to be healthy, with a full stomach, graduating from a school of smu's acclaim, on scholarship or not, in dallas, texas and in the united states of america. compared to the billions of people on the planet earth, you were dealt a great hand of cards. i know i was. [applause] we seem to have found our way to homer's elysian fields, the fortunate isles of the blessed in the western ocean at the end of the earth. there is no moral judgment from this fact. good or bad. it's just that, a fact. it was our fate, and is a matter of pure luck, timing and genes. but this fact of nature does raise the important question you face. that of what you are going to do now with that good fortune? are you like the servant in the gospel of matthew who takes the talent given to him and buries it to make sure he doesn't lose it? or are you going to put it to work, take personal risk and turn it into something that makes a difference in this world? it is your obligation to address this. now to answer that question, there are three other questions you should ask yourself -- how will you continue to learn thro

to be healthy, with a full stomach, graduating from a school of smu's acclaim, on scholarship or not,dallas, texas and in the united states of america. compared to the billions of people on the planet earth, you were dealt a great hand of cards. i know i was. [applause] we seem to have found our way to homer's elysian fields, the fortunate isles of the blessed in the western ocean at the end of the earth. there is no moral judgment from this fact. good or bad. it's just that, a fact. it was our fate, and is a matter of pure luck, timing and genes. but this fact of nature does raise the important question you face. that of what you are going to do now with that good fortune? are you like the servant in the gospel of matthew who takes the talent given to him and buries it to make sure he doesn't lose it? or are you going to put it to work, take personal risk and turn it into something that makes a difference in this world? it is your obligation to address this. now to answer that question, there are three other questions you should ask yourself -- how will you continue to learn througho

kevin acker of smu and san francisco selected defensive end kaleb ramsey of boston college and trey mallardlback from oklahoma. the raiders used a pick to take a bruiser on the defensive line. ellis say 6-2, 330-pounder with the bulldogs. oakland's second 4th round pick took keith mcgill of utah. the raiders did not have a no. 5 oar 6, but did have three 7th round picks, used on travis karaie and safety jonathan doweling of western kentucky. one local guy who finally had his wait ended today was fales who was selected in the 6th- round by chicago bears of the fales was thought to have improved his stock during the season. >>> other local players taken, cal linebacker fortt goes to house for. defensive back bene' benwikere. cameroon preliminarying to the patriots and david yankey to the vikings. safety ed reynolds to the panthers and ban gardner was theth round pick of the cowboys. still to come on this saturday night edition [doorbell rings] hey. hey. what's this? it's u-verse live tv. with at&t u-verse... you can watch live tv from your device. hey. hey. anywhere in your home. [doorbell ri

the few e-mails we've been able to ob tampa bay -- by the way, the irs commissioner has - refused to(smustigating benghazi. i see no reason to break up all the work that's been done and to take months and months and months to create some select committee. >> what's going to happen here, congressman? yesterday it seems as if nancy pelosi wanted democrats in an equal fashion to be on this committee. seems like now that they're balking. >> that partisanship may sell in d.c. but it's not going to sell back in their districts. the people they represent want to get to the truth. it doesn't matter if you're democrat or republican. they're throwing out red herring to obfuscate and stop this investigation. they've said, oh, we can't spend the money. listen, all the money is going to come out of existing house accounts. this won't cost the taxpayers an extra dime. they're saying, we don't have enough seats on the committee. i've sot in oversight hearings where there are empty democrat seats where they don't even show up to ask the questions. it's not clear if they had more seats that they would do

. >> couple things we're doing at the bush library, on the smu campus. we're helping redefine ptsd to pts. pts, post-traumatic stress is an injury, it's not a disorder, meaning that it can be treated, and why that's important, because, one, we want to help eliminate stigma, two, we want to encourage employers when they look at hiring a vet, they not be put off by somebody with pts, and if it's called a disorder and somebody is like i don't want to hire somebody with a disorder, we're also helping bridge the language gap between employer and employee. for example, you know, a guy writes on his employment form, i'm a sniper. well, you know an employer is going to say, we don't need to hire a sniper. if he were to put on my skill set in the military required patience, discipline, practice, you know, he might say, well, that's the kind of guy i want to hire or kind of person i want to hire, so helping bridge the language gap, as well. all aiming to help people find meaningful jobs. >> you know, i don't want to ask you to weigh in on what's going on with the

i'm a student right now at the high school, i actually graduate next week and headed off to smu in thel. >> goodness. so, describe for me, you know, this area, where, you know, students, not just college students but obviously high school students, graduating high school students like yourself, converge on the weekends, you know, paint a picture for me as to, you know, how typical this evening seemed to be at the very beginning? >> so santa barbara is kind of a cool little place. a i mean, isla vista is -- a college little town. i'd never been there before. this was my first time, and, i mean, i got a bad impression, but earlier in the day, you know, we were just on the beach, and skating around. it was pretty mellow. it didn't seem like a very busy day. i know people see, like, the riots and all that, but it's portrayed bad in the media but it's not a bad place. i had a great time and i'm not scared to visit again. this freak accident happened. can't avoid that. >> nicholas, thanks so much for your time. glad you're okay and sound like you're trying to process this just fine and, of c

smu is one. third shot out for syracuse in a brief. time.laughter] and then there's texas tech, i have lost one political race in my life and that is to the chancellor of texas tech. he is not here, but he would've gotten good accolades for whipping the. me. [laughter] love to haveities a diverse student body, and that is important. but it is hard to imagine a more valuable observation to give us diversity than a group of people who spent the first part of their lives serving others. they need to develop programs to worker, retain, and graduate veterans. to introduce you to marine who got , butree in accounting after he got a job he did not quite work. it is hard to go to from liberating people from bad guys to an account. ant. [laughter] so he went back to syracuse university and founded a business. ranked as one of the fastest-growing private companies in america. he is not only providing for his family, but some of his employees are fellow veterans. where are you? are you here? thank you, welcome, we are glad you are here. [applause] his

smu is one. syracuse, third shoutout for syracuse in a brief period of time. doing great work. and of course there is texas tech. by the way i lost one political race in my life and that was to the chancellor of texas tech ken hance. are you here brother? too bad you're not here because you would have gotten good accolades for whipping me. most schools have really not done enough to make their campuses welcoming and accommodating. major universities, love to tout diverse student body and that is important but it is hard to imagine a more valuable contradiction to campus diversity than a group of people who chose to spend their early careers risking their lives for their country. so the military service initiative will work with leaders in higher education to promote innovative programs that recruit, retain and graduate veterans. pleased to introduce to you a veteran that went back back to school, john rafter riff. he helped lead the charge to liberate baghdad in 2003. when he came home he used his g.i. bill benefits to get a degree in accounting. he took a job that didn't work.

i'm down there all the time 'cause as you know, my daughter goes to smu.u very much. >> good to see you. >>> heather nauert is standing by. good morning to you. >> we got a lot of graduations going on this time of year. you will not believe what one student in connecticut did. you haven't gone to class in a year. so how do you keep your parents from finding out that you're not graduating? call in a bomb threat? that's what this gal did, danielle shay. she attended quinnipiac university. she called in two bomb threats just before the start of the graduation ceremony. yeah. she's now being held on a $20,000 bond. the graduation was delayed 90 minutes, moved indoors, but it went off without a hitch after all. >>> a new law in the state of colorado will allow terminally ill patients access to fermental did -- experimental drugs that could save their lives but not approved by the f.d.a. colorado is the first to pass this law. pharmaceutical companies would have to sign off on giving the drugs to a patient before they start to get it. it's similar to what happen

asked commencement speaker at smu. national security advisor.sition have a position on a war or whatever they have. she stands behind everything she did as george bush did for everything they did for them to skew and say enhanced interrogation lied up to the lead up of this war as this professor has done. in fact, here is the professor talking to ainsley a couple of weeks ago. let's listen. >> she played a prominent role in the bush administration's effort to mislead the american people about the presence of weapons of mass destruction. and she, at the very least, condoned the bush administration's policy of enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding. and that does it for me. >> rutgers is a place where students should be happy and joyful and proud of their achievements and not be distracted by political controversy. >> this is a couple of months ago anticipation energy was building about what would happen and what decision would be made on this. do you think there was any fear that there would be any violence at the graduation? >>

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