. >> stephanie: yeah you and kathleen madigan and i discussed this.t stuff done. >> yeah they got something done, because they would sit around and go no, your bill is better than mine i'm nothing. you are the best. and it was bar time and they go we have to figure this out now, and then have another shot and go home. >> stephanie: exactly. >> the [ inaudible ] doesn't help the country, your [ inaudible ] don't help us. i'm glad you are happy, we're not. >> stephanie: exactly. if paul ryan would stop doing p90x and come to some agreement on things. >> they are unbelievable. and the only upside of [ inaudible ] when i first started watching and was watching the first responders which is where we really -- with -- that's when we're at our best is -- is that. >> stephanie: right. >> the good news is congress wasn't the first responders. >> stephanie: yes, thank you, exactly. negotiating over who should help who? >> yeah, and you really should drive an extra hundred miles to get the cheaper lumber to build this house. >> stephanie: right. right. we were s

>> there at fort madigan.as deemed a moderate to low risk for suicide, his only restriction being that he was not to be around any weapons. cleared him to go basically in a barracks room by himself, which i found after talking to veterans was it illegal. he tried to kill himself again on thursday night. andot back on the 15th killed himself on the 19th. hethe thursday, on the 18th, um, so was some ro drinking rum with his medications that they just gave him, his antidepressants and ,leep medicine, and cut himself had blood stains all over his room. was not successful, so he got up friday morning and bandaged himself. that he wrotengs before he went and hung himself was, "i feel invisible. i feel like i am transparent" ." nobody walked into the room on friday to see the blood stains. derrick didn't hang himself until -- the last time they saw him was friday night at 10:00, and they found him saturday 1:30.g at if anybody would have walked in that room on that friday, but they did not even -- the leadership was

house speaker mike madigan pushed for it and the illinois house passed a far-reaching pension reform plan. however, its prospects in the senate are not certain. the state's pension debt is almost 100- billion dollars. under the plan, cost-of-living increases would be decreased. the retirement age for young workers would be raised. and more would be taken out of their paychecks to pay for the plan. all this would affect downstate and suburban teachers, rank and file state workers, lawmakers, and university employees. president obama traveled south of the border today to meet with his mexican counterpart. mr. obama had his first extended meeting with enrique peÑa nieto, mexico's newest president. both presidents say immigration reform is at the front of their agenda. they hosted a joint press conference today. mr. obama gave credit to mexico's growing economy, saying that has contributed to a lower number of illegal border crossings from mexico into the u.s. this year. i think this progress should help inform the debate in the united states and i am optimistic we will finally get compr

and there's a great book coming out by lisa madigan's husband, who is a cartoonist and a stay-at-homealled captain america, talking about as their partnership is, that's one of the things that's facilitated their family, is his ability to have a stay-at-home dad and have his career at home. >> celinda raises an excellent point. one of the things we need to see increasingly happen is the question, the test. when we see women vilified in the media, would they do that to a man. would the same questions be asked about a man? everybody watching the news with their kids and just on their own needs to be asking that question. if this was a man, would we be concerned about this? often the answer is no. and this is not just important in terms of electing women. this is also important in terms of the wage gap. i'm going to go back to the wage gap. so studies show that women are taken off the management track for fewer late days when they have kids. so they're penalized for having kids. we also know that there's a significant hiring bias. we know that with equal resumes and job experiences, moms