authorities to stop putting students on the path to incarceration. and one of those voices is award-winning playwrite and actress anna smith. thank you so much for being here. thank you for having me with you. tell me about what you ve decided to do to try to arrest the school-to-prison pipeline. it s a novel approach that involves essentially a one-woman play. right. so what i do is use the theater to try to be a part of a conversation which, of course, as you ve just mentioned has to have many parts. i think the president s my brother s keeper is a very important initiative. i ve been in northern california interviewing people about how this affects our communities. in stockton, california, a very troubled city, a bankrupt city. and some in san francisco. so i presented some stage readings of the interviews that
and to make sure that our schools are taking care of all of our children. we just celebrated the anniversary of brown versus board of education. some would tell you the schools are more segregated than they were then. we need to stop and take note of what we re doing and where we re headed. this is a security problem and a moral problem, and it s ultimately an economic problem. and i m happy to see that the president and many of the people who work with him are trying to use the white house as a way also of raising awareness and making some policy changes. yes indeed. anna deveare smith, thank you so much for being here. thank you for having me. we ll be right back. [ femal] hands were made for playing. legs, for crossing. feet.splashing. better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. if you re trying to manage your ra, now may be the time to ask about xeljanz. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill, not an injection or infusion,
off the website to a charity, one of the charities on the website. oh, good. what did second place get? i want jack. you can have jack. we ll be in the pool house. don t worry, me, you, nancy grace. jack has more than 1 million followers on twitter? more than me. probably more than britney spears. because i m america s sweetheart. he is america s sweetheart. the reason we have jack is he s up for a raise and we don t really want to give him a raise. so we figure we ll put him in the audience and he won t ask us for more money. we want to thank you john leguizamo, anna deveare smith and mary matalin. thank you very much.
> all right. before we end the show, we want to test everyone s news knowledge, how closely you ve been following the news this week. the 360 challenge. anna deveare smith is glaring at me right now. i m not. a series of multiple choice answers. so the goal is to win and crush your colleagues at the same time while doing it. that s not fair. she s a genius. i know, she s a macarthur grant winner. i was on jeopardy! recently and i lost to cheech marin. so you never know. so i m doomed? is that what you re saying? i thought he wouldn t have any synapses left. but apparently he does. let s get started. here we go. write your answers on the little board. jack gray is going to be playing
talking about trying to plug it up with old tires, golf balls. let s bring back john leguizamo and anna deveare smith and mary matalin. so moving on. mary, you live in new orleans. the whole town s atwitter. anderson s coming down to do the commencement speech. [ applause ] yeah. brand-new speech. that s the sad part, i have to write a brand-new speech. should this be a wakeup call that stops offshore drilling? it s going to stop it, because even people who are for it, every one of the members of the louisiana delegation are saying, whoa. because it s clear there was no they didn t know the pressure that was why they re doing this junk shot is because junk s what they stop the junk shot is literally golf balls. a joke. the pressure was such that