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Can t be done. between the statements that we saw from the russians, the statement today from the syrians, this represents a potentially positive development. we are going to run this to ground. boy, it does seem as if john kerry takes one step forward and the president ends up bringing him one step back. anyway, i ve got a couple of people who have been listening to john kerry for a long time. the longtime columnist for the boston herald and jim brody, the host of the broad side on the new england network. they also host radio on wgbh. margery, first, you guys hear from the actual people rather than politicians blow harding all the time. the compromise is you get the sense there s going to be a sense of relief in the boston ....
Team. that s just true, every news organization has reported that. and now, we have the new york times reporting that if you cut this group a check, of $500,000 or more, you ll get four meetings with the president. you will get other white house meetings and the question, margery, whether this is directly contradictory to the promises that barack obama made when he was running for office. there were ethics rules in washington that tried to stop the purpose and insulate from outside influence, we don t want big pocketed individuals from getting access to our lawmakers and president so they can buy a position. and is that what s happening here? well, i have to tell you the optics don t look good. what jay carney was trying to highlight, unfortunately what we re seeing here i think is one of the most injust issues in terms of our democratic system in that money does talk in washington, regardless what party you re in. it buys you access and influence, look at the way ....
This can affect all kinds of industry, who knows what they will go after next? but again. what are you going to do and who you you are going to prosecute. i think you hack them and zap them twice as hard. margery are you hacking them back. the president mentioned it in the state of the union . released a strategy report and you have the attorney general talking about it and companies that benefited from the hacking . you have signed executive orders that stounds like a lot. waren, what do you say? it doesn t mean anything. it is it useless. he s pretending. of course he takes it seriously. we all do. and they are hacking us. what are you to do. ghairy - gari is it gary is right. ....
To the republican party and i think it s easy to send accusations out, but i don t believe that there s any basis of fact to what he perceives to be a problem, an endemick problem in the republican party, i reject it. megyn: margery, you can go and find individual comments by anybody on either side if you want to make his the examples he used, the birther issue, the whole thing unto itself. those terms, lazy, that s, that s a matter of perception, and a matter of opinion. but let s say all of those remarks are super racist, you can do that for either side and try to tar the whole party with it. well, and i think there s a danger in saying that he s not a republican and using a test, and what i think he s doing, i think he genuinely wants to improve things for the republican party and his taking a stand on this issue is his way of doing that. you look at the facts, only 6% of african-americans are registered as republican. as we saw in the elections ....
Ben ferguson show through the icon network. and from clifton consulting, okay, he, a couple years ago, wanted to make sure that government at all levels, including the top levels had diversity and now, you know, it s not that there are no women now. we still have kathleen sebelius at health and human services and janet napolitano department of homeland security, but the women are getting few and far between, margery, in the second term obama cabinet. the talent we re seeing the same in corporate america, and 5% of ceo s women. and he had last term historically most women and minorities, with 22 cabinet seats, 8 women and 9 minorities. now we ve heard that hilda solis the first latino woman in a cabinet is stepping down and so, again, this is creating a challenge of who are the women. now, there s two issues people talk about, it s the pipeline, ....