from 19% to 14 understand%. in baltimore, it s almost 25%. the percentage of american children living in poverty remains unchanged since 1964. here s my shameless plug. follow me on twitter. and right after this segment, i ll tweets out the modern president, under whom the poverty rate in america hit its lowest point. why can t i just google that. why do i have to go on twitter, sign up follow you. it s less typing. i have a better tease for you. why don t you take your last 15 seconds and telling us about the time you played the piano with paul mccartney. october 8, 2005. who remembers? i was there. the sirius xm studios picked out of the audience. my wife said please don t weep on this man. and i did i played piano, i
sometimes we don t. there are some areas where we have to improve our game. look at secondary education, for example. but, i think this anxiety maybe helps us more than it hurts us. walter? it s walter isaacson. you are co-chair of the aspen strategy group. shameless. shameless plug for joe. running aspen strategy group. you talk about russia quite a bit. we see a major dissipation of power in russia and can putin survive? i think russia is a country in serious decline. it s a one prop economy with a democratic problem. there are going to be fewer russians in the future. the average russian male dies a decade earlier than his normal in most developed countries and they can t make the reforms they
out of 300,000, 20 people were fired. that s right. how does that strike you. you see a scandal, you see less people fired under mcdonald than the previous va secretary shinseki. what does it tell but the culture? it tells me veterans are not served. we conversation about schools and choice. learning is the most important thing. veterans are the most important thing. when it comes to choice they re not exactly getting that. i asked your colleague dan caldwell, last night what is the most important thing? what are veterans saying to? you what are they looking for? what is the one thing they want? the choice in health care. the va is so broken and so fractured, that is the last thing to be addressed unfortunately when we talk about it. you re working on something right now. funny you should mention choice. shameless plug alert. my organization is doing bipartisan fixing veterans health care task force. we re releasing a 100 page report that will fundamentally transperform va. w
i want to be crystal clear. i want to be crystal clear. i want it to be crystal clear. they ve been crystal clear and unwaivering. we re also going to make crystal clear whose side each party is on. the senate made it crystal clear. the president needs to make it crystal clear. the president has made it crystal clear. some things remain crystal clear. crystal clear. crystal clear. crystal clear. today its crystal clear. president obama has made it crystal clear. one thing should be crystal clear. we talked to alex wall crystal clear, shameless plug. that was a terrific show and terrific interview. i liked it so much i almost used it so much i almost used his words for word. crystal clear. so one more thing that is
some of those note, andrew, but it s important for the city to show its grief and strength together. thanks so much. let s take a look at what s coming up on new day. alisyn camerota joins us. good morning. we re following that big development overnight in the sony hacking story. a major theater chain decides not to run the controversial new movie. and the new york premiere of that film called the interview has been cancelled after hackers threaten to attack moviegoers. how serious is this let? i ll tell you what you need to know. and pakistan preparing for the grim task of burying the victims of that horrible massacre. the lives of more than 132 children. this is the worst attack in pakistan. what will change today as a result? we re talking exclusively with the former president of pakistan perez musharraf. stay tuned for that. let me give a shameless plug here. what alisyn camerota is doing on