and use it with every live stream show. ♪ >>> welcome back, we're talking about the teach for america programd whether it's fulfilling its mission to teach in the most underserved classrooms, and whether the cost is a good use of money. marreese, the tsa program negotiates fees for an additional 2 to $5,000 per teacher per year. could that money be better spent somewhere else? >> i don't think so. in a lot of our school districts -- we're placed in high-needs areas where there are not a lot of teachers to fill the capacity. unfortunately there are not a lot of teachers who have by-lingual training here, and we're able to get recruits who do. and in terms of attrition, 61% of our teachers complete a third year in the classroom. a third of all of the teachers since 1990 are still in classrooms today. so i don't think it is a waste of money. >> so kamika, the former research director of tsa is not reliable, because only about 15% of the teachers are in grades or subjects that are subjected to standardized testing. so how do we know if the program is worth or money or really helping students? >>

teach for america is a program designed to revolutionize how kids in low-income areas are taught. the question tonight is where to its mission. ♪ >> our digital producer, wajahat ali is here, bringing in all of your live feedback. % >> this has overwhelmed us. >> it takes a lot for you to be overwhelmed by the way. >> yeah, because there has been so much online engagement that i will try my best to honor it. and we have christina who tweeted in . . . and our stub page has this huge page going back and forth. here is a comment from chad . . . on the flip side, ginger says . . . here is a critic . . . and the last one, eric says . . . >> we got a lot to talk about. this hashtag recently come come -- dominated twitter. since 1990 the program has trained young college grads as full-time instructors. they are sent into the more challenged districts in in the nation. but some are left to ask if the group is more about image than results. resist tfa tweets like these are getting attention. one says . . . but why now? one of the hashtag's organizers says college students need to be up. >>

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i you want to donate you can, building for america's greatest program and help build smart home for thembers go to www.our disbravest.org. >> you know i welcome comments from you, good and bad. so coming up, your mean tweets right after the break to prove to the viewers we keep it real. right back. we asked people a question, how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagin how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 3years or mor so maybe we need to approach things dferently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. ♪ >> time for another edition of our mean tweets segment, and looks like i'm not the only one. a group of celebrities joined jimmy kimmel for a dramatic reading of nasty treats they've received. >> throw this out there. i hate john hamm. i hate his pig name, i hate how smug he looks. >> rob lowe looks like skin cancer. >> i find bil

meanwhile, america's drone program may be in jeopardy.entagon is reporting it is exploring other options while afghan president refuses to sign a security pack. they will be forced to close the military bases including the one that launches drones to places such as pakistan and yemen. i will send you back now to cavuto on business. keep it right here and on fox news.co news.com. >> an e-mail hack attack, not from hackers, from unions. plo posing rules for the force companies to hand over lists of worker e-mails an phone numbers. to groups that want to unionize them >> you know, this goes beyond your tippal national labor board. this is reaching into a business and taking valuable information an using it against that very business. they got around before be on a technicality. this is scary stuff for business. we wonder why the economy is not moving. >> is it scary, adam? >> no, it's not scary. we are talking about a small force. >> minimum wage solution. >> maybe the solution to u solution is to require the companies to send out these e-ma

. >> ifill: for more on what might come next, i'm joined by carl meacham, director of the americas program at the center for strategic and international studies. >> counterprotests, leadership would be leadership what is really behind all of this right now. >> it's been ten years of mismanagement with the economy. it's been ten years of putting opinions of opposition leader to the side, doing away with dissent. it's been ten years of a poor economy. and you see this all now coming and sfo balling to these events that we've seen. let's remember this has been probably, it's been a year since mr. maduro was elected. some people say that he wonning some say he had didn't win, to office. and he is no hugo chavez in his ability to get folks there his coalition and people in the middle to follow his policies so right now what you have is this snowballing affect of a poor economy, criminality and people are just sort of scared. >> venezuela is this oil rich nation, how did it get to the point where it is at 56% inflation? >> well, again, it's the use of a lot of the money that they've had for year

through the america works program and the initiative, we have identified a set of actions that governors can take that will improve their educational attainment levels of their citizens, and help realign their education systems, and also be able to help employers meet their demands for the jobs skills that they need. there are four policy components we have outlined in our america works program to help governors improve and better align their state education training program that will help not only our employees, help our students, but also provide results for the industry that demand a talented, educated workforce. first of all, it starts at the top. it starts at the top with our governors articulating a vision, articulating a message about why it is important to be able to connect education and the workforce, and to be able to help our educational attainment levels in our individual states meet that minimum for a better educated workforce and skilled workforce. secondly, we have to have good data. we have to know where we're at today and where we need to be going in the future. we have

program. now, if there is anything that's needed in america, it's a good, vigorous biodiesel fuel education program, and we're going to spend $5 million on it. it's to spread the gospel on the benefits of biodiesel. i have no objection to the use of biodiesel. in fact, i think i prefer it much more than the alternative compared -- as an alternative compared to corn ethanol, but here we are $5 million educating consumers on the benefits of biodiesel. hid engine this bill is a tax on heating oil. just yesterday, "the washington times" talked about the farm bill's national oil heat research alliance program in an article titled "congress seeks to jack up fees on home heating oil in the midst of frigid winter." the article reads congress' mammoth farm bill restores the imposition of an extra fee on home heating oil, hitting consumers in the cold weather states just as utility costs are spiking. the fee, .2 of a cent on every gallon sold, was tacked onto the bill which is winding its way through capitol hill. the fee would last for nearly 20 years and would siphon the money available to develop equipmen

programs. now this is a big deal. because netflix is big. it has 30 million subscribers across america.n estimated 30% of downstream internet traffic in the united states is taken up by netflix video streaming during peak hours on some days, and streaming video takes up a lot of band width in pipes not designed for it. increasingly it is about video, and video clogs up the pipes. so netflix needs to make sure its streams reach its subscribers quickly. to ensure delivery of the content, theying want to cut out the middleman and do business directly with internet providers like comcast. verizon converts it is also in talks with net flex for its fios program. all this means is that consumers will pay more for the service in the end. it's not clear if net flex is pay more to complex, but the internet's net neutrality is now under attack. patricia sabga has the report. >> reporter: now that net flex has direct access this comcast broadband pipes, it looks forward to fast streaming. but advocate of a open internet are worried consumers could end up on the wrong end of the deal. >> i find in t

. >> tonight i've asked vice president biden to lead an across the board reform of america's training programs to make sure they have one mission. train americans with the skills employers need, and match them to good jobs that need to be filled right now. >> i've talked to governors who have said before kind of privately, look, our retaining programs are not the best. in some cases, programs to keep state workers employed, not necessarily to retrain people, and the skills are changing so much. you used to also have a very, very vibrant labor movement in the country where labor would force companies to pay for the retraining, and now you don't have that agreement any more. companies want somebody ready-made. around the rest of the world, people who will work for a fraction of what we'll doll here for the same work. >> some of these place, china and some of these place, but even in those places will are bubbling populist movements pushing back against incredibly low wages and bad conditions in the factories and places they work. people are looking at that as not going to be the same cheap labor

through the america works program and the initiative, we have identified a set of actions that governors can take that will improve their educational attainment levels of their citizens, and help realign their education systems, and also be able to help employers meet their demands for the jobs skills that they need. there are four policy components we have outlined in our america works program to help governors improve and better align their state education training program that will help not only our employees, help our students but also provide results for the industry that demand a talented, educated workforce. first of all, it starts at the top. it starts at the top with our governors articulating a vision, articulating a message about why it is important to be able to connect education and the workforce, and to be able to help our educational attainment levels in our individual states meet that minimum for a better educated workforce and skilled workforce. secondly, we have to have good data. we have to know where we're at today and where we need to be going in the future. we have

the energy title includes programs like the rural energy for america program, or reap, which provides farmers and rural businesses with loans and grants so they can invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy to reduce their energy bills. it also includes programs to help rural america develop advanced biofuels that will help wean the nation off of foreign oil. it also includes programs to help move the nation away from a petroleum-based economy to one where products are increasingly made out of homegrown renewable biomass. those are just some of the important things that i fought for in the bill, and the bill does all these critically important things. while also reducing the deficit by billions of dollars. like all bipartisan compromises, the bill is not perfect. in particular, i am not happy with the cuts to the nutrition program in which so many low-income families rely. i am somewhat relieved that in the end these cuts were closer to what was in the original senate bill than the draconian cuts that the house of representatives had called for in the past in their bill. i appr

it includes a made in rural america program to help boost farm exports.ile he is out there in michigan, did grab lunch with detroit mayor mike dugan. detroit filed for bankruptcy last year. as you know, owes $18 billion. the administration insists it is not going to bail out detroit but it is providing the city with $300 million in assistance under existing federal programs. tracy and ashley, back to you. tracy: peter barnes, thank you very much. ashley: movemoo hu. all right. another month of jobs growth. december payrolls, revised up by only by a thousand, marking this the weakest two-month stretch of job growth in three years. now the to break down what all this means for the future, we're joined by drew mattis, ubs deputy chief u.s. economist and our very own sandra smith. thank you both for being here. drew, let me begin with you. i get the feeling this raises more questions than anything else. two consecutive months now, very weak job breath. yes you could plame the weather for part of this but what is really going on do you think? >> i think there

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america." tonight'some on program, mass graves in south sudan mark the ugly result of ethnic violence. a bbc team is inside the city.led u.s. and south korean forces begun joint military exercises on the korean peninsula. two allies say the annual drills are designed to prepare aggression from north north korea. >> it can't be often that north get champagne with lunch but there is a special week. beens of families have reunited with south korean relatives after 60 years in a of cross border meetings. the tears, a poignant reminder the conflict between their two governments have kept families apart. the reunionsre have ended, there's another test inter-korean relations. 100,000 troops will carry out air, sea and land exercises their u.s. allies and all eyes are on the north to see how it will respond. p'yongyang sees the drills not as routine defensive training a war preparation for against it. last year, it threatened nuclear the unitedinst states. the tensions then heightened north'snty around the new young leader, kim jong un, exercisesic over the this year has been relatively mild s

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this is from oh it's it's not on their four hundred sixty six dollars in taxes for america's military and defense programs and overall in two thousand and twelve the united states spent a whopping six hundred eighty nine billion dollars on defense and military related programs just think how strong and well funded the unemployment insurance program could be if we cut just a fraction of that defense spending and put it towards america's social safety net the amount of money americans hand over to the defense industry each year pills in comparison to what they hand over in the form of corporate subsidies in two thousand and twelve the average american taxpayer making fifty thousand dollars a year paid a staggering six thousand dollars in taxes for corporate subsidies over one hundred seventy four times what they paid for unemployment insurance again this this is not from the white house dot gov website all of that six thousand dollars eight hundred seventy dollars. goes to direct subsidies for corporations including the likes of exxon shell b.p. and other big oil corporations that are polluting our planet a

through the america works program and the initiative, we have identified a set of actions that governors can take that will improve their educational attainment levels of their citizens, and help realign their education systems, and also be able to help employers meet their demands for the jobs skills that they need. there are four policy components we have outlined in our america works program to help governors improve and better align their state education training program that will help not only our employees, help our students, but also provide results for the industry that demand a talented, educated workforce. first of all, it starts at the top. it starts at the top with our governors articulating a vision, articulating a message about why it is important to be able to connect education and the workforce, and to be able to help our educational attainment levels in our individual states meet that minimum for a better educated workforce and skilled workforce. secondly, we have to have good data. we have to know where we're at today and where we need to be going in the future. we have

by edward snowden as well as a former drone operator paints a chilling portrait of america's remote assassination program using meditated to map out strikes on terrorism suspects if yours is actually really inaccurate as greenwald and scahill wrote one problem is the targets are increasingly aware of the n.s.a.'s reliance on geo located and it moved to thwart the tactic others unaware of their mobile phones being targeted lend their phone with the sim card it to friends children spouses and family members as a result even when the agency correctly identifies and targets a sim card belonging to a terrorist suspect the phone may actually be carried by someone else who is then killed in a strike joining me now for more on this story is nathan white communique. director with the man progress welcome back thank you very much for having me for shit great to have you what's the big take away from this new n.s.a. revelation well it's it's a bit shocking for everyone around the world who's concerned about using drones to kill people or we're delivering death without judge or jury from for miles in the air that th

program? it shows that obamacare will lead to the reduction of $2 million in america because of the subsidies. so-mile-an-hours are realizing it's a better deal to stay at home, be unemployed and live off obama care subcities and get food and entitlement programs than go out and work. that's the america the president has created. >> do you know what he meant by -- >> aolutely. scratching my head, eric. i mean the president hasn't just expanded the welfare state. hiwhole philosophy is the welfare state. more specifically a state of 40s. welfare is not compassion. it's not good will or charity. it's government force. it's taking money from people who have earned it and giving it to people who have not. it's government that has expanded not just with obama but others previously as well. it's nearly 50% now and it's exploded under president obama. >> fair enough, yeah. so it has exploded under other pretties, but, jun, under president obama, that line, if you lo at the line, it goes off th chart. you know, it increases, accelerates quite a bit in his term. >> this is so bizarre. this is like me be

. >> i've asked vice president biden to lead on across the board reform of america's training programs sure they have one mission, train americans with the skills employers need and match them to good jobs that need to be filled right now. that means more on the job training and more apprentices p apprenticeships to set a worker on an upward trajectory for life. >> all right. now rob lerman is a fellow at the urban institute and written extensively on the benefits of apprenticeship. thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> you wrote recently nearly after of 25 to 49-year-old men are high school graduates without a college degree and long-term trends to the current economic weakness and this can be really, really bad. how bad could it get for these young men? >> well, it's getting bad. probably not much worse than it is today, but the problem is they're not really generating the kind of skills that link them to good careers. and one of the problems is they don't do nearly as well in formal academic settings. >> so are apprenticeship it is way to go? is that what's going

america. there's more to it. ♪ >>> finally tonight we applaud the fierce efforts of a young, tough teenager. as we celebrate her very compelling story with a first for us on this program" has just won a gracie award, from the alliance for women in media foundation for outstanding hard news feature and this is why, our story from the outskirts of india, describes the hopeful journey of a young girl to the competitive boxing rink. anger is her fuel. as she defies the commonplace image of vulnerable abused women in india, there is more to it tonight as get in her corner again. >>> following up here the producer and filmmaker tells us that chaitali desperately wants to attends one of india's premier boxing academies but just doesn't have the money to pay for transportation and lodging for that. and because she lacks proper training, she hasn't had enough opportunity to fight more competitively. but chaitali's determination is quite unwavering as she's going to continue to find a way to pull her family out of poverty. we would say she's already a champion. that's it for us here on "america tonight." please remember if you want to comment on 30 stories you have seen here to

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america. similar programs exist and are working well in jurisdictions throughout the country, from maine to arizona. these programs are bringing new faces and new ideas into politics, making more races more competitive, dramatically reducing the influence of special interest. the vast majority of americans agree it's time to fundamentally change the way we finance political campaigns. recent polling shows that 75% of democrats, 66% of independents and 55% of republicans support fair elections style reform. the fair elections now act is supported by numerous good-government groups, former members of congress from both parties, prominent business leaders and even some lobbyists. everyone's entitled to a seat at the table but no one's entitled to a special seat or maybe the only seat. the fair elections now act will reform our campaign finance system so members of congress would focus on implementing policies in the best interests of the people that sent them to washington. madam president, you just finished a campaign and i know from visiting with you in your home state, you worked hard and i'm in th

. >> this is america's number one financial news program, "on the money". now becky quick. >> here is a look at what's making news as we head into a new week of "on the money". a weaker than expected unemployment report. 113,000 new jobs were added for january, well below expectation. the unemployment rate fell to 6.6%. that's because fewer people were looking for jobs. the numbers were previous months revised upwards but not by a lot. for december it was only 1,000. bad weather was likely a factor. >> the market for the best day of the year, the major index was climbing more than 1%. stocks continue to climb despite jobs numbers. the media company new and old is reporting their earnings this week. >> 21st century fox met estimates. >>> after mons of spklation. ran the company's. and if you're looking to buy, you will have to go someplace besides cvs. they will stop selling tobacco products in september. the company says that selling cigarettes and providing health care just don't go together in the same setting. >> coke announced that it's buying 10% of gr

silicon valley built off of the engineering program at stanford, that is what is happening around waterloo. melissa: interesting. a lot of people don't know america has similar program, eb-5 i believe it is called. if you come to the country and invest half a million dollars you can have a green card as well. interesting. charles, thanks for coming on. hope to see you back soon. >> my pleasure. melissa: california's widespread drought is setting record and hittings farmers, ranchers and consumers. president obama is in california addressing the issue. fox's will carr is live in fresno, california with the latest. >> reporter: hi, there. the president is coming here ratelater today to talk to ranchers and farmers how big of an impact this drought really had. for the ranchers and farmers we've spoken to today they tell us it is about as bad as it can get. if they don't get help soon it could potentially cripple the $45 billion agricultural industry. around here the lance are bear rin. they can't buy much hay and forcing them to sell all or part of their cattle. we spoke to farmers that share the same sense of emergency. they tell us they're not gro

to butt out as dozens of prisoners considered a danger to america are set free. >> in a program in detroit that will somehow survive the struggling city - one that will give away some homes for free. hi there. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton. good to have you with us. we begin with a winter storm. delivering one last round of snow and sleet before warmer air moves in on friday. the extreme weather is responsible for 21 deaths, and hundreds of thousands are dealing with power outages. 49 of the country's 15 states have snow on the ground. as jennifer london reports, the storm paralyzed. of the north-east. >> there has been snow coming down and coming down fast. sometimes at a rate of two to three inches an hour. the north-east walloped by the latest blizzard to blind the coast with snow totals on par with 2010's snowmageddon. hundreds of schools were closed across the state of massachusetts, where the storm is dumping heavy snow still. some areas could see as much as two feet. in new york, commuters slid through snow, but city schools were opened, to the frustration of par

the rural development programs are essential for rural america. we know that there's everything from waste water programs in there to rural housing to all kinds of things. but those rural development programs are critical for the quality of life in rural america. mr. president, i stand here today, and i won't be the first to till, this bill isn't perfect. i think all of us agree that this is a series of compromises. there's probably things that each one of us could change if we could change a provision in the bill. but it is a good bill. it is going to provide and stablize good jobs and economic disiewrsecurity four for our co. our agriculture producers not only feed us and clothe us, but they feed and clothe the world. and we hear every day in the united states senate from the business community. they want more stability. this bill provides that in the agriculture economy. our farmers and our producers and others, they deserve that same certainty and stability and this bill provides that. mr. president, in closing, i just want to do a quick passag

program. join the rest of the country. say yes. give america a raise. give them a raise. there are steps we can take to help families make ends meet. fewer are more effected than the earned income tax credit. right now, it helps about half of all parents at some point. think about that. it helps about half of all parents in america at some point in their lives. but i agree with republicans like senator rubio that it doesn't do enough for single workers who don't have kids. let's do more to help americans get ahead. let's help americans save for retirement. today, most americans don't have a pension. social security check often isn't enough on its own. and while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn't help folks who have 401k's. tomorrow i will direct the treasury to create a new way to elp americans start. myira. new savings bond to encourage folks to build a new nest egg. no risk of losing what you put in. if this congress wants to help with me, work with me and fix an upside down tax code that helps the wealthy saveb. offer every american acc

stations across america and while p.b.s. has programs and documentaries are supposed to be free of corporate influence susan billionaire bucks it appears the pension parole was anything but joining me now for more on that is david serota a staff writer with daily nationally syndicated columnist author of the most recently his is third book back to our future david welcome back thanks tom thanks for having me great to see who's secretly funny pension peril what is pension peril . john arnold a former enron trader turned billionaire who has been waging a legislative battle to cut the retirement benefits of police officers firefighters teachers and other municipal workers. basically because that's a kind of right wing doctrine it also to do that protects billionaires for instance from having to pay higher taxes to focus the state legislative and budgetary debate on the idea that pensions are bankrupting states means that billionaires like john arnold don't have to pay a little bit more in taxes to make sure we meet those pension promises to

obvious but centuries generations and in recent decades and years of largely white owned and program media in america have repeatedly portrayed blacks in a variety of negative stereotypes from the early days of actor and comedian al jolson in blackface on the screen dancer my mind the marketplace on t.v. blacks are often characterized as subservient or dumb in popular culture today blacks are repeatedly characterized as criminals pimps drug dealers gang banger. the scary images been promoted from movies to music to television even the president of the united states is not a you when you use the word ass of a t.v. interview a few a few years ago drudge and others on the right screamed obama goes street street of course being code for angry black man. the result of media and popular culture portraying blacks as more likely to be criminals is that they're far more likely to be treated as criminals even when they're not jason robards a white man and a host of the you tube channel simple misfits decided to make a video to show the double standard that exists between white men and black men take a look at

>> on al jajeera america >> welcome back "inside story." on this edition of our programe talking about the rippling impact of the deepening problems of puerto rico. it's growing under the weight of $70 billion in debt. unemployment is at 15%, more than twice the national average. kenneth mcclintock, is the united states the ultimate guarantor of puerto rico debt, and it washington the guarantor a last resort. >> no, at the end of the day it's up to us to take responsibility of our debts. you may have a quick fix from washington, but it does not mean it will cover long term spending. i have one idea that i haven't found a forum to provide this idea. the people who are here on this program today are all puerto ricans, and puerto rico is on the mainland are already 5 million strong. if we can get 1% of all puerto ricosen on the mainland to decide to buy a vacation or retirement home in puerto rico every year, over five years we'll be able to inject $12 million of new money to help stabilize our real estate market and from there it would stop all the loss of equity that we'r

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america tonight," a shake up in the sooner state. earthquakes almost every day. what's behind oklahoma's seismic activity? and later in the program. >> if you are not strong enough as a caregiver, not mentally you are not strong enough you will break. >> urgent care, our special series aging america continues. with the daily demands out of america's toughest providers. >>> now a snapshot of other stories making head lines here on al jazerra. the marriage equality movement got a huge boost from attorney general eric holder. america's top cop is telling state attorneys general they do not have to enforce their state's bans on same-sex marriage and in a speech on tuesday he remarked that such laws violate the constitution's equal protection clause. well, the department of transportation has penalized asian a airlines half a million dollars in the wake of that deadly plane crash at san francisco international airport. federal investigators say the airline failed to assist the family members of passengers in a timely manner. three people died and dozens were injured when th when the pr jed clipped a seawall while landing. >>> radiatio

but i faces a hard line element in iran who have long used the country's nuclear program and the threat from america to govern islamic republic. you rue than my's outreach to the west threatens the ideological base of iran's hard liners. you but it's also hitting their bank accounts by scaling back iran's nuclear program, caps link missile tests and halting building project. but so far their supreme leader has allowed rouhani to do this even though it has angered many hard liners and conservatives in iran. earlier today, the u.n. announced iran has agreed to allow international inspectors back into the country to see several important sight sites a facilities connected to the program, however right now not all of the sites that are connected to that nuclear program are open to inspectors. still many will be blocked for inspectors going forward. so while some progress has been made, a lot of progress still yet to be made in iran in terms of their nuclear program. >> conor powell from jerusalem. thanks very much. >>> an update from sochi, howym stacking up. and ao embroiled in a big controversy. why t

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america. still to come on tonight's program -- facebook pays an eye-popping $90 billion for whatsapp. we will look at why they paid so much for the mentioning application. -- messaging application. france has uncovered new threat to the already beleaguered bumblebee. researchers found diseases harbored by commercial honeybees are spilling over into the wild and bumblebees, which are already in decline, are most at risk. our science correspondant ba recia morel explains more. >> there are a vital part of the countryside, but bumblebees are in decline. the destruction of their habitats has caused numbers to plummet and now they face a new threat -- diseases carried by their distant cousin, the honeybee, have spread. bumblebees are already doing badly. tests carried out here show they have been hit by ten new diseases, virus and fungal parasite. these deadly pathogens have already caused widespread losses of honeybees and now a word that these insects could suffer the same fate. scientists here at royal holloway university of london have discovered infected bumblebees across england, sco

america's. >> watch our program on first lady michelle obama at our website, c-span.org/firstladies or see it saturday on c-span at 7:00 p.m. eastern. and live monday, we conclude our series with a special two-hour program looking at all the first ladies. from martha washington to michelle obama. [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and so the guest of honor has arrived. french president francois hollande greeted by the president of first lady from the north entrance of the white house. this is the seventh state dinner or official visit for the obama administration the first of the second term and later we will take you to the south on pavilion. it has turned into a springlike display of french culture and flowers and arts. but first we will take a look inside the state dinner as part of our coverage here on c-span2's. we will tell you what it's like to be invited to one of these exclusives upstairs and get some background on the role of first lady's over the years and we will have a conversation with former white house social secretary giuliana smoot who serve

be protected from a swat team members of congress have expressed criticism against america's use of the drone program even with the new policies that have been put in place now those include a house of representatives intelligence committee chairman mike rogers the president's may twenty thirteen policy changes for the u.s. targeted strikes are an utter and complete failure and they leave americans lives at risk the a.p. has agreed to withhold the name of the country that the man isn't as a matter of national security this suspect would not be the first american that has been killed by a drone strike he wouldn't even be the second to dates there have been four americans killed by drone strikes but muslim cleric anwar although locky was killed in yemen in two thousand and eleven along with some near khan all along he's sixteen year old son of durham on was killed in another strike two weeks later and then in pakistan judith ken on mohammad was killed in another attack a lockie it was the only reported u.s. targeted killing of an american the others were considered collateral damage meanwhile a new art

obama and to this, but at the same time i try to respect and value the tradition that is america. >> watch our programrst lady michele obama and our website c-span.org / first lady or see it saturday on c-span at 7:00 a.m. eastern. monday we conclude our series with a special program looking at all of first ladies from martha washington to michele obama. >> the new c-span.org website gives you access to an incredible library of political events with more added each day through c-span nonstop coverage of national politics from hoesch -- history and nonfiction books. find daily coverage of official washington or access more than 200,000 hours of archived c-span video, everything since 1987. our video is searchable ended viewable on your desktop computer, tablet, were smart phone. look for the search bar at the top of each page. the inuit c-span.org makes it easy to watch what is happening today in washington and find people and events from the past 25 years. the most comprehensive video library in politics. >> a senate hearing on national security, the devout -- director of national intelligence said th

be protected from a swat team members of congress have expressed criticism against america's use of the drone program. even with the new policy is an open plan in place. now those include a house of representatives intelligence committee chairman mike rogers the president's may twenty thirteen policy changes for the us targeted strikes are an utter and complete failure and they'd leave americans lives at risk the ap has agreed to withhold the name of the country that bananas and as a matter of national security. the suspects would not be the first american man has been told by a drone strike. he was indeed the second. to date there have been four americans killed by drone strikes muslim cleric anwar on the lockheed was killed in jenin in two thousand eleven along with some near pune all of the sixteen year old son of gold miner was killed and another strike two weeks later and then in pakistan in june it can on mohamed was killed and another attack all our table was the only reported us to target killing of an american the others were considered collateral damage. meanwhile a new article by glenn gre