do back off and treat everybody fairly. but it was a very important experience. it changed who i was. two years ago i ran for the u.s. senate in south carolina. you are being generous. i raised an enormous amount of money for a first-time candidate. i didn't win. i came out with 6% of the vote, very little. but i learned in the process also when i look back on it and reflect on it, i didn't have the confidence to be as successful as i could be because i doubted myself. i listen to some of those negative voices. so even now 20 years after going to college i'm still making mistakes and i'm still learning from them. and as you make mistakes throughout life, they are worthless if you cannot learn from those as well. so for me being here today and sharing this with you, when you

work your hardest and your best and give it all you've got an life, when you, you have the courage to be yourself and to do the right thing with your colleagues or with your friends, and when you have the confidence, even left a little bit in the workplace, appropriate jokes, just go a long way in helping build confidence in yourself but also people looking at you as a leader. that's what's when you get you to an life, the little sense of humor also. but that is it. nothing more. you don't have to be the smartest, trust the best work that's all you need in order to cultivate your leadership and your leadership style. some want to thank you all for being here this morning. i'm super excited, and hope you guys enjoy the rest of the day. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, nancy. that was amazing.

i'm so excited that all of the women that have come here to speak to you today decided to share such personal stories. i am inspired by the next woman i'm going to invite on the stage. she is a woman i've been admiring from afar, and a few months ago i'd opportunity of a kidney museum camp, which is like a professional development workshop weekend but any study, which is just amazing and awesome, and she was a mentor. through our time together i just knew that she needed to be here because she had a really great story to share. so please welcome ms. monica montgomery. [applause] >> hey, friends. how is everyone feeling? we're going to take the energy. clap if you're excited to be here today. [applause] yes. i'm super excited to be here with you. i'm excited to see your faces. i'm excited because i once sat in your seat and i was needing

inspiration and it wasn't a reagan foundation that brought me up but there were other spaces i was able to learn and grow. the demo to talk to you about being again face leader. everyone say again face. a little louder. now like you feel it. game face. yes. we're going to talk about what is your game face. you hit your queue are wearing it now. you are going to keep wearing it and then all talking about how i found my game face leadership journey. first to give you background on myself. my name is monica montgomery. i flew in from brooklyn, new york, first-time and ellie, excited to be here. ime museum director. i went international keynote speaker. i also teach at harvard, a few other fun things were not sleeping, but most important of all i am a chronic rule breaker. i probably shouldn't be saying this to you but most of the things i've gotten most of things i've done in my life are

because i didn't able to push back against the establishment, consistent of oppression come against things i didn't feel up for me. that rule breaker of mentality has turned me well and that might be something you consider in your game face journey. so what is game face and i couldn't find our game face leadership? i want to speak about three tips for doing so. discovering your values. crafting your get back, and honoring your identity. so why does game face? it's been fierce. it's being bold pickets being intentional and thoughtful. it's vulnerability and resourcefulness. it's all the qualities of a good leader that you have within your right now. i want you to know leadership is not this destination. it's a journey, and you're on it and you're feeling and experiencing it. and her circumstances don't

dictate your leadership. you can lead from where you are right now whether you are in high school or college, or still trying to figure it out. all of that is valuable to build your game face leadership style. i think game face is not projecting this image of poise, integrity, confidence and swagger that defines your inner character and the perception your peers have about you. it's that profound impression you lay behind when you travel through a space. let's see, is anyone familiar with beyoncé? okay. she's a game face leader, right, right? the way she raises her daughter, the way she runs a business, the way she hits the stage and turns into sasha fierce and gives of this amazing, amazing like killer, i can't even, like she gets on the stage and everyone just feels it, right? at the game face. the way to show obama leads with grace and poise as a first lady, and how she started all these initiatives like let's move to foster well-being and healthy

living and exercise. that's game face. it's how activists like -- climb up on a flagpole to take down a symbol of tierney and oppression like the confederate flag and rip it down because they can't take it anymore and they know that this needs to change. that's game face. all of these women and other women in this room and outside of the shrimp projected this game face leadership. and i think that you have it in you to project that as well. challengeschallenges, they come. circumstances change. political election seasons come and go but your leadership journey is sacred and it's something you keep working on the matter what's happening, no matter what's affecting you up and down. no matter your age, your ethnicity, the school you attend, or socioeconomic background or your spiritual beliefs. you are a leader. a leader. i want to everyone say i am a leader. >> i am a leader spin and little

more convincingly. i am a leader spin that i am a leader. >> yes, that that sounded so good. and you're a game face leader and you control how you walk to the world and how you respond to circumstances. a lot of times people are going to throw shade at you. things in this world are going to happen that you don't like but you have this power power, s inner core from your values to be that game face leader, to stand up for what's right and to champion causes that you think are important. we know how fierce women can be when they champion causes, when they honor their leadership journey and bring the values to the table. i want to do an activity because i'm very much of an interactive speakespeaker at a don't want tt talk at you. we're not going to make you do another power poise. that's cool, right? i would love for you to turn and talk to people next to an answer to questions. thinking about values, whether

it's intelligence intelligence,, joy, patience, excitement, whatever your values are, what are your game face leadership values and what woman in the world is a game face leader you admire? let's take three minutes for that. [inaudible conversations] >> game face. >> game face spent all right. i would love to hear anyone raise a hand, shout out out who are some leaders, some game face women leaders that you admire. yes? [inaudible] jk rowling am desperate how can we forget the new movie coming out. [applause] indeed. what a fantastic -- still up on my sci-fi. another game face leader you admire and why?

yes. >> malala. >> yes. >> and tell me, why do you admire what are the values she has? >> i like how she -- [inaudible] spirit and she uses her so a lot of times and embraces physical danger to advocate for that and it's been through so much. great point. someone else. [inaudible] >> y? [inaudible] >> i love it. steps and claps. so we game face leader. you had your hand up. [inaudible] tell us about her. >> she is accountable and for the sixth district, currently i believe the only elected woman

on the l.a. city council. she is really and she really embraces women's rights and she's a big inspiration to me as someone who wants to go into municipal politics. >> fantastic. yes, yes. in the back with the glasses are all the what in the back and they will go to your friend right next to you. the mic is coming. >> tia torres. she gives others second chances even though like they have a bad past. >> i like it, yes. snaps and claps. this table right behind you. i want to more from you often want to hear for myself. >> malala, it has -- did someone say that speakers but tell us what you love about her. that's fine spirit she has confidence and perseverance because of the environment she grew up in and her religion. she had the boys to speak up and really kind of tell people what

should be late. >> yes. another game face. right next to you. you had your hand up. her friend right here. nope, back, wait. there, yes. >> someone who i think is inspiring is temple grandin because she didn't take no for an answer and she didn't let people bring her down. >> thank you. i saw another -- snaps and claps. raise a real backhand so we can see. >> i wanted to do a shout out for lori peters. she's a teacher that walked away from an 80,000 dollars a career full benefits to start one spark academy. it's an academy for middle schools to make a difference in those middle school years in thousand oaks, california. there's another lady that works with her. they are all committed to making a difference in those middle school years for girls like you. >> yes, game face.

the site of the room has been so patient. we would get to every single person. for real real, we are. we go. >> she's so amazing and has a position of power and is using that to show people the problems that girls at and she's using her clothing line to make girls feel comfortable with her body. i think that's really amazing. >> yes, yes. someone else with their hand up. >> i know she is not a real person but i love -- >> she's -- i love how powerful she is. >> thank you. maybe odds to be in your favor. >> i think michelle obama is quite admirable. [cheers and applause] with her work ethic and her stride to in childhood obesity. >> fantastic. thank you. more hands.

>> someone i find it very inspiring is my mother, because she's raising four children and a grandchild and she's doing all this and still going to college. so she inspires me to do my best and she gives me confidence. >> clap for your mom, for all the bombs. [applause] >> i would say that captain kristen, lieutenant, the first open to go to army ranger school. >> and one woman i really admire is kellyanne conway. in addition to having a successful presidential campaign with donald trump she has had a successful legal career and never admire her intelligence, strategy and her work ethic. >> fantastic, thank you. over here. >> the leadership teacher because she stands for everyone and cares about everyone. >> yes. that teachers everywhere. i see some hands back here.

>> simone biles because she gives such a positive attitude towards people she inspires. >> indeed. clap for simone and the other olympians. [applause] >> christina, even though everybody told her she wasn't good enough she won the boys and she did the best she could. >> yes. reality show game face is. i love it. >> tommy laurent because a lot of people don't like her but she stands up and she tells like she believed even a lot of people don't like her. spin why don't people like her? >> she kind of doesn't have the same views as either one. and she doesn't say everything like how everyone would like her to say it. >> she still speaking out. clap for everyone that is like not saying whatever he wants them to say. let's do two more. >> my history teacher because

she always stresses the importance of being active in the government, and she's just amazing and she just makes me happy every day. [applause] >> that's everything. one last. yes speed and i would say alex morgan because she never gives up and she inspires so many people, and i think it's really amazing. >> indeed, indeed. i love it. your perseverance, okay. one last person. >> well, i want -- what is it? ms. munro, my teacher writer because she believes in everybody and anybody. >> yes, ms. munro. [applause] i love it. there are so many amazing examples that you all have and continue to share with one another game face women who have these valleys, who are inspiring you and others around you. the second component of finding your game face leadership, like many of you touched on, is crafting your get back.

how can you use your time, talent, treasure to make his world a better place? how can you uplift communities locally and globally lacks what causes make your heart explode? what injustices keep you up at night next what matter so much to you that you would break, that speak up and speak out about it? movements, often social movements, are the catalyst for our understand more about the world around us. there's some great things happening that are troublesome to myself, to others in this country that people are working hard to change. there's prison reform, eco-stewardship, voting rights, likewise matter, women's leadership and fostering more of it. what's the cause or causes you are going to choose to craft to get back in becoming a game face leader? way to be willing to break the bondage of apathy. when something happens and we are frozen or we feel helpless

or without we say who am i to take a stand, whom i did try to change that? it will never work because i'm just one person. game face leaders work in community, in solidarity with one another and realize building successful strong effective teams of any age from any background is aikido having a leadership journey be successf successful. i think there's two types of people in this world and i reflected that ted talks was excited to hear all this buzz about 10 decks and so be available for public viewing. i talked about how to be an up standard. when i say there's two types of people in this world i feel like there are bystanders and the art of standards. a bystander someone who is passive. they are there when something is happening critical moment in history but they are not really taking any action. they are watching. and upstander someone who is active. they are change making, bravery and progress and action to make

things better in the world. the world needs more upstanders, and you all are the next generation of upstanders. my colleague anthony talked about being the light. in my estimation the lights are these upstanders that inspire us pics sometimes in activist spaces, political spaces, organized spaces. there's grace about a legendary activist from detroit who did so much to educate and enlighten and help her city. there are people like shirley chisholm who was the first black woman to run for president back in the '70s. there's alba baker and dorothy height and other unsung heroes of the civil rights movement. there's nina simone and maya angelou and countless artists that use the music and the poetry to stand up for what's right. there are the three co-friend of likewise matter movement, opal, alisa and patrice that a start and worldwide movement for change. [applause]

in addition to being and upstander, crafting your get back, find entity to finder values, it's honoring your identity. what's the culture and the background you come from? that's an asset. don't hide that. don't assimilate. make that come to the floor. use that as your secret sauce towards finding your game face leadership. the sunday dinners, the holidays, the language, the foodways, the cold you have is all part of your uniqueness when becoming a game face leader. channel that strength from where you have been, where you are, where your family has been, what you have been through and what you've accomplished and overcome in your leadership journey. the outspoken and use your voice and your thoughts to champion change and spread knowledge. you are the next generation of game face leaders. your identity, values,. >> guest: , culture, all of that is so essential in making this world a better place. it's time to do something. it's time to take a stand and i will see you on the front lines

as a game face leader. thank you. [applause] >> i find demonic is energy so infectious. is everybody feeling that right now? yes, absolutely. i'm really excited to now moving to a conversation and put these wonderful panelists have been a peer, these leaders have of ensuring their story and framing it in a conversation of what is leaders -- women's leadership would like to make what we have wonderful moderator, christian campbell, executive director, passion of a civic engagement is specifically working with millennial which i realize some of you may be and some you are beyond the millennial generation, the next one is coming up. i would like to welcome her to the stage along with our panelists to start framing this discussion at the end of the discussion you have the chance to ask questions to our panelists for a brief. of time. thank you.

[applause] >> thank you so much, rebekah. thank you all for being here and for having us here. let's show rebekah that we have her back this morning, right? and the way she has all of our backs. i'm going to start by asking a quick question and what you kill yell loud and proud what i know that you know the answer is, okay? ready? who runs the world? >> girls. >> who runs the world? >> girls. rebekah, we got you, and thank you for having us, us and as here today. [applause] >> so we are going to start by having just a little bit of a dialogue up on stage but it want to model monachus leadership and make sure that we do that quickly so that we can get into a discussion with all of you all about your questions on leadership today. so i have just three questions

for these leaders and thinking about the drops of honey badger that you want to bring into this conversation with them as well. so let's go ahead and get started. the first question i would like to ask to each of you is, both tony and rebekah started this morning by sharing pictures and stories about why they do this work. and i think as women we particularly understand that we stand where we are because of the people have, before us and the shoulders that we stand on. so i would love to start just by asking both of you, who most inspires your leadership style, and what do you hope your leadership inspires in others? >> i inspired by so many people both in my family lines and in the world. i'm very inspired by my great-grandmother who was a sharecropper in louisiana, who is one of the first people to

know how to read and part of the people to read in her immediate area, and to help out at church. that local leadership inspires me greatly. i'm also inspired by people that have started movements, movement builders, activists, organizes around the world and the legacy that believe. >> i would say that my biggest inspiration i think growing up, i didn't didn't have very many public female role models but my mom, because she's a very, for her era, era, coming out of the '60s, she's very strong minded, very strong-willed, very vocal regardless of what she's doing, and having that energy and no looking back when she does get out there and put yourself out there. really i think helped me become a better person. and as i've gotten older, my children, especially my

daughter, having seen her the way she looks up at me, inspires me to be better, the a better leader. but in all of you all, too, because in my position at the citadel there than several hundred women to come behind me. i have to set an example for those people so that they can be the best that they can be. >> what would each of you say are the game face values? monica, you challenge as to think about a game face values. what game face values do you hope people senio see you as reflection of your leadership? >> sure. i would love for people to see the spirit of being an entrepreneur, a maker, a self-starter and a bootstrap or, not waiting for society to validate you. not waiting necessarily for any one place to make a name but make a legacy on your own terms. i think creative resilience is another value. no matter what is thrown at me, learning to get back at. i'll give you a short story example. i used to be a preschool teacher

many years ago. this was back around 2012, and this terrible incident with trayvon martin happens. in response to that, i created a lesson plan series and they have my students write mother's day cards for trayvon martin mom and send them to his sent a shiver i thought what i was doing, being and upstander, creed of the resilient teaching these values of empathy and compassion was the right thing to do. sadly the school administration didn't agree with me and the far bigger this story was featured but i felt from that moment that's what i learned to kind of have that game face attitude like i did what i felt was right and even if the world been accepted and validated i'm going to go forth and keep doing what's right. i have moved on but i know sometimes windows bounce happen, it's tempting for us to so like i can't take it, the world is against me, i'm not doing the right thing, i'm not under a path but staying true to your core values is a value that i think you all have and i have,

and we share that. [applause] >> i talked a bit about early having courage and confidence to get out there and put yourself out there, but also taking initiative. my comments will echo monica's exactly. you can't wait another people to do something for you. you have to take the initiative to do it for yourself or do it for your family or for a friend. most certainly, you've got got to have that initiative in order to do that. >> great. one thing i wanted to bring ino this conversation something we have heard a little bit about already this morning and we are hearing in society right now which is this concept of a glass ceiling. we started this morning by recognizing a woman who is inspirational to many of us, sandra day o'connor, and the crack that she and her leadership helped put into the glass ceiling. we did not see a full shattering

of the glass ceiling last tuesday, though what was pointed out was maybe that's just a piece, one piece that continues to still exist, but in accepting the challenge that was offered to us this morning and thinking about optimism and things to be hopeful about, we will next year at the highest number of women in congress, and in state and local legislative positions. and so i would love for each of you to reflect a little bit about what do you feel that this moment in time means for or represents in the movement of women's leadership in our country? >> if history service right i think this is the third time we've had a women run for president or vice president or be on a ticket. i think it's indicative right now today of how far we have

come, but it's also indicative of how far we have to go. .. and make a difference but we need more women who are willing to have the courage and confidence to get out there and make that difference . to make that difference isthe most important thing and susan mentioned earlier that kelly and conway, she ran a very successful campaign . we are seeing it happen but we need more of you out there to get us where we want to be in the future. >> i'd like to say that, yes.

[applause] i would just say that this is a moment of urgency and that women are now unapologetically cleaning and holding space and we have to keep doing that and we can't feel like anything is off limits to us just because we're the first,the second, the 33rd. it's important that we continue to break that ceiling, not crack it, break it, shatter it . how can we make sure there are no more ceilings for us so whether you are working in politics or health or education or anything , how can we continue breaking those barriers so by the time your daughter comes to age, she has plenty of reference points. >> absolutely. one of my favorite quotes about the glass ceiling was stated by somebody who was also invoked this morning, sheryl sandberg and she said yes, there is a glass ceiling but it's glass so take out

your stiletto and shatter it. which i think is a really interesting thing for us to keep in mind about the fact that there are things that we can do to your points to change these systems that don't always feel like they are accessible or approachable to folks. and so one of the things i think is interesting is the team here at the reagan foundation shared with us this morning that registration for this event started out a little bit slow. that there were about 100 of you that had registered, about two weeks ago and then when the election happened, they had to open up more spaces. there were 300 of you in this room and originally, yes, give yourselves a round of applause. [applause] and originally they thought the capacity was going to be about 200 so there are these tiny ways that we are breaking through

and we are choosing to take up that mantle of leadership and age, we need to find ways to change the system for ourselves so i want to appreciate and acknowledgeall of you that took that first step in making that happen which leads to my final question for the panel and then let's open it up do you think , what advice, knowing that there are 300 young women and one young man who are here today who have come here to unlock their power and unlock and capture their specific leadership, what advice would you give them? >> it's real simple. feel the fear and do it anyway. fear is false evidence appearing real. feel that fear, honor it and keep on pushing. [applause]

>> i would say find your inner honey badger and get involved, be involved and don't be afraid. have the courage to do the right thing that makes you feel good, makes you feel accomplished regardless of what that is, if you are doing what you love, you will be successful and you will become a leader.[applause] let's open it up for questions. i saw one shoot up so fast . it's over here and let's have one right inhere somewhere, if we can get this one queued up next . >> thank you. i'm a sophomore college student out of los angeles and so we are prime predominantly minority so i wanted to know after last tuesday, a lot of the girls on campus are discouraged in light of everything that happened so i wanted to know what would you be able to tell all those girls on our

campus about how to move forward? >> that anybody. >> you know, i think we have different worldviews, different political views but ultimately, both sides are after the same thing, the same in gold.we just approach it i think differently. and regardless of what side that you're on, being involved, being engaged and knowing the importance of what's at stake and that's the future and in a few years when you guys are moms and have your own kids, the children's future and your grandchildren's future and that's why it's so important to be engaged andbe active . we can't just sit on the sidelines and watch this go by. you have to be involved. >> i would say that at times

organized. we see the country is changing, some of us are fond of the direction it's changing. we have to be more strategic and thoughtful and insightful in thinking what small part of the problem we are going to tackle so looking to our ancestors to contextualize today and see the model they left and thinking okay, how can i find an area and beyond and have that interactive spirit of organizing. >> we don't have a democracy of the people, we have a democracy of the people who show up. and we have to remember that and remember that if we expect anything to change, we have to show up and do what we can do to help it happen. [applause] right here. i. tell us your name? >> i'm kiva, thank you so much for being here, is an honor to hear your stories and the administration, i'm speaking for everyone here so i was seen in high school and i know a lot of the people at my table, a lot of people in

this room today and so there's a lot of scary decisions coming up for us soon so i was wondering what you think decisions you've made to become the leader you are in your community? >> the best decisions i've made. i spoke about my passion for rule breaking but i think you know, committing to get an education, higher education. even though it is an exorbitant cost, that's one of the things we need to organize around but just seeing in places where you can be scholarly, thoughtful, critique the world humanity, science math or whatever, i think that's a course step toward preparing yourself in this leadership journey. i think just getting active in social movements, volunteering, service learning, that's so key for going on this leadership journey. if you know how to help, it's going to be a better leader and i think in general, you

were talking about listening to ted talks. there's really brilliant people on ted and ted asked that are sharing about the way they see the people and how they see the world and that can help inform you.>> i would say figure out what your goals are. where do you want to be a year from now, where you want to be five years from now and then finding the people who canvent for you or give you advice , take an initiative to reach out to folks who can mentor you through those years and help you figure out how to make those decisions. the second thing is that as i'd like to think there are no bad decisions in life because if you make a mistake and gosh knows even at 40 i still make mistakes but the lesson there is you have to learn from them. so when you do fumble, take the ball and figure out what direction you should have gone and learn from it so in the future it's not repeated and you can improve your own self.

>> i think it's less important to trust your got. when i think back to some of the hardest decisions i've made, they ended up being the most meaningful, they were not necessarily the ones that were easy to make so i think knowing yourself, knowing what is you anxiety, how you understand the emotions happening to you and what you do with them, it's fair to ask those questions of yourself sometimes and sometimes only by asking those questions can you discover the true decision that you need to make that might not have been apparent to you in the first place. >> we have a couple questions over here but we are on microphone. there we go. >> i think it's an amazing adversity which is prominently minority and also an all girls school and i was wondering what are some of the hurdles that you have faced and how have you overcome them?

>> can you tell us your name too? >> veronica. >>hurdles . i often find myself professionally in male-dominated environments today. i play in politics a little bit. i'm involved in a couple presidential races and in other local races, typically male-dominated. in my professional right like right now i go to the rural states again so there's typically not a woman on my team in my office so it's hard to find that balance as a woman because rebecca was talking about this earlier, but when you are strong and assertive, sometimes that's proof for men but for women you are called passionate. when you are called passionate, that's the bworld . whether you want to call that bossy or the other b word , you've got to find that balance and i think a sense of humor and confidence goes a long way pouring honey on

the situation can go a long way towards taking it the other direction but this is part of a woman to speak that out, still trying to figure that out. >> as a black woman i think similarly i'm the only one in the room, especially in leadership spaces especially in the arts and culture arena, interestingly enough in these spaces a lot of times the heritage, the art of people of color is featured on the wall but they are interested in the decision-making of the museum director and the keynote. it's rare to see folks like me and i have to be my own cheerleader and my own best advocate, a lot of times people are prejudice when i show up, what are you doing here? is it you? are you in the wrong place? that kind of stuff. thank god i am creatively resilient and confident but i

think it's good learning to own your identity and once you get to that place where you are like i am doing this no matter what, be fierce and unapologetic in that. find other people in your circle that can affirm you and don't wait for society to do it necessarilyarea i think in general understanding who you are and why you are there is key to taking up space and being confident in that space . >> i want to pull up something that nancy mentioned because sometimes the biggest hurdles to women can be other women and i know some of my biggest hurdles have been other women and i think it's important to acknowledge that sometimes and recognize the point nancy that you made in your speech, when are you as a woman in an unintentional hurdle for another woman and how do you try to move that, have that self-awareness to know where you might be holding other people around your back and figuring out what it might take to remove that hurdle for everybody else, is as important sometimes as knowing how you want hurdles to be removed for you. [applause]

>> i hannah and as a young person, what questions should we be asking you to get to the position all of you hold? >> what question should they be asking us? >> that's a great question. [laughter] i can tell you that one thing that i did when i was starting out in my career as i found women whose jobs i wanted and i went to them and said how did you get here? and what advice would you give me? and that was really helpful and a lot of the women that i asked had never been asked that question before so it even help them to think a little bit more about that so that's something that i would offer to you. >> i would also say when you are talking to someone whose power and influence had a directorial type of position, it's helpful to articulate how you can add value to them and what they should pour

into you so if you're looking for a mentor, say i'm looking to be mentors and here's why. i think so often the floods of people are like, i need help which is there but i think i need help and here's how i can also help you or here's what i can bring to the situation, that might catch someone's eye as well. >> i want to say ask anything, any question because you need to figure out what your passion is an you want to go in life and follow those individuals and the authentic and curiosity is fine, that shows genuine interest so there's never a stupid question you can ask other than how do you get here, what did you do but getting to know that person is worth more than anything . >> thanks. okay. hi, i'm 90. first of all i wanted to say good job because i knew you were nervous so you did a great job. so pretty much all of us are really under 18 so our age

kind of stopped us from doing a lot of things. i know that specifically i want to work with foster teens but because of legality reasons we can't really get involved with organizations yet . so besides grouping together and making our voices heard, what else can we do to help in these positions that we are not old enough to be involved? >> i guess it depends on the cause. maybe you not might not be able to work with foster kids like direct service but you might be able to help this organization is working with them, whether they need someone to get on the phone and do a calling campaign or they need help with social media. a lot of times you have skills you might take for granted, organizations and nonprofits need help with and you can build up your resume and still contribute in that way even if it's not direct help and also i think just using your platform and the

influence you have to spread the word about hey, there's this movement i care about, everyone don't go donate and volunteer or advocate for them and that's something you can do that's within your power right now. >> you could volunteer internet other organizations and start filling up a record of performance. that's one way to go about it or volunteer at this organization for someone. that are sort of ancillary to that, i would try to build up that and volunteer for sure somewhere so that you got a record of it and when you are old enough to engage, show them hey, i've done all these things and now i want to help . >> i want to take a minute to challenge in a place where we are honoring our presidents to challenge us about what we think that young people's voice means in reference. i was at an event the other day with my good friend who runs an organization called the action project and one

thing that he really brought out in that conversation was how when we think of our founding fathers, we think of them as these kind of to ask, marble figures and statesmen. and we forget that while thomas jefferson and james madison both lived to be in their 80s, thomas jefferson was 33 when he started writing the declaration of independence and james madison was 36 when he started drafting the constitution of the united states. so there are ways that i think we all have to make sure that we are showing how our young voices matter and what they bring into conversation and how even if you can't run for congress right now because you are not old enough and you can't be president until you're 35 and all these things it doesn't mean your voice can't influence the people that are in those positions to the

points that are being made. you find ways to organize and communicate the things that are important to you so that then you have a platform and a voice that you have found but then you are positioned to run when you are able. do we have time for one more question? they gave me the zero sign but i'm going to say one more question so does somebody have a microphone already? back there. >> my name is maddie and i'm a freshman at state heart academy which is an all girls school and we do a lot of these opportunities for us to go up in front of the school and sort of preach what we believe about certain issues and stuff and i was wondering about your first experience actually getting up in front of a proud and talking about what you believed in and one of my friends did this the other day and she sort of, she's freaking out for it but she called my mom and my mom gave her this really hard-core prep taught and snapped her out of it and i was wondering if you guys had

any experience like that? >> experience like a meltdown? >> every day. >> consistently. speaking in front of people is not easy. you get accustomed to it and my way of doing it is to visit every space as a friendly face so even if you guys are giving me side eye, i imagine you smiling at me but i think back when i was in college and freshman year, that was my first experience peeking in front of a large group and at the time we were protesting tuition hikes at our school and so we paid the whole protest and marched down the walkway of the students and they were like, we need people to this and get up on stage. they're like, monica. you have a loud voice. just because i'm a communications major mean i wanted to but eventually folks convinced me and i spoke about my experience and what i thought was right and he went fairly well so that encourage me like wow, maybe

i do have a voice. maybe i can say things people will get inspiration from so similarly you and your friends can go through meltdowns what you will be fine. >> similarly to monica, i was trial by fire thrust into the spotlight when i was in college. there were four women who dropped out out of 90 days and this was in the school of almost 2000 men and eventually became sort of a voice to always press and all this media, no training, nothing, just pay what you think and no coaching and we just did it because they had to for survival and i think that felt my confidence to be able to do more of that. i always felt like after that experience i need to set the example for other women that followed behind me at the citadel so i became involved with the college and began speaking more to alumni groups and i was president of an alumni group and one of the largest in the country

for the citadel so i always felt like i had to set examples for all these women that come behind me but as i've gotten older i will tell you the older i've gotten, the worse it is. i try not to have those because i want to be real and authentic and be myself so it's something to be said for over preparing and making more nervous also. >> let me get back really quick and say writing what it is you want to say, what you want to talk about in the world is so key and that might come from speaking at different venues.i speak a lot about social justice, adversity and community engagement and those are things that i care about and in my life i think that's an organic process for me to speak about it to other people but definitely, reading is a sense of speaking and being informed about what you are going to say, keeping up with current events is another good thing

to do and speaking to other speakers and saying i like his style or i would change this and how that's going to influence you. >> this is it directly related to public speaking but a few years ago i was going to leave my job and start my own consulting process and it was very gary to me and i will never forget , i was driving into work one day talking to my good friend justin on the phone and syria of course but talking to him on the phone and i told him, i said i told him what i was going to do and i said i'm really scared, i'm really nervous and i'm going to take this leap of faith and he said to me, i will never forget, he said kristin, you are taking a leap of faith in yourself. what else can you possibly have faith in? and it was the most powerful thing and it was exactly what i needed to hear in that moment and in that moment, i'm not going to tell you i stop being scared and that i

stopped questioning if it was the right decision but that was the thing i kept coming back to that while in my experience was not directly related to a public speaking scenario, i think it has repercussions for the way we think about a lot of this disparity that we have in our leadership, all you can have as in yourself because what else can you have faith in? i think we have to close it out now because we are beyond time but we will be here for the rest of the day i think and i know we have some open time around lunch and we love to talk with you more. thank you guys for taking what for some of youmight be the first step in your leadership journey to come here , for some of you might be the tent step for the hundredth step but what we would ask of all of you is please don't stop on that journey. keep going, keep taking more steps to get to where you want to get to for yourself, for your communities and for

our country. thank you so much for having us. >> tonight it's book tv in prime time with a look at notable books of 2016. starting at eastern, nathaniel philbrick discusses his book valiant ambition: george washington, benedict arnold and the fate of the american revolution. then mary wrote but that grunt: the serious science of human that war. after that, antonio garcia martinez discusses chaos monkeys: obscene fortune and random failure in silicon valley and finally eric sayer on his book consequence: a memoir. book tv starting at eight eastern on c-span2 and on c-span three it's american history in prime time with programs on world war ii. the eastern with a discussion on the fate of nazi and japanese war criminals following the war. see it on c-span three.

as 2016 draw to a close, c-span remembers the passing of important public affairs and political figures. our in memoriam program begins with former first lady nancy reagan who died in march at the age of 94. here's a portion of her funeral as well as a conversation we had with her in 1994. >> the cold war that president reagan did so much and brought them together. in 1950, the name nancy davis appeared on a list of communistsympathizers . with the hollywood black listers know that this was a different person? and not the young actress? she took her problem to her union boss, the president of the screen actors guild, ronald reagan. they met in a hollywood restaurant, the dinner would be brief they agree to cause each had an early casting call. in fact, neither had an early

casting call. and her early casting call with the standard hollywood used to put a quick end to unpleasant dinners area but when i opened the door, she wrote later, i knew he was the man i wanted to marry. >> do you think that ronald reagan could have been elected president without nancy reagan? >>. [laughter] oh my. well, i think i may have helped a little, maybe. i hope so. [applause]

>> that was just part of our memorial program that looks at the passing of several key political figures in 2016. we will also feature programs with supreme court justice and tony scalia, news anchor grin when eiffel and utah senator robert bennett, all who died this year. we will see you tonight at eight eastern on c-span. sunday, in depth will feature a live discussion of the presidency of barack obama. we are taking your phone calls, emails and facebook actions during the program. the panel includes rachel ryan, white house respondent for urban radio network and author of the presidency in black and white, my up was view of three presidents and race in america. princeton university is or any well, author of democracy in black, how race will enslave the american soul and pulitzer prize-winning journalist and editor of the washington post, david meredith, author of barack obama. watch what in-depth live at 2 pm eastern sunday on book tv on c-span2.>> join us on

tuesday for live coverage of the opening day of the new congress. the official swearing-in of the newly reelected members of the house and senate and the election ofthe speaker of the house . we will have live coverage of the days events from capitol hill beginning at 7 am eastern on c-span and c-span.org or listen to it on the free c-span radio app. >> kellyanne conway, senior advisor to the trump transition team on her role in the trump campaign and how to empower women. she's followed by several other speakers including senator amy klobuchar and new york representative elise stefanik. held by politico and google, this is two hours.

>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome politico executive director of events, alexis raise . [applause] >> high. wow. good morning everyone, i'm alexis, executive director of events for politico and thank you all so much for being here. on the half of our ceo and publisher and doctor elaine albritton, it is such a pleasure to look out to this crowd and see you all this morning. we are, everyone knows this but our fourth annual women rule summit and i can say that i am proud, it's an amazing humbling moment to be here in front of all you, for years in the making for this program so thank you for that. as you can imagine, it takes a total army to pull something like this off and by this i mean not just a big event has been a herculean fee but also the women rule series so i want to say a couple quick things to these amazing individuals that have

put this all together. behind me on the politico side, catherine rossdale who has collaborated not just in the execution of this event but also the content and gloria edwards, kate murphy, caroline kind, thank you so much and lindsay monahan helped on the content side as well. on the google side, susan molinari has been a partner to us as we figure out how best to capture what the impact of women being in positions of power is and they have been with us from the beginning so thank you and thank you also to catherine vargas who in the last year has been choosing a purpose and a new sense of direction with the series.

lori fabiano from the birch foundation, thank you so much for always asking us to do more, for asking us to deliver better results and focus on what is most important which is bringing us all together and finally to our amazing marketplace vendors, i am sure some of you had a chance to look at take a swing around and we have such an amazing women who have taken the risk to become entrepreneurs and are now selling their wares to all of us but fully to shop again for the holiday season. while you are there, please check with our snacks so around of applause to all those fantastic people. [applause] so i would say that women are at the point of much more than just an event, it's a forum for discussion, it's a place to learn new things and it's an opportunity for people to connect and really let them know as these individuals who they otherwise would not have had the opportunity to meet you this is exactly how i want things to frame up today. we cannot ignore what this year has been, what history will remember 2016 as is sort

of uncertain but there were incredible lows and some incredible highs and i hope that we can acknowledge some of the hard parts, acknowledge some of the divisive law things that happened but remember there were amazing accomplishments. we had the first woman to be nominated to run for a major party and that's something we should all be proud of. [applause] we had the first woman whom you will hear from today to run a presidential campaign. these are two major strides, two things that hard work, effort and tons of energy went into and we can't let go of thatenergy, that momentum . so i hope we look at this conversation, this program in that context. i hope today we can stop and reflect and we can actually think about how to put together, these powerful amazing women we can have impact. in that vein, one of the most

important parts of this entire series is the ability to connect and the ability to meet new people. one way we are going to facilitate that is through our ambassador roundtable conversation. our ambassador, there's one at every table, senior women from all different parts of washington and they spent their careers doing amazing things. they will help facilitate dialogue and lead brakes that we have in the program to call people talking and connecting so if i could, ambassadors if you wouldn't mind standing up, i'd love to give you a round of applause and say thank you for being here. [applause] fantastic. so in a similar vein, one interactive activity which i know is a lot early on a wednesday morning but i want you, everyone who's here left and right and introduce themselves to two people you don't know. yournames, what you do or what you hope to do so

everyone these go for . [inaudible conversation] all right, getting you guys back to attention might beharder than i anticipated . all right, everyone if we can just , keep not looking later. okay. that was great. a little more ambitious than i thought so good work. more of that income, don't worry. before i hand over, i'm lorraine up rather but had over the mic from google, i want to encourage you to do three things today. i want you to focus on expanding your perceptions,

taking today's conversation of ways to learn more about different people. i want you to expand your network and i want you to think about what we all have in common and what connects us. if we can do that, i think there's a lot of power to be had. and from where i stand and speaking candidly i see an amazing group of powerful, motivated and creative women were capable of really incredible things. we come together and collaborate with those you agree with and comport with those you don't know what to acknowledge where we've been but importantly, let's look to where we all collectively want to go. and while we're at it, let's have a little bit of fun. in that vein let me introduce lead done to the stage for some great remarks. [applause] thank you alexis. good morning women of washington.

we are so excited at google to be part of this event for the fourth year in a row. our office is led by a woman, or international policies led by a woman, our cfo is a woman so women roulette google and women rule in washington so i'm excited to be here today. i'd like to follow up on alexis because it wasn't just the president's speech, i work in the elections division at google where i saw all different types of political entities and so you can blame me for these ads online because you probably did and you are pretty tired of them so no more, we are done but it's exciting, we have 41 and trying to run for senate in the us this year which is a record, that's amazing so we should definitely be proud of what we women did this year. for women one senate seats this year, very exciting. the number of women who filed

to run for senate is a record in 2016 so that's pretty cool. for the house, 272 women filed to run for the house this year. that is not a record, 2012, 298 women so we need to work on that. find women leaders in your hometown and encourage them to run for office. we had eight women who were challengers in the house so we have more women coming to washington and we have worked more women supporting in washington and i hope you do so. one thing we encouraged our candidates and political scientists in the elections advertising space to do is we learned a big lesson in 2016. do not make elections about voters. i urge you not to make assumptions about women in this room and women in a different political party venue, women who do something different than you and i hope we can come together and support each other and a 2017 an exciting year because we learned a lot. the ad that you saw with resonating from women sometimes didn't, i tried to do male candidates who didn't understand that isis ads

didn't appeal to soccer moms but we are breaking ground there so i hope that you allow the assumptions of others to draw from. welcome and thank you politico for letting google be part of this. [applause] >> thank you google and the birch foundation especially, all of you in the room and now were going to kick off our first panel and i want and paul are to speak. [applause] >> thank you alexis and good morning everyone, i'm very excited to start off our conversation this morning, i'm enter palmer, co-author of politico playbook. there's obviously a lot of raw emotion in this election, a lot of processing and everybody here across the country, after this divisive election year, the gender and treatment of women in the

spotlight have this panel to start ourconversation to talk about women in washington, women and women in 27 so welcome . on the stage i have with me congressman from tennessee, she is a member of the trunk transition team and has met with mister trump so we are dealing with that, we have debbie dingell from michigan, an important state in the midwest and hopefully somebody who can walk through a little bit of what happened there and what democrats are looking at in the midwest. we have elise from new york, she's sort of the next generation of younger lawmakers so i look forward to talking to you on yet that and senator amy klobuchar from minnesota and she actually was named first for the most bills that were sponsored or cosponsored by a senator so in a town where

gridlock prevails most of the time she has had a lot more success than a lot of other people. let's just jump right intothe conversation, congressman, i want to talk to you about the trunk transition. we've obviously been focused on all the minutia . hillary clinton pledged to have a cabinet, half of the cabinet be women. so far trump has had three. nikki haley as the un ambassador and becky divorce for secretary, how important do you think this is that women are part of the cabinet? >> i think it is important that women be there but the most important thing we want to focus on is having the most qualified person for the job and making certain that those of us working on the transition are pushing forward qualified women to fill those roles. and when you talk about breaking the glass ceiling, you always have to talk about breaking that last ceiling the right way so that it's stays broken and it clears the path for other women to

come along behind you so that's a part of our focus. i think also this senator who is going to be at cns and katie mcfarland whose the deputy and national security, these are such well-qualified women. they are going to serve our nation well. as mister trump moves forward, i have no doubt that you are going to see other women at senior levels in his campaign and in his administration and it's important to note to that his campaign was managed by a female. who will be here later this morning. >> i'm delighted you're going to hear from her but she was the first woman to run a republican campaign in and the first woman ever to win a national campaign so mister trump has in his business is

appointed many women and you will see that in this administration. >> we've all been watching reality television, what's happening at trump tower, who's going in, who's not. you've been there, went up the elevator. what happens next, we all want to know? what happens next is the opportunity to visit with trump and to visit the meeting that you are going to have with mister trump, the vice president has with steve bannon and rand's previous and he talks about how to best serve and i am a huge believer in one of the tenets and the priorities of organizational leadership, having the right person in the right you so they have the ability to perform at their best level. and i enjoyed having that conversation and they look

forward and you look at someone's strength. another thing to as you look at organizational leadership you want to make certain that the members of your team have complementary skill sets area so that everyone has the chance to excel and that is what we want for our nation and it is the way mister trump is pulling that cabinet and its senior-level staff together . >> are you interested in going into the trump administration restaurant. >> it's something we will talk about.i like being where i am. i like the legislative branch and have enjoyed that. >> all right, tbd. let's turn to congress. i wanted to start with you senator klobuchar, a democrat in the minority in how to take advantage of all three branches, how do you view your role trying to get things done? we talked a little bit in

terms of your success but also pushing back to make sure democrats have a voice. >> i think we have two roles, i will admit that women rule, at this point i thought maybe in my mind we were going to have someone else speaking. that didn't happen and so you know, this is democracy and i've always believed you have a real transition of power and our job is to go to washington to represent our constituents as best we can and to me that means two things here, one is to find common ground where we can find it, certainly the president-elect first words were about infrastructure and the night of the election that is nothing i've care about, having a bridge fall down blocks from my house and secondly, the other role is clearly the democrats in the senate are going to have a check and balance, a check and balance on power, i think anytime you have the executive branch, both houses

of congress controlled by one party you would want some group and that usually falls on the senate to be able to do some kind of balance in a check. it's possible also we will have alliances republicans in the senate and house on things where there may be disagreements with the administration or as we've seen in the last few years when congress takes the lead on a bipartisan basis , the backlash led by senator mcconnell and boxer is a great example of that with the transportation bill or be doctors bill that was worked out with then speaker weiner and speaker pelosi so i think there's going to be a lot of action going on , people are going to expect not just that they sit and do nothing and that cannot happen and i don't think it will happen. >> there's been a lot of the room by our moments that that

we want president-elect trump to be as successful as possible. republicans put the blame and spending bills where it did not pass the government shutdown on friday. you think democrats are going to hold the line on labor or the general mass or you think will going to have bill and everybody's going to get out of town? i think there's an argument we're making that you could easily do it next year when we have a hearing and do everything at the same time. and that's all being where the negotiations are going to work out. there are a number of people in our caucus that are open to his nation and it really hasn't been about that, there's been a case made by others that this isn't the process that should be used that we should be nominated, i think the others are much more dominating and our sense right now is economics and the coal miners in west virginia and virginia and pennsylvania whose pensions are ending and we basically put a stop on bills until we get something done because the words we've heard not just from the president-elect but also from some republicans that they want to

assist these coal miners so that is an interesting fact that that's what in our caucus is the discussion and the dominating thing, just because of what we heard in the election working with these people. we've gotten through to the system and through no fault of their own and trying to make those decisions for them so i think that's kind of the interesting debate going onat the end and for democrats in the senate , we are really putting a line of sand on that issue. >> the coal miners versus for you, general mattis. >> what i'm saying is this is all a negotiation and i think it is a sensible argument that you could do a waiver or whatever you want to call it, along or whether we get that but certainly people have an understanding that we will never do that. >> i wanted to take it to the whole nation here, google is meeting on some great fixes when she kicked off on the conversation about how many women were running but a lot of people's minds, the number of women actually is about 20

percent so i guess one of the questions i would ask is women in congress, do you think we've hit a wall? is there a nation that kind of the number for the high watermark for women is going to be 20 percent and how do you change it if you think use there should be more? >> i want to piggyback on something marsha said which is that we need to appoint women that are qualified for the job. so i was obviously very disappointed like amy was in the outcome of this election but i was not supporting hillary clinton because she was a woman. i was supporting her because i thought she was the person qualified for the job. we now have a president-elect, and like amy i'm moving forward and we need to do that.

i think you have to analyze the selection for many reasons, i don't think women are stagnant. i think we have to as bipartisan women,we are each in our own party need to figure out how we support women, how women are , i say this, i'm going to tell you, when i got elected everybody said to me you're not a spouse anymore. i ended up one day very frustrated and i ended up giving the speech that connects with people more than anybody which is that people tell me i'm not a spouse, i am. nobody else is doing the grocery shopping or the laundry or dry cleaning and that's what makes us better and it makes us more real, we are problem solvers. we have multiple balls in the air and sometimes we don't like to have to raise the money, our jobs as women in each of our parties is to help women continue to do all that multitasking but to also be a voice at the table for real people across the country and i think one of the things this election was about was about people want

real people at the table. they're tired of partisan bickering and they want to see something done sono, we are going to see more women. marsha , my instagram, every single week has both the price of eggs and the price of bread and that's real to everybody. and it's $2.99, it's true. >> my husband who was chairman for a long time on the energy and commerce committee and a powerful man in washington, publicans have led the democrats in terms of getting women to run for office and getting them elected. have you talked to people that are thinking about this and in your experience, you are going to be a second term in january? >> i played a leading role in helping to recruit women to run for office, part of the national republican congressional committee. congresswoman diane black shared our women's engagement program and we successfully got two women elected in this freshman class. we need to do better in the

future but when you stated that you think 20 percent is the high watermark? absolutely not. if you look at millennial women, the majority of college graduates are women. women are breaking down glass ceilings in all industries on a daily basis. i see that in my p or group. in my class in 2014, we have very qualified women who got through the primaries. when you think of congresswoman neil long or marta mcnally who has broken down glass ceiling in the military, mimi walters and in my own personal experience i had one of the most contested primaries in the country in 2014 and a lot of the bad advice i received was that you needto be like a typical congressional candidate went by that , that's a male who is over the age of 60. i obviously am not that so instead of running away from the unique qualities that i

brought to the table, i leaned into the fact that i was young and specifically a young woman and that didn't resonate with young voters, that vote resonated across party lines which is why i think in 2014 and in my experience in 2016 we are able to do well at the polls. >> one of the things you got through the hurdles of getting women to run is about whether you have a family, a lot of responsibilities, money is uncomfortable for everybody. you see a negative tone, this campaign generally i think proved it, it was the most negative i've ever seen. you think that's going to be a hurdle for women to raise their hands and say i'm going to be a candidate and is that what you are talking about it all? >> i think that it is more difficult because a lot of women that i recruited or want to run or who have thought about running don't necessarily like that atmosphere and is one of the

top things that you here, that there going to get attacked and first of all i look at the facts on election night that debbie was saying, and at midnight i got a text from my daughter and it said mom, what do we do now? and as a mom i thought she was at this party for hillary clinton and i thought all right, you need to leave right now. she goes no mom, i'm in the country. i met the country. and so what i told her the next day or when we finally got to talk and the next day what i told her was number one, i went through loss and she said john kerry, al gore, we had this discussion. these men that had lost but i was also able to talk about women that had one in this election, right? i was able to talk about the women in the senate, we are now up to 21 which includes

three women of color that are new inches a big deal in the united states senate, which has tended to be a white placebecause we have , harris, we have tammy duckworth now and we have cortez mathis from nevada and so that's a pretty big deal in addition to 90 have to and a lot of the women that are there and now you have women who are energized through the clinton campaign and volunteering, new people coming out and getting involved and i always tell them that no matter what that atmosphere, it's something they love to do and they can deal with whatever atmosphere they get in one of the mistakes sometimes we make on both sides of the aisle is everyone wants to get involved in a presidential and trying to get involved in running for some local job at school board or trying to help people on those campaigns. i started with the city council member that ran a campaign in st. louis park minnesota. i learned how you had to get people out and do all that, he won in six months later he took a job in florida.

the point is i got that experience on a small campaign where i had more authority to be in charge so i think that's a piece of it and then just to work for change and work for change for some of these campaign finance laws that have allowed for more of this outside running and activity is the other argument i make for that class one of the things that she brought up is so important and that's that it's this multiple level, the state level and then we will choose to rake this in and run for a congressional or a senate seat and many times women have been hesitant to do that because there has not been that fraternity to build that network and pardon me, when i was a party chairman and someone would come to me wanting to run i would say talk to your constituency and maybe they wouldn't really know. they had the desire but they didn't have those, that

fundraising network or they didn't have a large volunteer group around them and i think the next decade, and elise is going to be one of the leaders with this, the next decade of women that will have that local and state experience that will enable them and empower them to move forward at a federal level i think is going to ... we are going to see not just little increments, you're going to see some leaps and bounds in the number of women serving at the federal level. >> senator klobuchar, some you the dean of the women in the center retiringbut what's the mood like in terms of the bipartisanship ?it had such a negative time, is there an effort to come together? >> we already had one of our women senators at a bipartisan dinner in that room that never goesout of that room and of course we

never talk about the mail senators . >> let us know what happens. >> but you know, it's launched a friendship as barbara said last night, we had, we called it a parting party . we don't call it retirement. she was saying how the group would continue beyond her and that is a sign of true leadership of course and i think out of that group, we had some people that have worked together and that's been so important whether it's susan and myself leaning that effort when we had to shut down, to bring together a group of 14 people to come up with an idea how to end it, whether it's the work that patty murray did with marley sanders and similar work in the house on the changes to the education law that has been long waiting to be done. whether it's the work that carry staff now did with senator roberts on the farm bill and eddie cochran and so

we have had a lot of women demonstrating leadership on both sides, center mccluskey and senator will put together an energy billfocused on energy efficiency that we would love to get done by the end of this year . and so we've had those moments of leadership where people have come together and in fact , i'm going to have to leave early today because if i don't be there to be the ranking member with senator mike lee, on the time warner at&t hearing, willman will not rule. it will really be a black seat and we will be running it alone and that would be bad. >> i know you need to run so i'm going to ask you one last question. but you talk about all this bipartisanship, what piece of advice would you give to the women here who are going to be coming into a divided washington, a partisan washington next year. what's the secret to your success for finding those commonalities? it's being optimistic about our country area i was just speaking with 300 national

guard people that have come back from all over the place, korea and croatia and other places and just being there families and seeing the total election and we are all focused on every single thing but what happens on this day and who said what and what email got out and what video is showing and he's just like that whole point, that does nothing to serving our country. the advice is to try to have that mindset, that you go into this for a reason. it's not just a game. we got huge challenges for people in this country whether it's making sure they get a decent job for women to be treated fairly and to really , it's an exciting opportunity because we are not governing through crisis anymore. we've been through that with the downturn. >>

>> thanks so much. all right. we have a few more minutes here and i wanted to talk, she talked about some of the friendships in the senate. you've been here a long time. you are on the outside as an advocate for a long time. you are not a member of congress. one of the things, people don't live in washington anymore for the most part so you don't have those friendships because of something that you feel like there needs to be changes or having the dinner, the bipartisan dinners, getting to know your colleagues better on the other side? >> both of these women know, they are both very good friends quite frankly.

i actually started organized the bipartisan retreats that happened a decade ago because ii thought it was really important for people to know each other, to develop relationships. if you know somebody it's very hard to demonize them. it's easy to find common ground. i think what of the most popular, if not the most popular demand for members of congress, especially in the last session, i was trying to come up with an idea of how come i remember talking to you about it, how to bring people together in a place that was close to capital because getting people to go off capital is impossible. what would be educational. so it would be ethically correct and felt what if we start a history dinner series at the library of congress? and talk to jim billington and some others, and some but you know makes it really work, said that's a great idea. and now those dinners are so, the very first one i did, the

person comes from people who helped underwrite it said my stats that you will never get more than 30 members of congress. i had people working at like you've never seen. we had 35, 40 senators, republican and democrat. they made a point of coming over in finding, bill nelson found freshman republican, republicans found, and now they are sold out. these are members of congress that raced to get the first event seeks upfront. when you sit at the staples on its senators and house members, republicans and democrats. we've got to do more of it. i'm a member of the first out of here. candace mill and i race for that 12:45 thursday or friday playing and come back as late as you can. but people do need to get to know each other. i have talked to both of them about is the time for another retreat? no policy, just get to know each other. >> one of the lessons upfront ii

think raising play out over the last three years is the work the committee are vice chair energy and commerce is done on 21st century tours. that registration of finishing up in the house committee came out of committee on a bipartisan vote, off the house for 344 votes. cloture in the senate 85 votes. it should be on the presidents desk by weeks end. but it was what fred upton whose energy and commerce committee chair and diana degette, the ranking member on health did. when we started this process we worked in task force and working groups. that was the setup and they gave us the opportunity not to be in a hearing setting but it gave us the opportunity to talk to and with one another and with people

who were subject expert in the areas that we had under review. this is something that will change the way we access healthcare, the way we deliver health care and will shift the focus from a one-size-fits-all medical delivery system to a precision medicine system. it involves the nih, the fda, and it will change the way cms pay for things. the entire process was very collaborative, and i think there are lessons for every committee in how we crafted this legislation, how we moved to forward and how we pushed it to completion. >> what have you seen in terms of the ability to work together or across the aisles? have you been able to make friends with some of their democratic counterparts? >> absolutely. i serve on the most bipartisan committee in congress, the house

armed services committee. it's also the largest committee. we just passed our 55th national defense authorization act and there are tremendous women on both sides come again on republican pledge of women like martha mcsally. i'm proud to serve on the committee. on the democratic side you have gwen graham, tammy duckworth who will be moving on. susan davis, and on a number of issues we have been able to bridge that partisan divide that you seen some of the other committees in congress. my frustration at home, oftentimes what i read about in papers, both nationally and just media coverage in general, there tends to be a focus on the partisan bickering and less focus on the bipartisan victories. if you look at this past congress, the senate a reference the infrastructure built to marsha just talked about the 21st century cures act. senator also mentioned the first update to no child left behind.

those are significant bipartisan victories and again, in today's push and pull of 24/7 news coverage, oftentimes that gets lost because just the notion that congress is denigrated i think has seeped into the way politics and public policy has been covered. i hope to change that and talk about partisan victories make sure people understand that bipartisan is not a bad word. you can stick to your principles and be bipartisan at the same time. marsha just talked about the process with energy and commerce. i think that is a great example and that was used in the making and it started at the top of the way chairman upton and the ranking member structured the process. >> we are about to get the rapid, but i want to try to live on an optimistic note of advice when i think a lot of us are going to forget what is happening in washington and how to move forward. what piece of advice would you give our audience today in terms of finding, the ability to

bridge the gap or as women leaders? >> i would say either going into a policy debate, be prepared. i would also encourage everybody to realize that anything that is going to be successful, any endeavor, any project begins with respect for one another and with building a relationship. if you have that relationship, yet something to fall back on and you have the ability to approach someone again and is it okay, we're we're going to disagree, let's agreeably disagree and let's find a way to work this to a solution. i think women are really good with that so i would encourage focusing and making that a priority as you work spirit i agree with everything marsha said. the a problem solver. relationships matter. loose texting and emailing. pick up the phone and call somebody.

there's too much not talking to each other. that's what i would say more than anything. talk to a person. forget texting. >> i don't think millennial are going to like that. i see your ipad, debbie. put it down. >> my piece of advice is you can look at all policy issues through the lens of being a woman. i think we know all issues have an impact on women, whether it's healthcare, the majority of households healthcare decision, 80%% are made by women. whether it's balancing your monthly checkbook and your family budget budget, whether is saving for your kids student loans. i think for too long i feel sometimes the people to want to talk about issues in terms of how the impact women but i think that's a very effective way to communicate. one way did that in my district is medical device industry which you don't necessarily think

about as a women's issue but as i was touring medical device manufacturers, which there are a lot of in my district, i noticed like 80, 90% of the workforce were women. i struck talked about about it as a women's issue and one of my proud moments is as i talked about as a women's issue a week later senator chuck schumer was also talking about as a women's issue. pat toomey, i took that as a compliment. so again i think we need to think more critically about how to communicate all policy issues in terms of how the impact women. >> perfect. think is so much for time and your velvet insights. i'm admittedly enjoyed the conversation and now i'd like to introduce my colleague, politico's media reporter who's going to lead the next conversation. [applause]

>> i am the media reporter for political. i am incredibly excited to be here. this is our women on the trail panel will be talking to some other really important women reported on the trail. you can see them coming out here. it's really exciting to have this panel because especially busy i i think more than any other we have seen more women covering the presidential race. we have seen more women anchoring the television shows. we see more women leading newsrooms. this has been idle for because there's just more women journalists in general but it's also changing the landscape of not only how we approach, that there's a huge difference between how men and women approach news but there's a different view. i'm going to introduce our panelists right here. kasie had as a political correspondent for msnbc. she covered both bernie sanders and hillary clinton campaigns. she's a political obama. kasie was part of the road

warrior program which was a fun program where they brought in all of their correspondents who have been on the trail for not stop. kasie was telling me backstage she is some sort of a so special elite marriott program that there's not even an official name for it. she was more on the road than she was at home in the past two years. we also have tranfive, senior political correspondent and an anchor for cnn did she covered hillary clinton during the election season but she also made her mark anchoring unseen in. i'm sure many of you remember the moment of the polls, most of them, all of them, then over and over again. you have a -- i have a pulled all of them t-shirt. that was my line. she also has come is distinguished is shields offers on the state should not attend george washington university at some point. shawna thomas is washington bureau chief of vice news.

she was senior producer and senior digital editor of nbc's sunday shall meet the press. she leads a team of 10 at by switch of launch a bunch of new products include any diminution. they are trying to completely up and. will get started. we were talking about this, and the 2000 books the girls in the van was talked about hillary is run for senate, there were all these anecdotes were reports running into hillary clinton in the bathroom and now that could've given them some sort of an advantage to being a woman and reported because you how are watching your hand, house of the race? you were telling me it wasn't quite the case this time around. >> i'm not sure that being a woman covering a female candidate, and i imagine in 2008 it was similar as well well, alh i did not cover hillary clinton then. it didn't get you in at access i felt. hillary clinton was very much

silent off candidate, and i would compare almost to covering and incumbent president who was running. she just came into it with this secret service detection around herher, which anyone discovereda candidate who's gone from not having service to than having service, just put more distance between you. also that was sort of her preference i think when a candidate with the press. i would look at those accounts from 2000 when she was putting herself out there in the way you would say candidate who needed a lot more, near to introduce themselves more. i would chuckle because the idea we would run into her in the bathroom, we would never use of the same bathroom as hillary clinton. it was impossible that that would even happen. >> casey, you covered both the major democratic candidates, bernie sanders and hillary clinton. did you feel the issues you focus on or that you covered about hillary clinton were different than maybe bernie sanders because of her gender? >> i don't know it was because

of her gender necessarily. there were obviously entirely different. i can get more to do with the fact hillary not only was, did organize her campaign as though she were an incumbent president but that's also largely how she was covered. this has become a complaint of the clinton campaign in the weeks since we learned she lost the election and the really focus on that as part of the reason why they think that they lost. covering her was different from covering bernie sanders for that reason. what brianna was talking about, in the beginning of the campaign nobody took bernie sanders seriously at all. he gave a 10 minute announcement on the r-uppercase-letter and then said i've got to get back to work. i don't have time for this. very classic bernie fashion and we had a chance to be up close and personal with him because he didn't have the secret service bubble around him and after the iowa and new hampshire primaries and it all started to change.

that said his campaign would constantly complain we never covered the issues. his main complaint was whenever talk about all the things he got up on the campaign trail and railed about. if anything i would say sometimes gender caught up with bernie sanders in a way that, i didn't experience as directed with hillary clinton. there was one instance in which he got very upset about the way he was being covered because we asked a series of questions. there was a flight across the country from washington, d.c. to las vegas ahead of the debate, and killer mike i got up on the stage and said that something to the effect of you shouldn't they tend to do a candidate just because they have a uterus or something. that might be taking the teeth out on the line he used. supposedly offensive so forgive my memory on that one but there's a series of questions to bernie sanders about these remarks that killer mike had made that were related to gender. he was very frustrated we would

pay any attention to that sort of story and why would we not asking about these other issues. they struggled a bit to answer those questions. i remember asking jane sanders who was a very key part of the bernie sanders campaign, probably his closest advisor, tried to talk to her about how she felt about the fact he was running against the woman who eventually became the first female nominee, it was a very difficult subject to grapple with especially because you this background in liberal politics. >> i think about how much more policy was covered in the primary that in the general election. because without it back on covington, a member talking about all, minimum-wage. spin the shawna, you have been in position of leadership in the newsroom which is really important do you feel that having women as decision-makers in a newsroom especially an industry such as television that's been dominated by white males, do you think that you

approach things differently? do you lead your reporters and producers differently because of where you are coming from? >> i would say i don't think i approach it differently but being a woman is sort of one of the things what it's like being a woman, being someone someone who is a color i think journalism suffers some people in lower socioeconomic backgrounds necking positions in newsrooms. all of those things affect that you can look at a store. i don't think that's a bias necessary. i think her life experiences can help have an argument and newsroom about how to approach a story, what to do with it. what is a different question we can ask, how can we get deeper into that subject. being a woman is one of those things and i think i bring that. like i said being black, from texas, all, all of these things have to come into it. we need as much right as possible in newsrooms so we don't just do the same thing over and over and over again. i also think, this will be my

own biases. i do think that with younger women i try to push them and pull a bit harder, especially producers were on my team and try to push them to offer the ideas of a little more. i think it's harder for younger women, not these two women, the people who are a little younger than us. i do think about that and i take special care with that. i don't try to ignore men. they are still here. but i do think what to think about that sometimes. >> i know that as a young reporter i would often have ideas or have to wait for an editor or somebody to ask for the ideas before bringing them up. that's something that is changing as more women see people like all of you on their tv screens all day long. i have turned to both cnn and msnbc and the scene five boxes of women and no one is blinking an eye anymore. it's a change in even four years ago. one thing that came up a lot

this election cycle of sexual harassment. this is notable not only because of we had donald trump access hollywood tape. we have people come women accusing doll child of inappropriate contact. we have bill clinton's accusers coming forward. we also had in the media fox news and the roger ailes issue. rihanna commode ask you, i know some of your colleagues opened up on cnet about their own experiences. what were the conversations like in your newsroom after these types of things broke not only personally but how you would cover it? >> i would say coming to access hollywood tape was the moment -- covering -- it was covering it as a woman. the conversations behind the scenes, people would say it would just remind people i think it kind of like something that happened in college or something and it just sort of, it hearkened back to something they probably even pushed out of the mine. then you realized how many women

come when not talk about sexual harassment. that tape is advocacy for sexual assault, unwanted sexual advance. so women had a very, i think in that a spatial younger women they identified the sexual assault aspect to it quicker than they did because i know for me it was a very, one of the conversation we had as we waited and with that we did them the audio, video, audio or the video at first we just had sent her holds reporting. just happened that day to be doing the rap piece on both donald trump and hillary clinton. so it was right right, we were g into airtime at the top on jake tapper show and had the fair told story and they needed to figure out what is going to say about it -- fairhope. i had to just can't use my best judgment about how i was going to address that peer but for me there were a lot of, a lot of

stories, a lot of headlines throughout the election but that one was just something different. i think everyone felt that but the initial thing i noticed from men, and it's not a knock on them but they thought my goodness, the language, the lewdness of it. and for women especially the younger women where i think it's also just a lot more awareness of sexual assault, it's an issue that is discussed different now than it was even 10 or 20 years ago. i think we were shocked by it. because it just felt very different it felt very different to us tha but you also saw a lof men who were taking cues from women, whether it was their wives are the girlfriends or their female colleagues. they were using that i think to inform how they spoke about on air because it was this unprecedented place we were in.

>> kasie, we as result of the more women in power when you speak of it makes a big difference. we fed megyn kelly of fox news talk about her own experience which she wrote about it in her book as well. you think that makes, to have them be involved or be a part of this conversation, do you think it is cause more people to pay more attention? are we getting more action? >> i do think briand it is right. way that, especially the "access hollywood" did because i think it's kind of the clearest sharpest and it was the most -- mode on this topic for this campaign is something that is addressed a little differently now. it is for sure because there are more women who are willing to step forward and say things in public and essentially say hey, this is not acceptable behavior. this is not okay. the reality is, you're talking about how did news rooms react. there was an awful lot of

privately, not positioned on the air but conversations going on about i remember when some point that happened to me. i think that's something because there are more and more women come more and more people who are sharing their experiences. as the culture around this has changed, it is a lot more people to talk about it in a public way. at the very least changes how it's addressed and what is acceptable in the publics sphere. there's been a lot of, historically women have been afraid to come forth and say hey, this is a thing that that happened to me. >> i also think, i can't help but think had that tape, 20 years ago and donald trump were running for president, that would've been a lot of jokes on late-night tv and we probably would not have talked about that much. i don't know if would've had as much effect on the election. because more women are in the newsroom it got covered like something that was serious cousin was. >> you hear over and over, there

was this battle, the battle afterwards on twitter wise you had a lot of women saying i don't hear people talk like that. you had a lot of guys saying i don't hear people talking like that. then i would get all of these tweets or e-mails from viewers who would say, you know, that's how people talk. maybe the entity that i would say really? the answer think was maybe that's not how people talk anymore. i think it was surprising from someone who's older but maybe it would be more surprising from someone who was younger, you know? >> kasie, you were talking about how the hillary clinton campaign has complained in a way sexism did have a part in what happened. do you think that's entirely true? do you agree with their assessment? >> i think in some ways there's no way to be known for sure. it's something you can use some of the data and information to

attempt to back that up but eventually there will be pieces written and a lot of people spent a lot of time with this very question. thethere is and i think their mn frustration, some of this came out, i know kellyanne put your next guest was at attendance on the form of that hardware both campaigns hashed out what it happened and how they felt about it. one thing that became very clear and was brought up on multiple times from the clinton campaign was this idea the country was ready for a woman president, just not this woman. and that that was the thing that especially for the women who worked on the campaign picture at several women in top positions of power, some of whom had worked for her and her husband for decades, others of whom, jennifer, the communications director work for president obama and was later working for the clintons. when they talked about the information they basically said it you are pulling for you candidates and doing all the

things that campaign professionals go through when you're trying to figure out how to message them how to get some elected, they test all kinds of attributes. are they strong enough, can can it be commander-in-chief, are the honest and trustworthy? obviously hillary clinton had some issues with that one. if you stepped in and of the top of that datasheet and looked at the particularly the strength and ability to be commander-in-chief you would think hillary was a man because that's how the data rate. she has established over 20 some odd years in public life plus 20 years just enter own right as a politician and, of course, a time as first lady before that. she is established that reputation. other women candidates that is a very serious hurdle. mandy has also worked getting i think six women senators elected. those attributes are incredibly hard to come by. it's unclear whether a woman who has the attributes that might

cause people to say that puts me off. the question is how are those things connected? are those the things affect the people seemed seemed strong, ready to lead, or those the things that cause me to term it and said i don't know, i can't vote for that woman for president. that's the question we don't have the answer to. that's had a look at it. jennifer also had what i thought was a very telling insight which is she came into it, she said, i'm going to approach every problem the way i would approach the way used to do with president obama which was if it's going to be a controversy, put all the information out of there. they are approaching issues on that front whether it's the e-m, transcripts of wall street speeches. and jennifer said every emotional throughout the entire panel, she said what i came in i thought all these things, i'm going to do it the traditional way. what i've learned over the course of a year is hillary clinton gets treated differently by the press, treated to believe by the voters and that i would

have a completely separate set of advice about how to do that. they vary from the bleak part of the reason she is treated tivoli is because she is a woman. hard but that's it spirit is a because she's a woman or because she has hillary clinton? some of that who is hillary clinton global things, some of some of that is because she's a woman and that effects especially your memories of her as first lady and had a place into it. but there was no way to run this campaign like anything else. i don't think anyone is sort of tackled what exactly that means. we had multiple conversation in newsrooms that is a because she's a woman or edwin has or decide how they felt about her? spira why have you already decided? is a because she is a self and she lived in this public life or issue facing, the people of the strong and negative opinions

because she is a woman? it's hard to pull those two things apart spirit both things can be treated different degrees but i think talking to people who were grownups, going up to the '90s which we were not. hillary clinton when you look at the role she played as first lady is so different than the role that we've seen in many modern first lady. i don't think it's that well with another people at the time. i think you had that. you also had the issue of the clintons in general and i believe covering hillary clinton that if you judge on her own merit, but i think looking at them clings together yet seen this pattern of it's about a line of legality is not about a line of propriety. that's always been an issue for them. i thought having sort of may be moved beyond the orbit in recent administration, maybe that would change with hillary clinton as she went into her campaign.

what we saw was when the e-mails came out it spoke very much to the same thing. i think that sort of commi commt is like shampoo affect for people who had issues with that side of her. she would've had a better shot had that not happened. everything was because that was reviewing, or the doing of those around her and she took their advice and went along with it. it was, it felt like very much and original sin, they kept on giving, spewing that the entire campaign but in the end looking back it was something that hillary clinton did spin let's look for. when i have a president-elect. he's building the message as we speak. one thing people are interested in county of his has a very interesting relationship with the media writ large, the "new york times" today did a whole study about his tweets and you can see journalists in the media were a big portion of the people

he prefers to target. vice news has a clear kind of, it stands apart from a lot of the rest of the meat and it's part of doing so. how will vice news be approaching donald trump's relationship with immediate? >> we are still kind of the gut how, is he going to fully participate in kind of the norms we expect without presidents are covered by the press. it is the agreements between the press and the white house to have this group of people who follow this person about everywhere he goes, or she goes. and provide this kind of just in case that was born out of jfk assassination. i also think we are not, vice news since it's new and some of you don't know what it is, check it out, hbo, 7:30 p.m. tonight. we are not assuming we're going

to get any access be we are not assuming, we are not credentialed on capitol hill or the white house but we're working on that. we are going to have to find different and new ways to approach this story, and whether that's talking to people who've worked with the donald trump in the business world who may not work with him anymore whether it's hard for anyone who has since signed a nondisclosure agreement. whether it is approaching congress even harder and knowing that we can get access there. i think what we decide is just, we want access. we want to be a part of that but if are not going to get it which is going to blink it how we approach over the period where going to go at it at different way. this may be in some ways is good for journalism. i don't think it's vice news that is thinking this. like how else can he get at this story.