. >> arne duncan has spoken in favor of charter schools.out new york so far? >> no. they basically have been silent. if you look at what's been going on in louisiana, too, they say this is civil rights issue of the time, but at the same time -- >> they are not letting that, not supporting that. we have to take one more break. when we come back, hits and misses of the week. and 100% real cheddar cheese. but what makes stouffer's mac n' cheese best of all. that moment you enjoy it at home. stouffer's. made with care for you or your family. ♪ ♪ >>> time for hits and misses of the week. jason? >> attorney general eric holder wants states that block people from voting after they leave prison to overturn those laws and restore their right to vote. he says these laws are racist and discriminatory. i think his real motive here is most these prisoners are more likely to vote democratic. i wish the attorney general was as sympathetic about law-abiding minorities who want to use school voucher programs he is trying to shut down. >> in louisiana, for e

the biggest highlight so far came from secretary of education arkansas kn arne duncan. s for the easy score. boom. >> that is awesome. >> duncan played for harvard before going pro in usa trail yap ya. kevin hart was named mvp. but he insisted giving it to duncan. he said i got to respect him. he handed the mvp to him. >>> ugly, demeaning, that's just a few of the words used to describe the scandal coming out of the locker room of the miami dolphins. i'll explain, next. aflac. ♪ aflac, aflac, aflac! ♪ [ both sigh ] ♪ ugh! ♪ you told me he was good, dude. yeah he stinks at golf. but he was great at getting my claim paid fast. how fast? mine got paid in 4 days. wow. that's awesome. is that legal? big fat no. [ male announcer ] find out how fast aflac can pay you at aflac.com. [ male announcer ] how did edward jones become one of the biggest financial services companies in the country? hey. yours? not anymore. come on in. [ male announcer ] by meeting you more than halfway. it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. >>> we're learning more about the culture inside the

arne duncan's got game. >> celebrity game tonight. he is really good.e mvp in that game. >> i'm not surprised. >> this is my kind of defense. no defense, no coaching, no passing. this is what i can play. oh, yeah. the nba all-star break is here. and the game's best players are in new orleans. john wall, he is making his first all star appearance this weekend. he'll participate in the dunk contest tomorrow night and the all-star game on sunday. tonight it was his teammate bradley beal. making a second appearance in the rising stars challenge. early on, it was another local hoop center making place. throwing it down. the magic rookie had 13 points. big dunk of the night, it had to go to knicks guard tim hardaway jr. check this one out, guys. the reverse slam for the former michigan star. he had a game high 36 points. how about beal getting in on the action with the dunk there. he had 21 tonight. his team comes up with the victory. detroit's andre drummond named mvp. the trophy, a little slippery there. they did get ahold of it, though. everyone got a laug

editor of education, arne duncan, will be here for the apples of it is not a question of republican or democrat but we are all going to have different ways of going about it. recognize the value of early childhood education and looking at what works best for us and our states and the federal government has to be a partner in that as we move forward. experimentation, the innovation is still happening at the state level. sunday afternoon we have governors on the health and human services committee who will participate in a roundtable drugssion on prescription abuse. we have been working tirelessly in each one of our states to try to slow that -- really what is a growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse. last year, governor robert bentley of alabama, myself, initiative toga really look at what the problem is and prescribe solutions, some applied measures that we can really begin to slow down the second -- this epidemic. governor shumlin of vermont devoted his entire state of the state address in january to this issue in vermont. if you have not had a chance to see that address, it is w

you've had arne duncan on before and he talks about the connection between undereducated children andthis is definitely something that is not going away. and there's no way right now for these humanitarian community to meet it. the u.n. gained only 60% of its budget for last year. nobody knows where that money is going to come from. >> it was -- kerry seemed to be hinting that he wants to do more and we know from last year's debate that he wanted more of a muscular intervention. what can president obama and others do? >> i agree with you because i've heard that from secretary kerry as well. the options on the table are options that have been eliminated or they have been very reluctant to activate. covert actions, military air strikes, this kind of thing. that's a problem. those involve risks which the administration to this point has not been willing to take, whether it's risks to american lives or that weapons get in the wrong hands. trouble s. those weapons are already in there. you have "the wall street journal" report last week that the saudis are going to send shoulder fire missi

today we are honored to be joined by the secretary of education arne duncan. lillian lowery, and jeana ross, to discuss early childhood education. 2007 when i won my first election as governor of kentucky and was sworn in, i.e. has as many of you had done -- i had, as many of you have done, about early childhood education. and i committed to reinvestment to expand that program. numerous studies show that 80 to the brain development occurs between ages four and five, and every dollar that we invest in early childhood manyfold returns to us as that child develops into a productive adult in our society. however, come january of 2008, we were all hit in the face with the great recession. the biggest recession in our lifetimes. many of us had to start scrambling to just keep our budgets balanced, much less tried to invest a lot of additional funds anywhere. so we in kentucky had to look for other ways to improve preschool and early childhood education and development. the first thing that we did was an early childhood advisory council, and we created it i executive

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education secretary arne duncan is trying to brush away claims that the program could create a defactonal curriculum. the a recent resolution endorsed by senate republicans is gaining traction. it opposes tying federal education dollars with adoption of come con more standards. telling the blaze.com, he says he is not familiar with the resolution but he says the claims are simply not true. >>> "willis report investigation saying some obamacare applications are being sent back. are the sign-up numbers inflateed? here is what some of you are postings on my mace book page. jeff writes, government numbers are not worth the paper they are printed on. david, he says it was a lie from the beginning. why is it true now. don't tell me the signed you will numbers. tell me the paid up numbers. that is the true number. you're fired! up. we asked the question on gerri willis. -- gerriwillis.com. 5% said yes. 90% said no. here are some of your emails on democratic senator ron wyden of or gone. he proposed to give every child 500 bucks courtesy of the federal government and your taxpayer dollars. an

we had a great session this morning with secretary arne duncan. the president's proposal to invest significantly and a lot of great work going on in states across the country including delaware to make sure more kids have access to high quality early childhood education. >> what do you want to hear from the president on this trip. you'll have some access to him. what is it you're hoping to hear from the president? >> our focus with the president is always on the same priorities that are important to our constituents. around jobs and economic development, what are we doing to create additional opportunities for our people. we're very interested in opportunities to help our small businesses export and to attract foreign direct investment. we've seen great initiatives over the last couple of wears from the administration on that. we would love to hear more about the president's proposal around early childhood education and what we as governors can do make that happen so more of our young people have those great opportunities when they are young to st

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secretary shean donovan was the first to come out of the box and arne duncan, one of the president'sonded it, and biden was the third guy to say this. obviously biden got more ink on that. but there were a lot of people in the west wing at that time who were quietly rooting for biden. unfortunately for biden, david, jim messina and david axelrod for not those guys. >>> one more question looking towards the future. we talked ad nauseam about the president's relationship with former secretary of state clinton. you also talk about the relationship that biden had/has with hillary. but in the early days he would host for clinton regular tuesday breakfasts served as what you call hillary's obama whisperer. tell us more about that period. >> well, they'd sit there in front of the big-screen tv in biden's naval observatory salon and they'd, you know, eat kettle potato chips and turkey paninis, and he would tell her how he got over their -- how he got over his initial discomfort with obama who's a tough guy to read and a tough guy to warm um to, and she took notes. but a really important thin

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secretary of education arne duncan said this is not about a lack of school security.nd what happened at sandy hook was a horrible tragedy and there san increase in mass shootings in this country, but we have to work to solve also the daily shootings that happen every single day. >> and this is -- dalia, here are the facts. 57 violent deaths in schools in the 9'92, 9 3 school year. it's not a problem in this country there's a huge spike in school violence. in anything, there's a slight downward trajectory. we're creating an atmosphere of terror in our schools. >> well, in that video that you just showed, it's so chilling, chris. i'm sitting here thinking i hope my kids don't watch it. not just because you're putting kids through this, but because you learn to normalize this. i think, you know, my 8-year-old son thinks it's perfectly normal to all pile up into the closet in his teacher's classroom once in a while or get into the bathrooms and put your feet on the toilet stall. this is not normal and it's not an act of nature, right? this is not a hurricane drill or a fi

>> education secretary and former harvard co-captain arne duncan made his third consecutive appearancee celebrity game. check this out -- this no-look pass in the fourth quarter two i'll askar diggins. he finished with 120 points, 11 rebounds, and six assists. >> shut it down. >> and speaking of slam dunks, that's what nbc is hoping jimmy fallon will do when he officially takes over the "tonight show" tonight. when i got to 30 rock this morning at about 7:00 a.m., the crowds were already there outside waiting. fans hoping to still score a lucky seat for that premiere. it's 42 years in the making, that's how long it's been since the production moved to l.a. in an interview with a legend all his own, chuck scarborough, jimmy explained why the show belongs right here. >> all of the late nights should be in new york city. i mean, look at it. it's just gorgeous. like when i think of l.a., i don't think of nighttime. i think of daytime. i think of sunshine and palm trees and i think of new york city and broadway and times square, and the excitement at night. >> the "tonight show" right back

editor of education, arne duncan, will be here for the apples of it is not a question of republican or democrat but we are all going to have different ways of going about it. but both sides recognize the value of early childhood education and looking at what works best for us and our states and the federal government has to be a partner in that as we move forward. the experimentation, the innovation is still happening at the state level. sunday afternoon we have governors on the health and human services committee who will participate in a roundtable discussion on prescription drug abuse. we have been working tirelessly in each one of our states to try to slow that -- really what is a growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse. last year, governor robert bentley of alabama, myself, cochaired an nga initiative to really look at what the problem is and prescribe solutions, some applied measures that we can really begin to slow down the second -- this epidemic. governor shumlin of vermont devoted his entire state of the state address in january to this issue in vermont. if you have not h

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we have america's secretarsecretar y of education arne duncan in the house. [applause] we have got the fcc chairman tom wheeler and two of his fellow commissioners who are here doing great work. [applause] congressman steny hoyer is in the house. [applause] county executive rusher baker is here. [applause] and we have got some business leaders who have made some very big commitments today because they know that your education is the very best investment that all of us can make in america. now last week in my state of the union address i spent some time talking about opportunity for everybody, which is at the heart of this country, the idea that no matter who you are and no matter what you look like if you have a chair feel free to sit down. that wasn't actually my line. [laughter] but at the core of america, the essence of it, what makes us exceptional is this idea, no matter what you look like, where you come from or what your last name is, if you are willing to work hard, if you are willing to live up to your responsibilities you can make it here in america

arne duncan impersonated an nba player at the celebrity all-star game. he put on a show.e call it the best performance in celebrity came history. he pulls off this no-look pass to skyler diggins. duncan was an all-american on the harvard basketball team. after that, this was another moment people were talking about last night. nba rising stars game. a lot of highlights. after the game, the mvp, you see there, yeah, this happens every now and again. andre drummond, it broke. he still raised it high. congratulations, sir. (laughs) it's more than just a meal, it's meow mix mealtime. with wholesome ingredients and irresistible taste, no wonder it's the only one cats ask for by name. to help me become an olympian, she was pretty much okay with me turning her home into an ice rink. ♪ she'd just reach for the bounty select-a-size. it's the smaller, powerful sheet that acts like a big sheet. look, one select-a-size sheet of bounty is 50% more absorbent than a full size sheet of the leading ordinary brand. use less, with the small but powerful picker-upper, bounty select-a-size. w

the secretary of commerce, very committed to that and is arne duncan, the secretary of education, and they've all talked about that. so let us work on it. the gentleman talked about he cares a lot about and i think he does, mr. speaker. i absolutely take him at his word. he cares about those people that have been, through no fault of their own, lost their job. work wasn't available. they downsized, whatever. they lost their job. and he said he's concerned about those people, as he should be, as i am, as we all are, but one of the real tragedies is particularly with those folks who are 45 or 50 and above, once they've lost the job, they have a terrible time in this economy finding a job. there are three people looking for every one job that's available. and a lot of those people, as the gentleman knows, don't have the skills. so the issue is not just about giving them skills, it is in the interim, do we let them and their families fall through the cracks? fall through a safety net, fall out of the insurance that they paid into, their employer paid into to in the event they lost a job t