thank you marc morial, joel packer, janet murguia. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> a discussion on school choice and education policies. >> what if the soviet union analysis tomorrow that if we attack cuba is going to be a war? >> this thing is such a serious thing here on our ranks. we are going to be done easily. we know what is happening now. something may make him shoot them off. i want to keep my own people very alert. >> it is amazing that eisenhower tells him to have his people alert. everyone is completely on edge. of course they are alert. kennedy laughed. then he says, hang on tight. it is a nice moment that on this tense today they are able to joke a little with each other. they had a sense of call lonely it is to occupy that office. you are getting all kinds of advice. you are getting good advice and a lot of faulty advice. eisenhower knew all about faulty military advice. he was able to speak with his supreme authority about the dangers as

she leads the largest hispanic civil rights advocacy groups,, janet murguia. >> i want to thank my good friend and colleague, mark morial. we started a run the same time. i am so proud and appreciative of the partnership that we have established and the understanding that he and i share in this commitment to come together across communities of color and to tackle the issues and challenges that we face together. mark is a true champion for economic justice, social justice, fairness, and equality. he has been a great mentor to me. it is no surprise that at the center of an idea as a forum, here is mark morial and the urban league leading the way. the national urban league and the national council of la raza has worked together on a number of issues including the housing crisis, to expanding green jobs and other 21st century jobs to making sure our families have the latest access to technology and broadband. it is a model on how communities can work together on issues of greatest importance to them. and i think all of the to for that. there is no more urgent issue than job creation. latino

teaches urban policy comes civil rights policy and american government and we have just heard from janet murguia from national council of the bras. with that, mr. packer, to make is yours. >> first, thank you for the introduction and mark and chanel for others for having me on the piano with my colleagues here. so a couple of good things about the raising group in case you don't know. the briefing groups and government affairs, public affairs firm with 42 folks on our staff. overall majority of clients or progressive nonprofit organizations. firms really committed to advancing the ideals and missions of the whole broad range of the progressive community. personally i do education policy. as far as what the raising group i work for the national education association for 27 to doing policy for 35 years now. i wanted to talk first about some of the challenges we're facing because we face a lot of challenges. since her in washington all talk mostly about challenges we face, congress and the whole set of issues. so we'll start first with fun name. one of the clients they represent at raising group is

she leaves the nation's largest hispanic civil rights advocacy group, ladies and gentlemen, janet murguia. [applause] >> thank you, marc. good morning everyone and thank you so much for the opportunity to be here today. i want to especially of course thank you my good friend and colleague marc morial. he and i started about the same time. maybe he was on about a year or two before i did and our respective organizations and i am so proud and appreciative of the partnership that we have established and the understanding that he and i share in this commitment to come together across the communities of color and to tackle those issues and challenges that we face together. marc as a champion for economic justice, social justice, fairness and equality and he's been a great mentor to me. it's no surprise at the center of the ideas forum here is marc morial leading the way and the urban league leading the way so it is a point of pride to be here. the national urban league and the national council have worked together on a host of issues from addressing the for crisis that has decimated both our c