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Congress with willing to share what they learned. >> dont underestimate the importance of building relationships. having said that, thats probably one of the common themes you hieard. if there were a couple of things you took away, even as somebody who livemillid in a household w you get what its like what did you learn? >> i think a lot of people think they say im going to make all this change. you have to get a committee assignment. there are two teams. youre on one team or the other team. you...

She became the first freshman member of congress to have a committee assignment changed by house leadership. and from there on, she just kept going. >> how do you feel being the first black woman in the house of representatives? >> i have mixed feelings. first of all, im very glad to have been able to make history in this country by being the first black woman. and boys and girls, as far as im concerned, actually, its overdue. >> there are so many things in the congress i would like to change. i...

Speak out against her ridiculous committee assignment, and against the leaders of her party in congress who had given her that assignment. and i know that sounds like a little process thing, no big deal, right? honestly, though, people did not do that, especially as soon as they arrived for the first day in congress. people did what the party leadership told them to do. there wasnt even a process in place to not do that if you wanted to object. but that wasnt the sort of thing that would defer o...

That theyre going to hope that you can function in an area that would help them. >> shirley chisholms first big national stage moment was doing something nobody did, speaking out against her own partys leadership on that decision. and she won. she became the first freshman member of congress to have a committee assignment changed by house leadership. and from there on, she just kept going. >> how do you feel being the first black woman in the house of representatives? >> have i mixed feelings. f...

Placed on agriculture dealing with forestry and rural development. she complained. >> she complained. one of the first thing shirley chisholm did when she got to congress was to complain, was to speak out against her ridiculous committee assignment, and against the leaders of her party in congress who had given her that assignment. i know that sounds like a little process thing, no big deal. honestly, though, people did not do that, especially as soon as they arrived for the first day in congres...

Molly hemingway on whats at stake and maybe whats up for grabs. how does it look? >> when you think about the campaign, you had so many people saying in the 2018 elections that they would not vote for nancy pelosi. you had people on the left saying that and also people on the right in the democratic party saying that they really thought it was time for democrats to have new leadership. once they took the house, things got a lot more complicated in that there isnt a clear person that everyone can...

Closer, what do you make of it. >> good morning, jillian, i think that what you have right now a little bit of a coupe but not enough to overtake pelosi. they would need about 28 votes to overturn the speakership and have it go to someone else. right now theres been a challenger marsha fudge from ohio who is a black woman, who is challenging nancy pelosi but its probably just an attempt to obtain better committee assignment or some time of concessions from nancy pelosi and political favors being...

They brought up the names of democrats who just won and calling them and try to urge them not to cave to the lobbying campaign that pelosi has under way right now. we will have to see how many they can actually get. i have counted ten people who have told me personally or their offices have confirmed that they will not vote for pelosi on the floor. right now with the total of seats that democrats have won on tuesday, she can only afford to lose eight votes. democrats are expected to pick up anot...

If i had any of that in my background i would not have gotten a security clearance. thats why the speaker of the house, paul ryan, republican, stripped of his committee assignment on the armed services committee. its not me, not hillary, its the republicans. >> this is a plus ten republican -- its a pretty republican district, considered a safe seat before the indictment. it seems to me he could just go after you on the tax cuts and obamacare. he could say i voted for the tax cut bill and my opp...

The party of reagan, even, is long gone. its heartbreaking because i have friends who are republican. its deeply un-american. its not true. im not a security threat. i was given a clearance by the fbi. the security threat is duncan hunter who was criminally indicted for spending a quarter million dollars and the corruption smoking gun that you talked about was when he paid back $60,000. he is guilty. and its only a matter of time until people hold him accountable. >> i should note, we invited du...