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The comfort of their homes saying im going to take my time here. >> from your book you did in "the greatest generation" something about the g.i. bill, could you do some sort of variation of that, because there are so many out of work young kids, is there some sort of way, you saw what senator warren was doing with student loans is there a way to fast track kids who are smart wanting to do something to get that technical degree? >> actually ive been going around the country talking about the brok...

In this one unit came back -- this story appeared when they were putting up the statue of nurses over by the vietnam memorial. all of the people -- all those women had been raped. one by the chaplain, they had no place to go, no one to talk to and not even discussed it until this honor was coming up and they talked to a reporter about it. ive seen this over and over again, its a matter of culture. and if were going to think its someone who is a bad apple, we have to think about the academies, yo...

And combat area, but all of them in this one unit came back -- this story appeared when they were putting up the statue of nurses over by the vietnam memorial. all of the people -- all those women had been raped. one by the chaplain, they had no place to go, no one to talk to and not even discussed it until this honor was coming up and they talked to a reporter about it. ive seen this over and over again, its a matter of culture. and if were going to think its someone who is a bad apple, we have...

This story appeared when they were putting up the statue of nurses over by the vietnam memorial. all of the people -- all those women had been raped. one by the chaplain, they had no place to go, no one to talk to and not even discussed it until this honor was coming up and they talked to a reporter about it. ive seen this over and over again, its a matter of culture. and if were going to think its someone who is a bad apple, we have to think about the academies, you know, members of congress se...

Prevent us from realizing that we are facing a common enemy and to cooperate against it. both common sense and inherently moral. >> james clapper weighed in on the bombings. saying the intelligence in law enforcement communities would have needed broader powers to mondayor the internet communications of american citizens, including social media to identify the boston bombers in advance of those attacks. >> bret: the military is training its future leaders for the new frontier of battle. cyber wa...

Really base policy numbers -- base policy on numbers, we need a lot of people to run a lot of numbers. no matter how many times academies try to tell politicians they shouldnt base policy action on any one study in any area of social sciences or natural sciences, politicians refuse to learn that lesson. republicans loved the 90% number because for once they had some science behind what they were saying. it wasnt hard science. it wasnt organic chemistry or biology. it was the soft science of econ...

Economists who have run the numbers on any important policy question, you will probably get a lot more respect than you deserve because in order to really base policy numbers -- base policy on numbers, we need a lot of people to run a lot of numbers. no matter how many times academies try to tell politicians they shouldnt base policy action on any one study in any area of social sciences or natural sciences, politicians refuse to learn that lesson. republicans loved the 90% number because for on...

He blames it on scouts. theyre not putting the emphasis on this thing. look at baseball, too. baseball has built these elaborate academies in latin american countries to get players to come. havent done that as much here in the united states. they did it a little bit in l.a., somewhat in houston, doing one in cincinnati. you saw the old baseball movie "field of dreams," build it and theyll come. >> i tweeted out field of dreams today and had a picture of jackie robinson. everybody is celebrating...

Supply. in mississippi, arkansas, alabama and virginia -- the online independent news site heckinger said that more than 35 academies survive in mississippi alone n. a state where 37% of the population is african-american, each of the academies have a student body where african-americans are fewer than 2% of the students. it is a reminder that school choice was initially an engine of racial segregation as the white families were willing to pay extra to keep their kids separate, and the investmen...

Table is jalani cobb, and one of the top political strategists, john riley, and jackie mater as well. i want to start with you on the question of what sun flower is, and what it does and how it is responding to the problems of a continued segregation, and resegregation of students in the south. >> sure. well, we started the sun flower freedom county project more than a decade ago to address the educational inequalities in the public school system, and basically we used the history of the 1960s f...