is this the turning of the tide that we're supposed to be watching here? >> reporter: you phrase it very well, thomas, because i think we can make a distinction in their approach in the first two years of the obama administration and the last two years of the obama administration. as they put it here themselves, they're going to move from a legislation phase, dealing with capitol hill and health care and all the big issues they dealt with in the two years, to an implementation phase. legislation out, implementation in. recovery out, competitiveness in, at least as far as it's concerned with the names of these boards here. jeff immelt named to the council of jobs and competitiveness. he's going to chair that council. paul volcker out, immelt in. volcker ran the economic recovery board. so a shift in emphasis here, and you're right. a number of signals, a number of signs to signal that, thomas. you mentioned bill daley coming in as chief of staff. he spent seven years on wall street with jp morgan chase. he was the secretary of commerce during the clinton administration. the president has scheduled a speech now to the chamber of commerce. a big lobbying organization just across the street here, a leading business organization, as you might imagine. and one that was vilified. there were big fights during the health care debate, during the financial reform debate with that very organization. we can remember those very well. the president also this year penning an op ed in "the wall street journal" this week. penning about deregulation, for government agencies to find regulations in the environmental area, in the health area, hampering businesses as they try to move forward with the recovery towards competitiveness, thomas. >> interesting to note, we have the republican-led house hung up talking about health care. and here it is the obama administration is saying we've got to worry about the financial structure of our country right now. it's really a reversal of what you expect from the two. >> reporter: it's an irony, as you point out, on the surface of it. but what at the white house for us. mike, thanks so much. enjoy your weekend. i want you to pay close attention to this story because, when we hear about human trafficking, we think about far-off places like thailand or maybe malaysia. but they say atlanta, georgia, has become a hub of human trafficking which is on the rise, especially along the eastern sea board. brock nickelson is in charge of the office of homeland security and investigation. he joins me live from atlanta to talk about this. it really is surprising to talk about this. explain to all of us, how long has the american government been concerned about the increaseing in human trafficking within our own borders? >> thomas, we've been looking at this for quite a number of years. what we're trying to do this month, the department of homeland security is trying to make more awareness of this issue. it's a terrible problem that we see in all the major cities in the u.s. in the rural areas, you know, down home america. you find it everywhere. >> all right. so explain exactly what human trafficking is and who is benefitting from this, when you're taking into custody, the people that you think are somehow cashing in on it. >> who's cashing in on it is a group -- they're organized crime groups. often time family organizations, often time made up of immigrants themselves that are bringing in women and children under false pretenses, often, you know, under the employment -- the offer of employment, looking for jobs. or even romance at times. they'll offer -- you know, they'll talk young ladies into thinking they're coming here to meet wealthy, educated young men, and they get here is the reality and vastly different. they come into the country. they're immediately forced into prostitution or other forms of the sex trade. we've seen girls as young as 14 through 18. it's a tragedy. >> brock, explain why is it atlanta that's making such a hub for this kind of activity? a lot of people would be puzzled thinking it would be a larger city like new york or something on the west coast like l.a. why atlanta? >> well, you're also -- you are going to find it in new york. you are going to find it in l.a., but atlanta is a great place for the human traffickers because, "a," we have a very large airport with large number of international flights. it's a major metropolitan area surrounded by rural areas. we also have a very large immigrant population here in atlanta. so the traffickers can literally hide among the immigrants. they also have a customer base for illegal activity. >> brock, you were pointing out before that this -- that immigrants are involved here. is this immigrant on immigrant crime that's happening? who are the victims that are coming through? mainly immigrants? >> we at i.c.e., we look at the international aspect. we see mostly immigrants that are involved -- that are the victims of this. and it is immigrant on immigrant. but there's also a major domestic issue in atlanta as well. u.s. citizens. that's looked into by the fbi and state and local officers as well. >> all right, brock. we wish you continued good luck with the investigation that's you're conducting there. brock nicholson, thanks for joining us today. on a different note, the snow, well, it's back. and not that it really ever went anywhere for most of us. the northeast has taken yet another beating from mother nature with up to eight inches of snow getting dumped along the eastern coast tonight overnight. and the frigid temps in certain parts of the country, they're not helping matters much. the weather channel meteorologist samantha moore joins us now from atlanta to offer an idea of what we can expect over the weekend. samantha, the temperatures are under 10 degrees in parts of pittsburgh, also chicago. that's going to mean some trouble maybe for some football fans out there. explain what it means for the next few days. >> i know. it means you're going to have to dress in layer, that's for sure. i don't know, maybe cut the tailgating a little shorter than you would like because it's going to be seriously cold with those temperatures. that's going to be the main problem when it comes to going out there and enjoying both those games on sunday. but we also have another system that's developing that will affect much of the nation. really the eastern two-thirds of the nation, as we head into this weekend. starting on saturday, we have our upper level low that's moving in out of the rockies. and this is going to move into the plain states as we head then into our sunday. so we're going to see that low move in from rapid city into north platte here. and bringing in the snow in the mountains. more snow for the colorado rockies. that's good news if you have skiing plans obviously. come sunday, that moves in through the plains. kansas city sees the snow. springfield sees that rain/snow mix. into st. louis we go, and we see that snow developing. guess what? this looks very familiar to the big snowstorm we saw across the deep south. it's been almost two weeks now. the timing very similar. the pattern very similar. but there are some differences. at this point, we're thinking it could end up being a heavy snow event, and it looks like sometime late tuesday into wednesday, this system's going to be working its way up the east coast. and that's when we could see a heavy dumping across the middle atlantic. so d.c. into philadelphia. at this time, the models look so different, it's really hard to get a good consensus, a solid consensus. we could end up with potentially heavy snow come midweek along with serious icing. we could be talking major travel impacts as we head into wednesday, the middle of the week, across much of the northeast once again. and then the temperatures, we can't not really look at how this is affecting people. across the great lakes, you really have to take it easy when our temperatures are some 20, 25 degrees below average. and this being towards the end of january is typically the coldest time of year, and we're running 20, 25 degrees below average. that's indicative of just how brutal it is out there. cover up. wear the layers. stay inside as much as possible. back to you guys. >> and we're less than halfway through the winter. we've got a little more to go. >> a lot more to go. you're welcome. the costs, they have been calculated. up next, we'll talk about the hundreds of millions of dollars that went into enforcing the military's policy of don't ask, don't tell. and with government funding drying up, just what kind of influence do the private foundations have on our public school system? 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[ both ] ♪ oh what a relief it is! for just a moment, put aside the politics of the military's don't ask, don't tell policy, and just consider the sheer cost. according to the federal government's own audit, the military spent nearly $200 million from keeping gays and lesbians from serving openly and removing them from service ultimately. ed o'keefe is with "the washington post" and joins us now to talk about this. the military spent this money between 2004 and 2009 to replace approximately over 3,600 troops discharged under the policy known as don't ask, don't tell. when we say replace, what do we mean by replace? they actually had to, i guess, bring in new people and train them in the exact same capacity as the people they lost? >> for the most part. it's believed, according to the estimates from the government accountability office, that it cost $185 million to recruit and train replacements for the 3,600 troops kicked out, and there was another $7 million in administrative costs, paperwork and sort of other matters. so a pretty significant chunk of change spread out over six years. you know, a fraction of the $300 billion annual pentagon budget, but certainly shows that this was a nine figure sum, at least over the six years. and remember that the policy had been in place since 1994. so obviously the cost has not much greater over time. >> ironically, when we talk about replacing them, just because they brought in new people doesn't mean they weren't gay and lesbian to replace the people they lost because of don't ask, don't tell. >> you're talking about replacing people with unique foreign language skills. they may have been part of command forces. the military debate on this, there was a large number of people who had highly skilled techniques and abilities who were being kicked out unnecessarily under this policy. that's what gay rights groups and democrats have been saying. you're kicking out a bunch of people who are willing to put their lives on the line, who had great skill the military needed, and they were being kicked out because of this policy. >> right. they were willing to sign up to defend all of our freedoms. is this value completely under flated? >> it's hard to know exactly how much was spent on this, according to the gal, because only the army and air force were keeping very close records of this. the navy and the marine corps had to provide pretty much educated estimates. so it's likely that they could have spent more on this. it's likely it could have been less. as some advocates pointed out to me, the untold cost of the emotional toll this took on those that were kicked out and their families is obviously something that could never be measured. >> ed, as you point out, this was instituted back in 1994, but there was never any speculation as to the costs then of what the implications would be. as we've been hearing everybody talk about now with the repeal of don't ask, don't tell and what they're saying the cost is going to be as they roll it out over the next several years. >> there wasn't much talk back then about the potential costs of kicking people out. we know that over 17 years at least 13,000 service members were removed for violating the policy. if on average at least in the last six years it cost about $52,800 to kick out each troop you can get a sense of the math over time over the course of that. so it's a pretty impressive sum. again, a fraction of the overall military budget, but demonstrates that this was a big cost to taxpayers for a policy the majority of the country didn't agree with. >> this ask as the pentagon is expected to detail how it's going to be ending don't ask, don't tell. in your reporter's gut instinct, do you think they'll do a better job of evaluating the cost of how the repeal is going to go forward than they did enforcing don't ask, don't tell? >> i suspect there's going to be requests to get a sense of how much this costs to change this policy. obviously, there's a lot of training. new paperwork has to be filed and authored and distributed. as defense secretary gates said earlier this month, the sheer physics of somehow training 2.2 million troops is going to be a massive undertaking. it's still unclear how exactly that's going to happen. we expect to learn details on that the next two weeks. it's believed they'll start by training top commanders and the military chaplains and the front line commanders. and at some point start training the rank and file. remember with troops deployed and others on leave and others getting ready to go, it could take a few months, maybe even a few years until every single member of the military has been instructed on these changes. we simply don't know. and the pentagon really, at least until recently, hasn't had an idea of how they're going to do it. >> ed o'keefe with "the washington post." thanks for coming in. we appreciate your time today. congresswoman gabby giffords has landed in houston, where she's going to take the next major step on her remarkable road on her long recovery. a motorcade with a police escort transported giffords from the hospital in pew tucson to a nearby air force base in houston this morning. congresswoman giffords was moved to a specially equipped private plane for this trip to houston. msnbc's janet shamlian is live in houston. i guess i was editorializing when i said full recovery. her husband used that phrase yesterday in a press conference he gave. i just want to attribute it to him. he is saying she's going to have a full recovery. janet, we've heard so many incredible things about giffords and the process she's gone through so far. what's the idea, or what are they predicting of how long she's going to need to stay in rehab there? >> reporter: you know, just to pick up for a minute on what you're saying, thomas. i don't know if you heard that he did use those terms, full recovery. but he also said she was doing things like scrolling through an ipad, which, you know, suggests a higher level of cognitive learning than a lot of her doctors thought would be possible at this point. as far as what happens here, it's going to be a team of therapists day in and day out for several months. how many months, we don't know. but they will be working with her on everything from muscle strengthening to prapgs muperha music therapy. and what's great about this facility is it's just a short distance from the johnson space center, where her husband, the astronaut mark kelly, will at least in part be continuing his training for an upcoming shuttle mission. we also have to say that gabby giffords, because they had a commuter marriage, was a frequent visitor to houston. she'll have a sense of support here. it's not tucson. it's not her home. no one is suggesting that it is. but it is perhaps the best possible second location for her to be in in terms of the facilities that are offered here and in terms of that other intangible, the emotional, the friendship, the support that she will need to get back to whatever that new normal is for her, thomas. >> when we talk about what we do know about where she is right now and the progression that she's made in under two weeks, what do we know specifically about speech and eye sight? those two things still remain kind of unknowns for all of us. >> very little. very little has been said about that. what's going to happen here over the next couple of days, two, three days, she's going to stay in the hospital part of this facility, the intensive care unit, the trauma unit. she'll be evaluated by a team. they'll make the skidecisions. where do we go with her therapy? what does she need first? what does she need next? then she'll move into the rehab building, which is directly behind me. this is where she's going to spend the bulk of her time. it's going to be a day in, day out struggle. we see people coming out here today in wheelchairs with therapists. that's what it's going to be like for gabby giffords on a day to day basis for the foreseeable future. >> but also there's going to be a protection of her privacy. i doubt they're going to be bringing her outside in full view of cameras. they'll probably be a little more discrete about how she's treated in that capacity. >> reporter: and i do expect the cameras will leave. i think there's going to be appreciation of her privacy here. and there are some internal parts that can't be seen from the street. but i will say we are within a sprawling medical complex here. and you see patients all the time coming through here as part of their rehabilitation. they've got parks built in and waterfalls. the weather is good here. it's going to be a conducive to whatever type of recovery she can make. >> she's got the whole country behind her, that's for sure. nbc's janet shamlian live in houston for us. janet, thanks so much. so democrats meet outside washington to solidify their agenda moving forward. what's their game plan? 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explain to all of us how it was founded, why it was started. >> in 2002, i left karachi, pakistan, with this question in my mind about who had actually killed danny. danny was visiting my house with his wife marianne when he was kidnapped from the interview from which he did not return. years later, those questions were still lingering. and irmet the director at georgetown university, and she said, let's do this investigation at the georgetown. i'm going to give you a class of bright students, and she promised she would grade their papers for me. sure enough, after all of this hard, hard work, these students have discovered findings that even the fbi doesn't know. >> asra, just to remind everyone, in july of 2002, there were four men convicted of murdering daniel pearl. now it's the 9/11 mastermind, khalid sheikh mohammed, saying he killed pearl. is mohammed lying? if he is lying, why? >> this is a great irony. you're absolutely right n 2002, four men were convicted. our investigation found that, in fact, 27 men were involved. while omar sheikh, the mastermind of the kidnapping, was convicted for the murder, he wasn't even present during the kidnapping. and what we found was evidence that the fbi and the cia has used to confirm khalid sheikh mohammed's question. they basically analyzed the vein on the hand of the killer in the murder video documenting danny's murder, and the hand of khalid sheikh mohammed. using that biometric analysis, they discovered that the two hands match, and that it was khalid sheikh mohammed who did kill danny. >> and, jessica, in what's been reported, you guys have written through the pearl project, the u.s. failed to interview some key suspects. jessica, did not following up on leads and neglecting to prosecute the alleged co-conspirators in all of this, how do you know that to be true? why would u.s. authorities do that? why do you say that they would do that? >> well, there were some -- the fbi had been following the leads from the 9/11 bombing, and they didn't want to mess up the investigation. so -- and also too they had already convicteded these poor men. so they didn't want to ruin that conviction that had already happened. >> so, asra, you learned a lot about the fbi's interrogation of khalid sheikh mohammed. for all of us, what would surprise all of us to know the most about these interrogations? what we may not know currently. >> well, khalid sheikh mohammed said to the fbi that it was an al qaeda operative saif al ado who actually called him to tell him, look, there are these men who have kidnapped danny pearl. they don't know what to do with him. take over the operation. make it an al qaeda operation. we don't know if saif al ado ordereded the killing, but sure enough, khalid sheikh mohammed packed a bag with two knives and a meat cleaver and a video camera, and that was then the day that danny was killed. this man saif al ado is out in the world today still. >> despite him being out in the world still, what are some of the more important points to take away from the pearl project? >> 14 men remain free on the streets of pakistan, not charged in this crime. and the other really important lesson that i think danny would have wanted everyone to know is that there is a dangerous nexus on the streets of pakistan related to the pakistani militancy and al qaeda. and pakistan has a serious crisis of rule of law in which, unfortunately, the guilty go unpunished. >> thanks for coming in today and talking about your findings. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. all right. so here is a very little known fact that affects virtually all of us out there. it turns out that billionaires and their private foundations are shaping public schools in this country. while their influence might be quiet, they have bold faced names. names such as bill and melinda gates and the walton foundation. they're just among some of the bigger players influencing public school education all the way from k through 12. joanne barkin has written about this for "dissent" magazine. it's a self-described magazine of the left. joanne joins me in studio now. i want to talk about what some of the findings are. bill and melinda gates, they are considered to be wonderful philanthropists and really fantastic people. so why is it a big deal to have their money from their gates foundation influencing the education of our nation's children? >> well, i think there are two problems. the first is what i call a democracy deficit. that they have a tremendous amount of influence, not just them, but especially the broad foundation and the walton family foundation. they have a tremendous amount of influence in shaping the public debate in terms of even designing and helping implement government policy. but they're accountable to no one, absolutely no one. and the public schools belong to the people, to the parents and the teachers, and they belong to the voters. the democracy deficit is extremely important. and the other is what i would call a quality deficit. the gates foundation very consistently has been experimenting, but not based on really solid research. they pour -- >> i'm sorry. do you think that they're giving this money in an altruistic fashion so we can see education and kids pros ter in the country? i doubt they're donating money so they can see school systems falter more than they already are. >> yes, of course. i mean, they have good intentions. i'm not questioning their intentions. their overall model is that public schools should be run like businesses, and i question that motto. i think that business practices don't necessarily work for education. so that's one problem. but another problem is that they really do have this history of funding projects that kind of mess up schools for real live kids, and then they say, oop, that didn't work. we're going to try another experiment. so the things they're doing now in charter schools, in turnarounds which close schools and replace them with charters, in terms of merit pay for teachers, in terms of basing teacher evaluations and student evaluations on standardized tests, none of these things have been proven scientifically. a lot of studies are coming out now to show that they don't work. and yet this has really shaped the policy, in part because arne duncan comes right out of the foundation world. he was on the board of the brode foundation. he believes in all of this. i think president obama does as well. so there's kind of a consensus around this reform strategy, but i really don't think it's a good strategy. >> so while we wait to have the proof come in, proof positive, let's talk about what you say is the business model structure they may be trying to run certain schools by. i guess it's through the reporting that you point out that, with trying to run it like that, they're putting in superintendents. so with this money, what type of strings are attached? >> well, what you refer to specifically is two projects from the brode foundation. they run a superintendents academy. they want to take people from outside the world of education. this is part of the business model. let's take military leaders, people at the top of their profession, and let's say business, give them six weekends of training and then help to find them jobs as superintendents. and they placed -- in 2009 they placed 43% of all the superintendents in large urban districts came out of the broad programs. they aren't necessarily the best of people to be equipped to running education. i myself like the idea of the top people in education running these districts. >> passionate people. it's interesting, though. it's very interesting reporting. i think probably all of us agree, if our kids grow up to be as rich as bill gates, we'd all be happy. >> not necessarily. >> i speak for myself then, for my future children. joanne barkan, thanks for coming in. appreciate your time. as congresswoman gabby giffords moves to the rehab phase of her recovery, others injured in the tragic shooting begin to speak out about their experiences on that fateful day. nbc news anchor and managing editor brian williams spoke exclusive today to susan hileman. she is the woman who accompanied young christina taylor green to gabby giffords' event. this is a preview of the interview with susie hileman and her husband bill as she describes the moments after she was shot. >> next thing i remember is i'm lying on the concrete. and christina's to my left. she was bul. she was undamaged. she didn't talk. but we were eyeball to eyeball. and i'm yelling at her, christina taylor green, don't you die on me. don't you go away from me, girlfriend. don't leave me here to do this by himself. stay here. where are -- christina! christina taylor green! and she's looking at me, and it was -- she was wondering. she was confused. she was asking me what is going on? 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[ male announcer ] over 7 million people nationwide have talked to their doctor about chantix. chances are, you could be one of them. talk to your doctor. find out if chantix is right for you. welcome back, everybody. so a new controversy is heating up over the new mtv show "sins." some are even calling for criminal charges about this. jeff rolston joins me to explain. criminal charges? >> they're saying maybe it's pornography and the exploitation of children. you can judge for yourselves. it's an mtv. it premieres this past monday. more episodes to come. they show a lot of skin. most of the actors are underage. some as young as 15 years old. they're half naked in the show. some doing drugs. some parents are calling for a federal investigation saying "skins" may just be child pornography. the numbers are in, and mtv's "skins" is an instant hit. this week's premiere watched by 3.3 million people. many of them young children. the premise is simple. a group of high school friends talking sex. >> you promised to help out stanley today. >> in what? >> the virgin thing. >> having sex. >> busy? >> reporter: drinking and doing drugs. >> purchase the narcotics and get your [ bleep ] butt here. >> it's hot. >> reporter: usually it's the racy reality shows stirring things up. think "jersey shore." not here. "skins" is a scripted series based on a british hit show. >> do you have to do that? >> what? >> suck tony's face off in public all the time. >> reporter: and just like there, the actors here are real teenagers, aged 15 to 19, doing things like this. and this. >> is she breathing? >> reporte >> you have a major conglomer e conglomerate, viacom, and mtv advertise to go kids drug use, sex. >> reporter: the parents tv council group sent this letter to the house and senate judiciary committees demanding an investigation, saying mtv may be violating federal law, including sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. >> their defense is likely to be, oh, come on, this is just a television show. that's not real wily a defense because that's not the issue. the only issue is are there kids involved that's under the age of 18 in that's it. that's enough. that's child pornography. >> reporter: there are warnings at the top of the show. critics say that isn't enough. mtv isn't backing down. saying skins is a show that addressed real world issues confronting teens in a frank way. we are confident that the episodes of skins will not only comply with all applicable legal requirements but also with our responsibilities to our viewers. but some parents say it's not just the content they find outrageous, it's the marketing. the way they market this is to teens. it's like joe camel on steroids. >> you still a virgin? >>up. >> reporter: and it turns out advertisers are getting nervous too. late thursday taco bell pulled out of the show. that parents group is now calling for all the other advertisers to follow. we'll see if that happens. >> any changes come to go this show? >> reporter: they say the critics have gotten the screeners of the future episodes. they say episode three is especially heinous. they're lobbying mtv to make changes to that show. mtv may actually do that, reedit and tone down that show. >> and the written statement that mtv provided, how long has that been sitting in the wings? >> reporter: they must love the publicity. it's out there now. mtv, we called them today. they're standing by this show. they're not backing down. so the excitement over the upcoming nuptials of prince william and kate middleton have many reminiscing about the mother of it all, princess diana. an exhibit called diana, a celebration, is touring the country. it had 150 items related to the life of princess di. nbc's peter alexander takes us on a tour in grand rapids, michigan. >> reporter: so here it is, just 89 days and counting until kate middleton and prince william get married, but perhaps one of the most famous pieces of royal history is this here on display at the grand rapids art museum. this is princess diana's official wedding dress from that famous day, the royal wedding, july 29th, 1981. hard to believe that was 30 years ago, right? take a look at the train. it's 25 feet long. and to help keep this dress a secret at the time, the designers had security, two guards watching a metal cabinet where they hid the dress every night. they even threw fake fabric and lace into the garbage, the bin as they call it in the uk, to throw paparazzi off the case. come with us for a second. we'll show awe round a little bit more of this exhibit. this is what they call, the work continues. about diana's charities, highlighting the work she's done for people with learning disabilities and for refugees. if we come into here, this has been a really moving tribute, where they have shown images from diana's life, and many people here come to mourn her loss. nearly 14 years after she died, her life still inspires. take a look at what they're doing throughout grand rapids these days. it's become contagious, this whole royal wedding fever. they've been having royal luncheons at the women's club. they even have the cake on display at the hotels nearby. this for many women is the showstopper, a hall filled with lifetime. you can see the transform answer from the shy di into the powerful princess, this is the elegant black gown she wore in her last public engagement. and if we come over this direction, there's one other iconic image. it was this protective vest and visor that lady di wore when she was on the road in bosnia and angola, trying to raise the issue of landmines and the need to get rid emthismt. that's whag good on. it's open until february 16th, next stop, kansas city. that's the latest from here. now back to you. >> peter, thanks so much. up next, the latest headlines, stay with me. this is msnbc. this tailgate needs some love ! guy ! guy ! check out my ritz cheese steak sliders. get more of my rockin' ritz game day recipes on facebook. 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