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Obama is looking for a surgeon general because the current holder of the office, regina benjamin, announced shes stepping down from her post next month. benjamin has been surgeon general since 2009, a long time advocate for change in the system that foe you cans on wellness and prevention programs. nascar driver jason leffler was killed in an accident at bridgeport speedway in new jersey. he was 37 years old. in a statement nascar extends its thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to the fam...

Were outrageous, a panel of primarily men voting on legislation that is around decisions that should be left to a woman, her family and her doctor, and should not be intruding into the very personal decisions. >> many of our viewers who write it, would be be to know why its easy to get the house gop to pass a big banning abortion, but less activity when it comes to sexual assault. >> the issue of sexual assault i think has been under the radar screen for a number of years. as i first came to con...

They say the campaign name alone should have raised red flags. its called "im happy being a prostitute." >> rafael romo joins us to talk with us. whos happy to be a prostitute, for gods sakes? how did they come up with this name? >> it was the minister of health office, aids and viral hepatitis and the idea was to in a way reach this community, the community of prostitutes in brazil, which is very large, and tell them about prevention programs to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases....

Unhappy about this. brazil remains the country in the world with the largest population of catholics. theres also a large population of evangelicals. and they were complaining about this. they say this goes way too far, michael and suzanne. >> youve got of course the world cup coming, i think theres another big football competition coming up before that. but then the world cup, 2016 olympics, is the government trying to get ahead of that? >> well, you have to put everything in perspective. on th...

Senate hearing that took place just yesterday? >> despite a senate hearing, despite years of developing training programs and prevention programs, and a lot of money for this program and this problem, the military has not effectively addressed it. so that is why so many of us feel that weve got to do things differently and its important to note that we have countries like the uk, canada, new zealand, australia, and israel. all who have taken out of chain of command, criminal acts. and there shou...

Thats 26,000 cases and thats a problem. joining me now is senator kirsten gillibrand of new york who is introducing legislation tomorrow that would change how the military moves forward with sexual assault prosecutions. senator, thanks for joining us. >> pleasure to be on, jake. >> we have another case here, the second case in two weeks of a military officer in charge of preventing sexual assaults being investigated for sexual misconduct. you have said that calling this disturbing would be a gro...

Congressman levin as well as senator roger wicker on how hot things will get on capitol hill for the obama administration. hes one of those republicans that wants to do the big budget deal. plus, in the wake of more troubling allegations of sexual assault, a major pentagon decision ordering all service members involved in prevention programs to be rescreened and retrained. good morning from a busy washington. its wednesday, may 15th, 2013. this is daily rundown, im chuck todd. send in your goo...

Expands your ability to see what is really going on across the city and absolutely i support that. >> i want to ask you on the issue of guns now, if we can very quickly. your citys murder rate is down significantly in the last four months compared to last year. great progress for you. you did that by focusing on high crime areas and prevention programs also play a role. doesnt the success you have reinforce the altogethrgument t solution is not more gun laws but tougher enforcement of the laws t...

Control. as ive always said, it comes down to the four piece. its not one of them. its all of them. policing, being strategic about your police resources. smart prevention like after school programs and summer jobs to make sure kids have positive things to do and are out of harms way. stiffer penalties like three-year minimum for gun crimes. first prevent people from getting guns, criminals. second, if criminals commit crimes there is swift punishment. and fourth, pete, is sound parenting. teach...

What the state of mind and where we were at that time. so this is where he is now in the second term and taking control of this situation, making sure we have for the first time since when i was in the white house with president clinton and was a point person for passing both the brady bill and assault weapon ban that we have the opportunity actually on making progress on getting sound, comprehensive gun control legislation that worked with policing, prevention programs, and encouraging strong p...