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Family, yes, there is a breakdown of the family. but there is a situation with the police department. let's talk about a police that i deal with 40 miles as you say from baltimore. washington, d.c.. the seat of power for this nation. when there is on money crunch when there is a problem with the budget, what is the first thing that is cut? it's money that is cut to urban areas or the poor. we hear about federal subsidies cut when it comes to the children going to school, school lunch programs monies for mothers with children single mothers with children. you know we talk about all this breakdo...

Ngts rain with a former by friend, that was just the beginning. but we'll talk about it later. but you're on the forefront of an issue that is plaguing campuses across the country. i did a panel on tina brown's women of the world event on sexual assaults on campus. obviously it's a big issue washington is looking at. dartmouth is really on the cut edge. >> it is an issue that plagues every campus. and just to be clear, one sexual assault is one too many. we need to put a stop to it. it's particularly intense on our campus because we're known for such tight community, so when one student harms ...

>> i agree it's a question about money. and you can take it wherever you want and invest in the community, do all the things we're talking about here. but where i may disagree with you, maybe i don't, is that's not what is on the table in washington. what is on the table in washington 34r5urly particularly from the republicans, but democrats have not been much better, but are not proposals reinvesting in what you say. >> it's not. and again, for people that watch this show, they know we say this ad nauseum. steve, this is something you and i agree with i have been complaining about, you have b...

People in washington, d.c., commentators like to say you just need to throw billions of more dollars at a problem. again, i say this at somebody that always talks about the need for investment in these inner cities. and in education. and in poverty programs. in job training programs. but if you don't take care of the societal ills like the councilman was talking about then as he said you can send somebody to an $8 million school, but it does absolutely no good if when they go home they have a shattered home life. >> it's hard enough to raise kids when the family structure is in place. still ah...

The rodeo drive of washington. >> yes, that was a good line. i thought what was so interesting is the chief dynamics of the debate was perry, bachmann and santorum giving the identical critique of gingrich and romney, and both as establishment crony capitalists, and that's what bachmann said, gingrich and romney, they both supported the mandate and part of the complex of, you know, of betrayal. >> and bachmann had the effective portion was when she was calling them newt romney, newt romney, and i thought it was a rhetorical connection. >> his ego is so massive, and he projects so far forward, ...