get on to the back of the bus, having to sit hind the sign that designated collards -- oreds in the backend whites in front. they cannot imagine not. talking about coming to the lyric or any of the other businesses and having to drink cold water. there was a white water fountain water fountain. you had to determine which you are going to drink from. it was already determined for us. there were times when as chase the --would taste teh white water. many times, it was cold. colored water was not. water was from a fountain that was probably cooled from electricity. everything here was segregated. right across the street from the is a temple where there were many black businesses and from the temple on down 18th street over to fifth avenue was the black business district. we would leave the lyrica theater many times running because we had thrown water down on the white kids and we would run to 4th avenue. fourth avenue was a bustling place at the time. we were having fun, we thought. now that i'm here and i can , it's a see this place different place. >> why? >> i've never seen it from the vant

on the backend, there is an orderly resolution authority so we do not have this lehman brothers type failure where nobody knows who owns what. thousands of pages long, but the barriers are up front. along the way, we get an annual health check up. we see our doctor the federal reserve. you pass or you don't pass. >> that is been happening with banks since the federal reserve was created. >> i do not think they were testing bank's viability in a severely adverse scenario. the parameters were much worse in 2008. -- i thoughtzed the risk of another financial crisis of happening in my lifetime was near zero. obviously, he has some big illness because he will not be around for a while. [laughter] not true, by the way. in the last 200 years, there is been a financial crisis of sorts every 14 years. >> this is a pretty extraordinary one. let me move on. raised, and aets bank like morgan stanley compete under these kinds of regulatory restrictions when you have a whole bunch of other firms running around outside the system, hedge funds and private equity funds and pools of capital not subject

we are dropping a lot of money at the backend. some communities 30, 40, $50,000 a year to incarcerate. just imagine if some of these programs that you mostly work and or want to start just imagine if you had $50,000 you could buy them a house per year. but that money just poured down the hole because what happens is we allow the political forces that are going on in the country to come out and say walk them out. three strikes, you're out and then wonder why they are vagabonds when they come out and can't get a job, can't get a student loan, can barely get access to their own children and then we wonder why. you see how this happens. it's a couple of small decisions that become big. >> that a short portion of the program. you can watch the entire program starting 8 p.m. eastern and that will be on the companion network c-span told a senate committee recently that he has gaps in his memory after suffering numerous concussions while playing sports. the committee examined the link between sports injuries and picking the brain and whet

some of the things they have been adding to make search better to make analytics better on the backendally kind of clunky for a user. sometimes i just want to pin a picture. i don't want to have to describe it. i think the site is adding a lot of new features and they have a lot of money in the bank right now. they are trying to spend -- to expand internationally. advertising, they are going to be rolling out these things very quickly. and also very deliberately and overtime they will realize what works and what doesn't. i have used graph search. it works well. i have not run into the issues you have, perhaps. >> it is better for searchers. my question is, how are advertisers feeling about pinterest? how does it compare to facebook or twitter or google? ceo of zulu to the lee and he wishes he could spend more money on pinterest here at a lot of advertisers -- it is in the experimental stage. they want to see it turn into a real thing. pinterest is a place where people talk about the things they want to buy. they want to see. they want to do. it is useful for an advertiser to have a con

the first thing i wondered is why on the backend of the financial crisis goldman had so much to do with was the only person who went to jail and the only person goldman sachs wanted to go to jail. but the thing that really caught my eye is when they arrested him, the prosecutor said that the code had to be denied bail. he couldn't be left back on the street because of the code that he had could be used to manipulate a crash financial markets because it was in the right hands. it was breathtaking. [applause] couldn't it have been worse hands on already? into this stuff had to do with high-frequency trading which at the time no one ever heard of. all of a sudden there was a newspaper without much explanation. so it took me a couple of years before i get around to actually doing the story that when i got into it i realized i needed high-frequency trading and i called friends on wall street, people who are investors and basic very weirdly there is a canadian guy wandering around and you are not going to believe what people tell you. yes he does it. so i went to find brad just for background

. >> it is a problem that the average reader does not understand what is all behind the backend. a lot of the editor hold your tongues to be tour this other -- editor culture tends to be toward the other editors. part of what we do is deal with local cultural institutions and educational foundations. it is a long and big problem going forward for wikipedia. >> there have been some studies done comparing the reliability and accuracy of wikipedia to other formally written by advanced degree holders scholars encyclopedias. i think they found that wikipedia was just as reliable as other encyclopedias. there is a list somewhere of scholarly research done on wikipedia. it is more accurate than you may fear. >> we do have some allies oust reached -- nice out reach brochures. again, the average reader tends to not get that. we are trying to explain it as we go along. >> that is another reason it is important to have people in this audience. you have expertise and you should share that with this world. >> can you tell you write neutrally about a bill? >> when i write a piece of legislation

. >> it is a problem that the average reader does not understand what is all behind the backend. and yes, a lot of the editor culture tends to be toward the other editors. there are initiatives and there is tagging that those on. part of what we do is deal with local cultural institutions and now educational foundations. so, in college and whatnot. but, yeah it is a long and big , problem going forward for wikipedia. >> although there have been some studies done comparing the reliability and accuracy of wikipedia to other formally written by advanced degree holder scholars encyclopedias. i think they found that wikipedia was just as reliable as other encyclopedias. i think -- there is a list somewhere of scholarly research done on wikipedia. it is more accurate than you may fear. >> and we do have some nice outreach brochures and things on how to evaluating quality of articles. there is semi-peer review. again, the average reader tends to not get that. we are trying to explain it as we go along. >> your question is another reason it is important to have people in this audience. yo

thinking about there's the privacy aspect on the front and of we need to have full disclosure but on the backend if someone steals the data and it's your biometric unique data about you how are you going to recover? >> guest: is worse than someone stealing your credit card information. what are you going to do in to do and you touched on a very good point when you bring up it's for the security. another great argument is it's for the children so you can always meet the worst-case argument to justify any action on the part of the government. with technology and iris scanning biometrics and things like that oftentimes it's that worst-case scenario that's being cited as justification for everybody having to participate in this new technology. as a parent that's something you need to be aware of that your local school could be looking at this technology as a way of securing their child. >> you would never think it's apparent he would have to save your children i want you to respect authority unless they ask you to give up your biometric data, then please call me or text me so i get your message. spe

have a problem on the front end, so we do want, at least i do want information you are doing on the backend and i want to be careful because it's cumbersome that we can win on appeal even though there might be a material problem. but i think the bulk of these cases and the reason you have half a million cases coming on appeal is because they are administrative issues that don't come anywhere close to fraud, waste and abuse. we need to deal with that issue sooner than later. i don't know if there's a comment to make back but my expectation that you'll take this urgency back because with all the work we have done to maximize access, this effort is minimizing it to the highest degree. and it has a chilling effect on our patient population. >> i would certainly take that back and if there is a positive bed is coming out of this situation i think it is that the department is viewing this workload more holistically although there are three separate agencies, cms, omaha and the department that deals and department of his appeals council that work with the spec was. the department is taking an acti

i when information about what you're doing on the backend. and i want to be careful that people feel like because it's cumbersome that they can win on an appeal even when there might be a material problem. but i think the bulk of these cases, the reason we not happen in cases coming to you on a deal is because they are administrative issues that don't come anywhere close to fraud, waste, and abuse. we need to deal with that issue sooner than later. and i don't know that there's a comment to me back except i hope you take this urgency back because we are with all the work we've done to maximize access, this effort is minimizing it to the highest degree. and it has a chilling effect on our patient population. >> i would certainly take that back. if there is a positive that is coming out of this situation, i think it is that the department is doing this workload more holistically. although there are three separate agencies, cms, omha, and the departmental appeals board and council, that work with these workloads, the department is taking an activ

but on the backend, someone steals this data and it's your biometric data about you. how you going to recover? >> guest: is worse than somebody stealing your credit card information. what are you going to do quite you touched on a really good point when he brought up is for the security. another great argument is the children. you can always make a worst-case argument to justify about any action on part of the government. with technology and iris scanning, biometrics, things like that, oftentimes it is the worst-case scenario being cited as justification for the participating in this technology. as a parent, that something needs to be aware that your local school could be looking at this technology as a way of securing your child. postcode you never think of a parent you have to say dear children, i want you to respect authority unless they give up the biometric data. >> host: speaking of the whole thing with disclosures and eyes and kids, we think about kid and talking to them about the different aspects of life and the birds and the bees. not somebody mentions the b

individuals and the businesses and providing access to digital currency exchange instruments, and at the backend by assisting with packaging and the shipment of parcels. using microware housing and virtual post office boxes to help small businesses and innovators with logistics and shipping solutions. and providing seamless physical and digital axes to the postal service network for the public and commerce by linking together its website, post offices, and digitally enabled carriers. and connecting digital analysis of the vast data now generated throughout the network for operational efficiencies, revenue ideas and business intelligence. together these opportunities can tighten the integration of data streams and their supporting matters dreams. the internet, smart devices, search engines and cloud storage have laid the foundation for a changing world. an aspect of what will come next, i thought this foundation, will likely be an ecosphere that continues to be ungovernable and chaotic with endless challenges, linkers, and substantial creative destruction. the inability of society to propel rathe

we want information about what you are doing on the backend and i want people to feel like because it is cumbersome that they can win on an appeal, even when there might be a material problem. but i think the bulk of these updates in the reason you now have half a million cases coming to you on appeal is because they are administrative issues that don't come anywhere close to fraud waste and abuse. we need to deal with that issue sooner than later. i know that there is a comment to make back except the expectation is your take the urgency back because with all the work we've done to maximize access, this effort is minimizing it to the highest degree and a has a chilling effect on our patient population. >> i would certainly take that back. if there is a positive coming out of the situation, i think it is the department is doing the workload or holistic way. although there are three separate agencies, feedback, omha that work with these workloads, the department is taking an active role in trying to resolve things. so i will take your concerns back. i certainly share them. i would also

we said where's the backend for us and in our place so guys came back for us because it's a lot morei feel a lot more -- than any deal because there are so many traps in it. there are so many things. they have for example they run gameplay inside of the game inside of the game. if you're running a show the industry game is in the gameplay and there are 20 ads that they are getting money. so you have to have your own digital space and the storefront and the other interesting thing we were in kind of like a bored conference meeting about apps and apps and web sites. you can control your own pushes but also everybody at first was like well i don't know if i trust starbucks with my credit card and i don't really care. what it is that your phone is your new web sites of the app is your web site in the app is your story. to have as much control of your own independent so i feel like we have studied a lot for three years to say lets comptroller on the web site and comptroller app into a partnership to make sure the wording is -- because they are very devilish. because you have so much open

we are dropping a lot of money at the backend. in some communities, $50,000 a year. to incarcerate. just imagine if some of these that youive programs are supposed to work in or want to start, just imagine if you had $50,000 a client. you could buy them a house per year. dut that money is just poure allow thee because we political forces that are going on in our country to come and say, lock them up. three strikes, you are out. and then wonder why they are vagabonds when they come out. they cannot get a job. they cannot get a student loan. they can barely even get access to their own children and we wonder why the kids don't have anybody in their life. you see it. you see how this thing happens. it is a couple of small decisions that become big. why is it that our services are always the first to be cut? why is it that our programs are always the first to be cut? you hear people say, we need to put more money into schools. for what? most of the money that you put into the schools goes to the teachers and the administered a system. the building and the nuts and bolts. it is not mater

that tie up is possible, but visa only handles the backend. ceptance by consumers. that is something paypal is way ahead of on. even if they do not spin off, it ebay.generates value for i would not sweat the lack of a near-term catalyst. if you can predict a catalyst, the stock is probably already been catalyzed. we focus more on the cash companies can generate. >> thank you for joining us on this friday. up, where are all the american men at the u.s. open? no u.s. mail has won a grand slam title since 2003. i will find out more when i speak with someone who represents some of the best in the sport next. ♪ ing represent some of the biggest names in tennis. the company just signed a deal with kvitova. it also represents novak djokovic to advance to the next round. has finishedale the season in the top five rankings since 2005, almost a decade-long drought. how does one explain the u.s. mens tennis slump? i want to bring in the managing eric who hasalso been doing a lot of number crunching on tennis. fernando, let me start with you. you have seen

. >> looking at a potential hazelnut shortage and how that will impact nutella on the backend. something that great. >> and the palm oil. we will take a quick break to regroup our thoughts and we will be back. >> the yearbook game. >> that's right. do we have the picture? tweet us if you know who this is. i think it is pretty obvious. he went to high school in new york and graduated in 1987. ♪ money clip" coming up at the top of the hour. our economics editor michael mckee is going to be speaking f, the veryn 101 pro guy who consume instant just convinced me to not be a doctor. >> what we have coming up? probably the most amazing insight and action. i don't know if anyone at home, but adam comes in early in the morning and ross of these insight and actions. he literally draws these by hand -- >> and colors them. >> do you have a blog? >> i will hold it up. i was trying it. i was trying to create the background of the mountains of jackson hole. that is what these purple -- >> i think it is pretty good. tighten, tor not to loosen or not to loosen. >> what we're going to talk abou

warner cable, and comcast came up on the and and sold them to charter on a conditional deal on the backendggesting that after that deal is approved, all the other smaller cable operators -- they might start rolling up into a larger charter. that is the speculation. that charter will go one by one the seventh,f eighth, the ninth, the 10th largest cable operator in the u.s. he's probably right from its content standpoint that a lot of these companies like scripps or amc or stars probably will get -- maybe the wait until regulatory approval until the bigger deals, but i would have said that before fox made its bid for time warner, so who knows? >> it is such an interesting game in the media and telecom world. our bloomberg news reported. bank of america will be the latest firm to agree to a multimillion dollar settlement with the justice department over crisis era loans. this is the biggest fine yet to be levy. bloomberg weiss -- bloomberg white house correspondent joins us. what is different about the settlement and the ones we have heard of with j.p. morgan and citigroup? number, betty. it

are logging into a website for american airlines but they are actually using your service on the front and backend. >> correct. hotels seeing? >> 50% of the bookings are hotel or hotel related. happening in the hotel spaces around personalization. everyone is trying to make that a very unique experience for the consumer. airbnb,companies like who are experiencing massive growth are playing right into the hands of what consumers are looking for in today's marketplace. they want a personalized experience that is unique and customized to an area or a city or a region that is special for them. hopefully they get it at a great rate. >> when i was researching the idea for this special i thought we were coming across revenue. that 40%ng statistic of all hotel rooms are empty on any given day. what i am hearing is we have moved beyond that problem. theave really gotten to point where customization and personalization and social trends are driving consumer decisions. that was not true five years ago. >> the problem with the hotel industry often is systems are not talking to each other. >> how many technolo

on the backend, there is an orderly resolution authority so we do not have this lehman brothers type failure where nobody knows who owns what. thousands of pages long, but the barriers are up front. along the way, we get an annual health check up. we see our doctor the federal reserve. you pass or you don't pass. >> that is been happening with banks since the federal reserve was created. >> i do not think they were testing bank's viability in a severely adverse scenario. the parameters were much worse in 2008. i was criticized -- i thought the risk of another financial crisis of happening in my lifetime was near zero. somebody said, obviously, he has some big illness because he will not be around for a while. [laughter] not true, by the way. in the last 200 years, there is been a financial crisis of sorts every 14 years. >> this is a pretty extraordinary one. let me move on. the question gets raised, and a bank like morgan stanley compete under these kinds of regulatory restrictions when you have a whole bunch of other firms running around outside the system, hedge funds and private e

we are dropping a lot of money at the backend. in some communities, $50,000 a year. to incarcerate. just imagine if some of these that youive programs are supposed to work in or want to start, just imagine if you had $50,000 a client. you could buy them a house per year. dut that money is just poure allow thee because we political forces that are going on in our country to come and say, lock them up. three strikes, you are out. and then wonder why they are vagabonds when they come out. they cannot get a job. they cannot get a student loan. they can barely even get access to their own children and we wonder why the kids don't have anybody in their life. you see it. you see how this thing happens. it is a couple of small decisions that become big. why is it that our services are always the first to be cut? why is it that our programs are always the first to be cut? you hear people say, we need to put more money into schools. for what? most of the money that you put into the schools goes to the teachers and the administered a system. the building and the nuts and bolts. it is not mater

we are dropping a lot of money at the backend. communities, $30,000, $40,000, or $50,000 a year to incarcerate. imagine if some of these preventative programs, imagine if you had $50,000 her client -- per client. you could buy them a house for a year. that money is poured down a whole. -- hole. we allow the political forces to say, lock them up. three strikes, you're out. and then wonder why they are vagabonds when they come out and cannot get a job. worry student loan. -- or a student loan. and then we wonder why kids do not have anybody in their lives. we see how this thing happens. it is a couple of small decisions that become big. >> that was part of an event held earlier this summer on ways to help impoverished minority communities. you can watch the entire event at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> tomorrow on washington journal, george washington university -- a george washington university professor looks at what is next for isis. crisis management. why some candidates survive a crisis while others do not. plus your facebook comm

and now we have a system on the backend where people, i spent 26 years, a lot of people spent a lot of years. it's a very, very cumbersome process, and i think part of it is it's very complex, at least -- and i don't think i'm the dumbest person. in this group maybe i am. but trying to understand all the stuff when you're going through it, i think we've got to at least make it more user-friendly so that you can have that feedback easily. and right now the process starting with the language is very, very cumbersome. everybody that works -- they have the comfort set of acronyms and vocabulary. the average person is too nice to say what does that mean, or what's the impact? i'm dumb so i have to ask what the acronym is. and give me an explanation. but the average veterans that comes in there, a lot of them are used to taking orders and what have you. they are relying on the gunnery sergeant, that staff sergeant, that master sergeant who, they are vital, and we're talking about a bureaucratic nightmare. so i understand what you're trying to do and i applaud it. i just wanted to throw my 2

services for the guest, but on top of that, this entire system is completely integrated with all of the hotel backends essentially a portable room phone. even if a guest is outside of the hotel, taking meetings, there is room to operate and functionality. central -- if you dial zero, you would reach the operator. >> operator of the hotel? >> exactly. the operator would recognize you or mr. smith from room 201. roomcould be pre-ordering service. i could call up the concierge and try to get a reservation instead of figuring it out myself. >> if you don't speak the language, you need site -- you need to figure out how to get back to the hotel -- >> which hotels have this? >> in hong kong, we are in the hyatt regency, the w. the product was launched a year ago, but by now, we have about 30 hotels in the region with to a quartere million people using this device every month. >> when you talk to hotel chains, are they excited, or is there a pushback? >> they are excited. the product is proven. thingsare saying great about the device entrepreneur's are, different hotel review sites. people are saying that t

access into the portal, and there was no special backend access into the call center. our primary lines of communication were through our officers and regional offices, and they were terrific and responsive, but the information had to travel through different levels to get to the folks who were working the call centers. and the number two challenge that my colleagues have also talked about is the complexity of choosing a health plan. it is the greatest challenge and navigator faces. all the navigators in all of the states, both the state-based exchanges, received some combination of trading that was required, and they felt committed that their navigators needed more, so we provided additional training on communication techniques, both in advance of open enrollment and continuing through open enrollment, as well as additional one-on-one training regarding immigration status and verifying household income. so finally, the challenge was around privacy concerns are you there was a history of maintaining privacy standards, and we were very committed to meeting the challenge

into the portal, and there was no special backend access into the call center. our primary lines of communication were through our officers and regional offices, and they were terrific and responsive, but the information had to travel through different levels to get to the folks who were working the call centers. and the number two challenge that my colleagues have also complexityt is the of choosing a health plan. it is the greatest challenge and navigator faces. of thenavigators in all states, both the state-based exchanges, received some combination of trading that was required, and they felt committed that their navigators needed more, so we provided additional training on communication techniques, both in advance of open enrollment and continuing through open enrollment, as well as additional one-on-one training immigration status and verifying household income. so finally, the challenge was around privacy concerns are you there was a history of maintaining privacy standards, and we were very committed to meeting the challenge in the health care marketplace

a global phenomenon, a huge backend home-video attached to the other side of the coin -- it is the most pirated show on television -- but i always say in response to that but that is the bad news story, but the good news is 18 million people in the united states are watching illegally. that is all believing in david and dan, listening to their vision, seeing their passion. david and dan really they love the product and they know it in their bones. they breathe it. , whose whole life is built around the books, to have entrusted them with the legacy of this. speaks volumes. >> a portion of this year's new

however in new york and maryland, the state-based exchange portals, navigators and assisters had backend access with the portal and could see what was happening and assisted all the way through the enrollment. and they had direct contract with the state exchange leadership so they could communicate real-time information about the cases and get real-time results back. hhs was operating a portal and caller center for 34 states. the was no back end access into the portal or the call center. our primary lines of communication were true the grant wharfss and regional offices and they were terrific but the information had to travel through different luvox to finally get to the folks who were working the exchanges and the call centers. number two challenge that my colleagues talked about is low health literacy and the complexity of choosing the plan is the greatest problem the navigator faces. all of the navigators in the state-based and federal-based exchanges received a combination of training that was required. but seedco felt committed the navigators needed more and we provided additional t

involved in a philanthropic endeavor at $100 million if thee was not somebody at backend thinking about how to make the transition work. we think about research and development capacity buildings in terms of maybe just hardware, delivering something. here is a better bomb. better thing is process thatual leads to the better bomb. today if you work in the department of defense and you would like to go to a congress to talk about a that-generation widget, request would have to go to the secretary of your service to approve that. to au want to go scientific conference, a research conference, that has to go up to the secretary of your approve that.v it's an incredible requirement. it's not just a question of money. we cannot appear to be going to a conference in hawaii or whatever. the point on networks was extraordinary. to create these useful, small networks when you can have this dynamic, progressive thinking, is really --appen at the military academy, which is in part a result of philanthropic effort, some young officers got together and said to help young officers connect with other officers and they

very much on brand and that breaks through, becomes a global fund am gone, has huge backend home video attached to it. theother side of the coin is the most pirated show on television but i always say in response to the, that's the bad news the good news, 18 million people are watching illegally. that is mike and i believe in david and dan, listening to their visions, seeing their passion. david and dan really are quintessential to it. and love the product. they know it in their bones. they'd read it. and i think for george, whose whole life is built around books, kevin trusted them with the legacy of the series speaks volumes about just how special they are. >> even though it was high technology, it's really not giving us the medicines we need. last year only 27 new drugs were approved. 27, for all diseases, not just cancer. the business model of the pharma companies isn't hard to understand but it's basically the same one used by hollywood. they go out and they find interesting projects. they bring them in house. they polish and. they give him through sensors, the fda, drug development, event their mark

the best food truck in america. these are places that have been started by great entrepreneurs and our technology and backend solutionng them to ship their product to their craving following. >> you got some competition, though. grubhub.oned they do things local, but you can also go online and find gourmet options. >> i think this really validates the space. the market for gourmet food in the nation is in the billions, so i think that validates it. clearly, we are focused on building a very consumer driven site that has a great experience in terms of ordering perishable food. you are able to schedule your delivery date, for example. if you are sending someone a gift, you do not have to send it the day you happen to be in the shopping cart. you can ship it a month out on your parents' anniversary or your son's graduation. >> for have to turn to you as the former banker. >> i think i had my fill of -- philip ipo -- my fill ipo's in the late 1990's. >> is there one food purveyor you have been hankering for you are trying to go after that you wish would come on or you wish there was a way to get the food to you? >> we ha

when they go to the american people and say what do you think about it, they are asking for more money. they have made a backendeal. are not illegal, they had paperwork. host: thank you, sir. politico reports that the senate sends a v-a reform bill to obama. 91-3, sending the package to president obama. crafted by bernie sanders and jeff miller after a debate on how to pay the $70 million legislation. the bill halts bonuses for eva employees and just some veterans the ability to seek private care. from "politico," tom coburn was talking about the legislative process. [video clip] billion in waste a year and the federal government. waste, fraud, duplication. to ask us to spend $200 million here or $200 million here or in the case of the veterans bill, $17 billion. 5 billion of it is paid for. ofhout doing the hard work not transferring more debt to our children is not acceptable to me. my right as an individual senator are going to be utilized today to make sure we do not transfer another penny if i can stop it on the backs of our children. we were be different if efficient, we did not have any waste or fraud or

it's hard to know what the benchmark is to build a consumer web site and backend system that connects 250 states to medicaid plans to insurance companies so i'm not quite sure. >> let me help you little bit because i don't know if you remember not but my background is a 30-year information technology professional so i have been through the lessons learned and the trial by error of trying to project costs of complex i.t. systems like this. the gao says we spent nearly a million dollars on this -- billion dollars on this with the cost of climate. you believe taxpayers have received a good return on their investment busbar? >> congressman i think two things happened and it's hard to know which fit into each category. this is clearly needed a lot more work than people expected. >> and so that goes back to the genesis of some of the questions we got into the last time you and i were here. if you have a firm set of requirements and if you have a systematic lifecycle design process is much easier to project those costs. i know when i was doing large-scale program management on large i.t. sys

out of your schedule to be with us, and also thank you very much for the steps you have already taken to right and to put trust backendor our stakeholders, our veterans, and believe me, we are looking forward to our partnership with uyyou, and you will be hearing from us. >> thank you very much. >> as a memento, i would like to present you with my medallion. >> thank you very much for stop >> give the secretary of they can't, please. [applause] ♪ >> president obama announced steps to improve the availability of mental health care for military personnel and talked about the ongoing violence in the iraq. he spoke at the american legion's national convention in charlotte, north carolina. [applause] >> thank so much. please, everybody, have a seat. hello, legionnaires. >> hello! >> i want to thank commander dillinger for the introduction, but more importantly, for your service in the army and as you conclude your tenure as commander. thank you for your tireless commitment to america's veterans. i want to thank the entire leadership team for welcoming me here today, including the executive director in washington, all the d