you know, like doris kearns good win has been pushing them to take up the t.r. model and those kind of things. >> oh, god. >> i think the more interesting question is whether not he started to look at t.r. in particular, but does this movementack to this argument, is this consistent with argument per se which is as he chooses to go to the progressive speaker here as to other options he had, i think it would have been more unifying. but he chose to do this. presidential speeches aren't chosen for no good reason. these are serious questions and i don't think he was merely passing through the precincts of kansas looking for a place to give his speech. so there's -- there's some unseriousness to it, which we pointed to. but i think it suggests that this is very much in line with his own thinking. >> well, it will be interesting -- >> there's more to call out. consistent with his earlier comments going back before he was president, before he comes in. talking about the, you know, the transformation of american politics and, you know, and his references to the declara

governor of mississippi, haley barbour, "new york times" columnist david brooks and historian doris kearns goodwin. also, who do you blame for high gas prices? even as republicans begin to close ranks around mitt romney, this energy debate may overtake jobs as the economic fight of the fall campaign. >>> finally this morning, a conversation with msnbc's rachel maddow, author of the provocative new book "drift" which asks when did this country make peace with the perpetual state of war? vi . l state of war? captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. a big win last night in louisiana for rick santorum. >> we have won our 11th state in this primary fight. and i want to thank you for that. >> 49-27, that is how it looked in louisiana over mitt romney. and it shows santorum's continued strength among conservative voters but romney still has the upper hand in the overall delegate race, as we say, week in and week out. this is where it stands. romney at 490 delegates and everybody else well behind. meanwhile, the president is in south korea for a nuclear security summit. he m

joining me "new york times" columnist david brooks, presidential historian doris kearns goodwin, nxzz 's initial norris, haily bar boar and the president of the naacp, ben jealous. welcome to all of you. this trayvon martin story is so painful for so many people and the president talked about it, as we say, in such personal terms. this is a portion of what he said on friday. >> i think all of us have to do some soul searching to figure out how does something like this happen? that means we examine the laws and the context for what happened. as well as the specifics of the instance. >> ben jealous, what does it mean that the president lent his voice to this in the way that he did? >> look, he spoke to the specific pain felt by the family when you look at the whole remarks. universal felt by the human family but he also, i think, put out a call for us to really look at how this happens in our country. the reality is that for too many years in too many places in too many cases, it's been the case that we've given permission to target and even kill black men. i held hearings this week. y

if so, what kearns do the have for the political and economic implications of a syrian civil war on syria's neighbors, speck been on lebanon and georgia which will receive thousands of syrian refugees? >> always a spillover in neighbors countries as syrians fleeing violence go to neighboring countries to look for refuge. families in lebanon, jordan, turkey, iraq, that have taken in syrian friends and relatives. already an impact. in lebanon, people killed across the border by syrian forces firing across the border. violations of sovereignty by crossing the border. already a spillover effect which is deplorable. we salute the families and countries hosting families outside the syrian borders and we're trying to provide assistance to those host families and governments. bashar -- ambassador ford said, bashar wants the people, the world to believe if not for him there's going to be a civil war. part of this is, you know, t the -- bash ar al assad propaganda machine to frighten people into believing they have no alternative but to stick with him. or they end up in civil war. part of what the re

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. >> thank you, senator kearns. thank you on this range of issues. i think the basic premise around your question about how to read/write the most significant transformational result in annapurna or budget are going to be tight is that we have to lower the cost structure of doing our work and we have to literally invent new solutions that make extraordinary things offer. that happened a couple times in our history in the 60s and 70s the green revolution as senator lugar has the right talk to me about happened in part because of great new technologies created by scientists. in that case, dr. norman for the period in the 80s, the usaid worked to create more rehydration solution, which then have saved 11 million children because it basically took the power to save the life out of the hands of a doctor and put it and it turns out that it's a much more effectively to save children's lives. we basically believe we're on the cusp of an era of a whole new range of technological scientific break recent innovations that will do that again, whether it's orange