and then about 10 years ago, neal had an idea.ou have probably heard this story, but i'm going to tell it for everybody else. it was around 2 fisme 30 in the morning, -- 2:30 in the morning, and neal hopped in his car and drove to the factory in plymouth, where the fack -- future couldn't wait. is this true, neal? [laughter] he says it's true. he started tinkering around until an engineer showed up. and what neal had come up with is one of orion's signature innovations, a light that would produce twice the light at half the energy. neal had to work to apply for loans, find investors, find customers who would believe his improbable pitch. and doing all of that took time, patience and most of all, it took persistence. it took determination to succeed. fortunately that's not something neal has a shortage of, determination. as he said himself, the difference between orion and other companies is and i'm quoting now, the difference between playing to win and playing not to lose and he says that orion, we play to win. [cheers and applaus

and for neal karlinsky, the phone wars are a "sign of the times." >> reporter: let's face it.all the pomp and circumstance, isn't this a bit ridiculous? all this for just another cell phone? >> okay, i guess by the looks of all of you here in the room you're expecting a big announcement today. >> reporter: but this isn't about just a phone. this is the iphone, this is at&t versus verizon. this is war. >> we're incredibly pleased to give verizon customers the choice they've been waiting for. we've designed an iphone 4, which has all the features that you would expect. >> reporter: at the heart of the fight is a single constant iphone complaint. it's an amazing device but boy, does it drop calls. and the blame has landed squarely on at&t. >> they have really dropped the ball on this. think had a golden nen opportunity. they could have been kings. and instead they are the object of so much ire. >> reporter: verizon has bided its time without an iphone. they played their strongest until now. a highly rated network that allows people to actually make phone calls. today, the war of

thanks, neal.ow, for a look at the other top stories, let's go back to juju at the newsdesk. >> good morning again, robin. we're going turn to breaking news out of washington. white house press secretary robert gibbs is leaving the inner circle. a new congress is being sworn in today. this morning, they're scaling back their campaign promise to cut $100 billion in government spending. >>> investigators are baffled this morning by the murder of a white house aide. they have yet to figure out who killed john wheeler. they know when and where he was last seen alive. here's pierre thomas. >> reporter: police in delaware are working feverishly to fill in a critical 18-hour gap in the life and death of john wheeler iii. the word mystery is overused sometimes. but this feels like a mystery. >> it does. it does. we don't have the answers yet. >> reporter: wheeler was last seen in wilmington on december 30th at 3:30 p.m., on the corner of tenth avenue and orange street. a day earlier, just a couple blocks a

neal, could you let the viewers know, you have been director how long? >> we are working on eight years. >> now you have the 75th anniversary. how does that feel? >> we opened this building in 1995. it was bought at that time as a move from the civic center and the veterans building 2 third street, into our new building, a much expanded space, better space. it will be wonderful for the museum for decades to come. and 15 short years we have been amazed by we have outgrown the building. the collection has grown to 26,000 works. >> was a challenging to decide what was going to be put on display during the anniversary year? >> 3 people on our staff spent 2 1/2 years of going through archives, the storage vaults, honor think all kinds of works that we have not seen -- uncovering lot of works that we have not seen but also history we uncovered about how we presented a television show produced by the museum, in the museum, in 1950. a lot of great stories that the presentation tells. >> the most recent news was the incredible decision on the part of donna morris

neal is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to come back to a point that i was raising earlier. dr. sullivan, i was caught by the statement that dr. haas had made that cutting corporate tax rates increase tax revenues. sounds a lot to me like tax cuts pay for themselves. i think tax reform is a worthy pursuit and very sensitive to the international arguments that are being made here today, but in some measure didn't america get into trouble based upon that notion that tax cuts pay for themselves? >> certainly the idea that tax cuts pay for themselves is very attractive politically and it's very easy, for example, in the 1980's, that notion was very popular. and there are some dynamic aspects to the revenue estimates. but to think that tax cuts pay for themselves, except in very extraordinary circumstances is mostly wishful thinking. if you look back at the 1986 tax reform act, we lowered the rates and broadened the base and immediately after the 1986 act, there was a whole set of hearings in the senate finance about wher

here now is neal karlinsky. >> reporter: let's face it.l of the hype, all of the pomp and circumstance, isn't this a bit ridiculous? all this for just another cell phone? >> okay. i guess by the looks of all of you here in the room you're expecting a big announcement today. >> reporter: but this isn't about just a phone. this is the iphone. this is at&t versus verizon. this is war. >> we're incredibly pleased to give verizon customers the choice they've been waiting for. we've designed an iphone 4 which has all the features that you would expect. >> reporter: at the heart of the fight is a single constant iphone complaint. it's an amazing device but boy, does it drop calls. and the blame has landed squarely on at&t. >> they have really dropped the ball on this. they had a golden opportunity. they could have been kings. and instead they are the object of so much ire. >> reporter: verizon has bided its time without an iphone. they've played their strongest hand until now. a highly rated network that allows people to actually make phone calls

use the unfortunate circumstances to accomplish a greater purpose. >> for "good morning america," neal karlinsky, abc news, seattle. >> one tough pastor. the suspect, by the way, is now free on $5,000 bond as he awaits arraignment. >> i see a movie coming up out of that. >> you do? >> maybe jesse eisenberg playing the pastor. >> denzel washington -- >> you never know. >>> coming up on "gma" this morning, the mother seen on "the dr. phil" show making her son swallow hot sauce after he misbehaved. now she is facing child abuse charges. >>> and are your facebook friends making you miserable because it looks like they're leading a great life? a new study says they may not be as happy as you think. the best device for everything you love to read editors' choice. best dedicated ereader. magazines look spectacular. fantastic device. touch the future of reading at barnes and noble. nookcolor. i can't breathe... so i can't sleep... and the next day i pay for it. i tried decongestants... i tossed & turned... i even vaporized! and then i fought back: with new drug-free breathe right advanced. the

for "good morning america," neal karlinsky, abc news, seattle. >> as neal said, still such a mystery.s now 7:37. for other stories developing right now. let's say good morning to juju chang. >> good morning, everyone. police near detroit say they've foiled an attack on one of the nation's largest mosques. they say 63-year-old roger stock ham drove from his home with a car full of explosives. police say he was acting alone. >>> american factories are bouncing bag. a report out this morning finds the u.s. added manufacturing jobs for the first time in a decade. and we've retained our number one ranking, outproducing china by 40%. >>> and many of us need to cut the salt. that's the message today as the government releases new dietary guideline. if you're 51 or older it recommends cutting back to 1,500 milligrams per day. that's slightly more than half a teaspoon. that goes for african-americans and people with high blood pressure or sky beetsz. for everyone, the recommendation is 2,300 milligrams. >>> imagine looking out your window and seeing a plane sticking out of your neighbor's hous

i mean you know neal on these are headlines this are. all change the merry go round that is the top of the cage shell table has a new leader once again with up on guard taking full advantage of enough force. to ryall dunn city rivals of letting co in the first leg of their cup of the ray quarterfinal. club med we look at hard rushes the libyans have turned to their favorite spot in the sun in preparation for london twenty. one on just a moment but let's start with the kontinental hockey league where there's another new team at the top of the tree often card sitting pretty at the summit after they pizza beer akbar suffered a surprise defeat to beliefs they are making their move at the start of the second period to open the scoring but the home team equalized less than ten minutes after the alexander turn to cost them on tying perceiving that trend of treating goals continue with alexy can funding a brief advantage to the visitors in the third until then right there to ensure minutes later for severe regulation neared its end the much winn

extended their leader at the top at least for a couple of hours the red devils fresh in birmingham five neal will have tricks from berbatov since him and while have started that match they could catch up with united later on the day if they can beat struggling alstonville it's nil nil there after twenty minutes also now are currently second thing stay confident we know we're going to have been one person with a hat trick games that want the rest of the time is on your screen as well with fourth place chelsea travelling to vault on on monday. now we take a child and a moscow have ended their eleven game losing streak by beating to number minsk on home ice three one need good model for their us love songs on the scoreboard for the muscovites while the only other game of the day second probably bottom beats his last is not might even get in the moscow region four to. over two biathlon now where russian ladies have claimed gold in the women's relay race and the six stage of the world cup in the early the quarter oh the quarter. saw on the bog early to five that's not. good sides of aisle three f

neal karlinksy has details from seattle. >> reporter: this was quite a shock in the tech world, on wallpopular culture in general. the world waking up to news monday morning that steve jobs has left the company, his third serious health problem of the decade, leaving apple, taking a leave of absence. he wrote in an e-mail, actually, to his employees that he's taking a medical leave of absence so i can, quote, focus on my health. >> nobody knows what's going on, how long he's going to be gone for. and i think it's just -- it's a really big shock. >> reporter: this is crucial because steve jobs, of course, is a survivor of a rare form of pancreatic cancer. he came back with a vengeance and introduced the iphone and several other very successful products, only to have more problems in 2008 when he appeared on stage at a product introduction looking extremely thin. he said it was strictly a hormonal problem, nutritional problem. however, a short time after that he took another leave of absence. at that point, we understand that he got a liver transplant. he was secretive about that. word di

record levels of opium where harvested and that's to say at some point i think taliban point down to neal what happened where we are in charge. that afghan government the afghan people. we have reduced poppies and twenty two provinces of afghanistan in some of those provinces were completely eliminated. we are not in charge. in one or two provinces where there was the taliban over there was more foreign forces it was in those provinces of course poppies of. trees and that's a question but still the volume of afghan drug money as of today six point five billion dollars which is five times as much as your national budget i mean who is behind this how high up does its power reaches those who grow poppies. grow it out of desperation i know people in afghanistan who destroyed their division yards there are pomegranate orchards to replace it with poppies in that must be done out of disparate. the trafficking is an entirely different matter the precursors that come to return poppy to narcotics is not of african issue at all it's smikle to afghanistan from other countries so those areas afghanist

and, neal, would you -- you can run that machine. you cannot? you can. okay. let me start us here. whenever cities have problems, they make new departments for that problem. some point we started to have parks department when the cities were too overcrowded and unhealthy and another time we started to have traffic department. i'm very great at my traffic department. every city i know have a traffic department. it staffed with wonderfully professional people. they go out every year and make notes and count all the traffic they know everything. whenever there is a planning issue, they have all the information and they can make modeling and they can talk about the future. they know everything. and cars and traffic is very, very visible and ever present in the city planning. but do you know of nizzi who has a department for pedestrians and public life? do you know of nizzi who have any data and knowledge about what's going on in the city, who's using it and how much -- what is in the winter going on, in the summer, whatever? and wherever there's a planning issue, the pedestrianing are

. >> reporter: phillip neal was willing to do anything to warm up his drafty apartment except spend a fortune weatherizing a home he doesn't own. >> we had the drafts in the door and the air conditioning unit. >> reporter: but according to the department of energy, fixing those drafts by weatherizing could save him up to $437 a year. so to get the most bang for his buck, we decided to test this $20 do it yourself weatherizing kit. after reading the instructions he applies this self-adhesive door sweep to the base of the door and foam tape to the gap on the side and around the air conditioning unit. >> how are you doing? >> reporter: then we brought in a handyman to check his work. turns out the one size fits all kit doesn't fit when it comes to phillips' door. >> you still have a good quarter inch or so gap right in here. >> reporter: instead of the kit's plastic door sweep that sticks to one side of the door, newman recommended the $10 to $15 door shoe that protects both sides. as for the side of the door? >> this just needs to be replaced. >> reporter: brent says skip the foam tape

>> neal karlinsky. the mystery continues.>> we're going to turn to weather with sam champion. how are you, sam? >> good morning. so much going on down here. we just lost the sign. you didn't want to talk but who lost the sign? now you have to say hi. >> hi. >> this is a drama club from florida, by the way. that's why all the faeeathers a faux furs. we're going start with the twitter pictures. this one is breaking news. that one in knoxville, tennessee. that was a little slip and slide zone. when you're a part of the breaking news, send it to us. we'll put it up. here's where the snow becomes an issue during the day tomorrow. this is a friday event. starts around 9:00 in the morning on the east coast. snows flout the day on friday, into saturday morning. there will be accumulation there. just a little trouble-making because we're not too far way from the big system that happened. >> tell me your name and you're from? >> i'm mary mitchell from brooklyn. >> from brooklyn, new york. i saw that sign. i had to bring you up front. >

was you know neal. a very warm welcome this is sports today i mean only let's take a look at some of the story for covering this hour. full steam ahead defending champion roger federer politicize way into the screen open semifinals at the expense of some pop three. putting the. final cantante russian football champions in need to move within a game of the year for silverware following up to no win over persepolis in the by . ice is age she has come all school secure the first two and run this year in the cage seeing off of this being the nominee after eight. let's start up the australian open though where roger federer remains on track for his twenty third major final after dispatching compactor. in the last eight federer him to become the only player in open history to win five melbourne titles a couple of swiss funds in attendance delighted to see the first ever grand slam quarter final clash involving their can pop three it's the finding champion federer an eighth straight semi appearance was at stak

america needs to get behind of entrepreneurs like neal. [applause] we need to get behind clean- energy companies like orion. we need to get behind innovation. that is how we will get to the goals i set last night and make sure that american's electricity sources, from clean energy sources by 2009. if that is a goal we must meet. [applause] that is how we will make america the first country to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. in five years, 1 million electric cars on the road. that is hell america will lead the world in clean energy. i have said before, the nation that leads the world in clean energy will lead the global economy in the 21st century. this is not something beds i am making up just to fill up time in a speech. china is making these investments. they have already captured a big part of the solar market partly because we fell down on the job. we were not moving as fast as we should have. those were jobs that could be created right here that are getting shipped overseas. orion tells a different story. this is

. >>> reporter: when phillip neal moved into his fremont apartment the weather was warm and he had no need for a heater. it wasn't until thanksgiving he noticed that the heater didn't work and his new home was extremely drafty. when he notified building management, he says they did agree to fix the heater but they said he would have to pay to weatherproof the quarter inch gap around the door. so he called consumerwatch and we called corporate. not only did they reimburse him $611.50 for his weeks without heat, but they agreed to fix the draft too. >> reporter: when robert lund heard his friend's terminally ill mother had been without phone service for 14 days he was shocked. her at&t went out in a storm and she went two weeks trying to get it fixed. that's when robert called consumerwatch and we contacted at&t. almost immediately, this called to apologize, told her the line was working and that they would credit her bill by $6.98. >> misuse -- >> reporter: when mr. francis' suitcase stopped rolling after a couple uses his wife called london fog customer service to cash in on the ten-y

neal karlinsky is in spokane and has the details for us. good morning, neal. >> reporter: robin, good morning. this could have been very serious. about 1,500 people were getting ready to march by right here, when 3 city workers noticed a backpack sitting on a bench right here. they looked inside, saw wires sticking out and called police. by the time police sent in a robot to inspect the backpack, it was clear something wasn't right. the bomb squad detonated it. by then, the parade had been rerouted by alert police. and bystanders were kept at a distance. >> i saw the robot. when i saw the robot, i told my girls to run. and let's get out of here. >> reporter: the fbi has released photos of the backpack which contained the bomb. it was found by three city workers a block south of where the parade was to begin. right where those marching would be turning down main street. investigators describe it as a pipe bomb, ominously with a remote-control trigger. they say it was meant to propel shrapnel in a specific direction, toward the marchers. this

>> neal karlinsky. thanks for that update on a very controversial issue this morning. >>> now, we turn back to sam for an update on the nation's weather. good morning, sam. >>> good morning, elizabeth. back in the freezing rain in times square. let's show you watches and warnings for the northeast. we're still looking at wintry temperatures there. but a lot of coastal areas will get warm as we go through the morning. not the only place with bad weather, we'll show you pictures of mudslides, with rain in 24 hours in some location over the weekend started the runoff and melting as well. a real problem in the south west. warm temperature, got to get through mountain and valley and coastal fog but temperatures come up nicely. matter of fact, palm springs is probably getting near the 80 degree mark. if not, just above it. that's the weather in your area. >> quick, travel trip. look for southern airports near the coastline if you're flying near the northeast. washington, laguardia, jfk, boston will take some

. >> the ads were phenom neal entertaining but, also, really, really nasty. people say they hate nasty, negative campaigns but, you know what, it works. >> submit to me. >> not always. >> submit to me. >> worst of a bad lot. democrat allen grayson's taliban dance spot in florida. >> hands off our bodies. >> that was despicable. i don't know what he was thinking. >> best last laugh, the target of that spot, republican dan webster took grayson's congressional seat in a landslide. best out of the frying pan into the fire, house speaker nancy pelosi who took more heat than anyone else in the negative ad onslaught. >> the people in her district that know her the best actually really like her. the people outside of her district, the rest of america are wondering whether or not she has the ability to blink. >> she seems as disconnected to me as obama but in a less likable way. >> we'll have more on the president in a bit but first -- best case of making the major parties blink. like it or hate it, the rise of the tea party. >> i still don't understand where they cam

but first, neal karlinsky takes a closer look. >> reporter: superman can fly.gadgets. >> where is he? >> reporter: spider-man has his webs and supersharp senses. >> i'm spider-man. >> reporter: then, there's phoenix jones, red dragon and buster doe. self-proclaimed, real-life superheros, with no actual powers. but snazzy outfits and endless enthusiasm. >> i'm not going to let my fellow citizens be assaulted when i can say no. >> reporter: they patrol the not-so-mean streets of seattle. allegedly breaking up crime when they see it. >> get back. stay away. >> i don't want to have to tase you. >> reporter: on this night, phoenix sent off a warning shot with his taser, during a very intense man he says is about to drive drunk. >> you back up. >> reporter: his cohorts call police. >> what you're doing is fine. >> yeah. >> somebody drunk, all of a sudden to have a mask on. >> reporter: it's a weirdly close imitation to the movie "kick ass," at people dressing up as superheros and taking on crime fighting. phoenix says he has a real 9:00 to 5:00 job, a wife and kids.

here's neal. >> superman can fly. batman has his gadget.ider-man"has his web super sharp accepts us. >> and then phoenix jones. red drag on and buster bow self-proclaimed real life super hero with no actual power but pretty snazzy outfit and endless enthusiasim. >> i'm definitely not going to let my fellow citizen assaulted when i can say no. >> he they patrol not so mean streets of seattle. allegedly breaking up crime when they see it. >> stay back. stay await a minute i don't want to have to taze you. >>reporter: on this night a warning shot with the tazer during a very tense run in with a man he says is about to drive drunk. >> you back up. >>reporter: cohort call police. >> i know what you are doing is fine. somebody drunk. all of a sudden people in their face with mask on. >>reporter: it's a weirdly close imitation of the movie kick ass. >> fight some crime? >>reporter: about people dressing up as super hero and taking on crime fighting. phoenix says he has a real 9:00 to 5:00 job. wife. and kid. he says the outfit which includes a bul

it was an enthusiastic review by admin named neal asher said. and i thought i'd get a mixed review from it because they're not known for their enthusiasm. >> host: so the new york review of time magazine, "newsweek" and the "los angeles times." i thought it was kind of a simple narrative in the tradition of what they call the shanna quay, the old storyteller. it amazes me what the review was cited in the book. it's a double layer is the island and finding what they consciously clever writer i was. the prime minister of ireland, which is all right because one time on the last day of the world, were richer like to be? in the south of ireland. why because the irish are always behind the times. >> host: where was he born? >> guest: new york. posta were you born? >> guest: brooklyn. i'm not sure if i was born in brooklyn or manhattan. she wish i had away from that. because i was conceived beyond the sheet. so i was the cause of sin. frankie was the cause of marriage. it was a shotgun wedding and that was what appeared five months after the wedding. >

neal: they lose their home, they lose everything because they got sick. i hope we oppose this repeal measure or at least until we hear a replacement proposal. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan. mr. camp: thank you, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from kentucky. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from is recognized for -- the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you. the democrats' health care law has only been in place 10 months yet the problems and negative effects are already painfully clear. the american people stood against it when it was forced through congress last year and they took out their frustration on this bill at the ballot box in november with a mandate to repeal it. this government takeover of our health care system will not improve access to health care or lower costs for families and small businesses. mr. davis: it's just not ining the -- in the math if we use the same math that is used by the rest of the country. since this law was passed, premiums have increased

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jim neal had this to save peace >> if there's needs they should be given their and the basis >> there should be in nobody's going their way now. this dave got the money they earn or to do with i think of anything comes out of this history generic to the people the need the money that would be good. >> silberner council make a final decision on how the money will be distributed. two women convicted of trying to pass themselves off as victims to secure relief during december and a five run expression renegade, 42 year-old lisa is just an end service rents, they apply for new identification cards using addresses from the labor heard. they lived about 5 mi. from the vast five other people facing charges for posing hazards arms. >> we'll be back with more in just a couple of minutes, here's zero record side of san francisco, chilly morning like it has been a vice you warming up in the afternoon with the sunshine rain now 45 degrees looking for a high of 56. a comeback, and this morning shot just five days after a raid-blue shield as artie planning on hitting its policyholders with another

>> congressman neal, that's a great question.o take them off the table for now ambushes degree that what we want to do with this is to do something that's fiscally responsible the way the chairman and i think the ranking member talk about. and i think if we work together, we can develop a competitive tax system for this country and do it in a fiscally responsible way and that's what were sending up to do. >> when mr. rangel kicked out his proposal, if you recall, the critics jumped on it. it was a starting point in the conversation. that's all it was. it was an opportunity to such a blight on the needless complexity of the current code. now let me as an example of how i think we got burned here. a few years back, the former chairman of the committee argued for repatriation and right now american companies are estimated to be sitting on more than a million, $300 billion worth of revenue offshore. but recall that money was repatriated at five and one quarter% and there were no jobs created. in fact, in one instance, one company lai

neal announced the current cbo analysis be read into the record and our would like to ask on that issue i am glad he did that. is an important fact we need to take into consideration but that analysis as you pointed out, to repeal this bill would drive the deficit up by $250 million over the first ten years. over a trillion and change over 20 years. if that were to happen and have this upward push on the deficit, how would that impact business and investment in this country? >> i believe certainly addressing our longer debt issues is a bipartisan -- an area of bipartisan agreement that we need to do that and to not do it increases and 77 making the problem worse would likely add more uncertainty. >> and a hat on the businesses we are trying or hopeful will get going to get the economy up. on the uncompensated care issue i just want to point out everyone can find this out, i did the run in my rural district in northern california. last year the uncompensated care cost was $70 million. the uncompensated care doesn't deliver a check to the hospital when that happens. that is spread out and

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host: senator john kerry and representative richard neal have an op-ed piece in this morning's "washington they talk about free trade with core reappeared they write that the united states and south korea reached an accord that improves the pending trade agreement. are you confident you will be able to get that trade agreement through congress? guest: i am confident because if we make the case, which is, career is currently our seventh largest trading partner. once we sign and ratify this agreement, you will see an increase of over $10 billion in exports, merchandise exports, to correa. this will support 70,000 american jobs. so, i believe that we can make the case because it makes sense for the american economy, it makes sense for american business and the american worker. host: massachusetts. rob on our line for independents. caller: i wanted to make a comment on your relation between regulation and competitiveness. we can't base our regulations based on their competitiveness. if so, we end up with a country that has regulations that allow all the things that happens wherever -- china, b

. -- neal on the independent line. caller: good morning. i am i diabetic.ad to have my right thumb cut off, my right leg below my knee. my leg, theyant to amputate my left foot because it is black. i am also legally blind with my vision. i have been on disability retirement social securi for the last eight years and i am afraid these republicans are going to set me out on the curb. i hope obama can negotiate so th i can at least keep my wheelchair. guest: there is 0% chance you will be kicked to the curb. one of the truisms of social security reform -- once people have claimed the benefit we do not kick them off. what we are talking about with reforms is changing benefits over the long term. i mention changing the retirement age. from the time it was passed to implemented, 40 years. what people need to remember is, if you are near retirement, nothing is going to change for you. for younger folks, we need to find different ways of financing the program, benefiting people, which will target things better, and retain the safety net that people truly need, but

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. -- neal on the independent line. caller: good morning. i am i diabetic. had to have my right thumb cut off, my right leg below my knee. my leg, they want to amputate my left foot because it is black. i am also legally blind with my vision. i have been on disability retirement social security for the last eight years and i am afraid these republicans are going to set me out on the curb. i hope obama can negotiate so that i can at least keep my wheelchair. guest: there is 0% chance you will be kicked to the curb. one of the truisms of social security reform -- once people have claimed the benefits, we do not kick them off. what we are talking about with reforms is changing benefits over the long term. i mention changing the retirement age. from the time it was passed to implemented, 40 years. what people need to remember is, if you are near retirement, nothing is going to change for you. for younger folks, we need to find different ways of financing the program, benefiting people, which will target things better, and retain the safety net that people truly

when i was left it was 28 billion and we had to fight tooth and neal and it was only because of palace bona fides we were able to obtain an additional battalion. that's three-quarters of a trillion for the defense department and about 40 billion for the state department today. it was joked he lost more money in a year than powell got. he was right. check the records. almost any year the defense department can't find through its audit process somewhere between $20 billion and $40 billion. an incredible imbalance when you understand that money is power. people are also power, resources, 19 bring grades in my army alone, one brigade in the foreign service. our greatest achievement at the state department was to go before our budget committees and appropriators and madeleine can do it. i need $3 billion or $4 billion and i need to hire people. we hired 117 new service officers. they were all consumed in kabul and baghdad. so we're back to zero. you have no educational float. you have people working around the clock all the time. what are some of the other indications of the imbalance there

when i was left it was 28 billion and we had to fight tooth and neal and it was only because of palace bona fides we were able to obtain an additional battalion. that's three-quarters of a trillion for the defense department and about 40 billion for the state department today. it was joked he lost more money in a year than powell got. he was right. check the records. almost any year the defense department can't find through its audit process somewhere between $20 billion and $40 billion. an incredible imbalance when you understand that money is power. people are also power, resources, 19 bring grades in my army alone, one brigade in the foreign service. our greatest achievement at the state department was to go before our budget committees and appropriators and madeleine can do it. i need $3 billion or $4 billion and i need to hire people. we hired 117 new service officers. they were all consumed in kabul and baghdad. so we're back to zero. you have no educational float. you have people working around the clock all the time. what are some of the other indications of the imbalance there