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Of public affairs what you can call propaganda and that wall being torn down and essentially an operation that seemed to me run amuck. you know, the command in afghanistan was encouraging to go on facebook and twitter, basically making no distinction between foreign audiences and domestic audiences. thats why with colonel holmes story, i think we sort of see a -- its a window into this larger, and to me much more troubling trend of the tens of millions of dollars being spent to influence america...

Away from classrooms. where they have to make tough cuts we want to make sure the students and kplunts who need the best talent who historically havent had that have access to that. whether its great young teachers or veteran teachers, we need to keep that talent working with the children in the communities who need that help. >> mike barnicle. >> lets talk about the gross national product and measure it in terms of the imagination and the skill sets that are lost among kids who live in poorer s...

The it around to a surplus. has the skills, the experience to turn around businesses. those skill sets are what people are looking for. they want jobs and focus on the economy. >> suspect most people at this table and probably those watching dont disagree with you. theres some skepticism whether the crowd in that room will be as receptive to our friend mitt. >> if the 2012 electorate is anything like the 2010 electorate mitt romney is in a whole lot of trouble. >> donald trump? >> i have no comm...

Doing that here is it fair or unfair to boot a beauty contestant because she puts on a few pounds? >> in the pageant world, the pageants that i really support and i think are the great are the ones that gretchen did. focus not only on the womans look but the content of her character and skill sets. know more about them to focus on than just their physical features. >> thank you for bringing that up, margaret. there are different kinds of pageants. misamerica has scholarship category. they did no...

Right now. at the close, dow jumped 50 points to close at 11,837. nasdaq added .3% and the s&p 500 gained fractionally. apple shares lost more than 2% on their first day of trading since ceo steve jobs revealed hes taking his second medical leave in two years. the stock price also dropped initially last time jobs announced a sabbatical but gained steadily during his six-month absence. management experts tell "the new york times" the iconic ceo is extremely valuable to apple since it would take s...

Wonder now, are the people -- are the young people, the men and the women in the military right now coming out and trying to make this transition, are they trained, generally speaking, in the skills that civilian employers are looking for right now? >> some of them are. of course, if youre a mechanic, you can be a mechanic and get out of the service. a lot of companies nowadays, we have some great employers, hamilton center, are looking for employees that are a match based off their leadership. ...

Giving us pointers and she launched the website and good to have you with us this morning. recruiters aric le ilooking for, because they need to be effective and efficient. >> theyre looking for the perfect candidate. remember, theyre being graded and theyre trying to keep their own job based on finding the perfect candidate each and every time. theyre not going to be big risk takers. the more you can match the skills, ability and culture everything theyre looking for, the better they are. >> th...

Distributed by our state and local government. weve made it a point to get community colleges, community-based group as well as faith-based organizations to come in and help us identify where that population is so we could bring them in, identify what their skill sets are and help them get remediation. >> youre sensitive to this concern. >> absolutely. >> i just want to make clear, you are a former congresswoman so you know something about the politics of this. >> absolutely. >> this is going to...

Being told by the nonbusiness person how things work in terms of access to labor, cost of labor, cost of the skill sets. i believe on the business owner on the ground who has to run the company with due respect to the politician and former sheriff. its wrong to have small businesses unable to enforce a law that might be criminal or illegal. theyre not equipped to do it or prepared to do it and not what theyre created to do. you think of boycotts, its not just a formal boycott that we talk about ...

Manufacturing and construction, they will need entirely new skill sets in order to switch industries. since the start of the recession, 7.9 million jobs have been lost, and its likely that many of them will never return. even for people who have jobs, its not necessarily all good. in california, they are looking to cut the salaries of more than 200,000 state employees to the federal minimum wage. its a way to save money because california government officials cant agree on a new budget. and to t...