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steve: the answer to the question of the day it is soleil moon frye. gretchen: a provision in the health care reform package gives $50 million for comprehensive sex education reform. steve: dr. grossman is the author of "you are teaching my child what." you are talking about how it is a coalition of planned parenthood groups and stuff like this. this outfit is the lead organization. we need to know about this organization. >> yes, absolutely. you need to know that comprehensive sex education is not comprehensive. it is not science based. it is definitely not what parents want their kids to be getting. gretchen: why? >> because it is driven by a social agendas and not health. steve: what does siecus stand for? >> it sounds like a government organization, but it is not. steve: they are politically driven? >> they are sociall agenda driven. they want children to end up being open and except into nearly every kind of sexual behavior. gretchen: let's give some examples. some of them seem to be outrageous. for example, the basic just that it is ok to be ques

we get the thoughts of greg valliere, chief policy strategist with soleil securities. he's a cnbc securities. we also have matt miller at the center for american progress. guys, i've got to tell you, this story really chaps my hide. i'm sorry, i got so excited about this i didn't see matt is also the author of "the tirny of debt ideas: letting goes of ways town leash the old prosperity." sorry about that. as i said, they force people like jamie dimon to get on the train, snand security lines, whatever they needed to do. jamie dimon out there ostensibly sabing the economy. these guys want to fly on gulfstreams to go spend my taxpayer dollars more quickly. greg wlarks do y greg, what do you think? >> you have to ask the question what were they thinking? are these people so tone deaf? when we talk about tone-deaf auto officials or big bankers -- >> and they were so smug. >> what in the world were they thinking? don't they realize that perceptions matter? >> matt, what do you think? >> i agree when it comes to tone deaf. i actually think congress was right to hold the ceos

greg valliere is chief policy strategist with soleil securities and a cnbc contributor. tony fratto former white house deputy press secretary and a cnbc contributor. thanks so much for joining us. tony, where do we stand in this battle? >> there's still a lot of time left to go in this month. but i'll tell you, it's not looking good for the president. the white house said today the president was setting out to change some minds and it appears he's succeeding. every time he goes out he keeps changing more minds against the health care proposals under consideration in congress. so it's a real problem for them right now. >> greg, you don't agree with that? >> maybe my friend tony can help me. there are so many good arguments against this health reform plan, i'd be the first one to agree. but this euthanasia death squad stuff which is mccarthyite garbage, why haven't any republicans spoken out against this kind of demagoguery? >> i think we know exactly why. but instead of the health plan itself, let's talk about how it's being managed, how the message is being managed. i me