he attended morehouse college. he is african american, and went to columbia law school. >> and this is a job in washington -- when you think about your job, he does not have the opportunity to get anything wrong during his teen your. the president is now walking out. that is the president right now. he is followed by vice president biden. the president speaking from the rose garden, i believe. the president of the united states. >> as president, my most solemn responsibility is the safety and security of the american team, and we have an outstanding team here, folks who work every single day to make sure that we're doing everything we can to fulfill that responsibility. and that means that our entire government, our law enforcement and homeland security professionals, troops, diplomats, and intelligence personnel are all working together. it means working with state and local partners to make our borders more secure, respond to natural disasters, and making immigration system more fair. addressing all of these task

because down in morehouse, they might have y'all beat!yway, we've got some important stuff to discuss today, alright. like, how many of you guys out here are preparing for college? everybody, good, good. making the transition from the crib to university, that's what we're talking about today. today's guest is gonna talk to us about all of those things. the best method for choosing a college, the different options you might have. rachel: right, because there are four-year universities, two-year community college, tech schools, and online colleges. sierra: but don't forget the art schools. tyler: of course, art schools, too. so, basically, there's something for everyone! and today's guest is going to talk to us about preparing for college, studying for the a.c.t. or the s.a.t. anybody out there preparing for that now? a lot of people. and lastly, how to find the money to pay for all of it! sierra: and up later, we have a special guest performance from dc's own asheru. student 1: the most challenging part i think was s.a.t.s, getting ready f

harry morehouse is the cofounder of moo click boo. he joins me tonight. what's the philosophy here?ge. your people will make $31,200 a year on 40 hours a week for 52 weeks. what's the philosophy? why are you doing this? >> because it's the right thing to do, ed. that's what we thought from the beginning. and when we opened in april, we were paying $12 an hour right out of the gate. then when we saw people demonstrating for $15, we wanted to get in step with that. >> what kind of response are you getting from the community? >> well, the community loves us. we get a lot of people that come in and shake our hands. and of course there's naysayers that think we're going to ruin the industry by somehow contributing to inflation. but i'm here to tell you, my partner and i brian are using better ingredients, paying our employees $15 an hour. our prices are very reasonable. we have a $3 hamburger. and we don't know why everyone else doesn't do it. because we can certainly make money using this model. >> okay. so you're sending a message to the big chains out there. you got to be right by the

his ba for morehouse and his law degree from harvard. please proceed. >> thank you very much. good morning. let me also joined the chair and others in sharing and offering my condolences to you, ms. fulton. stander to understand your ground laws, we must appreciate the broader context. sanctity of human life is a central value in our legal system. this is not a particularly controversial claim. interpreters and courts alike have recognized that human life is sacred. those who would extinguish human life carry a heavy burden. stand your ground laws, like all self-defense laws, require the heightened showing of necessity. the particular version of florida's 2005 law differs drastically from other laws and from the common law of self- defense in three respects. first, these laws remove the common law duty to retreat. emboldens individuals to escalate a situation. the duty to retreat implies a duty to safely retreat. thend, they shift reasonable presumption of fear. law, he may beda presumed to be fearful. this removes the responsibility to affirmatively show the necessity to take

he received his ba from morehouse college and his law degree from harvard. professor sullivan, thanks for being here and plead proceed. >> thank you very much. good morning, chairman durbin and ranking member cruz and members of the committee. let me also join the chair and others in sharing and offering my con doll senses for your -- condolences for your loss, ms. fulton. in order to properly understand stand your ground laws, we must first appreciate the broader context in which they exist. first and most important, sanctity of human life is a central and animating value in our legal system. this, i trust, is not a particularly controversial claim. dating back to our laws, judeo-christian origins, interpreters and courts alike have recognized that human life is sacred, and those who would extinguish human life carry a heavy burden in order to justify such an act. stand your ground laws, like all self-defense laws, require this heightened showing of necessity. the particular version of stand your ground laws which began with florida's 2005 law differs drast

. >> jeh johnson, a morehouse man, the first african-american to hold the post if confirmed by the u.s. senate. brianna keilar, let me bring you back in as you were right there at the rose garden where we heard the president nominate this man who was the tip-top lawyer at the pentagon. do we have any idea when the confirmation hearings would begin with the senate? >> we don't actually know at this point, but it was, i thought, pretty interesting when you heard president obama emphasizing johnson's counterterrorism credentials. we talked about this before the announcement that this pick of jeh johnson keeps the powder dry when it comes to immigration reform. it's going to be a hot-button issue. republicans and democrats on capitol hill are miles apart on exactly what they want to emphasi emphasize, whether it's the pathway to citizenship, which i think a lot of democrats want to emphasize, or border security, which generally more republicans want to emphasize. you don't have a paper trail with jeh johnson on that issue. he's done a lot more, managing i think about 10,000 lawyers in the

it was in the area of the atlanta university where you had morehouse college and atlanta university and he would organize people, black people, white people come asian-american, native american, hispanics, coming together to go to washington for the poor people's campaign. he was a man that was so funny at times and so serious at other times. on one occasion i remember us being in alabama and we were passing by some little hole in the wall restaurant and he said we should stop here and get something to eat because if you get arrested and go to jail at least you will go to jail on a full stomach and he thought it was so funny. sometimes he would say to me do you still preach? i said yes, dr. king. >> host: you called him dr. king? >> guest: i never called him to his face martin. i always said dr. king. i had so much respect and love for that man. he was unbelievable. and bobby kennedy, i admired him. i admired him, too. he inspired me. he was very fond of paraphrasing the words of george bernard. i dream of things that never were and said why not. he believed that. he was a dreamer, he w

he is a native of new york city and a graduate of morehouse college and columbia law school.then, we see flags are at half staff over the u.s. capitol. the house and the senate are not in today, but this is a reflection of the news that former u.s. house speaker tom -- tom foley has passed away. forerved in the u.s. house 30 years before losing a reelection bid for a 16th term in 1995. tom foley was 84 years old. >> for guys like us that have been in the game for a long time, we know there are landmines out there and you have to be careful about how you manage your way through these things -- issues that deal with the abortion issue in the united states, guns, race, arab-israeli relations. i have lived in other countries, and they have their own red lines they have to be aware of. i guess what a cartoonist could get away with in san francisco but be different than what you can get away with in parts of alabama. >> i think there are a few conservatives in journalism and that is reflected in cartoonist as well. it is not a conservative thing. journalism tends to draw people tha