about his you earlier graciousness. tavis: share with me your thoughts about king the man. could anybody nonviolently oppose such a violent people who wanted to do to him no good whatsoever. he did it with grace and poise and he did it with beautiful poetry, wonderful speeches. laidng mandela -- i had mandela months before and he was known for his great speeches. they were great but they were very long. and they were brilliantly written create they were not as poetic. they were not as beautiful. his prose was extraordinary. when i see this, the address at the lincoln memorial, you get shivers. i can watch that and just think how on earth could anything -- any man speech with such power, such passion. tavis: there are too many folks who would take me to task on this. ,s brilliant as that was before it was not his best stuff. dicdo not get me wrong. >> the actual mountaintop itself. tavis: vietnam, around midnight. there ar is some powerful stuff. >> when you come from the church as a preacher and you segue into politics. it gives u.s. -- a wonderful sense of oratory. tavis:

hong chang who graciously under wrote the projection of today's event. (applause) >> thank you, christina. thank you for allowing comcast to be part of this celebration and to the class of 2013. you know, you have every reason to be proud of what you have been able to accomplish today. you know, there's a great future for you. and the message from me is pretty simple. just be mindful that you're not on this journey or in this fight all alone. you always have your families, have your, you know, friends, have the mayor, have the elected officials here, have everybody in the community behind you to achieve your dream. just, you know, congratulations. always remember, you know, it's not always going to be just moments of celebrations. there will be moments of you feeling very tired. you will feel you have setbacks, you have heart breaks. but, you know, you have a village here. the village by the beautiful name of san francisco working to be here for you. thanks again. (applause) >> and now our last speaker who is the superintendent of san francisco unified s

. >> the taylor family foundation has graciously told us that they would help us pay to make home modifications when that time came. that was a huge, huge deal for me because i was already thinking, you know, how are we gonna pay for this. knowing that we have more support now than just our immediate family, that's really good. it's nice to just have someone to help you when you need it. >> as a parent of kids who are sick and knowing what that entails and how much worry and stress that can put on your family, the fact that there is an organization out there that can take some of that stress off of you is huge. >> some days are easier than others, sometimes it's hour by hour, minute by minute. you just try to stay in the now and try to stay positive. >> it's a family who they have to live in the moment. they have no choice but to live in the moment. we want to do to support them so if we can help them do that, that is critically important to me. >> the next important venture for the taylor family foundation. ♪ >> music therapy, it's benefits and children will help but first. when you hear she c

. >> i have the honor of sbre duesing our moderator, tom perez has graciously agreed to stay and participate in our first panel, business creating a healthy safe and inclusive environment for all school students, the role of our federal government. tom perez, assistant secretary for civil rights, ruslyn lee. she was also nominated by president obama to serve in her role as assistant secretary of education for civil rights and she was confirmed by the senate in may of 2009. as assistant secretary, ruslyn is assistant secretary arnie's duncan's primary advisor. before she joined the department of education she was vice president of the education trust in washington, dc and was the founding executive of education trust west in oakland. in these positions she advocated for public school students in california, focusing on achievement and opportunity gaps, improving can urriculum and instructional quality and ensuring quality education for everybody. she served as an advisor on education issues on a number of private ipbs institutions, she is a teacher, a lawyer, and a very influential voice on a

and the san francisco foundation has graciously accepted this responsibility and is currently managing the community benefit fund associated with the hunters point shipyard project and has proved to be helpful working with groups to develop strategies to maximize these particular investments. and it's with the san francisco foundation's partnership that i think many of us are confident that they will be able to lend a similar amount of technical assistance to -- technical assistance for strategic advice on the use of these work force dollars which is actually extremely critical. there are a few many questions and issues that i heard from the community members between today and yesterday and last week, and i just want to give a little voice to them. they're centered around ensuring that the san francisco foundation will work collaboratively with the committee members on outlining goals for the use of these funds to ensure that they are reaching the targeted population that need work force training the most. and i just want to briefly go down these bullet points. also, in addition in res

owner alice waters was graciously passing out apricots to guests. at a private fund raising dinner tonight. that also served as a practice run, before she officially opens. >> this is more than a rebirth. it is a reinvigoration. that i think will keep us going for many, more years. >> pam: chez panisse opens to the public on monday. ahead at eight. the n-s-a leaker. edward snowden has now been charged. plus: officials across the u-s are stumped by a recent rash of car thefts. the mysterious device the crooks are using to break in. and: an i-phone accesory. that doubles as a self- defense tool! we've got the details. coming up. coming up. have a good night. here you go. you, too. i'm going to dream about that steak. i'm going to dream about that tiramisu. what a night, huh? but, um, can the test drive be over now? head back to the dealership? oh, yeah. [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. [ wife ] sorry. [ male announcer ] but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and it's never been easier to get a passat. that's th

. >> the taylor family foundation has graciously told us that they would help us pay to make home modifications huge, huge deal for me because i was already thinking, you know, how are we gonna pay for this. knowing that we have more support now than just our immediate family, that's really good. it's nice to just have someone to help you when you need it. >> as a parent of kids who are sick and knowing what that entails and how much worry and stress that can put on your family, the fact that there is an organization out there that can take some of that stress off of you is huge. >> some days are easier than others, sometimes it's hour by hour, minute by minute. you just try to stay in the now and try to stay positive. >> it's a family who they have to live in the moment. they have no choice but to live in the moment. we want to do to support them so if we can help them do that, that is critically important to me. >> the next important venture for the taylor family foundation. ♪ >> music therapy, it's benefits and children will help but first. when you hear she can't go home right away, my god,

columnist joe klein, managing editor of grio.com and someone filling in for me so graciously, joy reid, and editorial director at the "huffington post" media group and msnbc political analyst, howard fineman. i believe joining us from washington, d.c. is "the washington post's" ezra klein. always great to see you. i would like to go to you first on the food stamp farm bill back and forth. you had a really interesting piece today, and you made the point that this is really a change, sea change as it were, in terms of programs that help the neediest and using them as bait to get democrats to the table. this isn't just a bit cruel, it is also really unusual. for decades these ideas have excluded programs that serve the poorest americans. that's why sequestration excludes food stamps, medicaid and the earned income tax credit. conoway's amendment exclusively targets a program that serves the poorest americans. how do you read that, ezra? why is he doing that? >> we need to back that up for a second. representative mike conaway, one of the guys behind this farm bill, he feels the democrats

it's the good the bad of the very very latest graciously ability the good bernie sanders over the weekend of armaan senator announced a brand new jobs plan aimed at solving the nation's ongoing light of youth unemployment similar to the two thousand and nine stimulus plan sanders's proposed bill you jobs act. provides over three billion dollars in federal funds to pay for the employment of disadvantaged youth prove these funds be split into grants for both job programs and train units the mission could work senator sanders we need to invest in our best and brightest right now where the youth unemployment rate climbs even higher f.d.r. would have done it so should. the bad but ralph peters on today's broadcast of fox and friends the strategic analyst blasted n.s.a. leaker edward edward snowden as the you guessed it him car dash of national security and called for is you guessed it execution. said brian we've made treason cool betray your country's kind of a fashion state that wants me the national security kim carr dashon he cites bradley manning as a hero i mean we need to get very very s

governor malloy came by very graciously, welcomed me to the state. >> connecticut. >> i appreciated him doing that. >> but when you meet with businessmen, you're not saying to them, get out of this goofy dumb state. you're saying here are our advantages, here's the better way to do it. you want to be more profitable, you want to help shareholders? we can do that down in texas for a, b, c, d, and e. it's a positive message about -- >> it is. and the reason we did it this way is because the fact is we have found over the course of the last six, seven years that if we just wait on the mainstream media or the business journals to let that message distill out across the country, you're not going to penetrate. we penetrated with this media buy. people are talking about this. businessmen and women came to hill country barbecue there on west 26th today to meet to talk -- you know, to test drive. let's go talk to this governor and his businessmen and women that came to new york with him and find out what are some of the options out there. and listen, rick scott from florida, bobby jindal from lo

from grandfathers to sons to brothers to uncles. 30% of all those camden yards humorous, accepted graciouslyback in 1965. and 75% of fathers in one survey said they wish they could get more time off from work to be with their newborns. camii the items we're talking about used to be considered unmentionables and now are pretty mentionable. >> reporter: padded, minimizer, pushups. we're talking bras. the look has evolved from corsets to weapon like to an undergarment that bears some resemblance to a woman's actual shape. but dig this: recent statistics show that 85% of american women are currently wearing the wrong size. okay, those stats are from a study cited by jockey, the underwear manufacturer and, yes, they've come up with a revolutionary new sizing system. no more a, b, c, d and beyond. and the bras to go with it. now, i'll admit i'm part of that 85% and have the scars to prove it. thin straps that slice into my shoulders, shapes that aren't quite right and underwire-- and the key word there is "wire." i was going to say men can't once this bra thing, but every year when the warm weathe

and graciously, senator -- senators stabenow and baucus have both been so encouraging and have agreed to me personally to restore the funding mechanisms of the trust fund when the senate and the house go to conference on the farm bill. and when this farm bill makes its way to the president's desk, the citrus trust fund needs to be a fully functional and a funded component. ms. stabenow: madam president, let me just say in conclusion i look forward to working with my colleague to ensure there is guaranteed source of funding for this citrus trust fund. i understand the devastation he's speaking about to an entire industry and i am looking forward to working with him. mr. nelson: i would conclude, madam president, by saying i not only speak of this for my state, florida, of which citrus is one of its primary industries, and now the product of which is a staple on every american breakfast table, but i speak also of our sister states, arizona, california -- by the way, to, madam president, i would say that the cillid and the bacteria are in the state of hawaii as well. arizona, georgia, lo

. >> senator laughtenbur has graciously accepted our request. >> reporter: their candidate quit the race scandal. at age 78 he took applies on the ballot and won securing a fourth term in 2002. 0 two years later the senator married his long-time companion bonnie. in 2008 at 84 the senator won a fifth term. while serving he was diagnosed and treated for stomach cancer. 0 born to immigrants this first generation citizen built a successful business, and served in one of the highest political offices for nearly three decades. this politician, husband, father and grandfather certainly lived an american dream. rick folbaum fox news. martha: he certainly did. you know, adp was one of the original great technology companies to come up with the idea of generating by computer all of your paychecks. he made millions doing that. how remarkable to run for office at 84 and to be elected. so he definitely had a long and storied history. bill: his target was to finish out his term next year. now you have a very interesting decision on behalf of theovernos christie. martha: which way will he go. bill: we

president, i yield the floor and i thank sheldon for again his graciousness. mr. whitehouse: i believe that under the pending order, i have the floor, but i would like to yield to the senator from illinois for two minutes and then be recognized at the conclusion of his remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: i thank the senator from rhode island, and i thank the presiding officer. i just wanted to join my colleague, senator schumer, first thanking him for his leadership in bringing us together. with senator mccain, they led the effort, the eight-senator effort to put together this comprehensive immigration bill which was enacted by the senate today by a vote of 68-32. many thanks go around. i have acknowledged the other senators who were a part of that gang, but i wanted to give special recognition to three of my staffers who really worked overtime and did an extraordinary effort to put this bill together. first and foremost, joe zogby, my late counsel in the senate judiciary committee. he was there at creation when it came to the dream act,

after i brought these concerns to senators schumer and graham, senator graham graciously agreed to sit down with me. we were able to work out a way to address the concerns about women in the merit-based system that i believe will significantly improve this bill. the new hirono-murray-murkowski amendment reflects a few changes which we agreed to after working with senator graham. the changes we made include limits on the ability for certain types of health care workers to obtain points multiple times based solely on their employment. clarification that there must be a personal relationship to obtain points under the humanitarian concerns sections of the amendment. elimination of the provision that awarded points for being a last surviving relative of a u.s. citizen. harmonization of tier three with tiers one and two by adding points for english language skills. and ensuring that the tier three visas do not, do not reduce the overall numbers of tier one and tier two visas available. we should continue to increase the opportunities for women in our immigration system, but i believe that t

response panel to adult sexual assault in the military and i also want to thank chief judge -- who has graciously made this courtroom and this courthouse available to us. a courthouse is a fitting place to consider the grave problem of sexual violence in our military an issue of national importance. it is in courthouse is that important matters are considered daily with the objectivity of fairness and independence. this panel is committed to investigate to hear all sides and to find the facts necessary to report thoughtful and sensible recommendations to congress and the secretary of defense. the panel as you know was created by the national defense authorization act of 2013 on a broad mandate to review and assess the investigation and prosecution and adjudication of sexual assaults in the middle. -- military and in doing so to study civilian systems, compare results and look for effective strategies and best practices. we will do that. but in addition and central to that work to specific tasks loom large. one is to consider how our military may better protect and support the women as well as the

we appreciate the liberty you have so graciously blessed us with. we want to give you all the praise and honor and the glory and we thank you for it. n jesus' name we pray, amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approve thsmed epledge of aliegets will be led by the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson. mr. thompson: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and ustice for all. the speaker: without objection, the gentleman from texas, mr. thornberry, is recognized for one minute. mr. thornberry: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, our guest chaplain today has been the pastor of bible baptist church in wichita falls, texas, for the past 20 years, but his ministry and passion for spreading the word of god has never been confined to the walls of any church building. mike rucker, known to many as

to you, my colleagues, who have graciously and kindly made this rather embarrassing evening possible, i express to you my thanks and my gratitude for your friendship and for reminding me that there still is the wonderful warmth, friendship and goodness in this institution. lovely, deborah, and we thank you for your friendship and kindness and the other colleagues we are serving with now and now who we have served with before that are no longer with us we are grateful. this is the greatest nation in the world. we are part of the greatest experience and the greatest experiment in the history of mankind. experiment in government which gives equality to all of us. and we are reminded that serving and saving and protecting those people that we serve and the values that they hold dear is a tremendously important concern. one which we were going to have to go to bat again to see to it that the voting rights act is extended because the protection of the rights of our people and the greatest of all, the right to vote, are not yet fully assured. so to all of my colleagues tonight who have been

inhofe: let me thank my very good friend from iowa who graciously allowed me to make a statement here. i am concerned about this. several of us have amendments we've been trying to get up for a long period of time. i quite frankly don't know what the status of the amendments and the bill are right now, whether we'll be getting to votes sooner or later. but i have one amendment that is one that i thought would be so acceptable that there wouldn't be any opposition to it. let me just very briefly tell you what it is. my amendment addresses the 2001 united states supreme court decision in zavillas. the court held the immigrants admitted to the united states then ordered removed couldn't be detained for more than six months. four years later, the supreme court came along and extended the decision to people here illegally as well. that's what we're talking about right now. we're talking about illegals that come into this country. as a result of that, the department of justice and homeland security, they have no choice but to release thousands of criminal immigrants into our neighborhoods.

reverend rodriguez has graciously agreed to take some questions. just a few real quick. so if you have any questions, if you have written written them down, that would be the first place to start. we will start with those questions. if anyone wants to ask any from there, you can pass them to t.j. t.j. and his colleagues will pick those up from you. let's see. e have a starter right here. >> yes, sharing our faith. how can we share the good faith of the book without offending those of other flocks. here's a nice little joke you may not want to hear. we are having here for the first time ever in the evangelical hispanic community vieable conversations with our catholic brothers and sisters. [applause] i sit down with bishop gomez, and he says, i want you to know that some, not me, but some in my leadership have issues with hispanic evangelicals. not me. but some in our leadership believe that you are stealing our sheep. my response was, bishop, we don't call it stealing sheep, we call it strategic recruitment. [laughter] obviously with great civility in this wonderful plac

they were delivered eloquently and effectively with integrity and graciousness, and a sense of purposethat i found impressive. i think all of us have found impressive in getting to know him. i heard him share his background recently and how he came to this position, and he does so with a constancy of purpose, a clear vision for what he believes is right, he's been raised right and he reflects those values and has done so in the senate. it's a pleasure for me to have the opportunity to get to know him, and i would just say it must be a special thrill for him to be able to all of a sudden find himself, as he says so nicely, in the united states senate. without having to campaign, raise money, or otherwise be in that position. he served his state with skill and dedication, and it's a pleasure to have served with him. i wish him godspeed in his future endeavors. mr. president, i understand the senator from maine is going to share with us some valuable history today. maybe a connection between maine and alabama might even be mentioned. so i would yield the floor at this time. mr. king: mr.