[applause] i cant thank you enough. It questions. Not a bad question coming from you to him. Many thanks to all of you for coming today. Just one request and that is that you clear this audio because actually the two of them have to get to a press conference and rather quickly so we have a and i think if we clear the aisle and let them get through it would be much appreciated. [applause] thank you. Thank you. [applause] [applause] next new York Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand call some women to rise up and make a difference in the world. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] its just such a pleasure for me to introduce two extraordinary women tonight in two extraordinary voices in our nations public life. Our guest of honor is the mother of two, a wife, a lawyer sunday schoolteacher Community Volunteer former democratic representative from the 20th district of new york and of course now United States senator from new york in her second te term. But thats not all. As of two days ag
And she was the one with the picture were soaked with the Russian Foreign minister with the Big Red Button reset and a big smile. Can you imagine such a thing . Did they not understand that people have very different ideas. Let them are putins objective may well be tube rebuild the russian empire but those mistakes combined with some other tactical mistakes in syria for instance to draw a red line and then say gosh i guess i cant react without getting congresses approval but right now hes willing to act in iraq without congresses approval. Nonetheless couldnt do it than in that sends a message to russia and others in the world that is extraordinarily unfortunate for america. We have seen an explosion of very bad things throughout the world because the rest of the world has calculated what is happening. That is a dramatic reduction in our military capabilities and theres a departmental review that was recently completed report on by commission including president clintons department of
Had a pretty cushy coming in now, life coming up. I didnt know a lot of people who would serve in the military and you talk about the scourge of Sexual Assault in the military you are trying to address, which i think is great. I dont know a lot about the military, so when i hear that senator Barbara Mccaskill added misery seems to have a different approach to your proposed solution, i dont really combat it with a lot of expertise. I was wondering if you could address the contrast. Being that women agree on a lot of things, but we disagree on many things, too. But claire and i agree on a lot more than we disagree. Now we are working hand in glove on the Sexual Assault a College Campus issue. I still think the way the women in the senate work is really special. Women in the senate have a quarterly dinner. Barbara mikulski when she was senator and there was finally too, she said im going to start having a caucus. The two women started having dinner and she kept the tradition up for 20 yea