recently my father is dan murphy, a bird-watcher and has been educating me proposition i and proposition

recently my father is dan murphy, a bird-watcher and has been educating me proposition i and proposition h and says hi, phil. and then i saw this video, and i also feel -- somebody said they felt ashamed that they hadn't learned about the privatization of our parks until the video came out and i feel the same way. i did the research and looked on the internet and looked about the fields foundation and fisher and running our parks than what i experienced in growing up. i'm in solidarity with these kids. i'm so impressed by these kids and inspired by them and committed to stopping the privatization of our parks. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. katherine howard. catana galvan,rds or [ [ reading speakers' names ]. >> akia, my family has been living in san francisco for 90 years. we have all gone to public school here. we have all gone to san francisco state university. we all grew up going to parks, playing all over the city, not just mission playground. i didn't even grow up playing in mission playground, but i know what it's like to have a place that this is your space, and that is s

you back in time to about 20 years ago when then vice president dan quayle was embarked in a dispute with a minor tv character called murphy brown over the role of single motherhood. this is considered a key part of the cultural war. the sitting president of the united states in a silly debate with a television character. now you're starting to see, and i would argue you start to see a little more consensus saying, maybe the murphy brown wars about single motherhood shouldn't be lumped in just the cultural war argument, but there's a social economic component as well. consider the work of charles murray in coming apart that takes a look and says, family breakdown is occurring upon people who didn't go to college, while college educated elites, marriage is a very stable and growing institution. it is very strong by comparison. then take a look most recently, that sommer isabel of brookings institute wrote a book called "generation unbound," looking at how the rise of single motherhood is harming the economic prospects for a lot of young women. now just monday "the washington post," robert samuelsson wrote a piece he entitle

murphy. [applause] >> well, thank you very much, vali, for the very nice introduction to thank you to my friend dan hamilton, although what he does at the center for hosting me here today. thank you to all of you for joining us here today. know that washington is focused on the country's focus is in other places these days come that we're getting ready for an election for days away. getting ready for halloween this evening so it's wonderful to see such a nice turnout here to talk about a subject that i know the center and sais institution spent and in those amount of time thinking about and working on. not just over the course of the last 20 years but leading this conversation about how we reinvest over the balkans over the last year or so. bill shankly, the famous scottish footballer, once said, some people think football is a matter of life or death. i assure you, he said, it's much more important than that. i saw this firsthand during my trip recently to the balkan region. on tuesday, october 21st, i landed in belgrade, serbia, the first stop on a five country trip to the balkan region. my trave

murphy. [applause] >> well, thank you very much for that very nice introduction. thank you to my great friend, dan hamilton, all the great work he does at the center, for hosting me here today. thank you for joining us. i know that washington's focus and the country's focus is in other places these days, that we're getting ready for an election four days away, we're getting ready for halloween this evening, so it's wonderful to see such a nice turnout here to talk about a summit that i know -- sausage that i know this center and that sais as an institution has spent an enormous amount of attention thinking on not just over the course of the last 20 years, but leading this conversation about how we reinvest in the balkans over the course of the last year or so. bill shankly, the famous scottish footballer, he once said that some people think that football is a matter of life and death. he said i assure you, it is much more important than that. i saw this firsthand during my trip recently to the balkan regions. on tuesday, october 21st, i landed in belgrade, serbia, the first stop on a five-country

but kris murphy as a senator there. in particular danrnor there, all of them being able to speak to not just what was going on in their state but how they needed to move forward in a very that was just very unifying. i felt like connecticut was well served at a time when they really needed to be they were well served. we still don't nope what's going to happen tonight in connecticut. still too close to call as it the colorado governor's race as is technically as the maine governor's race. paul lepage says he won. and mike michaud has said that paul lepage won as well. still, that's not settled. the senate has moved into republican control. republicans picking up seven seats. if you look at six-year mid terms, mid terms that happen in a second term president's second term, the average pick up for senate seats that is not in power, not in the white house, is six seats. that's the average since war war 2. republicans have bested that by one, they picked up seven as opposed to the six seat average. we'll be right back. >>> why don't you get