mary beth?s. bruggeman: to be different, my parents were in the peace corps. i also grew up in a family that was committed to service. they were both english teachers. i lived in a strong ex-pat community. coming home during the persian gulf war, it was front of mind for me that service was something i was interested in. i went to the naval academy from there. my military time in the marine corps was largely almost entirely positive. also, it was filled with micro-aggression along the way that were very challenging as a woman. it came to define my experience overall and truly who i've become to be and what i am passionate about now and how i give back. as a combat engineer, my field was as an mls and women were barred from one third from the mls. there were only two thirds of the marine corps i was allowed to go to. in an effort to ensure that my marines were trained in all three of those so they could go on, i had to make sure they had all the competencies. that required me being very forward l

mary beth is a graduate of the u.s. naval academy, who served in the u.s. marine corps. she says her proudest moment was leading a company of marines into iraq during the 2003 invasion. and leading them back to safety. she is a participant in the bush institutes stand to veteran leadership program. next, we have retired u.s. navy admiral william mcraven. national hero. he led the planning and execution of a secret raid that eliminated osama bin laden in may of 2011. he led a force of 69,000 men and women and was responsible for conducting counterterrorism operations worldwide. a former navy seal and white house national security council advisor to president bush. he service chancellor of the university of texas system from 2014 until retiring in may. jason pak in a leadership program. i am proud to say one of my colleagues at boeing. as a senior manager for boeing, he is responsible for creating and executing our engagement strategy for veterans at boeing. he is a graduate of the u.s. military academy at west point. while deployed to afghanistan in 2012, he was wounded b

mary beth quirk, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> which one of those threeid you want? >> well, i was thinking i wonder what the air fryer can do. i hear an instapot is life changing. i'm not sure how it works. so i wonder if an air fryer could be -- >> i assume you put it in and let it cook. >> and it's supposed to be really quick. >> all right. i'll take your word for it. >>> a state judge says that amazon has agreed not to sell foie gras in california. state lawmakers banned the delicacy years ago. it's from the liver of a goose that was force fed. >> this is undercover video shot by animal rights activists first shown by the abc 7 i-team in 2003. >>> sunday is the 50th anniversary of one of the most influential -- >> it laid the ground work for and was called the mother of all demows. >> reporter: computered looked very much like this. large calculators that solved problems. then came the '60s, the counterculture, and a dream of scientists to use computers in a different way. on december 9th, 1968, that dream became a reality. >> we're going to show you

, the free-market administration, to criticize the ceo about where he -- where she in this case, mary beth, deploys her capital? >> i think the issue is, the president in this administration has gone of out -- gone out of its way to support business and to work with business, we listen to ceos constantly, not we -- not that we agree with everything but we take in input as we formulate policies and i think perhaps, there would have been a better way for general motors to handle this and come up with a plan before they announced that they were abandoning factories. >> what would have been better? >> i think it would have been better to look at what the alternatives were before they just announced this. but i leave that to general motors and for they and their board to figure it out. >> so i think that was the question, better leave it to the board than the ceo. the electric car subsidies, the president mentioned, are you going to move to eliminate those as the president suggested? across all car companies? >> i think if we do it we do it for all which is something the president wants to seri

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