World. Its the central hub of all things mariinsky. Valery gergiev gave me a tour. Here is my conversation with him at the new opera house. This is a new home and an old home because we are sitting in the new mariinsky theater. When you first came as a man in your 20s, what was the attraction and what was the history of the place . Valery so great to have you here, first of all. Welcome to st. Petersburg. Welcome to one of the mariinsky theaters. Long ago, i was a student in the leningrad conservatory of music. Tchaikovsky studied here and was one of the most famous and now overall the most famous musician. Charlie and the famous tchaikovsky competition. Valery im chairman of that committee and im responsible of inviting the international jury, organizing the orchestral performance and participation. Its a big register goal issue. It is expensive but very important since we started. It is now watched in 144 countries. He was an honorary chairman, an honorary leader, a Great American le
The government funding deal, dealing with gun violence and the situation in syria. This is about one hour, 10 minutes. President obama please be seated. Good afternoon. Arne duncan is one of my longestserving cabinet secretaries and he has been a friend for a lot longer than that. So it is with some regret and accepted his have decision to return to our hometown of chicago. After more than six years of living in washington, arnes wonderful wife, karen, and their kids want to move back home. They want to move back home. So, i will be honest, i pushed for arne duncan to stay, but i also know from personal experience how hard it is to be away from family. So while i will miss him deeply, he has more than earned the right to return home. Take a look at what he has accomplished of the last six and over the last 6. 5 years. He is one of the longestserving secretaries of education in our history and one of the more consequential. In just a few years, arne and his team have delivered Exception
Give back and youre going to open up opportunities for cousins and brothers, not just by way of example, but because you are part of that community, part of that tribe. And that is going to be part of how we also grow the economy. Young people investing in education and really being focused on being able to compete in the larger economy, thats really important as well. Our next question we got it online also. What measures have you and your team taken to ensure that the next administration pays attention to native voices . President obama im bias here. Im trying to make sure its a democrat. [laughter] [applause] president obama there are some republican members of congress who represent native communities and are really supportive of these issues like tom cole of oklahoma. I dont want to sound too partisan. Part of what we have done is we have tried to instaugsalize new institutionalize new practices. And my expectation is whoever is the next president , they bill they will be able to