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>> im pregnant. >> youreç pregnant? >> she was kidding. >> just to reiterate. >> although ive never seen a guest more comfortable on the couch than debby. she didnt want to leave. >> she is comfortable on the couch and she is having a child and shes going to be in that big reunion show with you. >> thats right, coming up in may. >> that was the week that was. lets finish the week with a bang. they spentç nearly $250 million in health care exchange but they have nothing to show for it. where ...

What the va wants is they want their hospitals to go ahead and see the veterans as kwibquickly possible. so because they had this real list and they had the paper list they shredded, they didnt put the names on the real list until two weeks before they could see somebody. so veterans were still waiting months and months and months to see the doctors, but when you look at it from the washington, d.c. headquarters, its like, look at that. phoenix, arizona is doing really good. theyre seeing people...

Is a matter it matters most. >> the airline shouldnt pat themselves on their back when they do that. >> this is an opportunity to do our best and show our values. and this is a great opportunity for the obama administration to really show leadership, efficiency, and the urgency for peoples lives on the line. >> nobody planned for an increase in veterans coming out of two wars. >> the vet van is 71 years old. >> president obama did promise in 2009 and 2010 that he was going to take care of this p...

Or save you money well give you $150. comcast business built for business. tonight, a "ac360" exclusive, the most disturbing example yet of an ongoing investigation of u.s. vets dying while they wait for care at the v.a. hospitals. and in this investigation now we uncovered just how far one v.a. hospital went to hide the outrageously wait times. 40 vets died while waiting for care at this hospital. that would be shocking enough. keeping them honest. a doctor who left the hospital said that man...

Perhaps suffer to mitigate the effects of climate change? >> well, first of all, i think if you look at our, say, macro economy, theres a tremendous amount that we can do and we are advancing it without what i would call tremendous pain. for example, the issues that you mentioned are part of a larger energy efficiency agenda that is absolutely critical to addressing climate change. but ultimately it saves money for the consumer and it minimizes emissions. efficiency in fact is probably the point...

Obviously, you have put an -- increase the tax burden on everybody. and then people say, you know what, i think im going to leave the state. or leave the country. so then you have to -- they come to the politicians and say, you know what, i need a break. but not everybody can hire a lobbyist. >> no, they cant. theres also an issue here, beyond fairness. its just basic efficiency and economic growth, where new york, for example, paying $20 million to get -- to move "the tonight show" from l.a. to...

Outfitted with what they call adsb out which is the -- avionics equipment that gathers the data and transmits it to the satellite. so theyre giving the air carrier, the owners of the aircraft, time to retrofit their fleets. its an expensive process. but youre right. 2020 seems an awful long time to be able to track aircraft over open ocean. ads sbch dchl adsb is not designed specifically for that but to increase efficiency of the air traffic control system. we can do better, quicker, theres tech...

Accounting office, 13 years behind schedule and $5 billion over budget. so congress is now at a standstill with the faa saying, well, you fix this and we will give you more money and the faa says we cant fix it until we get more money. they are at the stand till still now. it is probably the biggest vancement in aviation history as far as safety and efficiency, airlines spend $15 balance year more in fuel now than they will have to spend during the implementation of next jen. >> mary, rob, david...

And whether the olympics come or not, you will be so much healthier, so much stronger, so much more innovative as an individual and as a country. >> what about the piece of that which is the subsidies for green energy? there are a lot of people who believe that the obama administration has done way too much on this front, anyway, that weve been providing all these subsidies, that there has already been kind of a huge green revolution. >> the republicans fell in love with the case of solyndra, wh...

I were hoping that vladimir putin turned off the gas to europe? because thats my secret hope, because i believe if putin turns off the oil and gas to europe right now, it would be the equivalent of the 1973 arab oil embargo, which is what launched the solar wind and efficiency industry. we only got the first auto mileage standards after that. i think we are poised to take off. i hope you bought solar stocks last year, because if you did, theyre all exploding. and i dont have to tell you about te...