i got some resistance from folks who said the poor ont have time to go to your class. i said i ll hold them on sundays, weekends. i want people tound the importance of parental involvement. an area that is economically depressed, the schools can be the best in the nation. look, this is a matter of the leadership of the schools, the quality of the teachers and the incentives that exist on the part of both parents and teachers for excellence in education. and there s no question, you take the very worst school districts with the most troubled student bodies and you put in some of the best administrators and faculty members and those schools will turn around. a guy like kenny quinn has proven it. if the regular public school can t succeed, put a charter school in there and let them take a try at it. you have said some things about secretary duncan that are so complimentary, you ve had to apologize in front of some
0 tax rate than somebody making $50,000 a year. and he said yes. i think it s fair and i also think that s the way you get economic growth. i ve just got a different vision about how we grow an economy. i think that you grow an economy from the middle out, not from the top down. so jen the campaign is also out with a new tv ad targeting governor romney. at this stage should the president be more focused on laying out specific policy proposals, specifics for those undecided voters out there that are really going to turn this election instead of wasting time attacking mitt romney? well, the president has laid out countless specifics whether it s the american jobs act or whether it s his plan to responsible bring down the deficit by $4 trillion. this is specifics that are coming out of our ears specifics. mitt romney this debate and the issue you raised is more about how they see the country and mitt romney has made clear and i was watching that interview with absolute disbelief as
wean hd that knowledge in our hearts with humility and unwavering conviction. this follows 24 hours of the president being hammered by the right for the bump in the road remarks that he made about the middle east in the 60 minutes oignterview. there axtradina tsngn m east and considering them as bumps in the road shows a person who has a very different perspective as world affairs than the perspective i have. turn on the tv and it reminds you of 1979 tehran. pi arothworld.ing our flagsn they re storming our embassies. we ve lost four of our diplomats. and what is the signal that our government is sending the rest of the world? joining me now is traveling press secretary for the obama campaign. great to hav you here goodmorning. t tmivedy that if we need to interrupt and jump out of this because mitt romney will be sitting down with brian williams. so i just want to give you fair warning that we may have to jump over tohat. but as we have heard, everybody has been t