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Oddly i felt more optimistic when i came back than when i left. i feel like we have 45 states that have now adopted common core state standards. big fights still happening and still to come about that. those are more rigorous in math and reading which is much more aligned particularly in math with what these countries are doing. that's an obvious first step. not enough but exciting that it's even happening. in 45 states. that's a huge deal for america. and i think more and more people are starting to talk about the quality of our education colleges to get into education college in finland is l...

Intensifications before that. i think working with the libyan resistance more actively is the obvious first step. you send them arms, help them protect themselves, try to go in with some arab countries. so i'm not saying it would be an out and out american intervention to march on tripoli, but i do think that if things got really bad that, yes, you would err in favor of rapid action. i generally agree with senator mccain, but the no-fly zone, i think, needs multilateral support. jenna: michael, there's so much going on even outside of libya. what's the one thing you're watching for next? >> we...

The house who aren't on the intelligence committee and not sharing it with the members of the senate intelligence committee who are cleared to see national security information, particularly my understanding it's been requested by the republican chair, richard burr, and he's been denied access. that doesn't make sense to me. number two, i don't know what's in it. but certainly it ought to go to the justice department. when we went through the process on the torture memo four or five years ago, we went through -- it was a six-month process with the administration and the intelligence agencies t...