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Jon: maybe they will license salt shakers one of these days. >> reporter: over my dead body. jon: thanks. jane: are school cafeterias jeopardizing national security? according to a group of retired military officers the answer is, yes. they say the school lunch programs in this country are making our young people so overweight theyre getting rejected by the armed services in record numbers, and that means future recruiting is in jeopardy. james burnett jr. is a retired navy rear admiral. thanks ...

Want to join because of something like obesity. >> the specific measures the generals want taken include getting junk food and high calorie drinks out of schools. increasing funding for healthy school lunch programs. and supporting education initiatives to help children and parents make healthier choices. if we continue on the path we are on, the retired military officers say the majority of our young men and women will simply be too fat to fight. now, this is not the first time military leaders...

If were going to fund school lunches and we should, lets make them healthy and have vending machines included in this. vending machines, but have healthy food. lets not have these a la carte lines where people choose between yogurt and a french fry. what do you think theyll choose? lets make sure they are getting healthy lunches so their parents know if they send them to school, theyll be doing okay. >> all right. >> let me just say, seriously. im not going to count everer. if you use my federal...

Actually do is cause the cost of health care to go through the roof. we also know theres some othe . theres nothing wrong with addressing those and taking those off. we know that we do not -- we absolutely do not incentivize prevention. and im not talking about creating walking paths, im talking about paying people who actually do a good job to do prevention. talking about changing the school lunch programs where it meets the needs, nutritional needs of americans. changing the food stamp program...

We know that we do not -- we absolutely do not incentivize prevention. and im not talking about creating walking paths. im talking about paying people who actually do a good job to do prevention. im talking about changing the school lunch programs where it meets the nutritional needs of americans, changing the food stamp program where it incentivizes people to eat the right things, not the wrong things. we actually create more diabetes through the food stamp program and the school lunch program ...

On parents to take a more active role in their childrens health but the campaign also calls for big changes in schools. our next guest would have a big hand in such a transformation. that being agriculture secretary tom vilsack who was with the obamas to launch the initiative and joins me from the north lawn of the white house. thank you so much for taking time out to talk about this today. i think the person we want to know about is exactly how our schools are going to play a role in this. >> r...

Cheryl: one at a time! there is no accountability and thats the problem. jack in the box had bad meat. we see stock prices fall. people get fired. heads roll. standards change. things dont happen like that -- everybody, taco bell! >> tell us what happened in the tarp program now that the banks are paying it back? >> youre completely off! >> if you want to bring up a reference that has nothing to do with the topic, you are making the comparison between the school lunch program and the government ...

Present this at the the same time that they say that they care poverty and are launching their own war on it. its outrage just. >> it is outrageous. this is of course not a war on poverty. this document, this budget. is a war on the poor. as you indicate, what it does, is say to people who need a little help for food and nutrition, well take that away from you. because our republican theory, is when we help a struggling family, it just means we sap their will to work. they will be playing around...

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