mark the passing of a true aviation pioneer, rosemary mariner, first woman to fly fighter jets for the u.s. navy. not only did she have the right stuff, she punched through the gender barrier at close to mock 2 and never looked back. awesome. retired navy captain rosemary mariner died last week, she was 65 years old, after a long battle with ovarian cancer and to honor her and her singular achievement, the navy sanctioned another aviation first. take a look at that. an all female flyover. earlier we spoke with two of the women aviators who came to tennessee to pay homage to captain mariner and her amazing legacy. i remember in 1993 when the combat exclusion was lifted, i was 15 years old, and i didn t quite have an idea of how big of an impact that policy change would make, and obviously captain mariner and her contemporaries have a lot to do with that decision.
usually better than their no offense. i love men. there are lots of good men out there. our politics are broken. sometimes if you look at a man and woman, why not try a woman? and the terms of republicans, if you look at history, republicans used to be the ones out front in breaking gender barrier when it came to nominating people, condoleezza rice the first woman to be secretary of state. but now they have fallen behind. they ve retreated into this standard that they are focusing on the interests of white men and they are the face increasingly becoming the face of the party while the democrats are increasingly branching out and being more inclusive in terms of who they are reaching out to and the message. that seems that i don t know how that is sustainable. remember way back in 2012 when
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whole thing. the white coloring of her clothing is brilliant. there s history. you look back at how suffragists dressed. she has a knowledge of history in a way. she hasn t had to say i m going to be the first woman president. she did that in 2008. she s like i m going to be the most competent president you ve seen in the last 45 years and i m a woman to boot. we ended up with a woman who s poised to break the biggest gender barrier in american politics about sort of presidential, looking presidential and she, the one thing she unambiguously trouncing her opponent is precisely on that. ezra klein, jason johnson, thanks for your time tonight. thanks. thank you. all right. we re continuing to honor the al smith dinner under way. i have a knot in my stomach about this thing as it approaches. once the presidential candidates take the stage to gently mock each other, we ll bring it to you live. like, ha ha, she should be in jail. should be quite an event. stick around. first, toni
last week, she s like, look, the feeling you get when men look at you. you know, hillary clinton is the woman that women want to be when they re in the office and in that environment when they want to scream. she s been doing this her entire career. something else i think is interesting, she s had this whole thing. the white coloring of her clothing is brilliant. there s history. you look back at how suffragists dressed. she has a knowledge of history in a way. she hasn t had to say i m going to be the first woman president. she did that in 2008. she s like i m going to be the most competent president you ve seen in the last 45 years and i m a woman to boot. we ended up with a woman who s poised to break the biggest gender barrier in american politics about sort of presidential, looking presidential and she, the one thing she unambiguously trouncing her opponent is precisely on that. ezra klein, jason johnson, thanks for your time tonight. thanks. thank you. all right. we re co