commencement>> republican presidential -- but it, president obama delivers the commencement speech at barnard university. next, mitt romney delivering the commencement address at liberty university. later this year's atlantic council awards dinner honoring prince harry of england and you and secretary general ban ki moon. >> mitt romney's the to the graduating class at lynchburg, virginia. it called itself the world's largest christian university. in a 20-minute speech, he talked about faith and family values and making malls and standards a part of their everyday lives. he also restated his position that marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman. his remarks are 20 minutes. >> i would like to invite governor romney and dr. godwin to the podium at this time. in recognition of gov. mitt romney's contribution and an acknowledgement of his camaraderie on the right to preserve those values upon which this nation was founded, but the power invested in me by the board of trustees at liberty university, the doctor humanities is hereby conferred upon gov. mitt romney with all the rights and the p

you see the president going to barnard university, not a co-ed institution, he went to "the view." it's nice to get the attention. but at some point, you feel like, there are other issues, the imphee. >> it's true. i think it was anne romney who made the point, she's heard the women talking about the economy, they are not so different from men in their concerns. i think that's probably true and i think the president is doing his best to try to touch the bases which supported him in 2008, and in which he very much needs to come back to him this fall. some elements have drifted away from him. so, that's what you expect at some point, he will be touching base with women and going on programs that appeal to women and so on. >> greta: i don't want to be so arrogant to speak for all women. but i suspect that this has been polled by the democratic party, the war on women. >> yeah. what i would -- i don't know whether it was polled or not. i couldn't tell you one way or the other. i think it's couldable that they would try to portray the republicans as hostile to women and their interest.

meanwhile, president obama is headed to new york city, he'll deliver the commencement address at barnard university on the colombia university campus tomorrow. later the president will attend an lgbt event hosted by ricky martin. joining me msnbc contributor and "slate" contributor eric weigel and erin pike. >> former pollster for george w. bush has put out a memo suggesting a shift in the way americans discuss same-sex marriage. saying the increase in support is taking place among all partisan groups, while more democrats support gay marriage than republicans, support levels among republicans are increasing over time. the same is true of age. young people support it more often than older people, but the trends show that all age groups are rethinking their position. dave, does this suggest the republican position itself could also evolve? or is this memo from just an isolated part of the gop? >> we are seeing it evolve. more local level. you're not going to hear the rnc chairman or the candidate jump out in front but i was in colorado this week. and colorado civil unions proposition is going to pro

barnard came at the height of sandra fluke. mitt romney at the evangelical liberty university. i want to play the a clip about him and the mormon issue at liberty. >> people of different faiths like yours and mine sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose when there are so many differences in creed and theology. surely the answer is that we can meet in service in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common world view. >> never using the "m" word, mormon. >> you know, i think the good news for the romney campaign is that basically this was a nonstory. when they scheduled this, i think this was in anticipation of this fear of needing to rally evangelicals and being of concern that somehow they will wouldn't be there for him simply because his faith. i think as you see the reaction to the speech there isn't this hand wringing going on. an odd way, evers assisted by the president. why? the gay marriage issue for evangelicals. >> that got the standing ovation when he came out against gay marriage. >> that sucked out any oxygen there might have been fo

it is a jam packed schedule beginning here at columbia university women's college and barnard collegehe going to give the commencement speech before about 600 graduating women and some in the district of columbia as well. we unusual speech. he asked to give the commencement speech at the school. he is going to discuss on the same-sex marriage last week. he will save tape an episode of "the view that will be herriair tomorrow. then a fundraiser in the chelsea neighborhood of new york city for an lgbt fundraiser and latino fund rarzs ricky martin will be hosting that event as well. he is focusing on same-sex marriage through out his visit. news week will have a cover up coming at the end of may with him on the cover calling him the first gay president. certainly an issue very much on the minds of new yorkers and the rest of the country right now. a big topic for commencement speeches. the subject same-sex marriage. >> that is the latest from here in the upper manhattan section. >> thiern dez live in m -- tai hernandez live in manhattan thanks. >> we span the globe and see what stories a

. >> alex with mitt romney at liberty university and the president at barnard, who won the battle ofommencement addresses. >> it looks like obama had the edge. it was almost like a campaign rally. and it wasn't that mitt romney wasn't well received and the speech was complicated afterwards, but the word they used was polite. if they were enthusiastic with president obama, they with polite with mitt romney. a lot of evangelicals still view him warily. they are still a little weary with governor romney. >> i was watching his commencement address, and there were a lot of people who were saying i don't care i'm not voting for him. and i'm curious, from your perspective on the flip side of this, there was a cbs news and time poll that was released today showing more americans in support of the president and his support of gay marriage. for non-evangelicals, or those for whom this is an important issue, what is your take away. >> for virtually every group there is growth in support. i mentioned this long-term impact of obama's stance on this. and there was a prominent republican pollster o

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university. president obama will deliver the commencement address at barnard college in new york before attending a fundraiser hosted by singer ricky martin. >>> in baltimore a mixed verdict for a campaign consultant accused of sending out robocalls to try and suppress black voter turn out. julius henson worked with bob ehrlich in the 2010 election. a jury found henson guilty of conspiracy in not providing an authority line on campaign materials but he was found not guilty of using fraud to influence the voters' decision whether to vote. henson will be sentenced on this split verdict next month. >>> police are working on creating descriptions of two men accused of attacking a woman in merrifield. this happened early this morning behind a school in the 2400 block of gallows road. >> reporter: i'm armando trull in fairfax county and this is the scene that greeted parents, teachers and students at this montessori school, fair fact county police investigating the assault and robbery of a woman on the steps of that institution. detectives spent hours dusting for fingerprints and looking for evidence l

barnard college monday. tomorrow mitt romney heads to liberty university in virginia.e late jerry falwell. liberty university is the place to go when you're looking to go after the movement conservatives, social conservatives. that's the tactic. what do we know about romney's upcoming commencement address? >> i was struck by the focus that the romney folks want to put on his lack of overpandering to christian conservatives. these excerpts could be delivered at any university. romney is extolling the virtue of family and placing family as your top priority over work. i think they are going to walk a fine line this weekend at liberty to try to appeal to christian conservatives, but not go too far down the road when it comes to certain issues. what is going to be fascinating is what mention he makes of the gay marriage issue. it's tough to see how he can avoid it entirely given the events of this week. they don't want to focus on that during this campaign. that's going to be the most notable part, how does he massage that? >>es neigh charlotte, north carolina, today, in v

the president, james, will be speaking at barnard college, part of columbia university in new york onssing the graduates at liberty university in virginia. very different schools, shall we say. >> yea. if you can't accuse them of playing election politics by giving a speech in manhattan. >> no, the point i was going to make it's an all-women's school, barnard, and he's got a big lopsided majority among women voters right now, but i suspect he's trying to further increase that and mitt romney going to this fundamentalist university at liberty university and he's reaching out to evangelicals. >> i think so. you know, it's fine. there are probably other places that i would go and he might be making a specific speech about something. i think it's fine. i think it's great that the first lady went to virginia tech which is a great university. sometimes i wish i had the guts to do it in '92 and to the university of wyoming they would give a commencement speech and it would be funny to go outside the box a little bit and i'm sure we did it and i don't know how much good it does. >> tell us wh

commencement address at barnard college where he told them america needs them more than ever and to go out into the world and lead by example. chuck, romney goes to liberty universitythe week while the president goes to barnard. is this the kind of stark contrast the white house was seeking to draw? >> i tell you, strategically could you look at what both campaigns are doing. it is a tale of two commencement addresses. they're both aimed at their own political bases. they're both aimed at how do they get to 50% plus one rather than worrying about persuading anybody. >> just the story of the president requesting to see if they could speak at barnard tells you, they believe there is a big vulnerable built with the republican party when it comes to women's issues. then you have mitt romney. what did he with liberty, when you think about the timing of it. this was the moment of time they thought maybe they were going to have a problem with evangelicals because of romney's mormon faith so he needed this in order to sort of shore them up. >> although, chuck, people are suggesting that actually the person who made liberty work best for mitt romney was the president becaus

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university. president obama today at barnard college in new york. >> marriage is a relationship between one man and woman. >> from the gypping, this nation has trusted in god, not man. religious liberty is the first freedom in our constitution and one of the causes justice for the persecuted. compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born. there is not greater good in the nation than christian consciousness on the tornado. >> it takes patience, it takes commitment, it comes with plenty of set backs and it comes with plenty of failures. but whenever you hear that creeping cynicism, whenever somebody tells you to set your sights lower, the trajectory of this country should give you hope. previous generations should give you hope. what young generations have done before should give you hope. young folks who stood up and matched and sat in, they didn't just do it for themselves, they did it for other people, that's how we achieved women's right, that's how we achieved voting rights, that's how we achieved workers rights. that's how we achieved gay rights. >> alice, whi

barnard college. mitt romney addressed the class of 2012 at liberty university this weekend.niversity in the country. he talked about his family, christianity, and hard work. >> your values will not always be the object of public admiration. in fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world. christianity is not the faith of the complacent, comfortable, or of the timid. >> meantime the first lady talked to graduates at the historically black north carolina agricultural and technical state university. >> what's important to you? how does your job fit into a full life, complete life? how are you going to give back? are you going to be an engineer or are you going to be an engineer who volunteers at a science class at a local school twice a week? are you going to go into business? or are you going to be the ceo who sponsors community theater productions in those 5-k runs and local little league team? >> good questions. more to come. you know, graduation season isn't over. making news this morning, fire fighters are battling five wildfir

with college graduates, mitt romney spoke at liberty university in lynch field new jersey and president obama gives a mentionment speech at barnard. >> gay marriage debate remains the hottest topic on the campaign trail right now and cover of latest issue of news week. president obama is called quote the first gay president. >>> the would's most powerful economy -- the world's most uher poll economy, meets end of the week but governor putin will be there. the two leaders will meet at the -- putin will not be there. the two leaders will meet next month. >>> making headlines dcs guardian angels will patrol a northwest neighbourhood after a crime was captured in this surveillance video it shows a man assaulted in an alley behind a condo at 14th and w streets, on thursday. the man was badly beaten and is still in hospital. pardon me. the guardian angels will be back in area, including the alley at noon today. >>> 362 u.s. law enforcement officers are being remembered for services and sacrificing their lives in the line of duty. their names were formally dedicated on the walls of the national law enforcement officers memorial. meantim

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president obama is about to deliver the commencement address at barnard college, an all-women's college that is the sister school to columbia universityesident's alma mater. you can watch the entire thing streaming live right now on our web site which is at foxnews.com. >>> well, new information on a gruesome scene just across our southern border. nearly 50 bodies found dumped along a highway near monterey, mexico, horribly mistreated. this is just about 125 mile, folks, from the border of texas. trace gallagher is live in our west coast newsroom with the unimaginable details. trace? >> reporter: megyn, in the four-plus years we've been covering these mass murders in mexico, i don't think we've seen a string of violence like this. 49 bodies that were dumped off the side of a major highway that runs from monterey, mexico, into southern texas. all of the bodies had their heads removed as well as their hands and feet making it very, very difficult to identify them. the zeta cartel also put their graffiti on scene, taking responsibility. and of the 43 men and six women, some of them had tattoos which is a religion down there that many say

barnard, and he sounded like a campaign speech, trying to drive up the gender gap. he hope that helps him. mitt romney on saturday was at the evangelical school in virginia called liberal university. it was a speech as much about talking about his mormon faith and the thang have in common with the evangelical christians, but the loudest applause line came when he talked about how he was for marriage between one man and one woman. >> ron paul is effectively out of the race for the gop nomination. his campaign announced today he will not spend any more money in the remainding primaries, pretty much conceding the nomination to romney. this was paul's third run for president. he attracted a dedicated core following. it just wasn't robust enough in the end. staffers will continue to push his ideals all the way to the gop convention. >> back here at home, the economy of the country's biggest state is back in the spotlight in a bad way today. just a few months ago, california's budget deficit was projected to come in at $9 billion. the actual number is now out. it's almost $16 billion. that means cuts that are going to hurt, and a target is education. right at a time when education is g

commencement address for the graduating class of the all-female barnard college which took place at his own alma mater columbia university. his remarks often felt like a campaign speech encouraging his audience of young women to remain politically active. >> that's how we achieved women's rights. that's how we achieved voting rights. that's how we achieved worker's rights. that's how we achieved gay rights. >> reporter: meanwhile the obama campaign is turning its attention this week to mitt romney's business record. slamming romney's old private equity firm bain capital for baying and later closing a kansas city steel mill. the closing occurred when romney was no longer in charge of bain on a day-to-day basis. >> they made as much money off of it as they could and they closed it down and filed for bankruptcy without any concern for the families or communities. >> they came in -- >> reporter: the romney campaign quickly responded with its own web ad, highlighting what they believe is a bain capital success story. steel dynamics in indiana. >> mitt romney's private sector leadership team stepped in. >> building a dream wit

the president will be at barnard college in new york, aif i will i can't think with columbia, and mitt romney will be at liberty universityill be really interesting to seem evangelicals have not always been on the same page with romney and why do it post primary? it is not completely clear. >> domenico, thank you very much. have a great weekend. we appreciate you kicking off our first post script on "news nation." and it is john edwards' turn to tell his side of the story after the judge in his case refuses to drop the corruption charges against him. edwards' attorneys argue the prosecution themselves say they couldn't prove that edwards intentionally violated any campaign finance laws. joining me from greensboro, north carolina. jay gray. so the judge says no way here. we move forward. and john edwards gets his turn. >> reporter: absolutely, good to talk to you, my friend. you've covered trials. you know how this goes. this is more or less a legal formality usually. the defense after the prosecution is done approaches the judge and says, look, they didn't present enough evidence. there is no evidence that my client did a

. >>> barnard college is an all womans school, so it's no surprise women's issues were front and center today as president obama gave the commencement speak at the universitye better off when women are treated fairly and equally in every aspect of american life whether it's the salary you earn or the health decisions you make. >> president obama personally asked the school for this speaking opportunity back in february. in the 2008 election president obama took 56% of the female vote. >>> now let's talk about some younger students. study after studies show students do better in school when their parents are actively involved and for the last 14 years one d.c. program has shown them how to help. jc hayward introduces to us turning the page in today's hero central. >> we need some more dirt, mom. >> okay. >> it makes me feel good like i'm doing something for my kids. i'm with them. >> reporter: tina best pots plants with her daughter at mart in luther king jr. elementary school in southeast washington. >> they always are happy to see me when i come into school and waving and saying hi. >> reporter: bass is a parent leader volunteering with turning the page,

barnard. at columbia relating to the young women who were gathered there and talking about the idea of perseverance. >> i want to read something in the catalog at liberty university the courses they teach and want to read this as a preceding a clip of mitt romney's speech. theology 678, western and new religions. the description is this. the history doctrines and present state of the major cults such as moerchl onnism, christian science, jehovah's witnesses and seventh day adventism and a study of the occult and emphasis is placed on the errors of these groups and on methods and materials for confronting them effectively. mitt romney was not confronted by anyone at liberty university, but let's listen to the portion of his speech where he talked about people of different faiths meaning the difference between his faith and the faith of the people in his audience. let's listen. >> people of different faiths like yours and mine sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose when there so many differences in creed and theology. surely the answer is to meet in service and shared moral convictions steming for a common world view. >> at a university that teaches t

barnard college today. mitt romney is trying to get support among social conservatives and reiterated his support for traditional marriage while speaking to graduates at liberty universityhis cover. president obama with a rainbow halo over his head calling him the first gay president. directing me now is the director for the center of politics at the university of virginia. hi, larry. >> how are you? >> i know your mantra. any day those economies aren't talking about the economy is a wasted day. are they wasting lots of days these days? >> well, they are wasting days. they are getti inting off the interstate highway and traveling on subsidiary roads. some of paved. gay marriage is paved. it's a legitimate controversy. some of them are dirt roads that have nothing to do with anything. there are a lot of days. there are six months left until the election. believe me, they will have to talk about the economy most of the time because the candidates really don't run the campaign, the voters do. that's always a shock to people. they really do have the most influence on what's discussed. >> let me run this by you. i just had a conversation with our cnn contributors who claim v

barnard college today. congress in town trying to deal with a budget and the student loan issue. and mitt romney giving commencement address down at liberty universityl kind of stuff to talk about this morning. we will do that, take your calls and you have a chance to meet and talk to as always our bill press team team press. peter okay burn and dan henning. >> happy monday. >> with videographer cyprian boulding. >> hey there. >> you knew saturday night live this weekend was going to have a little skit about joe biden getting out in front of president obama on the issue of same-sex marriage. they did it last night. they did it with i forget who plays joe biden. >> jason sudekus. >> will ferrell came back. >> will ferrell was the host. everybody wanted to see because, you know, he is a former cast member and he has so many mim rabble characters from when he was on. >> including george w. >> joe biden is in his room, which looks like a kids room refusing to leave his room because he feels that daddy is mad at him. and who steps out of the closet? we won't tell you why he was in the closet. george bush who identifies with jolton joe. >> those smarty pa

barnard college in new york. the commencement speech comes on the heels of his endorsement of same-sex marriage and it follows an address by mitt romney this weekend at liberty universityney reaffirmed his opposition to same-sex marriage. i want to bring in jessica yellin live from new york. so, jessica, first of all, we know the president is sharing a stage with the gay activist, the founder of freedom to marry. do we expect president obama will talk about his position on same-sex marriage? >> i'm advised that, no, that's not going to be in this speech. this speech really focused on women and messages of sort of going out into the world, stories that he has learned from women who have inspired him in his life persevered over obstacles. you know, you mention evan wolfson, who is the founder of freedom to marry. i think he's about to get an award if he isn't getting it right now as we speak. he had said last week before the president came out for same-sex marriage that if the president hadn't come out by now, he would have leaned over and whispered in the president's ear, please do so now, please come out for same-sex marriage now. evan wolfson has released statements a

barnard college in new york city. it is a women's liberal arts college associated with columbia university.raduates right now are receiving academic citations. >> 5 million people with increased access to better education [applause] and more than 7 million people with strategic and financial advice stepped in to improve the livelihood of the villages and households. [applause] with you at the helm, 122 million people in 84 countries are able to vision and more promising future. if there is a list, uyou top it it. there is an organization in need of your intellect and savvy, you sit on its board. president obama himself has caused -- called an youtube share his advisory committee on aids and serve on his committee on white house fellowship. [applause] in your own words, sometimes we have to do things just because they are the right thing to do. at this moment, the right thing is clear -- in an expression of limitless gratitude and pride, york college presents you with a barnyard medal of distinction and honor of your vital and honored ongoing work. we're all the richer for ed. [applause] >>

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