To talk to me about was how the senate worked. She didnt want to talk about campaign stuff, poll, how youre going to do it. She was looking forward to when she got the job, what is the best way to do that job. And i have to say when i do meet politicians who are on the way to running or who are running and thats what they want to talk about, thats what impresses me the most. A, its rare, b, its impressive, and c, it tells you to like keep your eyes open because theyre going to get stuff done. And she just proved which actually is most senators most senators do not think of running for president. Its just that dozen on each side that were always keeping our eyes on. But most of them happen pale go through their lives without ever thinking about it. Yeah, this year its three dozen. All right, this year. Thank you, rachel. Well, the thing that republicans fear the most they fear it the most, that is catching up with roger stone tonight. Roger stone appears to be in more legal trouble tonight because of democracy. Not all republicans fear democracy but enough Republican Party officials and enough Republican Party elected officials around the country feared democracy enough that they have done everything they can to suppress the vote now that the Voting Rights act has been disabled by the republican appointed members of the United StatesSupreme Court. Republican officials know there are only 28 of voters identified as republican now. Republican officials know that the Republican Party is on the losing end of the demographics of this country, and that is only going to get worse. Republicans know that more people vote for Democratic Senators than republican senators. Republicans know more people vote for Democratic House of representatives than republicans and they know more people voted democratic for president for the last three president ial elections. And so some republican officials do everything they possibly can to subvert democracy, everything they can to deny the American People a clear expression of their will through voting. Republica republicans gerimandered the house. And none stepped out in outrage over the reports. But they showed it was so powerful that it could overcome every roadblock republicans have put in its way in the congressional races in the house of representatives. And tonight democracy is beginning to undo the coverup that chairman devin nunes and other republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have been running for donald trump. It is a matter of Public Record that devin nunes who is supposed to bein charge of a Committee Investigating the president s president ial campaign and entanglements with russia was in fact telling everything he knew about that investigation, trying to make sure that investigation would do no harm to anyone in trump world. But democracy spoke on november 6th. And so now devin nunes has only days left in the chairmanship of that committee. Democrat adam schiff will become the chairman of that committee in january and that means the devon nunes coverup is over, its all over. And thats why the Washington Post is reporting tonight, quote, special counsel robert s. Mueller iii asked the House Intelligence Committee on friday for an official transcript of Trump Advisor Roger stones testimony according to people assigned to the probe. It is the first time mueller has formally asked the committee to turn over material the panel has gather ind its investigation of russian interference in the 2016 campaign, according to the people. Securing an official transcript from the committee would be a necessary step before pursuing an indictment that stone allegedly lied to lawmakers, legal experts said. Robert mueller will have that transcript by the end of the first week of january at the latest, maybe sooner. The Intelligence Committees new chairman will make sure that that happens. I believe that there is ample reason to be concerned about his truthfulfulness, and i do think that with respect to mr. Stone and perhaps others the special counsel is in better position to determine the truth or falsity of the testimony and that we ought to provide it to special counsel. The New York Times reports that on orders from current chairman devin nunes, quote, almost all the transcripts have remains in the sole possession of the committee which has in other things kept them out of the hands of muellers investigators. Schiff plans to publicly release the remaining transcripts when the new congress convenes in january. Democratic congressman eric swalwell, a member of the Intelligence Committee told the New York Times, i just wonder how many crimes are just sitting in the basement of the House Intelligence Committee that mueller doesnt know about because he hasnt seen that they lied to us . Tonight there are 17 investigations of donald trump the businessman, donald trump the president ial candidate and donald trump the president. How many more will there be when the democrats take charge of the house committees that are empowered to investigate the president . The Intelligence Committee, the Judiciary Committee where impeachment proceedings begin, the ways and Means Committee or the coming chairman Massachusetts Governor neil has the authority to obtain the tax returns of donald trump . By valentines day President Trump will be probably be looking back at this christmas when he was only the subject of 17 investigations and missing those good old days. Leading off our discussion now John Heilemann, cohost and executive producer of show times the circus. Ron klain is with us, and kimberley atkins, Washington Bureau chief for the Boston Herald and msnbc contributor. And kimberley, is the white house aware, are they gearing up for what is to come when all of these new investigations start in the house of representatives . Are they hiring more lawyers . Are they assigning a lawyer to each committee thats going to be investigating this white house . Well, i think in a typical white house you would see that being the exact response that you would see to this sort of ramp up of investigations over and above the Mueller Investigation thats already going on. But in this white house the Legal Counsels Office is actually understaffed. And so there is a real question as to whether this white house is ready to deal with as a legal matter the onslaught of investigations that could very well follow in january once democrats take over the house of representatives and all of the levers of power that come with that. I mean, theres been a lot of talk about the subpoena power and the ability subpoena that house lawmakers will have and whether or not they will try to reign that in and use that in a very strategic way with respect to this white house. But thats just one aspect of the power of the these committees. There is document requests as youve already seen representative Elijah Cummings of the Oversight Committee notifying the white house that they are going to have a number of document requests directed at this white house for a number of areas, areas that democrats have been wanting to pursue for the last two years but have been stopped by the Republican Leadership. Theres a lot more to the oversight. Theres holding hearings, calling people to testify. Theres a lot more to this than subpoena power and that is going to take up a great deal of time and a lot of resources and this white house should be prepared for it. Courtrooms as many people know require certified copies of every document that comes through a courtroom. And so the Washington Post is reporting tonight, in general if prosecutors want to bring a charge of lying to investigators, they must obtain a certified clean copy from the transcriber or clerk who took the statement to present as an exhibit to a grand jury, legal experts said. Charges of lying to congress are relatively rare but last month cohen pleaded guilty to such as a charge as part of the special counsel probe. And devin nunes was probably never going to give mueller a Certified Copy of that transcript. Devin nunes would have done whatever was in his power to try to obstruct all the inquiries into donald trump and his associates and their connections to russia. So this is one of the most vivid examples of all the examples in places of where the chain of control from one chairman to another is going to befelt by donald trump in a painful way. This is more dramatic a change from nunes to adam schiff. This is an ominous moment. Weve been waiting for the possible indictment of roger stone for some weeks now expecting it to come. It does seem now as though were right on the doorstep of it, and at the moment when adam schiff arrives in that chairmanship, he will be trying in every way to can to help with the law. Lets listen to how adam schiff described to Stephen Colbert how things have changed on the Intelligence Committee. One of the most basic rule of doing an investigation is you follow the money. We were not allowed to follow the money. Now, we have seen the perils of not doing that in the revelations about the trump business, efforts to build this trump tower in moskow. But the question remains what about these allegations the russians were laundering money through the Trump Organization and the leverage they might have over the president of the United States that might explain his often inexplicable fondness for russia and putin. It is, lawrence, and not just the House Intelligence Committee. The house Oversight Committee, the house Judiciary Committee. Youre going to see a number of these democratic chairman pursue these issues. And lets be cheer, this is not a witch hunt. This is the pursuit of the most corrupt government. Youve got a bunch of trump cronies down at maralago who essentially run the veterans administration. Youve got people at almost every agency giving contracts to their friends and all kinds of corruption like that. I think youre going to see a real hard look at everything. Weve focused mostly for the past few years on the russia scandal, understandably. It is the most important one. It goes to the core of our democracy. But in the meantime a bunch of cronies of the agency have been robbing people blind and were going to get to the bottom of that, too. Something that was cleary witness tampering, and the tweet itself would be an article of impeachment in any sane version of our washington life. He said, this is december 3rd donald trump tweeted i will never testify against trump. This statement was recently made by roger stone essentially stating he will not be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about President Trump. Nice to know that some people still have guts. And kimberley, it will be interesting to see what happens if roger stone does indeed end up testifying, what the trump tweets will say then. It will. President trump has been trying to use his twitter feed to act as his own attorney and try to message to the people who were under investigation or clearly in the cross hairs of Robert Muellers team, to try to influence their testimony. You know, whether or not his tweets lead to obstruction of justice or witness tampering as some people have suggested, we just dont know because weve never seen a president do this before. Quite frankly theres no precedent for it, but its not good and its not generally what happens. When it comes to roger stone, its been pretty clear. Although Robert Mueller has been quiet and not really leaked where he is going and weve been surprised from one turn to another about where this investigation is going. Its been Crystal Clear that roger stone is a critical component of this particularly when it comes to what relationship the Trump Campaign had with wikileaks before the election, the fact theyre seeking these transcripts now, it seems that part is moving forward and the fact he hasnt been questioned yet makes it pretty clear hes a likely target of this investigation. So President Trump has to be worried about that. John heilemann, you know roger stone, youve dealt with roger stone. How much prison time is roger stone capable of dealing with trump . Thats a great question. In the end willing to take the sentence and not fold under pressure. Roger stone fancies himself both as sort of a dandy, a fashionista. He love his clothing and his fineries. He also fashions himself as a tough guy. Hes been the one who has been most defiant in the face of all of the scandal, all the controversy, all the accusations that have swirled around him. So i think he will be defiant i think up until the moment he stops being defiant. And i think one of the questions really will be how much prison time is he looking at . Its hard to judge exactly what that is right now, how many counts the indictment is going to consistent of, but i do think hes a guy who will try to hold out is as long as possible, try to keep up the notion in his mind that trump will pardon him eventually but i do think there will be a limit to that and when that limit is reached you will see him like many others have and many others will, fold like a cheap chair at a two bit poker game. G gordon libby was the hold out in the watergate investigation, didnt cooperate, did years in prison and was rewarded in the right wing republican world, became a right wing media figure as a result. And ron klain, with someone like lodge r rog roger stone, if its not a serious prison time, that could be a career boost for roger stone. So if the prosecutors if theyre thinking ability this have to be careful with what kind of prison sentence he may be facing. I think youre right, lawrence. Look, we dont really know who was the link between trump and wikileaks, which was essentially an agent of the russian government in 2016. But it seems like it was roger stone. And the idea these were coordinated is a really critical part of the story we keep walking past. Wikileaks put out their first set of materials on the eve of the democratic convention, forcing out the chairman of the democratic party. And just a few hours after the access Hollywood Tape came out, they started to put out the rest of the stuff. There was close coordination between someone looking over Donald Trumps shoulder and the folks at wikileaks. And that coordinator could well have been roger stone. And if so, i dont think this is going to be a George Papadopoulos two week slap on the wrist. I think its going to put him at the center of the conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and the russian government. Ron klain, kimberley atkins, John Heilemann, thank you all for starting us off tonight. And when we come back two big mysteries today. One involves the Michael Cohen case and a secret document that was placed in a vault in District Court in manhattan. Well have more on that next. And just minutes ago the senate actually passed a funding bill to keep the government open, and it did not include one penny for Donald Trumps wall. How nancy pelosi defeated donald trump is coming up. The greatest wish of all is one that brings us together. The final days of wish list are here. Sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first months payment. Only at your lincoln dealer. And im still going for my best even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. So if theres a better treatment than warfarin, im up for that. Eliquis. Eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. Plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. Eliquis is fdaapproved and has both. 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A sealed filing was made today in the case brought against Michael Cohen by federal prosecutors in new york city. We dont know who made it or what it was about. The only thing we know comes from the Court Document which says the filing was locked in a vault at District Court in manhattan. The second mystery is who is fighting a subpoena apparently from Robert Mueller in federal court . Reporters have been trying to figure out when answer to that for months but the case has been kept so secret that when arguments were heard last week officials at the courthouse in washington took extraordinary measure of shutting down to the public the entire floor where the hearing was taking place. But last night we got a partial answer. A three judge panel of the Appeals Court issued a ruling in favor of the prosecutors, in favor of Robert Mueller that revealed that the mystery subpoena target is not a person, it is a corporation, which they did not name owned by a foreign country, which they also did not name. The ruling said the subpoena involved, quote, an act outside the territory of the United States and that the act caused a direct effect in the United States. Joining us now daniel goldman, an msnbc legal analyst and also joining us daniel shugarman. How many times as a federal prosecutor did you put things in the vault, what is the vault for . I wish i had a really sexy answer for you, but it is far more common that you might think. Any sealed document filed with the court should go in a vault. So its not as if there are sealed documents that the court holds onto and then sealed documents that go to a vault. I dont know that every single time a document is filed under seal that it actually does go into a vault, but in Michael Cohens case theyre certainly going to do everything by the book. Theres two things that jump out otme this might be. I think the most likely thing is that it is the presentence investigation report, which is something that remains under seal, prepared by the Probation Office that outlines all of his conduct, all of his personal his history, the criminal history, et cetera. That remains under seal, and it could just be its being officially filed in the docket as its required to be. The other option that i can think of is there is an outstanding pending motion by news organizations to unseal the search warrant materials that led to the searches on april 9th of this year of Michael Cohens office and home. That is pending, and obviously those search warrant materials are sealed. Its possible it somehow relates to that. I doubt it would be the judges order because he has to notify the parties as to what hes deciding, but it could be something in connection to that, which continues to remain sealed. All right, what about the elephant in the room by which i mean the elephant indictment of alltime, an indictment of individual one, the coconspirator identified in the Michael Cohen case . Before you answer that lets listen to kenneth star, the special prosecutor in the bill clinton case who helped establish what he believes is the legal principle that the president of the United States can be indicted. Lets listen to what he said to ari melber tonight. So you think that if there is the right evidence, bob mueller or another prosecutor could indict a sitting president , donald trump . Yes. President clinton said in the civil setting, not criminal, i should be immune from a civil lawsuit during the course of my tenure as president and the Supreme Court unanimously said, no, mr. President , the Public Interest in the enforcement of the criminal laws i believe is even higher. Okay, so could the elephant in the vault be the indictment of individual one . I think it is highly hilee unlikely. What ken star said after he had that comment is that his belief is contrary to doj policy right now. And while many people might think that the president should be able to be indicted, just not tried because of the issues in terms of taking up too much time, i dont think that ken Stars Opinion does not control. Its a good opinion. Doj policy does control but if what rosenstein authorized or even whitaker authorized is you can indict him now and youll hold it until after his presidency is the vault where they would put that indictment . Yeah. I knew we would get the indictment into the vault somehow. What is going on with the proceedings in washington which we now know involves a foreign country and Company Owned by the government of that country . This i think theres a small universe of possibility. Theres three russian possibilities, three gulf possibilities and a wild card. The three russian possibilities are two banks. Theres veb bank and vt bank, both described as putin slush funds. When kushner and flynn were setting up a secret line to the kremlin, suddenly kushner met with the head of ve bank, and that may be connected to the purchase of roseneft on the market at that same exact moment in december. And so roseneft is a third possibility. Theres two russian banks and roseneft is the Largest Oil Company in the world or second largest thats russian owned. And then there are possibilities from gulf states. Could be qatars sovereign fund, qia, the emirates sovereign fund, maybe its saudis. And they could be connected with that roseneft sale that is described as the linchpin in the steele dossier as the potential way to generate money. The wild card is the Trump Organization is a wholly alone subsidiary of russia. From your analysis what is the most likely fitting that we would think this to be based on what we know . You probably think they would start with the russian assets, the russian entities. Theres a reason to suggest it might be any of these, but in all likelihood its probably going to start earlier in the chain that involves that nexus of cohen, flynn and trump. And this could be subpoenaing bank records from these entities, records basically . Subpoenaing records, its more likely to be something institutional like records than a human live witness because of the way the subpoena and the litigation is going. And so some people suggest that its less sophisticated set of lawyers because of the nature of some of these arguments, but that could be any of these. But keep in mind it has to be a company that has some sort of nexus to the United States. Grand jury subpoenas cannot reach out to purely international companies. Yeah. Our mystery solvers, thank you for joining us tonight. These mystery continue. And when we come back, we have breaking news. The Senate Just Passed a senate bill that keeps the government open into february and nancy pelosi has won again because it does not provide one penny for Donald Trumps wall. Thats next. Kayla our dad was in the hospital. Josh because of smoking. But we still had to have a cigarette. Had to. Kayla do you know how hard it is to smoke in a hospital . By the time we could, we were like. What are we doing . Kayla it was time for nicodermcq. The nicodermcq patch with unique extended release Technology Helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. And doubles your chances of quitting. Nicodermcq. You know why, we know how. After bills back needed a vacation from his vacation. So he stepped on the dr. Scholls kiosk. It recommends our best custom fit orthotic to relieve foot, knee, or lower back pain so you can move more. Dr. Scholls. Born to move. [narrator] meet sharks newest robot vacuum. 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Let me get this straight, our chances of getting the wall will be better in february when nancy pelosi is speaker than now when we have the majority . Give me a break. Jim jordan will not come on this program because hes afraid i will ask him about accusations made by the Ohio State Wrestling Team who say when he was a coach of that team he did nothing to protect them from sexual assault. So i have to communicate with jim jordan on twitter so i replied to his tweet this way, you are correct, sir, nancy pelosi beat you and trump, and no you will not get a break. It gets worse from here, much worse. There is exactly zero surprise in washington that nancy pelosi is a tougher negotiator than donald trump. It is only republicans who are afraid to stand up to donald trump, and so republicans in washington have fallen in line behind the leadership of the weakest president washington has ever seen. Donald trump threatened to shutdown the government in order to get taxpayer funding for the wall that he said mexico was going to pay for, and not one person in washington believed a shutdown was going to happen. No one believed the threat. Everyone paid more attention to Mitch Mcconnell, immediately saying that a shutdown would not happen. And today Mitch Mcconnell surrendered completely to nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer and all of the democrats in washington and offered a spending bill that would keep the government open without providing one penny for Donald Trumps wall. And the democrats dont even have the majority in the house of representatives yet. Theyre still the minority in the senate and house, and theyre still beating donald trump. Even fox and friends is calling donald trump a loser on this one. If he agrees to the cr, which we continue funding the government at the current levels we wont get anything for the wall, he loses and democrats will get what they want. 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I have my art and i have my friends. I have hope and thats something they cant take away from me. Hell yeah. There are no votes in the house, the majority votes for a wall if i needed the votes for the wall in the house, i would have them in one session, waeld ed done. Donald trump couldnt do it. He couldnt get the votes for his wall even with the republican majority in the house and senate and so tonight he has officially surrendered to nancy pelosi. The first of many surrenders to nancy pelosi to come in the next two years. Kimberley atkins, ron klain, and John Heilemann are back with us. And John Heilemann, there wasnt a person in washington who donald trump threatened to shutdown who actually thought there was going to be a shutdown. He is the cowardly lion of the white house. Lawrence, i was on tv with you that night, and i will say this. The moment that donald trump said that he would shut the government down and that he would own the shutdown proudly, that was the moment he guaranteed that the shutdown would not happen. Because although donald trump is stupid enough and a bad enough negotiator hes not stupid enough to actually go through with it. And if you want to know what the next two years are going to look like, theyre going to look like that over and over again. And kimberly, Mitch Mcconnell said there wont be a shutdown, and its very clear which one to pick. Absolutely. Mitch mcconnell knows theres no appetite among the American Public ever for government shutdown, certainly not days before christmas and right before the house switches parties, switches control. So that was a losing battle from the start. But it just showed a preview of what trump versus pelosi is going to be like. Donald trump has had republicans who were willing to bend to his will for two years, next year is going to look dramatically different. And ron klain, the democrats have accomplished something that i think is very important having worked in a legislative body, in the senate for a while. And that is they demonstrated their ability to stop something. They didnt achieve anything new. They didnt achieve anything positive. They simply stopped donald trump from getting what he wanted on the wall. And that is the most powerful power that nancy pelosi is going to have in the next two years. No question about it, lawrence. Weve seen in the past two years trump moving very few things affirmatively forward, but being able to do a lot of horrible thing tuesday the administrative process, the rule making and through the power of the presidency, and the ability for democrats to stop that is key. And look, nancy pelosi is a very, very skilled player. But lets give credit to where credit is do, she is playing poker against the guy who turns all his cards up and tries to bluff. And once he nounces in the oval office, im going to own the shutdown, that really was the worst bluff in the history of poker playing. Thats the problem President Trump has. Hes a bad negotiator, he doesnt understand policy, and he is going to find it really hard to go toe to toe with pelosi and schumer the next few years. Threatening a shutdown for the wall. Shutdown is his only threat. Its his only bargaining chip he knows, and hes afraid to use it. And if he does use it, it will destroy him. Well, yes, hes right to be afraid to use it because it would have been cataclysmically bad for him in this instance, and in the previous instance it would be bad for him. Hes not a bad negotiator, hes the worst negotiator. Hes the worst negotiator in the history of person politics, and the fact hes the worst has everything to do with the fact he is the president who understands the government and politics least. You cant be a good negotiator if you dont understand the thing youre negotiating over and you have no idea what the actual rules of the game are because you dont even know what the game is. So game, set, match. Pelosi and schumer will be able to run rings around him for the next two years because they actually understand what happens on capitol hill, in washington, in politics, policy and he does not. And donald trump told his voters he would be able to get everything done because hes such a great negotiator. And so that argument is collapsing here. I have a feeling that the white house staff is going to at least be advising the president to have as few nancy and chuck meetings as possible on the schedule next year because hes not going to win those. Well, thats assuming that members of the white house staff are able to advise him on anything and hell actually listen to it. I think President TrumpStill Believes that he can negotiate, if you call that, by essentially bullying people and forcing them to accede to his will. Thats how he dealt with Republican Leadership in congress for two years. Nancy pelosi is not going to back down or accede to his will. Hes going to have to figure that out. What that is we dont know yet. You know meetings like that that what you saw with the speaker, incoming speaker and the Democratic House and the senate are not called that often. But when theyre called both sides are very serious about having those meetings. If nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer request a meeting with the president , as sometimes happens, the white house will have every reason to suspect theyre coming up there to try to humiliate this president because its so easy to do. Well, yeah, but lets also give credit where credits due. Its trumps choice to tellvise these meetings live on national television. I sat through meetings both as a Senate Staffer and white house aide. Usually theres a pool spread at the top and then the serious negotiation goes on behind closed doors without the tv cameras in the room. Tuchl is not only the worst negotiator but hes decided to make it nationally televised event. And thats the part of this that really defies the understanding. And the less opportunities there are for cameras, and i was in meetings with president clinton where no cameras were allowed anywhere near it because the legislative pressure was so tough at that time, we didnt want people to know what was going on. And up next, tonights good news. A once in a lifetime opportunity and how it changes lives. burke parking splat. And we covered it. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum monday night my dear friend joy reed who sometimes hosts this show tweeted just did our familys annual k. I. N. D. Fund donation. Joy reid traveled to south africa to cover Nelson Mandelas hundredth birthday. Since monday night when joy rei contributed another 198,158 to the k. I. N. D. Fund. That brings the total you have contributed this Holiday Season so far to 1,754,298. And that brings the total we have raised since we started the k. I. N. D. Fund on this program to over 19 million. But we still have a very long way to go. Most of that money has gone to building desks at factories in malawi that have been able to provide jobs to workers to build the hundreds of thousands of desks that you have contributed to schools that have never had desks. So the first beneficiaries of the k. I. N. D. Fund are actually those workers at those factories who have jobs now making those desks. Jobs that allow them to provide for their families. And the second beneficiaries are the kids who receive those desks. Over a million children in malawi are sitting at desks in schools now where they never expected to have a desk. About a fourth of the money that youve contributed has gone to scholarships for over 5,000 girls to attend high school in malawi where like many african countries Public High School is not free. It is especially difficult for girls to stay in school in malawi. Families who can afford to pay for one child to go to high school will usually pay for one of the boys in the family, not one of the girls. The girls Graduation Rate is much lower than boys, and so girls need much more support to stay in high school. Leah stevens is a 16yearold senior in high school who is in school today thanks to your generosity. Last month she told me that if she didnt have a k. I. N. D. Fund scarship she would just be stuck at home. And when i asked her what she would do if she was stuck at home, she told me she would probably be forced to get married. And what would you do at home . I would i would just stay, getting married. In mali moawi who didnt go to school, they are forced into marriage. Forced into marriage. There is so much at stake in being able to keep a girl in high school in malawi. You can help at lastworddesks. Msnbc. Com. Any amount you can contribute is very helpful. Rose makata is in her third year of high school. She wants to be a lawyer. Here she is at home with her mother and her little sister. Roses mother had to drop out of high school when her father died. Before rose got a k. I. N. D. Fund scholarship she had to drop out of high school too. And she felt that her future would be doomed. It was painful. I live im being im being rejected. Its like you cannot just because of money. You are not allowed to learn just because of money. And i say that why am i even in this world . Because theres not anything to do out here. No education, that means my future will be doomed. When rose graduates from high school, she will be the first one in her family to do that. I just have to stand up and be the first one to go for my education. I dont want to be like my mom. I dont want to be out there struggling. When i asked rose how her mother feels about roses education, rose had to fight back tears. And how does your mother feel now about you going to school . Shes happy for me. Because she keep on telling me my daughter, work hard in classes. Just go and look what you want to be. Yeah. Thats it. Your mother must be very proud that youre in school. Yes. Shes very excited and very proud of me. Because you now get to fulfill her dream. She wanted to go to school but now you can. Yeah. I can go to school now. And shes always encouraging me that dont let go of this opportunity. It comes once in a life. Yeah. Thats it. It comes once in a life. 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