referring to, yes, the system pinged when he was leaving the united states. by the time he returned, all investigations had been the matter had been closed. but napolitano s statements chronic with what assistant fbi briefed another lawmaker who is a member of the judiciary committee. the fbi told me they had no knowledge of him leaving or coming back. the name was misspelled so i would like to talk to you more about this case. how this man left. where he went, and when we say there was no broader plot here, i don t know how in the world we know that at this early stage. reporter: napolitano testifying the system that flags border agents to individuals under investigation, like tamerlan tsarnaev, was no longer valid and expired by the time the 26-year-old returned from russia in the summer 2012.
time for the top of the news. the president today kicking his re-election campaign up a notch. trying to reach a group of voters who helped put him in the white house. college student he did so by highlighting education costs and exploding debt crisis. this country has always made a commitment to put a good education within the reach of all who are willing to work for it. that s what makes us special. yes. that s what made us an economic super power. that s what kept us at the forefront of business and science and technology and medicine and that s a commitment we have to reaffirm today. in 2012. shepard: the president went on to say that he too graduated with what he called a mountain of debt. the problem is many of these students these days can t find a job to help them pay off what they owe. it s the top story at the bottom of the hour. ed henry is on it live in bolder, colorado tonight. this seems to play right into the re-election strategy, fight for young people, fight
business done then full on campaign mode, former long time aide to senate majority leader reid offered this assessment. i am happy not to be working for a member this year who is up for re-election. i have never seen the political process so broken and never seen such a broad dissatisfaction with congress as i am now. so i am glad i am not in the senate. reporter: it will be interesting to see if the tone changes because the members have been home hearing from constituents and see if there is a new tone for 2012. shepard: more proof of what rumsfeld might have called a known known, washington broken. members are slowly growing more confident in the u.s. economy despite what the people in that city do. and the improvement is slight but hasn t done much to help president obama s approval rating. and now we bring in political analyst with a group that is nonpartisan public think tank in washington, dc and the political
inapproved purposes they are now paying their pharmaceutical reps, not based on sales, shep, but based on quality of service. and this drug company, trace, it s my understanding, is also ripping off taxpayers. yeah. because medicaid provides medicine to the poorest americans, the law says the drug companies are supposed to give medicaid the lowest prices. well, in fact, what s happening here is that the allegation is that glaxo was almost giving away their medicines to a lot of hospitals and turning around, artificially inflating their prices and gouging the government. but dr. mark seagull says he is not sure the settlement is the answer here. listen. easy to spend $3 billion and say the problem is gone. i think what we need to see what s going to happen going forward. this isn t a problem that s just newsweek to gsk. this san epidemic among our drug manufacturers. $3 billion, shep. the federal government should get that payment sometime in 2012.
and unify the company toward helping an economy grow again. reporter: after weeks and weeks of the president pushing the jobs bill, both parties still at loggerheads. no action one year before the election of 2012. shepard: one year. ed, thank you from the white house. look at this. 362 points, music to the ears of gerri willis. that s pretty astounding. the numbers were good but, this? gerri: we have the eu bailout and the g.d.p. numbers looked really good. first quarter we had 0.4 percent in the first quarter and the second quarter was 1.3 percent so this is good news so that is better than going negative. shepard: i have said at the beginning this could ease the concerns. is that true universally? gerri: a lot people look at