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With president obama at the white house a short time ago. the prince is looking for support for his campaign for wildlife conservation. just a short time ago, his wife, duchess kate. she's visiting a center for child development with new york new york city's first lady. nbc national correspondent kate snow on royal watch for us. she's live in harlem this morning. kate, first of all, why this particular child development center. what do we know about the visit? >> well, it's interesting, you know, the duchess of cambridge has taken an interest in children's issues and interests around education...

Overlapping. there are three head start programs that are mediocre at best r. we spending this money on mediocrity. is that where we want this country to go? i hope not. >> every industry should have to prove its worth. >> every government agency and government program has authorizing legislation or a charter. what i'm proposing is that we take a look at that legislation and charter to see if those programs and agencies are living up to their objectives. the ones set for them when they were created. if not, we get rid of them, if they are, we modify them if necessary. we didn't just crawl out ...

Embassies will get less money for security. more than $8 billion are set aside for head start programs and u.s. military personnel will get a 1% pay increase. once again, you voted for i. what are we celebrating about this budget? and should we be celebrating this budget? >> you really did point out some of the worst features of the bill. of course the obvious thing is we didn't fund long-term unemployed persons and their families. and that's a growing problem. but you did name some of the really sticking points in this budget. i don't know that we're dancing in the street. but what we're cele...

Replaced with spending cuts alone. this bipartisan deal will help millions of american bs who were wondering if they were going to keep paying the price for d.c. dysfunction. from construction projects who were laid off. to the kids who lost spots in head start programs. to the seniors wondering if they were going to have meals on wheels. to the families praying for halted medical research programs to get back to work on a cure and so much more. because of this deal, the budget process can now stop lurching from crisis to crisis. by setting bipartisan spending levels for the next two years, th...

Here are some cold facts on this tuesday afternoon. house republicans caused the government shutdown. they will cause a default if a deal is not reached by thursday. they are the reason a new bill would deny health care subsidies for their own staff. they are the reason that hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not receiving paychecks. they are why tens of thousands of poor children will go without assistance from head start programs if the shutdown continues through the end of this month. and so the word they latched on to this morning when describing their policy prescription is deep...