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So i sat down exclusively with canadian prime minister justin trudeau to ask him why did he mandate that half of his cabinet be women when he took office and why hes just proposed federal legislation to insure men and women receive equal pay for equal work? watch. >> i was at a dinner and heard you speaking about diversity, and heard you speaking about a cabinet that was equal men and women. today, it is gender balance, 17 women, 17 men. it was clearly intentional. why did you do it? >> why do i...

White men voted for abrams. i found that considering with the wave of democratic women of all races, backgrounds, colors coming to washington. what do you make of that? >> evidence of the polarization in our country, not just in terms of partisan differences but racial differences. race played a role in the florida race and the georgia race and in other races across the country. i know there was a controversial comment by senator sanders pointing that out and he backed off mindful of his 2020 am...

World leaders obviously from all different backgrounds as they move through and remember what happened in worl world war i. its a rainy day in paris. president trump and the first lady sitting in the front row close to german chancellor angela merkel and the french president. >> lets listen in. ♪ -- because they guide >> translator: because they guided their hearts. the lesson we drive of the great war cannot be rai resentment. and it cannot be the great or the foundation that obliges us to th...

The battlefield with so many great americans from so many different backgrounds. pete: every generation of warriors faces different challenges when they come home. for the post-9/11 group, for the younger guys, cause we all expect what previous generations did, if not more than what they did, you look at their wars and say i wouldnt have wanted to face that one. what challenges do younger vets face? >> i think the transition piece out of the military is the thing that were seeing as probably the...

Representative elect, that veterans, they just know how to collaborate better. when you serve, you serve with many different folks. you get the job done. >> well, i would agree with that. over the 20 years, i served on six different ships and deployed as many times. i think back to deployments where i was on an aircraft carrier and we were simultaneously launching strikes against terrorist targets into iraq and afghanistan. while were operating eight nuclear reactors to send those off, i never t...

Chatting before we came on the air and talking about our backgrounds. and i had seen him on tv. i think we had been on split screen in different locations on the show. he was a big critic of mueller. i said why are you interested in this? why are you doing this? and he kind of indicated that his law practice wasnt booming and that he was interested in being a judge in iowa where he was from. he said he hoped this would help him get noticed and that president trump would then appoint him to be a ...

The green room on this show back in 2017 when you met whitaker. what did he say to you? >>uous on as guests. 50 feet from here we were chatting before we came on the air and talking about our backgrounds. and i had seen him on tv. i think we had been on split screen in different locations on the show. he was a big critic of mueller. i said why are you interested in this and he kind of indicated his law practice wasnt booming and that he was interested in being a judge in iowa where he was from. ...

Impede, based in terms of cutting back funding, cutting back his ability to work with the fbi or most particularly, cutting back the ability for mueller to go ahead and issue further indictments. >> cnn has been reporting that both florida attorney general pam bondi and the former governor of new jersey, chris christie, are being considered to replace sessions as attorney general. would you and your fellow democrats be open to either of them? >> listen, they both have interesting backgrounds. pa...

Mistake. i think lindsey graham said trump would commit political suicide. i spo i hope they stick to their guns. my fear is whitaker might not fire mueller, but could so impede in terms of cutting back funding, cutting back his ability to work with the fbi, or cutting back the ability for mueller to issue further indictments. >> cnn has been reporting that florida attorney general pam bondy, and the former government of new jersey chris christie are being considered to replace session as attorn...

People feeling very dark and feeling left out. >> so in addition to the work that every member of congress needs to do, which is hard work, you have this added role as either a role model or someone who is there to represent interests that maybe a lot of people feel havent been represented as a woman. what do you think the greatest impact of you being elected to congress is going to be? is it going to be that people like you from similar backgrounds or other women run? is it going to be that you...