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This historic room gives her hope. >> we sit next to each other and rather than at the head table, our job is to bring the committee together with the best ideas and most affordable ideas, not to square off. >> reporter: the 411" senator made a long career. >> its not easy being 411" in an institution like this. >> reporter: she has a reputation for sometimes being intimidating. >> let them feel the hard landing that my constituents face. >> reporter: yeah. >> when women are persistent and insis...

>> still, the first woman to ever chair the appropriate races committee tells us behind the scenes bipartisanship she witnessed in this historic room gives her hope. >> we sit next to each other and rath than at the head table, our job is to bring the committee together. one of the best ideas and the most affordable ideas, not to square off. >> the 41" senator made a long career under people underestimating her. >> i bring my own stool. its not easy being 411" in an institution like this. >> she...

>> reporter: you know you sound like donald trump, right? >> no, i think i sound like barbara mikulskmikulski. >> reporter: she admits the election results make it tougher to leave. a lot of her work on obama care and beyond may be undone. >> you cannot take a recing wr ball that are designed to help american workers get on their feet. >> reporter: still the first woman to ever chair the powerful appropriation committee behind the scenes bipartisan she witnessed in this historic room gives her h...

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God bless you, god bless the united states of america. [ applause ] before i introduce our final speaker let me take a moment to acknowledge the hard work of several people whose assistance and friendship have been so valuable during this past year. i want to thank the people sitting at the head table, the eight members of the whca board. they fight hard every day at the white house to do their jobs with excellence and to help you do yours. [ applause ]

God bless you, god bless the united states of america. [ applause ] before i introduce our final speaker let me take a moment to acknowledge the hard work of several people whose assistance and friendship have been so valuable during this past year. i want to thank the people sitting at the head table, the eight members of the whca board. they fight hard every day at the white house to do their jobs with excellence and to help you do yours. [ applause ]

So disruptive that it will be historically resonant decades from now? >> well, i think youve got to look at what is allowing all these things to happen. youre right. all of the conflicts that you just talked about are decades old, some of them are hundreds of years old. one of them at least is 1,000 years old. but weve got them all erupting now for a reason. the reason is that the kind of head table of the global community is empty. the united states doesnt want to lead. china is not ready to le...

Calling out and an attention given to the fact that a lot of the crisis in america is not a money crisis. its the moral crisis of people who seem to have a complete disconnect with working class people. the rope thats important -- the more in common withant to me, i people working in the kitchen than to the folks at the head table. i had to learn how to sit at the head table. i didnt have to learn how to connect to the people who were bringing the food out to the head table. >> governor, i got s...

Calling out and an attention given to the fact that a lot of the crisis in america is not a money crisis. its the moral crisis of people who seem to have a complete disconnect with working class people. the rope thats important -- the recent thats important to me, i grew up with more in common with people working in the kitchen than to the folks at the head table. i had to learn how to sit at the head table. i didnt have to learn how to connect to the people who were bringing the food out to the...

Calling out and an attention given to the fact that a lot of the crisis in america is not a money crisis. its the moral crisis of people who seem to have a complete disconnect with working class people. the rope thats important -- the recent thats important to me, i grew up with more in common with people working in the kitchen than to the folks at the head table. i had to learn how to sit at the head table. i didnt have to learn how to connect to the people who were bringing the food out to the...