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All in. >> okay. >> what is the commitment that this president is trying to back when it comes to hbcus when it comes to say their future, funding, research projects, moving it out of the department of education into the purview of the white house, what is the commitment he is going to give today? >> i dont generally speak about executive orders until her finalized. i will just say that one of the things that i think theres a commitment from this white house to do is to look at the various resou...

All in. what is the commitment that this president is trying to make when it comes to ensure i guess the future or deal with some funding, research projects or moving it out of the department of education to the per view of the white house. what is the commitment he is going to give? >> i dont generally speak about executive orders until they are finalized. i will just say that one of the things i think theres a commitment from this white house to do is to look at the various resources throughou...

All in. what is the commitment that this president is trying to make when it comes to ensure i guess the future or deal with some funding, research projects or moving it out of the department of education to the per view of the white house. what is the commitment he is going to give? >> i dont generally speak about executive orders until they are finalized. i will just say that one of the things i think theres a commitment from this white house to do is to look at the various resources throughou...

All in. what is the commitment sna this president is trying to make when it comes to hbcus for their funding, research projects or what have you, moving it out of department of education to the purview of the white house, what is the commitment hes going to give to them? >> look, i dont generally speak about executive orders until theyre finalized. i will just say one of the things that -- i think theres a commitment from this white house to do is to look at the various resources throughout the ...

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Hill." im patrick murphy. in president obamas 2011 state of the union address, he called on americas colleges to open their doors to rotc programs and military recruiters. for some this wasnt an easy sell. the nation had been in a decade of controversial wars. "dont ask, dont tell" had recently been repealed. but now rotc programs are back. even at traditionally liberal elite universitys that once so forcefully opposed them. schools like columbia harvard, brown, and uc berkeley. joining me now i...

People. if you need someone to talk, to can you can definitely talk to people and its sort of mutual trust-building. >> a nice way for people to have discipline as well, exspecially at this young age, its a formative time. a lot of these rotc programs are thriving in inner city areas where oftentimes there is a lack of a father figure. you have noticed that these leaders for rotc have helped guide young men and women? i can can personally attest to having role models in rotc and both instructure...

>> its not patriotism, theyre criticizing the people who arent like them. we dont like little ladies at truck stops and people who listen to country music. >> i think its a vast majority of professors in the country. >> maybe not today, but -- >> it happens every year, theyre anti-war, anti-everything patriotic, theyre throwing the rotc programs off campus all over the place. >> what are they so afraid of. >> theyre now starting to come back. >> what im including -- >> a lot of it was tied to do...

The college rotc programs including the one in university of texas where the military turns for future officers. and i have the criticisms of the campus-based rotc programs, but if we draw the officers from colleges, we have to make sure that the colleges look like the country, so chief justice roberts when you consider the pending "fisher versus the university of texas" case, listen to the admirals and the generals with more than 1,200 years of combined service who are trying to tell you someth...

This follows over the summer there was some progress in rotc programs allowed back in to some of the liberal universities that were banned for many years. is this a good idea or not? >> greg: if they use this logic, when they have antidrug experts there, they should have drug dealers there as well. when a college recruiter comes there, have a cult leader. maybe your child wants to join a cult. or sports program, have a couch potato program. this is ridiculous, moral relativism. military recruite...