offer his condolence. he also spoke to reporters what s next of plaza tower elementary school. president obama spoke for about 10 minutes. good afternoon everybody. obviously, a picture is worth a thousand words and what we re seeing here it gives you some sense of what the people of moore and people of oklahoma has been dealing with over these last several days. there are a couple of acknowledgements that i want to make. let me begin by just saying whenever i come to an area that s been devastated by some natural disaster like this, i want to make sure everybody understands i m speaking on behalf of the entire country, everywhere. fellow americans are praying with you, they re thinking about you and they want to help. i m just a messenger here today letting everybody here know that you are not alone that you ve got folks behind you. obviously the damage here is pretty hard to comprehend. our hearts go out to the families who have been impacted including those who had loved
then, a look at preparing families with active duty military members. randy plunkett. live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. last week, the senate judiciary meaty voted 13-5 to approve a border security bill. next, we will show you the fifth and final day of debate, where the committee chairman offered and withdrew an amendment to allow gay americans to sponsor their foreign border partners. this is one hour and 15 minutes. would like to turn to an issue very important to me and too many americans who are suffering from discrimination based on who they love. there isments to show more than one way to take discrimination out of our broken system. it is called amendment number seven, before the committee. the experience of americans torn apart by a current immigration system is heartbreaking. i have been married for more than 50 years. i cannot fathom how i would feel if my government refused to , or made a law discriminating me based on who i love. not all states, but in ju
this the president will moore, oklahoma on this sunday, may 26. it is also commencement season. today, we are going to share with you some of the remarks delivered to the class of 2013 and get your comments on the message to these graduates. as always, you can join in on the conversation you can also join us on twitter or facebook and send us an e- journal@c-span.org. let s show you some headlines, following, oklahoma, the devastating tornadoes outside of oklahoma city. this from the oklahoman and from the norman transcript the president traveling to the region later today. during commencement season, now defenser and secretary chuck hagel delivering the commencement address at the west point academy. he told the graduates that sexual assault would be a profound betrayal of their oath to the army. secretary hagel challenge the class of 2013 west point graduates to be a generation of leaders who stop internal issues like sexual assault, a holism, and suicide, which
you be watching for in the weeks ahead? it will be interesting to see how this backlog, the amount of attention on it has been almost unprecedented in weeks and months and it s almost as if the v.a. tries to come up with a new deppingsstration of how committed it is. but before long, the dates are going to come due for whether these goals and deadlines are being met. so we re going to have some measurable data where we ll be able to gauge just how effective some of these steps the v.a. has been taken whether they re working or not. thank you both. ppreciate your time. next arks look at counter terrorism policy first from president obama at national defense university and then from republican senators lindsey graham, kelly ayot, john mccain and sax by cham bliss. and then commencement addresses from members of congress. next, president obama outlines his counter terrorism policy. he talks about using drone strikes overseas against al qaeda, the guantanamo bay detention c
definition is very concerning to them from the standpoint that a while ago you made the comment and i think it was in your testimony yesterday also with regards to size. thatlso made a comment perhaps the risk in the activities they take should be taken into consideration. do you have a preference, whenever you look at designation for banks, whether that should be size or whether it should be based on the risk of the activities? i think size is one of the characteristics that suggests risk but certainly not the only one. you could have a large institution that is very well capitalized and entirely safe and you could have a medium- sized institution that plays a role in the financial marketplace that is far in excess of its size and creates more risk. i think it has to be a balanced approach. i appreciate that, because i think that is the direction we need to go. following up on the chairman s question, regarding the kinds of questions the irs should be able to ask the c