mara keisling is the executive director. >> guest: thank you so much. this is part of our spotlight on magazine series we are joined by florence and a contributor to the new republic in her piece for the june cover issue, taking care of our own paid leave goes from progressive pipe dream to political reality. lauren sandler let's begin with where does this debate stand unpaid family leave? >> guest: stance in a different place than it did a year or two ago when i was pretty much a nonissue. you may recall president obama bringing up a family refinished speech. a number of states are considering their own paid leave policy which when you consider that the whole discussion about family leave stalls out after 1993 when president clinton signed the fmla into law. that's a family medical leave act which allows 12 weeks of unpaid leave. it's been nothing for over 20 years and all of a sudden it's a big what was your. >> host: yet maxi writing a piece, the the first and today the last time a sitting president took action on family leave is february 5, 1993 whe