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Times have been frustrating. i'm only assuming. i'm going to ask you to talk about the relationship between the state and city or the federal government and the state and county and you must have brought that into your current job. tell us where you see ma maybe the federal government doesn't have a role in education. >> when i was in chicago i didn't always welcome that call from that nice machine or woman calling from washington. they were always calling about a compliance issue or bureaucratic issue. they weren't calling about how to help me reduce my drop out rate, how to teach second and ...

Certainty seems the same, why is the price going down. >> people feared there would be a recession and they feared the fact that inflation therefore would not go up as much. so if inflation is not going to rise, you're not wa worried about inflation, gold is a hedge against inflation, and so gold falls. jenna: if you get into the market right now you may be say, maybe this is the way gold is all the time. >> if you bought gold when it was under $500 you look like a general just now. i present the 1970s and the early 1908s when we had the last huge run up in gold prices and it went up to about ...

Whether he can sell that to the american people is another question. it's interesting, because when he goes on the campaign trail and talks to conservative republican audiences, he gets a standing ovation when he talks about 999. jen and it sticks, it's something you can remember and seems simple enough you can understand a complicated tax structure and we know the tax system is so complicated right now. >> let me just say one thing if i could, an interesting story about that 999. people have been asking herman where did that come from and as you know he was the president of godfather's pizza,...

Details that are tough for anybody to really understand. great perspective there, thank you so much. jon: the cost of healthcare shot up this year, probably no surprise if you've been looking at your premiums, according to a new survey that finds health insurance premiums for the family plans paid by employers increased an average of 9% just this year. the cost passing the $15,000 mark for the first time. shannon bream live in washington for us right now. what else are we learning from this study. >> reporter: jon the numbers give us a look at exactly out cost of annual health insurance premiu...

positioned himself very much as the grown-up in the room, the reasonable one, something that the president's advisors thought would help him appeal to the independent voters that he needs if he's going to win relection next year. we're seeing a very different tact now. a very aggressive tact, especially after the president saw dismal approval ratings following that bruising debt ceiling battle. we've seen the president taking his message to the home turf, as you mentioned, of his rivals and calling them out by name. we saw that this past week when he went to the brent spence bridge w...