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Bar tone saxophone when it is snowing on you, but i did it and enjoyed it. >> he has big plans for wolf trap, including bringing in new acts he is not yet ready to announce. >> we are very much in the kitchen cooking phase. until the dishes are ready, we just leave them in the kitchen. >> he has no problem talking about the satisfaction of his work. >> what were doing ultimately only benefits people. thats really all our goal, to make peoples lives a little brighter, maybe going to a great conce...

People always watch shows like this and rachel. youre really ito public affairs. you are. >> we are. i think what weve learned by b being many this business, what a good thing it does for you and what a good thing it can do for the community. certainly now with the creative coalition, were here, and today speaking to people in d.c. and up speaking to a lot of people from the white house, we know when arts affects your life and affects the community the kind of great returns that it does. we know...

I know that part of the business. youre always reading, always keeping up. people always watch shows like this and rachel. youre really into public affairs. you are. >> we are. i think what weve learned by being many this business, what a good thing it does for you and what a good thing it can do for the community. certainly now with the creative coalition, were here, and today speaking to peop in d. and up speaking to a lot of people from the white house, we know when arts affects your life and...

Uneducated. is it efficient not to address poverty first and educate kids who enter into kindergarten with 17,000 listening vocabulary. >> i agree poverty is a very big factor. if we can invest in early childhood education and make sure kids are coming to school fed and getting breakfast and lunch. if we can make sure there are community programs and arts programs to address the trauma of violent neighborhoods and things like that, it can happen on the same track to pursuing education reforms th...

Counselors in addition to teachers. also, i think who our students are. i work at a school that has a lot of bilingual students. the idea is we hold everybody to the same expectations. it takes much longer to develop academic proficiency. we are working under circumstances where we dont have enough teachers or social workers. we start the 7:40 a.m. because thats what we need to do to provide space for students. i think there are a whole bunch of other things we would like to see in terms of refo...

Elementary schools were meeting californias requirement for physical education. in 2008, david corn, more than one-third of children and teenagers were overweight or obese. >> one thing that makes this so tragic is that unlike the days when i was a kid and certainly michael, maybe even you, when you came home -- >> just five years ago. >> maybe that. you come home and then you would go outside and you would play with kids or you would beat up kids or you would do something physical. >> very good...

Earn a decent wage and pay their benefits. and unfortunately, now, beyond the fat, youre getting the arts programs that are starting to be cut, things of that nature. and i think those are situations, again, where everybodys going to have to have a seat at the table. there are going to be painful choices all around, but amanda and i both got public school educations that were topnotch and we would want our kids to have the same thing. none of us like to pay more taxes, but sometimes thats necess...

To pay the teachers enough to earn a decent wage and pay their benefits. and unfortunately, now, beyond the fat, youre getting the arts programs that are starting to be cut, things of that nature. and i think those are situations, again, where everybodys going to have to have a seat at the table. there are going to be painful choices all around, but amanda and i both got public school educations that were topnotch and we would want our kids to have the same thing. none of us like to pay more tax...

Organic foods. >> so sophia heart comes in not getting the typical you know the cheap food that is mostly provided for families at low income, theyre getting healthy food. >> it was launched in milwaukee where danny and sophia once lived and it was a music and arts program for inner city kids. and in nashville sophias heart is zoned for a music and theater arts school and the music capital of the world. >> by end of next year in the plan 19 homeless families and music and arts programs are runni...

Lashing. but this is a country with a lot at stake for the west. it is the chief ally to iran. it is also the great supporter and sponsor of groups like hezbollah, hamas. it is a linchpin player in the middle east. if syria goes back, the region can go bad. and right now despite al asads regime saying they have things under control -- they said that just yesterday -- you can clearly see that thats not the case. but it is a crucial nation in terms of what it can lead to if things go bad. weve hea...