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Mother would e-mail me and say, what's happened to america? then i'll e-mail back, mom, they're just making it up. this isn't really happening. but in this case, this was really happening. >> joe, if they were worrieded about tension between hispanics and non-hispanics in the school, they have managed to fuel it. >> and getting a lot more people angry. >> they sent the wrong people home. they should have sent the school administrators home not having the commonsense to deal with this situation and let the kids stay in school, wear what they wear. >> pat buchanan, you're batting clean-up. >> ha...

On and what isn't working and stop. i hope that's where the discussion is going. >> but it is about spending less money. i agree with you. we want smart leaders and don't want random cuts, but in the end we only have so much money. and if we don't discipline ourselves, we're going to end up like greece, end up like california as a country. >> i don't disagree, joe. in fact, one of the big issues that people don't like to tackle because of the political sort of explosiveness of it is pension reform for government employees, which is a huge problem in a lot of the states. and is going to require...

Argument this fall. you look at the polls, if you look at where the middle of america is, the independents that elected barack obama are, it is cut deficit, cut the debt and we'll worry about the economy later. willie, an interesting next story. i was following you on twitter like all the cool kids do, and you tweeted something about only harry reid could make financial reform sexy when he said republicans like to make love to wall street. there's an update on that story. i hope no children have been produced. >> no. it's an uft one, actually, for harry reid. bad timing. on wednesday he accuse...

That's greece's problem. that's not the case. what do we see driving recovery in america the last six months? it's the stock market. americans need to wake up to the fact that they are very tied to what happens in greece. >> no doubt about it. all right. thank you so much, fred, for being with us. we always appreciate it. again, a great event last week. mike barnicle said, it's amazing, these atlantic council events you put together every year. we appreciate you having us there. >> just love seeing you schmooze with bill clinton. >> willie, what's up next. >> fred, good to see you. up next, ...

Clearly at the time when greece was imploding and when the european economies looked like they were going down the tubes, that was not a good message to be selling to the british people. i think this was a question of the brits saying, we need financial responsibility. we know we need financial responsibility. somebody has to make cuts. we think the tory will make cuts better than the labor will make cuts. >> last hour, our intrepid reporter willie geist soed us something very surprising. the only thing separating the united states and wall street from a future collapse is an "n." why? yesterd...