and we welcome back kay bailey hutchison.an, the consensus survey for jobs tomorrow is about 100,000 to 125,000. if the actual number falls in that zone, i think your man obama is a cooked goose. >> i don't think so, larry. obviously we'd like better numbers than that. a lot of it depends on the public ratio. last month we saw job numbers were not that great except they were much better in the private sector and the public sector went down because of all the problems the states are having. it's going to be a pretty sophisticated analysis. the truth is, right now, this is not what's going to determine the election. right now, the biggest problem that mitt romney has is that most people think he doesn't care about ordinary people in merck america. >> senator hutchison, it was wonderful to listen to my friend howard dean dance around that question. but let me put it to you in a different fashion. is it still possible for these jobs numbers to produce a game changer? for example, let's say you get 200,000, 250,000. is that a game

want to bring in texas republican senator kay bailey hutchison. good to you have on the program again. >> thank you. >> you've seen a few campaigns in your day. there have been a few articles written just today about the escalation of this war of words on both sides. do you think there's a risk for both mitt romney and barack obama? >> i do think that there is a risk. the american people are tuning out all this riff raf that's going on in the campaigns right now. they want to know what is the future? what is mitt romney going to do that's going to change barack obama's disastrous economic policies? and mitt romney is trying to get the word out and he keeps getting hit with things that really are not relevant to middle income americans. they want relief. >> as you know, senator, on the democratic side he has made his success at bain essentially papart of his resume. i'm someone unlike the president who has been in the real world and has had success. and so are these questions about bain fair game? >> you know, i think the emphasis and this media fr

kay bailey hutchison has a remarkable political lineage. her great, great grandfather was a signer of the texas direct -- declaration of independence. she graduated from the university of texas, and went to work as a television reporter because no houston law form with -- law firm was willing to hire a woman lawyer. she started a small business, became the first republican woman in the state legislature, she was elected state treasurer in 1990, and in 1990 won a special election that opened up. she has been reelected three times and is now the senior republican woman in the senate. she is retiring from the senate when her term is up at the end of this year and i suspect those houston law firms would be glad to have you on staff at this time. [laughter] your first official office in washington was at the national transportation safety board. president ford appointed you as the vice-chairman there in 1976, and i wonder if you could describe what things are like for a woman appointed to a job like that now, and compare it to how things have ch

the answer is something that a republican kay bailey hutchison and president obama have jointly proposed which is an infrastructure bank. you take a certain amount of money from the federal government, you leverage it to get a lot more money from the private sector and you have an infrastructure bank that has a bunch of experts who determine what are the best infrastructure projects in this country. that means energy infrastructure, that means broadband, all these things. guess what? congress doesn't want to do it because congress doesn't want infrastructure projects awarded on merit. they want it awarded on cronyism, on the basis of political favors, on the basis of bringing back pork to their projects. so the problem here is, again, the best policy idea becomes politically unviable, but we should -- that is the right approach. we do need -- the great deficit in america is that we have the worst infrastructure in the advanced industrial world, broadband, energy, physical. we have to rebuild it. >> fareed, thank you for joining us. >>> up next, republicans clamt president's plan to let t

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[applause] >> senator kay bailey hutchison spoke at the national journal conference on women. she was interviewed by susan page of "usa today." >> good morning. >> good morning. senator hutchison, we are pleased to have you here today. kay bailey hutchison has a remarkable. her great, great grandfather was a signer of the texas declaration of independence. she graduated herself from the university of texas lawn for, but then went to work as a reporter because no houston law firm was going to hire a woman lawyer. she started a small business, became the first republican woman in the texas legislature. she was elected state treasurer in 1990 and 1993 won a special election to take over the seat that was open up to lloyd bentsen secretary for president clinton. she's been reelected three times and is now the senior republican woman in the senate. she is retiring as you know from the senate winner turns up at the end of the year and i suspect the houston law firms would be very glad to have you on staff. your first office -- her first official office in washington was that the nati

>> the only person i've heard talk about that was senator kay bailey hutchison yesterday on with chris jansing, where she said, he's a big philanthropist, he's given so much to charities -- >> exactly. >> even the koch brothers. >> joy reid and jonathan capehart, hang around. we'll come back and talk about george zimmerman's interview tonight. >>> also, coming up, john mccain can only take so much crazy in congress and mike huckabee brought way, way too much crazy this week to the republican party and john mccain wants to stop it. that's ahead. and as i said, george zimmerman did an interview with sean hannity tonight, just an hour ago. we're going to be back with more analysis of that interview, coming up. eat good fats. avoid bad. don't go over 2000... 1200 calories a day. carbs are bad. carbs are good. the story keeps changing. so i'm not listening... to anyone but myself. i know better nutrition when i see it: great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see the seam? more processed flakes look nothing like natural grains. you can't argue with nutrition you can s

>> the only person i've heard talk about that was senator kay bailey hutchison yesterday on with chris jansing, where she said, he's a big philanthropist, he's given so much to charities -- >> exactly. >> even the koch brothers. >> joy reid and jonathan capehart, hang around. we'll come back and talk about george zimmerman's interview tonight. >>> also, coming up, john mccain can only take so much crazy in congress. > and mike huckabee brought way, way too much crazy this week to the republican party and john mccain wants to stop it. that's ahead. and as i said, george zimmerman did an interview with sean hannity tonight, just an hour ago. we're going to be back with more analysis of that interview, coming up. hey. hey eddie. i brought your stuff. you don't have to do this. yes i do. i want you to keep this. it'd be weird. take care. you too. [ sighs ] so how did it go? he's upset. [ male announcer ] spend less time at gas stations. with best in class fuel economy. it's our most innovative altima ever. ♪ trouble with a car insurance claim. [ voice of dennis ] switch to allstate. their

kay bailey hutchison has a remarkable political lineage.er great, great grandfather was a signer of the texas direct -- declaration of independence. she graduated from the university of texas, and went to work as a television reporter because no houston law form with -- law firm was willing to hire a woman lawyer. she started a small business, became the first republican woman in the state legislature, she was elected state treasurer in 1990, and in 1990 won a special election that opened up. she has been reelected three times and is now the senior republican woman in the senate. she is retiring from the senate when her term is up at the end of this year and i suspect those houston law firms would be glad to have you on staff at this time. [laughter] your first official office in washington was at the national transportation safety board. president ford appointed you as the vice-chairman there in 1976, and i wonder if you could describe what things are like for a woman appointed to a job like that now, and compare it to how things have chan

texas senator kay bailey hutchison says that she does support congressional hearings to investigate these allegations at san antonio's lackland air force base. the air force base says 31 female recruits were sexually assaulted by a dozen male drill instructors since 2009. casey stiegel is looking into this for us in dallas. casey, this scandal really started to explode, hasn't it? >> reporter: yeah, martha, it really has. it was first made public a year ago when a female airman down there accused of one of her spears yors of rape. that is really when this started to unravel. once the u.s. military began looking into the matter they discovered it actually had been going on for about three years since 2009, and now a total of 12 training instructors at lackland air force base are being investigated for sexual misconduct and 31 female trainees have been identified as victims. we understand the misconduct ranging from rape to sexual inappropriateness through social media and even text-messaging. we should tell you that all us air force recruits attend basic training at lack land that is rough

texas senator kay bailey hutchison supports the idea of a hearing but is not calling for one. she tells fox news channel and she wants to wait and see how the air force's top brass handles the matter. >> i do believe that general rice is on top of it and i think he takes it very seriously, as he should. and i think we need to let him have a chance to get a full report, find out the depth, and then find out how this could happen without being uncovered, going forward. >> reporter: the air force has revealed that this sexual misconduct had been going on since 2009 but it was not first discovered until a year ago when a female airman accused her superior of rape. police have already or people have already lost their jobs i should say. nine of the 12 instructors belong to the same training squadron. the commander has been relieved from his post. at least two of the instructors have been charged and are making their way through the courts. a two-star general is leading the internal investigation. >> we are taking a comprehensive look, not only at the cases that we know but trying t

. >> we heard from ann romney and from sheila -- shirley jackson late, senator kay bailey hutchison, president obama. our question for you is whether or not you believe in american exceptionalism. democrat from butler, new jersey, good morning. caller: i really enjoy your program. host: what do you think about america's place in the world and exceptionalism? caller: i think america is a truly great country when it is true to the progress of the values -- progress of the values that we treat people fairly and everyone has dignity in our country. that is what makes this a great country and i think every person in every country of the world has the right to think they live in the greatest country in the world. we, the people, americans and people all over the globe, it is up to us to make our country a great country. that is what i believe and i agreed with the guy from west virginia and i feel very sad when i hear callers like the lady from north carolina who was talking about the poor people living on government welfare. i am a social worker and i am familiar with the knowledge. you d

favorite to upset the content governor in a primary runoff, a race to replace cable hutchinson -- kay bailey hutchison. endorsements from gop activists brought in national attention and money." here's another race, this went looking at the battle over a democratic seat that could alter the balance of power. jim carlton reporting from "the wall street journal." "locked in a dogfight. is a virtualontest dead heat. and on president level of money is flowing into the senate race in a state with just 1 million people." in new inspector general report questions whether it is harming u.s. goals there. rick joins us from tennessee. good morning . caller: several things about afghanistan. we should get out as soon as possible. when you make an obligation, it would not look good if we just pull out and that is not going to happen. look at the history of the united states involvement in foreign countries. yeah, it is a wonder why we ever went there and did not stick to what we were therefore, to rid ourselves of al qaeda and take them out of commission. i listen before about the inspector general report, talking

three conversations, including house democratic leader nancy pelosi and exit interview with kay bailey hutchison and a final conversation will be a luncheon interview with foundry gerrit. we do hope you'll join us for the entire day. and onto the first panel discussion on imagination and innovation. i guess they can change the world. is also a companion article to this section in this weeks issue of "national journal." moderating our first panel is nancy cook enjoyed her our current 11, doctor carina edmonds, and michelle rhee, co that of students first. nancy. >> thanks so much. in a magazine last week each of these three amazing women outlined the different ideas that for innovation and their various sectors. so i wonder if each of you could just offer three or four sentences about what you propose and what you think would be innovative to transform the military, the energy sector and education. anu, you want to start? >> in my work we feel was sexist commission and sexual violence in the u.s. military and all of the aftermath after women veterans in particular but also those affected by the c

. >> kay bailey hutchison, she is a talented, smart, energetic -- >> congressman kathy mcmorris rogerse have been whispering to us in the press in washington trying to get her name out a little bit more. conservatives really like her. she's the only female republican in the house leadership. >> she took a big role with health care. >> i would say with the challenges that mitt romney has had with women over the last several months, i am surprise that he had they aren't putting out a woman or a few women out there more. i mean they are putting her name out but it seems clear she's not in the first four categories. the first four is all men. and what's surprising about them is they're not particularly exciting candidates. >> isn't that a good thing maybe? >> they may not be exciting, but they're qualified. if you look at like rob portman is not exciting, the senator from ohio. former budget director, former special trade representative. i mean from ohio too. he may not be the most lively kind of guy, but he's very intelligent and certainly qualified, don't you think, to be president? >> a

here's a portion of the discussion with kay bailey hutchison. >> do you think that you will see a woman elected president? >> yes, i do. >> when you think that will happen? >> i thought it would have happened by now. but i do think that it will happen. i think that we are becoming so much more equal in our experience and credentials that it is less of a factor now. i think it will happen when the time is right. i think we are tough enough, we are treated pretty much the same, i think people do not think of us as women candidates as much anymore. they think of us as -- what do you want to do, what are your plans, what is your platform? they then vote their own interests. that is good, i think. >> let's go to the audience -- does somebody have a question? i have another question. let's pretend i'm a member of the audience. you interviewed a male senator 15 minutes after he has won his first election -- he thinks he is already in the white house. not so much for himself, but for the good of the country. [laughter] you interview women who have been in the senate for model terms, like yourse

there is a republican bill sponsored by john mccain and kay bailey hutchison, the secure i.t. act. we are going to see some amendments to the bill. senator -- >> from this morning's "washington journal." the u.s. house about to gavel in. 19 bills on the agenda today. legislative work at 3:30 eastern. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain. chaplain conroy: grant them the generosity to serve you as you deserved. to give of the industry and not count the cost and fight for their convictions and not heed the political wounds, to tylenol and not seek to rest, to labor and not ask for reward except for knowing that in being their bestselves they do your will and, dear, god, on this day we ask your blessing on the family of tim. grant them peace and consolation as they mourn the loss of his mother. may all that is done be for your greater honor and glory. amen. . soap the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from north carolina, physical fox. ms. foxx: please join me in the i pledge allegiance to the flag of the unit

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