Rangel was none too pleased this morning. Its embarrassing as hell. Weve been through all this with mitt romney, and we were very hard on mitt romney with his women binders. It is worth noting that this trend is not consistent with the president s record. Currently eight women serve in cabinet level positions, making up 35 of his team. Less than onequarter of george w. Bushs cabinet was made up of women. That merely mirrors of percentage of high level women appointed to federal positions outside the white house. 35 under president obama, and 25 under george w. Bush. Equally worth noting both of president Obamas Supreme Court appointments were women. Perhaps the real question about diversity within the president s inner circle isnt biological, but intellectual. The washington posts ezra cline notes that president obama hasnt named an outsider to his Economic Team since his initial 2009 picks. In a little over an hour the president will nominate jack lu for treasury secretary, a man who
Free weed is coming up with the election this week. Well look at that story. A growing number of people buying homes with cash. Its unbelievable. Many of these are investors from china. That really is putting a dent in the Housing Market and shaking things up. First lets go to brian in the weather center. Were off to a fairly foggy start for much of the bay area. Sunshine will break out all over the place. Theres a live look at san jose. Numbers are in the 50s. Santa rosa cooler than that. It will be a fairly typical late spring, early summer sort of weather pattern with fog at the shoreline. Shun shine will be coming out inland later. Temperatures will warm up a little today. It will cool off tomorrow and then a warming trend coming on tuesday. San jose high of 80, 73 oakland, 66 San Francisco, 77 mountain view. In the city today 66 degrees, 73 degrees for oakland. In the north bay nice, fairly warm. First lets get the latest with mark. The f. B. I. And other Law Enforcement agencies
Distinguished career, rudy was the director of the Congressional Budget Office where he supervised marty regalia who didnt learn a lot from him and thats why im here but i remember those conversations and i hope i can do them justice today and he is deputy assistance secretary for Economic Affairs at hud and a senior staff economist at the council of economic advisors. And then finally last but not least, we have david walker, founder and c. E. O. Of the comeback america initiative. Davids formerly the comptroller general of the united states. He was also the head director of the of the u. S. Government Accountability Office for almost 10 years. He is widely read and authored numerous articles on the debt deficit and he has a new initiative which i think makes tremendous sense and may doom it obscurity where things sometimes dont get discussed but davids new group is looking at the efficiencies, the inefficiency, the duplications in the government to try and find areas where we can sav
Everybody all set up . Obviously im grateful to have my fellow president s here as well as the Vice President. Before i begin, i want to say a few words about the situation in syria. As you have seen, today we released our unclassified assessment detailing with high confidence that the Syrian Regime carried out a chemical weapons attack that killed well over a thousand people, including hundreds of children. This follows horrific images that shocked us all. This kind of attack is a challenge to the world. We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale. This kind of attack threatens our National Security interests by violating wellestablished International Norms against the use of chemical weapons, by further threatening friends and allies of ours in the region, like israel and turkey and jordan, and it increases the risk that chemical weapons will be used in the future and fall into the hands of terrorists who might use them agai
Imus in the morning good morning, everyone. Are you ready for a real jobs recovery . A manufacturing comeback . Are you ready for Real Energy Independence . We can see it today on the horizon. Progress on pipeline approval. Progress on fracking regulation, that means more american oil and more natural gas. Build the pipeline and here come the jobs at no anything to the taxpayers. Environmentalists hate it, but maybe, just maybe the americans will win this one. And were close to a market high and Varney Company is about to begin. Nt know it ye, but they gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, theyll find some retirement people who are paid on salary, not commission. Theyll get straightforward guidance and be able to focus on other things, like each other, which isnt rocket science. Its just common s