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Voucher and then they can inject religion in instead of money and can make money. >> thanks for being here. you made it through traffic. >> it's a craze crazy city here. >> having covered katrina, the way it's bounced back, you do that with heart and soul and a lot of belief and community. these folks have been fantastic. maybe getting stuck in traffic is a good thing. great to have you with us. coming up, the crowd here at the essence festival. we'll share their thought ons the state of education. next, we're taking your questions live at ask ed. stay with us.

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Programs. this is just ed. this is not the liberal standing up. this is what i think. i think this kid's a punk. i think he's a coward. and i don't view him as a patriot at all. sea coward because he won't come home and face the music. and if the united states of america is doing something so egregiously wrong in its surveillance program, how come he is the only one speaking up? you mean nobody else is willing to step up and say, we're doing really bad stuff here? look, the constitution, yes. abiding by it, very important. we've been down this road. but basically as i see this, this is a white...

Proposed this so-called chained cpi. the good news is i offered an amendment during the budget debate and it got passed unanimously, and the resolution was, in opposition to a chained cpi. nobody wanted to stand up, nobody. and say, i think it's a good idea to cut social security. tom harkin introduced the resolution. he has 18 co-sponsors on that, no cuts in chained cpi. also, this is what i'm perceiving and why i believe, ed, we're going to win this. because the average politician out there, when he or she is running for office and gets back to their district, you know what, they're not camp...

Have done a better job in terms of wellness and disease prevention, which is going to pay dividends in years to come. having said the that, ed, we have got to be mindful that today, we continue to spend twice per capita any other nation despite having millions of people with no insurance. and that is why in my view, we've got to go beyond obama care, move to a single payer health care system, which can guarantee health care to all people in a much more cost effective way. >> so we're on the same page. i was asked the question by our viewers tonight in the "ask ed" segment, waddhat would you ad...