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>> christie went on and laid out a detailed plan, which called for reduced social security benefits for retired seniors earning more than $80,000 and eliminating the benefit entirely for those making $200,000 and raising the retirement age from 67 to 69. in 2010 a gallup poll showed support for increasing the age. increasing the age benefit and raising the age is unpopular, so who is he trying to impress with his reform pitch? joining me now is robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post." robert, this is my theory on this. i want you to tell me what you think. americans...

About social security, medicare and medicaid with the people of our country. i am not. >> christie went on and laid out a detailed plan, which called for reduced social security benefits for retired seniors earning more than $80,000 and eliminating the benefit entirely for those making $200,000 and raising the retirement age from 67 to 69. in 2010 a gallup poll showed support for increasing the age. increasing the age benefit and raising the age is unpopular, so who is he trying to impress with his reform pitch? joining me now is robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington po...

>> christie went on and laid out a detailed plan which called for reduce social security benefits for retired seniors earning more than $80,000 and eliminating the benefit entirely lyly for those making $200,000 and raising the retirement age from 67 to 69. crease p increation the age benefit and raising the age is un unpopular so who is he trying to impress with his reform pitch? joining me now are robert cast that, national political reporter for "the washington post." robert, this is my theory on this. i want you to tell me what you think. americans aren't clamoring to see the retirement ag...

That is a very popular policy view of the republican donor class. this is chris christie's play for them as much as it is for any voters. what do you think of that? >> i think that's spot-on. governor christie knows that governor bush and senator rubio have become the establishment favorites in this 2016 race, but i'd add another point to what he's trying to do here. he was here in manchester earlier. i think he's trying to recapture that magic. 2010 casting himself as a truth teller with the public schoolteachers. he wants to get back to that kind of popularity with the base talking about fis...

Cognitive motivational, social, environmental process. so many processes. >> i hear you on that. isn't that a bit impractical when you're looking at a process that's really faceless and impersonal as college admissions? >> it's as simple as this. so when we have a student who's low achievement and the traditional model says the number one cause is probably low intelligence the first thing we do is pull out an iq test to look at the cause but i think the first thing should be, is that student engaged? simple as that. >> when you write about inspiration you talk about the notion that we want to ...