Host thanks for the call. Demonstrateankings there are a number of places that are not doing a good job for their employees or the american public. The reason we do these rankings is to make sure the individual you know is not one anecdote, but we are able to collect the data and demonstrate from a data perspective where things are working and where they are not. It sounds like, for your friends, it is not. There are a number of agencies where there are a lot of good actions were agencies are doing a lot of things, listening to their employees, and creating a culture where they recognize that if they empower the employees, the organization will do better. Hope more leaders will Pay Attention to this. We are driving as hard as we can to bang the drum so that the voice of the employee is actually heard. Megan el call from we have a call from macon. Megan. One reason i think there are so many disgruntled federal employees, we have to work under legislation that we cannot affect and we can
A community away to grow back into the economy and succeed. The transition has to look at the transition of the people and the Community Getting back to some kind of help so you dont just pull the plug on them and say, you are on your own. Dodd. Is town or community another twitter question. Should unions get an obamacare exception . Whenever they have built the first automobile, it wasnt a perfect automobile. When we started playing baseball , it wasnt the perfect again. It has evolved. Obamacare is a good start. Good things in it, unintended consequences that do need to be looked at and change. We need to build on it. Some classic mistakes. First, we exempted the pharmaceutical industry and said that medicare couldnt use its buying power to drive down prices. That needs to change. We jettison the public options so there wasnt the competition. E needed to keep prices down we made mistakes with the exchanges. We made mistakes with the system. A lot of mistakes. Quite sure it was. It is
Snowden recently asked brazil for political asylum. Ambassador to. Brazil talks about u. S. Relations with the country. From the Wilson Center, this is two hours. Good morning. Good morning to our good friends in the audience. I am jane harman. I am delighted to welcome you to this before the christmas holiday. The Wilson Center knows a lot about brazil. So does tom shannon. Our Brazil Institute is the premier place in washington for dialogue on u. S. Brazil policy. We were first to honor the president of brazil. We sponsor the brazil economic conference. We host brazilian governors and legislators. We air the good, the bad, and the ugly in our relationship. Tom shannon represents the good. I hope he is relieved to hear that. Ther close to four years as foreign ambassador to brazil, he is back in washington as Senior Advisor to secretary kerry. There are lots of rumors about his future. Brazil is the b in bricks. President rousseff was an alleged target of u. S. Surveillance. These wil
Happening right now in the news room a texas deputy is shot and killed while kbasing up the patrol car. There has been this in tense manhunt and then a phone call comes in from the mother from the man of a mother thats being questi questioned. Theyre calling him a presence of interest. We are standing by with a press conference just an hour from now and hoping to get more information on the investigation. Captured at miz mothers house. He has been taken into custody. The mans mother called the Sheriffs Department after learning her son may have been involved in the shooting. Police say that it appears to be an unprovoked execution style killing. The witness called 911 and told us that a deputy was shot. Multiple units arrive. Ems arrived on the scene. Unforlt unfortunately is deputy passed. He is identified as 47yearold darren go forth. He was married with two children. I have been in Law Enforcement 45 years and i dont recall another incident this cold bloody and cowardly. The uniform