Protecting womens property rights. All of the counted. First county in the nation that allowed women to sit on jur hes. Right here in albany county. [applause]. That is that is new york. While washington fights and gridlocks, we find compromise and we move forward. Why . Because washington defines itself by their differences and we define ourselves by our come onnality their politics divide and our politics unite. That is the difference. Between albany and washington. Because we have a different belief. We believe in community. We believe in the could not is. That we are all connected. We dont believe that we are all individuals on our own. We believe that there is a connection that bienldz us. That there is a core that connects me to you and you and you and that weaves the fabric. When one of us is raise. When one of us is lowered we are all lowered. Those are not just words. That is the way we live. That is the way that we operate. Lieutenant governor was talking about the snowstorm
Karen . Benefit ofave the observing this administration from the outside and more recently from the inside and you also have the experience of sevenning in the clinton administration. Includingcs lately some democrats have accused this white house of political tone lately on the rose garden appearance on bergdahl and perhaps the president s in some people view slowness to take action on the v. A. Scandal. Just wondering what you think about those criticisms. The president ,k you know, thats sort of having it both ways. I think the president knew thises with a controversial decision. Was a decision that, and he hespoken to this, that taken ownership of, that he went out in the rose garden because to theimportant to plain American People that this was whot an actual human being was under great distress, being taliban. He and that while controversial, needed to explain that to the American People. He makes no apolicies for that, as he said yesterday in think it was the right decision and
He was on the committee with ted kennedy. In 1988, he founded Podesta Associates with his brother tony. He served president clinton as deputy chief of staff and then whitehouse chief of staff. He was cochairman of president obama in 2008. He is the father of a proud airforce member. So much for biography. Our thanks to the angus ceo who are sitting at the table back there keeping me from the pain of premature requirement. We are on the record here. No tweeting. No filing of any kind while the breck fast is underway. There is no embargo when the session ends. This is one of the last ways of fussy folk waves so if you have a question send me a subtle, nonthreatening signal and i will call on you. We will let the guest make open comments and with that thanks for being here. Thank you, david. I will talk for two minutes and say that a lot has been going on in washington this week. But one thing i have been particularly focused on is the rollout of the proposal to reduce Carbon Pollution fr
Later was chief counselor of the Senate Agriculture committee. In 1988 he founded the wellknown Government Relations firm with his brother tony. He served president clinton as to be the chief of staff and then as white house chief of staff until 2001. He was cochairman of obamas Transition Team in 2008. He is the proud father of air force captain gabe podesta. So much for prior review. Now to the process portion of our program. Anga a gas alliance is sponsoring todays breakfast. Our thanks to them, for sitting at the table back there keeping me from the pain of premature retirement. Sponsors or not, we are on the record here. No live blogging and no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what the guest says. There will be no embargo at the end. As regular attendees know the monitor breakfast is one of the last bastions of fusty folkways. Do the traditional thing and send me a subtle nonthreatening signal, and i will happily call on everyone with
Thats what motivated all three of them, thats what and i think if she does decide to run and she is elected president , shell get up every day, as president obama gets up every day, as president clinton got up every day, and go into the oval office and think what could i do to help the middle class and to help working people . And and, of course, youve known Hillary Clinton for a long time. If you were going to choose three adjectives that would describe her presidency, what would they be . [laughter] disciplined, tough and determined. Jeff. Yeah. Wonder if [inaudible] on the hill with the bergdahl deal [inaudible] so my question is as the president was chewing this over, weighing the pros and cons, what was his bottom line as far as what terms he might be able to live with that would insure security, and to what sense does this become a political rob for you guys if these guys are walking around, getting on the internet this some way that gets broadcast . Well, the secretary of defens