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Rights and that we defend the right for us to be diverse in the highest bodies of congress. >> and congress being one of the most important bodies in the world. if not the most important as many might call it. there is the issue of the number of women, since you were alluding to that representative chu and representative clarke, a study coming out on friday, the numbers of women of color working at the highest staff positions on the hill and these are the numbers that were put out by all three of your caucuses here. now the numbers, you see 23 for chief of staff that are african-american and s...

I think she's a fresh new voice in congress. one that brings new ideas. some of them may be a little bit too far for some people but i think she's doing her job as a new, young woman in congress and in shaking the tree and seeing whether or not those ideas that she's bringing forward -- people gravitate to. so my district is neighboring to her. i think the people like her in her district. and i think she's representing them well. >> this is part of this -- what is the new democratic energy? that is really the question out there, representative clarke and who do you look to to understand the be...

D.r.e.a.m.er legislation which all of us want to have passed because we all have people who are dreamers, regardless of ethnic background. well we decides as a tri caucus, we were not going to be divided like that. we were going to stand together and support one another and as a result, they were not able to get away with this. they were not able to separate us and today we have a bill that is, in fact, a dreamer bill and also helps those with temporary protected status from being deported to a country that they don't know and we believe it will pass out of the house. >> i can't thank all thre...

He's going to have to listen to each branch of government. and of course a tri-caucus plays a pivotal role in making sure we push our values and platform forward that we agree on. >> i was looking at a -- a couple of polls that came out on friday. representative clarke, to you on this, one of the members here -- maybe i should go to you representative espaillat, alexandria ocasio-cortez, you probably know well from the new york area, 31% of these respondents to the poll had a favorite feeling of her but 41% unfavorable of aoc. that is a negative 10 percentage points. what does that say necessa...