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Got this. >> and then second place was announced. >> we thought, huh, what happened? what did we mess up on? >> oh, man, who beat m.i.t.? this is going to be awesome. >> i was thinking, who the hell was first? >> if those two powerhouses didnt get it, who got it? people are looking around. >> carl hayden. [ applause ] >> when the announcer place, we all stood up. >> make sure you dont have any crumbs on your shirts. >> the whole crowd was screaming

Policy? >> i dont think anybody is disqualified from hearing anybody. you dont want to be ruling people out of bounds preemptively. i think that it -- i think that if you look at chen yes approval rating. if you look at views even among republicans on iraq and so on, most americans tend to sort of tune out his arguments because they do hold him in the bush administration fairly reasonably at least partially responsible for the situation in iraq. what you have in the republican side right now is ...

Competed. >> yes. >> and you have these kids pushed to innovate and work on a project. >> the kids go to an automotive academy, a public school. a lot of the kids are not high achieving in terms of standardized tests but if you give them a transmission manual and a saturday they will take apart a transmission in no time flat and their idea for how to win the x prize was build a couple hybrid cars that were practical and inexpensive kind of cars they could see their parents driving and they did i...