Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Maya angelous death late this spring at 86 sent me back in time. We had first met in new york city 45 years ago, soon after she had published her phenomenal, bestselling memoir, i know why the caged bird sings. She was already a presence civil rights activist, singer, dancer, songwriter. But that first night, we discovered that we had both grown up in small, segregated towns just a hop, skip and jump from each other. So, we talked about my childhood in marshall, texas, and hers in stamps,
The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Once again, we are remembering the author and poet maya angelou, who died three months ago at the age of 86. At the time of her death, one of the cable news websites proclaimed that a literary voice revered globally for her poetic command and her commitment to civil rights has fallen silent. Well, not exactly. Because well be hearing Maya Angelous voice for a long time to come. She left seven autobiographies, three books of essays
Including the first africanamerican republican and the house and the first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of members of congress using congressional chronicle on cspan. Org. The page has lots of useful information, including voting results. New congress, best access on cspan cspan2, cspan radio and cspan. Org. I really weekend, the Democratic National committee released an interim review of the partys losses in the Midterm Elections. It showed the democrats lack a single election strategy. They need to focus on local elections. Kentucky governor steve bashiear talked about some of the points during the winter meeting. This is about an hour and a half. I hereby call the 2015 winter meeting of the Democratic National committee back into session from recess. The colors will be presented by the Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School color guard. Please rise for the presentation of the colors. Join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United State
Bowl. With just over 24 hours to go, a look at everything from the incredible security effort here in new york to some ads that are literally out of this world, today, saturday, february 1st, 2014. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. Big weekend here, huh . Big weekend. Its a new month, february 1st. Yeah. Weve got the super bowl. Groundhog day. Groundhog day is tomorrow . Tomorrow, yeah. Got the olympics starting in a few days. Keeping us busy. Are you guys going to the super bowl . Youre not going. Are you going . No, ill be watching. Youll be there, right . Ill be there, yeah. Id rather watch it at home with the food and the commercials is that because i said im going . Dont take it personally. That means she had no shot at tickets. Anyway, well talk more about that coming up. Well, speaking of football, actually, could his future be in trouble . More and more parents now say they dont want t
More effort to figure out how can we list fewer americans on the beaght field. Peace things are coming down the road. On energy, the breakthrough in hydraulic frackerring and horizontal drill, we take a place like north dakota which went from 800 Million Barrels of reserve in 2002 to over 24 billion today. And rising. North dakota has a high employment rate we have gone up 50 in the last eight years. And mcdonalds now pays a bonus if you will sign up to work. That actually should be the conservative answer to income and equality. We would like everybody to rise up. Were not in the business of tearing down. We should be in the business of helping every person rise up. And north dakota is a pretty good case study. If the federal government were actually encouraging it. We would be astonished how many additional jobs you would be creating right now. We are this year the largest gas producer in the world by 2015 well be the Largest Oil Producer in the world. Thats an enormous shift of powe