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Well be out there talking to the band who is very excited about their brand-new album and their 25 years together. >> steve: thats right. >> gretchen: the lead voice and the guys will be speak to go him coming up. i can hardly wait to hear him at 6:50. he was with us at one of the conventions. >> steve: i think it was the one in tampa indeed. hes a libertarian and hes got a unique point of view when it comes to politics and wait until you hear about all the instruments he -- hes famous for playi...

From me. >> brian: you could see us. i know you. >> steve: they burst onto the musical scene in the 90s, 1994. this song "run around" made them a household name. blues traveler is our featured performance today on this summer concert series! john popper, the lead guy who often has a harmonica in his hands -- >> i hear im made of them. people say im made of them. >> brian: and do you have one. look at that, you brought it with you. do you know how to play it? >> yeah. weve been through this. i ke...

And thousands of american lives, karzai isnt happy with the united states peacekeeping efforts in afghanistan. a professor of government and politics at george mason university authored this book called "leaving without losing: the war on terror, after iraq and afghanistan." professor, first off karzai. should we take each one of his complaints and do whatever he wants? >> no. i think that president karzai really has been a difficult character. hes been very unappreciative, it seems to me. obvio...

I thought president morsi might be different. elected guy. but hes turning out to be something of an authoritarian. hes the one who is going to eventually pay for this. >>brian: as you write in your book, people rise up, they protest like they say because they want to stay in this whole thing. maybe the future could look brighter. leaving without losing. professor, thank you so much. i wish i had you as a professor in school. those are lucky students at george mason. dr. mark katz. 20 after the ...

>> clayton: i think its the lack of focus on writing in school. when he we push just like math and science and test numbers and results now, no child left behind, all focused on standardized tests and no focus on writing. kids dont know how to write papers. >> alisyn: im getting e-mails from professionals and theyre not copy editing not checking what they send out. its happening in such quick final, air sending it out in such shorthand and hitting-- >> twitter didnt help, down to 140 characters ...

The kids are walking out today in school. >> i can look at any other major movement, the civil rights movement, and they had stated goals, and -- >> they have a stated goal. >> what is the goal? >> to end the ability for business to purchase our state. >> how do you do that? >> well, theres a lot of ways to do it. we, unrelated to this, started a foundation and a coalition called get money out to force a constitutional amendment that bans the ncaa rules and bands all federal politicians from tak...

First guitar, its said that you actually would have preferred a nice train because you were so obsessed with model trains. >> still am. >> youve got a set here, like an amazing room. >> not a set. >> what do you train weirdos call it? >> were not weirdos. were just -- you got to understand -- well get back to that question because its a dangerous question, and this is a dangerous show to be on. >> you see, i told you. >> where were we? >> train sets. your dad bought you your first guitar. >> for...

The village and picking coffee. that one small donation changed the course of his life. >> there are other people im sure you can point to that have done well by people giving a small amount of money. >> well, i mean, you meet these kids. they are in little villages. they are in kenya, in school. and you dont have any idea what their potential might be. but you meet someone like chris who went all the way to harvard. hes a united nations lawyer. hes dedicated his life to investigating and to fig...

Haitian adoptees are going. they are called names in school. they are spit on. >> would you rather people be in foster care instead of a loving home? >> the issue is there san assumption that is the only option. there are multiple options other than a child living in foster care. >> there are probably multiple options. i have seen the number of children up for adoption and end up in foster homes, some of them, others dont. a lot of them become adults and have no parents, no rearing and no upbrin...

Families in really thinking about, when theyre adopting is that race really does matter. and it really does mat we are the youth that im working with now even. i hear constant stories of when theyre living in situations where theyre isolated from the black community. and theyre adopted to places like kansas or iowa or a lot of the people where the haitian documentees are going. that they are called name in school. they are spit on. would you rather them be in foster care instead of a loving ho...