dr. jim wright, and dr. wright is an american historian, the president emeritus of dartmouth college and a marine. my name is bucky peterson, and i'm a director emeritus on the marines memorial association board of directors. before we begin, a few quick words about the marines memorial. the marines he moil association -- memorial association is a nonprofit veterans' organization chartered to honor the memory of and commemorate the valor of members of the united states armed forces who were killed, lost or who died in military service. among its list of duties, amongst the list of duties for the marines memorial association is we're responsible for maintaining this extraordinary club, the marines memorial club. as a living memorial to those who have gone before and to pay tribute to those who carry on. to learn more about our organization, visit our web site at www.marineclub.com. and before we begin, please, take a moment to turn off your cell phones as i just did and any other noise makers that you may have

dr. wright is the son of a world war ii veteran, and dr. wright himself joined the marine corps at the age of 17. he's from galena, illinois, originally, a small town near dubuque, iowa, where i went to school. and if the college president, my college president, doctor couchman, who is now deceased, knew i was with dr. wright, because i graduated with only the slimmest of margins from the university of dubuque, he would be rolling over in his grave about 5000 rpms. so dr. wright, please allow me to continue. after his tour in the marine corps he went to college, university college, university of wisconsin and eventually became a history professor at dartmouth in 1969. he served as the president of dartmouth from 1998-2009, and since 2005 he has visited most of our military hospitals, and has encouraged support for the wounded veterans in those hospitals. he is a director on the board of the injured marines semper fi fund, one of the 10 top charities recently rated by charity navigator. his writings have been featured in "the new york times,"

dr. james wright. [applause] >> thank you. it is an honor to be introduced bayou. i haven't mired your work with the california state university system. you and the chancellor are models to make opportunities for veterans. last friday i was of a raid officer for boot camp i finished boot camp 1957. i have bedroll instructor who would rollover it his grave the new i was the parade reviewing officer. i would be happy to see him rollover. [laughter] i am unthinkable to speak here. i served with the general on the board. i admire him for his service for the country is day energetic figure who does make a difference. also to my friends in the bay area for publicizing my visit and joining us. san princess go is a special place i have spoke period a number of times. i shipped out of treasure island 1958. we were there preparing. i went to the cape and then discharged 52 years ago 1968. but surely informed by my a experience to be right things from our experience. i grew up in illinois of good general grant hometown. minutes seems like so many people came home. the eight d

dr. jeremiah wright. we are a church that believes in the liberation of the community and a church that believes in jesus christ as our saver and also a church built housing for the seniors and head start for the children and hiv programs, and along with serving 2,000 students in the chicago neighborhood who are the first time to go to college to prepare them to not only be gate scholars, but to understand what it takes to go to college. we have revitalized the south side of chicago and because of the work of dr. wright, and the founder kenneth smith, and because of the brilliance of william sheers an william jamerson, and all previous ministers, they have laid a foundation for a model church of what it means to be a liberating church that recognizes the savior jesus christ. >> reverend moss, i so appreciate, and dwight, i want to come to you, because you are a long time member of the church, but also a scholar and theologian specifically of the liberation theology and we heard reverend moss describe the

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dr. king as an object of degradation was a erereal -- >> do you think president obama should defend reverend wright> try to distance himself. >> politically we know what he's doing. but do you think reverend wright may be speak out and letting people know he's not happy? >> i suppose so, but i do not note of their relationship but i know it's a source of pain for me to see him use as an object's degradation and manipulation using the media as if he was an enemy of state. it's not fair and it's not true. >> jesse jackson, got to leave it there and check in with you. an interesting statistic, level of statistics on homicide rates. >> 1,700 in afghan in ten years. >> the next time i have you on. >> 55,000 in the country. >> reverend jesse jackson, good to see you. >> thank you, chuck. >>> what's in store this week on wall street? market rundown is next. first, today's trivia question -- which two countries most recently became members of nato? full members. the answer @chucktodd on "the daily rundown." more coming up on "the daily rundown." stay with us. [ male announcer ] if you stash tissues like a

wright. for the nominations? >> i would like to place a nomination for carl pearsons. >> for the nominations microphone for. >> i move to suspend the rules to allow the nomination of drpaul. >> it has been moved to suspend the rules that allow -- that requires a two-thirds vote. is there a second. all those in favor of the suspension of the rules, please signify by setting aye. fails. four other nominations from the floor. microphone 8. >> i nominate jim byrnes. >> jim burns has been placed into nomination. further nominations. seeing no for the nominations, nominations are closed. -- further nominations, nominations are closed. so the process that we are going to follow for presentations and nominating speeches is we will randomly select putting on a piece of paper the numbers one through four. they can edits are their representatives. the was elected member from -- it looks like nobody has -- does will be the number they are nominated. it will give their nominating speeches. >> will one person from each of the campaigns come forward to select a slip of piece of paper. that will determine the order in which they are allowed to give their speeches. lee wrights will b

wright back in the news this week. more with our roundtable after this. for me is my high school math teacher, dr. gilmore. teach. he was there for us, even if we needed him in college. you could call him, you had his phone number. he was just focused on making sure we were gonna be successful. he would never give up on any of us. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand in your way. devry university, proud to support the education of our u.s. olympic team. >>> we're back with our roundtable. my big question this week is kind of looking inside the campaigns, if the campaign were happening today, where would things stand? i want to come back to this character question now on the president's side. here is the headline from the "new york times" this week. an article that made a lot of news. that is that gop super pac weighing a hard line at

wright, born in india, and now finally home. for "today," ian williams, nbc news. >> to talk more about this is dr. roshini raj a:contributor. good morning, savannah. >> let's talk about surrogacy just in general, what the appeal is for parents? >> well basically this is often seen as a last resort for couples that have infertility problems where they may have a viable egg and a sperm but the woman just simply cannot carry a baby to term. so they do look at this as another option. but it can be very expensive. >> which brings us to why people are going abroad in some cases. is it primarily because of the expense is so much less? >> well, that's definitely a huge factor in this. but there's also a lot of legal red tape that goes on in this country that in some ways can be skirted if you go to india. that way many couples after years of trying to find the right surrogate here may use that as an option. >> if you wanted to go down this route what would be the questions you want to ask of any clinic saying they have a surrogate. >> you really with any surrogate, here or india, you want to be very careful about who is this woman?