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I'd like to see mr. ferguson manage that challenge for a whole year and then tell me how well he ate. joining me now is congresswoman barbara lee, democrat from california and co-founder of the out of poverty caucus. she organized the snap challenge to ask congress to pledge to eat on a budget of less than $5 a day. when in your life did youize the snap program and what did it mean to you? >> i'm glad you're covering this. this is so important to many members of our country. in the early '70s, i had some difficult times, i was raising two small children as a single mother. there was nowhere to...

Live in poverty. rachel, i have to say, the reason i formed the out of poverty caucus when the bush administration was in because i knew then the bush administration policies and these wars would lead to where we are today unfortunately. so we have 39 members of the out of poverty caucus. we've been working with the white house on our out of poverty agenda. and our jobs agenda. because clearly the best pathway out of poverty is a job. so that's what we're working on and i think that the president has heard us and i'm very proud of congresswoman waters and chairman cleburne in the congressional...

40% of african-american children live in poverty. rachel, i have to say, the reason i formed the out of poverty caucus when the bush administration was in because i knew then the bush administration policies and these wars would lead to where we are today unfortunately. so we have 39 members of the out of poverty caucus. we've been working with the white house on our out of poverty agenda. and our jobs agenda. because clearly the best pathway out of poverty is a job. so that's what we're working on and i think that the president has heard us and i'm very proud of congresswoman waters and chair...

>> with the thump on the podium for emphasis. joining us now, democratic congresswoman barbara lee of california, former chair of the congressional black caucus. founder and current co-chair of out of poverty caucus. she was in attendance when the president addressed the cbc this weekend. congresswoman lee, great to see you again. thank you for being here. >> thank you so much for having me with you tonight, rachel. >> i'm not much of a media critic. i think i'm probably as damndable as anybody else in the media any given day. this struck me as being differently represented in the media than i...

Clearly in the black community, that's what our cry is and our voices are pleading for congress and the white house to get together to create some jobs so people can get to work. >> with your work in congress, specifically your work with the out of poverty caucus, as founder and current co-chair of that caucus, you've done as much as anybody to bring attend to that aspect of our national economic woes. do you feel like the president is substantively telling you something that is going to make a difference, that he's talking about his economic agenda, his jobs agenda and his understanding of po...