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iowa, jessica yellin is here and in ames, iowa, two of the country's finest political reporters, dan balz"the washington post" and jeff zeleny, and i'm stuck indoors tonight, i'm jealous. dan, to you first, are we going to wake up sunday morning or monday morning and be missing a republican candidate? will somebody come in third or fourth that needed to come in first or second in the ames straw poll and be gone? >> well, it's certainly possible, john. as we all know, governor pawlenty of minnesota has a tremendous amount on the line saturday if he finishes really badly, i'm sure he's determined to stay in, but the question whether he'll really have the resources to be able to do it for any length of time. if he were to win the straw poll or spring a real supplies, you would have a new narrative about his candidacy, so there's a lot on the line for him, but there's a lot on the line for everybody over the next few days. >> a lot on the line for everybody over the next few days, jeff zeleny, and two people not on the straw poll ballot, two people that are not in any of the debates as yet, r

it, of all the protections, the therapy, the legitimate external and internal caring, what about dan balzyouth themselves, because to me one of the vaguest anecdotes to fear is saying look, you have got a part in this healing. and so i would like to panelist to comment on the role of youth as positive actors in this. >> if i can go first. one thing i didn't mention was we had success in that we had zero hate crimes in the days after the event and we were concerned about having certain pockets of our schools where we knew there was a lot of muslim americans attending and we were concerned about them being unfairly targeted via their students because of what they saw on tv and what they heard in the media or elsewhere but again to the credit of students who stepped to the plate and didn't let that happen on their turf in their territory, we had again zero hate crimes in the days after 9/11. so i know the personal value of educating students before the event. as daniel mentioned you can't wait to get into it and meet the fertile ground before things happen so that when things happen and they