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Co-host of msnbc's "the cycle." elizabeth plank, vanessa bush, editor in chief of "essence" magazine. good morning. >> good morning. >> the first time we heard year of the woman, it was 1992. gains in the senate and the house, then things kind of flattened out. we are now, the u.s., 79th in the world in women's representation. abby, what's it going to take to get women involved, particularly young women? >> we've got a long way to go still, but i love you keep honing this issue. it's such an important one. if anything washington needs more, it's new ideas and who better than women to bring tha...

What are we supposed to think about this guy? was he acting out of principle or self-promotion? what are we to make of him? >> all of those things. i spent months working on this story and a vexing character study because he is a very implicated individual. he was trained as a cia officer to deceive everyone around him. he seemed to practice those arts in lots of unexpected settings. what is interesting about the case, at least in my take on it, was on the one hand his character is fascinating, complex and reflects a sort of polluted aspect of washington's political kind of ecology. at the sam...

Cross the line. what is wrong with what the obama administration is doing? >> i think the government wasn't so broken and so manipulated and misused from day-to-day in washington. this is a singling out of selected weak individuals. it's like when the justice system works and other sectors of our country. if you have a privileged position such as the one you held you're unlikely to get yourself entangled in a instance of interacting with a reporter. if you're like kiriakou talking about controversial matter hes and doesn't have a network of protection then you're going to get singled out. i th...

Important as what happened in washington. people talk about irrational exuberance. i think some feelings is out there i'm not sure all of this -- >> do you think it's fairy dust? >> no, i don't think it is. >> 2% growth, what is the thing that is going to kick-start? i take this to gene because it's a political question. gene, we have had jobs crisis for four years and three months now. since the -- dating back to before the obama administration. is washington going to do, if anything, to answer andrew's question? the stock market going up, things improving and incremental ways richard said on...

I think you're seeing it -- if you're investing ins you' corpos it's getting better. if you see the s&p 500 at its highest level you say what gives? neighbors on both sides don't have jobs and maybe i don't either. that is the issue. my greatest worry about what is happening right now is all of the pressure in washington that we have always talked about or lack of pressure in washington to get anything done the only time we have had anything really get done when it comes to the economy and budgets and things like this a problem in the markets for better or worse and not saying it's the right t...