so alan, you ve issued an apology and the organization exodus international has shut its doors. can you explain what you re apologizing for? or what are you sorry about? well, we re sorry for the many people who took part in the ministries or the counselors or were impacted by the rhetoric, frankly, of leaders and including myself over the years that caused shame and hurt and promises whether they were intentional or not of promising that orientation would change, and that they could expect something that they didn t come to receive. so that s something we re very, very sorry for, the hurt and the shame and the anxiety and the trama that people were caused. i got to say and i give you props for this, it s rare that anybody in public life changes their mind and then publicly acre knowledges and actually says the word i m sorry as opposed to like, i misspoke or something. what why now?
because when people talk, great things happen. congressman frank pallone made it official today. he s running for the senate in new jersey. but if the latest poll is any indication, he s got an uphill climb ahead of him. knowledges mayor, that s newark mayor cory booker has an enormous lead in the race with 353%. 53 in the quinnipiac poll. rush holt second at ten points.
spending and the government helping, your life is going to be miserable. as we have seen throughout airports in the country, the knowledges don t add up to what janet napolitano said in terms of long, long lines and horrific conditions. even the faa isn t reporting widespread delays on the runway either. neil: what worries me like a broken record, you can be right. even a broken clock is right twice a day. what i fear is for the next long security line wait or worse, they ll go back to sequestration when it might be a variety of other factors, the least of which could be incompetent tsa personnel, security lapse having nothing to do with sequestration. but it s sort of like the backup excuse for the powers that be. absolutely. they re going to use this thing to their advantage as long as possible. i ve been at the airport a lot in the last year, and there s
2,000 pounds. if you miniature rise a nuclear weapon to fit on top of a icbm it will weigh 2,000 pounds. this is a threat to guam, hawaii and alaskan it s something that we in the united states need to take very, very seriously. jaime: i hear the concern in your voice. i want to ask you one other thing about africa and the al-qaida threat that exists in many nations in that part of the world and the fact that the pentagon is now taking a closer look at it, possibly even sending a brigade there to get their troops up to snuff, although that could be a real challenge. yeah, well these are called regionally aligned brigades. this is the second brigade of the first infantry division. it s the first in a step of a series of initiatives the army is taking to avoid what happened to us in the early days of iraq where we didn t have the cultural awareness and the cultural knowledges that we needed going into a counterinsurgency environment.
foos on this goal. there s a website called learning counts.org where you pay a relatively small amount of money. you go through a six-week course where you assemble a portfolio of evidence of all the different skills and knowledges you acquired during your career and on the job. they have trained professors who then evaluate that portfolio and give you legitimate college credit that you can transfer into another college. steve knows a lot about the lithuanian basketball team. tunisia. well, kevin, so you know, you re talking about the college degree obviously as a key to employment prospects for so many people. but i wonder, if you re talk talking about broadening the criteria for giving out college credit and changing the definition of what college credit really is. is there i an risk you redefine and maybe even devalue the college degree? you know, the college degree right now is something that is