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About five minutes and then well go to senator white house just so we can take a little break. committee is recessed for five minutes. >> all right. theyre taking a break in this hearing. the u.s. on health, labor and pensions. theyve been questioning tom price, who has been nominated to become the next secretary of health and human services. the democrats, jake, they really came forward with some serious important tough questions about his business deals, if you will, purchasing some stocks tha...

Into whether or not moneys came in and went to -- through a traditional system of pensions. their russian consulates pay pensions to thousands of russian americans in this country. we believe that one part of the investigation is focusing on whether fake pensioners also may have been used to bring in money. in other words, fake pensioners would have been paid, hypothetically, as being investigated, and some of them are thought to be hackers, thought to be, and are under investigation. others cou...

>> the first of this weeks eight cabinet confirmation hearings starts in about a half hour or so. one of the most watched hearings will be tomorrow with congressman tom price, president-elect trumps choice for health and human services secretary. kentucky republican senator rand paul sits on the senate health education labor and pensions committee which will handle that hearing for congressman price. senator, thanks very much for joining us. >> absolutely. >> so are you concerned about these que...

Questioning whether the savings tool has actually helped or hurt american workers. champions of the idea originally held that 401ks would supplement employee pensions at companies, but now 35 years later, it turns out that 401ks have often, instead, replaced pensions, and that has exposed workers to big swings in the stock market. joining us now to talk more is fox business network cheryl casone. you have a 401(k), and companies are actually going to use this to jettison. >> this all started bac...

Didnt realize that it was going to actually hurt the retirement overall of all americans, and that is truly what happened because of 401(k). >> eric: it sound like the brainiacs, there is always an opposite thing, whether its nafta and creating more jobs that, that they would actually say that instead of helping us, it actually hurts us, because some corporations put the pensions because they say you have a 401(k). >> if you look at the private sector, only 13% of private-sector workers now have...

To pensions of various public sectors unions, often times they cant afford enough cops. sandra: it is becoming a trend on more and more college campuses these days, u.s. history no longer required for history majors. >> oh, good. sandra: i just said that. but at a university named after the founding father, just how far will the pc police go!

Losing their pensions, i felt responsible. and go home at night and i would ask myself, was there something better that i could do or smarter that i could be that would make a difference in their lives? that would relieve their suffering and relieve their hardship. so with respect to syria, what i have consistently done is taken the best course that i can to try to end the civil war while having also to take into account the long-term national security interests of the united states. and through...

Place in south sudan thats not reported on. participa partly because there is not as much of social media being generated from there. there are places around the world where horrible things are happening. because of my office, because i am president of the united states, i feel responsible, i ask myself every single day, is there something i could do that would save lives and make a difference and spare some child who does not deserve to suffer, so thats a starting point. there is not a moment d...

Raised a certain amount of money based on their savings, and that savings was depleted badly because of fed policy. >> right. bill: now, its only a quarter point. does it matter? >> it does matter because the ball starts to move north. its not going to make a significant change in their lives overnight, but perhaps some of these cost of living adjustments will come along with it. certainly, theyve gotten the short end of the stick, retirees and people who saved their money have been decimated by...

Countries, those little countries, estonia, latvia and lithuania? putin can barely pay pensions in russia. is he going to pay the pensions in those countries? this is preposterous. what putin does not want, and no russian president would want this, are nato military bases on russias borders. keep in mind, please, because its never reported here, that nato, having built up in the baltics, the countries you mentioned, can hit st. petersbu petersburg, russias second city, with ordinary artillery. n...