them room to move and innovate. let me play you a couple of clips of what republicans have had to say about no whild left behind . if you care about your children, you ll get the children out of the business of educating our kids. education has to be held at the local and state level, not at the federal level. i would take the entire federal education law, repeal it, then i would go over to the department of education, i d turn out the lights, i d lock the door and i d send all the money back to the state and location localities. they think the department of education should go. we have to support the children with the greatest need, children who live in poverty, children who are homeless, children with special needs why can t state dos that? states can do that. but we have to support them. we re supporting innovation, we re supporting courage, giving
covering today, critical talks on the debt that happening right now at the white house. and the horrifying terror attacks in norway, a bombing and a shooting rampage at a youth camp. we ll have details on the assaults and the suspect in custody. let s begin at the white house where president obama and congressional leaders are holding debt talks at this hour. president obama called the meeting after deficit negotiations came to a screeching halt yesterday. we have live team coverage. cnn s brianna keilar is at the white house. and kate bolduan is on capitol hill. let s begin with you, kate. what s going on on capitol hill where apparently a lot of the staff members are meeting. reporter: at this moment, they re meeting in the white house, congressional leaders and the president. as far as we know, the meeting is still ongoing. started just after 11:00 eastern time, of course. here on capitol hill, we re told that ever since this announcement really happened yesterday ev
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ha is not judicial activism. that is judicial responsibility. chris: here is where some people see a comparison to the battle over abortion. the political process in the case of same-sex marriage was working. five states and washington, d.c. have legalized same-sex marriage. now, instead of letting this be decided on a state by state basis you are in effect pushing the courts to preempt the argument which is exactly what they did in roe versus wade. would you like the right to free speech. in would you like fox s right to free press put up to vote and say if five states have approved it let s wait until the other 45 state dos. thstates do. the bill of rights guarantees fox news and you chrisual louisiana the right to speak it is in the constitution. and the supreme court peteedly held that the denial of our citizens of the equal rights to