middle school. (clapping.) i hate to start with on apologize but my grandmother would admonish me for not be a good host for having a it is my duty i didn't place to come to espouse my different it is a boy product of a dawn of a new day when we opened the doors of willie brown jr. middle school this fuel 2 hundred pioneering significant graders will experience the best education that san francisco, california provide i'm honored to serve as is founding principle of willie brown jr. middle school and deeply 40u7b8d u humbled by the coordination and support within sfusd the commission on the board of education the department of public health the public works the department of children youth and their families and all corporate partners to provide the resources to insure the success of our school between our 2014 and january of 2015 did project manager and myself engaged over 43 families visiting 25 elementary school p t organization and hosting citywide information and registration seconds families employed to w

working through and to binge to initiate what a program process looks like for the filipino as a middle school we've heard this is a great need to strengthen the pathway but we also want to be able to do it in a thoughtful and meaningful way we've heard from the principle there ounce because a pathway at the middle school level but no longer we want to understand why it one way or another was not sustainable how to make that sustainable and making sure if there's targets at the elementary school 0 into the high school so the use of a .4 ftes allows us to support and planning and part of the planning also look at potential fiscal input by the next spring this is what we need to make sure the pathway is viable and those are the materials and resources and the types of allocation we'll need so it is so critical at this point we have been spending the last 5 years really trying to make sure our pathways are a strong and we go through the program plummet process and the facilities to school impact curriculum we want to be able to have an opportunity to do that for this pathway. >> i'm sorry

middle school what you'll notice the notice gifted students you'll see walking the halls of that middle school is what san francisco looks like what america looks like and you'll see as a school that's completely designed to take us to our vision 2025 our students have global global skrilz skills to knot in a global economy you're going to see science and market and arts address cultural things and wrap around services and a staff that surely loves the kids they love the area but we've been strategy about people that are going to work here they're going to love our kids i'm existed about what you're seeing i'm going to turn it over to principle hobson thank you all for being here (clapping) >> next we'll have our families to share their reasons why they're accepted and employed to and accepting their positions at the willie brown jr. middle school i have sophia silver and her mother mrs. silver (clapping). >> hi my name is scoffing i can't i'm in marshall school and came to this school it's a stem school i really like science and there's going to be a robotics class (clapping). >> hi, i

that is an area the size of great britain as sounding. 35,000 square miles in the middle of the middle east and they declared a caliphate, an islamic state. this is the great deeds of every islamic jihad is screwed from the muslim brotherhood to al qaeda to isis and so on and so on. they go about it in different ways. at the end of the day the endgame is the same. the caliphate and islamic sharia law for one and all weather you like it or not. so they declared a caliphate. it is made out more than a terrorist group that it has made them a global phenomenon. ladies and gentlemen come of this is not al qaeda or hamas and that is bad and lethal enough. isis again has declared a state in a pivotal part of the world. not only that 30,000 to 40,000 well-trained fanatical for poachers. recently they have a standing army@poachers. recently they have a standing army and their global. the cia director john brennan said recently isis recruits are coming from 90 countries around the world including the united states. american airstrikes have not stemmed the flow. the flow of jihadist from every co

i mean, you're the middle class if you feel you're the middle class, and far fewer people are feelingt now. >> it has been tough and hasn't gotten a lot better for some, unfortunately. brenda, good to see you as always. thanks for talking about the potential maybe, would be, could be mrs. clinton. of course, you can watch brenda on "bulls and bears" on the fox newschannel a the weekends as she gives us her news. >> i think we'll have to start using initials once again as we await hillary clinton to make it official, the announcement of her 2016 white house bid expected to come today via social media. we'll bring it to you live right here on fox newschannel as soon as it is posted. stick around. it's going to be exciting. cine. cine. that need to be kept at 41 degrees. while being shipped to a country where it's 90 degrees. in the shade. sound hard? yeah. does that mean people in laos shouldn't get their vaccine? we didn't think so. from figuring it out to getting it done, we're here to help. i love making sunday dinners. but when my back hurt, cooking all day... forget about it. tylen

is she a credible champion for the middle class? >>> plus, marco rubio joins what is shaping up to be a crowded republican field declaring that yesterday is over. so he is the face of the gop's future? and the white house pulls its veto threat as an iran vote moves to the full senate. did president obama blink? does he have congress exactly where he wants them? >>> welcome to "the journal editorial report." i'm stuart varney in for paul gigot. hillary clinton kicked off a second presidential run this week with a move to the left, striking a populist tone as she vows to work for quote, everyday americans while railing against overpaid hedge fund managers and ceos. >> if you look across the country, the deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. and there's something wrong with that. there's something wrong when ceos make 300 times more than the typical worker. there's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers that i saw on i-80 as i was driving here over the last two day

middle east historian author. says that some 10-15% of the worlds' muslims are radicalized -- world's muslims are radicalized jihadists. that's 160, 170 million people around the world. that's a lot of people. it's not a tiny minority of extremists. and we have to acknowledge that it exists. a global jihadist movement exists that has declared war on the united states. it's not just a criminal action or a nuisance that can be shrugged off and handled in federal courts. it's a war and we're not on war footing. president obama gave a speech recently saying that the islamists have, quote legitimate grievances. legitimate grievances. look, there's a lack of economic opportunity in the muslim world, he said, and the lack of economic opportunity is driving terrorism and fueling the rise of isis. so i suppose the next big government program will be jobs for jihadists. natural conclusion. look, at the end of the day ladies and gentlemen key takeaway from this talk: terrorism is a tactic. it is fueled at the end of the day

we'll talk about that briefly. 35,000 square miles in the middle of the middle east. and they've declared a caliphate. an islamic state. the great dream of every islamic jihaddist group. from me thus brewer had to al qaeda and some on. the tactics differ but at the end of the day, the end game is the same. the caliphate. and islamic sharia law for one and all, whether you like it or not. so they declared a caliphate. the caliphate has returned. and it's made isis more than just a terrorist group. it's made them a global phenomenon. ladies and gentlemen, this is not al qaeda or hamas and that's bad and that's lethal enough. isis again has declared a state in a pivotal part of the world. if 30,000 to 40,000 well-trained fanatical foot soldiers -- basically they have a standing army and they're global. the cia director, john brennan, said recently that isis recruits are coming from 90 countries around the world, including the united states. 90 countries. and american airstrikes have not stemmed the flow. the flow of jihaddists from every corner of the globe continues. th

. >> host: i you lose the elephant is the government the middle east? >> i get this a lot. to figure out conversation in san debates but it is dominant where there is say a little bit of a of misconception it isn't just the region that if you looked at it but the u.s. is still. >> host: what is your background? >> flow and ebb of america of boom and raised in the data u.s. >> there was a high school on the west bank for a right to with undergraduates been declared to a was university of michigan for my ph.d. >> host: would you do at princeton? >> this is my 13th year i teach politics of the middle east. >> host: when students come in white you hope say take-out of that class? >> it is funny because on average a majority of students know very little about the middle east and want to learn some my primary goal is to teach for crafting get other students who say middle east politics can be polarizing and contentious but the of viewpoints so i am going to argue against a free flight especially for those students that come in with a very solid view we do a debate or an exercise

a century ago, 20% of the middle east was christian. iraq had a huge christian population, and there has been a massive exodus that predates 9/11, the war on terror, the rise of groups like al shabab. now it's really accelerated. and it's not just a phenomenon with islamist rampages of the kind that we saw but also discriminatory laws in muslim states that we consider quite moderate. in malaysia they're not allowed to use the term allah. >> it is a moderate muslim state. >> only in the context -- >> in the context of the broader middle east. so this is a much wider -- >> you have some of the statistics to illustrate his point about how they've been purged, christians, have been purged from the middle east. >> there were well over 1 million. 700,000 have fled iraq. these are not immigrants. these people have lived there since the time of jesus co-existed there, and they're down to about 300,000. what we have to make clear here is this is not only real but these groups are targeting these groups for epgs termination. they want to eliminat

other middle schools. at the high school level our high school program has recently using a program be real, be ready and developed through the adolescent work group. the curriculum is delivered by high school education teachers and in partnership with several community based organizations and agencies. the teacher is teamed up with a cbo partner and on the next slide i will outline some of the specific lessons. of this 24 lesson curriculum the areas that are highlighted very much align with the topic of sexual assault, sexual violence prevention and healthy relationships. we have also conducted an initial evaluation of this curriculum with 22 educational health classes at five high schools showing very promising results. students are reporting increased knowledge and comfort on these curriculum topics. and additionally in collaboration with the adolescent health working group we a blyed for a grant for -- applied for a grant from the department of health and human services to do a more formal evaluation o

all middle schoolgirls. he also pleaded guilty to a 2014 case at roberto clemente middle school. in which he repeatedly squeezed the right buttocks of a 12-year- old student while in the classroom. until rockville, andrea mccarren, wusa9. >> and he is scheduled to be sentenced in may and as part of the plea deal. he will not serve more than five years in prison and he may however also be deported. >>> well, they're working past the deadline and it appears they're making some progress. coming up, a progress report on the nuclear talks with iran and coming up later -- >> why people across america are getting up and walking today. i'm matico czar with the story coming -- matt kozar with the story coming up. >> and i'm first alert meteorologist erica grow. it was a great day to get outside and we have even warmer weather on the day. but it comes at -- >>> international talks on iran's nuclear program are going into double overtime. >> the state department says steak stake will re-- secretary of state john kerry will remain at the table at least you the tomorrow. enough progress was m

his trickle-down economics increases taxes for the middle class and benefit the wealthy. he supports ending welfare as we know it. to add insult to injury, he writes a comprehensive immigration reform plan with other bipartisan senators pushes , it through the senate, and as soon as the right wing tea party extremists in his party got wind of it and were opposed to it, he ran away. the last time i checked, there is a little bit of pressure on the president of the united states. if marco rubio couldn't hack pressure from the extreme right wing of his own party how will , he handle being president? steve: just to finish up on that subject, because of your florida expertise, which one is going to win the florida republican primary? congresswoman schultz: quite frankly, it's hard to predict. it doesn't matter. no matter who the republican nominee is in the field of 19 or 22 or whatever number end up throwing their hats in the ring, they are all embracing and will present a very stark and clear contrast between our democratic nominee. because the democratic nominee will contin

middle 70s inland. middle 70s at the shoreline. the future cast that, believe it or not, time hrals, you see the low clouds popping up near the shore in advance of the cold front -- time lapse. you see the low clouds popping up near the shore advancing of the cold front. cooling things down for tuesday and tomorrow afternoon, it looks good for baseball. giants home opener against the colorado rockies, game time temperature, 62 degrees. that part is looking good. so is this. mild day. a major warm up midweek as the high pressure is about to back big time. taking numbers into the middle 80s inland by thursday. travel forecast out of the bay area, rain would be nice, it will not make it here. fresno, overnight lows in the bay area, san francisco down to 48 degrees. san jose, 76. and in fairfield, 45. forecast highs for tomorrow, looking at 65 in the city. 75 for concord, oakland at 71 degrees. well above average for this time of the year. it goes north by the end of the week. it will be as much as 20 degrees above average by thursday

class voters and how can middle class voters trust that they're being made a priority? why should they? rep. wasserman schultz: well, as you know kathy, we as a party feel very strongly that there is too much money in politics. that we need more transparency. that the citizens united decision was one of the worst decisions as president obama has said that the supreme court has handed down. it's harmful to democracy because it makes it so that you can have the massive, more than six or seven figure contributions that are opaque that voters can't see that where spending doesn't have to be reported. and it allows these oblique attacks against candidates that really i think poison the environment. so we believe that there should be transparency. we support the disclose act. as i heard secretary clinton say on the campaign trail the other day, she said we might need to consider amending our constitution to ensure that we can roll back some of the worst changes that occurred after citizens united. that's where our party is. but of course under the rules of engagement as they

we will talk about that briefly. 35,000 square miles in the middle of the middle east. they declared a caliphate an islamic state. this is the great dream of every islamic jihad is group from the muslim brother to al qaeda to isis and so on and so on. they go about it in different ways. the tactics differ as we will discuss but at the end of the day remember the endgame is the same the caliphate and islamic sharia law for one and all whether you like it or not. so they declared a caliphate. the caliphate has returned and it made isis more than just a terrorist group. it's made them a global phenomenon. ladies and gentlemen this is not al qaeda or hamas and that is bad and that's lethal enough. i sais again has declared a state and a pivotal part of the world. not only that they are 30 to 40,000 well-trained well-trained fanatical foot soldiers. basically they have a standing army. and they are global. the cia director john brennan said recently that isis recruits are coming from 90 countries around the world including the united states. 90 countries. and american airstr

on christie field the entire middle school will run a 5 k parents and teachers and staff members and invited yours truly so i'll get laps by a middle school schooler and thank you for demonstrating and modeling what lifelong physical education look like i look forward to being out this and lastly i'd like to recognize this evening the last official board meeting our chief general council our general council don davis will be retiring from the san francisco unified school district and he's served this district with distinction for the past 2 and a half years he comes down with a longs legal career he's looking forward to having no agenda. >> i think indicative of don's spirit when i asked him what is it like he said i'm looking to do high leverage pro bono work we thank you don for your advise and most popular don't smile too much when you think of us every tuesday night and your by the policy in la thank you, don for your service and being here (clapping). >> thank you, mr. instructor the next agenda item recognized and oh, i'm sorry we're moving to item one item under h superintende

. >> and in middle -- >> what volcker did. >> in middle of a deep recession in mid elf 80s citigroup experienced first of 3 collapses. but bernanke was saying raising interest rates like taking a elephant gun to a mosquito. i am not sure he picked this title, this is an inept title. i understand their psychology, but, we're dealing with now is we tried everything. we tried triples of fed balance sleet attacks hikes and government spending what about tax cuts, we have yet to do that. >> simon and liz. one time all 3 of us were at "wall street journal." >> i am still there. >> thank you very much. >> so is the white house about to give thetic smek the economy some juice by squeezing the middle class some more. but first grover norquest is revved up, and he is here, that is next. the pursuit of healthier. it begins from the second we're born. after all, healthier doesn't happen all by itself. it needs to be earned... every day... using wellness to keep away illness... and believing that a single life can be made better by millions of others. healthier takes somebody who can power modern

they cut out the middle man. that cuts out a lot of the middle class. >> why does this happen? as john points out, it was sort of music to my ears. this is when government gets into the business of health care or energy or education or home ownership. once you get government into the business of all of these different industries, there are people who are going to be winners and people who are going to be losers and there are people who are lobbying to be the winners it i don't think it's any surprise we're seeing wall street sort of, you know, want to get on the bandwagon quickly. bau they're going to want to get on the republican bandwagon too because as john says this is a symptom of a bloated state. >> wall street is going to hedge their bets no matter who is running. here we go again. why a new plan to rush first-time homebuyers in as our guys freaking out. will you end up footing the bill? mom, when is daddy coming home? ♪ he called her on the road ♪ [phone rings] ♪ from a lonely cold hotel room ♪ hello. hi, honey. ♪ just to hear her say ♪ i love you. ♪ "i love you" ♪ ♪ on

ladies and gentlemen as a cornerstone of peace and stability, the middle east -- in the middle east egyptis another potential risk for the region. egypt is important country for the muslim world. egypt is important for middle east and egypt is very crucial country for another only northern africa but the whole continent. egyptian leadership pushes to the people they say see opposition underground and towards radicalism. our concern is if this current trend is left unchecked a new and more violent social -- in egypt well be inevitable. egypts problems can only be solved in a liberal and efficient political environment. therefore we encourage all parties to advocate establishment of an inclusive political system in egypt, too. ladies and gentlemen, of course one cannot speak about the middle east without touching upon the palestinian issue because it remains a core challenge in this region. actually we all know of solutions. a state of israel living side-by-side with an independent and sovereign state of palestine, on 1967 borders, with jerusalem as its capital. yet despise the evers evers

is if you feel plidle middle class you are middle class. and fewer and fewer people do. that's because this recovery has been anything but tepid. and wages are stagnant. and the cost of living is going up. look at college education health care. these are all making it impossible for people to have what the middle class is, what is, you know housing, college education, retirement savings. it's really not -- >> you know the labor department tells us that the jobless rate has fallen to 5.5%. but the truth is the real or effective unemployment rate is more than double that. manufacturing, new home construction, that seems to have slowed down consumer spending, which is you know, the engine of economic growth, is still anemic? snits. i'm going to take that last point first because i think it's the most telling point of data and economic insecurity. gas prices have gone like this. and consumers are not spending that money. they are scared. they don't know what is going to come next. and when you have that kind of economic insecurity you are not g

and extending its power through middle east, and northern africa. president might have give up some attention as well in his comments to russia and its invasion of ukraine and annexation of crimea but he did not, obama's world view, blames these, the come blind media for -- compliant media for a consistent sense that all is not right in the world. as christian heads roll on the beaches, mr. obama will notch allow himself to be accountable for the ayatollah who is having his way in nuclear nations president insisting that world ord ser not frayed and not torn by a the capitalling obama foreign policy, it seems that way here said of because the same median that plays lap talk to him and his policies, is clueless when he said covering international affairs. >> if it bleeds it leaks you show crime and fires, that is what folks watch this is all about ratings the problem of terrorism and disfunction and a koss with plane crash -- chaos and plane crashes and other things is the equivalent when it comes to covering international affairs. lou: can you imagi

she doesn't live the life of a middle class person. she travels in private aircraft, stays in suites. and the fact that whin when she served this government she didn't do a very good job before foreign policy has been a disaster under her watch. but she will not talk about foreign policy because she can't afford it. and that's why she will go wrong. because you cannot control the message and she learned that less anon in 2007. >> richard, you say what. >> hillary clinton in the gallup poll of americans is the most a mired woman in the world for 18 of the past 21 year. all these so-called scandals that brad and others referenced going way back when up until the e-mail sell e-mail silliness. you know who else lived in mansions? fdr and jfk. and they stoo up for thed up for the mid class and it's because of their values. all the republican opponents that we'll be laying it on her have kind of lost sight of the fact that what her policies are. >> brad, i'll give you the last word. >> the danger are of putting all your eggs in one basket is

middle school is unique fwh that it does not have a stand alone health ed class so it's a sitting in typically in the science class so i think the limited training and limited time challenges face both of them whereas at high school because it's a graduation requirement we do have the course in place. >> okay. so your data collection was basically -- do you do it or don't you? but it wasn't why you're not presenting it, but you're assuming that it is because they don't have time in the day and they're not comfortable with the subject matter? is that correct? >> the source of the challenges and barriers come from our health advocates who are classroom teachers who serve as a liaison between program activities and the individual school sites so we survey them at a meet last month and asked for some of that to develop the three year health education plan. >> okay thanks and then i have a question about do we have any numbers of reported s sexual assaults for the schools? >> i will go to the superintendent for that data. >> oh that's great because i have another question for associate su

a century ago about 20% of the middle east was christian.towns like bethlehem were christian towns. iraq had a huge christian population and there has just been a massive exodus that predates 9/11, the war on terror, the rise of groups like al shabaab. now it's really accelerated. it's not just the phenomenon with islamist rampages of the kind that we saw, but also discriminatory laws even in muslim states that we consider quite moderate. in malaysia, christians are not allowed to use the term allah. there are systematic, informal discrimination in indonesia. which is held up as a moderate muslim state. >> it is -- >> but only in the context of sort of the broader middle east. so this is -- this is a much wider process than people -- >> you have some of the statistics of that -- to illustrate bret's point. >> there were well over a million christians in syria. at least 700,000 have fled. iraq had 1.5 million christians. these are not immigrants. these people have lived there since the time of jesus and coexisted there. they're down to 300,00

comment on that. >> just to add to i think the concept behind setting aside a small fund for the middle schools is clearly we didn't have the implementation plan for the first reading but we did hear dribble in a number of school principles that tried to put their best thinking how do we accomplish meeting several goals one around test piloting protocol personalized planning on site what would a tool look like that that helps us to work with the accelerated learners in particular what would it look like if we opened up a section or two sponsored by a mentoring teacher in sciences or another related area to have students work on specific and personalized based learning sort of have the capital to work on that concept what would that look like to expand an elective within the daily master school or immediately after school to open up opportunities in the stem field in particular and incorporate some of the topics listed here as well. >> commissioner wynns. >> thank you so i'm shutting off through the things right now so i can't refer to it in the document but i noticed we've moved $200,00

typically at the high school level through the wellness program and at our middle or elementary through the school social worker and nurse. >> i'm sorry. i didn't quite get the college prep piece of it, so is there -- again just because there's so much more that we know now has there been some added curriculum around preparation? >> i think the question -- my apologies for missing that -- points out a another area of need as we develop the high school health ed program and although the program is strong typically it is implemented in ninth or tenth grade so we have a gap of time for the 11th and 12th graders and some of the out of the class events support that, the outside speakers and assemblies and health fairs but we talked about the idea of a second dose of health ed programming that could happen in 11th and 12th grade. that's not currently in place and it's something we would like to explore. >> thank you commissioner mendoza and i want to appreciate the school district for the presentation. it's just the first hearing. i think of many more and i know the health curriculum is a con

middle 50's. we are back into the upper 60's noontime, daytime highs in the lower 70's, chance of thunderstorms. what can we expect for the upcoming weekend? details coming up. leon: two teenagers were killed when a car hit a dump truck had on in beltsville early in the morning. investigators are trying to determine what led to the crash. roz plater has a look at how the victims are being remembered. roz: those families are struggling tonight. the accident happened at about 4:30 a.m. on a dark stretch of road. five young people in the car two young men did not survive. two prince george's county families are forever linked in tragedy. >> nobody thought it would happen to us. roz: a 19-year-old stephan -- >> i would never think for one day he would just be gone and i will be able to see him anymore. roz: and 19-year-old marvin. >> i love marvin. i don't know what i'm going to do. roz: they were killed on the stretch of edmonton road in beltsville. the investigation is being investigated, but the po

the sister moment happen when clinton was triangulating to play in the middle.he thinks the way to win is to mobilize and drive the obama coalition out to voters and get young voters. that is what is driving a lot of her calculation about why she can't afford. mark: when a history of this campaign is written, the bill de blasio thing is going to be a not significant moment. let's read about the classic fairy tale of the brothers koch. david coke -- david koch is looking favorably at scott walker. then charles koch says they are keen on a quintet of republican nominees. in chapter three a koch memo that outlines a campaign plan that also includes branching out with new chapters in red states. sounds very, very big. it's too much being made of the koch's alleged possible and potential? john: no. two numbers -- 50 billion and 50 billion. they both have net worth's $50 billion. they are super billionaires, who have played the political game very smartly. these guys are not just angels they could really move the needle people are focused on it because they are really

middle school will be the 9th beacon center for the city and county of san francisco (clapping.) what did he mean i don't think we've opened the beacon center what do you do what well 20 years ago then former mayor willie brown invited new york state and he saw schools this were embraced by the school with supportive after-school programs with entities that existed beyond the hours of the school that brought talent to the school site at all hours whether for health support or more creation those days you'll find cody's to help with the center that's created here with all the after-school programs that make that a beacon this is what we mean by beacon center lead by the investing of the city and county of san francisco we're pouring in over $4 million in each and all of beacon centers that's y where superintendent wants me to go each - but it's our city investment that demonstrates to the private sector we're putting in our investment here our kids are our investment join us in making them your investment do more than watch invest and you'll see the parent and community come alive

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these things would make a difference over time for the middle class. move to a more progressive tax system where we close tax shelters and use the results of closing tax shelters to provide benefits to middle-class people. these are all elements of a strategy that would accelerate growth in overall incomes and make sure that a larger share would go to the middle class, and that's got to be the central priority for the country. my hope would be that the presidential campaign will be about different strategies for doing that, but to start with, we need to know what the fundamental objective is, and i believe that objective should be raising middle-class incomes. >> when you look at all these republican plans, economc plans, which focus very substantially on deficit reduction and also on tax reform, what do you think of them? >> i don't think the deficit is our biggest economic problem. we've reduced the deficit from 11% of gdp to below 3% of gdp. it's lower now relative to the economy than it's been on average over the last 40 years, certainly than it wa

act would continue for 16.4 million americans, instead of having the massive tax increase on the middle class that comes from getting rid of the tax credits. it would stop the cuts in medicare and in medicaid. mr. chairman, i do want to mention one other thing, as chair of the agriculture and nutrition committee during the 2014 farm bill. we made very tough decisions at that time, and, frankly, things i hear everybody talk about they want to do. we looked at every program. we cut over 100 different programs and authorizations. we cut billions of dollars more than what was required from sequestration. the only committee that did that. but our farmers and ranchers need the security of this farm bill. mr. chairman, i would like to thank you for not including agriculture in the reconciliation instruction in the senate. we have about 400 different organizations, led by the american arm bureau and others, who have asked us not to include the language in the final document. we have made the cuts, more than any other committee, beyond reconciliation and unfortunately, if we open up the farm bil

that's a very big undertaking. >> at but you end up with two existential threats in the middle east,e six gulf states. >> so let's talk about that foreign -- how it's going overseas because the supreme leader said basically what dan said, there's no accord. the americans put out a talking points that we don't agree with. for example, we insist that sanctions be lifted immediately. that the americans say they're phased. well that's a big difference. >> he not only said that sanctions had to be lifted immediately, but he said there's no inspections of any military sites. >> and that contrasts with what the americans are saying that we'll be able to go anywhere. >> as henry kissinger said earlier in the week in our paper, this is a big problem when you don't have verification and you have no way to enforce the deal. you know, khamenei also said his negotiating partners were back stabbers so he was not extended the olive branch to the obama administration this week. some people say that's for domestic consumption at home so he can show, you know, he's lined up with the hard liners. but i