stories like estefan s and stories like troy s. but we don t want these to be the exceptions. we want these to be the rule. that s what we owe our young people. and that s what we owe this country. we all have a stake in restoring that fundamental american idea that says it doesn t matter where you start. what matters is where you end up. and as parents and as teachers and as business and philanthropic and political leaders and as citizens, we ve all got a role to play. so i m going to spend the next three years as president playing mine. and i look forward to working with you on the same team to make this happen. thank you very much, everybody. [ applause ] you ve been watching president obama, the first lady as well. a special summit at the white house dealing with education trying to make it more affordable for low-income students and disadvantaged communities. the president in a rare occasion really using many different personal examples from his own
and universities and businesses and non for profits to take part. for folk who is are watching this who were not able to be here today, we want you here next time. start thinking about your commitments now. we want you to join us. for those who were able to make commit ms today, i want to thank you for doing your part to make better the life of our country. because what you re doing here today means that there are a bunch of young people, like troy and like michelle and like me, who suddenly may be able to see a whole new world open up before them that they didn t realize was there. so i ll end with a great story that i think speaks to this. there s a former teacher here today named nick airman. where s nick?
i ve been requesting one. really, i just stay by himself. the only people i kick it with is gay people, people that identify themselves as being transgender. later on we met two of roy s of closest friends. trying to do a birthday party. what s today? my birthday. i thought it was a holiday. that s not on your calendar? it was on cnn on the scroll this morning. we were going to the gym and do pictures and then we had a little strip show. or something. i ain t got nothing to do with that. just for the record, i don t know what they re talking about. one member of the trio,
to jeopardize my freedom and liberties i have right now. uh-uh. right now, i can hear the wind blowing in to the trees behind us. ain t no trees in no prison yards i ve ever been in. life is great. i m really excited. roy s brother ray was just as hopeful when he left prison. during our extended stay shoot at the limon correctional facility, we followed him to the small trailer home where he was going to restart his life. yeah, this is nice. i love it. come on in. all right. this is a castle to me. ray s release from prison did not go as he had hoped. we met him again a year and a half later. went home and moved into that trailer, and it became home. before i knew it, i was sitting in that trailer by myself, every night by myself, 24/7. it had become a drag. but things picked up for ray when he got a job with an industrial paint company.
show was whatever worked last week. whatever didn t work last week, we want to do something different next week. we just want to keep pushing it, keep pushing it. get stranger, weirder. but we want to stay interested and want people to say interested as well. if we re not having fun, there s no reason for anyone else to watch it. this is the bourdaini. the anthony bourdaini. so listen. there is a method to your madness. if you can reveal to us there s a reason why we re here in las vegas and the reason we re at atomic liquors. why is that? because there s alcohol in this. that s it for this evening. thank you to all of you for being here. you can see don on cnn every weekend. wendell is on the michael j. fox show thursdays at 9:30. roy s buck is in stores now. and also pick up a copy of