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Literacy problem, can't directly engage with the medium, they can't understand it. >> what about this political blow back that games sometimes get. do you think games get used a as scapegoat? >> sure, yeah, everybody is looking for a reason, somebody to blame for violence and it's easy. i mean, it's gonna continue to be easy and i think it's -- whether it's true, you know, remains to be seen, it's true if somebody says it's true and but the point is, i think of all this ken sake the same thing, we both like to see this industry continue to mature. i mean, these tools that we have at our dispos...

Low income communities, there is one age appropriate book for every 300 children as compared to in middle income communities, 13 books per child. so that's what we're dealing with. access to books is the biggest challenge to improving literacy in this country and we pulled together all our people at kpmg, their families to distribute books, read those books to children, and to commemorate our five-year anniversary, we're taking our reading relay through every one of our offices in the u.s. distributing books and as phil said, we'll get about 130, 150,000 books in the hands of kids who otherwis...

That was a refreshingly honest commencement speech by david macculloch, jr. at a long time english teacher in massachusetts with that wisdom, gates let's get to our panel. jonathan capehart joins us live from washington. ken vogel joins us live from nation's capital and we are pleased to have msnbc contributor crystal. one of the things about this particular scandal is i've learned something about republicans and that is that they do have a fundamental literacy problem because they don't seem to be reading what "the new york times" story actually said. particularly with regard to stocks net wh...