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Then the second pick, betsy devos for education secretary. she supports school choice, voucher programs. shes opposed to common core. you had people like jeb bush praising the pick, but then the two biggest teachers unions saying it was a pick that would actually hurt students and hurt public education. i think theres going to be a little bit of a broader fight for betsy devos. then if we look beyond the holiday, i dont think well get any more picks today, were watching dr. ben carson closely. t...

Department. she is a billionaire top republican donor and supports voucher programs. she is opposed to the common core and that has a lot of republicans cheering. they have teachers unions saying this is not a good move. the nea saying she is the most ideological anti-education nominee ever. no doubt this pick is going to get push back, but having said that again are the first two women the president taps for his athd min station. in terms of the first pick, nikki haley checks a number of boxes....

Into his team. >> in addition to being a donor, shes a big supporter of charter schools. that sets her off on a controversial foot as secretary of education. what else do we know about her? >> reporter: it absolutely does set her up and what youre seeing is someone who essentially wants to overhaul the school system. charter schools, voucher programs. the president-elect while campaigning says he wants to give more access to lower income kids. so well have to see how this plays out and how it pl...

Was to save social security. so when people talk about voucher programs and priveatization, thats very nice. the fact of the matter is the club for growth does not have a plan for what they would do with social security. obviously, this is great issue to say, hey -- which is what huckabee is saying everybody paid into this you should get your money back and you should get that benefit back. it was a promise that the government made to you. obviously, older voters vote. this is a -- everybody has...

Jobs. he brought forth a voucher program for support of child care which is really the prototype for the voucher programs in education. >> the list is endless seemingly. >> the enterprise for the americas initiative and the brady plan opened up the economies in central america. latin america and south america so it opened up markets for american jobs to be created. >> governor, you mentioned people appreciating some of these accomplishments and i think that really segways to bring up a new poll ...

Democrats arent actually interested -- >> listen, listen -- >> here we go again. >> everybody else gets their point but the republican gets caught off. let me finish my point. >> go ahead. >> my point is republicans have said and the president opposed a voucher program in the district of columbia that actually helped low income people. why? because of the teachers union. im not going to sit and listen to you all and say republicans arent willing to spend money on education. >> i didnt say -- >> ...

Where they might get some hearing on this and thats because, i mean, later cases, school vouchering and privatization of the schools really took off after brown v board of ed was decided and a lot of people decided they didnt want their kid to go to public school anymore because there was going to be a mixture of different races in the public schools and so they started to do these voucher programs, basically shutting down public schools to open up private ones more to their liking and said he n...

Voucher programs. with respect to social security, we should look at that but not as part as deficit reduction. thats been dealt with on its own merits. but, i guess the short answer to your question is, all of these issues need to be discussed. we need to remember unless we ask higher-income individuals to contribute to reducing the deficit. everyone else gets much harder. seniors on medicare get harder. our investment in science and research gets hurt and that hurts our overall economic compet...

Charter schools but they are a laboratory of innovation but i have to make the choice -- >> you are for your idea choice, which is youve got to go to private out a parochial school or another kind of private school that you can go with a voucher or what we call in d.c., an opportunity scholarship? why should we let kids opt out of public school? >> theres a role for voucher programs. theres a role for the parochial schools, but chris, you know, vouchers and charter schools are not a panacea. we ...

All on the line. in a passionate speech today, he made it kris kal clear whos fighting for americas seniors. and he lashed out at congressman ryans radical proposal to gut medicare. but folks, someone else suddenly seems unsure of the ryan plan too. someone who wouldnt think. >> doesnt your budget also kind of play very major savings on medicare for the same amount? >> only president obama raids $716 billion from medicare. >> you make savings. how much? >> the point -- i joined the romney ticket...