recovery. >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live at the ronald reagan building in washington where bono just wrapped up his speech to world leaders. first, our daily political fix. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius was met by protests today at georgetown university here in washington. she spoke rat a commencement ceremony for the school of public policy. earlier this week, washington's archdiocese called upon georgetown to withdraw the invitation and called the invitation shocking. she authored the requirement that employers including catholic universities and hospitals provide their employees with contraception coverage. >> having spent my entire -- life in public service -- [ hecklers ]

>> i've spent my entire life in public service. [ applause ] >> susan page be washington bureau chief for "usa today" and joins me from our washington bureau. first of all, kathleen sebelius is the former governor of kansas. she is catholic and she was in charge of the policy and addressing the policy once it became so controversial. what is the political impact of what happened at georgetown? we should point out georgetown's president john edejoya is the same university president who supported sandra fluke when she was attacked over that whole issue earlier in the month or earlier in the spring. >> you know, we've seen catholic political leaders have

controversies like this before. remember with john kerry when he was running for president and the issue of whether he would be able to receive communion. it's a reminder we've got to return this year of the culture wars and the reason that could be important is, there's a group of voters, white, catholic who's tend to live in plays like ohio that we know is going to be a key state. they might be democratic on their economic leanings, but concerned about some of these social issues. so this could possibly hurt the president i think with those voters. you know added on to his support of same sex marriage, which is also of concern to some of these socially conservative voters. it does have the potential to have some political impact this year. >> let me ask you also about two other big political things today, the new romney ad day one is running in four key states. what is the impact of that? what is the strategy they're displaying in this new ad which they also have in a spanish language version running in at

least one state in. >> interesting they're now putting some of their ads in spanish. they haven't done that before. it's a positive ad. i don't know if we're going to see too many.of those this year. savor it. it does talk about what he wants to do that was different from president obama. repeal health care, he'll try to do that on day one, approve the keystone pipeline. it's romney laying out beginning to lay out his agenda with as i said a generally positive ad. and in the states that we know are going to be so important, ohio again, virginia, north carolina, these -- and iowa is the fourth state that this is running. these are states that better get used to seeing ads. they're going to see a ton of them this year. >> and finally, joe biden. in ohio, he did an interview with an nbc affiliate and it was wtov. and he was asked about the fact that 40% of democrats in the west virginia primary last week voted for a convicted felon in texas, a man who's in jail over

president obama. let me play what he said. >> in the west virginia jail, a lot was made of this guy that was able to grab 40% of the vote in the presidential primary. what do you make of that? >> look, i come from a household where whenever there's a recession, somebody around my grand pop or my dad's table lost their job. so i don't blame people. they're frustrated. they're angry. at the end of the day, they're going to decide, is the way back to their employment, is the way back to them being able to have a job and raise a family, is it under the value set and the ideas of romney or under ours? >> does that become another bidenism that he can understand the fact that people would vote for a felon over the president of the united states or is it understandable in context as we played it in context? >> you know what, one reason it's so hard to get politicians to answer questions they dissect everything they say.

in context this is understandable. i would say west virginia probably safely republican for mitt romney this year considering how things went in that primary. >> and considering how even joe manchin the democratic senator often doesn't vote with the white house on issues. susan, we appreciate that. and in the reagan building in d.c., president obama announced a $3 billion campaign to alleviate hungner africa with the help of 45 business who are going to invest in reforming agriculture at the grassroots level. this is the brainchild of the head of usaid, rajiv shah one of the stars of the administration, as the president mentioned. >> every time i meet him, i realize that i was an underachiever in my 30s. >> joining me now is raj shah. the president embarrassed you in front of the world here in terms

of what you have brought to the table, an initiative to try to do nothing short of lifting 50 million people out of poverty in africa over ten years. there have been a lot of initiatives before. why is this one going to be different? >> this is going to be different in part because president obama the minutes he took office made this an absolutely presidential commitment. in 2009, he rallied the worlds and raised $22 billion to reinvest in agriculture and nutrition so that we could move people out of poverty in africa. we've seen great results over the last three years of that effort. today is unique and it's unique because you have companies from the united states, from india, from europe, and most importantly dozens of african entrepreneurs and companies coming together and saying we want to be part of this, as well. we will invest and put our resources and our technology and our people and our assets where the president is setting the goal and together, we can achieve this kind of success as we've done in many other parts

of the world over the last several decades but not as effectively in sub-saharan africa. >> sub-saharan africa has huge resources, the minerals, the oil. how do we make sure this is approached without the corruption that has been ende c endemmic? the world bank has tried to do this, other international agencies. how are you going to attack corruption at the same time so that the benefits actually get to the people? >> that's critical. one of the resources we don't talk as much about is sub-saharan africa has 60% of the world's unused airable land in the world that needs to feed 9 billion people quickly, we have know that land needs to come into production and that needs to happen in a very transparent manner. so each of the 45 companies today making concrete commitments to invest in businesses to reach often small scale farmers, people who are women-headed house holes producing enough food for their family to send their kids to school and that's about it,

we're going to know what those commitments are by those companies. they're voluntarily agreeing to principles of transparency and responsibility that have never been seen before. and we're going to publish in a very transparent way every six months the progress we're making in making sure these commitments are actually helping millions of small scale farmers produce more food, send their kids to school, improve the nutritional status of their children and by doing that, move their communities out of poverty. >> some of the european countries are in fact complaining the american requirements against corruption are too stringent, that they can't operate in that kind of way. >> well, in this case we have insisted that every partner that has submitted in this case a letter of intent that details their commitment abide by the principles of responsible agricultural investment. frankly, it takes that kind of transparency to make sure we're all pulling in the same direction and generating the same result. and here that result is very profound. it's 50 million people out of

poverty, out of hunger. that's millions and millions of children who will have enough energy to learn in school, they'll have enough income in their house holds to go to school. they're the engines of growth for future economies that will be trading partners for the united states and will help make sure our country evolves in a closer more connected and safer world. >> how does the rise in food prices that he sharp inflation in that sector, how does that impact? because that has really made the endemmic problems even worse over the last couple years. >> it's been extraordinaire. the big spiking in food prices in 2008 actually for the first time in four decades reversed a trend. the friend was every year, fewer people go to bed hungry at night. and in 2008-2009, more than 100 million people were pushed back into a condition of hunger. essentially because of that price spike. so efforts like this are designed to modernize and upscale the agricultural systems of african country so that that

doesn't happen again and so they can weather shocks in prices, weatherspoon shocks in climate. we saw a drought last year send 13 million people at real risk of hunger and starvation once again. we know shocks are coming more often. this is a very modern results oriented way to deal with that. >> how important is it for you as hard as you work on all of this and even for president obama as a world leader, how important is it for you to have frankly the celebrity of someone as committed as invested in this personally intellectually as bono is and the one campaign? >> bono is amazing. the one campaign brings 3.2 million americans to this task and millions more around the world. without them, this would not be anywhere near the scale and intensity it is. you know what they've tapped into? a reality i see in my kids' kinter garden class and i see when i sit with ceos and talk

about hunger. people want to be part of the solution. if you can help them connect the dots and build a partnership that invites them in, you start to see extraordinaire things. it's why we've seen 60 seed companies in sub-saharan africa flourish, today accounting for nearly a third of the improved seeds that go to farmers. why is that important? it's important because it is helps them produce more food when it doesn't rain and avoid needing food aid and have the dignity to keep kids if school and to keep climbing out of poverty. it's incredible. we need morban knows to just keep trumpeting and insisting on results and we'll get there. >> raj shah, thank you so much. it's always a pleasure. the president meets a real socialist. what's the new french president going to say about afghanistan? that coming up, plus our exclusive interview with bono on the renewed call for action against hunger in africa.

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the president held his first meeting with the new french president, francois hollande this morning in advance of their camp david summit. meeting this weekend. ahead, of course, of the nato summit meeting on monday in chicago. hollande promised in his campaign to get french troops out of afghanistan and he's recommitted to that today. a top issue for the leaders as they also grapple with economic turmoil in europe. >> we agreed that even as we

transition out of a combat phase in afghanistan that it's important that we sustain our commitment to helping afghans build security and continue down the path of development. with me now is the "new york times" pentagon correspondent elizabeth miller. the president obviously anticipated the french pullback, even under sarkozy there was less of a commitment. now you have the first socialist president from france in a generation. and he has a starkly different attitude towards afghanistan and these nato commitments going forward. >> that's right. it looks like he's making good on his promise to pull out 3400 french troops by the end of this year. there might be a compromise where he'll say i'm pulling them out of a combat role. we've been through that ourselves with our own troops. you can take a soldier in a combat role and put him in a training role and he's still in afghanistan. the bottom line for the white house, this is not good because it shows a lack of commitment

from the european allies in afghanistan. >> will this require us to stay longer than the president would like to? we were anticipating that there is going to be an accelerated withdrawal from a combat position. they still will have the 2014 target date, about you you're going to see sort of a retrenchment you are not coming up in nato on monday? >> i don't think this is going to change the white house plans. the white house is very eager to get out of this war. what you're going to see on monday is the president announcing that the u.s. is going to step back from a lead combat role bill mid-2013. most patrols in afghanistan on the ground, the afghans will be in the front and the americans in the back. >> what about the fact we've seen increasing incidents even this week of afghan uniformed officers killing american troops? i mean, this is the kind of horrible outcome that does not

make it easier -- how do we do this transition to their lead? >> the pentagon will say most of these incidents are personal and they're not cases that the taliban infiltration. however, even if they're personal it doesn't make them -- this is not a good situation here. partly it's because the united states has been in afghanistan for ten years. the afghans are tired of this. there's tension between the afghan forces and the american forces. and you know, the pentagon officially now is saying this is just the cost of war, but it's a significant problem, and we're getting out in 2014. that will be the solution. >> of course, the way forward, former taliban leader who was involved in negotiations was assassinated. we've had setbacks on almost every front. president karzai is coming for these meetings this weekend and will be meeting with the president. what about their relationship? it's been fractious in the past. >> it's been a very difficult

marriage. it's been a dysfunctional marriage i would say between the united states and afghanistan and between president karzai and presidents obama and president bush ahead of him. so he's the man that the u.s. has to deal with in afghanistan, and they just make it work to the extent they can. and also among the taliban i would say, there are divisions in the taliban between senior leaders who are perhaps more interested in negotiating for peace and the younger generation who are much more hard line. >> of course, while we focus so much on afghanistan, and that will be the focus of the nato meeting in the military sense, what american leaders, what the cia and the pentagon are both very excited about frankly is the progress they think they're making in yemen with the cooperation of leaders in yemen of the political leadership now that will president sol lay is out and they are picking off what they claim are the al qaeda and the arabian peninsula leaders. >> right, but these are covert

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launch of this ipo? >> well, andrea, i think they got motion sickness. it was up from where it was expected to come out at around $38 for a bit and went down to $38. people said this is horrible. now it's up again above $41 a share which is a pretty good pop for a first day, i think about 7.7% right now. this is volatile and part of the reason why is because so many schaefers are changing hands. people buying and selling more than 3 hundred million at this point, the most active stock on the stock market, more than twice as active as citigroup, about ten times as active as microsoft. so people are really getting into this, andrea. >> what about all the questions that have been raised about the business model and whether this is really going to be what advertisers want, general mothers obviously pulled back. that was one indicator that people were all looking at. >> well, those are important questions. i mean, mark zuckerberg has tried to get people there at

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here at the global food summit, president obama has issued a call to action for world leaders to attack poverty in africa by expanding agriculture. the immediate goal is 0 lift 50 million people out of poverty over the next decade. participating in this big launch for the g-8 summit, singer/songwriter/co-founder of the one campaign. welcome. bono. you've spoken to the summit. what is the mission and why is it so urgent? >> the mission i guess is obvious to -- no one wants to see children emaciated children. hunger is a ridiculous thing. we will know how to fix it. there's you know, there's whole new approaches to agriculture to increase productivity, et cetera, et cetera. what's key about today's announcement is that the president of the united states is supporting african ideas on

how to fix their problem. their country-owned country devised plans in 30 african countries. that's what it will take to get to the 50 million people taken out of hunger over the next decade. so that's -- it's partnership. it's not the only paternalism. these are sort of horizontal relationships, not vertical ones. >> and these countries have spent the last couple of years, 30 countries, submitting their plans and now this is the time for action for business leaders, for others to join in and invest. you wrote in "time" magazine this week that africa is so rich in resources that this is really the continent which can be like the american continent was in the last century. tell us what you see as the potential there. >> we've got to the reboot our thinking on the continent. africa is -- the 21st century, people say it's about china. ask the chinese, they're all over africa.

africa by 2050 will double the population of china. there will be more young people on the continent of africa than there is in china. they're rich. they've got all the minerals in the ground and the people are saying to us, the african people don't want aid as an ongoing basis. they need it now to help them get to a place of independent. but their future consumers for the united states. the president is talking business. this is good. it's a whole new kind of development paradigm i think today. it's the old sort of donor/recipient relationship, it's over. >> i mean, the chinese as you point out, they're investing everywhere in africa. these businesses want to invest. what do we do about the fact there has been so much widespread corruption. >> how do we tackle it. there are some demands up front. >> exactly right. corruption is killing more kids

than any of the killer diseases, aids or malaria. if you look at food as a resource that comes out of the ground, the same way if you look at oil, gas, the great mineral wealth of the continent of africa, what can you do to make sure that the wealth that's in the ground under the feet of the people who live there gets into the hands of the people who live there? well, there's one way. transparency, daylight. which is to say when private contracts are put out, given to explore for oil or for gas, that the people know how much was paid for that contract. so in this congress is a bill in the finance reform bill, the huge big dodd-frank bill. there's a cardin lugar amendment which actually makes it law that any company published on the united states stock exchange, the new york stock exchange, has

to publish what it pays for those mining rights. this is huge, bigger than anything you can imagine. hosteling us that? africans are telling us that. they're saying bring some daylight, transparency and we won't be as dependent on. >> you this is such a novel idea. the europeans are pushing back against this saying whoa, we don't have these same rules, we don't want these rules for our companies. this would really tell the people in africa exactly what money is being transferred and what their resources are going for. >> then they can hold their own governments to account. now, the british are looking at this. there's some discussion about whether it should be project by project or country by country. it has to be project by project. i think we're meeting with david cameron later. i'm hopeful to convince him to do that. french are there on this. i spoke with the germans, with chancellor merkel's people, not with her yet but i have before on then subject. and she is leaning in this

direction. that's huge. german leadership will be great. i've actually spoken to 12 of the of g-20 heads of state on this matter. so brazil is looking to lead on this. ab-australia is. this is the way -- daylight is the way of the future. the direction of information technology, guess what, it's information. people want information about the big decisions that affect their lives. >> now, speaking of information technology and you have been so innovative. you've been on the cutting edge of this, back in 2009 i think, you were first investing in facebook. it's gone public. you are reportedly going to conceivably have this huge payout. tell me about facebook, what you see in it, and what you think it's going to accrue to your own investment? >> contrary to reports, i am not a -- this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any beatle.

not just in the sense of money, by the way. beatles are untouchable. that's just a joke. >> i get it. >> we investor people's money in pension funds. we doe get paid and that is a good thing. we'll get -- i'm blessed, but you know, i felt rich when i was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. you know, just being in a band, i've always felt like this. i mean, being so blessed. i got interested in technology because i'm an artist. i'm interested in the forces that shape the world. you know, politics, religion, the stuff we've been talking about today. technology is huge. i wanted to learn about it. and people say it's odd you're a musician. i think it's odd that artists are not more interested in the world around him. i'm always chasing that. >> what do you see in facebook? what is it about facebook that you think to those who say what is the business model here, what

do you think is the future of facebook? >> they're an amazing team. they're a brilliant team. and they really care about this stuff. and you know, it's a technology that brings people together. people ho are traveling a lot, keep in touch with their families, with their friends. and you see the role it's played in north africa in the so-called arab spring. so it's the village square but it was the leadership of it that got me excited going back, but there's other companies out there, yelp, drop box. there's a lot of excitement in america in this area. >> what do you say to people on wall street and others who say there is no real business model here that, people might go to google and you know, really look at the ads but not on facebook?

that special networking is a different kind of zeitgeist and that you don't really want advertising? >> that's some intelligent criticism. i'm not even going to try to answer it. i'll let facebook do that. you know, i'm in a way the thing that i bring to elevation is i'm curious about people. you know, i asked warren buffett what was the most important thing in investing. he said judgment of character. and there's some pattern recognition and some sensing of what the future might look like. but i think facebook is only beginning. that's my own view. >> we'll be back in a moment with the president of tanzania joining our conversation. >> he's a very special plan worth meeting. >> and we will meet him and talk more. our exclusive interview with bono coming up and tanzania's president jakay jakaykikwete.

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and we are back here at the ronald reagan building at the global food summit with bono. joining us now, tanzania's president kikwete. thank you so much for joining us. we've been talking about the crisis of poverty and the opportunities now to do something significant to lift 50 million people out of poverty with food with a different approach to food and agriculture. tell us, what does it mean at the grassroots level for people to have a different kind of food security? >> well, of course, in most african countries, tanzania included, 80% of the people live in rural areas. and this is where the majority of the people of the poor are. so any initiative to improve the

agriculture, increase productivity means increasing their incomes, producing more food and ensuring them food security. it's something that is welcome. for us in africa, nonmeaningful intervention to deal with poverty would be successful if you leave out agriculture. >> what is your pitch to businesses and to other government leaders as to how this can work? what do you tell them you want and what can tanzania do as a partner in all of this? >> well of course, we -- we have developed plans and programs to accelerator the pace of transformation and growth of our agriculture. we are looking for partners. and who are these partners?

governments in the developed countries. to help us where our governments cannot reach. we are looking for private sector participants to work with us, to work with our governments. the small holders farmers support them get the inputs that they need. the seeds, the fertilizers, the pesticides, the herbicides. but for small farmers, assure them of a market for their produce. a good market with a good price. so, in essence, this is the partnership that we're looking for, support from governments of countries to support us with infrastructure like roads and so onto the farming areas, to

support us for the infrastructure for the irrigation schemes. the major canals have got to be done by government. the small farmers are too poor to do that. with electricity, with clean water supply, with other services, i.t. and telecommunications. >> you know, bono you i know have traveled so often across the continent with teams of people looking at these issues. it is the big issues have to be done by governments. they can be done with private investment, as well. but when we talk about, as the president has said, we talk about clean water and communications. but the small farmers then can get the water that they need and then they can put the herbicides to use and the seedses so there really is a whole hierarchical system here that has to be attacked. >> yeah. i'm particularly excited when il go to tanzania. if you could see what the president has. >> tell me what you've seen

there. >> and his team have pulled off. first of all, it's just the most stunning country in every which way. you're looking up there at killman jerry row right down to the astonishing beaches to dara sa lam and the industry there and this is a very fine and accomplished macro economist who is not just leading in his region but i think the whole of the continent and people outside of the continent are looking to their skews. and the muputu commitment which is 10% of your gdp to be spent on this agriculture thing is a hard thing sometimes to pull it off. and the president has committed to this next year. and was a tough and brave decision. we harasses him. the one campaigners were in making a petition, if these are african one campaigners. he was so gentle with them and respectful to them. so i can't really say too much

about this man, and he's kind of a hero of mine. but it's just when things work and when you have a sense that he's -- he gets annoyed. he gets restless when things don't move fast enough but tanzania is one of the great stories to keep an eye on. there are other countries that it's harder. and so you need some to really work, and a success story to be contagious. >> and tanzania can be a model for the continent. what about the one campaign and how you can keep the pressure up to keep governments focused and to keep businesses interested and honest in the way they approach. >> why is david cameron sticking with his aid pledges in the greatest austerity that are his country has seen since the second world war?

why is he doing that? the reason he's doing that is because he has a mandate from people who care about this stuff up and down the uk. that's why he does it. i think because he's also moved to do it and interested to do it but he's been given permission. that's why the one campaign is important because we help to sort of create wind at your back if you make good decisions. we're not as the president knows we're not from the left, we're not from the right. we're ambidextrous. so whether it's president bush stepping out on aids or whether it's president obama stepping out on food security, we have people in every state and every jurisdiction of this country who will support people who do the right thing. they're motivated by conscience, motors straighted by fair faith, whatever the reasons are, they know that this world does not have to be the way it is, and that very structural things can be made to happen to help --

they don't need our help to be honest with you. we're really here to keep all the politicians in europe honest. we don't have to keep him honest. sorry. >> the one campaign is awesome. you know, a few months ago, the one campaign marched hundreds of people to the state house to bring a petition on behalf of 120,000 farmers asking governments in africa to scale up invexes in agriculture. >> they're quite wonky, as well. our campaigners are the egg head variety. >> i made a commitment and the promise that is il deliver the message to the african heads of states in july in malawi. >> what do you want to see? we've got a few seconds left, mr. president. what do you want to see come out of the summit here? what kind of promise and delivery system do you want? >> of course, we look -- we look to the g-8 to increase support

to governments and farmers in africa. we look to the private sector in america and elsewhere in the g-8 countries to be forthcoming. come and work with us, work with the farmers in africa. so a combination of these, of the governments in the g-8, governments in the developed countries, our governments in africa, the private sector, local in africa and the international private sector coming and working with us and this small hoard of farmers. i'm sure we should be able able increase agriculture production, ensure food security, improve nutrition, and eradicate poverty in africa. >> not bad for a summit. >> not bad at all. >> between now and the g-20, i think you can pull that off. >> that's pretty exciting. thank you so much, mr. president. we'll be write back with what political stories we'll be making in the next 24 hours. i have a feeling it will have do with the summit itself.

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and which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? we have a special guest. bono. in the next 24 hours the president is going to be meeting with african leaders to talk about food, poverty, global security and of course the president. what's different about these summits? have the g-8, the g-20 outlived their usefulness? >> that's an interesting question. it is sort of absurd that eight, seven men and one woman will get into a room and the decisions that they make in that room will affect hundreds of thousands of lives outside of their geographiys. it's a helluva burden. i think they know that. i think they do know that.

china, brazil, india, of course, but it gets a little harder to get things done because there's more of them. >> we've seen that on climate change. >> yeah, yeah, but thing what's actually happening is in a funny way what we've seen at the start of the centuries is the pyramid. the pyramid of power has turned upside down. ironic that it started in the land of the pyramids in egypt, but the base is now in charge, and the top is strangely at the bottom. so for these political leaders to achieve anything, they really have to listen to what people are saying, and that's -- that's different. so the civil society, the role of civility society is really important and i think people are sending a message to this g-8, please don't let it be a talking shop. we know rounds are important, euro rowe is important, especially if you live in europe

as i do, but actually taking 50 million people out of hunger, poverty over the next ten years, if that's possible, wow, after the stuff we've done on aids and malaria, that's a reason to get out of bed, mr. president. >> and to sing. >> and to sing. >> thank you, bono, as always. thanks for all your leadership on this and the one campaign. that does it for this special edition of "andrea mitchell reports." and we're live in chicago monday with the nato summit. among our guests white house senior adviser david axelrod and political strategist ian bremer and remember to follow the show on tw on twitter. up next, mitt romney slamming president obama in his first general election tv ad as he tries to turn away from the rev reynolds wright debacle. the news nation, political panel will weigh in on the romney strategy. also, the public gets a look at police photos of george

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