look at what it took us to get the lilly ledbetter law enacted in order to report discrepancies in pay, when a women discovers that her male counterpart is earning more than she is earning. that took a major effort in congress and a new president to expend fairly significant new capital in order to get this legislation passed. so we really do have a struggle. i think that the big part of the reason for women not joining together and marching in the streets against what should be a no-brainer is that there is a perception that "it's just me. maybe it's in my mind." >> hinojosa: well, isn't it because women are never talking about this? it's not like we're sitting there and saying... >> and we don't talk about violence against us. it's the great... there's a great stigma, a great secret that women keep to themselves. they don't acknowledge it until often it's too late, and their physical being is threatened or in some cases actually killed. >> hinojosa: so is it about women who just, at that moment when they're talking with their boss about the raise, that they just don't know how to...

among those on the guest list, lilly ledbetter, billy jean king, oprah, and kerry washington, to just name a few. the president and first lady will speak to the group this afternoon. back to you. the whole time, you can hear every crash and bang as the riviera hotel in las vegas imploded this morning. look at it go. the lights weren't supposed to switch off, but that was the only thing that went wrong with this morning's demolition. the owner spent $42 million to destroy the building. it's been on the vegas strip for 60 years and closed a year ago. >>> and developing right now, we're working to find out if everyone survived four separate shoot incidents in the district in the space of four hours that happened overnight. four men and one boy were shot in those incidents. police didn't say the boy's age. the boy and the man that he was with are expected to survive. we're working to learn the conditions of the other three victims. >>> another developing story, this one across multiple states after a major manhunt. a triple murder suspect is now in custody. deputies say he killed three me

look at the case of lilly ledbetter in which congress had to overturn the supreme court decision with legislation to make sure that when women win equal pay claims, they can get the pay the a word tonight. ruth bader jim britt said, "the court does not apprehend the way can bemen discriminated against." the is not 1787, when constitution was drafted. today, we have aliens of women as sole breadwinner's. women and children living in poverty in the united states who would not be if women were paid the full dollar. womenmedy is to give every fair legal tool to outine, challenge, and tear historic bias at its roots. once and for all, don't women to rights ineserve full america? when you have the protection that a constitutional amendment affords you, you have more likely of winning -- likelihood of winning cases. women need this framework. without the era, women are left to the mercy of courts and politicians, both state and federal, who often do little or .othing for gender justice equal means equal or it means nothing at all. ?hat is the era a few simple words. equal rights under the la

first thing he did was signed the lilly ledbetter act, and the second thing was the order to close on time. 2009, i'm not sure if anyone in d.c. was happier than me. i'm retired from the military, guantanamo is closing, and i was in a job i liked, working with people i respected, and life looks like it could not get much better. things progressed, and he still seemed to be going well, until the fall of 2009, when rumblings began to emerge that the president was not going to close guantanamo, and the military commissions might be revived, and i was again having concerns that this whole hope and change was not going to take place, as it appeared it was at one point. an op-ed an article, in the washington post by former attorney general michael mckay he said, if we bring detainees from guantanamo to the united states, life as we know it will come to an end. i wrote a letter rebutting that. in the same year, i wrote an op-ed that i submitted to the wall street journal. i have written a lot of pieces. the vast majority of what i have written has never seen the letter day, and often when i

actually the first thing he did is he signs the lilly ledbetter act. the sing thing is he signed the order to close gaun taun know. so january 2009, i don't know there's anyone in d.c. that was happier than me. i had retired from the military. guantanamo was closing. i was in a job that i liked, working with people that i respected and liked. it looked like it couldn't get much better. things progressed. thing still seemed to be going well until the fall of 2009, and that was when rumblings began to emerge that the president was not going to close guantanamo, that the military commissions may be revived, and that was when i began having concerns that this whole hope and change was not going to take place as it appeared it was at one point. there was an article, an op-ed in "the washington post" by former attorney general michael mccasey where he basically says if we bring detainees from guantanamo to the u.s., life as we know it will come to an end. that led me to write a letter to the editor, rebutting what mr. mccasey had said. that same weekend in n

now, quick history, the lilly ledbetter bill kept the courthouse open for when people wanted to file wage discrimination charges. that courthouse was slammed in the face of her and others who found out too late about what they were paid. we kept the courthouse door open. then we introduced paycheck fairness. the paycheck fairness bill would get rid of the other barriers to women getting equal pay for equal work. one of the biggest barriers is that pay is kept a secret. one of the biggest secrets in the united states other than national security is what women get paid in the workplace. let's keep it our little secret. in fact, in many instances you have to sign an agreement in order to be hired that you will not disclose your pay to another worker. and if you do, you can be fired. so paycheck fairness is pending. to be sure though we're not talking about small business, we're not talking about mom and pop stores like my dad's grocery store, but i can assure you my father paid equal pay for equal work to my mother. but in january our president, president obama, announced that the eeoc

the first thing he does is signed the lilly ledbetter act. the second thing he does is sign in order to close there's anything in dc that was happier than me. with people i respected and it looked like it couldn't get much better. things progressed and seemed to be going well until the fall of 2009 and that was when rumblings began to emerge that the president was not going to close and i was again having concerns that this whole hope and change was not going to take place . it appeared that it that it was at one point. there's an article, an op-ed in the washington post by former attorney general michael casey where he basically said if we bring end.tc that prompted me to write a letter to the editor rebutting what mister casey had said. that same weekend in november 2009, i also wrote an op-ed and submitted it to the wall street journal and i had written a lot of pieces and the majority of what i've written has never seen the light of day and often when i would write something i shop it around and edit it and make a lot of changes and event

look at the case of lilly ledbetter in which congress had to overturn the supreme court decision with legislation to ensure that win-win women -- when women win equal pay claims, they can get the equal pay they were denied. justice ruth bader ginsburg stated in our view, the court is not comprehend the insidious way in which women can be subjected to wage discrimination. this is not 1787, when the constitution was drafted. in today's america we have millions of women as the sole breadwinner's. we have an estimated 33 million women and children living in poverty in the u.s. who would not be if women were paid the full dollar. america has more elderly women in poverty than any other nation in the industrialized world. the remedy is to give women every fair legal tools to examine, challenge, and tear out widespread and historic bias at its roots. once and for all, don't women deserve full rights in america? when you have the extra scrutiny and legal protection, a constitutional and in metaphors, you have more likelihood of winning cases and enacting strong and just laws. women need this