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later, we are still recovering from the worst economic crisis in our lifetimes. we have got a lot of work to do before everybody who wants a good job can find one. before middle class folks regain that sense of security that had been slipping away even before the recession hit. and before towns like petersburg get fully back on their feet. but here is the good news. over the past two years, our businesses have added nearly four million new jobs. [ applause ] just found out that last month in february, we added 233,000 private sector jobs. more companies are bringing jobs
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back and investing in america. and manufacturing is adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. [ applause ] we just had another good month last month in terms of adding manufacturing jobs and this facility is part of the evidence of what is going on all across the country. this company is about to hire more than 200 new workers, 140 of them right here in petersb g petersburg, virginia. so the economy is getting stronger. and when i come to places like this, and i see the work that is being done, it gives me confidence there are better days ahead. i know it because i would bet on
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american workers and american know-how any day of the week. the key now, our job now is to keep this economic engine churning, we cannot go back to the same policies that got us into this mess. we can't go back to an economy that was weakened by outsourcing and bad debt and phony financial profits. we have to have an economy had that is built to last. and that starts with the american manufacturing, it starts with you. [ applause ] for generations, of americans, manufacturing has been the ticket into the middle class. every day, millions clocked in at foundries and on assembly lines, making things and the
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stuff we made steel, and cars and jet engines, that is the stuff that made america what it is. it was understood around the world. the work was hard but the jobs were good. they paid enough to own a home and raise kids and sends them to college. gave you enough to retire on, with dignitiy and respect. they were jobs that told us something more important than how much we were worth. they told us what we were worth. they told us that we were building more than just products. they told us we were building communities and neighborhoods and we were building a country. it gave people pride about what america was about. and that is why one of the first decisions i made as president was to stands by manufacturing,
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to stand by the american another industry when it was on the brink of collapse. [ applause ] the heartbeat of american manufacturing was at stake and so were more than a million jobs. today, the american auto industry is coming back and gm is number one in the world again and ford is investing billions in american plants and factories. together, over the past two and a half years, the entire auto industry added more than 200,000 jobs. here is the thing. they are not just building cars again, they are building better cars. for the first time in three decades, we raised fuel standards in the country so that by the middle of the next decade the cars that are built in america will average nearly 55 miles to the gallon.
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that will save the typical family, about $8,000 over a year. that is real savings, that is real money. and it shows that depending on foreign oil does not have to be our future. it shows that when we harness our own technology that we can control our future. see america grows when we build things better than the rest of the world. i want us to make stuff here and sell it over there. i don't want to have have stuff made over there and selling it over here. and that is exactly what you are doing here. the large heest -- largest rolls-royce facility in the world, that is what you are doing by building the components
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for faster more fuel efficient jet engines, i learned a bet about how a jet engine comes together on my tour. don't quiz me on it. i'm a little fuzzy on some of the details. i did press some buttons back there. but a few weeks ago, i got to see the finished product. i went to boeing in washington state and i checked out a new dream liner. i even got to sit in the cockpit, which was sweet, but i did not press any buttons there, because if it had started going, there would have been a problem. so, this plane, the dreamliner will keep america at the cutting edge of aerospace technology. american workers are manufacturing various components for it in ohio, in oklahoma and south carolina and kansas.
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and right here in petersburg. in fact, the demand for their planes was so high last year that boeing had to hire 13,000 workers all across america just to keep up. and boeing is gaining more and more share all the time. so, think about that. rolls-royce is choosing to invest in america, you are createsing jobs here, manufacturer components for jet engines and planes that we will sends all around the world. that is the kind of business cycle we want to see. not buying stuff that is made someplace else and racking up debt, but by inventing things and selling things all around the world stamped with three proud words "made in america" [ applause ] "made in america."
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think about how important this is. i mean imagine if the plane of the future is being built someplace else, imagine if we gave up on the auto industry. imagine if we had settled for a lesser future. we didn't. we are americans, we are inventors, we are builders and we are the wright brothers and we are steven jobs, that is who we are. that is what we do. we invent stuff, we build it. and pretty soon, the entire world adapts to it. that is who we are. and as long as i'm president we will keep on doing it we will make sure the next generation of life changing products are invented and produced here in the united states of america.
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so that is why we launched an all hands on deck effort, we brought together the brightest academic minds, boldest business leaders and the most dedicated public servants, all with one goal, a renaissance in american manufacturing. we called it the advanced manufacturing partnership. the advanced manufacturing partnership. and today, we are building on it. i am laying out my plans for a new national network of manufacturing innovation. and these are going to be institutes of manufacturing excellence where some of our most advanced engineering schools and our most innovative manufacturers collaborated on new ideas, new technology, new methods new processes. and if this sounds familiar, that is because what you are about to on do right here at
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cross point. later this summer, the common wealth center for advancie manufacturing will oep it's doors. it's a partnership with manufacturing including this one, uva, virginia tech, virginia state university -- vsu is over represented here obviously. the common wealth and the federal government. so think of this as a place where companies can share access to cutting edge capabilities, at the same time, students and workers are picking up new skills they are training on state of the art equipment -- >> president obama taking credit for the improvement in the economy and it is an improvement. i'm andrea mitchell, good day. live in washingtoned today a as
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the economic numbers show that first of all, the economy added 227,000 jobs, the unemployment remained at 8.3% but the third straight month of jobs growth, and the unemployment rate remained unchanged because people are rejoining the workforce. chris cillizza, and david leonard is with us. chris, good news, great news, improving news? what is your read? >> very good news, i think i would say. maybe a b plus, maybe on the curve. it is strong growth. it continues a few months of pretty strong growth and when you get into the details there's some reason to think that they may be better than the headline numbers. the problem remains that we are in a huge, huge hole and at this
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rate, we will not come out of it for a long time. if thises going to be good news we have to see continued acceleration, we cannot seat thi see things -- cannot see things just at this pace. >> we have unexpected events, gas prices and ingredient anyth happen. greece is not completely over the hump, it's a question of whether or not there's enough buy in to the bailout. >> that is right. and even without gas prices going up further or europe melting down the forecast for gdp growth is not particularly good. we are seeing a little slow down, maybe that is just a blip. but if the economy is growing at only 2%, which is a lot of people are saying in the quarter, that doesn't lead to -- that is unlikely to lead to an acceleration job growth, we need an acceleration of job growth to get out of this in any good
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amount of time. the best news in the last few reports have been that so far we have seen that acceleration. >> and thank you very much. when we look at this good political news, the campaign context is the most important factor, so, chris cillizza, what does it mean for president obama going forward? >> look, you and i have talked about that before. the economy is all about perception and all about trend lines politically so the trend line that obama wants to see is jobs being created. that number going up and the unemployment rate not going up and friending downward. the hole is so big that there's no way that before november we will see the unemployment rate drop, it's not possible, we will not create that many jobs. it has to be a downward trend line in the a way that ronald reagan got re-elected in march of '93 unemployment was over
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10%. but november of '94 it was high, but it was going in the right direction so allowed reagan to say, we are not where we need to be yet, but i need four more years to get it where we are going. and that is the case that the president will need to make. looks like he will be able to make it. >> last night, santorum acknowledging that his wife karen got to him. persuaded him that the comment about the president being a snob about hyper education and santorum saying that he felt like throwing up about jfks speech on separation of church and state was a bad word choice, this is how he put it. >> usually the phone ring says quickly if she is not there in person to say, you know, rick, you should not have said that. the snob comment did not go over well and she reminded me.
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you know, it's snobbish, you can say it's a snobbish thing to say, but don't call him a snob. and i said you know, i made a mistake. obviously the language i used was at a minimum inarticulate. but what it showed was maybe years of frustration. so i'll continue to speak out. please pray for me that i do so more articulately in the future. >> now if he had done the same thing last sunday, maybe he would not have lost michigan -- excuse me, maybe would not have lost ohio i should say. >> i was just thinking that, listening to that, whatever the politically equal of a day late and a dollar short, look, the problem for santorum is that even know he is starting now, when he made the comments it took him a way from an economic populist message that is good in ohio and michigan, and took him
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into a kul da sack of sort of rhetoric and contraception and birth control and all the things, education and it got him off track. it cost him maybe ohio and i think we may look back at mitt romney, if he winds up putting delegates together that he needs eventually in the race, and look back and see ohio and michigan as two shots that santorum had that he just missed. >> chris cillizza, and david, thank you both for joining us today. and we are just learning more about an american airlines flight that just left the gate at dfw airport in dallas heading for chicago when an incident occurred involving some of the cabin crew, the plane was returned to the gate and two flight attendants were taken to hospitals. the passengers were not in any danger at any time. the cabin crew was replaced and the flight left after that in the morning. some passengers tweeted, crazy
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flight attendant yelling about terrorist and our plane crashing, get restrained by passengers and another passenger added we had a crazy flight a techb dent who was at thing us that we would crash and die and got into a fight and had to be held down by five guys. the airline is of course, investigating this incident. one eyewitness told us that the flight attendant said that there was a mechanical error that would cause us to crash if we took off and ranted about bankruptcy. it's hard to believe now but at this point in the 2008 campaign, barely anyone knew who sarah palin was, the show "game change" premiering tomorrow night on hbo that is a fascinating look at how quickly it all changed. >> i'm very pleased to introduce to you the next vice president of the united states. governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska.
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[ crowd chanting ] >> she love her. we can win this thing. >> with me now, the coauthors of "game change." gentlemen, i saw it last night at the washington premier and wow. i mean, a lot of take aways from this. one is just how screwed up our selection and vetting process is, and there's was, it was not only this republican campaign, it's has happened with john edwards on the democratic side. let's look at the nicole wallace character. we know her, confronting steve schmidt who was in charge of the the process about the lack of vetting of sarah palin. they did it all in five days. let's watch. >> when you interviewed her did you ask her about national security? foreign policy? domestic policy? >> i thought the house would cover that. >> what did you ask her? >> i -- we talked about if she
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would back john's positions when they conflicted with hers or was she prepared for her life to change. there were no policy questions. >> you guys didn't grill her because you wanted it to work. >> i was not in charge of the vet, nicole. >> two people, two well-known political strategists, former white house aides, who came away from this experience so tortured by what they had gone through. >> anyone that covered a political campaign, behind the scenes, there's more chaos and accidental circumstances that drives events, you see in front of the camera. in this case, senator mccain and his advisers left no time to find pa different candidate. the candidates whose backgrounds they looked into were not the right kind of candidates they needed a game changing pittsburgh, they spent five days looking ining at palin, it hur
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because she was not able to prepare. and you had the spector of someone who was actually performing well for most of her time on the national ticket but there were holes in her preparation that led to some problems. and the film do you wacuments in the end those two operatives felt that the process was messed up and they felt in the end that it was a bad pick because they felt she was not able to serve in the white house. >> the acting is extraordinary. the screen play is great, based on the book, i know you all were involved in the process. john heileman, there are a couple of other take aways, give us examples of what they did not know about foreign policy. >> the things we had in the book, she did not understand why there was a different between north and south korea, she thought that saddam hussein attacked the u.s. on 9/11, and then the screen writer went out
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and did his research. danny wanted to talk to people, wanted to hear how they talked and go through the process that we went through and make sure that everything that we wrote in the book was true, but one of the things he found was the scene in the movie that got attention, where she confuses the head of state in great britain, when she thought it was the queen. the queen was head of government and the they have to correct her and point out that the prime minister is the head of government and the queen is a head of state. >> that is a big difference. the prime minister is coming to meet the president, that is where the governments operate one on one, it's not the queen who is a -- >> figure head. >> yes, let's look at sarah palin, who was the role on. this was another of the scenes. >> here we go.
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thank you. >> hi. hey. hi. >> this is crazy. >> i know, they really love her. >> how are you? hey. what is your name? >> i'm sarah. >> sarah. that is my name too. that is amazing. >> i know. >> oh, thanchs for coming out. >> we never felt welcomed to go anywhere before we heard your speech. >> look at you. i want to look at how handsome my son will be when he gets older. >> i have seen her with people and covered the campaign as you all did. and it was that immediate response to her. the first couple of weeks, they got the bump that they wanted. it was when other issues came up plus the clothing later on and the big interviews that she had. where you know, she tripped up. and you described, you know,
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rid originally the melt down. it was something else, the response from michelle wallace, that really happened. describe the scene. >> the tortured response? >> when nichol wallace said to schmidt that she did not vote on election day. >> yes, nicole wallace served in administration and was the sign to get palin ready for interviews and deal with her public image, you see at the end of the movie, i'll give a bit of a spoiler. >> sorry. >> but she says, she tells the schmidt character that she could not bring herself to vote. her judgment, not a uniform judgment, but her judgment, it was a bad pick, because she was not qualified to serve in the white house. >> i have to tell you, i think there's a lot of sympathy in this depiction and john mccain comes across as a real
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character, a man of character. and the portrayals are amazing. watch it tomorrow night. >> 9:00 on hbo. >> and next, the man behind the numbers, what are the pit falls in the fall campaign for president obama? we will talk to pete hart. ♪[music plays] ♪[music plays] ♪[music plays] purina one beyond. food for your cat or dog. ♪ [ gong ]
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together for your future. ♪ with the republican race still going on, what is the impact on president obama for the fall campaign? peter hart who conducts our "wall street journal" polling, the gender gap has existed for excite a while, but we are seeing a shift in the attitudes toward congress. >> it has changed dramatically and the democrats now have a 15
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point lead, you can trace it to everything that has been happening both in the congress on the campaign trail, and rush limbaugh. those three have had a tremendous effect on women's rote, and on the presidential, we have the ahead -- we have the president ahead by 18 points. >> when you look at the head to heads, barack obama you took a look inside the numbers of barack obama versus ron paul, for instance, what happens with suburban supporters including women. >> this is great, because we get so far ahead of ourselves, we are watching barack obama, he is doing great and everything is perfect. then in our own poll, he is ahead by eight points. 50% to 42%. and with suburban voters it's dead even. we get ahead of ourselves and we say it's all over this way and all over this way. we have a long way to go and ron paul being able to be quote dead
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even with suburbans and slightly behind with independents. that's a good indication. >> peter, what are you seeing in terms of congressional preferences also with suburban voters, first of all, they vote. and turn out. >> they turn out, they vote. and the fact is the democrats have been improving. from back last summer, the republicans were dead even at this stage of the game, it's now a democrats surging ahead, it's been a good period of time for t democrats. the republicans have a tremendous advantage in the fall, deposition fal fall, democrats are picking up. the turnout has turned down and all of the expectations are getting turned on by everything going on, sorry just the opposite, they are getting turned off. in both parties. >> in both parties. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> does mitt romney need a make
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over? according to a new article in politico today, many think it's time for him to rebuihabilitates image. is mitt romney the new bob dole? first of all, how do you make him over without it looking like a make of. what comes to mind is gore trying to dress in khaki. >> no, something staged would not respepresent a make-over, a probably would compound his deefficiencies so far in the campaign. the republicans that we talked to said what romney needs to do is find an occasion to have a moment of strength. to show voters his sort of inner core, pick a fight, make a decision, a hard decision, that
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reflects his true values and genuine principals, what is happening is, over the course of this campaign, he is being defined by a word that never defines successful campaigns. andrea that word is weakness and he has to find a way to chase that perception away. that is why someone -- >> that is why a lot of people suggested that he should have chosen as a sister soldier moment, if you will, taking on talking back to rush limbaugh last week. >> we talked to a top adviser to romney if 2008. he someone that clearly wishes governor romney well. he made the point. you define yourself by what you are willing to make a stand for. he thought that was a great opportunity for governor romney to make a stand with his own side by standing up against rush
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limbaugh's derogatory comments. he has to find other opportunities if he will sort of wipe away perception that he is not on a path toward victory. >> and perhaps saying more than grits and y'all, have a great weekend, thank you john harris. >> see you soon. >> up next right here. saluting the women of the world, we are wrapping up our week long series about the fearless who are making a difference. [ female announcer ] the next generation of investing technology
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for civil and voter rights is not over. >> why are we changing the i.d. laws now if there's been no problem of voter fraud with i.d.s, so then why all of a sudden are we changing the identification needed unless there was a break out or widespread counterfeiting of i.d.s going on. which has not been the indication. >> here is a live look at the alabama state capitol, where the five-day journey marks the original march from selma to montgomery. iran is racheting down the rhetoric over the nuclear program. in the past two takes, iran's leader made a rare statement, and offered praise to president obama of all people, about the comments that there's a window of dip loam assy.
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and -- we have our guest here, who is an iran expert at the carnegie endowment for international peace and joining me now. we have been watching this and what is your read at the end of the week whether we have dialed it up or down or if we are still in the middle on the possibility of military action from israel to iran? >> i think after prime minister's netanyahu's visit, the president managed to dial town the temperature a bit. the latest statement from the iranian leader, which was agr agreeable one. i think certainly with respect to where we were two or three weeks ago of course we have managed to dial down the temperature somewhat. >> at the same time, from vienna
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and the u.n. inspectors we heard disturbing news, they had satellite imaginary showing the possibility that iran was trying to clean up the military facility that they did not let the inspectors two weeks ago to get into. this would be where they were going to build a delivery system for a nuclear weapon if they went that route. >> the problem that eiran has i they feel they have no incentive to be transparent, because if they are, they will further incriminate thengzs and show what types of activities they were up to. so i do think if there's hope for a solution, iran has to be provided some type of a way out, if they do come clean, they will not simply further penalize
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themselves. >> one of the things that the americans are concerned about is the price of oil and gasoline at the pump. this morning, as you know, on "today" matt lauer talked about whether or not we would be seeing $5 a gallon gas. >> i would not expect to see prices reach that level. again, the unknown in here is if the, if the markets review of the political risk, if the are rhetoric gets more heated. if there's a problem someplace else in the world that flares up, then certainly it could drive the prices up further. >> and so that is the unknown. when these hots, these rhetorical shots go back and forth as well as what we hear on capitol hill, the people who are, you know, making bets on the market, that is what drives up the price. >> that is right, andrea, and i
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think that president obama made a good speech at aipac, he said all this talk of war tends to benefit iran, because it spikes up the price of oil and i think when prime minister netanyahu makes the consistent statements about military action, he in a way under mines diplomacy, because sanctions against iran are tough. and the blow is softened when the prices spike. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> jane harmon coming up next. and a leader that is determined to end human trafficking in mexico. we will be back. follow the wings. carfirmation.
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challenges that women and girls face. listen to these moments from last night's event. >> i'm tina brown and i want to welcome you to the third annual women in the world summit. [ applause ] >> people say there's not enough qualified women, and that is one of the biggest -- things i've heard. >> for all the dark turns in recent days, there has been one piece of good news. last week, dr. abdi was nominated fnominat nominatnominat nominated for the nobel peace price. >> i know that justice needs to be demanded and it can come from anyone, even a teenager like myself. >> some of us have benefitted from enlightened men in our lives. one such, my late husband sidney. bought "newsweek" two years ago to save it. >> and indeed one of the cohosts
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of theent, former nine-term democratic congress woman, jane harmon, is responsible for bringing the council of women of world leaders to the center and our congress woman from mexico. she has worked to safe women and children from human trafficking. welcome to both of you. >> jane, to you, you and tina brown bringing it together, extraordinary event, it's continuing, i'll be joining you tonight and tomorrow. let's talk about the obstacles that women still face in leadership and you saw we had to bleep madeline all bright. it was her honest reaction to the idea that there are not qualified women ready and willing to step in to the roles. >> let me say first of all, the
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glass ceiling that many of us like the senator has broken is a thick layer of men. and some women have arrived as heads of countries. the wilson center which i now head, first time a woman headed the wilson center is now host of something called the council of women world leaders which is 47 women who head or have headed countries. the youngest newest member i'll disclose tomorrow, so i'll be quiet. she is at 36, the young estimate le est -- youngest leader in the world. we are qualified and ready to lead and many women like the brave women next to me. are leading against a crusade against sexual violence and as treatment as nonpeople.
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it's something that we have studied and this summit is show casing effectively the stores and solutions to these very, very deep problems. i want to salute, obviously my family is a coowner of "newsweek" but tina brown has done something magical. >> she has. let me follow-up on what you just said. rowsy, you are leading the fight in human trafficking in a place where it is the drug cartels who are profiting from this. and this is a life and death struggle. >> yes, it that is been very, very hard struggle but you and, for example, mexico to do the blue heart campaign, that is why we are wearing this blue heart. that has helped to be more sensitive and there's been media who has been sensitive and my president, my first lady has
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been backing up what we have been doing. and now the congress, the congress is going to pass a new law that is a general law that will rule overall of mexico and that will be the first step to change the situation in mexico and also we are working very close to the united states for international cases like the case that just recently in september was here in new york and miami and atlanta cases, people from mexico doing these sexual exploitation here in the united states. >> what more can we do in the united states to protect girls and women from this kind of exploitation as well as of course the focus abroad? >> we can learn from our sisters in mexico how to do it right. but sustained leadership is what is needed. i was very impressed that secretary leon panetta, our defense secretary, recently
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relaunched or reemphasized a campaign in the defense department against rape and assault of military weapon. it's an epidemic in the united states, it's something that i focused on a lot as a member of congress. and so, we have trafficking, in the country, but the idea that a woman signs up to put her life on the line to defend our country and could be raped and assaulted by her fellow soldier more likely than she would be killed by enemy fire is shameful and that is something that this country has to work on. i have to make one point. madeline says there's a cold place in hell for women who do not help women. and one of the thins that we all have to do is once you make it to, you know, a fairly senior is position you have to help the women after you and not roll up the ladder and leaf them on their own. >> what is the situation in mexico in terms of women partnering with other women and helping create this kind of
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bond, the kind of leadership that protects those who were coming up behind? >> i think you heard these girls who was sexual exploited girl, she was five years suffering like hell. and she is now is now helping o. there is seven of them that are opening their own business, two beauty parlors, one cafeteria and one bakery. they are helping the others. there is more and more people. it's coming up like movement for these problem. i think a solution is to call everything like it be called. something i do not like to hear is that here the criminals are called johns. that's terrible. if we call them johns, they are like nobody. are they are like normal or they are like funny. they shouldn't be called johns.
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they should be called users or the normal thing to call them is criminals. if we don't accept that the demand has to be down, the demand has to diminish, then these will be growing and growing until being the first business of organized crime. that's the main problem. we don't punish. it's going to punish the criminals. >> calling it what it is, slavery. calling them criminals. thank you so much. great to see you. we'll see you in person tomorrow. we thank you both very much. we'll be right back. ith back pa. and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ because a chicken is what it eats.
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which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? chris cillizza is here. chris, kansas. >> i feel like i'm just getting caught up on sleep from super
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tuesday. we got another vote. this is the kansas caucuses. i think, unless we're wrong about this, i think rick santorum is going to win this. >> a lot of evangelicals. >> exactly. very socially conservative. an under told story in this, look at rick santorum, he's gone quite well in the plain, missouri, kansas, oklahoma. he's doing quite well in that area. rick santorum has done well there. think about kansas. if we wins alabama and mississippi, we're going to be talking about momentum for rick santorum. it may not matter because of the delegate math. we know that is still very strong for mitt romney but rick santorum looks like three wins in a row. >> thank you very much, chris. have a great weekend. >> you too.
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