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I think theyre wanting to build off that momentum. i think theyre understanding that education is really important to a lot of voters. this is going to be a tough year for republicans and theyre hoping to make this a wedge issue. >> paul: theyre sensing weakness politically among the republicans and playing defense. so this is when we can drive our increases. and it cant be good politics in oklahoma for republicans to raise taxes. >> you would think not. you would think not. i think they feel li...

>> reporter: brown insists not everything has to be partisan. >> voters dont look at liberals, conservatives on any spectrum. they look at each of us. deify for our pensions, do you fight for higher wages, trade agreements that mean jobs in the united states? >> reporter: voters like mike gibbons looked at those choices and decided a name with missing. >> i decided to do something in my television set for the last 5 years. >> reporter: one name you didnt hear, republicans who won the last statew...

Auditorium in baghdad. this was when i was working as an assistant commander and we were telling them how we were going to incorporate them into the new security forces and they were going to help as retired officers and they were going to be able to keep their pensions. an aide came in to me, handed me a note that said that ambassador bremer had just announced that the iraqi army was disbanded, that all retirement funds were going away, and you lose that. you then have to stand up and tell your...

When youre trying to execute a policy and then basically an announcement that the policy has changed and not any pre amble. i understand when brener announced that the iraqi army was being disbanded. troops on the ground werent aware. >> thank you for reminding me, that occurred when i was talking to 400 iraqi generals. it was when i was working as assistant commander. and we were telling them how we were going to incorporate them into the new security forces and return iraq in terms of a better...

Gaming the system. >> renacci delta democratic senator is in fear. >> the one thing about senator brown, its political. he will hide with the president is much as he can. you can only hug him on what she do that is tariffs. >> brown insists not everything has to be partisan. >> voters dont look at liberals, conservatives, any kind of spectrum. they look at each of us. you fight for our pensions, higher wages? do you fight for trade agreements that mean jobs in united states? >> then, there are t...

Infrastructure and want oklahoma to start actually funding education and so they are in the streets and its not just oklahoma. state capital of kentucky looked the same yesterday. thousands of kentucky teachers and supporters showing up, so many they spilled out the doors of the state capital in kentucky. teachers are protesting changes to pensions and protesting further deeper budget cuts for schools. and you can see the kinds of turnout and the kinds of heart felt stuff that comes up when you ...

To get paid a living wage and more state funding for text backs and fixing building infrastructure and want oklahoma to start actually funding education and so they are in the streets and its not just oklahoma. state capitol of kentucky looked the same yesterday. thousands of kentucky teachers and supporters showing up, so many they spilled out the doors of the state capitol in kentucky. teachers are protesting changes to pensions and protesting further deeper budget cuts for schools. and you ca...

That they hope will determine the future of syria and once again america is not at the table as many here in syria wonder what americas long-term strategy is for the country. dave. fred, thank you. and tens of thousands of teachers in kentucky and oklahoma flooding state capitols and refusing to back down. in kentucky, fuming over a pension reform bill and demanding lawmakers add school funding. here is polo sandoval. >> reporter: dave and rene, this is more about pay and pensions here in kent...

Pensions are important. but i think its really about dollars that get to the classrooms. have those been cut? yesterday we saw that oklahoma teachers are surviving on $1,200 a month. thats not a living wage having to work a second or third job. that really does motivate a lot of folks to say where are our priorities. >> well be watching today to see what happens. all right. we have a long day of testimony in the at&t time warner merger trial. why both sides are claiming small victories next. w...

Districts are on spring break this week, so theyre already out of school. and so the ones that are in school we had solidarity of all 173 districts that were not in school yesterday, we had a phenomenal turnout, the estimates are around 12,000 community members, educators, parents, students that came out to our state capitol yesterday to make sure that we communicated to our state legislature that we were going to be watching and that we were going to demand that our government fund public educa...