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In his first interview since the address, john boehner was asked about the presidents reference to our generations sputnik moment. >> if you really want to talk about what the sputnik moment is, its the fact that were broke. american people know were broke. and they want us to do something about spending. and there wasnt much talk last night about cutting spending and getting our debt under control. >> so he said our sputnik -- two things. >> okay. >> our sputnik moment one was our debt and, two...

Lead the country should go on celebrity jeopardy at least once to prove they know american history. this is the president. half a century ago. when the soviet beats us into space, we had no idea how we would beat them to the moon. nasa didnt even exist. after investing in better research and education, we didnt just surface the soviets. we unlaeshed a wave of innovation. i speak to you, robert, as a person who went to college on national defense education act loan money, a lot of us did because ...

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Fact, one was linked to the other, is that true? >> im not a palin fan. >> im not ask you whether or not you are, i want to know if its true. >> its not the dumbest thing thats been said about the end of the soviet union. what she wanted to say is the soviet union spent so much money that it bank resulted itself and ended. and investments in sputnik were the beginning of that. thats wrong on two counts. 1957, which ed and i remember very well, it was a scary moment. >> i was 50. >> we remember i...

Consider all of the other things they were spending money on, occupying eastern europe, invading afghanistan, building the berlin wall. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall! >> that was president ronald reagan, of course, six presidents, three decades after sputnik went into orbit. she writes in "usa today," we won the cold war without firing a single shot, or apparently launching a single rocket. more now on the facts and the politics of what sarah palin said with democratic strategist maria c...

Now theyre doing it together. >> well see how that plays out. whelp the president speaks tonight, the most immediate side of how much washington has changed will be over his shoulder. the republican john boehner will be in the speakers chair. the new republican majority says cutting spending is by far its top mission and already there are signs some republicans want to cut even more than their leadership. among them is mike pence of indiana. he wanted to be able to speak more freely and perhaps ...

To show they are not prime time. what does president obama see in ronald reagan? a lot, apparently. though their philosophies differed, their political strategy is similar. tonight, what president obama is look -- learning from the gipper. let me finish with this question where will the grownups go in the republican party. we start with sarah palin and michelle bachmann. you know, lets take a look at sarah palin. lets look at palin. she must have saveded this for fox, this interview. they are ta...

Infrastructure choke go the themes he laid out -- echoing what he said in state of the union address. >> when america is facing tougher competition from around the world than ever before we have to up our game. were going to need to go all in. were going to need to get serious about winning the future. >> shep: president calls this our generations sputnik moment. his visit today took him to a town where a piece of the russian sputnik crashed in 1962. also for part of the country that may decide ...

Former communist ussr and their victory in that race to space, yeah, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in inevitable collapse of the soviet union. >> okay, a little hard to make much of that statement because its not exactly very clear what shes talking about. if she literally means that sputnik bankrupted the soviet union and led to the collapse, it makes no sense, because it went up october 4th, 1957, and the soviet union dissolved in september of 1991....

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