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Agenda and marshall other votes on capitol hill, thats where having that lack of trust or low numbers really does hinder your ability to get anything done. >> you have a confidence gap with the american people and hurts you in trying to get the legislative points on the board. jonathan, to you. you cover national security. you wrote an article about it today and the presidents foreign policy. look at this number when it comes to how people think the president is doing on foreign affairs, 61% dis...

It doesnt work well. we know this. you would never do it, joe, im sure. speak loudest or longest. >> no. willie? >> do you think a 22-year-old woman graduating college today has more of the confidence youre talking about than, say, when i graduated college almost 20 years just because of the advancements being made, senators and ceos being women positive role models, you think they have more swagger than they used to? >> we assumed when the started doing the research that would be the case. but ...

These opportunities, never really giving myself credit, and we all have felt that, but im not sure that we all understand what that is meant for us in terms of our careers and katty kay and i are digging into this to say is this real? are there numbers on this confidence gap we were feeling? what are the implications. just the numbers were really interesting to us. for example, hewlett-packard has done a study that has since been replicated. you wont be surprised to know that before women will a...

Competence. thats just one of the findings laid out in the new book called "the confidence code." joining me now the woman behind the book and katy kay. >> he guess that at home from me so thats fine. >> well get that out of the way. it takes a confident woman to be married to jay carney. whats the biggest finding. >> there were two. one theres a confidence gap between men and women and the data is all there and we need to get over it because the other thing we found as you just suggested when i...

Thats just one of the findings laid out in the new book called "the confidence code." joining me now the woman behind the book. thank you both for being here. claire happens to be married to jay carney, so im sorry for ripping on him at the beginning of the show. >> well get that out of the way. it takes a confident woman to be married to jay carney. whats the biggest finding in your book? >> there were two. one theres a confidence gap between men and women and the data is all there and we need ...

Time is dont say youre sorry. youre not sorry. have the confidence to go with what you believe in. talk about the confidence code. >> thats where the idea of writing this book came from. we would interview all these women around the country in politics, business, the military. women you expected to be brimming with confidence. we kept coming across phrases like, i was just in the right place at the right time. actually what we found was wells of self-doubt among women. so we started to look into...

Its a 20% gap in what we feel we deserve. >> that is remarkable that men dont -- you know, women want what, you know, they think works best for everybody. men are always about i deserve this, i did this, and blow through the walls. >> its not always -- theres a lot of evidence that men lead towards overconfidence, but what i will say is its not fraud. its a natural -- as columbia university put it in a study we found, its natural overconfidence. men arent faking it. they just really tend to thin...

Throughout the day. and we also have this morning dr. brzezinski coming on. also cosmos editor in chief joanna coles. weighing in on the confidence gap. also weve got documentary film maker ken burns joins us. a lot ahead on "morning joe." and the atlantic, this is big. >> and the book. >> this is huge. and the book, of course! well be right back. ♪ we are one boston. no adversity, no challenge, nothing can tear down the resilience of our city and its people.

You have great anchors like david brinkley, frank mcgee, people of that ilk and say, we are going to now have a person who even gauges in opinion, sometimes propaganda deliver the news, and are fair & balanced in terms of how were going to cover exit polls and entrance polls and the like. in my mind it leads to a confidence gap for the american viewer and public to say, listen lets have news here, lets have opinion there, lets not mix the two. i dont think on fox news channel you see grover norq...

Are going to now have a person who even gauges in opinion, sometimes propaganda deliver the news, and are fair & balanced in terms of how were going to cover exit polls and entrance polls and the like. in my mind it leads to a confidence gap for the american viewer and public to say, listen lets have news here, lets have opinion there, lets not mix the two. i dont think on fox news channel you see grover norquist hosting and anchoring the news coverage here at fox. when people say fox, youre not...