no, one of the things, when you get somebody, a notable face to do this and they have dropped out of school in second grade, it narrows it. well, that. you did this, right? yeah, i did it. a bunch of people did it. cycled through. i chose my 7th grade music teacher, i didn t turn out to be a great musician, but he taught us about life. about life. he did, actually. it goes back to teachers. we ve had so many people pushing on education reform for so long. and as you were saying to john meacham, it s always two steps forward, one step back, but about a year and a half ago, started hearing about teachers, teachers, teachers. what led you to that conclusion after all you ve done? well, first of all, one of the things we re trying to do with the teacher wall and a large piece of research we did with scholastic is to bring teachers into the conversation. you can t talk about changing a system without the teachers being a part of it.
country and we ll be as bad off as europe is that we can t unite the country. we would simply have 50 little countries here with a mess. that was called the articles of federation, we rejected it in 1787. congressman jim mcdermott from washington state. thank you. now to libya, the main opposition group there is officially being recognized by the united states and almost 40 other nations and in the western mountains of libya, rebel fighters need all the help they can get right now. mike tiabbi is in the region with the very latest for us live, good morning to you, mike. reporter: good morning, richard, how are you? those rebel fighters have made lunching process this week, more advances, one step back, a couple forward. the next target, the target garyan, a couple of miles from where we are now, we re talking about tripoli itself and
in order to contain them. jim walsh joins me now along with michael freelander, a former senior operator at three nuclear power plants. michael, in terms of the latest developments, what is a positive development, what do you see as a negative development. the positive first? yeah, good morning, anderson. the fact that they ve been able to get power into the power plant and get a distribution energized as we discussed last week, that is a positive development. and ultimately getting that power into the facility and into the necessary equipment, that s essential for getting us out of the woods on here. now, necessarily, as i ve said before, this is over the next days and weeks, this is going to be two steps forward, one step back evolution. all the systems went into their safety mode and so restoring those plant systems to the normal configuration is going to be a bit of a tricky evolution
in order to contain them. jim walsh joins me now along with michael freelander, a former senior operator at three nuclear power plants. michael, in terms of the latest developments, what is a positive development, what do you see as a negative development. the positive first? yeah, good morning, anderson. the fact that they ve been able to get power into the power plant and get a distribution energized as we discussed last week, that is a positive development. and ultimately getting that power into the facility and into the necessary equipment, that s essential for getting us out of the woods on here. now, necessarily, as i ve said before, this is over the next days and weeks, this is going to be two steps forward, one step back evolution. all the systems went into their safety mode and so restoring those plant systems to the normal configuration is going to be a bit of a tricky evolution over the course of the next few days. we don t know whether this smoke was from black smoke
in order to contain them. jim walsh joins me now along with michael free lander. michael, in terms of the latest developments, what is a positive development, what do you see as a negative development. the positive first? yeah, good morning, anderson. the fact that they ve been able to get power into the power plant and get a distribution energized as we discussed last week, that is a positive development. and ultimately getting that power into the facility and into the necessary equipment, that s essential for getting us out of the woods on here. now, necessarily, as i ve said before, this is over the next days and weeks, this is going to be two steps forward, one step back evolution. all the systems went into their safety mode and so restoring those plant systems to the normal configuration is going to be a bit of a tricky everyboolu over the course of the next few days. we don t know whether this