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In the limelight, not in vegas but on capitol hill. the pop star was invited by members of congress to speak about conservatorships after her very public legal battle to be freed from her own 13-year arrangement that gave her father control over much of her life. >> so she posted the letter and a response on instagram. she acknowledged that she received it a month ago. here's part of what she wrote. i was immediately flattered and at the time i wasn't nearly at the healing stage i'm in now. because of the letter i felt heard and like i mattered for the first time in my life. she did not say wh...

To you say i'm hurting, some of those women haven't felt heard, seen, we want to change that. >> yeah. >> this project certainly does that. i'm proud of you. congratulations. i know how long and how hard you've been working on this. andre gaines, welcome, welcome to the family. you can watch 'stories we well, the fertility secret" this sunday 10:00 p.m. eastern only on msnbc. and we will be right back. snbc and we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ downy's been taking you back, since way back. with freshness and softness you never forget. feel the difference with downy. (vo) t-mobile for business...

In the united states we have teach for america, amerry corp, the peace corp, and now there's also report for america. it is stepping in to help with the crisis of local news. where ad revenue is being lost philanthropy, nonprofits, foundations are filling in some of the gaps. charles simmons and steve walden are the cofounders of report for america. now they're trying to scaleup to 60 and in a few years they want to get up to 1,000. >> we begin in aplatcha, in west virginia and eastern kentucky, so two news papers. and that's exactly what we want to do, be in these places where people haven't ...

Definitely an example of how people are ready for something completely different than what we've seen in our government up to this point. and it's a reflection of the fact that so many people haven't been heard or haven't felt heard. and i think that, you know, so many people have talked about how we need new leaders, new types of candidates to step up. and, you know, for -- for sure i felt the same thing and that was part of why i decided that it was necessary in a lot of ways for people like me who have a very similar experience to lot of people in our community to put ourselves out there an...