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Program. >> cal, what is the solution. >> it is something akin to the reagan grace position. >> peter grace. >> he did an audit and he and his associated did an audit of the government from top to bottom, like real businesses and real life people have to do and presented to congress on a voluminous document on waste, fraud and abuse without damage to the safety net or the security of the united states and money being power in congress, they ignored it. we need another grace commission which went around the country and found military establishments that were no longer needed and shut them down....

Today, $8,000 or in juvenile deterngs tomorrow around $90,000 per child per year. it's pretty simple, and should appeal to maybe a fiscally conservative kind of world view. do you think can see this as investment and not of expansion of the nanny state? >> i hope so. and i think that indeed it would be done in that would give states an ability to craft their own local standards. this kind of thing. and, of course, it's not just about preschool as such, in the sense of getting more 4-year-olds. it's really about providing support for parents very early on, if they want it. things like literacy ...

She established charities, worked on literacy programs, since the war started she's not been seen as much in public. how much influence does she have over him? >> i think she has some influence in terms of pointing out some of the basic problems in the country and particularly these issues about reform but politically she's not accepted by the people around the regime's core. >> reporter: she is sunni. the daughter of a syrian cardiologist. born in london and raised in this home, educated at the best schools in england, her trajectory was impressive. she worked for two investment banks after g...

Andrew young was an aide to king and he directed literacy programs. he helped plan the march in 1963 and was there for that historic event. >> he's also a former u.n. ambassad ambassador. thank you for joining us here. >> my pleasure. >> i want to talk about 1963. there's a wonderful quote from you about the moment that you realized what this march would turn into and what it became. the game changer that it is. you said we suddenly realized this turned up from a southern black movement into a national multiracial human rights, an international multiracial human rights movement. everyone has a...

Programs, that are ineffective. overlapping, don't get the job done. 180 of them economic development programs under five different cabinet positions. we have 173 programs promoting the same thing, we have literacy programs, economic literacy run by 20 different agencies and we have 55 different jobs programs and they don't know if anybody that goes through the programs actually, greta, gets hired for anything. >> we've done an awful lot here on the record on waste and fraud. the federal government is replete with waste and a couple of things caught my attention. one, i don't know if you menti...