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Fellow americans and i were bigots, that we needed a lecture from the president of the united states that we cannot distinguish between those who bring their evil, their horror and their ideology to san bernardino and paris and elsewhere, and from those muslims that we all know are peaceful people, and this is a president who has failed to use his bully pulpit to calm the fears and the anxieties of the balance of american people. frankly, like president bush did quite some time ago, right after ...

States, that we cannot distinguish between those who bring their evil, their horror and their ideology to san bernardino and paris and elsewhere, and from those muslims that we all know are peaceful people, and this is a president who has failed to use his bully pulpit to calm the fears and the anxieties of the balance of american people. frankly, like president bush did quite some time ago, right after 9/11. and this is a president who likes to draw red lines in the sand. let him talk about tho...

Rush liquid fast relief to your tough cold symptoms. fast, powerful liquid gels from alka seltzer plus . >> so a press conference has just wrapped up in los angeles, california. city officials announced the schools will will reopen tomorrow the story da that dom nighted was the l.a. school system to shut down 900 public schools. 187 charter schools. shut down, 640,000 kids across l.a. were told to stay home on short notice. the shutdown happened after l.a. and new york city received similar if n...

Not a coincidence but, you know, again, until the threats have been vetted, it is premature to say l.a. acted. >> i think the police chief said its easy to krit sichl without the responsibility of the decision. >> the other thing thats said is the superintendents decision to close the schools so i also dont feel like the police chief or the mayor was backing away from that decision. i think they were just being factual. >> yes. they were very factual in pointing out that they support this decisi...

Member has just told "associated press" that los angeles school threat is now officially believed to be a hoax. "associated press" is alerting this across all of its platforms. youre probably getting it on your phone now. the question is how to react to this and what this decision taken today means for tomorrow and the next day and next week and next month. for not only l.a. school system but for school systems across the nation because there is no question these threats do come in. they come in...

With a family, you can transform their behavior. but putting them out and perpetrating the school to prison pipeline, when we do that, we in education are part of the problem. and the fact that it starts so early is sad. >> secretary, let me jump in there. if you saw in saras story there, it seems to intimate there was a reflection on racism as a society. that true? is it part of a racial problem in america as the story contends? >> so this is -- let me be very clear there are clear racial dispa...

Whatever. it doesnt matter frankly to me. what does matter is we better train, equip adults to deal with these issues and take step likes the l.a. school system has been courageous enough to do to better support students who are struggling. so ive been to high schools that historically were very violent, had all kinds of challenges where adults are actually relinquishing giving up some of their power, moving towards peer juries, moving towards peer mediation and empowering the teenagers themselv...

Playing with money thats not their own corruption will happen. >> sam, do you agree? >> no. ill tell use. we know that state workers in wisconsin make be -- if you hold education and include pension and health care and you look across the board they are getting up to at least 5% less than they would get in the private-sector. so this isnt a question of public unions in any way abusing the system. this is a question of a governor who wants to giveaway tax cuts, and a movement in this country by c...

Amendment that the california board passed in pursuit to trees to the top money. its exciting to see whether it plays out. they are trying to mend a system that didnt delivering the results they need. >> i want to bring in a couple of folks who are directly affect go ahead by what were discussing and fighting in the process to improve the schools here in southern california and not just in southern california but where the schools have suffered the most. compton, the first place to see the paren...

Is the height of fiscal irresponsibility. but when it comes to defaulting on promises they need their employees thats fiscal responsibility. its ridiculous. >> sam, of course its a case of the unions abusing the system. in the public sector you cant get fired. in the l.a. school system, seven teachers got fired over a whole decade. they get a lot of job security and get as much or more pay than most private-sector workers. >> thats not true. >> this is not about wisconsin. >> if you want to talk...