joining me, founder and ceo of students first, michelle rhee, former chancellor of d.c.rooks, columnist with "the new york times," republican strategist steve schmidt and democratic strategist bob schrum. welcome to all of you. this was the scene on friday at the white house. flags there lowered to half staff in the wake of the massacre at aurora at the movie theater there. the campaigns, as i mentioned, came to a complete halt. it's as if the political world really shut down. we heard from both president obama and mitt romney on friday. >> there are going to be other days for politics. this, i think, is a day for prayer and reflection. >> each one of us will hold our kids a little closer, linger a bit longer with a colleague or a neighbor, reach out to a family member or friend. >> david brooks, we come after events like this and hope that there's some kind of constructive national moment that can occur. what is that? >> right. well, the theme of the show so far has been do we focus on the guns or do you focus on the person. and i think the candidates are going to have

also michelle rhee. political round table is coming up next. >>> coming up, what a >>> we're back now with our political roundtable. joining me, founder and ceo of students first, michelle rhee, former chancellor of d.c. public schools, david brooks, columnist with "the new york times," republican strategist steve schmidt and democratic strategist bob schrum. welcome to all of you. this was the scene on friday at the white house. flags there lowered to half staff in the wake of the massacre at aurora at the movie theater there. the campaigns, as i mentioned, came to a complete halt. it's as if the political world really shut down. we heard from both president obama and mitt romney on friday. >> there are going to be other days for politics. this, i think, is a day for prayer and reflection. >> each one of us will hold our kids a little closer, linger a bit longer with a colleague or a neighbor, reach out to a family member or friend. >> david brooks, we come after events like this and hope that there's s

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same time that they were taking money from unions millions of dollars they were also representing michelle rhee who's one of the most prominent anti teach you union proponents in this country so they were taking money from both sides at the same time supporting s.p. five which is the was the bill in ohio to outlaw collective bargaining rights got repealed the vote repeal. wow so i mean ok here we are and i mentioned it briefly in the setup that unions have traditionally been the funders of the democratic party just because democratic party has traditionally been a political party look we're looking out for working people we now impose. citizens united we have corporations that can spend unlimited amounts of money so the right has boosted their fund raising while unions have declined so union dues are dropped so unions are operating with much smaller budgets is this a wise sort of investment to be reaching out to p.r. firms rather than i mean what else could they be doing with that money well i think certainly put it on the story you know there are p.r. firms that only represent the union side a

the principal was celebrated as a genius, given a $20,000 bonus by michelle rhee. he has since resigned. did someone she? >> we don't know if there was cheating -- did someone cheekat? >> no one is claiming that the situation is as widespread as what happened in atlanta but the inspector general has been asked to look into the case of noyes and other schools. a spokeswoman for that agency refused to comment today saying they do not comment on their investigations if there is an investigation. >> coming up, two teenagers arrested for murder in maryland. those ads taking my words about small business out of context -- they're flat out wrong. of course americans build their own businesses. every day, hard-working people sacrifice to meet a payroll, create jobs, and make our economy run. and what i said was that we need to stand behind them as america always has, by investing in education and training roads and bridges, research and technology. i'm barack obama and i approve this message becausi believe we're all in this together. >> we are following a developing story

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moderating our first panel is nancy cook enjoyed her our current 11, doctor carina edmonds, and michelle rhee, co that of students first. nancy. >> thanks so much. in a magazine last week each of these three amazing women outlined the different ideas that for innovation and their various sectors. so i wonder if each of you could just offer three or four sentences about what you propose and what you think would be innovative to transform the military, the energy sector and education. anu, you want to start? >> in my work we feel was sexist commission and sexual violence in the u.s. military and all of the aftermath after women veterans in particular but also those affected by the crises in the military. it's not really rocket science but, unfortunately, what we see oftentimes with the agencies and government in general is that when you have these scandals interrupting like the last one where drone structures are charged with everything from sexual misconduct to rape of 31 women recruits, lots of young women, the leaders oftentimes respond in a very backwards way, which is to offer segregated m