clearer that we need differentiated content, content that really catches people. how far everything we are doing into three pillars. politics with our own clear attitude. then what's working? they say we need to change that. we need to recognize there are solutions but they often have not escaped yet. how can we put the spotlight on them. we talk about copy cat crime and we can also have copycat solution. we also need to add value to people's lives with less stress stress and more fulfillment. that is huge for our viewers and

readers and also our advertisers because a lot of people, a lot of brands that want to be around the wellness scene have become some of our best customers and they do advertising. >> when you look at things and where they're going, you started with print and blog and you move to video, back and forth you have had different challenges. now what? what happened with video? >> video, three and a half years ago we launched web only which was one of the first big live efforts and now i've learned more about audience and social and live has become more facebook lives and different ways to do live while at the same time keeping the big live

experience for newsmaker events and live streaming, cultural or political of it debates, etc. >> do not control video anymore? does facebook control video? >> not at all. let me tell you, tell you, two of our biggest theories. one of them is called talk to me and we would like to invite everyone to participate. it's children interviewing their parents. it's been a huge success. it exemplifies households. it starts with big celebrity interviews with mike bloomberg's daughter and the bushes daughter and et cetera. then we go out to thousands of our viewers and users to interview their own parents. on father's day we are having an event in new york city and were

also doing it in five different states live. >> talk about where video is going. this is a whole room of cable people. people are not watching the way they used to be watching. how do you look about where you're moving. you bought a vr company. talk a little bit about that. >> actually, the vr company is a very good way to explain what i think video is gone. we didn't just buy because of the technological know-how, but because of how they produce and their gift of storytelling. the storytelling in a way that has emotional relation. well there you are doing it on video or cable, the question is whether you are connecting to your audience and adding value to their lives. there is far too much emphasis

on the means as opposed to what are we actually offering. >> your cable company and consumers are using it, millennial's particularly, whether that's true or not, it's questionable. >> but if it's great content you can offer it to your users in multiple ways. ultimately if what you're producing is not differentiated, if it's not adding values to people lives, even if it's simple great in attainment, then whether you are doing it online or on cable, it's not going to work. >> do you think vr is going to be as big as people think it's going to be? oddly enough i just had lunch with mark zuckerberg and he thought it was a little overhyped right now. even though he bought the company and paid all that money, i think they think it's going to take a while. how how do you look at this? you just bought a company. >> for us it was a great investment because, as well as the technology, they are very aligned with us about empowering

our users to connect with the story. like the story we did with what's happening with refugees and susan sarandon taking us to greece. it has the art but all the other elements came together. >> can you imagine people living in a vr universal or not question it. >> i'm not sure people really want to live in a vr universe. that's why will become more important to disconnect from that universe. >> i agree. i think it's quite immersive but the reality to me as a bigger deal. what else are you working on in video? then we will talk about the election very quickly. >> in terms of experience, we launched another that i'm excited about called talk to me. we find that people are more more interested in science but how do we make it approachable. the first video was produced in this new series was really about

the search for more in habitable planets which is identifying and getting to the white house. >> that was the first of the donald trump jokes so just get ready. >> the next one is about the new findings around gravity. you would be amazed at the interest in terms of science, provided we can do it with humor and in an accessible way. and that's what the show does. >> that's a web only show, correct? you don't see yourself making a television or network show. >> we are working on two shows with netflix. >> right, why them over anybody else? >> i was talking about a couple of the shows and he love the idea of doing a documentary and working on a show with the first

gay leader in spain and his partner whose a designer. they are just really excited to work together. >> let's talk about the election. we only have a few minutes left. what do you think is happening right now? i think most people are just perplexed. >> i think what is happening is very dangerous. i feel it is really important that those of us in the media do not treat this like a normal election where two candidates disagree on issues because donald trump is both a buffoon and dangerous at the same time. that is what is confusing. he's a little bit like the north korean leader.

i really think it exemplifies that. >> is that a mistake? >> he is a reality show. he's a buffoon. then the day he proposed we should stop 1.6 billion muslims from this country which is completely un-american, we started covering him as a clear and present danger and at the end of the story he was reminding people that he was a sexist and a racist and that he regularly insights violence at his rally. he also exemplifies all the symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation. [laughter] >> i like it you're selling books and insulting political candidates. >> it's true.

they're not able to process simple information. they have outbursts and false memories. remember the thousands of muslims who cheered at the collapse of the twin towers except nobody has ever seen a video of that. all of these are examples of someone who is unstable so it is all response ability the media to do everything we can to stop him from getting to the white house. when the new york times uses language to describe like his approach, why don't you just call racism racism. when they have the big story about his treatment of women and their conclusion is that it's a complicated story. it's not complicated. that's really where the media needs to do their job. >> it's interesting because you talk about that. they're giving enormous amounts

of attention to this candidate because he's interesting and great for ratings. so you imagine they should actually do something about it. >> i think they should cover it in a way which are straightforward, without mincing words and constantly reminding the public of who he is. constantly reminding them of the fact that he wants to ban an entire religion from this country, he incites violence at his rallies and he still believes the president of the united states was not born in this country, which which is like believing that the earth is flat. it makes him an illegitimate candidate and it is our job to say that day in and day out. >> you think journalism should change? >> no i don't think journalism should change, i think they should stop treating him like someone who is just good for ratings because that's what's happening now.

we have cameras covering an empty party waiting for donald trump as if this is the biggest event at that moment. >> last question and then we have to go. i assume you're voting for hillary at this point. when you look at this, how things have changed, how has tech and social media help that? to me he is the first twitter, the real first true twitter presidential candidate. nobody uses the mediums like he does. he takes advantage of and uses them well. whatever you think of him, he uses uses them beautifully. >> i don't agree with that at all. i don't know why it's a beautiful use of social media. or making comments like when he said women who have abortions should be punished. i don't think he does anything well. just because he's winning simply means that the republican party

has really fielded a group of candidates who could not stand up to him. it doesn't mean that what he is doing is really the way to run a campaign. >> alright, so he needs more sleep. did you get him your book? >> if he doesn't get more mistakes he'll make more more mistakes before the elections. >> last question, if you went to an event in tach or anything or video, what would it be? >> i would love to invent something super simple which is a way to instantly turn our smart phone into a dumb phone. to completely disconnect us from all notifications and everything and reconnect us with ourselves. i think that's the biggest need right now. then whenever we are ready we can turn it back into a smart

phone again. like waving a magic wand. >> i think that's a great thing. i want to time machine but otherwise, thank you again. [applause]. and now for our next conversation. please welcome the host, the president and company chief chief executor of c-span, susan swain. now her guest, chief correspondent and inside politics of cnn, john king.

and anchor and host of univision news, jorge. >> good morning everyone. it's nice to see you here. there are 176 days until the election. do you feel good about that? it feels like it's been going on forever, doesn't it. >> you're counting? >> yes, i'm counting. >> so let me start with both of you. we are among friends today. when you're talking to friends, what are the additives you use to describe the year that we have been through? >> i like that one. disruption. everything in our lives and in the business, think of the last ten or 15 years of your life, the uncertainty, the change. what is going to work and where are we going to be tomorrow? what has resisted that, the american political system.

new industries are coming out. some of them are succeeding and some of them are failing. american politics have pushed it away. kind of like the auto industry when the japanese cars were coming and they said that's cute. but it's not going to work. when you read this change for so long, it's volcanic and that's what we have. >> will he probably like the second half of this which is out of chaos comes growth. >> may be. >> jorge, what are your words? what do you use to describe it? >> i'm seeing two different things. on one hand i think technology is changing everything. then demography is also changing the way we think about this country and the future. then honestly, like everybody else, when people talk to you, they say, donald trump, like it or not, has been the element that has changed the election. everybody is talking about him.

we have to take a very strong, i think, position when he's talking about women and muslims or latinos. i think those are the two most important things for me. technology and donald trump. >> while we are thinking about you and donald trump, people will remember august of last year you were escorted out of the donald trump press conference because you were pressing him on questions about immigrations. megyn kelly also had a run-in with donald trump. they seem to have some rapport. she is getting a big interview. what's your status. >> i don't know. if he's listening, i'm ready to have an interview with donald trump. i know megyn kelly will have an interview with him tomorrow. what happened with donald trump is that i know and we know all the things that he has been saying about latinos and drug traffickers and criminals and rapist. that is wrong.

all the studies i have seen suggest that immigrants are less likely to be criminal. those are the facts. donald trump, many times chooses not to look at the facts. so i announce on june 16, i sent him a note, when was the last thing you did something like that. >> i haven't talked to a candidate in a while. >> anyway, i did it. i put my phone number in there and he published it on the internet. so i have to change my cell phone number. then i went to dubuque, iowa and i found the press conference where i thought not a lot of people would attend and i confronted him with the fact. i think that's a journalist. many times you have to take a stand. i think when it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public life, dictatorship and human rights, as a journalist, you have have to take a stand. >> jorge has a new book out with that name, take a stand stand.

i should say, we should welcome you back tear hometown. >> yes this was a pretty desolate part of the city when i was a kid. it's great to be here. i want to take one second to what jorge said. i don't disagree with you. i work in a different slice the business. it's big and diverse. we just had arianna huffington out here talking about her perspective. the first amendment longs to all of us and we have different slices of the pie. cnn tries to be a more traditional, middle of the road objective journalism. some people think it's boring but there's nothing wrong with the middle of the road. you have an advocacy position and you're transparent about it. i think that's the key. be transparent. on my side, you don't have to say donald trump is wrong. if he's wrong on the statistics, show the statistics. we can report in different ways about fairfax and statistics. the challenges we have to do it

with all the candidates, not just for trump's position. i don't disagree that much. i also think we in the business have have respect for everybody's different piece of the pie. >> so for both of you, if you had a chance to sit down with him tomorrow, what is the one question you really want to ask him questions. >> the first question is are you a racist? >> i had the great timing several years ago of having an interview with him the morning we they release the president's birth certificate and he threw it back at me and said i don't need to see a copy. i think it's a fraud. given what's happened in the last couple of weeks where he has modified his positions are changed his position on so many things, i think i would start with who are you and what makes you tick. what is your central core philosophy of donald trump. >> yes, also, let me just say. he said so many things against women and a against muslims and latinos. now, are we just going to let him say that and not confront him with that? i don't think so.

many journalists have the opportunity to talk to donald trump and i think they haven't been tough enough on him. i think journalism, the most important role for journalists is to prevent abuse of those who are in power. we need to be watchdogs. that has not been the case on many occasions. >> let's talk about hillary clinton. we still have, this has been a big surprise in this election year. the democrats are still at their primary process which makes a challenge for her. why is she having such a difficult time closing the deal? >> democrats have their own brand of disruption. disruption is not unique to the republican party. the republican party has been searching for its identity. you can't pick who leads you until you decide who are we or what are we. essentially, since 2006 the republican party has been trying

to figure out who it is. the democratic party has a president in the white house and that usually keeps the genie in the bottle. you keep the disagreements that's already trapped in the bottle. now they come out in this campaign. bernie is more popular and pulling her to the left whether it's healthcare or trade. if you look at the common denominator between, she is not a visceral, feel feel your pain like your husband was on the economy. sanders just tapped into this and the disaffection on the left with president obama. the black lives matter comes to fruition under the first african president. there's a lot of anxiety in the democratic party and it's bubbling up just like on the republican side. we have not find a way yet to fully embrace or come to grips with it. the way you come to terms with it is you embrace it.

>> i'm working with a lot of minimally nails. millennial's. it's a matter of trust. they trust him more than they trust her. those are the challenges she is going to pay. >> for both candidates, how how important will the vice president selection be? >> i'm not sure. when it comes to, for instance, i doubt that if donald trump chooses a latino as a running mate that that will make a big change. and then let me say for the record that a taco bowl is not mexican food. it reminded me of the politicians 20 years ago when

they brought a mariachi band and put a simple error and thought they were going to get latino votes. it doesn't work that way. george w. bush was the first u.s. president who thought that he spoke spanish. it just doesn't work that way. the tino's want more than that. i saw the latest poll and you're the expert on this. 87% of latinos have a negative view of donald trump. even if 13% were to vote for him, it's simply not enough. to put it in perspective, john mccain had 31% of the of the hispanic vote. romney had 27% and he lost. the idea that donald trump can win with 13% of the hispanic vote is absolutely wrong. that's the challenge. i think he cannot win without the hispanic vote. he's betting on the fact that he might win with the white vote and i doubt it. >> he's betting on the fact that he can turn for states.

if you go to census.gov you can see the changes by the second. literally our electors are becoming more diverse. if you do pennsylvania, ohio, michigan and you get one more out there, donald trump says it's my second state, it's very hard to see him getting florida under these circumstances. if he can change for states and nothing else changed for obama and romney, trump can win the presidency. anybody who says he can't win is not paying attention to the election. but it is a steep demographic for him. there's very little data in our history that that is why people vote for president. by who they pick for a vice president. he does have some identity challenges that he might try to use more to give a statement about who he is and how he thinks heard at the beginning of this campaign, some people thought hillary clinton wouldn't win the nomination and pick a republican to send a signal to

the country that she wants to unify the country. i think the strength of the sanders campaign has push that aside. >> let me ask you as we close, these folks are gonna go home and say i heard john king and jorge and they told me something back in may that i remember about the selection. what's going to be? >> i would say watch the state of michigan. if donald trump wants to be the next president of the united states, he has to do what ronald reagan did in 1980 which is in michigan where you have auto industries and create reagan democrats. if trump can create trump democrats, it's not just working-class, he has to reach out to the millennial's in the bernie sanders people. he has to reach out and do it across there. if you want to study one laboratory, i would study michigan in that area the country. >> i would say think of year 2055. that year the white population in this country will become another minority. that's a huge trend with technology.

the other huge trend has to do with demography. i think donald trump represents the change that we are seeing right now in this country. the other thing i would like you to remember is when the presidential debates are announced and you remember it's going to be the more diverse election in our history, more than 31% of the voters will be a part of a minority, i think we are going to need a latino or a minority. i'm not sure if it's going to be me. we need a latino in both debates we thought that four years ago in the debate and hopefully you will remember that. >> to they have open ears? >> i hope so. >> we are just about out of time nobody is spending more time analyzing individual congressional districts then john king. be sure to watch.

>> it's fun to watch. welcome to red sox nation. >> thank you jorge, find his new book, take a stand. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause]. >> ladies and gentlemen, once every two years, viewers are riveted by their compelling competition that play out on our screens. we are pleased to bring you a taste of what's to come. [applause].

♪ there comes the jump. it is in. he has done it. [applause]. number 19. there he goes. >> all i can do is say thank you thank you for this incredible moment. >> ladies and gentlemen please welcome the chairman and ceo of comcast corporation, brian roberts.

>> good morning everybody. i have to say, seeing that video you get goosebumps. every two years when you thing about the olympics and what it means, the stories, the heroics in the heartbreak, for us, this is such a prideful moment bringing olympics to america. it's an honor and a responsibility that we take very, very seriously. for comcast nbc universal, this will be our third olympics. it will be the most sophisticated and technologically forward-looking presentation we have ever done by a lot. it will be a technological marvel. it will be overof them, most of those in rio and back at nbc sports back in stamford connecticut. it made me think how much the world has changed. this is a live olympics. if you go back to the last live

olympics and what i mean by that is it's close to an east coast time zone. the event is not coming from europe or asia. if you look at that, it would would be atlanta. in 1996 the atlanta olympics, there were 172 hours and it was on one network, nbc. now if you look at rio, here's what what were going to offer. eleven networks, 40 simultaneous dreams, more than 6000 hours, every single events will be streamed live. every metal, every event. it's kind of breathtaking when you think about all that production in 17 days. we will have more live coverage on day one in rio than the entire atlanta olympics. put another way, if you had 24 hours a day to to watch with seven days a week, it would take you 250 days to watch all of this content.

or, if you went back to 2008 and watched every regular season nfl game, you would have 6000 hours. since that is impossible, that is impossible, is this a problem or an opportunity? some people just want to sit back, watch nbc, watch the primetime broadcast and enjoy themselves and their are going to be millions and millions of people who do that. but in order to build momentum for the event, in order to allow you to watch everything you want to watch, that's where we think next one comes in. our wonderful comcast technology team has been working on this and here's what we got. i will update you so you can see it in our booth. about 35% of our customers today have x1. we have 40000 more per day being installed. were also partnered with cox and they're doing their own

installation. millions and millions of people have this and we will be close to 50%, nearing that number around the olympics. because it is cloud-based, we, we can update it easily and make it special purpose and that's for a big event. that's what were doing for the olympics. it's a marriage of the comcast technology group trying to break new ground with the incredible storytelling of nbc to give you all the olympic viewing experience and i believe a glimpse into the future of television. let's take a look at what were working on. >> you are watching a movie, you pull up the x1 guide. now you'll notice we have added a new row in this new row is content purposed just for you. we'll go and look at rio. by going into rio, we now have a complete takeover of the x1 platform. here you will see lots of different ways to search.

let's start with what's on now. as i said, will have as many of 11 networks at a time. here's what the golf channel is doing, here's telemundo. i can also search by sport. you can literally pick the sport that you want. or you can search by athlete. or you can search by nation. since this is the most multicultural viewing experience ever, the entire guide will also be made available in spanish. let's go back to the homepage and i want to watch something that isn't on a cable channel, and for the first time, we are streaming all other live feed into one experience that you can click. the nbc sports live extra will give you every olympic moment

that's being streamed. if you want you can go on the internet and see all of this as well. let's go back up and watch michael phelps. >> you are watching live event and what will come up is the sports app. one and three of our customers use this app regularly and we will have every event synced up with real-time content in companion views. in this case, we drop down and we see michael phelps and we click on him and one of the options is getting information on his background and you can favorite hymn, so we will do that. another thing you might want to do is look at other video of michael phelps. here you can see press conference interviews with the family and the like. another thing you can do is get

a mini guide right here while you're watching and say what else could i watch now. i'm interested in gymnastics. let's see what's going on with rotation two of four. we will have real-time updates in the guide that will tell you where that event is at. okay, i would like to watch. now in the past you would have one gymnastics feed. with live streaming we are going to have every single apparatus. so here is all around, but i want to watch the floor routine and of course that's a stream so i click it and it tells me i'm going on the internet and here we are. now we see gabby douglas and so we know she won the gold four years ago. were not up-to-date on gabby douglas so i pick up my remote. how old is gabby douglas? we will have special content for

the voice remote all over the olympics. it gives you all the information you want. it gives you some options. there's another way for me to personalize my experience by favoring gabby douglas. i can then say show me my olympic favorites. oops, i skipped past it too fast. you can choose by person, sport, country, lots of different ways. go back to the homepage and you will see rio where we went in but there's also another opportunity that nbc has created with gold zone. gold zone is one of the streams that will just be every highlighted moment. every metal, every final live, replace. let's take a a look at gold zone the usa wins the metal.

it causes me to say how is the usa doing? then i have an instant metal count. it's just going to be a totally different immersed experience. i notice it's just after 8:00 o'clock and i want to watch a primetime show. watch nbc. well it's a little bit after eight so one of the features that we offer is restart. just click it and now here you are at the top of the hour. so this is an exciting full on experience. we will have it up and running by august. the summer games are going to be more comprehensive, more personal than ever. a real look into the future of television. i have to tell you that x1, on the voice remote, we have 7 million voice remotes in

customers hands. we were zero beginning less than a year ago. at this time last year we just began to talk about launching it commercially. were doing 180 million voice commands every month. the numbers are pretty staggering and growing every day. so the whole experience is to give you live streaming seamlessly put together with content in the latest on unprecedented choice and control to. to get you really excited for the olympics, take a look at this final video. ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ the 2016 olympic games, live this august from reno on nbc. [applause]. and now, joining brian roberts for our next conversation, please welcome julia boorstin with cnbc.

>> thank you. what a very cool demo. i got a chance to play around with the product a little bit last week. it seems like it's a real transformation of the ways people will experience the olympics. i'm wondering how you expect this to impact ratings? are people going to watching less live because so much is available online? >> our experience has been that if you put more in the top of the funnel, what comes out in prime time will be greater than what it would've been if you just have a single feed. this is an age-old question, but we made a decision and bought the company and told this to the international olympic committee. we are going to do everything we can to make the viewer feel like they have as many choices as possible. as if you were at the game you would pick what event to go to. the technology is finally here. it's so close and my prediction, if you go back to london which

was the most watched event in television history, i will go out on a limb and say we have equal standards for rio and we have been waiting for this day for years. summer olympics are the big olympics, there the bigger of the two and we are going to throw everything at it. i think will help the ratings. this interface to me, it's a true internet interface applied on top of live television. it's kind of a combination of what you been doing with x1 for years. how does this speak to your larger strategy of giving people more high-tech tools to navigate content? >> this has been the big advantage of cable. you go back to people like bill gates who invested in comcast and others, back when the internet got invented saying the biggest advantages to a technology. it's a one-way technology. it's taken years to find the right manifestation.

ondemand was the first. voice control, being able able to send that message back to a computer and then make the command happen was another. interspersing streaming video, which is is now a big part of everybody's life and the next generation. we need to remain relevant and that's why we have the best video in nine years. i think other companies are doing well. there's something about our two-way communication that we need to make it right for consumers. we just needed to work easily on every device. everything you saw you'll be able to do on your tablet or your phone and do the same thing which will be huge. in the middle of the afternoon if you're interested in archery and you want to just watch it, you you will never have that option before and now you will. >> peoples productivity in their office will decline

dramatically. >> it's only 17 days. >> so the big picture here, last quarter as you mentioned, your video subscriber numbers grew much more than expected peer at how much of that is because of this type of technology? >> neil is doing a great job and the team that he has put together, we have two changes. one is to be an innovation company and the other is to take our service and make it the best product. both of those strategies are feeding into the good results. we have written improved year-over-year for most of the last ten or 12/4. some quarters are negative because of seasonality. in the last 12 months we have had more video customers that we had 12 months ago and i think it's showing up on time 99% and giving you an automatic credit if we don't. resolving things the first time and making it fun and better every year than it was last year. we have a new-product release every month, every quarter, it's

change that makes it so fun and exciting. as you continue to rollout x1 into more people's homes, can you give us insight into how you see those numbers changing over the next year? >> so the first thing we see as people consume more on demand both free and pay. we see the use of buying things like dvr and other outlets increase so our revenue goes. there's a payback for it. as to another generation, the kids know how to use it a lot faster than parents too. i believe we are seeing on college campuses with our product where you don't even need a set-top box, we are trying to touch every segment. we are staying can you do this without a box altogether. so we are seeing slowed to klein in the total video marketplace. if the video gets better we can slow that down. we also see a boomerang effect

when kids get to 20 or 30 when they start having kids of their own. suddenly the tv is 100 inches and really comes back into your life. change is upon us and you can't sit still. that's what this demo is. even the olympics, the biggest event in television, we don't think it should sit still. it was a rallying cry for the whole company to work together in a way we've never done and literally, every moment, every metal on every device. it's pretty great. >> you mentioned presence in college campuses. this is the idea, tell me how you are using that college presence to try to get kids hooked so that when they do move into houses they are not cord never's, they are cord later. one thing we don't talk about is how much investment were making in broadband and wi-fi. we put more money at that then may be anything in the last several years. that is, wi-fi is 70 or 75%,

people consume it out of their home and it's happening on our wi-fi networks. that is pretty powerful how people want that. we want to make sure you either have broadband or wi-fi and then you can choose your content and in many of the cases we are giving them content and they're seeing the value. in order for our broadband to have competitive space in order for us to continue to succeed, we need to increase speed and wi-fi capability. what you will see is the next generation of products. our technical team has a roadmap that is as exciting as any on the planet. from remote controls to a small box to a wi-fi booster, to the new interface and new capabilities with the remote. a lot is happening at whatever

age are at. you're going to find something that you really like. if you don't like any of it we will get you with nbc and cnbc and try to turn you on to our content side. one way or another puts us in a position to continue to want to interface. what about skinny bundles. you do have these packaged with broadband. where do you see this going. >> it's a conversation that's evolving with our partners. we all have a legacy business and we want to continue to grow that business. yet some consumers want to get less than everything we offer and so far we have been able to find ways to offer enough. we grew our video revenue, we grew our cash flow and our subs. i think things are pretty solid.

>> with all of this, the capability is changing with how you can distribute your content. where is this moving toward? is this apps or boxes or we moving away from boxes entirely? >> one thing we feel like the government doesn't need to get into the box business. that's not going to speed this up. >> you're referring to the government unlocking the back. >> were talking about regulating something that is evolving so fast, like every other computer, you had a get a box from five years ago you might not like it. what you will see at the booth is you can go to a samsung tv and get a lot, a whole lot and some better of that experience without a box. because of html five, i think it will speed up. because of apps, we think the architecture is now in a place that allows us to be more ubiquitous and that's would be the worst time to start regulating, at a time that between at&t buying directv and verizon and dish network and youtube and apple and google, and just keep going down the list, who lou, it's lou, it's an exciting space. there's certainly not a lack of

change happening. why you would want to regulate that. >> what would the implication be as a content distributor, as a cable cable company as well as a programmer? >> while it has great significance to the content companies of whether their property, it they can't the path that there on. here we have thousand page agreements with companies on all these possible questions and suddenly there's a new mandate but to what benefit. >> he talk about comcast being a technology company now. it's really a tech company at the core. what does that mean for the future of the way people are going to access content? will i be able to sign up for comcast service without talking to a person? >> yes, absolutely. and maybe, we just had a meeting

friday where we saw an incredibly exciting roadmap. at this year roadmap, not five years to where every transaction that you do with our company, we want we want to make it digital. you can take your smart phone and sign up, you can start consuming before you even have a box. you can schedule an appointment, you can schedule a phone call. you don't don't have to call and wait on line. you can buy on amazon. you will see that working really well where you just completely fill the orders in schedule the installation and you never have to talk to a human. we are going to make a leapfrog and have already begun to do so in the way we talk and communicate and transact with our customers. i think that will be a big positive. >> were out of time, but the final question to bring it back to the olympics. how do you think people's perspective perspective div of comcast will change?

>> we are obviously so proud of the story telling, it's a passionate company the whole company turned out. it's a chance to say this is our company. maybe you think it was one way. you think it was in the rear view mirror. maybe you think we made a mistake and we didn't fess up properly, but we are looking down the road forward and were growing customers. we are innovating and tracking incredible talent. i would probably say my main goal, your kid coming out of school, you could go work for google or facebook or comcast universal. i hope people will say there's nothing quite like your company and that's a great opportunity for me and my future and then we'll have great products in the future by having great people. >> great perfect note to end on. thank you so much for joining us today [applause]. >> thank you.

great job brian. >> thank you julie. >> thank you. that should demonstration was very special. it's great knowing where i want to spend my summer enjoying the olympic. >> it's very exciting. also my thanks to julia who graced our stage today. tomorrow she is going to be interviewing john from at&t and also p cashmore. i look for that tomorrow. >> thank you to all of our great speakers this morning for their views and insight. please join me in giving them a round of applause. >> thank you all for joining us this morning. have a great afternoon. thank you everyone c-span's washington journal, journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. on thursday, we are live in laredo texas on the us-mexico border. we will talk about trade issues affecting the region and the

country. san antonio express trade reporter discusses the flow and volume of trade across the laredo border. also a texas congressman joins us to talk about how trade benefits laredo and the country. then they talk to the state director and looks at how the trade deal move jobs from southern texas to mexico and how that hurts mexicans as well. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live from laredo texas beginning at seven am eastern eastern thursday. join the discussion. >> next, former president bill clinton delivering the commencement address at loyola marymount university in los angeles. he encourages students us to embrace their differences and work toward a more inclusive society.

>> [applause]. >> thank you very much. i want to begin by congratulating her not only on her degree but on her work of many years to help more young people go to colleges. thank you for welcoming me here. also thank you for your service and for doing it with such remarkable energy. you have a good sense of humor and we need more of that today in america. i want to thank maxine waters and her husband for her service and devotion to this district

and her longtime friendship to her lurie and me which means more than i can say. i think the provost, the vice chair of the board and all the other faculty and staff of lm you. there are a lot of proud parents in this audience, but as people who are in public service, i do want to know that senator john from wyoming and his family is here because his daughter hadley is also in the graduating class. i think him for his presence. at least two of your alumni were very important parts of my administration. i want to acknowledge former deputy secretary of defense and a man who is not here, tony who was a great congressman from california. the primary sponsor of the americans with disability act. he served the commission. [applause].

i am here in two capacities, not just as the commencement speaker , but hillary and i came as a proud uncle and aunt of our nephew tyler who is a member of this class. [applause]. so i want to congratulate tyler's mom and dad and all the parents and family members and support systems that got all of these graduates here today, as well as the graduates themselves i am well aware that for most of you, the least important part of the ceremony is my talk. look, i graduated from georgetown 48 years ago and i can say with some conviction that most people who have been out of college as long as i have cannot remember either their commencement speaker, much less what he said. however, i remember both. i learned a lot from it. like you we had our commencement

outside. like you it started out as a cloudy day. but just as the commencement speaker, the mayor of washington d.c. got up to speak, this huge this huge thunder crowd rolled over. the thunder was incredibly loud. a massive lightning bolt came out of the sky. walter washington looked at us and said if we don't get out of here, were all going to drown. i wish you all the best. if you would like to read my speech i will send you a copy. good luck. and that was it. so i learned that the very finest commencement speeches are both brief and highly relevant. so, here's my only slightly longer advice. you are graduating in the most

interdependent age in human history. interdependent with each other, within your community and your state and your nation and the world. this campus has seen global imagination and what you have all said today, light the world on fire both have to be defined. all interdependence means is that here we are, stuck together. we can't get away from each other. borders, you name it, we are still stuck with our interdependence. so whether we like it or not, for the rest of your lives, what

happens to you will in some measure be determined by what happens to other people. my how you react to it, how they treat you, how you treat them and what larger forces are at work in the world. the global economy, the internet, internet, mobile technology, the explosion of the social media, they've unleashed both positive and negative forces. the last two years has seen an amazing explosion of economic social and political empowerment and at the root of it all is a simple, profound question.

unifying yourselves and your relationship to others in positive or negative terms. because if we are bound to share in the future it seems to me that it is clear that all of us have a responsibility each in our own way to build up the positive and to reduce the negative forces of our interdependence. this applies to people on the left, the right, somewhere in the middle or somewhere out there. there are so many people who feel that they are losing out in the modern world because people either don't see the more they see them only as members of groups that they feel threatened by the young people pushing for

immigration reform, clinging , hoping to make their way in a country where their future is uncertain what i feel that way. the young people in the black lives matter movement feel that way. but so do the coal miners in communities where there present is bleak and they think their future is bleaker and they think all of us who want to fight climate change don't give a rip about the wreckage of their lives. if everywhere when we try to drift apart in an interdependent age all we do is build up the negative and reduce the positive forces of interdependence. what to set the world on fire mean anyway? it means, you can set the world on fire, but the power

of your imagination, the gift of your passion, by the devotion of your heart and skills to make your life richer and to lift others or it means you can set the world on fire. [laughter] you have to decide. but because the world is interdependent you cannot take a pass. i think the future begins by accepting the wonderful instruction of our very 1st cheswick pope. pope francis has fostered a culture of encounter, where my foundation works in africa in the hills of central africa nobody has any kind of real transportation, so everyone meets each other on foot. when people pass each other

and one says good morning, hello, how are you the response translated into english is, i see you. i encounter you. your real to me. think about all the people today,, yesterday, and tomorrow you will pass a nazi. do you really see everybody who works at aa restaurant where you go after here a celebratory meal? do we see people that we pass on the street who may have a smile or frown or burden that they can barely carry alone? when we passionately advocate for the costs we believe in we anticipated all of the unanticipated consequences so that we can take everybody along for ride to the future we imagine? when pope francis tells us

to engage in a culture of encounter he is thinking about the students in this class that since they were freshmen have reformed almost $200,000 of community service. that is a fancy -- thank you. that is a fancy way of saying you saw a need and stepped in to solve it and did it not only because it was the morally right thing for other people but because it made your life more meaningful. that is the way you want to set the world on fire. the young people that were mentioned in my introduction to have been part of our global initiative community for university students may very specific commitments. they promised to mentor high school girls, to help them

overcome any preconceived notions of their own limitations. they promise to help the victims of domestic violence and violence against the homeless. they promise to provide more capital to small business people in haiti through microcredit loans, something that means a lot to hillary and i personally. moremore than 40 years since we took a honeymoon trip there, we have cared about the men believed in them. they promise in education exchange with the national university everyone. we can learn a lot from them because they lost 10 percent of their people in 90 days to a genocide in 1994, and they came back because they refused to be paralyzed by the past. they joined hands across the lines that led to all the bloodshed to create a common

future. that is what is at the heart of your restorative justice program here. instead of figuring out who to punish the figure out how to repair the harm. instead of focusing on giving you from the past focus on how we can share the future. it's at the heart of your efforts here to improve the juvenile justice system. you, without knowing it, have often embodied the future of positive interdependence that we hope to build. you can't have shared prosperity. an inclusive community unless we believe our common humanity is even more important that are incredibly interesting differences. and so i will say this again

, on every continent think of the struggle in latin america, think of america, think of the political struggle and social and economic struggles in america, what is going on in asia, africa, how europe is dealing with this influx in the middle east the largest number of refugees since world war ii and all the conflicts within these countries and whether they should keep europe together, every single one of these is part of an ongoing battle to the final terms of our interdependence. whether we do it in positive or negative terms. shall we just hunker down in the face of uncomfortable realities and just stick with our own crowd. it will be a bleaker future if you do that. set the world on fire with your imagination, not your

matches, set the world on fire but proving that what we have in common is a million times more important than our admittedly utterly fascinating differences. and finally, i just want to say that all this great struggle that will go on for several years now to find our relationships in an interdependent world is for you the background of a real-life, your life, the life in which you will write your own story, live your own dreams, so for your own disappointment. it is an empowering gift, this education you have. for most of human history adults had no choice about what they did with their waking hours. they got up and did what there forebears of done to survive, feed,, feed,

propagate the species, have children, raise them to go on. your job is to set the world on fire they would've had no clue except maybe to try to put to stick systems together, to be warm and night cook food. you can set your world on fire because of the empowerment of your education and circumstances. there are no final victories or defeats in this life. you'll make mistakes and fail. if you keep trying you will be glad you did. the only thing that matters

is a quick you get up and how resolutely you go on. it is not given to us to win every battle but to fight the right fights. mother teresa once said it was far more important that she and her fellow nuns the faithful than that they always be successful. i can tell you after 48 years it does not take long to live a life. but the journey can be utterly bore -- glorious. and i would give anything to be your age again just to see what will happen. this will be the most prosperous, discovery written, exhilarating period in human history if we decide how best to set the world on fire. if we expand the definition of us and shrinking the

definition of them in every day we get better in seeing everyone we encounter physically or virtually every remember that a very short life, the things we share matter even more than the things about us that are special. do well, do good. have a good time doing it. and remember, as the journey that matters. set the world on fire. in the right way. god bless you. [applause]

[applause] [applause] >> next oracle founder and executive chairman larry ellison delivers the commencement speech to graduates at the university of southern california. he told graduates as best friend apple cofounder steve jobs taught them that there is more to life than money. encourage graduates to try new things and not be afraid to challenge the status quo. >> good morning class of 2016.

[laughter] thank you for inviting me here today. i am honored to be with you for your graduation from the university of southern california. this morning i would like to talk with you about a few experiences in the couple of ideas that tommy important lessons and helped me discover my dreams. when i was your age living going to school in chicago back in the 1960s i used to dream about this place. the university of southern california. back then -- this is all true -- back then my dream was to go to the usc medical school, get married, raise a family, and practice medicine in los angeles.

growing up in a lower middle-class community on the southside of chicago medicine was considered the pinnacle of professions. noble and humane. virtually every one important in my life, my family, teachers, girlfriend wanted me to be a dr. over time their dreams became my dreams. they convinced me that i should be a dr.. but as hard as i try i could not do it. after a few difficult and happy years the premed student, it became painfully clear to me that i did not like the courses i was taking. i thought my comparative anatomy class was a perversely pointless form of psychological torture. especially the dissection labs.

ii just cannot make myself study something that did not interest me. at the time i thought i lacked discipline. and i was selfish. maybe so. but whatever the underlying reasons come i was unable to make myself into the person that i thought i should be. so i decided to stop trying. i was 21 years old when i dropped out of college. packed everything i owned, jeans, t-shirts, leather jacket, guitar and my car and drove from chicago to berkeley california. i guess one small part of that university of southern california dream was mine after all. the california part. berkeley in the 1960s was

at the center of everything. the antiwar movement, the free speech movement, human rights movement. itit was the perfect place for an undisciplined, selfish twentysomething to begin a search for himself, a righteous cause commander john that he loved. everyone living in berkeley in the 1960s opposed the vietnam war. i was no different. it was the age of aquarius, but i never had long hair, and i never wore like these. i learned to play popular protest songs on my guitar, but i was never a committed serious antiwar protester. i did find a cause, when i still feel passionately about today. a few hours east to berkeley of the sierra nevada mountains. i fall love with those mountains.

in the natural beauty of yosemite valley. i cared about the wilderness and wanted to help preserve it. i joined the sierra club and became environmentalist. [applause] during my california springs and summers i spent most of my days in the high sierra's and yosemite valley working as a river guide and the rockclimbing instructor. i love those jobs, but unfortunately they did not pay that well. so i. so i also got a job working a couple days a week as a computer programmer back in berkeley. i learned the program in college. i did not love programming, but it was fun, and ifun, and i was good at it. computer programming gave me the same kind of satisfaction, the solving math problems playing chess, both things i enjoyed before i became a confused

teenager. at this point in my life i thoughti thought i was making real progress on my journey of self-discovery. i found the cause. i had a couple of jobs are loved. and one that was fun and pay the bills. i was pretty happy with my life. my wife was not. what she saw was a college dropout who spent too much time in the mountains doing foolish things. she wanted me to work full-time as a computer programmer or go back to college and finish my degree. we compromised. sort of. i started taking classes at uc berkeley. i took several classes, but the only one i can remember was a sailing class taught at berkeley marina. once again i fell in love and began a lifelong affair with a limitless, omnipotent

pacific ocean. welcome to my class was over i wanted to buy sailboat. my wife said this was the single stupidest idea she had ever heard in her entire life. she accused me of being irresponsible and told me i lacked ambition. she kicked me out. and then she divorced. this was a pivotal moment in my life. [laughter] my family was still mad at me for not going to medical school and now my wife was divorcing me because i lacked ambition. it looked like a reoccurrence of the same old problem, once again i was unable to live up to the

expectations of others. but this time i was not disappointed in myself. failing to be the person they thought i should be, their dreams and my dreams were different. i would never confuse the two of them again. i discovered things that i loved, the sierras, yosemite, the pacific ocean. these natural wonders brought me great joy and happiness and wood for the rest of my life. i had an interesting job programming computers and more money than i needed. for the 1st time i was certain that i was going to survive in this world. a huge burden of fear has been lifted. i will never forget that. it was a time for rejoicing.

about the sailboat and lived on board, me and my. in the words of james joyce i was alone and young and willful and unheeded. but i was happy and near to the wild part of life. throughout my 20s i continued experimenting racing bikes and boats and constantly changing jobs. he did not take me long to discover that the most interesting and rewarding programming jobs were found at a cluster of companies located south of stanford university and north of san jose, silicon valley was in its infancy. i was still in my 20s when i went to work for my 1st silicon valley startup where we developed the world's fastest mainframe computer, faster than anything ibm

had. next up was ampex where we build the world's largest digital data storage system and then on to precision instruments where we built an even larger data storage system, this time using lasers. how is the vice president in charge of software development. it was all very cutting edge and challenging and cool. i liked my work most of the time but did not love it. i searched and i searched but i just could not find a software engineering job that i loved is much as i love sailing. so i tried to create one. i put together a plan to start my own company. that way i could completely control my work environment, hiring the most talented programmers i knew and we would all work together on the most interesting and challenging software projects.

my goal was to create the perfect job for me, java truly loved. i never expected the company to grow beyond 50 people. so maybe i really did lack ambition or vision back then. i don't know. it was a long time ago and i was very young. anyway, today oracle employs around 150,000 people, but when i started it was not my intention to build a big company. what happened? welcome at 1st we did exactly what we set out to do admire the most talented software engineers in silicon valley, assembled an all-star team of gifted programmers who were among the best in the world with what they did. that team was one crazy idea

that gave birth to a giant company. i called a crazy idea because at the time everyone told me it was a crazy idea. the idea was to build the world's 1st relational database. several theoretical papers about relational databases had already been published, and ibm was building a prototype in a research lab. back then the collective wisdom of computer experts was that while relational databases could be built, they would never be fast enough to be useful. i thought all those so-called computer experts were wrong. and when you start telling people that all the experts are wrong, at 1st they call you arrogant and then they say are crazy. so remember this, when

people start telling you that your crazy, you just might be on the most important innovation in your life. [applause] of course the other possibility is your crazy. this is one of those times when the experts were wrong. arrogance and insanity turned out to be innovation in disguise. the oracle database proved to be a defining technology of the dawn of the information age. the oracle database also totally upended my plan to build a small comfortable company, a perfect place for me and a few of my friends to work. as the information is moved from dawn to the full light of day technology horizons

constantly shifting revealing a bravea brave and exciting world of new possibilities and knew opportunities. oracle doubles in size year after year after year for ten years. i set out to create the perfect programming job for me. instead i created a job where i had to stop programming altogether. i attempted to create an environment that i could completely control. instead i was running a company with thousands and thousands of people that was growing so fast that it was impossible for anyone to control. it was like sailing in a hurricane, and then we went public. my god. maybe i should have been a dr.. i was constantly learning,

on-the-job training i think they call it. every day i learn something something new and interesting that i did not know the day before. my new job was challenging, captivating, consuming. i worked all the time. but thinking back, i'm pretty sure i didn't love it , or maybe i was just too tired to know how i felt. but i found a place in the world. my family finally forgive me for not going to medical school, and nobody ever accused me of lacking ambition again. now i'd like to tell you one last story about my best friend, i guy you had lots of crazy ideas and taught me an important lesson. my 30 year friendship with steve jobs was made up of 1000 walks. if there was something he wanted to talk about, and there always was we would go for a walk. we would climb to the top of windy hill, hike around. over the years one

particular walk stands out. we had a lot to talk about that day, so we jumped in the car, put the top down, and headed out to castle rock state park in the santa cruz mountains. it was over 20 years ago back in mid- 1995. steve was finishing up toy story and pixar and running next, the computer company founded after he left apple. apple was in severe distress. it had gone steadily downhill during the ten years of steve's absence. the problems are now so serious people were wondering if apple would survive. it was all too painful to watch and stand by and do nothing. so the purpose of that particular hike through the santa cruz mountains on that particular day was to discuss taking over apple computer.

my idea was simple. by apple and immediately make steve ceo. apple is not worth much back then. about $5 billion. we both had really good credit. and i had already arranged to borrow the money. all steve had to do was say yes. steve proposed a somewhat more circuitous approach. first, persuade apple to buy next computer and then steve would join the apple board and over time aboard would recognize that steve was the right guy to lead the company. i said okay. that might work. the steve, if we don't by apple how are we going to make any money? suddenly he stopped walking

in turn told me. we were facing each other when he put his left hand on my right shoulder in his right hand on my left shoulder, staring unblinkingly into my eyes. steve said, larry, this is why it is so important that i am your friend. you don't need any more money. [laughter] .. ellison >> we can give it all away. steve just shook his head and said i am not doing this for the money. i don't want to get paid. if i do this, i need to do this standing on the moral high ground. the moral high ground, i said? that might be the most expensive

real estate on earth. but i knew i had lost the argument. steve had made up his mind, then and there, the summer of 1995, to say it his way. at the end of the hike, before we got back into the car, i said steve, you created apple, it is your company and it is your call. i will do whatever you want me to do. i went on the apple board and then i watched steve build the most valuable company on earth. [applause] the lesson here is very clear to me. steve was right, after a certain point it can't be about the money. after a certain point you can't spend it no matter how hard you

try. i know. i have tried hard. but it is impossible. in the end, the only practical option is to give nearly all of it away. so why did steve go back to apple? why did he devote so much of what remained of his life to his job? why do i? i believe the answer is that deep inside of all of us, all of us, is a primal desire to do something important with our lives. and freud said, there are only two things important in life: love and work. he did not say love and work were the same thing. i am passionate about my work. it continues to give me great

satisfaction and a sense of who i am. but passion and love are different. at least for me they are. i love my family. a few precious friends, four cats, two dogs, cherry blossoms in japan, pacific island beaches and bays, and the majestic sierra nevada mountains where it all began for me. my feelings about work are very intense but quite different. there is a tv advertisement for the united states navy that says it is not just a job, it is an adventure. that is exactly how i feel about my years in silicone valley. an interesting, challenging, all consuming adventure like any ongoing adventure, i have go idea how it ends, but i know it will for me and a long, long

time now for all of you. but today graduates, you are beginning your great adventure your generation will change the world as every generation does. you will invent new technologies and create new types of art. impossibilitys will be transformed into possibilities and unexpected opportunities will present themselves. you will change the world and the world will change you as you learn and grow and discover more about yourself. remember this graduates, in a constantly changing world, what is possible is a moving target. don't be afraid to experiment and try lots of different things. don't let the experts discourage you when you challenge the status que. like mark twain says, what is an

expert anyway? just some guy from out of town. each of you has a chance to discover who you are, rather than who you should be. a chance to live your dreams, not the dreams of others. each of you has an obligation to commit to a righting cause, one that elevates you and improves it conditions of humanity and the planet. soon many of you will begin a new job. i hope it interests you and challenges you and rewards you with a sense of purpose and satisfaction. if it doesn't, keep searching, it is out there. it might take a while, but keep searching until you find a job that ignites your passion like i did.

even better, you just might find one that you love. thank you. and congratulations. [applause] >> indiana governor mike pence delivered the commencement address for 2016 graduates at indiana wesley university. he focused comments on his christian faith and his role as a husband and father. after his speech, governor pence received an honorary degree from the school. >> governor mike pence, a lifetime hoosiers was born and raised in indiana. he graduated from hanover

college and earned a law degree from the university school of law in indiana in 198. governor pence was named president of a think tank known as the indiana policy review foundation. in 1992, governor pence started a career in radio broadcasting and two years later network indiana sindicated his show live. it aired on 18 stations. he hosted a sunday morning political show in indianapolis from 1995 to 1999. first elected in 2000 and earning a six-term in 2010, governor peterson represented the sixth congressional district making up much of the eastern half of indiana.

he was elected unanimously to serve as house republican conference chairman and chairman of the house republican committee. a strong supporter of the military, governor peterson made a priority of reducing government employment and visited hoosiers' soldiers in iraq and afghanistan every year since the hostility began. he was elected as the 50th governor of the state of indiana in 2012 and inaugurated in january of 2013. fiscat responsibility is important, economic development and educational opportunities. since taking office in 2013, governor pence has lowered personal business tax and corporate income tax, taxed the largest state tax cut in indiana history, expanded career choice, made career and technical knowledge a priority and

invested more than $800 million in new money for roads and bridges in indiana. he manages a state workforce of approximately 28,000 and state budget of 30.6 billion. he oversees the duties of the state chief executivef officer, he recommends and reviews legislation with members of the indiana assembly and serves as the commander and chief of the indiana international guard. governor, we recognize your achievements but the reason we invited you here today, governor peterson often describes himself publically as a christian, a conservative, and a republican -- in that order. governor pence and first lady karen peterson have been married since 1985 and have three adult children. we asked governor pence to talk to us what it means as a believer to serve in the public

sphere. will you join me in giving a warm indiana wesley university welcoming to our governor, mike pence. [applause] [applause] >> dr. rice, and the board of trustees at the university, to the us handing faculty, to the parents, proud and relieved family members, who are gathered here today, and to the outstanding men and women of the class of 2016.

[applause] >> gov. pence: i am truly honored to address the class here and i am humbled by it. a class of 514, truly exemplary young men and women, research, academic achievement, athletics, men's and women's national basketball champions are among us. members we just heard from, musicians who just toward the united dates and europe, students who have served, and classrooms and churches and hospitals, studied and served abroad. we have among us a princess of the indy 500 festivals, and a graduate submitted a photo soon adorn our bicentennial stamp. as a class of extraordinary accomplishment.

this is a class of extraordinary accomplishment and i believe the 2016 graduati class of indiana weselyan university represents a generation of promise and i congratulate you all. [applause] >> gov. pence: today is all about you and it should be fun. you are all winners. the prize is waiting rate appear. winners -- right up here. winners have fun, but you know, i think i am here as your governor, but it is not the highest office i hold. the highest office i hold is actually d-a- d. it is. it will always be. moms and dads, we have sat in

those chairs and are hoping to a few more times. we understand the sacrifices your families have made to see you through, the way they encouraged you to reach for this education, they encouraged you through those anxious days throughout your college career. they probably wrote a few checks along it way and prayed ernestly you would see this day. so before we start talking about you and what you learned, will the graduate class of 2016, mind turning around, and turning eyes soothe moms, dads, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, grandparents, mentors and friends who got here and got you through and give them a round of applause, would you please?

>> i remember this day like it was yesterday, it was 35 years ago from me. 19 1981. it was a day in which i was filled with conflicting emotion. i was excited to have reached by goal. it was a little sad to be saying good bye-. i was filled with hope but i was also anxious and afraid of whether those hopes would come out. i have grown up with a heart for public service. i went to a college, not dissimilar from this one in southern indiana. solid. i studied american history and tried to prepare my mind for what i hoped was before me.

i can tell you i changed in college. in fact, for most, college changes us. i will never forget the first time i saw our son, who graduated a little bit ago and is now in the service. the first time he came home from school and we looked at him and said you changed. the change happens and it is good. you moms and dads in the room know what i am talking about. i wanted to talk to you about ways in which i changed and the ways i hope, in the course of your life, you stay changed and take from this place the best of what you gleamed. one of the ways i changed is i learned the value of hard work and perseverance and persistance in pursuing my goals.

true confessions. i was not like a totally great student in high school. i mean really and truly. i was senior class president at columbus north high school and the day they posted the top ten students in my class, a friend came because i was so active on school campus, and said did you just miss it? and i said not really. college changed that for me. mostly because of people like those back here. professors who saw in me something in a classroom, more than i saw in myself. a professor who is now about 90 years young and still a mentor to me, dr. curtis. i will never forget through me a paper back and said that is a c. and i said well it isn't any different than his and he got a

b. and he said for him, that is a b. for you that is a c. i know the debt of gratitude all of you feel for the faculty and professors who have impacted your lives. who poured themselves into your life. people like prof williams and others. would you join me in thanking all of the professors and all of the faculty who changed your life? [applause] >> what changed is i learned the value of true friendship through thick and thin. there is something about when you go away from home and how

quickly you huddle with just a few people. i bet you were talking this morning, putting on the cap and gown with people you might have just met on that very first day. there is a bond that you see each other through the challenges. and i know while today is hello to your future for many of you you are worried it is good bye to your very best friends. well, i promise you its not. karen and i were just at a wedding a couple short weeks ago at a college friend of mine. i was surrounded by all of the crazy friends i made in college. we are all a little more high mileage right now but we turned on the earth, wind, and fire and turned it loose. you can hold on to these friends. make no mistake about it. i also learned, and i changed in

college because i learned the importance of having the courage of your convictions. college is that very first time when you step out and you are no longer your mother's daughter, father's daughter, our parents' child. you are no longer the younger brother or sister of the one on the high school campus or in the neighborhood. you are just you. this is a place where you learned to be you, to stand up and to speak about what you believed, defend it in classrooms and lunch rooms and maybe in latenight conversations in comfortable settings with friends. i love a john f kennedy quote about courage. it was a quality president kennedy looked for more than anything else.

he said, and i quote, "without belittling the courage that men have died, we should not forget the acts of courage for men that have lived. a man does what he does in spite of pressures and dangers and that is the bases of all human reality. cs lewis probably put it better saying "courage is not simply one of the virtues. it is the form of every virtue at the testing point "i want to submit to you that the foundation you have learned here at this extraordinary place that has built your academic career on a foundation of christ-center character, scholarship, and serve and leadership, i want to

submit to you that to be a leader of that type you must be prepared to face opposition and even criticism. it comes with the territory. as the old book says, in this world you will have trouble, but take heart to overcome the world. have conviction for who you are and what you believe and what you changed here will carry in the balance of your life. and lastly in college, i changed one other way. you see i was raised in a churched home. my parents suited us up every sunday morning and got us out to church and i will always be grateful for the religious foundation of my upbringing.

by the time i went to high school i had a different thought and decided to set aside those old fashion ideas about religion and think for myself. i kept going to church but i probably held a form of christianity that denied its power. i went off to college. they were competent, yes. i knew in my heart of heart they had something who called joy. in good times, and in bad, there seemed to be something in their life that was beyond them. and i felt the need in my life to embrace it, now one of the

fellows is a pastor in indianapolis and a close friend of mine who was talking about matters of faith, my resistance to that. i went up to him and i said i have decided to go ahead and say i am a christian and do the christian thing. trying to get an order across, i pestered him about it more than once and i will never forget the day i said hey, man, i am going with that christian thing now, so get me that number. i want to call and get that cross like yours. he turned to me and said words that impacted my life like a meteor strike.

he doesn't even remember saying it to this day. he turned to me and said mike, remember you have to wear it in your heart before you wear it around your neck. you have to wear it in your heart before you wear it in your neck. then he walked away and i wrestled with those words for days that followed. i didn't know what he meant but i knew there was truth in it. i found myself a few months later in the spring of 1978, heard a sermon or two at a youth christian music festival in kentucky. i always heard the words god so loved the world he gave his only son. it also meant god loved so me.

overwhelmed, this has made all of the difference. i said to karen this morning that it is always wonderful to say to god i love you but it is probably more accurate when we realize that all we can ever say to god is i love you, too. this is the biggest way my life changed. i want to say to the class of 2016 in whatever ways you have changed, as this wonderful faculty that poured their lives into you, in this wonderful christian university, the way that you have learned here, what you have learned, hold on to all

of those things in the days ahead. hold on to those you love with both hands, the people next to you and the people in the gallery. hold on to those precious mentors, i promise you we will love to get that e-mail from you in a month, or six months, or a year or five years. keep striving, keep learning, keep persevering. one of my other favorite quotes of all time comes from president calvin coolidge who spoke about the importance of persistance and per severance saying quote nothing can take the place of persistence. talent will not. nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. genius will not. unrewarded genius is almost a p proverb.

education is not. persistance and determination alone are important. what you learned here you are striving in your accomplishments and continue to put into practice into your life. embrace the courage you have learned here and build on it to be men and women of integrity in large ways and in small ways throughout your life. stay changed. stay changed in every good way that your heart and mind have been transformed during your time here at indiana weselyn university. so i say today, congratulations to the graduating class of 2016 at indiana weselyn university. this is the last day at the university but the first day of the rest of your lives.

your dreams await. but know as you go, that he who saw you through these days of challenge, is waiting for you on the other side of the door of this auditorium do is you through the next great challenges of your life. he has a plan for you. a plan of foster you and give you a hope and a future. grow grab your future with them. thank you. [applause]

>> thank you very much governor pence for those stirring words and good reminders of what matters most and how we change best tr the university. for 16 years of public service to the state of indiana, for your personal life which models ethical standards, for the example of your servant leadership, and for your personal christian character that is evidence to all of those who interact with you personally. this leadership is a token and we invest governor pence with a hood and the department of recognition.

>> tonight on booktv, the finalist for the 2016 pulitzer prize. annie jacobsen discusses her book, "the pentagon's brain: an uncensored history of darpa, america's top-secret military research agency," nominated for the history price. then the winner in that category tj styles and custards trials. and the book, between the world and me, was nominated in the general non-fiction category. and we will show you our interview with warrick, whose book, black flags; the rise of isis won the general non-fiction prize. >> annie jacobsen book to about darpa, pentagon's defense advanced research project agency, which develops new military technology some of which has had important civilian uses including gps and intern.