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I like every parent to have a choice and every child to have a chance. >> as for the teachers, savannah guthrie sat down with president obama and asked him about the strike in his hometown of chicago which pitted his former chief of staff against unions who support politically he does depend on. >> mitt romney said that president obama has chosen his side in this fight that you sided with the unions and last spring he said he can't talk up reform while indulging in groups that block it. >> well, you know, i think governor romney and a number of folks try to politicize the issue and do a lot of...

Ultimately performance, and making sure the kid doswell. i but i do think from the perspective of democrats, we can't just sit on the status quo or say that money's the only issue. reform is important also. that's been the benchmark we've used in my administration is to say we're going to give more money to those schools that are serious about reform, but we're not going to let people make excuses and suggest that it's just a money problem. >> mitt romney said that president obama has chosen his side in this fight, that you sided with the unions. at another time last spring he said he can't ta...

Our best teachers, we don't think of studying for a bunch of testing to see how we do on the tests. >> some people think he can't have a honest conversation about what they're doing right or wrong. can you really say teachers union s aren't slowing the pace of reform? >> i get frustrated when i hear of teacher bashing as evidence of reform. my sister is a former teacher. she now works at the university working with teachers, and i can tell you na that they work so hard. they're pulling money out of their own pockets. and in some of the tougher school districts, they're not just teachers. they'...

Etch-a-sketch. >> when you have a fire in an aircraft, the windows don't open. >> you have a ritual where he tucks you in at night? >> i'm not telling you that. >> what does mitt wear to bed? >> as little as possible. >> we need backbone in the republican party. >> the devil is in the details, the angel is in the policy. >> did you watch the packer game last night? give me a break. >> there will be bumps in the road. >> why consider these bumps in a road. i read some work that said first of all that classroom size didn't seem to be driving the quality of education. >> when you look at the budg...

Nothing artificial. ♪ it's all that sweet ever needs to be. new nectresse. sweetness naturally. mitt romney said that president obama has chosen his side in this fight that you sided withes the unions and another time last spring he said he can't talk up reform while indulging in groups that block it. >> well, you know, i think governor romney and a number of folks try to politicize the issue and do a lot of teacher bashing. when i meet teachers all across the country they are so dedicated to their kids and what we tried to do is actually break through this left/right, conservative/liberal...