training and experience in the military it is hard to translate over into the civilian world for people to understand what you have done. alisyn: how do you allow the veterans go from the battlefield to the trading floor on wall street. guest: we recognize this is not charity work. veterans come with a wonderful sense of honor, courage, and commitment. for us, partnering with these people is a wonderful addition to our firm. we recognize we can teach them technical things to apply or acquire and they will be tremendous addition to our franchise and we appreciate theirests. are there things that translate from military experience, from the battlefield that help you, actually, in the workplace when you talk about the financial services industry and wall street? are there things that help you? guest: the biggest is stress management. we have been trained and had all kinds of stressful situations. obviously the financial sector
mr. hatch because they think the president has opened this door for a compromise, on 60 minutes, opening the door and democrats feel their hands are tied because he has spoken. a majority of americans are in favor of extending the tax cuts for everyone. look at this new poll? 12 percent want it to expire for everyone but 53 percent want to extend the tax cuts for everyone. alisyn: and in the previous poll taken before that, the number was only 44 percent of those would believe it should be extended for everybody so now that number has gone up in just the last month. i like to hear how they ask the questions if you, because people can believe the wealthiest should pay more taxes but if you and, do you want your taxes to go up, they say no, so it is interesting to see how they pose it. and this is a theory of taking out between $250,000 and
always has to prosper at the expense of another. if we work together and act together, strengthening our economic ties can be a win-win for all of our nations. the president is back in washington tomorrow and he is set to sit down with republican and democratic leaders to hammer out a deal on taxes. the pressure is on to avoid a jam. the huge question: how far is obama willing to move. alisyn: thank you. a tough start to the new year if your taxes go up january 1. and nancy pelosi is not giving up the leadership in the house. and she is staying aboard as the minority leader. will she dig in her heels and not compromise with republicans on this issue. here is what she said this past week on the future of the bush tax cuts expiring december 31. our position is we support
alisyn: they risk their lives to protect our freedoms but they get home many cannot find jobs. there are 200,000 unemployed veterans who have served since 9/11. many companies who do realize veterans incredible potential and committed to hiring heroes. and now the founding marry and co-chair of cities military veterans network, and retired marine. also, an associate with the wall street war fighters program, a retired staff sergeant. good morning to both of you. and now, why is it so difficult to make that transition back to the workforce? 200,000 vets unemployed. guest: you receive a lot of
the school district but they did not return our calls. allowing kids to go hungry because their parents owe money? that does not strike many as the right response. guest: after the gilligan s theme song i was hoping for welcome back kotter. this has been a policy of no consequences crowd winning out. if you don t have, this is not free and reduced lunch kids but whose parents who have enough to pay and if they do not have the money, and they borrow $10 from the school, that is okay, $20 okay, $30 okay but the new rule says if you borrowed $50 of free lunches and you have enough money to pay, your parents do, we will cut off. for more. we have to say, borrow some from your friends. alisyn: i don t remember being able to borrow money from my school district but we should