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i want to bring in errol lewis from new york one and david gergen. the treasury department has set a deadline of august 2 to get it done. is there a possibility that they won't? >> oh, no. i can't imagine that. we have a better sense of what could happen if there is a default. is abstract notion of a foreign bond holder not getting payments on time is one thing. now it turns out they may have to lay off up to 800,000 federal workers, not fund the department of education for a month. they would have to be furlowed at a minimum, not paid on time. this is serious stuff a lot of people can relate to. the white house as tried not to sugarcoat this thing. as the details become more clear as we get closer to the brink i think people will realize a deal has to be done. >> president obama seems to be in a no win situation. no matter who he appeases he'll anger somebody. what does he do in this situation? >> he is in a box of sorts and so are the republicans. the good news is that leaders in both parties agree now that we cannot go into default. that was in qu

now to cnn contributor and political anchor for new york one errol lewis watching this play out. thanks for joining us. you have great insight into washington and the scene there. what do you make of this whole standoff and this impasse right now? >> well, i thought the standoff was going to go fairly late and frankly there's no point in brinksmanship if you're not willing to go to the brink so i always thought this would run into extra innings and get close to the deadline. that's where we are. i think there's a possibility though it could come to a halt depending on what happens in these markets. the last time we had something like this, i'll take you back to 2008, don, when in late september, the house voted down a $700 billion bailout package and the market reacted by losing $1.2 trillion, the first time that happened in a single day. that 778-point drop in the dow jones average convinced congress to go back and try it again. so it doesn't happen often that wall street and the capitol hill end up talking to each other in this pronounced kind of a way, but that might be what w

errol lewis joins me now. i know you think the president and congress will cut a deal.ay that? >> well, you know, if you look at some of the numbers we are going into the final round of negotiations. august 2 is getting closer. the polls suggest most people believe the president. he's got a 47% approval rating. it's not great. congress has a 26% approval rating. the poll suggests that people trust this president rather than congress on the economy. and then you have a republican leadership that's divided over their tactics. so they've got a weak hand going into the last round. it looks like they are going to give up the fight at some point. >> if the president has won the battle for public opinion, how did he do it? is it because americans want budget cuts as long as the cuts only affect someone else? >> look, this is how politics works. the president has the bully pulpit and he's used it. when he had a mid-day news conference it was covered by everybody. they stopped the soap operas and game shows. republicans came on an not even all the cable stations carried it. it's

this but i must say it did affect my religious views they became much more much broader than mine errol catholic upbringing and john graham said that complement was for all humanity did you feel that at that time we felt the well particularly. i felt it as a air force fighter pilot fighting the cold war. that we were there to prove not just to ourselves and the american people but to prove to the whole world that america was a second rate when certainly. the soviets now the russians with sputnik in. the missile gap remaking america look really bad when you think of that garrett want us to send it to me. i don't think this the russians have gotten the full credit for sputnik. i mean i know he's a hero of the soviet union but you know me he just had to be at the right place at the right time but to be the first human to. get away from the earth we were the first to get really away from the earth but he was the first to get up there i think. that makes him and the russia and soviet union. something they could really be proud of now yes that if it hadn't been for the russians wouldn't have

will be keeping an eye on the trends research institute as this develops and see what is coming next errol thank you so much for joining us tonight oh all right well we already know that our education system as well our government education system here is beyond repair but it appears it's even more corrupt than previously suspected of course that's what tends to happen when you create an incentive system within a state run monopoly for success on standardized tests it turns out there's been a whole lot of cheating going on down in atlanta and it's been beefing up the performance numbers for the school system it's bad enough well actually the state run standardized tests themselves are bad enough but this gets. crazier who is behind all this cheating of the massive cheating ring now it's being referred to well it was actually the taxpayer funded teachers administrators and superintendent beverly hall an investigation into a hundred seventy eight educators including thirty eight principals and those involved in smuggling scores to make themselves and their crappy government work look better

we should admit those mistakes and try to do a better job. >> erroll southers, always great to have youw. thank you so much. >>> in india, a series of explosions ripped but mumbai today, killing at least 20 people, injuring 113. the blast occurred within minutes of each other in three areas of india's financial capital. officials don't know what caused the explosions, but they quickly brought back memories of the 2008 attacks by pakistani terrorists, which killed 164 people. the entire city has been placed on high alert, as well as the capital of new delhi. >>> our sound effect today is a new and unsettling glimpse inside the jury room at the casey anthony trial. as you probably know, anthony was acquitted of killing her daughter who vanished in 2008 but wasn't reported missing for a month. the mother spent those days bar hopping and hanging out with men. the jury foreman says that behavior troubled the panel greatly. listen. >> well, it disfwugusted us. we were all very disgusted from june 16, when it happened, to the time when -- that's what makes this hard. it's what made it very har

we have errol, davis. following this massive cheating scandal.sentsed to the board some suggestions on exactly how to do that. his suggestions including some tenets i have for you, one of them internal audits. if anybody starts complaining about ethics, the internal audits would go directly to the board of education. if crtc scores suddenly rise, then that would trigger, according to his new plan, a mechanism to review and certify those scores. they also want to survey employees to eliminate the culture of intimidation that allowed this cheating scandal to happen. bun other thing he mentioned, to give students that were harmed, the reremedial education they missed. >>> one other thing before we let you go, what is this talk about the possibility of criminal charges? what is the update there? who could possibly be charged criminally in this case? >> reporter: you know, it wasn't something that t.j., but there was a pretty strong implication made he's said these 178 principals and teachers would not be in front of the kids again, and something he i

here to talk about the fallout, let's bring in the atlanta public schools interim superintendent, errol davis joining us in studio. last night you took a first step but before we get to that, and your plans to help right this wrong, i want to get your take on what happened in your district. >> well, what happened is very simple. people failed children, they cheated, and we can't allow that to happen. we can't allow anyone who was involved with that to remain in our system. >> we're talking nearly 200 educators here that may have been involved. how will you decide who to keep, who to terminate? >> again, the names are already out in public. they were named by the special investigator and we are in the process of removing those who have been implicated. they will, of course, be given all of the due process rights that they deserve, but they will not be appearing in front of our children this fall. >> in terms of the charges, what kind of criminal charges might we be talking about? >> again, the criminal charges will be up to the local district attorneys and they will determine the nature

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week in the meeting of atlanta public schools is the new superintendent, the interim superintendent, errolis, has put forth this plan to help atlanta public schools to start recovering from these scandals. we have some graphics here to illustrate this for you. the tenants of his plan include the following measures. what we have, ethics complaints. they're going to go right to the top now. if some teachers belief something fishy's going on, they're going to forward those complaints. they will go right to the atlanta board of education. so those will be very closely monitored. also, crct scores, what's at the heart of this scandal, there will be trigger mechanisms, that if those actually increase very quickly at certain schools, there's going to be a verification process to show that those increased by honest means. also, employees are going to be surveyed, a blind, anonymous survey to investigate and eliminate the intimidation. it was that culture of intimidation that the superintendent says led to the cheating scandal. and also, students, we're talking about thousands of kids who didn't ge

replacing four district superintendents and a principal, the atlanta school interim superintendent, with errol davis, he sent a letter to the 178 teachers, principals, and administrators accused of cheating. the school system's media relations director says this is now part of a new focus on tone, culture, and performance and a key is more accountability. >> he's also establishing mandatory annual ethics training for all employees you have to go through, which will likely be an electronic course, at which there's an assessment or a test at the end. just to reinforce the fact that he has said often, yes, i expect my employees, and i will set targets for them to achieve, but the repercussions will be a lot worse for people who fail to adhere to ethical standards than to beat targets. >>> also, we turn now to rupert murdoch and news corp's really serious damage control that's going on right now because of that whole tabloid phone hacking scandal taking place right now in the uk. now, he has been apologizing. he apologized personally to the family of one of the victims, but he has also given a pub

errol davis has already fired four area superintendents and a principal.all accused of or have admitted to falsifying standardized test results. a state investigative report on this cheating scandal says the school system failed to protect its own students. and this scandal dates back as far as 2001. teachers and principals were involved in a scheme to erase wrong test answers on an important standardized test. davis says the administrators either turned a blind eye to the cheating or should have known what was going on. the investigation blamed the schools for creating a climb of cheating and performance at all costs. davis says a culture of fear and intimidation has to change. now, this cheating scandal involved 44 schools. keith bromery is director of media relations for the school system. he says the school board is giving davis, the interim superintendent, an extended contract to fix the problem. >> he's also establishing mandatory annual ethics training for all employees that you have to go through, that will likely be an electronic course of which t

on monday, interim superintendent erroll davis replaced four superintendents and one principal in the atlanta public school scandal. now a letter has been sent to the 178 teachers, principals and administrators who were on the state investigative report as either confessing to or being implicated in the cheating. davis has ordered that educators resign by next wednesday or they will face termination. he says the culture inside the school district has to change. >> people failed children, they cheated. and we can't allow that to happen and we can't allow anyone who was involved with that to remain in our system. >> now, staff replacement may be the first step taken by the atlanta public school system to overcome an image now marred by scandal. but the culture of fear and imtimdation which davis says may have pushed educators to take such drastic measures it must also change. we talked to keith brummer, director of media relations for the atlanta school district how that would happen. >> he's also establishing mandatory annual ethics training for all employees that you have to go throug