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Taxpayers are spending $818 billion on job training programs and there is no evidence that the programs even work. so what has congress done to fix the programs? oklahoma senator tom coburn says -- nothing. why? we asked him about the results of this brand-new study. nice to see you. >> good to see you. >> greta: i have a new report on job training programs, particularly in oklahoma. how's it going? >> we are going to spend almost $200 million of american taxpayer dollars this year. we have 40 programs, out of 47. we have one town of 16,000 people. we have 17 separate federal job training prog...

And $18 billion with tons of rules and regulations that handicap the people who want to try to help people get a job, where wee do we get that authority? we have none. we have expand the the federal government -- and here's the side story. there are 50 job training programs for people who are disabled and $4 million. it is not just 47, it's 97 job training programs that we have. we do not know what we are doing. and virginia fox in in the hous, the subcommittee chairman on labor has taken 33 of those programs and put them into one. it's passed out of the committee. the reason they are not voti...

She later tweets, i am so confused, you said you would be here for me. the idea that the grandmother is the custodian disappears for 10 days. it is very strange, ken. i do hope that something works out for these kids. they have had a weird life. thank you. up next, a new report showing that you are spending billions of dollars on job training programs. but are they leading to jobs? or are you just spending billions of dollars? senator tom coburn is here. and next, governor chris christie is going to turn politics upside down, like nothing have you seen before. hear this -- and you will in 2 mi...

Mostly for the wealthy, even if we have to pay for it by gutting education or gutting job training programs or gutting investments in basic research or turning medicare into a voucher system or increasing middle class taxes, that if we do that somehow all of you are going to benefit. that's otheir idea. they also believe that if we roll back regulations on banks and insurance companies and credit card companies, regulations that are meant to protect people and our economy, that somehow everybody is going to be more secure. that's their basic argument. they'll spend a lot of time talking, but i...

Experiences to the economy. there are parts that are doing very well, there are parts of the economy that are doing terribly, and there are parts of the economy that are doing terribly and were doing terribly 20 years ago 30rks years ago. i was driving through gary, indiana, and things were bad ten years ago, 20 years ago. joe, tell us where you think we are. >> i don't think we should sacrifice the american worker. there are a number of ways to job train and escort people into work that we're just not doing. what happens a lot is you hear jobs, jobs, jobs, and you don't see anything happen. i...