It is unbelievably positive. My biggest gripe is something i know cant be fixed and should not be fixed. We will go right at each other on issues. If somebody is a muslim and somebody else is a christian, they will go right at each other. Hopefully they will listen to each other. You will not do them. Do that. On campuses, i do not think there is enough discussion about gender relationships and gender equity and sexual harassment. I think people avoid having that discussion. I do not think there is enough discussion about race in your generation, but we had all of these discussions in my generation, and the reason i think you do not have those discussions, i think you need to have those discussions, but i think it is secondary to what you really need to do, which is to heal the wounds of my generation. Now, what we did, the civil rights movement, how about that . Every generation has their things they can be really proud of, but we also have things we can do better. I have kids just a
To set the stage for this, if you look back at our generation, essentially your parents, if you look back at the generation we came in through the 1960s in the country changed radically in ways that you cannot imagine. Unlike the relationship you had with your parents through the most part were you talk to back and forth in your shared values and even musical taste, unlike that kind of relationship we could not have got. We loved and respected our parents but they did not understand us at all. We did not understand them. We really did set out to develop a new country, a new culture in many ways, and we did. It was not so easily done. Our parents went through the great war, world war ii. They came back having seen horrors and they had fought for their country and wanted nothing more but to settle down and live a decent life where hard work was recorded where they could simply raise kids and have a family. They were very different than we were. There was a war going on in that generation
You have several publican candidates of their. Paul ryan, rand paul, all pushing different things. What do you think the areas you would focus on . You have the shortterm and longterm issues. They are both important. I really believe there are great opportunities to drive this in the shortrd term. The energy revolution, which we all see and appreciate. The question that this administration has become very aggressive and i congratulate them on the trade side which will create a good deal of Economic Growth and opportunity. The reality that we are finally facing up to the fact that there are many Job Opportunities if we can get the government to help make it happen. Energy, trade, the whole question of investment and where its going. I think we are going in the right direction. We will seening is three speeches this weekend what i said on question of opportunity or inequality is because the white house has chosen, it appears to us, to make this their approach over the next year. I think
A gentle reminder to all of us in the news business. When the light goes on, you are live on the air and the light is always on on the ridicu list. Erin brunette, out front next is president obama calling the shots or is hamid karzai. Is the tea party dead and a man accused of murdering 12 people at a colorado Movie Theater is ordered to stand trial. His lawyers say he is mentally ill but does it add up . Lets go out front. Good evening, everyone. Im erin brunette. Out front, who is calling the shots, president obama or hamid karzai . Obamas mixed messages as to when american troops might come home from the countrys longest war in afghanistan raised more questions. Here is what president obama said today after meeting with karzai in washington . We have already reduced our presence in afghanistan is to roughly 66,000 u. S. Troops. Our pledge will continue to bring our forces home at a steady pace and in the coming months, ill announce the next phase of our drawdown, a responsible drawd
Speech. Sure, its a thankless task. You end up trying to do something for your political party, and at the same time youll never be able to compete with the symbolism and stature and grandeur that goes into the state of union, and what you say usually gets lost because much of it is written before the president s transcript comes out and in addition you end up with a more memorable moment. Senator rubio, it was his water bottle. It has begun to snow outside in washington b. C. Oh, my. Yes, its coming down hard. You were keeping a time on the speech. How long was it . An hour and six minutes. It was a long one. We are figuring it was less that an hour. It took over an hour. We are about to hear the republican response from Cathy Mcmorris rogers. Lets listen. What an honour it is for me to be with you after the president s state of union. Foont tonight we honour america, a nation that has seen the gratest opportunities we have seen. A nation where we are not defined by our limits, but ou