in great britain, the blair administration in 1999 decided to tackle child poverty rate. and you can see their poverty rate was much higher than the united states. you can see it's falling. the other thing that's interesting is if you go forward, dishonest or only 2007, but if you go forward, the poverty rate in the united states is at 22 to 20%. the poverty rate of the uk's data 12. the poverty rate today is about half of the united states. despite having started off at a higher rate. so what can be done. on early childhood, i won't talk too much about this because there's often speakers about this before me talk about this, but just a highly come ahead ahead sturbridge is less than a third of eligible kids. early head start only reaches 4.5% of our nation's kids in childcare funding reaches only one in six parents. so we have the systems in place. we have not provided the adequate resources to get kids where they need to be. in education, my kids go to some of the best public schools in america. my parents are both former teachers. and i think the american education sys

in great britain, the blair administration in 1999 decided to tackle child poverty rates.and you can see that their poverty rate when he addressed the issue was much higher than the united states. and you can see that it has all but the other thing that's interesting about this, if you go forward, this runs only through 2007, but if you go to forward we know the poverty rate in the united states has gone up to 22, 23%. the poverty rate for the uk is still down at 12. poverty rate today in uk is about half that of the united states, despite having started off with a high rate. so it can be done. on early childhood of a talk too much about this because often, speakers about this before me talked about this, but you to highlight a few things. head start reaches less than a third of eligible kids. early head start only reaches 4.5% of our nation's kids. and child care funding reaches only one in six eligible parents. so we have the systems in place. we have not provided the adequate resources to get kids where they need to be. in education, look, my kids go to some of the best

would use them and so when you start from that it's well what's your next step blair was very troubled by the bush administration he thought that they were planning for the war was terrible he thought that their international approach was terrible that they didn't you know reach out to the international community and nuff to create the kind of. global response that would actually be more fruitful than simply a war that they weren't planning for after the war and it really came down to a question he asked his advisors which is if we stay in this you know i will have influence on the direction of american policy if we break. it will be a fundamental break of a long standing relationship between the united states and britain and i will lose all influence over policy was there it should i do it well at the end of that and the time a story came out there was a subtext of that that was in the press let me reality check it with you and that was if we break i lose any influence over this crazy guy george bush. that's not the way the words were put but i think that was a very strong it's actually more than this it was i