kennedy school of law and of course, on behalf of supervisor cohen, i say thank you and congratulations on this honor. [applause] >> similar to miss yvonne, i didn't know that we were supposed to prepare remarks. first of all, thank you to supervicor cohen for this award and thank you to supervisor

kennedy school of law and of course, on behalf of supervisor cohen, i say thank you and congratulations on this honor. [applause] >> similar to miss yvonne, i didn't know that we were supposed to prepare remarks. first of all, thank you to supervicor cohen for this award and thank you to supervisor chu for directing it. i am the president for emerge. we have trained over 200 women in the san francisco bay area, half of whom who have already run for office. half of them have won. we are very proud of the fact that we have more than 100 points which is important in the bay area because it is usually the first step to get your name out there to run for office. half of the women who go through our program are women of color. so we're very proud of that. emerge california, though is not just about getting more women elected for the sake of getting them elected. emerge california is really about changing the dialogue and conversations that we're having in america. it's about changing the tenor and the tone of politics in this country. and it's also about changing our priorities to focus on wh

kennedy school of law and of course, on behalf of supervisor cohen, i say thank you and congratulations on this honor. [applause]

is one of the highest and russia it's one of the reasons blamed for extremist recruitment the kennedy school of doesn't think using force against extremists will help instead is exercising an old peaceful and personal approach. hello mr firth thank you very much for coming to our program hello mr the fear of. the war against terrorist networks and your public i asked you this same question fifteen months ago how much progress have you and she stands and. when to with you must have noticed that journalists are usually quick to notice everything both good and that of course we have made good progress in i would like to emphasize that which you did not only through the use of force the most important it was done through crime prevention measures we talked to people especially those who have relatives in terrorist groups. you see our approach is that we look at them not as bandits and if we look at them as young guys and got involved in this bloody war against their own people due to some unfortunate circumstances. so we do our best to talk them out of it. and today we see that this kind of crimina

he's the former dean of harvard university's kennedy school of government. he also served in the clinton administration as chairman of the national security council and assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. his latest book is call "the future of power." i'm pleased to have him back at this table to talk about something he has been thinking about, writing about, teaching about and pulling into play for a long time. i'm pleased to have you here. welcome. >> it's nice to be back. >> rose: power has been your subject. soft power, hard power, smart power, and now the future. >> well, power is simply the ability affect others to get what you want and you do it by... in three basic ways. you can do it by threats, sticks you can do it by payments, carrots, or you can do it by attraction in getting others to want what you want. that's what i call soft power. but combining them so you can do both hard and soft is what's smart pow which is what hillary clinton called using all the tools in your tool box, and that's hard. >> rose: take me to

kennedy school of government. good morning. >> good morning. >> we keep hearing about reactor 3 and it's continued problems. how far away are we from what bill just mentioned disaster measure of just entombing this thing? >> well, i think that idea is one that might happen in the long term, because the reality is we've got a lot of damaged spent fuel in the reactor cores and the spent fuel pools and deal with. but that's not something you can do in a matter of days. it's going to take months to bill such a tomb. right now the key priority is getting all of the fuel under water again. >> what can they possibly do to get this situation under control? because there are some bits of good news coming out of the nuclear plant this weekend, but reactor 3, with more smoke billowing from it today, seems >> indeed. this is a real remainder of what the japanese cabinet secretary said, which is, there are going to be twists and turns, even as they make progress in stabilizing these reactors. they have now got reactors 5 and 6

he moved to cambridge, massachusetts amended npa with honors at harvard's kennedy school of governmentol. he then came down here is a white house fellow, served as a fulbright fellow in sync work, work at a high level of job creation position for the state of hawaii and finally was summoned back to washington by secretary of state, colin powell to receive a percentage that fulbright alumni award for dedication to public service. he was a natural choice for his current position at the department of labor. i could race of their accomplishments, but my introduction be longer than remarks. so please welcome ray jefferson, mr. secretary. [applause] >> good morning, american legion. how are you doing this morning? are right, let me just say, commander foster, president ashworth, commander dew, members of the legion, i'm thrilled another to be with you this morning. they also want to applaud you for your courage for bringing back a second time. even a sauna for this story about about the assistant secretary to give a keynote speech early in the morning. after a server company went back to his

kennedy school of government joins us from massachusetts. >> good morning. >> what is the biggest danger right now? what is going on at the plant? the instability there, or the radiation that has already got out and leaking to the food and water supply? >> well, we actually are making some progress. they've hooked up the electricity. they are switching over from the sea water to the fresh water. but we're definitely not out of the woods yet. and unfortunately, we may not be out of the woods for weeks to come. we just don't know a lot of what we would like to know. we don't know how much radiation has been released. we don't know how damaged the fuel is in these cores. we don't know for sure whether these steel pressure vessels around the cores have breached. there's a lot yet to this story to play out. >> in foods and in water there's been contaminated spinach, milk and in tap water. do you think what we're seeing this morning will pose even a greater threat to the food t(ly? >> i don't think if no more radiation is released that we'll see much more threat to the food supply. and i think

he moved to cambridge, massachusetts amended npa with honors at harvard's kennedy school of government anmba from harvard business school. he then camedown here is a white house fellow, served as a fulbright fellow in sync work, work at a high level of job creation position for the state of hawaii and finally was summoned back to washington by secretary of state, con powell to receive a percentage that fulbright alumni award for dedication to public service. he was a natural choice for his current position at the department of labor. i could race of their accomplishments, but my introduction be longer than remarks. so please welcome ray jefferson, mr. secretary. [applause] >> good morning, american legion. how are you doing this morning? are right, let me just say, commander foster, president ashworth, commander dew, members of the legion, i'm thrilled another to be with you this morning. they also want to applaud you for your courage for bringing back a second time. even a sauna for this story about about the assistant secretary to give akeynote speech early in the morning. after a se

kennedy school. stephanie cooke is editor of "nuclear intelligence weekly," a trade publication that focuses on nuclearnergy. she's also the author of "in mortal hands: a cautionary history of the nuclear age." olli, i'll start with you. we team to have had modest progress yesterday and today serious problems. what's your assessment of where things stand tonight? >> i think we are still having serious troubles, but i think at the same time there has been progress in the last two days. but most of the serious problems are still in front of us, like unit number 2 of the nuclear power plant. and then the new worry about the drying up of the spent fuel at several reactors. >> brown: even as we're sitting here i was handed a note about a new fire at one of the reactors. explain what's going on inside those reactors... as much as anybody knows, what's going on with the fires and the explosions? >> this latest news is worrying. it's a fire in reactor 4 which had been shut down when the earthquake hit. so i'm not clear what caused that fire. what the implications of it are. but it's not a good sign. earlier th

of the schools from the interests of the community. >> reporter: just yesterday afternoon a man was shot and killed at kennedy high school from south 35th feet and burke avenue. despite that homicide richmond police actually says violent crime has dropped in the city. homicides, rapes in richmond has gone down. violent crime in richmond is down 66% since the beginning of the year. property crime is down 17%. >> a lot of kids are doing good. this ceremony here will come bring a lot of it out. >> i think it's up to me and other educators to teach peace and preach peace. >> reporter: not one but two communities coming together, working together to bring peace to the streets and to remember one of their own. a young gene grisby bell. in richmond, mike mibach, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> a navy medical corp man received a hero's welcome as he returned from afghanistan where he was injured by an ied. ♪ and the home of the brave ♪ >> joe burns was showered with song and appreciation from many, including the mayor of sanbruno. veterans of several wars and the warriors watch riders. burns mother says her son got to afghanistan. when he did, many o

of turning that into a monograph and we hope our discussions can perhaps influence that final product. then finally to my far right is lorenzo. he held a fellowship at harvard university kennedy schoolu.s. institute of peace and the fletcher school of law and diplomacy. a native of mullen italy he holds a law degree from the university of montreal school and a doctorate of congressional relations from the school of law the policy. he is the author of the new muslim brotherhood in the west published by columbia university press in the fall of 2010. so that's the panel for today. the way this will go is we will ask each one of our panelists beginning with lorenzo to speak for about five minutes to cover some of the fox they have the muslim brotherhood and its recent rise in the middle east and some thoughts they have about what we are seeing after everyone is done we will open this up to a broad discussion, and i would ask now to just remind you that when you do have a question simply turn your life like this and i will make sure you get a microphone as it is being recorded. with that again think you very much for being here and welcome. we will start with lorenzo. stat thank you, jon

of turning that into a monograph and we hope our discussions can perhaps influence that final product. then finally to my far right is lorenzo. he held a fellowship at harvard university kennedy school u.s. institute of peace and the fletcher school of law and diplomacy. a native of mullen italy he holds a law degree from the university of montreal school and a doctorate of congressional relations from the school of law the policy. he is the author of the new muslim brotherhood in the west published by columbia university press in the fall of 2010. so that's the panel for today. the way this will go is we will ask each one of our panelists beginning with lorenzo to speak for about five minutes to cover some of the fox they have the muslim brotherhood and its recent rise in the middle east and some thoughts they have about what we are seeing after everyone is done we will open this up to a broad discussion, and i would ask now to just remind you that when you do have a question simply turn your life like this and i will make sure you get a microphone as it is being recorded. with that again think you very much for being here and welcome. we will start with lorenzo. stat thank you, jo

of man sitting in his car near high school. happened at 3:30 in the afternoon behind kennedy high on south 45 street. school had not yet let out. no students injured but some of them may have seen what happened. which is say a 26-year-old man died when someone walk up and fired several rounds into his what it cadillac. police believe he was likely targeted. >> intrude interrichmond got the sprays of his life when he broke that the home of senior citizen. she pulled out a gun. she had inherited and for the first time ever fired it. wayne has the rest of the stor story. >> almost every call i urgent in the dispatch center but few as memorable as this one from last sunday night. >> i need the police are here. >> what is going on there. >> call somebody broke into my house. and i have got up. >> call came from the home of 84-year-old woman who lives alone. that intruder kicked down her door and made directly ford her bedroom but there mrs mrs. harvey had a surprise for him. vin tan.38 caliber police special. >> straight direction that he was standing fired one time bullet struck the wall at chest level so

of turning that into a monograph and we hope our discussions can perhaps influence that final product. then finally to my far right is lorenzo. he held a fellowship at harvard university kennedy school, u.s. institute of peace and the fletcher school of law and diplomacy. a native of mullen italy he holds a law degree from the university of montreal school and a doctorate of congressional relations from the school of law the policy. he is the author of the new muslim brotherhood in the west published by columbia university press in the fall of 2010. so that's the panel for today. the way this will go is we will ask each one of our panelists beginning with lorenzo to speak for about five minutes to cover some of the fox they have the muslim brotherhood and its recent rise in the middle east and some thoughts they have about what we are seeing after everyone is done we will open this up to a broad discussion, and i would ask now to just remind you that when you do have a question simply turn your life like this and i will make sure you get a microphone as it is being recorded. with that again think you very much for being here and welcome. we will start with lorenzo. stat thank you, j

of a man sitting in his car. it happened at 3:30 behind kennedy high school at south 45th street. school had not yet let out. no students were injured, but some may have seen what happened. the 26-year-old victim died when someone walked up and fired several rounds into his cadillac. police believe he may have been targeted. >>> a man who escaped from the santa resaw jail in dublin has been caught. police arrested ishmael at an apartment in fremont. they were looking for him since tuesday after he walked into jail following a court appearance. he was being held on a possible immigration violation. >> a plain clothed police unit is off the streets of san francisco. the interim police chief suspended all six plain clothed officers. they are accused of illegally conducting the drug raids. the security video coming up here shows the officers during the drug busts at a south of market hotel. the investigators say the officers failed to identify themselves properly and searched the rooms without a warrant. >> i'm going to look at supervision and i'm going to look at the plain clothed operations and training and ev

it has the feeling of that, because my guess is that when we go through vulnerable, samantha power, a former kennedy school professor who is an impressive, powerful, charismatic woman, went to obama and said, "you have got to rescue these people," and he was convinced by it. susan rice, the charismatic, impressive u.n. ambassador, said the same thing, and hillary did -- >> thatt is the other rap, that the women -- >> let's not go there. the women outmuscled the generals on this thing -- i don't believe that. >> the gender is irrelevant, but it was powow and hillary and susan rice -- >> and john mccain and senator kerry, who also said -- >> mccain did not sway obama, i can assure you of that. >> i think hearing it from that side probably had an impact on his thinking. >> i have a serious thing to say here. >> all, i'm sorry. >> i do think the specter of rwanda and people who lived through it did hang over this decision. the prospect of hundreds of thousands of people being killed, blood literally running in the streets, was something that -- nobody wanted to stand by the way bill clinton's administration st

of you." >> reporter: by launch time, the children now nervous with anticipation, gathered outside their school in the shadow of the kennedyrfect lift-off, children of challenger elementary formed one big pep rally. >> go, go, go! >> i knew it would make it. i had no doubt about it. >> it made it, guys. >> it made it! >> reporter: john quinones, abc news, port st. john, florida. >> really cool to see. >> yeah. cool side note. the crew up there got the first ever in the history of the space shuttle program live wake-up music on tuesday. >> that's right. it was from big head todd and the monsters, a big colorado band, but achieved national fame, of course, and they performed a version of "blue sky" and wrote the song at the request of the 2005 crew of "discovery." >> spoken like a true space geek. i'm very impressed. >> i've got all sorts of factoids i could bore you with. >> looking good. >> those were the days. remember those days? >> we're on a very different mission. we'll be right back. ssion. we'll be right back. >>> now to a violent case of road rage here in new york that has left a 25-year-old woman in a coma. >> thi

it has the feeling of that, because my guess is that when we go through vulnerable, samantha power, a former kennedy school professor who is an impressive, powerful, charismatic woman, went to obama and said, "you have got to rescue these people," and he was convinced by it. susan rice, the charismatic, impressive u.n. ambassador, said the same thing, and hillary did -- >> that is the other rap, that the women -- >> let's not go there. the women outmuscled the generals on this thing -- i don't believe that. >> the gender is irrelevant, but it was power and hillary and susan rice -- >> and john mccain and senator kerry, who also said -- >> mccain did not sway obama, i can assure you of that. >> i think hearing it from that side probably had an impact on his thinking. >> i have a serious thing to say here. >> all, i'm sorry. >> i do think the specter of rwanda and people who lived through it did hang over this decision. the prospect of hundreds of thousands of people being killed, blood literally running in the streets, was something that -- nobody wanted to stand by the way bill clinton's administration sto

. >> high school state championship playoffs. for kennedy. and in hopes of the first state title and boys' basketball. aaron gordon and his brother went to ucla now mexico. only a sophomore. 17 points. 21 rebounds. one of the best players. mayer, 54- 50. the first state title allstate from northern california on this night. from alameda, then champs' all markeand all modern, an outpost fall sold state championships. with the state titles on the line. >> the warriors, crazy. 0-4 road trip. with 27 points, wright willl fil and flush with 26 and david had 21, the to run all rappers were in town, with 84 points on the first half. the largest one half scoring in this end the season. 138-100. against washington on sunday. only nine games remaining. >> this was a great, great, n.c.a.a. regional. brandon knight hit with kentucky and ohio state. with forced overtime. kentucky advances by north carolina on sunday. virginia commonwealth the team that everybody was screaming that should not have been in the tournament. brandon purchase a layup 71 lead on the florida sta

kennedy school. mr. heinonen, thanks very much for being with us. there was the bad news about smoke coming out of some of these reactors today but then there seemed to be some good news that the pumps are working in a couple of the reactors, that the power lines are restored. how significant is all this? >> first of all, it is very serious as we heard. this is by far not resolved but we see that the engineers are working hard. once they get the power resred properly, they can look how the equipment has been damaged, which equipment can be used and which equipment needs to be replaced. then we start to see light at the end of this long long tunnel. >> woodruff: when we hear the man at the nuclear regulatory commission saying that there is, i think he used the term, containment is now functional in three of the reactors, what does that mean? >> it means that the fuel which was in the reactor itself is contain properly so there is no emergency to that end. but the company still has to maintain and restore the adequate cooling of those reactors for those four units which we mentioned. this is still a

richmond police are investigating the shooting death of a man sitting in his car yesterday afternoon. it happened at 3:30 behind kennedy high schoolt south 45th street. school had not let out yet, no students were injured but some may have seen what happened. the victim died when someone walked up and fired several rounds into his white cadillac. he may have been targeted. a man who escaped from the jail in dublin has been caught. they found him at an apartment complex in fremont. they'd been looking at him since tuesday. he was being held on a possible immigration violation. this morning a plainclothes police unit is off the streets of san francisco. interim police chief jeff godown suspended all six plainclothes officers. they're accused of illegally conducting drug raids. it shows the officers during drug busts at a south of market hotel. they failed to identify themselves properly and search the room without a proper warrant. >> i'm going to look at everything. supervision, the plainclothes operation, the training. i'm going to look at everything. we're going to audit the entire plainclothes operation in reference to anything

. >> rose: joining me today from washington, david sanger of the "new york times" who'd been covering this story. from harvard's kennedy school, olli heinonen former chief inspector for atomic energy agency. he monitors the nuclear industry in japan during the 1980s. with me in new york, frank von hippel00 he advised the clinton white house and he is at princeton university now. aam pleased to have each of them here to talk about this extraordinary situation. what's the latest we know, david? >> charlie, we're a little bit in the fog of crisis here where we're trying to sort through the various reports about each of these three different reactors that you mentioned and maybe the most remarkable thing about this entire incident, certainly to those of us who used to live in japan as olli did and i did for many years is that you have three nuclear crises under way simultaneously in adjacent plants. each one a little bit different. the one that really focused everyone's attention over the past 24 hours has been the number-two reactor at the dai-ichi plant. and the reports that came out of tokyo electric power company which operat

of a man sitting in his car yesterday afternoon. it happened at 3:30 yesterday behind kennedy high school at south 45th street. no students were injured but some may have seen what happened. 26-year-old victim died when someone walked up and fired several rounds into the white cadillac. police believe he may have been targeted. >> a man who escaped a jail in dublin has been caught. they arrested him early yesterday morning at an apartment complex in fremont. they have been looking for him since tuesday when he walked out of jail. he was being held on a possible immigration violation. >> this morning, plainclothes police unit is off the streets of san francisco. the interim chief suspended all six plainclothes officers. they are accused of illegally conducting drug raids. it shows drug bust at a south of market hotel. the officers failed to identify themselves properly and searched without a proper warrant. >> i'm going to look at the plainclothes operation. i'm going to look at everything. we're going to audit the entire operation on this department and anything involved plainclothes operation. >> the cases in

richmond police are investigating the shooting death of a man sitting in his car yesterday afternoon. it happened at 3:30 behind kennedy high school at south 45th street. school had not let out he yet. no students were injured but some may have seen what happened. the 26-year-old victim died when someone walked up and fired several rounds into his white cadillac. police believe he may have been targeted. a man who escaped from the jail in dublin has been caught. police arested him early yesterday morning at an apartment complex in fremont. they've been looking for him since tuesday when he walked out of jail after mixing in with other inmates following a court appearance. he was held on a possible immigration violation. this morning a plainclothes police unit is off the street in san francisco. the police chief suspended all six plainclothes officers at southern station. they're accused of illegally conducting drug raids. it shows the officers during drug busts at a south and market hotel. the officers failed to identify themselves properly and search the rooms without a proper warrant. >> i'm going to look at everything. i'm goin

graduate of the university of michigan law school and university of north carolina where she graduated with honors. previous to that she spent ten years working for senator kennedysteward and driver of domestic policy agenda. she leads with intellect, with grace and with heart. it is my distinct pleasure and honor to introduce my friend melody barnes. [applause] >> good morning. i am happy to see you here first of all because you are going to help me win a bet with my parents. i was having a conversation with my parents last night, they were asking me about my schedule for the week and i told them i was going to be speaking with you this morning and they asked me and we were chatting and just before we were about to hang up my dad said what time is your speech? have to get to bed early and i said it is at 7:3 and without this in a beat he said is anybody going to be there? i assured him there would be people because i know how deeply committed all of you are to this issue that you would get up at 7:30 in the morning and salinas. those preceding me said it is the important work that is to come. i would also like to thank the business partners for the summit. at&t

of the late senator ted kennedy. at 8, richard whitmire examines former washington, d.c. school chance michelle rhee's efforts to reform the school system. on after words, rubin carter talks about the 20 years he spent in prison and his work for the innocence since his 1935 re-- 1985 release. we conclude with mr. west who served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs durgd reagan administration. he argues that a reliance on counterinsurgency strategies has led the u.s. astray in afghanistan. >> in this time we win, senior editorial writer robbins argues that the tet offense offensive was a failure for the vietnamese. from san diego, this is about an hour. >> thanks, t.j.. good morning, everybody. happy to be here. thanks for inviting me. i'm really delighted. i noted on your web site that it identified me as writing for "the washington post" and not the washington times. i'm not offended. maybe they are. [laughter] slight difference. just wanted to point that out. i'm really happy to come and talk about my tet o fennive project and also -- offensive

kennedy school in d.c. they are doing a pilot program in sacramento where we have arts curriculum in all of our k-eight schoolsacramento. in a down budget with less resources -- they know the value. i know the value. the school district's love it. if you have arts in schools attendance goes up for the kids participating. kids do better academically. thirdly, these young people become future patrons of the arts. everybody wins. as mayor i have to make sure i do my job to make sure that courts or central in a young person's education even if it is not in the school budget. but the chancellor did again d.c. was amazing. they made a huge commitment to the arts. >> it was interesting. my second year on the job we were facing a huge budget deficit. it was about $700 million across the city. everyone was trying to speculate about what would get cut. my boss at the time, the mayor decided he was not going to touch the school budget. people went nuts. the schools make up a huge percentage of the city's budget. they have to shoulder their fair share of the burden. the mayor said, "knew they do not appear "we are in a ec

of the mississippi, and that's justice kennedy. look at the most recent justices and where they went to school. kagan, princeton and harvard. alito, princeton, john roberts went to harvard and then law school. i think that leads to my focus that is very troubling. also there's a narrow range of experience. few of the current justices spent significant amounts of time as trial judges or lawyers. society new have that experience. i think that affects the court's ruling and there's examples where they have begin the guidance they should be getting. i agree with you. i would like to see the president appoint the next earl warren. i think janet napoltano should be elected. we think of other examples of that, but i do think -- one more fact, when the supreme court decided brown versus board of education in 1954, not one was nine justices had been a federal court appeal judge. many came from political backgrounds, people like hugo black, a senator, earl warren, a governor. all nine of the justices had been federal court appeal justices. i think we need more diversity background on the supreme court. >> citizens united, the target

kennedy school in d.c. -- kennedy center for performing arts, they are doing a pilot program in sacramento where we have arts curriculum in all ofur k-8 schools and sacramento. in a down budget and economy with a less resources, because they know the value, and as a mayor, i understand, and the school district and teachers, they love it. when you have fared in schools, attendance goes up, kids do better academically -- when you have arts in schools. and thirdly, these young people become future patrons of the arts. so, everybody wins. as a mayor, i've got to make sure i do my job to make sure that arts are central and a young person's education, even if it is not in a school budget. but the chancellor did in d.c. is amazing. they made a huge commitment to the arts. >> it was interesting. my second year on the job, we were facing a huge budget deficit. it was about $700 million across the city. everyone was trying to speculate about what was going to get cut. the mayor, my boss at the time, decided he was not going to cut the school budget. he was going to hold the school's harmless. people went nuts. they said the schools make o

school is difficult for any kid. but for kennedy, it seems traumatic. >> it's a really big world around her. >> reporter: kennedy is a medical wonder, with an extremely rare form of size of a 1 1/2-year-old. but she's 7. an average 7-year-old stands a foot taller and weighs three-times as much. doctors predict kenadie, will never be taller than 3 1/2 feet, which is about 2 feet shorter than the average american woman. her brother stands taller. >> there are things she does that aren't at the level of a 7-year-old. when she was born, they told us, she was going to die. >> reporter: weighing just 2 1/2 pounds and only 11 inches tall, kenadie was born with a tiny head and missing part of her brain. >> they told us with that brain, she wouldn't be able to function. she was never going to walk. never going to talk. >> reporter: at 8 months old, she was diagnosed as a rare, primordial dwarf. most think of dwarfs having short arms and legs. but kenadie's limbs are proportioned, almost doll-like. >> it's concerning not to see anybody over the ages of 20-something with dwarfism. >> reporter: she may be facing early puberty. in the past few months, she has been having mood

graduate of the university of michigan law school and university of north carolina where she graduated with honors. previous to that she spent ten years working for senator kennedyel for the senate judiciary committee. but more than that, ability has been and continues to be an extraordinarily leader, steward and driver of domestic policy agenda. she leads with intellect, with grace and with heart. it is my distinct pleasure and honor to introduce my friend melody barnes. [applause] >> good morning. i am happy to see you here first of all because you are going to help me win a bet with my parents. i was having a conversation with my parents last night, they were asking me about my schedule for the week and i told them i was going to be speaking with you this morning and they asked me and we were chatting and just before we were about to hang up my dad said what time is your speech? have to get to bed early and i said it is at 7:3 and without this in a beat he said is anybody going to be there? i assured him there would be people because i know how deeply committed all of you are to this issue that you would get up at 7:30 in the morning and salinas. those preced

kennedy administration. it clearly works. workers lose their jobs through no fault of their own, they get some assistance from the government to go back to school and get trained to be productive workers again. they lost their jobs through no doing of theern. since congress made the reforms in 2009, 170,000 additional trade-impacted workers became eligible for training under the t.a. for workers program. so if somebody loses their job because of a trade agreement that we pass in this institution -- nafta, cafta, pntr with china, other kinds of trade agreements with us australia ad jordan and panama and peru -- when workers lose their jobs because of these agreements, we at least owe it to them to help them with trade adjustment assistance. but since this program expired last month, we've shut off service workers, we've shut off manufacturing workers who lost their jobs to countries that we don't have a free trade agreement with. so we don't actually have a free trade agreement with china or india. we did something called pntr with china. so if a worker in dayton or zanesville loses their job to china or india, they're out of luck. they don't ge

school, if you cannot differentiate construction for kids. when you had the absence of supplies and materials -- when i taught in new york city, sometimes our textbooks still talked about john kennedy as the president. we have to rummage to find pieces of paper for our kids. we sometimes have to scavenge for tall. that does not make an education system where we help kids not just dream their dreams, but achieve them. host: we have said once out which one phone line aside for educators. you can also send us an e-mail, or joined the conversation online. gainesville, texas, you're with randi weingarten of the american federation of teachers. caller: thank you for all the guests. it seems that the context of according to do this -- can you eliminate for us -- eliminate -- minate right for work states and those that are heavily unionized? are the heavily unionized in much worse condition? guest: it is the opposite. right to work is a misnomer. it means that there are a lot of states in this nation that had very few unions or union contracts in the private sector or in the public sector. take the three states that prohibit bargaining, arizona is one of them. texas, i think, is another of