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Is as though this was a bill to eliminate the school lunch program. >> well, theyve been talking about this as providing very narrow flexibles on issues like salt and whole grains, but its not. this would allow schools to opt out of all the school nutrition standards for a year. this would take us back in time to the days when schools were selling unhealthy foods and allow junk food back into the school lunch program. >> wait, wait. >> ive read it. >> all it says is the department of agriculture...

Standards went into effect, less than 15% of schools were serving healthy school lunches. now under the new standards, 90% are, so the standards are working. why roll them back? >> were talking about very small number of schools are having problems. most schools are -- thats not true. youre punishing 90% of the kids for a very small problem. genevieve, i have a question for you. the school lunch program serves 30 million kids most of whom are from needy families, most of whom this is their bigge...

Food was healthy enough. many of them dont know about these changes that have been taking place and that the food has been getting better. >> in the first full year of implementation last year, thats when you lost a million kids. so they were dropping out because they did not like -- >> thats now troot. >> i dont think you have the facts right. the fact is they dont like the food. schools are saying we cant afford this. some schools are taking money out of their teaching budgets to make up the d...

Jeffrey toobin, thanks very much for joining us. thats it for me. thanks very much for watching. be sure to join us again tomorrow in "the situation room." watch us live, dvr the show so you wont miss a moment. im wolf blitzer in "the situation room." now lets step into the "crossfire" with stephanie cutter and newt gingrich. washingtons latest attempt to impose rigid uniformity on every aspe specspect of our liv todays case, school lunches. >> when you hear republicans talking like that, you ...

Women ate them. >> people are buying potatoes. nobody are saying potatoes are bad but saying this is a supplemental food package to fill your -- >> theyre already getting access to it. >> the design is to fill nutritional gaps. theres no gap in potatoes so theres no need to provide extra money to people to buy potatoes. >> part of the countrys reaction i think to whats going on in washington, this has been a growing feeling for at least 30 years is the elites have decided they will now tell us w...

Spending $11 million a year of taxpayer dollars on school lunches. lets not spend it on lunch. leads to higher rates of obesity and higher health care costs. im a new mom. i dont think you need years of parenting experience to know what the house republicans are doing is just right. newt, it has nothing to do with a year delay in these nutrition standards. they are trying to undo the standards altogether and undo the school lunch program. >> i can also claim to be a parent and grandparent. >> yo...

And the katie couric movie, you have another clip from that? can we play that? >> steve, did you bring it? >> lets watch. >> wrong in some ways. she says 95% of us will be overweight or obese within a couple decades. and i mean, on the face of it its absurd. how can they say things like that? >> do you thin the government should educate our children about it, whether theyre mandating what should be in lunches or not, they should do a better job educating kids? >> fine, they already spent million...

All right. the first lady, shes biting back at critics on capitol hill who want to chop tough nutrition guidelines from school programs. house republicans are thinking of stripping funding requirements for schools who say they cannot afford it. michelle obama ready for a fight over food. >> parents have a right to expect that their kids will get decent food in our schools. and we all have a right to expect that our hard-earned taxpayer dollars wont be spent on junk food for our kids. >> sam kas ...

>> were only talking right now the presidents approach for foreign policy towards afghanistan. it will be interesting. everyone is looking forward to hearing his approach, how it may change towards syria and also the extending growing threats from places in the middle east and even reaching into africa. a lot of eyes will be on this speech this morning. got to at the time your guys take on bit waiting in politics in a different way but i found it interesting. michelle obama really taking to it r...

Know, members of congress in a public way, and she really is now, seems to me now for the first time in the line of fire. >> this means a lot to her. what were seeing is an attempt to roll back standards that ensure that kids are going to actually be served a fruit or vegetable, theyre going to get food that has whole grains in it, not too much sodium and the first time ever going to ensure that junk food isnt going to be sold in lunch lines and vending machines. weve seen this before. not too l...