when ari was still sleeping in a crib, rahm and i would climb on to the top level of our bunk bed and jump into it with such force that it rattled the wood that held it together and bounced ari off the mattress and into the air. basically, ari's behavior ever since is down to you two, isn't it, tormenting him in that bunk bed? >> yeah, but what you didn't read is that he really enjoyed that. i mean, he was a stark enough kid to endure that with no problem. >> when i interviewed rahm, he was the first emanuel brother i had interviewed and i got a real sense of a steely streak inside him which i think just judging from what the book says, you guys operate very much as a pack. one of you gets attacked, the emanuel brothers will defend each other to the hilt. despite all the rivalry, you are actually very loyal to each other, aren't you? >> oh, yes. that's absolutely true. as i think i say somewhere in the book, my brothers are my harshest critic maybe only after my daughters. but then if someone outside does something that's untoward or nasty, i can rely on them both to defend me and to

. >> rahm emanuel, former white house chief of staff, current mayor of chicago, giving his brother hequiel a hard time. clearly wasn't all sweetness and light growing up in the competitive household. ezequiel wrote "brothers emanuel, memoir of an american household." he joins me now. zeke, that was your brother rahm making it pretty clear he didn't think you were the most talented member of the family, as the older, the eldest sibling, what was your reaction to that treachery? >> you've heard of sibling rivalry. we're all talented in our own individual ways. >> you are an extraordinary family. it's a remarkable book simply for telling the story of how the three of you basically grow up in this family. your parents came to america as immigrants from israel and they produced these three extraordinary brothers who climbed to the very top of each of their professions. when you look back over your early childhood together, what was it do you think about the environment and atmosphere of the emanuel household that drove you guys to be so successful? >> first, let me make clear that when we

when ari was still sleeping in a crib, rahm and i would climb on to the top level of our bunk bed andt with such force that it rattled the wood that held it together and bounced ari off the mattress and into the air. basically, ari's behavior ever since is down to you two, isn't it, tormenting him in that bunk bed? >> yeah, but what you didn't read is that he really enjoyed that. i mean, he was a stark enough kid to endure that with no problem. >> when i interviewed rahm, he was the first emanuel brother i had interviewed and i got a real sense of a steely streak inside him which i think just judging from what the book says, you guys operate very much as a pack. one of you gets attacked, the emanuel brothers will defend each other to the hilt. despite all the rivalry, you are actually very loyal to each other, aren't you? >> oh, yes. that's absolutely true. as i think i say somewhere in the book, my brothers are my harshest critic maybe only after my daughters. but then if someone outside does something that's untoward or nasty, i can rely on them both to defend me and to give me very

the streets wednesday to protest that city's plan to close fifty four schools and they stop mayor rahm emanuel before it's too late last night half a tonio coming up in just a moment also the republicans have created a political death star and its target is the middle class we'll talk to the nation magazine reporter leaves the rights of new attack machine and what progress is can do to fight back and later in the show is a your take my take live segment your chance to call in and ask a question or make a comment live on the air. you need to know this last week chicago announced a plan to close fifty four cities public schools and when you see residents are fighting back opening up a new front in the battle line for our comments on wednesday thousands of activists union leaders and everyday chicagoans marched on city hall to protest the school shut down over one hundred were arrested and taken into police custody the protests are given new attention to the fight over chicago's public schools but the storm has been brewing there for some time last fall the chicago teachers union organize

. >>> now to chicago and the outrage expressed over mayor rahm emanuel's plan to close dozens of that city's public schools. 30,000 kids will be moved to different schools, most of them black on the city's south and west sides. chicago's not the only city where budget problems are forcing big changes in the public schools. our chief education correspondent rehema ellis is in detroit tonight after an all day conference as part of our education nation initiative. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. detroit is like a lot of cities struggling with budget deficits and closing schools like the one behind me. proposed shut-downs in chicago are more and bigger than any city has ever attempted all at one time. outrage intensified as word spread. 54 public schools in chicago are slated to close at the end of this school year. >> my child has been here since he's been going to school. >> it's so sad to think that they are all going to be separated. >> reporter: the city is working to address a $1 billion deficit and says the closures could save $560 million over ten years. before it

and if somebody is fighting rahm emanuel, i'm usually happy about it.e back we'll have a conversation about whetherite threeists should have civil rights? are they the new minority that are being discriminated against? [ male announcer ] it's red lobster's lobsterfest our largest selection of lobster entrees like lobster lover's dream or new grilled lobster and lobster tacos. come in now and sea food differently. now, buy one lobsterfest entree and get one 1/2 off with a coupon at redlobster.com. ♪ >> cenk: all right. we're back on "the young turks." we have turk row here. ana what is our story here today? >> one in five americans are now religiously unaffiliated which indicates that they don't really believe in a particular religion. they might consider themselves spiritual, but they are not christian, or muslim or jewish. todd stifel who is an atheist believes there is a lot of discrimination towards atheists. so he has spent $3.5 million to turn that into an civil issue. >> we value teaching how to think, not what to think. [ cheers ] >> we value sci

rahm emanuel.ing, they're not closing schools for racial reasons. they are closing them because they simply can't afford them any longer. >> neil: a brain drain from the city. there isn't a need for as many of them. that as well. but the schools will be closed. maybe they won't close all 100. but the bottom line is a lot will be closed. >> the scene we're watching isn't going to stop him. so that extent, they can do it. first amendment says they can do it. every right to do it. challenge rahm emanuel. challenge the public school system. but to put your body on the street and say they're racist? people pick me up are an opposite color than me? that is preposterous. terrible examine for the kids they are supposed to be teaching. >> neil: the end result if most, if not all the schools are closed. education will go on and the kids will go elsewhere. the adjustment might be rocky but it will still happen. for rahm emanuel and unions, which way did it go. >> i can't see the labor union endorsing anybody

emanuel, you guys have also been criticized as essentially being in rahm emanuel's pocket.o you respond to those accusations? >> it's a volunteer job so we're not in anyone's pocket. i understand who appointed me but i also understand who comes before the school board every month, parents, teachers, community members. i'm a life long community resident, so these are my neighbors, friends, people i run into at the grocery store about my life at chicago. corporate lawyer, i volunteer as a school board member as volunteers do across america. we stand here full well the concerns of our community. it tugs at our heart. it would tug more at my heart if we didn't take the resources and give them to the students that need it now. >> what do you say to parents and teachers who say we're not involved enough in the decision making process. >> this is the first time in chicago we've undergone the task for closing schools. usually in the past for poor performance, this time for underutilization, where we had a commission, parents, teachers, students, community members got to voice their

i've known rahm emanuel for a long time, chris.es strong things, difficult things, but no way, no how ever is rahm emanuel a racist. >> former governor ed rendell, always good to see you. >> thanks, chris. >>> today's tweet of the day from the "washington post" ezra klein. the average person in the u.s. is 37.2 years old. the average piece of infrastructure is 22.1 years old. zap technology. departure. hertz gold plus rewards also offers ereturn-- our fastest way to return your car. just note your mileage and zap ! you're outta there ! we'll e-mail your receipt in a flash, too. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. mom? who's mom? i'm the giants mascot. eat up! new jammin jerk chicken soup has tasty pieces of chicken with rice and beans. you know the giants don't have a mascot right mom? [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. >>> the resumes are printed, military cards in hand, right now more than 1,000 veterans are exploring job opportunities at a recruitment event. it's part o

rahm, how you doing? >> good, joe, you? >> we were just talking to your brothers.k you so much. so let's talk about what chicago did to earn the grant. >> we did -- look, every city collects a huge amount of data and every city's services are usually on a reactive position. we want to get to a proactive and preventative type of measure, so we're going to collect all the data. you take an incident like when chicago had its blizzard. before, if you looked at weather, traffic, pedestrian data, you could have done something on a basis that got proactive when that storm was coming in, that would not have had people stuck on lake shore drive and we're going to have that available to every other city. and that's the kind of information that we're going to make -- every city collects huge amounts of data, but we never actually use it, colate it, and get in a very predictive type of position where it's much faster to provide a service. so we're going to go from a reactive position to a predictive position and have those services in front of a problem where it's much cheaper

it has rahm emanuel in a heck of a jam. he is closing more than 50 schools to take cash and now the teachers union that helped make him the mayor is right now. detroit had to bring in outside supervisor in. when good intentions go very bad. >> that is right. they are making the right move to merge these failing schools in places like chicago and detroit. they have already seen this. the problem is the unions who are balking at this. they have been living a very nice lifestyle for a long time. and they don't like to see this happening. but pontiac michigan has done with great sucss. the problem is when you have urban sprawl in the campaign for coming out to find a way to pay for it. it may be an issue of emerging entire towns throughout the country. >> you have to do stf like this at times. what i'm wondering is what is going on in chicago and detroit and what could be happening very soon in upstate new york. or is it a sign of thetimes? >> those areas just don't have the tax base to solve the problem with cuts and spending.

obama's incoming chief of staff rahm emanuel mapped out his governing stat story. -- strategy. >> anpportunity to do things that you think you could knotted do before. >> do you remember when rahm emanuel said never let a crisis get away. what did you think when you heard that? >> unbelievably cynical. >> he ran plastics company in wisconsin. >> that is exactly what it is. they didn't let a crisis go to waste. >> when a town is burning you don't check party labels. everybody needs to take hold. >> president obama invoked the economic crisis to ram through an $800 stimulus bill. there was a growing fear among some voters that america couldn't afford this trillion here a trillion there attitude in washington. house republicans heard them. not a single one voted for the bill. it was a lesson for the gop in the era of obama says georgia congressman. >> it was a non stimulus bill. it was the same kind of unity that must be corralled and embraced because we remain the main anotherity party. you couldn't stop with this. >> made a statement and nothing happened. >> it wasn't that nothing hap

what i mean by that, an opportunity to do things you could not do before. >> do you remember when rahmnuel said in 2008 never let a crisis go to waste. >> absolutely. >> john: what do you think? >> cynical. >> at the time he ran a plastics company in wisconsin. >> of course, they didn't let a crisis go to waste. >> when the town is burning, you don't check the party labels. everybody needs to grab a hose. >> his first month in office president obama invoked the economic crisis to ram through an 800 billion dollars stimulus bill, but there was a growing fear among some voters that america couldn't afford this new a trillion here, a trillion there attitude in washington. house republicans heard them. not a single one voted for the bill. it was a lesson for the g.o.p. in the era of obama, says georgia congressman, republican tom price. >> that was a big moment for the g.o.p.? >> it was. the unity that was expressed during, call the non-stimulus bill is the same kind of unity that absolutely must be corralled and embraced because we remain the minority party in this town. >> you couldn't s

safe. >> give the resources to the current school, the they were hood schools. >> reporter: mayor rahmnderenrolled schools the largest school consolidation in u.s. history is necessary to deal with the looming $1 billion budget gap. >> having been the product of the civil rights movement and having done exactly as the people are doing today, i get it. it's a part of the democratic process and i respect it. >> reporter: school closures are nothing new, but they're increasingly seen as a politically charged issue revolving around race and poverty. >> i think this is a message that we will not be moved from the all negro spiritual. >> pray for our children, security for our children. >> reporter: beyond the expected teacher layoffs, many parents say they're also concerned about the added cost of transporting their child to a new school. >> the chicago public school system still has to hold three meetings for each school it plans to close. the board of education votes on the plan in late may and it is expected to pass. >> so i know that the city faces a huge financial crisis and education

rahm is the mayor of chicago. he's been the white house chief of staff under president obama, a member of congress from illinois and special counsel to president clinton in the white house. he's famously profane, enormously confident, he speaks and moves fast. a few more things to know about him, he lost part of a finger after a meat slicer accident while working at arby's. he's trained in ballet. and actually moves like a dancer. it's more of a glide than a walk. even when he's about to close the door in your face. he is the first mayor of chicago not named daly in 22 years. and it willy, to his sorrow, frustration and consternation, chicago has become the poster city for gun violence. you've got kids killing each other in your city, and that's a big deal. on top of everything else in your life, that goes to sleep with you every night and it's here with you in this room right now. >> well, yes. i wake up, the first thing i get is the overnight of what happened. i make it a purpose, which is not done, never done,

chicago mayor rahm emanuel i announced thursday the city will plan 54 schools which is 8% of the district. the mayor called the closings a tough but necessary choice citing many half empty public school buildings. opponents who turned out to protest said the closures will endanger students in troubled areas who may have to cross gang boundaries to attend classes. they think the closures will save millions. >>> gun legislation set to hit the senate floor next month will include universal background checks. this according to harry reid who introduced the bill last night. he's vowing that any bill that passes the senate must include background checks. the most contentious part of the measure. reid promised votes on a proposed assault weapons ban and limits on high capacity magazines. the legislation aims to make gun trafficking a federal crime and strengthen safety measures at schools. yesterday john lennon was thrust into the gun debate. his widow drew attention to the cause tweeting a photo of her late husband's blood-splatterered glasses from the day he was assassinated by a crazed lone g

bradley whitford played at character-based on rahm on the west wing. who would you want to play you in the movie of the emanuel brothers? >> you're asking the wrong guy. i don't have the tv. i am not a movie fanatic and i couldn't name a whole lot of movie stars. i will say though i did actually play myself once. one of the stories in the book is in 1981, my second year at oxford the bbc launched a reality show. it was a daily show called now get out of debt. the first reality survivor type show. reality tv came in in the late 70's and the bbc decides to have a competition between oxford and cambridge. there was one woman undergraduate from oxford and cambridge and they wanted one mail graduate from oxford and cambridge a farmer and businessman. they were having a hard time finding a graduate student to be on there. it happened that the producer who was looking for this had dined with my mentor for dinner actually in college i think and was relating while he was there. he says that i have someone for you. he happens to be a yankee. the guy interviewed

rahm emanuel doesn't know the truth if it would slap him in the face.ign. school closings are based on closing military bases. it's also based on information coming from an unaccredited superintendent organization. but let me just say this -- in th they. >> they say these are poorly performing schools. they're not going to have to travel more than a mile to reach their new school. and any one traveling over an extra.8 of a mile will be bussed. so they're trying to -- >> you're also spending more money. and, again, they started out this conversation when they said they had to close schools by underutilization. they said we're not looking at performance this year. so what they do is constantly change the narrative, when people push back. and they have to come up with another thing. in addition, in chicago, we have a serious gang problem here. we are talking about gangs from block to block that are fighting one another. the people that have made these decisions don't even know that. because they're not from here. they, they have no police background. so on

rahm, you have to be nuts.d, i spent most of my time working on budgets. and he said, you know, the president really wants to you do this because he thinks you've got the credibility to try to restore the reputation particularly of the cia at that time. and i looked at it as a challenge. i love a challenge. i'm a suck er for challenges. >> and his new challenge is daunting. he needs to decompress. leads me to -- he still stops everything to answer a call but now it's not the oval office or the pentagon, it's his wife at home in the carmel valley. if the white house calls, you can put the white house on hold, but if your wife calls you he to take the call. >> absolutely. first things first. >> will we ever know how much pressure you had on you? because you play it off so well. you still have a full head of hair, you look great. will we ever know as a regular civilian the amount of pressure? >> no, i don't think so because, you know, i don't know quite how to say this but starting when i was director of the cia a

this was rahm emanuel's number, the number that we have now, 50. it was always that number.out 300, then came back with 129. they were always spent in having this number, this shawk and awe, complete destruction of public leap funded public education in chicago. the key is mass mobilization of our members, our teachers, our para-professionals, clinicians, along with parentsand mmunity. they do not want their neighborhoods destroyed. >> brown: karen lewis of the chicago teachers union, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. we miss you in chicago. >> woodruff: now, we explore the so-called digital divide-- the gap in access to the internet and the challenges posed by how we use it even when we're wired in. it's been a concern for the federal communications commission. today, that agency's head, julius genachowski announced he will be stepping down soon. hari sreenivasan has the story. the last in our series on broadband and how it's changing our habits, our work, and our communities. >> if you have connectivity but you don't know how to use the programs and the softwa

is this is a president who is now the simpson bowles president he is the rubin president he is the rahm emanuel president we have a rahm emanuel white house if you really drill down and tell the truth about this administration they're more than willing to cut medicare they're more than willing to cut social security and at the same time have their talking head president go. on the speaking circuit circuit and say oh how horrible it is to even dream of cutting social security this is the this is this man is talking out of both sides of his mouth and the a bomb apologist won't admit that what's happening here is there is a whipsaw effect where the middle class and below are being horrendously handled by this president and it so it's likely that the cat food commission the simpson bowles cat food commission yeah rolled into the white house might back in tonio thanks a lot for being with us tonight thank you. coming up hundreds of gallons of nuclear waste are leaking out of so-called storage tanks at a nuclear waste facility in washington state what dangers of these leaks posing to the amer

i just happen to know that was rahm's way. >> right.the way, so a lot of veteran white house reporters have said woodward is dead wrong on this. now he is a hero of fox news a hero of the right-wing websites but major gartet from cbs says this is just run-of-the-mill. this is what happens when you are a white house reporter. you expect calls like that. jay capper, now with cnn, used to be with abc said this is nonsense. ed henry with fox news also says this is not unusual to get a call like that. i mean this is the most respectful e-mail that i can imagine that you could ever get from somebody. i have made calls worse than that. i have made e-mails worse than that. and i have received calls and e-mails worse than that. it goes with the territory. >> yeah. >> bob woodward thinks since he is so famous to be can dare agree with him. right? >> i twheetd out yesterday and i will say it again today. bob woodward is a horse's ass. his ego is out of control. come on, bob. get with the program. if you say something wrong and if you say something

most of their anger today has been directed at mayor rahm emanuel, which is not surprising. >> they are closing down schools that have names of african americans -- african- american icons, but they will open up schools to put a living billionaire's name on the front. >> he is slapping our future in the face by damaging our kids' education, and i won't tolerate it. we will not tolerate it. >> meant he said transferring students to another school is a dangerous plan -- many said transferring students to another school is a dangerous plan. >> i am concerned that their safety will be jeopardized. >> a lot of these parents have to leave home early in the morning, and they have to worry about their children going an extra three or four blocks -- it is not fair. some streets, i'm afraid across. >> if you close betsy ross, that means, like, you killing my family. will increaseey the number of volunteers at the facilities to help kids get to school safely and to help them transition. the city will be holding a series of hearings so that people can come out and comment. the school board will be

. >> maybe the ep gental rahm roman rain is a sign of the holy spirit coming upon us. you just see the gentle movement of the breeze of the holy spirit. the closer you get, the more you get settled in your mind. >> settled on naming one of the cardinals at this mass as the next worldwide catholic leader. plenty of speculation it could be an american. >> americans can get things down. american cardinal sean o'malley comes to mind, have been dealing with the sex abuse crisis for a long time, so they have that know how. >> speaking seeking a reformer, shepherd with the common touch, ceo. now in total exclusion until there's an answer. we're wondering today if this rain may wash out any sign of smoke. but that's one reason the vatican also rings bells when there's white shoek moke as a back-up. tracie potts, nbc news. >>> we're encouraged to attend a special mass to mark the star of the conclave. >> parishioners at st. christopher's telling us what they hope to see in the next pope. >> we pray very hard our next pope will be very outgoing, and he will travel as pope john p

mayor rahm eemanuel says the school closings are necessary.lder, in fact. scientists investigating leftover radiation from the big bang made the finding using new data from the european space agency's planck spacecraft. >>> a pair of adults who got sick of seeing their friends' babies dominating the news feeds started this photo plog called my precious roommate. blogger molly dresses and poses her roommate having a diaper peeking out in the version ofs the downward dog. what's cute as a kid could be creepy when you're a grownup. >>> for a pooch getting adopted from a shelter can be a fairytale but for a pit bill a story that can be told with old school rhymes. >> in west count krer shelter born and raised is the kennel is where i lived with most of the strays ♪ ♪ the kennels were small but the workers were cool ♪ ♪ after a couple of tries got adopted for good ♪ ♪ said they're gonna take me to the neighborhood ♪ ♪ it's reduced me to the dog to see how i fair ♪ ♪ you're moving with our doggy and kitty in bell air ♪ >> the parody of "fresh prince

. >> for 38, cardinals from all over the globe have been meeting in rahm, at of -- for three days, cardinals from all over the globe have been meeting in rome. they face huge challenges. congregations are declining and fewer young men are becoming priests. our special correspondent is in italy for us. >> if european catholicism has a heartland, it is here. for centuries, pilgrims have come to the tomb of saint francis of assisi. here and across italy, religion is called into the architecture. the community that has been growing for centuries is in decline. they're lacking a generation of young priests and monks and to fill the pulpits. the young are no longer answering the call. the church in italy is aging. only in the developing world is the catholic faith growing. father joseph is in training to the franciscan friar. he is one of only 14 left in this vast seminary. and he is from zambia. >> in africa, the catholic church is growing in numbers. >> what is your impression of the state of the church in europe? but the numbers are going down -- >> the numbers are going down. in europe is gett

. >> reporter: when mayor rahm emanuel hired police suspect superintendent gary mccarthy two years ago, it was a test. could mccarthy use the strategies he honed when he worked in the new york city police department to bring chicago the same kind of dramatic reductions in crime? the biggest challenge in chicago has been an estimated 68,000 gang members. one problem is a criminal justice system that lets nearly half of those arrested with illegal guns off with little or no jail time. >> the criminal justice system has to support what it is we're doing in the policing world if we're going to get long-term results rather than short-term spikes and valleys. >> reporter: so mccarthy has rolled out a series of tactical tools. first, technology. using electronic mapping to track each crime and deploy officers to hot spots, they call it putting cops on the dots. then the persistently violent sectors of chicago neighborhoods were flooded with rookies and overtime money from the mayor's office helped push 200 cops out of desk jobs at headquarters and on to the streets. finally, a gang initiative

teachers and parents angry about the consolidation plan are at odds with mayor rahm emanuel. protest. hundreds of teachers, parents, and students, took the streets of the windy city by storm wednesday afternoon. dozens cited for civil disbed yens, showing fierce opposition to school closures, parents and school employees say the cuts will impact some of the most impoverished neighborhoods. >> we need to protect our children and save our schools. >> reporter: protesters held signs, saying keep your hands off our schools and school closings equal one-term mayor. many wore red in a show of solidarity. >> i feel like none of the schools are safe. >> give the resources to the neighborhood schools, to the real public schools. >> reporter: mayor rahm emanuel seems unwilling to negotiate, and closing the 54 underenrolled schools, the largest school consolidation in u.s. history, is necessary to deal with a looming $1 billion budget gap. >> having been a product of the civil rights movement and done exactly as the people are doing today, i get it. it's a part of the democratic process

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memorable and very telegenic but it's also worth remembering or most which was the filibuster led by rahm all about to forestall the brennan nomination confirmation rather and it was an incentive you know he knew that he was going to actually get away with holding up the nomination for a day or so but it calls attention to things and what we're seeing now more than anything that you know that filibuster is an interesting kind of new media phenomenon took place largely in terms of in terms of there was be tweeted. stand with rand became a hashtag that was one of the most awkward high stakes around world most of the viewers on c.-span two were watching or watching online this is all part of a tectonic shift shift that includes things like wickedly and anonymous and whatnot that are going in digging through information that either is not particularly well acted shores kept from the people and bringing things that used to be areas of the for so that if we want more information about drones that drone policy if we want more understanding about the hardware as well as the lethal software if you

hastings threatened by rahm emanuel. the david plouffe tweet.r asking president bam a question using the sock puppet. the media is lapdog. they are so happy to be in the room. when they are ushered out of the room the other day, okay, we'll leave. do your thing. >> kimberly: they know bad things will happen if they don't step in line. >> bob: huge story, republican or not, democrat or not, if they threat on the drop a column or would haven't a white house press pass, that is absolutely -- >> greg: you are saying that davis is lying? >> bob: no. >> kimberly: this is coming from democrats, bob. >> bob: this is coming from his editor at theway. , right wing newspaper. >> dana: he was a reporter for the "washington post" and a.p. was he a right winger in those times? >> --then he went to work -- >> bob: i have no idea what he was at the a.p. hi asserts that the white house said you have to drop a column, huge allegation. huge. >> dana: what tells you it's not true? because it's a huge allegation, why do you think it's not true? >> kimberly: this is

their fight against school closings. 2 dozen protesting outside demanding a meeting with the mayor rahm emanuel. they announced it is closing more than 50 schools in the area. they are making up a billion dollar budget deficit. >> stockton, california now. the largest u.s. city to file for bankruptcy. lawyers for the central valley city of 300,000 people are filing chapter 9 to see how it will pay in the pension fund which is the top debt. >> we have stories you can bank on this morning. bad news for your wallet. while many of us are making less than we were four years ago, joining us now to explain why is lauren simonetti from the fox business network. >> what's the primary reason here? >> there is a few reasons mostly because it costs more money. i am going to show you some numbers. they are really startling. when it feels like we are not making money we always say that. when you look at the data we are not. median household income is over 51,000 dollars. take a look at that on a time line. 6 percent less than when the economic recovery began in summer of 2009 and less than when the r

all right we know that some of the protesters are angry that that anger is being directed at mayor rahm emanuel for the school closings why is that. because america has said he had a number of school closings that he wanted to see done and it didn't have much to do with the specifics about the issues surrounding the school. one of the things that people have said in the past is that it is impossible to do this without sending children into very dangerous parts of town and that each school should be taken care of and dealt with on an individual basis before a mass closure like this happens. i'm sorry i'm sorry to interrupt that and i was just going to ask you because we're seeing these pretty heated protests you know some of our colleagues teachers coming together can you tell us what exactly you're demanding and what would you like to see change certainly the first thing is that we want to clear moratorium on school closings and tell the chicago public schools has put forth its facilities master plan they require that by law so that we know exactly what the plan is to move forward they