steve: sure. apparently what the obama people want to make sure is mr. obama does not appear too long winded. you ve seen some of the press conferences he s given live here on fox. brian: isn t that the job of the moderator? gretchen: everything is time control. steve: it s a clock and jim lehrer you hope will do just that. once they stop it, they can say whatever they want to. he can ask whatever questions and they can answer however they want to. aside from the fact that the obama people are trying to make sure that mr. obama speaks in 22 minutes after the hour. shorter sound bites. they re also trying to make sure moments ago police arrested six crew members in connection he doesn t look like he s lecturing. with a boat crash in hong mitt romney will try to get kong. punches off. and a boat slammed in a pack john sununu said you ll see combativeness, but at the same of people on the way to see time, you don t want mitt romney to appear too mean to the fire works and more t
the ground up quite honestly is a response to just objective conditions there. people are better educated, they don t have any jobs, and when i was in the middle east this time, they said this is not about jeffersonian democracy swchas much as it is about corruption. they tell us to get a college education, we do, and we can t find work. it s also interesting that gadhafi, when condemning the protesters, didn t blame america, but blamed al qaeda. yes, that s right, exactly. they re very handy. indeed, but again, i go back i m sure you hope, we all hope that this action is accepted for what it is and taken in the context, the broader context of a president who doesn t want the united states to be regarded as an enemy of any other nation or any other religion. well, i thought his speech was skillfully delivered and written in that very vein.
surely be a most publicized, another spectacle involving michael jackson? you re someone who knew him, not just the persona, but the person of michael jackson. what is it that you hope comes out of this trial, tom? well, i m sorry that the defense is going to have to bash michael jackson to try divert attention from their guilty client. the reality is, he was a nice, kind, decent individual. he wanted to change the world in a positive way through music and art and love and kindness and, unfortunately, i think the defense is going try to attack his character, and hopefully it will not work. thomas mesereau, we will be watching closely. thank you for taking time to come in and speak with us. officer and a controversy. the commander of the navy s first nuclear powered air carrier under investigation for raunchy videos he made on board.
that will be reauthorized, you hope, certainly. where are we with those? you re giving money. but there s a lot more conditions to drive accountability. we re not investing in the status quo. with the race to the top, it represents less than 1% of the total k through 12 spending nationally, you see 36 states raising standards, not dummying down things, not lying to children because of political pressure. most states are removing barriers to innovative schools. we re seeing every single state eliminate the linking of teacher evaluation to student achievement. it s remarkable progress and courage at the local level. that s what we re investing in. great leadership, great courage at the local level. i want to talk throughout this about not just raising problems, but talking about solutions. i feel that we dwell on the problems so often, not what s constructive. michelle rhee, there s a political storm in washington about education and the mayor losing the primary. i want to get to tha
77% in our poll give our public schools a c grade or lower. and in terms of the state of public schools, 58% in our poll, if you look at the next screen, 58% believe major changes or complete overhaul is needed. and, indeed, secretary duncan, an overhaul is in the works. where are we right now in terms of reform? we ve made tremendous progress. let me be clear, as a country, we have a long, long way to go. we have to educate our way to a better economy. education is an economic strategy. whp you see us being 20th in math and science, we ve fallen in one generation from first to ninth in college graduates. that s unacceptable. we re paying a terrible price in a tough economy because we ve lost our way educationally. that s why we re pushing so hard for reform. it s important to point out as well, there s a lot of money in the reform movement right now. you got a lot of it. you got billions of dollars. as part of race to the top. president bush started no child left behind. that will