. >> let's bring in cornell belcher and mary madeline. saying that putting the buffett rule up for a vote was basically a political ploy? >> i'm a little confused. i got to get this straight. so the senate majority leader senator reid puts forward a measure that 72% of americans think it's a good measure to put forward. and it's not a tossup. it's not even close. 72% of americans think it should be done. he puts it up for a vote. you've got a majority of the senators who would vote for it. i'm baffled. the question shouldn't be why senator reid put this up for a vote. clearly the american people want it. the question is why are republicans blocking common sense legislation like this that the majority of americans want? that's really the question. not why did reid put it up. >> mary is this a common sense legislation or a political ploy? >> of course it's a political ploy. the problem is it's not an effective political ploy. pointed out this buffett rule doesn't do anything for the deficit. if we took all of warren buffett's money, that wo

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welcome back across time to belcher much more talking about mali as a potential failed state. live. and he just started listening. ok if you're going to figure back to our guest in washington puter. you know when we were there seems another facet we haven't discussed and i wanted to put in this part of the program is the presence of al qaeda and other islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups whatever you want to title you want to put them on to what degree is that being overestimated and underestimated as events play out in mali well peter i think you hit it but they're right on the head it's both over and underestimated overestimated in the sense that some media reports talk about al qaeda in the islamic magreb as if we're dealing with a monolithic organization or a parameter of structure when in fact it's a very diffuse organization increasingly factionalized with with some of its components engaging more criminal activities for enrichment then terrorist activities but it does also clearly also contain a hardline element as well so it's a very diffuse entity the other hand i think

. >> let's bring in 2012 pollster cornell belcher and mary madeleine. how do you respond to the republican party saying putting up a vote they knew would fail is basically just a political ploy? >> so the senate majority leader, senator reid, puts forward a measure that 72% of americans think is a common sense, ideal measure to put forward. it's not a toss-up. it's not even close. 72% of americans think it should be done. not only 72% of americans who support this, you've got a majority of senators who, quite frankly, would vote for it. i'm a little baffled. the question shouldn't be why senator reid put it up for a vote. clearly, the american people want it. the question is why are republicans blocking common sense legislation that a majority of americans want? that's the question. it's not why senator reid put up something that's common sense and the american people want. >> mary s this common sense or a political ploy? >> of course it's a political ploy. the problem is it's not an effective political ploy. the americans are concerned about the defici

to the question about my colleague larry summers and many economists who said we should conserve belcher was some, we should conserve the feeling of solidarity and the generosity, and not spend it down. we don't need it because then i won't be there when we needed when the rockets can't do the work. i think that's first of all it's not support empirical. this is just the kind of folk wisdom that some economists wheel out why. it could also be applied, but what it misses is the sentiment of the civic virtue and altruism, love for that matter on not all commodities to be spent down in the nation of use. in fact i think that they are more like muscles that increase with the exercise not like fossil fuels we use it or its strong down much more like to use it or lose it, certain civic virtues. if we don't call upon a certain measure of civic virtues and mutual responsibility it's not that they will remain in a certain quantity of oil in the ground intact for another day it may be that we will get out of the have it exercising responsibility. so this is where the economists have overreached th

cnn political contributors and republican strategist mary madeline and democratic pollster cornell belcher. the nbc poll out is the latest to show romney's favorability numbers rebounding. on top of which, his supporters say he has the edge on the most important issue this year, the economy. obviously it's a long way away from the election, but how serious are these poll numbers? >> well, the poll numbers this far out are historically really bad indicators. another thing is there's been a lot of back and forth, a lot of swinging in the polls. i mean, your own cnn poll a whole two days ago had the president up by ten. but in any case you're going to see these polls move back and forth. there's some mythological questions i think with some of these polls' movement back and forth. that aside, i think you'll see the republicans now rallying around mitt romney and i think sort of some of the strength in his numbers you see with the primary over, republicans rallying around him. if you look at some of the internals of the polling, there's still a lot of problems for mitt romney there. when you l

i want to bring in ari fleischer occur, cornell belcher. it's all about the pivot. we've already been seeing that from romney this week, this pivot? >> we have. we've been seeing it a couple of weeks. he's been talking about women voters. he's been talking about younger voters. he's been talking to hispanic voters. you know, this is somebody who understands that he's got problems with these interest groups. so -- or with these constituencies i should say. so he does have to make this pivot. but on the other hand, he's also got those conservative republicans that he's got to rally around him. and that's why he's going to be meeting with rick santorum there eyeing the date of may 4th. we don't expect an endorsement at that point, but they're going to have a real heart to heart conversation about how conservatives can get engaged in his campaign and become more enthusiastic about him. so he's got to sort of work it both ways. >> ari, romney got a lot of flack a couple weeks ago for his etch a sketch comment. a general election message is different than the primary seas

belcher, to you first. you run the president's numbers.are almost meaningless, especially national polls. also true if you look at what's the number one issue in the country, the economy. the numbers have gone down. >> let me push back. >> push back? >> i know, it is crazy. two days ago you had a cnn poll that had us up nine or ten points. big swing. >> said there's an nbc "the wall street journal" poll has him up 6. if you average them together, you get a dead heat, slight advantage to the president. >> quite frankly, from a mathematical standpoint, someone is screwing that up. but we're not going to debate that. >> he'll try. >> these are awfully poor indicators of what's going to happen in november, if you look back, sort of a month ago, dole was ahead of clinton. they're off indicators. what you want to look at are who is fighting at the middle class. who is most in contact with the issues. your polling, he had 12 points. who is more likeable. you want to throw likability out the window, but it counts. americans liked george bush. they

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belcher town, maryland, a parent.ler: i fill the parents really need to get more involved at an early age with their school system to know what resources are out there. unfortunately, there is not a lot of dissent on for information for young mothers and fathers who might need help early on. our school area has a wonderful program and we have a lot of mentoring where parents come and help teachers with students at an early age in the classroom. kids need more help in certain areas are getting the help they need at an early age so they can catch up much more quickly. there does not have to be an extra year of school. we also have college students who are eventually going to be teachers to come to our school and actually help students at a very early age catch up. i think the community has to get more involved with the education of their community. host: you say there is an increase in the numbers of those students trying to catch up? caller: in our particular school district, there are some areas in massachusetts where