it is based on gao reports issued until 2014. as part of our work we found the federal protective service continues to face challenges ensuring contract guards had been properly trained. before being deployed. in september 2013, gao reported that providing training for shooter scenarios and screening access to facilities poses a challenge. according to officials at five guard companies, their contract guards had received training how to respond during incidents involving shooters. without ensuring guards know how to respond, fps has limited assurance their guards are prepared for the threat. an official stated 133 guards had never received screener training. as a result, guards deployed to federal facilities may be using equipment they are not authorized to, raising questions about their ability to fulfill primary responsibilities to screen access. gao was unable to determine the extent to which the guards had received response and screener training in part because fps lacks a reliable system for oversight. gao also found that fp

it is based on gao reports until 2014. as part of our work we found the federal protective service continues to face challenges in shoring contract guards had been properly trained. before being deployed. september 2013, gao reported that providing training for shooter scenarios and screening access to facilities poses a challenge. according to officials at five guard companies, their contract guards had received training how to respond during incidents involving shooters. without ensuring guards know how to respond, fps has limited assurance their guards are prepared for the threat. an official stated 133 guards had never received screener training. as a result guards deployed to federal facilities may be using iqs,ment they are not off raising questions about their ability to fulfill primary responsibilities to screen access. gao was unable to determine the extent to which the guards had received response and screener training in part because fps lacks a reliable system for oversight. gao also found that fps continues to

well, the gao, government accountability office came out with this report.nd in a little seen footnote on page 51 is this gem. one doj component, the u.s. parole commission, implemented a reduction in force of one employee to achieve partial savings required by sequestration in fiscal year 2013. one person lost their job as a result of sequestration. what about this and the bigger picture? let's bring in our panel, tucker carlson host of fox and friends, ron foreign yea, charles krauthammer. tucker? >> who is this guy? who is this one guy? >> we tried to find him today. >> the poor guy. deep in the office of redundant services, the department of pointlessness. everybody else gets to keep his job. this has to affect his self-esteem. i think this actually hurts both sides, the tape that you showed, it's almost unbelievable. 1.6 million. >> have already lost. not are going to. have already. >> we have learned. but on the other hand there were also republicans saying sequestration is a meaningful reduction in government. and the truth is, government never gets s

the state run xinhua news agency reported the detention of gao yu. the 70-year-old woman had been missing since last month. the agency says gao illegally obtained a copy of a confidential communist party document and sent it to overseas website. gao was jailed twice after supporting the student-led protests in tiananmen square. she was the deputy chief editor of a local newspaper at the time. in her writings, gao advocates demock ratization and freedom of speech. in 1997 she was awarded unesco's world press freedom prize. on tuesday, chinese authorities detained a human rights lawyer and other activists. they were attending a gathering calling for an investigation into what happened in tiananmen square in 1989. >>> south korean investigators are holding the head of the operator of the ferry that sank last month. they're questioning him about allegations that the vessel had been overloaded. a joint team of prosecutors and maritime police detained kim han-sik, the chief executive. t( sewol sank on april 16th off south korea's southern coast. 269 people

which stated and i quote, the a general agrees with the gao conclusions and concurs with gao recommendations to the department. do you remember that letter, that report, and your chief of staff response? >> in general i do remember that report. >> mr. secretary, you knew that there were specific issues relating to scheduling and wait times as early as june 21, 2013 at a jackson, december in fort collins as well as numerous ig reports went to excessive wait times in january 2012 in temple texas, september 20 vote in spokane, washington, october 2012 enclave in ohio, september 2013 in columbia, south carolina, and december 2012 a gao report which questions the validity and reliability of the re- ported away time performance measures which brings us to today. and phoenix. on may 1 you publicly stated that you had removed ms. heldman as the medical director. and you stated then that that was to ensure the integrity of the igc current investigation. on may 5 dr. petzel conducted a conference call with all directors, all medical directors and the chief of staff's, a rather large group, to discuss

and what does gao see in terms of it being a prime example of how not to do it? done a follow-up strategy on the system you mentioned. is of the lessons learned not to have too big of systems be put out there in one increment. you should implement them in smaller chunks and add various stages that are tried and tested before you move forward. that was one of the key elements -- nine clicks for continuous improvement? >> absolutely. that was one of the elements that was lacking. -- that was one of the key elements -- >> for continuous improvement? >> absolutely. that was one of the elements that was lacking. i'm not specifically familiar with the air force situation, but i can tell you we've done a number of audits around continued implementation and continue to do so. it seems to me that what we are trying to do -- or what the department is trying to do is there are over 140 feeder systems that connect to these erp systems, and there often seems a reluctant to changing those entry-level systems because that creates a ripple effect of significant amounts of traini

for over a decade, gao and thats have reported medical centers do not provide timely care. in some cases, these delays have resulted in harm to veterans. across our work on access, several common themes have emerged. policies andguous processes, subject to interpretation, resulting in variation in confusion at the local level. antiquated software systems that do not facilitate good practices. ofaining, and use unreliable data for monitoring. they did not always record the desired appointment date, the date the veteran or provider wants the veteran to be seen. this is due to lack of clarity in the scheduling policies and how to record the desired date. byituation made nor -- worse the large number staff that could schedule appointments. during our site visits, more than half of the schedulers we observed did not record the desired date correctly, which may have resulted in a shorter wait times and veterans experienced. some staff said they changed the dates so that they aligned with the v.a.'s goals. we found follow-up appointments being scheduled without ever talking to the

that you will stay and listen to the gao. . they seem to be a thorn but there is some reality in what they say. reality with the good effort that everybody at , we wille is making get closer. i would summarize -- we will do it to the questioning. mba -- changed what the mdaa called for, by going to the counts instead of the resources. you are allowed to do that. if you really want financial data to be able to make good financial decisions and to control costs, you're not going to get it that way until 2022. with that, i yield back. >> let me follow up on something he just said. for the you to stay second panel. i would ask that you do that as well. if you can't, please make sure you have somebody who will be here to take notes. a year or so ago, we had the deputy to secretary -- deputy secretary of homeland security would meet to talk with him face-to-face to figure out how the department of home and security-- homeland could work it month in and month out. they finally did. generalple think of the accountability office as a th

the gao reported on the a failures with wait times as will -- at least as far back as the year 2000. last congress did a great deal of work around wait times, particular for mental health care. inspector general at the these problems in 2005, 2007, and again in 2012. each time they found schedulers across the country were not policy.g v.a. they also found in 2012 that v.a. has no reliable or accurate way of knowing if they are providing timely access to mental health care, but now the ig recommendations are still open, and the department has not limited legislation that i offered to improve the situation. clearly, the problem has gone on far too long. it is unfortunate that these leadership failures have dramatically shaken many confidence in the system. secretary shinseki, i continue to believe that you take this seriously and want to do the right thing, but we have come to the point where we need more than good intentions -- what we need is decisive action to restore veterans' confidence in the v.a., create a culture of transparency and accountability, and change the systemwide, ye

if you look at this gao report, none of that stuff happened. they were able to move money around. saying during that fight, remember, was, look, we know you agencies waste some money in this area, and you need it more over here, you should just move it around, that sort of thing. >> exactly. >> we have not spent money on all this other stuff, and i'm sure live at these agencies, there has been belt tightening, y>Ñ used less. at some point it has affected their lives. but whenever there's enough uxrdexlike, how can you stay afloat until next year.yke . >> what bothers me, though,dj;s f.$áujtj were so grand that q around, they were so off the yhéumark. it sort of like undermines any kind of confidence i can have in any numbers, in any sort of predicaments or handle on our budget. >> if you like your economic projection from the sequester, you can keep that economic projection. >> when you're trying to pass a bill, you come up with promises, when you're trying to prevent something like sequestration happening, you come up with rhetoric. >> you zd4o it's a time that they made those

we have been working with fps, congress, gao, and gsa to address these issues. the pace of progress on some issues might not be as fast as gao would like, progress is being made. since the appointment of director paterson in 2010 the degree of dialogue and cooperation between fps and security contractors has been unparalleled. there is no doubt that stricter patterson and others are committed to improving the program and fps is working on initiatives that will improve the program. to address deficiencies in the capability to provide the crucial x-ray and magnetometer training, fps has launched a pilot program conceived with nasco. divideng instructors to training. this training has been revamped and expanded by fps. in the area of active shooter training, nasco has met several times with fps to discuss development of new active shooter training for psl pause -- psl's. looking at what other agencies are doing with other contracts. it is also looking at revising trainingardizing pso plans. they recommended having all pso training instructors certified. in other ar

gao and the i.g.ed on similar issues. >> it is just that the patients have been waiting too long or also that your group has -- you go in and look at organizations and do a forensic analysis of whether we're to believe their numbers. did you also find that they were as is alleged in the phoenix case and some of these more recent cases actively, you know, working to hide the truth. >> well we found they were using increase dates and making appointments. looked like veterans were waiting for a shorter amount of time than they were. in the va health care we found a number of common themes. one is weak and ambiguous policies that leads to interpretation at the local level. antiquated software systems that don't lend themselves to good practices the. inadequate training. lack of unclear or unclear scheduling needs and allocation of those resources and inadequate oversight that relies largely on the certification without independent verification. >> i want to ask you a personal question. as someone who does

much better wab an independent survey by the gao be done -- this is a computer age.y, you know, type stuff can have multiple choice questions that are completely anonymous going to the gao so there wouldn't be fear of retaliation, and they could get the actual data. i know how long it is because i ask every patient how long have you been waiting? they say three, six, nine, 12 months. i knew pretty much at the time it was six to nine months when the administration was saying two. if you surveyed all the employees in primary care, we deal with this had, and they could give you an accurate answer, and then you could then tell the administration they have a week to give you the real numbers, and if they don't give you the real numbers and they don't match the gao will see that and the ig could go out and audit them, and that's one way of getting to the real data. >> dr. foote, mr. gallucci, huh both so much for coming in today. we promise we'll stay on top of this story. thank you, gentlemen. thank you. >>> when we come back, the "new york times" fires its top editor jil

the gao reported on the a failures with wait times as will -- at least as far back as the year 2000. last congress did a great deal of work around wait times, particular for mental health care. inspector general at the these problems in 2005, 2007, and again in 2012. each time they found schedulers across the country were not policy.g v.a. they also found in 2012 that v.a. has no reliable or accurate way of knowing if they are providing timely access to mental health care, but now the ig recommendations are still open, and the department has not limited legislation that i offered to improve the situation. clearly, the problem has gone on far too long. it is unfortunate that these leadership failures have dramatically shaken many confidence in the system. secretary shinseki, i continue to believe that you take this seriously and want to do the right thing, but we have come to the point where we need more than good intentions -- what we need is decisive action to restore veterans' confidence in the v.a., create a culture of transparency and accountability, and change the systemwide, ye

re january 2013.d in your former chief of staff sent a letter to the gao that stated the v.a. generally agrees with .he conclusions and concurs dear member that letter? >> i do. you knew that there were specific issues relating to scheduling and wait times. which brings us to today. you publicly stated that you had removed the medical director. you stated then that that was to ensure the integrity of the investigation. cally 5, a conference happened with a large group. they discussed the audits of the a centers -- the a centers. thatetzel made the station the removal was political. she has done nothing wrong. if you're asking us to wait until the investigation is over, doesn't the same apply to people who work for you? from all i have described to you, and the current investigation going on, why should this committee believe that change is going to happen as result of what we are going through? aware of the phone call you referred to. i will look into it. removal of the director and placing her on administrative leave was at the request of the ig. lead in this comprehensive re

the gao says the funding advantages of the six largest banks is somewhere in the neighborhood of one percent. if you go out and part money, you're paying close to one percent more for that money than the six largest banks. why? because you are a risk. the charger more because they don't know if you will pay back. the big banks charge less interest, low interest because they know even if they fall him of those big banks will be bailed out. that is why ending too big to fail fundamentally is so important, so these large banks that get government subsidies, these large banks will not continue to grow larger. if they're getting government subsidies, they can borrow money more cheaply than other banks and individuals and businesses. they're only going to grow larger because of that competitive advantage. that is why this consensus is building. always too slow for us to tear to change a system like you and i do. we are seeing regulators, the fdic and the federal reserve, always have been too biased towards the largest wall street banks. they have begun to change. again, not to the degree t

we have been working with congress, gao and gsa to address the issues. the pace of progress might not be as fast as we would like, progress is being made. since the appointment of director patterson the degree of talk has been unparallel. there is no doubt the director and others are committed to improving the pso program. fps is working on a variety of initiatives that will improve the program. to address the efficiency to give the training to fpos, it launched a pilot program that is training and certifying security contractor instructors to provide the training. this training has been revamped and expanded by fps also. in the area of active shooter training, nasco met to discuss the development of new active shooter training for pso's. an effort that is definitely on the fast track at fps. and we are looking at what other agencies are doing with their active shooting training for contract security officers that they utilize. we are working with fps on revising and standardizing training plans and recommendations of having all training instructors cert

affairs, and a question of the secretary is did he know and if not, if he did not know what was in a gaospectors report, why not? >> i'm kind of with a.b. i think the resignation of eric shinseki in the middle of this whole thing would for the veterans accomplish nothing. all it would create is another kerr fufle on capitol hill and there would be nobody in charge while you are trying to get your arms around this problem. veterans medical care has been a problem for many years off and on. actually, the federal government had done a pretty good job of turning it around in the early 2000s. there's been a huge infusion of new veterans because we've been at war for ten years. as jay carney pointed out, the increased awareness about post traumatic stress disorder has brought more people in the system. there's a lot of issues that are going on that are not going to be figure out in a lot of finger pointing. it's an election year. >> we're talking about this in the context of the federal government taking over the entire health care system. we have to keep in mind if the government can't take c

>> it is important to look at the gao and the ig reports and what they intend to do, and they come in and give us some sense of where we could be doing better, and we get in there and we address those issues and take corrective action and in essence close out the report. it does not mean that we have solved every issue. it does mean that we have taken care of addressing those issues him a and then when they come back, there may be another set of issues to deal with. 'sdo understand senator murray suggestion that we should take a comprehensive look at this. >> what you're hearing from a number of senators and myself -- the criticism is that year after year reports have made talking about these problems and that problems continue to exist. can you give us some assurance of what happens tomorrow, where do we go from here so we do not have this hearing next year or two years from now? the audit weat have created is intended to do. while the inspector general is looking at phoenix for evidence andmployee misconduct evidence that 40 veterans may have perished awaiting scheduling, the ig is

secretary, what i'm asking but specifically, a gao study that showed 91% of the occasions the federalvernment or the fbi was not able to block a gun or explosive purchased by an individual on the terror watch list. my question is, do you support legislation that would ensure that the federal government has the ability to block gun sales or explosive sales to individuals on the terror watch list? >> i'd have to study the gao report more specifically before i took a position. >> i would ask another 40 working with you. this is a very serious issue were individuals are place on the terror watch list because their dangers and have been identified as terrorists and have the ability to go in and buy a gun or by explosive. that is unimaginable to most americans. i urge you to read that report and look for to working with you to make sure that we prevent such individuals and have access to firearms. and with the i yield back. >> the chair thanks the gentleman, and recognizes the gentleman from north carolina for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, good to have you on the

the request to implement the gao report, the request to make the recommendations. they have known about this. there've ignored it, just as they ignored our jobs sitting over in the senate and is a candidate for one to his right, how would you veterans is in direct correlation to a think as americans. to defend our freedom and this is a way you treated? to the acid question is saying you're just finding out about it? the house republicans have sent you a letter to change it. we have been ignored. >> today, i want you to remember and reflect on the america that you grew up in. for me, it was an america in which anyone, i was a farm kid who worked my way through college, spent some time working at the drive-through and mcdonald's, clean rooms, which i don't ever want to do again, so that i could achieve better things. it was an america that was the most innovative, competitive country in the world, and one where hard work was rewarded with the promise of a better life. for my kids and euros, that is the america that we want to move forward. we have seen the numbers, 8

survey monkey is -- multiple choice questions that are completely anonymous going to the gao so there wouldn't be any retaliation. they can get the actual data. i ask every patient how long have you been waiting? they said three, six, nine, 12 months. i pretty much knew at the time it was six to nine months when the administration was saying two. if you survey all the employees in primary care who deal with this, they could give you an accurate answer and you could then tell the administration, they have a week to give you the real numbers. if they don't give you the real numbers, gao would see that in a second and they could go out and audit them. that's one way of getting to the real data. >> dr. foote, mr. gallucci, thank you for kochling in today. we promise we'll stay on top of this story. thank you, gentlemen. >> thank you. >>> when we come back, ""the new york times" fires joe abrahamson. our panel discusses whether the "times" is waging its own war on women. heat shields are compromised. we have multiple failures. are those thrusters burning? that's a negative. what's that ala

>> there's a few agencies like the gao and congressional budget office and sphectors general -- inspectorsrtments, they do periodic assessments of programs but only when congress asks them to do that or directs them to do that. they have a number of methodologies, cost effectiveness is usually the main criterion. >> jon: are the finings utilizes or implemented? thisser published. >> jon: their just published. [laughter] well that's very lovely. >> like my book. >> jon: exactly your book is published. it's perfect. [cheers and applause] what you did which is long overdue is you try to find a way to attach value to the programs. you hear from -- i think for people who still believe government has an important role to play in improving peoples lives and we watch them not be able to do the simplest of tasks like process veteran health claims in an efficient way is disheartening. on the other side people say it's too big and you have to cut money without attaching bigness or money to any value that may be provided. >> you had a segment about the v.a. and the coverup that occurred after it was r

according to these reports out this morning -- and it's linking to a gao report among others, saying the v.a. since 2001 has paid a total of $36.4 million to settle these claims. so this is not a new issue if these numbers in these reports are accurate. it's a devastating waste of taxpayer money in addition to and more importantly lives that have been lost. it's something that seems systemic. how in the world does anyone get ahold of it now? >> shannon, that's one of the problems that i think we face today is there's this belief by some that the story in phoenix, for example, is something that just happened, that it's something unusual. what we've seen over a long period of time, certainly several years, is this growing inability of the department of veterans affairs to meet the needs of our servicemen and women. and this is not just something that popped up overnight. and in fact if the department of veterans affairs can't care for the number of servicemen and women we have today, our veterans, think what happens as our military men and women from afghanist afghanistan, iraq, retire

but there are instances -- we've commissioned with congress and worked with government accounting a gao report, a number of years ago, back in 2000, and turned out eight of the ten drugs that had been taken off the market had disproportionately adverse effects in women and one was a cardiovascular drug that actually caused heart failure in women. so it's hard to know at this point whether the risk factors or the side effects for women are because the drug wasn't tested, that it's just an individual. you know, everybody is different anyway, so you may have a risk factor that i don't, even though we're both female. but it's difficult to know all about the risk factors across the board, what we have to do, but we know from the gao report that that was an example. >> woodruff: but in any event, now you're saying it will make a conference because female and male subjects will have to be part of the testing. >> absolutely and the female animal models and the female cells will have to be used in the studies where they're testing drugs to see if they might be effective. >> woodruff: and scienti

. >> and in many instances the inspector general and the gao have studied the circumstances and reports have been made to the department of veteran affairs and a question of the secretary is did he know, and if not, and if he did not know what was in a gao or inspector general report, why not? >> and yesterday on the program, congressman charles rangel who is himself a veteran went so far to say that if they find out that somebody deliberately cooked the books or hid things and tried to keep it from people that this is happening, he went on to call them a traitor. what do you want to hear from general shinseki and what is your level of concern? >> well, my level of concern is very, very high and people have been cooking the books, they need to be held responsible and discharged from the v.a. that is the bottom line. look, there are going to be v y very, very tough questions for director shinseki tomorrow, from both sides of the aisle, and fwheed to get -- and we need to get the facts and improve the health care for the veterans. that is the bottom line. the people who do things intentio

. >> reporter: the gao says it's very hard to identify exactly how many fraud there is in medicare. but they say that $50 billion number is too high and it's the number that can and should be fixed. live in washington, justin gray, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right. thank you, justin. >>> new details about controversy los angeles clippers' owner donald sterling who is banned for life from the nba because of racist comments he made. now tmz is reporting that sterling has been in talks with several lawsuits to represent him against the lawsuit against the nba. one of the lawsuit he talked to defended paula deen in her case about racism in one of her restaurants. >>> people living in alameda county could be paying much more for their water in the coming months. the alameda county water district tonight is set to consider creating a drought surcharge that could effect 331,000 customers living in fremont, union city and newark. the heavy water users could see an increase on their water bill as high as 18%. water ravening is in effect across the district. they say the conservation effort

let's have the gao do an in-depth study which they last did in the early 1990s.it would give us the data and information we need, not only what to do with the existing system, much of which needs to be replaced or modified and modernized -- and we're certainly seeing that with some of the nuclear warheads -- but also to have an understanding of other systems that we may or may not want to put in place of the triad. i would just add in my closing time, in october 17th, 2011, stratcon commander said as you look into the strategic future, the answer about whether or not we will need a triad i think it depends. it depends on the strategic situation we find ourselves in. it would depend on whether or not or not we have structured our force in such a way we can get benefits from other. i want to be clear. that we still do not get the same benefits from those attributes or we still do not need the same benefits of those attributes. of course there is a bugged tear dimension to this. as we look into the modernization in particular, can we in fact spend the resources to m

audit for fiscal year 2013-2014 and some of the key dates as well as when we plan to report back to the gao -- >> which in particular? >> of the audit service plan it's -- >> of the documents we've been provided with? >> right, it should be in your packet. >> got it. >> so, we are starting our audit for the 2013-14 fiscal year now. we are doing our planning procedures. we'll come out and do [speaker not understood] testing [speaker not understood] at the year-end kloza round september, october and we target [speaker not understood] all the different components by october-november and the city single audit, the audit of the city's federal awards will complete -- they will be completed by next february, march time frame. so, we are targeting to report back on the fiscal year 13-14 audit result in april of 2015 back to the board or the committee. >> thank you. i just have one general comment. in particular, one of the challenges with audits, in particular with the departments, you have the departments which have or typically fully staffed. they have resources and the ability to dedicate those

there have been gao reports going back more than a decade on exactly this problem at the va. the question remains, why doesn't someone proactive. in the case of healthcare.gov, why did it have to become a crisis for the administration to send in their s.w.a.t. team. >> we heard the hearings in congress this week. congress was not happy with all the answers it got from eric shinseki. on the campaign trail, scott brown running for senate posed the question, how many veterans have to die before somebody gets fired? here is mitch mcconnell who has a primary campaign of his own saying he doesn't see the urgency now in the president that he saw in the health care crisis. >> that was on the website fiasco. when he led it be known his people would not rest until a solution could be worked out. incredibly so far the president has made no such pledge when it comes to the treatment of our veterans. >> that's mitch mcconnell. house majority leader eric cantor said the same thing, why haven't we heard from the president on this. sounds like the republicans are trite to bait him. >> i spen

. >> and a question of the secretary is, did he know, and if not, he did not know what was in a gao orpector general's report, why not? >> reporter: the white house says president obama is confident shinseki will take the right action in response to this scandal. in washington, i'm danielle leigh, nbc news. >>> to developing news overseas, a massive rescue operation is under way in turkey after an explosion and fire killed at least 200 miners. more than 400 rescue workers are frantically pulling survivors to safety. meanwhile, grief-stricken families anxiously wait for news of the hundreds still trapped. authorities say the fire is still burning, and the casualty number will rise. >>> a measles outbreak in ohio is the largest in almost two decades. authorities say there have been 68 reported cases there. health officials are distributing almost 12,000 doses of vaccines. as of friday, the cdc says there have been 187 reported cases across 17 states. >>> magic johnson is responding to comments made by clippers' owner donald sterling. johnson told cnn that he got a call from sterling, and

and if not, he did not know what was in a gao or inspector general's report, why not?>> reporter: the white house says president obama is confident shinseki will take the right action in response to this scandal. secretary shinseki will testify before congress tomorrow and he's sure to get hammered by democrats and republicans about these dangerous backlogs. in washington, i'm danielle leigh. betty, back to you. >> all right. thank you, danielle. >>> developing news overseas for you now. a massive rescue operation is under way this morning in turkey after an explosion and fire killed at least 200 miners. more than 400 rescue workers are franticly pulling survivors to safety. meanwhile, grief-stricken families anxiously wait for news of the hundreds still trapped. authorities say the fire is still burning and the casualty number will rise. >>> magic johnson is responding to comments made by clippers owner donald sterling. johnson told cnn that he got a call from sterling, and instead of an apology, sterling asked magic to appear with him in an interview with barbara wal

directly from the usda as well as some of the other data i provided was coming from the independent gaoeport. so, look, it's not a partisan issue at all. it may turn out that the republicans are voting one way and democrats another. but constituents, parents, school officials, students, that doesn't necessarily line up as a partisan issue. those are the people that are complaining about this program. >> we are going to take a short break, and when we come back, we will talk about what happens now. everybody wants kids to eat better in america, and if they are eating more of their meals at school, what should, what can government say about it? this is "inside story." stay with us. ic. real reporting from around the world. this is what we do. al jazeera america. >>> you are watching "inside story." i am ray suarez. along with trying to loosen tougher nutrition standards for school lunches, the house of representatives is also tinkering with summer lunch programs. kids who rely on free lunches and breakfasts at school lose this those programs when school is out in the summer. a current pro

directly from the usda as well as some of the other data i provided was coming from the independent gaoeport. so, look, it's not a partisan issue at all. it may turn out that the republicans are voting one way and democrats another. but constituents, parents, school officials, students, that doesn't necessarily line up as a partisan issue. those are the people that are complaining about this program. >> we are going to take a short break, and when we come back, we will talk about what happens now. everybody wants kids to eat better in america, and if they are eating more of their meals at school, what should, what can government say about it? this is "inside story." stay with us. the performance review. that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there's someone around the office who hasn't had a performance review in a while. someone whose poor performance is slowing down the entire organization. i'm looking at you phone company dsl. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for bus

there are gao reports going back 10, 15 years talking about this. but i think david raises an interesting point, craig, which is this one doesn't feel so far as politicized. you have liberal columnists like "washington post's" dana minimumbank times' joe klein denouncing obama's apparently slow reaction to this. and it's not being treated as some others are as a so-called phony scandal by people on the left. >> we are seeing liberals now not so quietly acknowledging that while his rhetoric still inspires them this presidency has turned out to be a case of serial incompetency. i mean, going back to the stimulus bill and the shovel-ready projects that weren't ready for ten months. and you mentioned the irs. benghazi. it goes on and on. there is a management problem with this president. he was a great campaigner. and that's one probable way we pick presidents. we don't elect them to govern. we elect them for their rhetoric. >> way the beltway press treats this, now we have this media drumbeat. eric shinseki, should he go, should he stay, will he resign