pleaded not to rape and criminal sex act charged. he made the plea in the last hour just days after a grand jury indicted him on charges involving two separate women. weinstein continues to argue any sex that occurred was consensual. the miss america organization is dropping the swim suit competition. the women will take part in an interactive q and a with the judges. the evening gown portion is also eliminated. aswoman it wants to emphasize the role as a scholarship provider. the united nations human rights office is calling on the trump administration to, quote, immediately halt its policy of separating migrant children from their parents. the administration instituted a zero tolerance policy on the southern border one, please listen to me, one month ago. prosecuting adults who enter the country illegally and separating
it s an honor for me to be speaking with you, and not only because of obviously an answer that many would appreciate just because of your thoughtfulness around it, but i wanted to get your response first about the criticism of the questions perhaps being too political. what would be your response to that criticism? yeah, i think one thing that s really important to realize is that the miss america organization is the largest scholarship provider to women. and so, when you re up there in that top five question, you know, you expect those women to be scholars. they should be aware of what s going on in the world. they should have an opinion. and while that opinion may not be the opinion of everyone, that s just the nature of politics. she should be able to say why she believes what she believes and be able to back it. so, i actually appreciate that the questions were difficult. you know, we re in a situation where we re on national television. and you know, you want to make sure that t
even though she is not going to compete at miss america. shy heart is not breaking. if you don t know how old you are you probably shouldn t be miss anything. the rules are pretty clear. you can only be 24 years old. she turns 2 a not only our hearts should not break for her. whoever runs this organization should be fired. how you cannot figure out how old someone. we are a nonprofit organization. the largest scholarship provider for women. that s the issue. she missed all the rules. people should be held accountable. the great thing is she is getting her scholarship. is miss america ageist? i think from a pr perspective, i think she could have taken a negative and turned it into a positive rather than going on air and using the media appearance as an opportunity to complain. i think she should have taken this and sort of, you know, looked at the larger issue of ageism. is 24 the new 50? this is what it should have been about. how can daniel ratcliff is he doing pr this m
reality-based television and social media society that we re in, it s still a way for women who have higher education girls to achieve their goals and finance them. yes, you do have can i ask a question, i m just curious about. so when you re doing the bathing suit part, because i think it s a fantastic to be able to reward people financially, but then at some point, you re in high heels and a bathing suit and really no woman ever walks around in high heels and a bathing suit in the real have you been to monte carlo. maybe there! but i m curious to know, you re like, i get that this is part of the gig, but i guess i i don t think i would encourage my daughter to go for that part of it. the challenge is, the fact that it is the largest scholarship provider almost makes me recoil. i think, why is the largest scholarship provider for women something where, in fact, one would need to wear high heels and let me give you a little bit of insight. first of all, it s the herit
that s some way substantiative. that s the way the pageant chose to do it. we all know in this business, how we look matters. it s why i wanted to bring in your scholarship. this sense of sort of the need to somehow defend pageants, right? in part the point i m making. on the one hand, you have this pageant that depose back to 1921, that is this large scholarship provider. on the other hand, it s pursue that part of the feminist movement began with a critique of the pageant. so is there a space for thinking about whether or not they have any value, and what that value is, not just in terms of the scholarship significance, but is there any social redeeming value in them? first of all, i really believe that the miss america pageant or program, as it has been called over the years, is more of a symptom of what s going on with women and society today, and even feminism, and not a cause of it. so what it does, it reflects society. and when it started, those women who competed in their b