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Concern for the child. teachers, most of all. otherwise why would they be in that profession. but you need to realize that there are problems with schools and school districts and budgets that are all around the country in states that are fully unionized and states in which unions are effectively banished. so im not sure unions are the key variables. and i think we have some larger problems that deal with communities, that deal with parents, and that deal with schools. and that the solutions nee...

It is willing to negotiate in ernest the owners are expected to lock them out and then head to court. >> greta: key issues are the nine billion dollars in revenue. owners want a wage scale for rookies and the issue of extending the up in of games to 18. is the fight over the nine billion or are those other issues imperative, according to the players? >> reporter: it is always about money in the nfl. thats where. owners get one billion dollars off the top each year as an expense credit. they want...

It is willing to negotiate in ernest the owners are expected to lock them out and then head to court. >> greta: key issues are the nine billion dollars in revenue. owners want a wage scale for rookies and the issue of extending the up in of games to 18. is the fight over the nine billion or are those other issues imperative, according to the players? >> reporter: it is always about money in the nfl. thats where. owners get one billion dollars off the top each year as an expense credit. they want...

Imperative to say theyre doing big things, quote/unquote, to exaggerate and hype what theyre doing. the pell grants that the president just mentioned is a favorite example. the president has nudged up pell grants in a tiny way over the last few years, but pell grants cover less as a share of college tuition than they did 35 years ago under richard nixon. what does it say, dave, when the outer limits of the democratic administrations ambition is the same as what they had 30 years ago and nothing ...

About the budget. but earlier in the day, republican eric cantor of virginia said he didnt hold out much hope when vice president biden meets republicans later today. >> it seems that harry reid and the vice president will come forward with approximately $40 billion in cuts. thats not cuts. thats the status quo. that has been the position that harry reid has taken all along. and what we say is we need to cut spend, trim the fat. we need to do what most americans are doing which is to find out ho...

The problem with the deficit is that we need to bring it down over the next ten years to 15 years. whats imperative at the moment is to get the economy out of the recession, and the reason it is still in recession is that we dont have enough spending. as we talked about before, the investors wont spend on investment. theyve already got more capacity than they need. consumers are still worried, theyre not spending. government is the only actor on the scene with capacity to spend. and it has so ma...

That we need to bring it down over the next ten years to 15 years. whats imperative at the moment is to get the economy out of the recession, and the reason it is still in recession is that we dont have enough spending. as we talked about before, the investors wont spend on investment. theyve already got more capacity than they need. consumers are still worried, theyre not spending. government is the only actor on the scene with capacity to spend. and it has so many essential things it should be...

Its a long run problem. the problem with the deficit is we need to bring it down over the next 10 years to 15 years. whats imperative at the moment is to get the economy out of the recession and the reason its in the recession is we dont have enough spending women talked about this before. the investors wont spend on investment. they have more capacity than they need. consumers are worriyed. they are not spending. government is the only actor on the scene with the capacity to spend it has so man...

Playing devils advocate. >> for five minutes at west point he pulled back the facade. he said this effort and others like it are futile. >> mika, what if you had a 20-year-old son or daughter in afghanistan right now and the secretary of defense just said anybody that wants to fight a war in afghanistan ought to have their head examined. youve got a commander in chief that is allowing this to go on. you have republicans who want it to go further. i tell you what, i would be out on the barricades...

Whats the imperative. >> they say pakistan will fall. its ridiculous. >> were wrong about everything else lately, so were obviously wrong about this. >> the afghanistan war has dragged on for ten years. the oscars a close second. >> we have a lost news to get to. which people tune into us for. >> this is news too, willie. this is the night of hollywood, hollywoods big night for the entire year and it was a disgrace last night. i want to get tina browns take. >> i want to talk about the morality ...