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Constituencies. even karl rove says cruz is off base. in a piece today, rove points out the conservative share of the 2012 elect rate was highest since 1976. republicans concerned about voters who failed this should look elsewhere. there you have two guys that want to win more than anything else. they think if you go to the hard right and do all these cultural war stuff, youll lose the general. theyre worried because their guy, jeb bush is not looking too good in the polls. >> they dont want to ...

His trunk and took a wrong turn on the border and his friend is describing the horrible conditions he is enduring. >> he was chained to his bed that at the end of being realized he was crippled from joint pain and not able to fire the stuff in the body. this is like prisonor of war stuff. this is disgraceful. he has done nothing violent or stolen or hurt anything. and they are treating him like a prisoner of war. >> this is the kind of treatment that -- this is not even

Warriors. we can inspire, help empower other wounded warriors, using the music as a healing tool. >> thats what you used to start the rock for recovery program. >> correct. yes, rock for recovery. something that came from the band and our mission to empower wounded warriors through our music. we have a facility in downtown houston that we just opened up. so wounded warriors come and play their own music, and we can teach them and mentor them and help them think about something else other than wh...

Challenge to have speaker of the house with a young baby. there are some realities in politics, especially when youre at the highest level of politics and leading your party and caucus, that would be very difficult. and i could not imagine obviously having been, having a 3-month-old while being speaker of the house would have been very difficult. there are women in congress who have had babies. its possible. my partner, my husband is very supportive and hes encouraging of the political work im d...

71% of mothers with children under the age of 18 were were in the labor force. women still spend considerably more time caring for children than their partners do. there are only so many hours in a week and work and motherhood each make their claims on them. when did our expectations become unreasonable. a buzzy cover story in "time" magazine this week crystallizes the question. a cover which features a mom breastfeeding her 3-year-old son asks, are you mom enough. and a controversial book by a ...

The week, towards a real nanny state. there are two big differences between last mothers day and this one. one political, the other personal. the political difference is not only does this mothers day take place during an election year, it hits a few weeks after motherhood, the value of mothers and womens work more broadly were at the center of a news cycle. hoping to revive this theme ann romney wrote an op-ed called three seasons of motherhood. it extolls the crown of glory that all mothers we...

Tends to happen in a social cohort that is very upper middle class, very privileged and highly educated. a lot of these trade-off discussions and the culture of incredibly intense time-committed mothering and the sort of professionalization of mothering in a weird way. as an activity that you bring the totality of your capacity as intellectual into. that is a conversation thats happening in a specific cohort. i dont want to overgeneralize this. because i think the conversations can get blinkered...

Than it was in the 1960s when i was growing up. when you used to be able to have mom and home and dad at work. now mom and dad both have to work, whether they want to or not and they usually have to have two jobs. weed into good child cares in society. to start a child care center not off where people live, but where they work. and that is something which we helped create. a company called bright horizons. >> mitt romney, 1994 talking about a big private equity success which was helping early fu...

♪ woman dont treat me so mean ♪ i guess if you said so >> how does the conversation about women and mothers transfer into political arguments about policies is what im curious to hear from you, both. i want to give someone statistic that i feel that one of our producers found that to me embodies the challenges that parents of both genders face. this is child care. child care costs more than double public college tuition in new york. more than double public college tuition. and college tuitio...

Tea party governor and one of the cuts currently on the chopping block is significant cuts to the head start program. which is obviously a program for three and 4-year-olds to get a good start. but its part of sort of a child care network. so were obviously having a big conversation about child care costs, child care costs are acute. my husband and i are dealing with the cost of hiring a babysitter and its significant and we do make decisions about how were going to balance things and how were g...