>> deval patrick. the massachusetts governor has gone quiet after opening the door to at least thinking about a 2016 race earlier this spring. patrick is a gifted speaker who would likely play well among activists on the stump. and if he was the lone african-american candidate in a hillary-less field, patrick would have a major leg up. >> wow, that's very nice. >> what do you think? >> i'm not a candidate. >> for sure for 2016? >> no, you know, this is the first elected job i've had. and i've -- i've given it everything. i've focused on it. we don't have term limits, so i could technically run again. i was telling you before, i have a term limit saying diane. and she said two terms and that's it, then back in the private sector, at least for a time, because i owe her some time and some earnings. she's right. i respect public office and politics. i may yet run -- there was all this speculation because a whole lot of people said you really ought to think about it. and i appreciated that. and i said public

joining me now is governor deval patrick, democrat from massachusetts. governor, first of all, thanks for coming on the show tonight. >> al, nice to have me, thank you very much. >> let me ask you a question, how can republicans in washington oppose a plan to create jobs in your state and in states all over the country? >> how can they do it? that's what they call a rhetorical question, al. i mean, look, infrastructure investment works. we've had a very disciplined strategy over the last almost eight years here in massachusetts of investing in education, in innovation, and in infrastructure, which i always describe in the latter case as the unglamorous work of government, but it supports everything else. and that strategy is the reason why we came out of recession faster than most states. in 2013, we added more jobs in a single year than in nearly 14 years, and it's the fourth straight year of strong job gains. >> this weekend, governor, during the republican weekly address, gop lawmakers repeatedly called for job creation. listen to this. >> republicans

states supreme court did the right thing in that same vein in the recent doma decision. >> governor deval patrick, thank you for spending time with us. >> appreciate it. thank you. >> governor patrick who is opposed to capital punishment also shared his thoughts on the boston bomber who faces the death penalty. for that go to our website, cnn.com/sotu. >>> with more than 2 1/2 years to go in his term, is president obama playing small ball. >> on thursday i'll be heading to coopers town, new york, home of the baseball hall of fame to talk about tourism. >> the president's seventh inning stretch. we'll look at how it goes from here with senator dianne feinstein after this. [ female announcer ] there's a gap out there. that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve. at humana, we believe if healthcare changes, if it becomes simpler... if frustration and paperwork decrease... if grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home... the gap begins to close. so let's simplify things. let's close the gap between people and care. ♪ when folks think about gap wthey think salmon and energy. but the

course, governor deval patrick. we're so proud to have both of us are. us, all of and i'd like to start with you, governor wilder. you were in your early 20's, i when the brown decision was handed down. ok, nobody do math out there, now. it!o >> "do it." you're proud of it. right? so am i. you remember hearing about it that day? do remember. entirely.ged my life but for brown i would not be here. and it has very little to do with education. it has very little to do with able to go to school. all the schools i went to were segregated until howard and virginia union was .frican-american so what brown did for me, i had fighting inck from korea, frontline duty. never could understand how i was sent to korea to fight for the rights ofnd other people and i didn't have them. >> because the army was segregated. >> no. the army was not. >> just then -- >> no. was not segregated at that time, but the country was. to,y truman had the wisdom with executive order, not arguing with congress or anything else, he said this is not right, this is wrong. and he did that. s

the current governor of massachusetts, deval patrick, is also a democrat.him on the top left there. but massachusetts isn't a dyed in the wool democratic state, as you can see here, before deval patrick, massachusetts elected republican governors for 16 straight years. you can be a republican and win statewide in massachusetts. and this year, massachusetts republicans think they might have a shot at winning the governorship again. the candidate is a guy named charlie baker. sort of the consummate insider. he's served in state government. he has business bona fides, his dad worked for reagan and nixon. mr. baker has ran for governor before, and even though he didn't win, his opponent will be martha coakley, who lost her race to scott brown in her last statewide contest when she was running for senate. republicans think mostly because of that scott brown loss, that they've got a shot at beating martha coakley. massachusetts republicans think they've got a candidate in this guy charlie baker, who can maybe win the state for their party this fall. they're feeli

. >>> this morning cnn's candy crowley has an exclusive interview with massachusetts governor deval patrick who is opening up about how that decision shaped his life. hey, candy. >> you're right. deval pat track, the two-term governor from massachusetts which has produced a couple of presidential nominees. he also is going into the private sector at the end of this year, but in many ways he is the son of brown versus board of education. he was born two years after and he has gone basically from a south side tenement where he was raised by a single mom in his grandparent's apartment to the governor of massachusetts. he has quite the story to tell and a lot of observations about race in this country and the bitter words we've heard in the past couple weeks versus what really we should be discussing. >> candy, looking forward to it. thank you very much. watch candy's exclusive interview with governor patrick today at 9:00 eastern right here on cnn. >>> a "new york times" firing is now getting public. it is turning nasty. these allegations of sexism after the executive editor was fired. the pub

and governor deval patrick. we are so proud to have both of you with us here this morning. i would like to start with you. you were in your early 20's when the brown decision was handed down. nobody do math out there. remember hearing about it that day? life entirely.y without brown i would not be here. it is very little to do with education. it has very little to do with going to school. he was african-american. what brown did for me i had come back from fighting in korea. understand how i was sent to korea to help with the rights of other. i did not have them. segregated --with the army was segregated. >> the army was not segregated but the country was. tory truman had the wisdom look at executive order, not arguing with congress or anything, this is not right. this is wrong. he did that. i have none. i come back and i had pretty much given up. they might have a point. i was so distraught. i was wanting to do the social thing. i have my degree in chemistry. meanbrown came up, you this? they said i'm going to get out of this. let me get out of here. i'm going to law. me to

we will start with addresses from louisiana governor bobby jindal, deval patrick thomas luke messer, and georgia senator johnny isakson. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. with graduation season upon us, we are asking the question, what's your advice to this year's graduates? greg says save your money. stay at home and wait until you are ready to have a family. not what you know but who you know. leave your advice on facebook.com/c-span. >> if we don't step up the enforcement side, the enforcement side brings the media attention. on isly thing we can rely to make these universities and colleges do what they should be doing is for them to get a bad story, first of all, that a lot of the dems. that, to me, would be a depressing conclusion. we've got to figure out some way short of another tragedy hitting the front pages. >> again, i think the changes i have seen that institution start to make our when they are immediately under investigation. we don't know what the fines will be yet. i would almost rather see that investment in that. >> the fines will be paying for this. we have an issue wi

one, that folks like deval patrick who are thinking of running if hillary doesn't get in, this sure isight? he'd like to know, he'd like to know so he can start putting his name out and campaigning. everybody is holding back. that's number one. number two, what we also don't know is should hillary decide not to run and say deval patrick and others get into the race, she could have ultimately helped them by taking so much of the heat this far out that then this -- we have these sort of incredibly long campaign seasons that can become incredibly ugly and she might help to shorten that for other folks if she choose z not to run. >> patricia, remember how tired we were in 2012. people aren't even interested in the end. come on. >> well, i mean is it ever too early to talk about the next presidential race? listen, i think the real danger for hillary clinton being out there is that the media doesn't like to have an anointed front-runner. in fact, the further ahead somebody is, the bigger the bullseye on their back. that goes for republicans and hillary clinton as well. i think the feeling of

is deval patrick speaking for himself, for his own reasons or do other top democrats feel the same wayhington correspondent for the "new yorker." mr. lizza, nice to have you back. >> how are you? >> i'm wonderful. first things first. when i saw this the first thing i thaw is deval patrick maybe planting the seed of an insurgent challenge against hillary clinton? >> you know, in that same interview he did say that it's not his time yet. he has been someone who has been talked about as o a potential candidate for 2016 and not that long ago he opened the door up to running but that n that interview he said it wasn't his time. that's not shermanesque, that gives him a little room. remember in the last cycle at this point barack obama was saying he was definitely not running. so look, he's a smart politician, when a smart politician is asked a question about hillary clinton they know their words will be looked at under a microscope. they know people like you and me will be talking about them the next day so i imagine he chose his words very carefully. >> let's discuss two words that he used

>> i think the-- i think there definitely needs to be a race, as deval patrick said.robably will be somebody on the left like a schweitzer, bernie sanders. martin o'malley should run. if i'm marty o'malley, i am running for president. >> the reason these progressive groups want to race is because of these issues. they can't get her to say anything about keystone, they can't get her to say a lot right now about immigration. i think she will lean in more on immigration than she would on keystone. keystone, she originally approved her state department was ready provisionally. >> they need someone to the left. >> without a candidate, they don't have it. >> it's hard if you don't have somebody on the road holding her accountable, demanding she speak on x, y, see issue. but we need a name because the payoff is huge, right? brian schweitzer, he looked so torn up he had to survive a wall street journal page one story and i'm sure it was very tough for him. it's a great sort of payoff for these folks to even have their name out there. some of these folks are actually serious.

we start the memorial day weekend with speeches by bobby jintao, deval patrick and representative johnwis of georgia plus johnny isakson of georgia. that's at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> the movement decide to take the cost of the equipment to the united states supreme court. that's really what i write about. i am glad you had times called a stunningly intimate story. that's a start from that is what i set out to do. i wanted, i was fascinated i wanted to know what would you like to be a plaintiff in a major civil rights litigation. one that was incredibly high profile and controversial. like what did it feel like. what was the judge thinking as he is considering the evidence. the judge as it turns out turned out himself to be gay. what does it feel like? i guess alterman what i really wanted to say, what does it feel like when you want something that everybody else has to be told you can't have it. >> from the first attempt to stop california's prop eight to the supreme court decision to strike down the defense of marriage act, jo becker on what some are calling the new civil rights

. >> deval patrick? none of that? >> the rock star thing. >> so let's talk elizabeth warren. the narrative that tends to emerge as the hillary alternative. >> you know, elizabeth warren, she fires up the progressive base. she has fantastic ideas. she's the only person out there bho who's bold enough to talk about increasing things like social security and medicare. that's what so many liberals and progressives are yearning for. she has these fantastic ideas. but she's still saying she's not going to run. also, her portfolio, her resume is largely centered around being a consumer watchdog. on so many other issues, like how would she negotiate with china, how would she deal with the middle east? that's a big question mark. i think the time is now. >> not at all unlike the guy that had just been state senator two years before. >> her time is nowing to moving into position if she's going to do it. >> she's the hillary clinton of what happened in 2004. hillary clinton had a choice. she could have run for president then. she decided not to. she allowed the other candidates to feel

well, governor deval patrick of massachusetts pointed to the inevitability around her, and governor jerrys she has to be cautious and watch it. is this the same thing that may have contributed to her losing in 2008, and how does she run a different campaign this time the around with that very same concern? >> well, i think that she has to got to think out of the box, and actually strong primary opposition never hurt ss a candidate, especially if the candidate is the nominee of the party, and having a well contested primary with their challengers throwing the hard questions at them, and having a chance to the answer the negatives early sharpens the campaign, but the primary challenge is opposition moving you too far to the right or the left, makes it difficult to readjust to the general campaign which has happened to campaigns as well. if she is moving to the left which some wanting her to move very far to the left, that may hurt the chance s s in the nover election against a strong republican candidate like jeb bush or chris christie or somebody like that. >> and the freshness factor, vic

i want to thank both governor deval patrick and governor wilder for this extraordinary conversation. let me be clear. these are the only two black elected governors since reconstruction. in the history of this country. i also want to say no to them -- governor patrick was an ldf lawyer. these are men who are deeply connected to the work. i'm briefly grateful to them. i want to do two things. the first thing i want to do is read to you the words of cheryl brown henderson. she is the younger sister of linda brown and the daughter of oliver brown, the plaintiff from kansas. to the juncture of council chair and members of the board of the naacp legal defense fund, on behalf of my family, we regret not being able to be with you at the national press club. it is 15 q note this anniversary with a conversation with two african-american men. governor wilder and evolve patrick. it offers hope and inspiration. for my family, it was a source of pride to stand with the end of a lacie p -- naacp ldf attorneys. their action brought our nation to a crossroad of values versus clinical goals. the bene

with deval patrick in the chair, our candy crowley asked this question. >> when you look at 2016, iso you think? >> well, i don't know. i guess i worry a little bit. cease an enormously capable candidate and leader. but i do worry about the inevitability thing. because i think it's -- i think it's offputting to the average voter. i think that was an element of her campaign the last time. and i would just -- as a enthusiastic democrat, i just hope that the people around her pay attention to that this time around. >> was he trying to say there, jonathan? i saw him a couple weeks ago, he said i'm not running. my life said go into private sector for a while. there's speculation maybe he could be talked about it. what's he trying to say there? >> i don't think he's running but he does seem like his former consultant david axelrod there who i think would make more points. but i think he's expressing concerns of a lost of democrats who do not want a coronation. who want to see her actually come up with a more compelling message than it's my turn slash, i am ready for this. and i i think als

what do you think about the last point, deval patrick made, that this inevitability thing could be ablem? >> i think it could be a problem. the tables are kind of turned. republicans are the ones that normally nominate the inevitable candidate. john kerry. mitt romney. the democrats pick out somebody who is new blood, represents change. if time, if hillary clinton runs, she becomes the inevitable candidate. they don't do very well, wolf. so what you have to do is present yourself as a candidate of change. last time she ran as a candidate of experience. this time, she's going to run as a woman and a candidate of change. >> i want to play a clip for you, gloria, and for our viewers, that former president bill clinton speaking of the recovery, the therapy, if you will, that hillary clinton had to go through during the long period following the blood clot in her brain. listen to this. >> i was sort of dumbfounded. they went to all this trouble to say that she had staged what was a terrible concussion that required six months of very serious work to get over. something she never lowballed

. >> massachusetts governor deval patrick spoke of the commencement anniversary at the university of massachusetts in amherst. he called on the students to become good citizens by addressing climate change and clean energy initiatives. governor patrick is scheduled to leave office in generally when he finishes up his second term. this is 15 minutes. [applause] thank you. chairman thomas the members of the board of trustees, members of the faculty and staff, senator rosenberg, representatives, honorees, distinguished guests, family and friends, and the proud and worthy members of the u mass class of 2014 -- cap underline applause]s and >> congratulations for reaching this milestone and thank you for having me. handain event is dating in the degree for which you had worked hard for. i'm aware of that and how important it is for me to get on and off as quickly as possible. i get it. question is what is next? ,rom the time you were little some and had almost certainly been asking you what you wanted to be when you grow up. it is what adults ask kids, especially parents of their own kids.

us friday for commencement addresses by louisiana governor bobby jindal, massachusetts governor deval patrickand georgia congressman john lewis. and more speeches saturday from facebook's ceo sheryl sandberg among others. next we're going to take a look at the week ahead in congress from today's "washington journal." >> communication policy had not been reformed since 1934, so there was really a compelling need in 1995 to begin a process of massive telecommunication reform, and at that time you basically had boxes. you had a box for broadcasters, a box for telephone companies, a box for long distance, you know, cable, satellite. and our view was we had to come in and try to eliminate the lines of demarcation and promote competition, believing that with competition there'd be innovation, more investment, more consumer choice, more innovation and, you know, fortunately i think the result has proven us correct, that that's exactly what's happened. >> when the '96 act was written, we were largely focused on telephone service whether it was local or long distance. to some extent, we focused on cab

we will also have remarks from deval patrick. live friday at 12:20 eastern on c-span. >> the fcc voted earlier today in favor of a new proposal aimed at guaranteeing internet and -- the plan would allow providers like netflix to pay for a guaranteed fast lane for service. >> [indiscernible] [applause] >> [indiscernible] [applause] >> [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] >> ok, we now have -- >> [indiscernible] >> for the may 20 14th meeting of the federal medications commission. let me begin with a couple of housekeeping items. first of all, we have a particularly full agenda today and so for the benefit of my colleagues, we will be taking a break between the third and fourth items of about 10 minutes. we will be coming back quickly for that. i just want to say at the outset insofar as before the meeting began, there was some activity here. the purpose of what we are doing here today on the open internet is to make sure that he hear from everyone and that we start a process that fully opens the doors for comment by the american peo

i want to thank both governor deval patrick and governor wilder for this extraordinary conversation. let me be clear. these are the only two black elected governors since reconstruction. in the history of this country. i also want to say no to them -- governor patrick was an ldf lawyer. these are men who are deeply connected to the work. i'm briefly grateful to them. i want to do two things. the first thing i want to do is read to you the words of cheryl brown henderson. she is the younger sister of linda brown and the daughter of oliver brown, the plaintiff from kansas. to the juncture of council chair and members of the board of the naacp legal defense fund, on behalf of my family, we regret not being able to be with you at the national press club. it is 15 q note this anniversary with a conversation with two african-american men. governor wilder and evolve patrick. it offers hope and inspiration. for my family, it was a source of pride to stand with the end of a lacie p -- naacp ldf attorneys. their action brought our nation to a crossroad of values versus clinical goals. the bene

you can see all of his remarks tonight followed by deval patrick, john lewis, and others.l begins tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. not step up the enforcement side, if the only thing we can rely on to make them do what they should be doing is for them to get a bad story, that is a lot of victims. that to me would be a depressing conclusion. we've got to figure out someway to up the ante that is shorter waiting for another tragedy to hit the front pages. >> i would say less dollar amount and more folks. again, the changes i have seen institutions or to make our when they are immediately under investigation. i would almost rather see an investment in a bigger team. >> in all fairness, they will be paying for this. we have an issue with budget and our government. what does that come from? we cannot just aimlessly hand out. i think every survivor would back that up. oncenter claire mccaskill combating rape and sexual assault on college campuses saturday morning at 10:00 eastern. and on but tv, the wife of former vice president at cheney and senior fellow at the ame

holder,l include eric deval patrick, and cecilia , wife of pharaoh good marshall.ive coverage starts about 12:20 p.m. eastern here on c-span. holdeisty commission will the federal communications vote yesterday. it will allow internet providers to charge content providers such as for faster and more reliable service. you'll be able to watch this live over on c-span. >> several members of congress acting in good faith that a just our long-term issue. we applaud them for their efforts. i know there will be more discussion in town this week on those attempts. others are suggesting that the political realities will have to settle for an infusion of cash into the trust fund as a stopgap measure. it used to be there were ways to do it. tighter now than it was. in may be true that you can get an infusion. it is hardly the long-term solution we need. every few years we wake up and abouthe same conversation theing, the same fight in same scramble for money. the only problem is we have not been doing very well. we have been doing this for 20 years. it has been 20 years since

at 8:00 eastern with louisiana governor bobby jindal had university and massachusetts governor deval patrick representatives luke messer and john lewis at 920 eastern and later georgia senator johnny isakson. that's all on our companion network c-span. the house this week approved a bill that would make it easier for the veterans affairs secretary to fire top workers at the agency. thursday senator marco rubio tried to get the senate to vote on that measure but was blocked by senator bernie sanders who chairs the veterans affairs committee. we will have that debate in a moment. than 50 senators asked the nfl tours the washington redskins to change the team's name. later president obama this is the baseball hall of fame in cooperstown new york. >> madam president i am here in the floor to talk about an issue that has received a tremendous amount of attention and rightfully so over the last few weeks and it's the outrage of what's happening at the veterans administration. let me start by saying while certainly people he be held accountable to this they should not be and really is not a partisa

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join us friday for speeches by louisiana governor bobby jindal, massachusetts governor deval patrick, georgia congressman john lewis and others. >> telecommunication policy had not been reformed since 1934, so there was really a compelling need in 1995 to begin a process of massive telecommunication reform. and at that time you basically had boxes. you had a box for broadcasters, a box for telephone companies, a box for long distance, you know, cable, satellite. and our view was we had to come in and try to eliminate the lines of dehard case and -- demarcation and promote competition, believing with competition there'd be innovation, more investment, more consumer choice, more innovation and, you know, fortunately i think the result has proven us correct, that that's exactly what's happened. >> when the '96 act was written, we were largely focused on telephone service whether it was local or long distance. to some extent we focused on cable tv service, and we wanted to take the steps to make that market competitive, which we did. but the primary focus was really just what we call pott

patrick atl, deval the university of massachusetts, the list goes on.hat is when our coverage begins -- friday, may 23 in primetime. our coverage of commencement addresses. that is our topic this morning. should speakers reflect students' values. headlines at the top. one of them is the front page of "the washington times" on the v.a. health system. it says in this piece written by --the obama administration was warned in 2008 that there were problems with the v.a.'s health care facilities. the sunday talk shows yesterday, denis mcdonough was on cbs' "face the nation." the white house's response to the v.a. scandal. [video clip] >> the president is matter than hell. and i have the scars to prove it given the briefings i have given. we are lookinge, at accountability and we want to continue to provide utterance the services they have earned. $40 billion in assistance for the g.i. bill. 14% increase in spending on veterans health administration. 60% increase in the number of veterans getting care for the veterans health administration. these are kinds of