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Lets talk to scott brown who joins us live now from boston. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning. >> steve: i know you were out campaigning for mr. gomez yesterday. how is it going? >> listen, hes a nice guy, hard worker, great family, independent as you know, newcomer, neofight and up against a political machine. so im hopeful hell do well. there seems to be within his circle of supporters a tremendous amount of energy. but outside in massachusetts, i dont see a whole lot of energy. its go...

Commuter would be trying to mimic the logical structure of german but now its all correlation. >> well, thats exactly right. in the past we tried to teach the computer how language worked and tried to enshrine all of these things in software code is really hard whether its a code or language. the new approach is to rely on data and statistics and turn the problem into a math problem. its probability. what is the likelihood a word in one language is the best alternative to a word in another langu...

Data and statistics and turn the problem into a math problem. its probability. what is the likelihood a word in one language is the best alternative to a word in another language. to do that you need to pour in lots of data, lots of different translations. >> every document you can find in both english and german and the computer just keeps looking at those and correlating. >> thats right. so every document would go in, for every book scan translations from the libraries, they put that in as wel...

Having to worry if he can afford diapers for his newborn son. poverty isnt just a fun math problem to solve. it takes a very serious emotional toll that ben will fortunately never know. it isnt brave to choose to be poor for a week. now, like ben, collins has the luxury to announce he is a gay man, when countless others before him had to suffer real consequences, as dire as murder in matthew shepherds case. unlike ben, collins isnt a straight man who decided to live as a gay man for a week. just...

Jon: too many horses and too little land even in the wide open spaces of the west right now. the federal government saying the is running out of room for wild horses to room and finding its hands pretty much tied when it comes to reducing their numbers. alicia acuna is keeping an eye on that live from denver. >> reporter: whats more not only is there shrinking space in the wild range areas there is no more room left in captivity either, so says the bureau of land management. its a gigantic math ...

Its a math problem. so thats not the problem most people are talking about around their kitchen tables. thats why theyve got to get away from just the numbers. >> let me ask you this, does the president mean -- to ask the white house, if they put out a full-fledged plan. if they want to push republicans on more taxes do do a deal, does he need a plan first? >> well, thats going to be hard. if the republicans say they want cuts and entitlements hes waiting on them to put them down first. its a li...

And get higher scores in math. >> i love that way of thinking about it. that were not just the bundle of things that we come with but that we can grow over space and time. >> specifically theres one nugget which comes out of it, praise kids for effort rather than their results. its something they practiced with my own kids. it didnt come naturally at first. to praise them for something that takes them a week to do instead of something that comes really quickly. >> its not that you got the a. its...

>> ryan, i want to play something jon huntsman told a british newspaper this week. take a listen to this. >> we cant be known as a party that is fear-based, that doesnt believe in math. >> now, ryan, the gop does have a math problem, and here it is. of the gops 35 freshmen seated today, 32 are men, but only 3 are women. they also didnt have a woman chairing a committee until they were embarrassed into it. have you seen any evidence that they understand that they do have a math problem? >> well, ...

>> look, ive been for bowls simpson and -- the outline, not the specifics. what they said is we need to deal with entitlements, we need to strengthen social security and medicare and make sure theyre sustainable. >> neil: their ratio was $3 in spending cuts to 1 dollar in revenue. what do you think this will be? >> actually, frankly, as you probably know, neil, the bowles simpson proposal was closer to 2-1 than 3-1. >> neil: do you think the final package will be 2-1? >> i dont know. i know this...

Have put it on his budget, has put it on other proposals that hes made. the republicans, on the other hand, sent a letter to the president with five items, conclusions only, no specifics. no specifics in terms of how you raise revenue. no specifics in terms of cutting funding. and very frankly, i think they made a political judgment, they would much prefer to have the president choose those alternatives. thats not a way to negotiate. they only come up with their alternatives, the president comes...