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Can do. the change that we have been marching, organizing and pushing for is within reach. we just have to take it. house speaker nancy pelosi seems to have taken a different stance. on friday, she drew a distinction. she has done this before, between being an advocate and being a legislator. what's your response? >> i'm both. i'm both. before i walked into congress after i won my primary, i started talking about being a politivist. i think that it's okay to have both because when we legislate, yes, we have that power of the pen, the power of the purse, we're able to write bills, we're able to...

I'm both. before i walked into congress after i won my primary, i started talking about being a po politivist. it's okay to have both. when we legislate, yes, we have the power of the pen, the power of the purse. we're able to write bills, co-sponsor, you need that. but the activist side of me, that advocate is the one who remembers what it was like to be in positions where i felt overlooked and neglected and unheard. and so many others in our communities -- i'm a nurse. i am always advocating. that's who -- that's what we do. and so having both of those, that's that pressure, the activist is ...

Midpoint of that. we saw peaceful marches, millions of people. we saw tactical guerrilla style warfare by these activists. we saw peaceful sit in at this airport, which went to about 200 flights. today we've seen real clashes. there are tough guys on the activist side. they wear their black t-shirts, they are armed with batons. they are ready to do battle. we watch, in fact, as one individual we believed to be either an undercover policeman e civilian guys that the authorities sic on the protesters while the protesters took him and cornered him. just in the past couple of minutes we seen him c...

I don't know how polished and buttoned down a witness hope hicks will be. she is not -- has not done that much public stuff in the course of a whole life working with trump on the campaign and being in the white house she was not a regular face of the administration. she was not on camera that often. she's not done much public testimony. so the question i have at this moment is why the agreement that they reached was an agreement that allowed her to testify behind closed doors and i am certain there will be some democrats especially on the more hawkish, activist side of the democratic party as...

People perceive the economy and how people perceive what the government is doing about the economy. those are two different subjects. >> dana: i was going to ask you about this. it caught my eye. a new group called the black economic alliance. basically they're saying it's nonpartisan and formed by african american business leaders. they decided to endorse four democrats in four closely races. the group also endorsing incumbent virginia senator tim kaine. this is a group saying they're nonpartisan, a business oriented group. josh, you think some republicans should appeal to them? >> absolutely...