At music school. I wrote an article about a gardener who sent his son to college, the first in the family to go to college. The dad made about 21,000 a year Family Income and he was able to borrow six figures for his son. There just was no underwriting. This lender by the way saddled with the new York Attorney Generals Office because i dont know of you guys remember, it was called the preferred lender list where you know lenders were in some cases accused of paying bschools for preferential treatment and for them to steer students toward a particular loan products. That was the case with this lender. When you think about, you can sort of understand some of the anger and how a generation may rightly feel very duped in some ways and stock with very little relief at this point now that they are so far in debt. Now a look at the tenure and legacy of House Speaker john boehner. We will show you as much of the washington journal segment as we can until the Richard Nixon 100 Birthday Gala in
We will start this morning on the domestic front. You have seen the headlines about the heightened volume of flu this year and the decision of some Health Care Workers not to get vaccinated, a choice that has cost some of them their jobs. What are your thoughts on mandated vaccinations for Health Care Workers . All others can call in, 202585 3882. Yuka post your thoughts on facebook, twitter, or email us. Dr. Anthony fauci is the director of the National Institutes of allergy and infectious diseases, joining us on the phone. The Houston Chronicle headline this morning what is going on . Guest you never know why, with influenza. Its unpredictable accept that we have a flu season every year. What we are seeing this year and what is spurring the headlines is the way this started off earlier than usual with a strain of flu that is a bad sprain in the sense that its making people more ill than some other strains, we are on the way to what looks like as bad a year as we have had since 2003 a
Well, looking very dapper. And joe and mika are away, but mommy and daddy, you look good. Fresh in from the hamptons. We take this job very seriously. We make sure we are color coordinated. There is bill deblasio, front runner for mayor, lifelong Boston Red Sox fan, born in cambridge. Nicole wallace, youre communications expert. You stand tall, you come off like mitt romney and change teams. Youve got to stand tall. Politics 101, anyone whos ever, on a bus tour, bus tour, anyone . Before you get off the bus, the last thing you ask your Communications Director is, whos the home team . Who do they all root for . What hats are they going to be wearing . This is, you know, so fundamental to feeling like the person we might vote for is someone that cares about the same things i do. And nothing unites people more than rooting for the same team. Its who he is, he cant deny it. Its like theres a history there. If you were his opponent, though, the ad agency guy, wouldnt you start running ads u
That responsibility this week at two congressional hearings. One in the senate, one in the house. On what happened at the u. S. Consulate at benghazi, libya, four and a half months ago on september 11th. Four americans were killed in the attack, including the u. S. Ambassador to libya, christopher stevens. Secretary clinton became emotional as she described the scene at Andrews Air Force base in maryland just outside washington, d. C. I stood next to president obama as the marines carried those flagdraped caskets off the plane at andrews. I put my arms around the mothers and fathers, the sisters and brothers, the sons and daughters and the wives left alone to raise their children. In libya, before the attack, ambassador stevens cabled the state department, asking for more security. At the hearing, the secretary was asked about hothis request and others like them from the u. S. Embassy in libya were handled. The specific security requests pertaining to benghazi, you know, were handled b
With the shoulder length hairdo, his name is chris hightower, mr. Hightower sang vocals in this skulls with bat wings, met call band called commander. Back in 2009 the lead singer for commander also had time to moonlight as Campaign Spokesman for a United States senate candidate. Man named rand paul. It was his role in the Rand Paul Senate campaign that led people curious about mr. Hightower to troll through his presence on myspace. And there it was soon this covered in addition to the tough guy band photos of commander, mr. Hightowers site also included comments like this. Posted on his myspace page. Happy n word day. Thats in celebration of Martin Luther king jr. Day that year. Happy n word day posted alongside this photo on the myspace page of rand pauls Senate Campaign spokesperson. This stuff was reportedly posted there for a couple of years and was still just there waiting to be discovered once rand paul picked this guy to be the public face of his campaign for u. S. Senate. Once