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Republicans say they're going to quit their jobs for the subsidies. and there was a example of the single mother who can quit her job to spend more time with her children. does this show it's the beltway clarks being out of tur. ? >> i don't think so. there's two narratives, those benefiting from the law and those caught in the transition, who thought they were getting one thing or having to give up their current program go to another plan. there are two different narratives on this. i think each party is talking to their base on that. >> governor, i want to ask you what congressman paul ryan ...

Can you believe that? it's our lucky day. [ applause ] 2011 teacher of the year in connecticut. and you voted that less than 1/3 should go to teacher evaluation. that is completely on the other side of the planet than everyday folks in that gallup poll. what is the gap? what's the problem? >> i think the gap is that everyday folks in that poll don't understand the realities of classroom teaching particularly if you are teaching in districts where there's a high level of poverty. it's very very difficult to look at a test score and think that that accurately evaluates how i'm doing with my stud...

The very people creating these policies choose the opposite for their own children. instead of investing hundreds of millions of dollars, the state of new york raised $700 million. that is being used for testing. we could be using that money to provide our teacher, provide music teachers, not just air-conditioning. that's, you know, we are talking the narrowing of curriculum and the lack of experiences that would really bridge that achievement gap or poverty gap. unfortunately, our policymakers are taking it in a different direction. we need childhood prevention. when they enter kindergarten, ...

>> again, we're looking at part of the dream fulfilled, but also part of the dream for many not a dream but a nightmare. so tamron, you ticked off the things and the reverend sharpton did, too, education, the gap. health care, a gap. the astronomical prison incarceration, gap. the poverty gap. what we're seeing is something dr. king isn't really have to grapple with. we're really seeing a two-tiered america, black america. we're seeing african-americans that are doing wildly successful on the one hand but then we're seeing a whole stratum of african-americans that are dismally failing in all t...

>> what lessons can the military and egypt's eventual new government learn from mubarak? where did he go wrong in the eyes of the egyptian people? >> i think he went wrong in underestimating the ability of the egyptian people to stand up to him and not blink. despite all the horrors that he unleashed on them. you know, the camelback thugs and the water cannons, all of that. but i think even more importantly, he was so totally out of touch with what 30 years of his repression had done to egypt, essentially destroyed what used to be a great country. but he also was the last of several army men, ...