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they bear the name of his predecessor. president obama is seizing the bush tax cutted and calling for them to be extend, but not for everyone. the president wants to let them expire for the wealthiest americans. that puts him at odds with congressional republicans, as well as his rival mitt romney and sets the stage for a very heated battle with less than four months to go before the election. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is covering this for us. first of all, why is the president doing this today? >> reporter: well, wolf, this is certainly part of his narrative that ...

You like them or not, they kind of take some of the pressure off and make it easier to have a brood of kids. but i think there are long historical reasons why france has public day care. it started after the war. but we have some of the same history that america has, in america we've always had you know, it's not just attachment parenting that's made us doubt whether our kids are going to be damaged because we're away from them. it's been years we've had ambivalence whetherabout whether we should have public day care. it was considered too communistic and communalist. this is something we've b...

The week, towards a real nanny state. there are two big differences between last mother's day and this one. one political, the other personal. the political difference is not only does this mother's day take place during an election year, it hits a few weeks after motherhood, the value of mothers and women's work more broadly were at the center of a news cycle. hoping to revive this theme ann romney wrote an op-ed called three seasons of motherhood. it extolls the crown of glory that all mothers wear. the personal difference for me of course is the birth of my daughter. today i'll be celebrati...

Than it was in the 1960s when i was growing up. when you used to be able to have mom and home and dad at work. now mom and dad both have to work, whether they want to or not and they usually have to have two jobs. weed into good child cares in society. to start a child care center not off where people live, but where they work. and that is something which we helped create. a company called bright horizons. >> mitt romney, 1994 talking about a big private equity success which was helping early funding for bright horizons, a popular and successful day care business. part of the reason i think th...

It's nasty, it's probably going to be painful and it's not that good for your kids. and these things are just -- >> i want to make the point that this is not in other, there are other countries in which that is the dominant paradigm. in fact that's the elite high-status paradigm. in france, for instance. in the u.s. we have a system now where there's high correlation along racial lines and income. here's a stat. that higher income women are more likely to breastfeed. this gets at some of what these cultural expectations are at the top and the dividing line, the deep class differences in what m...