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That think this is absolutely a good idea and others who think it is absolutely not. >> when i first watched your piece today, poppy, i was almost speechless and i wanted -- well talk to a clinical psychologist in a moment. but youre seeing this with both gay and straight, men and women, right? >> absolutely. and the guy in our piece that started family by design, the website, told me hes actually seeing a vast majority of straight men and women that are doing this. and that even surprised him. ...

People feel insecure in traditional companies in their jobs, they feel less willing to ask for time off to look after children. another very important factor is, that theres been many of the traditional male industries, the manufacturing, construction, things like that, which have been so badly hit in the recession. the areas where there are more women employed like health care. are still growing employment, retail as well. thats one factor which is leading to the shift in the balance. >> and re...

1960. some of the major factors, a couple, you have mormoe men bei laid off and an increase in single moms. a pew study also shows this. that most americans dont necessarily approve of the new changes. 51% according to pew say they believe kids are better off when mom stays at home. lets talk about this. joining me now, maggie, career consultant and radio host. and donna richardson, in the big d in dallas today. ladies, welcome to both of you. the topic fascinates me. let me just say that first ...

But the problem is even though we have great laws in california they do now, maryland, new york, connecticut, you can name many states, as long as those guns can cross state lines without having a background check attached to them, we still need that legislation. >> reporter: but the study found that handguns, not assault weapons, were used in the overwhelming majority of gun violence, jon. jon: some eye-opening numbers there. theres another study out, the pew study, that finds americans are bad...

Hispanic, a pew study would show. it would probably benefit democrats greatly to have the new voters on the rolls. jon: if good politics is good policy and if this thing gets passed by the congress and signed into law, then you see benefits for both parties? >> no, look, i think right now youve got to look at what happened in 2012, the white vote in the united states has declined to under 75% of the vote now, that is a place where republicans have always done well. mitt romney won up near 60% of...

Can be created to make a drug that alters your consciousness. >> and the internet helps facilitate this. >> you can buy them on the internet, it is extremely easy. most of the drugs, the actual chemicals, come from china. they can come straight to your mail box and you know, maybe youd like to mix them up with a little speed or something like that its a whole underworld that a lot of, quite frankly kids who dont even know drug dealers to buy these things really from. >> it is a brave new world i...

But theyre only getting $28 billion out of that instead of $50 million, which would be the whole boat of that because theyre keeping in place other farm subsidy programs. >> youre for reducing farm subsidies. >> absolutely. >> heres the grand point that has come out of this when you talk about a balanced approach. there was a pew study and they asked people what do you want to cut and this is the same thing that you find, when you ask specifically they dont want to cut anything. but theres a wor...

>> thank you. nice to be back. >> i miss you in congress. do you miss you in congress? >> yes and no. i had asked my governor if i could get that interview appointment because in this particular next few months some of the most important decisions we could make are going to get made. but im a little worn out and ill be honest, when the phone rings now it is almost certainly not going to be a crisis. its not going to be some problem that i have to try to cope with. and the other thing is i want t...

Could get that interview appointment because in this particular next few months some of the most important decisions we could make are going to get made. but im a little worn out and ill be honest, when the phone rings now it is almost certainly not going to be a crisis. its not going to be some problem that i have to try to cope with. and the other thing is i want to write. im spending a couple days in new york talking to publishers. and the blank page has always been my greatest enemy. and if ...

Do you miss you in congress? >> yes and no. i had asked my governor if i could get that interview appointment because in this particular next few months some of the most important decisions we could make are going to get made. but im a little worn out and ill be honest, when the phone rings now it is almost certainly not going to be a crisis. its not going to be some problem that i have to try to cope with. and the other thing is i want to write. im spending a couple days in new york talking to ...