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The superintendent. look, they've started new down there. the charter schools and other programs they have put in place are working, so i'm not going to criticize arne duncan, which i think is the best appointment that president obama has made. people in in accordance aren't offended. gotcha washington can get over it. >> this is one area where i think there can be some bipartisanship going forward. let me move on to a huge story that will be developing tomorrow, the don't ask/don't tell policy that the pentagon has enacted since 1983, the first year of the clinton administration. the presiden...

Veteran of world war i is 109 today. former corporal frank buccal has long spoken out to a memorial for his comrades in washington to be given national status. and the smithsonian's national portrait gallery has added this portrait of j.d. salinger. he died on wednesday at the age of 91. the portrait first appeared on the cover of "time" way back in 1961. and actor rip torn appeared in the connecticut court today on burglary and firearms charges. he's accused of breaking into a bank friday with a loaded gun while intoxicated. torn's lawyer says he should be able to post bond. wolf? >> than...

Let's get back to the topostory. the president unveils his budget proposals. let's talk to peter orszag, joining us from washington. thanks very much for coming in. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> let's talk about medicare for a moment. in the senate version of the health care bill, there's a proposal to cut over the next ten years about 500 billion in medicare. is that right? >> that's about right, yes, sir. >> isn't this budget today, do you include that cut? >> what we do is take the average of the house and senate bills and include that as a placeholder in this budget. >> how much does th...

Washington and new york. >> exactly. >> maybe a little bit nicer interior. thanks very much, john zarrella, our man on the scene as usual. >> nasa's space program has led to a lot of spinoffs and the space agency boasts of technology that now shows up in items we use everyday. infant formulas are enriched with a nutritional ingredient developed for astronaut food developments. they were developed by black & decker back in 1971. padding that protects football players, baseball players, and the shins of soccer players comes from a foam product developed for nasa. and several types of scratch res...

Abdulmutallab. here's the question, why are these two very different versions of what happened? >> well, you know, wolf, it's entirely possible that they could have had a conversation, here's what abdulmutallab was saying, here's what our plan is for how we're going to treat him, and the agents might never have mentioned the words miranda, that just would have been part of the normal process if he wanted to have it, you would have wanted to give him the miranda warnings. so it's entirely possible that the agents in detroit or the fbi agents in washington would've described the process and neve...