i'm glad for you to come to binghamton university. i'm the director of rainbow pride union here, the largest lbgt organization on campus. my main concern is that i know a lot of stories of people who are lbgt who come out to their parents and their parents are supporting them financially for college and when they come out, their parents cut out that support. i was wondering if maybe in the future part of your affordability for college would be able to include lbgt people. >> well, first of all, the programs that we have in place don't discriminate and shouldn't discriminate, and the good news is, i think the phenomenon that you just described is likely to happen less and less and less with each successive year. think about the incredible changes that have been made just over the last decade. doma is gone. don't ask, don't tell is gone. more importantly, people's hearts and minds have chamber of commerced -- changed and i think that's reflective of parents as well. i think more and more what we recognize is that just as we judge people

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i am at binghamton university. i was at hitosubashi university in tokyo until march 31st. i came back to this country april 2nd nd in the fall, i will take up my teaching duties at binghamton university in new york. that's part of the state university of new york, where i once taught, and it's a wonderful place. c-span: where are you from originally? >> guest: i was born and grew up in boston. i live in a little town near the airport called winthrop. c-span: and where did you go to school? >> guest: i went to school at the university of massachusetts in amherst, and upon graduation i enlisted in the navy, went to officer candidate school. a--incidentally, i--i received messages, e-mail messages, from my old boss, the chief engineer on my second ship after the book came out, i must say. c-span: how--how long did you serve in the navy? >> guest: four years or active duty... c-span: what years? >> guest: ... in the reserves. i--i think it's 1960--was at ocs in the late fall, early winter of 1960, graduated beginning of '61, and i got out of the navy in, i guess, february of 1

then binghamton university for a town hall earlier today.ollowing me around everywhere? and we're ending this bus tour here in scranton. and -- and i wanted to visit lackawanna college because of the great work that you're doing here, giving people a first class education that doesn't cost a fortune with support in place to make sure that students stay on track. you know, i'm told that many students here are the first in their families to attend college. and i know your families are proud of you but i'm proud of you because getting a higher education is one of the best things you can do for yourself and for your country. [ applause ] but we've got to make sure that we're doing right by you. that's why i want to talk about today, you know, over the past month, i've been visiting towns like scranton and talking about what we need to do as a country to secure a better bargain for the middle class and everybody who's fighting to get into the middle class. we've got to have a national strategy that grows the economy in a broad based way so that e

. >> today the president is speaking at binghamton university in new york and lackaand onea college in pennsylvania. tuft was able to persuade the shooter to calm down and president obama praised her for her courage. >> when you hear the tape youyo hear how courageous she was to talk him down. dow heroic for sure. >> definitely. >> head coach shanahan is talking starters for saturday's game against the bills. that's next. >> first we want to talk to tucker barnes. b >> wait until you see the forecast a possibility of showers early.s take a look at the radar and steve is in this morning. he has the traffic. tra we'll do it right after the break. ♪ >> 4:44 right now on this friday morning. live look over washington, d.c. right now, hey it's humid out there. it's a pretty view. we always have the best view in the house. we say it looks pretty but we want to be in it most of the day but it's improving, right? r >> a couple hours. once it's fades to the south and east sunshine and low humidity average after the rain. >> potential for rain. i'm not sure we're going get it but a few showers a

. >> the president will continue his bus tour today, with a town hall stop at binghamton, university, and a speech at lakawanna college in scranton, pennsylvania, the hometown of vice president joe biden. biden is expected to appear with the president. >>> some presidential praise for the hero of the week, antoinette tuff. she's the worker who talked down the gunman at a school near atlanta on tuesday. well, as she was waiting to make a tv appearance, tuff took a call from the president. he thanked her for courage under pressure. tuff called their conversation, quote, awesome. >> she is, quote, awesome. >>> former nfl star aaron hernandez has been formally indicted on murder and weapons charges. during a brief court appearance yesterday, hernandez was charged in the death of 27-year-old semipro football player, odin lloyd. he's already pleaded not guilty. hernandez's attorney says there's been a rush to judgment in this case and that prosecutors cannot prove the charges. >>> ryan braun of the milwaukee brewers is saying he's sorry for using performance-enhancing drugs. in a statement

the president will continue his bus tour today with a townhall at -- binghamton university, and a speechf vice president joe biden. biden expected to appear with the president. >> there was presidential praise for the nation's hero of the week, antoinette tuff, the worker that talked down the gunman at a school near atlanta tuesday. while waiting to make a tv appearance, tuff took a call from the president. he thanked her for courage under fire. tuff called their conversation "awesome." >> awesome to hear. overseas now to egypt where muslim brotherhood is calling for a day of protests against the military-backed government. this is one day after former president mubarak was release from prison placed under house arrest. the 85-year-old former leader, faces a retrial next week for deaths of protesters in the 2011 uprising. >> well, let's say a certain part of rio de janeiro is probably smelling a bit ripe right now. that's because of the ten tons of dead fish that are in one of the city's lakes. that lake sits right next to the site where rio's olympic park is being constructed. the city

news nation is also following president obama, who just wrapped up a town hall meeting at binghamton university in new york. now he heads to scranton, pennsylvania, the final stop of his two-day bus tour centered on his new proposals for cutting college costs. the president also remains focused on other issues, including the crisis in syria. here's what he told cnn in his first comments since an alleged chemical attack on wednesday. >> what we've seen indicates this is clearly a big event of grave concern. that starts getting to some core national interests that the united states has, both in terms of us making sure that weapons of mass destruction are not proliferating as well as needing to protect our allies, our bases in the region. this is something that is going to require america's attention and hopefully the entire international community's attention. >> in egypt today supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi took to the streets in defiance of orders by egyptian authorities to end their protest. meantime, in his interview with cnn, president obama also addressed the possibility of cu

now that government is making --ey available, colleges >> we will take you live now to binghamton universityn new york, president obama continuing his bus tour on education issues and college costs. ♪ >> hello, binghamton! it is good to see all of you. go ahead and have a seat, i'm going to be her a while. first of all, i want to thank the university and your president harvey singer for having me here today. give your president a big round of applause. [applause] a couple of other people i want to recognize, your mayor is here. [applause] congressmen. [applause] representative -- your former representative is here as well. [applause] first of all, thank you because it is really nice outside. for you to be willing to come inside, i greatly appreciate it. i'm not quite a do a lot of talking at the top because i want to have a conversation with you about a range of issues, but that iscular, something personal for me. a lot of you know i wasn't born into a lot of wealth or fame. there was not a long obama dynasty. the only reason i'm here today, the only reason michelle and i have been able to a

the president will speak this afternoon first at binghamton university in new york, then later at lacawana in scranton pennsylvania. >>> as fbi director robert muller plans to leave office, he shares his concerns about security threats. he says terrorism has migrated from afghanistan to pack stan, to places like yemen, egypt, and syria and points to the current conflict as a particular concern. fighters from all over the world, including the united states are going there. he's concerned people will develop terrorism expertise that they will then bring back to the u.s. >>> that huge fire near yosemite is one of many burning across the country and there's now word from washington d.c. that the federal government has run out of money to fight them. the national forest service and other federal agencies are now scrambling to find the money needed to respond to what has been a disastrous fire season. the feds say more than 30,000 fires have burned more than 3 million acres across the u.s. this year. >>> meanwhile, firefighters in northern california are getting some high-tech help as they gain

his two-day bus tour today with a town hall-style appearance just moments away from the university of binghamtonfinal stop in scranton, pennsylvania, focusing on his proposals to rein in skyrocketing college costs. chief white house correspondent ed henry live in binghamton with more on that. hi, ed. >> reporter: good to see you, heather, you're right. for the second straight day, the president trying to keep the focus on domestic issues, but his credibility is very much on the line on the international stage, because as you look at what's happening in syria, that alleged chemical attack just days ago that allegedly could have killed up to 1800 people, the president doing a cnn interview in which he got questions about this. and and on one hand he seemed to be very firm in terms of putting out more tough talk at least about how u.s. core national security interests could be at stake here payoff the fact -- because of the fact that weapons of mass destruction may be spread around the mideast. but on the other hand, he seemed very reluctant to commit u.s. military force to deal with syria right no

then binghamton university for a town hall.use] have all you guys been following me around everywhere? [laughter] we are ending this bus tour here in scranton. [applause] and i wanted to visit lackawanna college because of the great work you are doing here, giving people a first-class education that does not cost a fortune. making sure students stay on track. i am told many students here are the first in their families to attend college. your families are proud of you, but i am proud of you. because getting a higher education is one of the best things you can do for yourself and for your country. [applause] but we have got to make sure we are doing right by you. that is what i want to talk about today. over the past month, i have been visiting towns like scranton and talking about what we need to do as a country to secure a better bargain for the middle class and everybody was fighting to get into the middle class. we have got to have a national strategy that grows the economy in a broad-based way so that everybody who works ha

i am glad for you to come to binghamton university. i am a director of rainbow pride union here. the largest lgbt union on campus. i know a lot of stories of people who come to their parents and their parents are supporting them financially for college, and when they come out, their parents cut that support. i was wondering if maybe in the future, part of your affiliate -- affordability for college would be to include lgbt people. >> first of all, the programs we have in place don't and shouldn't disseminate. -- discriminate. the good news is, i think the phenomena that you just described is likely to happen less and less with each successive year. think about the incredible changes that have been made just over the last decade. doma is gone. don't ask don't tell is gone. people's hearts and minds have changed. that is reflective of parents as well. that doesn't mean there won't still be struggles internally, but i think more and more, what we recognize is that just as we judge people on the basis of their character and not their color or religion or gender, the same is true for

tomorrow he'll head on to another upstate new york city the college town of binghamton to make his pitch to students at the state university of new york in buffalo the president was greeted by thousands of cheering students and supporters but those cheering throngs were also joined by protesters frustrated with his natural gas policy protesters just like the ones who stood alongside actress and activist and of this morning in front of the white house demanding that obama ban fracking once and for all activists from groups like frack action. picketed obama obama's buffalo speech to demand that he and new york governor andrew cuomo keep the empire state free from the environmental threat of hydraulic fracking they'll also pick it is speech tomorrow in binghamton although the president promised to take action to protect our planet in a speech at georgetown in june many environmentalists find his position on natural gas here we say lacking obama endorsed natural gas as a safe transitional energy source during that georgetown climate change speech even though numerous studies have concluded that drilling into shale basins threa

tomorrow i'm going to visit suny binghamton and lackawanna college in scranton. but i wanted to start here at university at buffalo. and i wanted to do it for a couple reasons.[applause] first, i know you're focused on the future. as i said, talking to the mayor, he was describing a new medical school -- and new opportunities for the high-tech jobs of tomorrow.[applause] so there's great work being done at this institution. i also know that everybody here must be fearless because the football team kicks off against number 2, ohio state, next weekend.[applause] good luck, guys. it's going to be a great experience. it's going to be a great experience. it could be an upset.[laughter] [applause] and third, and most importantly, i know that the young people here are committed to earning your degree, to helping this university to make sure that every one of you "finishes in four" -- makes sure that you're prepared for whatever comes next. and that's what i want to talk about here today. over the last month, i've been visiting towns across the country, talking about -- yes, feel free to sit down. get comfortab

binghamton and scranton, pennsylvania. the tour is meant to highlight the president's economic proposals for the middle class. >>> we have some of the best universitiesrth right here in the bay area. new rankings are in from a chinese university that lists harvard as the best college in the world. number two on the list, take a look, stanford. and in third place, uc- berkeley. frank, that's jurors yes. >> m.i.t. is fourth. >> didn't see ucla up there, lawrence. colorado state, liz, where did you go to school? >> berkeley! as long as they're above stanford, that's all we care about. [ laughter ] >>> let's go to the maps and talk about what's going on. bart is recovering after some earlier delays. they are slowing decreasing right now about 10 minutes is the delays right now out of downtown san francisco towards the east bay. there were earlier equipment problems on the pittsburg-bay point line. all the bart trains heading into san francisco though are all good to go. muni, caltrain and ace also no delay right now. so your worst traffic trouble spots probably the westbound 580 ride stacked up to 205 to at least north livermore avenue but the nimitz and

binghamton, new york. the president will hold a town hall meeting at the state university there. we'll have it live here on c-span, 12:45 p.m. eastern time. then he heads south to scranton, pennsylvania where he'll be at lackawanna college. the vice president will be with him. joe biden being from scranton. that's at 4:55 p.m. eastern time also on this network. politico writes how obama can shake up higher education himself the education department doesn't need congress to enact some big chunks of this new agenda. even before he finish laying out his plan college leaders and congressional republicans said they were skeptical. obama pointed out too he was skeptical of congress' and colleagues capacity for reform. some of these reforms will require action from congress, which is always difficult he told high schoolers in syracuse thursday night. some of these changes i can make on my own. politico points out the financial aid proposal tieing federal dollars to the value college offers students requires congress to act. but, the education department could rate colleges based on acce

tomorrow i'm going to visit suny binghamton and lackawanna college in scranton. but i wanted to start here at university at buffalo. and i wanted to do it for a couple reasons. first, i know you're focused on the future. as i said, talking to the mayor, he was describing a new medical school and new opportunities for the high-tech jobs of tomorrow. so there's great work being done at this institution. i also know that everybody here must be fearless because the football team kicks off against number 2, ohio state, next weekend. good luck, guys. it's going to be a great experience. it's going to be a great experience. it could be an upset. and third, and most importantly, i know that the young people here are committed to earning your degree, to helping this university to make sure that every one of you finishes in four -- make sure that you're prepared for whatever comes next. and that's what i want to talk about here today. over the last month, i've been visiting towns across the country, talking about -- yes, feel free to sit down. get comfortable. >> we love you! >> thank you. i love you, too. over t

binghamton and go to scranton. but i want to start here at the university of buffalo. i wanted to do it for a couple of reasons. first, i know you're focused on the future. as i said, talking to the mayor, he was describing new medical school and new opportunities for the high-tech jobs of tomorrow. so there's great work being done at this institution. i also know that everybody here must be fearless because the football team kicks off against number two ohio state next weekend. [applause] good luck, guys. [laughter] going to be a great experience. [laughter] it's going to be a great experience. it could be an upset. [cheers and applause] and third and most important, i know that the young people here are committed. you know, to earning your degree, to helping this university, to make sure that everyone of you finishes in four. [applause] makes sure that you're prepared for whatever comes next. and that's what i want to talk about here today. over the last month, i've been visiting towns across the country, talking about yes, feel free to sit down. get comfortable. [la

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