thank you marc morial, joel packer, janet murguia. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> a discussion on school choice and education policies. >> what if the soviet union analysis tomorrow that if we attack cuba is going to be a war? >> this thing is such a serious thing here on our ranks. we are going to be done easily. we know what is happening now. something may make him shoot them off. i want to keep my own people very alert. >> it is amazing that eisenhower tells him to have his people alert. everyone is completely on edge. of course they are alert. kennedy laughed. then he says, hang on tight. it is a nice moment that on this tense today they are able to joke a little with each other. they had a sense of call lonely it is to occupy that office. you are getting all kinds of advice. you are getting good advice and a lot of faulty advice. eisenhower knew all about faulty military advice. he was able to speak with his supreme authority about the dangers as

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among them my first guest marc morial. welcome. >> thank you eliot. >> it was a great meeting.t of us were very interested in middle income, working income, and poor americans. the president i felt, was in a great mood. he was optimistic that some compromise could be reached some budget deal could be reached, and he was very firm in i think in understanding that the election gives him i think more authority and a very strong hand to do something that is consistent with his principles, but also in the best interest of all americans. for our point for our part we emphasize the need for there to be the continuation of tax cuts for middle and working class americans. it would be devastating. they would go off the cliff and experience as much as an average of $3,000 a year tax increase which many americans just cannot afford. so we need to maintain those middle income tax cuts. we also have to be very firm that deep cuts in human investment programs, i'm talking about housing program job training programs, head start and education programs would also be devastating for the poor and

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you've heard from marc morial. next is joel packer at dreeben group and is a noted authority on federal education policy. to his left is dr. michael fauntroy as a professor of public policy at george mason university where he teaches urban policy come civil rights policy and american government and we have just heard from janet from the national council of la raza. so, with that, mr. packer, the microphone is yours. you're opening remarks. first thank you, jonathan, for the introduction and marc and janelle and others for having me on the panel. i appreciate being here with my colleagues what we tell you a couple things about the growth in case you don't know. the rayburn group as a government affairs public affairs firm with 40 to focus on our staff and overall the majority of our clients are what i would call progress of nonprofit organizations so the firm is really committed to the advancing the ideals and missions of a broader range of the progressive community. personally i do education policy and i work for t