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Green quickly. we saw all women students there. one did want to know, one of the things she with was worried about in her question was, what do these reconciliation talks mean? how can we be assured in these reconciliation talks that womens rights will be protected? >> greta: president bush 43. >> of course he was there, but not by video -- >> greta: he was there in person. things are good? >> things are good. this is what we are working on through the bush institute. we continue to work on all ...

Listen. >> we liberated afghanistan from the taliban because of providing a safe-haven for al-qaida, but i believed then and believe now we have an obligation to help this young democracy in afghanistan survive and drive, and one of the best and most effective ways to do so is to empower women. >> well continue to work on all of the policy issues that were the most important to us when we were in the white house, and certainly the success of the afghan democracy and the iraqi democracy are both ...

We saw all women students there. one did want to know, one of the things she with was worried about in her question was, what do these reconciliation talks mean? how can we be assured in these reconciliation talks that womens rights will be protected? >> greta: president bush 43. >> of course he was there, but not by video -- >> greta: he was there in person. things are good? >> things are good. this is what we are working on through the bush institute. we continue to work on all the policy issu...

Have policies issues in it which it means to take the money away from health care reform, or the -- gut the environmental protection agency, but, assuming that is not in there and probably wont be, it will pass but the april 8 date is an important one, not only about the debt ceiling but that is also just before the new cr, if it passes, will run out and there will be no way the democrats are going to go to $61 billion, no way theyll go to $30 billion, when you get it now, you are now in the ter...

They may not be bffs. mark preston has the scoop for us out of washington. hey, mark. >> reporter: no audio. dont come to me. >> no audio, but we came to him. oops! smile! look like that never happened! >> yeah, who would have thought that the odd couple on capitol hill on wednesday would have been big wednesday and big labor. we talk a lot about felix and oscar who were television "odd couple." we saw yesterday the afl-cio president and thomas donahue talking about infrastructure spending. thes...

>> you know, i think that she does make some good points. they are becoming more irrelevant but there still is some relevance. i think one of the reasons that sarah has a little trouble with the mainstream media is, again, this lack of depth and breadth of knowledge on policy issues. if shes going to run for president, heres one of the things i want to say. shes a fantastic cheerleader for president. shes going to have to put on some display some depth of knowledge for these issues and if she ca...

Humanized him for them and made it much easier for them to think about dealing with him, working with him in the future. two of them, i will give you -- let you listen to now. the second one is the president of the freshmen class. listen. >> the fact that he took time away from that to meet with us and to greet us with the first lady was -- was very important to me and i think it did show, you know, good faith, and its symbolic, but its very important. >> there are going to be issues that were g...

You can motivate someone to do and just be a little careful or when there is all the controversy stay far away, reframe the issue and find your own voice and your own message that you think is going to connect with people it is the absolute worst move you can make, especially in politics. >> shannon: words are powerful. thank you for joining us to break it down. president obama has to strike just the right tone during tuesday nights a address and with so many things clouding the economy and unem...

So now is the moment with the pro-life majority in america wanting the government to pay for it to make sure the law is crystal clear. all the other issues can be addressed. >> the hypocrisy is overwhelming. we have politicians on the floor of the house this week talking about no government interference in our private lives. the same politician want to intrude on this decision by a woman, her family, her doctor and god, and those same politicians intruding in those private decisions. >> there is...

Demonizing gays and called for several networks to not even allow you to be on as a guest. how do you respond? >> it is telling what they are trying to do and that is to show off the bait. it is important in our form of government that we have debate. they say that the issues about whether or not homosexuality is an in born trait and same-sex marriage is good for kids and whether or not there are harmful effects for the life stalelifestyle, they want to sy that is beyond debate. it is not. we ar...