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You, in lieu of this moment and those poll results, what role does president obama have to play in proving race relations in this country? >> a somewhat impossible role in some ways, right? i think he has to find a way to simultaneously share his views -- >> he doesnt have a magic wand. >> and he cant just fix it. its crazy that he cant do that. but i think its an incredibly difficult line to walk where hes trying to simultaneously allow african-americans to see that he feels their pain, and tha...

You can just see them contorting themselves to try to figure out how theyll make themselves against it without making it sound its personal, which it is. >> there are kids throwing away a lot of food. >> we have schools in which mcdonalds and burger king and taco bell are used to provide school lunches for our kids. we have 30% increase in obesity over 30 years. we have a crisis we should do something about it and give kids healthy food. >> we should give kids healthy food. you know i dont argue...

Moment when things go wrong, how to react. >> sully sullenberger will be in your seat tomorrow here in "the situation room." we will talk about this. how do we fix this problem? >> well, as i mentioned, they are starting to put in human factors to the design of the cockpit, starting to reintroduce manual controls. so whereas an automated system can work, lets train the pilots manually again on holding on to the throttle and understanding the aircraft. so a lot of remedial training will make a bi...

Cant succeed, 54 is more than for example. you add in the president, we knew it had no success. mcconnell never let on publicly from july on this is what he believed. we always talk about how mcconnell has been double bind, he is running for re-election. hes always had trouble running for re-election in kentucky. he has this tea party primary challenge next year. in listening to him speak out, it was almost like a calculation the scale may have shifted here. maybe its just with mcconnell. republ...

Enormous coverage so she basks in that and it is good for yahoo and if she is criticized, well, this is sexism. >> that is not true. people do not spend more time talking about the job of the look at the yahoo e-mail design. how many articles about that? but how many were this about the vogue spread she did? >> can we look at that, control room? she obviously was fitted and made up for many hours. no one forced the c.e.o. of yahoo to pose for the pictures and you are complaining we are coughing ...

Unauthorized biography sparked whether she streets her more hashly -- harshly because she is a woman. sexism? >> of course. of course. look, 21 of the fortune 500 c.e.o.s are women. people do not know how to cover women in the media. in 2013. 21 out of the 500? yes, in 2013 because women are in a double bind on several fronts. one, if you look good, and you are put together, people automatically assume you are a barbie and stupid. >> that doesnt happen on tv? >> never. if you dont look go and yo...

Fee on business insider sparked a debate on whether the press treats mayer more harshly because she is a woman. look at what has been said and written about mayer over the last yeerk. sexism? >> of course. 21 of the fortune 500ceos are women. people do not know how to cover women in the media. >> in 2013? >> in 2 have 13. in 2013. 21 out of 500, yes. women are in a double bind. one on how they look. if you look goodment if you are put -- if you look good, if you are put together people automatic...

Gets to bask in that. it is good for yahoo! and then if somebody criticizes her for doing her chief executive job, this is sexism. >> thats not true. people do not spend the -- spend more time talking about her job. look at the new yahoo! e-mail design, the logo design. how many articles were there about that and how many about this vogue spread she did? >> can we look at that control room? she was obviously -- probably spent many hours getting fitted and made up. nobody forced the ceo of yahoo!...

Advice to take herself off her own political ads because she was too attractive and it was actually -- and they were running focus groups and they were running polling and it was doing -- it was triggering some part in the male voter that was mutually exclusive with taking her seriously as an authoritative -- >> do you ever despair for your gender? just looking at some of these stories. >> all the time. consistently and constantly. >> there is this double bind. god forbid you be ugly as a female...

Back and making less than men? >> well, its working in a lot of different ways. in the first place, of course, there is outright discrimination. when you attach a womans name and a mans name to the same job application, she is less likely to be hired. and if she is hired she is offered a lower starting salary. so another part of it is that we have been socialized, that its rude for women to negotiate. and in fact we do get penalized when we negotiate. its sort of a double bind. we dont ask for h...