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$450 million that the ex-ceo got as a retirement package, but we're not that is good and smart. look, the reality is that these subsidies have nothing to do with how good or smart these companies are and certainly not how needy they are. if instead of giving these companies $4 billion a year, we spend it on teachers, do you know how many we could hire? we would hire about 70,000 new teachers. now, it's been 2,068 days since george w. bush signed the last oil subsidy bill into law in august 2005. we're going to keep on this story until they are done away with. i know it's ambitious, but we're g...

Li speaking to me earlier. the stock has surged 790%, yes, in new york since august 2005. well, it's happening again in the u.s. man versus nature. forecast calls for canceled flights, closed schools and some record-breaking snowfall. we'll provide details in just a few moments. gr d t ?gaue

Gregory as his exclusive guest on that sunday morning show. and the new orleans police chief says he feels betrayed after a police officer within his department admitted he took part in covering up a deadly shooting of innocent civilians in the days following hurricane katrina. in fact, an nbc camera crew captured the drama as it unfolded on that bridge august 2005. >> where are they? >> move in. >> at one point you can even hear the bullets being fired. police officers opened fire on six people after getting an emergency call. when it was over, two people were dead, four were wounded. all o...

The marines still advancing through the town and telling a different story, they say taliban resistance has not evaporated. they are still taking sniper fire. they are encountering lots of i.e.d.s roadside bombs and booby traps. a second marine rifle company went to the north over the past 24 hours from the north end of the town to meet up with marines helicoptered in on saturday morning. they seem to have moved all the way into the center of the town there. there was supposed to be a ceremony today where a meeting of tribal lawyers would meet in the town. it was suspended, no reason gichk. th...

So let's not gloss over this fact. and let's not say that new orleans schools are so much better off right now than they were before the end of august 2005. because there's no comparison. aren't they making great gains in new orleans? >> they're making phenomenal progress, absolutely amazing progress. and the eyes of the country are on that progress and the hard work that's going on there. >> again, melissa, i understand your point. it was said inartfully, but you do agree with my point that it was the children that were being left -- talk about leave no child behind which we'll talk about in ...