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Boy, the army is under fire today for what one senator callings one of the worst scandals in army history. National guard soldiers are accused of scamming a program that paid them to help enlist new recruits during the height of the iraq war. A senate panel says thousands of soldiers took 29 million in illegal payments. Lawmakers say five soldiers received nearly 1 million in bogus dollars. More than 3,000 soldiers may have received other questionable payments. John terret is in washington for us, john, if you would tell us more about this Senate Hearing today. Reporter there was a lot of anger today at this Senate Hearing on tap come hill. You have the National Guard recruiting Assistance Program which got underway at 2000 knife. Right at the heart and the heig ....
Thank you for the kind introduction. Thank you for being here. Its wonderful to be in washington which was my home for many years. Ive done so much of the research for the book. When i told taxi drivers what i was doing. I was writing a biography. Most of him have heard of him. He bought alaska. [laughter] and thats right. But what else did he do . What was he like . Let me take that last question first. What was he like as a person . During the civil war years, he was in his early 60s. Short, lean man with as mas of sort of disorderly gray hair. Big nose, almost always a cigar in his mouth, and if it was any time past 5 00 in the evening a glass of wine near the hand. Talking, always, always talking. One of his also lived and famous host gathering around his table diplomats, soldiers, politicians, actors, you know, the life of the party. What he ask do . He was secretary of state for eight years under lincoln and president johnson. Before that he was a federal senator for 12 years. Be ....
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Of masks that are needed for the Health Care Providers who are in real and present danger of getting infected from the people that they are taken care of. So this is an addendum and an addition to the physical separation, not as a substitute for it. The number of cases around the world passing 1 million including 220,000 people who have recovered. This as nearly 9 out of 10 americans are facing stay facing stayathome orders or directives and as new numbers show, 700,000 people lost their jobs just last month. That breaks a 10year streak of gains. But that number doesnt tell the whole story and we will have more on that in just a minute. We begin with chief White House Correspondent john roberts live on the north lawn of the white house. Dana, good afternoon. It will be either this afternoon at 5 00 during the coronavirus at briefing and it could also be tomo ....