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Don't have children but i was merely going to put this point to you. do you realize how difficult it is for parents to guarantee their child's academic performance? i mean, george h.w. bush had a son called george w. bush and his academic per pormance was mediocre and he had every single opportunity and support imaginable. do you realize how difficult it is for any parent to be able to guarantee a child's academic performance? >> we're talking bare minimums. like i said, i don't want these kids to be rocket scientists. passing up to the next grade is not too high a standard to say, listen, if ...

To the rnc. chris, why the reluctance to answer that question. >> to be honest, i'm not sure. i think it is a pretty clear answer. we are better off. if you look in terms where the country was when the president came into office, we were losing an enormous number of jobs. the country was headed toward a financial and fiscal cliff. he turned the country around. republicans can disagree. but those are the facts. we're growing jobs. in particular, national security, in terms of getting bin laden those are significant accomplishments. jon: all right. >> to me, to me the real question that the demo...

With accident forgiveness, if you qualify. learn more at libertymutual.com. now confirmed. >> that is how rocket scientists celebrate. as they should have on monday, nasa landed the rover curiosity on mars. a $2.5 billion venture. joining us on set "time" magazine's assistant managing editor rana here to reveal this week's latest issue. let's start there with the cover. >> a fantastic cover, fantastic inspiring event. the piece we have was written by one of the most renowned journalists on space, jeff cluinger co-authored the book "au polo 13" was based on.

>> now we'll see where curiosity will take us. >> that was a control room full of rocket scientists at nasa's jet propulsion lab in pasadena, geeking out over the successful landing of the mars curiosity rover. and it is safe to say that their intense celebration is directly proportional to the aerospace engineering feat that they are celebrating here. the rover is theize of a car. it weighs about a ton, which means it's too big and too heavy to land using the only ways we have successfully ever put anything on mars before. so engineers had to come up with a really novel and sort of crazy plan...

>> now we'll see where curiosity will take us. >> that was a control room full of rocket scientists at nasa's jet propulsion lab in pasadena, geeking out over the successful landing of the mars curiosity rover. and it is safe to say that their intense celebration is directly proportional to the aerospace engineering feat that they are celebring here. the rover is the size of a car. it weighs about a ton, which means it's too big and too heavy to land using the only ways we have successfully ever put anything on mars before. so engineers had to come up with a really novel and sort of crazy plan...