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To all our schools. we have the capacity for 500,000. certain schools that were 200 kids when they were able to handle 600. >> the school system faces a $1 billion budget gap. the mayor's hand-hpicked school board is working on that. >> very difficult decision. nobody likes to do it, which is why people hadn't done it in the past. i am not an education reformer. i believe in educational excellence, and i will adopt any reform that gets me there. >> shame on the mayor! no school closings! >> the 64 schools on the chopping block is the largest consolidation in u.s. history. >> don't let these pe...

Emanuel got things done. tough. unrelenting. his enemies called him rahmbo. >> you're known as a bit of a roman candle with a temper. what is the angriest you've gotten in the first 100 days? >> that i had to do this interview in the middle of everything else. yesterday i swam a mile, biked four, weights, then a yoga class. neurorottic is actually a fair word about it. obsessive about it. >> obsessive. that sums up rahm emanuel. especially his commitment to shake up the public schools. >> there's 400,000 kids that go to our schools. we have the capacity for 500,000. certain schools that were 2...

We have the capacity for 500,000. certain schools that were 200 kids when they were able to handle 600. >> the school system faces a $1 billion budget gap. >> very difficult decision. nobody likes to do it, which is why people haven't done it in the past. i'm not an education reformer. i believe in educational excellence, and i will adapt any reform that gets me there. >> shame on the mayor! >> the 64 schools on the chopping block is the largest consolidation in u.s. history. >> don't let these people take your schools. >> for mayor emanuel, the guy who helped president obama save the auto ind...

>> there's 400,000 kids that go to our schools. we have the capacity for 500,000. certain schools that were 200 kids when they were able to handle 600. >> the school system faces a $1 billion budget gap. >> very difficult decision. nobody likes to do it, which is why people haven't done it in the past. i'm not an education reformer. i believe in educational excellence, and i will adapt any reform that gets me there. >> shame on the mayor! >> the 64 schools on the chopping block is the largest consolidation in u.s. history. >> don't let these people take your schools. >> for mayor emanuel, the ...

We're saying here but what strikes me for third way and others to suggest a wimpy idea concerns me with these kinds of numbers and not just democrat or republican. independents. but sort of across the board in terms of support for raising the minimum wage. >> yes. if you look at minimum wage support, as you say, you have a strong majority of republicans, even stronger independents and, of course, even more democrats supporting the minimum wage. i think that's because, you know, i don't think we should just think of this in political terms. the fact that we have declining economic mobility is a...