have seen political reports in wash before. i think liz cheney is the good daughter. and i love her for it. i think that if you just if you view this as an attack on the bush/cheney administration, okay, that s you know what, and this morning s washington post, jose rodriguez, at cia who ran the program, says he doesn t care what s in the report. he thinks it was effective, et cetera. the fact is, congress should win this fight, chris. and the reason congress should win it is because the american people have a right to know what the cia is doing, to come to a judgment as to whether or not those techniques are moral and in keeping with american standards, and secondly, whether they re effective in terms of gaining information that did help us to prevent further attacks to save lives. but what we know right now is that we have a situation where, you know, robust oversight of intelligence has been lacking since 9/11. i think the congress has run the other direction and said, oh, y
business network. vera gibbons is a personal finance expert. charles, let me start with you. how can the economy be so great if things are so lousy? an economy rebounding from the depths of that panic, if you will, the economy is not great. certainly not by american standards. certainly not by what we can be doing. chris pointed out some of the more important things. real income down. it s not attrition. it s not old people. their participation rate has actually gone up. it s people who have given up on the american dream. real wages down, people dropping out of the market. that s not a great economy. vera, i bet what we re going to hear from the president tomorrow night in the state of the union is how the unemployment rate has dropped. on its face, it s a simplistic message. it looks good when you look at 6.7%. it looks good, but what about those people who are underemployed? all those college grads coming
inspect a factory where iphones and other company products are made. it s been a controversy for a while. the new york times is reporting that several young workers have died over just the last few months. let s go to zain asher at the new york stock exchange. one of most disturbing things one of the workers was 15. yeah, one of them was 15. his name he died of pneumonia in october while working at one of the factories that produces iphones and tablets. as you mentioned, 15. the legal working age in china is 16. by the way, both ages are relatively young to be working in a factory, especially by american standards. they re saying the teenager had a fake i.d., that s how he gained employment at the factory. also reports that he worked up to 70 hours a week, excessive, especially by american standardsen this is not the first time apple suppliers have had to deal with death, quite frankly. reported that several other
the federal government took money and the state supplied the money to federal government. they took the money and said all right, you join this race to the top and here s your cash for doing it. i do agree that the states need to push back now. this is an area where we can push back. i think that s what we need to do. that s why i m fighting this fight. you concerned about american students and their lower math scores? don t you worry? the point of common core was to try to basically create a better educated american child to compete on the world stage against curriculum being taught in china and raise american standards. are you not for that? the problem is in the family. we raised standards and we raise children who can t read. you have seen that in states
not nasty stuff. now seth mcfarlane is once again pushing the envelope of american standards. mcfarlane s new sitcom dads has not even aired the pilot episode. already there shall exceptions to the controversial content. hello, kitty. like this featuring stereotypes are among the handful of clips posted to promote the show. there s a reason shanghai is instead of the laughs that they have expected, fox recently received a letter from the founder selfthe media action network foration americans. our community can t continue to be the target of insensitive jokes. we re asking you to reshoot the fox decline. the network insisted it would poke fun, adding that it needed time to develop the characters.