Nations health care problem. We plan to take your phone calls this morning. We have tried to take your phone calls. Thank you to all of you that have called in. If you missed any of what the president has to say, it will reair tonight. We will take your questions about your health care exchanges. Facebook. Com cspan where you can weigh in. Xers of the health secretary, Kathleen Sebelius. He worked for duke energy for quite a few years. An event withg to kathleen civilians. All of these things do a very good job of preparing someone to be the governor of the 10th largest state in the country. Welcome, governor. [applause] thank you very much. Great to see so many people. It is great. Have ae are going to great conversation and there are so many things on my list. Tell us a little bit, if you governingt your principles. What do you think about when you think about governing a state as large and diverse as North Carolina . Lex one principle may surprise you in one that i bring from the pr
Mascot change, a little less elephant and a lot more coyote. Mr. Coyote, that is, known to his friends as wile e. Classic cartoon fans will remember him as one of the stars of the looney tune animated series. The smart guy whose obsessive focus on stopping the roadrunner leads him to all kinds of wacky shenanigans enabled by acme company gadgets. The bomb. The rocket. The flying bat suit. The giant slingshot. It seems to me the republicans would be able to relate because this week they reached into their own grab bag of schemes and unveiled the latest strategy in their ongoing attempt to stop the Affordable Health care act from running. Investigate it to death. From ru. Investigate it to death. Thursday the house held the first of multiple hearings to figure out who, what, and why behind the botched rollout of the exchange website. During the hearing, members of the house energy and Commerce Committee grilled a panel of representatives representing the contractors responsible for build
Ifill good evening. Im gwen ifill. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. Tonight, gwen leads an extended roundtable discussion on the Civil Rights Act how far the country has come, and how far it has to go. Its really hard to talk to that today to young people because they cant imagine places in atlanta you couldnt go, or shop or try on clothes. Many children in our country still grow up today and maybe college or their first job is the first time that interact with people of another race. Ifill also ahead this thursday, two takes on education. Hari sreenivasan profiles one new York City High School putting its kids on the fast track to a College Degree for free. I can make something out of myself with this degree so that im not another stereotype, that all women cook and they dont build, and they dont wire and they dont program. Woodruff and a global perspective from the former u. K. Prime minister, gordon brown, on the challenge of expanding childrens access to education. Ifill those are ju
Ifill good evening. Im gwen ifill. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. Tonight, gwen leads an extended roundtable discussion on the Civil Rights Act how far the country has come, and how far it has to go. Its really hard to talk to that today to young people because they cant imagine places in atlanta you couldnt go, or shop or try on clothes. Many children in our country still grow up today and maybe college or their first job is the first time that interact with people of another race. Ifill also ahead this thursday, two takes on education. Hari sreenivasan profiles one new York City High School putting its kids on the fast track to a College Degree for free. I can make something out of myself with this degree so that im not another stereotype, that all women cook and they dont build, and they dont wire and they dont program. Woodruff and a global perspective from the former u. K. Prime minister, gordon brown, on the challenge of expanding childrens access to education. Ifill those are ju
Rassoules. Hi, guys. Good morning. So today its my honor to welcome this great group of people. I want to get right to the conversation slowed to a lightning introduction of old in. Just about right is Christina Lewis halpern was the founder of a allstar code, nonprofit dedicated to closing opportunity gap between young men of color and the tech sector. Next we have taofeek rabiu, the senior technical manager at aol. He does products and key developer. Taofeek has been coding since he was 14. Last but not least we have nikolas rassoules who is a sophomore at pathways to Technology Early College High School in brooklyn. He is actually bit on the Robotics Team at his high school as a Software Developer and you just went to nationals this year, right . Awesome, cool. Thanks for being here. I would love to start with christina. Tell us of a bit the allstar code and what the program does and why you want to focus on young men . Sure. So allstar code is a prep program for the Tech Industry,