president. she wants europe to be watching. she want to be able to put pressure on them as she moves towards negotiations with the european union. i think body language will be everything. i thought what jillian tet was to say was fascinating talking about the mexican/trump battle as a kind of dress rehearsal for a trade battle with china. i think this is a dress rehearsal for how will the president deal with world leader and how will world leaders relate to him? it s interesting watching them together there, seeing them together there with the bust of churchill, so lots of meaning there. she looks quite stiff, but then that s kind of how she is. she s a serious person. she thinks very deeply about things, and you know, how will we judge how they are together as they take questions from the media, it s going to be interesting. and chris cillizza let s talk about some of the divisions in the white house pushing the president one direction or
many of them make lower wages. it s also been pointed out from some economists that we talked to, that women are making now only about 77% of what men earn. and so some are concerned that this is leading to so many children who are living in poverty. we have about 20% of our children in our country who are living in poverty. there may be some measures or some push if you will, to change some policies of how we re operating in this country. because a lot of people are concerned about what does it mean for those children. particularly when you talk about the maternity leave act in this country. where we re the only nation, the top economic nation in the world, right now, that has a maternity leave. but it is not a paid maternity leave. so women can get pregnant and have children, but they go off at a time when they need money probably the most important time they need money in their life, they don t have it. so there are a lot of interesting factors that come into play when you look deep
and any of us know, the most important asset you have is people and we have to work with people to insure they feel really supported. well, jillian tet, how much does the recession play into this. where people feel that they can t ask for time off. th they can t ask for family leave. men and women feeling they have to prove themselves, because if they don t do it, somebody else will grab that job? that s good and bad things happening right now as a result of the recession. on the one of the good things is that you have an entire generation that is now growing up, that is not wedded to the idea of there being a career ladder. they know they re going to have to be flexible and creative about how they structure their careers. and in so far as the younger generation as joanna says are having conversations about how to work together and maybe as a couple pass the baton back and forth in terms of doing work or being in portfolio careers, that flexibility is encouraging. what is not encou
impetus that s going to break the stalemate. and with the stock market doing well, because people needed, need some place to put their money, that s giving perhaps an artificial high. absolutely. to the economy. and there is a lot of speculation that slightly weaker-than-expected gdp number we had recently is going to encourage the federal reserve to indicate it s going to keep up the stimulus on its part and the longer we have the federal reserve providing support in that way, the less we have any real meaningful pressure on the politicians to do anything. jillian tet from the financial times, thank you very much. notable today is president obama s praise for nba player, jason collins. this morning at his news conference. i had a chance to talk to him yesterday, he seems like a terrific young man, and i told him i couldn t be prouder. one of the extraordinary
and what she s learned from them. first, i totally agree with that. i disagree with charlie on the health care thing. i think these are the best numbers the health care bill has had. i don t think it s fully litigated yet. i think there are a lot of americans who like a lot of the stuff in it but have said they don t like the health care bill whole. this gives another opportunity to argue about it. but on ann romney, i think she s his greatest asset and what she went through and the way she talks about how mitt romney comforted her, stood with her, she s a great asset to him. i don t think there s any doubt about it. charlie, e.j., thanks for being with us today. coming next, will israel attack iran even before our own election? what is the secret timetable that israeli officials are talking about? it s all the buzz here in aspen. and still ahead, new orleans mayor mitch landrieu joining me. plus, the financial times jillian tet and politico s mike allen. this is andrea mit