was unable to corroborate anything in this deal dossier. that s his testimony today. the fbi under comey and mccain s were so desperate to get something when they started this dossier before electio the election, doesn t itn, say on the top of a fisa application verified? it does. it does. and that was not. an twenty that could be verified exactlyh befo six years ago this month, one month before the election, two weeks before they re going to the fisa court, they fly over to europe to meet still and offer them a million dollars if you can help proveoig it. now, it s unusual. t
already by 9% in this recession. still, unlikely to recover and we maintain unemployment at the levels we have. to me, the absolute priority and i throw my weight in there with lord cain s, ekeynes, and this priority that we can t not do. we calculated the sequestration based on this year s jobs. and ari, it feels like the deficit reduction that we had during the clinton years, and you have high borrowing rates and that is not the circumstances that we are finding ourselves in. is there any reason to have an angst about the deficit right now? no! one of the central republican arguments early on is that if we do this the interest rates will
herman cain. we did not release her name until yesterday after she agreed to have her name released and we are aware of this woman in new jersey whose claims we have detailed in some pretty specific detail. we were not, however, aware of sharon bialek, and we were not aware of a fourth woman who the associated press has apparently identified, though, not by name. so short answer, no, we were unaware of the scope. but we had the sense this was potentially a very important story and very serious one and we treated it delicately and continue to do so and we will continue to watch as this unfolds into possibly a joint news conference that could be quite the spectacle, but nonetheless is based on these serious allegations we re going to treat seriously. i want to talk about how the cain campaign has responded to politico. the campaign manager mark block insisted a relative of cain s how did block come to make that type of claim? is it a sign of desperation
thanks for joining me tonight, lisa. thanks for having us on. lisa, what is the tax component, the irs component of this money that went into the herman cain campaign to get it started? well, tax law bars charities like prosperity usa which was founded by mark block, last year, from spending their money to help campaigns. basically to be a bank or a credit card for political campaign like mr. cain s. and so there are significant consequences. the charity could be shut down. there are could be sanctions. we ve asked for both. this was a koch brothers funded group, americans for prosperity, that seemed to put in about $40,000 to the campaign. there was also another $100,000 in here somewhere that they came up with that they gave to a group to have mr. cain go and speak there. so there s a big flow of money that as we ve already talked about on this show could be in violation of the federal election law, but the irs is the