held at sea, and we have crews and producer in norfolk for the arraignment today but don t expect to see arrives an departures, tight security and there will be a courtroom artist and press conference later today. bill: i have yet to meet a smart one, thanks, brian, brian wilson in washington. martha: the $13 trillion that this nation owes to other folks. okay? it is all we have been watching it closely and the president refuses to take the value added tax, a national sales tax off the table and there were mixed messages coming out of the administration on that one, so what do you oink that have? america speaks on the vat tax, that is next. bill: look at that number! a question, why were police storming an apartment of lindy lohan earlier today. martha: poor lindsey. bill: the latest and greatest chapter. martha: enough, lynndie. bill: maybe not the greatest. coming up here.
century, high performing green public schools facility act. many americans want a smaller government. this bill is going to make it bigger. getting the feds into an area that has long been the domain of local governments, the construction of schools. the feds have been putting money into the classroom since lyndon johnson but building schools has always been paid for by your local property taxes and state income taxes, the stimulus bill changed that, putting $56 billion into school construction in the name of jobs. but now, house democrats passed another bill, this high performing green schools act, to create a greener teaching environment. by employing smart technologies like lighting sensors that don t use electric bulbs, for instance, while the sun is lighting a classroom, you re able to save tremendously on energy costs as well. so martha, they say that greener schools make happier students and higher test scores.
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general conducted a probe into employees looking at images over the past five years, 31 occurred in the 2 1/2 years during the financial meltdown, they go on to describe one person who is a senior level person who ran out of room on their hard drive from downloading pornography so they started to lay it off on to disks and back it in boxes in their office. i am so this is on a couple of levels based on what s there, just imagine how much is going on in other places, and you know, if it happens at praift company, that s one thing, they can fire those people, but when it happens when the taxpayers are paying their salaries and they re spending eight years and they let all of this unravel in front of them, it s disgusting, frankly, and you do, peter so how do you justify starting another agency to oversee wall street when this one is doing this stuff? martha, i don t think we would make the argument that you don t bring financial reforms into place and don t try to put, as i sai
and why we re hearing about this now. that s a story for another day, peter, brad, thank you very much. you know what, there s a great interview coming up this afternoon on neil s show, your world , he ll speak to the sec inspector general, david kotz, he called for the investigation and he s good to talk to neil and you can bet that neil is going to want answers from the inspector general at the sec and we will look forward to him doing just that. bill: don t miss it. fox news alert, news is breaking in baghdad, a deadly string of explosions, rocking iraq s capitol throughout the morning, iraqi officials saying at least 58 people are now dead and some of this videotape is devastating. such a strong reminder of what we watched, three, four years ago, throughout that country. the violence continues, the blasts, target mostly shiite worshipers and we re getting more reaction and developments from our baghdad bureau by the hour. back to that story a bit later. the drawdown for u.s. for