. >> joining me now is nia-malika henderson, and jess mcintosh is with emily's list. >> all you need wife and daughter, and as a republican candidate, you'll know exactly how to appeal to women voters. >> women like butterflies and the color pink and princesses. jess and i were talking before, it's here we go again. the republicans obviously have been grappling with this issue for a while. i mean, going back to john mccain nominating sarah palin, thinking that would make republicans more palatable to women didn't work for them then. and here we are, you do have boehner acknowledging the problem, but then again, you have these folks out there who just didn't get the memo that they need to, to really talk to women about policy and talk to women about the issues that women care about, like the economy, for instance. so we'll see how this plays out in 2014, but, obviously, everyone is mindful of it and republicans are trying to do some sort of women's boot camp, and it looks like that guy probably needs to go. >> jess mcintosh, this most recent gaffe would not be such a big deal, i don't

ron reagan is a contributor and nia-malika henderson.s with the "washington post" and i miss her dearly. haven't seen you in a while. you don't have the advantage of sitting across from me, ron. but this question -- >> i know. but i have to play ignorance because i don't watch everything on television. i watch the good wife and homeland and stuff like that. but i've been educated. it is a huge cultural event. this guy's a major figure in our culture. maybe sub culture but it's a huge sub-culture. it's country people. what do you make of the whole thing? the combination of his importance, the people like him, they root for him. they're still rooting for him, especially the right which has jumped here to exploit this fight. ron? >> oh, i'm sorry. i thought you were talking to nia. listen. there's a lot of hypocrisy going around throughout this. the right wing is all exorcised because this guy is having his free speech rights interrupted by a&e that don't want to associate themselves. with the remarks that he made about gay people and black

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ron reagan is a contributor and nia-malika henderson. don't have the advantage of sitting across from me, ron. but i have to play ignorance because i don't watch everything on television. i watch homeland and stuff but i've been educated. it is a huge cultural event. this guy's a major figure in our culture. it's a huge sub-culture. it's country people. what do you make of the whole thing? the combination -- the right has jumped here to exploit this fight. ron? >> oh, i'm sorry. i thought you were talking to nia. listen. there's a lot of hypocrisy going around throughout this. the right wing is all exorcised because this guy is having his free speech rights interrupted by a&e that don't want to associate themselves. if he he did claired himself an atheist and called the bible a relic of the iron age, do you think ted cruz would be coming out championing his cause if a&e had let him go on that account? i don't think so. >> so what do they have in common? what does the tea party have in common with this guy? >> 20% of america and most of t

. >> and malika what kind of effort is being made to make it right? we're seeing a string of retaliatory acts happening in india including the barricades from the embassy being removed which could be a security risk even. are there talks that tr happening now, things that are going on to make this thing right? >> you're right. they truly have escalated into a tit-for-tat game and i'm right outside the u.s. embassy as we speak. i can tell you those barricades that have been here for months have been removed. i can go right up to the gate which wasn't the case just a few days ago. in terms of making it right, i think there is a releasization on both sides that india and the u.s. cannot condition afford to you. upset each other and go back to the days of mistrust. they've been through the days and years of the cold war when both sides were deeply suspicious of each other. but for the last decade or so, the last 10, 15 years, both sides have really worked to improve relations with each other and relations up till this incident have been in a good place. t

malika, angry reaction there. why has this created such an intense response? >> reporter: you're right. it really has created such an intense responsibilities. and people say it is humiliating that an inldian and a diplomat could be treated so poorly in the united states and the reaction has been unprecedented. the government is calling the treatment as barbaric. if you talk to anybody over here who has been following the story they say it is shameful, pits insulting. is india reacting? yes. india is certainly reacting. we've had top political leaders in new delhi refuse to meet members of a u.s. delegation that is visiting currently. we've also seen in new delhi, we've seen the government remove security from outside the u.s. embassy earlier today. we saw them remove the large concrete slabs outside the gates of the u.s. embassy and we've also seen the government strip away the diplomatic i.d.s given to u.s. diplomats in india which really restricts the diplomatic privileges that these diplomats enjoy in india. and still, some parliamentaryians say that is no

cnn's international malika kapur is there. >> this has evoked harsh words of retaliation from the governmente minister saying they should arrest same sex partners of u.s. diplomatic workers because homosexuality is now illegal there. >> reporter: that's right. a member of the opposition made that comment a day or two ago because really there is such outrage in india over the way the diplomat was arrested in new york. the way she was arrested during a school run, and the strip searching, that has really really upset people over here. people here, the government has called the incident barbaric and even the indian prime minister who's usually very careful with his words, he is a mild-man nerd man, he spoke outside yesterday calling the incident despicable and deplorable. a huge amount of outrage in india. is india restallating? yes, they are. they've introduce add number of measures. they've taken away the identity cards issued to consular staff after u.s. here and various cities across india. what that basically means they're stripping a way some of the diplomatic privileges these people enjo

the "washington post's" malika henderson, post of the post tv. and think progress. i want to come at this at a different way. if you look at the newest polls, president obama's approval is in the low 40s. when you look at the larger context of where the country is on washington and the gap between the president's approval and congressional approval, you get a very different story. take a look at this. the gap between president bush and congress at the same point in his presidency, 14%. bush was 14% above. the gap between president clinton and congress was 17%. and where is obama? is he at bush levels, as we have heard, in comparisons to katrina, is he he at clinton levels, a popular second-termer? take a look at this. president obama, 30% higher than this congress. and is so doesn't that tell a part of the story, which is we are in a period of american history where people are unusually upset with washington and yet the president outpolls his republican allies and opponents by 30 points? >> you know, i think that is certainly good news for this president. the bad ne

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malika kapur from new delhi, thank you very much. >>> we are just about three hours from a major announcementnds stocks to record highs this year. will it change anything? joining me is paul. good morning, paul. >> good morning, carol. thanks for having me. >> glad you're here. so this decision seems like only something investors will watch. why should the rest of us care? >> there are several reasons. even if you may not be like a passionate market junkie, you probably have a 401(k), maybe a 529 for your kids, other retirement or long-term investment plans so if the fed doesn't pull back on its bond-buying program just yet, that will probably give the market another nice boost and obviously everyone loves to check their balances and see that they are higher than they were. so that's one reason. but the real important thing for the average person in terms of an economic reason is that what the fed is trying to do is keep interest rates low and they have been successful for the past few years. that's one reason why the mortgage rate has been so low and the market has come back. some people are

we have cnn's malika kapoor on the ground for us. >> here in new kelly, authorities are retaliating. to hand in their identity cards, which basically means they're stripping them of certainly diplomatic privileges such as access to lounges and airports. they have also removes barricades, large concrete barricades prau from outside the embassy which was extended as a security measure as a courtesy. it wasn't a diplomatic requirement, but india does insist it has not scaled back security for any u.s. diplomat anywhere in the country. cnn, new cell hdelhi. >> thank you. here with me now, deborah feyerick. walk me back. what led to this arrest? >> this is fascinating. devyani khobragade is on the council for women's ifairs. there's an 11-page criminal complaint. she's charged with making false statements for a visa application for her housekeeper, specifically saying the housekeeper was only going to work a specific amount of hours, 40 hours a week, that she would make a fair wage, and she would have sundays off. she was working much longer hours and being paid significantly less. she sa