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15 billion to the taxpayers. tpsdz hard for me to have sympathy. >> couple bad apples. no taxpayer money. here is the situation with the postal service. we are in the hole because we lost about 28% of our volume. we have not stood still. since the year 2007, we reduced the head count by 205,000 employees. another 5 million delivers in that time frame. bent the cost line by $15 billion. so our people have done a great job. >> you and i dont disagree on that. >> here is the congressional issue. ev...

We know it, and then destroys the current food stamp program. but he is not done will. he also wants to cut pell grants for low income college students, cut pensions for federal workers. even get rid of money for public broadcasting. yes, taking a page from mitt romney, he wants to kill big bird. because, you see, we just dont have any money. and thats on top of getting rid of the health care law. >> we cant just keep spending money we dont have. thats the basic acknowledgment when youre budgeti...

Higher pensions and salaries to the local crimian popular, an effort to consolidate control over the peninsula. battalion of russian troops is pulling back from the border with ukraine but the rest of the 42,500 russian troops on ukraines border have given no indication that they are leaving. nato ministers will meet in brussels on tuesday and wednesday to decide whether to increase their military presence in eastern europe. after four hours of one-on-one talks in paris sunday, russias foreign m...

Pensions should be raised to russian levels. gm may have refused to fix faulty transmission switches. it led to at least 13 deadly crashes. back to our top story. the families and passengers and crew are struggling to cope with the likelihood that they will never see their loved ones again. >> the husbands of one of the flight attendants says he doesnt know what to tell his children. they keep asking, when is mommy coming home? this is heartbreaking. >> i even promised them, im going to brin...

Ukraine for us. four hours, they meet for four hours yesterday. are the two countries at this point any closer in terms of their positions on ukraine? >> reporter: well, all indications suggest, no, there isnt an actual agreement of some sorts, even if that were the purposes of these talks, there doesnt seem to be a concrete agreement that could de-escalate the situation. now today, you know, we are talking about secretary of state john kerry making the statement the u.s. still considers russian...

Lets get up, get going. 43 minutes after the hour. quick headlines. the u.s. navy trying to snuff out smokers. the department considering banning sales of cigarettes on ships and bases. the smoking population of the military is 50% higher than the civilian population. analysts are betting on an august or september launch for the newest iphone 6. if this leaked photograph of the case mold is accurate, the screen will be bigger, possibly as large as five and a half inches. brian, over to you. >> h...

4%ctq shockers are the the number-one seed and lost a heart breaker to kentucky in the round of 32. coming up on radio shortly, george will will be on. pete hegseth will be on talking about his column today about veterans. and ed rollins will be talking about whats happening with the republican party. >> 20 minutes before the top of the hour. they are fighting for our freedom but the military wants to take one away, but the defense department is now trying to ban. >> part-time government workers...

Were also talking about our basic investment in the public services. so there was a study that just came out about teacher pensions that was advocating for a system that would encourage people who are going to be leaving the field. well, its important for us to be investing, as we were talking about before, in a comprehension package where maybe the wages arent competitive with the private sector, but publicly minded people will be able to still take those jobs, because they know their retiremen...

Employer tax breaks for pensions, we wont need that any longer. and then if we get rid of the home interest mortgage deduction, 75% of which goes to households who earn over $100,000 or more, we could fully fund a doubling of social security. and that would have an incredible economic benefit to all of society. >> if we look at median pension numbers, the sums are not big. so if there are slashes to these types of numbers, how can people, especially seniors, be expected to survive? >> thats real...

One big question for us to talk about. depending on whose numbers you believe, we have a massive pension underfunding problem in this country. or actually its not so severe. the rockefeller institute says theres 14 million americans whose pensions are underfunded to the tune of $1 trillion. other people quibble with those numbers and argue and say, you know what, its very concentrated. its just a handful of states where theres been corruption, where theres been fiscal mismanagement, where theres...