the american legion believes that -- [applause] >> i'm should the american legion and american people believe that all of the equipment should be made in the united states of america. and there you go again, talking about jobs. put americans to work making these boots. that will provide jobs here at home. star i want to thank you very much, national commander. and just for the record, i know congressman duncan hunter who is a republican colleague from california, he and i are writing a letter to encourage your colleagues to sign that letter, to the administration requiring them to comply with the intent of the law. and it's unfortunate we have to do that, and hopefully we will see some changes in that regard. take you very much. i yield back. [applause] >> senator begich. >> thank you very much. just a couple questions. i wanted to mention also, in march, we are going to hold a jobs fair for veterans. and it's an interesting thing. when you do these jobs fairs there's an incredible amount of folks that come out. and i just met this morning, why i was later, i was meeting with franchis

did the americans suspect how bitter that disagreement was? in fact, one of the intense arguments that was had in leadership was castro's insistence for the sake of cuban sovereignty and dignity. firing on the reconnaissance planes, the soviets, you're right, ready to play along of bringing the crisis to resolution. did the americans suspect how bitter the divide was between the soviets and cubans? >> guest: the americans did not have significant information about what was happening, they did not have anyone on the inside, but the cubans did a bad job of hiding how unhappy they were with the soviet. in the intelligence briefings that the president and advisers would get every day, there was updates about what the latest annoyance was, and so they certainly had a sense of it even if they didn't know the i want mat details. >> host: did that, at all, help to build renewed trust in khrushchev, and it was not a u.s. official. in congress and american politics, people were saying it's our chance to get rid of the regime. how do we know they won't hi

the americans did not know this. edy buffett at the off the soviets handing nuclear weapons to the cubans was not possible. he did not think you would do that so we had no idea that was the plan. so that aspect of the subversion i think actually was much more dangerous than i think they have unthought the one thought at the time because they didn't realize the aspect of the cubans might in fact have technical nuclear weapons. >> host: going back to the il-28 that they actually did have nuclear payload that they could deliver. >> guest: their military assumptions that -- >> host: this dynamic that is come out in some of the research on the soviet cuban tension in november which is that in order to sort of rescue, salvage the soviet cuban alliance, knowing that castro was so furious at moscow for withdrawing the missiles the soviets were eager to reassure him that the commitment to saving cuba, to protecting them and therefore the soviets were desperate to keep as much of. other than the nuclear weapons it turns out und

to the american sex that how it was becoming in the two bids? >> guest: they didn't have to tell the information about what was happening in the discussion. the cubans are doing a job of hiding how unhappy they were with the soviets and so what you actually get. his advisers would get every day there would be updates about how with the latest an audience is with castro and khrushchev so they certainly have a sense of it even if they didn't know the ultimate details. >> host: did it help build any renewed trust and chris jeff that he can now be trusted to some extent and he had his own interest in resolving the crisis was this lingering sense of, you know, if he could pull a fast one on us and i should add it wasn't just u.s. officials in congress and american politics there were those on the right wing who were saying this is our chance to get rid of this regime how do we know they want light missiles in caves or something like that? so how did kanaby and view him once he had agreed to pull the missiles out? did he begin to change his view of hi

a test of the strengths meaning of american patriotism. we have to forget about the war of 1812 losing track between the glory of the revolution of the independence movement and the transformative carnage of the civil war. that is that is the first war ever to be formally declared in the modern democracy income. public opinion matters. politicians gain and maintain power through the approval of the populace. by the war end in 1815 the british burned washington, d.c. to the ground, the national debt had nearly tripled for 45 million to 127 million all at the united states had accomplished was getting the british to agree to maintain the status quo and that is to keep all matters of diplomatic dispute exactly in the same status they had had before the war to read everything was going to stay exactly the same. regarding the war with favored. as a popular referendum in the popular election of 1812 and 1816. madison easily won the election in november of 1812 in the early months of the war and his hand-picked successor and a former secretary of

he was a celebrated veteran of the american revolution. he was a popular governor of the michigan territory but his inability to match the emotional tenor of his times forever tarnished his status and it almost cost him his life. now, general hull approached his capital trial determined to try to keep the focus on the factual, not the emotional. in defending his decision to surrender he laid out for the tribunal a clear account of the monumental organizational problems that he faced. the nation had declared war with little to know prior preparation and hull faced severe shortages of men and materiel as a result. of course he also categorically denied he had ever shown cowardice taking what he viewed as a pragmatic action to save the lives of his otherwise doomed troops. he also emphatically disputed claims that emotional priming had any useful effect on military preparedness. hull argued that the men quote, though they were very ardent and patriotic in their expressions had had no service. neither men nor officers had ever been tried. he we

host: 4 you yourself, has your idea of the american dream changed in the last couple of years? ller: i have been very fortunate. i would say it has. i am much more cynical now. there seems to be a minority of americans that believe the most important thing in the world is to get rich as soon as they can and they do not care how they do it. that is killing 80% of the american workers in this country. host: mary, where are you calling us from? caller: illinois. from what i heard from the last caller, i a greed. we cannot expect to be forever the super power most important person in the whole universe. we have to be part of the world and deal with what is out there. it is changing. host: what do you think about the american dream for yourself? caller: i have been very lucky. i am one of the people that are doing well. my husband died of cancer, and my children are struggling more than they would be if the economy was better. i am word about my children and grandchildren more than myself. host: you personally have not had to downsize your idea of the american dream? caller: we have

the american country. michael eric dyson, this is in a time when talking about the u.s. ranking 34th out of 35 in economically advanced countries in child poverty off 14 in education, our infant mortality rates are worse than 48 other countries and yet we talk about american exceptionalism and any suggestion otherwise is deemed unpatriot unpatriotic. >> the trajectory of the discourse around american exceptionalism tracks the ways in which the suffering of the masses of the people was often cloaked in the notion of american exceptionalism to keep them in place so that martin luther king, jr. was as great a patriot as we've been able to imagine and yet he was able to be critical of a nation. james baldwin said i love america more than anybody and why i reserve the right to criticize her. there is a tradition of speaking honestly to the issues that affect the american dream that keep it from being shared widely that is really patriotic at its roots but unfortunately the debate is so narrow and so shallow tha

want the american dream they believe the american idea only thirty percent want the welfare state. ok carl you're muttering under your breath i was saying this goes to the philosophy question in. my basic problem and we can get into the calculus of how many people don't pay taxes for whatever reason my basic problem for this is that if you look at people that are struggling in this country sometimes it's not an issue of unemployment sometimes it's an issue of over employment they might have to have five jobs to get by they might have back breaking work and that work is far more tough than the people sitting pretty in the top percentage of this country that is that can get out of taxes because they've got fancy attorneys that pay very little income tax let's suppose after all i'm with you and he would argue that the dependence on reliance is not a good thing we want to help people get off that he's not saying abandon those people and it's actually not saying that more people know he's not he doesn't wan

in the american culture, menino of the historical accomplishments of the african- american women, phyllisatley, harriet tubman, leader of underground railroad. ida wells, the unyielding upon it to a lynching. rosa parks, of course, the mother of the modern civil rights movement and on and on. gwendolyn brooks, tommy morrison -- toni morrison. wonderful writers. awe still have a ways to go, we hav a long ways to go. as an author to have helped our human rights commission read the agenda we have a ways to go. [applause] that is why i look at the audience, i see a lot of people that will help us get there. our board of supervisors are here, our other elected officials, the treasure is here. members from all the other communities are here. because it is not just something the african-american community can do. the chinese -- a chinese person can help with the advantage to agenda. a latino person can help. a korean person can help. a gay person can help. everyone can help accomplish the unfinished agenda for everyone. i often talk about partnerships. we have to partner with our african-america

the american people have fought their way back and they are not going back. is great nation as only known one direction -- forward. that is the only direction it has known. folks, i got news -- governor romney, congressman ryan, it is never ever been a good bet to bet against the american people. never. virginia, we need you. we win virginia, we win this election. so got there, bring it home. god bless you all and make god protect our troops. thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> on thursday and the romney campaign for her husband in st. augustine, florida. this is about 15 minutes. [applause] >> wow. thank you, st. augustine. i brought some friends with me. this is miles. and parker. this is my other grandson. parker made his own sign. these are some of my grandkids. i am so blessed. it is so wonderful to have them with me. and my gorgeous daughter-in-law mary. she is expecting another grandchild. we are thrilled about that. it is wonderful to have

politics you see it's not a matter of an intellectual thing american politicians the majority of american politicians we've seen this time and time again are absolutely convinced that these are two non-negotiable priorities not only as a matter of principle but as a matter of being reelected oil and israel meaning guess prices and a lobby. concern if you look at american politics the concern of most politicians in congress ok the concern is not only out of commitment to the state of israel but also in terms of you know the ability to be reelected and you also see it in a campaign or look at how and obama ok had been courting the jewish vote and concerned about it obama has to be concerned about losing what is a you know a long time tradition of american jews voting democratic obama what happens with obama in the last two years the administration has backed away from it's putting pressure on the netanyahu government remember after the cairo speech obama went toe to toe head to head with netanyahu on the settlements wouldn't back off and went back and forth back and for

i'm tom with the american-asian society and the affairs council. you talk about the need for peaceful resolution of disputes. i wonder if you could elaborate a bit about what stan roth referred to in the south china and east china seas where china's assertiveness is causing so much concern? >> sure. well, we see that, and i think we have a very principled position on all of this. you know, first of all, people say we don't take sides in these disputes, but that's not true. we actually do take a side. we take a side for freedom of navigation and peaceful resolution of these disputes. that's where we are, that's where we're going to stay. and, you know, we don't, we don't always have a direct intermediating role, understand that. but that's when i talk about the american position in the regions beginning from principle, that's a road lies trouble for everybody. so, you know, our position's pretty clear. and it is related to the rebalance, because the rebalance sets up a vision of what the security system in that part of the world ought to be. and i t

isn't and for the death of americans and our friends and number two here's the one issue that hasn't been discussed today the bet the most important national security threat to america is our own solve in c. and bankruptcy and therefore i support romney because to be a beacon to the world we have to first get our own economic domestic house in order obama's added five trillion a debt we cannot fight for freedom around the world when we're bankrupt at home we need to cut spending and cut the deficit and get the budget in balance that's the number one national security ok when you do support him but you romney says he's going to expand the defense spending at the same time. yeah well listen you don't you don't find one hundred percent agreement with any candidate america domestically economically is in disaster in crisis in an economic armageddon under barack obama i'm a businessman i see my business is going under i would not survive four more years of brock obama so i take what i can get with mitt on israel and with mitt on all economic issues and i and i absolutely

he'd been present in the american bar association. two months before richard nixon named lewis powell to the supreme court, lewis powell wrote in memorandum about the state of the american economy and particularly the state of the free enterprise system in america. powell was an unusual paul revere but issued a call to arms in american business and said the free enterprise system was under assault from trade unions from consumer advocates like ralph nader who wrote the book. there was assault from environmentalists who advocated the establishment of environmental controls that would restrict industry. there was assault in academia from liberal academics and liberal economists, and he said was time for business to organize itself, is to start playing hardball in politics to become aggressive, to identify it and the means to go after its enemies and punish them and take over the power in washington. and to do it by organizing and by using the financial resources that the business and by taking to the battlefield in the lobbies and in the

here it is. >> if you want to be president, you owe the american people the truth, the truth. >> the fact check. >> this claim is based on a fiscal fiction. >> the bipartisan nonprofit committee has called that a gimmick. the president is also counting on savings agreed to last year when the white house and congress agreed to raise the debt ceiling. >> governor romney's central economic plan calls for a $5 trillion tax cut. >> mostly fiction. >> tonight, president obama said his plan would cut the deficit by $4 trillion. that estimate comes from a left-leaning center on budget and policy priorities. >> social security is structurally sound. >> according to the cbo, social security will run into financial trouble by 2030. the amount it pays out will exceed the money coming in. >> president obama accused mitt romney of proposing a $5 trillion tax cut. but the nonpartisan web site, fact check dot-org says that is not true. another questionable statement, obama said he would raise taxes only to the rates they were when bill clinton was president. but many high-income people would pay mor

fascinating new books on the topic, tom ricks, former "washington post" reporter and author of "the generals, american military command from world war ii to today" and michael gordon from the "new york times" here with "the end game, the inside story of the struggle for iraq from george w. bush to barack obama." welcome to both of you. great to be able to talk to both of you here. the close of this campaign. it is very interesting to hear both president obama and mitt romney look in their rearview mirror about the last decade in foreign policy and national security policy and the president saying, look, i ended the war in iraq, we are on a glide path out of afghanistan. and yet we know the threat from both of these countries still remains and there's a lot of unfinished business. michael, you get to a lot of that of course in your book, in iraq. the idea that we're done. put it in the rear view mir but there's a lot of unfinished business. >> yeah. one thing that's striking to me is just really the gap between the campaign rhetoric and what the obama administration's actual policy was in iraq because

are changing at the moment after spending more than a decade in the price of american strategic fools is shifting to other areas including the middle east and asia pacific and i'm sure that americans are used to for a longer period of time we need at least in the asia pacific region the appeal hearing for a prominent bahraini human rights activists is adjourned till next month will be russia was jailed for three years in august for organizing and participating in illegal rallies rajab sentence brought hundreds of program form demonstrators on to the streets to demand his release but unrest in bahrain has been ongoing for more than twenty months with fights between police and demonstrators erupting almost daily around eighty people have been killed since the clashes began and thousands arrested in crackdowns by the sunni rulers on the. the campaign is the protesters are demanding more rights equal access to jobs and education opportunities the rights advocate so you do you see. attended rajab hearing. the judge just if you do need to give the time you do with the state and maybe with t

the president is not being honest with the american people. think the voters won't think highly of a man who wants to be re-elected who can't be counted on to tell them the truth about something as important as a terrorist attack that kills an ambassador and three other americans. >> sean: on the campaign, you've been through a couple yourself with your dad, more than a couple. you seagal lu see gallup today. what's your feeling? >> i feel good. i think we're seeing a wave of movement toward governor romney, people realizing he's the man to bring us back where we ought to be coastline and internationally as well. >> sean: liz cheney, always good to see you. thank you foróbób being with us. >> thank you, sean. >> sean: michelle malkin, but first mitt romney had an indictment of the president's indictment of the president's record to date. hahahaha! hooohooo, hahaha! this is awesome! folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. i'd say happier than a slinky on an escalator. get happy. get geico. melons!!! oh yeah!! well t

they believe in the american idea. only 30% want the welfare state. >> doesn't had this show the american people what romney and ryan think about struggling americans? >> absolutely. my favorite thing is mitt romney said it was inelegantly stated when he said about the 47%. i hope that mitt romney e gets a chance to elegantly state what he said about the 47% of the american people not caring enough to take responsibility for their own situations in life. and i think, you know, what that crystallized for people, ed, is what they suspected about governor romney and paul ryan all along. and that is they don't really care about the middle class in this country. they are not really concerned about and they certainly don't understand what it's like to work hard and try to get ahead in the country. to play by the rules, but have a different set of rules for people like wall street. that's what that tape did. it crystallized for people that this is not a group that believes in a middle economic recovery. it's all about top down

saying the american government and country is racist. he's making that accusation. ay a tape and part of it nobody has seen before. people -- it's not a problem. what about the media? why won't they see the news in this? >> they see the news in it. and there is so -- by the way he paid the price for. the reason, one of the reasons he lost last night is he is used to the media that he was not used to being attacked and answered and i love the altitude... >> there is a great line. climate change aand this is the funny thing... >> he doesn't know how to answer? >> he was stunned and never have to answer that question. >> and there is -- he was the president. and so... you have to understand the media has the same lens, they believe in race. they don't get it yet. race ain't what it used to be america. right? >> next 35 days i promise you it's going to be hell, the ugliest campaign you've seen. >> and barack obama's senator voted against the stafford act. just for the record. voted against it i did not know. >> correct. >> part of the iraq bill he was voted against it. >

the american people saw john kerry on thursday night. they don't need the vice president or the president to tell them what they saw. they saw a man who was strong who had conviction, who was resolute, who made it very clear that he will do everything that has to be done to find terrorists, to keep the american people safe. he laid out his plan for success in iraq, made it clear that we were committed to success in iraq. we have to be because we have troops on the ground there and because they've created a haven for terrorists. >> mr. vice president, you have 30 seconds. >> your rhetoric, senator, would be a lot more credible if there was a record to back it up. there isn't. and you cannot talk tough during the course of a 90-minute debate in a presidential campaign to obscure a 30-year record in the united states senate and prior to that by john kerry who has consistently come down on the wrong side of all the major defense issues that he's faced as a public official. >> mr. vice president, a new question for you. you have two minutes to

we can change that because what's in here, the heart of the american people is strong, the heart of theople has been proven time and time again in test after test that regardless of the challenge, we stand and overcome those challenges. i know it's true. i've seen it. i've seen people in the most extreme circumstances who dig deep show that kind of courage. the great qualities of the human spirit, i see in my fellow americans day in and day out. i was in atlanta a few weeks ago for a big event and i saw kind of an opening in the crowd. as i went along shaking hands, i realized that that was because someone there was in a wheelchair. a big one, one of these motorized wheelchairs. i sort of pushed some people aside to see who it was. turned out it was a classmate of mine from graduate school. he had been involved in an automobile accident. i think it was an automobile accident, and he was made quadriplegic. he was a very successful business person. and instead of throwing in the towel and becoming despondent, he kept involved in his business. he became active in raising money and working

the american legion believes -- [applause] >> the american legion and the american people believe that all equipment should be made in the united states of america. and there you go again, we're talking about jobs. put the americans to work making these boots. that will provide jobs here at home. >> i want to thank you very much national commander and just for the record i know congressman hunter who is from california, he and i are writing a letter. we encourage our colleagues to sign that letter to the administration requiring them to comply with the intent of the law. it's unfortunate we have to do that. and hopefully we'll see some changes in that regard. thank you very much. i yield back the balance of my time. >> senator begich. >> thank you very much. just a couple of questions. i wanted to mention in march that we're going to hold a jobs fair for veterans. and it's an interesting thing, when you do these jobs fares there is an incredible amount of folks that come out. i was meeting with a franchiser and they have a new initial tive to help veterans get into that business and we

it will only, by the american people demanded. tavis: what part of morocco,' = obama'sarack background, his time in the senate, his time in the white house, what gives you reason to believe a more progressive rock, actually exist? if he is to win a second term, he will go about the business that every second term president does, try to establish his legacy. you started by saying that you wish that she would steer the car a bit more towards the progressive lane. i do not want you to do what some americans did it four years ago which is to make a green screen out of him and put your own aspirations on him that fly in the face of any back story in this life that suggests a progressive fight. i am not to say that -- i am not saying that you demonize him. what are you looking at? what do think that will come from? >> you know, i've really liked the first half of all of the president's speeches, if i could put it that way, because i think his vision for what america needs is really spot on. he understands that in the 21st century, it is

a conflict with britain over national sovereignty, the american war of 1812 became of test of the strength and meeting of american patriotism. we tend to forget the word 1812 between the revolutionary independence movement and trans formative carnage of the civil war. the war between 12 has a dubious distinction the first to be declared in a modern democracy. and matters. politicians maintain power so with strict military and diplomatic terms the war of 1812. by the end in 1815 washington d.c. was burned to the ground, the national debt has tripled up at 127 million all the united states had accomplished was getting the british to maintain status quo all matters of dispute as there were before the war. trade questions, the boundaries, everything would stay the same. somehow the population regard did the war with favor. as seen as a popular referendum in 1816. madison easily won reelection in the early months of 1812 his hand-picked successor james monroe had a landslide success four years later. hundreds of thousands of men cast votes for their party in that contest. the war proved to be a

are saying that the americans and the europeans and the and the west bank community can do can do more by stopping the smuggling of weapons by pushing the saudis the qataris the turks and the and their allies to stop smuggling weapons into syria and i disagree that the americans are not taking the full opportunity there taken a full opportunity and the evidence is that the as the other guest said from beirut that the the rebel groups are getting stronger yes they're getting stronger in terms of military equipment also i mean the today the year doubled as was the case in afghanistan against as always union and the and that in the past century they have now. missiles a drunk missiles that anti-aircraft advance missiles that have are being smuggled by the americans through their allies to the rebel forces so but the situation and the solution the situation points that the solution is not a military solution there should be a dialogue between the different groups inside syria as i'd still enjoy some popularity in syria and therefore there should be a cease fire there is a chance now to hav

so there is that legacy, and, of course, the american -- the legacy of what most arabs see as the almost unconditional american support for israel. so we are in it -- we should keep this in mind when we discuss how arabs see the united states. unfortunately, i mean, those of us who study the modern history of the arab world would tell you that until the 1950s and mainly 1967 -- mostly 1967 -- there existed in the arab world, and i would even say beyond in the muslim world although i'm not an expert on the muslim world, and i don't watch it as closely as maybe i should, but there existed in the arab world a huge reservoir of goodwill towards the united states. as i grew up in beirut in the 1960s, i used to read the glowing writings about the united states written by people who emigrated from the arab world, mostly from lebanon to the united states in the 19th century and wrote beautifully and glowingly about the united states. everybody would talk about the legacy of education in the middle east, later on the american -- [inaudible] in cairo, the american-supported rights of the people af

we mourn the loss of these four brave americans. , they blame a youtube video in a nonexistent riot. then when the country's getting upset about it, they blame romney and ryan for getting people upset about it. they keep changing their story. this is not what leadership needs. we need accountability and no more excuses. this tragedy would be troubling in and of itself and tragedy in and of itself unfortunately what you're witnessing when we turn on our tv is the unraveling of the obama foreign policy. and when you say it's ok to impose these devastating cuts in our military or that we don't need anymore m-1 tanks, what we are doing is we're projecting weakness and when we project weakness our enemies become more brazen. our enemies are more likely to test us. and our allies are unwilling to trust us. the economy is not growing here at home. and that's the problem we have to if cuss on. you see the economy is growing slower than last year and last year it grew slower than the year before. all president obama's offering is more of the

so one problem with the american political system is that we don't have apportion representation that we have so it's a winner take all system by state through the electoral college pretty much realistically anyway the only choices are these two main parties combined decided to have more to get elected specially the president you know you need to raise millions and millions of dollars and you have to of course go to people who have that kind of money and many americans myself included with preferred of the political system where we could get our conscience vote our ideals through what we believe in and said we seem to be naturally stuck in this cycle every four years coding for the lesser evil in many respects so. frustrated as i am that there is not more differences between the candidates at the same time i do i do recognize. that you need nice small differences could have major major repercussions what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage working the iran tight rope pushing china russia as occupy anger spreads to parties still dictate will their. u.s. electi

when you dig inside the numbers it shows that key parts of president obama's coalition african-americanslatinos, are actually putting a high importance on the debates which actually kind of shows the challenge that mitt romney has to actually get his side as enthusiastic about it. >> a shrinking group of undecided voters, chris cizilla, what is the strategy of both sides to reach those people who are still undecided? >> you saw the clip you played with mitt romney in colorado, president obama on sunday night in las vegas, both basically what they both said is the media wants this to be a back and forth brawl, we're going to be serious and focus on the issues because they understand that when it comes to undecided voters, tend to be people, not always, politically independent. those kind of people don't like the nastiness, the back and forth. partisans love that. but independents don't like it. the messaging is i'm a serious person, these are serious times, and we need someone who has the ability, capacity, demonstrated record to lead. so i actually think both of them will be kind of the

ambassador and the three americans. ere is the outrage, the legitimate outrage on the part of the republicans to come out to get to the baht dome of this? i think the story is going to have legs because it gets worse every day, and we should be dodging kerry now at every move saying what are you doing as a member of the senate in order to get to the bottom of this? you signed a letter. now, mr. kerry, what are you doing about itings and the president has to be held to account at the debates. even though this is a domestic debate wednesday, romney should question him on it. lou: your thoughts? you get the last word. >> i've been in des moines, iowa there, and people there are frustrated about what's going on in washington. they believe the administration's covering this up. they don't want white wash, but want answers. president's phenomenontures could tumble if they are not forthcoming and honest about what happened in benghazi. i think president obama's fortunes go lower opposed to up in the next days to come. lou: than

numbers of where the anglo and asian-american students are. >> okay. so, maybe in this next slide, we get to that point. so, this next slide is actually on the english language arts achievement gap. so, what's highlighted in this one are two line graphs, one for african-american/latino, and the top line graph actually represents the district average. and what i want to point out is, again, a different way to represent it over five years, you'll notice that there was -- there is a persisting achievement gap, the first thing you'll notice. but if you look at the district average of 50.5 in 2008, you'll notice that 28.3 is one subgroup's performance and the other one is 22.6. there was quite a margin or gap there, 22 and 27%. if you fast forward to 2012, our latest test results, you'll notice that one really hasn't budged in the english language arts and the other one has shrunk by just a few percentage points. so, in this next slide, instead of actually comparing to the district average we've actually disaggregated in this line graph, the top line graph a

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order to drive the recovery of the american economy? >> thank you for your question. kathleen is from florida. what would you like to ask the candidates tonight? you are a republican. what would you ask? caller: the evening. will romney receive medicare and social security, which are government handouts are originally created for those who needed? >> thank you for your call. as social security on the mine from the steel our reviewer. he wants to know and ask, why are you considering cutting social security benefits when social security is not funded by budgets or affected by the debt? next is a caller from new york city. independent. what would you ask? caller: i would ask either of the candidates -- the american voters only get a chance once every two years or four years or six years [indiscernible] >> have you made up your mind? what will the tip the balance? caller: it depends on who wins and the lobbyists. and the one of those guys leave, i do not think anything will get done. >> thank you for your call from new york city. energy is

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