Achieved success because they faster, thrown longer, if you can shoot better and rebound better, it means you are going to succeed. We should have the exact same attitude in the rest of our society. And when that happens can we make it the point that we breach preach all the time, we will see the inequality gap closing. , andook at average incomes you will must see these sub crime subprime loans. You will not see what you have seen and the home for closure crisis. It will take two generations to get just that money back. When we have that attitude about life, as we do about sports, then were going to see it. I would be remiss to his a we the exact same attitude when it comes to our sports teams for mayors out there building new arenas for owners and you want them to win championships. Would you should be saying when it comes to the education of our is food, whether it choice or education reform mo cowan want to make sure we had the same kind of access us. If you want to win a championship in football, you sure as hell better win championships in educating our children. [applause] part of it is leading the way to it we have five owners in sports. And seven of five of the Top Companies do not have any africanamericans on board on their board. Less than 2 . Google does not facebook does not. Maiden them,ng to but he did. I name everybody to in sports, we have such a major amount of guys on the field. That is why we get a chance to talk about these things and hopefully change all the things we need to change. That these discussions are important. Go, it isi let them an honor to give the president s andd to Kareem Abduljabbar his foundation for all of the outstanding work he is doing around the country. [applause] a round of applause for all of our panelists. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] on this fourth of july, arizona senator john mccain is visiting u. S. Troops in afghanistan here he tweeted this thissaying honor to spend fourth of july with Arizona National guard serving in afghanistan. Thank you for your service per you will find more at twitter. Look for the members of congress list. In washington, president obama today hosted a naturalization ceremony at the white house for 15 activeduty military Service Numbers and their spouses. The president used in the event to recognize the conjugations made by foreignborn members of the u. S. Armed services. They have earned their american citizenship by serving the country. He advocated for immigration legislation. The president made these remarks following the oath. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you, everybody. Good morning, and welcome to the white house. And happy fourth of july. The deputy secretary, thank you for taking care of the important part of this morning, which is administering the oath. That is the thing we want to make sure we got right. Directorting to be the and two family, friends, distinguished guests, thank you all for being here. Finally, to these money five men and women, Service Members and spouses, it is an honor to join everyone here for the first time in calling you our fellow americans. This is one of my favorite events to do. And not just because we get to have our and watch fireworks later. It is because each of you has traveled a long journey to this moment, journeys a began in places like jamaica boko germany , yet,an china, guatemala somehow, either because your parents brought you here as children or because you made the choice yourselves as adults, you ended up here in america. Many of you did something extraordinary you signed up to serve in the United States military. You answered the call to fight and potentially to give your life for a country that you did not fully belong to yet. You understood what makes us justcan not circumstances of birth or the names in our family tree. It is that timeless belief that many, we arehough one weird we are about together with a set of beliefs. And an innate and unalienable rights. We have certain obligations to each other, to look after each other and to serve one another. Over the years, that is exactly what you have done roderigo came to the United States from the philippines and saidd the navy because he he wanted to be part of Something Big and important. Today, the petty officer second class is still part of that great cause, and today he is also an american citizen. Canadaie moved here from with her mom when she was 18 years old, and today she is 26 and a sergeant in the army. She joined the military to give her children someone to look up to and someone they could be proud of. Stephanie, i know you have made your children and all of us very proud. Oscar was born in guatemala and became a marine last year. Becoming a citizen, he says, means becoming a part of a society that strives and stands world. D all around the just being a part of that makes me complete. Oscar, welcoming you as an american citizen makes our country a little more complete, so thank you. Then there are those of you who married an American Service member, and as a military spouse, you have been serving our country, as well. Dina is originally from jamaica. She met her husband in germany. Today she is a nurse, and she and her husband have four beautiful children. A club of thening best of the best, becoming a United States citizen. I agree. Congratulations on joining the club. America is and always has been a nation of immigrants. Historyut our immigrants have come to our shores in wave after wave. From every corner of the globe. Everyone of us, unless we are native america, have an ancestor who was born somewhere else. Always the we do not same or have not spoken the same language, we have done big things together. We have won this countrys freedom together, we have built our greatest cities together, we have defended our way of life together. We continue to perfect our union together. That is what makes america special, that is what makes us strong. Basic idea of welcoming immigrants to our shores is central to our way of life. It is in our dna. Our diversity, our differences, when joined together by a common set of ideals makes a stronger. Makes us more creative, access usferent makes different, we make something new from all of these different strands. And that is why we want to keep attracting the best and brightest from beyond our shores we will have to fix our immigration system which is broken. We will have to pass common sense immigration reform. We should not be making it harder for the best and the brightest to compare. Our economy,grow we should be making it easier. That is why im going to keep doing [applause] i will keep doing everything i can do to make our immigration system more efficient, so hardworking men and women like all of you have the opportunity to join the American Family and to serve our great nation so we can be stronger and more posthumous prosperous together. I will close with a quick story. Emigrant from armenia who became a famous chef. You whoquote have been born in america, i wish i could begin understand what it is like not to be an american. Not to have been an american all your life, and then suddenly to be one for that moment and then forever after. Today on this fourth of july, from Thomas Jeffersons monticello to the alamodome in texas, emigrants from around the world are taking the oath of citizenship, and many of them have worked and sacrificed four years to get to this moment. Have done something we should never take for granted, the right to be called american from this moment and forever after. That should give us hope and give us confidence about the printer of our country. Future of our country. Like all of human of women who have given so much to call , andelves americans muslims would keep the door open to those who are willing to earn their citizenship, we will keep growing our economy, we will continue to journey forward, and we will remind the world why the United States of america is and always will be the greatest nation on earth. We are very proud of you. Congratulations. God bless you, god bless the United States of america. [applause] the ceremony earlier today at the white house on this july 4. We have been asking our Facebook Page what does it mean to be an american . Dodd,eans american means faith, family, liberty, and decency to all human beings. Were one nation under god. In god we trust. God bless the United States of america. An opportunity to a better life for me, my children, no producers due to my race, religion, political opinions. They do america. Thank you america. Event to memorialize the is happening. Led here is some of what they had to say. Have seen it, they feel bad for a little bit, but they are soon active posting selfies. What would you rather do here at the museum . Or get practical newscast, more journalist sues names you cannot pronounce and laces you cannot see on a map . War memorials make people uncomfortable. Lets look at why these journalists died. The depictions that someone did not like. They shot video that someone did not like. They ask questions that somebody decided was out of line. They wrote things that someone thought to not be written. They expressed ideas that somebody disagreed with. You take a look at that smartphone would to your hand lued to your hand. How many times do you put something out there, honey photos to share, how many snotty remarks and critiques . Rhat would you say if you unflattering photo of a lawmaker got your business license revoked. What if you made a video of a street protest and suddenly men in uniform smash your phone and hold you to jail . Could not happen. It happens every day, hundreds of times. When might it happen to you . Honoring journalists who died in 2013, tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. I,i tell the story about how whose every aspect of identity is a threat to israel, my gender ethnicity is purging among the cultures middle eastern, my citizenship is american, everything about me is a warning signal for israel. The experience of an iran ianamerican single man trying to get through the airport in the 21st century is to spite globalization has brought us closer and has diminished boundaries that , despite all of that, all you have to do is spend a few minutes trying to get through the airport to remember that those divisions and things that separate us are still very much alive. Aslan will take your phone calls and tweets on islamic fundamentalism, war on terror, and the tension in the middle east were three hours on sunday as part of the threeday Holiday Weekend of nonfiction books and authors. Now a series of discussions featuring entrepreneurs and innovators. They talk about building businesses from the ground up, and we will also hear from millennials who work on the leading edge of the tech revolution. Hamdi ulukaya came as a guest of a guest at dinner at my house and lo and behold i had chobani yogurt in my refrigerator. He is the most interesting person, who has revitalized a whole section of new york with his wonderful product. He will be interviewed by steve clemons, who one of these days youre going to open your closet and theres going to be steve clemons, the ubiquitous steve clemons. Thank you very much. Dont be shy for those of you standing in the back. Dont worry about the cameras. Aggressively ram yourself through those aisles and get a seat because its worth it for the lineup we have today. Hamdi, thank you so much for joining us. Youre a young man growing up in turkey. You came over here to study business and you said, aha, feta cheese. [laughter] and were not even at the yogurt story. But you were going to make your fortune in feta cheese. I need to know why feta . Well, two things. One is, i came to learn english. I didnt know a word of english. And feta was a great english word. Actually, we dont call it feta, we call it white cheese. [laughter] the reason i came up with that idea is my father came to visit, and the cheese, the white cheese, is very big in our breakfast dishes. When i brought the cheese i could find in the supermarkets my father said, is this it . I said yes. He said why dont you make some. I grew up in turkey, in cheesemaking, yogurtmaking. So basically my father not liking the cheese that i brought for him for breakfast made me go into the cheese business. Now we need to jump to the real story here. How many of you have lots of yoplait yogurt in your refrigerator . How many of you are dannon consumers . How many of you are chobani consumers . This was not set up. I had no idea. I thought it could go really badly for you. [laughter] i just didnt know. But you moved into yogurt. And the story is fascinating. Id love to tell you tell us the story real quickly, not about why yogurt, but tell us the story about why entrepreneurship and how you saved the town, how you saved the factory. Well, i was, to make the story short, i started this cheese business. It was very small, you know, struggling with language, with running the plant, trying to sell, all the small all the big issues that Small Businesses go through every day that i did. And i was going through my junk mails one night in my office and i saw this ad and it said fully equipped yogurt plant for sale and there was a picture of it on the front side of it. I continued to throw it into the garbage can, still smoking my cigarettes and making garbage. About a half an hour later i went back to that paper and took it. Now its dirty and and it was a kraft yogurt. I didnt even know that kraft made yogurt. It was a brand called breyers. Didnt even know it then. But when i went to visit, this was about a 90yearold plant. They were making yogurt and cheese. Actually, they said it was the original plant that they invented philadelphia cream cheese. Wow. Everybody knows that. I know. So i couldnt believe the price that they were asking for it. I thought they were missing one zero. It was like 700,000 or 7 million. I was afraid to ask one more time. Didnt want to look so surprised, so cheap. Maybe you should have asked if you knocked off another zero. On my way back i called my attorney. I said, i just saw a plant that i want to buy. He thought i was the craziest guy ever. And he told me a million things why i shouldnt get it. One, it was the largest food company, that it was getting out of the category. This was a plant this they were selling as is. That means all the mistakes and crimes and everything thats been done in this plant, it was on this turkish guys shoulders. And then he said ill tell you one more thing, the biggest problem, you have no money. [laughter] you havent paid me for the last six months. Ah. It was true. I hadnt been paying him. So that was the thing. And i figured it out with a small bank. Did you finally pay him . Because this is on the record that it could be used against you, a confession. Yes. He later said, i wish i was a partner with you then. So the first day i bought the plant with an s. B. A. Loan, Small Business administration, was august 15, 2005. And i hired five people that kraft let go. And there was a bar across the street and people who were coming to that bar were bikers. I had only seen them on movies, and theyre scary. [laughter] and when i saw them they said, hamdi, come on over. If i had seen them before, i probably wouldnt buy it. But that was the first day. And those five people and me and, you know, i could not describe how scary it was and how lost i was, and everything that the attorney said, it was true at that moment. I did something really, really crazy and i didnt know what i was going to do next. So my first Board Meeting with those five people, mike, rich, maria, myself, mustafa and frank. They said, what are we going to do next . And the first thing that i recognized from the picture and when i went there the first time is the wall outside. It was white, maybe 15 years ago. No longer. It was horrible. And i said lets go to the ace store and lets grab some white paint and lets paint these walls. And mike said he was retired, and then came back to the plant. Hes been in that plant for almost 25 years. He said tell me you have more ideas than this. [laughter] well, you know, i just want to i mean, we just had brian greene up here. Hes one of the most cosmic conceptualizers and thinkers. Did you think the universe of yogurt was just a universe of i mean, at the time i mean, again, youre clearly successful. But one of the questions is, i remember the yogurt. I liked yogurt then. I remember greek yogurt coming online and taking on more and more. It is interesting that a turkish guy is making greek yogurt. Only in america. [laughter] yeah, only in america. You go back to istanbul and does that play well in turkey . No, no. The turks are angry, the greeks are angry, the turkish are angry we were going to come out here and take a selfie with all of you and then tweet everyone. But in any case, it is a big thing. But i mean, when i began thinking about talking to you today, i didnt know, where did you steal the market from . When you look at the absolute dollars out there for this sort of product, theres some finite number. I didnt know whether you were displacing velveeta cheese or displacing yoplait or whether the universe was getting bigger, or have you made the universe bigger . You summarize the the whole thing. Actually, all of it. It was an accident, if i did that. All of it. We created a market. Some of them came from the other categories and some of the people started eating more. But when we started, there was greek yogurt by a company who brought from greece 10 years before me, 10 years. I mean, youre talking 11 years actually. So they created this buzz of greek yogurt in the Specialty Stores and some fancy places, but not in the mass market. But someone who grew up with yogurt, yogurt was the simplest thing that you had. It doesnt matter if youre rich or poor, lived in the city or not, its the simplest, purest food and you should have access to this. I couldnt understand why you have to go to new york city, a specialty store, and pay 3 to get a good cup of yogurt. So i worked two years to make that, and when i made it, i said im going to go to the mass market first. So my first store was shoprite. My buyer went there and said, well, we have five chobanis we want to put on your shelf. Its 30,000 to 50,000 to put on the shelf. He said we need that money to be paid. We didnt have that kind of money. We said, what if we paid with the yogurt . So then you sell, you can take some of it and for the weeks, we can pay it off. And then the