. >> oklahoma state university very important study and proven labeling helps the people who need itst are people who need to lose weight, let's face it, but it's not really going to help you lose weight, is it? no. basically let's face it, a public health catastrophe, obesity. costs america more like her $37 billion per year. we go a long ways. neil: we put trust in these numbers we have the proper range on a burrito. speak of the best diving history was world war ii when the government told us what to eat. history here. neil: what do you make of this? i understand what she is saying about you have to wake up and realize we are off by 30%, the issue isn't that, but we could should not be eating this to begin with. >> i'm not looking forward to a world war ii diet rationing program. but you look at this, just have to laugh at the irony. the government forces as this is to provide this supposedly helpful information and shocker, using the guidelines an and thep not being all that helpful. some people want accurate caloric information, other people won't care so much. that sounds like

at oklahoma state university veterinarian hospital. you won't just see spot run, you'll see him jump and even walk on the treadmill. anything to get these pudgy pooches down to a healthy weight. >> if they're obese, they'll live two years on average less than a dog who's normal weight. so, we want them to be there as long as possible. >> good job! >> reporter: this doctor is one of the doggie fat camp's on-staff veterinarians. among her canine clientele, a dog that shed 25 pounds in the past few weeks thanks to her daily exercises. and there's magic, a labrador retriever for raiding the cabinet. >> she got into waffle chips. >> reporter: magic's fitness routine includes 20 minutes on the water treadmill, plus a strict diet of low-calorie, high-protein dog food. it's not just about slimming down. these lucky dogs also get full-on spa treatments. even the most pampered humans might be jealous of. >> we offer low-level laser therapy. water treadmill. therapeutic exercises in a comfortable and safe way. >> reporter: not a dog person. no pr

this is the place where dogs go to lose the pound, at the doggy fat camp at oklahoma state university's just see spot run, you'll see him jump, even walk on a treadmill. anything to get these pudgy pooches down to a healthy weight. >> we know that if they're obese, they will live two years on average less than a dog who is normal weight. so we want them to be there as long as possible. >> reporter: dr. laura is one of the doggy fat camp's on-staff veterinarians. among her canine clientele, coda, a newfoundland, who shed 25 pounds in the past three weeks thanks to her daily exercises. then there's magic, a labrador whose penchant for raiding her owner's pantry landed her here. >> she got into an entire bag of waffle chips. so we didn't weigh in. we thought we'd give her a grace period to wear that back off. >> reporter: the routine includes 20 minutes on the water treadmill twice a week, plus a strict diet of low calorie, high protein dog food. but it's not just about slimming down. these lucky dogs also get full-on spa treatments, even the most pampered humans might be jealous of. >> we

so do you think -- and also oklahoma, a deep red state, has universal pre-k, is really sort of the preeminentdel for how this could be done in the entire country. do you think this is an area where republicans and democrats really could work together to build some sort of consensus around universal pre-k? >> well, i think it's possible. i think david brooks is a wonderful columnist but david brooks very often says republicans know what's good for them, they'll get on board with this and republicans rarely do it. i thought that was an interesting column. but i still think that the party's instinct is when republicans see something like this, i think they see more government, more spending and they flinch from it. it is a very popular issue. i think it was a smart one for the president to pick. i've heard some theorizing that he may be setting up some kind of a deal on a very popular program that republicans can sign on to. give again, to go back to the question of letting down the base that wants no entitlement cuts, maybe you introduce new things into equation and say we have this great new e

but no state is conservative like oklahoma is, right? and yet oklahoma has had universalre-kindergarten since the late 1990s. and they got it in the most amazing way. the story starts with this guy, joe eddins. he's a rancher, a biology teacher, an oklahoma state representative, and that rarest of all oklahoma political critters, joe eddins is a democrat. at the time he got to office in 1994, oklahoma schools were putting 4-year-olds in school because the law allowed them to and because a glitch in state law said inadvertently oklahoma schools would get paid for having extra kids enrolled in kindergarten. well, they started putting 4-year-olds in kindergarten and it turned out putting pre-kindergarten aged kids in kindergarten classes didn't necessarily suit those kids all that well. so mr. eddins proposed closing the loopholes that let 4-year-olds be in oklahoma's kindergarten classrooms. but when he did that, he snuck in way deep in the legislative thicket of the where for's and the hereby withes he snuck in an entirely different grade, for prekindergarten for those kid

shouldn't have been president obama who proposed adopting universal pre-k with a model like the one that's worked so well in oklahoma. oklahoma is a red statecentives and local partnerships and it's working. y'all should have been all over that. right now the democratic party has a monopoly on ideas for issues ranging from lessening income inequality to dealing with climate change and that lack of competition is not good for anyone. democrats respect forced to innovate and can just sit back and laugh at the lame old gop. just think how the health care law could have been improved if republicans had used an evidence-based approach to improving it rather than closing their eyes, sticking their fingers in their ears and repeating repeal and replace over and over again. we are made worse off and democrats are allowed to be lazy by an opposition that approaches governance as a series of political gimmicks, forced crises and rhetorical devices. we need you, gop. so take a little break from frank luntz, put the reagan quotes aside, forget about all the things that you must oppose at all

shouldn't have been president obama who proposed adopting universal pre-k with a model like the one that's worked so well in oklahoma. oklahoma is a red state. they're using incentives and local partnerships and it's working. y'all should have been all over that. right now the democratic party has a monopoly on ideas for issues ranging from lessening income inequality to dealing with climate change and that lack of competition is not good for anyone. democrats respect forced to innovate and can just sit back and laugh at the lame old gop. just think how the health care law could have been improved if republicans had used an evidence-based approach to improving it rather than closing their eyes, sticking their fingers in their ears and repeating repeal and replace over and over again. we are made worse off and democrats are allowed to be lazy by an opposition that approaches governance as a series of political gimmicks, forced crises and rhetorical devices. we need you, gop. so take a little break from frank luntz, put the reagan quotes aside, forget about all the things that you must oppose at all costs lest freedom die and bald he'eagles d

universal pre-k program in oklahoma. oklahoma and georgia have big pre-k programs here. red states.hey have a good program study by georgetown and there are good effects. they made sure that teachers did not get treated worse. they get the same starting salaries. i believe they are required to have a master's degree in education. when georgetown did a study, they found big changes in what those kids readiness for school coming out of that program. there are all kinds of things of how the changes persist, we haven't done enough studies yet. but we can make a huge difference. and president obama was careful to say different programs in different states to see what is working best and extend that across the country. >> seems rational when you put it that way. thanks, ezra. ed is with us also. we saw you interview nancy pelosi about the speech. are you getting the sthaens sense that tonight's speech will change the agenda in washington? >> two issues on the table that were not expected to be as divisive as they are. firearms and immigration. one thing that needs to be done -- at least t

baltimore, maryland, new orleans, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, virginia, the university of central florida, and of dickinson and nathaniel colleges, and the leaders of the state police in new york and rhode island. with these and other law enforcement officers here today please stand and be recognized. thank you very much. we cannot allow the carnage i have described to continue without taking action on what is a serious matter of public policy. that is why i have joined with many of my colleagues. senator schumer, senator durbin, senator whitehouse, senator blumenthal, as well as many others off the committee introduced legislation to prohibit the sale, transfer, many factual, and importation of assault weapons and high- capacity magazines. as the members of this committee know, we in acted a ban on assault weapons and high- capacity magazines, which i authored in the senate and senator schumer sponsored in the house in 1994. unfortunately, that law had a 10 year expiration. congress failed to renew it when it expired in 2004. since the ban expired, many people have been killed with assault weapons. over 450 have been wounded. they're more lethal today than

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