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To sandy hook where your son was okay or not, do you? >> no, no. we had no idea. all we could do is hope and pray. that he was okay. how dufirst find out that your son was okay? >> we pumed up along with many, many other parents all arriving and converging on the main road and start totted run down the dirt rod that we found to the school, the little side road. and we were immediately directed by the police that oh, children were evacuated to the fire house. and just ran in there and started to ...

To sandy hook where your son was okay or not, do you? >> no, no. we had no idea. all we could do is hope and pray. that he was okay. how dufirst find out that your son was okay? >> we pumed up along with many, many other parents all arriving and converging on the main road and start totted run down the dirt rod that we found to the school, the little side road. and we were immediately directed by the police that oh, children were evacuated to the fire house. and just ran in there and started to ...

The white house. we cant sit here and negotiate with ourselves. our targets and framework are things that we can all agree on. and its exactly how we approached our discussions in the biden group. my discussions at the white house a year and a half ago. and for that matter, in the joint select commit teach. and if the president doesnt agree with our proposal and our outline i think he has an obligation to send one to the congress and a plan that can pass both chambers of commerce. if you looked ...

Representing voices in the united states. for her, shes talking about students. for some women, pregnancy is life or death, and -- >> sean: are you willing to sacrifice what penny is bringing up here, something called religious freedom? are you willing to force catholic institutions to go against their own religious teaching and fund -- >> well -- >> sean: excuse me. -- and sunday something thats the antithesis of what their religion is teaching them? >> as a catholic woman, i can say what theyr...

Representing voices in the united states. for her, shes talking about students. for some women, pregnancy is life or death, and -- >> sean: are you willing to sacrifice what penny is bringing up here, something called religious freedom? are you willing to force catholic institutions to go against their own religious teaching and fund -- >> well -- >> sean: excuse me. -- and sunday something thats the antithesis of what their religion is teaching them? >> as a catholic woman, i can say what theyr...

>> that was high big moment. every big democrat last night remembered that and hunkered down with me. >> at least let us preserve the middle class tax cuts for those making under $250,000. >>neil: you mention a million? >>guest: several illustration illustrations, he used different illustrations. >>neil: he was not telegraphing a change. can i ask you a style question? >>guest: i am not good on style. >> the president has acknowledged that he needed to engage. here is clear on that. >>guest: eve...

Education. i would love to have the students grade the teachers at the end of the year as opposed to just the other way around. so that teachers get feedback. we did that when i got to graduate school. we got to grade the teachers and it was published how each teacher did on a whole series of dimensions and helped the teachers. i believe in a lot of feedback. far from being a guy who would say lets stop testing. i try to make our testing more fec tv, expand it in ways maybe that havent been thou...

What do you say to the critics? >> first of all, i tam son of two teachers, my grandmother was a teacher, i created film that is a really great celebration of teachers and great teaching. and i think every teacher who has seen the movie appreciates it. in fact, some of the greatest compliments i have received have been from teacher who is say, i spent 40 years teaching, this movie makes we want to go back to the classroom. or this movie makes me want to go out and teach. anybody calling the movi...

Going to stop me. i was interrupting a class. i thought the teacher would run up and shut me up or somebody would get in my way or something would happen that would stop the prank right in the middle and that would be the end of it. so i was scared to death. >> and what about the teach? what did he think? >> i had no idea this was going to happen. i was stunned. it was so well done, so well produced and choreographed, the singing, everything was so professional it was as if gilbert and sullivan ...

The teachers. i think if he would have handled this better, he could have avoided this confrontation. >> it feels like the politics, he is sort of a tough guy and tough to deal with. it is part of why he was the chief of staff. it also feels like there is somehow a bipartisan agreement at this point that unions are bad for schools, that you have got to break the unions in order to get school reform and that somehow teachers are uninterested in and, by the way, that the best way to assess whether...