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From family that the weather was getting bad. friends were sending in pictures of the tornadoes and links to it and then a good friend of mine that lives up the road called me and said it was coming through cedar crest, my neighborhood, and she would do what she could. as soon as the storm was over, they walked down here and got the first -- they were here before the first responders and sent me the first pictures. basically the text messages said, its just gone. >> unbelievable. well chat with ...

Whether you have a 9% unemployment rate or a 19% unemployment rate, it really depends because i dont believe its 8.8%. i think its very much higher than that. i see whats going on in the country. you do need something to get people to go out and create jobs and create companies and put people to work. >> if unemployment were much lower of course the economy would be robust. tax revenues would go up. we wouldnt have a deficit. we could afford things we cant afford right now which brings me to pau...

Years. mcdonalds announced 50,000 workers may go to hamburger college for a month. controllers need three to four years to be proficient enough to handle traffic at our busiest airports. >> michael goldfarb thanks for joining us, former faa chief of staff. they say theyre putting new regulations in effect. see if they make a difference. >> my pleasure. >> every industry always somebody watching a movie that shouldnt be. one of those things. this is something where you have planes full of hundred...

People dont realize this is happening in the united states, that agriculture is excluded from the fair labor standards act. >> slave labor. >> it is modern-day slavery happening in the united states and its child labor. we dont accept shirts made in china because theyre made in sweatshops, we dont accept chocolate because of the cocoa fields in the ivory coast. but this happens in our backyard. the care act didnt pass, which would prevent children from working in the fields. these people are stu...

This stuff, i can tell you really know your stuff. im surprised. >> yeah? >> i shouldnt be, but i am. >> why? >> a lot of actors, you know, male and female, they attach themselves to convenient charitable stuff, which they just do to make themselves look better. >> theres a big difference between charity and activism and philanthropy. theyre very different things and i think everybody should find a passion or a cause they can really get behind, but it has to be organic of the i dont advocate for...

The care act didnt pass, which would prevent children from working in the fields. these people are stuck in a cycle of poverty. they cant go to school because they leave early to go to work. they go to school late because theyre working to put food on the table. unfortunately, 85% of the kids that work in the fields are american citizens. so these are our children. >> youre quite an activist, arent you? >> yeah. >> i can tell just by talking. >> i could talk to you forever and we only have an ho...

Act. >> slave labor. >> it is modern-day slavery happening in the united states and its child labor. we dont accept shirts made in china because theyre made in sweatshops, we dont accept chocolate because of the cocoa fields in the ivory coast. but this happens in our backyard. the care act didnt pass, which would prevent children from working in the fields. these people are stuck in a cycle of poverty. they cant go to school because they leave early to go to work. they go to school late because...

Produced it so it can be used as a political tool to change the way agricultural workers are treated in the united states. people dont realize this is happening in the united states, that agriculture is excluded from the fair labor standards act. >> slave labor. >> it is modern-day slavery happening in the united states and its child labor. we dont accept shirts made in china because theyre made in sweatshops, we dont accept chocolate because of the cocoa fields in the ivory coast. but this happ...

Half a trillion dollars? well, of course, we didnt cut benefits but we did reduce costs by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse and eliminating the overpayments we provided to insurance companies. now they have turned around and theyve said, well, were going to be the ones that are going to eliminate medicare. >> you just said the worst words ive ever heard you ever speak, congresswoman. did you say "waste, fraud and abuse?" that is the biggest line of malarky that every conservative since ronald ...

Its not a get-rich-quick plan to be a doctor anymore. >> isnt it ironic that the republicans like paul ryan were criticizing democrats last year, by democrats cut medicare by half a trillion dollars? well, of course, we didnt cut benefits but we did reduce costs by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse and eliminating the overpayments we provided to insurance companies. now they have turned around and theyve said, well, were going to be the ones that are going to eliminate medicare. >> you just sai...