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But suppose i tell you i had been flipping the coin a long time and i had been flipping it for millions of times before the 20 consecutive heads came up. you wouldn't think that was so improbable and you would notice it when it happened. a law of truly large numbers which basically says if you keep doing something for long enough, something extraordinarily will happen. >> a lot that is profound in this book and really beautiful in this book. you write some people seem to think understanding a phenomenon takes away the mystery but a grasp of the cause of the colors of the rainbow doesn't detrac...

We have to provide health care for these people. this is not about me or peter king or democrat or republican. i have a worker named ed who every day coughs his lungs out because he was a 9/11 police officer. every time we as democrats -- we have so much fidelity to go through this process. when we sit down, we get burned. we saw it on the stimulus bill and health care and last night we saw it on the house floor on 9/11 health. >> you have been critical of the obama white house on this. do you feel like sometimes they lack a party backbone on some of these fights? >> i don't know. i'm fighting...

Say no crowd in washington. they were saying, oh, standings by the auto industry would guarantee failure. one of them called it the worst investment you could possibly make. they said we should just walk away and let those jobs go. i wish they were standing here today. i don't think they would be willing to look you in the eye and say that you were a bad investment. they don't like admitting when i do the right thing. but they might have had to admit it. and i want all of you to know i will bet on the american worker any day of the week. >> not the greatest rate of return for government money ...

Standing or less maneuvering to try to defeat the thing, we're open to anything. we're going to come back. i'm not going to give up on this. this is nine years later. we have to provide health care for these people. this is not about me or peter king, a democrat or a republican. there's neighbors i have. i have a worker, an employee named ed who is coughing his lungs out because he was a 9/11 police officer. we're going to try to fix this. the problem here is every time we as democrats, we have so much fidelity to try to go through this process. every time we sit down we get burned. we saw it ...

References from thomas jefferson. what's your reaction to that? how much do you favor a more standardized curriculum across the nation? >> i do favor a more standardized curriculum. i've been speaking out about that. you know, this notion that every state should do its own thing is a nice notion in terms of federalism but it's antiquated. our kids need to be prepared for a global environment and a global economy. in terms of the kind of rewriting textbooks and things like that, i always think that's unfortunate. a guy whose influence is a guy named e.d. hirsch at the university of virginia who...