mr. keller, would you open us with a prayer, please. >> dear heavenly father, we just ask that you bless this committee. we ask that you bless this government. we ask that you bless all those who lead this great nation. dear lord, we just ask that everything we do honor and please you in jesus' name i pray, amen. >> thank you. this committee of agriculture regarding the developments of the 2015 dietary guidelines for americans will come to order and i want to thank our witnesses for being here this morning. it is no small feat to get two of the secretaries of two of the most important agencies in government to come sit at the same table at the same time so i thank you, secretary vilsack and burwell, for making it ham, we appreciate it. we're going to discuss the development of the 2015 dietary guidelines for americans. it's not our intent to legislate specific guidelines, however, we ask that the guidelines be developed in a transparent manner. it's a recommendation to the american people on how to make healthy food purchasing decisions to live a healthy lifestyle but it also forms a bas

mr. keller, would you open us with a prayer, please. >> dear heavenly father, we just ask that you blesss committee. we ask that you bless this government. we ask that you bless all those who lead this great nation. dear lord, we just ask that everything we do honor and please you in jesus' name i pray, amen. >> thank you. this committee of agriculture regarding the developments of the 2015 dietary guidelines for americans will come to order and i want to thank our witnesses for being here this morning. it is no small feat to get two of the secretaries of two of the most important agencies in government to come sit at the same table at the same time so i thank you, secretary vilsack and burrwell, for making it ham, we appreciate it. we're going to discuss the development of the 2015 dietary guidelines for americans. it's not our intent to legislate specific guidelines, however, we ask that the guidelines be developed in a transparent manner. it's a recommendation to the american people on how to make healthy food purchasing decisions to live a healthy lifestyle but it also forms a basis

mr. buttermaker? yeah. where are we going? already told you, to the batting cages. you guys swing like helen keller at a piñata party.methin' about it. tell us about the majors, coach. ahmad: you were in the majors? yeah, for a little while. hey, lupus, don't lean against that door, bud, all right? yes, i was recently perusing baseballstats.org, and it said mr. buttermaker played pitcher for the seattle mariners for 2/3 of an inning in 1984. two-thirds? that's it? well, it was the end of the season. you know, september call-ups. yes, his lifetime era was 36. that's lame. yeah, well, i closed the inning out, okay? there's only a few thousand guys ever set foot on a major league mound. i'm one of 'em. what have you done with your life, smartass? why didn't you stay? well, i was gonna come back, but i...had a little incident. i punched an ump. really just a bitch-slap, but i dunno. how the hell was i supposed to know he was a bleeder? fourteen stitches. like that means something. they used to stitch everything up. it was like the dark ages. i got stitches on my foot. oh, yeah? well, i'm in a damn wheelchair. ♪ put me in

bill keller, who was the one that president obama did this conversation with yesterday, he's going to be one of our guests on sunday morning. and i think that it is important that since mrsis running now, we go back to the fact that this omnibus crime bill signed by president clinton, that he is saying ended up going too far. we clarified then what does a hillary clinton presidency look like, how is she going to deal with it, and the specifics of that. i think that's one of the reasons that all of us want to have these continual forums with the candidates going in, but nobody can set the agenda better than the present president, who did that with bill keller yesterday. >> thank you very much, reverend al. of course, catch reverend al sharpton on "politics nation" every sunday morning, 8:00 a.m. only on msnbc. >>> we have an update regarding the breaking news that we started off at the top of the hour with. hurricane patricia, the strongest storm ever recorded, is expected to make landfall in mexico this afternoon. the impact of this storm could eventually be felt in texas and part of the midwest. we will get an update. why do so many people choose aleve? it's the brand m