saying much not saying much at all about same-sex marriage. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us from new york so. jessica, what exactly did the president say when he addressed the graduates today? reporter: the president had a real message of empowerment and a little bit of politics. from president obama a message to female graduates that equality can be theirs. it is simple math, today women are not just half this country, it s half its workforce. reporter: if they work for it. don t just get involved, fight for your seat at the table. better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table. reporter: wonder if this is part of the campaign s apile to women voters, politics did creep into his message. whether you ll be able to earn equal pay for equal work. whether you ll be able to balance the demands of your job and your family. reporter: though the president share the stage with evan wolfson, he made only glancing reference to the
the banks that were too big to fail are bigger than ever and still making multimillion dollar bets. i m wore blitzer, you re in the situation room of . the latest skirmishes are being fought on college campuses with both president obama and mitt romney but neither candidate is saying much not saying much at all about same-sex marriage. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us from new york so. jessica, what exactly did the president say when he addressed the graduates today? reporter: the president had a real message of empowerment and a little bit of politics. from president obama a message to female graduates that equality can be theirs. it is simple math, today women are not just half this country, it s half its workforce. reporter: if they work for it. don t just get involved, fight for your seat at the table. better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table. reporter: wonder if this is part of the campaign s apile to women voter
times where he had an angel on one shoulder and devil on the other side, they were saying the same thing. we can get all the causes that we espouse, devil said, power, money, prestige. he did it was wasn t prepared. in the first campaign he did have people like that. mike: that s my point he chased them off. if you didn t agree with them, he shut you out. exactly. mike: is that what happened? exactly. mike: the devil was winning that discussion. the f first campaign we have david axelrod, harris hickman, he stuck around. we had people who had decades of experience. though ran each and everyone of them off. as you know david axelrod called incompetent. whether you like him or dislike him he s not incompetent. mike: when we come back from the break i want to talk more about what happened that led to this incredible fall from grace.