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Home serve. Com im evan perez and washington. And this is cnn the skis, cnn Breaking News l right,veryon thanks for joining me. I ll mk jimez inor fredric wtfield. Wre goingo begin with President Biden were turning to the white house to meeth s naal Security Team about the innsifying theres a meeting that will include Secretarof Sta Antony Blinken, defense secretary d austin, and the chai othe joint chiefs of staff. Nrces say the u ctirancarry out a direct Aack Srael Iran has vowed retaation for...

Appointees, 92% are white. when you look at this class, these are future leaders. so if you have a class that is largely absent of minority people, these are the folks who will be leaders in the next 10, 15, 20 years. you better have a diversified class to lead -- america otherwise youre going to have the same problem. you go talk to black republicans and latino republicans and expand your applicant pool is not that hard. its not hard to find them. you have to have eyes and ears that are open to...

House interns. there are some criticisms pointing to the lack of diversity there. is that a fair criticism or do you think theres more to this story, seema? what are you interpreting from this? >> its true the intern class is less diverse than classes we saw under president obama. what did the applicant pool look like? if you look at voters, minorities were more likely to support president obama than president trump. did fewer apply? we dont know. >> we had to look at a picture and make assumpti...

And not judge it on its face. of course, its possible that theres more to this than meets the eye. you have to talk about the applicant pool certainly. what are your thoughts on this? >> my thoughts are largely that the most important thing is the confident of our character and whats in our heads and our ideas and our thought, not the color of our skin. so whether or not you have racial diversity in that intern class, i would argue probably you have a lot more diversity in terms of political vie...

Relatively thin crust of american society that, like, wants to direct films and is mad that they cant. >> right. right now we have student debt topped over $1 trillion. weve never engaged in a social experiment like this before. people at the beginning of their professional lives are saddled with six figures of debt and then being asked to enter their working lives by working for free. those two things dont match up unless youre basically institutionalizing a structure, a privileged class who wi...

Sequestration. we interviewed a researcher at a prominent state school, i cant name the school because she didnt want her identity revealed, spent 11 years in academia getting this degree, did her chemistry research project for a year, the project lost money. she had to find work. she could not get work because she had a ph.d. on her resume, she had to take the ph.d. off her resume, within a week she got a job as a secretary at an auto parts store. she likes the job, but this is a microcosm of w...

Rule is dont puff your resume, you can ask the ceo of yahoo and you can ask the intern class about it. mitt romney did have in regards to yields and returns which is something that wall street cares about is a perfectly perfect record there. >> and he has $15 million in his own bank account. >> it definitely wasnt bad for the investors and some of his investors were teachers unions, but when you puff, and you puff, and you puff, you destroy yourself. >> e.j.? >> he started the week looking like ...

Education? >> a lot of people are getting out of school this week, a lot of people are looking at their summer internships and the first rule is dont puff your resume, you can ask the ceo of yahoo and you can ask the intern class about it. mitt romney did have in regards to yields and returns which is something that wall street cares about is a perfectly perfect record there. >> and he has $15 million in his own bank account. >> it definitely wasnt bad for the investors and some of his investors...