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American ancestry have swirled for years. going back to her first senate campaign against republican scott brown. >> professor warren claimed that she was a native american, a person of color and as you could see she's not. >> reporter: the oklahoma native described herself as native american in numerous personnel documents early in her teaching career, a revelation that sparked furious backlash. last fall she responded to t the -- the op going criticism which showed distant native ancestry. >> the facts suggest that you have a native american ancestor in your pedigree. >> reporter: that was p...

I'm not a citizen of a tribe. >> were there any benefits to that? >> no. "boston globe" did a full investigation. >> kind of like the original rachel dolezal, a little bit. a white woman pretending to be black. >> this is what i learned from my family. >> okay. we're back around the table. nia, we were talking about this during the break. >> i thought the rachel dolezal comparison was a real lo blow. this is a woman who painted her skin, darkened her skin and got a perm and passed ford black and was completely white and elizabeth warren, you know, i sort of put it in the context of elizabeth w...

Native ancestry and belonging are devastating to a community. why she says she did it, she always heard these stories, as her mom and her sisters were getting older, they were talking more about their native -- >> my family was gladiators. >> that's funny. that's funny, rob. she's talked about feeling more connected. i'm not saying it's the right thing to do, it's just not crazy and she wasn't a fraud. and we have no evidence to this point that she ever benefited from it herself. >> she gamed the system or at least the intention was to game the system. she knows what she was doing. >> it's a b...

When almost every other presidential candidate hasn't had a relationship with native communities. i don't want to get past that point of saying we have to focus on her my yopically and let the other folks off the hook who haven't proffered forth a good idea regarding how they're going to work with the sovereign nations that exist within the united states. >> especially since we saw the suppression of native american votes in north dakota in the last lelection that has not bee addressed and donald trump's continuing disparnling of the community even calling her pocahontas is actually, i don't k...

Native ancestry. m.j. lee has the part of that story. >> reporter: senator warren has a busy 24 hours in iowa and first trip since flouncing her explore tocommittee over the io. making clear what her important issues are going to be in her eventual 2020 campaign. now, one question that she got from an audience in sioux city on saturday was about her decision to release the dna test about her native american ancestry and a person in the audience asking her why she decided to release the results of that test and give president trump more fodder to bully her. here is what she had to say. >> triba...