meet whennxious to you ask for a meeting. >> we saw the extremists exploited, although we have been by the surge,ly by reaching out to the sunnis, forces, andup iraqi to bring about security. violence was down. unfortunately when we left the vacuum was filled by a regional .ower pulling iraq apart we have isis now. >> this week and president obama was at howard university in washington to give this year's immense that address, the sixth president to do so at the historically black clause -- college. he also encourage students to listen to those who they may disagree with. before the speech they presented the president with an honorary degree. this is 45 minutes. [applause] president obama: thank you. hello, howard. hu. thank you so much, everybody. have a seat. i feel important now. got a degree from howard. sisley tyson said something nice about me. i love you back. to president frederick, the board of trustees, faculty and staff, fellow recep rants -- recipients of honorary degrees, thank you for the honor of spending this day with you, and congratulations to the class of 2016. [appl