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They make it interesting here. >> sean: an all-girls public school, where the kids inspector uniforms with higher test scores, the parents loved it, kids loved it. everything was working and huthe new york civil liberties union try to shut it down -- because it was all girls and they are against experimentation. i dont mean to say that all the charter schools do well -- some are lousy. but parents find out and the schools go away and the best schools thrive? >> the answers competition and that m...

They make it interesting here. >> sean: an all-girls public school, where the kids inspector uniforms with higher test scores, the parents loved it, kids loved it. everything was working and huthe new york civil liberties union try to shut it down -- because it was all girls and they are against experimentation. i dont mean to say that all the charter schools do well -- some are lousy. but parents find out and the schools go away and the best schools thrive? >> the answers competition and that m...

we have early buzz straight ahead. >> you dont have a fear of heights. >> i dont. i respect heights. >> walk on a wire. a feat 200 feet up high above niagara falls. well introduce you to nick. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning. thank you for joining us. happy friday to you. a medical mystery is unfolding for the centers for disease control as it races to find the source of a deadly e. coli outbreak. heres what we know right now. there are reports that 11 people have been sick...

Were 1,365 stories of barack obama. how many stories dealt with his drug use? >> sean: none. just a guess. >> he admitted he did it. not one single story on him. >> sean: all right. now, we have the benefit of being able to go back and compare and contrast. we showed the media coverage, george w. bush. you heard from charlie gib on, world news, today show, matt lauer, cbs, meet the press. lets watch the media coverage of barack obama, same issue. >> im thrilled that i have my mother and my daugh...

Because of the nature of the dna. would it be possible for us to be a system efficient enough such where the death penalty might make sense, or is it such that the imperfections of human nature are such that it isnt possible? >> we know a lot about how to fix this system, the fact of the matter is that there are reforms about how one does eye witness identification procedures that dramatically reduce wrong indentifications, without reducing correct ones. right now the innocence project is in the...

Heres the statistics that you are going on love. in 2008, in the primaries, there were 1,365 stories of barack obama. how many stories dealt with his drug use? >> sean: none. just a guess. >> he admitted he did it. not one single story on him. >> sean: all right. now, we have the benefit of being able to go back and compare and contrast. we showed the media coverage, george w. bush. you heard from charlie gib on, world news, today show, matt lauer, cbs, meet the press. lets watch the media cover...

Heres the statistics that you are going on love. in 2008, in the primaries, there were 1,365 stories of barack obama. how many stories dealt with his drug use? >> sean: none. just a guess. >> he admitted he did it. not one single story on him. >> sean: all right. now, we have the benefit of being able to go back and compare and contrast. we showed the media coverage, george w. bush. you heard from charlie gib on, world news, today show, matt lauer, cbs, meet the press. lets watch the media cover...

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Let me finish with this. i want to american government to work. i want elections to matter, to have congress when people decide in the voting booth. i want this to be alive with new ideas, approaches and experimentation. we have problems like out of control immigration. the plight of you are inner cities. its a doable list, dont you think? lets try to get working on that list. lets set about fixing these challenges. theres no reason its going to change things. nothings going to get done. another...

More aware, asking more questions? are you optimistic that the type of experimentation that youve been able to deliver is something we can cultivate in abundance? >> i am very optimistic. i think, you know, teaching at cal tech and seeing the types of students that are coming up in the pipeline, im very encouraged by the future of innovation in this country. i think its important, though, that we dont take that for granted and be supportive. earlier on your show you were discussing the pell gran...