between a man and a woman. you cannot deny the obvious. >> that was obama's position a week ago. >> he's flipped twice. >> but '94 he was for gay marriage. for political expediency. thanks for being with us. greta is next. see you tomorrow night. tonight donald trump is here and he has a bone to pick with cher, rosie o'donnell. and what will he tell you tonight? and a huge below for lin because. something that made him almost speechless. and governor chris christie is on very thin ice tonight. see why he's about to make a whole lot of people a whole lot of mad. and you will meet a man who said american airlines took away his life. what does he mean by that? you will have to hear his story. all that and more but first here's donald trump. donald. nice to talk to you. >> hello, greta. >> i think the campaign is starting in earnest. there are dueling ads out there today.

i want wonder who you thought about the obama campaign ad which is zeroing in on gov. romney and when he was at bain capital and handing the steel mill. >> it's getting nasty and perhaps on both sides. but in particular when they make an ad like that which is so unfair, they want to save companies, whether it's bain or somebody else, in most cases. they want to save companies. and governor romney did a fantastic job at bain. not only in terms of the jobs he produced, but also in terms of creating and saving companys. he did a great job. and it's very, very unfair to pick a company and say, so, gee, let's do an ad. very unfair. >> well, the thing that i was sort of curious about, and you are a business guy, there are two things, one is that gst apparently went under about 2001. he left bain capital in 1999. but nonetheless, some of the things that bain capital put in place while he was there had an effect on turn were but i did a little research, and i found out that in 2001 about 17 steel

mills went under, including legitimate le ham steel wishes was the second largest steel mill at the time because there was dumping by foreign companies by cheaper steel here in the united states so nobody wanted to buy domestic steel. >> that's true. >> so would that make it unfair? >> it certainly makes it unfair. but it's almost like what else is new? if you look what's going on with foreign countrys and foreign companies right now, how they are subsidized over our companys so it is really unfair. frankly, if you look at that ad, i think that ad was extremely unfair and it's the topic of a lot of conversation right now. it was a very, very unfair ad. but that was a time when steel was doing extremely poorly because of the dumping. i mean dumping all over the place and steel was being heard. many, many steel companies at that time were going out of business. >> so a very significant omission in the ad and i will get to a romney campaign ad in a minute. but listen to -- i will play a sound bite, a part, about 23

seconds out of ad and tell me how potent you think it is politically in the five battleground states they will hear this part of this ad against romney. >> okay. >> i was devastated. it makes me angry. those guys were all rich. they all have more money than they will ever spend yet they didn't have money to take care of the very people who made the very money for him. >> bain capital walked away with a lot of money that they made off of this plant. >> there was even one point in that ad, donald, in which the term vampire was used. how do you tell the american people who are suffering so incredibly when a company fails, even if there are legitimate business reasons for failing, in this case dumping of cheaper steel, but bain capital, very successful and very rich people, and it doesn't look good to people who don't have that kind of successor that kind of money. >> i agree with that. it doesn't look good. it's not fair. it's really a misrepresentation but it doesn't look great if

people don't know the situation. a lot of people know the situation. in business you have hits and misses. in the end you have to have a lot more hits than misses. but that was a case where steel was doing terribly. i saw the ad and i thought it was very compelling from one standpoint and certainly from a class warfare. that's what it's all about. let's take a couple of people that really did a good job. and honestly that looked very sympathetic and certainly the gentleman and a couple of other people in the ad did look sympathetic. but if they knew the facts, i think they will feel a lot differently. >> today president obama is in new york at a private equity fundraiser. also a commencement speech at barnard college. one of the things said by his representative is that particular romney ad wasn't a slight on private equity but was to show gov. romney's values. you want to take a stab on why that would show gov. romney's values? >> i think no matter what you

say, he's right now at a private equity fundraiser. you could give me every one of those private equity firms and i can make ads that are much better than that ad and i can show you things that were done that wouldn't look so nice for the people giving mr. obama or president obama money. so i just feel that, you know, you can always pick a person, a couple of people or a company out of many. he wasn't overly involved in that company. it wasn't his start. there are a lot of things that were wrong with that ad. a lot of things were unfair with it, and i think when people see that, the ad will not go down as being effective. >> the gov. romney campaign, in response to president obama, put out an ad in which they were touting steel dynamics as being a raised success and saying essentially what you said in the beginning. you have your hits and you have your misses. but in the steel dynamics ad, one thing that wasn't noted is the fact that steel dynamics got a number of tax breaks and least government subsidies, in the millions of dollars cat

involvement so there's an admission in the gov romney ad. is that fair? >> everybody was trying to get the subsidies there. you said it. steel was being dumped from other nations." they were dumping steel on us like never before and it was hard to compete and the government was trying to help out and sometimes that's not the worst thing in the world. and that was omitted, but the government was trying to help out in order to compete. now frankly, i would have done it a little bit differently. i would have come down on the nations that were doing the dumping and believe me, they should still come down because it's still happening in this country. >> are both those adds. >> in both companies they pick who was tim pathetic and put them on a lost people would say

it was a good anything i moved ton another company and another job or whatever they might have said. but i thought that the obama ad was actually more unfair, if you can use that term. >> is it not -- i mean, in look at these ads, ads as a voter, viewer,, what i would have liked to have had the information in the obama ad against gov romney that, number one, gov romney was out of bain two years before it happened. he was off doing the olympics. >> by the way, greta, that's a very big statement. >> no, no, i'm just saying that. and i think it's a reflection on the candidates when they do that. >> how can they do that when he's gone from the company, he's not even whether especially when the big act took place and he's not there and they are knocking the hell out of governor romney, and it's in the fair. >> we used to argue before injurys, omissions like that is to mislead. but the other was what was omitted from the ad is that dumping of the cheaper steel and

the fact that 17 other steel mills, including bethlehem steel, went under that year which shows the political pressure in terms of the trade between the nations that was putting economic pressure on these companies. >> it's not the kind of thing that obama would be saying but maybe you just don't do the ad. when you know it's that egg grier -- egregious, you just don't put it on the air. but people are getting wise to and and that's why gov romney is up in the policy. if you look at the policy, every poll seems to have him up. and i think people are tired of it now. they want jobs. they want real anything. and they are not getting that from this administration. >> well, i mean, we hear this jobs, jobs, jobs, but i'm not so sure that we are seeing jobs, jobs, jobs in this country. >> well, you are not seeing real numbers, greta, because certainly you are not seeing real numbers. every time somebody gives up look for a job they take them offer the list. it looks like we are doing

obviously not very well but it looks like we are doing better than in fact we are doing. i heard numbers that could be anywhere from 19 to 21%. i heard 11% the other day. but certainly it's not 8.2%. >> all right. to be fair, to be fair to president obama, i'm curious, should governor romney in his ad, to be complete, should he have included the fact that there were all these subsidies and tax breaks to the successful company he's putting in his ad to counteract the obama ad? >> i don't think so necessarily. i think that's a much lighter offense. i don't think so. i think that that is something that everybody has done and continues to do there are subsidys all over the place and incentives and all sorts of tax breaks or tax incentives, depending on where you are coming from. no, i don't think he had an obligation 120 do that because everybody was entitled to them if they could get them. >> you are back in a war on twitter, going after cher and also your old nemesis rosie o'donnell. what is up?

>> cher said some very nasty and unflattering things about gov. romney and i think it was inappropriate what she said, frankly. i have watched her over the years. i knew her a little bit. and she reminds me of rosie with slightly more talent. not much more talent, but slightly more talent. >> she said something, she said if romney gets elected, this is on twitter, i don't know if i can breathe the same air as him in his -- >> and you responded that cher is an average talent who is out of touch with reality and then you threw in rosie. you resurrected rosie into the fight by calling her a total lucy. she wasn't even in the fight. >> well, i did liken her to rosie. cher is lonely, unhappy, very miserable, and her computer enhanced music doesn't do it for me. believe me. >> seems like you get into these twitter battle with these women. >> no, with people in general.

not women. in fact usually women i prefer not because i find them much tougher than men but occasionally i get into battles. ive and my great likes. i also greatly respect people. >> is it fun? actually it's sort of like if i follow you on twitter it's interesting to see. you guys are hammering each other back and forth, you and cher and rosie. you are going after each other pretty heavily. >> i don't think they are hitting me. i don't know, i haven't notice they had are hitting me very hard. i thought it was a very unfair shot at gov. romney. and it -- it took me about one second to put it down. and i gave it to somebody and said put this down. ice not a big deal. if it took me more than seconds i wouldn't do it because i wouldn't waste my time. but people seem to like it because my twitter account has millions of people watching it. >> it does have millions. indeed does have millions. donald, thank you as always. >> thank you very much, greta. >> it isn't just gov. romney

swinging at president obama, so is the national republicans party. blasting him for, quote, broken promises over the nation's debt. >> i pledge to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term. >> the american people are tired of politicians who talk the talk, but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. >> i'll spend the next year making the tough choices necessary to further reduce our deficit and lower our debt. >> i promise to go through the budget line by line to eliminate programs of that outlived their usefulness. >> rnc chair is with us. good evening, sir. >> good evening. >> i'm look at that ad. is this full going at the president for broken or unfulfilled promises or is this because the debt is so much grander than when he started, when he took office? >> i think it's both of those things. this is a coordinated effort with governor romney. we are going to come out swinging. we aren't going to let this president say one thing and do another, and talk about issues

that have nothing to do about what is going to get this economy back on track. this president made a lot of promises. he promised he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term and what did he do? biggest structural deficits in the history of the country proposed by him. which, by the way, not a single democrat voted for or did support the president. he said he would get the debt under control but we are burying our kids and grandkids in an avalanche of debt. i happen to believe a country who has to surrender it's sovereignty to bondholders can't guarantee prosperity or freedom to anybody. he's the debt king of the world. >> what i don't understand, and i have looked at the numbers. debt has gone up $5 trillion since he took office. during the eight years of the bush term it was only $4.9 trillion. i realize there were different circumstances. and, of course, he had the stimulus bill which is almost a trillion there. what i don't understand is why when he ran for office, in light

of the fact he knew the economy was in such upheaval and if his plan was to stimulate it if elected, why he ran on that and made that a cornerstone of his campaign. >> for one thing he has a love affair with the sound of his own voice. there's one thing he does really well and that's make speeches and make promises. >> but he could have said something different if indeed you are right. he could have said something different than that. >> here's what i think. i think this country, and i think why you see people like paul ryan and scott walker and chief heads like us, i think the reason why folks like popular in this construction it's not because they are republicans, it's because i think people in this country are looking for people of their word to run for office and govern like a campaign. the problem the president has, he's coming back on the campaign trail now and he's trying to sell this same old tired message of hope and change, i'm going to carpet the world and everything is going to be great. but the problem is we've seen how he has mucked everything up

over the last few years, and everything is worse. there's fewer jobs. and he's attacking mitt romney on bain, but we've seen what our venture can't -- can't lifts have done. and mitt romney has created more net jobs than barack obama, when mitt romney was governor of massachusetts, than obama has done for the entire country. >> you know, i always wonder how important the straight talk is. there's some latitude. i think most americans say whatever party, it's a politician, give them some latitude. but there's a new york times -cs poll that came out tonight and it had to do with the president's statement about his deck layer situation of support for same-sex marriage. i was surprised by the numbers 67% said he said it mostly for political reasons. only 24% said he said it because he thought it was right. they thought he did it for more calculated reasons than principal and i wonder if that

will come back and haunt him or any candidate. >> i think people understand pretty clearly, putting the issue aside for a moment, the politics of the issue and the way it played out. and this president is politics all the time. you. >> but the entire presidency, you know, i'll get back to the subject. but if you consider what this president has done, consider the promises, the debt, the deficit. 8% unemployment. healthcare, green jobs, gas prices, wall street, lobbyists. i mean, you can go on and on and on. and every one of these cases this president has made a big, big promise, using his words, which is why we feature his words burke the reality is it hasn't squared up so much what does he do? instead of launching his campaign on what has been accomplished while he has been president, he launches it on the back of gay marriage. scott walker is running in a recall. about? he's talking about the fact that his reforms are working, that business is open again in

wisconsin. he's talking about his accomplishments. this president needs to evolve on a lot more subjects than just one. like evolve on your theory on how you are going to get spending under control, get jobs back to the american people. evolve on those things as well. >> ryan, it's always nice to see you. hope you will come back. >> thank you, greta. >> coming up, an $800,000 gsa convention, actually a little more than that. and exotic vacations and a help wanted ad for a magician. now the obama administration finally has a plan to combat that tax dollar waste. but wait until you hear the plan and you tell us whether it's a good plan or a sil play plan. senator ron johnson is here next. and governor chris christie is on thin ice tonight. no matter what he decides, someone is going to be furious with him. what does he have to face tonight? that's straight ahead. and what does rush limbaugh have in common with mark twain, harry

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>> remind me to figure this one out. more than a month of the gsa scandal is exposed, the white house finally says it has a plan

to stop government agencies from wasting your money. but is the so-called crackdown really a crackdown? senator rob johnson is on the budget and appropriations company. good evening, sir. >> good evening. >> what is the plan? the white house office of management and budget director has a plan. what's his plan? >> the acting director came out with a plan saying no longer with anybody be able to spend more than $500,000 for a conference. but that can be waived. anything -- any conference that spends over $100,000 needs to be posted the following january. and also anything that spends over $100,000 needs to be approved by a deputy secretary or above. now, i suppose that's a start. >> i don't think that's a start. actually frankly i don't think that's a start. and i was actually surprise the because someone who proposed it in the senate, was senator tom coborn, who wrote an interesting book on the debt bomb.

but he proposed $500,000. i'm surprised he would. i would propose zero. >> you have to start somewhere. >> how about steer owe? >> what we are doing, and this is from the work tom has done, he's done a great job to get the audit of the federal government. but we are starting to insert in appropriations bills a limitations of $20,000 before it needs to be posted quarterly, and if you do international conferences no more than 15 employees. from my standpoint as a business person, we would send people to conferences, trade shows and send one or two people, gather the information and report back, teleconferencing. there's all kinds ever ways to become more efficient with government. but it starts with the budgeting process and we need to limit their budgets so they don't have the money to spend. >> i saw one conference it was to teach members of the government to learn how to speak to members of congress and i thought that was pretty crazy. i mean, first of all, if you don't now how to talk to somebody beforehand, maybe we should hire people who are already skilled or have the skills before. it shouldn't be on-the-job

training. >> it's burn step at a time but i'm totally with you. in the days of technology you have teleconferencing and there's little need for most of the conferences. some of them may be required. >> give me hypothetical of a conference that makes sense in the government. >> well, if you've got branches all over the government, you know, different regions, and you really want to train people, it makes sense to bring them into a central location to do some training. but again, with telephone conferencing technology nowadays, you dan do it that way far easier. but the way you attack it is just start slashing their budgets. you will start reducing the amount of money these agencies have to spend. >> whole idea of training, and i shouldn't be so flippant about it. when you think of government conferences you think of magicianings and wineglasss that don't match and think of bath tubs. eye not sort of i don't see anyone sitting with a pencil and pad of paper learning some skill. >> you see the abuse and let's face it, government, i don't find, is particularly efficient or effective at what is does.

this has highlighted the problem. government has become far too big to manage. it's not managed properly. you need to start reducing their budgets to attack. since i have been here, 16 months, congress hasn't had the will to do that. i thought the senate sent a clear signal in november, 2010. apparently it wasn't clear enough so we have a chance to do it again in november, 2012. >> here's a quote from the white house office ever management and budget director, jeffrey, which i was surprised to read. it situation from the beginning of this administration the president has been clear wasteful spending is unacceptable and the federal government must strive to be more efficient and effective. that's what he wrote in a memo friday and i thought to myself that didn't work out. >> he talks a good game. just like he promised to cut the deficit in the half by the end of his first term. deficit he inherited was a lot less. we are double where he said. greta, this administration is nothing but a series of broken

promises. the american people, they expected far better. remember going through the budget line by line? that obviously hasn't happened. >> you have only been in the senate, this is your first term so i won't give you too much hell, but there's a lot of oversight by both parties of that not been done of the agencies that's gone on for decades on both sides of the isle. i'm hoping this finally, you know, there will be this. >> your next guest has been performing that in the house. but let's face it, the democrats in the cincinnati has not been interested in oversight at all on any of these issues for purely political reason. >> nice to see you, senator. >> thanks for having me on. >> coming un, is attorney general eric holdner trouble? congressman ica is here to tell you next. and he is induct into the hall of fame. which hall of fame? you don't want to miss this one. oh! seriously?! ♪ [ male announcer ] hunger getting to you? oh... [ male announcer ] grab a ritz crackerfuls.

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america's beverage companies are delivering. >> attorney general eric holder, is he in trouble? will he get served with a contempt of congress notice or is the talk about contempt for the attorney general just talk, that's all, and no real threat? congressman darrell issa says he's withholding fast and furious documents from congress. thanks for joining us, sir. >> greta, i agree with everything you just said. >> except -- >> clearly the attorney general is failing to comply with the is.

he said he's not going to comply. the part he won't comply with the most is who was responsible for the fast and furious which he said was deeply flawed and yet nobody at justice has been -- >> it seems like a simple thing. he goes before congress, he should be asked the question who authorized it and who was the highest person who knew all about it and that seems like an impossible information to get out and he said it's because it's being investigated internally. is there an appetite within the house ever the gop leadership to issue a contempt citation? >> i think after the abuses under nancy pelosi, it's very clear that we want to sort of have bolts and suspenders and double and triple checks. we want to make sure we've made our case and we've exhausted all other opportunities, including whistle-blowers and other ways to get the information. but there will come point there's nothing left but to say we -- we find broadly this attorney general to be in contempt. >> but this has been going on

for over a year and a half. you have a border agent who has been murdered and you have a family who is grieving and wants that information. and it seems like a simple thing and it's like it's sort of caught up in the washington whatever. and i know you want to like dot every i and cross every t, but time is running out to get answers for this family. and i hope -- i mean, i hope that by you saying you want to wait you don't mean until after the election so nobody gets punished either way politically for this? >> politically is a different question. but the terry family and i will be together. we are going to be naming -- congress, house and senate and the president has signed a bill that names the border patrol station where brian tray worked out of, it's brand new but it's where he was working out of, it names it after him. >> i'm curious, is the decision going to be made about whether a contempt citation goes to the attorney general? will that be made before the election? >> i've already made a decision

that we have been unable to get what we legitimately are entitled to. members of my committee on the republican side to a person are totally convinced. our case right now, we are trying to work with the democrats on the committee. we are trying to work with the 31 democrats who asked the president to make eric holder cooperate, 30 of whom are not on my committee. we are trying to make the case across the isle. and we will give it a little time. >> what's a little time? and we hear rumors, i'll tell you the rumors. you hear speaker boehner isn't wild about this, i don't know if it's true or not. but is this going to happen? i think everything should be looked at fully. i think a year and a half is plenty of time but that's just how i think. will this be done, will a decision be made before election? will either the sub peenna or the contempt citation, will it happen before election? >> absolutely. when i mentioned brian terry's family, i expect to have it by then. what we are doing we sent out to

every member ever congress 64 pages laying out the case for contempt. we've asked them do they have any questions. can we show them the proof? because a lot of them, especially our democratic members, they have misinformation on what is owed and what hasn't been delivered so he felt what we are trying do, and this is politics at its best, we are peeling off, making sure republicans understand, but we are trying to peel off democrats so they understand that if when the shoe is on the other foot, they are going to want any administration to be more cooperative than this particular one has been, in an area where a man was murdered. >> and the attorney general could end this tonight. he could call your cell phone as you walk off the set. this could be handled quite quickly unless there's some legal impediment he can't give you the information. i'm just unaware of it. but this really is in largely in their hands. >> exactly. the people who lied to congress and then covered it up, the people -- >> they would say it was a mistake. they wouldn't call it a lie. but whatever. >> well, the people who knew the

truth and helped with the mistake -- >> in a letter. i mean, it's in writing. i agree with you. >> and live testimony. >> i saw it. >> but more important than that, because that came after the fact. the people who approved. had the bad judgment to approve this, some of them are clearly here in washington and some of them are high-rankling. it may not go to eric holder. he's of ited it doesn't. but i'm i'm saying if you want to have people accountable, and you mentioned the terry family. don't wait until this term is over and people can leave at then of the term. hold people accountable who made the bad decision. >> the person who made the bad decision may still be work in the government to make more bad decisions. >> i guarantee they are. >> i didn't get to ask you about the $500,000 limit on the party. >> the answer is simple. it should be how much you spend per attendee. don't let them have 80 come instead of 300 and then stay under the limb. when you make a limit make sure it is about per person how

extravagant it is. >> congressman, thank you. >> thank, you greta. >> you may remember george clooney and the movie "up in the air." well, there are some real live megaflyers racking up million of miles on american airlines but they are running into some turbulence. why is american airlines doing? and you must admit, governor chris christie is never dull, and tonight governor christie has a tough decision to make, and he won't be able to just skate by on this one. what does governor christie have to decide and why is he about to make a whole lot of people mad, no matter what his decision is? you will find out in just two minutes. ♪

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>> governor chris christie is all about new jersey. he was born in newark, went to seton hall and has been the governor since 2010. the new jersey devils are playing the hockey finals.

what's the problem? he's a diehard rangers fan. how can that be? he said he grew up at a time when the devils didn't exist so he always rooted for the rangers. which team will he root for in the series? he has not officially announced his decisions but here are his clues. he's been tweeting words ever support for the devils throughout the playoffs and he said he wants the devils to do well when they are playing anybody but the rangers. ton the rangers just won the game, but it's not over. so what do you think? who should governor christie root for, the new jersey devils or the new york rangers? go to gretawire.com and tell us. we will be back in two.

>> he paid for a lifetime of travel but american airlines has clipped his wings. they grounded travelers. but first the other headlines. >> jp morgan chase ceo jamie

diamond facing shareholders tomorrow to explain the bank's $2 billion blunder. it was she who revealed last time the company lost big time in trading credit derivatives. jp morgan is big enough to survive this error but it's already cost one top investment officer her job and more officers to leave as well. today their stock was down almost 2%. lawyers for former presidential candidate john edwards say he could of it in his own defense tomorrow. edwards is accused of misusing more than $1 million in political donation to hide his political affair. the defense began its case today. former elections chairman chris thomas is expected to of it as well. now back to greta. imagine hopping on a plane on a whim to go to a ballgame in far away city, perhaps even new york or how about this one? are you free tomorrow for a quick trip to a museum in paris? or are you hungry and want to grab a hand witch some let's

grab a sandwich. how about canada? well, chris has been criss-crossing the globe sings 198-7689 that's when he bought an american airlines unlimited lifetime air pass. for $400,000 he got a lifetime of unlimited travel for himself and a companion or at least so he thought. the airline recently started cracking down on the most frequent flyers and they canceled his lifetime pass. so now instead of flying he's suing. he joins us. good evening, sir. >> good evening. >> well, it's clear, i mean, you certainly paid a big chunk of money for this life time pass. >> absolutely. it was $400,000. a lot of money to anybody. >> what year did you buy it? did you buy the companion ticket the same year you bought the original one? >> no i bought the original air pass in 1987. and then added the companion feature a couple of years later. >> and i take it you enjoyed it immensely until some point in the year 2008? >> it was a lot of fun.

it was a great gift to be able to get on a lane and as you said just go to lunch or dinner in another city, go to visit friends, relatives. go to see a ballgame, whatever. >> all right. so tell me what happened on december 13, 2008 because that's when things went pretty sour. >> i was checking in for a flight to london with a friend of mine who was a chicago police officer. he was going home to bosnia. so he and i were intended to fly to london together. as we checked in, american wouldn't allow us to get on the plane. they literally handed me a letter and said, sorry, but your air pass deal with us is over in spite of what you have paid. >> all right. now i have a copy of this letter and it says what they say is speculative bookings are considered invalid. what does that mean? >> well, the thing that i would want to point out, and i know you are an attorney, is that every booking was made directly

with american. i never made a booking on a computer myself. so as a result, i don't think anybody booking was every speculative. it was american that advised me to use the name rothstein for the second seat and said you are entitled to the second seat, put a suitcase in it or put newspapers in it, whatever you want to do, it's yours, whether you have a companion or not. >> all right. so i take it they didn't have any disagreement with you flying under your name, it was this second seat that you would book as bag rothstein. and sometimes you would have a friend in it and sometimes your bag would be in it, sometimes a relative or someone you just found whatever, right? >> i think that's correct. but the point would be that i flew this way for over 20 years, well before i even purchased the air pass. i would buy an empty seat next to me.

so this was just sort of a peremptory decision on american's part. they showed up. >> you know what it looks like to me in reading this letter, it looks like they made a deal with you, you had a contract, they asked you to pay an awful lot of money, you paid an awful lot of money, you spent an awful lot of money for your companion and fast forward 18 years later they decided it's not such a good deal and decided to change the rules, and leave you a letter that you and your chicago police officer are sitting in the waiting area with the rest of us? >> that's exactly correct. you have got it. >> all right. so you have sued. i mean, are they really fight you on this one? it would probably be better pr to let it go so they don't look like they are trying to back out of a deal that they made. >> that's what i would do if i were them but we are fighting them. i have a very capable attorney out of los angeles working with me named gary soter and we are pushing forward.

>> do you have any idea how many other people bought this very expensive pass back when it was offered? because it's no longer offered. >> it is not. about 25 people bought the unlimited lifetime air pass with the companion feature, and another 25 to 30 people bought the unlimited air pass without the companion feature. >> do you have a trial date or when this is likely to be resolved? >> we don't know right now. but we are pushing for it as best we can. >> you know, it's like, i'll tell you, it doesn't make american airlines look good. >> it doesn't. >> and i fly on american airlines. i don't mean to trash american airlines but i think their legal department should send this to the pr department and have the pr department and see if it's a good idea for this pr to go on because it doesn't look good. >> you are exactly right. i think a deal is a deal. >> a deal is a deal. thank you, steve. >> thank for having me on. >> now to the horror. the war right next door to the u.s. 49 head less bodies dumped on a

highway. this is the third massacre in ten days in mexico's so-called triangle of death. we keep showing you this on the record. war just over the boarder is getting worse every day. and the latest violence, 49 mutilated bodies were found in northern mexico. the murdered victims, 43 men, 6 women, had their heads, hands and feet chopped off. it happened in an area of two warring drug cartels about 100 miles from texas. mexico's drug violence has killed more than 50,000 people since december, 2006. and straight ahead, a big honor for rush limbaugh. but why was his big night cloaked in secrecy? you will find out.

>> you have seen our top stories but here's the best of the rest. a big night for rush limbaugh. he just got inducted into the hall of fame. which one? the hall of fame, famous missourians, of course. he's a native of missouri. and he will now have a bronze bust of himself displayed in the state capital right next to president harry truman, mark twain and walt disney. at least that's the plan. some state senators are opposed to it. that's why it was kept a secret until the very last minute. what does the outspoken rush

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