i think his daughter went to carthage. he asked me to be his campaign manager. i said that is not my thing. i'm a policy guy and not a political guy. he said, in that case, in that case you should run for my seat. i said, run for your seat? that is crazy. i am 27 years old. he asked me why not and i said, i was young and no way could i win. it was not my plan. he said, if i listened to all of the people who told me what i could not do, i would never have gotten anything done in my life. what do you care about, what do you believe in? i told him i believed in the principles of our founding fathers. i loved public-policy because i wanted to solve problems. that is what he needed to hear. he said run. i still was not convinced. i called my mentor. i lost my father when i was a kid, so i grew up with mentors. one of my best was a guy named jack kemp. he was a congressman from new york. i asked him, what do you think? should i do this? he said absolutely, you would make a huge difference. go do it. i called another mentor. bill bennett. i asked, does this past the la

i felt like after the conquest of carthage, he knelt down and wept. -- what is there left to do. >> president of hillsdale college, thank you for being with us. >> pleasure. our next washington journal, whether nutrition labels make a difference in changing people's eating habits. richard williams will join us. then, a conversation with writer jacket on his recent smithsonian magazine article on the future of flying cars. later, former new mexico governor gary johnson who secured the libertarian presidential nominee position over the weekend. at 2016n's look at commencement speeches concludes now with supreme court nominee judge merrick garland. he was the speaker at niles west high school in illinois. a place where he graduated as a legit taurean of his class. -- as

feel library after the conquest of carthage. he knelt down and wept. what is there left to do? >> dr. larry arnn president of hillsdale college in hillsdale, michigan thanks for being with us. >> a pleasure. >> film maker and activist spike lee was the commencement speaker at john hopkins university in baltimore. he urged graduates to be catalyst ts for change for the so-called 99%. he also criticized presidential candidate donald trump and paid tribute to the late singer prince with a reading of his song baltimore that was released last year after the city's riots. his is about 10 minutes. [applause] >> hello. that's weak. hello. >> hello. >> thank you. greetings to the john hopkins university. i give thanks to president daniels, the board of trustees, the faculty, administration, he graduating class of 2016. and again we must acknowledge the people that made this all possible, the parents. [applause] as the great philosopher and oet mr. p.r. nelson once said, dearly beloved, we gather here today to get to this thing called life. but on this occasion, the graduation of a class

it's month-to-month paul ryan gave a commencement speech in his home state of wisconsin at carthage college. it was his second time delivering the commencement address. he spoke previously in 2006. [applause] rep. ryan: thank you. dr. ryan. it sounds like a tom clancy novel. i forgot about that.

the house speaker gave the commencement address at carthage college in kenosha, wisconsin and encouraged graduates not get bogged down by a plan and follow a path that leads to fulfillment. >> thank you. dr. ryan. sounds a tom clancy novel. i forgot about that. thank you very much. to the class of 2016, congratulations. [applause] this is a big moment in your life and no matter how much fun you're are going to have tonight you are bound to remember some of it. [laughter] if you forget the speech, no big loss. i will get over it eventually. just for member one thing. remember the people that got you here. saying which i may have made up a few minutes ago. is for the couple. the wedding is for the family. think of your graduation the same way. it is their achievement as much as it is yours and yet they have gladly given you all of the so if your mom or dad or brother or your sister or your grandparents are your cousins, if they get a little teary-eyed or if they break down and sobbed, bear with them. thank them. appreciate them. k love you more than you'll ever know. -- they love you more

house speaker paul ryan spoke it carthage college in wisconsin where he talked about the plan after graduation. [video clip] >> the biggest piece of advice i would give to you is this. don't worry too much about the plan. go or you can make a difference. sometimes fulfillment lies in very unpredictable places. all of your life people are going to hound you about the plan, the plan, the plan. what is your plan? that he found a job? are you going to graduate school? where do you see yourself in 20 years? it will seem like no one cares about what you do so much is where you end up. you will start to wonder whether you should not care either. beware. way, ism, the wrong cynicism in perpetual motion. before dinner services draghi out the stage, let me clarify. i am not telling you to reject the job offer and move your parents basement. [laughter] is wherever you end up, the work itself is the reward. treated that way. like and put your best laid plans through the paper shredder. you may never get that dream job, or if you do it might turn out to be a nightmare. but maybe you are meant to do somethi

> we know this plane, this is the fifth flight this plane had taken that day, previously stopped in carthage, it was a 12-year-old a320 and it was said to have had a spotty maintenance record, but a full maintenance checkup at cairo airport, details coming through about the quality of the airport and how robust it was, not where people will be focusing a lot of their attention at the moment. the search itself is underway still going on in the mediterranean, all ships in the area diverge around there but the first ship to arrive has found nothing at the point where they said the beacon signal came from. they arrived at the deck of dropping, they did not find any floating objects or traces of fuel so it remains a mystery and a lot of conflicting information about these distress signals, where they came from, 37,000 feet in clear skies, good weather. nicole: that is the essence of breaking news, we get conflicting reports and we try to decipher through those. the egyptian prime minister said there was no distress call but there was a signal received from the plane. that being said you had multi