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Said it was a success, pointing to the media attention it has received, but the question remains, was it worth $1.3 million? >> the u.s. government has committed $200 million to teach afghan soldiers how to read. and the return on that investment has not been good. a new report shows more than half of the soldiers may still be illiterate. the inspector general writes, quote, we dont even know how many african security forces are literate and hoar well the program worked. thats deeply disturbing....

Is a local decision. it is to some extent regulated by tsa but i think that that regulation has to go much deeper and has to create stronger standards and has to set performance standards, and the nation has to respond to that at the federal level. >> rafi, we will have you stand by. jim of course will be with us. all of our team coverage is in place right now at l.a.x., all around the country. we are trying to figure out what happened together with all of you. president obama, he spoke out toda...

Take that contract away as opposed to you have a group of employees and theyre not producing and they call their union head and say they are and then you fight it out in court. >> well, exactly. and we -- our contracts are renewed, reviewed and we have performance standards and we set those performance standards that they have to meet and if theyre not doing it, then we will go out to bid and find another private company that will do it and as you said, then we dont with all the employee issues ...

Results. you are rewarded for getting more money for the hospital that you work for. and its unfortunately the same for education. you try to get performance standards in schools and classrooms, all hell breaks loose. >> believe it or not, the united states has been a republic since 179. . we still dont have metrics to measure success, whats working and not working. and therefore, what happens when government wants to show that it cares, it spends more money, it issues another tax preference, it...

Headquarters. the president strongly believes that protecting the environment and promoting our economy are not neutrally exclusive goals. this executive order will help to ensure that we have clean air and clean water without sacrificing economic growth and job creation. first, it directs all agencies to conduct a review of all regulation, rules, policies and guidance documents that put up road blocs to domestic energy production and identify the ones that are not either mandated by law or actu...

The president strongly believes that protecting the environment and providing our economy are not mutually exclusive goals. this executive order will help to ensure that we have clean air and clean water without sacrificing economic growth and job creation. first, it directs all agencies to conduct a review of all regulations, rules, policies and guidance documents that put up roadblocks to domestic energy production and identify the ones that are not either mandated by law or actually contribut...

General james cartwright. he was due to be sentenced this month for talking to "the new york times" about a top secret program that infected irans nuclear program with a computer virus. "the times" argued the former general was trying to talk the paper out of publishing the report rather than leaking the information. he pleaded guilty to making false statements during a federal investigation. and president-elect trumps nominee for education secretary went before the senate last night. betsy de...