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>> a special because we are talking about the fiscal cliff, an especially bad year for republicans, not only losing the presidency by four points and lost winnable senate seats. they got slaughtered with latinos, problems with young people, women. the democrats, they obviously did not win back the house. the senate looks like will be tough in 2014. looking at the fiscal cliff on the democrat side, it is very important that the president convince people that hes serious about the deficit in 2013 ...

With but not so much a perception problem of them. their economic policy is based on the idea of cutting social safety net programs for greater tax breaks for the wealthy. theyre going to the mat to keep taxes as low as possible for the wealthy. so how do they change that part of their party when its so sort of fundamental to their core economic views? >> thats why its at the top of the list. its very difficult. i think in the last election cycle they allowed themselves to have to defend the pau...

We know that issue, et cetera. also, romney lost asian-american voters by 47 points, which tells me the party not only has the history and the issues problem but also a little bit of a perception problem. were getting to the point where now if youre a young minority voter, the republican party is maybe viewed as one just in the popular image as kind of the white party and do i want to join that. thats something that a republican -- a more diverse republican ticket would fix all by itself. the re...

More than 84% of the children in the chicago public schools qualify for the free and reduced lunch program. 50% of the children are african-american, something like 45% are hispanic. that would make you think that who lives in chicago? where did all the white kids go? well they have opted out of the system because its a terrible system. so you have poor minority children who are left with a system without resources. teachers telling me -- and theres one here you that spoke with already, diane mu...

Education correspondent, rehema ellis, to start off this important conversation about the common core. before we do that you just spent over a week of your life covering the chicago teachers strike. dicey topic. fraught. so lets go there. what -- if there was one takeaway as a journalist, as a parent, what was it? >> teachers have a perception problem. there is this notion across the country that teachers are out there for themselves that they dont work hard enough they get paid too much and the...

[ applause ] they would have had a whole different perception of them. but it wasnt framed that way. we were talking about questions of evaluation. teachers saying how dare you want to evaluate me based on how the students are performing on this test? and people say, well everybody else is evaluated on how they perform, why not you? and why is it that we cant get rid of you on these evaluations? people werent realizing that do you know that 91% of the teachers in chicago are rated superior to ex...

About 3% of african-american women are republican. a little more progressive on issues like jobs, education and health care. so it seems to be not so much the issue of the message, as the messenger, and what a lot of people in the community will tell you is that there is a perception problem, the perception that there is racially coded language and tactics often used. you can go back to recent things like the birther controversy, where a lot of african-american women feel there is hostility to t...

Brother, former president bush, for the state economy. >> hes had three years. his policies have failed. rather than blaming others, you just cant keep doing that. mitt romney will be over this thursday. senator, welcome back. >> thank you. lets talk about the weather: its ironic. you were in this very same position when the hurricane came barrelling towards new orleans. there was a real perception problem with yoi and the republicans. do you think there could be a furter delay down here?

In just a minute, youll hear my exclusive interview with jeb bush including his reaction when president obama blames his brother, president bush, for the state of the economy. >> the guy was dealt a difficult hand, no doubt about it. his policies have failed. hes had three years. and rather than blame others, you just cant keep doing that. >> that full conversation is up next. but first, we go to washington and the one man who knows what well be under, senator john mccain. lets talk about the we...

Anti-collectivist fill lo anti-collectivist philosophy, shes a militant atheist. hes catholic. shes completely against welfare programs for the poor. he thinks its a moral obligation to care for the needy. theres a lot that paul ryan would like to say about ayn rand that would clarify some things. >> just so everybody knows, were watching paul ryan. he arrived on the scene there in virginia. steve, i want to ask you, now is not the time to talk about ayn rand. shes the russian atheist that wrote...