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May 20, 2015
However, fieldstone is the only school that uses mandatory affinity groups in the country as the linchpin of teaching racial literacy. this program, to me sounds a lot more like racial identification rather than racial literacy. we can all agree, we want our children to have -- >> listen ive got to go but i want to say -- >> is this the methodology? is this the right -- >> youre probably concerned about the way that it was initiated. >> concerned about the methodology. >> there is some good in t...
December 30, 2013
Adviser fran townsend. we heard bob bear say in that piece, he would be surprised if there were not some attack on the games. the officials saying they are more concerned about security here in sochi than they have been for any game since athens in 2004. why so much concern? >> well, look, rarely do you actually have a terrorist group come out and say, were going to try and disrupt these games. as ive always said, when al qaeda-related affinity groups make these sort of statements, you got to ta...
June 3, 2013
Political reason. they were flooded with applications. >> you know what, david, thats tough to swallow. when youre a republican its hard to swallow that. it wasnt done for political reasons when the words chosen for target words were conservative, tea party. when you have a group that was supporting -- the 2007 group freedom watch we saw yesterday come out where donors were getting audited and targeted as well. not just the groups. >> their work -- >> its very hard -- its very easy for your side...
June 3, 2013
Said it wasnt done for a political reason. they were flooded with applications. >> you know what, david, thats tough to swallow. when youre a republican its hard to swallow that. it wasnt done for political reasons when the words chosen for target words were conservative, tea party. when you have a group that was supporting -- the 2007 group freedom watch we saw yesterday come out where donors were getting audited and targeted as well. not just the groups. >> their work -- >> its very hard -- it...
June 3, 2013
Need to be not judgmental of women who dont. i think men who are mister moms need to be accepted by those who are the alpha male bred wadwinn. i think its got to be whatever folks. different folks. >> marsha, we talked about this before around this table. first of all, what is the impact of this as a data point? now we have research backing up what so many of us know, which is that this is a new reality? >> yeah. it was so interest ing. the day this came out i was doing a roundtable discussion a...
June 2, 2013
They were flooded with applications. >> you know what, david, thats tough to swallow. when youre a republican its hard to swallow it wasnt done for political reasons when the words chosen were conservative, tea party, when you have a -- a group supporting -- the 2007 group freedom watch we saw yesterday come out where donors were getting audited and targeted as well. not just the groups. this is just -- its very hard -- >> their work -- >> its very hard -- its very easy for your side to say it i...
June 2, 2013
Today members of the u.s. congressional delegation to russia are talking about their fact-finding trip. they went to talk about the boston marathon bombing. some saying they believe the bombings could have been prevented in there had been better cooperation between russian and u.s. intelligence officials. a group of six lawmakers spent a week in the russian capital meeting with russian government and intelligence officials. an nbc news terrorist analyst. good to have you, sir. congressman dana w...
June 2, 2013
Argue, that sentiment is that government cannot be the driver of all these things. >> well, and government cant be the driver, but the biggest impediment to jobs growth in this country right now is the implementation of obama care. the 29 1/2 hours, getting under 50 employees, health care becoming too expensive to afford. this program is too expensive to afford. it was to be $800 billion. now its $2.6 trillion. come on. people are not hiring. when you look at the labor force participation rate, ...
June 2, 2013
Here we encourage girls and women to reach their potential. when they do, when we do, then we want to do something about it. i think we, women that work, need to be not judgmental of women who dont. i think men who are mister moms need to be accepted by those who are the alpha male breadwinners. i think its got to be whatever works -- for different folks -- >> marsha, we talked about this before around this table. first of all, what is the impact of this as a data point? that now you have, you k...
March 24, 2013
Aggressive about reaching out to all the different affinity groups or ancillary groups within the republican party, including log cabin republicans. he was the first chairman to make it clear that the corporate culture, as soon as reince priebus came in, was to be inclusive and welcoming. he took a lot of hits for that during his first term as chairman -- >> let me in here. dont filibuster me. none of that played out. we heard none of that in the last election. we heard the exact opposite from t...