took over the top spot. those results revealed what good teachers can do if the system will let them the problem was this success wasn t shared. a significant achievement gap between students of different races remained. so we set out to do our best to close it. i urged faster interventions in failing schools. and the funding to go alongwith it. i promoted math and science excellence in schools and proposed baying bonuses to our best teachers. i refused to weaken testing standards and instead raised them. to graduate from high school in massachusetts, students now had to pass an exam in math and english and i added a science requirement as well. and i put in place a merit scholarship for all those students who excelled. that the top 25% of students in each high school in massachusetts were awarded a john and abigail adams
two test wells off the coast of alaska where they think there could be billions of barrels underneath without those incentives, they are going to go someplace else. don t we want to produce energy here? bill: ed henry at the white house yesterday during the press briefing, our fox correspondent there. he asked jay carney about the president s vote as senator in favor of oil subsidies. i want to play that for you. get your reaction after this. i haven t examined the vote or what prices were at the time or whole bill it was attached to. what i know and what the president knows is that this year, in 2012, when we are seeing high prices at pump, high prices on international oil market, and record profits from the oil and gas companies, there is no reason to continue these kinds of subsidies. take that argument out to the people. i don t think they will go alongwith it. bill: what do you think of that argument? what do i think? they have a lot higher taxes in europe and they re paying
that. he would run and down 5th afternoon running over cars. there is nothing more annoying than a car illega illegally parked. he s a big proponent of other forms of transportation. he says get the tank out, he crushes it, he keeps going, he smiles, then comes out the owner of the mercedes. there he is the mayor going over it, the owner walks out, oh good lord look at my car. the mayor walks up to them, they have a little chat. let s savor this for a minute, play that. well it s just music. it s not really anything else, just music there. they sweep it up. the car was parked illegally, and yes the mayor did crush it but the rest of it was kind of a set up. it was a set up because the mayor was trying to set an example. they set this whole thing, videotaped it. the city actually paid for the car beforehand so they could do this. but it makes for better video
blah,. reporter: let s think back a few months ago when everybody was united in their shock and brief with what happened in tucson. there were calls across the board but democrats saying we have to tone down the rhetoric, it was dangerous. that was their estimation. christopher, does that put them in a bad position having used a lot of it in the last week or so? how can they marry those two tkeuf cent vocabularies. a week and a half ago christopher and i were talking about allen west s letter to debbie wasserman schultz. i agree we should tone it down. using a word like we re holding the economy hostage was descriptive of what was going on. no one was saying a specific member was this or that. no one was put ago target on anybody s back. we were saying, what you re doing here is akin to hostage taking. and it was. we are saying do it this way or let. reporter: this is a little
illinois seven. california six and pennsylvania five. but there are many more than that in other states. the illnesses, date back to the month of march but the public at large is now only learning of it in recent days. three samples were linked to the same production establishment but government officials have not named the retailers are no the manufacturers involved. we have asked the usda to respond to some of the public s concerns about the outbreak. they responded to just a short time ago saying quote, we ll be happy to get back to you later in the day when we have more information ourselves. some food safety advocates say three positive samples should prompt a recall but that has not yet happened. shannon? shannon: doug, we know you are keeping an eye on it. thank you so much. as doug said the usda is racing to pinpoint the source of the deadly salmonella outbreak. if you want to learn more head to foxnews.com. you can get more information what states are affected and happening no