and it continues as we speak 200 miles above us. this is coming to us from the international space station where two astronauts have been doing a spacewalk and they ve got some serious work they re doing up here and have been at it for the past five hours or so. we ll give you an update about this historic endeavour mission. this is your cnn sunday morning for sunday, may 22nd. i m t.j. holmes. also a big breaking news story we are following for you this morning. cnn has been able to confirm the earth did not end yesterday. more on that in just a bit. let me tell you about president obama following up on his vision for peace in the middle east as he addresses a group in about 2 1/2 hours. apec is t aipac is the name o. they can t be pleased with the president s stance as winds of change blow through the region. calls for change may give way in some cases to fierce contests for power. the question before us is, what role america will play as this story unfolds. cn
that has to be high on the list of reasons we put something in our high national security interest. but these gays may be talking about selling oil but the world court may decide it doesn t belong to them because they are not a legal entity. it is the government and country of libya and they are making promises about things they don t own. watch out for the lawyers, colonel, thank you for joining us. don t have an american flag hanging in class? you get no money. don t say the pledge of allegiance? no money, a twist to the largest school voucher programs about to become law. missing the next story would be un-american. we used to bet who could get closest to the edge.
this country to have an equal education. i bet you that s one area of common ground that you and i can come back on hardball and agree he has done something well and something honorable. some school voucher programs are wonderful but not the panacea for equal education for poor children. they simply aren t, michelle. stuck in a d.c. public school, you may think that the school voucher program is the panacea. i have been working on this project and found out the only time i know pretty much for sure jack kennedy ever cried about a public issue was when he thought about the children that would be killed in a nuclear war and it was for real. i think that would pass muster with all of us. thank you. absolutely. thank you, joan walsh, thank you, michelle bernard. up next, american students are falling behind, talk about a crying shame. that s having a big impact on our competitiveness in the world. this is our future workforce by the way. former school leader michelle rhee is
like his family. oh, god, joan that is so unfair. i think it is as reasonable as anything else i can think. he wants to repeal financial reform. he is the friend of the wealthy and powerful, not helping children climb that whole those crocodile tears, they may be real tears but he what, is he mr. you are so tough. i am tough. he s a politician. he can cry but when i look at these political justifications, he cries because he is worried about children? i haven t seen any evidence that he is worried about children. did he vote to extend the s-chip program to give people health care, vote for food stamps, vote for things that kids need? no, as a matter of fact. i bet you coming in january we will see speaker boehner be one of the leaders in the house that will vote for school choice, for school vouchers that will allow every single child in this country to have an equal education. i bet you that s one area of common ground that you and i can come back on hardball and agr
and something honorable. some school voucher programs are wonderful but not the panacea for equal education for poor children. stuck in a d.c. public school, you may think that the school voucher program is the panacea. i have been working on this project and found out the only time i know pretty much for sure jack kennedy ever cried about a public issue was when he thought about the children that would be killed in a nuclear war and it was for real. i think that would pass must we are all of us. absolutely. thank you, joan walsh, thank you, michelle bernard. up next, american students are falling behind, talk about a crying shame. that affects our competitiveness in the world. this is the former workforce, by the way. former school leader michelle reid there she is, will join us about what can be done about this creeping disaster of our kids falling further and further behind in the world in math, in language in everything. this is hardball, only on msnbc.