other. she was doing the same job, probably doing it better. same job. [ applause ] >> working just as hard, probably putting in more hours, but she was getting systemically paid less. and so she set out to make sure the country lived up to its founding, the idea that all of us are created equal. when the courts didn't answer her call, congress did. the first time lilly and i stood together in this room was my tenth day in office and that's when we signed the lilly ledbetter fair pay act, first bill i signed into law. [ applause ] >> some leaders who helped make that happen are here today, including leader pelosi. senator mikulski, and

congresswoman delaurel. i want to thank all of the members of congress and state legislators here and advocates who are here, because you all contributed to that effort. i want to give a special thanks to the members of the national equity -- equal pay task force who have done outstanding work to make workplaces across america more fair. we're here because today is equal pay day. [ applause ] >> equal pay day. and it's nice to have a day, but it's even better to have equal pay. and our job is not finished yet. equal pay day means that a woman has to work about this far into 2014 to earn what a man earned in 2013. think about that. a woman has got to work about

three more months in order to get what a man got because she's paid less. that's not fair. that's like adding an extra six miles to a marathon. it's not right. ain't right. it's not right and it ain't right. america should be a level playing field, a fair race for everybody, a place where anybody who is willing to work hard has a chance to get ahead and restoring that opportunity for every american, men and women has to be a driving focus for our country. the good news is today our economy is growing and business has created almost 9 million new jobs over the past four years and more than 7 million americans have signed up for health care coverage under the

affordable care act. [ applause ] >> that's a good thing too. and i know it's equal pay day and not obamacare day, but i do want to point out that the affordable care act guarantees free preventive care like mammograms and con ttraceptive care and ends the days when you can be charged more for being a woman when it comes to your health insurance. that's true for everybody. [ applause ] >> that's just one more place where things were not fair. we'll talk about dry cleaners next, right? i know that -- i don't know why it cost more for michelle's blouse than my shirt. but bewe've got to make sure th

america works for everybody. anybody who is willing to work hard, they should be able to get ahead. we've got to build an economy that works for everybody, not just those at the top. restoring opportunity for all has to be our priority. that's what america is about. it doesn't matter where you start off or what you look like, you work hard and take responsibility and make the effort, you should be able to get ahead. we've got to fight for an opportunity agenda, which means more good jobs that pay good wages and training americans to make sure that they can fill those jobs and guaranteeing every child a world class education and making sure the economy rewards hard work for every single american. and part of that is fighting for fair pay for women. because when women succeed, america succeeds. [ applause ] >> when women succeed, america succeeds, it's true.

i believe that. [ applause ] >> it's true. it's true. here's the challenge. today the average full-time working woman earns 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. for african-american women, lati latinas, it's even less. in 2014, that's an embarrassment, it is wrong. this is not just an issue of fairness, it's also a family issue and economic issue because women make up about half of our workforce. and they are increasingly the bread winners for a whole lot the families out there. when they make less money, it means less money for gas, less money for groceries, less money for child care. less money for college tuition.

less money is going no retirement savings and it's all bad for business because our economy depends on customers out there. when customers have less money, when hard working women don't have the resources, you know, that's a problem. when businesses lose terrific women talent because they are fed up with unfair policies, that's bad for business. they lose out on the contributions that the women could be making. when any of our citizens can't fulfill their potential that has nothing to do with their character or work ethic, we're not living up to our founding values. we don't have second class citizens in this country. and certainly not in the workplace. so tomorrow the senate has the chance to start making this right, bypaf fpassing a bill th

lilly already referred to, the paycheck fairness act. they have a chance to do the right thing. [ applause ] >> it would put sensible rules into place, like making sure employees who discuss salaries don't face retaliation by employers. here's why it is important, there are women who worked in offices where it was against the rules for employees to discuss salaries with one another. because of that they didn't know they were being paid less than men, just like lilly didn't know, for doing the exact same work. for some it was years before they found out. and even though it only happened because a manage accidentally let it slip or a co-worker quietly passed a note. she only found out she learned less than her male colleagues for doing the same work because

someone left an anonymous note. we can't leave that to chance. she lost more than $200,000 in salary, even more in pension and social security benefits, both of which are pegged to salary, simply because she was a woman. lilly and some of the other women here decided it was wrong and set out to fix it. they went to their bosses and asked for a raise. that didn't work. they turned to the law and filed suit. republicans in congress have been gumming up the works and blocking progress on this issue

and other issues that would help with the economic recovery, but we don't have to accept that. america, you don't have to sit still. you can make sure that you're putting pressure on members of congress about this issue. i don't care whether you're democrat or republican, if you're a voter and you've got a daughter, a sister, a mom, i know you got a mom, this is something you should care about. i'm not going to stand still either, in this year of action i used my executive authority whenever i could to create opportunity for more americans and today i'll take action, executive action, to make it easier for working women to earn fair pay. so first i'm going to sign an executive order to create more pay transparency by prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their pay with each

other. [ applause ] >> pay secrecy fosters discrimination and we should not tolerate it, not in federal contracting or anywhere else. second, i'm signing a presidential memorandum directing the department of labor and our outstanding director tom perez, to require federal contractors to provide data about their employee compensation to pay discrimination, spotted more easily. now, i want to be clear, there are great employers out there who do the right thing. there are plenty of employers out there who are certain there's no pay discrimination happening in their offices. but then sometimes when the data is laid out it paints a different picture. many times they then do everything they can to fix the

problem and so we want to encourage them to fix these problems if they exist by making sure that the data is out there. so everybody who cares about this should pay attention to how the senate votes tomorrow on this paycheck fairness act. the majority of senator support this bill. two years ago a minority of senators blocked it from getting a vote and some commentators are out there saying the payment gap doesn't exist. it's a myth. it's not a myth. it's math. you can look -- [ applause ] >> look at the paychecks, look at the stubs. lilly ledbetter didn't just make this up. the court when it looked at the document said, yeah, you've been getting paid less for doing the

same job. it's just the court then said, it's been as lilly said it's been happening so long you can't do anything about it no more. which made no sense and that's why we had to sign another bill. it's basic math that adds up to real money and makes a real difference for a lot of americans working hard to support their families. and of course, the fact that we've got resistance from some folks on this issue up on capitol hill, just fits with this larger problem, this vision that the congressional republicans seem to be continually embracing this notion that you know what, you're on your own, no matter how unfair things are. you see it in their budget. the budget the republicans in congress just put forward last week. it's like a bad rerun. it would give massive tax cuts to households making more than $1 million a year and force deep cuts to help working families, like early education and college

grants and job training and of course includes that novel idea of repealing the affordable care act. 50th time they've tried that, which would mean more than 7 million americans who have done the responsible thing and signed up to buy health insurance, they would lose their health insurance and the 3 million young adults who stayed on their parents plan, they would no longer have that available. take us back to the days when insurance could charge women more just for being a woman. on minimum wage, three out of four americans support raising the minimum wage. usually when three out of four americans support something, members of congress are right there. and here republicans in congress are dead set against it. blocking a pay raise for tens of millions of americans, a majority of them women. this isn't just about treating

women fairly. this is about republicans seemingly opposing any efforts to even the playing field for working families. and i was up in michigan last week and just asked, i don't understand the -- fully the theory behind this. i don't know why you would resist the idea that women should be paid the same as men. and then deny that that's not always happening out there. if republicans in congress want to prove me wrong, if they want to show they in fact do care about women being paid the same as men, then show me. they can start tomorrow. they can join us in this, the 21st century and vote yes on the paycheck fairness act.

vote yes. [ applause ] >> if anybody is watching or listening and you care about this issue, let your senators know where you stand. americans deserve equal pay for equal work. this is not something we're going to achieve in a day. there's going to be a lot of stuff we have to do to close the pay gap and make it possible for more women to enter high paying fields that up until now that have been dominated by men, like engineering and computer science. women hold less than 6% of our commercial patents, that's not good enough. we need more parents and high school teachers and college professors encouraging girls and women to study math and science. we need more businesses to make gender diversity a priority when they hire and promote. fewer than 5% of fortune 500

companies have women at the helm. we all agree we need more women in congress. [ applause ] >> fewer than 20% of congressional seats are held by women. clearly congress would get more done if the ratio were evened out a little bit. we have to work on that. we've all got to do more to make workplaces more welcoming to women. the numbers show even when men and women are in the same profession and have the same education, there's still a wage gap and it widens over time. we're going to keep making the case for why these policies are the right ones for working families and businesses. and this is all going to lead up to this first ever white house summit on working families on june 23rd. so ultimately equal pay is not just an economic issue for millions of americans and

families, it's also about whether we're willing to build an economy that works for everybody. whether we're going to do our part to make sure our daughters have the same chances to pursue their dreams as our sons and whether or not we're willing to restore to the heart of this country that basic idea, you can make it no matter who you are, if you try. and that's personal for me. i've said this before, i've got two daughters and i expect them to be treated just like anybody's sons. and i think about my single mom working hard, going to school, trying to raise two kids, all at the same time and i think about my grandmother, trying to work her way up through her career, and hitting the glass ceiling. i've seen how hard they've worked and seen how they've sucked it up. and they put up with stuff and

don't say anything. and they -- you know, just take care of their family and take care of themselves. they don't complain a lot. at a certain point, we have the power to do something about it for the next generation. and this is a good place to start. so for everybody out there who's listening, ask your senator where you stand on paycheck fairness. if they tell you -- that there's not a pay gap out there, you tell them to look at the data because there is. it's time to get this done. i'm going to do my small part right now by signing these executive orders. thank you. [ applause ] >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. you see the president is signing the executive orders on equal pay at the white house skting federal contractors. here for our daily fix, ruth marcus, columnist for the "washington post." you are a lawyer. he is basically signing

executive order that will be a big deal for federal contractors, but it's also a big political issue. >> it's a very big political issue and winning political issue for president obama and democrats, and they know it. they are spending in addition to the merits, spending so much energy and attention on this issue. women are a majority of the voters. there is a gender gap that hugely favors democrats and in particular, single women, if you can get them motivated to go out to vote and single women are particularly responsive to lilly ledbetter type arguments about enequal treatment. if you get them motivated, they break democratic. it's a triple win. >> the pushback from the republicans has been from a conservative think tank aei which said in the white house and executive branch women are only paid 88 cents to the dollar on men and the pushback again from the white house is that

that is the aggregate number because you have more women paid -- >> they are both exactly right. it shows the difficulty with more making this is all about discrimination argument. there is definite a wage gap, both in the economy at large and white house between women and men. that's because it may be a lot of factors in the economy. at the white house i think it's fairly clear that women at the same level are paid the same as men. but there are more senior men than there are senior women. until that changes we'll have some continuing pay gap, even at the white house, inconvenient for them. >> the president is greeting mika brzezinski of "morning joe", she has written several books on the subject of equal pay. in the private sector which is more regulated in terms of what you're paid at the particular government level -- >> and more transparent. >> in the private sector, the

pay can be as it was in the case of lilly ledbetter who interest dugsed the president and going to be appearing at 1:00 with ronan farrow today. in the private sector it's not transparent and it is much more common that women at the same job category are paid considerably less than their male counterparts, come in at the lower salary and that persists throughout their careers. >> for lots of different reasons. women, we've heard this from cheryl sandberg aren't as good as asking for it, saying, pay me more. i think that's why one reason that the step that the president took on the transparency telling people they are protected can't be discriminated against or retaliated against or fired. if they start talking about how much they make. transparency solves a lot of problems. if you know or i know that your male colleagues are being paid way more, you go to your employer and say, hello, excuse me, let's fix this. >> one of the problems is when

do you find that out? originally the supreme court ruled lilly ledbetter did not go to court soon enough because for 30 years she didn't know she was being underpaid and discriminated against. what the lilly ledbetter act which the president signed ten days after taking office, was congressional action under a democratic house and senate, which basically fixed that problem by saying that that statute of limitations is much more flexible. >> it fixes the is a constitute of limitations problem but if lilly ledbetter had not gotten that anonymous note saying you've got a problem here, she wouldn't have known she had a problem. to the extent this executive order encourages employer -- other employers in the private sector to be more transparent or let their employees be more transparent, and also, remember, federal contractors a lot of businesses do business with the federal government. this affects a pretty significant swath of the private economy. >> to be continued and right now. ruth, you have written about

this in your column that went online today. the senate intelligence committee has sent its controversial torture report on cia interrogations during the bush administration to president obama for review and declassification. over writing objections from john brennan. in response, michael hayden suggested that dianne feinstein was somehow overreacting. perhaps it's a woman thing? >> i read an article by david ignatius earlier this week and he said -- >> columnist for the "washington post." >> he said senator feinstein wanted a report so scathing that it would ensure that an un-american brutal program of detention and interrogation would never again be considered or permitted. now, that sentence, that motivation for the report, chris, may show deep emotional feeling on the part of the senator, but i don't think it leads you to an objective report. >> senator dianne feinstein

joins me now from capitol hill. i think this is your first television response to that comment, senator. i want to ask you, where do we begin with that? what's your response? >> well, i'll tell you where we begin. it's nonsense and stereo typical. i think david ignatius was incorrect and hayden is incorrect. let me give you how this began. it began in 12/6/07 when the new york times reported that the cia destroyed evidence, namely videotapes. in december the 11th, director hayden appeared before our committee and said he would allow members and/or staff to review operational cables which he said were just as good. jay rockefeller was then the chairman of the committee. he on the 7th of february of '08

assigned staff on february 27th, the staff reported and presented an interim report to the committee on the destruction of the tapes. the committee agreed to do a full review of the tapes. on march 5th, 2009, the committee voted 14-1 to do a comprehensive review of the detention and interrogation committee. let's have the record crystal clear. i never gave any direction to the staff. i just said we want the facts. and we want those folks footnoted. the one place i did give some direction was with respect to the cia response to the reports and i said, you will include their response where appropriate within the text of the report. and where not appropriate, you will note the response in a

footnote to the report. and that has been carried on. i believe that when people see the report, and this report has been classified, the 480-page summary and conclusions, have now been voted upon to go for declassification, but director hayden, i do not believe has seen report. i don't believe most people who are talking about the report have actually seen the report. but the genesis of the report was back with the videotapes and back under then chairman rockefeller who assigned staff, staff studied the operational cables and came back and reported to us. we took a look at that and said, both sides we should move ahead and do a full study. now, the full study, again, had a problem because later on the attorney general announced that

he was going to do an investigation into the deaths of some detainees. then people who were scheduled for interview, the interviews were made much more difficult. what i want to say and the republicans pulled out of the report. then we were faced with either stopping or continuing just with democratic staff. and i decision was made to continue with democratic staff. there are 150 interviews and transcripts that were utilized in this report. they are quoted from. they are documented. they are footnoted. and many of them come from the cia as well as the cia inspector general. >> when are we going to see the report? do you have any timetable of how long it's going to take for the president and his team and the intelligence community to

declassify and make that summary public so we can all judge who is fair and who's right? >> my hope is it will be a prompt, appropriate and efficient declassification. and that they will lightly redact it because a lot of time has gone by so sources and methods are not really at stake. and that people can see this summary, also see the conclusions that we came to. >> so you've just made it very clear that this all started under jay rockefeller when he was chair of the committee. he's a man. not given to being emotional i guess as you as chair are. where do we come down in this day and age where a woman who is chair of the intelligence committee because of seniority and expertise and all of the rest that goes into that gets accused of being emotional in having worked on this report and basically backed the staff on

this report? >> i think that's an old male fallback position. and there's no question that there are a lot of people out there. i suspect one of them is former cia director hayden, that does not want the report to come out. so one of the things you do is try to blur the reputation of someone connected with the report. obviously i'm the chairman of the committee and connected with the report. i support the findings. i believe they are factual and voted for declassification and i believe we should be transparent and i firmly believe that this report will serve a very positive public good in the long run. >> we should point out your republican counterpart sax by chambliss voted for declassification. he had some issues with content but voted to proceed? >> that's correct. >> dianne feinstein, thanks for being with us today.

>> right, bye. >> terrible violence in ukraine, pro-russian protesters were driven out of a building after they set off blazes and clashed with pro-ukrainian. and kiev it reached a boiling point when a fist fight broke out between the opposing factions. secretary of state kerry has talked the russians into meeting for the first time next week with ukraine's new leaders. kerry and russian counterpart lavrov are expected to meet next week. he called out russia for provoking the latest violence. >> everything we've seen in the last 24 hours from russian pro vok tors in eastern ukraine, tell us they've been sent there determined to create chaos. that is absolutely unacceptable.

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it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. in austin the lbj is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1964 civil rights act. what is left unfinished in the pursuit of equal justice for all, arguably the fight for marriage equality, which brought together two past legal adver adversa adversaries. ted olson made the case at the beginning of the 2013 oral argument. >> i thought it would be important for this court to have proposition 8 put in context what it does. it walls off gay and lesbians from marriage, the most important relation in life according to this court, thus stigma tiesing a class of

californians based upon their status and labeling their most cherished relationships as second rate, different, unequal and not okay. >> david boyce and ted olson join me now. they are on a panel moderated by me list is a harpris perry. what needs to be done in states around the country and what is the big issue in virginia? >> the issue in virginia is the same as the issue in california, that is whether a state can discriminate against a certain class of citizens in determining who they can marry and under what circumstances. so the issue we're fighting in virginia, an issue being fought around the country right now is the same issue of are we going

to fulfill the promise of our declaration of independence and constitution and really give a quality to all of our citizens? that was the issue 50 years ago in the 1964 civil rights act. that's the issue that's being debated right now. and one of the great things is that every federal judge that has considered this issue since last june has decided one way and that is in favor of equality. you had over 30 federal judges who have been faced with the issue as to whether a state can discriminate against citizens based on sexual orientation and every single one of them, republicans and democrats, judges appointed by the last four presidents, republicans and democrats alike have all ruled the same way in favor of equality. >> and ted, i think most recently ohio was -- there was a ruling in ohio, you've had ohio and michigan and state after

state. how many states have reached final action on this and how far do you still have to go? >> it's interesting, when we started this case, there were only two or three states, i can't remember exactly which, we we started the perry case that permitted marriage between individuals of the same sex. as of now there are 17 states plus the district of columbia. something representing something like 38% of the population of of the united states that authorized same sex individuals to get married and respect their right to do so. there's another half dozen states, you mentioned michigan and ohio, there's virginia. there's colorado. there's texas. and oklahoma where individuals have been permitted by a court decree to be married to someone of the same sex. all of the cases have been stayed on appeal, appeals pending all over the united states. there's tremendous momentum in favor of equal rights and equal opportunity and fairness and

decency to our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. >> are these states going to be appealing back to the supreme court? are there other steps that the high court will be taking? >> these -- one of these cases, they are spending in the circuit courts of appeal throughout the united states, one or more of these cases will be back to the united states supreme court and when that happens and we hope it might be the virginia case that david and i are arguing, we hope when that happens the united states supreme court will once and for all recognize that this is a constitutional right under the 14th amendment, due process close and equal protection clause of the 14th amendment for all citizens to be treated equally with what the supreme court has said as you heard me say to the supreme court last year is the most important relation in life. >> and david, i've noted that there are other issues that are still not resolved state by state, the new york times had a

touching story recently about a gay people. they had been together for 50 years or more. the elder died and the other man, 86-year-old survivor, still can't get social security benefits because even though they signed up for civil union, the marriage was not approved -- not made legal in new york state for the required number of months. so he was not able to get survivor benefits. and this in new york. there's still inequities state by state on all sorts of benefits. >> there are tremendous inequities and they are of both economic and emotional damage. the reason that marriage equality is so important is that those will end when people have a right to marry. the inability to visit a loved one in the hospital, the inability to get social security benefits and inability to enjoy

all of the attributes of a marital relationship, the inhibitions on all of that will end once we get marriage equality. that's why the citizens of the 17 states of the district of columbia have that now. and what we're trying to do is trying to bring that equality to every state in the union, including texas where a federal judge has ruled that marriage equality is a federal constitutional right. and now we're simply waiting for the court of appeals to affirm that. >> this issue has brought the two of you together after fighting bush v. gore back in that very important year of 2000. other things bring adversaries together. we know bush and george w. bush and bill clinton were together at the basketball finals at the ncaa finals last night. david, you were there as well. you had a great night last night. at least if you're supporting uconn. >> i'm from the northeast and you had to support uconn and for

me napear, it was a great underdog victory and great human victory. >> here's to underdogs and civil rights act of 1964 and 50 years later, the work still undone. thank you both very much. and david boies and ted olson, ted olson will be taking your questions, go to speak out.msnbc.com and leave your question for him in the exclusive article. and allen gross has been in a cuban prison more than four years and announced starting last week he went on a hunger strike to protest against the cuban and u.s. governments for what he calls mistruths and deception and inaction by both governments, not only regarding their shared responsibility but lack of reasonable or valid effort to resolve this shameful ordeal. a spokes person for the gross

family says he's in poor health. this as today the senate was using shaw over the agency's so-called fake cuban twitter accounts used to try to create political unrest or create more democracy there says shaw. shaw was on the show last week and said the programs were not convert. senator leahy said he didn't know about the program. >> who's idea was it to undertake this program in this manner, through this secret, well who's idea was it? >> senator leahy, let me address alan gross -- >> first answer the question, who's idea was this. >> it was designed in 2007 and

2008. at that time frame. that said, the legislation that crafts the purpose of the program -- >> whose idea was it? i read the legislation. it doesn't say anything about sitting up a cockamamy idea in cuba with twitter accounts on something that the cubans would be so easy to discover. whose idea was this specific program to go to cuba? who? it's a simple question. >> senator, the program was in place before i arrived. >> do you know whose idea it was? i know it was in place before. i said that in my opening statement, but you do know whose idea it was? >> first let me say -- i think this is important, sir and i greatly respect your point of view. that ap story had a number of critical inaccuracies. >> i'll put that in the record -- i'll put it in the record both your response to the ap story and the ap story.

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commemorations and candlelight vigils were held in rwanda, remembering those slaughtered 20 years ago. rwanda has made substantial progress since then but remains one of africa's poorest countries and almost half of the children are chronically malnourished. joining me to talk about the great work they are doing, senior vice president for strategic initiatives and bridget, welcome both.

thank you. >> mark, you were just in rwanda and i want to talk about what you are are doing in guatemala. let's talk about rwanda and the after effects of that civil war? >> 1 million people killed in 90 days, just yesterday, a commemoration. we went to the programs save the children is running all across rwanda focusing on the newborn issue. it's amazing statistic that one million kids die every year on the day of their birth. save the children is working not only in africa but around the world trying to lower those numbers and we need a commitment from our federal leadership to lower the numbers in the under five that kids that are dying under the age of five as well. 6 million kids every year. it's an unbelievable epidemic. >> only 10%, barely 10% of the 3 to 6-year-olds even get to school. even those who survive are not getting the kind of education --

>> that's absolutely right. i met the president last week and i said to him, i know there's a lot of talk about economic development and electric fiction of africa, he interrupted, without health and making sure babies are born healthy and mothers are being taken care of, none of it makes a difference. we hope he'll bring that message here to washington, d.c. in august when all of the african leaders are meeting with president obama. it's an issue that too often gets overlooked. >> bridget, you were in guatemala and the lack of child health care and nutrition is critical there as well. >> it was very critical. a met a number of families and it was heartbreaking to see numbers who wanted to do everything that they could for their kids. and they are very sweet families. i met a family of five kids are all were malnourished. the amazing part for me is to see the programs that save the

children has been doing and giving the family a goat or irrigation things or providing them with better storage for the food they do have, just to make sure that they first and foremost are fed. >> there's a new initiative, baby sit in. >> it's a great idea. kids are out baby sitting and so often they want to get involved in save the children's work. here's an idea, they can talk to the family that they are baby-sitting for and ask them if they will make a contribution in the kid's name. we're asking the parents of children baby-sitting and those hiring baby sitters to get involved and do this between mother's day and father's day of this year. bridget is announcing it today. >> what's a great idea, bridgit. i baby-sat, i think we all baby-sat, although i think the amount of money you get paid for

baby-sitting has changed considerably since my day. how are you going to get organized and get the word out to kids and their parents and grandparents? >> we have a panel today where we're announcing it. so that's exciting and also just awareness through media, social media and that sort of thing. for me it's just exciting to give kids an awareness and opportunity to have compassion for kids around the world and just kind of see, kids somewhere else in the world i'm helping through caring for kids here. >> it's building a really global community. >> it's building a movement. so often you look at the movement better than i do, that make a big difference, they start with kids. the environmental movement, we recycle at our house because my son came home and wanted to make sure the polar bears could live in the north pole. we recycle and hoping this is an effort that kids can get engaged and talk about the needs of other kids and talk to parents, their own parents and uncles and aunts about it. it's a great idea.

save the children's website and it will make a difference for kids all around the world. >> what was your twitter? >> it's twitter.com/bridgit mendler. >> if we can mobilize them it will be fantastic. >> we'll tweet it out as well. when you speak about the environmental movement, a generalation ago it was young people who said to their parents, stop smoking. that had a big impact. >> on so many different levels. if you look at the genesis of so many of the social movements, it starts with kids. this is a great way to tap into the kids and help kids not only in rwanda or guatemala where bridgit just was but all across america as well. you know there's so many kids here in america that don't get that high quality early education, that's one of the issues we're talking about in washington, d.c. today and tomorrow at the summit that bridgit is going to be involved in. there's a lot of need here in the u.s. and abroad as well.

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