. >> his program will match teenagers at the "y" with mentors like john tanner that can help them navigated challenges. >> i know education can change opportunities, you can benefit from. >> wright will lend his name and resources to offer college tours guest speakers and other potential life changing activities. >> we want to support the youth and focus on their strengths and supported their abilities to be successful and take the right steps. >> reporter: perhaps some day move on. >> cheryl: with the studio, a director of the in as many youth foundation and this is quite a story for you. tell me about the foundation, what does it dowh the foundation is a scholarship mentorship program. all the students throughout the htsz years and make sure they stay on track to be eligible for the university if that is what they are trying to do. because a lot of students are first year college students and need that extra support they may not be receiving at home. >> cheryl: you are a graduate of the program. i understand you started as freshman in high school? >> yes. when i was in the program attendi

they will be happy that eric tanner and john boehner has the courage and we republicans, indeed, willpeople know we are still on their side. as i said at the outset of the clip this law well justice roberts can say all day long he is a supreme court justice and a chief justice and he says it is constitutional but by golly it is unamerican and it is our responsibility to represent the american people and to strike this law down. >> shannon: congressman and doctor phil gingrey, thank you so much for joining us, sir. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: the violence in syria is showing no signs of letting up with reports hundreds have been killed this week alone. right now the united nations is struggling to broker some kind of peace plan but we are getting reports that russia is balking at any attempts to get syria's leader to step aside. greg palkot is live in damascus with the latest on this. hello, greg. >> folks here still reeling from a brutal attack. amateur video reports to show a funeral procession in the damascus area not far from where we are right now. you see the bomb blast an

tanner colby. >> i don't use that term lightly. >> author of a biography of the late john belushi and the chris farleyshow a biography in three acts he is also the author of some of my best friends the strange story of integration in america. [applause] >> thank you. >> so, as you can probably tell from that introduction i come from a slightly different background than the rest of the panelists. i sat down i will cut about four years ago when we first elected a black president and realized here i was enthusiastic about having a black president and i didn't have any black friends. and so i felt i was awed and i decided to write a book about it because i figured if i come out pretty typical standard middle class american white guy i don't know any black people and we have had 40 years of school buses and affirmative action and fair housing programs to supposedly bring us together if i don't know any black people them clearly something went wrong, we took a left turn somewhere. so i set out to sort of investigate the various areas of my life and to see why they were not integrated. looking at schools and