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It comes as the governor pat quinn has proposed a 1% income tax. the "chicago sun times" reports the governor only has 45 votes and he needs 60. and the cleveland school district is making a dramatic and controversial budget cut by eliminating 773 teaching and classroom support jobs by the end of the school year. this effectively means that the student per teacher ratio would double. the school district claims that the teacher cuts would alleviate the $52 million projected deficit for next year. the teachers union says this is a strong arm tactic before negotiations which are scheduled in ju...

Administration would benefit. this is like suggesting that people who defend criminals pro bono are somehow tainted by those criminals'çó crimes themselves. >> that's exactly what it's like. we have ted olson and others telling us that today. i think a lot of folks who worked in government sectors, lawyers who have worked at top levels of the former bush administration, both bush administrations actually, sitting there thinking, what is going on? what is she doing? at the same time, though, liz cheney -- >> but they released identities. then the justice department complied with the strong ar...

Darrell, as the sitting politician in this conversation and the person who has the most acute sense of the current political environment, what are your thoughts of opening up the primaries? >> well, i think eliminating, if you will, a first round is probably a very good idea. most countries around the world will have two rounds of voting. california's open primary is a little more flawed. if you get 75% in the first round, you still have to go to a second round. there's a little bit of a question about why that is cost effective. secondly, rather than just eliminating let's say parties or grou...