a lot of these nominees will do violence to the agencies they want to run. we have a nominee for the education department who basically will not commit to public education. who doesn t understand the law at its most basic level and won t commit to not privatizing public education. so you re a no on all those three. i remember hearing early reports democrats were goingo oose one or two to focus their fire against. obviously civil rights groups feel very strongly about jeff sessions although it s his colleagues what will be voting. that will be a tough vote for democrats to win. there are also concerns about mnuchin. what i m hearing is do you feel it is the temperature of the democratic caucus that opposition is not politically problematic for them? i think you re exactly right. i think we understand that we re the fighting 48. we are the leaders of the democratic party nationally and people expect us to fight.
a list? i agree, absolutely, with what the school did. i think one of the main problems is we don t know how to identify these bullies, and do something about it, because kids are afraid to rat on their friends, they re afraid to say anything because they ll become victims of bullying themselves, so schools have to try ways to get kids to identify who those kids are, and so the schools can do something about it, so the school is just trying to do something to prevent problems. i don t have a problem with that. jane: ross, it was interesting, because one of the sixth graders who ended up on this list said i now know how it feels, i think bullying is a bad thing and being bullied is an even badder thing, the kids who ended up on the list are now saying they re the ones actually being bullied. yes. and you know, i applaud the school for taking notice of all the bullies. it s really important. but to put them on a list is just setting them up, fire against fire. you don t want other ki
time magazine editor at large and joins us now. mark, i was struck, i was watching you on morning joe and i was struck by your take on the s&p issue and the way the white house was responding. and my sense was why not embrace this and say, look, you see how bad things can get, look at the 140 point decline on wall street yesterday, just in response to that, we have got to get serious, use that to light a fire against light a fire with the budget negotiator and make congress take notice. but you had a completely different interpretation. i don t standard & poor s doesn t ask me for help in figuring out the thai bond market and i don t look to them for political analysis. they re guessing but they have no particular insider expertise and less than a lot of people you and i both know about what is actually going to happen. there are a lot of reasons to think there could stillรง be a deal. i can tick them off quickly. but the question of what the white house should do in reaction