cut on my eyebrow. from there i realized that we were in a bad accident and the entire aisle was full of smoke and that's when students were trying to escape the tour bus. >> leading in with sheryl sand berg, chasing the face of women and men. is the next generation not just lead in but lead? >> i believe this is the generation, lean in generation that gets us to equality. >> if the shoe fits, hillary clinton dodges a shoe. unphased she throws back a few one liners. >> is that park of cirque du soleil. thank goodness she didn't play softball like i did.

good day, i'm andrea mitchell in new york. the health and human services secretary is resigning announced by the president with a strong defense of his embattled health care chief. >> yes, we lost the first quarter of open enrollment period with the problems with healthcare.gov and they were problems. but under kathleen's leadership, her team at hhs, turned the corner, got it fixed and got the job done and the final score speaks for itself. >> valerie jair jarrett joins me now. what was the decision-making, i know i spent time with kathleen sebelius, and according to the

press with her last night at dinner. why did she decide now this was the time to leave? >> well, she notified the president in early march, she thought after the enrollment period was finished that that would be a good time to move on. obviously she knew going into this position she was going to take a lot of heat. this is something as the president said and kathleen said was not an easy task to get the affordable care act both passed and implemented, but 7.5 million people enrolled in the period after a very choppy start so she finished strong and thought now would be the time to pass the baton on. and the president obviously selected sylvia, an outstanding person to take kathleen's space and move on from here. >> what about the political damage? was it because of the timing of the midterm elections going forward, whether it was her fault or not? and we know the president told chuck todd last year that she's not an it person, she wasn't responsible for the way the

website worked but at the same time she became something of a political problem for the administration? >> listen, throughout her time as secretary of hhs, there's been a lot of heat that's been directed her way. she comes from a political family and she can take the heat. she knew she was going to be on the hot seat and she managed through a very, very tough time for five years and i think the sense was, look, we have the problem up and running and millions of americans who's lives have been touched for the better as a result of this extraordinary important program and now it's time for her to move onto the next phase of her life. she said this was clearly the pin cal of her life for somebody devoted her life to public service. what better way to close than knowing that you have improved the health care for millions and millions of americans around the country and she mentioned how touched she is when she's walking through the airport or walking down the street and people come up and tell her their story about how this law

has improved their life. so the timing from her perspective was perfect. >> sylvia burwell has a great representation, been at treasury, been omb during the clinton years. she's got high praise from the president, even a tweet from john mccain today, who tweeted out, sylvia burwell is an excellent choice to be the next hhs secretary. she was confirmed 96-0. could there be any reason do you think for this senate not to confirm her this late in the administration? >> i can't imagine any reason they couldn't confirm her on a speedy basis. she has a track record in the president aegs administration and experience in the private sector, working for the gates foundation and walmart and serving on the board of an insurance company. she communicates on a daily basis with those on the hill and has enjoyed bipartisan support in the past. we're confident that she's

earned that going forward. >> and going forward, do you think your past all of the bumps on health care on the rollout and that from now going forward you can change the dynamic? because it's become the target of criticism even when she went on the daily show with jon stewart, she had a rough time, and also when she was testifying, she became a very convenient pinata, if you will, for all of the opposition to health care. >> of course she has a lightning rod. i think she anticipated it would be tough, none of us anticipated that providing affordable health care to all americans would be as controversial as it turned out to be. but now as we have implemented the law and seen the lives of so many americans changed for the better, hopefully that will take the temperature down and as sylvia steps in, hopefully she'll have the wind at her back. as we go into the next enrollment period, we're going to learn from a lot of

challenges that we overcame in the first one. and so does it mean as the president said a few weeks ago that it will be without glitches, no? we're always going to have glitches but can you work through the glitches just as kathleen and the team did when we had problems with the website and closed strong. that's what the president has committed every single day, get up, learn from our mistakes and keep focused on what we're trying to do here and improve the lives of hard working americans and make sure in the case of the affordable care act that they have access to that affordable health care that will transform their lives. >> any lessons learned in terms of management of something this complicated in terms of following it step by step and making sure that despite all of the meetings that were held at the white house, that everyone is on the same page and everyone knows how things or going along the way? >> andrea, we always learn from our mistakes. that's part of what the president challenges us every day to do. to take a look back and see what

works and doesn't work and constantly improve. that's what life is supposed to be all about. certainly we have learned a lot and the website is up. it's running very well and our next challenge, we're going to be reaching out to people who have change in circumstances. for example, if you have a baby, if you get married or change jobs or finish college, if you turn 26, then you now still have the ability to enroll. enrollment for change of circumstance people will continue until the next enrollment period comes up. so every single day there are new challenges and we embrace those challenges and try to learn and move on. >> valerie jarrett, thank you so much, it was a very classy sendoff. >> well deserved. >> she has done a lot of good things. this has been -- >> an amazing career, amazing career devoted to public service and i think our country should be very grateful to have somebody of her caliber serve for five years and look forward to seeing what she does next.

>> indeed we well. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> joining me now, chris si cillizza and "washington post" editorial columnist, ruth marcus. ruth, first to you, this was a tough, tough road for kathleen sebelius who had a sterling political reputation when she came in and got socked with all of the problems along the way. >> i think you used a really good word when you said pinata. being the secretary of hhs, it's a sprawling, sprawling enterprise, it is really hard under the best of circumstances overseeing the implementation of obama care was far from the best of circumstances. it's a really hard job. it looks a lot more pleasant and easier for kathleen sebelius to be leaving now with 7.1 or whatever the current number is enrolled rather than several months ago when the whole situation seemed like a debacle. that said, she did have a rocky

tenure there and it -- obama care may well -- i hope it will turn out to be a success, expanding health care but the implementation of it which was on her watch did not go as well as it should have. and i think while she had -- as i say a very difficult situation, she does also bear some responsibility for not overseeing the implementation as well as she could have. >> here's the president trying to defend it last november with chuck todd when the want was not working. >> kathleen sebelius doesn't write code. she wasn't the i.t. person. she'd be the first to admit if we had to do it all over again, that there would have been a whole lot more questions that were asked in terms of how this thing is working. ultimately the buck stops with me. you know, i'm the president, this is my team. if it's not working, it's my job to get it fixed. >> chris cillizza, that went so

far to try to defend her, but internally there was a lot of concern and confusion. >> yeah, look, here's the target, you can't say she's not an i.t. person, not writing the code, which is totally fair to absolve her as blame and valerie jarrett just on your show and president did earlier today, kathleen sebelius deserves a massive amount of credit for the 7.1 enrollees. s either one or the other. you get the credit and blame neither the credit nor the blame. she is as ruth said and rightly, no of course she wasn't in there typing in the code and figuring out why healthcare.gov doesn't work. but she is the person who's the public face of it. if it had gone swimmingly from the start, she would have gotten credit for it going swimmingly from the start. that's how it works. you don't get to get all of the credit and none of the blame. that's her legacy in this job.

first sentence will be as she lives, it will be kathleen sebelius who oversaw a very difficult disastrous rollout of oba oba obamacare left office on friday in the wake of 7 million people enrolling reaching its goal. they are part and parcel, ying and yang of what she did in the office. >> there seemed to be a moment when she went on "the daily show" with jon stewart and this did not go well and it was a surprisingly bumpy. let's watch that. >> you're doing it because you haven't been able to get subsidies ready for businesses? >> the businesses don't get subsidies -- >> they get to delay because they are not going to get any extra money but individuals don't because they will? >> again, they are in the market already. >> let me ask you this. am i a stupid man? >> for a lot of young folks, one fall on the basketball court, one auto accident away from a

lifetime of hospital bills they can't pay. >> still not sure why individuals can't delay. >> so let's talk about sylvia matthews burwell, you've seen her in washington for some time and originally worked for jack lew and then in the gates foundation has a terrific reputation. this is going to be a big challenge as well. >> it is a big challenge and to take nothing away from secretary sebelius, but sylvia matthews burwell is extraordinarily accompli accomplished, very, very smart and down to earth, very capable person who has a very extensive management background and she hasn't been director of omb all that long. that's a job where you have your finger on the pulse of every different agency and know the nooks and krannys there. i think that plus her private

sector experience and treasury experience, really puts her in a good position to manage what i said is a sprawling department, which by the way, you asked this question to valerie jarrett, challenges of implementing obamacare are not in the rearview mirror. they are right ahead of us in the road. there are a lot of things that remain to be done in terms of making sure this gets rolling appropriately. >> let's me switch to hillary clinton and the shoe because hillary clinton showed at a private speech in las vegas, her signature aplum when a shoe was thrown at her. >> was that a bat? was that a bat? is that somebody throwing something at me? is that park of cirque du soleil? >> and the woman was arrested but clinton sort of ducked and let the shoe go over her head

and who knew that waste management would be such a controversial topic. speaking to a recycling group of private speaking engagement. so chris sill licillizza, what this show us about hillary clinton? >> it confirms my life motto, when a shoe is thrown at you, duck. that's good. look, i will say, people like me have a tendency to read into things that should not be read into. i think this is one of them. that said, we do know -- we do know that she is going to face sort of moments where she's going to have to be good on her feet, not pun not intended. so she's going to have to show as you say, quick thinking. to the extent she can do it now, all the better. this is a candidate if she runs, will face a level of sort of scrutiny and high profileness,

which isn't really a word, that no candidate ever before certainly a nonincumbent has ever faced. >> we don't know whether this has any relationship to what happened to george w. bush in iraq when a shoe was thrown at him in the muslim world, a shoe thrown at you -- there he was ducking there in baghdad. next to maliki. don't know if this was the case in vegas but she certainly pulled it off. one more sort of strange moment. this was at the lbj library, george w. bush gave a speech following in the wake of president obama and before him bill clinton and jimmy carter speaking at this event, the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights. a lot of people were commenting about george w. bush's opening remarks. this was in his second paragraph. let's watch.

>> it is an honor to be back to the llbj library. last time i was here i introduced my mother, which is a pretty tough task. i'm impressed by the new learn vagss, thank you for showing them to me. former presidents compare their loi br libraries the way other men may compare their -- well, wondering how lbj would have handled that. he's a funny guy at times. the president today quoted one of my favorite lbj lines when he said, if one morning he said i walked on the water across potomac river and the headline would read the president cannot

swim. the real influence of the president is not found in the headlines. it can only be judged with time. >> well, a little awkward there, sort of nervous laughs from the audience, appreciative that this is something that lbj might have said, ruth marcus. >> indeed, crudeness and its actually interesting to think about combining that seg mtd with the previous segment. imagine what it's going to be like when the president's club isn't just an all boy's club, maybe with hillary clinton or somebody else, how are presidents going to measure their libraries then? who has more square footage might be a different way to do it. but i thought it was in the moment in the setting of the lbj library with his known crudeness, perhaps an appropriate way to do it but may not survive the test of time. >> so far it's a boys club --

thanks you so much. right now, really terrible terrible accident today. ntsb go team heading to northern california responding to a deadly accident overnight. at least 10 people died after a bus carrying dozens of passengers collided with a fedex truck that may have crossed a highway medial trip. miguel almaguer has the latest. >> reporter: the scene was described as chaotic and horrific, up to 40 people injured in this bus crash, dozens hospitalized and two in this hospital alone. the death toll reached 10. many of the victims are told are young high school students. this all happened yesterday evening, a class of high school students up to 44 were in a bus heading to humble state university here in northern california when coming in the opposite direction a fedex freight truck authorities say

the truck crossed a double divide line, and high school students dozens of them by helicopter and by ambulance to local hospital. again those numbers, up to 40 people injured, seven -- several of them critically injured are at this hospital. many others are recovering and getting out of the hospital today. andr andrea? >> thank you very much. investigators continue to look into why 16-year-old alex hribal walked into the high school and began a stabbing spree that injured 21 fellow students and security guard. officials tell nbc news there is no evidence at this time that hribal was bullied or targeting anyone in particular. the high school sophomore faces attempted homicide charges as an adult. his attorney and parents met

with him at a juvenile detention center yesterday. >> he knows he's in a world of stuff right now and how serious it is and he can't believe he did this to tell you the truth. >> 8 of the 21 students are still hospitalized. four of them are on the critical list, one on life support. the knife narrowly missed his heart and spine. brett hurt is home and recovering, he was stabbed trying to protect his best friend gracie evans who stayed with him until help arrived. >> i got your back always, you know that. without standard leather. you are feeling exhilarated with front-wheel drive. you are feeling powerful with a 4-cylinder engine. [ male announcer ] open your eyes... to the 6-cylinder, 8-speed lexus gs. with more standard horsepower

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pope francis surprised the

world today, catholic and noncatholic alike with an unprecedented apology for decades of sex abuse in the church. during a speech at the vatican he promised to move forward with confronting child abuse and asked victims for forgiveness. >> these are the pope's strongest words yet on the sexual abuse crisis in the church. late last month, a newly form group helping the church fight abuse. ann thompson joins me now. these are his strongest words yet and said i feel compelled to

personally take on all of the evil which some priests, quite a new in number, not compared to the number of all priests to ask for forgiveness for the damage they've done for having sexually abused children. for those who didn't understand the italian. this is a big step. what is the back story here? >> first of all, these were remarks he ad libbed. he deviated from his prepared text as he often does. he was speaking to an international catholic group that is charged with protecting children's rights. and it is a subject that the pope has not talked a lot about in the first year and month of his papacy, but it is a subject that he has been criticized for for not doing enough or saying enough about the sexual abuse crisis. and i think that what you saw today was a continuation of the mission of his papacy, which is forgiveness and mercy and he is now asking for forgiveness for the sexual abuse crisis.

i think the other thing that was interesting is he said the church is not going to take one step backward, that there need to be strongest sanctions. so while asking for forgiveness, he's also sending a message that look, we are not backing down on this issue, that we're going to do even more to prevent sexual abuse and to punish those who do abuse children. >> have we seen sanctions or punishment in the other reforms he's made? i know he's taken steps against those who have been excessively -- in spending and reformed the vatican bank. he's taken a lot of changes in the -- >> he has not done that yet when it comes to sexual abuse. you mentioned the commission he has appointed. he announced that last month, it includes eight, including and o'malley who got the unenviable job of stepping into that job at

the beginning of the last decade. there are also four women on the panel and one is whom, marie collins, a sexual abuse victim herself. she comes from ireland, abused back in the 1960s and been an outspoken advocate for victims and she's not going to back down when she serves on this commission. he's doing things, victim's groups say he's not doing enough. snap, the survival network of those abused by priests came out with strong words criticizing the pope saying words are nice but it's like the guy who keeps beating his wife and asking for forgiveness. they want to see actions and specifically, they want to see bishops who moved priests, who were known to be pedophiles and moved them and didn't tell authorities they want to see bishops removed. until they see that kind of action, they are not going to be happy. >> ann thompson, a work in progress but interesting day in the papacy.

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to be. i will tell you it was a packed house. it was all voluntary for the students. there was not a seat available, it was packed. >> sandberg expanded and updated her message in a new book, lean in for graduates, aimed at helping young graduates get a start on the path to gender equality. tell me why you were there and what your message is to the m midshipmen. >> three years ago i was on campus at the naval academy and invited to give the lecture on leadership and it was first time i spoke about gender and leadership together and first time i used the phrase lean in. three years later, coming back, and this really matters because if we can get to real equality in the u.s. military and military institutions, it's such a strong example of what we can do everywhere.

admiral miller who runs the naval academy and leaders here understands the power of our military is strengthened by diversity and that means diversity of leadership. >> sheryl one of the big issues is a sexual assault discrimination, what is your message to midshipmen and the women and men in the military about this important issue? >> the message is that we have to get to real equality and that means obviously having the utmost respect in every way for each other. it also means having forums to really talk about gender issues. today admiral miller and i along with his team rolled out the lean in circles, small groups of men and women coming together to put gender on the table where bias can be discussed and issues women and men face can be talked about. >> let me ask you about lean in for graduates.

i think i know but tell our viewers why it's so important for young people graduating to have a how to book as to how to be leaders and how women can really fulfill their own destinies? >> one of the things we've heard so much since lean in was published a year ago, so many women and men want equality and have questions, how do i find a job, how do i negotiate for myself especially if i'm a woman. and so this book is a handbook for new graduates, how they can enter the workplace and have voices for themselves and voices for equality. i really believe this is the generation. this is the lean in generation that gets us to equality. i've been particularly excited by the rollout of lean in campus. we have 310 campuses around the country and around the world that have active lean in programs and at the tiprogram s and today the u.s. naval academy becomes one. >> you write about an experience you had at facebook where you had tim geithner with several

women staff members and everybody graernathering around table and the women migrated to sitting behind the table and it struck me that my generation behind yours would have probably had the women serving the food to the men. >> that's exactly right. >> even sitting at the table. they've come a little bit but haven't come all the way to seeing themselves as players and equals. >> you can hear that progress of the one of the people i met with a teacher at the naval academy and he and his wife graduated from here 27 years ago together. and he talked about how in the u.s. navy, 27 years ago she didn't have the same opportunities he had. and that he sees the women graduating today getting the same or different opportunities certainly than his wife did as that march towards equality continues. so there's no doubt about it. we've made progress. and i think there's no doubt about it, we have a lot more to go, which is why voices like admiral miller's running the

naval academy, not just women leaning in but men running institutions leaning in for equality, talking about how important it is to be a leader who can work with both men and women and bring out the best in everyone. it's so important. >> well, you've been out talking about lean in and your book and lean in for graduates, you were asked about whether you have a political fut or or political aspirations yourself. tell me about that. >> i'm really happy in my job. i love being a mom and working at facebook and how we try and work to connect the world. i really love what i get to do in my spare time like today at the naval academy with lean in. i love the fact we can bring men and women together to work towards equality for all of us. >> what do you say to women who say those aren't night choices, i want more freedom not to be aggressive and not to be a leader. what choices are now available

for women and what should -- what message do you want women to take about lean in. >> it's about choices for women and men to choose to work in the workplace, choose to work at home and have free choice based on desires and passions, not based on gender. it's not the case every woman should be a ceo or every woman wants to work in a home but we want those choices to be freely available. we have 5% of the fortune 500 ceos are women. there are three women who have ever earned a fourth star in the u.s. military and 4% of the stay at home parents are men. that's not choice. that means that gender is driving choice. the goal of lean in and all of us working together is to get to a place where we're making those choices based on interest and passions, not based on gender. >> there's a lot of debate right now about equal pay for women and it's become a big democratic issue in the midterm elections but what about the question behind the political debate,

about equal pay, the counter argument is that women -- more women occupy lower ranks in private industry and government therefore they are paid less. what are the facts? you've been in government, you've been in business. >> equality means that people get paid the same for the same jobs. there's a debate how big the pay gap is but no debate there's a pay gap. and also means equal opportunity to leadership role and with all of the progress we've made, we still live in a reworld which rewards boys and men and discourages it in girls. i talk about this in lean in for graduates, women can't negotiate the same way men can because we expect men to advocate for themselves. we don't yet expect women to. >> how important is it for women to start off getting paid what men for the same job because if you start at the low scale it follows you throughout your whole career. >> women come into the workforce

and initial jobs making less than men and that gap does not go away. that's part of why lean in for graduates focuses on giving women the tools and training they need to make sure they are negotiating the right way and trying to increase awareness on behalf of people hiring women, we shouldn't be against women who negotiate, those are women you want to hire because they help you get results. >> the book is lean in for graduates and it's sheryl sandberg's sequel and it is extraordinarily helpful, real guide for men and women graduating. >> thank you, andrea for having me. >> what a beautiful day it was at the naval academy with all of the midshipmen and the superintendent. our thanks to mike miller. the royals in new zealand. they took to the high seas for a bit of friendly competition, each took the helm of an america's cup sailing yacht for a pair of races. katherine won both times.

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we want to tell you about a rare accomplishment. avery coffee has been accepted to not one but five ivy league schools. he grew up in a single parent home and he's got a tough decision to make any day now. avery joins me now from washington along with his principal anita berger. congratulations to you both. i'm in awe, because i read you have a 4.3 average. i'm not as good at math as you are, you want to go into finance. how do you get a 4.3, i thought 4.0 was the perfect average. >> i'm in the ib program so i take six or seven classes and they are worth five points instead of four points and now college level internationally based classes and that's how i get the high gpa. >> that is an incredible gpa, ee

consequently of what we call ap classes. tell me about the acceptance because you got into a long list of schools, we should put it up on the screen, not just the five ivies but look at the schools that said we want you, avery. i think gw offered you one of the rare scholarships with full freight. in terms of ivies, five ivies accepted you and we're talking about well known schools. harvard, princeton, yale, penn and brown. you play basketball and tennis and soccer. how do you do it all? >> it's very difficult but at the same time i know how to manage my time. i think time management is the most important step in order to do these type of things that i do. and school community service is very important we have to be able to balance community

service as well as extracurricular activities as well as trying to keep our lives together. it's very difficult but at the same time, if you know how to manage your time, it can be very simple task. >> anita, there are a lot of challenges for your kids. avery grew up in ward 8, there are some tough neighborhoods around there and single parent home. and he goes to school at benjamin bannicer has had extraordinary success in recent years. but this is public school in the big city. how do you incentivize your kids and how do you get parents involved? >> well, it's not easy and again, public school in the city so there are a lot of distractions. but, you know, i look at the students and they kind of grow the culture of making it happen for all of them. so even with the parents and when we can't get the parents involved, sometimes we get the students involved and they pull

the parents. so it's been -- it hasn't been difficult because actually the students drive the culture. >> and the president actually visited your school, avery, you were in the assembly when the president visited in 2011. how important was it for you and your classmates to see an african-american president as a role model? >> well, i think seeing the president is a very amazing experience for us, being able to see someone that looks like us being able to have that type of leadership and being able to be in a position of that nature. i think for people like us in a public school here in d.c., there are some people who don't think that we can do certain things in life but being able to see the president come to our school it gives us a sense of hope, another sense of motivation and determination in order to help us propel us to a higher level. >> avery, congratulations to you and your principal, anita berger and classmate and everyone who supported you, to your mom. i don't want to put you on the spot, but are you leaning

towards any or another of these schools? they all want you. >> i think my top choices are harvard university and the university of pennsylvania. i want to go into economics and upenn has the school and there's a great under graduate business program on the other hand with harvard, there's a great economics program and they have ties to their business school as well as m.i.t. it's a tough decision but i think i'm leaning more towards harvard. >> i'm not going to weigh in about my alma mater, it's a big decision but they are all great choices, congratulations again. thanks for coming in. which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? that's next here on quts an d"a mitchell reports". ♪ that's why i'm type e ♪ ♪ that's why i'm tyyyyype eeeee, ♪ ♪ i can do it all from my mobile phone ♪

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>> the 2014 elections not over yet but as i say it's never too early for presidential politics. paul ryan in iowa speaking to the state party which will inflame the idea that he's thinking more seriously than any of us thought running for president. rand paul and ted cruz as well. we already know he's running for president. point being, the race is already very much under way. >> thank you, chris cillizza. have a great weekend, everyone. "ronan farrow daily" is up next. if i can impart one lesson to a

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