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money away at the end of the month so you can some day watch your child receive her college diploma. >> hey, gret a. how are you? caller: governor romney called on you at the rnc today, tell me what happened? >> we have been planning this merger here now for a couple of weeks. we have declared mitt romney the presumptive nominee, of course. that's an endorsement, plus all the resource, all the time, the energy at the republican national committee to make sure that he becomes the next president of the united states. so while i think a lot of times, we talk about top-line messaging of the party, this is about the future of america this is not about the party, this is about

saving this country and defeating barack obama. but the job of the rnc and my job is to put lead on the target and to make sure that we put an army on the ground, going door to door, winning this race, whether it be absentee ballots in clump bus o, ohio, hispanic outreach, college students. it's a lot less talk and a lot more action. mitt romney coming into the rnc today was the kickoff of this merger between the rnc and our presumptive nominee. >> greta: so who is in charge? is it governor romney or you? i mean -- who is calling the shots? there are obviously some areas that are yours. but whether it comes to the presidential campaign. i realize it's like a symphony, great if you worked well together. but who will be calling the shots on this? >> actually, i mean, it is both parties. i mean, that's why it's a merger. it is not a takeover. it is not one entity swallowing

up the other. it is two entities working together to make sure that we keep one thing in mind, which is that we can't have another four years of misery of this president. you know, i think that it's important for our grassroots and all the people out there to know that this is the republican party. we believe in these principles of liberty, freedom, the constitution, james madison, all of those things that make our party great. so does mitt romney. together, between governor romney and the rnc and all the resources we have, we need to defeat barack obama and end this european nightmare that we have cooking in the white house right now. >> greta: today, speaker gingrich suspended his campaign. he was asked something about governor romney, about whether he's a conservative eye hate to paraphrase. but he says he's more conservative than president obama, which is why i support him. he previously called him a liar.

representative bachman ninetyn s called governor romney a socialist as a result of health care, i realize that everybody is joining together. but you are getting hit with all of that stuff? >> you do get hit with some of those things, but people understand that the differences between barack obama and governor romney are the -- are the vastest differences we have had in a presidential election in the history of modern politics. and so, if the choice is four more years of european-style cradle-to-grave government special a person who has made a living on making promises and keeping promises, i think that the american people in this country are not necessarily starving for all republican answers or democratic answers, but they are starving for people of their word to run for office, serve this country and govern like they campaign. unlike a president who is in love with the sound of his own voice, but he can't follow through on a single promise. >> greta: it used to be that the democratic party had a digger --

bigger tent. now the republican party has an enormously diverse tent with the tea party and the evangelicals and the moderates and the independents, you are trying to bring in. so you have the job of trying to assemble herded cats, essentially. do you have a strategy? >> the fact of the matter is -- jobs, the economy are driving everything in this election. so far, this president's been an abysmal fail nur doing any of the things remotely close in regard to job, debt, deficit, lobbyists, being a uniter, which is he is a divider. our strategy is to use the standards and the promises that barack obama made that came out of his mouth, hold him to those standards, show the american people who the truth is and where we are in this economy and make this election about liberty, freedom and what this country's all about. i think that we have something to fight for in this country and this president's been an impediment to all of those

things. >> greta: are we going to learn anything new? we have seen an awful lot about governor romney and president obama. is this going to be a campaign of what people said before and promised. is that essential what he this race is? do you think there is going to be something profoundly new? >> i think that, there is a couple of things. one is top-line messaging and what i -- >> greta: what does that mean? >> what will drive the electorate? >> greta: what people really care about in. >> what do people care about? they care about this country and what we are all about. but they care about whether or not you have a president in the white house that actually fulfilled the promises that he made to the american people. i mean, it's always about whether or not someone deserves another four years in office. so there is two boxes to check, i think. the first box is, am i better off today than three or four years ago? has this person fulfilled the promises they made? that's first check. second check, have the republicans put an

intelligent, reasonable, articulate alternative on the ballot that could save the country? i think both of those boxes are checked. we have a president who campaigned as the president of hope and change. we all know what he has done -- failed promises, a love things he said -- >> greta: has he done anything well? >> he is the president of hype and blame. >> greta: that's the new strategy. is there anything that you can give him. >> sean: like you said, okay, he did well on this? >> i think we have been very clear -- i mean, there is no question about it. we give the president a lot of credit in his role in the death of bin laden. obviously, the seals and our servicemen around the country. i mean, i don't think you take that away. nor would you attempt. to but i would say when it comes to the issues that make this country great, whether it comes down to whether or not people in this country can work hard, play by the rules and live the american dream eye think this president's been a terrible,

terrible failure. >> greta: i think it's interesting. i think there are two very different candidates. usually everybody moves to the center for the general. but i think they are two very different candidates. >> i think people will rejek the hype and blame show pony, plasticized washington-style politics. i think they wanted a doer and that's the difference and that's why mitt romney will win. >> reporter: ryan, always nice to see you. >> thank you. >> greta: are you ready for this? is the government cooking the books? a new question about the reliability about the jobless numbers and the unemployment rates? is the government manipulating the numbers? liz mcdonald is here. liz, is the government cooking the books on the numbers? >> we are seeing some weird things coming up in the jobs numbers, greta. you know, we are talking a clinical look at the jobs numbers and seeing some oddities that wall street shops are finding as well. take that first-time jobless

claim, in other words, people who are filing for unemployment for the first time, for 59 of the last 60 weeks, those numbers have been revised higher after the fact. so what that means is that when you have the present week's number and you compare it to the prior week's number tlooks great because the prior week's number was revised higher. and the unemployment rate, again, this has been an issue that has come under democrat and republican president, the unemployment rate doesn't count the people who have dropped out. it only counts the people who have been actively looking for work. so when you factor in the dropouts, that's 10.9% and the labor force participation rate, the number of people who are working in the labor force would have stayed the same in 2009. so the question is, when you see the unemployment rate of 8.2%, you may say, hey, the president's stimulus plan is working, but you do a deep dive

and look at the rate, it doesn't look so great. >> greta: so the unemployment rate is squishy, for lack of a better term, if you included those, is there -- has anyone done any, you know, good, reliable analysis about what i refer to as the real unemployment rate, people who don't have jobs and want them, even those in despair? >> you know, again, it would come in at 10.9%. and then there is an even broader number that people are very worried about, greta. that is the number of people in the labor force is about the same as it was -- get this -- in 1969. the same as it was in the rate, the same is as it was in 1979. it's been the same as it was in 1982. that's worrisome on two fronts. you want more people working because more people working means more social security tax revenues to pay for social security. and also, it means that we have more people working, it helps to fund future unemployment benefits.

when have you less people working, it means more government handouts. so it is a concern and a trend that has been growing on both sides of the political aisle. >> greta: the unemployment numbers refer as a leg indicator, slow to respond to reality in the economy. i am curious, what is the best number, if you want to measure how vibrant the economy is, what is the best number and the most reliable number? do we have to look at two areas? i think it's the labor force participation rate. in other words, it is the number of people who have been working who can work, meaning those who are 18 -- excuse me, 16 or older. so, you know, when we look at the numbers going back, you know, some people would say, the reason why the labor force participation rate doesn't look so great is because more people are retiring and they are baby boomers. when you off-set that immigrants coming into the workforce or students coming into the workforce, it's still declining.

and the other issue is that when you look at basically, again, this is both sides of the political aisle, we are looking that the dispassionately, when you look at number of jobs that have been created under the president, 740,000, 8.9 million under president ronald reagan in his first 30 months. you will hear time and again, the president has inherited this recession. we had a worse banking crisis in 1981 when citigroup got the first of three bailouts, both sides of the aisle have been in nofs d.c. for a very long time. the vice-president has been around since the nixon administration. so is charlie rangel, nancy pelosi, harry reid have been in office since the reagan administration. so again and again, time and again, you will hear presidents in re-elections say, i inherited a very problematic, a terrible recession. but again and again, they are basically, their party has been in office for a very long time. this is not just a democratic

issue. this is also a republican issue. >> greta: thank you. >> just in, big news in the international mystery in china. the blind chinese dissident hiding now the beijing now says he wants to come to the united states. but does the united states know that? former u.n. ambassador john bolton is here. what is the situation right now in beijing, as you see it from this side of the world? >> li think we have a train wreck in process here. the dissident is outside the american embhasesy, meaning he is no longer under our protection. he said he left because chinese authorities were threatening to kill his wife. and he now says he wants to leave china and come to the united states. the state department is denying big chunks of that. we have a disconnect between what the state department thought they were doing and what this very vulnerable chinese

dissident thinks was happening. >> greta: he was in the hospital. i am curious about one thing. that's that, i had some communication from a u.s. official in beijing who has said that at no time eye tryst this affordable at no time when he's in the embassy did he ask to go to the united states. they asked him repeatedly and he affirmed he wanted to continue his work in china. so i am simthetic to the situation. i think he is saying different things at different times. he's uncertain. i don't know if it's because he's terrified or because he's confused or he has other problems going on. but i think that the u.s. embassy is getting a runaround. >> li must say, though, the state department is saying contradictory things. let's take the claim that he has made repeatedly that u.s. officials told him that the chinese were threatening to kill his wife. now, this is a pretty important point. the state department says officially, well, no, that's not

the story upon but in the new york times, it will appear tomorrow, quoting an unnamed official, an experienced international reporter says that they did tell at this time dissident that he would not see his wife, who was in beijing, unless he left the embassy, that is to say, left american protection. and they then said she, the wife, would be sent back to mr. chun's home village, where no one could guarantee her safety. that's what the american official is saying they told him. that sounds a lot like, nice wife you got there, be a shame if anything happened to her. if i were in his position, it sounds like he did think american fortunately officials were telling him his wife was in danger. that's a powerful incentive to leave. >> greta: were we -- or should the united states -- dissident shows up at our doorstep in beijing. he has a family. he didn't bring his family.

what are we to do? if all of a sudden, we think, well, the wife is going to have problems. i think that's the first thing we thought, does he have family? what are we to do in that instance? >> we are committed by our own law to grant political asylum -- if there is a well-founded fear of persecution. if he asks, yes. once he crosses the doorway into the american embassy, the whole world is different n. chinese eyes, in chinese official eyes, this is virtually an act of treason. this is an important point. the chineseh have demanded an american apology and commit that we no longer use unusual means to get people into the embassy. what do they mean? if you are a blind chinese man, walking on crutches toward the american embassy, you are not going to get there with your i.d. not checked by the chinese security guards outside. i think what happened here is

that chun was taken into the american embass nean official american car, which the chinese security guards dare not intercept. inf there was any american assistance to get him into the state embassy, the state department, secretary clinton should have known this was going to be a major incident. i think -- >> greta: i think that -- >> diplomatic malpractice underway. >> greta: i think that changes the dynamics of we went to his house and got him and gave him a ride. however he got to the embassy -- >> honestly, how could he have gotten in? >> greta: he's blind. good question. how did he get there? how did he escape? secondly, how far is home from the embassy and how did he get there? he didn't drive. i think there is a lot more that we don't know. inside the embassy, from what i understand, he said he wanted to go to the hospital and he didn't want to go to the united states.

i think that's the only complicated thing. you know, i have no -- no idea what happened beyond that. >> look, ultimately, of course, he would prefer to remain in chinasm but he's only got three options once he's in the embassy, go to the united states, stay in the embassy for god knows how long or walk outside. once he walks back outside, he is at dramatically greater risk. you know, the administration -- >> greta: isn't his family -- >> we cut deals -- we got assurances of his security. oh, really? that's really a lot to go on. isn't it? >> greta: isn't his family at risk if he stays there? i mean -- his family's at risk if he goes to the united states alone, the family's at risk if he stay there is by himself. the family's at risk if he goes out. his family's at risk, i assume, no matter what. >> the family was at risk whether he escaped house arrest. the first act always puts the family at risk. the question now is, are they any safer now that he is out of

the embassy. the answer to that is certainly not. what possible way do we have to make the chinese live up to a commitment to treat him securely? we do know and there is no ambiguity about this, chinese authorities were arresting his colleagues. >> greta: i have to g. i am sure we will have a lot more with this. brace yourself for this one. is your employer getting ready to dump your health insurance coverage? a big reason why this is very possible, up next. and former speaker of the house, newt gingrich, is catching hell from his wife, calista. why? find out, coming up. all multivitamins give me the basics. they claim to be complete. only centrum goes beyond. providing more than just the essential nutrients, so i'm at my best. centrum. always your most complete. not in this economy.

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their insurance tomorrow and they wouldn't face penalties. bi that do continue to provide benefits. the same reason they provide benefits now will exist, they want a healthy workforce. they are saying the incentives will still be there. >> greta: so everybody's a good guy. nobody's motivated by money. a company won't go from providing health insurance because of the penalty. >> they might weigh the costs and benefits and decide we could save money, but we could lose fireworks to a competitor. our workforce might get sick. they won't be able to do their jobs well. so they are saying issue you know, they will make a cost/benefit analysis and continue to provide the insurance. like you say, $422 billion, that's a lot ever money. >> greta: if a company has 50,000 employees, a major company. right now, they are paying $15,000 on average for insurance. $765 million to cover insurance

f. they didn't do -- if they didn't do that and went to the penalty of $2,000 that, would be $102 million, $653 million in savings. i am thinking, what shareholder is going to want a company to be so benevolent when they can save that money? >> if the shareholders are thinking about being competitive. it will depend on what the economy looks like and if the economy is recovering, you might see folks seeing, this is a way to lure people to our companies. s s and talk that no one wants to be the first company to say, we are not providing health insurance. no one wants to be the last because have you screwed it up. so there is some of this, people are going to be tepid about dropping. but like you said, there is a lot of money at stake. it's really difficult to game out. we have never done a law like this. >> greta: it's interesting. the thinking, i was reading what the democrats say is that, one

of the reasons why companies provide health insurance is because they believe that it helps keep employees because employees would go other places. but the economy is want robust. there aren't any other places. so if news corp fit decided to take our health insurance away from us, where are we going to go isn't problem is that i think it's a fix to say that any of these companies are going on go immp, there are not any jobs. >> one of the things you see happening is that fewer employers are offering insurance. >> greta: fewer are? >> fewer. you see some smaller companies, with fewer than 50 people who are not subject to the employer mandate and they have been scaling back their coverage. it seeps like it is in response to the economy, once we get further in, if the economy continues to decline, you could see more of that dynamic. but, you know, have you to consider, there are los -- lots of companies that wouldn't face a penalty for dropping coverage, but they continue to provide it.

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money laundering, receiving and giving kickbacks, how many people have been arrested in this series? >> the latest sweep as the justice department likes to call them, it's 107 people have been charged. about 91 have been arrested. some are self-surrendering. some are on the lam. but over the last several days, 91 people incarcerated. >> greta: what is the biggest eye realize they are doctors and lawyer it's i'll leave the lawyers out of this one for once. doctors and nurses. what is the largest by one personnel allocation? >> the biggest case is out of baton rouge, louisiana, where two organizations, community mental health centers billed medicare for $225 million. and they got about $40 million, the big thing out of this is that $452 million number is the

attempted defrauding. so it's unclear, doj and hhs weren't able to pinpoint how much has been paid out. >> greta: so of this $225 million that they billed. >> yes. >> greta: $40 million has been paid. over what period of time? >> five, six years. >> greta: what was the tipoff that this was a fraud? >> well, a lot of it boiled down to people not receiving services -- >> greta: but was there a whistle-blower? >> several therapists within the organization into these two mental health centers, some of them may be been whister-blowers. hhs is cracking down and using more analytical tools to find this kind of fraud that has been going on. >> greta: is there one person at the mental health facility doing the defrauding and pocketing the money? or is it more systemic?

>> it tends to be at the top. the leaders. >> greta: in this one who, has been arrested on this one? >> well, it's two names. a woman of indian origin. and she's now here in the u.s., dr. kafre. and rozlin do gan, one of the ones who led one of these groups. it's a really fascinating thing. the justice department filed a detention memo to have her held, pending trial. part of it stems from the fact that she -- while she was new yorking with doj and prosecutors to discuss whether accounts will be frozen, bank accounts as they were investigating this, she is accused of stealing documents from within the u.s. attorney's office in louisiana, which is -- which takes real hutspa, if that's true. >> greta: indeed. they are jumping on this. but it does -- it has been going on for five years. that's alarming.

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said she was very upset when she confronted edwards about his affair with rielle hunter. he is accused of using campaign money if to cover up the affair. he faces up to 30 years in prison, if convicted. two of 13 people charge in the hazing death of a florida a&m drum major. they are facing third-degree felony charges in the death. the other two suspects will face misdemeanor charges. the 26-year-old was found dead after performing in a school football game. investigators believe he was beaten to death by other band members. i'm ainsley earhardt. back to greta. >> greta: big troubles for the new orleans saints. the players are taking -- are punished for taking part in a bounty system. four players were suspended. the head coach has been benched for the entire season.

james varny covers the saints and he is here. good evening. i imagine it's a huge blow to the saints fans in new orleans and the whole louisiana area. >> it is. but there is also an element of relief because this has been hanging over the franchise and the pans for two months, since march 4, when it opened. i think there is a wide element looking to get this behind them and i think they are happy that it was only the defensive end will smith that got suspebbedded t. looked like there could be more because the league said between 22 and 27 players had been involved in the bounty. but only two players were suspended. >> you take a defensive lineman and i ask this selfishly. anthony hargrove and i ask this selfishly, he has been traded to the packers. so now the packers are paying the penalty for what a player did in a saints uniform, in

which the coach apparently is now ousted for the season? so is there some leadership responsibility? >> that's true. cleveland will pay a price because another play wert browns is suspended three games. but one of the things that the league has argued from the beginning and commissioner goodall has been stressing, this is about player safety, which is paramount importance, facing the litigation that it does for head injuries and the like. and consequently, goodall wants to make sure that whoever was involved is punished tdoesn't make a difference if they are in new orleans or not. >> greta: let me ask you another question, this is random. johnny unidas' record, consecutive games with a touchdown pass and drew brees is closing in on the record, around 50 years. he has done 51, 6 show. now that his team has been hammered, the coach, the players, everything else, going

into the next season, do you expect the on morale to take the wind out of his sails on this? or not? >> i would think that drew would probably be focuses enough to break that record. it's pretty hard to shake drew brees's focus or confidence. but the broader question about the saints' morale, that has to be a yes. they have taken a number ofbly blows and there is question with general manager mickey lumas and what he did with the wiring. so it seems as though the saints are always shrouded, and that has to be wearing on the players and the staff. >> greta: how about tom benson? the owner of the saints? is he popular with the fans? what -- has he been -- what's his response to what has happened within his team? >> he is popular. i think there is a feeling that his bringing in general manager mickey lumas and coach peyton, those are the two main architects of the best teams that the franchise has ever had.

so the fans give the owner a lot of credit for that. there is probably a little bit of frustration. he just bought the nba hornets for $330 million. and the pure saints fans are probably wondering why that didn't get a deal done with quarterback brees, which is still out there. that's probably the biggest thing that the saintsancy fans are worried about, when will the team get drew brees back in the fold? >> greta: thank you very much. we will be watching, love to watch what is going on in football. hope you will join us again. >> sure. >> greta: speaking of football, there is sad news. former nfl star, junior seau was found dead in an apparent suicide. his girlfriend found him unconscious in his southern california form. the 43-year-old had a gunshot wound to the chest. the 12-time pro bowl linebacker playeds for the chargers, dolphins and the patriots. he led the chargers to the sprp super bowl after the 1994

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>> greta: you have seen our top stories, but here's the best of the rest. it is not what you are used to flaring sharp-tongued governor chris christie. in a up to hall meeting, he answered two questions from 11-year-old peter schwartz. here's what he said. >> i understand the law that you passed. but i don't understand what to do if a person is bullying me. >> i will give you advice, first as a dad, then as a governor. okay? first as a dad, if someone is bullying you, you the the first thing you do is go to your parents and tell them. which i am sure you have probably done. next, is the advice as governor. everybody has a boss. everybody has a boss. and so whoever that person in

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