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20s, what about the men? the women coming of age now getting out of college, for the first time in history, will come with more ambition, more education, more achievement than the men. we have reversed things, for example, in education. 1970, 60% of our college graduates were men. now 62% are women. its good for the women. we said go, girl, go, and they went and they have done great. but theres been a problem with the men. fatherlessness, lack of conviction, seriousness. they are living with the...

And so its been effective attribute of what could be a larger process of creating stability and a better political environment in that area, but we shouldnt overgeneralize. im very worried, though certainly not an expert on the use of the drones in places like somalia and yemen. in a place where we have no major presence on the ground, are we not simply just creating more enemies by using these drones in those areas. im very, very worried about that. >> stimulating conversation. good luck with t...

Shock value rhetorically. hes done it from the very beginning. a lot of the tea party really likes it. they wear criticism from people like peggy noonan as a badge of courage. that works in some contexts. but it certainly doesnt work on complex foreign policy issues in general, and it doesnt work in the mine field of the middle east issue in particular. >> steve, lets take a look at what the polls are telling us about what florida voters are thinking about the issues. theres a quinnipiac poll th...

that we seek. the question is, how do we reach that goal? and i am convinced that there is no shortcut to the end of a conflict that has endured for decades. peace is hard work. peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the united nations. if it were that easy, it would have been accomplished by now. ultimately, it is the israelis and the palestinians who must live side by side. >> immediately after that speech, the president met with israeli prime minister benjamin net...

effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander in chief. >> dr. sanjay gupta will join us for a reality check. but up first, live action in the house of representatives and how it impacts a search for a deal to keep the government from a default most economist say could derail the already fragile recovery. this hour you see right there live debate. the house is expected by the end of this hour to pass the republican majoritys cut, cap and balance plan. it would cut fede...

>> it seems they both kept the secret. this brings to mind maureen some other infamous cases of powerful men with kids on the side, doesnt it? >> sure. i mean, we heard shortly after strom thurmonds death, we heard the prosegregation politician had fathered a child with his maid, an african-american woman in the 1920s. so weve definitely heard of powerful men who end up having sexual relationships with people they have power over and potentially having children. >> yeah. and you know theres an a...

though there is a volcano erupting under icelands biggest glacier. were talking about the rapture in just a few minutes with steven baldwin. you dont want to miss that. in syria, the brutal crack down is far from over. a witness tells cnn that four people were killed today after a funeral march in the city of homs. the same city was torn apart by violence friday. todays assault came as people were leaving a cemetery after burying victims of that bloodshed. the syrian government has...

Research, these ideas you have? you have a famously complex relationship with president obama. you admire him at some level, but in many ways, youre right of center and disagree with him politically? is he a social animal? >> yeah, hes a multiple animal. we all have multiple personalities. my psychobabble description is a complex person who has very different cells, but they come out in different contexts. he always has the ability to look at other parts of himself from a distance, and so it mea...

Center and disagree with him politically. is he a social animal? >> hes multiple animals. i would say we all have multiple person alitie personalities. he is a very complicated person who has many different selves, all of them authentic but come out in different contexts. he always has the ability to look at other parts of himself from a distance and so it means he has great power to self correct and i think it gives him power to see himself. it means that he rarely is all in. president bush did...

Analyst jim walsh at m.i.t. jim, today the nuclear industrial safety agency is considering raising the threat level to 7. how significant is that? >> well, anderson, theres a couple of different contexts to put it in. probably the most relevant is the basis for the upgrade is having gone back and looked back at what happened a few weeks ago. its certainly not relevant to anything thats going on right now. but the authorities have looked back at some of the radioactive release rates that were goi...