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An assistant filled out forms. well, earlier today our own garrett haake asked warren about the card. >> why did you list yourself as an american indian on this texas bar application? >> so, this was about 30 years ago, and i am not a tribal citizen. tribes and only tribes determine citizenship. when i was growing up in oklahoma, i learned about my family the same way most people do. my brothers and i learned from our mom and our dad and our brothers and our sisters, and those were our family stories. >> here's the problem. as they're fond of saying in political campaigns, if you are explainin...

Washington post points out in their report, and we quote, "texas bar registration card is significant, among other reasons, because it removes any doubt that warren directly claimed the identity. in other instances, warren has declined to say whether she or an assistant filled out forms. well, earlier today our own garrett haqq asked warren about the card. >> why did you list yourself as an american indian on this texas bar application? >> this was about 30 years ago, and i am not a tribal citizen. tribes and only tribes determine citizenship. when i was growing up in oklahoma, i learned about...

Well, earlier today our own garrett haqq asked warren about the card. >> why did you list yourself as an american indian on this texas bar application? >> this was about 30 years ago, and i am not a tribal citizen. tribes and only tribes determine citizenship. when i was growing up in oklahoma, i learned about my family the seam way most people do. my brothers and i learned from our mom and our dad and our brothers and our sisters, and those were our family stories. >> here's the problem. as they're fond of saying in political campaigns, if you are explaining, you're losing, and all this does,...

Tribes and only tribes determine tribal citizenship. i had a good conversation with chief baker who is very gracious. we continue to talk about issues and continue to work on issues that matter deeply to indian country and continue to work on things that we both care a lot about. >> senator, why would you list yourself as an american indian on this texas bar application? >> this was about 30 years ago. and i am not a tribal citizen. only tribes determine citizenship. when i was growing up in oklahoma, i learned about my family the same way most people do. my brothers and i learned from our mom...

Backlog. if you ask me the bargain, which were and what i like a little bigger conservative majority in the senator reid was in house, i would've liked both. >> laura: we are out of time. elizabeth warren's new controversy kind of snuck in today. nice timing. she did state native american heritage in her texas bar application after having said she didn't really use it to get ahead. you can argue that you're getting had come up the bar application, but nevertheless is this going to hurt her? >> she's not really going to make it. if she's not going to be able to go forward. if this problem is cr...