And society broadly. We are grateful for this partnership and the impact the institute has had on communities near and far and now i would like to welcome to the stage will moderate tonights conversation coowner of politics and prose bookstore serving as secretary clintons chief speechwriter she is currently working on a book to be published by Penguin Press called hillary land. Please welcome her to the stage. [applause] are you ready for some gutsy women . [applause] i think i know a couple are ready for you. So first on behalf of the entire staff of politics and prose and especially our Extraordinary Events team, we would like to say all our friends and partners so i will be moderating the conversation with our special guest Chelsea Clinton and Hillary Rodham clinton. We are talking about their book the book of gutsy women i have been asked to remind all of you that you will get your copy at the end of the event if you go downstairs there will be a copy waiting for you. Dont forget to pick them up. I just want to mention i first met hillary and chelsea in 1993. Chelsea was 13 years old. Lets just say it was quickly apparent she was the most eloquent and poised and smartest teenager in the history of teenagers. [laughter] it doesnt surprise anyone who is watch her grow into a remarkable woman that she is today. And advocate around the world for women and girls a promoter of civic dialogue and engagement in a powerful voice from saving our planet from Climate Change the Columbia School of health and is a prolific author who has cobra in a book on Global Health and six Children Books of her own all testaments to her profound commitment to diversity and inclusion human rights and social justice. Her good work is informed and inspired in no small measure by the role of three small children and also has been inspired by the woman who will be on stage with her tonight her coauthor speaking of whom is there a good seer woman then Hillary Rodham clinton . [cheers and applause] the trailblazing transformational first lady of the United States the twoterm us senator from new york secretary of state global champion for women and girls in human rights and democracy the first woman ever to be the nominee of a Major Political party for president of the United States. [applause] and i just have to offer a quick reminder about the 2016 president ial election. Because no one should ever ever ever forget that Hillary Clinton won nearly 66 million votes. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] and lets just not forget which was more than the man who currently occupies the white house. And to be clear even with a certain russian dictator putting his thumb on the scales. [cheers and applause] so by my calculations that means today at least 66 million americans are certain the white house to be in much better shape right now if a woman such as her were in it. [cheers and applause] and isnt it amazing donald trump just cant get over it. But i digress. Hillary clinton is here tonight wearing a different hat as heroic author who has written six previous books including major bestsellers and i have a sneaking feeling when you see the book youll understand why this may be the most special of all. Please join me to welcome mother and daughter and coauthors of the book of gutsy women Chelsea Clinton and Hillary Rodham clinton. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] hello. Agreed to be back here at gw program want to think the gw president for welcoming us and our family coming here we were just talking backstage both my husband and chelsea as well as myself have been here numerous times on the stage chelsea was dancing while she was in the washington ballet. I was never a star. But is just great to be here and always be with you. We have done this in various combinations it so fun and such an honor for me. First thank you on behalf of womankind. [applause] to think the frustration tonight is that we can only talk about so many of them. Not the range that we want to. But it is an amazing book its important to have stories of so many women in one place. And we should get going we dont have a ton of time but and we wrote this book to gather we would say you have a joint byline so how did you decide whose name went first . [laughter]. Age before beauty obviously. That process of having a joint byline of writing a book or anything with someone else is incredibly rich because of the different experiences and points of view that your coauthor brings to the project and for chelsea and me it was especially exciting because the book comes out of a conversation we have had literally since she was a little girl with people especially women who inspired us. Thats whats so great about it that they are so deeply personal across cultures and generations and geographies and backgrounds. It is an extraordinary range that you put to gather. So now just one other superficial question, sorry but you mentioned with a huge amount of affection and a hint of exasperation what this has been like to coauthor a book with someone who still writes in longhand on legal pads so im just wondering if there are any other challenges working with your archaic mother. [laughter] that you would care to share with the students . Thankfully her penmanship is legible unlike my fathers. I knew my mother wrote in longhand because i have seen her writing process happen most recently with her previous book. But i didnt understand what that would be like for our working dynamic. Not only does she write longhand but she edits on pen on paper to perk i thought surely she would have at least come to understand why track changes are our friend. [laughter] but yet she had not and despite all of my efforts to persuade her this would help us Work Together to see the different thought process and go back and forth on the document there was no way we could do a shared document maybe track changes. She does know how to use a computer but no. It was not comfortable for her. Okay. In my defense do you know who else writes longhand . Barack obama. I rest my case. Maybe he is a dinosaur also. [laughter] i will turn the tables so you will get your chance. There are many women in the room who have daughters we love deeply that mothers and tender on daughters write a book together that conjures images of screaming and door slamming some were there any surprises for you working with your daughter . We started by making lists and honestly they were in the hundreds of entertainers we admired, business leaders, athletes, academics, pc servants. We had many hundreds of names. We began to try to narrow it down back and forth the only back and forth is i would advocate for the people i wanted to remain on the list she would do the same we would compromise sometimes i would say no i have to have her in and chelsea would say i have to have her in. So we would write 200 essays and our publisher rightly said people have to carry the book around on the scooter. So we cut dramatically and that was hard me had allied challenging conversations about sometimes the editor would make suggestions or i would so that was the only real problem we had we had a very Representative Group of historic figures contemporary figures that really did capture what we tried to convey because at the end of the day we are so grateful to these women and to their lives they are not perfect they are not on a mountain somewhere they work hard to overcome obstacles they made it clear they were following their dream and it was not easy. We think those stories were good ones to share because we find them some inspirational. Lead is interesting is the span that you cover with the differences growing up you had very few. Your sixthgrade teacher mrs. King Amelia Ehrhardt joe in that all women and nancy drew you had the mayor of little rock not huge numbers but a few more women that were brought up in your classes in school but how does that generational difference experiencing changing gender roles . I dont think i quite understood the juxtaposition between my mom growing up and my growing up with regards to the women role models until we started this effort and my mom reflected the only woman she knew were School Teachers in the public librarians and that was just so different than mine growing up the vast majority of my friends moms worked at home some were lawyers some were nurses or doctors or entrepreneurs and you mentioned when i was in first grade our mayor, a woman or my incredible pediatrician and later went on to lead the Childrens Hospital so i have these very visible women in my life and also the teachers who all throughout school were determined not only history but social studies and math were not just old straight white man i am so thankful to a teachers who introduced me to grace hopper or these amazing women that i write about and i might not have known about them but for me teachers in such a different experience. That you were not aware until this process. And talking about it we realized what a gap there was because in my case there were women that i read about in books because as a child life magazine was one of the doorways to the world. Thats where i read about Amelia Ehrhardt or the amazing Margaret Chase smith. And who took on joe mccarthy. [applause] thats how i met the women very much in my elementary and Junior High School years that talked about women. Maybe in ancient egypt and then coming to grips with how hungry i was and how encouraging my own mother was to but it wasnt part of my schooling in fact there is a funny story in the book because i came across helen keller because of the television dramatization of her life in this amazing woman who was taught by and sullivan to communicate. Fastforward last year the texas state board of education decided to eliminate helen keller and me from the curriculum. I was really upset about helen keller being eliminated. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed. And i talk about the Public Library every week id go with my mom or i rode my bike the library and said read this new book its about this young girl named anne frank. I didnt know anything about the holocaust or what happened. I was ten years old. That is how i discovered these women and as chelsea and i were talking about it was a very different experience for the two of us. Talk about the definition of gutsy and you should all know in with those inventors and within each of those categories and those who were allowed are not loud those that were part of change you could not cross reference in. And in those common years. Mathematicians and astronomers like grace hopper. Problem solvers. Who is the doctor who fought to clean up the water in flint michigan. And treats hiv and hepatitis and then the suffragettes Billie Jean King. And you may remember the woman in saudi arabia who fought for the right to drive. Against incredible odds for tens of thousands of displaced people so what is the common denominator in all these women . What were the metrics with the 103 women in this book . And that visceral reaction but it is so evident in all these womens lives not only driven by their own purpose and to make the world a better place. Sometimes it was defined as their family or school or community or a global community. So all the characteristics that you mentioned as one of the core competencies. That are embedded in the gutsy this. And that is the key because there are so many women we admire but as we narrowed the list down we were looking for what it was about that womans life, her work, advocacy, mission that affect others. And it came with a key ingredient and privileged that when you meet someone like a very modest woman doctor who stood up against the Islamist Terrorist Group in somalia when she opened her farm to shelter 19000 women and children who sought refuge and they demanded that she turned it over to them and she stood her ground and refused him basically confronted them by shaming them. What are you young men doing . Why are you even here . Why are you fighting . And is the most unimposing person but the story of that confrontation but all of these that are now supported by her two daughters who are also physicians. I have so many personal stories and then to highlight and part of what i want to do is introduce our readers to more of these women because everybody gets a little discouraged in Larger Society historic figures and to stand up and speak out and women like today when the pediatrician there is something wrong. She would not quit talking about it. And adjust determination and persistence and this is part of a required ingredient is optimism. With those incredible challenges that many women face they are suddenly optimistic. If they dont believe their energies are married to their tenant they would not have persisted. That such a powerful example of what it means to be optimistic in the world and listening to my mom arguably the Largest Group of women we wrote about artifacts and eaters the vaccination within the workforce who every day would work to inoculate children to the courageous workers those that are desperately trying to vaccinate against ebola. Just in the last six years but yet more and more people continue to rise up and do that work to the optimism of their own community to give them an equal shot at life that anybody would and should want. We have a lot of questions from the audience. When you are not feeling your most confident what do you do to feel gutsy . Ps i love you. [laughter]. They meet so many little kids with their parents. Would i was out doing my book signing, both before the 2016 campaign and then afterwards with what happened. So many young kids, would see who are your heroes who you look up to. And i found that such a poignant question because it is easy to be torn down in todays world will have our flaws, will have clay feet and we are all far from perfect. So who are the people that you can look up to and that you can be inspired by. Would little down, or discouraged the state of the world i just its been time thinking about some of the people both women and men, and young people. Of inspired me. With two groups of women in this book who take on the scourge of gun violence. We are so moved by sara brady, whose husband was shot would president reagan was confronted by an attempted assassination and was paralyzed and never expected to be an advocate all of the gun violence that we see but she became one. Son was murdered and now shes in congress and her dear friend debbie gifford, who survived an assassination attempt. I kept going. And someone like mel but marty is green, this little girl was murdered at as andy hook. Would i think about people who have faced those kinds of just unspeakable and unimaginable tragedies, because we going again. He is me up. With tensions that you might want to talk about the young women because one of them is here with us. It really she just celebrated her 18th birthday. You can give julia a front of applause. [applause] we write about julia and Emma Gonzales and others. These incredible young women who are standing up against an ra but standing for Animal Research and sensible gun violence prevention legislation. Awareness about the crisis tragically including in people. Death by suicide, with the gun pretty frequently. And so just to echo one of my mom news kind of think how can we then not do everything that we can continue do. If congressman women lucy can get up every day and work to ensure that no parent confronts what she did. Would her son jordan was murdered. How can we not honor that everyday. Sabrina felton is now running. [applause]. If you want to contribute, this will be the only super political thing ill see, maybe. [laughter]. If you kinda wanted to contribute to cut competitive competitive. Please consider contributing to the campaign of Sabrina Felton who is running for miamibased commissioner. [applause]. What right do we have 2penny or never feel like we should not be doing everything we can possibly be doing. It wouldbe extraordinary courageous heroic women confided in themselves to fight very different future that was rocked from their children. Sabrina felton on a fabulous book a few years ago. It is so worth reading. Its really excellent. If her right. Which brings me to another audience question chelsea. Im going to give it to you. You watched your mother enter the world of politics and all that has come that went out and all of the incoming is, that. And the question is what would you recommend to a young girl wanting to be you just mentioned it again women into office because im a personal tragedy. They were being addressed by the body of congress. What would you tell a young girl. It. You for and about also encouraging great kids do you get involved in becoming engaged. Learning how to advocate. One, thank you for thinking about it. At this moment in time. I know there is this belief that young people may be not so young people kind of looked at what is happened in the world at large and become overwhelmed by a door look at what if anyone steps into indoor online and offline in this belief the baby people stop running for office. Thankfully we have had an unprecedented of people running for offices. Not only running for congress but also running for county commissioner or city council and the legislature. So i would just hope that if this is something you feel called to do. I think about what you want to change. If you are really interested in in criminal justice reform. Around for legislature. A lot of people are sitting in in jail. An unaccountable something abo about. So thank you for the people for whom responded to that. [laughter]. Something about what you want to change. And how best to equip yourself to be confident qualified to help make the change. Then around for office. I have an organization and we support groups of young, political activists who are recruiting candidates like brent for something which is done an amazing job recruiting thousands of people to around for all kinds of offices who are emergent american who focuses this energy on women running for office or color of change for collective pack, but a latino and all of these groups that we support because we make the decision, hale would like to do this. You need to learn with the means. And how best to go about it. In these groups are a bunch of them out there now give a lot of good support and even training. Not only around, who want to be part of the campaign. Want to come back but first you you all see this book cover up here. The photo is fascinating. Because you talk a lot about the importance of women they go unnamed and unnoticed and unappreciated and unrecognized. I think this photo kinda makes billions while you are at the book. Im just wondering if you could tell us a little bit about it than about the. Which by the way, has been reprinted all over the place. It is wellknown to many people, very familiar and yet be for a long time, for decades really, is that it was believed to have been a snapshot after the attack on pearl harbor. And yet, thanks to a librarian in hawaii. Shut up to the librarian. Come back. This is my, you are so interactive. So Dorothy Buckingham is her name. She wanted to know more about this photograph. This iconic photograph of her state. So she dug in and realize that while it is from 1941, and its actually from the somber of 1921 and is the Training Exercise. And its of these women at pearl harbor who comprised the majority of the firefighting crew. She was determined to identify the women are. She was only able to identify four of the five that we now know their names. Catherine, alice, elisabeth, and youll. So we know that this womans name. Thanks to Dorothy Buckingham, she not only kind of corrected the history of the photograph and with the photograph captured but she also was able to give a name. To these nazi women. They were practicing any later we know will called to help. After the attack. News also interesting story, this photograph represents because would i was growing up, basically, i was told and i was taught that there will no women firefighters. I never saw any and yet this was 1941. On these women are in a Training Exercise because they are firefighters. I do want people to really understand that we go in cycles. There will millions of women in the workforce during world war ii. They had to be. They were in factories and they were in offices they were doing work who kept the economy going. That was something that affected the lives of more than half of the American Families in our country. After the war, it was thought well okay, we need do you get back to the way it was before. We need to give these jobs back to the men coming home the women need to go back home in the back into the family these kinds of cycles, one of the cycles that was finally broken and that we write about was the passing passage of title ix. The Legislation Committee possible not just in athletics, but in academics for women to the same rights to study and to pursue sports the young men did. And just think about this. Before title ix, and the three women who the real godmothers of it, or in the book, two members of congress it is going, estimate, and academic britney sandler before title ix, there will 700 women in the United States and school to play soccer. Now there are nearly 400,000. 390,000. Twenty writing this we will really motivated because of the world cup team. Because those women all benefited from title ix. Not only did they, the stars, on other nation seems had come to the United States to play intercollegiate soccer in our university and the two will benefiting. So there are rhythms to all of this. Part of the motivation for writing this book is to make sure that we dont go backwards. We dont have rights ripped away from girls and women, though we dont have both overt and hidden discrimination wont again. Extending the way of young women succeeding printed up exciting last night and barnes noble in union square with chelsea. Thousand people, we had a cut off of 1000. People will telling us their stories they were coming through and i had two different on this said, both of them said, i am in finance in the city and it is just so rough. It is so hard. It seems to be even harder now. So part of this is to kind of buck everybody up and see, no will not going back and will not going to give up and will not going to allow handmade sale to take root here. [applause]. I also think for those of us who will alive would timeline was passed, and i think generally think of it as affecting sports. Its not important also to understand the broader affected had on academics. In research two. Would we write about ruben, who is largely considered by people in her field, to be one of the noble prize inexplicable missus. Because she really helped solidify the proof around dark matter. It is the majority of our universe and thats about all i understand about dark matter. [laughter]. But would vera ruben graduated from college, she really wanted to go to the Physics Program for princeton. They said they didnt accept women. And i wouldnt change for decades. In fact he didnt change until 19795. Sizing up because i think that sometimes we believe weve come a further than we have and that we made more progress over the long goat time horizon than actually that is reflected in the historical record. And yet if you look at the statistic my mom mentioned for soccer, like we had made so much progress. I just think it is hugely important whenever best day progress for success. [applause]. [applause]. I just see one thing about title ix. I benefited in a way that you did. I was right starting college would it started pretty good to play varsity sports in college which you would not have had. Theres not big of an age difference between us yet theres a big challenge difference. This. [laughter]. Is the big challenge difference. There certainly was a big opportunity difference. So i just want to remind all of you that title ix didnt just pass and things cookie cory. It had to be thought to be enforced on so many campuses for decades. Afterwards and theres big argument that youd let these women place worse than the guys cant play football or wrestling or whatever. There is just this assumption that it wasnt right for men and women take their slots or whatever. So it was a long ongoing battle just do you get it enforced who shouldnt print that. I really was hard. Then activist by name, image most of them. We also mentioned and frank, just the number of young women who lead movements and spoken truth to power. Bridges hall and her little backpack going to integrate her school would she was six years old. Im alone, who died, so many of you know she died juice shot and had to try to go to school. And now Greta Schaumburg who basically singlehandedly launched an entire environmental movement. [applause]. I always feel like we have to talk about because oh thank you. I think she is the huge part of our American History are stories not sufficiently sort of wellknown. She states nine must before resurrected. While i write about this in the book, while we have respect and repair runs apart, coleman was one of the plaintiffs in the district quote ruling that was additionally appealed and the Supreme Court that the segregation was illegal and in alabama. She was 15 years old. She said she felt like she had Harriet Tubman on one shoulder and told her to some the other. She just couldnt send of the day. Give up her seat to the white lady was demanding it. [applause]. We have to remember truly deserves to be remembered. Want to see Something Else about would she started her school strike, the climate she was only person shut up. And for which you would do it and then slowly other people would join her as weve seen over the last few weeks but here is what i wanted to emphasize in addition to her being a determined passionate advocate for us doing what we know we should do, with respect to the climate, she also has autism. She has persevered with her very strong faith that one person can make a difference in one person can spark others to join. And she has as often happens we do stick your head out especially if you are young person she has engendered while support and millions of young people wanting to be part of her campaign but she is also engendered, and enormous amount of blowback. Shes been criticized and and marginalized and made fun of how she speaks and how she presents herself. How she looks, everything about her is being undermined by critics who are really doing so because they recognize the power of her example. In this part that she has lit a crossed world among young people and think thats another part of this book which bears underscoring. Often times we do take those stand, and in colemans case got arrested. She went to jail. She was in a very difficult position legally where greta, she is being kind of everybody from donald trump to Vladimir Putin has criticized as we show she is really in the right track badge on our right. [applause]. See young people, to be what they are telling us is that you have to have a willingness to be defiant. You have to be willing to be defiant and it can take different forms right. So chelsea you talk about the quiz who is this rebel rousing nun who is like breaking china all over the place. That was in the 17th century. And you mentioned Margaret Chase and i was going to raise her. You sort of wondered if she were in the senate today. It is going to ask you that. Not entirely sufficiently but heres why. Today is the oneyear anniversary and everybody do you know what it is. The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh and Supreme Court. And then as we all know, and painfully remember came after these wrenching hearings. In which doctor Christine Hood no one had never heard of before. Research scientist. Came forward and then we know that certain other later republican women from maine, basically determined for the outcome of the whole debate in process the neural sort of divided into two camps. Those who believe deductible is the part in those who im writing this because i think remind us of this other sad reality which is so much of what your book is about witches has brought just about the challenges that women face in telling stories of sexual abuse rights. Those that though those are certainly part of it but just the narrative and the experiences in their lives they just dont have validity. Historically. So you have somebody like a nun in the 17th century who is handling that. Try do you get taking huge chances and shes rocking the vote to do it. Its because history is written by men. It is a start written by men and is about men and until we create foundational history that really and truly includes values stories and experiences with women, the history is incomplete which is one of the reasons you are writing this book. I was really taken chelsea by one of your examples witches on the viper nasa she wrote a memoir about being inning indian rights activists in guatemala in 1983. You see it was the first memoir you have read. She won the nobel prize, despised in 1992 providing genocide against Indigenous People in our country during civil war. But questions will raised about the authenticity of her story she was sorta sorta subjected and you something about this to a very hostile counterintuitive who she authentically was. In a hershey news new book. Am so interested that you are including her. The said earlier, im so grateful i feel this way now particularly a sneak parent to this extraordinary teacher. That i was lucky enough to have. I read missus lynn hoff in sixth greg, in little rock, arkansas. For believing that it is important that we understood what was happening around the world. And also, with United States rule kind of was not. I read this book and i reviewed ten or 11, i just was so struck in a way that now, women language to talk about how privileged i was in ways that i hadnt even understood. Then would she won the Nobel Peace Prize, and then controversy that ensued would she was just attacked for making personal things that clearly will personal to her even if she had it of witness them herself. An understanding kind of the tradition of testimonial and kind of the authenticity of her narrative even if it kind of wasnt up to whatever standard and largely men and kind of white european men will holier is it too. Just her kind of grace and grant and consistent articulation. Of what really was her truth and the truth that she was fighting for her Indigenous Committee that she is still fighting for that. And she and her foundation are literally right now, trying to hold accountable, the provocateurs and executioners of the genocide. So the fact that she stood this personal demeaning and derision, and just refuse to be bound by it like we back to guatemala went for Office Multiple times and reported other indigenous candidates and still now is fighting for justice. I find it incredibly inspiring. In some ways, even more inspiring than it did would i first, read book more than 25 years ago. It was because of all that she has endured because she just continues so heroically to process and i think it is so clear that she just couldnt a nudge in doing anything else. I think you are right. The stories need to be told in the latter times the stories are not just about an individual but about a larger social reality i think that is an important. That chelsea wanted to make in writing about roberto and think it is also true for a lot of the women in this book. And you mentioned Margaret Chase smith. The deal back read her statement of conscience, does a great story which into the book. Shes in the senate, and the fact is that Joseph Mccarthy is running lives and sparing people and nobody is staying anything. And he is getting away with it largely. And she just has had enough. She just why not tolerate it anymore. Shes no flamethrower, shes no rebel shes a person of conscience. She writes about how shes on the subway that i know very well work in the senate. To the heart of the senate, and the capital and mccarthy on the subway. Any looks in recent all you seem so serious. I going to go make a speech. She said yeah, and you are not going to like it. [laughter]. And she goes and chink not only called him out but she calls out the Republican Party for failing to rein him in to prevent his behavior. [applause]. Where she today. It was very lonely position for several years because he wasnt finally held to account until really president eisenhower and others basically made it clear that i gone is it too far. I think that a lot of this or the law of the people that we profile the book had moments like that. And part of the reason that we choose the ones that we do is because they wrote to that moment to Billie Jean King interviewed us and our first event in brooklyn a few nights ago and i watch Billie Jean King and i played, tennis would i was a kid i watched her and she was just so ferocious. Though i also really appreciated how she stood up further tennis players. She writes a lot of her own success by staying up all night trying to figure out how she can state for equal pay. She wouldve won a lot more titles to. And she has no regrets. Shes a great picture of her meeting are being and Serena Williams will also the book with their little girls, and so she was somebody who had this incredible talent married to this fierce competitive spirit this used on behalf of others and made statements who she did and what she said. I think that those are the people who need to hear more from. And that we need to be honoring and supporting and has brought easy. We know that. We see all of the time. But it is necessary in history will look kindly and people are willing to be out there on behalf of others. I certainly hope so. I want to give me this one more audience question. Theres like an 800pound gorilla in the room that we havent touched on yet. Secretary clinton, thank you for coming to speak at gw and we know that President Trump has recently welcomed openly some of the most authoritarian regimes like china ukraine to investigate his political opponents. What message do you want it sent to the American People to restart americans mechanic leadership around the globe re read. [applause]. I have been encouraged that at least the polling in the Public Opinion suggests that the issue that started with his call to the ukrainian president has broken through in a way that many of his other actions have not in terms of the threats that they posed to our democracy and to our constitution. I was on the impeachment staff that investigated Richard Nixon back in 19794. It was an incredibly solemn and serious deliberative effort as it must be because basically the founders decided in elections, they had to be held people had to be judged at the ballot fox but that could be officeholders so in between elections will engaged in such behavior that was damaging to the system of government to abusive power through obstruction of justice and through contempt of congress that impeachment was this rare but necessary remedy. So i supported Speaker Pelosi would she finally decided that you could not walk away from the evidence that was provided first by whistleblower but then confirmed by the white house itself. About what trump had been trying to extort from the ukrainian president. Now think about this. Because, we do have a president calling on foreign adversaries for assistance in his political campaign, which he did in 2016 in which he is doing again. The goes right to the heart of our sovereignty a sneak nation, to our national security. In a way that is all of us unimaginable. I why not a nudge in any other president ever even thinking about this. So here we are, and the evidence only becomes more compelling about what he and is Close Associates including the secretary of state will up to in trying to maneuver this new young president of ukraine into doing his political work. And then of course yesterday, the president said that he wished china would also investigate the bidens. I joked about that some of the go on rachel. I said, you know in the 2016 elections trump basically said that russia if you are listening, you will be richly rewarded if you can find Hillary Clintons emails. And it was all out in the open and of course we know the russians hacked the d c, hacked my campaign etc. So now it is also in the open we would like to help defend your country against russian aggressiveness. But first we have a favor to ask of you which is please go after joe biden and his son. And heres another slideshow to this which is help us try to undermine the Mueller Report and all of the evidence from our Intelligence Agency that the russians interfered in the election because you know, trump knows and illegitimate president who got illegitimate foreign [laughter]. [applause]. And so, we know what he did in ukraine, and is so alarming that wasnt just whistleblower. Remember this. Whistleblower did come forward but clearly people in the room, listening to trumps into the conversation or maybe listening to the conversation, which often happens in the white house. We do want to have a good record of youre up what the president said in with the other leader said. People listening will so alarmed that they immediately did the transcript of the call from anyone who has any reason to be working on behalf of ukraine and the Defense Department or the state department or any of our intel agencies. I try to hide it in eight server it is supposed to hold only the most highly classified secrets of our country. We know that the ukraine investigation is proceeding. We know the Department First witness of distinguished investor provide a lot of evidence that at the moment, and contemporaneous time, diplomats like ambassador bill taylor was staying, it is crazy to be basically withholding military aid do you get help on your political campaign. It is crazy unless you are also doing that will put in spitting. There is another dimension to this that is potentially going to be uncovered. So then he asked china, look, we have several adversaries, but for their highly adept cyber warfare news russia obviously. Trying if they were so inclined. North korea and iran. So what happened today. Microsoft reports that iran is attacking at least one democratic campaign. All bets are off. Informed governments think that they can tilt the Playing Field as they did against me, which was a deliberate wellplanned effort laid out an indictment against Russian Military actors and their allies, well the republicans seem to think that okay, so part russia is playing on the red team as we like it. Will not going to set up against them. Will this to see the next week, the going to be play in the team. It is crazy my friends. So impeachment is the appropriate remedy and is such a serious assault on our democracy that it is apparently asked for and aided and invented to not only the president but his allies who seem not to even care or understand how deeply dangerous this is. That amount i am all in favor of the house is doing and gathering the evidence making the case because this president has to be held to account because of his unconstitutional abuse of power, his contempt of congress and is obstruction of justice. [applause]. Im just going to ask you one question about this. One more. One of the people Barbara Jordan in a book, if he did not know of arctic Barbara Jordan, maybe hadnt heard of her recently, you can read what we write about her in the book but back and read what she said is the firstterm member of Congress Sitting on the Judiciary Committee during the nixon impeachment as to why she wanted to not only defend the constitution but make very clear that if the constitution and the remedy of an impeachment did not cover the behavior that is being presented, to the committee then why do they mean. And go back, you can also google or listen to it and you can watch her make one of the most powerful speeches in the 20th century. So getting tarzan. Because are so much awfulness of this man is inflicted on this. Some of it, one of the really think most troubling and upsetting things about him is this sort of blatant misogyny and sexism and anybody whos been around you would work for you, since youve been a National Sort of national consciousness, has watched the degree to which you have been on the end of the misogynistic people violent imagery and language. That is really upsetting. I was thinking about that because something women in this book have been subjected to incredible genderbased violence. Its not that far of a stretch to go from language that can talk about, doing horrible things you, to doing horrible things. There are a lot of women in this book who have had really horrible things diane denies news abuse by her trusted coach for many years. Would guard, let the greenbelt and kenya Environmental Justice activist and democracy. We really meant was a brave journalist who will to expose corruption and drug cartels and comed was raped and tortured and left for dead by the side of the road. I was with you and 2000 night in the democratic republic of the congo and visited doctor bennetts going way he spends his live repairing womens bodies women who been subjected to rapist the tactic of war. They won the Nobel Peace Prize with a woman thing teaching them up nadia would have you heard of. She was forced into sexual sale lay buried by isis for the un to combat gender bias. This really off on getting worse. This president and with the kind of culture is perpetuating hostility and anger and distorts women. I guess i dont really know how to settle what we make of the stories. These examples and do what women have to be continually victimized and brutalized before we actually Pay Attention to their stories and understand what theyre subjected to what is it going to take do you get beyond this. It is so rampant. Sorry that was an inopportune time to drink a lot of water. I think, the answered is multivariable. It we know we need more robust laws. We know we need more bust enforcement of those laws. And more resources to support women who have been brutalized and victimized. Subjected to horrific violence. We know we need to not be cutting down the number of people who can qualify for an asylum in our country. [applause]. So we can be a safe harbor. [applause]. For anyone in violence particularly women. I do think there is an important part of this work here in the United States that if we dont talk enough about. I am deeply passionate about it and someone you didnt mention in your list of women who have survived short horrific things and are working to ensure others dont suffer similar horrors is the woman from rice who is the founders got it and change it last. She is the tirelessly working to ensure that no child is ever married here in the United States. [applause]. The reason i raise this is because i do think we sent a pretty powerful signal for how we value the dignity and bodily autonomy and general selfdetermination of girls and if we allow them to be married at 12 or 13 or 14. And there are still lots of places here in the United States who they can be married that young. We had more than 200,000 rosemary, just in this new millennium. Just since 2000. So i think not only often seems obvious that we have to tackle this but we have to raise the marriage age. In short there are no exception so that no girl is ever bright in our country. Things we do talk a lot about around Human Trafficking and around ensuring that we are investing more in sporting the services to ensure the women get out of dangerous situations and can recover. Every think that that must until but also things that often are embedded in the conversation but really need to be. I can work in Child Marriage which is the huge problem here still in 2019. I also wanted to underscore the importance of women obtain leadership positions. [applause]. There are examples in our book of women became elected leaders and did not forget where they came from. So here in our country, shirley chisholm,. [applause]. Became a member of congress and the fourth first africanamerican woman elected to congress and was just she was a unbiased. Fearless, and standing up for the poor and the needy for women she said would she ran for president the criticism and the taxes she got, or more for being a woman the big block. And she never ever let anybody forget that. Geraldine ferraro who became the Vice President ial nominee was a staunch advocate for womens rights and a really great voice in the political debate. The two women president s we highlight our michelle bocelli, who was elected twice to be president and shelley, and Allen Johnson charlie who was elected twice to be president and library it. Both of them, will subjected to torture and beatings and caught up in the conflicts in their countries. And michelles case, because of the tmj, dictatorship and her weather was tortured and died in prison. She and her mother will rounded up and tortured and then deported. And she never ever, forgot what happened. She was determined to not only bring more peaceful transition in the future to her country but also to stand up for young people for women in the same with alan. Alan Johnson Charlie got up in war in siberia and rested and jailed. Just think about how they persevered do you get back to that persistence. And then would they became the highest officials and their inspected countries, they spoke out on behalf of women and girls. In the change laws that would try to provide more support. And of course the novell client prize winner along with alan for helping to in the librarian civil war, is such a hero because of what she did to organize women to stand up against warlords and if you not seen the documentary trend that double back to hal. Its really worth looking at. So i really think that you are right, they can get all kinds of abuse, physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and i know that it is hard to keep going through that. Its not any kind of judgment would Somebody Just wants to totally drop out and retreat and not be putting their heads out there again to the one more time attack. But these womens are kept going back and kept standing up with of the fun off since or skip writing stories, will they were advocates for change in their societies including our own. Theyre ones whose courage is so inspiring. He goes back to the question that alex asked me. Sometime earlier air. You read about any follow, limited to that like josie is talking about ready, she was forced into in a marriage, religiously mandated marriage and a young age. She was physically abused by her husband. And she finally left him, she also had liver community because it was not accepted. And then she took what happened to her and turned into this moment. Shes going statebystate so would she started there will 50 states and still allowed Child Marriage. Usually with the permission of the parents. But often times, thats not particularly to be relied upon. So now two states have raised the age of marriage. She just is determined that she can do anything she can make that happen so i think the stories are not just about the past, they should be reminders and prize for us in the president and forget about the kind of future we want. Im going do you get in trouble because will out of time. I have one last question. I just want to end up to the pretty can you answered quickly. Maybe ill try. Is the great question. It is for you. And it is from china. She said, what is most valuable lesson youve learned from chelsea. I actually have learned a lot of lessons from chelsea. Even from the time she was a little girl, she was just so ignited by injustice. She never saw people being mean to somebody or if she read about somebody. We tell a story because chelsea was a huge sound of music fan, talk about maria braun trump. And would chelsea was five years old and had the president reagan was going to go visit a cemetery in germany where there a lot of nazis will buried. She was really upset because she saw it on the sound of music and nazis will not nice people. So she wrote a letter to president reagan asking and please not to go to the cemetery because anybody who is seen santa music should know that they should not. [laughter]. So her spirit is so strong. And standing up against the flames and arrows. I personally love the following her on twitter because she gives the best shade to all the haters that are out there. [applause]. I went to the see apart quickly. I know we are of time. Its a story about my letter to president reagan. In which i included the full sheet of rainbow and hard stickers at the gesture of goodwill. [laughter]. And he still went and later try to justify it by staying hes only there for eight and a off minutes. I thought, and a second was is it too much for the american president to effectively be paying homage to fallen nazi cemetery and soldiers because it included bad leadership. But i never got a letter back. And i was really quite disappointed by that. Id written the president. He should write me back. [laughter]. And he shouldve at least said thank you for the rainbow and hard stickers. But would my dad one in 1992, president , what you hope could happen out of this experience. During the want. My move to washington. I said i want every kid do you get a response. If they ever write to the president. [applause]. Or the first lady of the white house. I want them to have an answered. So my mom, especially created the white house children unit was in the correspondence office. At least, i dont know if it still happens through the volvo administration,. [laughter]. There was an effort to track kids letters to ensure that especially kids, got a response. From the president. [applause]. News im just so grateful to them for doing that. [applause]. On the state that your spirit is contagious. And i want to end with a quote that you have in the book. Gloria steinman. Im not giving up my torch, im using it to live others. And i want to thank you both, for keeping your own torches lit. For lighting torches for so so so many others as you do everyday. In the work that you do and out in these incredible stories of women that we can continue all share across everything across the world, across the generations and thank you both so much. [applause]. [applause]. [applause]. You are watching a special area book to be this week. Featuring fiction offers both programs and fairs and festivals, which are every weekend. Along with her signature programs, in depth. And afterwards. Enjoyable to be now, and every weekend on cspan2. The house will be in order. For 40 years, cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the Supreme Court, and corporate policy events from washington dc in and around the country. You can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 19799. Cspan has brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Today is the official start of the second session of the 116th congress. The house and the senate are back next week. Heres we had this month. The house have to decide in the impeachment managers and sending the two articles of impeachment over to the senate. And then to the senate it a sneak jury, to hear the cases against President Trump. We also expect the senate to take up the usmexico candidate trade agreement known as u. S. Mca which the house approved in december. And congress will hear President Trump at the state of the Union Address on