called on the teens to do their part. >> part of our message in this initiative is no excuses. >> reporter: these young men plan to hold the president accountable too saying their future depends on it. >> it's, like, youth guidance programs, they don't have the funding to go on, they get cancelled. but maybe this one will stay around forever. you never know. >> reporter: now, the president says this is a part of his so-called year of action, so he's also creating a task force that will study what programs and practices are having the most success. he says he's going to continue this type of outreach, even after he leaves the white house. mika? >> all right, kristen welker, thank you very much. >> thank you so much. let's bring in right now the host of msnbc's "politics nation" and the president of the national election network, reverend al sharpton. al, were you there. talk about how this program will be different from other programs. >> i think the difference is that the president having a unique background himself,
>> and karen hughes? extraordinarily important position. in the past, i talked to both of those leaders and your position, talking about how hand-fisted the united states had been in the past in its efforts to reach out to especially young students across the world. very quickly explain what this very important position is and how you plan to expand on the work of karen hughes and margaret -- >> thank you for teeing me up, joe. public diplomacy is helping to explain american policy around the world and basically to americans as well. public affairs as you know is our outreach to the media and so it has those two tiers, including educational and affairs with the exchange students and then there is also a countering violent extremism to the job. there are many acronyms in the state department, by the way. but part of the idea is to actually think about public
whatever, et cetera. so there is courage in him saying it where he said it, where he could have been booed. >> that's a great point. so why is that a courageous thing for him to do? the reason is that so much of the energy from the right in recent years has been fueled by the sort of anger and resentment and, look. people have appealed to that and kind of, you know, whipped that up. and so i think his message now is right, but it's going to, you know, it's going to take more than one speech to kind of take all of that back. >> john heilemann, has he been a part of that message and should the calf i don't think in his speech been we have all been guilty of making remarks that are perhaps over the line and you got to on turn it around? >> he is talking about -- i'm talking about bill and hillary. >> yeah, and monica lewinsky and all of that. i thought it was very sexist if we are talking about abortion barbie and an empty dress. >> but he didn't say that.
middle brow idea that art has to be what is serious and what is good for you. >> but how does harold ramis go 40 years from "animal house" and forward and these movies that become a part of our lives and, yet, there is never a moment until after he dies that the academy stops and says, oh, my god, we grew up with this guy that has created comic films that could be with us for a very long time. >> it typically does that. it's the same with performers. you know? the ones who we have loved and who have made us laugh and who get a career achievement award or get in a memorial clip but don't have an oscar. i think the love of the public and the success of the movies means more in the end. >> oh, yeah. >> the oscars are basically to supply correct answers for future trivia questions. >> there you go. you proved that. tony scott, thank you. >> nothing cynical about it. >> not me.
about that and not be hi hypocritical about it. the secretary talked about an ifm loan and about europe doing more and i think folks are looking into that. the ifm is there in kiev talking about this and, yes, a lot more money in the west and ukraine wants to lean towards the west. i think everybody wants us to do more. >> but -- go ahead, gene. >> i was going to say, there is an issue in ukraine, though. there are parts of ukraine that lean toward russia and see themselves historically as more a part of russia and filled with russian speakers. the crimea where stalin marched everybody out because he thought they were centrally collaborationists in world war ii with the germans and filled it up with russian speakers and they are very nervous about going the other way with ukraine and that is an issue has to be dealt with and putin will have a lot of populace support in russia if he takes a hard line.
>> she's not. >> about to take a chunk out of that guy's leg. >> come on my property and you will meet daisy! thank you, david gregory, as well. david, what do you have on sunday's "meet the press"? >> well, we will be talking about these topics but also the future of our military, the fight over the budget. what do we have to be prepared for in the future. two key members of the armed services committee talking about that. >> great. thank you, david. >> talking about daisy, do you think? >> no. coming up, we will break down the race for oscar gold. a preview of the 86th academy awards with tony scott. plus louis is playing the part out in l.a. ahead of sunday's beg show. i'm scared. >> so successful for so long because we kept it just small enough. >> so if you are that successful, how come you ended up in this room with me? right now! with me! taking orders from me! this is agent vincent placing
remains an integral state secure in its own territorial limits. >> thomas roberts? >> you wrote an op-ed for the continuation times. i want to read in part. russian needs a finland option for ukraine. the u.s. should convey to mr. putin prepared to make its influence -- will pursue policies towards russia and similar to those on so feven effectivelily practiced by fin lad. sir, when we talk specifically and pull back the players you talked about earlier money. if we follow the money. who is most supportive to ukraine and where the loyalty will remain with the eu with the
and sort of the -- >> oh, look. >> tony scott, thank you. >> we lost a great one earlier this week. a guy that we all grew up with and we were just commenting that if he didn't do comedies, he probably would have had a house full. >> i think you look at "groundhog day." that movie stands up. you could watch it as many times as bill murray wakes up in the morning in that movie and always find new stuff in it. >> why doesn't an oscar have a comedy academy? you were saying that too about jonah hill his performance being como comedy and they may not win it. >> i think that it's part of the whole oscar mystique of prestige and seriousness and this is where we are showing kind of the best art that hollywood has to offer and it's this sort of
we have been moderate ideologically. we have spent too much and temperamental temperamentally, we have been harsh. style matters in politics. rhetoric matters in politic. there is a reason harry reid is still majority leader of the senate and it's because we had inflammatory senate candidates who ran stupid campaigns who were political amateurs, who didn't know when to keep their mouth shut. >> well, that is my question, because you have been saying this for years and actually doing it. i just wonder if -- i think i'm outnumbered here on the rand paul issue and i'm wondering how you think ted cruz did in that mike allen interview because he seemed to be struggling about something to say about mitch mcconnell. it's not that hard. as far as rand paul is concerned, has he been a part of this sort of inflammatory right? should he have included himself in saying we need to turn over? because it's one thing for you to say it and i personal think,