100 years old and needed more business. So this is really the economy we see. When we look at the internet or look at the political challenges in the United States and all the issues and all the sniping, what we see is, when people selforganize, they use the internet to connect with each other and they work with each other. Then the economy works. Great. So i think people can envision transformation when it affects them and they have a hard time when it doesnt. People in d. C. Understand the transforming political effect of being able to raise money on line. In a recent conference, we had travis from uber. People can understand uber. The Maker Movement, many people in big servicesector cities like this have a hard time taking seriously why should the Maker Movement what is it and why should it be taken seriously . How many of you have heard of the home brew computer club. Great. So it was a group that met in the bay area in the 70s and it was a group of people who traded supplies and t
Are you going to make that happen . People are working on that across the country. The best leadership is coming out of a group called code. Org. I encourage everybody, National Computer science week is the second week of september. If you dont know who ada lovelace is, reed the new book. The chapter starts with her. During that time, all americans are encouraged to do an hour of code. Right now, most people in this room are not programmers. Take one hour this year, go on to code. Org and to those activities. It will start to demystify this. Its an important skill. It does not mean everyone should be a programmer, but its a 21st century skill. You were a woman in teflon before there was this focus lab conversation happening around why are there not more women in tech. There were probably more women in tech when you started and there are now. Do you think things are Getting Better . Is this Public Discourse moving things . Yes. None of us created these problems. Discrimination, unconsci
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, see. Thank you especially secretary hagel for joining us. Lets start off with one bit of this. There is some ebola order today, tell us what the significance is. What i signed this morning was a memorandum to the chairman of joint chiefs of staff in response to the memorandum of recommendation i received from the chairman and the chiefs yesterday to go forward with a policy of essentially 21 day incubation for our men and women who would be returning from west africa. That policy was put in place by the chief of staff of the army a couple of days ago for general williams, and 10 of his associates who are now back at their base in italy. And what i said in response this morning was, give me within 15 days the operational specifics of how that would work. And then i believe we should review the policy within 45 days. The fact is the military will have more americans in liberia than any other department. Thats number one. Number two, our people, our younge
future and i think that washington could learn a little bit about this feel-good, get-along with the people. what are you looking for the nite, senator? well, i want the men on the team to know how much the city is so grateful for their leadership. i will tell you that drew brees makes everybody here so proud the way he articulate wlas s wh have been through and what it is worth fighting for. it is not just for us, but it is for the country, the wetlands we are trying to preserve and building the port and securing the protection of the city, and these men have articulated this for us, and rita benson, and what can we say about the benson family? yes. the benson family, as you know, have been instrumental and that was a big turning point. the other emotional moment for the saints is when the team came back, and that was a big point for you, james, my husband.
travel nightmare. that s worth the top spot on the list you don t want to be on. the list of people watching the saints as they get ready for a big pa read, guess who s going to show it to you, my friend in washington, in the situation room, mr. wolf blitzer. take it away, sir? thanks very much, don. president obama tries to get the last word on the ground rules for bipartisanship. this hour, the inside story on his talks with congressional leaders. republicans didn t get what they want. reporters, though, did, at least on this day. the president s spokesman slaps sarah palin s hand, a very public jab at the former alaska governor and her speech crib notes. this is the place to watch the in accordance super celebrate. we ll bring you the parade honoring. we ll have play by play by some of the city s famous natives and fans. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we haven t seen president obama like this in months. some reporters ease jaws dropped when he walk