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This election where the american people will have a choice, and this choice will be as important as any choice we have made in a very long time. what we have is a candidate who said he would rubber stamp a republican congress that wants us to go backwards, not forwards on a range of issues. >> we need to go forward, and hurting people when they're down is no way to do that. joining me now is jared bernsteen, and joe madison. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> joe, let me start with you. how can republicans win in 2012 with these kind of priorities. >> by people not voting ...

Into the school lunch programs. they make a deal with the food processor who gives back a bonus, but the company told that bonus is going back to the schools itself. and not these companies that are pocketing the money. >> right, by the way, we're calling it kickbacks and the bonuses are legal, but it's not legal to not give it to the intended recipient. >> right, to the school. >> to the school and cheryl asked, a great investigative reporter. there are 17 states doing this investigation. let's look at new york. new york was robbed of 20 million dollars. >> right. >> because the big food-- th...

Illness containing bacteria. >> we know this is an extremely effective tool to eliminate if not reduce that completely. >> a group of governors are banning together to support the ailing industry and hope to persuade grossed out consumers and grocery store owners the product is safe to consume. >> for over 20 years i'm proud to say i and my family have been eating it. >> some are lashing out at the media blaming them for the fallout. >> you owe it to the consumers to report the facts. let pink slime become a term of the past. >> and one lawmaker puts it simply. >> dude, it's beef. >> the u.s. ...

that's when everybody started freaking out. >> a passenger who shot this video. >> check out this video showing a tornado strike in kentucky. look at that roof. it's blowing right off. it was part of the killer storms that hit the nation last weekend leaving a huge path of destruction. former u.n. secretary kofi annan is trying to prevent a full-blown civil war. he's meeting in damascus to halt government shell iing and attac that killed thousands of people. he's expected to press the president to step down. the meeting comes as 12 people were killed in syria today. thousands of an...

President bush to say stop to the teachers' unions. >> quickly, would you support federal assistance for school lunch, pell grants and gi bills? >> the whole series of items there. in some cases yes, in some cases no. most of the programs that deal with the poor, and you mentioned pell grants or assistance for lunch. i look at a lot of programs. i will examine them one by one. you should craft the plans. it is different being poor in massachusetts than -- or mississippi or michigan. it is different from medicaid, but for housing vouchers and food stamps, and even for school lunch programs. >> ...