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Problem, the retirement. but a relatively -- in spite of the high home ownership rates, a relatively small percentage of the parents, compared to the '50s and '60s and '70s, were homeowners. and therefore, were direct property taxpayers. so it became more and more difficult to pass school millage rates in a district where you didn't also have a lot of parents who were property taxpayers. then we got a lot of embedded costs in our tax system that we hadn't fully re-examined. and the whole thing is crazy. if you think about the states have constitutional responsibility for education, and many pl...

Rely on philanthropy and these huge donor pledges to fix our public education system? why can't that change come from within? and my subset question to you, mr. president would be, if i gave you the u.s. education system as a lump of clay, especially where funding is concerned, how would you design it from the get-go? >> well, let me answer the first question, and then i'll answer the second question. you shouldn't have to rely on philanthropy, but right now you shouldn't be ashamed to ask for it and to seek it. because look what's happened. we have -- some time, i think in my second term, we ...

Ratings. today gallup, three-day running average, 46% approval, lowest in six months. >> eliot, your proposal, essentially tax reform, something the deficit commission has talked about. it's clearly a way out of this. i think, you know, the problem in that solution is the american public doesn't want to lose its home mortgage deductions or its charitable deductions, and you know, so maybe there's a way to skew that toward the wealthy and the wealthy would lose their deductions since they itemize. you know, there might be a solution there. but right now there's such bad blood they just have to ...

>> john, yesterday president obama acknowledged gas prices have become an ongoing problem and that nobody wants to address it. take a listen to this. >> every time gas prices spike like this, and the last time it happened is when i was running for president is politicians get up, have to do something about gas prices. when they two back down, we do nothing. this time has to be different. >> john, he's right. there is this amazing attention to the issue as long as gas prices are above 4 bucks a gallon. if it hits $5 as you predict, it's going to be there. how do we change this? give us the ener...

Are very close to the government here in libya, they're telling us at this point in time they don't feel very much threatened by the rebels. they don't feel very much threatened by nato. they feel like they still have a lot of reserves also in their military. one of the interesting things they've told me is of course libya has military reserves like any other country. they haven't called those up yet. looks like stalemate is the right word in all of this. there's very little movement on the front in misratah, even as that city is pounded. the armies aren't making or the forces there aren't mak...