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Expenditure of our federal resources in incarceration and the i think the average on mandatory minimums is about 11year incarceration and so without going too far, are you suggesting that those resources could be applied in other ways to make us safer . Absolutely. As ive looked at the spending of the department of justice and seeing that the bureau of prisons each and every year takes up a larger and larger percentage of the department of justice budget, that money has to come from somewhere and where its been coming from is money for agents and prosecutors and also critically importantly mon...

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for braving the cold. For those of you watching at home, we had a big snowstorm here in d. C. , and it was difficult for a lot of people to get in, and we have a pretty full room considering the circumstances. So welcome to all of you. Thank you to winnie. One of my first jobs in politics was here at the center for American Progress when it was still just a fledgling organization with about i dont even remember at the time. But winnie was my boss here, and it was an honor to work for her. I learned so much from her, so thank you for the introduction and thank ...

Students of macroeconomics. [laughter] maybe that is not a compliment. [laughter] for me it is because i know nothing. [laughter] so now i say that what you have this a situation with the fiscal policy with money supply has helped the country because it was not grow ring some of it was sent abroad to leading to a decline of the dollar. Leading to more prosperity. So when it comes to india cover the opposite but vitarelli applied the brakes. Doing that it will be very unpopular. They dont have the autonomy that the Federal Reserve in juries. In joyce. I am right about the situation that somehow...

Thousands of years to get us to where we are now. Its not going to change in 22. So we have this snapshot of today of sort of 50 years ago, what was the status of women. And you know we have been charged as this last panel to talk about where we are today. Well, we have got a lot to cover. So, but in preparations for doing this one of the things i did was to go back and listen to that tape of Eleanor Roosevelt and john kennedy. After some pleasantries and this exchange, mrs. Roosevelt says to president kennedy, why arent there more Women Leaders in the United States . I mean we are a privilege...

That is one of the places we are today with the status of women very much not only for legal control in that respect but also to fight for the economic ability to actualize that control that is what end of the moments that is not the end of the story. So did the women came to be few said i cannot believe we were talking about birth control. I thought the fixed liz . Raise your hugh did you thought we fix to this. [laughter] thank you for all you did but unfortunately we are not done yet. This is a generational moment where maybe for the women there was a reminder the fight the did to go on air...