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Vote in a whole year in the house of representatives. we've done nothing. they have fought extending health care security to people, and they cut food stamps by $40 billion. now, you tell me where the heart is in that group of people. they have simply lost their soul. they are a soulless bunch that could look out there at what's going on in this country. i went to a church food bank and when you look at the people who are in those lines, it isn't just what we would consider the downtrodden. you see people there that you think -- i saw them -- i've seen them on the street and in church and othe...

Illustration of the way price constraints lead to food that is actually good to the person eating it. >> exactly. the food program, it started in the late 1800s in response to children that were hungry. they knew children showing up for school couldn't focus and weren't getting good grades. and became a federal program under truman in '46. i think we need to start looking at these programs as nutrition programs. it's not a handout. you know, we send kids to school. we give them books, we give them a desk, but we don't give them food. so we're providing a meal now, but it's not a good meal. it'...

He's putting forth? >> absolutely not. i mean, it's really shocking to think that he believes that churches can do this. what he doesn't know is how hard people are working right now, how much they depend on the food subsidies, just even to get food on family tables and how churches are stretched already in food pantries, feeding programs, all kinds of places already giving so much. this $50,000 for each house of worship would be an additional amount to what they have already raised. it's impossible. >> do people in the inner city need to be taught good discipline and good character. that's wh...

talking about cuts and specifically what's handed to em because of the debt ceiling deal reached earlier this week. initially they know they have to cut 350 million which more or less they are okay with and won't necessarily sacrifice our national security, but where the big question mark comes is if that committee can not decide on how they will make those additional cuts to equal around or about $1.2 trillion, they will have to cut hundreds of billions, 500 billion, 600 billion, 700 billion just to defense, and to quote, i want to get this precise for you, the defense secretary sai...

officers responded but have not found anyone matching that description. the sighting was reported outside deitrick hall. a lot of sensitivity right here. we want to make it clear that this is not confirmed, it's not a confirmed sighting as of now, but instead authorities are acting on what eyewitness accounts have directed them on. we have kelsey hiter who's on the phone with us, she was the managing editor of collegiate times at virginia tech. so kelsey, what more can you tell us about what is believed to have taken place on campus. >> i'm on the south end of campus closest to our m...