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Be there, apologize when youre wrong, forgive, let it go. >> let it go. >> you have to let it go for other people. we always think about how we need to, how we are always thinking about the grudges and things that we keep against each other, but we need to look at how to forgive other people. >> mike: jill, do you let it go? >> sometimes it takes me a little while. i get there. >> to be honest, sometimes its not so easy. especially if you have the cameras on you. i am a real person. i dont alway...

Georgia. >> reporter: there is so much at stake. tonya craft could face the rest of her life behind bars. this is a beloved teacher who has since been fired. shes been charged in a 22-count indictment. prosecutors say the little girls all gave similar stories. they are calling tonya craft a liar. they said that even though many of her supporters here in this town and this case has split this town in two, and online, have said this is some kind of conspiracy theory, that people had grudges agains...

Barack obama but not for 2010. >> neil: you could be right. real pleasure. good of you to stop by. >> thank you for having me. >> neil: joe trippi in washington. be careful how you treat the little people. they often hold grudges and they have very long memories.

Bush for the federal election commission. a democratic senator held him up over a voting rights issue. which senator? >> senator obama. >> reporter: thats right. then-senator barack obama. >> so it was not because i didnt have the qualifications. it was because he disagreed with me on a substantive issue. >> reporter: now the president has a different perspective. >> well-qualified public servants shouldnt be held hostage to the pet project or grudges of a few individual senators. >> reporter: t...

Are all of the nominees qualified? >> i have no idea. >> reporter: so they are leveraged? >> it is part of the life here. >> reporter: it is part of the life here in the senate and not this the official rules, but by tradition, any senator can put a hold on any presidential nominee for any reason and both parties do it. hans was nominated by the bush administration, and a democratic senator held him up over a voting rights issue. which senator? >> senator obama. >> reporter: that is right, senat...

On all cylinders. >> reporter: do you think the employees you have holds on are qualified? >> i have no idea. >> reporter: so theyre leverage. >> thats part of the life up here. >> reporter: it is part of life up here in the senate. not any official rules but by tradition any senator can put a hold on any presidential nominee for any reason and both parties do it. hans advance spikofski was elected for the federal election commission. a democratic senator held him up over a righting votes issue....

That you regret? >> what i wish is that, you know, i went -- i felt like god actually called me to go help these people. what i regret the most is that i wasnt able to do anything. you know, i dont blame anybody or hold any grudges against that. because i think that the haitian government did what they needed to do by detaining us and getting to the facts, but -- >> youre not angry at the haitian government? >> oh, not at all. no. >> i do think as you said one of the saddest things about this is...

Of them actually did have a parent? >> not at all. as they got on the bus, as the pastor -- we thought they were relatives like aunts or uncles or grandparents, brought the kids to us. they specifically told us that this child has no one to take care of them. both their mother and their father are no longer living, and as they entered the bus we wrote down their name and their birth date and that they were alone and had nobody to help them. >> is there anything now, looking back on this, that, i...

As they entered the bus we wrote down their name and their birth date and that they were alone and had nobody to help them. >> is there anything now, looking back on this, that, i mean, besides getting arrested, that you regret? >> what i wish is that, you know, i went -- i felt like god actually called me to go help these people. what i regret the most is that i wasnt able to do anything. you know, i dont blame anybody or hold any grudges against that. because i think that the haitian governmen...

Obstruct every single bill just because they can. the confirmation of -- [ applause ] >> im speaking to both parties now the confirmation of well qualified public servants shouldnt be held hostage to the pet projects or grudges of a few individual senators. [ applause ] >> washington may that i saying anything about the other side, no matter how false, no matter how malicious, is just part of the game, but its precisely such politics that has stopped either party from helping the american people...