a woman the qatar airways chief executive gave a typically provocative answer to quanta see no alan joyce seated next to al baca tried to make light of the comments. well you know of course it has to be led by a man because it is it is a very challenging position and i'm sure that you know i'm sure that. barack and. i said i said he was going to stop saying controversial to. ask you on it. and it was god we're going to get i don't. want to. sort of you know i have to put a little bit of. fireworks and i want to motivate people to have more questions. defended his remarks saying that qatar airways was the first airline in the region to have women pilots and for sixty percent of all student pilots at the airline were women the issue of gender imbalance in aviation was a hot topic among over two hundred a lines represented at the iata meeting joyce who care and pain for marriage equality in australia said ensuring a diverse workforce in general could help drive profits if you're not typing into the first the inclusion you're going to be on a disadvantage you know we're all looking for the be

alan joyce seated next to our backer tried to make light of the comments. well you know of course it has to be led by a man because it is it is a very challenging position and i am sure of that i am sure that. and i said i said he was going to stop saying controversial things even ask you this man it's a man it is god we're going to get i don't. want to. sort of you know i have to put a little bit of. fireworks and. motivate people to have more questions. defended his remarks saying that qatar airways was the first airline in the region to have women pilots and that sixty percent of all student pilots at the airline were women the issue of gender imbalance in aviation was a hot topic among over two hundred a aline's represented at the meeting joyce who care and pain for marriage equality in australia said ensuring a diverse workforce in general could help drive profits if you're not tapping into the first the inclusion you're going to be on a disadvantage you know we're all looking for the best talent out there and if some airlines and some companies are on

it is not just a nice book we alan joyce reading. there was a need for this book, i would argue. although it is not going to have an immediate impact on policy right now, the long game is what we are playing. and the long game mea we have to change hearts and minds. andrews reference to the stories andlving film and sports food are critical. i would love to see the movie deal at some point. when that be great if we could tell the story oral latish i sense. analysis is vital when we come study the bilateral relationship and andrew has managed to translate that analysis and put it into a form which would -- is much more accessible for the lay public. two things before i close. it, -- read it, it is not just some thing you buy an put on your shelf. -- and put on your shelf. read this one. get through it, it is a terrific read. the second one is that what andrew has managed to do is to scratch the surface of the stories that mexico and the u.s. and mexicans and americans in all of us other crazy people, europeans, brits, whatever we ar not sure anymore, that live in this space. there

. >> we are talking to alan joyce and they launched their first ultra long-haul route earlier this yearrice? where you are in singapore, singapore airlines is relaunching, if you will, the new york route once again, that is nearly 19 hours long. >> exactly. it all comes down to fuel efficiency. if you go back for five years when airlines started that route, it was on a four engine so these new ones have much higher efficiency. it is low density. prices, youfuel could see it higher. supportuld be able to the long haul and the demand is certainly very strong. --i find it odd >> exactly. we are looking at load factors, which are pretty good. if you look at the upcoming -- it, they are going that should keep us in a good standing over the next few years. that certainly seems like the future. future, iting at the is the structure of aviation and global traffic on aircraft, -- we are moving more and more toward point-to-point. timeframe, i would say, has a good economy with the way we are in the cycle, it has become difficult. it in a booming economy, think there would be demands for these se

alan dershowitz joining us via skype. professor, thanks for joining us on the show. i'm joined by joyce vance former u.s. attorney and msnbc national security interest. frank fagluzzi, senior washington correspondent for politico and anna palmer here with along with sahil kapoor. joyce, to you first. your overall takeaway and, again, i want to ask a legal piece and for you what you make of giuliani's remarks and the back and forth with avenatti about stormy daniels. >> well, giuliani's remarks are reprehensible. i don't think there's any other way to characterize them. we now live in a country where we've normalized this idea that it's okay, that for the president to have a whole team of lawyers who represent him on a range of issues from whether he conspired with russia to influence the election to how he treated a series of women and made a variety of allegations about him and now we're normalizing the fact it's okay for one of his lawyers to get up and denigrate women and talk about women including the president's current and former wives based on their appearance. >> wait a second. there are people s