the men and women still treating the wounded and the medical students who hurried to help saying when we heard, we all came in. the priests who opened their churches and ministered to the hurt and the fearful. and the good people of boston who opened their homes to victims of this attack and those shaken by it. so if you want the know who we are, what america is, how we respond to evil, that s it. selflessly, compassionately, unafraid. in the coming days we ll pursue every effort to get to the bottom of what happened and remain vigilant. i have directed my administration to take appropriate security measures the protect the american people and this is a good time for all of us to remember that we all have a part to play in alerting authorities if you see something suspicious. speak up. i have extraordinary confidence in the men and women of the fbi, the boston police department and
whether it s mass shootings or these random terrifying bombs. that was tom brokaw, speaking about the emotional impact of the tragedy like yesterday s bombing at the boston marathon. president obama spoke in the last hour about the response in and around boston over the past day. the medical students who hurried to help saying when we heard, we all came in. the priests who opened their churches and ministered to the hurt and the fearful. and the good people of boston, who opened their homes to the victims of this attack, and those shaken by it. so if you want to know who we are, what america is, how we respond to evil, that s it. selflessly, compassionately, unafraid. that sentiment is felt across the country, cities and towns including this one here last night the brooklyn academy of music displayed the message, darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. new york loves boston.
all safe. i m grateful for that. dr. shah, we re thankful for that as well and grateful for you joining us and you being on the scene to help the people you were able to help. thank you, sir. thank you. coming up, we re going to speak to one of the trauma surgeons who continued the work that dr. shah had started. stay with us. so if you want to know who we are, what america is, how we respond to evil, that s it. selflessly, compassionately, unafraid. i m telling you right now, the girl back at home would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle. i m really glad that girl stayed at home. vo: expedia helps 30 million travelers a month find what they re looking for. one traveler at a time. expedia. find yours. everybody has different ideas, goals, appetite for risk. you can t say one size fits all . it doesn t. that s crazy. we re all totally different. ishares core. etf building blocks for your personalized portfolio.
they will go home on their own. do you think that s helpful in using that kind of language and using that kind of strategy to having people that are in this country right now looking to become americans go home? my personal background is i m a former trial judge from texas. and i started off with two premises. first we re dealing with human beings and we heavy to deal with them compassionately. secondly you don t reward people for illegal behavior. based on that want premise that s been how i ve gone forward on immigration reform. it is broken at every level. legal immigration is broken as anything. all of those thing have to be addressed and fixed. it s a complex effort. and quite honestly political rhetoric is not helpful. sir, people are encouraged by the fact that you say from your experience working from the bench the compassion leads the day. as we look at our new nbc/wall
campaign. we ve got people taking their food stamp money and using it to go to hawaii. they give food stamps to millionaires. obama is the best food stamp president in american history. more people are on food stamps today because of obama s policies. it is the left which has abandoned and betrayed the poor because its safety net is a spider web and it traps people in dependency. last night on this show spike lee said it was a willie horton tactic bringing welfare up like this. well, there s no doubt that there s some racial codes that are being sort of thrown around when you talk about the poor the way newt gingrich does. but you know what they say about newt, he has hair where his heart should be. he doesn t sound compassionate. and he doesn t behave compassionately in the people in his life if you look at his personal life. i don t think he s someone i would go to if i wanted to find