i was a member of the peace corps. in peace corps when i went in it, went around the world and lived in difficult situations to spread good american values around -- >> dana: i'm not against the peace corps. i'm for the peace corps. >> bob: my point is all the things we've got in these things, the democrats or democrats -- >> kimberly: why do we need this? >> bob: i said at the beginning we didn't need an agency that exists. >> eric: why is she proposing it? freddie >> bob: no idea. >> greg: i have a quote. the culture of violence we live in unacceptable and far past time that we address it with the nation. this is why she is doing it. this is about the united states. in her mind, it's always going to be the villain. >> eric: or the inroad, back road to gun control. >> kimberly: there is a hideous czar larking in this department. that is why we don't have money. the redundancy in spending. what can we do to get our name in press and create ridiculous situations. c'mon, that is laughable. the defense department does a l

cal is among the top universities in the country for producing peace corps volunteers. rday by the peace corps show 85 alumni volunteers last year tied with ucla for 6th place among large universities. since 1961, mother then 3,500 have volume deared with the peace corps. the schools ahead for 2012 are university of washington, the university of florida, tied for first, and wisconsin, madison, was third. and colorado, boulder, and university of michigan, tied for fourth. >> we care! >> a major security breach by iran, ahead the claim that the country is making against the u.s. this morning. >> on the hot seat accusations facing john brennan >> cupertino, concord, wine country and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> welcome back, live doppler 7 hd showing definite sharp contrast where it is not raining and where it is raining with most of the rain in the northwest corner of sonoma county. rain in the south bay by noon. showers developing in the afternoon but especially the evening and overnight hours when we can get hail and snow to around 2,500' hanging around for th

i filled out an application for the peace corp. during my senior year because he had. he taught english in morocco. i taught math. we talked about the joys of living and working over seas. we spoke french together. later he helped me get an assignment with a pediatric a.i.d.s. group. now i work in a county hospital in stockton caring for patients from all over the world. like chris, i am genuinely interested in listening to their stories and learning about their lives. i was really hoping he would still be here. i dreamt of someday working as a detector in a country where he was ambassador. i was looking forward to showing off my growing new family. our daughter was born in april. chris got to hold her before leaving for his post in libya. as our father said best at 5 a.m. on september 12th, he made it to the top. he tried his best. he was a great brother. i couldn't agree more. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

. >> i was in the peace corps and i spent two years able to train and i thought the conditions in the peace corps with my latrine were better than the conditions on the boat. >> but as bad as conditions were for the passengers, some of them thanked the crew for putting up with worst. >> those poor crew members, they were coming in immediately after somebody would go use the bathroom and clean it up by hand and then wait for the next person to come in. it was horrible. >> it was an accident that happened, you know. i think that they did the best they could. it's hard to prepare for something that's that bad. >> many said they left behind shoes and clothing on the ship, saying they had become too soiled during the journey. the priority now? getting home. >> i'm going to take a hot bath and go to sleep. >> that was not easy for some. a bus taking passengers down to new orleans broke down. carnival spokesman says another bus had to pick them up and get them safely to the big easy. wow. jonathan is live in mobile, alabama tonight. what did they tell you when they finally got off that ship?

it represents people like obama, the greatest wartime president of our time and all of those things. no department of peace. i like the peace corp and it has done a lot more for peace than the department has. i don't care how many poly cotton blend t-shirts they have made. >> we need a department of know. >> i don't know how to read. i get my talking points via google search. >> it is sad the way he scribbles his name with the backward letters and we think he is being funny, but it is actually a problem. >> does he make a heart over the i? >> you can't fire somebody from hr for not being able to read. incredible. we are a country run by the academic government complex. this is a nation of -- this is the nation's leaders who are nothing but grad schoolers and this is exactly what they want. >> i hate the elites. >> i do too. thank god you are not 1 of them. >> are you gavin or james? >> i am jimmy. >> where was i? >> you hate the elites. >> i hate the elites and you in the green room, you thought because i have an english accept i must b elitist. >> you have an accent and it seems a little more -- >> first time on the show and i

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it reminded me of a priceless letter he sent to me in law school when he was over there in the peace corps. chris wrote wonderful notes and told me when he went running in the village where he was staying, only to have locals come up beside him and say where is it, where did it go. where is what? your donkey. i don't have a donkey. >> why are you running? [ laughter] >> for exercise. >> exercise? are you nuts? if you want exercise, come work on my orchard, you crazy american. >> chris succeeded because he knew how to laugh at himself and relate to people around him. there are two more memories i want to share. one deals with government and jazz. chris always wanted to work for the state department. he always wanted to be involved in the foreign service. he took the foreign service exam when we were undergrads at cal. he came back the first time, pleased with results on the written but felt he didn't do so well on the orals. the question that seemed to trip him up and left him perplexed was the following. mr. stevens, please compare american government and jazz music. chris told us he didn'

she is a san francisco native and was in the peace corps and tout in west africa and please welcome jill tucker. [applause] >> thank you. she just dated me with that 9090 peace corps thing. okay. i want to say how great it is to be here. i have been looking at everyone's name tags and awed by the wide variety of people and i want you to in rolodex. email me. there are great stories i have been hearing today. we have amazing and large panel and it is an honor to moderate for them. real quickly you will have to take my word. i have read their full bios which are three pages here. i'm not going to read all of that but you have to my word these are award winning policy makers and leaders in our community. we will start with jeff rosen. [applause] he's the district attorney of santa clara county and the recognized leader in criminal justice reform. he oversees the largest prosecutor's office north of los angeles and prosecute about 40,000 cases each year, so he is on the ground. he sees it all. he is however a green bay packer fan but we will forgive him because they lost. >> you should be ve

it is basically the peace corps. the peace corps was created and the basic concept was take energetic college kids give them a month or two of training and take them off to botswana and build the dams. we take those same college kids and we put them through a month course about how to teach about health. we put them in school systems around the country. they teach the kids about what to eat and a share with the kids how to get better exercise. what they really do is to give the kids mental resilience. that is what health is all about. if people can control what is happening in their bodies, they can change the world outside their bodies. if they cannot even take care of their own habits, happening make a difference in your health stocks when kids your that message, it resonates with them. kids sharing in sides with them about the world. all of a sudden, the big conversation happened and they will change what they do in their lives. it is a very inexpensive program. it cost about $0 per kid. -- a cost about a dollar pe

parliament cafe workers offering high salaries then to those who defend the country and keep the peace. corps costing life last two days in moscow this is r.t. . egypt has plunged into a fresh outbreak of street violence as protesters vent their fear against president morsi clouds of tear gas fired by police in gulf demonstrators who pelted the presidential palace with petrol bombs but amid the deepening crisis the authorities have now decided to ban the you tube video service in the country bell true joins us live now from cairo where the bell what triggered the decision to ban you tube and how is it going down with the public. what happened this morning saturday morning is the it minister of course here in cairo. for a month after no cease fire by dips in the tiny last year when this on. the innocence of muslims was sent to arab channels deemed very offensive to islam and of course the prophet mohammad this fourteen minute clip spots must outrage across the arab world including here in egypt we still must protest in front of the u.s. embassy in september last year some of the eleven resulti

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the things they have done is adopt health corp. they are children health education foundation. it's basically the peace corp. in fact timmy has been support i have on the board of the entity and california it was a big supporter of the program. but the peace corp. was created about basic concept you take energetic college kids and give them a month or two or training and send them off. we take them and there are lots and we put them through a month course about how to teach and how to teach about health and put them in school systems around the country. and you know what? they teach the kids about what to eat. they share with the kids how to get better exercise. what they really do is give the kids mental resilience. that's what is health is about. you should be caring about health. if people can control what is happening in their body, they can change the world outside of their body. but if they can't take care of their own habit how can they make a difference? it resonates with them. it's cool. a kid a couple of years older than them. the big conversation happening in the hallway and change what they do in

castle had written that service in the peace corps was a life time dream and chance to experience a differentederal regulators tonight shut down the tour bus company involved in the crash in the san bernardino mountains 8 people were killed. the company is based in mexico. it's accused of operating 2 other buses in the u.s. with serious mechanical safety violations. >>> outgoing secretary of defense panetta calling it the honor of his life time. soldiers from all branches of the military along with the president gave the retiring panetta a send off salute in arlington, virginia today. panetta served more than 4 decades in various role of government including the director of the cia. >>> secret service is investigating reports that a hacker broke into the each mail accounts of the bush family. breach includes both former president e-mail show it bush family prepared for george hw bush funeral in december when the former president was hospitalized for respiratory ailment. also show that neal bush helped salvage the reputation of bill clinton after the presidency. and that george w bush is somet

as a young boy growing up through the peace corps, i read the history of this nation is a place full of diversity, and people who had come from different parts of the world because the similar persecution center matter now, but yet when you arrive at jfk or wherever company you're put under this questioning, we are asked -- are criminalized before you even speak to immigration. so you don't want to tell them anything about yourself any longer. so i have lived there for a number years and i'll wrap it up. so every time a child live on an experiment. i'm still a permanent resident. i pay my taxes and around tax time i get very upset when i'm being questioned in a very inhumane way. so if i use many drivers license, i'm okay. when i pop a sierra leone passport, all of a sudden big problem. i'm the same guy, same people at the same area. it's almost like there's no human interaction at all. and if you try valid information from people for security reasons, you can actually get more than if you're inhumane to them. so it's always quite fascinating to see what the reaction is. every time i

university of virginia has pulled 179,000 people into the peace corps in his 51 year history. numerous people have gone to work in the state department. and then we can go broader and teach for america, the students who have trained for generations to get the program degrees, military law degrees. this is a university that is so committed to that global role that we are supposed to play as citizens. and to keeping those balances of examples of military and diplomatic strength. there is really no one today on our stage and in the country that keeps the balance better than our speaker, and i am so glad to welcome here -- welcome him here today. please give a warm welcome to secretary john kerry. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you very, very much. thank you. good morning. thank you for an extraordinarily warm welcome, charlotte. i am honored to be here. senator tim kane, thank you very much for your generous work. tim, as he mentioned, has only been on the foreign relations committee i guess now for a few weeks. but i can, based on his testimony a moment ago, positively

people going into the peace corps have been picking it up. i have gotten a lot of feedback. i went back in 2007, 2006 and looked around to update it. i wrote a new preface to it that took account of obama's election at that point. i wanted to test myself to see if some of those things i wrote then were still true. sadly, many were. >> what impact has this had on anything the president is connected to? >> i said this in the new preface to the book i wrote, taking into account obama's election, it really made the u.s. convinced it was the possibility for black people, specifically. when i saw the idea that this guy could rise from a mixed race background and get elected president in a country where his people, people who look like him, are not the majority, it says something good about america. that was the whole point of the book i was trying to get, that some people actually missed, that this was a real place of promise and opportunity for black people. people in africa are looking at the u.s. in a different way. i think the election of obama was a fantastic thing, not just

the university has put 1079 people into the peace corps in its 51 year history. numerous people over the course of the university history have gone to work in the state department's. then we can go broader, teach for america, or the students who have trained over generations to get jag program degrees, military law degrees here. this university is so committed to that global role that we are supposed to play as citizens and to keeping those balances of strength and balance. there's really no one today on this stage in our country where exemplifies keeping those invalid better than our speaker. -- better keeping those in balance better than our speaker. we're so glad to welcome here to the ground and to the commonwealth. please give a warm welcome to secretary john kerry. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you. good morning. thank you for an extraordinarily warm welcome, charlotte. i'm honored to be here. senator tim kaine, thank you for generous words of introduction. tim has only been on the foreign relations committee for total of a few weeks now. based on

everything from autism and childcare, so i was very honored as one of the authors and founding of the peace corps, which he served in the 60s. there were people in newtown, connecticut who saved. i represented newtown for 30 years. the night before december 14. i have a hard time talking about it. so i care about it deeply as you pointed out. i spent 30 years in the senate working out issues on children's issues, six are deeply about the subject otterness out of this important supporting the administration suffers, the vice president's task force to look at these questions and said we want to be part of that conversation i may have been in many ways. but that executive order, regulation establish the rating system in the 1960s to provide tools for parents to a better choices about what their children may see. over the years, the system has evolved in the late 1960s to the pointed at their smart descriptors involved and so forth. technology has changed. of course today is is a mentioned already the amount of platforms provide so many more places it can be we are working it will be a part of that i

the peace corps does a lot of their work recruiting. employees, not folks going into the third world and doing the work they are doing a recruiting for peace corps members. so they are looking how they can eliminate their fleet were significantly reduce their fleet. if they go out one day a week, why do they need a vehicle that will sit down for four days? can they borrow in epa vehicle? said that comes the strange budgeting challenges, which bureaucratically found it annoying, but it's important to figure out how to solve problems. over the course of the next year, we get biweekly at dates, finding where we could land them be helpful to address challenges. and so, there's six spotlights the focus on everything from solar procurements to cars, two we've got one on federal were challenges, trying to get more folks biking to work. we've got one in d.c. looking at climate adaptation, utilizing the tools to help the irs because one of the buildings here was flooded a couple years ago that trying to figure out how to incorporate training into

from what you said is really the importance of americans reaching out, whether it is through the peace corps, travel, supporting aid agencies. we have a profound role to play in the world. we are not here to save everyone. we have significant problems at home. important to know is that in all of this we provide overseas, it is only half of 1% of the u.s. federal budget. when people start talking about cutting the assistance, they're cutting immunizations for children, maternal health programs, taking girls out of school. our government really gets a huge bay and for our buck get it is penny wise and pound foolish to think about getting rid of host: that what are the objectives of women thrive worldwide? is there progress? where does your funding comes from? guest: our funding is all private. we did not take any government money because our job is to push across the street and down in washington for concrete, real, meaningful action. once we get that, we go overseas and we work with women's groups to track and monitor what the u.s. government is doing there. we are about holding their feet to

when he gave his inaugural address, he started the peace corps and he brought young kids to help out with the country. he and his brothers were for the poor. it was not just for the rich. he's my favorite. thank you. host: we will keep getting your thoughts on your favorite president throughout the first part of the morning. let me give you some other headlines in the papers. the new york times front page -- next to that is the story about obama's plan for citizenship that was put out on saturday. it says none of the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the country will be granted permanent resident status and given a document known as a green card until the earlier of two dates -- this was part of the sunday talk shows, the debate over whether or not the president should be putting out the immigration plan when a bipartisan group on capitol hill is working on legislation. denis mcdonough was on meet the press to address the issue. paul ryan was all this week responding to the white house. we will show you that, what the two sides have to say. marco rubio from florida said that

former senator harris waford helped form the peace corps and been an advocate in higher education andl receive the award. he will make a trip to chicago making remarks about his proposals to strengthen the middle class and bolster our economy. >> congress heading home today leaving a decent amount of work as it heads into a recess. republicans have now blocked the confirmation of former senator chuck hagel as our next secretary of defense. and brennaman as the head of the c.i.a. in a new t.v. add for the n.r.a., a gun owner is a proclaimed proud defender of the second amendment. >> after the nra's disgusting response, i've had enough. you take money from the n.r.a. and then continue to do their bidding, we're going to remember that come election time. >> move on is running a separate add targeting senator rob portman of ohio. the senator said he could get behind some gun safety legislative proposals but hasn't made a public commitment to any of them yet. we're back. stay with us. billy zane stars in barabbas. coming in march to reelz. to find reelz in your area, go to reelz.com [ male

the university has put 1079 people into the peace corps in its 51 year history. numerous people over the course of the university history have gone to work in the state department's. then we can go broader, teach for america, or the students who have trained over generations to get jag program degrees, military law degrees here. this university is so committed to that global role that we are supposed to play as citizens and to keeping those balances of strength and balance. there's really no one today on this stage in our country where exemplifies keeping those invalid better than our speaker. we're so glad to welcome here to the ground and to the commonwealth. please give a warm welcome to secretary john kerry. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you. good morning. thank you for an extraordinarily warm welcome, charlotte. i'm honored to be here. senator tim kaine, thank you for generous words of introduction. tim has only been on the foreign relations committee for total of a few weeks now. based on his testimony a moment ago, i can commend him on his voting

when you do the kind of things that you're doing, the point of contact, similar to what some of the peace corpslements did, it becomes a very important part of the hand extended by the u.s. to other country. allows each of those countries to move forward. in afghanistan, there were certain areas that made a huge difference for that local area. with the taliban moving in, with them taking care of people, they will be taking care of them with 12th century medicine. that will not have the same effect as what u.s. and nato folks were able to do when it came to putting medical care at the forefront for a population that needed it and did not have it before. host: our last call, christina, from michigan. caller: thank you very much. i hope i can organize my thoughts. i flew to phoenix to visit my brother and i sat and talked with a military man who had just retired. i wanted him to explain to me our tactics and how we started all this stuff in afghanistan, because i have a mind of a non- military person. we talk about president obama -- nobody even knew who he was when we started. i cannot understand

of berkeley are coming out on top of a new study when it comes to volunteering their time for the peace corpe 500alumni serving and out of those berkeley grads were the ones who volunteered the most. across the nation berkeley ranks 6th among large colleges with 85 volunteers. >>> a ceremony is being held today to announce a tim boost for 3 state marin parks. last year china camp, and two others were in danger of being closed. to keep them open the parks association raised one million dollars. then last summer more than 50 million in state money was found in hidden accounts. that is now being used to match what the association raised and will expand park hours. >> a great white shark has been spotted in the waters at moss landing state beach. a retired high school teacher said he was getting ready to get in to the water when he saw the large splash. then he said he saw a large great white shark lift a sea lion out of the water and start shakingt. he said word spread and soon everybody was out of the water. >>> in san francisco, a famous resident of the academy of sciences is celebrating a mi

others will participate in an event that kicks off today with a the nationalam at marine corps in triangle. lakers star metta world peace join the others to promote schools act.ealth process he has admitted to being part of with issues of depression, schizophrenia, anger, and drug abuse. >> senate republicans have blocked the nomination of chuck hagel as defense secretary over about president actions in the aftermath of september's deadly attacks in benghazi. the president accused republicans of playing politics with national security. democrats have vowed to revive the nomination when lawmakers return after the holiday break. >> it will be tough to get town using metro this holiday weekend. from 10:00 tonight until closing monday, orange line trains between stadium- armory and cheverly. blue line trains will not run armory and largo center. on saturday, green line trains between greenmount and college park. all buses will be available. red line trains will single islandetween rhode avenue and takoma. have the entire list and the track work schedule at wjla.com. check it out. it's the end of an era at a d.c. at thehool

when you're 18 years of age, you either go into the peace corps, vista, or the military.mature college kids and everyone in this country would have a sense of what it is to be an american, to serve the country. >> we've also got a lot of military bases that are doing nothing. and there's a way to perhaps integrate. i'd asked the congressman. is it possible we could integrate those facilities with a draft in which people do all kinds of services, that we wouldn't have to put these places out of work. >> congressman? >> if anyone wants to avoid the draft, all they have to do is enlist in the public service of their choice and they can avoid it. but if you just sit back and wait, then you take your chances and just hope that the congress and the country does the right thing. we shouldn't have to have a draft thinking about our kids being killed. we should have a draft to let every nation know that we're prepared for anything, but we're not just looking for oil in certain places and finding out what's popular with a handful of people in this country that has more control than

the mindset that people ought to be keeping in mind. all right. health corps are our children's health education foundation. it's if 14 states now and the district of columbia. it's basically the peacecorps. in fact, timmy shriver has been very supportive on the board of the entity, and california when maria was fist lady was a big and still is a big supporter of the program. the basic concept was you take enier nettic -- energetic college kids, and we put them through a month course about how to teach and how to teach about health. and then we put them in school systems around the country. and you know what? they teach the kids about what to eat, and they share with the kids how to get better exercise habits. but what they really do is they give the kids mental resilience. that's what health's all about. they're saying the reason you should be caring about health is because if people can control what's happening in their bodies, they can change the world outside their bodies. but if they can't even take care of their own hasn'ts, how could they possibly think they can take care of anything anywhere else? if a kid a couple years older with them is sharing insights about the world, a

i got in the peace corp, i'm very pro-government.loves medicare, he said, how it took care of my mother, father with dignity. i went to school with student loans, benefitted from it, got in education. where is the consistency here? he trashed the whole thing and played the victim game that everybody seems to play. the republicans, victims, paying one in six dollars, we have 15% of gdp going to revenues. spending 25%, who is being over-taxed? what are they talking about. it was almost like a young americans for freedom speech. 1950s. it was not original, tinker-toys. the philosophy, reduced to the ninth grade level, that is what it was. >> michael steele, i saw you visibly dismayed by the staging -- >> did not like the water bottle. just suck it up and just go with it. and work through it. because he was -- you know, i appreciate chris's point. but i thought he was delivering a very strong speech. it was an establishment speech to your point, rachel, which bothered me. because i think marco has a way of framing those kind of edgy argu