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Closure of an entire school district? >> well, it is clear what you are seeing is a result of the sensitivity that many communities have around the subject. that is why you are seeing the reaction that we saw. start out with what happened. it is last week when the teeachr handed out the assignment, and apparently, from what we are being told, it is an assignment coming out of a standard workbook, and assignment she had done before and with no reaction. this time the instruction was to copy the s...

Shut the entire school district down? >> this was a decision that was reached by the school district superintendent and the sheriff. i spoke to the sheriff this morning. he told me the school had received so much hate mail from non-muslims upset about the assignment they felt they had no choice. this is an assignment that came from a standard workbook and handed out before with no backlash. even so they decided this was the best course of action to shut down classes for all of the districts 10,0...

Entire school system today. what was the assignment? to copy this arabic u image. it is the basic islamic statement of faith. the assignment was for this world geography class and came from a standard workbook on world religions, but some parents here in this virginia area were not having it. they fired off angry phone calls and e-mails. some view as an attempt to convert students to islam. >> why couldnt we just learn to write hello, good-bye, normal words, not that. >> i will not have my child...

Information about this. he tells me, first of all, this was part of a standard workbook. >> she did not create this. >> she did not create this. apparently this teacher has assigned a very similar assignment in the past. there was -- no one said boo about it basically until now. we mamd an attempt to reach out to the teacher but we were unable to reach her. >> whats the atmosphere in the town? >> clearly, the sheriff says theyre somewhat overwhelmed by the number -- the school was overwhelmed by...

>> controversial person, or people of the year. they have been named before. dont think this is a controversial year for president obama. i dont want to give him credit. gas prices went down. >> lets talk about that. sochi, ukraine. and plane shot down. killing 298. russia under sanctions. oil prices falling worldwide. vladamir put yin was on times short list. i think he should have won dummy of the year. how bad of a guy in a year can you have when you literally say you are not invading a count...

Imagine this 150 million people tuned in to hear the verdict in the o.j. simpson trial and to put that into perspective for you, the population of the united states at the time was 266 million. 150 million people tuned in, 266 million people in the united states at the time. so it is no surprise that the case continues to fascinate, especially with what it tells us about race in america. back with me now is yale galanter, jeffrey toobin and carl douglas. jeffrey toobin jumped ahead in the workbo...

Imagine this 150 million people tuned in to hear the verdict in the o.j. simpson trial and to put that into perspective for you, the population of the united states at the time was 266 million. 150 million people tuned in, 266 million people in the united states at the time. so it is no surprise that the case continues to fascinate, especially with what it tells us about race in america. back with me now is yale galanter, jeffrey toobin and carl douglas. jeffrey toobin jumped ahead in the workbo...

Greg? >> i didnt have one. i worked every single day. >> really? >> i do this other show in the afternoon. >> not familiar. >> it is a thing that happens before special report. >> really? i like special report. thats a good show. >> it is between that and neil cavuto. >> great show. thats killer back to back. i didnt realize that. >> it is not. there is a show in between. >> brett bier is fantastic though. >> go to hell. >> i like the panel too. >> shut up. lets welcome our guest. for breakfast ...

program and say they are innocent. porter was clearly happy to be back in the u.s. tonight. >> id like to thank the nebs cairo for all the thing thez did for us as well as the administration at the american university in cairo for all their help and support. and my lawyers ted and both in egypt and here who worked tirelessly to obtain my freedom. im just so thankful to be back. and i love to be in philadelphia right now. >> the other two students arrested with porter, derrick sweeney a...

>> are you running again? >> no. and ron paul has not asked me to be vice president. >> who am i and why am i here, pat? >> i think there are folks who put together a third party, and i do think there are some tea party folks and some folks bitter at romney, and if the democrats manage to get one of those individuals on the third party i think the election will be 49-51. >> but you support romney if hes the nominee? >> if he is nominated i think everybody has to support him, including the baptis...