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Mantra was that we had to change the structure of government and get past partisanship. >> regardless whether you buy it or not. >> romney started out with something that wasn't similar but at least he had a mantra which was i know how to be a great technocrat. >> fix problems. >> the fixer man. now to maggie's point it's become all about him and who he is. i want to clarify -- >> you can't criticize him for not knowing him and when he tells stories you say it's about him. >> that's my point. i want to clarify. when he's telling stories about factories closing and stuff, he's telling it as som...

From some teachers groups, including the california teachers association. one of their concerns is that if a school is turned into a charter, funding can come from private donors. >> as we engage with parents and engage with community members we need to shine a light on that. that's not fair. that's not about parent empowerment when you have billionaires calling the shots in public education. that's really in some ways using parents for a very specific goal and that's not right. >> the union also says with a charter school parents do not have the opportunity to elect school board officials, ta...

Investigation, if past is any prologue, no one else other than the sheriff is likely to win or lose an election because of this issue. this is politics but it is politics of a different kind. this is values politics. about who we are as a country. it is a specific kind of political work to fix problems like this. to get attention to problems with the way we are doing the death penalty these days, for example. and sometimes to get attention to the death penalty as a problem, itself. it is political work to raise enough of a ruckus to convince the catholic chaplins and the people like a hollywoo...

Thinking the unthinkable. >> that's fair. >> listen. you now have a tremendous problem with unemployment. okay. that's where we're trying to focus, is to get people back to work. we've seen an unprecedented increase in spending over the last several years. again, not to point fingers and assess blame here, we're trying to fix problems. what we know right now is we're facing a burden of debt unprecedented in this country and something that threatens the future of our kids. we're trying to save this country, save the safety nets for those who need them, and then not for those who don't and then ...

>> president obama in his surprise appearance in the white house briefing room. >> we have more than met the republicans halfway at this point. >> they would like to insist that 33 is the top number. that is not acceptable. to our members. >> what is a fair deal? >> we want the largest spending cuts that are possible. >> who should the american people blame? >> they're not interested in finger-pointing, and neither am i. i don't think the american people are interested in blaming somebody. they want people to fix problems. and offer solutions. >> speaker boehner can't make a deal, because the ...