we e-mail each other. right next to each other. it s gotten bad. our tech culture. at its worst. well, saggy pants. saggy pants. still in the news. this guy gets kicked off of an airliner in chicago over the weekend. he is arguing with attendants over his severely sagging pants. with spirit airlines. apparently they were so low they were hanging below his buttocks. his whole caboose was out. his whole caboose was out. the airline code requires customers to wear shoes and adequate clothing. don t think it is adequate with your butt hanging out. an issue. saggy pants, a cultural nobody wants to see all that. in your neighborhood. don t come on the plane. we all got to sit there. look at your rear. find a way to put a fee on that the airlines. all heard of the leaning tower of pisa. they re saying the coliseum in
their board. and you speak about some of the the almost fraternity style culture, you talk about vip parties where girls were brought to the tables by bouncers and dismissed if they weren t pretty enough. was this pervasive throughout facebook? and also is that a broader part of the sort of tech culture? you know, i think it s on an individual basis. i think lots of these guys are really great and would never do anything like that, everyone has like a bad moment here and there sometimes, where they go too far. i think the thing about silicon valley and tech is that it s so male dominated. it s beginning to change, but that s how it was when i started. these things could happen and it wasn t really clear that anyone would be around to say no, that s not okay, you shouldn t do that. that s the situation women in technology are facing and i m really looking forward to it getting a lot better. this is a really fascinating book and i congratulate you on what you did and it really takes
it will make things more difficult. it is very important that you act quickly, and i m now waiting for your response. cnn s elise lapin joins us from the white house. before we get to reaction, let s talk about the demands. what are they demanding? well, soledad, a range of demands starting from releasing all al qaeda and taliban prisoners and in particular those responsible for the 1993 bombing of the world trade center, the attempted attack on the world trade center, and also a halt to all air strikes in yemen, somalia, afghanistan and pakistan and the list goes on. more goods and people being able to go from egypt to gaza, so it is really running the gamut of specific things that deal with al qaeda to all muslims and arabs. that is a big list of big asks, and what is the reaction from the white house and the state department? well, if you remember, soledad, mr. weinstein was kidnapped in august and in december al qaeda claimed responsibility and the leader of al qa