i talk to woman who was at cigna. she actually was in a pension area so this made it a little more ironic. her pension was cut like that, and she had no idea until she ran into a fellow, an executive at a going away party for someone and he said janice, a few new how much attention had been cut, you would be sick. she said well, frankly i was sick when i figured it out. because for her it would've meant a pension cut for the rest of her career. so people didn't pick up on that, definitely. they didn't understand that just the older people were being frozen. and you may ask yourself, how can it be legal but you can have only older people be affected by a cut and that younger people. well, that's the magic of pension law. this whole concept called where a way has been banned now under congress. so it can't happen anymore going forward. but having that took place out into the time the law changed a few years ago is teamed with go. i mean, congress finally got up with it and said when i going to do that. but sorry for you

it is a cigna the good part of the waterfront. we have eliminated these along the embarcadero, and we're down to one on washington street. here is to bicycling. in summary, the changes to the club, i either we have -- my eyes are going. is that screen bad for everybody else? we have increased the internal part of the club from 7,000 feet to 16,000 feet. we have increased the outdoor pools to buy 50%. you're looking at -- we had a lot of people who wanted to do a mix. a lot of people wanted laps, and a lot of people wanted recreation. at this point, of those lanes are actually 50-yard long, double the length of the 25 yards existing there. double the numbers. so that pool can be actually polls -- turned into eight lanes at 50 yards, or with such a line down the middle, it can be separated into recreation, or aerobics, andlaps. over time, the club operator will be working with all of the members to affect this, but this is for today. we're very excited about the green roof. that green rueful be -- rules will be a very significant an

one of the regional offices, call this number in new york.this numr they would just, an executive at cigna wrote this great book last year. when he was the vice-president he talked about the hundreds ofd thousands, millions of dollars of this bent hoping to discredit me, too, if necessary,y figuratively, not literally,alli push me off a cliff. so they, you know, so i learned my lesson there. not a good idea to give them advance notice what i am workinm on.otter on his >> and we interviewed.nt to if you like to see that you can go to booktv.org and use the botv.orgunction in the upper left-hand corner. coer. iranian american i am concerned about rumors that you may be planning a trip to a wrong.out the pro-government press has written more than once that you been invited to come and and accepted. they would consider that a coup if it happens. ift >> i have been invited for many years. i have be one of my films, it might have been "bowling for columbine" won the top prize at the teheran film festival a number of years ago. the pri tze was a beautiful pera road but i'm not going to the film f

of cigna and handling the annual revenue nineteen point one billion dollars two hundred ninety two million dollars in net income his salary plus point two million dollars for some insane reason we decided it's better to turns it to certain c.e.o.'s of health insurance corporations and wealthy millionaires and billionaires rather than using that money to hire more doctors hire more nurses or build more community clinics as the former c.e.o. of united healthcare bill mcguire made one point six billion dollars he's a billionaire health insurance executive in a country where fifty three million americans don't have health insurance or more than forty million americans are on food stamps where one in three african-american children are living in poverty so it makes sense to anyone for some insane reason we've decided billions are better spent on administrative costs the higher armies of number crunchers to scour medical records and deny you and me people with aids for whoever maybe people with preexisting conditions life saving medical treatment these are the for profit health insurance compani

. >> we are a signature that ture to npt, a sincere cigna ture, we think nonproliferation is a benefit to iran and all of us. >> rose: would you like to see saudi arabia have the same kind of capability to produce a nuclear weapon, capability, if you decide to go that last des dance. >> we are an advocate of middle east free of nuclear weapon but in terms of developing nuclear technology for all other peaceful uses, we are even ready to share with them our capability >> rose: all oit. >> no problem, yeah. >> rose: how close are you, if you wanted to today, today to produce a nuclear weapon? an explosive device. how close are you if, in fact, you made that decision. >> well, professionally i cannot answer that rigorously. the only thing, because it depends on a lot of points. but i tell you personally that to build a bomb is not a big deal. i mean from the technological point of view. >> rose: having the material build a bomb say big deal. otherwise you wouldn't be engaged in this -- >> i mean, you see pakistan already has a bomb but-- . >> rose: many bombs. >> but their technology is f

because as it turned out cigna had a number of documents in which they detailed their efforts to keep these practices hidden. they didn't want to provoke an employee backlash so the idea was we just won't let them know the benefits are being cut. and a celebrated afterwards. they were congratulating themselves on how effective this was because employees didn't notice. there was an element of deception throughout this process. so what you're having then are all these companies cutting benefits so they can pull the money out and continuing to pull the money out. but there's another reason that they were cutting benefits, even as they had these massive surpluses. they were doing it because of changes in accounting rules. this may sound incredibly dull and hard to grasp, but all you need to know is this, when these accounting rules changed in the early '90s it said companies, if you're going to promised pensions, you have this big liability to you have to put it on your books. now, a pension is a debt so it's like putting a great big debt on the books. so companies did this and actually t

another company, i think it's cigna. this is a scandal, this is your money and this is called crony capitalism. it happens all the time in washington d.c. and it makes me sick. it's the idea that people can be bought, and in exchange they use your money to payoff the political debt. megyn: congresswoman michelle bachmann is with me now. welcome to the program, we appreciate you being back with us. >> thank you, megyn always a pleasure. megyn: let me ask you about this solyndra deal. you you called it last night criminal, and you said it's gangster government. the defenders -- time and rosenberg said yesterday, they made 38 investments, 36 went well. two didn't. one happened to be solyndra. that isn't gang tere government, that is a pretty good win/loss ratio. >> government shouldn't be out picking winners and losers in the private sector. businesses have to make it or not make it on their own. this is really a pass through entity for the president to be able to payoff his political donors. this is more than just a simple

were serious -- one last thing, if we were serious, we would apply strong america now model of six cigna and save $500 billion a year by having an efficient effective federal government open up federal lands increasing jobs and the amount of revenue of the federal government. there are lot of thing us can do if you break out of the mindless bureaucracy of the city and just get the job done including by the way making the millennium challenge work and doing it in a way that we help people even more effectively and at a much lower cost by have ing public/private partnerships. >> mr. speaker, would you, if you were president of the united states, bomb iran's nuclear facilities to prevent it from becoming a nuclear power? >> only as a last resource and only as a step towards replacing the regime. no bombing campaign which leaves the regime in charge will accomplish much in the long run. you have to seriously talk about regime replacement. but i will also say -- this is where i disagree with my good friend ron paul. if my choice was to collaborate with the israelis on a convengeal campaign or

the government accountability office indicated that there is an opportunity for cigna began savings.- significant savings. bill perry said competition for procurement is the only way to control program cost. were you quoted accurately regarding contractor funding? why do you believe this is not such a good idea? we have to get most of this for the record. our time is out. will you please tell us for the record why this is not a good idea now? >> my comments were made prior to 400 billion. there simply is no money for competition at this point in time. >> it would decrease the cost. they continue to contend it. >> based on the information i have seen, it would require development of two engines with test programs and all associated with that. there simply is no free money available to pursue a second development program. there is all that is associated. >> he said that it will save money. it will not cost money. thank you. >> it might. >> miss sanchez. >> thank you. i would like to begin for being before us again today and taking a stab. -- and letting us know what the world would loo

the government accountability office indicated that there is an opportunity for cigna began savings.y said competition for procurement is the only way to .ontrol program cost sparin why do you believe this is not such a good idea? we have to get most of this for the record. our time is out. >> my comments were made prior to 400 billion. >> it would decrease the cost. they continue to contend it. there is all that is associated. >> he said that it will save money. it will not cost money. thank you. >> it might. >> thank you. i would like to begin for being before us again today and taking a stab. were heree dollar's before. it is a lot to put on the table. i know we're trying to work through that. you're trying to work through that. i am not excited about the super committee touching too much more in defense. i'm not excited about the not getting their job done and going into a deep opposition. there is a lot of things. it crosses for all of you. there are issues like arer-security wher ewe we in the dark. it will take more money than we think. when we talk about defense cuts, we raar