Coke would attack pepsi, pepsi would attack coke, he depressed the entire product category caps off things. To a certain extent, our system is depressing the category of democracy. Young people turning off the news and are not reading the newspaper. I going in depth to policy issues. That is cleaning a situation in washington that is very problematic. Again, some of that bitterness in the states, as well, but it is nowhere as near as intense. I think are able, after the elections, to be able to move past the bitterness and sit down at the table and figure out what is the appropriate compromise. I think governors are committed to trying to help congress and sit down to have discussions. In some cases, i have talked to legislators in colorado about how can i, you know, by sitting down with a different interest group, helped get a congressional representative you know, into the end zone on a particular issue and make sure that they feel there is enough backing for them in the state to tak
Mom. You are also an economist. Is there an actual economic benefit to inspiring girls to reach higher . Absolutely. I fall into the camp that the single greatest underutilized resource we have as a nation is women and girls. 50 of the talent tool pool, the brains, the innovation and creativity, that is underrepresented across the board and it is its not a womans issue to help get women and girls into science and technology and business and go. Its a societal issue. If we could figure out a way to totally empower half of the brains in america, imagine how much better and more productive we would be . You think a woman president can do that better than a male president . I do. I think if a person is committed to making that happen well get that done but on balance it is powerful. You cant underestimate the value of a role model. Great. Well, governor raimondo, thank you very much. Weve run out of time. Time to wrap up. Next id like to welcome governor Susan Glasser with Governor Terry m
We talked earlier about transparency. He had conducted a 16 month secret investigation that people didnt learn about until three or four months ago. Being a cuban, i dont know why the president thinks that by talking to rile castro that they can determine the future of cuba. The future of cuba it belongs the future of cuba belongs to the cuban people. The president announced a policy that is full of misunderstanding and missed conceptions. He read something from the teleprompter that are nonsense, i am sorry to say. When people say that the president wants to reestablish relations with cuba, the United States has had diplomatic relations with cuba since 1977. The American Mission in cuba is the largest islamic omatic nation in cuba and it has been for many years. There are more american diplomats in cuba than canadians or any other. I also said that the notion of saying, is something hasnt worked, we have to do Something Else. The Something Else has to work. Just because something does
Of the provisions that block president obamas executive order on immigration. The senate is expected to move the measure forward this week after three failed attempts over the last month. The National Governors Association Winter meeting expected to continue momentarily. Hearing from secretary jeh johnson. He will be discussing Cyber Security efforts at the state and federal level. Secretary johnson is there after appearing on the sunday morning talk shows. Funding for his department set to run out this week. Secretary johnson this morning called the debate over funding absurd, and he said he hoped to some in congress will quote, exercise some leadership it comes to finding a solution. He also said 30,000 workers would be for load if the fund is not approved. We could hear something about that today from secretary johnson. If everybody can please take your seats, we can get started. Thank you and good morning to everybody. I want to thank the governors. I think we all understand the im
If it was very low, one would have expected to take most of the 10 billion years available. If it is transfer mia, life in the solar system or nearby stellar systems will also be dnabased. While there may be from its of life in our region of the galaxy, there dont seem to to be any advanced intelligent beings. We dont appear to have been visited by aliens. Im discounting reports of ufos. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos . [laughter] if there is a conspiracy to suppress the reports and keep for itself the scientific knowledge the aliens bring, it seems to have been an ineffective policy so far. For it is quite an extensive search and we have not heard any alien television quiz shows. This probably indicates there are no alien civilizations at our stage of development within a radius of a few hundred light years. Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet. Why havent we heard from anyone out there . One view is expressed in this the ca