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What they want to hear. everyone comes out of the room thinking, he's on my side, oh, okay. he gets it. he's really smart. he understands what i want but the reality is he can't be all things to all people and it's clearly coming back to bite him now. >> what's interesting, the subtext about donald trump who has had a rocky relationship with kevin mccarthy but has been all in with kevin mccarthy on this race. >> but it's one of those relationships where trump is only all in as long as kevin mccarthy is on the path to be speaker. there's a world where mccarthy loses out and trump is okay with t...

How he balanced governing with being a husband and a dad in his recently published book a promised land. We dropped in on the former president in chicago, in high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who have been part of my brothers keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. Are you going back to Community Organizing . Well, you know, probably im a little too grayhaired and old to be going door to door like i used to be. Plus secret Service Still follows me around, so im pretty disruptive. But i am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. O...

Late teens. He writes that that as well as how he balanced governing with being a dad. We join him in chicago in a high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who were part of my brothers keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. Are you going back to Community Organizing . Well, probably im a little too old and gray haired to be going door to door like i used to be. Plus Secret Service follows me around which is pretty disruptive. I am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. One of the thing that inspires former president barack obama these...

>> i heard, i was reading in a speech you gave a while back a figure i had never heard before that by the age of three if you grow up in a low income family you've heard 30 million fewer words than a 3-year-old child in a well off family. >> which means by the time you show up in first grade you are already significantly behind. now, the good news is it turns out as you're learning as a parent, kids are amazingly resilient. and they can catch up. but it also means that we have to make investments to ensure they catch up: i leave that room thinking how many other kids are there not even in that...

And they can catch up. but it also means that we have to make investments to ensure that they catch up. >> the other thing, i mean, i leave that room thinking, how many other kids are there who aren't even in that? >> one of the things we liked about this program, becoming a man, was they didn't focus on the superstars, right. that they deliberately target not the kids who are either in the most trouble or are most successful in defying the odds. but the kids who are right there, sort of in the middle, that can tip in either direction, that if they get an encouraging adult, if they are able to...