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Doesnt like testing. >> your results are awful. they are among the lowest in the nation. >> you make an argument that it is the lowest in the nation based upon the test scores. now, i would say that ours can get better but i he would say that ours are -- >> your predecessors, the unions have been saying that for years. >> i think the unions have a pretty strong history of advocating for high quality public education. >> but not achieving it. >> our test scores are not what we choose to focus on....

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Predecessors. i dont think he is breaking any new ground here. >> chris: so therefore you dont think he is in violation of the war powers act? >> no, but i think he had been clear as well that he would welcome the congress passing a resolution of support. >> chris: secretary gates, is the u.s. involved in hostilities in libya? >> the way i like to put it is from our standpoint at the pentagon we are involved in a limit kinetic o operation. if im in quadaffis palace, i suspect im at war. >> chris...

Predecessors. i dont think he is breaking any new ground here. >> chris: so therefore you dont think he is in violation of the war powers act? >> no, but i think he had been clear as well that he would welcome the congress passing a resolution of support. >> chris: secretary gates, is the u.s. involved in hostilities in libya? >> the way i like to put it is from our standpoint at the pentagon we are involved in a limit kinetic o operation. if im in quadaffis palace, i suspect im at war. >> chris...

Fighting for freedom and the rule of law. >> anyone who watched this arab spring who has any attraction to the highest american ideals and global ideals of freedom and fairness sympathized with protesters. at the same time we are dealing with the president if barack obama and all of his predecessors. i dont mean to uniquely indict him with this. but a president great at rhetoric and yet the actual policies tend to be inconsistent or outright contradictory to his rhetoric. how would the positive ...

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Says panetta was convinced by the president in final conversation late monday. >> ambassador gene cretz says they have not decided whether to formally recognize the group. >> durable goods orders rose in march. the stocks wither up today. dow gained 96. the head of the federal reserve did something none of the predecessors had done. jim angle shows us what happened and why. >> ben bernanke opened the unprecedented news conference with the fed assessment of the economy its been trying to simulate...

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Only $4.7 billion. the republican noted that amounts to only a fraction more than what cbo says the government is overspending every 24 hours. >> we are averaging about $4 billion a day in debt this year. and democrats want to cut $4.7 billion and call it a day. that is their idea of getting serious. >> reporter: with the total long-term debt topping $14 trillion and growing, reid complained about the absecure cut to the national endowment of humanities. >> national humanitys is what we have eve...