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Running for congress, including a woman former president barack obama named national teacher of the year in 2016. donna hayes running as a democrat in connecticut west of hartford. her story of rising from teenage motherhood to renowned educator is catching national attention now, and the new ad she posted online has gone viral. her campaign says it picked up 5.5 million views. >> teachers are nation builders. thats our job, to effect change, to improve outcomes. isnt that the same job of congre...

Tv stations and tv net wornetwo and trying to effect change. ross has done such a great job all over the city and through the country. i think steve ross, when he first decided to do it, are you born racist or are you taught racism? trying to figure that out and answer that question, taking the steps that we need to make, to make our country as good as we can possibly make it. i spend a lot of my time with ross, doing different things with ross and trying to effective chang that way. >> congratu...

Clearance issues, with jared kushner, with the hope hicks departure. >> if jared kushner, the presidents son-in-law, and general kelly, the chief of staff, cant get along, thats an untenable, unsustainable situation, right? something has got to give. >> certainly in most white houses that would be untenable. that seems to be redefined all the time in this white house. clearly having two people that close to the president not being able to get along, that would seem to be a problem the president ...

Talks a very big game. he wants companies to be socially conscience, but how does that work? what is the fiduciary responsibility? what does do the right thing mean to your investors? >> i think were going to find out what do the right thing means. we know its not a spike lee movie. the billionaire founder of black rock, hes a good guy, he came out and wrote a letter a couple months ago calling for csr, corporate social responsibility. >> great idea. >> it is a great idea. in fact, black rock an...

I get asked whatll it take to change this and i say i dont know. i wasnt expecting this but this is the best hope weve had in ages. its all on them. >> david, on the left side of the screen were watching, its not florida where this is happening. you see snow on the ground. that is parker, colorado, its a student walkout. they are now marching in that suburb all to call for action. these are powerful images. if this is going to effect change, what sort of change should they be shooting for. what ...

Students from parkland are not the only ones protesting. >> reporter: it seems there act vifl , this activism is spreading. theyre acknowledging the tragedy that has happened here. in fact about, 300 of made their way here. a distance of about 12 miles. every time a new student showed up they were greeted by other students here cheering them on. and now we of course know that there are survivors from this school on buses headed up to tallahassee to meet face to face with lawmakers for change. th...

Yeah, thoughts and prayers go out to people. were going to propose these ideas. we dont need ideas. we need action from our elected officials and we need action from the civic people. without that, this is going to happen again. >> he is one of the fired up students youre talking about, students than want to effect change. i understand he came up to you and asked you to do something. >> well, i saw david again this morning. and just a few weeks ago, david interviewed me at douglas high school fo...

The harsh language he had or, you know, some of the things that happened at the campaign rally. why not then? >> i accepted the fact that, you know, the american public by their vote spoke and put a particular individual in office with all of the flaws, with all of the character issues. i was not there to judge that. i was there to see if there was an opportunity to effect change. i was especially concerned when i looked around the room that there were just a handful of persons of color there, a...

Those around you and i got a problem with that lack of leadership. >> so, you know what folks are going to say, why not the access hollywood tape grabbing women. why not when he made fun of people on the campaign trail or the hash language he had and things that happened over the campaign rally, why not then? >> i accepted the fact by the more than public voted and put a particular person as president over all the flaws and character issues, i have not there to judge that i was there to see if t...

Supported trump when he ran as a racist and hated immigrants. when he said he would take away health care. said he would not be for living wages. he did not talk act uplifting the poor. he lied about voter fraud and suppression. really that should be no surprise. >> this is a guy who was accused by the nixon administration of housing discrimination. would it be fair to say you went on the council with him and why did you do on a council with a man who had done all of these things? >> to effect c...