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Number of projects. >> is there anyone you have not interviewed yet that youre going to still try to interview? >> you know, i havent thought about that, but if i wanted to interview them and i havent with, theres a reason. its because they dont want to do it. and sometimes you hit people at the right time and you can change their mind, but there are people out there that dont like to be interviewed. i like to have a crack at jeff bezos. >> jeff bezos. >> thats interesting. yeah, he almost never...

But also leaving as the richest congressman, by far. that always amazes me you business success is second to none in the body but was amazing as you got it in a tough deal to get it. other technology field. i was thinking of you, chairman, because of whats going on with the rift in china and auto companies are reporting sales in china down for the third straight month. ford is down 40% and these tariffs are a threat there. the beginning -- are you worried? >> i am concerned that china does not g...

You have different associations that said they would do that. thats one area of the skills gap. the other area is in the technology field. we talked about the ceo of ibm new collar jobs. you dont need a college degree but more than high school. these are new collar job ibm needs people to fill. systems administrator. data center technician. designer technical support, security analyst. >> sandra: that dont need a college degree? >> they need training and they could get the great-paying jobs. >> ...

I felt weird about it. it was very evident that this gender gap existed. >> the technology field is extremely male dominated. only see 30% representation for women in most tech companies. it is funny. the first programmers were women. >> can multiply and divide more than 2,000 times a second. >> for a long time, the stereotype of what a computer programmer looked like was a woman. then roughly many the 80s it sort of switched. >> sometimes it is intimidating to walk in a room, not see anybody th...

Briefing. what specifically do you want to hear? what questions have you crafted that you hope to get answered? >> well, i want to hear the status of the investigation. but i think we also need to step back and realize this is going to be an ongoing challenge. we have to confront it in a variety of ways. we need a little less demagogic comments from some of these presidential candidates like mr. trump and a little more thoughtful action. one, we do need a review and reform of the visa waiver pro...

Now, so theyre using other means. it would be helpful to agriculture and everything else to have water saved in the good years so that you could use it in the bad years. im not denying that californias air is dry. thats obvious. im not denying there is a drought. but there is no denying that politicians have made this problem immeasurably worst. >> you at hp made a -- made it a policy that any job opening that senior job opening you had to swer view a woman. >> we had to have diverse candidate. ...

Means. it would be helpful to agriculture and everything else to have water saved in the good years so that you could use it in the bad years. im not denying that californias air is dry. thats obvious. im not denying there is a drought. but there is no denying that politicians have made this problem immeasurably worst. >> you at hp made a -- made it a policy that any job opening that senior job opening you had to swer view a woman. >> we had to have diverse candidate. >> is that a pledge as a pr...

But there is no denying that politicians have made this problem immeasurably worst. >> you at hp made a -- made it a policy that any job opening that senior job opening you had to interview a woman. and a minority. >> we had to have diverse candidates. >> is that a pledge as a president? >> yes, thats how you get ameritocracy. >> facebook question. america christopher wanted to ask you this. ms. fiorina, having experience in the technology field what would you do to implement true cyber security...

From the pictures i saw and a question not answered. and will you have to wait or the next one always instantly got hundreds of openings for you? >> how many hours of sleep do you need in life, steve? >> it depends. i got for a lot of my life i was four or five and now, you know what? i like it when i can get eight but its hour here, two hours there. >> i cant imagine your brain being dormant. >> no, no, no. you know what? almost everybody thats excited about the technology field, excited about ...

Go be you and do what youre passionate about it, learn it, do well, and youre going to succeed. >> and there are a lot of women in those male-dominated fields that are there to -- and they want to help. women are stronger together than apart. thats what i always say. also, there was this founder of the household name brand company that called me, he was an ex-founder and ceo and he said, angela, im looking for a lot more women leaders in the technology field, id like to bring them onboard. so me...