Analysis with E.D. Hill, Star Jones
MORGAN: Women lead the way to react (ph) in the government, no temper tensions, no bickering, just the willingness to compromise and get stuff done. It begs your question, a women better negotiators of men. I want to talk about that a lot more tonight with Star Jones, attorney and spokesperson of the National Association of Professional Women, and E.D. Hill, a Conservative Analyst, and author, "I'm Not Your Friend, I'm Your Parent". Wow, tough.</s>E.D. HILL, CONSERVATIVE ANALYST, AUTHOR, I'M NOT YOUR FRIEND, I'M YOUR PARENT: I think just like my mother actually.</s>MORGAN: So, Star Jones would it (ph) been better off to kick all the men out of the rooms here in Washington and let the women trash (ph) it out or is that just a terrible cliche that actually (inaudible) wouldn't have actually made any difference?</s>STAR JONES, ATTORNEY, SPOKESPERSON, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL WOMEN: Well, actually we did make a difference. It's interesting that of the 13 senators that put the bipartisan agreement together half were indeed women when women only comprise 20 percent of the senate, we have 20 sits out of a 100. So, it's clear that the women took the lead in this situation. I think pretty much universally everybody has talked about just how Susan Collins, she did a move like I call it the (inaudible) or get off the pop move she rolled in to the senate floor and said, "Listen, this is a plan that I'm putting for. If you got something better come with it (ph) and if you don't let's get on the stick." And I thought that was very admirable, courageous leadership is what the women showed.</s>MORGAN: Right. I mean, E.D. Hill I presume you would agree in principle with that..</s>HILL: No, no, no. I don't at all.</s>MORGAN: Oh you wouldn't?</s>HILL: I think you're totally sexist. I think it's ridiculous this day and age to be sitting there saying, a woman just because she's a -- just because she's a woman or a man, just because he's a man, can do anything better. But if you look at the people who have also been sighted as the obstructionist in congress, those happen to be some women too. So, I think you can find it, you find good people and you find bad people anywhere you go.</s>JONES: But in this situation this women stepped up. I mean, the men have the opportunity to step up. These women chose to step up.</s>MORGAN: ... there are other women out there was (ph) being as obstructive as the obstructive men and that is true, some of them were.</s>JONES: Yeah, but not on the leadership side. And that's the point. We don't have as many women on the leadership side that could actually step into that place.</s>MORGAN: Is that a good point? If they were more women actually running the show because there really are. If they were, would that help in the final negotiation stage of this process? (Inaudible).</s>HILL: I think Nancy Pelosi is pretty senior. I think Nancy Pelosi is up there. I think Michele Bachmann has got a pretty strong voice. And if you're a person who feels that there are people in there, there are sort of gumming up the works, I would say that that on both sides you could point to those to women. You know, maybe you support them, maybe you don't. But they certainly were taking the more strident (ph) positions. Yes. You definitely had some great women in there, but I should think -- I think they're great human beings, they're great Americans.</s>JONES: Well, I agree that they're great human beings, but we also have to agree if the women have not stood up, we would not be in this position. I mean we can go back and forth if you want that the guys are just as good as the women and we negotiate the same way, I do think that -- I disagree with that. I mean I see it across the board all the time when it comes to women. All I do everyday is sit with powerful women. That's my job.</s>MORGAN: And all women is instinctive (inaudible) you think less testosterone field?</s>JONES: Well, there's no question. There's absolutely no question.</s>MORGAN: Mr. Ted Cruz also nailed chest beating. I must win the old thoughts.</s>JONES: Well, that's because we don't engage in that time-honored sport of whose is bigger. That's not a big deal to me. My big deal...</s>HILL: I tell you what?</s>JONES: Let me hear what you got to say.</s>HILL: A kid on the opposing football team hits my son, I am ready to go bust his butt because it makes me that mad. So I don't thin that women are any weaker or mild, or anything. Do it for common sense.</s>JONES: Yes.</s>HILL: Yes. And I think that is simply because the fact of the matter is for a long time, we've been running the houses. We've been running these budgets.</s>MORGAN: Let me (inaudible) a little bit. Women tend to be ...</s>HILL: We've been doing those...</s>MORGAN: It has to be more practical.</s>JONES: I agree. I do agree with that.</s>MORGAN: Well, you're saying that the have a lion share of the practicality of the household, right?</s>JONES: You have to be pragmatic.</s>HILL: Yes.</s>JONES: You have to have negotiating skills. You have to be willing to compromise. You have to walk into the room with the attitude of, how do I make this work rather than this won't work. And I think that's something that we do much better.</s>HILL: We also have to deal with the kids, you know. You've got to discipline. You've got to be the firm one. You've got to be the one who's the peace maker between fighting siblings. We get all the skill set every second of our lives. So, I do think that there are some unique qualities that women just by nature do possess because of...</s>JONES: Did you see that?</s>HILL: ... how we've been.</s>JONES: We can disagree without, being disagreeable, and we actually care.</s>MORGAN: Exactly. (Inaudible) because I guess two men have started away, this discussion started with you leaping up is a bad sexes. It would have very quickly become a chest beating argument where they were both be determined to win. You've actually reached interesting point of consensus, which in itself is quite eliminating. Let's take a break. As we come back, I'll talk about the 2016 race because -- and they will be at the end of all that. The first ever female president of the United States. Then we'll really find out won't we? If you're better at this game than we are.</s>JONES: We sure, can be worst.