i think there s a lot we really don t fully know about what was part of that strike. if all it was was a one off effort, it s not going to have much of a lasting effect. syria is another one of those wicked problems which everybody is, you know, desperately trying to figure out how to stop a civil war, how to prevent iran from increasing its influence, how to prevent russia from having a real foot hold in the middle east which is something that they are desperately seeking. now turkey and what it s going to do is a big question mark as well. there s lots this strike really had nothing to do with that are critical issues that still have to be addressed. i m going to come back to russia in a moment because it s obviously vital. i want to ask you as a woman and we re dealing obviously with issues that affect women all over the world. what do you imagine your election as the first female president of the united states might have said to the world and to the women of the world who
here, men here, everywhere, about actually the reality of the labor market? i d say a couple of things. we have to make investments and we have to invest in certain sectors of the economy where we think we can stay ahead of the technological wave and we re not going to be able to do that if you have massive tax cuts that benefit people like us. it s not going to happen. we will end up in a terrible deficit. the deficit will shrink dramatically. so you need another strategy. another boring word, which i think was what you saw happening in the obama administration, a lot of pieces of it. and you need to recognize that
leverage and that republicans are not hanging together as we see in health care sufficient to give him fits. i m a little surprised at how he has lacked better skill with republicans in congress thus far. it s interesting because if there is let s say at the end of the september a government shutdown with the republicans in control of the white house, the presidency, the house, and the senate, the assessment is that the republicans will be blamed for the government shutting down. no question. it s hard to imagine anything else. but i think if you kind of take a step back, no question good copy. but my sense is that he got an earful or two or three or more from house republicans not knowing a lot about what was in this deal that they cut with democrats to keep the government running. and watching the democrats be very, very successful and very deliberate about taking victory lap after victory lap about what they want. you see the former democratic presidential nominee hillary
democrats desperately wanted to subsidize, donors, the badly failing obamacare. do you know what a donor is, fellows? you ll learn when you get a little older. you ll learn about donors. i used to be a donor. used to get everything i wanted. this is what winning looks like. there you hear the president saying this is what winning looks like and made a remark there at the very end of those comments saying that he used to get what he wants. obviously didn t get everything he wanted out of this budget. did not get money for the wall on the u.s./mexico border. in the tweet about wanting a government shutdown in september to extract some of the things that he does want in the next fiscal year budget fight, but no question they ve got a lot of tough battles to wage this week, particularly the one on health
it s really troubling to me that we are still grappling with how to deal in an economy to ensure that people who do the work that is expected of them get paid fairly. and equally. so yes, there are many, many representations of that, many kinds of examples of that, and yes, it was a role in this election and i will have a lot to say about it. i think that it is something that whatever your political party, whatever your particular ideological bent, you have a stake as a woman and a man to go back to your very first comment, in ensuring that the promise of equality that we hold out and the efforts that so many women and men have made over the decades to secure it don t go backwards. i think we re not just at a