the leader of the charge steven lerner will join us next.p of the week into "the war room" with jennifer grandholm. what is on top tonight jennifer? >> we're in a new location. it's really the war roof tonight. can you see where we are. one guess. >> it looks great. >> it is the white house, it is so fantastic, but we'll talk about how progressives are mobilizing behind a lot of election issues this year and united against the war on women rally tomorrow. and we'll be joined by the american enterprise institute on reforming campaign finance, it will be a great show and starts at the top of the hour. >> it sounds spectacular. and you will be hanging out with all of the people at the white house course dinner. >> thank you very much. very, very excited about that and very proud of that. >>beltway politics from inside the loop. >>we tackle the big issues here in our nation's capital, around the country and around the globe. >>dc columnist and four time emmy winner bill press opens current's morning news block. >>we'll do our best to carry the f

the leader of the charge steven lerner will join us next. "the war room" with jennifer grandholm. what is on top tonight, jennifer? >> we're in a new location. it's really the war roof tonight. can you see where we are. one guess. >> it looks great. >> it is the white house, it is so fantastic, but we'll talk about how progressives are mobilizing behind a lot of election issues this year and united against the war on women rally tomorrow. and we'll be joined by the american enterprise institute on reforming campaign finance, it will be a great show and starts at the top of the hour. >> it sounds spectacular. and you will be hanging out with all of the people at the jennifer granholm is politically direct on current tv. >>the dominoes are starting to fall. (vo) granholm is live in the war room. >> what should women be doing? >> electing women to office. (vo) she's a political trailblazer. >>republicans of course didn't let facts get in the way of spin. >>do it, for america. very, very excited about that and very proud of that. >>beltway polit

are students that do very well, there's great despair even among ethnicities, by english language lerner status. and in geographic concentrations. and a lot of the work that i do looks at how a lot of these policies that we are going to be talking about today have a certain unintended effect, in particular upon immigrant communities and communities that are not in the bup power to advocate for. >> when you talk about some of those difficulties, the language and cultural as well. >> yes, i think languages a huge issue. >> primary, right? >> i would say there are cultural issues, but i think that language, the ability to access programs that are needed by english-language lerner students in particular the fact that unfortunately some of these schools that we will be talking a lot today which are very well intentioned and have that great result sometimes are not being accessed by some of the students the most at need about a quarter of asian-american students in public education or english-language lerner's command what we see in new york city is a lot being left behind by some of the refor

so before the game we talked with one of the team owners, mark lerner, about all the excitement out here today. >> there's nothing like opening day, new hope, new excitement. i've been to a lot of them. my first one i was 7 years old and every one of them is special. great excitement, sellout crowd, standing room only and a great buzz around town about the team and we're excited for the season. >> reporter: we're excited about the season, too. by the way, for all you food lovers, there's something brand- new at nats park this year. it's called the strasburger and yeah, it's named after stephen strasburger, the mighty righty as kristin likes to call him and while it's something special in terms of the size, coming up at 6:15 we'll tell you what it takes to eat one of those bad boys and let me tell you, it's not easy. >> thanks, derek. can't wait to see that one. see you in a bit. >>> we've got a recall now, general motors is calling back about 50,000 large suvs to fix a windshield wiper problem. now this impacts 2011 and 2012 chevy traverse, buick enclaves and gmc acadia vehicles. 28 cold

issues, but i think language, the ability to access programs that are needed by english language lernerstudents, in particular the fact that unfortunately some of these schools that will be talking to us today which are very well intentioned and have results, sometimes are not being accessed by some of these tunes that are most at need. for instance, about one-quarter of asian americans. what we have seen in york city is a lot of them have been left behind. even while, at the same time, search and asian students are concentrated in the schools that are very high performing as well as high concentrating and the selected institutions. i think the need to have programs that are accessible translation and interpretation for their parents. of there also in charge school system. a lot of the proposals and programs you have instituted have been mirrored by other cities. t think that the role of politics, the role of political figures in the educational system has been a positive one? >> speaking as a former mayor, that is a good question. for a majority of the time in the 20th century, the chi