and joining me juan williams, fox news analyst and ben ferguson, host of the ben ferguson show. this because people are saying, it's a little of self-congratulatory, it's not typically done and it's a little, look at the people i've helped. good for me. but is there anything inappropriate about that, juan? >> no, it's his inauguration and i think that i remember back to covering ronald reagan, he introduced the idea of bringing people onto the balcony giving the state of the union to illustrate the point he was trying to make, the program, the legislative agenda he set for himself and i think this is a lot like this and reminded of the criticism that attracted the president attracted yesterday when he had those young people, those children at the ceremony for his signing that gun-- his executive orders on gun control, but the idea, i think, is as i understand it from the white house, to exhibit core values that attach to this administration, so this is the president saying this is who i am, i stand for someone who didn't have health care before. i stand for a gay person who want

joining me ben ferguson, the most of the ben ferguson show and julie raginski, from senator lautenberg news contractor. >> megyn: he talks about 1960, social welfare programs, a third of federal spending and today, two-thirds. welfare almost twice as much as justice, and defense, everything that washington does combined. >> it's incredible and you look at our numbers and look at our united states government and what we really are now, we're a big country that takes from workers and gives to those that do not want to work and there's a big difference between those that are disabled, because that's what you're going to hear president obama and others talk about. well, we're helping people that need help. i'm in favor of that, but when you've got 8% of men in their 30's, who are opting out of going to work because they don't want to go and then we pay for them not to work? i mean, that's a -- that's a huge problem in this country because we are now allowing people to make bad decisions, which is what's great about america, i mean, the fact that i can choose not to work is awesome, but the

joining me now, host of the ben ferguson show through the icon network.m clifton consulting, okay, he, a couple years ago, wanted to make sure that government at all levels, including the top levels had diversity and now, you know, it's not that there are no women now. we still have kathleen sebelius at health and human services and janet napolitano department of homeland security, but the women are getting few and far between, margery, in the second term obama cabinet. >> the talent we're seeing the same in corporate america, and 5% of ceo's women. and he had last term historically most women and minorities, with 22 cabinet seats, 8 women and 9 minorities. now we've heard that hilda solis the first latino woman in a cabinet is stepping down and so, again, this is creating a challenge of who are the women. now, there's two issues people talk about, it's the pipeline, but there are a lot of fabulous women, michelle portnoy, who democrats were looking at undersecretary of defense, hoping she might move to the pentagon and overlooked for that position and su