my name is mike daniels. i am the president of the merrimack academy. we serve 115 students, along with 116 alumni in high school and college. i am here to stress cpmc's commitment to the needy in the tenderloin. it is built upon a strong foundation of a long partnership with the academy, providing comprehensive counseling and help programming -- health programming that includes a nine-person team of counselors that provide in-kind services that make possible for over 50% of our student body to receive counseling support. for the kids of the tenderloin, to have an opportunity to speak with professional, dedicated counselors about the situation they are experiencing, about the challenges that are facing makes a tremendous difference. i have no doubt it is in direct correlation to the success we are able to have with our kids. we have 70% of our college-aged students in a four-year university. it is because of partnerships like that which we have with cpmc which make possible the work we do. the partnership also includes a faculty member that is donated b

strategist and columnist for "time" magazine, mike murphy, columnist for "the washington post", marc morial and chairman of the ihs cambridge research association, danielergin. welcome to all of you. a lot to get to. mike murphy, the budget. there's going to be a big fight over the budget. we're still talking about just the spending for this year. take me behind the curtain as i try to get senator durbin to do. are we headed for a shutdown? >> a big game of chicken going on. the leadership doesn't want to shutdown but the house republicans waon an election on cutting spending. i don't think we'll get one of the it will go to the end. a lot of high drama and squawking. when the new budget comes out, which is the big fight, will make this look like a side show on tuesday and some of that fighting energy in the republican caucus is going to think, wait a minute, let's not gum down the big night with a six-month shutdown brawl. it will be huge and first cannon blast of 2012. >> where has the president been? >> mike laid out what the leadership is going to argue. democrats have offered depending on how you want to count it, $73 billion in cuts republicans w

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host: mike glover, what you think the potential of daniels out of indiana? guest: he could be a formidable candidate. he's a midwesterners. we relate to midwesterners. he brings a name i.d. he brings a financial thing to the field. i have to tell you, mitch daniels did himself some harm with social conservatives when he said it was time for republicans to "call a truce on debating social issues." a lot of people -- a big applause line that you hear at republican events ispeople undel conservatives do not like it. he would have a big hurdle to overcome social conservatives. host: what do you think? guest: obviously he is a social conservative. i believe the republican caucus goers next year, 60% to 65% are evangelical. a statement like that will hurt him. in the state like new hampshire is the second-least religious state in the country. we do not care about social issues. he has to focus really on fiscal matters. he could be something like a player here. he is completely unknown. he has never visited the state. you do here among certain republican elite they

host: mike glover, what you think the potential of daniels out of indiana?st: he could be a formidable candidate. he's a midwesterners. we relate to midwesterners. he brings a name i.d. he brings a financial thing to the field. i have to tell you, mitch daniels did himself some harm with social conservatives when he said it was time for republicans to "call a truce on debating social issues." a lot of people -- a big applause line that you hear at republican events ispeople undel conservatives do not like it. he would have a big hurdle to overcome social conservatives. host: what do you think? guest: obviously he is a social conservative. i believe the republican caucus goers next year, 60% to 65% are evangelical. a statement like that will hurt him. in the state like new hampshire is the second-least religious state in the country. we do not care about social issues. he has to focus really on fiscal matters. he could be something like a player here. he is completely unknown. he has never visited the state. you do here among certain republican elite they are