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Mister secretary, welcome. Thank you very much evan. [evan] an honor to have you here. Its great to be here. Let me ask you to grade the nations Transportation System dont grade on a curve, i want hard grading like you used to get at davidson, and at nyu law school, i want you to do elite grading here. If you had to assess the health and the well being of the nations Transportation System, what grade would you give it . Well, i think itd be about a d. [evan] itd be a d . Yeah. You run your department, really . Youre a hard selfgrader. Well, you know what, there are a lot of reasons why and fra...

Could be seen, more like a victim, and heres another story of how my life could be seen, which is a life of extraordinary possibilities and choice. And you basically say you want us all to think about how we choose the narrative of our own life. Because how we choose to see ourselves says everything about kind of how we do end up seeing ourselves. Am i right . Yes. If i were to ask you, you know, why are you here what is it that ended up making you do what you to today . You along with anyone else, if you were to answer that question, you could give me any one of three versions of that story. ...

People probably hear you on National Public radio, on your talk show, across the country. And youve written a couple of books now, several books, three books. Three books. Hinojosa finding my voice, which i just love as a title, is your story of kind of how you ended up where you are now. Its a story of how i began as the child of immigrants who believed that Young Children should be seen and not heard, who should never ask, why . So the fact that i am doing these daily interviews, maria, asking anybody and everybody. Hinojosa anything . Anything, and why, is for me the greatest pleasure and f...

Youre basically saying that our small little social networks, the personal networks, can determine so much about the rest of our lives. And when so many of us, at least in this country, are kind of made to believe that we can do this on our own, its. You know, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you can do this, youre basically saying it really is true who you know and how they influence you has everything to do with whats going to happen with your life. Okay, thats right, but the first thing i would emphasize is that people. Okay, so most people, when they hear the words social networks n...

Are you gonna run for president . [voiceover] i think i just got an f from you asking. applause wendy davis, welcome. Thank you, evan. [evan] nice to see you. So were in 2016, and were having to have a conversation about women getting treated the same as men. Am i missing something . Why are we having this conversation today . Its really remarkable we are less than five years away from the 100 Year Anniversary of the passage of women gaining the right to vote in this country, and yet, here we are. We still arent paid equally. 79 is the last aauw study. I know different statistics. Sure. Close ...