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>> we're are joined by one of the freshmen in the house of representatives who are changing how the trump administration is being held accountable. congressman a nyanna pressley. thank you very much for joining us. i appreciate having you here. >> thank you for having me. >> 6.5 hour hearing and you get your shot and you corner the secretary and he claims something that doesn't exist. he has no right to say, none of them do, that the communication is confidential. the administration seems to think there are rights that they don't have. >> well, this is the day of reckoning. under chairman cumm...

Enough time for you to be able to pull off cross-examinations like this? >> i think i did. from being a professor in the classroom, i may have only a minute or two to ask a student the question. i am trying to probe are they prepared and have they mastered the concept. being in the classroom and asking students pointed questions and sometimes realizing the student doesn't know what they are talking about is good preparation for coming to congress. >> i have seen more hearings than i can remember and i have been marveling with what you have been accomplishing in taking this process so seriously...

Five minutes was going to be enough time for you to be able to pull off cross-examinations like this? >> i think i did. for being a professor in the classroom i think i only had a minute or two to ask the question and really trying to probe does that student know the answer, are they prepared for class, do they know this concept. and sometimes the student doesn't know what they were talking about, i think it was good preparation for coming to congress. >> i've been mafrveling at you and the other freshman in taking this process so seriously and so many times in those hearing rooms, they're not...

Covers a certain area is way better informed. senate or house member. you come to this with your own body of knowledge. you pulled out your own text book in the video that we showed here last night and quoted your own text book to the trump administration official who didn't understand how to calculate interest rates. that are are that's why i came. i came to congress to use that knowledge. i think we are seeing that with a lot of freshmen. most of us have never been elected before and we don't know our job to sit quietly and give speeches. it's a hearing and these are witnesses and our job is...

Back away from these tests. many colleges are now test optional when you apply and many good schools are test-optional. they recognize this is a react that kids who have enough money can be tutored for a year in advance and they can do better than kids who don't have that advantage. the standardized achievement test is anything but standardized, marc. do you agree? >> that's absolutely true. a lot of colleges are dropping it. i think there are 1,000 accredited colleges now who have said that they are test optional including some very prestigious schools making it test optional and they also ha...