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Thank you for joining us. We really appreciate you being here. Busy campaign schedule, so we are delighted to have you join us at this event cohosted by the Community College system and Goldman Sachs, with whom i understand you share some connection with your past. Mr. Steyer i work for them for two years when i got out of business school. Those are the facts. Have your campaign, you clearly made the economy a centerpiece of your pitch to american voters, and these forums are intended to focus on the economy, particularly of interest to the many Business Owners who register in the small program. In talking to some people arriving here today, many of them had the same question i was going to start with. The economy appears by all accounts to be very strong. According to many commentators, it is at an asset to the presi ....
Older workers against discrimination, a very bipartisan bill which will correct the law passed years ago to protect Older Workers from discrimination. We know this is a problem, i hear about it in oregon, particularly from Older Workers in the tech sector. We know its a problem across the country, the aarp did a study showing that three out of five workers over 45 have seen or experience themselves age discrimination in the workplace. Ago,at happened 10 years there was a case, a gentleman named jack grose who came to our which brought a case of age discrimination when all the way up to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court changed the test that an older worker needs to show to move forward with the case. This bill simply corrects that, right now its a very it has bee ....
reporter: president obama finds his team scrambling to deal with the series of missteps on national security for blowing the cover of kabul to growing criticism at his attempt at a foreign policy reset at west point and mushrooming scandal at the v.a. as a white house aide refused to answer whether the president still has confidence in eric shinseki. the president wants to see the results of these reports and he, as you know, made clear there ought to be accountability once we establish all the facts. reporter: except last night a series of facts were established when one of three reports, this one from the v.a. inspector general, confirmed some veterans are waiting 115 days for care, one week after the president made this promise. once we know the facts, i assure you if it there is misconduct it wilin punished. we now know the facts from the i.d. report. who has been punished. we ve got a set of facts in a preliminary report. thank you, ed. we got a report ....