i'm rooting for you. >> michelle is michelle reid. >> michelle reid an acting chancellor. >> five years the mayor picked her to manage the d.c. schools. >> you had never run a school system before. >> i had never run a school before and that why people thought that adrian was nuts. a 37-year-oldirl from toledo, ohio. >> and a people said what? who? >> yeah. people said he has lost his mind. >> her friends said she had lost hers. >> i have two kids, two daughters, 9 and 12. and they -- i put them in the d.c. public schools. >> the schools were a disaster. test results among the worst in america. the chancellor quickly learned although only 8% of d.c.'s kids were on grade level there was something odd about how the teachers were ranked. >> when i looked at the per are form manti te'o evaluations of the adults in the system. >> how good is the adult doing. >> how good are the teachers doing i found that 95% of the adults were being rated as doing a great job. how can you have a system where all of the workers are thinking we are doing a great job for our kids and what we are producing for

. >>> chancellor michelle reid releases a new book called radical. controversial tenure with the district. she close 23 schools and fired 36 principals during her first year. she reflected her work in d.c. on abc's this week imt. >> my style is deliberative and very focused on doing what's right for kids. i wouldn't change that so much. what we were doing, i think we're absolutely the right things much i needed to focus on how we were communicating those things and doing things. so should i have fired ineffective principals? absolutely. should i have do so on national tv? probably not. >>> she's now the head of students first, an organization pushing for education reform. >>> today new numbers are coming out about young people in the district from the group raise d.c. the statistics are discouraging. the study finds 6 in 10 students graduate high school within four years. only 42% of people ages 20 to 24 are employed full-time and nearly 10,000 low-income youths between 16 and 24 don't have a job, nor are they in school. raise d.c. includes school's

pacific when i am joined by john podesta, michelle reid, author john meecham, and rick hertzberg.y's 3-d electoral map, which is incredible when you log to facebook.com/now with alex. andrea mitchell reports is next. all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. >>> right now on andrea mitchell reports, sequester crunch. minutes from now president obama will be calling on congress to pass a short-term budget deal to delay those drastic cuts for a few more months. but today speaker boehner has already shot that idea down. sfloot house on two occasions has passed a plan to replace the sequester. it's time for the senate democrats to do their work. it's time for the president to offer his ideas about how to replace the sequester. >> out of the shadows. the house starts working on immigrat

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reid. >>> first lady michelle obama attends a funeral for a 15-year-old shot to death in the epidemic of gun violence. high dehigh high de hideya pendleton was shot by a gang member in a case of mistaken identity. >>> it is now 7:20. time now to take a closer look at the weather for your weekend. >>> tomorrow night cbs will broadcast the 55th annual grammy awards show from los angeles, but just thing back to a year ago to the eve of the last grammy show when we learned that whitney houston had died. to her fans in the music industry, it was shocking. the show did go on but a much different show than was planned just a day earlier. >> i thought we had great approach to the show. it felt like me sounded like me. so it was great. i was really excited about what was to come. >> it has so much fwoim for it. the return of debt. ♪ >> i was in the middle of rehearsing adele who had come back from voice surgery. it was pretty exciting. we were pretty wrapped up with that and one of the cameramen came on the p.l. and said that he just heard that whitney houston had died and we were all kind of sho

. >> michelle, your thoughts on this. i mean, isn't this harry reid's fault?arry had a chance to change the rules of the senate and he was too nice to mitch mcconnell and now look what we've got. there's probably more to come. your thoughts. >> i suppose so, though i remember not very long ago when we were all suffering under the george w. bush administration and there was a real fear that without the filibuster then george bush would have been able to put some of his very radical extremists on the bench and push through more of his agenda. so i understand the reticence to kind of unleash the nuclear option. and you know, i don't think you can necessarily blame harry reid for the unprecedented not just obstructionism but kind of paranoid lunacy of this new crop of senators who, you know, before i think we used to see this sort of incredibly paranoid mccarthyite apocalyptic view of american foreign policy among some of the characters in the house -- >> doesn't that make the case for why harry should have done, this because of the ted cruzes of the world and the

michelle, republican strategist, penny lee, former communication advisor to harry reid.g. >> gretchen: penny, let me start with you because your former boss, harry reid came out yesterday and said look, the american people, they all want taxes to go up to solve this problem. do you agree with him? >> well, if you look at the latest pew research, you will see the american people want a balanced approach. 72% of them say to fight this deficit, we need a balanced approach. and that includes spending cuts. it includes tax increases. and it includes some type of entitlement reforms 'cause as we all know, that is really -- >> gretchen: two of the things you talked about aren't in the equation. the elephant in the room is politic social security not part of this discussion. spending cuts are not part of this discussion! >> when this came about, the president put on the plan, things to actually curb the cost of social security. social security reforms, which is changing what they call the cpi. yes, he did put forth some ideas and some ways and measures in which to curb the cost