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Games. it looked like it worked. graduation rates are up 20% from five years ago. it turns out administrators are eligible for bonuses when their performance goals are met. the department of education is now investigating. how does tom cruise one up his stunts by strapping himself on to the side of the cargo plane for the next mission impossible. check it out. >> desperate times, desperate measures. you got your seatbelt on? >> oh, my god. >> you just saw that little clip where hes hanging on ...

Drone program, its not measuring up? >> as we see it while it contributes to border security, they havent put mez measure s in place as to if it is effective. the measurements with saw show it is not effective. >> reporter: the inspector general said his job is to point out where money is wasted and the drones he said are indeed a waste and yet they still fly and congress even debating whether to buy more. to tom barry its a clear example of congress and the customs and board er patrol simply ig...

Israel tells jake tapper on "the lead," there needs to be a criminal investigation because there are simply too many questions right now about who did what at the va and why they might have been encouraged to manipulate the wait times for veterans. this is bureaucrats over veterans. hes now asked attorney general eric holder to look into it. >> i want to know if anybody, anybody at the va doctored papers, engaged in a cover-up, withheld health care for veterans. they need to be investigated. the...

So long as the national outrage doesnt peter out as outrage sometimes tends to do. the thing is, these stories are not new. not even slightly new. wait times, delayed care, questionable record keeping, all of those things are part of the va sometimes inglorious past. even the present scandal about cooked books isnt particularly new. just last march a governmental official told the house veterans affairs committee that, quote, staff at some clinics told us they changed medical appointments desire...

Quote, on track to meet performance goals but warning glitches are still possible. >> number three, an infant was reportedly among people killed when a single engine plane crashed in southeastern alaska. this happened near the remote village of st. marys. six people survived including the babys mother. tv creature. paul crouch died. its programs are seen on thousands of tv, satellite and cable channels around the world. >> number five, a new survey says shoppers spent $12 billion at traditiona...

Institutionalize bad policy. in addition, it is a policing tool. it has become bad policy in the city of new york by the bloomberg administration. >> explain how you would change stop and frisk so that were still used but in a way that you think it can be done while protecting, frankly, the constitutional rights of minorities in new york city. >> the first thing i think is getting rid of these quotas. performance goals that have been set -- that have been attached to this. thats the first big st...

Down most of arizonas tough immigration law it upheld a section that required police to check the immigration status of those stopped for other reasons. georgia has tried to pass something like that. the 11th circuit of appeals said in march it would rule on georgias law after the supreme court decision. the appeals court expected to rule also on alabamas new immigration crackdown as well. well, more than half of the 50 states are now exempt from the strict requirements of the no child left behi...

Competitive marketplace. executive from bailed out lenders fannie and freaks are received 7-figure bonuses for achieving performance goals described as modest. that news did not blend in well today as president obama held public relations offensive with out of town media personalities. ed henry has the story. >> the white house rolled out interviews with everyone from the president to slew of cabinet secretaries and access to bo the family dog. a they tried to get ten local tv anchors eating out...

They can continue to get bailed out. they can continue to take taxpayer funding like you point out $170 billion so far and, you know, $5 billion, a quarter here, $3 billion here. it continues to be a failing proposition but theyre going to pay these executives in one case $3 million, the guy is leaving. $2 million in bonus and a million dollars, $900,000 salary plus $2.3 million in bonus. why? why? >> the thing that gets me is they only had to reach modest performance goals. modest. >> what is t...

Competitive marketplace. executive from bailed out lenders fannie and freaks are received 7-figure bonuses for achieving performance goals described as modest. that news did not blend in well today as president obama held public relations offensive with out of town media personalities. ed henry has the story. >> the white house rolled out interviews with everyone from the president to slew of cabinet secretaries and access to bo the family dog. a they tried to get ten local tv anchors eating out...