We have breaking news. A report tonight in the Washington Post that President Trump wanted attorney general bill barr to hold a News Conference saying trump didnt break any laws on his ukraine call, but barr declined to do that. The white house nervous about the testimony from bill taylor, the top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine who testified about the shakedown military aid in return for an investigation of the bidens. Taylor will be the first witness to testify in public hearings beginning next wednesday, and the white house is said to be bracing for their impact. Well also look at the democrats big wins in yesterdays elections and how suburban voters in key states could be deciding factors in 2020. Were going to see how a refugee from somalia beat back racist trolls. She won election to a City Council Seat in maine. Were going to hear from her tonight. Plus, crisis of confidence in the state department. Multiple sources saying the secretary of state mike pompeo has damaged his own reputation by failing to defend career diplomats caught up in the ukraine scandal. Its very clear that mr. Pompeos need to be close to President Trump and support him in every way has caused him to give up the integrity that i think is an essential element to being a successful leader. Im afraid that secretary pompeo has abrogated any claim that he has to being a leader of integrity. A lot to get to in the hour ahead. I want to begin with the breaking news in the impeachment inquiry. I want to bring in max smith and frank bruni. Max, i want to start with you because i want to get your reaction to this breaking news thats in the Washington Post saying that President Trump wanted bill barr to hold a press conference saying that he broke no laws when it came to this ukraine call but bar declined. What was he thinking . Well, when you get to the point, don, where bill barr will not defend donald trump, thats a sign the situation is really, really bad because if theres one thing that bill barr has done since taking over as attorney general, it is defend donald trump, and we saw him carrying trumps water when the Mueller Report came out and offering a very untruthful and deceitful summary of what was what was in the Mueller Report. Weve seen bar flying around the world in recent months trying to substantiate this crazy Conspiracy Theory that would let the russians off the hook for the 2016 hacking. Weve seen barr directing an investigation of the investigators who looked into trump campaign. So he has been 110 partisan in his defense of donald trump, and the fact that hes not willing to do that here i think is an indication of what an open and shut case it actually is against donald trump. You mentioned how he framed, right, this is what the Mueller Report and what it shows when it actually wasnt what it showed. But he already gave him cover. As that transcript rolled out, the Criminal Division prosecutors announced that they found no wrongdoing as it relates to Campaign Finance law. They released a legal memo on why the Intelligence CommunityInspector General didnt need to hand over the whistleblowers complaint to congress, so trump got a lot of what he wanted already from bill barr. Right. Now, theres no question that barr is still trying to help him out in, you know, dismissing any attempt to look into criminal wrongdoing in the ukraine case, although that is very helpful to trump, but hes apparently not willing to go the extra mile here and actually, you know, exonerate trump when the fact pattern is that trump is guilty as sin. When i read the Washington Post story i was nodding my head and saying this is inevitable. What hes saying is barr did this for me with the Mueller Report, why wouldnt he do the exact same thing again. It always makes you wonder if trump whos always saying i did nothing wrong, that he did something wrong that barrs characterization of the Mueller Report was cover for him he didnt deserve. Hes asking again for cover and exoneration. Were going to talk about the testimony today as well. I want you all to listen to something that we heard from President Trump at his rally tonight. You saw last week the monstrous animal known as al baghdadi is dead. You know, if somebody else did that, theyd be talking about it for months. Me, i got about a day out of it from these people, and thats okay. Thats okay. Hes feeling sorry for himself he got one day, like what . Don, just so you know its all about him, you know, its not about the nation being safer. Its not about anything else. Its not about people who did the work of getting him, its about donald trump. We now know he invented, hallucinated, just riffed half of the stuff he said about how al baghdadi was actually killed because he wanted that time at the microphone. We laugh because its so ridiculous. Im tired of laughing at him. Its not funny, you know. No, its very sad actually. People sit there yucking it up and most of what hes saying is not true. And he hasnt been for since before he took office he hasnt been saying anything thats true. I mean, think about on the baghdadi thing, he tries to give the dog credit, and now he wont even let the dog have any credit for it. This is how absurd this has gotten. Competition with obama because hes jealous of all the credit obama got for bin laden and he wants to one up obama and thats not happening. Hes frustrated. This is obama envy pure and simple. This is senator Lindsey Graham, i want you to listen to what he is saying about trumps ambassador to the eu Gordon Sondland who amended his original testimony and now admits to a quid pro quo. Now heres a question, why did sondland change his testimony . Was there a connection between sondland and democratic operatives on the committee . Did he talk to schiff . Did he talk to schiff staffers . Ive been a lawyer for a very long time, when somebody changes their testimony, they suddenly recall something they didnt know before, it makes me incredibly suspicious. Why did sondland change his mind . What prompted him to change his mind about maybe there was a quid pro quo when i said there wasnt. What is next, the dog ate my homework . Its pretty crazy. I mean, sondland donated a Million Dollars. The Million Dollars man. To the president s inaugural committee and now hes floating some Conspiracy Theory, maybe theres an operative. Operatives dont donate a Million Dollars. Go on, guys. Lindsey graham has been doing this. He was a house manager in the clinton impeachment, and he was as strange and out there then as he is today. It makes you wonder about the people of South Carolina that elect him, but the thing about sondland is hes trying to avoid perjury, all these other testimony comes out, and his lawyer says, oh, my god. You got to do something. Weve got to come back in here, and say, well, we recall we have a better recollection now and all of a sudden theres the Million Dollars man is agreeing theres a quid pro quo. No, but hes an operative from the democrats. Oh, well. Yeah, but hes a secret operative. Where do they come up with this . Where do they come up with this stuff . I thought George Conway had a good line on twitter where he said by that same logic, it wont be long before Lindsey Graham is accusing donald trump of being a democratic operative because nobody is doing more to make impeachment inevitable than donald trump. But, don, you say where do they come up with it . They come up with it from the president. Were hearing in Lindsey Graham exactly the kind of thing as donald trump does. Conspiracy theories galore, no regard for the truth. Thats like a viral thing that gets caught by the people around him. Its the way they show their love for him, being loose with the truth and as fast with conspiracy theories. Thats what were going to say, okay. Trump is clapping and nodding. I want to do taylors testimony, he explains how the shakedown was established. Let me read this exchange. Committee member, who was responsible for setting all this into motion . Was it mr. Sondland . Was it ambassador sondland . Taylor, i dont think so. I think the origin of the idea to get president zelensky to say out loud hes going to investigate burisma and 2016 election, i thinks originator, the person who came up with that was mr. Giuliani. Does anybody hear the bus rolling up behind . Committee member, and he was representing whose interests . Taylor, President Trump. Taylor draws a Straight Line to this president. Its a line that goes through giuliani, yeah, but. And giuliani just today is putting out a tweet that hes doing only things for the president directly thats the only person im working for. Giulianis going to jail. Lets say for the sake of argument why, do you say that . Hes still innocent until proven guilty, but go on. Why do you say that . Well, look at everything hes done what hes accused of doing. What are you saying . On chris cuomos show he admitted it. Two sentences later he didnt, but. Didnt first and then he did. Well, lets just say for the sake of argument that what we just saw there that that says that giuliani was the one who originated the idea of quid pro quo. It doesnt matter because by july 25th donald trump is on the phone saying i need a favor, dangling things in front of him. So wherever it originated donald trump was a participant in it after the fact at best, but i also find it hard to believe that his personal lawyer, the little babbling beelzebub, Rudy Giuliani. He also talked about a september 8th text message to sondland and volker describing his nightmare scenario where zelensky would announce investigations and the money still wouldnt be released and russia would love it. Im just wondering if all this shows the president s interests were different than u. S. National security interests . Completely, don. I mean, the president had no interest in actually promoting u. S. National security, which would have necessitated giving the aid to ukraine because ukraine is fighting against russian aggression. Donald trump couldnt care less about the fate of ukraine. In fact, we now know he actually hated ukraine because he bizarrely blamed ukraine for intervening against him in the 2016 election. He bad mouthed ukraine. He didnt want to help them out. All he cared about was helping himself out. Its laughable to see these republicans say he was worried about corruption and helping ukraine. Thats ridiculous because that july 25th phone call there was no mention of corruption. All he cared about was getting dirt on joe biden and also supporting his bizarre Conspiracy Theory about the dnc server winding up in ukraine. Its not about putting america first, its putting donald trump first. And inviting a foreign power into a u. S. Election, specifically that is exactly what he did. Its in the transcript that the white house put out. All of the witnesses have spoken to that. Bill barr wont defend it even. I mean, if bill barr as max said, if bill barr wont defend it, whoa, theres a problem. Heres the question, why did sondland change his testimony . Was there a connection between sondland and the democratic operatives [ laughter ] thats lindsey. Thats lindsey. Wow, wow. He just wanted to get out of perjury. As we say lordy lordy where have we gone to . Thank you, gentlemen. Public testimony in the impeachment investigation begins next week, and youll see it all live on tv. So will there be a john dean moment . Who better to ask than john dean himself next. Its the sleep number 360 smart bed. On sale now. Can it help keep me asleep . Yes, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you effortlessly comfortable. So, you can really promise better sleep . Not promise, prove. Sleep number. This is not a bed its proven quality sleep. As the house prepares to hold televised hearings next week in the impeachment inquiry, were learning tonight that President Trump wanted bill barr to publicly say that trump did nothing wrong on this july phone call with ukraines president , but barr declined. Lets bring in john dean. John, good evening. I just want to get your take on the post reporting that barr, you know, hes helped the president a lot by misleading the public on the Mueller Report. Then the doj wouldnt pursue the Inspector Generals referring on the whistleblower, so why stop now . You know, i read that story, and the only thing that surprised me about it was that barr didnt do it. You know, it looks like he went a little of the distance with the Criminal Division turning down any campaign act violation problem, gave a soft press response out of the department. Apparently issued a memo, but that isnt you know, that isnt what trump wanted, and trumps now grumbling amongst his Kitchen Cabinet that he would like barr to have done more, but he still doesnt want to mess with barr i dont think. We have the transcript, john, of bill taylors explosive testimony, reading it on paper, you know, is really one thing, but now the world will hear exactly how this shakedown played out live on tv. What are you expecting next week . Were going to a different phase thats going to be the television phase. Its going to be the very public phase of this. I think its going to be much different than anything weve experienced before. It will be different than mueller. These witnesses are fact witnesses. He was a reluctant prosecutor summarizing who didnt even want to appear and talk about his report. So i think its going to be very different, and i think they know how these witnesses will handle themselves in public. Theyve had them in executive session. Interestingly enough, the watergate hearings were all done first in executive session as well before the senate and then in the house impeachment inquiry, so there was a this is not an unusual procedure to have them in executive session first. It gives them a basis for questioning, too. Right, so this whole behind closed door nonsense is just that nonsense. It is nonsense, yeah. So taylor has notebooks. Do you think hell bring them . I dont know if he will. He might be asked to bring them or at least the Relevant Pages of them. Hes obviously turned them over to the state department he said in his testimony. Hes got three ways he keeps records. One was electronically with his messaging, and the other two apparently were handwritten where he had a small notebook he carried with him, and he had a spiral notebook on his desk. So i dont know the quality of the notes, but they could be very helpful. If hes been subpoenaed, i think he has to bring those with him because they may want to question him on those notes to see if there are any conflicts between his notes and his testimony. As you know, john, these public hearings have the power to shift public opinion, but they can also fall flat. We saw that with muellers testimony. What do democrats need to do to tell the story of what really happened . Just let the witnesses unfold the story. The first thing theyve done that is really smart, very smart, is to open up the questioning where there is not this fiveminute back and forth by members. Rather open it up for council to ask questions, both majority and minority council. That will give a different flow to the hearings than is normal. But don, i can tell you something, just the dynamics change. I never understood after watergate why people came up to me and said we enjoyed your show. I didnt know what the hell they were talking about, and it wasnt until the irancontra hearings that i realized the theatrical aspect of these kinds of hearings. They really are theater. They really are a show. Television understands that. Trump obviously understands that, so i think thats one of the reasons hes worried. John dean, thank you, sir. Thank you, don. Some republican senators are warning last nights election should be a quote, wakeup call for their party. Were going to take a closer look at who won what and what it could mean for 2020. Im alex trebek here to tell you about the Colonial Penn program. If youre age 50 to 85 and looking to buy Life Insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. What are the three ps . 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Democrats are celebrating last nights election win in kentucky, while President Trump and republicans are trying to explain why they lost in one of the reddest states in the nation. Maybe they should look to the suburbs. Joining me now is brendan buck and amanda carpenter. Its so good to have both of you on. Lets see, brendan, starting with kentucky, okay . Suburban voters were key to democrats victory, and you can see the blue around the big cities like lexington and even in some areas around coal country where trump did really well in 2016. One year from 2020, the warning light is flashing blue and not red. Do you agree . Yeah, i mean, i think the situation in kentucky is sort of unique. Matt bevin is a uniquely unpopular figure in the state. Every other republican that won statewide won, so you know, i dont want to extrapolate too much out of kentucky, but the suburbs, those areas that youre talking about absolutely are a flashing warning sign for republicans, not just there but across the country, and its a continuation of what we saw in 2018. When we got wiped out, it was in the suburbs of atlanta and dallas and houston, and philadelphia and minneapolis, and its because these more educated suburban, particularly women voters are just totally turned off by the president s politics, and it hurt us bad in 2018, and theyve done no course correction, and it looks like thats where this is headed in 2020. Had a thought that a lot of the folks are, you know, who support the president , meaning lawmakers are afraid to be primaried by him, right . Theyre afraid of a tweet. Im wondering if they would be doing the party a Better Service if they actually stood up to him and said stop it with the shenanigans, what do you think brendan . I think privately a lot of them have said stop it with the shenanigans. Yeah, i mean, there is a at the leadership level, there is a real understanding of the bleeding that is going on in the party. You know, there was once a coalition that largely was rural voters and suburban voters. That was the Republican Party. The Republican Party in the suburbs was sort of that softer kinder version of it, and thats been swallowed whole by donald trump. Its really becoming a rural party, and that is not a national party. Most members particularly in the hows of representatives theyre in safe bright red districts where the only election that matters is the primary. They have no real political incentive to get out and speak against the president because personally it hurts them. Amanda, lets zoom in on the suburbs near cincinnati. Democrats had won campbell county. In campbell county, andy beshear won by six points, and back in 2016 trump won that county by 25 points. I mean, this means voters there are okay with a moderate democrat, right . Yeah, yeah, theyre willing to accept a moderate democrat, probably because of the overriding antitrump sentiment thats there. Theres just a lot of fatigue and chaos thats been going on, and i know a lot of republicans are trying to isolate bevin from the larger trends that are going on, but what i see is that bevin picked fights on suburban issues in a trump way. He went afternoon teachers union. He went after Health Care Without real answers, and these are things that suburban voters care about. I dont care where you are, health care, education and increasingly gun violence. These are three major issues that republicans dont have answers for. Meanwhile the democrats cant stop talking about those issues. And so another reason why republicans are losing so badly in the suburbs is that the democrats are getting out the vote big time with women, millennials, and minorities. And the gop has no in roads into those places. And so the suburbs are were losing them for a generation republicans are, and theres no plan to get them back. And i get really frustrated when i hear republicans say oh, well, we cant win cities because, you know, theres minorities there. We cant get those votes. We cant get suburbs. What can you win . You are isolating yourself to only getting rural white voters and you see the president s agenda kind of fit towards that, and everyone else is just getting left behind. Again, last night as we were watching, you know, the returns come in amanda, we you know, john king kept saying the counties that are out, theyre red counties and theyre rural. I kept thinking there arent enough people in those counties to make up the difference and put bevin ahead. I think republicans really need to reflect, a lot of the news coverage, republicans are losing suburban voters. That means the Republican Party has a problem connecting to the middle class. It has a problem connecting to people who live among different demographics where old and young, black, white, hispanic all live together in the same place. It is its just devastating to think that republicans are willing to write that off and just say, well, were just going to go for rural white voters. I mean, its just not a winning viable coalition. Brendan, can we talk about this moment from trumps rally tonight, louisiana senator john kennedy talking about the speaker of the house. Watch this. It is its just devastating to think that republicans are willing to write that off and just say, well, were just going to go for rural white voters. I mean, its just not a winning viable coalition. Brendan, can we talk about this moment from trumps rally tonight, louisiana senator john kennedy talking about the speaker of the house. Watch this. I dont mean any disrespect, but it must suck to be that dumb. And im from louisiana. Sorry, world. Look, theres no doubt that Speaker Pelosi makes a great target for republicans to fire up their base, but what do you think when you hear senator kennedy Say Something like that . I mean, our colleague here at cnn matt louis tweeted these guys are growing a whole new generation of bullies and punks. And keep in mind, those rallies are actually they serve as the president s focus groups. When he hears people react to stuff like that, that only encourages him to do it more, and it sounds so silly and childish, but i know from our work on the hill working with the president. He would say, you know, i said this line at the rally, and they went nuts, and that encourages him to do it more. Thats the feedback that he gets. He surrounds himself only with people that, you know, are in that bubble and it creates this cycle where he doubles down on it over and over and over again. This is not going to change anytime soon. Thats the most troubling part about it. Brendan, love having you on, amanda, you know we love having you as well. Thank you, appreciate it. Morale in the state department is plummeting. According to a senior official there, and a lot of it has to do with the secretary of state mike pompeo. If your adventure. Keeps turning into unexpected bathroom trips. You may have overactive bladder, or oab. Not again were seeing a doctor when we get home. Myrbetriq treats oab symptoms of urgency, frequency, and leakage. Its the first and only oab treatment in its class. Myrbetriq may increase blood pressure. Tell your doctor right away if you have trouble emptying your bladder or have a weak urine stream. 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Thats right, don, multiple people with knowledge have been saying that secretary of state mike pompeos standing in the department has diminished for many reasons, but primarily because of the developments of the impeachment inquiry, which we know has involved several state Department Officials and of course the Foreign Policy of the United States. One Senior Administration official who has been defending pompeo for the last several months said this whole ukraine saga has been a real game changer in hurting morale and hurting pompeos standing. We have to ask why that is. Well, we can look at whats happened this week, the release of the these transcripts from several senior state Department Officials who testified to congress behind closed doors, which are really put into black and white this concern that was growing in the state department that pompeo was not going to be backing up his officials when their interests pressed up against and conflicted with the political interests of the president. We know marie yovanovitch, the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine and a former top adviser to mike pompeo both testified they tried to get the state department and mike pompeo specifically to defend yovanovitch against attacks from the president s allies including Rudy Giuliani and those went nowhere. Thats been a real devastating had a real devastating effect within the department. Are Career State Department officials worried about backlash, michael, from the administration . I think theyre watching what happened to yovanovitch who was pushed out of her role in ukraine just a few months ago. They are concerned. Theyre seeing the way that the president has talked about the whistleblower, for instance. Theyre worried if some of these other officials who have been cooperating with the congressional investigators that pompeo might involve himself in retaliating. Thats a real concern and a real fear within the department. Michael warren, appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Joining me now to discuss, nicholas burns, a former ambassador to nato and greece. You just heard our reporting about tensions at the state department. What do you hear from your former colleagues . I think secretary pompeo has lost the confidence of a great, great many people in the state department because he hasnt stood up for these four people who have done so much to tell the story of what happened in the ukraine scandal. He hasnt stood up for them. In fact, when the white house called ambassador yovanovitch and ambassador bill taylor and mckinley and secretary of state george kent, the four Principal Foreign Service officers, white house called them radical elected bureaucrats. The secretary of state did not stand up for them. Secretary pompeo put a large poster in the lobby of the state department reminding officers some months ago about the need for honor and dignity and duty and to defend each other, and yet he couldnt even support his own people, these people who, you know, they take an oath to the constitution. All federal employees do. Not to the president. They honored the subpoena. They told the truth, and i think in a lot of ways, don, for me at least these are all friends of mine. I know them very, very well. Were so proud of them because i think theyve shown the American People there are good people in our government, people who tell the truth, people who are nonpartisan, and secretary pompeo has not said a single good word in support of them. So its a stain on his tenure as secretary of state. I want to get your reaction to what the former u. S. Ambassador to estonia had to say about secretary of state pompeo. Integrity is essential to being successful, and im afraid im afraid that secretary pompeo has abrogated any claim that he has to being a leader of integrity. Is there one word you would use to describe his behavior in regards to sondland here in this transcript. The first responsibility of a leader is to stand up for the leaders team, and he has deliberately chosen not to do that. Craven, thats a pretty strong word. Do you share ambassador melvilles assessment . I think the tragedy here don is that when secretary pompeo came in he was wellregarded by the state Department Rank and file because theyd had a disastrous experience in the first year of the Trump Presidency when their budget was cut, when there were mass resignations. Youll remember that, and pompeo was considered someone who had a military background so he understood the federal government. He had done well at the cia, and i think his opening moves were very positive in trying to reassure people that he believed in them. He reached out to all sorts of people in the building. He reached out to me and me other retired people, former officials to ask for advice, but when the chips were down, when this impeachment drama began, when these four state Department People testified, secretary pompeo chose sides, and it was to support blindly and i think wrongly President Trump, and thats a failure of leadership in one of our cabinet agencies. The transcripts released today show senior u. S. Diplomat bill taylor that he had to be talked into going back to ukraine. He also was clear about Rudy Giulianis role in dealing with ukraine. This is from the transcript, he says i think the origin of the idea to get president zelensky to say out loud hes going to investigate burisma in the 2016 election, i think the originator, the person who came up with that was mr. Giuliani. Question, and he was representing whose interests in ambassador taylor . President trump. How can a diplomat effectively do their job while the president s personal attorney is basically in charge . I mean, someone who is not an elected officials has not been appointed in any official capacity. What gives . This is extremely unusual in american diplomatic history. There are times when there are special envoys and the ambassador has to share responsibility with that person, but its always someone appointed officially with a government title and rank by the president. In this case the president s personal lawyer who im not even sure had a security clearance was able to effectively hijack the policy, and then you had the ambassador of the European Union playing a major role, ambassador sondland in ukraine, and poor ambassador yovanovitch, and ambassador bill taylor, they had all these people who were interfering with their work and we know now conspiring to force the Ukrainian Government to do something to investigate Vice President biden, and so you can imagine the frustration in these two great career officials, bill taylor and masha yovanovitch, and they were treated very poorly, especially ambassador yovanovitch who was fired unjustly, and then the state department did not stand up for her. Ambassador burns, thank you, sir. Thank you, don. A woman running for city council in maine gets trolled online by people as far away as alabama. Why . Shes the first somali refugee elected to that city council, and that might have something to do with it. 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Your Insurance Market place, healthmarkets there may be medicare benefits and savings youre missing out on only healthmarkets has the free fitscore call the number on your screen before the deadline call healthmarkets now lewiston, maine, made history yesterday, electing 23yearold Safiya Khalid to a seat on the city council. Shes the youngest person and the first somaliamerican to win a seat there. And she did it in spite of hate from racist online trolls from as far away as alabama and mississippi. Guess what . Safiya joins me now. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for having me tonight. Absolutely. So with nearly 70 of the vote, it was not even close. What was your initial reaction to winning by such a wide margin . Im still in shock. Ive been in shock for the laste but, you know, im so, so honored that the people of lewiston put their faith in me. Its really unbelievable that you were running locally, right, yet you were repeatedly trolled online all over the country for being black, being a muslim, a woman, and a refugee, much like the treatment of congresswoman omar of minnesota and representative tlaib in michigan, that they received. Can you tell me some of the things that people said to you and how it affected you . Yeah. There was the most hateful, terrible comments that ive, you know, ever seen before, and honestly i couldnt take it. And it was like the last minute of the election. It was a week before the election that everything, you know, started like the entire race turned into a negative campaign. So what i, you know, decided was i cant really focus on all the negative things thats going on on social media, so i had to temporarily delete my facebook you know, my social media accounts and focus on my i thought your family had come as refugees and that you were born here, but thats not the case. You came to this country at the age of 7 having fled somalia with your mother and two younger brothers. Tell us your story and what the ideal of america means to you and your family. Yeah. So my family and i, when i was the age of 7, i came into the country. We came to new jersey first, but later on we came to lewiston. And here in lewiston, you know, we lived here for more than a decade, and we found the love, the comfort, and the safety we were looking for, especially the safety where we, you know, fled a wartorn country, you know, full of violence. And we made home here. So its just been completely incredible. Lewiston has welcomed my family and i, and i am who i am because of lewiston and because, you know, i learned to write my name here in lewiston at the age of 7. At the age of 7 i was put in fourth grade and i always felt i was catching up with other people and other students. I was the first person to graduating high school to college to buying a car, you know, the first of everything in my family. And now the first to be a somali representative on the city council is wonderful. And your mom, you said that shes been watching all the news stories. Shes really proud of you, right . Hi, mom, by the way. Oh, yeah. You can say hi to her if you want. Yeah. Shes just incredibly, incredibly brave. You know, my mom is you know, my dad and my mom has been through so much trauma, you know, from somalia to even in america and always caring for us. So this is for her, and this is for just everyone in lewiston. What message do you think you sent those internet trolls last night . Anythings possible, right . Like we all have a place here in america, and thats exactly what i, you know, showed last night to all the haters out there. People continue to harass me, people continue to bully me even, put my address on social media for bad intention, to incite fear in me, and they did not win. I didnt let them win. I persisted. Yeah. You did persist. Listen, an overwhelming 70 of the vote. It was not even close. Listen, youre the embodiment of america and what can be achieved here, and were really, really proud of you. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having me tonight. Good luck. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful night. You, too. You know what . The former wife of the president used to have this thing. Remember when ivana trump used to say the best revenge is success . Trolls. Thanks for watching. Needles. Essential for the sea urchin, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Because there are options. Like an unjection™. Xeljanz xr, a oncedaily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. 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