. >>> labor secretary tom perez saying clinton is about we and trump is about me. the clinton supporter and potential vp pick also criticized ruch for saying the uk's decision to leave the eu would be good for his business ventures. >> so while he was president, george h.w. bush famously said he didn't like broccoli. and that he didn't like it since he was a little kid. now a kid, a 5-year-old named cooper is trying to convince the former president that broccoli is a good thing. >> i don't know about this, cooper. cooper wrote to bush saying in part he recently had a meat sweet tomatoes and broccoli dinner. he says he not only all his but he eta his brother's broccoli and he wishes mr. bush liked broccoli, too. then he would have less broccoli to eat. >> i love the way he signed the note, love, love cooper. the former president replied to cooper saying proud of young cooper's interest in healthy eating. he declared love of broccoli is genuine if only unpersuasive. >> so close. >> not even a 5-year-old could convince a former president into but look on the bright si

there is labor secretary tom perez just as with castro, clinton would bev fnefit, but o elected experience in county government. here is a long shot, former joint chiefs chairman mike mullen. just something to think about. go to nbcnews.com for much more. we'll update the list as we hear more. up next, the prp republican canyon and democratic bridge. you know what that is about. stay tuned. >>> i want to say one thing. >> we stern wrely on the us postal service? because when they ship with us, their busiss becomes our business. that's why we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. here, there, everywhere. united states postal service priority: you . >> this evening president obama returns to "the tonight show" stage. you can see the interview tonight on your local nbc station. he apriled it taped it yesterday. i use what's already inside me to reach my goals. so i liked when my doctor told me that i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating what's within me with once-weekly trulicity. trulicity is not insulin. it helps activate my body to do wha

tom perez will join us. national transportation will address the club and july 14th , admiral mike rogers, he will speak at the press club luncheon. i'd like to present our guests with the traditional nationaly press club mug. [applause] >> it's not wireless. i'm sorry. one last question and i will make it a tough one actually. public officials are supposed to feel the public spain. that being the case, can youou tell us any personal stories of any nightmare verizon, comcast or other telecommunications sere firm. >> is there something a little stiffer i could put in? >> so, like i said, we hear from consumers all the time about this. and yes, public officials are real people who have real ongoing experiences, too. my most recent experience was that the customer service rep and more with my wife calling me insane the irs is after us.es because there had been a spoofing incident of what's been happening increasingly is thatie fraudsters coincidently from abroad are using the internet to connect over here and c

tom perez, who is the labor secretary, sherrod brown, the senator from ohio rounding it out. >> stevee first? >> i'm hedging here, basically what i'm doing. i putjulian castro. 15 on tim kaine. >> david petraeus, that's an interesting call. >> that was the last sort of crazy thought. i think she wants to run a safe campaign. i think she wants to provide a contrast with donald trump by being safe. i think most of these that i've list reasonable doubt safe picks. >> tuckery? >> i don't think she's holy in charge of this decision. i think elizabeth warren is the favorite, i put 60 on her and castro, 40. >> edgy. >> charles? >> she puts petraeus on there that means we can abolish the classification system sbirnly, if that's on the ticket. i've narrowed it down. she has two choices, you're going to go center or go left. you go center, you go kaine, you go left, you go share rod brown or elizabeth warren. >> republicans, steve? >> hedging my bets, the only person i've got more than $10 on is bob corker. $10 on newt, on sessions, jim scott, john thune, tom cotton and then it's dennis rodman.

attorney general loretta lynch, secretary of labor tom perez and secretary of housing and urban development leon castro and john king. their leadership has been critical to the administration mission and we are honored to have him on the panel. the conversation will be led by darrell akin's and peer he is an advisor to the second chance portfolio of the bureau assistant peer he is a member of the federal interagency council and the first ever second chance fellow at the u.s. department of justice. prior to joining doj he focused on criminal justice reform issues and in 2014 he was honored as a champion of change at the white house. we are thrilled to have all of them here today so without further do please join me in welcoming them. [applause] >> thank you for that warm introduction. i want to thank the folks at the center for american progress for hosting this very important conversation. to say that this is a surreal experience for me would be an understatement. sitting on the stage with for cabinet level officials talking about these important issues is a bucket list moment, if you will,

the cabinet secretary sometimes operates a critical position, as secretary of labor, the honorable tom perez oversaw a campaign to increase minimum wage, historic investments in working training and the implementation of the bipartisan workforce innovation and opportunity act among many other projects. unemployment has continued to decline while the economy reestablishes itself on firm footing. secretary perez had a long and distinguished career at all levels. he was the first latino elected to the maryland city council, served on the labor and license and regulation, he is a former director at the health and human services and served as assistant attorney general for civil rights at the doj. it might be said he has already reached the pinnacle of his profession as an advocatie for quality and justice we hear there may be greater things in store for his future as well. please welcome our guest, secretary of labor, thomas perez. [applause] [applause] >> good afternoon. thank you. it is great to be here. may i ask you to give one more hand to the people who are serving our meal and working so

speak2, tom perez will and on july 14, the head of the national security agency michael rogers will address the club. i would like to present our guests with the traditional mug. [laughter] [applause] i expect cookies in return. [laughter] mr. burr: my last question. you were selected by fortune magazine as the 24th greatest leader in the world. what comes next? know, iez: well, you have been praying on that actually and i think that again, the world gives us many opportunities. paths.es us many i think i will be called to ministry and i think that the opportunities i have seen, the people i have met have taught me one thing and that is the power of kindness and that i hope that what i have learned, what my family has instilled in me will allow me to take a lesson and have an impact on more people around the globe, and i think be on that list was not important for me but the organization. it shows that the girl scouts is back on the map and that we are doing great things and that we are leaders in many different fields, and i think my grandmother was smiling in heaven because the pope was o

massachusetts governor duvall patrick, homeland security secretary jay johnson, labor secretary tom perez, new jersey senator corey booker. corey booker was asked on twitter if he wanted to be vp and he responded by saying he already is a vp, if by vp you mean vegan person. you know what? wondering who a presidential nominee is going to pick to be their running mate, that is usually a huge waste of time. it's like this parlor game that people play all year long when they run out of more substantive things to speculate pointlessly about. but even though i firmly believe that vice presidential prospecting is almost always a dumb conversation, we have now, just today, entered the season where it's no longer dumb. we have entered the time of year, once every four years, when it is no longer a pointless or dumb way to spend your time. we're now at the point where this is it. president obama has given his endorsement. democratic primary is ending in a very clear way. and there are only six weeks between now and the nominating convention. there's no reason to think that hillary clinton is going

tom perez, labor secretary, comes out of the left. >> rose: labor and latino. that's right. drawing the parallel with the u.k. as well we see with jeremy corbyn who very much has been now voted down, but we still see rallies and support for him on the street and ignoring the real left. >> rose: opposed to members of the parliament but he had the labor rank and file in his favor. >> exactly. >> rose: where is trump on his own selection process? when somebody said there was a split between trump and family and him, i'm not sure who said the source is, there is a question as to when they would announce a vice president pick. should i read into that they have narrowed the choice and perhaps selected their running mate. >> based on my reporting, trump has not made a final decision but it's a very short list. llewylieu wean douse ski is gond paul is now running the process and manafort is very preferential toward a senator, someone who helps trump navigate washington. names i hear are rob portman from ohio, senator richard burr from north carolina. senator bob corker from tennesse

massachusetts governor duvall patrick, homeland security secretary jay johnson, labor secretary tom perez, new jersey senator corey booker. corey booker was asked on twitter if he wanted to be vp and he responded by saying he already is a vp, if by vp you mean vegan person. you know what? wondering who a presidential nominee is going to pick to be their running mate, that is usually a huge waste of time. it's like this parlor game that people play all year long when they run out of more substantive things to speculate pointlessly about. but even though i firmly believe that vice presidential prospecting is almost always a dumb conversation, we have now, just today, entered the season where it's no longer dumb. we have entered the time of year, once every four years, when it is no longer a pointless or dumb way to spend your time. we're now at the point where this is it. president obama has given his endorsement. democratic primary is ending in a very clear way. and there are only six weeks between now and the nominating convention. there's no reason to think that hillary clinton is going

sharon brown, tom perez might be another.ry, i would like to note that we'll be having this consideration for the next seven weeks and there are purposes of these veep conversations and floating of names and short lists for reasons other than actually picking someone as your vice president and i think saying that elizabeth warren is on your short list, whether or not she is, serves some of the purposes by sending a central to people who like elizabeth warren and support bernie sanders that this is a voice that hillary clinton will listen to. so i will just note. this will be a long process and we'll have a lot of names on this list and one of the interesting things happening now. you see people auditioning. i wonder about elizabeth warren's speech tonight, an audition on how she would perform if swle on the ticket. >> an interesting way of looking at it. president obama was in this building to tape an appearance on the tonight show with jimmy fallon. the prelz about to meet with bernie sanders. this is what he had to say. >>

vetting is in the early stages and others include.0 tom perez and hud secretary castro.stigation committee says the egyptair cockpit voice recorder has been found and pulled from the mediterranean sea. officials say was damaged but the memory unit is intact. the egyptair flight crashed and roof from paris to cairo on may 19 with 66 people on board. to cairote from paris on may 19 with 66 people on board. scarlet: thanks so much. turning to the economy, the fed kept the status cuomo but it should cut rates according to the former minneapolis fed president. he weighed in on what was about the fed's decision. >> there is a bias toward normalization. it's simply a human instinct to say look, economic conditions look like they are back so can we start to make policy the way we used to? unfortunately, the answer is no to that question but i can see that it's humanistic did do that. oliver: more fed official c-1 rate hike this year, six out of 17 which is up one in march in our next guest agrees. pmg chief economist at k joins us now. we had yellen on? dachshund bank of japan o

you'll hear from secretary of labor tom perez and just today. secretary perez and the department of labor department of labor is that he is principal partner addressing veteran unemployment and by extension the helping and veteran homelessness. they are helping make a tremendous difference. each year across the country the department of labor provides employment and training service 2500 american job centers or ajc. last year ajc is served over 14 million americans, nearly 1 million of those are veterans. ajc are funded by the department of labor and administered by a workforce investment board operated by local communities. they examples of best in class collaboration. think about another challenge. incarceration in better homelessness often go hand-in-hand. what is the answer? collaboration. veteran trade records are helping communities break the cycle of homelessness in incarceration. as veteran justice outraged specials proven explains, it is a community coming together to support the court, to support the veteran. btc works closely with per

become a much more partisan feeling ticket than it could otherwise be with someone like tim keane or tom perezan castro, someone who looks different, comes from a different background, brings different skills to the table than what senator warren brings. so nothing against warren but it's not helpful necessarily to have two candidates who look so similar, speak so similar, act so similar on the ticket. >> earl, the trump campaign responded to warren's blistering attack. the statement reads in part that "as clinton tries to salvage support among the bernie sanders wing of the democratic party, senator elizabeth warren has become a turncoat for the causes she supposedly supports. while elizabeth warren claims wall street businesses have too much influence in d.c. by paying barely disguised bribes through campaign contributions, the clinton campaign has accepted over $41 million this cycle from wall street interests." earl, does trump have a point? >> no he doesn't and i'll tell you why. number one, it's trump being trump. obviously that will be an attack point because that's what he does. the se

secretary tom perez will go next. >> thank you, secretary lew, thank you for your leadership. thank you, secretary burwell, who was here earlier and had to leave. secretary colvin, always a pleasure to be with you, administrator slavitt as well. we're celebrating important milestones this year. next month it will be 50 years since the first medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in the program. in january of last year we marked 75 years since the first monthly social security check was issued. it's no accident that a portrait of an architect of social security, labor secretary francis perkins, enhancing in my office right behind my desk, because she was the gold standard for all of us who had the honor to serve in this position. and if secretary perkins could see her program today, she would marvel at its growth in the decades since it was signed into law. social security as well as medicare have become the cornerstones of our retirement security policy. they are at the heart of the basic bargain in america. if you work hard and take responsibility, you can enjoy a secure and di

from tom perez and just a bit. secretary perez and the department of labor, v.a.'incipal art and are addressing veterans unemployment, and by extension helping to end veterans implement. -- veterans unemployment. each year across the country, the department of labor provides employment and services at 2500 veteran american job centers. last year, and served over 40 million americans, nearly one million of those were veterans. they are funded by the department of labor and are administered by state level work forced investment boards. they are operated by local communities. they are examples of best in class collaboration. think about another challenge, incarceration and veteran homelessness often go hand-in-hand. what is the answer? collaboration. veteran treatment courts are helping communities break the cycle of homelessness and incarceration. as one specialist explained, it is really a community coming together to support the court, to support the veteran. they were closely with organizations, v.a. homeless staff, mental health programs, veterans service organiz

. >> you and labor secretary tom perez did much of the negotiating. what was that like? we've done some negotiating together, but i have to say sec. perez was fantastic in this. we also had the president of the ibw involved in that group. i don't think that we could've gotten there without secretary perez. i think he did an outstanding job and just keeping everybody at the table and not walking away and making sure that everybody's points got across to the other side, i think we did a fantastic job. you said you knew lola mcadams for a while. he is the head of verizon. >> we are trying to improve the overall relationship between the union and the company going forward. i think lowell will tell you he discovered a relationship was worse than he even thought it was. the relationship with me and him has always been cordial but that's not the day to day relationship between the union and the company. i think they are truly going to improve that relationship because they realize a happy workforce is a good work for. >> how successful was verizon in training managers to do the

>> above all tim kaine, senator from virginia, former governor, tom perez, secretary of labor but cannotpecially if she says no to bernie sanders there will be a lot of chat about elizabeth warren. >> let's switch it up and talk about renee zellweger. mario lopez. hello, mario, it's lara. hey, she's been out of the spotlight for quite a long time. >> hello. >> six years she's been out of hollywood. why do you think she stepped away? >> well, first of all i love me some renee zellweger ever since "jerry maguire." she had me right there. and quite frankly she said she wanted a break. she was sick of the sound of her own voice and wanted some life experience and she needed to grow up but it's been done before, jody foster did it throughout her career and julianna margulies and robin wright, one of my favorites had children and came back with "house of cards" which you just mentioned and is an excellent show. >> in this interview she talks about all the weight she gained for "bridget jones" and the scrutiny of the weight she gained and said, bridget can just a normal weight and says no male

thank you and secretary tom perez will go next. >> thank you for your leadership. thank you, the secretary was here and had to leave. we're celebrating some important milestone this is year. next month it will be 50 years since the first medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in the program. we marked 75 years since the first monthly social security check was issued. it's no accident that a portrait of an architect of the labor secretary hangs in my office right behind my desk because she was the gold standard for all of us who had the honor to serve in this position. she would marvel at its growth. social security and medicare have become the cornerstones of our retirement security policy. they are the heart of the bargain in america. if you work hard and take responsibility, you can enjoy a secure and dignified requirement. over the years the american public has grown to rely on the trust that social security and medicare are the most stable and comprehensive social safety net programs available to almost all of us. today over 60 million americans receive benefits

the cabinet secretary sometimes operates a critical position, as secretary of labor, the honorable tom perez oversaw a campaign to increase minimum wage, historic nvestments in working training and the implementation of the bipartisan workforce innovation and opportunity act among many ther projects. unemployment has continued to decline while the economy reestablishes itself on firm footing. secretary perez had a long and distinguished career at all levels. he was the first latino elected to the maryland city council, served on the labor and license and regulation, he is a former director at the health and human services and served as assistant attorney general for civil rights at the doj. it might be said he has already reached the pinnacle of his profession as an advocatinge for equality, justice and opportunity, we hear there may be greater things in store for his future as well. please welcome our guest, secretary of labor, thomas perez. [applause] secretary! applause >> thank you. good afternoon. thank you. it is great to be here. may i ask you to give one more hand to the people who a