[inaudible conversations]. And were live this morning awaiting remarks from defense secretary Ashton Carter being interviewed by politicos correspondent mike allen and defense editor, brian bender. Should get underway in just a moment. Live coverage here on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. Ladies and gentlemen, the program will begin in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome politicos chief White House Correspondent mike allen and politico defense editor, bryan bender. [applause] good morning. Thank all of you for recovering from your st. Patricks days festivities to make it out here for a early playbook breakfast. We appreciate. Welcome to all of you in live stream land. Were grateful for you tuning in as well. Im grateful being joined by bryan bender. A bunch of you know him. He came from politico from the
Meant to this state. You know what she did for her constituents. And i am in awe of her courage and her commitment to continue to serve people by standing up and speaking out against the gun lobby in favor of common sense gun safety measures. And by her side, a man who has served our country with such distinction, and i am pleased to call him a friend, not only because of that service he has gibb but because of what hes continuing to do by gabbys side, speaking out, over and over again. And as they both said, like many people in arizona and many people around our country, theyve been gun owners for a long time. And you know what . Theres a right in our country to be a gun owner. What we are advocating, what we are standing up for and speaking out for are common sense gun reform measures. And i also want to just recognize a couple that i met just before coming in. Lonnie and Sandy Phillips who are here. They lost their daughter jessie in the Aurora Movie Theater massacre. And theyve bee
Chief White House Correspondent and editor. Good morning. Thank you for recovering from your same patrick festivities to make it out here for an early breakfast. We appreciate it. Welcome to all of you in live stream land. Where always grateful to you for tuning in. I am joined by bryan bender. A bunch of you know him. He came to politico from the boston globe. He has known secretary carter going back to the 1990s. How did that work out . Brian i wish it was a more peacekeeping operation. We are honored to have with us today secretary of defense Ashton Carter who told me he has worked directly for seven secretaries of defense including republicans and democrats. He has worked in 11 administrations and came back as the boss. Someone who has negotiated with our enemies, has written or cowritten 11 books when he was at yale, enjoy the upset astrophysics and medieval history. Comes in handy these days. Before we kick off we want to thank bank of america and John Collingwood for these conve
Party, in addition to young people and minorities. The problem for the democrats is they tend not to turn out to vote in midterms. They do better in a president ial year, but that is the big question. Will single women, as well as young people and minorities, turn out to vote for someone who is not barack obama . Hillary clinton is appealing directly to women. I have not been able to find any data recently, but my sense in light is that for women 50 year old and older, married or single, the appeal to elect the first female president has a certain strength to it, but there has been some argument that for women under 50, certainly under 40, Hendry Hillary is a grandmother, an earlier generation. A lot of them tend to think there will be a female president at some point and they have other priorities, but she wants to maximize the vote among women justis sort the caller mention because she sees that as a core constituency and thinks that will be crucial to her chances. Host mary, a Quick
Its very early. They are trying to gather information. I spoke to one witness on scene, and she said everything happened at the metro stop a few blocks away. The stadium armory is not far from here. She said she saw a bunch of teens, 30 or 40 hanging out, kind of over near the subway, and thee heard yelling and then heard even or eight shots, back toback rapid fire, and she saw all the teens run back in this direction, and she wasnt exactly sure where the shooting occurred, but she didnt believe it happened here. We know its right near a high school, this iseastern high school, right over here to my right, where police are searching behind me. It seems to be somewhat on school property. Right now we know, police confirmed, two girls were taken to the hospital, with gun shot wounds. As of right now, from what we know, they are in stable condition. Thank you, ellison. We will have new details for you, as soon as we get them. You can download the free wusa 9 app for the latest and importa