never in a thousand years the realized there was a war going on, he had fallen head over heels for tony mitchellby calls you and tells you to go to your house, you do it. tavis: when the call comes, show up. >> seeing that one that has only one verse, let me look around the house. they have good acoustics, you sit there. , helayed this little song said to do that again. it was the fourth time that he chimed in. knew the lives had changed. he was really smoothed. and what ever you want to call it can carry a tune. tavis: you can do more than that. you are being modest. that is howld me you are supposed to be. it just stuck off. -- took off. they left it up to me to what was going to go on. i was a ishy guy in h-- a pretty shy guy in high school. possible.is all ,raham had all of these skills he had a dozen or so. the radio all the time. tavis: crosby, stills, nash, and -- >> now that i have done this [inaudible] once.ked out on me are you sure? but he was just restless. aboard. and of course, they got really chaotic. the best new artist or something, they cleared the ceiling. are at of a sudden,

. >> so i got to -- >> we love tony mitchell's performance there. >> dead was there, they won't everd. apparently, they didn't play very well. >>> stories, we got a chance to ask bob weir. we have questions about remembering jerry on his birthday. i asked him for a single fond memory. here's what he said. >> we were just chugging away. nobody was taking a lead. nobody was soloing. nothing. and so i sort of edged my way over to jer i. this is nice. he wasn't going anywhere. he was just, man, i could just live here forever is what he told me. i remember that fondly. >> the fiddle of it, he had a conversation with garcia. i asked him another question, i said, are you surprised the music has endured so long? it's 24/7 on sirius. bob weir does a weekly -- here's why i think he said the music is endearing. >> it doesn't surprise me. there's a lot to this stuff. it wasn't written for the purpose of selling a million records or, you know, appealing to the current trends in popular music and we had no talent for that. so we abandoned that early on. >> so don't try to be trendy. this is the la

tony that i love my math teacher. vanessa guest, an english teacher for 13 years. cynthia mitchell, secretary for 39 years. thank you. >> and finally someone who has kept you safe on the campus, ron hodges, security, 41 years. thank you all for your dedication and your commitment to the youth at lowell high school and to our great city and now, good evening, for lowell high school graduates class of 2013, go red and white. [ applause ] [ cheers ] >> i got my red on today. and with 613 students graduating today, i would like to say congratulations to all of you, you truly represent the incredible promise that our great city of san francisco is. thank you david, for your very kind introduction, as one of lowell's student leaders you must be very proud to be standing here in front of your class who will be graduating with you, thank you for being a great example to your fellow classmates and to our city's youth and i hope that kayla your senior class president and david your student body president as well as the entire lowell graduating class of 2013 become the great community and civic leaders of san francis

tony, thanks. yes, sir. >> my name is george mitchell.my question is, the last few years property tax have been going up and up and it seems like there's no limit. people have again heard, so what's the solution? >> well, the property taxes are mostly a municipal problem. so new poor, providence, they set their property taxes. that's not a complete dodge, because they set it but they set the property taxes in part dependent on how much money the state can provide to support the different municipalities. and as the budget is dried up for the state, there's been less money for the municipalities, and so they've had to depend more on property taxes and so that's been, it's been hard on property tax owners. and the states, in turn, have taken a beating because there's last federal money coming in -- there's less federal money coming in because of the cutting we've done. i think we need to do two things. one is be very careful about what we are cutting because sometimes when you cut, you cut off your nose to despite your face and is not a wise

mitchell joins nbc hillaryvolt against clinton film theater this is from the "huffington post." host: that's again from the "hope and then post -- the "huffington post," and this is from "politico" host: tonys in memphis calling on our democrats line. good morning, tony. who would you nominate? former governor of georgia, andrew young. host: former mayor of atlanta, you mean yo? caller: yes. ambassador andrew young. of dr. kingnd man for changing this world, risking his life, risking a family life. he is one of the greatest americans that ever lived. host: thank you for the call. he has been awarded. he has gotten the presidential medal of freedom already. this is a list. this is from nndb, and it talks world.racking the whole they listed here several of the winners of the presidential medal of freedom. about 20,000 people have been awarded this medal since harry truman invented it. they have got somebody on this list, very quickly, alphabetically -- host: those are some of the winners of the presidential medal of freedom. bob then linkin park, michigan, republican line. hi, bob. are you with us? caller: hello? host: please go ahead. we're listening. caller: i was a sheriff joe of ohio. ho