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At the coal ash ponds along the river was part of routine maintenance. the company said they had notified state regulators last fall they were doing it and it was a perfectly legal action. state regulators said, no, that's not how it went. state regulators said they only learned of the pumping when they stumbled across it last week as part of their statewide tour of coal ash pits after the dan river mega spill. when we asked duke energy about it today, they told us this routine maintenance happens all over the state, across north carolina, wherever they need to do it and wherever their permits...

Races where a tea party type opposes one of the more pragmatic republicans in a primary process just like has happened in the last couple of cycles but this time focused on this repeal versus reform? >> i think obama care will dictate the 2014 elections more so than consultants advising candidates will. i think obama care is so bad and so catastrophic i think it actually effectively ended the president's presidency. he'll never get anything done in congress because he'll have no ability to move the congress. i think that people will demand the repeal of obama care. it remains to be seen, it co...

>> rick tyler, is this debate going to be heightened or focused upon those high profile races where a tea party type opposes one of the more pragmatic republicans in a primary process just like has happened in the last couple of cycles but this time focused on this repeal versus reform? >> i think obama care will dictate the 2014 elections more so than consultants advising candidates will. i think obama care is so bad and so catastrophic i think it actually effectively ended the president's presidency. he'll never get anything done in congress because he'll have no ability to move the congress...

We shouldn't try to end the conflict. we shouldn't try to resolve the conflict or threats our interest. we should police the conflict if the way that it is waged. i think that is a hard argument to sell to the publics in the u.s. and u.k. who are already quite skeptical of this. keep in mind they're skeptical in part because of relentless criticism of the iraq war intelligence which president and this administration helped fuel. jon: michael singh, formerly with the national security council. michael, thank you. >> thank you. >> well the president has been telling americans the new health care...

Disability is run, lacks many controls that state and private sector programs have. >> state plans tend to have stronger anti-fraud provisions. the federal government's anti-fraud provisions are basically we trust the worker to tell us the truth. >> reporter: under such a system, disability amounts to a lucrative retirement plan, pays 75% of wages and is tax free. by comparison, federal retirement pay is only 60% of wages and is taxed. the federal government has little incentive to crackdown on abuses, because funding for all agencies, $3 billion a year, is automatically appropriated, run thro...