says the state employee inspecting children s lunches thought the latter. the preschooler was told to eat the school lunch after the lunch her mom made her consisting of sandwich, banana, apple juice and potato chips was judged not to be in compliance with agriculture department nutritional guidelines. the girl was sent home with her lunch box still full and told to pay $1.25 for chicken nuggets. mom says he is packed the lunch according to what her daughter will eat and another state official concedes it probably did meet the federal standards after all. smelling lawsuit? republicans are demanding an apology from president obama campaign manager over a tweet they argue is offensive to latino. jim mecina tweeted a line from the washington post column that wonders if republicans will be able to reach out to latino voters. line of the day from millbank
interest rates are as low as they possibly get. federal reserve has been holding interest rates down to almost zero for years. eventually interest rates will climb back up. that means the interest we pay on our debt starts climbing. then it becomes unsustainable. of course you have to take unpopular positions. i don t think it means that you have to cut services. you have to restructure the programs, bring them into 21st century. bring efficiency and management tools we have. but the president is not interested in that. he wants the programs to go on and on with no changes. gregg: john fund, thank you very much. thank you. gregg: martha? martha: a new report out there this morn says whitney houston s family does not someone who was very close to her at the funeral. who it is and why. that s next. gregg: attack of the food police. why a preschooler s bag lunch was confiscated and what she was forced to eat instead. when i grow up, i want to fix up old houses.
gregg: new reports of turmoil surrounding whitney houston s funeral. tmz is reporting that people connected to the highs ton family are telling houston s ex-husband bobby brown, do not attend her memorial. houston and brown of course had that rocky marriage ending in divorce. sources close to brown saying he is quote, extremely disappointed. brown reportedly wants to attend to support his daughter. martha: well, it turn oust out there are really food police after all, folks. listen to this one. a preschooler brought her own school to lunch, her lunch to school, rather t was packed by her mom. she had a turkey sandwich, banana, apple juice and chips, right, sounds very much like what i send my kids off with in the morning, the school decided that that was not nutritious enough because it was missing all important vegetable. she had apple juice and
super tuesday next month. special report from washington starts at 6:00 eastern. i m robin roberts. back to new york and the five. greg: welcome back to the five. a north carolina preschooler forced to eat chicken nuggets because the woman serving it told her mother s lunch didn t meet the mark. they billed the mom for the food. now we have another war, on the brown bag. the government assumes feeding your kid because you can t be trusted. it eliminates crucial charm of childhood like the joy of watching your hungover mom using ketchup to make your
middle class tax cut that has been given to us for by name, to reduce the amount that we re paying into social security. what we should be talking about the real tax reform, what it s going to take to increase our revenues by broadening our economic base, by growing our economy. we aren t doing that. we need to be talking about what the american people want to hear. that s where the jobs are going to come from. that would be congressman dennis ross speaking there. christine romans is in atlanta this morning breaking down the details on this. i think, soledad, in an election year this is a no brainer for republicans and democrats. you ve got 160 million people who are getting a tax benefit e6 ry paycheck they get. it s $1,000 over the course of a year. $40 per paycheck, that s if you make $50,000 a year or so. so this was something in an election year you just, you know, the feeling in washington you just can t be raising taxes on people, on working people in an election