to destroy jobs, the sound dollar and ultimately their children's and our country's future. unfortunately, the president's budget features too much of both. it would result in record high deficits while pushing the federal tax burden to 20% never established in our nation's history and let me be clear mr. secretary americans are not taxed too little. we have more borrowing, taxing and spending is certainly not the answer to what ails our country. in 2009, we were promised that spending $1 trillion on a stimulus plan would be at 7%. it's at 9% for 21 months stimulus advocates also promised 137 million jobs by now. we are woefully short of that mark as well. today, almost 14 million americans are looking for work that can't find it and a record number have given up choosing instead to sit on the sidelines of our economy. a full 6.2 million are long-term unemployed and the average duration of unemployment is a record 37 weeks. that's almost double the level -- record level before this recession. vice president biden recently said that the unemployed should just hang in there and

from asia though in return shell wants to expand a little five natural gas plant at the twenty two billion dollar sounding to project to win markets in china and india however alexander knows that of for metropol doubts the plans will come to anything well at least for the moment. on one hand there are good very good perspectives for. point of view of gas for expansion. but at the same time current situation in the global energy market is not so favorable for a you know making new energy plans and current trend that the major global energy producers are postponing or canceling its new capacities production get us to. projects saw basically i don't think the timing for expansion of ireland. is the best time right now to go to the markets now to be yes of course the only trading markets they're showing fresh two and a half year high is up half a percent on the dow mcdonald's is up around three percent or better than expected january sales but the nasdaq and s. and p. gains are limited as investors are assessing the impact of the interest rate hike in china which could slow down the global economy. european

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the it sound includes air fare, hotels, free it money for it food. and as well gas. the lows was said to thousand dollars. here is a closer look. $30,000 spent by it one senator. 19,000 by another. 18,000, to 18,600. kron4 news contacted senators for comments. most of them said that it was necessary for them to do their jobs but they're looking into ways to cut expenses. kron4 news has learned that certain senators are looking into different ways to cut costs. >>pam: to look at the full list of the expenses to is determined said www.kron4.com. were you expecting long lines at present stores? coming up next we'll show you why there were no long lines despite really great sales for their company. >> you can now find the verzion site: shelves. at&t. gabe slate tells us why. >>gabe: in the bay area and a handful of people lined up. but there are a couple of reasons for that. existing customers got to order them on line on february 3rd of the sales that they broke records prove verzion said that on the day they sold more funds than they have ever before in a what date. in their history. a lot of people ordere

sound. on let's get some more details on this now we're joined live from washington d.c. by a political analyst. so obama wants the defense budget trimmed by seventy eight billion dollars over the course of five years that's only two point five percent over those years doesn't really sound much of a cut to me. yes that how does the way to four point five percent and when that's compared to cuts to state and foreign aid at around twenty percent and the current continuing resolution that's being talked about in congress it's it's really pales in comparison to those major cuts that are being made everywhere else. the defense secretary robert gates the defense i was just going to say he's asking for nearly. six hundred five hundred fifty three billion dollars for the military that's hoff of the entire world's combined defense budget surely in a time of recession this called me the will of the people. it's a very very large amount and it's still an increased defense secretary gates is talking about major cuts the seventy eight billion dollars in cuts seems like a very large number but in fact much of it actually comes from changes in economic assumptions such as just changi

the c.r. that wants to rescind stimulus dollars, sounds like a bad thing, but those dollars are in the pipeline for construction projects where men and women of america are working and feeding their families. does that make sense? dollars that they pay taxes back to this country. i don't understand a plan that takes from the working man and woman in this country. i don't understand a plan, for example, that takes $2.5 billion away from high speed rail which all over america there have been a sense of inspiration about moving us to more efficient transportation, but the number of jobs to be created cannot be counted. that's an investment in this country. or do you want to undermine the air traffic control system? and begin to trouble america's airways? i sit on the homeland security committee, chair the transportation and security committee, i am very hesitant to make a cut to the f.a.a. so what disturbs me is, why can we jump or why did we jump or how did we jump from 48 hours from $60 million to $74 million of which they said they were cutting, this is a continued resolution which means it all

the contamination could cost chevron billions of dollars. we're at the company's headquarters live. >> you just touched on some of it. disease, toxic slush, it all soundsike a hollywood script, but it's just some of the facts a judge had to consider before leveling a nearly $10 billion judgment against she have -- against chevron. we sat town with the -- sat down with the spokesperson for the corporation tonight. there's very little worry about paying this judgment. >> this judgment is completely i will legitimate. >> they said it expected today's verdict. so they have no plans to pay. >> it is uneven forceable and we're going to appeal it. >> reporter: they say it has fraud. >> it was handed out in the court that chevron asked it to be. they didn't want it to be held in the united states. >> reporter: he says chevron absorbed the disastrous the liabilities of texaco. texaco was accused of deliberately dumping toxic waste water from drilling ultimately contaminating an area of equador the size of rhode island. the people sued claiming cancers, deaths over the past 45 years. >> chevron has been declared the largest corporate criminal on earth. >> report

commission also found that the use of hired hands has become a default option looked at by many federal officials as a resource of labor billions of dollars that doesn't sound free to me so why can't congress get a handle on it why do the same companies who are guilty of corruption and fraud keep getting pushy contracts without any accountability were discussed with me in starting tam assistant professor at american university and author of terrorism and national security reform how can missions can drive change during crises thanks so much for being here so much for having me let's start with the money and of this because there's one statement that the commission made in their report where they just say that war in itself entails waste and you know sure you can listen to that but then you know considering that we fight we see the pentagon and department of defense and the state department fight tooth and nail for every single dollar and like i was saying make this a matter of national security and tell us that our lives are at stake shouldn't we be a little bit angry when we hear that billions of dollars are being wasted we certainly should be on that comm

the u.s. dollar which is based on nothing has no intrinsic value into both the virtual currency and the nonexistent forest sounds kind of like ponzi when you. get. yes it does doesn't it the. well according to my experts on twitter they say it's either quantity or quality. you know it reminds me of those little noodles i used to get on west ninety seven street in new york with the combo of the little peanut sauce and a side order of wedges of lime which were very nice apparently this isn't the only fake company that carlyle group is involved in china the gossip is that they're also invested in china agra tech which is listed on the nasdaq and has business concerns according to their data in china but analysts cannot find any convincing evidence that the bulk of the operations that allegedly exist in china actually exist no no once again they're buying into the rumor in this case there is no fact it's all rumor that's also the problem with these kleptocracy is that we have they start to believe that their connections actually have real value so this is why the carlyle group guys got involved with the children of

top the pre-crisis wreckage has natural gas prices increased sound the demand for the fuel recovers throughout europe the company said the total exports revenue could exceed seventy two billion dollars this year which is two and a hope billion more than into two thousand and eight fresh gas giant plans to boost its exports to europe this here expecting european gas prices to rise fifteen percent gas from also said it has a religious shipping ahead of schedule. and that wraps up the business bulletin to get more stories from our website archie dot com slash business. this is true. he still keeps it secrets but now it's time to reveal that the soviet files nikita krushchev life right on are too. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. here with r.t. life are the headlines now in lithuania a politician is facing up to two years in jail for denying the official state line i'll get to the pilot his claims that local authorities were responsible for the deaths of fourteen protesters in vilnius twenty years ago and not soviet troops. body is found evidence the western media is finding it hard to abandon bests

the servers, do not argue about it. it is not worth getting into a discussion. in million dollars sounds high to me. i would like to get specifics but i cannot get to it. they need to protect their system, so let them spend whatever they need. it is called a risk-management. we do not want to find ourselves with our systems down. the flexibility with employees we talked about earlier, it is a better usage of personnel, but there are some qualified engineers and stop that will not be able to be shifted around. thank you. commissioner murphy: any further speakers on this? seeing none. >> item five. update and discussion regarding the impact of ada requirements on small businesses and dbi's role.9 commissioner walker: do we need to approve this budget? ok. possible action to approve the proposed budget. >> we could have action where you ask for more information to be brought back. we have heard the budget twice and we will vote on this in february. we need five votes to approve. commissioner murphy: can i hear from counsel on that? >> city attorney's office. what ian said is correct. you need two heari

the only sport going away. e. >> federal government is ready to give san jose millions of dollars to rehire laid off firefighter but as crazy a it sounds, the city may say thanks but no thanks. we explain why. >>reporter: for the first time san jose recently hired fire chief admit the lay off of 49 firefighters last year is impacting response times in the city. san jose has gone from an ample of 2 03 firefighters on duty to 179. >> there is times when we can't get there quick enough. and our capacity is not anywhere near what it was before. so we really need to put more firefighter back on the street. >>reporter: chief mcdonald welcome announcement today that the federal government is giving san jose millions to rehire firefighters under a program called safer which stands for staffing for adequate fire and emergency response. fema approved 58 safer grant nationwide. there is 9 in california and san jose get by far the lion share of the golden state money. nearly 15 million dollars. the mayor says the problem with the grant is that there are strings attached. if the the city accepts the funds it new promise not to lay off any firefight

in the middle east seem to be easing but it sounds so high rolls royces high after the engines giant unveiled on long term service is still with airline emirates worth more than two billion dollarsnd resource stocks are also rallying in london b.h.p. billiton and xstrata a both up about one of the hot. and in russia they are ts in the my so it's. i have slipped into red retreating from the early mornings games up to last week's roller coaster ride all the blue chips the low the salad with world companies leading to trouble myself. and the world's largest al-ameen producer has reported a three percent increase in its total of medium output in twenty ten year on here who sells first deputy c.e.o. says twenty attempt showed a recovery of global of many of consumption to pre-crisis levels but china leading the way within the five years china will switch to the new and improved and i think you will see the signs already in this year in two thousand and eleven may be may be at the end of the year but in two thousand and twelve i think differently imports from china to the china market from the world that's why for us this market there's a hole in the china but it was very important we

robert gates warned cuts any deeper than the seventy eight billion dollars proposed by president obama would have quote tragic consequences christine for sound looks at who is really standing to benefit. times are tough for many on main street but most in government agree before assisting people like this it's more important to assess people like this. perhaps this is one reason the us military budget is more than fifty percent of the entire world and once again the top brass came to washington to defend defense it is my judgment that the department of defense needs an appropriation of at least five hundred forty billion dollars for fiscal year two thousand and eleven for the u.s. military to properly carry out its mission maintain readiness and prepare for the future defense secretary robert gates also discussed cuts he's made to the military budget on programs no longer needed what you may not know is that most of the seventy eight billion dollars he's cut would take place in two thousand and fourteen and twenty fifteen when there will be a new secretary of defense and possibly a new president still and this was his announcement last month

year's election shows the american people were increasingly concerned about the power of deficits to destroy jobs sound dollar and ultimately their children and our country's future. unfortunately, the president's budget features too much of both. it could result in record high deficits while pushing the federal tax burden to over 20% of the economy, a level never sustain the nation's history. let me be clear mr. sick to become americans are not taxed too little. what america has under this administration is too little job creation. more alarming, taxing and spending is not the is the answer to what ails the economy. in 2009 we were promised spending $1 trillion on a stimulus plan would drive unemployment under 7% by now. instead, unemployment has remained at or above 9% for a record 21 months. stimulus advocates also promised 147 million jobs by now. we are woefully short of that market as well. today, almost 14 million americans are looking for work but can't find it and a record number have given up choosing instead to sit on the sidelines of our economy. a full 6.2 million long-term unemployed and the ave

the federal government is ready to give san jose millions of dollars to rehire laid off firefighters. but as crazy as this sounds the city may say thanks but no thanks. abc 7 is live in a closed fire station in san jose to explain why. >> station 33 here was shut down after budget cuts last year as well as reductions elsewhere. the $15 million grant could help restore some of the services but it come was a no layoff clause. something that the city might not be able to live with. for the first time, san jose's recently hired chief admits the layoffs of 49 firefighters is impacting response times in the city. san jose from 203 firefighters on duty to 179. >> there is times we knlt get there quick enough z our capacity is not near what it was before. so we need to put more firefighters on the streets. >> the chief welcomes an announcement the federal government is giving san jose millions to rehire firefighters under a program called safer standing for safing for adequate fire and emergency response. fema approved 58 safer grants nationwide, there is nine in california. and san jose gets by far the lion's share of

look at it saying that he's going to pay twenty five hundred dollars to the charity of the imposters choice if they reveal themselves may all sound like silly fun and games but what does our obsession with fake twitter accounts really say about us well joining me to discuss it is christopher chambers author of the blog now turn his revenge and georgetown university professor chris think think of what you are being here do you follow any of these fake twitter accounts are going to because it gets a little scary sometimes you can't tell them apart and i want to. that's why you know we have one of really good one from the fake rahm emanuel account which i just find so funny you know the next mother f. ing but i better have a f. ing swimming pool filled with ways that is it obvious that it's a joke but it's how larry it's obvious but i mean maybe it might have been from somebody who knows him somebody who was associated with chicago or with the white house and that's part of the danger i mean some of these have a little patina of truth especially if somebody is close to them somebody who might have an ax to grind well you know that's

the sidewalk. it also costs taxpayers millions of dollars to clean up. >>> well, all this week commuters are getting a chance to sound off on those proposed big cuts at cal train. last night angry train riders attended a public hearing at san jose. they responded to the plan to shut down 16 stations and raise fares. it's part of the plan to wipe out a record budget deficit. cal train currently depends on funding from sam tran, bta and muni. >> those three partner agencies are short of money. they can't make the same kind of contribution to cal train's budget. by the time you're all said and done, that's about a $30 million deficit. >> it is shocking that the budget cuts are so extensive. fees just went up this year. so i'm confused as to where the gap is. >> there will be another public hearing in san francisco tomorrow night. then two others in san carlos and gill roy. that's on thursday night. >>> tonight the dublin city council could make it more difficult for people to have a cigarette. the council will consider whether to extend a smoking ban in larger apartment complexes by 2013. the current law requires that c

on a sound, fiscal footing, honestly balance the budget and position california to regain it's historic momentum. >> reporter: the governor's budget calls for cuts of 12 and a half billion dollars though some republicans say those cuts aren't real, not the ones citied. the governor also wants tax extenses to be passed by voters. to get them put into place the issue would have to go before voters on the june ballot. that would require two thirds of the legislature and that would require republican support. it's not clear if that support is there to put the taxes on the ballot. for a republican response and to ask you a question about if those taxes may be on the -- we have a ten senator,. >> its part of the positive spirit the governor is bringing here. ly commend him on making the budget job one. we need to -- what will make the economy rebound, not raising taxes but letting the economy strengthen by jobs coming back to california. >> the plan is to get -- for the least in the governor's eyes to get the issue before voters to extend the tax that have expired or set to expire this year. how likely do you think it is that he could get the republican support required to put the ta

sounds like good news for california farmers. west coast farmers sell a billion dollars worth of broccoli. the federal government is paying for the research to develop a new strain of broccoli that will grow along the atlantic sea board. they say east coast broccoli would be better because it wouldn't take as much time or money to ship it to markets between florida and maine. >>> an elusive wolverine has been much of a study. they have been tracking this wolverine for three years now. now his dna indicates he may have traveled all the way from idaho. some people are now pushing for biologists to find him a mate. >> that would be interesting. >>> time now 5:46. sal has found anything that is happening in your commute this morning. even on the presidents day holiday. >> there are things going on. it's nice and quiet. if you do have to go to work, the very least you don't have to do is drive in heavy traffic. usually by now we have slow traffic but we don't on highway four. we hope it will stay this way. also this morning commute is looking good. i guess we should call it a commute. some people d

as we move forward to rebuild america we must do so in the most fiscally sound and responsible way, leveraging federal dollars, partnering it with every level of government and with new public-private partnerships. private sector is essential under leadership is highly recognized and strengthening our efforts. it is such as build america bonds will accelerate construction of important projects that help build and move goods throughout the economy. as we continue to work to strengthen our nation's economy we will maintain a major focus on the deficit and we will not -- and we will cut waste, fraud, and abuse assuring that these investments go to the projects with the highest and best use. i begin according president obama in his state of union, not like in that way as well. last week he said we know what it takes to compete with the jobs and industry of our times. we need to out innovate, out educate and out build the rest of the world. we come together today in that spirit leaving -- leading the way and putting america back to work now. i now yield to chairman miller. >> thank you very much, madam leader. for

sound is different. their contribution to be is the military logistic. they subcontract just to people from any stripe to private companies. subsequent to. the media through just the easy business of a couple billion dollars. to africa companies who are comprised by warlords and sometimes even by the thought about. to go to the security of. their goals from kabul to anywhere in afghanistan in exchange of huge amount of money and the the money that these taken from the military nato military logistic is more i calculated the takes from drug trafficking. and you can catch the full interview in just over an hour's time right here on c ok let's get to some other international stories making headlines around the world this hour now the leader of north korea's communist regime kim jong il seventy years old crowds are starting to gather in the capital pyongyang to celebrate his birthday a week of festivities. polluting exhibitions ice skating and music shows it's widely believed leaders healthy after a stroke in two thousand and eight and the son kim jong un is being groomed as his replacement. japan has a temporarily suspended its annual antarctic whale hunt before. it's quota after repeated disruptions the sea

sound she said the ruling didn't catch him by surprise and he will appeal. to russia launches a mission to upgrade its army over the next ten years planning to spend six hundred and fifty billion dollars on the project. and this time a could live well and his guests will debate whether the west will benefit from the middle east revolts to stay with us. wealthy british scientists. sometimes. markets the scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name to cause a report on our team. can. start. slow and welcome to crossfire concrete all about a part of the globe or democratic rhetoric is beginning to match deeds the north african revolutions are in full swing is this the end of western client ism a needle colonial rule in the early world can the west leave with others and bracing democracy. can. start. to discuss new directions for the middle east i'm joined by harold wrote in washington he's an expert on islam and the middle east also in washington we have here one delta and he is rector of the international transcend peace university and author of fall of the us empire and then what and another member

dollars in spending. there's another magic asterisk called gdp growth where the administration's essman of gdp over the next 10 years, it's basically 4% higher than cbo. that doesn't sound like much but it is about a trillion dollars in extra revenue. so there's an issue about whether there really solving the medium-term issue, situation or not. my sense is no, they're not. there's no issue about the longer-term issue. they are not solving anything in the longer-term pics i think they put forth no big initiatives on the long-term side. the question is what you make of all this? as rob said we're going to proceed in steps. i doubt system are going to solve everything at once. so i think what's clear is that to some extent the budget is a missed opportunity. we had a missed opportunity last year. reading this opportunity to you before. we will have lots more missed opportunities. it is depressing. you need to have a sense of humor to be married to actress. i think you need to have a sense of humor debate budget analyst in washington. at least have to be strongly resisted to depressive tendencies. exactly. so this was a particularly big missed opportunity though, the panth

stimulus package, which most members of this side of the aisle strenuously opposed for very sound reasons. that stimulus spent approximately a trillion dollarst it would keep unemployment rates below 8%, yet nearly two years later, we are still at a point where unemployment rates, which had risen to the -- to the area of 10%, are now still a at 9% and i am reminded this is nearly double the average annual rate of the last administration. it would be one thing to me, madam president, if there was clear evidence that differing t.a.a. programs were effective, meeting these intended goals. but research suggests that the efficacy of the t.a.a. training, funding is not as convincing. and at the insistence of senator coburn and senator enzi, the government accountability office found that in fiscal year 2009, nine federal agencies spent approximately $18 billion to administer 47 separate employment and job-training programs, including t.a.a. despite large federal spending, g.a.o. could not conclude whether or not the programs have had any meaningful benefit. the g.a.o. report states -- quote -- "little is known about the effectiveness of the employ

the union is forcing him to rolled out. >> gary: supposedly, it sounds crazy, it's supposed to be a free enterprise system. the union is so strong in baseball encourage better players to milk every dollare baseball and all sports best that i think, the best players give them whatever they want because they draw fans. they sell the game. but because the best player makes 10 does not mean the guy in the middle should make five. >> darya: yes. >> gary: that's where i think most pro sports ground. i know there's a tendency to give everyone an equal pay scale. but the best guy you get because he draws people. but the guys were replaceable. i'm sorry that's how it should be. >> darya: barry bonds, the secret recording is going to be allowed. we're getting really close to this trial. i was amazed that his old friend made this recording i guess he needed to show it to his dad. >> gary: , and thos who knows we made it. hopkins would say give us the questions you want, they were really tight. he was the best man at his wedding. then they had a major falling out. that's the thing, treat people halfway decent. and you may catch a break. when he was on top, heat to people rough walls some people. t

their income they have to spend on health care and the medical loss ratio is a very strange name but a very sound principle, 85% or 80% of all premium dollars has to be spentn health on health care and the health care can't just the health care but it has to be better health previous care than it was in the previous two or three years. obviously we are not into that system entirely yet. unt won't be entirely until 2014. is it possible for me to explain that and very disturbed that this bill that we are notto wanting r to repeal insures 32 million people that don't have health insurance and i am saying to myself, madamident, 32illion president, 32 million there's a lot more than ther e,that of insured ifthat that is the only thing we can afford to do because we didn't ts -- have enough money so let's say it's 45 million looking down into the future and then let's decide there are a lot more than many that, millions more who are undensured underinsured. with so you may be dealing with and 50 million people and all of a prct suddens their prospects foretting h getting health insurance sy disappears.ar they simply disappear because the week rep

dollars to get into. if you can get it for $1500 a month may not be such a bad deal for some people. >> doesn't sound like a bad deal. but thet building are probably trying to recover an awful big loss. >> reporter: they can always recoup later. nothing is stopping them from turning it back into condos if the real estate market heats back up. >> len ramirez in san jose, thank you. >>> 0% financing sounds good when you are buying. a type of financing though that experts call a trap. >> reporter: no question justin miller has a big comfortable bed. >> we love the bed. >> reporter: it is how he financed the matress from this matress discounter that is keeping him up at night. >> we can obviously either pay up front or they had a special deal. >> reporter: the deal, a city bank credit plan offering 12 months interest free on the $5600 purchase. >> no interest for a year is a great deal. so i don't remember how hard they pushed it. they mentioned it. it sounded good. >> reporter: or at least it did. after he made what he thought was his 12th and final payment, along came this bill from city bank for $1300. a year's worth of inter

the community for similar work. sounds fair. the davis-bacon act prevents the federal government, a large, influential construction owner from using precious tax dollars to undercut local wage standards for its investments in construction work. those against davis-bacon say it drives up costs, not so. why don't we deal with facts for a change? davis-bacon has no effect on colt cost of construction. study after study reveals productivity makes up for any additional labor costs, essentially eliminating any cost savings if the law was repealed. in other words, projects using highly skilled workers often cost less than those using low wage, low-skilled workers. opponents claim the government can save billions by eliminating davis-bacon protections ignore productivity, safety, and the economic benefits which contribute to the real cost-effectiveness of davis-bacon. in addition, the davis-bacon minimum wage must reflect the rate of contribution to retirement, health insurance, apprenticeship training, and disability insurance. by including fringe benefits and wage calculations, the davis-bacon delivers health care and pensions for workers on these projects.

oversight over their health care dollars because it's so much of their income they have to spend on health care. and the medical loss ratio -- very strange name but a very sound principle -- 85% or 80% of all premium dollars has to be spent on health care. it can't just be health care, but it has to be better health care than it was in the previous year or the previous two or three years. obviously we're not into that system entirely yet, won't be entirely until 2014. is it possible for me to explain that i'm very disturbed that this bill that we're now wanting to repeal ensures 32 million people -- insures 32 million people that don't have health insurance? then i'm saying to myself, madam president, 32 million there,'s a lot more than that that are unshourd in this -- uninsured in this country. that's all we can afford to do. let's say it's really 45 million, looking into the future. let's decide there are many millions more than that who are underinsured. you may be dealing with 50 million people. and all of a sudden their prospects for getting health insurance disappear. they just simply disappear because we repeal the bill. now truth in telling, the 32 m

the million dollar money mark right there. >> okay. just want to tell folks, you are hearing sounds.hear a bird. is that normal? >> that's katie's stomach. >> it is and it isn't. >> i like the size of this is interesting. does apple have any plans to make a smaller version? >> that's a great question. everybody's like listen on this announcement wednesday are we going to see a smaller ipad? steve jobs in the past has said that a ten-inch screen is a minimum for creating a tablet. there's already talk about an ipad 3 and we haven't seen the 2. i think in the future they'll be flexible in bringing it down a seven inch. not this time around. >> thanks a lot. >> thanks. >> coming back. ,,,,,,,, >>> new york city on a saturday morning. that building right there, by the way, that is the general motors building. >> is that where we are? >> that's exactly where we are. 767 fifth avenue. now you know. >> i'm in the know. thank you russ miffle for setting me straight. >> welcome back to "the early show," i'm russ mitchell. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. get ready to walk on the wild side. ron mcgill f

dollars and use them in the wisest possible fashion. so everything from procurement reform that we have undertaken, acquisition management, which sounds really goverent-ise, but i'll tell you, it's those kind of things that help find projects before they get too far along that are not really going to work or be value added to the process. and then the third thing -- and we've literally found hundreds ofillions of dollars that we have built into our budgets now of cost avoidances using some of those plain old management techniques. lastly, i think that our ability and just the -- and i've seen it just over the last two years, the increasing integration and leveraging of the data resources that nctc has with its pursuit teams, with our incredible data resources that we collect on the customs and the tsa side and the ability to leverage those resources together is a homeland security kind of architecture that we just plain didn't have before and allows us to make maximum use of the dollars that we do get. but i'll ask the director if he has anything to -- >> congressman, i have three quick points. but i'll open with the fact that the yankees ha

[applause] the best way to get people to act more like us if we are doing a good job is for us to have a sound economy, a sound dollart people decently, have a foreign policy that makes common sense, treat people like we want to be treated and maybe they would want to emulate us as a free and does work and we ought to try it. but you cannot force it on other people. [applause] there is one general rule about what we should expect from government. the first amendment is a great amendment. freedom of expression is protected. the government shall write no laws in reference to our freedom of expression. it does not say that we can only have the expression of the noncontroversial ideas. it is freedom of expression. [applause] most people are pretty good on the first amendment, but where they slip up is they say government should write no loss about the freedom of activity. the liberals want to talk about how to regulate your economic activity and how you spend your money. others want to legislate your personal life style. government should not be regulating us. we should adapt one other principal for that to work. we shou

sounds? >> when you start tagging the word felony on top of the charges, they are serious. in california, the way they delineate between lower types of petty theft charges and felony theft charges by the dollarmore than $950, that's the cutoff point. if it's above $950, is it indeed a felony and the value of this is about $2,500, so by the numbers, it puts it in the felony category. once you start talking about felonies, then you are talking about a wide range of sentences, but it could be as much -- maximum, could be three years in prison. so serious stuff going on. >> does some of her past issues, does that come into effect? >> you know, it always enters. i go back to the days when i was a prosecutor. if a file comes across your desk where nobody is ever in trouble before, and they say this is just a misunderstanding, are you much more susceptible to say, okay, fine, we'll work something out. but if they have a whole raft of things and they are showing up all the time, sometimes prosecutors say no-no. >> the jewelry store has pictures, videos. lindsay lohan's team refuses all the charges. what is her defense here? >> there might be a couple of them. legitimately, maybe somebody, not the ma

sounds well-intentioned such as the prevention and public health fund that will spend $14 billion over the health care law on anti obesity and tobacco control. the government will be using tax dollars to modify individual behavior. we have seen this work so well in the office of national drug control policy with anti-drug ads. and whether it the grantees are using this to lobby for more regulation and taxes which don't usually solve that problem. looking at oversight. oversight is not used as a political weapon. we understand the most important function of this committee. taxpayers deserve to know if you send your mission statement how money is being spent. the program is not being effective. taxpayers want to know why. to reform or terminate expenditure of their money. since it is being expanded they want to know why it is being affected. the ten most effective and least effective programs. the answer is the programs on which congress spent the most money and in which they spend the least money. that is never the right answer. we hope every member is more educated and spend more time determining which programs are more effective. thank you for allowing me to testify today. >> i am

dollars and use them in the wisest possible fashion. so everything from procurement reform that we have undertaken, acquisition management, which sounds really government-ise, but i'll tell you, it's those kind of things that help find projects before they get too far along that are not really going to work or be value added to the process. and then the third thing -- and we've literally found hundreds of millions of dollars that we have built into our budgets now of cost avoidances using some of those plain old management techniques. lastly, i think that our ability and just the -- and i've seen it just over the last two years, the increasing integration and leveraging of the data resources that nctc has with its pursuit teams, with our incredible data resources that we collect on the customs and the tsa side and the ability to leverage those resources together is a homeland security kind of architecture that we just plain didn't have before and allows us to make maximum use of the dollars that we do get. but i'll ask the director if he has anything to -- >> congressman, i have three quick points. but i'll open with the fact that the yankee

dollars and use them in the wisest possible fashion. so everything from procurement reform that we have undertaken, acquisition management, which sounds really government-ise, but i'll tell you, it's those kind of things that help find projects before they get too far along that are not really going to work or be value added to the process. and then the third thing -- and we've literally found hundreds of millions of dollars that we have built into our budgets now of cost avoidances using some of those plain old management techniques. lastly, i think that our ability and just the -- and i've seen it just over the last two years, the increasing integration and leveraging of the data resources that nctc has with its pursuit teams, with our incredible data resources that we collect on the customs and the tsa side and the ability to leverage those resources together is a homeland security kind of architecture that we just plain didn't have before and allows us to make maximum use of the dollars that we do get. but i'll ask the director if he has anything to -- >> congressman, i have three quick points. but i'll open with the fact that the yankee

sounded really good, but it gave rise to the question, "aren't you talking about things that liberals propose for what should be done in rural america ?" we're talking about spending billions of dollars to create what some conservatives might derive as a state by waning them off of poppy. it is iornic. host: looking at images from the peace -- piece you elaborated on. it shows melon growers. we talked about the idea of growing other crops. good morning, north carolina. i don't think we have our caller. caller: hello/ hello? i'm from kentukcy. -- kentucky. i was going to agree with the caller that said marines were guarding the opium fields. i would have to disagree with mr. draper. eight months ago, i watched an hour-long special by geraldo rivera who was interviewing the marines in one of these provinces. i cannot remember which one wou. he was interviewing a commanding officer. i have been saved on my youtube account where he did say that they were guarding the opium fields in that province and they were stopping farmers from growing anything else. guest: let me see if we can find an area of agreement. if you're talking about careens, that would be helmand province or kandahar prov