distinctly caught up in the identity politics of the democratic party. she wants to claim her piece of the identity pie. right now she checks one box. she s a woman. the democrats like to see you check as many boxes as possible. here s the problem. scott, although it s true, i don t fault her for family lore that she believed in 1986 when she applied to the texas bar. when she made fanfare about she had to hire a genealogist from stanford because the usual commercial test didn t demonstrate enough for her. she had this big fanfare. look, i am related to the first nation. it s not even american indian. neil: isn t that she, you know, applied for anything using the native american label is that she said she right. why? why would you say you didn t? she could have easily said what you said. sorry i thought i was but i
town cemetery in center county. and the graves of his father. but the certificate of. seven hundred seventy two gives his name as. son of henry. is the emigrant from europe i was looking for. who arrived with his father in america in seven hundred fifty four. on the ship. he was listed as the passenger. my next stop is the regional archive and. i m looking for proof that america originated in this area genealogist reach. over what i found. first confidence in your sources and second those sources have to produce the
time to consult the archives. the amateur genealogist spent countless hours combing the historical records for the decisive piece of information. one thing the archives revealed was that the graves in the bathroom so church were never properly documented so all the researchers knew was where in the church the money was location to make up for missing or lost records they had to reconstruct all the graves. luzhin most of the mummy had probably been laid to rest in grave number one hundred five that gave them a possible name for. the not be sure of. this for the wife of pastor gallon long. before. it was this mummy really and i cut out enough. to find out the research is needed
tucker: we ve got live pictures for you looking at the air force base right outside of washington, d.c. that s the airport the president uses. he just landed back from california where he was among other things looking at prototypes of a border wall. his back in town. some of your elizabeth warren continues to insist that she is a genuine american indian in spirit if not genetically and to support her claim, she said her parents, who she claims had to elope due to racist objections to her mother s part indian heritage. twyla is an indian genealogist and she joins us tonight. is elizabeth warren a cherokee indian? no.
ups or his personality or background or whatever, but you try to pull back and ask what principles are at stake here and ask obvious questions like how does this help the americans already here? i cannot get are not just saying this. every night, i cannot get a real answer for that from anybody, ever. not one. it is this resistance in public policy. had something similar after i was on your show last week. there s all these people who are suddenly going online and pointing out that i m canadian. it was the first i d heard of it. i was stunned. who knew? the msnbc genealogist had been in touch with the vital statistics and i was stunned. the fact is, it s public policy. i go to rosen guard in sweden and what i see there i think is a tragedy for the swedes who will be an ethnic minority in their own country by midcentury. i go to mullen beak and my mother s country of belgium and