cover of those magazines. jenna: and you, i mean i mean totally boring. jon: boring. jenna: not at all. come on. there is a lot they could choose from besides suri and tom cruise. maybe they could make better choices. maybe, i don t know. jon: there is a major push to put healthier foods in school cafeterias. but don t ever forget the law of unintended consequences. these strict regulation are leading many schools to just get rid of their free lunch programs. plus fireworks about benghazi on a sunday talk show. our news watch panel looks into the media dustup. had a massive cover up on the part of a massive cover up of what susan rice said there was a lot of confusion. do you care, david? do you care, david? do you care? i m asking you, do you care? i m asking you, do you care whether four americans died?
hips. those of those folks either have public or private insurance now. so the added 30 million really does haven t any impact on their bottom line. jon. jon: steve brown, what ha 0 story thank you. jenna: new federal regulations are forcing some school district to op out of the free lunch programs. the new rules target the obesity epidemic. they say the regulations are costing too much and students are refusing to eat the so-called healthier meals. jenna rick eats all his vegetables. reporter: apparently smaller portions and more fruits and vegetables aren t all that popular with kid. some schools say they can t afford to serve the food that student won t by or eat. the regulations are part of the healthy hunger-free kids act of 2010 aimed at reducing childhood obesity. cafeterias must serve larger portions of fruits and veggies,
so their tactics were either because they re timid, which i don t believe, or they were silent on the issue and now that they re saying, what really will happen, it s too little and it s too late. that s on their heads. congressman, do you agree that the defense department is bearing an unfair burden of these cuts? we know they ll be across the board at the defense department. they re unwise. they make no sense at all. it s not prioritizing those programs that are not necessary, not effective or efficient. similarly on the discretionary side, these are programs for education, research, jal lunch programs, even men and women that are in the food chain that are providing the safety of the food. all of these things are out there. what we need to do is to not look at blaming one way or another, but really put together a program. we still have two weeks to get it done. and it can be done. proposals have been made to seek a balanced approach, making even larger cuts that the
cory booker is taking part in what he has labelled as the food stamp challenge. he will only eat what food stamps can provide, $4 a meal. a back and forth twitter exchange about the role in funding school breakfast and lunch programs. finally the kennedy center hohnr honore honorees. actor dustin hoffman, buddy guy and a balance lerina all in attendance in the east room event. it s different when you re not the one with the mike, isn t it, dave? you re looking a little stressed. led zeppelin.
and about 13% is taking care of disabled and child tax credits and, of course, lunch programs and et cetera. then you add that, the interest on the debt, that s where the money is. so when these jackals are talking about other kinds of savings, they re just diverting the information away from the real programs that matter. how the heck can we just be ending the longest war in the history of this country and not be talking about serious cuts to defense? it doesn t make any sense. this has become silly talk. governor, you re making a lot of sense from where i m sitting. i want you to talk about the we re going about making this decision, this negotiation with brinksmanship. is that a necessary evil in government or a kor roesive part of the process. no, absolutely not. this was created by congress themselves. they knew they didn t center ha discipline, so they created this fiscal cliff with the provision