what what happened to the old thumb tack on the chair? two 13-year-old students charged with poisoning their middle school teacher in virginia. they re accused of putting hand sanitizer in their teacher s drink over three months in a row. you hear stuff like that on television. you don t hear 13-year-old kids taking it upon themselves to do something so horrific to another person. brian: why were they wearing superman outfits? steve: the boys were suspended and moved to a new school. the teacher suffered pains but is okay. don t try that, kids. it s dumb and dangerous. gretchen: the plan to have exhausted doctors work shorter shifts. a new report is showing that plan could backfire and it could put you, the patient, at risk. the research shows the shorter shifts means doctors hand off critical information about you to the next team more often. it used to be your medical information was passed off three
whispered rather than shouted and can we combine with somebody in order to not be embroiled in another middle east war? well, we don t want to be embroiled. but here is the problem, there is two sets of problems. they have a huge stockpile of chemical weapons and a huge stockpile of sophisticated conventional weapons. if we learned nothing from libya is you can t just topple the regime and hope for the best. that doesn t work. so if you want a diplomatic solution so there isn t mass kay y you have to have the credibility with the opposition and arab league and we have neither right now. so the opposition didn t even want to meet with our secretary of state, they re so frustrated, and the arab league said hey what, are you doing? we need your leadership at the table. they don t need our military. they just need some of our special capabilities in a very small and limited way. brian: talking about training possibly the rebels, who got a safety at the arab league. not the assad govern
she tried to wish robin roberts well, apparently. but was allegedly banned. a new report says nbc stapped ann curry from tweeting her even after they booted her from the today show. robin was diagnosed with a blood disease at the time. the report claims executives thought curry was trying to aid the enemy. nbc says the incident is being blown out of proportion. those are your headlines. steve: that refers to an item that came out that paint add very unfavorable picture about what is happening over at what was once upon a time america s news leader in the morning for decades and decades. brian: right. so ann curry just wanted to say get well. the whole world was saying get well and feel better. that became public. i m wondering who keeps fueling this monster of a story with behind the scenes drama. steve: could be executives. could be disgruntled employees.
times during your hospital stay. now your information is handed off as many as nine times and that means there could be more mistakes, more missed diagnoses. brian: you read that so much better than i do. even the irs admits spending money on a irs spoof wasn t a good use of money. they re exchanging it for paper bills. oh, man. that s right, sir. pennies on the dollar. [ laughter ] the irs wasted 60,000 taxpayer dollars on this video showing a training conference in 2010. now captain kirk himself is weighing in on the mess. william shatner tweeted, so i watched that irs video. i am appalled at the utter waste of u.s. taxpayer dollars. scotty. gretchen: it just keeps getting worse for al gore s deal with al-jazeera. current tv employees have been waiting for a meeting or sign from the new owners about the channel s direction and according to a report, just last week they were told they had to reinterview for their jobs.
steve: we have been wondering for more than six months about the survivors of the benghazi terror attack. while we learned there may be more than 30 of them, few people know who they are or even where they are. but our next guest says they may be hiding in a hospital in washington, d.c. investigative journalist, author of leading from behind richard minninger joins us. we have a report on forbes.com that there may be as many as seven being treated at walter reed hospital. steve: here s the thing. a lot of people actually know the identities of these people. you have spoken to some family members but they re not talking. and they re not talking because they have been told you can t talk. almost certainly. the white house denies, of course, that they have been told they can t talk. but the family members tell a different story. these people have children in many cases there are mortgages. they have had good career reasons not to want to