grier to this committee. thank you. >> thank you very much, senator hagen. next is amanda -- sorry, senator mikulski could not be here today, but wanted to express her definite appreciate eight for what you do and for being here today. she teaches special education and teaches at a school for those with medical disabilities. in addition to her school responsibilities, she serves as a resident adviser for new special education teachers. and works with families of children with autism to support them in their homes and communities. next to amanda, mr. wade henderson. mr. henderson is the president and ceo of the leadership conference. formerly known as the leadership conference on civil and human rights and he heads up the education fund. and prior to these roles, mr. anderson was the washington bureau director of the naacp. finally, i'd like to invite senator paul to introduce the last witness. >> i would like to welcome today elmer thomas, principal of madison central high school in richmond, kentucky. he's the vice president of the kentucky association of s

david alan grier is here.th music from her latest album -- "born to die" -- the luminous lana del rey from the bud light stage. tomorrow night is valentine's day. we'll be joined by john goodman, kevin nealon will be here. music from robin thicke. and later this week, chris pine. khloe kardashina odom. diddy will be with us. "science bob" pflugfelder and music from puscifer and miley cyrus but not tonight. our first guest tonight is a terrific actor. you know him from "the fly," and many other films. tomorrow night, on the popular tv series "glee," please say hello to jeff goldblum! [ applause ] it's good to see you. >> so good to see you. >> jimmy: i haven't seen you in a long time. >> i know, here, i run into you elsewhere. >> jimmy: i think it was five years ago. >> five years ago. >> jimmy: are you living in l.a. or in new york? >> i'm in l.a. i spend time there too. i go back and forth. >> jimmy: do you like doing that sort of thing, broadway? that's like real act, right? i mean serious stuff, right? >> w

grier. ms. danks? >> thank you again. something i really liked about the bill was the idea that each state would be adopting the college and career readiness standards. i think having those high expectations for all of our students is very important and is going to get our students ready for the 21st century workforce, or college or whatever they end up doing. something that i think has been missing for far too long from many of our standards are life skills standards, standards that address those skills that our students with the most severe cognitive disabilities need to master in order to be successful after their high school term is finished. so we focus a lot on the students that are typically developing, on what they're going to do after high school. but this other population is i think left behind by not having those standards so that teachers know what to teach, so that we can effectively measure progress towards those standards, and so that we can be assure that those students are ready for whatever they may be g

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grier or mr. luna to be superintendent, i don't want them to be the national superintendent of schools. so it is a big difference. how much is it federal. i think for the most part -- and this is a philosophical point. the farther we get away from the local school, the worse it gets. and the farther we get way from local government to national government, the worse the oversight gets. i don't know that we can judge who a good teacher is. i would have to know more. i would have to sit in her class and i would have to look at that. i would have to maybe judge on how well her studenting are doing. but i don't think i can ever know here whether she is a good teacher or not. in columbia, kentucky is different from memphis is different from houston. so my argument for it is to keep in mind that there is a philosophical question here on local versus federal. and i think we're coming together in understanding that maybe federal overbearing or federal overreach in education hasn't been good. and that it so

or to the detriment of our health as we all know the sun is by date getting madder at us and angle grier at us and we are getting fat. we got to do something about it. this is the time to do it. we have the best opportunity here with these four guests from the german marshall fund and i was hoping that supervisor chiu would be here. since he is not, why don't we get hans, i'm going to start with hans? no. we're going to start with doug johnson from m.t.c. who has been our partner in facilitating this occasion and, doug, would you please come over and say you're welcoming remarks. >> sure. >> in the interesting of being heard, i hate to stand between you and someone named hans but i will do it nonetheless. delay may also give the supervisor a chance to catch up with us. my name is doug johnson. i'm a senior planner at the metropolitan transportation commission overseeing our programs in land use and social equity. i'm also very fortunate to be a member of the transatlantic cities network, which is a project of the german marshall fund you'll be hearing from ellen. it is a network of 25 ci

david alan grier. "science bob" pflugfelder will be here.ll have music from miley cyrus, lana del rey, puscifer and robin thicke. please join us next week. our first guest is a delightful actress who helped teach this country all we needed to know about caucasian friendship. she continues to grace us on her show "cougar town." it has its season premiere next tuesday at 8:30 on abc. please welcome courteney cox. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] how are you? >> i'm great. how are you? >> jimmy: i'm doing well, thank you. >> good. >> jimmy: you had a very long therapy session on "the howard stern show" i listened to. it went on for about 40 minutes. >> oh, my god. >> jimmy: that's true, right? >> it's so true. >> jimmy: you were in bed, talking to howard about every detail of your personal life. >> i was in bed with christa miller, my co-star on "cougar town." >> jimmy: that's a good start. >> it's a weird thing. i'm so used to david doing howard stern and calling me up. >> jimmy: david arquette, your now separated husband? >> we

you can be ray. [ laughter ] >> you are rose grier. >> loved them. tackle for the new york giants. great guy. >> beautiful. that ought to be our poster for the show. >> what did you think of florida? >> well, it got a little silly down there, the accusations. you can tell newt is all crazy now. he actually had a gingrich campaign spokesman one jonathan cash say quote romney shot a man in reno just to watch him die. i thought that was a little over the top. i thought it was a cool, level-headed adult decision by the voters in florida. i think it sent a message to the left. we are not going to make it easy for them this time through. tough to demonize mitt. if he is the frontrunner, axelrod is going to weigh in where they will make gingrich look like his fifth son that's how dirty they will play. wasn't there a john wayne film about romney's four sons called the sons of mormon elder. >> bill: no, katy elder. she may have been a mormon, katy, we don't know. hard to tell in the covered wagon what she was. okay. now, right up i-5 if you get in the car and

christina grier, she's a professor here at fordham. >>> the dow manages to close at 13,000. we'll be able to build on that momentum today. we look ahead to try to figure it out. that comes up straight ahead. >>> and coming up on "squawk box," big guest. be sure to stay tuned for that as well. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. >>> i just want to remind you what happened with the second bout of ecb. the amount taken 529.5 billion. a little more than the consensus figure and more than the 429 which was taken in what's called ltro 1. a lot more smaller banks were able to take part because of the loser collateral rules. there will be hope on the back of that that maybe some more of that money gets into the system. bbva saying it took a similar

front of the richard rodgers theatre here on 46th street, where every night, our buddy david alan griererformance, and you get a taste of it later on tonight. let's start the show. >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon!

. >> we're like ray and rose grier in the incredible two headed transplant. >> i should have known your kind stick together. >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. more turbulence in the republic party talking points memo. congratulations minnesota, missouri and colorado last night. certainly a good showing for him and a poor showing for mitt romney. pretty much the same old story conservative voters do not seem to trust the governor. the party has to be very pleased because their philosophy is working perfectly. as the republic candidates are still on the merry go round and can't build any individual strength. the other thing we learned today is that most americans are not even following the presidential race very closely. according to a pew research somebody i have a 29% of americans say they are paying close attention. and for those younger than 49, just 22% are closely following the election. that, of course, helps president obama because e

joining us now, we've got kasina grier and allison dean still with us. to talk with you first. of course mitt romney wants president obama to get out of the way, but i'm sure in the short-term he wants newt gingrich to get out of the way, as well. newt is continuing to vow to fight on. what is your take on this? >> i don't think newt gingrich is going anywhere anytime soon. even though in february there are several caucuses and primaries coming up, the actually numbers for mitt romney to take away a huge win just aren't there. we're going to see several states in march that can lead and newt gingrich knows that he's not going to step aside anytime soon. >> and how long before it becomes very clear one way or the other? >> i'm thinking mid to late march, to be honest. if mitt romney continues to win, then we'll probably see suppressed turnout. for instance, the next primary and caucus coming up is nevada. now, the last day for people to register as republicans is january 20th. the day before gingrich won south carolina. there were many people who may be e