things will kind of go not go away but kind of allow it? like she said, when she was in the class with the lieutenants, they wasn t worried about oh, you re female. maybe it s more of a generation, as you said, generations before. i think i graduated the same year as you. i saw different things and probably the lieutenants coming out today. that s my question. and is there research being done with maybe a generational gap as far as cultural as we change our culture? i definitely believe it is leadership s ability to change that and make a difference. that s a great question. anybody want to take a crack at it? anything you researched about the generational question? i think there is research that indicates there is sort of a cultural gap and certainly with don t ask don t tell there s the same kind of indications. the problem is often that leadership is part of the generation that may be stuck in the old culture we re talking about. so it may take some time for cultural
told him i was contemplating what do you think if i ran or congress, paul just said he completely encouraged me. and i really credit that as a turning point. on the night of the debate, where were you? i was at center college with paul there in the back room. in kentucky? in kentucky. and i was in the room when secret service and paul and his wife went into the room afterwards. i thought he did a great job. let me ask you about congress yourself. the bells go off sometimes. there are votes. meeting with constituents. what s your routine? great question. i think it s changed sings i got here. the first two months in congress is overwhelming. my foremost is making sure we have an eye on a daily basis. that goes down to staff assistants and interns. we are responsible for all the constituents. i get morning clips from all the local news district. daily blogs and weeklies. i make sure they all read the clips. late they they start with congressional women s sft ball pr
this morning we begin this morning with that breaking news coming out overnight in indonesia six explosions rocked the city. at least seven people are dead the coordinated attacks taking place in a major shopping and business area, it was close to embassies, the united nations office and star bucks and i.s.i.l. is claiming responsibility to our correspondent in jakarta. what is the security situation like where you are right now? reporter: well, as you can imagine the security situation here in the central business district in jakarta is extremely tight. we have military tanks here on stand by. they re parked literally on the main thoroughfare off jakarta, the capital of indonesia. it s all very near a few - not even april hundred metres a hundred metres away from the intersection where the attacks took place earlier this morning where six bombs have been found by police, one small one and one medium sized bomb and where a full attack was taking place with differen
and expectation is everybody has learned that there s no reason why we can t work on the issues at hand. so hopefully that s a lesson that will be internalized and not just by me but also by democrats and republicans not only the leaders but the rank-and-file. thanks very much, everybody. mr. president, will this happen all over again in a few months? well for the first time in 17 days the federal government is up and running this morning, a final congressional vote last night, capped an ugly drama on capitol hill where partisan politics drove the nation s economy into the very brink. in the end lawmakers avoided defaulting on the federal debt but nevertheless there s plenty of damage to go around. 87 house republicans joined democrats in supporting legislation to fund the government into early next year while raising the debt ceiling to cover what s already been spent. not a single democrat opposed it. on the senate side 18 republicans opposed the bill among them ted cru
learned that there s no reason why we can t work on the issues at hand. so hopefully that s a lesson that will be internalized and not just by me but also by democrats and republicans not only the leaders but the rank-and-file. thanks very much, everybody. mr. president, will this happen all over again in a few months? well for the first time in 17 days the federal government is up and running this morning, a final congressional vote last night, capped an ugly drama on capitol hill where partisan politics drove the nation s economy into the very brink. in the end lawmakers avoided defaulting on the federal debt but nevertheless there s plenty of damage to go around. 87 house republicans joined democrats in supporting legislation to fund the government into early next year while raising the debt ceiling to cover what s already been spent. not a single democrat opposed it. on the senate side 18 republicans opposed the bill among them ted cruz, mike lee, rand paul and marco