she is a woman to admire. 31 years at ibm. she graduated with a computer science degree from northwestern. her former boss, ibm s last ceo told the new york times, quote, ginni got it because she deserved it. it s got zero to do with progressive social policies. so it might not surprise you to hear that she isn t jumping on this issue with the augusta national golf club. she s been silent. today it was augusta national s billy payne who addressed the media saying he wouldn t talk about membership. all issues of membership are now and have been historically subject to the private deliberations of the members, and that statement remains accurate and remains my statement. now, private clubs can do what they want, within reason. in 1990 ibm withheld its sponsorship of the pga championship in alabama in protest to the shoal creek club s refusal to allow black members. the club caved and so did augusta, which let its first black member in that year. then in 2003 the president
his intent is on hiding. you and i are going to have to do the seeking. what did i count, twice that reference to the speech? yes. and in many ways what we saw from mitt romney is he s really trying to go to these journalists and look at his promises and his policies and see what they match up. you know what else is interesting? i m sure the blog sphere is going to blow up, he took a shot at the blogosphere and says he wish people would go back to the old guard journalism. people would have more than one source, there would be editors and journalists. thank you so much. let s talk about new orleans. four former new orleans police officers should find out if they will soon be spending the rest of their lives in prison for killing unarmed seivians in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. sentencing is under way. i want to go to jean casarez in new york. remind us what these officers were found guilty of. these are civil rights violations. this all took place during the ch
of ibm have all been given membership to augusta national. the iconic green jacket that goes with it became theirs. but she is a woman and that makes all the difference at augusta national. the club has never invited a woman to join so this is a big moment for them. will they invite her, as they did each of her predecessors? she is a woman to admire. 31 years at ibm. she graduated with a computer science degree from northwestern. her former boss, ibm s last ceo told the new york times, quote, ginni got it because she deserved it. it s got zero to do with progressive social policies. so it might not surprise you to hear that she isn t jumping on this issue with the augusta national golf club. she s been silent. today it was augusta national s billy payne who addressed the media saying he wouldn t talk about membership. all issues of membership are now and have been historically subject to the private deliberations of the members, and that statement remains accurate and rem
i m kayla tausche at the realtime exchange. car sales solid. factory numbers a little softer than expected. markets in a wait and see mode ahead of those fed minutes. here s where we stand now. all indices to the downside. nasdaq fairing the best do down .1%. s&p losing six points and dow losing just about 54. midday movers, urban outfitters higher. an upgrade from citi. express scripts put on the conviction buy list from goldman. cvr energy also higher. carl ikahn. that up better than 6% today. take a look at the downside. moison coors lower. valero energy down about 3.5%. netflix downgraded at barclays. that stock down more than 50% in the last year. even though it had a great first quarter. guys, back to you. thank you very much, kayla. all right. right now the president is speaking in washington. he s speaking to members of the associated press who is hosting this event and other media members. our john harwood joins us right now. john, the president had some very int
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