when eric holder first became attorney general, he got into trouble for giving this speech talking about a nation of cowards. he is ending his tenure, and the fbi director is giving a speech about how important it is to talk about race now in america. susan: last question specifically about this task force that ms. robinson and chief commissioner ramsey -- i am wondering, what kind of leverage it has. you asked a lot of questions about the size of police forces around the country. professor robinson said there is very little federal leverage because they are small and locally run. so how does change come about in smaller police forces? kevin: the federal government does not really have a lot of leverage over these local departments. except in the pocketbook. in terms of what kind of federal money they can doal out to these

dole out to these agencies. i think it is highlighted, the way it is underscored is that for so long, there has been this lack of data. that we can look to choose would analyze how these departments are handling not only people racially charged encounters, but encounters in general. even for the way police officers are injured or killed in the line of duty. the most reliable data is collected by a foundation in d.c., not by the government or not by any -- any local agency. so, it is -- it is one of those difficult questions that i think is going to take a lot more work than 90 days to resolve. susan: final comment? sari: i just wanted to add one thing that seemed important today, especially because commissioner ramsey is not here. when this report came out, a lot of police officers were very upset because they felt it was a

broad brush and painted a very negative picture of the police. and i actually went through the police academy and through the fbi training to see and understand it. i went through firearms training when you go through a simulator and you are in the darkness, and someone comes out of you and you have to shoot or be shot. and i think i was killed several times because it is really difficult, and it is really hard to be a police officer in america. susan: thanks to both of you for your questions this week. i appreciate your time. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] >> you would see a much and jeff -- mutt and jeff combination what i would call a stickball set. washington was a large man. six-foot, very robust, terrific

natural athlete. and madison is a skinny little guy. >> tonight on "q&a," on the founding father james madison and the partnerships he made that aided in his success of our fledging nation. >> his gift that i write most about is his ability to form remarkable partnerships with really the great people of his era. but it also alludes to his gift to the country of his talents and what he was able to do to help create the first self-sustaining constitutional republic. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." on the next washington journal april ryan talks about her book the presidency in black and white, which examines how missouri and -- modern presidents handle race relations. they will discuss several

republican proposals to modify or replace the affordable care act. as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. washington journal, live at 7 a.m., on c-span. >> hillary clinton was honored at the 30th anniversary of the emily's list reaching gave the keynote address. other speakers include gabrielle giffords and her husband mark kelly. senator barbara mikulski of maryland and then -- nancy pelosi. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen police welcome hillary clinton [applause]

[applause] >> thank you all so much. my goodness, that was a walk down memory lane, so many memories, so many hairstyles. it is wonderful being with you tonight. i have to say i'm still in the

grandmother glow six months in is better than any spot treatment and i highly recommend it but if there's anything that can compete with it it is a room full of women and men who recognize the importance of making sure that all of our people have a chance to live up to their god-given potential and if that includes running for office, running campaigns, standing up and being an advocate, then emily's list has been on the track for 30 years and let's hope for 30 -- 800 more until we are no longer , needed. [applause] i want to answer one question at the start before it stirs up twitter. over the years, people have read a lot of different things into my pant suits.

so let's settle this once and for all. despite what you might think this outfit actually is not white and gold. i must say that gave us all a little bit of amusement in the middle of our days and i can't tell you how many people i've been with who have held up the pictures and asked me blue and black, white and gold. you know, i believe in freedom of thought and expression. the internet is a great enabler , but it's nice to be with people who actually see what is before us as a country and that are committed to doing each of our parts to make this day fair, more just, a better place for our girls and boys. i want to start by thinking stephanie. first of all, that was an amazing speech. i am so impressed and proud. [applause]

and the fact that she could get al franken, my friend of decades, elected to the united states senate tells you everything you need to know about what an extraordinary person of patients. stephanie is, but she has led this indispensable organization into the 21st century with such savvy and class. she took the baton and she has ran faster and farther than we could have hoped. growing from 400,000 members to more than 3 million today under stephanie's leadership, emily's list is bigger, stronger younger and more diverse than ever. [applause]

so this anniversary is a chance to celebrate how far we have come together and where we need to go and why it matters not just for women but for the entire country. i have to confess sometimes ideal feel like a broken record saying that. i know that there are still some people who roll their eyes when i or others say that women's issues are america's issues but they just have to get used to it . i'm going to beat this drum as long and as loud as it takes to be part of a course that so many of you have been in for so many years. it's important for us to remember what it was like for women in politics before emily's list. it's not just that the playing field wasn't level. women were barely in the game. they couldn't even get into the

arena where the game was being played. and that is the genius that inspired ellen who decided to , shake things up. on that day in 1985 when she gathered those friends in her basement, none of them could have known exactly what kind of impact they would have. but they did know something very important. they knew that when women participate in politics the effects ripple out far and wide and they knew the country is full of brilliant talented women ready to step up and lead and

and who better to prove than a 4-foot 11-inch sparkplug named barbara mikulski. [applause] barbara has great integrity, but 4 feet 11 inches might be stretching it just a little. but the old boys never saw her coming and with the help of emily's list the voters of maryland not only saw her but they elected her again and again and again. barbara's victory in 1986 was a turning point for this organization, for women in politics and certainly for the united states senate. she blazed a path forward and among her many accomplishments one that i am particularly grateful for, was when she forced the senate to allow women to wear pants suits on the floor. [applause]

like so many of my fellow women senators i will always remember her kindness and wisdom when i was elected in the 2000 election. she was one of the first calls i got. it went something like this. congratulations. i followed it. that was a hard-fought race. now you need to figure out how to be a senator since you've been elected to serve as one. she came over and sat down with me and started giving me a tutorial that stood me in such good stead but she also knew how to cut through all the hot air. she understands that yes, we have to work out macro issues and also macaroni and cheese

issues too, and for hard-working families, they are one and the same. it's hard to imagine the senate without senator mikulski. we over so much. but i'm glad she's going to stay out there raising hell like she always has and inspiring even more people to consider public service because of the rewards that despite all of the challenges come to you. so, thank you for everything barbara. we love you. we are grateful to you. emily's list has gone on to help elect 19 women to the senate more than 100 as you heard to congress and 11 governors. emily's list with your help has recruited and trained more than 9,000 women from every background to run for every office at every level. [applause]

aren't you proud to see governors like a wonderful maggie from new hampshire and gina rolando leading the way don't you love seeing nancy pelosi stand up against efforts of politics with the security . nobody fights harder for middle-class families day in and day out than nancy does. didn't it make you want to cheer when it was a coalition of the women senators that finally broke the log jam during the last government shutdown. [applause] or when patty murray showed that it is still possible to build relationships in washington when she worked out a budget deal with paul ryan. emily's list helped make all of that happened. it's because of because of you that kirsten gillibrand can lead the fight against sexual assault

in the military. [applause] it's because of you that we can work to hold wall street accountable. [applause] it's because of you that barbara boxer can defend the rights of women to make our own reproductive health care choices . [applause] and of course it's hard to believe we are losing both of the barbaras. i hope inspire more women to run to follow in their footsteps. i will always be grateful that i got to serve alongside so many terrific pro-choice democratic women senators. the least emily's list was there. as exciting as the past 30 years have been, think about the future. wasn't it amazing to hear from

my on a presley and stacy abrams. [applause] they are both true rising stars, to kind of leaders we needed to know how to find common ground when they can but to stand their ground when they must. [applause] and even in 2014, a difficult year for democrats. you saw as nancy pelosi introduced them the nine new democratic women now serving in congress. so all of these women certainly fill me with hope about what we can accomplish together and also remind me that we are not just standing up for women but for all people and for our families

, our communities, our country, and indeed the kind of world we want for our children. we are fighting for an economy that works for everyone and includes everyone. that is the only way to achieve broad-based growth and prosperity in a world that is growing more competitive and interdependent every day. we can't leave talent on the sidelines given the pressure and challenges we face. not women not the millions of young people who were out of schools and out of work. not the long-term unemployed or every day americans who work hard for years but find it tougher and tougher to get ahead. as secretary of state i spoke around the world about a new participation age and that's what we need here at home as

well. next week as part of our no ceilings project at the clinton foundation i will be joining chelsea and melinda gates to unveil a sweeping report full of evidence about how women and girls have opportunities to participate fully they lift up , not just themselves but their families, their economies and their entire society. we know that women moving into the workforce in large numbers helped america's economic growth over the past 40 years. the average family in our country would be earning $14,000 less, and our gross domestic product would be about $2 trillion smaller if those women hadn't gotten jobs and paychecks.

but unfortunately today there are too many policies and pressures. they make it harder for the parents, men and women alike to , work while also raising a family. many don't have access to sick days or paid medical leave. it's hard to find the quality affordable child care. work schedules are too often far from predictable or flexible and sometimes simply unfair taking advantage of the low wage workers. and it is still an outrage that so many women are paid less than men for the same work. [applause] now these are not just problems for women. they are problems for families and the entire economy. let's be honest here our , families look different than they did decades ago, and so do

our jobs. many families today depend on to incomes to make ends meet and 40% of mothers are now the sole or primary breadwinners. that is a fact of life that we have not yet fully embraced. so when any parent is shortchanged, the family has shortchanged. if you go all the way up the ladder our economy is shortchanged. when i talk with men about this, i ask them to think about if their wife or sister or daughter or mother is getting taken advantage at work, then they are suffering because of that. this is everyone's fight. we have to fight it together and win it together and that means making sure women have the legal tools they need to demand fairness at work and real transparency that makes

accountability, enforcement, and negotiation possible. [applause] as a nation we know that the american middle class was built in part by the right for people to organize and bargain on the -- on behalf of themselves and their colleagues. [applause] this is one of those important issues that isn't just for the labor union members. this is important for everybody who works because if there is , not a balance of power in the workplace, everybody will suffer.

so we have to get our economy to reflect the realities of 21st century america and we are not , doing that. we are not doing that when the hard work of women and men across the country is not rewarded with rising wages but ceo pay goes up and up. it's not happening when the biggest corporations can exploit tax havens overseas but small businesses are held back by outdated redtape. it's not happening when the workers have to jump from job to job in a dynamic market that -- but often have to leave benefits they have earned behind. it's not happening when so many young people worry about no matter how much education they get, no matter how hard they

work, they won't be able to afford to pay for college or the middle-class lifestyle that their parents and grandparents enjoyed. across our country, americans feel the ground shifting under their feet. so many of the old jobs and careers are gone or unrecognizable and certainly the old rules don't seem to apply anymore, and the new rules are not at all clear. thanks to president obama, we have fought our way back from the crisis and recession but there is still so much anxiety and uncertainty and the games -- games that we've made our real but fragile and we have to , regain a sense of security and confidence. if we want to find our balance again we have to work together , to build a 21st century economy.

creating more and better jobs with higher wages that will make it possible to afford a middle-class life. helping more people start growth -- start and grow small businesses and investing in the innovators and entrepreneurs who will create the new jobs of tomorrow. providing our kids and our adults with the education and skills they need for lifelong learning in order to compete. changing the way we do business so that americans have the flexibility and support to be both great workers and great parents. and making washington work again not just for those at the top who have access and influence but for everyday americans whose grit and hard work drove our comeback and have come back and have always been the backbone of the prosperity. we have to get back to investing for long-term in the things that

matter most. human beings, first and foremost . if we remember how to work and grow together, we can help more families find their footing in the middle class and make sure every one of our kids has a fair shot to climb that ladder of opportunity. emily's list has always supported pro-choice democrats but if you look at the agenda of those pro-choice democrats from city hall through the congress, we can see that they also stand for the kind of positive prosperity that has made it possible for so many of us to leapfrog our grandparents and parents. recently we have heard republicans try to sing out of

the same hymnal, talking about income inequality, like watching the end of casablanca. [applause] [laughter] my goodness people are talking about it. round up the usual suspects. well in fact we do not want to discourage their newfound interest. but we are not buying that old trickle-down economics that didn't work before and can never work again because it defies arithmetic and reality. [applause] so we welcome them to come with their ideas and that is what it should be about. elections should be the contest of ideas. and i think emily's list has proven that in that contest of ideas, the women who are willing to enter the arena well equipped

in some great measure by the support they get from emily's list, can make their case and can be elected. when i think in my own life history, i like so many of you am in this room and across this country. my grandfather was a factory worker that started at the age of 11 and worked until he was 65 and got to retire. his son, my father went to college. he was a small businessman who worked really hard and made a good life for us. my mother had a terrible abusive childhood. had to leave at the age of 14 to go to work in order to support herself, having been abandoned by both her parents and paternal

grandparents never got to go to college but had a spark of , resilience that kept her going and gave her the capacity to create a family filled with love and support. when i hear stories like those i not my head. i saw a lot of others. because just as she had another whose voice echoes in her head so did i. and how fortunate i was and how we want it to be the experience of all of our children along like this way you get a chance

to make millions of decisions. some of them are big, like do you run for office? [applause] others are even bigger like the the ones that gabby gifford and her husband mark confronted like what do you do when a murderer a attacks you? how do you put that gift to work? she's one of the bravest women i know, and she and mark are making such a difference. [applause] so we have, as stephanie reminded us, a lot of work to do

in the next 20 months. we need to listen to the voices of those who set us on our own life journey, and those who we when bill and i were at the hospital waiting for our granddaughter to make her grand entrance, one of the nurses said to me, thank you for fighting for paid leave. [applause] and i looked at her and thought here she is taking care of other people's babies and having to worry about what happens when her child gets sick. and how she makes all of that work. her words stayed with me. i remember being a young mother and having all of the balancing act