And the president has ordered a review of the Death Penalty. Rick perry, governor of texas, the state that executes the most prisoners, will be here. Ill go oneonone with him this morning. From nbc news in washington, the worlds longest running television program, this is meet the press with david gregory. And good sunday morning. The white house Correspondents Dinner and the weekend of socializing it has spawned has become a highly charged, pretty heavily scrutinized mix of washington and hollywood. It is a night when the capital comes together in bipartisan good humor for the most part, but with sarcasm, the tensions pretty easy to spot. What did we learn from president obama about how he sees the 2016 race for his job among democrats . Here are a couple key moments. Lets face the facts. You will miss me when im gone. It will be harder to convince the American People that hillary was born in kenya. Later, the president joked about a recent encounter Hillary Clinton had in las vegas.
The National Advisory committee on institutional quality and integrity, known as naciqi, and the advise re committee on Student Financial assistance play vitally important advisory roles to the secretary of education and congress and would not otherwise be extended through the general education provisions act when the Higher Education act expires this year. Naciqi for example advises the secretary of education on matters related to Postsecondary Education accreditation and certification process for Higher Education institutions to participate in federal student aid programs. The Advisory Committee on Student Financial assistance provides advice and council on federal Student Financial aid policy to both congress and the secretary of education, including the recommendations for increasing College Access and persistence to Higher Education for lowincome and moderateincome students. As the Ranking Member of the subcommittee on Higher Education and Work Force Training, i thank chairman kli
38 soldiers took their own lives. More casualties than in the battlefield. More than one a day. This is precisely the topic you take on in the, the the invisible wounds of war. Talk about it. Guest first of all, only 1 of our population over 18 is in the army. It is a volume steer army. Which volunteer army. Which means they dont have enough soldiers. Theyre stretched thin. They have too many deployments. Usually you need two years between deployments. Some of them get a year, nine months. At the most and they redeploy when soldiers are having problems with combat stress, they redeploy. Host it is interesting, one of the trend they found is that, increasingly older soldiers are taking their own lives. And were not even talking about veterans right now. Guest well, ill tell you why. Because since it is a volunteer army. Since were stretched so thin, they are calling upon the national guard. Okay, now the national guard, they have civilian jobs. They have children and wives. Their child
Senator kirsten jillly bland calls for women to rise up and make a differs in the world. This is 45 minutes. Its such a mother are pleasure for me to introduce two extraordinary women. Our guest of honor is a mother of two, a wildfire, a a wife, a lawyer, sunday school teacher, community volunteer, former democratic representative from the 20th district of new york and United States senator from new york. Thats not all. As of two days ago, senator kiss kirstin added a new title, author. Her book is called off the sidelines. Raise your voice, change the world. Part policemen moyer, part call to action, part inspirational guidebook for children and men, too. So i just want to say that to be sure. The tiedle comes from the wonderful Online Book Group that senator gillibrand has con veeped in which women across the country join together to discuss a book every few months and share ideas how they can use their voices to affect change in their communities and beyond. Off the sidelines is the
Journey from a family with generations of formidable women from her career as a lawyer to her role as a wife and mother and, of course, she talks about a seminal moment that motivated her to launch hearse into politics. Her energy and resilience whether bringing her sons with her to the senate floor while voting or taking on military Sexual Assault have made her an extremely refreshing voice on capitol hill. Your candor, your sense of possibility are so evident in your book and so welcome in this town, and i want to thank you for being such an inspiration to so many of us. Its a great, great book. And i hope you all will read it. Its, believe it or not, its a political book, but its actually a page turner. The its a really fun read. In conversation is a friend and hongtime customer at politics prose, Andrea Mitchell, who is probably better known to most of america for her prizewinning reporting on nbc news. Shes host of a daily show on msnbc that explores the most important issues of t