Rahm Emanuel

No governor of either party has called for a national emergency meeting.

And this is not a pop quiz.

The answer is with four states who have all adopted something totally fundamental.

And they showed you, not once, not twice, not three times, four times, how to succeed.

And to me, that is...

what's essential to getting this country right and getting those kids' future right.

And one of the things I'll say, and I'll shut up, Stephen, I know you want to get one of the 925,000 questions.

I got a few more to go.

And this gets back to when you talked to me about us and my family.

Our responsibility is when you walk through the door of opportunity is not to reach back, as Ms.

Obama said, and grab a door handle and shut the door, but to grab a hand and pull somebody through that.

You can't get from here to there.

You can't believe in equity if you're complacent with 50 percent of the kids not reading at grade level.

Can a man become a woman?

Not, no.

No, first of all, that's not what I said, Steve.

Okay.

So what I said, so let's dial up since what you said.

what i believe way too much time on bathroom access in on the time on classroom excellence and you can see the whole debate

As a former ambassador of Japan, 8,000 miles away, I was watching this country, and you got 50% of your kids can't read at grade level.