gillibrand has had a breakout year. i think we'll be watching her not only in 2014, but 2015, 2016, 2017. >> and can kate bennett, who is your political star? >> i'm curious about chris christie still. he doesn't pertain to the party lines, and that's refreshing. you never know what he's going to say. he has a future, too, socially middle of the road, doesn't ant do what his party wants him to do. >> and he's not afraid to tell him that. we'll see if that plays in iowa. ryan, you have a fascinating person to look at. he's on my radar, i cover the senate, but -- >> i'm not goods to disagree with kate, who has brass knuckles here. ron wyden, a senator, taking over the senate financial committee, a very important committee, and he's also been rabble-rouse i rabble-rousi rabble-rousing. and will be a thorn in obama's side if he doesn't endorse some of those reforms. >> as the new year begins, we all try to look ahead to see who is coming up. it's not just hollywood thing, but a washington thing. but there are names of peopl

joining me now, senator kirsten gillibrand. it's great to be with you. and thanks for coming to new york since you represent this area. senator, the military justice improvement act. can you share with our viewers what that is? >> well as you said, 26,000 cases of unwanted sexual attempts rapes, sexual assaults last year alone. and what's really going on is there's been a breach of trust. the women and men who have been so brutally raped aren't reporting these cases because they do not believe their commanders will do anything. they also fear retaliation. because of the one out of ten brave souls who did report these cases, 62% were retaliated against. so you have a culture, and unfortunately a climate within our military where there's too much fear to be able to seek justice and it's so broken. even the commandant of the marine corps says the reason they don't report these cases is they don't trust us they don't trust the chain of command. >> there has been some reform. what are some of the reforms -- what has been done recent

gillibrand's initiatives and here are my reasons. the focus is on the attention on the war fighting responsibilities. our commanders are superbly trained and specially chosen to fulfill this duty. by contrast, they are rarely trained or prepared for the weight of evidence impending criminal matters. they're prepared to change -- train their troops for battle. they train them to be combat leaders with military lawyers who weigh evidence of potential criminality. the second belongs -- the second is due process, with relationships with members of the command. when two members of the command are placed in an adversarial relationship of accused and accuser, it is difficult for the commander to be truly impartial. a strong and worthy commander can and should exercise objective judgment under these circumstances, but commanders are human beings and there will always be a lindo wing -- lingering doubt of impartiality regarding well-known subordinates. and finally, what i consider to be the showstopper. interesting the commander with the deci

>> in my impression and my feeling, is that if we do this gillibrand,by sen. we will create the environment where a trained military lawyer will be in charge of this particular incident, and i do not think we should remove it further from the military system, at this time i don't think that would be warranted. we have to give this a chance. i think this has a great chance of working. when you create an independent of the factsessor to make that decision. i think it should stay within the military system. >> thank you. professor, one of the of the panel,s the panel that was convened a few years ago and reported out 2012, was that the command itself needed to hear the adjudication of cases. it was not enough to be fairly adjudicated, the command needed to see that worked out in public. i'm afraid that if you take it entirely out of the military system, that would be missing. concerned, we have a sense of trial by jury of one's peers. i am not convinced that the civilian population can function as peers, for those of us who are serving in the military, it is such

gillibrand: my amendment is quite simple and common sense. it is aimed to help homeowners who are currently stopped in a bureaucratic ditch which is impossible for them to climb out of because of the immovable reality of the building they live in. under today's fema policy, flood insurance freedom rates are based on the elevation of the house relative to the base flood elevation, which is the elevation that fema calculates that floodwaters have a 1% chance of riseing to in any given year. under normal circumstances, homes can be elevated to avoid high insurance rates that are assessed on homes that are built below the base flood elevation in special flood hazard areas. but in places like new york and new jersey, this is impossible for owners of older urban homes such as brownstones, row houses and multifamily buildings which can predate back to the pre-civil war, that in many, many instances cannot be raised due -- razed due to structural characteristics and can be built before flood maps were in place. when homes are mapped in a flood zone,

captioning institute] a look at income inequality and social mobility with new york senator kirsten gillibrand at the brookings institution starting at nine :00 a.m. eastern. live coverage on c-span2. ryan with remarks live at 4:00 eastern on c-span3. next on c-span, "q&a" with david bobb. followed by "washington journal ." the u.s. house of representatives gavels back in later. "first ladies" returns with a look at the life and career of nancy >> this week on "q&a," author and educator david bobb discusses his new book titled "humility: an unlikely biography of america's greatest virtue." >> david bobb, in your book on humility, you say humility is a wimpy virtue. what did you mean by that? >> it is often seen as that. i make the argument that it is a virtue of strength. i think humility has fallen on hard times. it is seen as a virtue as something for wimps and wallflowers. people that are going to get run over. in order to be successful, conventional wisdom says you have to be assertive, bold, even putting yourself out there, self-promoting. i think humility countermand that. it councils a

here to talk about a proactive agenda to do just that is new york state senator kirsten gillibrand.ator gillibrand, you have a kind of platform that you're pushing to deal precisely with this issue. what is it? >> a number of things. first, we have to create workplace rules that actually reflect who's in the workplace. almost half our workers today are women. women are earning more than half the college degrees, more than half the advanced degrees in this country. so if we're ever going to reach the full potential of this country, we really have to tap into the full potential of women. so something as simple as paid family medical leave. more often than not when there's a new baby in the family, infant, an ill parent or dying family member, it's the women who have to side track off their careers to take care of the loved ones. we have to have paid family medical leave. equal pay for equal work. raise the minimum wage. 2/3 of minimum wage earners are women. universal pre-k. make sure women can stay in the workplace longer, can actually reach their full earning potential. put more mon

[applause] senator kirsten gillibrand talks about her proposal to help families. is paul ryan -- she will be followed by her representative paul ryan. >> with government funding expiring on wednesday. rayhalltative neck talks about a chemical leak in his state of west virginia. doctors are needed to implement the health care law? your e-mails, phone calls and tweets on "washington journal." >> as a president first stated in march and reemphasize tuesday night, the goal in afghanistan and pakistan was to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda and its extremist allies. return to both countries. the international military effort to stabilize afghanistan is necessary to achieve this overarching goal. served twoates presidents as defense secretary from 2006-2011 heard and c.i.a. director in the early 90s. friday at 6 p.m. eastern on c- span two, a life book tv event. secretary gates talks about his management of the wars in iraq and afghanistan and his relationship with the white house and congress. women's weeks look for history author bonnie morris. online for the re

reasons i support senator gillibrand and the military justice improvement act for removing those in authority. zero tolerance is not a new phrase. it is not a new policy. at least 32 years. it has not worked. it will not work. do not think that the mmanders deserve another 130,000 victims so that they can prove they can do something that they have not managed to do in the last 34 years. thank you for your time. >> i want to just say it is very important that you came here today and this we were able to hear what happened to you. i appreciate that it couldn't have been easy for you. > thank you very much. >> next, miss jenny lee, also from arkansas. >> good evening. it is a pleasure for me to be ere today. because i get a chance to no longer be silent. i knew when i was a little girl taking care of my mom, just after she had broken her back, that i wanted to be a registered nurse. school career going towards that goal of being a registered nurse. senior year in high school, our country was attacked verseas. libya bombed a popular g.i. bar hangout in frankfurt, germany. president reagan respond

see the mayor's progress because he worked in my administration with governor cuomo and senator gillibrand and hud, because he managed hillary's first remarkable campaign for the u.s. senate, because he has served with such passion, and because he represents with his family the future of our city and the future of our country. i got a big kick out of watching new yorkers fall in love with bill and chirlane and chee era and dante. you know, with all respect to the television show, they're our real modern family. i also want to thank mayor bloomberg who has committed so much of his life to this city. he leave ooze the city stronger and healthier than he found it. more people are coming here than leaving. with all of our challenges, people know somehow deep down inside there's something special about new york. so i'm grateful to both mayors, for mayor bloomberg for his years of service and for the legacy he will leave and to mayor deblasio for his good and caring hands. i wanted not to say much except the oath, but i have to say this. i strongly endorse bill deblasio's core campaign commitmen

think hard senator booker, gillibrand, blumenthal, everyone else, whose advice and counsel you shouldto. if you happen to be a constituent of one of the senators you see on the screen now, maybe you should tell them how you feel. war and peace is too darn important to leave to the professionals. all right. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> amazing show, man. well done. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. okay. say you are in new jersey and for some reason you want to go to new york, the most famous way to do that is up top here, it's how you cross from ft. lee, new jersey, specifically over to the top of manhattan. that's the george washington bridge. it's famous now for the chris christie bridge scandal. but it's also a landmark in its own right. right? the busiest bridge for vehicular traffic in the entire world. the george washington bridge up

he's going to be attending the state of the union tomorrow as a guest of kirsten gillibrand of new yorkor being here. >> my pleasure. >> what is the most important thing about service members and their families in the state of the union? >> we want to hear the president stand with all the veterans group in america and every veteran and military family i've spoken to in the last few weeks and oppose these ridiculous retirement cuts. this has a real impact on the families. if you're a retired first class out of the army, this is going to mean $85,000 you're going to lose. more importantly, this was a promise made with the veterans. when you sign up your retirement benefit is part of the deal. they got together and both agreed to the deal, and it's been outrageous for everybody outside of party lines. the president has got to step out and say he's against these cuts and against any future cuts like it. what is next? is the g.i. bill next? are mental health benefits next? this is a very important line. veterans are pushing back hard. that's why we're going to be protesting on capitol hill t

tomorrow we will take a look at income inequality and social mobility with social -- senator kirsten gillibrand. live coverage on c-span two. also monday at the parking institutions, house budget to the chair paul ryan. you can watch his remarks live on c-span three. coming up next on c-span, newsmakers, with mailing congressmen and house minority whip steny hoyer. politicalat the strategies that the republicans and democrats might use with the approaching 2014 midterm elections. and then at 8:00 p.m., q&a. >> "newsmakers" is pleased to welcome steny hoyer. he is the democratic leadership whip. michael lillis covers congress or the hill. >> hi. >> like to be with you. >> moderates are fleeing both parties fairly quickly. congress mcintyre and else's retirement this week. there are 15 blue dogs. two are retiring. what does this mean for the possibilities of taking the house in 2014? are these just gone? >> i do not think they are just gone. i think they were very strong candidates in their districts. they were very republican districts. redistricting has hurt both of them. i think we will certai

senator gillibrand was first assigned by the governor after hillary clinton left her post.he was elected on her own in 2010 for a six-year term. she has worked on all kinds of issues. i have read her biography and there are so many there that i cannot begin to list them all. i think she is best known for her advocacy of ending sexual assault in the military. some people have referred to her as the next hillary clinton. harry reid, very uncharacteristically, once referred to her as the hottest member of the democratic caucus. i can't imagine senator reid saying that but evidently he did. as the mother of two young children and one of only 20 women in the senate, she is especially focused on the needs of women and families. she believes the women's movement has stalled out and wants to see at least half of all senate seats and half of all governorships be women in the future. i want to endorse that goal. i would also add that i would like to see a woman president of the united states before i die. maybe it will be you, senator. it is with great pleasure that we welcome you to

then we'll be live with a keynote speech by senator kirsten gillibrand on promoting upward social mobility. and later, more live coverage of two forums from the new america foundation; the first on government election funding followed later by an examination of the use of u.s. military force in response to terrorist threats. >> next, former new york republican congresswoman ann marie buerkle talks about some of the challenges facing women conservatives and what they can do to overcome them. she spoke recently at a forum held by the clare boothe luce institute. [applause] >> thank you all very much and thank you for that kind introduction. sometimes when i'm feeling tired and i listen to that i think, oh, maybe that's why i'm tired. [laughter] i'm just so glad to be back here, and i want to just thank the clare boothe luce society and this opportunity to talk to all of you, because there's nothing more important than your generation and making sure that you're involved and that you can carry on the great leg is si of the united states of america -- legacy of the united states of america. be

gillibrand: mr. president, my amendment is very simple and commonsense, many homeowners that live across the united states live in homes that simply cannot be elevated in order to protect or reduce flood risk because of their inherent structure. this is a problem that is true for constituents stis in new york, cities in new jersey and in reality if you live in a brownstone or you live in an apartment building, you can't raise them up to protect against flood damage. to fix this problem all my amendment does is require fema to provide a uniform set of guidelines describing fema-approved methods of mitigation like floodproofing or using building materials to reduce the risk of flood damage. for example, don't leave computers your basement. those kind of simple flood mitigation changes can easily save enormous amounts of money and risk the flood damage from flooding. the amendment requires fema to consider actions by homeowners to implement the methods when calculating premium risk rates. by providing a

senator gillibrand was first appointed to the senate by the governor after hillary clinton vacated her post. and then she was elected on her own in 2010, for a six-year term. she has worked on all kinds of issues. i read her bio, look at a website, and there's so many there that they couldn't begin to list them all. i think probably she's best known right now for her advocacy of ending sexual assault in the military. now, some people have referred to her as the next hillary clinton. and harry reid, very uncharacteristically i think of them, once referred to her as a hottest member of the democratic caucus. and i can't imagine senator reid saying that, but evidently he did. now, as the mother of two young children and one of only 20 women in the senate, she is especially focused on the needs of women and families. and she believes the women's movement has stalled out, and wants to see at least half of all senate seats than half of all governorships the women in the future. and i want to hardly endorse that goal and want to add to it one that i'm sure she would agree with, which is i wou

know senator gillibrand has brought her child to capitol hill, why the push now?eat question. it is a moment where the u.s. has an issue with the female labor force participation. they are looking for some way, some solution to solve that. are three states, california, rhode island, new jersey that have sponsored paid maternity leave. the two commerce from their looking for ways to introduce a nationwide. >> what are the economics europe maternity leave? have there been any studies showing what the cost is two employers or what the potential benefit is to society at large question mark -- society at large? be a cost the employer. it will be a cost to the employees. it is worth it. women will get 12 weeks to take care of their children. then they will return to the labor force and they are more productive. >> how does the u.s. compared to other countries? >> that is a great question. it does not look great. there are only two countries in the world that do not have paid maternity leave. the u.s. is one of them. the other one is pop in new guinea. >> only 12% of ame

, 2697; merkley, 2709; heller, 2700; whitehouse, 2706; toomey, 2707, which is a substitute; and gillibrand, 2708. that no second-degree amendments be in order to any of the amendments prior to votes in relation to the amendments, that it be in order for senator toomey to modify his amendment with the text of rubio 2704 and hagan 2702. that there be 30 minutes of debate equally divided on each amendment or motion to waive a budget point of order, if made, that there be up to an hour of general debate on the bill equally divided between the proponents and opponents, that amendments in this agreement must be offered prior to 3:00 p.m. on wednesday, january 29. that's tomorrow. that it be in order for senator crapo or designee to raise a point of order against the bill, that if such a point of order is raised, senator menendez or designee be recognized to move to waive the point of order that. upon the use or yielding back of that time, the senate proceed to the vote on the -- proceed to the vote on the motion to waive, if made; that if the motion to waive is agreed to, the senate proceed to v

i should've mentioned a number of women including senator gillibrand in new york who is a real rising star. there is a woman, a dear friend of mine who is running for governor of pennsylvania named allyson schwartz, congressman from pennsylvania, from philadelphia who is running for governor who would be a terrific leader for our party and for the country. so women all over our political system and hopefully there will be more of them participating. you know, the question of, you started by talking about physical -- fiscal discipline and i think fiscal discipline is important but the goal of a fiscal policy is to create a firm foundation for growing the economy. talents in the budget, which we did incidentally in the 1990s, and is only important as a means to try to have a firm foundation for economic growth. and so, and i believe that we do need to get our country on a sound fiscal course. .. i t it a tough. we have to address the tax reform question. we have to look at entitlements now we modernize them. it is easy to say we are never going to touch medicare or social security. if y

long day of discussions, started this with senator gillibrand. now we're talking about poverty the unitedy here in states. we've had great people here. attempt to beess abandon. bipartisan. we began the day with a democrat day with ending the paul ryan. knowledge counts for a lot in congress. oop's career illustrates claim. he is a congressional staffer and we know they are brilliant. second, among arriving in congress he looked around and makes this place run? the answer, of course, is money. source of allthe money. he decided he is going to learn budgetout the federal more than anybody else. two he knewur or more about the budget than anybody else on the hill. senior positions merit hill are based on mitt and logic. interested in the thatt, he was very issued have to deal with poverty and opportunity, especially opportunity. had top staffers in this area, which is always a key in understanding what a member of concerned about. reaply, he has been doing which is spending a lot of time in inner cities and other poor communities meeting with peopl

he donated to only one candidate in 2012 new york republican wendy long who challenged kristen gillibrandthis they say was an act of misguided friendship by d'souza. >> a governor perry manufacture sised he is not for the legalization of marijuana but defended state's rights to make those choices. >> raleigh news in observer. a new report is calling attention to a north carolina school district. one teenage was handcuffed for cutting into the lunch line. >> are you kidding me? >> let me think about that for a second. a complain was filed with the department of justice yesterday. civil rights groups are calling for an investigation. >> and they should. >>> ""the washington times."" a former "american idol" is planning to run for congress in north carolina. clay aiken will take on republican representative renee elmares. >> he was so good in "american idol." do you like "american idol" now? i really like it with -- not -- j. lo and harry connick. he is very good. he's a father. he tells them to, you know, clean it up. >> there is a third there too. >> who is the other one? >> you don't know

i am here as somebody who started out with a view that senator gillibrand is a very bright and intelligentand committed person for whom i have great amount of respect. i thought her proposal sounded right. i have changed my mind. because i was just listening to what we heard. i started out that way, thinking, why not change it? now i am saying, why change it? i do think that some of what we have heard here gives me pause in terms of what would happen to the present system -- i do believe that when a commander makes a decision, the convening authority which is military personnel, says that this conduct warrants referral for prosecution, that makes a statement to the whole military that this conduct is unacceptable. that doesn't mean this person did it or that it actually happened but that this conduct is not tolerated. i think that kind of statement is really important. if we junk this idea of the commander, high up commander, as the convening authority, meaning having the decision about whether to prosecute and what charges to bring, who are we leaving it up to? it is like jumping from the

the april and there was actually one of them, jordan and turkey would senator graham and senator gillibrandd we had the opportunity to visit refugee camp on the border there and to meet with a few of the 120,000 syrians that were there. and i will never forget this visit were the one man who told each of the people we met with went through what happened with their families. a young boy, was only 11 years old, it felt like he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. his father had a been shot and badly injured before escaping to jordan. now it is up to this 11-year-old boy to make sure that the rest of his family was taken care of. every day he would stand in line for food and water, every day he could carry what he could hold in his hands back to his family. at 11 years old he had seen more suffering and injustice than most people will see in their entire lifetime. this is just one of millions of tragic stories that we have heard from the men, women, and children who have had to flee their homes in syria. my home state has always been a state of refugees. we have one of the largest som

perhaps again the commanders don't really know and might be surprised if they went let's say as gillibrand the chain of command for outside prosecutors, perhaps it would be a good thing and you all again would be surprised on this social issue? >> i think that the root of the problem is leadership. only when people are held a accountable for failures and senior leaders are fired because they haven't taken it serious enough that you again to get the reverb race through the force. >> in retrospect, did you and others not take it seriously enough? >> i think that we did not -- i think we did not appreciate how serious a problem it was until probably around 2010. and at that point i devoted -- i allocated a lot of money to better training our prosecutors because the defense lawyers for those who are accused are experts in defending sexual abuse cases. the sexual assault cases our prosecutors are generalists, even when we went to trial we were getting beat but we didn't keep rape kits as long as regular police departments did. there were a lot of things we weren't doing in terms of getting good

. >> you were talking about senator gillibrand at the time. i have a little trouble with last names. let me check here, bryant, ok. there are some other things that i want to say and address in particular. when we say that commanders have to have that authority, the example that i have used early on was, in the paramilitary organizations of our sheriffs and police departments, some who have thousands of employees, many of whom are committing crimes from time to time, we do not say, you are the commander, you decide whether or not this officer will be prosecuted. that just doesn't happen. it goes to the prosecutor's office. i have never heard a chief of police or sheriff say, my men and women don't respect me anymore. what puts the fox in the hen house sometimes is the perception that things are going aren't going like they should go. like people expect them to go. the criticism in the civilian world often times -- the police department investigating itself, no wonder they cleared this officer. that is the perception rightly or wrongly that is

among the 16 democrats backing the bill, chuck shumer, mary landrieu, keirsten gillibrand, joe manchin here? >> among the people who want to put off new sanctions the argument is that you need to give this new process, the this new agreement, a little bit of breathing room. if you were to pass new sanctions at this juncture it would be interpreted as an act of bad faith among the united states. it would give iran a pr advantage so to speak when it comes to this type of negotiation. the other argument that's being made is if, in fact, iran backs out of the tenet of the deal, if they come away from the table, if they don't follow through on their obligation, there's nothing actually preventing congress from enacting new sanctions then. you don't have to do it then. you can do it after the fact. these are the two key arguments by administration. in the end this is sort of a show because it all came down to whether or not harry reid would allow this bill to come to a vote. even before last night you were getting hins from the leader's office that that was never going to happen. we were won

gillibrand, senator from new york. secretary of state john kerry's name.2004 in those caucuses. hillary is the name that comes up among everybody. but everyone -- personally i talked to said iowa democrats are looking for an alternative. they just want to see what the field looks like before they commit and it is still early. >> in your excellent article, you quote one party leader as suggesting that she her staff had a heavy-handed approach in 2007, 2008, leading up to the iowa caucuses. the problem with so much of her staff, this person says, was that they were all sort of higher class than the mere peasants they had to campaign with. is this a problem, potentially? >> yeah, this pervaded the clinton campaign last time as sort of righteousness, the front runner, we're inevitable. and talk to activists. and they said they felt mistreated. in iowa, you have to go into back yards, talk to people, shake hands, people want to meet the candidates four or five times before they make a decision. this was also an issue with the media. they treated the media poorl

think hard senator booker, gillibrand, blumenthal, everyone else, whose advice and counsel you should be listening to. if you happen to be a constituent of one of the senators you see on the screen now, maybe you should tell them how you feel. war and peace is too darn important to leave to the professionals. all right. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> amazing show, man. well done. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. okay. say you are in new jersey and for some reason you want to go to new york, the most famous way to do that is up top here, it's how you cross from ft. lee, new jersey, specifically over to the top of manhattan. that's the george washington bridge. it's famous now for the chris christie bridge scandal. but it's also a landmark in its own right. right? the busiest bridge for vehicular traffic in the entire world. the george washington bridge up there at the top of your screen, that is not the only way to cross the river from new jersey into new york. below the george washington bridge, your next option is a tunne

funneled the money to appears to be republican wendy long, who is absolutely crushed by kirsten gillibrandrace in new york. they go all the way back to the dartmouth review where they jointly had to apologize after a staffer put a quote from hitler into the statement of principles published in the paper and distributed on yaum kippur. joining me now is someone the previous record holder of indicted for the dumbest crime of the decade. former senator jeff smith ran against rose carnahan for the congressional seat. he went to federal prison after pleading guilty to obstructing charges. he's now assistant professor of politics and advocacy and writes about politics and it's always great to have you on the show, jeff. >> good to be here, chris. >> so this is what the conservatives are saying on fox news, they're going after obama critics with indictments. virginia governor d' souza unleashing the dogs. do you think he's a political prisoner? >> no, i don't think he's a political prisoner, along with two other democratic state legislators, i was indicted. i went to prison, so did one of the oth

"tomorrow, kristen gillibrand.ck and a look at what's next on "news nation." >> wow, you have been on fire the last few days, my friend. >> thank you, andrea. i'm happy to be back here on "news nation" and msnbc. >>> we're following breaking stories. what could be the most important speech of chris christie's speech. the governor is expected to discuss the bridge scandal when he delivers the state of the state address. that's happening in about an hour. we'll talk to the democrat lawmaker, who will give the democrat response to christie's speech. >>> plus, that massive settlement with the nfl and concussions has just been rejected by a federal judge who says $765 million is not enough. justice correspondent pete williams will join us. >>> and los angeles officials are searching the home of justin bieber right now looking for evidence linking him to a bizarre case of vandalism involving a neighbor. a news conference is expected in about a half hour. beale tell you what trouble bieber is facing. because this hotel ha

sexual harassment have been incredibly important for us to elevate, and that's part of what senator gillibrandresident takes it on in the state of the union. at the end of the day our veterans have served well across the ranks. we hope people will see that and still stand with us and tell congress this week especially to keep your promise and don't cut our retirement benefits. be paul reikchoff, thank you for your time tonight and have a good time at the speech tomorrow, man. >> thank you, rachel. you too. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. [ male announcer ] we don't just certify our pre-owned vehicles. we inspect, analyze, and recondition each one, until it's nothing short of a genuine certified pre-owned mercedes-benz for the next new owner. [ car alarm chirps ] hurry in to your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for 1.99% financing during our certified pre-owned sales event through february 28th. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but af

i don't imagine that you would see a joe biden or andrew cuomo or kirsten gillibrand. >> i thought itl that bill and hillary clinton took such a prominent role in the de blasio inaugural as well, speaking of playing to the progressive wing to the party. kelly o'donnell, certainly on the hill there are a number of senators who are looking at the potential of running and also looking at the midterm elections and what impact that is going to have. are terribly concerned about the midterm elections and obama legacy. hillary clinton will have to decide if she runs just how much to distance herself from some of the unpopular policies of this white house. >> she's one of the rare political figures who already has some endorsements from fellow democrats who would typically in a regular year wait a bit to see what the landscape looks like before so vigorously saying that they are for hillary. she's got that behind her. but there are few people in american political life who understand the rigors for running for president better. she did it twice with her husband, once on her own. few people kn

klobuchar is popular in gillibrand. i wish diane feinsteifeinstei n was 20 years younger. warren. if she goes to hillary she will have a real issue. she will be the reformer. she will go to her left i guess. nobody will go to the center. on domestic's she will be at the sweet spot. she is very positioned incredibly well i think no matter what obama does. i hope the iran thing works. i hope it does. >> hi chris. first of all i wanted to thank you for your many years of public service as we celebrate this year, the 50th anniversary of the president which is really transformational for generations. >> that's true. >> president that we should look back to on how jack kennedy did compromise and was able to very aptly cut a deal even with the fiercest of republicans. >> and with khrushchev. >> that's right. a question for you. it seems to me that our top three leaders, the congress and the white house all have a disdain for the political process. these guys -- harry reid and obama all of them have that element but they don't seem to enjoy the political game. that process that you so muc

looking down and i see john mccain, senator from arizona, republican, who walked in with kirsten gillibranddemocrat from new york. so they're sort of doing it on their own even though there's no real form decision to do this in a bipartisan way. historically what we had seen is democrats sitting on one side, republicans on the other. so you saw when the president said a democratic president said something democrats liked, one side stood up and vice versa. that i think will look different now. >> will jake tarp be announcing the arrival of the president of the united states tonight? has he now taken on that role as well? >> reporter: i would not put anything past our jake tapper. it's entirely possible, anderson. >> it's interesting dana also for those people who don't know, we mentioned this a little bit earlier, there are members of congress who spend five, six, seven hours just trying to reserve a seat on the aisle so they can kind of grip and grin the president of the united states as he passes by. >> reporter: absolutely. it's a tradition we have seen for years and years. >> i guess the

i've been able, i joined with its sandy gillibrand and introducing the family act.eat but it doesn't take it. this commission against pregnant women in the workforce that we have to acknowledge their being able to make child care more affordable. food stamps. several people mentioned food stamps were up her this morning. we are in an environment in the house of representatives and in the senate where it doesn't seem to matter that we're going to look at cutting, potentially, $20 billion in food stamps in this economy. where is the outrage of that? >> that's the question. >> what is the outrage? not just by women but men and women in this society today that we are not responding to these needs. that's what we need to speeded i was just going to ask something along those lines. give us a snapshot of what some of your opponents in congress say about these things when you are raising the. i'm going to make a question in just a minute to think of a question. we will get a couple them. when you look at this question, when you read anne-marie slaughter's article on why wom

vitter from louisiana, senator chuck schumer was particularly strong and a leader, senator kirsten gillibrand from new york, senator ed markey from massachusetts, as well as elizabeth warren from massachusetts who were early supporters of this bill. senator bill nelson of florida. senator rubio of florida, particularly senator nelson who got on this bill early and began educating people, not only in florida but around the country. senator al franken from minnesota. senator joe manchin. senator bob casey from pennsylvania. another senator that has no ocean but pennsylvania has i think the most new fema maps of any state in the union. the people of pennsylvania would really be affected if our bill doesn't pass. even the amendment that is being offered by one of the senators does not solve their problem, and it's unfortunate, and i hope that people will vote strongly against the toomey amendment. senator kay hagan from north dakota. of course yours truly in the chair. senator corey booker who came on early and was a huge supporter as soon as he got here. i think this is one of the first bills th

he's sitting between kirsten gillibrand of new york and cory booker of new jersey, there on the republican side. a few years ago, they started this process of democrats sitting with the republicans and republicans sitting with democrats. for the most part, that is over now. this chamber is divided. the republicans are on their side. the democrats are on their side. but somehow rubio founds himself surrounded by democrats. >> it's not just the first lady bringing guests into the chamber tonight. i think we have the pictures of this, as well. willie robertson of "duck dynasty" is going to be there tonight, as well. and bill kristol. he has a reason to be there. >> he's the guest of that congressman from louisiana. a well-known fellow. i refer to donna on all "duck dynasty" matters. >> he played an important role in electing this congressman, after the previous congressman resigned. and now, is the secretary of -- in louisiana, the secretary of veteran affairs. >> it's been interesting to watch members of congress sidling over, selfies, some of them, with him tonight. so, as we're looking at

senator gil a brand known for bringing her child to capitol hill -- senator hillebrand -- senator gillibrandfor bringing her child to capitol hill. >> i think it's a great moment because the u.s. really has some issues with female labor market participation and is looking for ways to solve that. california, rhode island, and new jersey have some sort of paid maternity leave solution. these congresswomen are looking for ways to introduce this nationwide. >> what are the economics of maternity leave? have there been studies showing what kind of cost it is to employers or what potential benefit it might be to society at large to keep women in higher paying jobs? >> it can be a cost to the employer and to the employee, but it is worth it. in return, these women get 12 weeks to stay with their child and take care of them, and then they return to the labor force and are more productive. >> how does the u.s. look compared to other countries around the world? >> that's a great question. it does not look great. there are only two countries around the world that do not have paid maternity leave, and t

i would like to put into the record a letter that senator mccain and i, senator gillibrand, senator blumenthal and others wrote to the president urging a fulsome and robust response to the crisis that has developed in syria, and i hope we learn a lesson from this because, frankly, we were warned all along the way. despite the warning from members of congress, from allies in the neighborhood we remained always a day late and a dollar short. i think it has been a very unfortunate episode. .hank you >> without, the letter will be admitted into the record. the committee has a standard of practice swears in the witness. i ask the three to please stand and raise your right hand. do you affirm the testimony you are about to give before the subcommittee will be the trithe, whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god. thank you. let the witnesses reflect the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. each witness will give five minutes for opening statement and the written statements included in their entirety. senator leahy, the chairman of the full judiciary committee has been a leader on

today along with many other strong speakers, men and women including senator deliver and -- pelosi gillibrand, nancy , and tony porter. today we will have them all discussions and video presentations as we discussed public and private-sector practices intended to prevent american women from living on -- from achieving long-term security. we would like to ask you to turn off your cell phone. keep your questions short. we ask you follow us on twitter and asked westerns there. you can use #what women need. you will find a comment card, and we really welcome your feedback on today's program. i would like to welcome one of the leaders in creating the shriver report. just prior to being president, he served as ceo of. served in the obama and clinton administrations and work in think hank. for healthas advisor and human services, working on president obama's health reform team in the white house. she was named one of the most influential women in washington by a sister publication, national journal. we are delighted to be working with them. >> thank you for that kind introduction and for the partner

then, gillibrand and working families. followed by paul ryan and >> to all of you, thank you for your support and to the kids for just saying no. thank you. [applause] my hope is that the women of the future will feel truly free to follow whatever path their talents and natures demand. that thek they thought white house was so glamorous, and that what you did was so glamorous, and your life was so glamorous. parties saw were the and the greeting people. i have got to tell you, i have never worked harder in my life. nancy reagan was ronald reagan's fiercest protector. she was active in key staff decisions and in campaigning. she had a signature white house issue with her "just say no" campaign. welcome to "first ladies: influence and image". let me introduce our two guests. judith woodruff is the coanchor of cbs'news hour. she coproduced a documentary about the first lady. thank you for being with us. he is a californian who has been covering national politics since 1984 and cowrote a book with his , a reagan biography. we

i've introduced it with my colleague, senator murphy, and senator gillibrand, and i think it would do a great deal to address the fundamental underlying challenges that are keeping unemployed people from reconnecting with the world of work. but these measures are for next week or the week after. right now the urgency of this week is passing a measure that is fundamentally important to keep people moving afford, searching for work, and to keep our economy moving foreward. these people who receive unemployment insurance, use it to accept for jobs. it provides the kind of we need to enable our economy to keep moving afford. so we're helping these folks avoid the precipice of poverty and homelessness, which makes their job search even more difficult. we're also helping our economy. and all of us who want job creation and economic progress and want it to be our nation's priority and success. i'm proud to stand here and join senators reed and heller and thank also our majority leader, senator reid, for their leadership, because our most urgent task is to move our economy forward, provide th

for that reason, i support joel brand -- gillibrand and i hope we have a thorough search for a better way to ensure a better army of the future. winky. >> thank you very much, general foote. next we will hear from admiral evans, u.s. navy. >> thank you very much. thank you for inviting me to me to the panel today. it is an honor for this retiree to be given the opportunity to testify. i served nearly 30 years on active duty in the united states navy. more than eight of those were commander units in the united states and overseas ranging from 200 to over 6000 person now -- 6000 personnel. for six of the command years, i had the authority to convene general court-martial. i also had a one-year assignment the standing or of committee on military and civilian women. was tomittee's mission draw a strategy to change the climate of the navy and marine corps to value and respect women. we did develop a strategy. it was implemented. approached a get tough . and many changes to systems and processes. here he are again addressing the same issues of accountability. i also served as a presidential

now with the changes that senator jill the brand has proposed in her legislation -- the senator gillibrandoposed, there is a real opportunity to strike at the heart of part of the problem, to change that structure to place the decisions to prosecute with trained military legal professionals. let commanders believe the focus on mission readiness and war fighting in the command climate inspiring, leading. as a result, they are able to build back same confidence in due process, within the military, that we must demand of ourselves. for men and women who are serving. women at all ranks -- men and women at all ranks and all fields. i will say before addressing this, i won't repeat other thin