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>> this is money, this is cash families use on many, many occasions to purchase food. how can you -- >> martin, theres eight different food programs. none of this is touching any of them. >> sir, this is money that those families receive. in your state, its up to $180 a month for a family of three. i am asking you this question. if there is a correlation between a childs academic performance and their food intake, why in gods name would you want to reduce that money by 30% in light of the fact t...

Problem. >> that is how it gets demagogued to death. were signing up 3,545 people every single day to get on food stamps. you present that number, those facts, and you also say all were doing is taking the food stamp program back to bill clintons day when he reformed welfare. if you do that, i think youve got more of a winning argument. >>steve: i saw something this morning, one in three students in the united states on free lunch. >> separate free food program. 18.7 million students get totally...

States. if you live in the state where the governor is conservative, they can change the eligibility rules and bounce you off medicaid and leave you with nothing. he wants to do a lot of the same things with programs for the poor, food stamps, he wants to take away the food program, if youre in a state with a governor that decides it is immoral to give you food stamps, they can change eligibility and bounce you out of food stamps. it is the cruelist budget he has come up with yet. and thats sayi...

If you live in the state where the governor is conservative, they can change the eligibility rules and bounce you off medicaid and leave you with nothing. he wants to do a lot of the same things with programs for the poor, food stamps, he wants to take away the food program, if youre in a state with a governor that decides it is immoral to give you food stamps, they can change eligibility and bounce you out of food stamps. it is the cruelist budget he has come up with yet. and thats saying a lot...

Illustration of the way price constraints lead to food that is actually good to the person eating it. >> exactly. the food program, it started in the late 1800s in response to children that were hungry. they knew children showing up for school couldnt focus and werent getting good grades. and became a federal program under truman in 46. i think we need to start looking at these programs as nutrition programs. its not a handout. you know, we send kids to school. we give them books, we give them a...

Assads regime. listen. >> well, i think if you were a country observing sierra and you thought the opposition with a no way capable of managing a transition or governors and you thought there was a vacuum of lawlessness you may decide lets make concessions and a you allow those guys to stay in power. >> the united nations food program announced this afternoon it is planning to feed something like 1.5 million syrians into the middle of next year. an indication of just how long the u.n. believes t...

Around an appeal -- revolved around an a appeal of withdrawal from vietnam. >> come home, america. come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. come only to th home to the con. >> i knew we had 75 or 8 mill 8l people watching the conviction. i was probably lucky if i had 2 million people watching at 2:30 in the morning. we did very well out in guam, as i recall. we were in prime time there. thats the only place where it was well timed. >> after nixon brutally defeated him in the general el...

That we have a dream. comb home to the conviction. >> i knew that we had 75 or 80 million people out there watching the convention during the horseplay time. i was probably lucky if i had 2 million people watching at 2: 30 in the morning. we did very well out in guam as i recall. we were on prime time out there. that was about the only place where it was timed. after nixon defeated him. mcgovern lost we election bid and left congress in 1981. failed run in 84 saw him return to private life for g...

Withdrawal. >> come home, america. come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. equal home to the conviction -- >> i knew that he had 75 or 80 million people watching the convention. i was probably lucky if hi2 million people watching at 2:30 in the morning. we did very well in guam, as i recall. we were on in prime time. that was the only place where it was well timed. >> reporter: after nixon brutally defeated him in the general election, he it his senate re-election bid and left congres...

>> back to "hardball." first to last nights al smith dinner up in new york. as you can see, i was up on the dais at the big event seated right behind president obama and mitt romney. here is the view i had from my seat. i have to say, thanks to tom moran and his global food program concern for taking this great photo right in front of us there. in his own joke-laden speech, the president made a specific apology regarding his performance in that first debate. >> i particularly want to apologize t...