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Fears that israeli people have. this is our best bet by far to make sure iran doesnt get a nuclear weapon. well be doing -- even as we enter into this deal is sending a message to the iranians and entire region that if anybody messes with israel, america will be there. >> i think this is a bad deal. it leaves iran with a vast nuclear infrastructure. it lifts the sanctions on them fairly quickly and enables them to get billions of dollars into their coffers. >> republicans claim -- john boehner s...

Experiments so we can see what works better and whats fair. schools can adjust to what they are they are teaching. thats about to change. politicians in 45 states have something called common core same goals for math and english. the same tests. the movement to standardize what is taught. >> like a total speed change consistent strong clear bench marks for english language arts and math. >> sounds like a good thing with one set of national tests we know what all americans kids learn. everyone wi...

Seriously? >> im not entirely sure. i dont know that thats really how it works. i gave the information to them and certainly all the work thats been done in the media is shining a light on it for sure. >> now, am i right that the oregon web site still does not work? >> you are absolutely right. and thats what draws the big question is if we had to meet all these bench marks as time was going on during the development and we had to prove functionality, why is it that in my legislative committee w...

The web site still doesnt work. why did you take it to the fbi? >> well, i took it to the fbi, more than a year ago when i heard an allegation from someone that came forward as several people did when the project was off track that it h. inside knowledge of the project came to me and basically made this allegation that seemed pretty farfetched to me sints then everything this person said was true. i gave it to the background to the k 2 investigators here which they did a fabulous job of tracking...

Seriously? >> im not entirely sure. i dont know that thats really how it works. i gave the information to them and certainly all the work thats been done in the media is shining a light on it for sure. >> now, am i right that the oregon web site still does not work? >> you are absolutely right. and thats what draws the big question is if we had to meet all these bench marks as time was going on during the development and we had to prove functionality, why is it that in my legislative committee w...

The web site still doesnt work. why did you take it to the fbi? >> well, i took it to the fbi, more than a year ago when i heard an allegation from someone that came forward as several people did when the project was off track that it h. inside knowledge of the project came to me and basically made this allegation that seemed pretty farfetched to me sints then everything this person said was true. i gave it to the background to the k 2 investigators here which they did a fabulous job of tracking...

So yeah, ken cuccinelli lost, and the republicans lost the governorship. both of those are history-defying, bad news, bad bench marks for the republican party. and who turned out, looks bad for virginia republicans not just for last nights race but for every race going forward in that state. and in the face of the terrible news for the republican party, the republicans have decided they are not sweating it. they are not bummed or worried. they dont see a problem with what happened in virginia la...

Reform. i think theres a dispute here about, you know, if have you this path to citizenship that runs for 10, 15 12, 15 years, ends up being would people who are on this path who are meeting the bench marks along the way be eligible for obama care while thoerp that path. that seems to be a stumbling block emerging here. >> it is even worse than that. it is -- there is a long hour where if you present yourself in an emergency room they have to take care of yourself basically. what this would do -...

Want us to do. >> congressman, how do you respond to that, from what we have seen in the senate, put together by patti murray, when you talk about raising revenue, you are talking about more than $1 trillion. is there any part of that that the republicans will go along with? >> probably not. but in many ways, this is a big step. i cant tell you how many times the phone in my office has wrung and the people think, compromise, compromise with what? for the last four years, we didnt have a senate b...

And so were going to have to remain helpful in encouraging pakistan to move towards a more stable government and rebuild a relationship with us. that means that our aid that we provide to pakistan is going to have to be conditioned upon certain bench marks being met. so, for me, i look at this as both a need to help move pakistan in the right direction and also to get afghanistan to be ready and they will be ready by the end of 2014. >> mr. president? >> when i came into office, we were still bo...