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Launched. "washington post" is reporting the obama administration waited until late october to put the performance tests in place, that was after the web site's rollout, after users were seeing error messages. the facts as you have gathered while reporting this story, elise, does it sound like there was a lot of warning? >> there wasn't a lot of warning, and frankly the obama administration struggled in the weeks leading up to the rollout to find an accurate testing system that would enable them to eventually uncover the problems. and there was a report out from a private consulting firm in ...

Steroids. a lot of players do it. when andy pettitte was caught, he said yeah, i did it, i had an swrof season injury. i took something to heal faster. nobody faulted the guy at all for it. and you look at ryan braun and a-rod and all of these other clowns. it's just unfortunate they didn't go the pettitte way. >> yeah. well, they parse words. they play semantic games. and in the case of braun, he denied it over and over. and so aggressively. he came out in that sound bite we showed earlier, that same press conference, he said "major league baseball's testing system is, quote, fatally flawed. ...

To go into graduate school you'll have an advanced test, g-mat or other test and find throughout your life there are going to be tests. we complain about them. i complained about them when i was a student and we don't like tests but there's no other way we found out to determine whether a student is succeeding or not succeeding or teacher succeeding or not succeeding. i don't have a better model than saying we're going to evaluate our kids than through a better testing system. we had this graduation exam. i took it because i would hear from teachers we're having to teach to the tests. i took t...

They have to retain, upscale, they need to go back and get an education but college is really, really expensive these days as we all know. getting more expensive recall the time. and somebody who is working with children in a job they can't go move into a dorm for four years and go to colle like the traditional person. at the same time, they probably learned a lot during their career. rather than having them start from scratch and earn all those credits in a college class, what i'm saying is we ought to give them credit for the legitimate skills that they have so they only have to focus on lea...

Community and it's the city's jobs program city officials say it's a balancing act to tap into the free labor without angering organized labor, jon? >> dan springer in seattle, thanks, dan. major league national league baseball ryan braun says my name has been dragged throughout club. reversed suspension for positive drug test the first in the league. he tested positive for elevated testosterone highest ratio ever recorded in baseball's testing program. he appealed the decision and yesterday he won. today braun blasted the testing system as fatally flawed. upon his return to spring training. >...