five good things. listen wherever you get your podcasts hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m anna coren, ahead on cnn newsroom israel celebrating the rescue of four hostages held in gaza. we have details on how the raid was conducted. well, that operation taking a heavy toll on palestinians with the reported death toll now said to be over 200. how the international community is responding plus president joe biden commenting on the mission, while abroad, a cnn learns the extent of us involvement as protesters gathered they re in washington to demand a ceasefire for israeli hostages and now free after an israeli military raid on a refugee camp in gaza. but there are questions about how many palestinians were killed in the operation and how many of those were civilians? the idf says the rest you d hostages are in good medical condition, but were taken to hospital for medical examination. the former hostages were reunited with
i got an earful over the last two days. people really are angry they do think we need to get our act together in washington, get something done and prove the economy and take and improve the economy and take care of our debt and deficit problem. greta: if you go to the gao report released in march, there are so many instances of billions of waste. congress has the obligation to oversight. take a look around, do a little oversight, see what it is. start cherry-picking some of the problems off. congress could do that and it won t. it won t look at the waste. it just commissions studies and says that is awful and then ignores it. you are right the report 300 billions in duplicate federal programs, 100 billion dollars in fraud, waste and abuse throughout the federal government. we have to go line by line. tonight one person said in our
deal than we do. look at colombia, not a very large country. they made four billion dollars, call it profit against the united states last year. now they want a new pact so they can make more. who do we have representing us? china this year will make 300 billions a projection from a year ago. i just read a week ago those numbers were very low they are going to make much more this year than that. because they are doing numbers on us that nobody would believe. our politicians aren t smart enough to figure it out. unless we do something with all of the countries throughout the world ripping off the united states and taking billions and ultimately trillions, the new word, of dollars, we can never be great again. greta: the thing that i find dissaysing all the solutions, when you act distressing all the shrugses, when you accept the republicans, democrats solutions they take so long.
corporate jet tax loophole would pay for 1/10 of 1% of the 300 billions that the president is hoping to save. it is not a serious plan. it is time for democrats and the president to put on the big kid pants and start governing. heather: you mentioned creating jobs . you talked about the private sector job growth that has been touted a lot recently by president obama and his staff. isn t it true that the private sector job growth that has in fact begun, didn t begin until 15 months ago which is where they are measuring it from? the 13 months prior to that, the administration after the bush economic meltdown there was a dip and then under the recovery act we started creating private sector jobs. people think of the recovery act as big government spending heather: but we lost four million in the first 13 months. when george bush walked