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>> good evening. welcome, mr. secretary. back,have to say welcome because you joined us first time 21 years ago. and you have been part of many of our activities. it is really becoming a good old friend. , in all they discussions we had over the last days, it was always emphasized how important american foreign- policy is. handsw it is in very good

, and so far, we are eager to listen to you. thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you very, very much. it is an enormous pleasure for me to be back in douglas -- davos. i have had the privilege of being here many times over the past 20 years. i always appreciate the diversity of thought and the thirst for new ideas that characterizes this forum. doorposts to say that pushes the limits of thinking, tries hard to find the new thinking. that is really what makes this forum so special.

you on manyratulate years of putting together a remarkable venue for everybody. today, i want to share our latest thinking, with respect to the role u.s. diplomacy can play in addressing some of the most pressing foreign-policy challenges that we face. obviously, extraordinarily complex. very different from the world of the last century. i must say that i am perplexed by claims that i occasionally hear that somehow america is disengaging from the world. this myth that we are pulling back on giving up, or standing down. in fact, i want to make it clear today that nothing could be further from the truth. misperception, and in some case driven narrative, appears

to be based on the simplistic assumption that our only tool of influence is our military. and that if we do not have a huge troop residents somewhere, or we are not brandishing an immediate threat of force, we are somehow absent from the arena. i think the only person more surprised than i am by the myth of this disengagement is the air force pilot who flies the secretary of state's plane. obviously, our engagement is not measured in frequent flyer miles. it would be nice if i got a few. and i thinked -- serious students of foreign- policy understand this -- it is measured by the breadth of our , especiallytments commitments to our allies in every corner of the world.

it is measured ultimately by the results we are able to achieve. far from disengaging, america is proud to be more engaged than ever, and i believe is playing a critical role, perhaps as critical as ever, in pursuit of peace, press parity, and stability in various parts of the world. right here in europe, we are working with partners to press the government of ukraine to forgo violence, to address the concerns of useful protesters to foster dialogue, promote freedom of assembly and expression, and i literally just received messages before walking in here about efforts of diplomats on the ground working to try to achieve calm and help move in this direction in the next days. we will stand with the people of ukraine.

we are also making progress towards finalizing the transatlantic trade and investment partnership, which would link the world's largest market, the eu, with the single largest economy, the united raising standards and creating jobs on both sides of the atlantic. in the asia-pacific region, we are negotiating the transpacific partnership, which will similarly encourage a race to bottom, as ithe unifies 40% of the world economy. the united states is working extremely closely with china and our allies in the region in order to address north korea's reckless nuclear program, and also on diplomatic priorities like disaster relief and development. i was recently in the philippines. in a few weeks, i will be back in asia, my fifth trip as secretary of state within a

year. we are working with our partners to encourage exploratory steps on conflict in the south china sea. this is a critical part of the president's rebalance to asia. home to seven of the 10 fastest-growing economies, we are investing heavily in both development and trade. region,he great lakes we recently helped and an armed the m-23 armed group. yesterday, after diplomatic, intense engagement on the ground, we have helped to achieve a cease-fire in south sudan. and i can tell you that almost every day during the so-called christmas break, i was on the phone to either the president kier or vice president bouchard, the president of uganda, as we

worked diligently to try to move towards peace. justr to home, we completed a u.s.-canada-mexico summit in washington last week, in preparation for our leaders, who will focus on increased efforts in our hemisphere. we renewed educational exchanges. that was perhaps uniquely and in many people's unfortunately, excessively defined, foremost, by force, and our use of force, we are entering an era of american diplomatic engagement that is as long and as deep as at any time in our history. and such are the responsibilities of a global power. the most bewildering version of

this disengagement myth is about a supposed retreat by the united the middle east. my response to that suggestion is simple. you cannot find another country. not one country. that is as proactively engaged, that is partnering with so many middle eastern countries as constructively as we are, on so many high-stakes fronts. i want to emphasize the last point -- partnering. no pretense about solving these problems alone, nor is anyone suggesting, least of all me, that the united states can't solve every one of the region's problems, or that everyone of them can be a priority at the same time. but as president obama made clear last fall at the united nations, united states of america will continue to invest

significant effort in the middle east, because we have enduring interests in the region, and we have enduring friendships with countries that rely on us for their security in a volatile neighborhood. we will defend our partners and our allies as necessary, and we freecontinue to ensure the flow of energy, dismantle terrorist networks, and we will not tolerate the proliferation of nuclear weapons. all three of these challenges and the relationships that surround them, and accomplishing requires, ingoals, president obama's words, for the united states to be engaged in the region for the long haul. partners like saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, with

whom we are both discussing and longer-term security framework for the region, as well as helping countries in transition, like tunisia, egypt, libya, ensuring stability for world shipping lanes and energy supply, there is no shortage of the places where we are engaged in the middle east. the question is not whether we are leaving. the question is how we are leading. there arebelieve steps that, taken together, have the potential to reshape the middle east, and could even help create the foundations of a new order. the agreement we reached with iran's as of this week, nuclear weapons program is being rolled back in important ways.

the world has demanded it reduce its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium, dismantling the infrastructure for its production, and allowing unprecedented transparency and monitoring to guarantee iran is complying with the agreement. they will have to reduce their 20% to zero. they do not have the capacity for reconversion. formsave to reduce it to that are not suitable for making weapons. enrichment,so halt and will not be permitted to grow the current stockpile of 3.5% enriched uranium. iran cannot increase the number of centrifuges in operation. it cannot install or use any next-generation centrifuges to

enrich uranium. negotiate a final agreement over these next months, iran will not be permitted to take any steps to commission the plutonium reactor. clearly, there are good reasons to ask tough questions going forward. believe me, we will. ended reasons to acquire. but promises iran made are promises kept. we certainly have not forgotten. there is a reason the world has placed sanctions on iran. there is a reason why they exist in the first place. reason why the core architecture of those sanctions remains in place. that is why this effort is not in trusting, not in words, but in testing.

that is why now inspectors can be there every day. that was not the case before the agreement we start. at theirs can also be other locations every day. that is also knew, thanks to the agreement we start. inspectors will visit iraq cost plutonium plant every month. every obligation to deliver the plans for that plant to us. taken altogether, these moments will increase the amount of time it would take for iran to break out and build a bomb, the breakout time, as we called it. towill increase our ability be able to detect it and to prevent it. , to an of this will absolute guarantee beyond any doubt, make israel safer than it was the day before we entered this agreement.

make the region safer than it was the day before we entered this agreement. and make the world safer than it was. yesterday, president rouhani stood here, and said that iran is eager to engage with the world. hopefully. but iran knows what it must do to make that happen. said iran has no intention of building a nuclear weapon. while the message is welcome, the words themselves are meaningless unless actions are taken to give them meaning. now, iran has the opportunity to prove these words beyond all doubt to the world. let us be clear. are serious about a peaceful program, it is not hard to prove to the world that your program is peaceful. peaceful with a

nuclear program does not need to build enrichment facilities in the cover of darkness, in the depths of a mountain. waters not need a heavy reactor design to produce weapons grade plutonium, like the one in iraq. it has no reason to fear intrusive monitoring and verification. problemd have no resolving outstanding issues with the international atomic energy agency. this is true for every country in the world with an exclusively peaceful nuclear program. it is the tough but reasonable standard to which iran must also be held. so we welcome this week's historic step. but now the hard part begins. six months of intensive with the goal of resolving international concerns about iran's nuclear program. i want to say the p5 plus one

has acted in unity and great cooperation. we welcome the international community's efforts in this initiative. iran must meet this test. if it does, the middle east will be a safer place, free from the fear of the nuclear arms race. and diplomatic engagement, my friends. that + nations and other options will have proved its worth. the second challenge is syria. almost unimaginable , human tragedy is unfolding before our eyes. just this week, we have seen terrible new evidence of torture at the hands of the assad regime. this week, we also saw the syrian regime and the opposition sit at the same table, the same room, or separate tables but in the same room, for the first

time since the war began. they were joined by more than 40 countries and institutions who have ascended to the geneva communiqué, which clearly underlines how this conflict must conclude, with the creation of a transitional government of full executive authority by mutual consent. terms tell you in simple why that means bashar al-assad cannot be part of that future. it is simple. it is first because of the extraordinary havoc that he has read on his own people, a man who has killed university students and doctors with stud families, sleeping women, children, grandparents. a man who has unleashed extraordinary force of artillery

against civilians, against the laws of warfare. assad will never have or be able to earn legitimacy to bring the country back together. that is number one. number two, because of those things he has done, because of 130,000 people who have been killed, the opposition will never stop fighting while he is there. if your objective is to have peace, this one man must step aside in favor of peace and his mission. you can never achieve stability until he is gone. finally, any transitional government formed by mutual consent, by definition, will not include assad, because the opposition will never consent to permit him to be there. the united states is engaged in this difficult endeavor because we know that the longer the fighting continues, the greater

decisionsectarian will spiral out of control. we know there are people who wish that american young men and women were on the ground fighting for them. there are people who would love to see america fight their war for them. but that is not the choice. the choice is first diplomacy. avoid theo devastating results that would result in the disintegration of thesyrian state, and instability that could spread across the entire region. we are engaged because of the number of refugees pouring into jordan, into lebanon and turkey. it is destabilizing and it is unsustainable. we are engaged because while we are proud to be the largest contributor to the humanitarian assistance to deal with these refugees, the ultimate solution can only come when we stop the

supply of refugees, when we stop the fighting. and that cannot happen soon enough, because assad continues to kill and displace innocent haslians, and in doing so become the world's greatest single individual magnet for jihad and terror. solution, wetical know where this leads. more refugees. more terrorists. extremism. more brutality from the regime. more suffering for the syrian people. and we do not believe that we or anyone should tolerate one man's brutal effort to cling to power. we must instead empower all of the syrian people. that is why the united states and our partners sat around the table and continue to fight for a pluralistic, inclusive syria,

where all minorities are protected, where all rights are protected, and where serious can come together to become the unified state it was, represented by a government of the people's choice, where all minorities are protected. this vision is achievable and will continue to work closely with our partners for a new syria that can't exist ,eacefully as a separate independent, and democratic state, where syrians would be able to have their voices heard without the fear of retribution, imprisonment, or even death. obviously, we know this is not going to be easy. it is obviously very hard. it is already hard. syria, whatady seen forceful diplomacy is able to achieve. speak, a man who the day

before he agreed to do it tonight did not have the weapons, is removing all the chemical weapons from that country. the international community is on its way to completely removing all of syria's chemical weapons, an unprecedented undertaking that is making the region and the world safer, and is setting an example on a global basis. we are convinced that if the syrian people are to have the chance to rebuild their country, and if millions of syrian refugees are to have the chance to return home, it is ultimately diplomacy that will make it possible. solution tomilitary the problem of syria. mostbrings me to the intractable of all conflicts, the struggle to make peace between the israelis and the palestinians.

time i meet my foreign counterparts anywhere in the world, and they visit me in washington or when i travel to their countries, i am not kidding you when i tell you that invariably the first issue that they asked me about is the challenge of middle east peace. it may seem improbable, but i am telling you, it is absolutely true. america too latin africa, and all through europe, this question lingers. this intractable conflict has confounded administration after administration, prime minister after prime minister. and peacemakers. they always ask me this about the middle east, even before they complain about what we are doing or not doing. despite this global interest, my

friends, people still ask me -- i am astonished by it. with all the troubles in the world, and the middle east in particular -- why is the obama administration so focused on trying to forge israeli- palestinian peace? i have had this question directed at me personally, and in other ways. trying to findre the solution is very simple. successthe benefits of and the dangers of failure or him him us for the united states, for the world, for the and most importantly for the israeli and palestinian people. after all the years expended on iss, the last thing we need a failure that will make certain of additional conflict.

people who are sure this will be the last shot. i do not want to find out the hard way. israel, the demographic dynamic will make it impossible to preserve its future as a democratic state. its relative prosperity does not change the fact that the status quo cannot be sustained if israel's democratic future is in fact to be secure. with today's status quo, my friends, i promise you it will not last forever. abbas is committed to negotiation. failure will only embolden extremists and empower hard- liners, at the expense of the moderates who have been

committed to a nonviolent tracked to try to find peace. the westd happen in bank without that commitment to nonviolence? the israeli and palestinian members breaking the initiative who are here today know what is at stake. economic juggernaut is a wonder. prime minister netanyahu was able to talk to you about it today. deteriorating security environment and the growing isolation that could come with it, could put that prosperity at risk. fails,le, if this palestinians will be no closer to the sovereignty they seek, no closer to their ability to be masters of their own fate, no closer to the ability to grow no closer tonomy, solving the problem that has been allowed to fester for decades.

if they fail to achieve statehood now, there is no guarantee another opportunity will follow any time soon. this issue cannot be resolved at the united nations. resolvedonly be between the parties. region riskss, the another destabilizing crisis. one unilateral effort from one side or the other will beget another, and another, and another. againwe have fallen yet into a dangerous downward spiral at a time when there is already too much danger in the region. timeten spend so much talking about what both parties stand to lose without peace and we sometimes forget to talk enough about what they stand to gain from peace. i believe that the fact that peace is possible, especially in

a region with so much turmoil, ought to motivate people. alestinians stand to gain contiguous state, their own place among the community of nations. imagine, this time next year, if palestinian businessmen and government leaders from the state of palestine are able to catch the world's largest investors with a host of projects from the palestinian economic initiative. imagine if they can participate in building a new infrastructure , free frome occupation. benefits ofthe peace are perhaps even more significant. no nation on earth stands to gain so many new economic partners so quickly as israel

does. nationsional members, in the arab league, and 35 muslim countries stand ready under the arab peace initiative to all recognize israel and normalize relations the moment a peace agreement is reached. sheik said at a meeting of the foreign ministers of the , he said to his colleagues, completely spontaneously, you know what? enjoypeace, israel will richter economic benefit from relations with the golf than it now enjoys with europe. than it now enjoys with europe. imagine what that would mean for trade. stanley fischer, the former government of the bank of israel, nominated to serve on

our own federal observe -- federal reserve board, said it could boost israel's gdp by as much as 6% a year. andjewish state of israel the arab state of palestine can develop into an international hub for technology, trade, tourism. unbelievable tourism. the holy sites of the world, of the major three religions. this will invigorate a region. that this past time ancient part of the world became known for what they can create, not for the conflicts that they can perpetuate. it is long past time that of theem, a crucible three great monotheistic religions, becomes known not as struggle, but as the golden city of peace and unity, embodying the aspirations of israelis and palestinian's.

after decades of struggling with this conflict, we all know what the endgame looks like. state fordent palestinians, wherever they may be. security arrangements for israel that leave it more secure, not less. a full phased final withdrawal of the israeli army. a just and agreed solution to the palestinian refugee problem. and thence to the conflict and all claims and mutual recognition of the state of the palestinian people and the state of the jewish people. that is our destination. the real challenge is not, what is it? it is how to get there. and theet the leaders

body politic of both places to make the courageous decision that is necessary to embrace what would be fair and what would work. that is why i am working with president abbas and prime minister netanyahu to achieve a framework for the negotiations that will define the endgame on all the core issues, and provide the ability to forge a status and peace agreement. on the lawn in washington when the great handshake took voice. andve watched annapolis madrid, and oslo, and all of these efforts. all of these people have to wonder when and if the real peace can be achieved.

security. knowalestinians need to that at the end of the day, their territory is going to be free of israeli troops, that occupation ends. the israelis will not withdraw unless they know the west bank will not become benghazi. no one can blame any leader of israel for being concerned about that reality. president obama's approach begins with america's steadfast equipment to israel's security. he knows and i know -- i know that there cannot be peace unless israel's security and its needs are met. we have put the full range of resources of the u.s. government behind this effort in an

unprecedented way. for the past nine months, a team led by general john allen, a four-star general and one of the most respected minds in the u.s. military, has been engaged in a comprehensive security dialogue with our israeli and palestinian counterparts. efforts, we are confident that, together with israel, working with jordan, working with the palestinians, all of usth us, together can create a security structure that meets the highest standards anywhere in the world. and by developing a layered defense that includes significantly strengthening defenses on both sides of the border by deploying state-of- the-art technology and a comprehensive program of rigorous testing, it can make the borders safe for any type of conventional or unconventional threat, with individual

terrorists or a conventional armed forces. we are well aware that technology alone is not the answer. but we also know that it can play a key role in helping secure the jordanian border, just like it has played a key role in securing israel's sudden -- southern communities. security is a priority, because we understand israel has to be strong to make these. but we also believe that peace will make israel stronger. we are convinced the greatest security of all will actually come from a two state solution that brings israeli lasting peace and secure borders that they deserve, and brings palestinians the freedom and the dignity that they deserve. are, it isd as we ultimately up to the israelis and palestinians to reach an agreement on how to end this conflict. nate no mistake -- this will

require difficult political decisions and painful compromises on both sides. issues, manytional embedded in an age-old narratives. at the end of the day, it is up to netanyahu and abbas to recognize what the world has recognized, that peace is in the best interest of their people. but that makes it no less true that, at every level, everybody has a role to play. the arab league and the european union have already shown how they can pave the way for peace, and they have been unbelievably cooperative, and we are grateful for their help. i think king abdulla of jordan, and the extraordinary efforts of jordan to help move this, the arab league, and the leader of the arab league committee that is working, month to month, to

stay current and to be engaged in this. many states made contributions to the palestinian economy, including a new infrastructure initiative that is making a difference to everyday lives. many companies, including some of you here, have invested in both israel and the palestinian territories, and you have shown the difference the private sector can make in this endeavor. ad all of you can make positive contribution by dismissing, please, the all too , by seeing the possibilities, and by building the momentum for peace. davossations here at demand the kind of cooperation that has to come from many stakeholders. as kyle schwab says, in an interconnected world, all challenges must be based on togetherness.

that is true whether you are talking about this peace effort or what we must achieve in syria or insurer in iraq. intensive, creative, strong cooperation,uires and that is exactly why the united states is so engaged in the middle east and around the world, and why we will stay so. as our friends and partners take courageous steps forward, they can be assured that president obama and his administration will remain engaged for the long haul. though we will also confront these challenges with the urgency that they deserve. we dare not, and i assure you we will not, ms. this moment. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> grading ethics and corruption in state government, with gordon

witkin. federal efforts in responding to the chemical spill in west virginia earlier this month. we are joined by the president of the center for progressive reform. and a discussion about mandatory life sentences for young criminal offenders. catholic is from the university of columbus law school. starting live at 7:00 a.m. eastern, we will be looking for your calls, tweets, and facebook comments. >> but no matter what party they belong to, i bet most americans are thinking the same thing right about now. nothing will get done in washington this year. or next year. or maybe even the year after that. because washington is broken. feelingblame them for

that is so? the greatest blow to our confidence and our economy last year did not come from events beyond our control. it came from a debate in washington over whether the united states would pay its bills or not. who benefited from that fiasco? talked tonight about the deficit of trust between main street and wall street, but the divide between this city and the rest of the country is at least as bad, and seems to get worse every year. >> watch president obama deliver this year's address. our preview starts tuesday night at 8:00 eastern, with the president at 9:00, followed by a response from the republican conference chair, and your reaction by phone, facebook, and twitter. live on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.org.

>> republican national committee priebus talked about the state of the party as part of the annual winter meeting held in washington, d.c. his remarks run about 15 minutes. >> good morning once again. we welcome you to washington, d.c. let us here at from the staff -- that is here it for the staff for putting on a great meeting so far. and i think we are having a pretty good time as well. we have heard from some great leaders in our party and are going to hear from more. we are blessed this week that we join hundreds of thousands of people from across the country in the march for life. before we get to everything else, i just want to say, i

think this was a very special year to be part of the march. this year's was adoption, and i wenk adoption is something need to talk about more. we are the party that respects life, and we are the party of adoption. every child should have the chance to have a loving family. and every child should have the chance for life. [applause] thank you. this is a gift. this is a gift. and it is important that as a party we continue to be advocates for respecting and valuing life. , we came together

and said we were going to do things differently at the rnc. we set out to build a permanent ground campaign, to close the digital divide, and to engage with voters of all backgrounds. we have accomplished a lot together in just one year. our whole field team in town for training last month, with hundreds of field staffers over by the dulles airport. it was a wild moment to see how fast the republican national committee had grown in 2013. we are getting to know communities where we had not done for a long time, and we are talking to people who had not heard from us for far too long. that is how you grow a party. the truth is, this work is never done. it is a permanent operation.

that is the new normal at the republican national committee. to win, it has to be this way. on the tech front, we basically have a start up running inside the rnc, and big reforms are coming to our presidential nominating process, with forms that put republican voters, not the liberal media, in the drivers seat. [applause] this is about getting better debates. but it is also a way to put a check on the media. last time we were together, we took a stand against nbc and cnn. we said, if you want to run your hillary films, no debates for you. [applause] -- a little while later little while later, they backed down. they canceled their tributes to hillary clinton. the rnc is not going to put up with the same old ways. we are going to set a new

standard. finally, i want to draw everyone's attention to our fundraising. i am glad to report we have raised well over $7 million in december alone, and easily outraised the dnc in 2013. not only that -- we ended the year debt free. [applause] it is very significant that we outraised the party in power. i do not know the last time the party out of power outraised the party that has the white house, and it is important, because we are making investments early. it is not good enough to be the party that shows up five months before an election. at was the old way. we have to set a new standard. we have done a lot. the truth is, the rnc cannot do it all. it is up to the other committees as well. and of course the candidates

have to do their part as well. but our example matters. beforesaid many times that the policies and principles of this party are sound. however, as we look to grow the ranks of our party, we must all be very conscious of tone and choice of words when we communicate those policies effectively. we should set the standard. we should set the standard for future rnc's, and also set an example for other republicans. know the gop has to get out of our comfort zones and go to places where we have not been for a while, and engage an welcome new voters. we cannot do all the work ourselves. but we can show what a difference it can make. let me tell you a couple quick stories. the first one, some of you have heard before. at the anniversary of the march on washington luncheon last

year, we had hundreds of people show up. it was a great overflow crowd. a couple people came up to me and said, you know what? know, were, but you are democrats. the we are here because we know that if those parties do not fight like crazy for black voters, the other side will take our votes for rented. as a party, we believe it is wrong for anyone to be overlooked or taken for granted in our political process. and even a simple act can send an important message. detroitl, i went up to to announce our michigan black advisory council, and to welcome when bradley aboard as our state director in michigan for african-american engagement. i was amazed by how many people came to take part. we had business leaders and community leaders who are ready to stand up and make a difference.

we did a pretty simple thing by just showing up, and it is having a big impact in a place that desperately needs a new direction, fresh ideas, and more opportunity. so i am glad to see friends like detroit anding to showing up to support party efforts there. likewise, i am glad to hear marco rubio, paul ryan, eric taking land, and others, up difficult issues, sharing republican ideas on how to fight over tea in this country, a problem that has gotten worse under the democrat leadership of this administration. they each have their own approaches. but at the end of the day, expanding opportunity is always the focus. and that is the way we will stand together as republicans. this issue of income inequality is best addressed by ensuring equal opportunity for everyone in this country. the president is now preparing

speeches on income inequality. i believe he should give those speeches while standing in front of the mirror. because under his watch, everything has gotten worse. he should talk to himself. because poverty is worse. food stamp dependency is worse. more people have given up looking for work under barack obama's watch than at any time i can remember. when the federal government tries to equalize outcomes, we are all going to end up equally worse off. but when we make sure people have equal opportunities and education, and a job market, and health care, we are all going to be better off. that is the right approach. and that is what is fair. i think that is what americans expect from their leaders -- fairness. we are about that as a party.

it is not fair to voters when leaders they trusted light to pass their agenda. it is not fair to the working mom who loses the insurance she liked because the president did not like it. it is not fair to the college grad who already has a mountain of student debt and also has to shoulder the cost of government debt, of obamacare, of a bad economy. it is not fair that disadvantaged inner-city students are forced to go to bad schools, and not the schools of their choice. and it is not fair that a young child -- that government benefits are structured in a way that penalizes his parents when they get married. none of that is fair. but that is what democrats stand for. republicans are going to stand for fairness, freedom, and equal opportunity for all americans. [applause] before i close, i want to share

with you a very short video of what has been going on in the field, some of the great stuff that we are doing at the republican national committee. days, wehe next two are going to be talking as a group on how to accomplish our mission. >> my name is becky. >> my name is chris young. >> my name is nicole daniels. >> i am jill barkley. i work in the political department at the rnc. >> i came to meet some people field stafftates, and directors. >> i am from north carolina. >> alaska, tell the four new. >> louisiana. >> colorado. >> there are people across the country. our goal was to get everybody

together to start a discussion about how we are going to run our operation. we have been working across this country for the past, in some cases, six months. it is really exciting to see everybody. >> i really think this is important. i want to make you proud. this is a huge team to have this early. i want to tell you thank you. awant you to know you are blessing to us and our party and what we are trying to get done. every day is a challenge. every day is an opportunity. we areorth carolina, working on recruiting leaders to work on a community level, the peer-to-peer relationships. >> we have to go in case-by- case, voter by voter, identify them, and know where they stand. >> it is an exciting time. we are getting together and embarking on this new trajectory.

the ground game, we are connecting with new people, community members, as well as flourishing long-term relations with them. crexendo values of the republican party are core in my life, and are core to the success, i feel, of the country. i am doing what it takes to support it. >> we have already recruited 7000 precinct leaders across the country. these staff are going to go back to their states and work with precinct leaders. in january and february, they will go door to door, gathering data, putting all this practice together, as we learn more about the voter and how to communicate with them. >> i am an rnc field staffer. field staffer. >> i am an rnc field staffer. [applause]

>> when you look at something like that, you realize what we are doing is a big deal. it is frustrating sometimes when people try to attack our work or create the appearance of dissent. every once in a while, you read or hear about some of our own friends attacking the rnc. attack what? it reminds me that we need to tell people more of what the rnc does. it continues the infrastructure all of our candidates need to be successful. attack what? a permanent field operation that we are paying for? a multimillion dollar technology upgrade that our friends are going to use? engagement with the hispanic, african-american, asian american faith leaders, and use? a ground game that will help

rick scott and other opportunities across the country? digital directors working with state erectors and volunteers in the field. andch office right in civic valley, to recruit the best talent. hundreds of staffers and thousands of precinct captains, and team members getting to know voters neighborhood by neighborhood. everything we are doing is about getting more republicans elected at every level of government. and all of it is essential for winning and helping this country. and anyone who opposes that is not looking out for the good of our party or our country. and we are doing something unprecedented here. when, in the history of our party, has the rnc been able to completely transform our approach to politics in less

than one year? , thereat-grandson barty former coach of my green bay packers, once said -- it is a good 1 -- the only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. our work is not done. in fact, it is only getting started. to close, i have to challenge is for us in the coming year. as we keep up the work, let us set an example for our fellow republicans. theus set the standard for future of the rnc. thank you very much. god bless you. great rest of our meeting. i appreciate you all. thank you. [applause] >> this weekend, watch new

jersey governor chris christie's second term inauguration ceremony, sunday here on c-span. and british prime minister david cameron answers questions about the u.k.'s humanitarian aid to syria and the issue of refugees. you can watch that beginning at 9:00 p.m. eastern, here on c- span. quick some of you have been years, and have endured many setbacks, including the recent expansion of abortion coverage in obamacare. it is important more now than ever that we remain strong and stand together. we cannot allow the opponents of life to continually weaken the moral fabric of our country. they need to know and they need to understand that we will

continue to march. we will continue to educate. we will continue to advocate. fight will continue to for the unborn! the pro-life movement is alive and well, and making serious and sustained progress. >> this weekend on c-span, the annual march for life on the mall of washington, d.c. book tv, what is the secret to a life of happiness? hugh hewitt with possible answers. and on american history tv, the issues and concerns from five decades of state of the union speeches, sunday afternoon at 3:00. next, a discussion about the

economic status of women in the united states from the ongoing project highlighting key issues facing women headed by maria shriver. speakers include mr. iver, kiersten jill a brand, randi and others. this was hosted by the atlantic and the center for american progress. it is about three hours and 20 minutes. >> good afternoon and welcome back. for those of you i haven't met or who met in the morn -- who missed us in the morning, my name is elizabeth baker hepburn. i am really delighted to have you here today for the atlantic presents, the shriver report live, looking at women on the economic edge, a very important issue. i wanted to give thanks again to the companies and organizations that made this possible.

i would like to thank them all again. i have gotten lots of good comments, questions and feedback during the break and i would like you to keep those coming. you can do that using #whatwomenneed. also, through your comment cards and in the q&a, and feel free to find any of us after the program as well. we are going to go straight through the afternoon, so brace yourself. we are going to skip the afternoon break so we can fit a little more in. if you need to get up and get a coffee or stretch your legs, feel free to do so. we are looking forward to a great afternoon of content. we are switching gears a little to talk about men, what

men think and what the role of man is. we are going to kick that off with spoken poetry by the international traveling artist and artistic director of the youth nonprofit sacrificial programs. that will start us into an afternoon talking more about women on the economic edge and man's role and how they can help. thank you very much. >> my x chromosome, the one my mother gave me, the one that pushed for 17 years so that we could eat. i swear allegiance to that x chromosome. despite prescription dosages

down to the milligram, we always seem to come up short on the monthly child support checks. told about deadbeats. deadbeat so that children have no support. i cling to the hope that it will get better somewhere under the weather. i don't like to be stuck in the cellar. it seems like in this life, everyone against oppression is pressing. i intend to plunder and short of my credit like the federal debt and it won't let up. to my xallegiance chromosome from the time i came into this world. my mother came into labor -- went into labor twice. my mother's pupils dilated 10 centimeters for days giving love -- giving birth to a love for me that would never die. to the sun.s closer venus is on the rise along with murder, violence and war caused

by the male sex but we still say it is a man's world like that's been working for us. when males create violence and equal malevolent. want men to pause. the next time you see something you like and feel the need to give advice, imagine a mother's face on her shoulders because every woman is somebody's daughter and could be somebody's mother, grandmother. earth mother nature. motherland. i want to rubber band my arms so tight, isolate the vein to bring the needle so close that i can close the bone. until estrogen is overflowing so i can strengthen my feminine side. and we hear the word feminist, right? and we of new age and feminism was conceived on the eve that

eve's split from an oppressive at him. eve split from adam and energy released was empowering, a new vision of a nuclear vision and the nuclear family. art two art joan built the matriarch. women look to the stars, star gazing. sojourner for truth and it was found. can take a stand. sometimes it's suffering or suffrage, and i like to think true female mvps are the poets and artists keeping their tracks underground and making music to the promised land. i found part or in my mama's for 17ushing a broom years and considering myself grown, a man on my own. i raise my hand and swear allegiance to my x chromosome. thank you. [applause]

>> please welcome to the stage david gregory, catherine eden, michael kimmel and tony porter. >> wow. good luck to us. just in case there is a question, that is not going to happen anymore here. i want to take a moment to address the furniture. apparently it is directly from the jetsons home. i want to make sure i am not sitting like that. ok, alright, fine, i am not going to compete. it is great to have you all and be here and great to be with maria.

conversation,fic and we are going to continue that conversation and talk about what about the man? where our man in this conversation about women on the brink, what women need, what kind of partnerships they need in understanding men. more from my far eight-year-old daughter about what it means to be a man. me all boys do is burp and fark and they don't shower and they smell and they are selfish. i said honey, we really shouldn't judge. but i will stop it when i think you've made a grievous mistake. but it gets to something about are not just men that, we hope, god willing. when we become men we think about what it means to be a man and i think that is changing for

us at all different levels in all different places in society. i think women in our lives are saying you have got to change because we have different needs so where you stand has got to be a little bit different. ofy porter is the cofounder veryalls and is in a dashing purple sweater. catherine eden is also here. she is the author of doing the best i can, fatherhood in the inner-city. michael is a professor at stony brook university who handed me some of what he is working on at the center for the study of men and masculinity. so, welcome to all of you. kathy, i want to start with you. you have written in the shriver report about mistaken assumption don't want tomen change the sense of what it means to be a man and who are

not interested in being in a child's life or a woman's life. talk about that. start with the data from which i speak. my research team and my co- author and i spent seven years in communities across philadelphia, so we are really talking about low income white, black, and latino men. we learned a counter stereotype to the notion that men do not want babies and the men and they find out about a pregnancy they cut and run -- the minute they find out about a pregnancy, they cut and run. what we found that men are very excited to be fathers. the tragedy is that given economic conditions, incarceration, family roles and so on, and frankly, the trauma of intergenerational poverty, it is very hard to claim that status of fatherhood in the way they would like.

so what they end up doing is accomplishing fatherhood across partners in a serial fashion. they end up in a father go round where it is not fully satisfied, but they get a taste of what it is. >> and they do not get the same respect as young women who are not married but have children. they are still viewed with a certain status in their neighborhoods. >> as man, collectively speaking, we don't have status just by being a dad. in the collective socialization of men, the way we are taught to think, act and behave, we are taught to have less value than we are taught that women have less value. we are taught that women are property. we are taught that women are objects. we see that as an equation that equals violence against women. while a man may not perpetrate violence against women, part of

that fertile ground creates a culture of violence against women. >> it is interesting. maria and i were talking before we had aut here and call to action on the today show and does this conversation had calls frome men saying hey, what about us. there is still a lot of confusion about that. >> at all different income levels you find that men are eager -- we keep hearing men don't want to talk about it. i think the exact opposite. i think we are desperate to talk about it. i think we are dying to talk about these sorts of things. at every single income level men say they want to be better fathers, more involved in their families, and they get no support for that. support not only institutionally, but they also often don't get support from other men, right? so when guys say they want to

take parental leave, when they say they want to be home with .heir families as we heard from nancy pelosi this morning, they want to be home with their older parents, their sick parents. they get no support. they get well, i guess you're not committed to your career. we will put you on the daddy track but you will never make partner. >> they get what women get. >> and they get it from men. so breaking or interrupting were beginning to figure out ways that men can support other men, taking these opportunities. this is what they say they want. wantwomen and men say they pretty much the same thing. the workplace is one challenge. there are our social interactions. i would think this becomes a little more universal. it may change based on certain communities, but certainly anecdotally, we see a lot more

young men who are much more predisposed than certainly our fathers to being very involved in our children's lives. >> it's interesting. have taken then new father image and paired it image.e traditional what poor men are doing or trying to redefine fatherhood and saying the new father model should be predominant. what i do, how i care should be more important than the fact that i can't contribute as much. in some ways they are sort of damped to failing because moms in society, as you said, are not giving them a chance. they are not at the low-end especially valuing the work fathers can do. they're saying what have you done for me lately? where is your paycheck? and men are saying i don't want to be just a paycheck. i want to be apparent.

>> but we are talking about partnership year. we are not talking about giving it all up. we are talking about the reporter. -- the report. is, how about just getting into a relationship that any income level where you have true partnership? sheryl sandberg talks about this. that's one level. this is not about wealth. this is about the idea of being in a relationship that is an equal partnership. >> it does seem to me that if i can respond directly, it does seem to me that the data on american men is that they are doing more childcare and housework than ever before. this is not because of some big ideological moment, oh my god, i want to be doing more housework. separating, men are

housework and childcare. sociologists tend to think of them as a package, but men have been separating them. what happens in many families is that dad is becoming the fun parent. dad takes the kid to the park and play soccer while mom cleans the breakfast dishes, does the laundry, makes the bed and prepares lunch. the kids come home and think we had such a great time at the park, what a great parent dad is. they create time for the hooray for me celebration. look what i've done. >> that's called cell -- self- congratulation. clear that westay still live in a male-dominated society. we have to stay clear that the issues we are talking about here have been defined as women's issues. theave to stay clear that

depth of the problem is demonstrated by so few men being in this room. i believe we have to stay clear that we live in a society where men have a lack of interest in the experience of women. i have a daughter on a boys basketball team and they don't want to pass the basketball to her. she is eight years old. they already have a lack of interest in her. how does that translate forward to behavior, thinking and socialization? >> i talked to my daughter and i could see that she was upset. i said i want you to know that i noticed this and it is upsetting to me as i know it is upsetting to you, and unfortunately you're going to face a lot of this, so stated to talk about your

of mind and how you persevere. and in the same conversation i said to my boys, a value for our family is respect and equality. let's talk about how you become a leader in this area. and by the way these other boys are not michael jordan, of the last time i checked. they can pass the basketball. this gets to what you talked about in your essay. how do we talk to our boys about women starting differently at early ages? >> i think it is easy for a feminist like myself to think about men in power positions. in a family this is not true. women are often in dallas lee -- women are often vastly more powerful. we have to recognize the power imbalance. when a child is born outside of marriage, all of the legal advantages go to the woman, who

is the presumptive custodian. men who want to be involved have a hard time getting in. they are assigned child support without visitation. in different parts of our society, powers arrayed differentially. within the family, men need to be empowered in ways that they can be empowered. -- can be partners. we as women often tend to think of children as our property. to embrace a broader vision of the family that brings men in as not just a paycheck, but as a parent, it is our responsibility as well as man's responsibility. in certain relationships,

there is a reflex to say look, these men may want to be more involved, but they are relegated, they are pushed aside a little bit into a different role. i want to get back to the idea of talking about respect and voice changing their image of women, but on the partnership issue, what about that? >> i respect what is being said and how that may look, but at when i look at men collectively, the collective socialization of men, and i come from the community you are talking about. i was raised predominantly in the bronx. i understand those experiences of noncustodial parents and when thesystem got involved and system leaning toward the women in supporting women and those efforts and all of that, and while all that is good and real,

, i am real time clear about men and the domination men put upon women. at the same time, i know there is work for women to do, but in the patriarchy society in which we remain, in a male-dominated society, women have their work and women have their issues, you know, but if the women's laundry list is this long and a man's laundry list was the same, if worked on their list first, when it came time for women to work on their list, it's already begun to shrink up. i have respect for that, but i believe that as men -- i have questions. why are we not outraged? if we are talking about violence against women, which comes as a you are talking about

the lack of interest that she is experiencing with boys. those very boys may never become violent man, but they will become part of the majority of men with that lack of interest. that is kind of rooted in in cap celaya's din homophobia. --is going to keep those encapsulated in homophobia. it will keep those same boys from holding other boys responsible who are violent. the majority of men who would love to see women flourish do not hold them at -- do not hold the minority accountable. could be captain obvious for a moment, men are generally not getting together and going through a list of things they are feeling stressed about with regards to their relationships and their parenting. it is not something men get together and talk about. if i went out with a buddy, what

did you guys talk about? nothing. that is what connection is about for men. >> it's like intimacy. >> right. men are not talking about hey, how do we want to navigate this? how am i dealing with the fact that i want to be involved but i have work demands and expectations. i don't know where i want to stand as a man. i don't know how i want my masculinity to be defined because it is not comfortable for me to talk about with my friends, my boss, my coworker. there is no real outlet. conversations are the ones i think men need to be having. one, we need to hold each other accountable. we need to challenge men. the other is we need to find the language to support other men. when you do say you're going to stay home with your kid and be a

,edicated parent, not babysit, that other guys will say good for you. we need to know there are other men who will support us and other men who will hold us accountable and challenge us. for too long we have looked to women to validate us, support us, challenge us and hold us accountable. i think we need to be doing both. the response i have to the sheryl sandberg leaning and is that men need to loosen up. >> across the country there are phenomenal organizations within the responsible fatherhood movement better getting men to engage in these conversations. families isor urban one of the finest of these organizations in the country. one of the reasons we could do this research is that men were so hungry to talk about this. in half of our conversations, men cried. in mcdonald's. in the middle of the day.

is a palpable and felt need that is really profound. all of the institutional structures are essentially against us. when dad shows up at the hospital to see the ultrasound, the doctor wonder why he's here. --n dad comes -- that is not dad is not invited to head start. or he may be. i know headstart is doing more to incorporate dads, but ours -- our institutions are systematically set up to exclude dads. if we want a truly gender equal society, we have to welcome men into the family the same way that we need to welcome women into the workplace. many levels of this, but one is helping dad understand that at all income levels and backgrounds, they have a unique role to play with

.heir children a lot of dads may connect with a daughter at a certain age but once that daughter gets older and starts to pull back, you feel like well, i have nothing to do here. we start out being utterly irrelevant, and then we assert our relevance. for the first few weeks, but then we have to assert that relevance. where does that education, where does that peer support come from to understand some of the nuances, to fight what could come from women which is that's great that you're interested but you're not really relevant here? isthe broader issue going on about domination in our society in general. it's about group oppression. , there is no need for middle class or above men to create space. why the heck would they?

why do they need to create space to have this conversation? space, who are creating the common denominator they have is the group oppression around being financially poor. that moves them to creating space around their rights, around equality, around the foot of oppression on their throats. that creates the space. you move those same men into middle-class economic -- what am i trying to say, move them into the middle class, and that space is not there, nor is the space needed. >> why do you say it is not needed? >> it is not needed for them. it is needed in society. >> there are middle-class families struggling with each other's role. >> i am talking more about how domination works. it is the same thing for white folks. there is very little -- so you will hear black and brown folks

talking about racism all the time, but there is very little space created just for white gets alone to get create -- together and deal with racism. there's very little space for heterosexual people to get together alone and deal with sexism. >> i agree, but those things are not necessarily relevant to all middle-class people. but if you are parents together, if you are working together, if you are navigating life together, this is a relevant issue where you need to create space to say what are you doing as a woman, what am i doing as a man, how are we navigating this path, how are we navigating our careers? i disagree that there is not a need to create the space. >> i am saying that group does not see the need. as a society, we surely see the

need, but that group themselves, left alone, do not see the need to create the space. are so many men calling end like this morning saying what is my role in women on the brink? what more should i be doing echo what is expected of me? how can i have this conversation not just with my wife, my girlfriend, but also with a male coworker? when theseerence is guys are calling in, it is different than what the -- than what tony is describing. tony is describing a group relationship. it is very difficult to embody that center. some years ago i tried to do this. about masculinity and everybody talks about how hard it is to be a man. but try to talk about male privilege or white privilege.

i had a group of friends get together to talk about what it is like to be white in society. we sat down and one of my friends said i don't identify as white, i am italian. another said i am irish and the british called us black. i'm jewish, so all of a sudden we quickly have no white people in the room. how can those of us privileged by race, by class, by gender, bisexuality, talk about that privilege? now, if you were to tweeted to these guys let's talk about how privileged we are as men, and they would not re-tweet. that is what tony is saying. we have in desperate need to add knowledge the unearned privileges that we have and also find ways to challenge and support each other. >> we're going to get questions from all of you. what is one thing we should take away and think about so we are

not just thinking about the problems? questions? oh, keep going. back.on in the go ahead. >> i am with an organization called reel fathers. the power of movies and films to get fathers more engaged in the lives of their children. i came here late this morning because i was in a nursery school helping to create a fathers group. i was told that three dads would show up. 12 did. there is a desperation for it. i want to share two thoughts, so it is not really a question. i want to share two thoughts. one is, i think about glass ceilings. there are too. there is a his and hers. we have been talking about.

his is at home. that is one thought. i would like to share a word that i coined about a year ago. the word is dadvocacy. turn, i was inat mexico, flying back, found -- coined that term, i was in new mexico, flying back, sitting next to a woman getting her degree in gender studies. share i would like to this word and get your reaction. what do you think it means? she said it must means it is against women. if you are for something, the immediate assumption is that you are against something. it is actually for women. >> thank you. >> that is really interesting. i think you really see those struggles in lower income families, probably all across income distribution.

one thing i can say, echoing what mike and tony have said, is that the family is becoming is increasingly bifurcated. middle-class and poor kids are having very different family experiences. middle-class has gotten much more stable. divorce has gotten much lower than it was. they are living the dream. they have equal partnerships, are more likely to stay together and are able to invest in their kids as never before. it's astonishing, actually. but at the bottom, things are not working out that way. and more often kids are living in homes where they don't have a dad and where men and male partners are moving quickly throughout the home. these households as both unstable and complex. in these highly complex households, children are really

struggling. and of course there is a big about why this relates to economics, culture and all of that, but it is really important as we think howt men's role to realize you think about partnership in the context of a highly unstable and complex family were a child by the age of five has experienced two or three father figures, for example. and how do you think about trying to parent across multiple households? i think that is another reason men at the bottom may be getting they are because struggling so much with managing this complexity. is that this had does mirror what women have been struggling with for a long time. are grappling with this and is something so new and novel to us that we fail to appreciate that this is

something women have been struggling with for a long time. there are consequences to decisions you make about work and family and achieving balance. but these struggles are different at different levels in our society. >> they are. the thing katharine talked about, i fully connect with her about the financial experience for men and what is different in their experience? i am still very guarded when i about dad groups and stuff like that. some of that is good stuff, and some of that is really a cover for men's rights organizations, who are springing up -- and i guarantee you by the time i get home today, i am going to have a list of e-mails just blasting me all over the place. you know, there are a lot of men's organizations that are

forming for the sole purpose of eliminating, stopping, slowing down our quest for equality for women. a lot of times when we are talking about what's happening too often it is about that. i understand what the men are talking about, but i also understand that. , i understandhing the experience of men of color and financially poorer men. i was a financially poor man myself. know is thatso poverty is a form of violence. violence against women. for example, one of six women in the united states of america will be raped. now you take that and multiply it -- you have to multiply that by about 30% more when you talk about women of color. when you talk about financially poor women. so you add -- we're talking

about multiple forms of oppression on men and how that plays out in men's lives, but when you talk about multiple forms of oppression on women, let's talk about how that plays out in women's lives. and it is not because the men in those communities are more violent than other men. it is because we have less values in general. when we add the other forms of oppression, our value lessons even more. women who areut dealing with multiple forms of oppression and what is happening in their lives as well. >> why do we just do this, go inn the line and quickly -- conversations like this, because they are so all-encompassing, i think it is great to walk away

with something to think about or do out of this conversation. start with some take away here. >> i want to refer to one, and ad to something catherine said earlier about the father responsibility movement, because that is a movement of lower income men, men of color, and compare it to the father rights movement, which is largely a middle-class, recently divorced men's movement, and here is what i want to say in my closing. i am thrilledean, to be on this panel and to look at the kinds of work that maria for thisbled here reason. politicallyvery important moment. there are people who have been working on gender equality. in the 1980s, we fought and lost

the word family. to be pro-family meant you were anti-woman, antifeminist, right wing. we are now on a space where we are fighting over the words fathers and boys. if you say you are pro-boy, your antifeminist. if you are pro-father, your antifeminist, and these movements have been very rigorous. especially online. i will get the same e-mail list that you will. and so will you now. i think we are actually in of losing the word man. i keep thinking which group in fathers, wesaid love you, we need you to come home and participate more. it was women saying that. my feeling is that these words are in play and we very much need to be clear that if you

support gender equality, you favor fatherhood, we love boys and we support men. >> we women are supposed to lean into our careers, right? i like that. and we are admonishing men to lean into the family, but maybe we should think about whether we are letting them lean in as much as maybe they want to. maybe we are fighting the wrong battles and not recognizing that men feel a need to be part of the family and we should think about ways to open up avenues for men to be equal parents. .> i want men outraged we have to move past the ignorance and learn to become outraged. i love men. i love being a man, spending time with men, being with boys.

i love men. i am also sad for the experience of men. these same norms that created whereertile ground violence against women is at epidemic proportions in our country are the same norms that hold men hostage and keep us from being our full selves. i believe my freedom as a man is connected to the freedom of women. i believe that if women are not liberated, i am not liberated. thatieve that it is vital we as men develop a voice to part of the become solution. understand there is no gray area. we are part of the problem. we are part of the solution. i am just so invested in men

finding a way of understanding -- we have tos move away from this being a women's issue. was doing to country b what we are talking about here today that is happening to women, the united states of america would be there dealing with that figuring out what we are going to do and how we're going to do it. i want to see that same kind of outrage. we have more loving men than not. we have well-meaning men, the majority of good men. i want them to create that outrage. this movement needs to be full of men. >> i think men have to do something uncomfortable, which is start a conversation without other men about wherever they are in their lives, whatever that stresses like. it is creating a new conversation around what it means to be a man, a husband,

father, how you navigate that. whatever that level is at, pushing to have more of that uncomfortable conversation. thank you all very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute]

>> please welcome to the stage, michelle martin. >> come on in, come on, come on. sit down.

it's hard to listen if you are uncomfortable in my experience. come on. you know you want to. despite your best feminist efforts you are wearing your 20 minute shoes. welcome, thank you all for coming. a family living educator at the university for wisconsin, the ander for american progress really great people, i'm sure. thank you for coming today. i would like to pick up where the last panel left off. i understand we spent a lot of time talking today about what is

and now i would like to talk about what we would like to be and what we would like to see. let me ask you, finish this sentence. the world i want to live and looks like what? >> maria shriver actually has a great line talking about this. she said we put the care in career. breadwinning and caregiving are both valued. bit about thise in the nation reimagined and the solutions both public, private and personal. to me this means things like people pay. if we were to pay women what we paid men, we would cut the poverty rate for working women in their families -- and their families in half and add half $1 trillion to the national economy. >> make it more real. what does it look like for you? >> i think there are a number of things we can do to help women

career and caregiving. i want to see more stories like barbies and melissa is -- melissa's. to do things like raising the minimum wage. two thirds of minimum-wage workers are women. it includes things like paid family leave. women are about half the workforce, and when they take time out to care for a child, a sick family member or themselves, they often come back too much lower pay. we need paid sick days. the number one thing that women on the brink requested more than money was time to be home with their sick kid and not have to choose between groceries or staying home with their sick child. these are policies that are critically important to balance breadwinning and caregiving. tell you that for some

women you are part of the world they would like to see because they would like to see more women in positions of political power, so thank you for your service. finish that sentence for me. the world i want to live in looks like what? women who find resilience through challenging times, not to just hold on by a rope, but actually find some type of meaning through their hardship. everybody in their life is going to have a hardship, and when we use those stresses of times of , wema or times of distress cultivate life lessons that telik -- that help us in the next stress we have. we are also helping a future my mom or my dad did it, so they don't throw pity

parties for themselves. my mom or dad got creative and reached out to social connections. what i would like to see is resiliency cultivated in the generation today that fuels future generations for their hardships, find that meaning that you will get out of whatever hardship that is and use that as a positive lens for outlook. resiliency has been studied all over the country. the nine talks about keys to resiliency. some of them include positive outlook, maintaining connections, having a balanced relationship with your family. sometimes you need togetherness and sometimes you need separateness. call it beinge together alone. that is more like when you go to a bookshop and you don't want to be bothered by everybody else's selection so you go together alone. but in life it is important to go together or alone and have that self-awareness. finding ways to be resilient and

moving forward so that you are thriving. i want to get you to tell me in a minute how we get there. together aloneng is called being in the bathroom. [laughter] the world you want to live in, what does it look like? >> a much higher percentage of our kids are reared by married workts and they all together and cooperate. it is especially important for men to absorb doing more housework so that kids can have more time with their mothers. they need more time with their fathers, but it is very important for mothers to spend more time with their kids. with youngerially kids, they are better at it.

their time is completely crunched, especially if they work. unless we have more of our kids being reared in married couple families, we are going to have a lot more disadvantage in the united states. >> what does the world you want to live in look like? visionarynder was a in the state of california. she talked about the need to live your life with dignity and purpose. us, particularly for 53 million women over the age of 50, it is to be able to age with economic security, which is increasingly difficult, and to be able to have a system, be in an environment that provides the kind of support, caregiving, long-term care and economic independence that people are going to need. it is a major challenge and that .s the world we want to see

>> what keeps you up at night? >> the enormous challenge for older americans. we tend to, particularly in washington, d.c., talk about the aging america as a budget issue. the truth is it is a lot more complicated than that. there is no doubt there is a but ancomponent to it, enormous amount of people are living longer and are going to have to live with limited means, particularly women. the answer is not just government or individuals. it is going to have to be a conversation. we really need to engage in these conversations. happily, i believe there is a robust dialogue beginning in acrossties and counties the country. >> but let's get to a specific yes this, know that.

night?keeping you up at >> let me say something about old people first. i'm one. our public policy is directed disproportionately at old people. they grow the most in the future. they are the main cause of the federal deficit. we have been talking a lot about the war on poverty for the last few weeks because it was the anniversary. i think the biggest success in the war on poverty all has to do social security and medicare being created and expanded. that is the one area of public policy where we have really committed our resources. members of congress protect programs.oms --

they are in good shape, may be too good. >> what keeps you up at night? is an old person, so she keeps me up at night. what keeps me up at night is kids and changes in the family lack of public understanding about what a price single moms and those kids are so manyecause they face disadvantages. therefore times as likely to be for -- be poor during childhood. it has an immense effect on their development. be growing up themselves to in poverty. this is a concern that ought to at night.mericans up >> what keeps you up at night? >> so many things, unfortunately. my husband has to tell me stop thinking about those and go to sleep. i am very grateful for netflix

to check out once in a while. a couple of things that keep me up at night are just thinking about the complexity of the issues that we have, being here ,n a room that is so inspiring and i am going to have a conversation with people that may not be on the same page. there may be a different story, but we bring so many different perspectives when we have a rubber meets the road policy. i think about how we are going to make it all connect, what can i do, and what is out of my control? what is the reality i need to deal with. figuring out how it is going to come together does keep me up. strategizing and thinking about how we get this to work. as far as feeling like we are in a political moment -- wanted -- of the previous panelists

what did one of the previous panelists say? are we in a vulnerable political moment? do you think we are so far apart on these issues, in just thinking about these basic issues of what families need, women need, men, how we should think about this that there is very little hope of moving it forward? >> i don't think so, and i can only speak about things at my level. the office i sit in his nonpartisan, and we treated as such. of course everybody has political leanings. some democratse and some democrats on one side and on the other side, and they -- some democrats and some republicans on one side and on the other side, and they take on these issues. in those moments where we disagree but i can see the lines that are cross pollinating, those moments give me hope that this is not a party issue.

this is a community issue. there is no issue that is not somehow related to a family. we are all part of a family. how can we get those pieces of the puzzle to come together yucca the other thing i will insecurity. i am a young woman. i just turned 34 yesterday. i don't have a lot of initials behind my last name. i don't have a lot of money in my bank account. i am not a who's who in my community. i don't have any structures named after my family. i think about when will i have enough credit where i can just start waving a ron -- waving a wand and helping make things happen? will i ever have that? have in 20 years i will

earned more political respect and cloud in my community, but that and i am earning i respect that process. >> how old was martin luther king when he led the montgomery bus boycott? >> really? >> that is why i am saying it is a skeleton in my closet to say insecurity. i got invited by the shriver report to come and speak nationally, to put on this game have it all together, that would be a total fraud. i have insecurities and everybody in this room does two. what do we do to stop those insecurities? would not think she is using this process of acquiring influence and prestige as an excuse. and is the road i am on

am going to be optimistic about the future. especially here in washington, a lot of people start when they are 30, 40, 50, then gradually acquire. it is an acceptable, wise thing. we have a lot of good public servants and a lot of people in up exactly who came like you are coming up. >> i think it is no small thing to be elected to a city council and take on a leadership position. >> thank you. >> happy birthday. >> thank you. >> consider the alternative. melissa, why don't we talk about -- we were talking about a minute ago about where the rubber hits the road and whether we are in a moment where people are actually willing to move forward on some of these issues, and recognizing that people have very different, well meant but differences of opinion on these

things. are there things related to the live in thatt to you think we can find agreement on? are we moving toward agreement, do you think? where is the consensus around things we are moving toward that you would like to see? >> >> in a poll the majority of republicans and democrats, women n the brink, families of all incomes, agree we need to modernize the relationship with women. we need paid family leave. they agree child care is a huge barrier to work. what keeps me up at night is not that people don't agree with these things, but how we turn hat into shoe leather activism and make our representatives change