you had the mainstream media screaming and insisting before that meeting that president trump would not even raise the specter of russian interference in our election and, instead, president trump raised it as the first order of business and reportedly kept pressing president putin on it and also talked about very important things like the cease-fire in syria successfully negotiated in this meeting and infrastructure and national security and a nuclear capable world. ainsley: something else we do know. hillary clinton provided 20% of the uranium to the russians. let s move on. and half a million dollars in a speech in a drum roll, please, russia. steve: got to be a coincidence. ainsley: mainstream media talking about that story and also talking about ivanka sat in briefly at this g-20 summit meeting there she is right there. angela merkel says the delegates is the one who decides who sits in if a leader can t be there. when i left conference room
special adviser to the president. yeah. who knew if you got up to go to the bathroom that you had a seat filler. other people do too. this is one of those things about context and proportion with this guy that you ve got to pick your hills you ll fight for. this was not anything that should have had nick s hair on fire at this particular summit. but it gives him a chance to once again do what he does best, which is subject changing. he is the greatest subject changer in chief that we have ever had. and that s what he s doing. did you feel like this was a big issue that ivanka sat down at that seat? if you ll excuse me, my daughter s going to fill my seat. you know, i do think also that there s a misperception that this was an attack on ivanka. it s not. no. it was fundamentally his son is being attacked. but that president trump was disrespectful to the g-20 for
have been and equal pay for women and workplace policies that benefit families has certainly not been one of those priorities in the first 100 days. look at his businesses. well, look at his cabinet. how many women do we have in his cabinet? how about that? it s a historically male cabinet over the past several decades. women in the workplace, start with the people that you surround yourself with. on the other hand, you also have active measures to attack planned parenthood in this country and also the global gag order which keeps aid from going to any international organization that has anything to do with family planning, which has been disastrous in the past. so not only do you not see a priority of pushing women forward, you actually see major setbacks in the first 100 days. that s been the priority. i want anita to weigh in. brian is saying look at president trump s businesses. we can look at ivanka s businesses. washington post has a piece out today. she still does not ma
women in terms of openness about what they re getting paid in the workplace. well, it absolutely matters when it was signed. it matters because the next president or he would have had to institute the executive order that took place. so why not do it? first of all, the pay is an important issue. it s not a function of why not do it, it s a function of doing it right. the president at the end passed a lot of things that were ticking time bombs and he had to reverse. this is obviously a priority of the president s and priority of ivanka and it s a function of doing it right, not doing it last minute. that s what you see with a lot of these reversals of executive orders. they were done to be ticking time bombs to the administration. deb fisher reintroduced the workplace advancement act and the president didn t get behind it. you have to review the legislative process. the president doesn t get involved in every piece of legislation that s introduced on the senate or house side.
protect or try to improve gender pay. so how does ivanka carry out this message and this mission when that s not reflected in what her father is doing. let s talk about the policy that was rolled back. if it was such an important policy, why did he wait until the last minute? why did who wait? obama to pass over this executive order that president trump had to reverse. hold on a second. hold on a second. go ahead. why does it matter when in his administration he got it done? gender pay is a massive issue. ivanka talked about how she believes it s important. she actually talked about it right here. i want to share it real quick. i am incredibly hopeful that legislation is put together and obviously i m a big advocate and working diligently to ensure that happens. it has to be bipartisan. so what does it matter when president obama signed that order? he did sign the order and it s the only thing we have in government trying to protect