. ♪ kumbaya hendrick: the most important thing for children to learn about school is that it's a placem and comfortable, a place they want to come back to. including songs and stories in the child's native language, using multiethnic pictures, and observing cultural customs not only honors the family by using the language and customs of the home at school, it also does much to foster the children's language and communication skills. ♪ kumbaya boy: hey, that's charlie's. teacher: where's charlie? this is charlie. who's charlie? that is. who's that? that's charlie. is that you? uh-huh. oh, it is? wow. find your eyes. are they the same eyes? yep. wow. it looks like this is a big kid. it looks like that's a big kid? you are a big kid. hendrick: but speaking is only one form of communicating. reading and writing are also an essential part of the language process, and the preschool years play a vital role in laying the sound foundation of skills on which future literacy is built. perhaps now is a good time to talk in more detail about the need and value of a new area of preschool learning we

>> they are not from the same kumbaya. i don't want to pretend that they will be. this environment is the worst. this would be the right time to fix the fiscal cliff so we don't have to worry about economics not happening. the lame-duck would be the second course, and for all the reasons i outlined, it's very unlikely that we would do anything significant. there is going to have to be great leadership at the white house to get this done. it will be hard. i'm not saying it will be easy, it's going to be difficult. there are going to be lots of days where it's going to look like were not going to make it. we are never very pretty when we are solving their problems, and that is going to be true next year. next year is the time to do that, and that is the core of my argument. it does need to be done, and there's no question about it. you're not going to decide those big issues of the tax code and things like that. it would have to wait until next year. >> what signal would you all like to see from the presidential candidates to move this process along? would you like t

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you saw the cows and everybody is kumbaya, right?> reporter: oil wells are nothing new to ranchers here because this valley is home to an oilfield where companies like chevron having drilling for more than 60 years. but new technology would allow that drilling to expand to places where the oil lies much deeper. 14billion barrels of oil reserves could now finally be accessible in the hills and valleys beyond san ard doe in an area known as the monterey shale. >> these are source rocks for oil and gas. >> reporter: this physicist says shale oil is harder to harvest. you need go down and out horizontally in a technique called fracking. >> now we have technology, enabling technologies, that allow these reservoirs to be produced economically. >> reporter: with oil at almost $90 a barrel, he predicts things are about to change. fast. >> there's just a lot more activity and a lot of that activity is in places where there hasn't been much for a long period of time. >> reporter: in monterey county oil prospectors are knock on the doors of lan

stephanie cutter taking a time-out from the bipartisan kumbaya over the storm to tweet romney decisionp and p.a. proof positive they can't make the current map work to get to 270. throwing out lifelines to pennsylvania, minnesota. #desperate. obama team responds with team romney spending money in north carolina, that battleground may not be locked down as much as the g.o.p. hoped. we'll find out who is expanding the map and who is bluffing one week from tonight. bret? >> bret: ed henry live on the north lawn. thank you. romney campaign shifted slightly from events focused on the election to one less overtly political. all the while trying desperately not to lose precious momentum in the final seven days. chief political correspondent carl cameron is in tampa, florida tonight. >> in dayton, ohio, a week from the election, romney tried to retool a prescheduled political rally to what aides dub disaster relief event and charity concert. >> we have heavy hearts with the suffering going on. >> romney didn't mention the campaign, stayed off the main stage and spoke in front of the tables pil

in the "boston globe" there is i think a realist editorial that says the kumbaya stage, apparently what we're in right now, won't last wrong. politics is an undeniable aspect of any catastrophe. >> i mean look if you're a key executive of the state in the hurricane path you were graded on one thing in the next week and that is the response to the hurricane. everything else out the window because if you mess it up, everything is out the window. let's recall that president obama is fairly popular in jersey and chris christie is not. and he needs a lot of help from the federal government. he needs fema help, red cross help and trailers and everything so for a state executive at a bipartisan time, the president, he has an advantage, he can conduct diplomacy so to speak on like two treks. he can have the full machinery of the white house and the disaster response and being statesman like. that campaign isn't over. that campaign is going on and on, both sides, romney and obama, they're putting out press releases, talking points, hitting each other ads are on the air so it hasn't stopped. >> t

book that i wrote to because my body of arrived in the desert in the winter of 1997 when i was broke kumbaya broke and and on drugs. in mexico city where i was lucky enough to go under a book contract from the art. i got advance said dream come true and in mexico city i had crossed the deadline and not one word written. i was broke i called the only friend i could count on because lifestyle allowed me to destroy relationships of friend and mentor to the solidarity network and said species begins spanish she had been to be living in bet negative would treat california. there are circumstances that led her how did she went up in the desert? everybody has a story how they got there. she said we will give you a place to live. wrote shortly thereafter one of the first things that i saw that says services 100 miles. year at 29 palms by joshua tree i fell to go further out. that is on the edge of a beautiful national park. you know, the album at least. [laughter] you know, what the joshua tree looks like. crazy arms. i wanted to go further out. there is something existential driving be further out

our founding fathers were not singing around singing kumbaya. they would duking it out with a different philosophy. because they had mutual respect -- wasn't always respect the because they were able to fight it out based on ideas and philosophy we now live in the greatest, most prosperous nation on the face of the earth because the best ideas were able to triumph. reason was left free to combat ideas that were not that great. that is what is happening, we're losing the ability for reason to be free, to combat bad ideas. do you ever hear the obama administration defending why it works to raise taxes on small businesses or individuals who are successful? do you ever hear them say from an economic standpoint this is how we will generate more income, it doesn't generate more income. only less income but it is indefensible so instead of trying to articulate a defense of their economic policies, they read us apart. they divide us. they start vilifying conservatives as heating poor people and middle-class. lass warfare thing, ripping us apart based on

. -- kumbaya. this environment is the worst, but the right time to fix the fiscal cliff. lame duck would be the second worst. for all the reasons i outlined very unlikely we will do anything. it to next year where i think there will be all cited pressures, and there will have to be great leadership from the white house to get this done. it will be hard. i am not saying it will be easy. it will be difficult. there will be lots of days where it is not going to make it. no question about that. we're never very pretty when we are solving big problems. next year is the time to do it. that is the core of my argument. it does need to be done. you will not decide the issues of the tax code and things like that in the lame duck. you have to wait until next year. >> was signal would you like to see from the presidential candidates to move this process along? what would you like to hear them say to our night or the next five weeks? >> i would like a sitting president of united states to say we have a problem in the fiscal cliff we should solve, not they have a problem and point fing

between either challenging teacher unions and ending collective bargaining or, basically, singing "kumbaya" and hoping for the best, rick hess used the word "cuddly," as one point. he accused me of pushing a cuddly approach. while i like cuddling just as much as the next warm-blooded american male -- [laughter] i think there's a way that you can challenge unions and respect the collective bargaining process. i think most union leaders i've ever talked to about collective bargaining as a 30,000-foot issue would tell you it works best when there's a spirited debate on both sides. i live in new york where people yell and scream at each other all the time and then watch the yankees afterwards. there is an approach, and it's something we've tried to encourage on the democratic side for elected mayors to, you know, be held accountable for what gets collectively bargained. all the stuff that terry complains about that are in collective bargaining agreements, they didn't get there by an act of god. they were agreed to by labor and management, and they can be changed, particularly in times when the

what is going to get these guys singing kumbaya with one another? this environment it was the worst. the lame duck would be the second worst and for all the reasons that i outlined i think it will be very soon begin to do the little that you can get done and then get the reston next year. the rock to be great leadership out of the white house to get this done -- there will have to be great leadership of the white house to get this done. it is going to be difficult. there will be lots of up days where it is going to look like we will not make it. we are never very pretty when we are solving big problems. next year is the time to do with. that is the core of my argument. and it does need to be done, and a question. you will not decide those big issues of the tax code and things like that in the lame duck. it will wait until next year. >> what sigel would you like to see from the presidential candidates to move this process along? would you like to hear them say there tomorrow night or over the next five weeks, what is coming down the line? >> i would

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they go beyond the kumbaya movement and delve into dealing with free-speech, hate speech and freedom of religion. when the media, even under laboratory full - the religious ideas and discrimination, the responsibility to pushback falls on the civil society and government. there are plenty of challenges that arise when the governments get involved and there are plenty of opportunities as well. governments must recognize that the old ways of advocating for the religious freedom are outdated. government to government diplomacy has got to be shifted to a more people to people diplomacy. and we have got to recognize that this reflects the times in which we live. on the international religious freedom advocacy became popular in the early 80's the focus was on certain persecution of the minorities around the world. today the international religious freedom community should be promoting a more pluralistic theology of advocacy. international religious freedom communities have got to reflect the diversity of the world and therefore they must be more pluralistic nature. promoting and highlighti

doesn't mean you're suddenly going to have "kumbaya" and drop your principles, and you're suddenly goingo work everything out, but at least you can have a conversation, and the other side isn't, you know, evil incarnate. >> i would just say that's true when we talk about congress. when we talk about campaigns, the fact checkers you talk about say this is wrong, and the candidate continues to say it anyway. they know it's wrong. they meant to say it wrong, and they don't really care if you call them on it. they just keep doing it. i think the rise of fact checking's a wonderful thing. but it puts to us in on the voter and on -- the onus on the voter and the consumer of the information to decide whether this person hose saying something over and over again is not true, what is your judgment about that individual? i guess what i meant by a beer won't solve it is i don't think they're going to stop making inaccurate statements because they like the other guy. because the fact is they're doing it with a fore thought. >> it's two different things. we're talking about gridlock in washington, bu