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>> its sort of a strange barrier when you and your kids because i have a daughter who is about your sons age, 4 years old, and i feel really grateful she hasnt asked me, she hasnt seen the tv coverage. there she is right there. thats ella. she hasnt seen the tv coverage. because she would ask the question, and she wouldnt let it go with the sugar coated version. she would want to know the whole truth, and something that weve talked about and that she really struggles to understand in other conte...

Night. hes not a man who in his oratory takes it to the stratosphere, but he has a very compelling personal argument and i thought that his most effective line is, was when he said the president wants to roll over the oceans i want to help your family. why he didnt come back to them more was surprising to me, or another way of saying, are you better off? if he had repeated that several times in different contexts, is your child better off because of the college that theyve accumulated with no jo...

Attack ads and nonsense, they are talking about very, very big issues. this is just the start of the convention but it started with two notes they wanted to hit hardest and loudest. problems are serious it and requires a serious man. that is what they were talking about tonight. >> thank you. >> chris christie, governor of new jersey of course, martha mccowan is from new jersey. >> there is a lot of enthusiasm in the crowd for the chris christie speech. i urge us to look at it in two contexts. t...

Apply it in different contexts and very quickly to integrate things both within their own minds and also through their ability to collaborate with other people. >> and is this what our schools are doing? >> the one thing i have found in the classroom, what happens is that they know thousand get the information. everything off wikipedia and the web, he dont know how to discern good information from bad. and thats part of the education. in this is where im like you cant just teach to the task, can...

store. gabby giffords survived and is still recovering. he will avoid the death penalty. after the hearing a number of survivors came together outside the courthouse. >> give up this hopelessness in this country that we cant do anything. because we can and we must. >> these taboo words, gun control can be spoken plainly in the halls of congress again. >> one of ways i believe we can make good come out of this, is to begin some common sense discussion about who should bear arms. what ha...

a statement today on the health of congressman jesse jackson jr. of illinois. one of his top aids says that jacksons condition is not life threatening. last week jacksons office issued a statement saying he is struggling with physical and emotional problems that will require extensive medical treatment. the 47-year-old took a medical leave of absence last month which his office attributed to exhaustion. he has been under growing pressure to explain his disappearance from capitol hill. ...

Is this the line -- when we look at this with the new deal and medicare as we just talked about, that line of thought, how will the affordable care act be seen within those contexts of history? >> it depends on whether its reversed in future congress, part of what this presidential election year is about. we tend to forget social security was, if anything, more controversial, more polarizing politically than the affordable care act or obamacare has been. same thing with medicare and medicaid. so...

Them out and figure that out. there are other things maybe not over that line. we hear a lot of attacks that the president is in over his head. if you say that to some people in some contexts, they might feel if they are highly educated, won a campaign and killed osama bin laden, theyre not in over their head. now, i think its hard to pick out each coded one. out of the ones i mentioned, i think several do clearly cross the line. >> but wait, hold on. but heres the point. >> were speaking about ...

Sayre syria and the fabs in region. if theres a way to avoid that through a political process, that should be something we all work for and try to accomplish. nobody said when we backed the annan plan that it was necessarilily a high probability scenario. but the alternative is much worse. and it would be very much not in our interests for that are third case scenario to materialize. that is why we have put pressure on the assad regime, including additional sanctions today. that is why we have s...

In a number of contexts, about a number of issues. i think thats been filed away already. my policy is to deny having said anything. unless you can produce the tape, didnt say it. >> i write a blog so people can always find it. mitt romney would only talk about his latest high profile endorsement as mitt romneys predecessors. he said this. >> florida is certainly a state i want to win, a state which george w. bush won. >> he said his name. that was a big step. was that an accident or are we seei...