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because she should have got it, i will give it to her, no fight from me, shes meryl "freaking" streep. >> i met and chatted with her only once, assure you, she will not do that. other thing, rachel, tomorrow night, the georgia senators are going to be making their appearances here on this network. you have i believe senator warnock at 9:00 p.m. >> indeed and you have senator ossoff? >> at 10:00. >> well this breaking news tonight in atlanta may change that. i dont know at this point bu...

As inflation increases, accessibility to education decreases.

Entertainment and that we made it kind of gratification culture without investing in actual education. we also reward test results rather than that kind of work ethic and investment that builds it along the way. this was totally predictable. just like homelessness and opioids and all the other stuff that we talked about because this has been a long time coming. the fact that we refuse to let parents proceed with choices or provide other options because we want a virtual signal is the problem. >>...

Given the provocative nature of the question that he was being asked. >> could you say, director mueller, that the president was credible? >> i cant answer that question. >> director mueller, isnt it fair to say that the presidents written answers were not only inadequate and incomplete because he didnt answer many of your questions, but where he did his answers showed that he wasnt always being truthful? >> theory would say generally. >> isnt it fair to say the presidents written answers were n...

Stumble through this question. so is he just incapable of giving an authentic answer or i dont even know a fluid answer to this question? you would think that they would sit him in the room okay lets practice, here is the question. and give me the answer. there is rote memorization that you could inflict. >> it is tricky win its your family. i think he will find his footing, but i think the one to watch in this debate other than donald trump is john kasich. people havent paid very much attention...

So what has happened is that states like new york rushed to test both last year, and this year, and then used those tests for promotional decisions for kids and for teacher evaluations as opposed to giving the teachers the time to really prepares because this is different. for the past ten years, we have been doing rote memorization in schools, and critical thinking and problem solving is important, but you have to do the preparation, and this year, and evidently the tests for new york state for...

>> and you were able to continue to live in your own world. >> look at you. just stay right there in that bubble. >> if i had been like steve jobs and dropped out of college -- i think theres something to like people dropping out of college in the 60s and dropping acid like steve job said, never done acid, mom, just joking, but theres something that you sort of just regimented approach doesnt always work. >> i think thats why we dont go the china route which is rote memorization. we hope we have...

Should know and be able to do in english, language arts and mathematics, in order to successful in college, in a career, in the community. so it creates a set of consistent benchmarks across the country. >> isnt a lot of it about really focusing more on how they think? this is not about rote memorization or passing a multiple choice test. >> one of the powerful things in the survey is teachers, i think 70% of them, the ela and math teachers believe it will strengthen their students critical thin...

They can take college level classes and be confronted with fascinating puzzles you have to solve. and we wont show thank you answer. we show thank you answer after you tried it so you are perceptive what we think the right answer was. >> frank, when did we figure this out? obviously a way we all went to school was in a different paradigm which was largely rote memorization, age desegregation. when did the sort of brain research we are seeing apply to -- even come to be known? >> centuries ago, d...

an affair and pay his mistress. edwards attorney says known was not a campaign donation but a gift from two edwards supporters. joe johns is following the latest developments and he joins us by phone from near raleigh, north carolina. joe, youve been following the twists and turns how this unfolded. what do we know about the specific counts against edwards now? >> reporter: the indictment, as i looking through it, has a lot of the information we expected to be in there, essentially, il...