it sounds good. every school and every business should be out there competing for your skills and your talent and your leadership. everything that you've shown in uniform. but as some of your comrades have discovered, sometimes you're dealing with folks who aren't interested in helping you. they're not interested in helping you find the best program. they are interested in getting the money. they don't care about you. they care about the cash. they harass you into making a quick decision with all those calls and e-mails. if they can't get you online, they show up on post. one of the worst examples of this is a college recruit who are had the nerve to visit a barracks at camp lejeune and enroll marines with brain injuries, just for the money. these marines had injuries so severe, some of them couldn't recall what courses the

recruiter had signed them up for. that's appalling. that's disgraceful. it should never happen in america. i'm not talking about all schools. many of them for-profit and non-profit provide quality education to our service members and our veterans and their families. but there are some bad actors out there. they'll say you don't have to pay a dime for your degree but once you register they make you sign up for a high interest student loan. they say if you transfer schools, you transfer credits. when you try to do that, you suddenly find out you can't. they'll say they've got a job placement program when, in fact, they don't. it's not right. they're trying to swindle and hoodwink you. today here at ft. stewart we're going to put an end to it. we're putting an end to it.

the executive order i'm about to sign will make life a whole lot more secure for you and your families and our veterans and a whole lot tougher for those that try to prey on you. here is what we're going to do. first we're going to require colleges that want to enroll members of our military or veterans or your families to provide clear information about their qualifications and available financial aid. you'll be able to get a simple fact sheet called "know before you owe." and it will lay out all the information that you need to make your own choices about how best to pay for college. second, we're going to require those schools to step up their support for our students. they need to provide a lot more counseling. if you've got to move because of a deployment or reassignment, they've got to help you come up with a plan so you can still get

your degree. number three, we're going to bring an end to the aggressive and sometimes dishonest recruiting that takes place. we're going to up our oversight of improper recruitment processes. we're going to strengthen the rules about who can come on post and talk to service members. we're going to make it a lot easier for you all to file complaints and for us to take action when somebody is not acting right. this is about making sure you succeed because when you succeed our country succeeds. it's that simple. after all, at the end of world war ii so many americans like my grandfather came home to new opportunities because the original gi bill by 1947, half

of all americans who enrolled in college were veterans. you know what? they did pretty well. they rose to become presidents and supreme court justices and nobel prize winners. they went on to become scientists and engineers and doctors and nurses. 8 million americans were educated under the original gi bill. together they forged the backbone of what would become the largest middle class that the world had ever seen. they built this country. they turned us into that economic superpower. we can do it again. we face tough times, have gone through the worst recession since the great depression, two wars. you know what? we've faced tough times before. all of you know something that america should never forget. just as you rise or fall as one unit, we rise or fall as one

nation. just as you have each other's backs, what's always made america great is we have each other's backs. each of us is only here because somebody looked out for us. not just our parents, but our neighbors and our communities and our houses of worship and our vfw halls. each of us is here because we had a country that was willing to invest in things like community colleges and universities and scientific research and medicine and caring for our veterans. each of us is only here because somebody somewhere had our back s. this country exists because generations of americans worked together and looked out for one another. out of many we are one. those are the values we've got to return to. if we do, there's nothing this

country cannot achieve. there's no challenge that's too great for us. there's no destiny beyond our reach. as long as we're joined in common purpose and common resolve, better days will always lie ahead. we will remind everybody why the united states of america is the greatest country on earth. as i look out at this sea of incredible men and women, it gives me confidence that our best days are still ahead. god bless you. god bless our armed services. got bless the third division. god bless the united states of america. thank you very much. [ cheers and applause ] as you've seen, that's the president and the first lady at ft. stewart, georgia. good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. in our daily fix today, the president has just completed speaking to the troops at ft. stewart.

and while his campaign is emphasizes another commander in chief moment, the first anniversary of the successful mission to kilo sam ma bin laden, chris sill liss is an nbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. we've seen the vice president's speech and the new obama video ad on the commander in chief using bill clinton to try to validate president obama. at the same time, as we're seeing the romney campaign and their crossroads, the crossroads, of course, the super pack which is on behalf of mitt romney trying to portray the president as a celebrity. how is that match-up working? >> what's interesting, andrea, if you go back to the 2008 election, the biggest question mark about president obama was foreign policy. could he be a world leader? he hadn't done anything like that. he had obviously been in the u.s. senate for just two yeerts, the illinois state senate before that. this going into the 2012

election f you look at any poll, foreign policy is actually where he is the strongest. i think the white house believes that the -- authorizing the mission that led to the death of osama bin laden is a major positive for him. when it happened about a year ago, we had a prediction that this was going to be the end of the race, he's going to win. what happened is he went up for about a week and a half in polling and then went down. there will be a sustained effort to remind people that this was the president who led and made a tough call. i don't think that the size of the election particularly when we're in the economic place that we are. it certainly helps him. it's strange because the thing that was allegedly his biggest weakness a few weeks ago. on the week in politics and this match-up, former mississippi governor haley barbour joins me at the table.

thanks for joining me. >> good to be here. >> former head of the governors association, of course closely involved with "crossroads." >> i do. try to help them all i can. >> let's talk about that and what chris cillizza was just talking about. foreign policy has been a big advantage for this president. why shouldn't the bin laden moment be his best argument. as joe biden said, osama bin laden is dead, general motors is alive. >> i think the killing of bin laden is a very good thing for america, period. but the idea that foreign policy is obama's great strength i think actually makes another statement. the economy is so bad, his energy policy is so failed, his health care plan is so unpopular that foreign policy looks pretty good. >> you're trying to make a positive into a negative, sort of a reverse play there, but at the same time, mitt romney, isn't he vulnerable on foreign

policy? look at him describing russia as one of our greatest foes, a throw back to the cold war. we work with russia all the time. hardly an ally, but certainly not an adversary. >> i don't think there's anybody that will tell you obama's rush to policy has been a suck sed. when you look at iran and the russian policy on those, when you look at the position on those, directly in the face of the united states, when you look at the russians who are trying to stop there being a pipeline from the cass ian sea across turkey to serve europe so the russians will continue to hold a monopoly, if i were the obama people i would not be trying to say look at the great successes we've had in iran and syria, in north korea. i don't think they will. they will talk about osama bin laden. americans are glad osama bin laden is dead. >> didn't mitt romney himself

question whether it was worth spending all the money and effort to go after one man? >> i don't know if he did or not. >> well, let me get the actual quote for you in a minute. let's also talk about this "crossroads" ad. you're attacking the likability, the accessibility of barack obama, his singing al green, going on jimmy fallon. what's wrong with all of those -- obviously cultural references that are very appealing to young people torques a new generation. >> i don't think there's a thing in the world wrong with any of them except it brings back to americans that here is a president that's all talk, is all cool, sounds good, tries to be popular with everybody, but it's his policies that the american people are worried about, the policies of this administration have been failed policies.

instead of trying to be cool, a celebrity on tv, americans are looking for a president who takes policy seriously, who puts real effort behind policies that will create more jobs, that will get people who are underemployed back to what they out to be making in this country tochlt get college students who voted for him who half of them that graduated are unemployed today, half of them not back live being their parents, to get gasoline prices back down to $4.00, killing the keystone pipeline, putting a moratorium on drilling in the gulf of mexico and making it harder to get a permit to mine coal in west virginia than it is to get a heart transplant. americans want a president who is serious about the serious problems facing our country. >> can't the president argue that jobs have grown, unemployment has come down?

depends, of course, where the economy is in october, in september and october. but can't he argue that there has been a sustained improvement and the argument that he's making, that he inherited this mess? >> he's going -- he always is going to make the argument it's somebody else's fault. that's one thing we can agree on. he will say blame somebody else. that's been the record of this administration from the beginning. but the average american understands that, if you want to create more jobs in the united states, you do not threaten employers with the largest tax increase in american history so that they think they need to be sitting on their money because they may be paying 46% income tax next year, that you don't have a policy for energy where the president himself said under my cap and trade plan electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket. under obama care which the more we learn about it, the more it turns out it's going to cost. >> mitt romney himself had a cap and trade plan back in

massachusetts. you've got a candidate in mitt romney who had, at one point in his career, one or another points, supported a lot of the same things that president obama did. >> well, i think we'll hash all those out as we go forward. but the american people's look at this administration is, if it's a referendum on obama's policies and the results of those policies, we'll have a new president. that's why i think you'll see that the obama campaign will be all about anything but obama's record. you know, they say to you, andrea, this isn't a referendum on obama's record. it's choice between two people. we're going to try to smear one of them so you wouldn't want to elect them because obama can't run on his record. >> both campaigns are going to try to do that, are going to portray as negatively they can the opposition and attack the records in both cases. >> the big difference will be the republican campaign will be about policies, obama's policies, the fact yurs and what we would do differently. the obama campaign will not be about policy.

>> the obama campaign will be about policy when it tries to challenge mitt romney's policies. you know they're going to try to do that, portray him as the etch-a-sketch candidate. >> that's not about policy. that is saying, well, he's a flip-flopper, you can't trust him, his character is bad, he's mean to his dog, he's a mormon and you know they're crazy. that's what -- >> well, they have not gone after him for being a mormon. >> they have not, but certainly other people have. ellie vez cell who is a big democrat made a point that mormons shouldn't be carrying on some of their practices. >> governor, if you want to get into which surrogates or which supporters of the president or of mitt romney have said what, that's a very dark, dark tunnel to get into because on both sides there are people in both wings who have said things. let me ask you about vice

presidents. i know you said don't do it until you have to do it weefrmt talking about do no harm, decide late in august. we can both agree there was too little time spent vetting last time around. >> this is the first really big, big decision that americans can see who the candidate makes. >> show should be on that list that we haven't discussed? openly discuss right-hand marco rubio, rob portman, jeb bush. >> there are many, many people who get discussed. to list people who might be considered is to leave off a lot of people who ought to be considered because you didn't think to put them on the list. right now i think what the romney people are doing is exactly the right thing. they're taking seriously getting prepared, getting the information together so they'll make a real good decision. >> i just wanted to read you the quote because it was the associated press that said

americans will not be markedly safer if bin laden were killed and it's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. that was mitt romney. >> good thing is we didn't have to move heaven and earth. we got him right here in this world. >> thank you, governor. good to see you. >> thank you. up next, are there more examples of secret servicemen behaving badly? reaction ahead with democratic senator amy cloeb shard joining us next. aspirin is just old school. people will have doubts about taking aspirin for pain. that's why we developed

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clinton's trip to moscow and other clinton-era trips. is this generic behavior? is there a cultural problem with the agency? >> i don't think we know that yet, andrea. what we do know is for years the secret service has protected our presidents, protected elected officials visiting foreign heads of state. they've done it by putting their own lives on the line. what we do know is if you're going to make sure the actions of a few people don't overwhelm the good of so many, you have to have a thorough investigation. when secretary napolitano testified before the judiciary committee, a number of us pressed her to make sure that this investigation will be thorough, that the results will be public and i specifically asked her about these past events because the reports were starting to come out. she said, look, we're going to look into everything we can. but we have to make clear that no matter what happened in the past, it doesn't justify any of this type of activity going

forward. so it's very clear this has shook up some of the culture and made some changes. that's what we need to have happen here. you don't have this kind of stuff going on in countries like colombia and el salvador where there clearly are issues of terrorism, issues of drug cartels. i think that's pretty obvious to anyone in law enforcement, that you don't put at risk the people that you're supposed to be trying to protect by knowing who knows what comes into your room and who knows who comes into your room that could literally be a security risk or bribe you in some way. >> senator, the house just passed its version of the student loan bill. the pay-for is apparently taking money out of the health plan. i wanted to play a little bit of speaker boehner's floor speech just moments ago. >> people want to politicize this because it's an election year. but my god, do we have to fight about everything? and now, now, we're going to have a fight over women's

health. give me a break. this is the latest plank in the so-called war on women, entirely created, entirely created by my colleagues across the aisle for political gain. >> well, the war on women has become a democratic mantra. it's a phrase i choose not to use because i think there have been a lot of instances of gender issues, women's health issues. i don't say it's a war because war is something that our men and women fight and it's a different category. let's stipulate that. >> we can call anything what we want. >> let's talk about whether democrats have, in fact, politicized the violence against women act. was there ever really a substantive debate over that or is that going to pass in any case? >> andrea, this passed the u.s. senate 68-31 just yesterday.

this is something that has never been political. in fact, we had a number of good hearings on this in the judiciary committee, reauthorized over and over again. this time it wasn't as bipartisan as it was before. i will note every single woman in united states senate voted for that bill yesterday, every democrat, every republican. that's what gives me hope we will be able to get this done. i think some of the issues raised were not valid issues. when you look at the modest changes made to the bill to protect a native american women who are victims of domestic abuse on their reservations or to make sure that immigrant women who are rape victims are able to make sure they can report things and not have people use it against them, their immigration status. these are things that have been agreed to for years, agreed to by law enforcement. so i think in the end good will prevail and we'll get this done and i hope it won't get caught into partisan politics. i was surprised as a leader on the bill and one of the two women on judiciary how

contentious this was compared to past years. but nevertheless, i think yesterday, like i said, good prevailed. we picked up a number of republican votes, we got up to 68. a number of efforts to strip some of the provisions agreed to by people like mike crepe powe, a conservative republican from idaho, ultimately voted for by john mccain, i don't think these are radical provisions. i'm very hopeful e we'll be able to get them through the house of representatives. >> finally, senator, i'm remembering when democrats accused george w. bush of politicizing trips on "air force one" of charging the taxpayers for his re-election effort. now you have the president going to three battleground states. did he push it a little too far this week in doing student loan speeches in three battleground campuses and at great expense to the taxpayer? >> you know, i don't know how those rules work. i do know that the white house has said that they are following the rules and the tradition has been through out the years exactly how those things work

with protection and "air force one," that they simply work with lawyers and abide by them. i will tell you, talking about the student loan issue to me which is a major issue facing the students of this country, will affect 200,000 students alone in minnesota, i think that's a valid, valid issue to discuss. that student loan rate is going to double if we don't do something about this from 3.4 to 6.8% just at a time when the economy is tough. so you can talk to the white house about how they do those rules, but what i do know is this issue is something that's so important to students right now across our country and really to our economy. because education is going to be how we move forward if we're going to compete on an international stage. >> amy klobuchar, thank you very much. >> thank you, andrea. very good to be on. >> thank you. up next, inside the operation to take down bin laden with the highest ranking woman in pentagon history. plus the fight against alzheimer's with tyler summitt,

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in fact, some covert operatives in the room. so there was a careful way the white house photo was taken. what was going through your mind? we see the one woman who is very visible, of course, is hillary clinton with her hand up to her mouth. she later said that that was during the time when they went dark because they went inside and they didn't have the direct communications and they were so worried about what was going on. what was going on in your mind and in the room? >> i think everyone was on bins and needles, waiting to find out whether, in fact, it was osama bin laden who was there. all of the intelligence up to that point had been circumstantial. there was no direct evidence that, yes, indeed it was him. there was some risk in conducting the operation. you'll remember in the early events one of the helicopters went down. i think for bob gates, his face went ashen.

>> he was your boss at that moment? >> yes. the good news is we had tried to plan for every contingency. so the team had backup plans and backup plans to backup plans. so there was a sense that, even when some things went wrong, we would be all right and the raid could keep going on successfully. >> there's been reporting that bob gates was initially reluctant based on it being circumstantial, the high risk. we were at risk of not only collateral damage. there were civilians around, but also the pakistan relationship, all sorts of risks and the team itself, the safety of the team. how did he become persuaded and how should that decision by the president be an argument for re-election? why is that the 3:00 a.m. phone call. what does it tell us about the president from your perspective? >> i think gates, originally given his background as an intelligence analyst had been very skeptical about

circumstantial evidence and had urged the president to take more time. i think as he reviewed the curse in depth, as he looked at the plans for the raid, he eventually changed his mind and was very much supportive of the raid going forward. i think in terms of what it says about the president's leadership, you have to remember we weren't sure it was osama bin laden. we certainly were taking a bold move to go into pakistan with a unilateral action. and if, had it gone wrong, it would have been devastating for the president. and the fact is, he was hearing different advice from different advisors. some were saying wait. some were saying go now. some were saying do a raid. others were saying use another method like bombing or using drones. ultimately he was the decider in chief. he was the one that had to make a very tough call. and he did it. he accepted that political risk based on the fact that this was

of vital interest for the united states and this is one of the most important things he could do as president to keep this country safe. >> let me ask you to rebut, if you will, what haley barbour for the republicans said earlier in the hour which is that is one very successful moment and great for america, great for the president. but when you look at iran, syria, north korea, you can look around the world and see other trouble spots that have not been handled successfully. >> it's true we're facing a daunting set of challenges. what i think this raid says about the president is this is a president who says what he means and then does what he says. he's always said, if i found osama bin laden, we will go after him, even if it's in pakistan. he has said i will end the iraq war responsibly. that's what he did. he said, i will put us on a footing to be more successful in afghanistan and then transition responsibility. we're on that path. in iran, seeking to prevent

their acquisition of nuclear weapons and putting in place the most crippling sanctions regime in history. this is a president who is very consistent. i think what's problematic on the romney side is we hear so many different points of view from romney. he's flip-flopped on iraq. he's flip-flopped on libya, flip-flopped on the transition in afghanistan. we don't know where he stands. i would love this debate to be about policy. we would love to hear what exactly would governor romney do as an alternative to what president obama is doing on national security issues, but we haven't heard that vision or see those policies come out of his campaign yet. >> we can take from that that when he said i'm not bluffing, we're not going to let iran get a nuclear weapon. >> he means it. >> he would do something with or without allies to stop that if he had the evidence that that was 'em nept. >> he has been very clear every

option including the military option is on the table. in his judgment we still have time to make the sanctions even more crippling and they are becoming so, going after the central bank and oil and so forth. we have time to let that work. and we should let that play out given the extraordinary consequences for the region should military force be used. >> michelle flournay, thank you very much. stick around, we'll talk to anna quinlan about all sorts of issues that you have faced. i know you're taking a break now from the pentagon. all good wishes. >> thank you so much. >> on "rock center with brian williams" in our first for network nbc news has been granted unprecedented access to the situation room. next wednesday brian williams interviews the president in the situation room with vice president biden, secretary of state hillary clinton, admiral mike mullen and the national security team.

that is all wednesday, 9:00 eastern on rock center with brian williams. as a columnist for "the new york times," anna quinlan became a voice for women who battled over the guilt of work and life balance and so much more. now she has written a memoir on all the chapters of her life so far called "lots of candles, plenty of cake." joining me now is bul zer prize winning author anna quinndlen. it is wonderful to have this memoir and to have you really thinking deeply in print about your role as a woman, your marriage, getting older, your children, solitude. i was fascinated by the book. congratulations. >> thank you so much, andrea. >> tell me why you wanted to write it and what issues you wanted to explore more deeply than you have already in your

columns and your fictions and in your book. >> i wrote a column for "the new york times" about raising my kids about life in the 30s. over the years women would say to me over and over again, are we ever going to have "life in the 40s," or "life in the 50s." i suppose this book in some ways is an answer to that. i'll turn 60 in a couple of months. it seemed like an ideal time to look back on how we've all changed, but from a personal point of view. >> there's been such debate this campaign season about women, women's health issues and, of course, the unintentional debate sparked over women's work in raising a family at home, outside of the home, the combination, can we have it all? the questions that we all asked in my era. how do you address that? share with us some of the thoughts this your book. >> first of all, i'm so struck by how much the world has changed just by watching the program today.

you had a female senator. you just had a female national security adviser and it looks like you have a story coming u on a female basketball coach. none of that would have been on television just 15 or 20 years ago. so the world has changed just enough for women to make it really, really different, but at some level not quite enough to make it work, particularly at home. and i think that these issues about balancing work and family come to the for over and over again because we don't quite have it right at home. i'm struck by the fact, and i say this in the book, that i'm always asked when i go to college campuses about balancing work and family. in all the years i've been asked that question, i've never been asked that question by a young man, only a succession of smart young women. >> i remember in my earliest years as a white house correspondent covering ronald reagan. it was judy woodruff and ann compton, my colleague and friend from abc.

they were always juggling, okay, we've got to leave, we have an unexpected trip, who is going to take care of the kids? they always had husbands that would jump right in. i would watch the male correspondents, not only did they have to worry about hair, clothes, get together the dry cleaners. they really didn't feel the guilt tugs the same way the women did. they all had spouses helping. i didn't have kids. but everyone was juggling. it always seems to be harder on the women than on the men. >> well, you know, sometimes i say women wonder how they're going to balance work and family. men figure they'll balance work and family by getting married. and there's still a lot of truth to that. you know, sometimes we go to the bottom line which is would i do it any differently? no. the three kids are the joy of my life. at the same time i hope my son and my daughter have more

egalitarian households than even ours was. >> i want to share with you a west coast clip from the live version -- "30 rock" was on live on the east coast which was hilarious. they redid it on the west coast. this was their take looking back at television history and what huntley brinkley, of course, the landmark newscast on nbc, the huntley brinkley clip from '70s. >> i'm sorry, sweetheart, could you move out of the way to our camera, we need to speak to our new reporter jamie garnet. >> i'm jamie garnet. >> listen, doll, you're not making any sense. probably hysterical from menstruation, go lie down. >> this just in, nbc male news reporter jamie garnet is missing. >> that was them introducing jamie garnet, their new correspondent. the reporter covering nasa and not being willing to accept the fact that jamie was a woman.

of course, tina fey. so things have changed. >> things have changed so much. but that makes me laugh because you and i both have been lucky enough to have the kind of perspective that the long view in the business provides. you know, i started 40-some years ago now. and the newsrooms were quite different, and the attitudes towards women were quite different. now we have a female executive editor of the new york times. >> jill abrahamson. of course. a word about the title, "lots of candles, plenty of cake" it's from "anticipation," the carly simon song. why did you choose that title? >> i feel joyful about getting older. i feel like i've finally grown into the person i was meant to be. i wanted the title to reflect that. also, i feel like there's never enough cake. >> indeed. i love what you write about solitude, about marriage, about our bodies. thank you so much anna quindlen.

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hi everyone. i'm tamron hall. coming up on "news nation." surprise, surprise, romney supporter donald trump is going after the ad that attacks the president as being a celebrity, not a leader. >> i thought it was a terrible ad. it made obama bigger than life. it made him to be the super celebrity which i don't happen to think he is. >> plus on the same page, now that mitt romney is the presumptive gop nominee, why is house speaker john boehner saying this about recent attacks on the president similar to what mitt romney has been saying? >> there's no coordination with the recent attacks, almost like you're doing romney's bidding to a degree?

>> i'm doing my own. >> we'll taug about it. and a judge is deciding whether to revoke or increase george zimmerman's bond after it was revealed zimmerman's website raised $200,000 for his defense. president obama named 13 extraordinary individuals to receive the presidential medal of freedom, they include bob dylan, madeleine albright, toni morrison, john glenn, justice john paul stevens and pat summitt, the former head coach of the women's basketball team at the university of tennessee. summit is the all-time winningest leader among ncaa basketball coaches, male and female. pat summitt stepped down as head coach after 3 seasons. eight months ago she announced she had been diagnosed with a form of alzheimealzheimer's dis.

she spoke about her journey. >> like many others facing this illness i thought why me? i had to get over why me, because there's so many people out there that are just like me. >> joining us now is pat summitt's son tyler summitt. first of all, congratulation opinions the medal of freedom. that will a moment to remember for the rest of your -- all of your lives. how is your mother doing? >> first of all, thanks for having me andrea. she -- my mom is doing well. she's taking one day at a time. she's in great spirits. >> i know that you worked with your mom for a couple seasons as an assistant coach. congratulations to you, you've just become an assistant coach on the marquette women's basketball team. tell us about working with your mom and what you learned from here, what her secret ingredients were. she really personified

leadership to so many people, inside sports and out of sports? >> i learned so much from my mom. it was always a blessing for me every day that god gave me the opportunity to work alongside my mom. one of the things she instilled in me is that you always treat people the right way and do things the right way. that's the main reason i went to marquette and that i'm going to work for terry mitchell at marquette. coach mitchell, she really does things the right way. that's a value that my mom gave me. >> we've been looking at some pictures here of you as a young -- as a child growing up, growing up on the basketball court. i, in fact, saw a picture of your mom right after you were delivered. i guess a basketball was presented to her along with the baby. there you are. tyler, so many emotions must be going try your heart and your head as you see your mom stepping down. how tough a decision was that?

>> i think it's important to know it was her decision. she did take the time she needed to make the best decision, not only for her, but for theteam. that's one of her things. she always puts the team before herself and she felt this was the best decision for the entire tennessee program. so even though it was tough after 38 years, nothing is easy to step away from like that. but she is in a great place and it was her decision and she is happy with it. >> well, thank you so much. it is a cause. i'm going to be speaking at an alzheimer's event next week in washington. it is a cause we all care about. good luck to you and your career at marquette. congratulations again. >> thank you so much. i appreciate it. and join the pat summitt foundation. >> we'll put that on our website and tweet it out.

and a live recording of louie article strong's last solo performance is being released to the public for the first time. he were in poor health at the time, 1971. had not played very much that year. he surprised a washington crowd at the national press club in january '71 with a 20-minute performance. it will be available to download from smithsonian folk way records. he played two trumpet sole owes including hello dolly. he died less than six months later. ♪ >> i know it's getting late here but it's not often that we've had so many people who have written about us and broadcast about us. i thought you might like to say a few nice words to them.

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which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? chris cillizza is back with us. it is prom weekend here. nerd prom, whatever you want to call it. jimmy kimmel will be the white house correspondents dinner entertainment which is a tall order. kind of a big stretch. he talked about it last night. >> yeah. >> make it good. everybody says aren't you wonderful. jimmy, you're going to be great. but you're not only being funny about the president. you have all of us saying you'll be funny so we wish him well. >> thanks, barbara, now i feel great. i'm raring to go. she would have made a great college basketball coach. >> he's getting pressure from all sides. barbara means well. she of course wants the best for jimmy kimmel who is a great talent but it is a hard gig, trying to be funny and be cross the line. >> it is hard, too, because if

you've ever been there, i know you have and i know i have, about three quarters of the room is paying no tacks. they're trying to take pictures of celebrities with their cameras or trying to find their friends. it is not exactly a captive audience and it can be controversial. remember when stephen colbert addressed the white house dinner. it made for a very long story in which the media took the brunlt of the criticism. it is a fun weekend but kit make a little controversy, too. >> so we'll all be watching and be there as well. thank you. see you tomorrow night. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." and my colleague is here with a look at "news nation." right across the table. >> two days in a row. i'll see you at the parties tonight. coming up in our next hour, surprise, surprise. donald trump goes in on a super pac link on karl rove that attacks president obama as being a sleg celebrity, not a leader.

plus, now that mitt romney is the presumptive gop nominee, why is house speaker john boehner saying this about his recent attacks. >> there is no coordination of the recent attacks. it is almost like you're doing -- >> i'm doing my own. >> plus, why a judge is reconsidering george zimmerman's bond. the latest in this case. what's with you?

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