the postal service is critical to our economy delivering mail medicine and packages yet they're closing thousands of offices slashing services and want to lay off over one hundred thousand workers the postal service is recording financial losses but not for reasons you might think the problem a burden no other agency or company beyers at two thousand and six law that drains five billion a year from post office revenues while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more in the third little accounts congress created this problem and congress can fix it. now workers are firing back to make sure they can continue to deliver our mail something they've been doing for centuries to talk more about this i was joined by chuck better treasurer for the american postal workers union here says take. in two thousand and six congress passed a bill called the postal accountability and enhanced with act one provision of the bill requires the postal service the only agency government or private anywhere in america to prefund future retirees health care benefits seventy five years into the future

and as one location after another closes our team asks what would america be like without the postal service. plus the days of lock cell phones and clunky computers are long gone but why didn't the outdated cyber policies go along with them we'll ask our digital guru whether will u.s. government regulations catch up with the times. plus it's a mega corporation americans trust with their food and farms but this one company that's leaving behind a toxic legacy coming up an inside look at monsanto. history. and it's tuesday june twenty sixth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our teeth. old poster workers going on strike on capitol hill in hopes they can save the dying agency congress has plans in the works to slash much of the funding to the agency and mass layoff workers the postal workers are pointing their fingers or right back at congress for putting him in this predicament in the first place that's because back in two thousand and six congress passed a law requiring the u.s.p.s. to refund to prefund that is health benefits for seventy five years here's the ad

i don't think any of them have anything against the postal service. do have is they have a great desire to dismantle the federal government and labor unions. and the problem they have with the post office is because government is bad government is bad -- unions are bad unions are bad the problem they have is that the postal service has got an 85% 86% positive rating, the best in the federal government while the congressmen themselves i think are about 12% right now. so you know, i think that -- trying to save government is bad. they have this one entity that is really a very positive focus in the communities and by most americans looked at very favorable. they don't like that. they want to destroy that part of the federal government that is positive. >> bill: i think it is very, very much part of the war against employees that we saw in wisconsin, we've seen in indiana and other states and we see here at the federal level and particularly directed against the post office. so what do they want to do to the post office? >> they want to continue what the

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franklin abshire was born on october 20, 1944, in to designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 1421 veterans memorial drive in abbeville, louisiana, as the sergeant richard franklin abshire post office building and served in the united states marine corps. service abshire was awarded the navy cross for extraordinary heroism while serving as platoon sergeant fourth marine, ninth marine amphibious brigade against the enemies in the republic of vietnam on may 2, 1968. sergeant abshire's unit and sister company launched a coordinated attack against a well-entrenched north vietnamese army force occupying a village. by his superb leadership and courageous fighting and selfless devotion to duty, sergeant abshire inspired all who observed him and upheld the highest tradition of the united states marine corps and gained the united states -- and the united states naval service. he gallantly gave his life for his service. he died on may 2, 1968. madam speaker, sergeant richard franklin abshire is a very worthy designee of this postal facility naming, and i urge all members to j

that is money the postal service could use instead to avert cutbacks in job and services, but a house committee says the postal service must save now or it won't be able to afford retiree healthcare later. >>> spain has formally asked its european partners for a loan to help support its troubled banking system. it hasn't said yet how much money it's going to seek, but last week two international audits said spain's banks could need the equivalent of 77 billion u.s. dollars. leaders of the european union welcome spain's request and said they hope to hammer out a loan agreement in weeks. >>> many of the leading unions in this state deliver letters to maryland's governor, house speaker and senate president today calling for expanded gambling. this comes less than a week after the working group examining whether to call a special center on building a sixth casino at national harbor said it didn't have enough consensus to recommend the general assembly meet. >> voters are saying it's not good enough for our elected officials to throw up their hands and say we can't figure out how to get th

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there are no tax funds go to the postal service. >> john: where do you get the money? >> services., we do have loss and ultimately the taxpayer could be at risk. your question is correct. innovation has been a hallmark what has been done in the last five years. in the last ten years we reduced the work force by 250,000 workers primarily through innovation. this is a business. it's not a tax run industry. >> john: if it's a business you would fire workers if there wasn't enough work for them and you never do that? >> granted. we are like a government in the sense we want to be compassionate and do it through attrition. one of the main problems is very limited flexibility. congress has tied our hands. board of governors would and has a plan for profitability where the taxpayers will never be on the hook. >> john: doing things like? >> bar coding everything. >> john: kleog go small post offices? >> congress controls us to a great extent which is why we are quasi government agency rather than a private enterprise. no question, if we were private enterprise, many would be closed. >> joh

the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. problem ? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts. house bill 2309 is not the answer. >>> we said at the top today's supreme court decision was a stunner given how poorly the most court watchers thought the solicitor general did arguing the administration's case. jeffrey toobin famously predicted disaster. former bush attorney general alberto gonzales said he thought the law would be upheld. i talked to both earlier this evening about that and whether justice roberts' opinion today represents the kind of judicial modesty he promised during his confirmation hearing. judge gonzales, let me start with you. you basically called this yesterday. saying judge roberts would side with some of the liberals on the court. it didn't come down exactly as you thought. how so? >> well, you're right, we ended up where i thought we might be but i was sur

the postal service has responded to what they say is less customer demand.t service and drove customers away. they have done that over and over again. a few years ago, they took stamp machines out of every post office in the country. you can go in after hours and mail a letter, but you can't buy stamps there anymore. you c you can buy a whole book of stamps, but what if you need only one stamp. you have to go back to the post office to do the mailing. they have made it very inconvenient to use the post office anymore. >> i know you have some -- hopefully you'll get more attention from other lawmakers, we'll see. >> at long last, home -- allison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. >> normally people who are buying homes that are getting all the good news. but today i've got an ounce of encouragement, if you're a seller. a report from indicate schiler, says that home sales came in quite a bit higher in march than what wall street was expecting. if you look at the big cities, it showed the biggest increase in home prices in washington, phoenix and atlanta.

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postal service that will close 229 plants and eliminate 28,000 jobs.ay eliminating the congressionally mandated payments for future retiree health care costs will solve the postal services financial problems. the post office lost $5 billion last year. >>> new information now on why jerry sandusky's adopted son didn't testify against him in his sex abuse trial. cnn contributor sara ganim reports that matt sandusky talked about alleged sexual abuse at the hands of his father in a 25-minute audiotape to police. but he said he feared perjury charges because last year, he told a grand jury nothing inappropriate ever happened. meantime, the jury is talking. two jurors told salmoneloledad they witnessed. one said jerry sandusky couldn't hide his expressions in court. >> i didn't see anything in the victims toy lead me to think they were not credible. but i also took a look at sandusky while he was watching them testify. and it seemed to me he was kind of reminiscing of the victims. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, he would kind of lean in towards them an

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the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think.em ? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts. house bill 2309 is not the answer. >>> three police officers dead from a shootout at an airport. mary snow's monitoring that and some of the other top stories in "the situation room" right now. mary, what do you have? >> hi there, joe. well, it happened in mexico city at the country's busiest airport. mexican officials say two police officers who were under investigation for their connection to a drug trafficking ring opened fire on fellow officers to avoid being arrested. two of the officers died at the scene. over 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence throughout mexico since 2006. >>> you can say good-bye to london's famous big ben, at least to that name. a parliament official says the landmark will be renamed elizabeth tower. this just weeks after the queen's diamond jubilee cel

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