iment to show you what's going on out here. what the post office is saying is that the staples pilot program is their next step, but these workers say what it amounts to is watching their union jobs slip away right from their lands from employers that don't offer the sage wages and benefits. they believe this whole thing is a step towards privatization. and that customers will have to find these many post offices that they're offering as something that would be good for them. they have the same hours, longer hours, offer familiar products and services. something that will help keep the postal service vital. the postal service says they're trying to stem big financial losses. bottom line, postal service workers see it as a threat to their jobs and livelihood because the retail centers can do their own hiring. >> postal workers are family wage jobs. you can support a family. staples workers are 40-hour workers and they on average make on $18,000 a year. our communities need more good, family wage jobs. >>> the postal service rele

iment am hearing reports that hotels have yet to sell out and there are tickets still available. >> certainlyhat could come in to the factor that it is very difficult to get to sochi. but the problem with the winter olympics in russia, and this is something that many critics have been saying for quite sometime is that russia remains very dangerous in that region. there's a lot of problems in the caucuses region, and there was a lot of concern that this would be happening. now that president putin has shined the spotlight on russia and sochi on general, there are others that will try to capitalize on that spotlight to get attention to their cause. but nevertheless, russia was very adamant about trying to get the winter olympics, and they have are done so, now it's a matter of whether or not the games come off peacefully. >> what is your perspective from where you are sitting. london has already hosted these games. what are people saying about risking their lives that actually just wind up being games. >> that's right. when the london games happened there were a number of different concerns. in

some of the good things, and beside the things that we don't, obviously, one of the main things that imented to say is that we had a lot of community and organizing and talking about the mlu and recreating it and i feel that having a lot of input which i have to work on as well since i was a freshman two years later, and i am over joyed at the fact that i was able to see the document that was myself and our peers on a daily basis in the school communities and the mlu is important to myself and the peers who are not here, also creates the guidelines in order to be able to have an easier and more trusting relationship with the sros which will be necessary, when we try to have a better relationship with the police officers, and not only in our school communities, but also at our neighborhoods, and we are trying i know that a lot of youth don't have a positive out look and so i am just very glad to see that our hard work is put into play, thank you. >> hi, my name is williams and i am alumni from the school, and first off, i am just happy to say that this is finally being where it is right now a

the german foreign minister has been complementing -- compl imenting athens on his trip this week. >> this recent talk that the country could need a third bailout from the eu. >> but as the nation took over the eu presidency this week, officials have been focusing on the positive. >> the streets of athens were calm. there were none of the mass protests that have greeted earlier high-level german delegations, and this major newspaper's cover quoted steinmeyer saying greece was on the right path. many expect the greek economy to return to growth this year for the first time since 2008. the economy was high on the agenda when steinmeyer met his greek counterpart. athens wants debt relief in the form of lower interest rates and longer payback terms for its existing debt. steinmeyer also met the prime minister to express his support for the reforms the government has pushed through. he says it is critical that athens finish the project that it has started. >> i took the opportunity to come to greece early in my term in office, partly to show that we appreciate the difficulties that still l

. >> iment am embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team, and i comeut here today to apologize to the people of new jersey. i am responsible for what happened. >> christie said he was blind sided and his deputy chief of staff betrayed him. >> i am stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here. i have terminated the employment of bridget kelly effective immediately. >> the nearly two-hour press conference show how many questions remain news answer. this was a far cry from what he was saying in december when he mocked reporters for asking about the scandal. >> i worked the cones, actually matt. i was actually the guy out there, i was in overalls and hat -- but i was the guy working the cones out there. you really are not serious with that question. >> joining us now is bob engel, the coauthor leslie sanchez is a republican strategist and the author of several books. she joins us from our los angeles studio tonight and with us here in new york is richard mertz. bob, i want to start with you. he took every question asked of him. of course the big que

bud at the sam at the same iments but atthe same time, when we have 84% of our 12th graders -- >> you support the core curriculum, it's already in place in 48 states and dc. and they have been criticized from both sides of the spectrum. to measure not verbal learning, and consequence and waste boatloads of money. your response? >> i would say that both of those quotes are wildly inaccurate. on the first one, to say that they have shown no progress is incorrect. most states are just getting started, and the jurisdiction of washington d.c. and tennessee have actually shown the greatest gains in student achievement levels over the last two years, and i think we're showing progress in this area. i think that generally people have lat of complaints about the common core, but the bottom line is that we do have to have a set of rig russian national standards that are internationally benchmarked. because the bottom line, the children growing up in america today are not going to be competing for jobs against sacramento, but india and japan. so we have to make sure that the kids are learning th

done and then we've got another huge challenge because we want, frankly, and i think it's the cents iment across the board, if we're going to do it, let's continue it through the year 2014. we're beginning to sense some economic positive shifts, we hope those materialize, we hope they come forward to the point where the unemployment rate, it's fallen, i heard the president today when he took over we were losing 800,000 jobs a month, it was rocketing up into the stratosphere, 12%, 14, in rhode island it's still 9% but we've seen some progress. not enough in my case, in my state and nevada and other states but we've seen progress. and we hope that progress continues. and indeed one of the other aspects of this program, if we pass these benefits and the economists will point out particularly pass them on an emergency basis, it will add more fuel to our economy, not less. it will add more demand, it will, in fact, increase growth at the time where everyone is on the floor talking about, well, we just have to grow more jobs. of course it is. but this program, it's a way the pro teshial twofer