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Until he asks for policy changes. until then, theres no point in talking about what the funding is for. hes not willing to change that law and make them just like immigrants from mexico and canada. >> if youre sitting on the border in one of these towns, all of this back and forth about the semantics and who goes first or the policy, what are you going to do? >> and you hear the press secretary, the president of the united states talk about the continuing security of the border. there is no secu...

Border situation. >> jeff sessions was on the senate floor for a half hour railing largely against the president, his policies, encouraging these folks, these young kids to send these children because theyll be dreamers, if you will, down the road. theyll get status in the united states. how is this playing out on the hill? >> that is right. its hard to imagine this getting more partisan, but it is. you have republicans saying, "i told you so" to the president. when you unilaterally send a signa...

From the vatican question whether its a grand gesture that doesnt have teeth to it. one victim says more still needs to be done to address specific policy changes within the church itself. listen. >> i dont believe we should get our hopes up so high as to believe this is going to bring about some kind of global reform from pope francis. if he was really interested in making reforms, theres some basic things he would be doing. for example, he would be focusing more on prevention, grown adults who...

That i actually found really promising here is when i saw the cochran strategy of going into african-american neighborhoods and touting things like his support for the ag bill and support for food stamps. i was frankly worried that there would be a white backlash, pushing white voters in the direction of mcdaniel. it doesnt seem like that happened. >> it doesnt seem like that happened. with the county level data we have right now, we dont think that happened. but the other thing we have to remem...

>> i think secretary kerry makes a credible point here. i think he is right. >> i dont really care whether snowden comes back to the united states or not. i think, you know, the story we talk about it like its a story about edward snowden, but really its about a story about the information that edward snowden released. it led to policy changes. we got congress acting with prohibiting certain collection practices that he revealed. some of the information he released, in my view, was damaging to u...

Record thats high. pressure on him to get them down. were talking about changing the types of criteria for deportation. how do you feel about that? >> some of it depends on what his intentions are. if his intentions are to bring about policy changes, policy changes that he cant get through congress, thats a big problem. we have an elected house and an elected senate for a reason. those who make our laws are supposed to be accountable to the people at two-year intervals in the case of the house a...

Of her power and ability to get attention and press and influence to push for some more policy changes. things that would help women in the workforce, like helping with child care or flexible work schedules or paid parental leave. things that would make an immediate impact and be a game-changer for a lot of folks. >> i think its important. i dont think we -- i think its important for the reason youre exactly saying, its gotten us talking. so at harvard, at berkeley and at michigan state, i have ...

Right? and weve had an increase of female doctors and lawyers because weve had so many positive images of women. but when young girls want to be a scientist or they want to be, you know, an entrepreneur or a hacker or computer scientist, theres no one who looks like them. and so we have to make sure that we have these popular images and that we take this on as a policy initiative. >> what policy changes do you think need to be implemented here? >> i believe that we need computer science in every...

Companies through the 40 forward campaign. 40 companies will get funding as part of a challenge to increase female participation by 25% over the next year. now, the push comes as the so-called gender gap in the technology sector the technolog sector has gotten increased tension in the last year. according to "the new york times," women now make up half of the u.s. work force, they only hold about 24% of technology jobs. one organization leading the way in the effort to change this trend is the g...

About this change one year later on the autopsy and you wrote this. you said "tpm checked in with the rnc on what policy recommendations congressional republicans adopted from the report. rnc spokeswoman kirsetn kukowski didnt point to any. but told tpm in e-mail that immigration was a difficult problem." explain. >> what the committee is doing is looking back at the autopsy report and trying to find areas of success that it can point to. the areas where it has succeeded, i would say this is tru...