about space moments ago, graduates at a north dakota college had a special commencement speaker. the former astronaut delivered a speech to the graduating class from space. i am extremely proud to be a graduate of und. my time there provided a great foundation for me, not only as an engineer, but also as a person. nyberg told the students they should continue to reach for their own stars. i wonder if that s a first. pretty cool. it is pretty cool, probably one of the more interesting graduation speeches. thank you so much for starting your morning with us. the next hour of your new day begins right now. good morning, everybody. i m brianna keilar. i m victor blackwell. it s 7:00 here on the east coast, 4:00 on the west coast. this is new day sunday. a former u.s. ambassador tells cnn he s never seen anything like it. this morning, almost two dozen u.s. embassies and consulates
promised, they cut the microphone. now the school issuing a statement saying when one student s speech deviated from the prior reviewed speech, the microphone was turned off, pursuant to district policy and procedure. and we checked, and federal law, state law, and district policy all say the very same thing, that schools cannot edit graduation speeches, saying, and i m quoting, they have to provide the forum in a manner that does not discriminate against the student s voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint, if any, on an otherwise permissible subject. the liberty institute of freedom for religion group is now supporting him. they want the school and the principal to apologize. and from our research, megyn, it looks like he may get that apology, because his rights were trampled pretty good, from our estimation. and yet the principal doesn t seem like he s done. would like to ruin his career at the naval academy.
newark is not corey booker s place. he s not it doesn t seem to be in control in administrative matters, budget, police, so on but he s had political problems in newark. how do new jerseyans look at that? probably not a lot of people are aware of that. and corey booker, in a way, is a kind of chris christie person in wanting to go out and talk to people and be well known. booker has been all over the state doing graduation speeches and so on. how does that count? in this rather strange election, on august 13th? we talk about nationally chris christie and republicans, chris christie have a problem with national republicans because of his chumminess with president obama. in new jersey, corey booker and chris christie have been equally chummy. is that a problem potentially in a democratic primary? or is christie so popular it doesn t matter? the turnout here is going to
immigrants and the budget on the other hand? and the white house has been encouraging cabinet members giving graduation speeches, commencement speeches to push obama care. bloomberg reporting, the white house told all cabinet members and senior officials to use commencement speeches to drive home for graduating students and their parents the benefits they gained from a provision of the law that allows young adults to stay on their family s insurance plan until they turn 26. what does this say to you about the popularity of the bill and moving forward with regards to implementation? well, i think that what it says is that the popularity of the bill is still an open question and the white house is very worried about it. you know, really we might be talking a lot more in the next couple of years about the implementation of obama care rather than benghazi. and that may end up being a bigger issue for hillary clinton even though she was at state and was not directly involved in all of t
newly married man and married his long time partner tonight. massachusetts is one of six states that allow same-sex marriage. and, yes, it is that time of year again. pamplona, spain, 400-yered tradition of running bulls through the streets. it is the first day of the annual eight-day festival with massive bulls run along people of questionable sanity. a few people needed medical treatment today. the animals wind up in the bull fighting ring. here s what else we have for you on cnn saturday night. one of the fastest men on earth. you want to get up to speed as quickly as possible. reporter: reveals a secret to his success. slavery. i was able to break the world record. reporter: is he right? does the color of your skin make you better? faster? stronger? the upside of being on the dl. there are going to be people who don t understand it. a bold move or bad for business? what would you say? well, me? of the future? to your 12-year-old self if you could.