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White house is -- it doesnt get much better than that. >> reporter: jeff is one of hundreds who have come through this program and is now thriving. there are so many different stories to be told here, and a lot of workers say this is the one place where they feel understood. >> theres a lot of people who would like some training but we really look at ex-offenders, men and women who are suffering from substance abuse recovery. we found the ones we screen and get to the beginning stage of the prog...

Know that youre part of an organization that does so many good things for the community and to be recognized by the white house is -- it doesnt get much better than that. >> reporter: jeff is one of hundreds who have come through this program is now thriving. there are so many different stories to be told here, and a lot of workers say this is the one place where they feel understood. >> theres a lot of people who would like some training, but we really look at ex-offenders, men and women in sub...

Poverty. when you look at the ryan budget and what the republicans are doing in terms of their cuts, theyre cutting the most vulnerable and neediest. they want to make medicare into a voucher program. they want to require an eligibility for food stamps that you enroll in a job training program. yet they want to cut job training programs by $4 billion. i was on food stamps, so i know what thats about. people dont want to be. they have to be just to survive and get over the hump. so what were seei...

I just said 98. earlier i was saying 96. why? because there were 98 of them. now there are only 96 left. two have died since medicaid cuts went into effect in october. at least one of those deaths is believed to be the direct result of governor brewers budget decisions. an unidentified man whoç needea liver transplant died on december 28. a spokesperson said his death was, quote, most like live the result of not receiving a transplant. quote, its impossible to say with 100% certainty whether t...

Taxes on law abiding citizens when there is so much waste and fraud we can find. >> greta: this is a double scam. the irs gets scammed out of this money. scam number two the congress knows about it as early as 2005, passes legislation in 2008. when everyone says we passed legislation -- it gets worse we get scammed twice. >> we are spending millions to get scammed twice. im cynical about federal functions that is why it is important to devolve things out of washington. we have to do the irs also...

Taxes on law abiding citizens when there is so much waste and fraud we can find. >> greta: this is a double scam. the irs gets scammed out of this money. scam number two the congress knows about it as early as 2005, passes legislation in 2008. when everyone says we passed legislation -- it gets worse we get scammed twice. >> we are spending millions to get scammed twice. im cynical about federal functions that is why it is important to devolve things out of washington. we have to do the irs also...

The representative from oklahoma says look were spending way too much on federal job training program. should the federal government be training people? hes taking a look at $18 billion and realized half of that was pretty much wasted and ultimately, it comes to placing people in jobs they werent effective at it. we got a list of some of the programs that just absolutely wasted our money. >> go to new jersey where $4 million was spent to weatherize buildings but the only problem, i believe, in t...

That is fine but it is on our dime. >>guest: well, the bigger point is we have a lot of jobs table in our economy right now but we dont have job training programs training people for the jobs. and when the gao looks at our job training program they say there are noment tricks to measure how effective they are, what if they are only 50 percent effective so $9 billion is blown down the bowl and we are near bankruptcy as a country and we cannot afford to spend $9 billion down the hole so the gao di...

That many. >> reporter: it was put on because of the own the podium pressure. it was instituted before the games began. they may not have owned the entire podium but owned the top of it. >> it was apolo ohno that said you may own the podium but we just want to borrow it for a little bit. he did borrow it quite a bit, didnt he? at least eight times. thanks so much, mark mckay. we appreciate that. empowering women worldwide. lets talk about that coming up. grammy award winning singer gets ready ...

Intention. her exiting the roadway onto the sidewalk, and then obviously plowing through the pedestrians on the sidewalk. >> reporter: holloway swerved onto the sidewalk not once, but twice, gaining speed for a quarter of a mile, injuring more than 30, and leaving one dead, a 32-year-old mother of three, from arizona. >> we havent determined to exact fact what the motive was. we believe that she -- she had some dissociation with the father of her child. we dont know the exact percipient event th...