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an uphill battle for simpson. all right. dominic, thanks. arthel: gregg, today is armed forces day and we celebrate by showing off a great opportunity for veterans. it s called the viper program at a community college in new jersey. vets can turn their military training into a college degree, bringing in now molly line to explain how it works. you and i were talking upstairs and you really, really like this program. yeah. it s a great program. it s such a great story. the men and women of our armed forces, they give so much and they learn so much in the service of this nation. now the warren county community college in washington, new jersey is giving back to these brave soldiers. they created a program that gives credits where credits are due. they call the program viper, which stands for veterans in pursuit of educational readiness. through viper, veterans are eligible to receive up to 45 credits for their military training that apply directly to their degree. and there are man ....
They raided bin laden s come pound, they actually found evidence he was trying to attack u.s. railways. there have already been, of course, deadly bombings in moscow and madrid and mumbai and london. but critics say there is absolutely no proof that these teams help, a, foil any terror attacks at all or have stopped any major public threats. they call this political theater. we should point out that last year tsa on this viper program spent $110 million. they are now seeking about 40 more million dollars from congress. in contrast, they ve spent $5 billion a year protecting the aviation system. megyn? megyn: wow. viper teams. it has a good name, you ve got to give them that. reporter: it does. megyn: it s got the sort of ring to it that i laugh about when we talk about people who go on air for news agencies, and they refer to us as the talent. which is clearly a name [laughter] thought up by the talent. and we ll call ourselves, i ve got it! ....
Those grants from previous administrations. but that s the one i think that we have added to it. yeah, well i can tell you that s not the one that i m concerned about. okay. in fact, the sheriff s and chiefs that i was speaking to support that wholeheartedly. thank you. i ll be glad to look at that. the other issue if they can force you to be nems compliant, they can force you to carry revolvers versus semi automatics. it just goes down the slippery slope. but more important than that, i want to talk to you briefly about the viper program under tsa. that s a visible prevention and response teams that want surface transportation some around our rail, buses, sub ways, those sorts of things. but that was a movement at one time by tsa to move those viper ....