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Pennsylvania charter students on average are lagging behind students in regular public schools. but corbetts buddies in the private sector, they make huge profits from charter schools, so the governor continues to support them at the expense of public education. im joined tonight by pennsylvania state representative matt bradford and also kim schwartz, she is the president of the york education association and a fifth grade teacher in the york city school district. great to have both of you with...

Mark the end of the middle class if he gets in? >> well, given the fact that under the bush administration, we lost 500,000 private sector jobs, worst economic performance in modern history, that bush administration policies left this country and the entire world on the brink of financial collapse, and given the fact that mitt romney has nothing new to say, other than the same old trickle-down economic theories, more tax breaks for the rich and large corporations, more deregulation, more unfette...

Average are lagging behind students in regular public schools. but corbetts buddis in the private sector, they make huge profits from charter schools, so the governor continues to support them at the expense of public education. im joined tonight by pennsylvania state representative matt bradford and also kim schwartz, she is the president of the york education skpoer association and a fifth grade teacher in the york city school district. great to have both of you with us tonight. matt, you firs...

Speaks volumes on who mitt romney is as a leader and as a person. lets turn to karen finney, msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director and democratic strategist chris kofinis. chris, good to have you back with us. its about time. >> thanks, ed. >> i want to play this for you. heres romneys senior adviser, with eric fernstrom, moments ago, talking about this. >> yeah, and thats disappointing. whenever there are voices of intolerance within the party or the democratic party, f...

Willing to cut with the far right wing are such that he is going to be beholden to all of these interests. and what chris was saying, he wont be able to have a sister souljah moment, he wont be able to stand up to those folks, because hes so in bed with those people, hes cut so many deals with those people that hes really sort of given away the farm. >> but, karen, doesnt this put mitt romney really in a tougher spot? because now he would have to come out and denounce that talk show host. and wh...

Their hidden retreats before citizens united was before them. talk about a conflict of interest. and then walker was in oklahoma with koch industries sponsoring a fund-raiser for him. and tim phillips, head of americans prosperity, is saying that were going to spend tens of millions of dollars just in the next couple of months. >> what is their philosophy? get their kind of legislators to do their kind of work and the profit goes to the top? >> yes. theyre pretty clear that its a combination of ...

Think, was being able to be united in opposition against obamas stimulus plan. when they realized that they could actually get unanimous votes against that, they realized that as long as we can keep our numbers together, keep our opposition pure, then we can start to develop a narrative, and start both with what the republicans stood for and what the democrats stood -- >> was it obama? was it the man? was it the first black president? was it his agenda? what was it? >> ed, i really think that th...

If he gets in? >> well, given the fact that under the bush administration, we lost 500,000 private sector jobs, worst economic performance in modern history, that bush administration policies left this country and the entire world on the brink of financial collapse, and given the fact that mitt romney has nothing new to say, other than the same old trickle-down economic theories, more tax breaks for the rich and large corporations, more deregulation, more unfettered free trade, i cant help but b...

So whats the republicans were able to say is, heres the narrative, folks. democrats dont care about joblessness, they dont care about helping people pull out of the recession, they care about their own big government agenda. >> so when senator jim demint of south carolina said about health care that this could be obamas waterloo, that really was a culmination of what they were trying to get to. >> absolutely. >> that was expressing the sentiment of all republicans at that time. >> sure. but i th...

And thomas, to come to one of their hidden retreats before citizens united was before them. talk about a conflict of interest. and then walker was in oklahoma with koch industries sponsoring a fund-raiser for him. and tim phillips, head of americans prosperity, is saying that were going to spend tens of millions of dollars just in the next couple of months. >> what is their philosophy? get their kind of legislators to do their kind of work and the profit goes to the top? >> yes. theyre pretty cl...