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♪ >> welcome back. growing concern that american schools are in crisis. a new assessment shows math and reading scores for elementary school students are on the decline with 2 out of 3 children not meeting the standards for reading proficiency. education secretary betsy devos calls the numbers "devastating." shes blaming the education establishment. this comes as a new study finds teenagers spend more than seven hours per day on their phones. could it be that that is to blame? dana, let me sta...

Reason nancy pelosi is speaker of the house. they took back control of the house because of those 30 or so democrats. and she -- they are the ones she has been trying to protect from the beginning of this so-called process. >> bill: as you look at it from the outside and if you do the math you might get a few republicans voting with democrats and a few democrats voting with republicans. by and large it will be a partisan vote right down the middle. >> a totally partisan vote. it is a good thing ...

"the new york times" had linked two out of three children did not meet the standards for reading proficiency, abysmal results reflected the performance of about 6,000 students in reading and math whose core is made up whats called the nations of report card. can i show you just a couple of the reading and the amount the stats? if you look at 2017 and 2019 we do this test every two years, we are not making progress in fact we are back sliding under reading for both grades four and eight. then you...

Ainsley: at the hospitals or insurance companies. brian: cant do the math and have enough revenue to support medicare for all. people know it. you know it. elizabeth warren hasnt come to grips with it. listen to her explanation. >> an economist at the university of massachusetts am hurst told kaiser health news earlier this year that that could result in about 2 million jobs lost. he said those would be mostly administrative positions and insurers, doctors offices. >> i agree. i think this is pa...

Taxpayers. then, you have people who were not proficient in reading and math going to college is that they cannot afford that are breaking their parents bank account, and now the colleges are doing the job of what k-12 should have been doing. >> juan: thats true. >> dana: im angry about it. >> juan: on the show we offer different points of view but im going to say, what dana said was true. a big gap between people who are most proficient and people who are least proficient. its like theres a gap...

The kits that are pretty proficient at meeting the math and great four they continued to do better but those who didnt are getting worse. i find this so what rate is for our national security for the teachers, the parents come of the students, and our businesses. how are we going to continue to grow? >> its devastating if you stop to think about parents who trust the school system to invest in their children to see that these results are so meager that the kids arent doing better. the kids who h...

I did the math. its not bad considering their fdi in 2018 was about $3 billion. aramco, which theyre trying to get a $2 trillion deal is not happened. im trying to get information. they could formalize their plans as early as next week and might get a listing by the end of the year, but keep in mind, g20 next year is happening in saudi arabia, so perhaps for mohammad bin salman, the crown prince, this is a chance to put the past behind them. >> thanks, john. meanwhile protesters in beirut taki...

The progress i have left if you are too conservative as a democrat. >> im happy to say one poll actually had me as one of the only candidates in the field that 10% or more of trump voters would support in the general. im laser focussed on solving the problems in the economy. that people are seeing around them every day. so we can pull off peel off thousands, hundreds of thousands of trump voters as well as independents to join the democrats and progressives to win the whole thing in 2020. >> mat...

>> youre wearing the pin that says math so you tweeted yesterday this land your your land, this land is my land. >> based on campaign to bring -- and i saw that and i thought thats a sentiment we can all get behind. >> this is the nuchl poll, the new one we have. you stand at 5%. sanders and warren at the top of that. no clear leader. are you happy with that? >> you know the great thing is that you saw we raised $10 million in the last quarter in increments of only $3 each, so youre going to see...

Puts those candidates a little more at a disadvantage than maybe some of those ones weve seen at the top. but theres also simpler reasons. there are name i.d.s, a lot of things -- >> and also the simple demographics and simple math and whether you like it or not they understood you -- the people who show up to the polls the most are older people, mostly white people. so should it be surprising the top candidates are white? is it really that surprising when you look at the number of minorities in...