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would walk out of the meeting with the president that he would lead calls two days in a row to try to come up with some other plan and their deadline would be by 8:00 this evening? >> reporter: well, not specifically. you know, thats kind of -- it feels like past history at this point. what theyre trying to do is come up with something that could -- come up with a plan by tomorrow, which is monday, that would give them time to post some type of plan, get a vote on it, and hit that dead...

Grand a year for a first-year student. economics is a big driver here, senator alexander. why are you a proponent of not for all kids, but kids who can do it, a three-year college degree? >> well, time and money are the two things. the three-year degree is not for everybody, but i think for higher education, the three-year degree might be the equivalent of the fuel efficient car because take hartwick college you mentioned, i think their tuition and fees are like $43,000 a year. if you do it in t...

About messing with medicare, a very popular program, you are going to get booed, how do you make that sell? >> well, youre going to have to sell it to the fact that seniors today are not going to lose their benefits. but, yes, the generation-x out there, our generation, well have to look at the fact well have to do it differently by the time we advance in age or else were not going to have the america we want to have. and do you know what, that will be unpopular, but weve made choices that have ...

People. im on facebook. i know you are. i dont want to insult you. i know youre still very young, carol. but neither one of us would be considered part of generation x or anything or generation y, i guess. >> i think the difficult part for the president is, you know, i guess a recent poll showed that 55% still kind of supported him, but you need to generate a lot of enthusiasm to get young people to the polls. and with unemployment -- the unemployment rate so high among young people, thats a dif...

Camp for kids, 7 to 17 years old. look, this -- its -- >> hopefully universities are moving quickly so the kids have the skills. >> the kids are doing it buy themselves by the way. >> taking expensive education out of the mix. >> more evidence of a man session, a he session because so many men were employed in construction and factory work, got unemployed through the recession. not only is male unemployment higher than that of women but a wall street journal op-ed found those under 30, women ear...

Those areas are a huge demand for workers. many are cutting teachers and not adding new ones. how do we get more successful stem career people into the classroom? theres a premium on these majors in the college. in my book, we explore how to position your kid into s.t.e.m. careers or how to use a liberal arts background like the four of us have to get a job in the growing technology, science, and mathematics fields. >> look at jason over here -- >> i was an english major. >> generation x had it ...

Difficulties and those were the guys that had been providing global leadership, historically. the chinese, the indians, the indoniecians, emerging markets are not yet prepared to provide leadership on issue likes trade and currency. so what were seeing is a breakdown in global governance and what we believe. >> a g-0 world. if everyone is going if for their own personal benefit, ha does it mean for living standards in this country? >> if means were going to have trouble. because the economic and...

In their 70s, people out of college. we talked to career coaches, quite frankly, suzanne, they say you have to look for a few things. make sure you have good tech skills. because look, even generation x quite frankly, we werent born with a cell phone in our pocket like the younger generations are. build your tech skills. make sure the potential hiring manager knows youre savvy with all the technology. update your appearance. career coaches say it doesnt have to be something crazy like facelifts ...

Transform the image of the most uncool type of car into something generation x and y can stomach driving around in. but the reference mostly just comes down to this lightning bolt which is really just the bottom edge of the rear window and designed to give the little head bangers in the third row a better view. >> and family entertainment system, 15 cup and bottle holders, a refrigerators that can sit a six pack. a hoop that is not for football, but can be used as a garbage can. 28 miles per gal...

Mubaraks son fleeing the country. you said like kids today and greg you said he is probably generation x. he is 46. i guess that is technically genx. >> no, 1965 is the cutoff. >> i sort of agree with you, but other people say no. >> i think it makes mim a baby kaboomer. >> he was in it to be the presidents son. thats all he wanted and he got the hell out of there. >> i think it is pretty clear that pretty much all of the so-called pro mubarik -- the pro mubarak protestors are part of the regime...