equation happens. >> we did not talk too much about fiscal issues. he referenced they were important. the next one facing the congress is the debt ceiling. it looks like the date has been advanced. what is ahead with congress on the fiscal issues? >> the majority leader of the senate last week said it may was the actual time the debt ceiling was going to become a real threat. the treasury secretary said it was february 7. he just reiterated that in a letter sent yesterday. february 7 is the day they want to have this nailed down. you probably will have congress arguing about it through february. i am not sure they will come up with a deal right away. republicans want something out of it. they want something that leads to a more fiscally responsible government.

democrats think this is something that should not be negotiated. they cannot even agree on a path forward. it makes it hard to conceive of a deal happening quickly when they get back. i think we will see some fighting. >> is november's election going to be about fiscal or social issues or a combo? >> is a fiscal issue. republicans counted as one. -- health care is a fiscal issue. republicans count it as one. we are seeing tv advertising referencing obamacare. that is it. they will try to sing a one note hymn. one reason they do not want any roadblocks as they want to have a singular focus on health care law. >> thanks both of you for your time and your questions this week. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014]

c-span series first ladies continue with the life and career of hillary clinton. she took an office in the west wing cheered a task force that was in charge of the health care initiative. she was the only first lady to run for office and when. her political legacy is still unfolding. learn more about hillary clinton when first lady's heirs tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. on c-span and c-span 3. you can listen on c-span radio. >> no matter what party it belongs to, i bet most americans are thinking the same thing right about now. nothing will get done in washington this year. war next year. or maybe even the year after that. washington is broken.

can you blame them for feeling a little cynical? the greatest blow to our confidence is in 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. fiasco? ited from that confidence.ut the divide between this city and the rest of the country isn't bad. it seems to get worse every year. >> president obama delivers a visit years address. thetarts tuesday night with president and 9:00 followed by the response from the public and offers chair. republicance -- conference chair. the state of the union on tuesday night live on c-span, radio, and c-span.org.

next, the republican committee's winter meeting. a panel discussion with the rising stars. this is 50 minutes. >> a good afternoon. i want to welcome you to our rising stars panel. we launched the rising stars panel and our first group at our last meeting when we were last together. i am so honored to have the opportunity to be here together with our new group of rising stars and i'm honored to introduce them to our committee and the media and the world.

when we are looking at what we're doing, we are not just talking to women, we are empowering women, we are training women. we are going around the country finding dynamic women that want to run for office like these women. and we're not just talking about it or talking to them. we're going out there and we are reaching them. we are training them. we are empowering them and working with them to make sure they understand fundraising, media events, communications. whatever it may be that those individuals and these young women and more women around the country that share our principles and values, that they understand the importance of what we're going to do together. when we look at these individual, we know you are going to see them in the days ahead. these are the rising stars. this is our party's future. it is my honor to introduce the chairman of the committee. a great partner and somebody who does understand the importance of strong, principled empowered women across the country. reince priebus. [applause]

>> i appreciate your great work. the rising stars program is something we started about a year ago. it is part of our effort on top of highlighting different voices in our party, it's part of our more formal effort to have different people and train different people to start speaking for our party, both regionally and nationally. that we show america that we have a party that looks like america. we try to find people across the country that can help us achieve that goal, that want to step up to the plate and lead this country. that's what this program is all about and we're proud of where we're at. i want to quickly introduce the folks you see up here and just give you a little bit of background about each of them. first of all, to my right, to your left, chelsea henry serves

as senior advisor to the chief financial officer of the state of florida. in 2010 at the republican national convention she was highlighted in national journal, mtv among others. she was a speaker at cpac 2013 and recognized as one of bet's ten republicans to watch. she's a entrepreneur and says she is a perpetual optimist when it comes to the grand old party. that's good, you need to be. [laughter] she holds a j.d. from florida coastal school of law and under grad degree from the university of florida. please welcome chelsea henry. [applause] >> to the right of chelsea and maybe appropriate, allison howard is a conservative

activist who speaks on pro-life and pro-family issues. she has appeared on radio and tv outlets across the country. she currently serves as communication direction or the for concerned women for america and speaks around the country. please welcome allison howard. [applause] >> to your right, i avoided the left, to your right alex smith is national chair for the republican national committee making her the first female elected as national cr chairman in its 120 year history. [applause] >> she's a native of pennsylvania and a graduate of the catholic university of america. she formally served as national co-chairman during the 2012

cycle and as chapter leader for the catholic university college republicans. she's a student at university school of law. welcome chairman alex smith. [applause] >> and next to her is kimberly yee. she represents arizona's 20th legislative district in the senate and the first asian woman in the legislature. she worked for state treasure dean martin. she also served as a member of governor schwarzenegger's cabinet. she and her husband are small business owners. please welcome kimberly. [applause]

and the best for last, we have monica young blood. she's on the board of the rslc future majority project and was named one of gold pac's 2013 emerging leaders. she's a native of new mexico and raised by a single mother. at age 19, she became a single mother but she was determined to end cycle of poverty so she set out to give her daughter a better life. monica now runs a successful real estate business and works as a marketing consultant. she and her husband chris have two children. please welcome our new r.n.c. rising stars. [applause] we're going to have an opportunity for all of you to get up and ask questions at the mic. i'm going to ask each of our participants two questions. we'll try to move quickly and then open up the mic.

first question is to chelsea. you said you were the first republican in your family. the first question is why and what about the republican party appealed to you? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm chelsea henry, born and raised in jacksonville, florida. my mother had me when she was 16 years old. for the first few years of my life, we were on welfare. i learned at a very early age the value of a dollar. i learned how to live on a budget. i learned the phrase delayed gratification and what that means. when there was something we wanted, we saved and planned for it. when i think about conservatism and what we stand for, what we all believe in, it's less taxes, it's smaller government. and those things resonate with me because i understand with my mom being a single parent for a decade of my life that every

dollar in her paycheck counted. i understand what it means to go to the grocery store and you want frosted flakes yet you have to get the generic brand because those 80 cents matter. i understand how it impacts lives. i'm about economic prosperity for all. i'm about a hand up and not a handout. that is what resonates with me. it's because those values of what we all believe in are the values i believe in and how i was raised. yes, first republican in my family. no one else in my family shared the republican message. but because of the sacrifices my mother lived i understand what it means to be a conservative. since i've been involved the past few years, my mom is now a

republican, so the message works. >> how can the party better connect with independent women and our conservative principles? >> thank you for having me and thank you for being here and bearing the terrible weather. i think right now there is an opportunity to reach out to women on issues that really matter to them. women make the majority of economic decisions in their households and are making a majority of the healthcare decisions as well. for me, i think it's most important for conservatives talk to women as the smart, intelligent purpose driven women that they are. we care about so much more than the left presents to us. and pandering to us for a vote is so easy to see and women in this room all know that. if we can come around the message of upward mobility and talk about what limited government does for women, talk

about what situations they are best in economically, sociologicallly, psychologically then there is a neat way that we can message to women, reach out to them and tell them they can do better than this administration has brought to them right now. i think we're doing that. i think it's a way forward. things like this when you are showing up and you care and are concerned about so much is really important. >> thank you. alex, why is it important for republican candidates to engage with young voters but most importantly what do you think some misconceptions are that we tend to have about voters in college? >> thank you so much for this tremendous honor. these are two of the strongest youth allies that we have in the conservative movement so i thank them for their support of college republicans. i go around busting youth myths all day. a couple of them are that the youth vote was an obama

phenomenon. that younger voters turned out for the president because he was cool and they are not going to turn out again. the youth group has grown 1% per president. it started out in 2000 with 16%went up to 19% in 201. let's not give the president credit for a trend that started under president bush. the youth vote is only growing. it's growing as a percentage of our electorate. another one is younger voters will get more conservative as they get older. we saw the age demographic 30-34 it was only demographic to improve for the president in 2012, voters are not growing up and getting more conservative. they are not buying a home and

becoming parents because they can't afford it. again, just being sensitive to that as a political party. once a younger voter votes with a national political party twice in a presidential election, they are likely to vote that way for the rest of their life so we need to capture them now. these are two rounds of votes to president obama so we need to be sensitive to that. the biggest myth is that younger voters are liberal. they are not. there was some research that found that younger voters agree with us on size and scope of government. what they don't do is connect these fundamental values about spending and the size of government to the republican party brand. that's where we need to bridge that gap. [applause] >> you are the first asian-american woman elected in the

arizona legislature and one of just a few in the entire country. what can the party do better to engage with asian voters across the country? >> there are 15 million asians in this country and growing. asian immigrants are the fastest growing ethnic group in the united states. what we are doing here on this stage today with our rising stars is the best start that we can do which is reach out to the various communities and speak out about the great work that asian american republicans are doing from community to community across this country. what is exciting is that when we look at asian americans, they are highly educated. they are higher wage earners. and for the most part, they own their own businesses. so that message, those principles of our party should resonate naturally with the asian american population. what we need to do is go out into the communities, to be able to show case people like myself who are in those legislative seats to say this is what this person is doing and they are

standing for the very same values that you hold dear in your families. what is interesting in 2008 when i was a delegate at the national convention in st. paul, i looked at the thousands of people around me on that floor and there was no one that looked like me. and that was very telling because when you look at a brand or look at a group, the person will wonder do i fit in and it's a natural response. so what they need to see in our party is they can fit in and when they are part of our group we will embrace them and we have so much to do for them. part of your strategic initiative is to be able to show case that great work. we have so many opportunities before us. these are people that we can bring back to our party. they voted higher in the george bush administration and then they left during the obama run in 2012. i believe this is the time we

can bring them back in 2016. >> thank you, kimberly. monica, you talked about the fact you were raised by a single mom and you wanted to end this cycle of poverty. where do you see the republican party fitting in in that fight? >> thank you for having me. it's an honor to be here. growing up, my mom was always a republican. i remember her crying when president reagan got re-elected and i didn't understand at the time. as i've grown up, although i didn't agree with her when i was younger, i understand the republican party to be the party of self-reliance, of personal responsibility, of opportunity for all no matter the color of your skin, no matter where you are from, what side of the tracks you are on. i resonate with republican party because i want to determine my worth and i want to determine my

success. and one thing that my mom -- when i became a young mom which i was rebellious and didn't want to listen to my mom. she told me monica no one will ever care more than you do about your success, no government entity or entitlement program will care more about your success than you. looking back at my community, i see that unfortunately a lot of people depend and get caught up in this cycle of dependency and never reach the success they may have dreamed of as a young person. >> chelsea, you talked about growing up on welfare and with government assistance and going through some similar issues. what benefits, blessings, lessons did that cause you to learn

from going through something like that? >> many lessons, mr. chairman. and so one lesson i can say is how conservative principles work. and i say that and mean that from the bottom of my heart which is why i'm so passionate about being a republican because again every dollar counted when i grew up, you know. when it was dinner time and we had a long day -- my mom had a long day at work, it was do i get two or three items off of the dollar menu today and that was my biggest decision of the day. those lessons have continued with me and it has allowed me to want to continue to give back and be a public servant. in 2010 i had the opportunity to run for a local seat there in jacksonville. i was elected and became the youngest female elected in my city's history. it was a big deal because for people in my neighborhood they had never known anybody on the ballot. so when they went into the

ballot box they were able to check a name of somebody they knew. somebody they can call on facebook and get a response to. when i think about the lessons, most importantly it's to give back. it's to share our message because it works. we talk about war on poverty. the answer is the conservative message. it works. [applause] >> allison, you work a whole lot on campuses across the country. what kind of lessons and what can we do better to engage and what is working on your end on college campuses? >> chelsea, that was an amazing answer and i enjoy hearing everybody's stories. one of the most important things we are doing is sharing our story. just like everything they said, if you walk into some place and

you don't recognize anyone that talks like you or thinks like you, you don't think you fit n. we've been working for young women american chapters that are college chapters of conservative young women that get together each week and some of them are like a prayer group with action items. they get together and pray for the country and tell each other what is going on. people in college are in a bubble of sorts. to be informing them is what we are here to do and that's what leaders are doing everywhere to get together. a lot of them are doing thing on college campuses that you'd be really proud of. the left will tell you they only care about same sex marriage and abortion. that is not true. we have young men and women out there that are going and combating sex trafficking, that are serving the homeless. that are getting into the

communities just like everyone here outlined and like the r.n.c. is trying to do and the conservatives are trying to do. it explains why conservative principles work, to elevate yourself in a position you want to be at. as women, we have unique positions, as the best talkers to communicate that we're talking all the time. what we get to do as young people especially is talk and use the platforms we have in front of us, whether that be social media, facebook, twitter, instagram, don't complain about what the p.t.a. is doing if you're not willing to go and be a part of it. i can't talk about that if i'm not willing to serve my community. college campuses, we are getting young leaders pulling them in and saying it's cool to be conservative.

and they are starting to see that. if we can communicate to them there, is a place for them here. student loans, getting a job, what does that look like? it's hard right now for our young people. if we can take this unique opportunity that they are seeing what big government does to their opportunities when they graduate and what their paycheck looks like if they get their first job, then conservatives are going to have a group of young people that will fight with passion to protect that paycheck and these principles. [applause] >> alex, someone is running for president and they come to you and they say i want to win over college students, tell me how i can get it done. what would you tell them? >> the answer is a simple one and one of the things we found out in our research was to go where younger voters are and give them something to share. that means channels and messages matter.

channels online, going where young voters are. going to pandora. if you are talking to them in direct mail, you are not reaching them. they are online. they are consuming content online and that's where we need to capture them. by channels, i also mean the campus. i say to candidates when we speak about best practices and tactics, if you are too afraid to go to a campus because the environmental club is going to protest you or something, you are leaving the weight of our work as a party on the shoulders of 18-year-old college republicans who have to carry it alone. so candidates must go to campus. they must engage with younger voters where they are. and the messaging matters, too.

i'll give you an example. in our research we found the term big government was a nebulous one with younger voters. they didn't understand what we meant. we said how do you feel about a candidate who proposes to fight big government? they were like the windows are too big, what are you talking about. for young voters big isn't scary. big is getting a million followers on twitter and being able to send a message to them in an instant. what is scary is an intrusive government. it's about the language we use to describe this. if we talk about reducing spending. the things we mean when we say big government. we just say them differently to younger voters in a language that is relevant to them. what matters is just talking to younger voters. it's just a basic tenant of human interaction.

if someone isn't talking to you, they don't think you care about them much. we need to talk to younger voters. [applause] >> you have effectively used the prolife message to resonate with voters. you want to talk about that a little bit? >> i have the opportunity in the senate to sponsor a lot of bills, i do education policies, and tort reform. the pro-life legislation that i sponsor and i see passed in both of our houses, that is the legislation that is the most meaningful. that is the legislation that tugs at my heart strings. as a woman and a new mother of a four month old, i can relate to the issues about women and how it affects their individual lives and really about the health and safety of women when we are talking about these practices and ensuring that someone out there is standing

for those little tiny babies that can't speak for themselves. those are the things that we share, that i share when i go out into my community and i knock on the doors and i talk to these moms and families, they are the ones that are often making the decision for their household about who to vote for in the next election. as a woman, i really feel that we have to share that story. i often go back to, i was the sponsor of the ultrasound legislation in arizona that allows a woman who is getting ready to have an abortion to see the ultrasound image before she moves forward with that decision. i sponsored the bill that the u.s. supreme court just rejected. there was a nurse that testified on the bill and she said when she turned that monitor to this young teenage couple that will

came in for an abortion, the young teenage boy put his hand over his mouth and said that's our baby. and they ended up, that young couple turned around and walked out of that clinic and they kept that precious child. those are the stories that matter and those are the stories that i hope to continue to share. because once they hear the significant gains that we have made in arizona with the passage of many of the prolife bills, we that's about a thousand babies who have been sade. -- saved. >> thank you. and the last question before we open up the mic's goes to monica. we told you she was from new mexico, she has been successful running for office, heavily hispanic community. what do you think the secret is for winning over hispanic voters? >> in new mexico we obviously

are very much hispanic population. we concentrate on talking about issues. you know, reminding people, the american dream, it's never depicted in movies as an entitlement program. it's always achieving your goals and reaching that . governor martinez has done an amazing job at being relateable to hispanics and to people that are -- that live in new mexico. letting them know that we are important. we don't talk about party a lot of the time. we talk about issues. we talk about conservative issues with democrats across the state because we need for them to vote for us. and it's worked. we just elected a mayor berry to his second term, which had never been done before. and we will reelect governor martinez because people in new mexico know that she is and feels like they can relate to her. so that is my advice across the

nation as far as bringing hispanics in, understanding their issues and not really asking them to change their party but to really vote the issues that concern them and heir families. >> excellent. thank you. and what do you think about our rising stars? pretty impressive. right? >> mr. chairman, if i could say something real quick, too. and i think we saw the other rising stars that we saw have done great works for us before. but i'm very thankful, very proud that our communications department and our committee, if you look up at the stage, we've seen five dynamic extraordinary women. so thank you for that as we send out communications wide. thank you for all you do and thank you for the communications department for understanding these rising stars. >> questions?

>> freddy. >> from washington state. i live in the middle of the state where we have no major industry, so we are all agriculture. so immigration reform is huge for us. how do you as women address this? because i know we can tiptoe around issues and we can talk issues without saying we're republicans and or necessarily we hit on pro life or we sort of tiptoe around some of the dangerous what some people consider as dangerous subjects. how do you address when people ask you your stance on immigration reform? >> well, why don't we start with alison and move this way. >> we don't take a position on immigration, so i might not be the best to talk to on the

panel. i think an easy way for us to address it is to protect the borders and of course the law. that's something i think that the rnc, they've said, too, is really we need immigration reform to make better gains in that community. obviously it's something you're dealing with. i think it's something a lot of women are dealing with. and it's a growing conversation. so it's important. and i look forward to hearing how you think we can deal with it as well. >> monica, chelsea, go ahead. >> i think being a lot of times immigration reform is directed to latinas and latinos across our country and i think that at a state level you really have to understand that there is nothing that -- we depend on the federal government to do -- to do their job. i think we need to embrace immigration reform. i think we need to -- the senate took a step in the right direction and we're waiting to see how it plays out in the house. but at the state level -- and i

get the question all the time. i think at the state level we really have to look to the federal government guidance on this issue and just embrace that it needs to be done and be compassionate in doing that. >> chelsea. >> i agree. with what both the rising stars have said. and that is we have to embrace immigration reform. exactly what that looks like, i think that has to continue to be worked out. but i think there needs to be a solution and the conversation needs to continue. >> anyone else? kimberly. >> remember, i come from arizona, the state of 1070, so i have a few things to say about immigration reform. absolutely we need to wrap our arms carefully diligently around comprehensive immigration reform. we cannot delay. coming from a southwestern border state we see it every day.

and so the first and foremost thing that i would encourage for those developers of whatever plan we will soon see is please listen to the border states. hear us out. we need to share the issues that we deal with day in and day out. the businesses, the families, all of them are affected daily by the immigration, the -- those who are coming undocumented across our lines. and so this is a conversation we have got to wrap our arms around. it's not easy. it's going to take some time. but as republicans, i think the messaging we should have is that we are for every community and we stand for what they want. so we need to bring everyone to the table and do that successfully. >> so i represent college republicans. we don't take a formal stance on issues. but what i will say is this is an issue we studied carefully in our 2013 research.

if starting at age 30, governor romney would be president today. a growing number of that youth ote is young hispanics. so this was an issue we studied carefully in 2013 and it's one we found that the language of compassion and dignity could go a long way of starting a dialogue with younger voters being careful about the way we choose our words and being diligent in explaining our positions. >> any other questions? paul. >> i'd like for each one to comment on what governor huckabee said at lunch today, the democrats have promoted this myth about a war on women, and he suggested and saying another way that maybe we have a war for women and we take the offensive because we've got great rising stars like we have today. >> why don't we started with alex this war on women rhetoric opinions on that. >> so when we studied the youth

vote, we look at the composition of it, younger single female voters are a huge part of it. and they have unique needs as a demographic. for example, more women are entering into higher education and post graduate degrees than men at this point. what does that mean? it means that college affordability becomes a very big issue. it means that student loans come to the forefront of everyone's mind. getting a job after graduation. so women are not monolithic voters centered around a few issues. i think that younger female voters are especially concerned about the state of the economy and in terms of creating a destiny in the future for themselves and their families. >> kimberly. >> the phrase one woman, liberal, democratic, a tactic that they use in the media that cannot be proven because here we are, we are examples of women n this country.

we are conservatives and we stand for families. and they cannot ever define when they use that phrase what that really means. because we are real examples that live day to day and we stand for conservatives. we stand for government out of our business, out of our homes. and just wait, because obamacare will be telling. they will see -- everyone, all the women across the country will see that that government intrusion in the lives of our families will be enough. and we will see that turn around soon enough. unfortunately, we will have to work towards getting that message out that we have real examples, and we are just a start, right here on the stage. >> thank you. monica. >> i agree. i think the war on women is a tag line that just got picked up in the media. unfortunately, i myself was accused of a war on women, and i'm a woman and i have a daughter and i really was very confused

by the concept. but again, it was a tag line that caught. i think it was a reckless tag line because you look across the world and there are women truly suffering through a war on omen. and we used it and threw it around, our media did, and made it into a conservative -- republican-democrat issue where it shouldn't have been. >> chelsea. >> when i heard war on women, i would just think to myself, what war on women? as it was shared before, you have five amazing young women up here who are contributing to their communities, contributing to their states, contributing to he party, mr. chairman. so what this is about is just the normal political rhetoric. but what we show here today and what you've done, mr. chairman, is show them that we are for women, we are for women being in leadership. i think about governor

martinez, governor hailey. let's highlight the fact that they are in office. we have two representatives with us here today. that's the war for women. we're showing them that we don't even have to use the word war. it's about what do our results show. >> alison. >> that's a good question, really relevant. so the war on women speaking to that is directly the left attempt to narrow women down to one issue voters. and that's not true. we know that. on both sides women look at a broad spectrum of issues, fiscal, economic and social. but the war for women is an attempt for women to vote because it's a large demographic, a huge voting bloc, and we should be honored so much that people are trying to figure out what we care about enough to speak to us. now, conservatives have an opportunity to speak to women about those broad speck trum of

issues. not just one. because the question is, in this country, right now, what are you willing to pay for? the president's health care law has put that before us. what are you willing to pay for? and for many of us, for many families, i'm not really willing to pay for someone else's anything because it's tight. especially not something i might morally disagree with and religiously disagree with. that's why you see -- the war on women to me, paul, is little sisters of the poor, that group of catholic nuns who is and was forced to sue the administration because they were being asked to fund something that they disagreed with. and that this administration is forcing catholic nuns to pay for birth control when they've taken a vow of chastity should enrage us as women and as men protecters of life.

so if we can take that back on to our terms and explain that we're the party of compassion, of restoring dignity, i think we're doing that. it doesn't just look like politics and public policy. it looks like demanding dignity and honesty in the media demanding dignity and honesty in the music that your children are listening to. and demanding honesty and authenticity in those who are speaking to women. we are not monolithic as we said. we care about so many issues. the conservative party is the one that's willing to talk to women about those issues. >> thank you. pat. >> i'm national committee woman from connecticut, and i'm a member of the resolutions committee. yesterday, we passed a resolution was initially entitled the war on women. we changed it, i can't remember o what.

however, we're focused mostly that resolution on life issues. in my experience, there's not much talk among women about the glass ceiling. it goes beyond that. it always comes down to the life issue. now, i noticed yesterday at the rally there were many young people in support of life, hich is quite a change. last night new polls came out, i think it was fox news poll. but 48% of americans polled, those polled, were pro life. 45% pro choice. and what we emphasized in the resolution yesterday were the statistics on how many people

support parental notification. maybe a 24-hour waiting period, maybe -- what do you call that est you have? so in my experience, every time we address issues on women, it always comes down to the choice ssue. sharon, you came to a luncheon in connecticut last summer. what did the ladies talk about? ife issues. so hopefully the entire membership will pass that resolution tomorrow. thank you. >> thank you, pat. bill. >> thank you, mr. chairman and madam chairman for bringing forth such wonderful rising stars this time and before. we all realize how important it is for us to get the youth vote and the female vote if we're going to win the presidency again. so my question is, how important is it to have a female or youthful person on the ticket

in 2016, and do you see one being more important than the other? >> good question. why don't we start with alison. we'll try to be quick on these answers. >> i like the juxtaposition there, female or youthful. i think it's important that people see someone that they understand believes in what they believe in and whether that's a male or female i think people are understanding that this is a person that runs the country and deals with international affairs. so i think people are just looking for someone that speaks up for what they truly believe in at the end of the day. >> chelsea. >> i agree. so why not have a youthful woman? why not put them together? but at the end of the day, it's about people being able to see someone represent them that they can relate to, that they can trust, and that they can believe in. >> i think it's about being relateable. and i think we still on policy we still need to talk about policy and people.

but being relateable is important to young people and us women i think too. >> i absolutely agree that if we are going to be politically strategic in the 2016 elections, and if hillary rodham clinton is going to be one of their candidates, then we absolutely need to consider a woman on our ticket. and it's easy to do because there's a lot of leaders that you can choose from. and what will be very important though is to really place that -- the female element, i guess. because when we were talking about the importance of showing our party as a compassionate party, one that stands for families, that's what a woman can do on that ticket. >> when we talk about the youth vote, we're really talking about young female voters, we're talking about young hispanic voters. those are huge subsets of what we generally refer to as the youth vote. so in terms of having someone that will be attractive to both young people and females, or young females, i should say, we're really talking about one and the same when we talk about this demographic. authenticity is very important

to young people. just being who you are. but again, if you're not talking to younger voters where they are about that true self, about your positions, clearly explaining to them, showing that you care by showing up on their campus but running a thoughtful media strategy and advertising to them on line they're not going to be able to see that. so truthfully the candidate who goes where younger voters are and speaks in their language is relevant to them is going to be the candidate to speak. >> real and authentic is key. because with the communications that we have now in this country and among young voters, all of us now, real and close, has to be the case in order to make a connection. last question to jason. go ahead. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this goes to monica and kimberly. i'm first generation american. my family is from the island of jamaica.