know i m not easy to push around. i like to listen. i like to learn. i like to research. i like to deliberate. ultimately this is my job to represent the constituents of the 45th district and i had to make up my own mind and that s what i did here. you re in the biggest congressional district in the congress, of course, the california congressional district. it has the most powerful leader of a congressional delegation who happens to be speaker of the house nancy pelosi. has this made her situation more difficult? did you speak to the speaker before making your announcement? of course i went and told the speaker what i was going to do. that s very common. we do this with all kinds of issues, whether they re small or large. we always try to keep the speaker informed. and i think, look, the speaker here is making room for each member to do their duty to their constituents and to this country. she s making space for each person to read the mueller report, to ask questions, to talk wit
yours this will be a very unpopular voice, this will make your own re-election more difficult. i didn t run for congress and i don t come every week to washington, d.c. to do what s easy, i come to do what s right, and so politics has no part in this kind of a decision. this is really about analyzing the law and the facts as they were gathered by the special counsel and then doing what i think is right. so there may or may not be political consequences to this, but that can t guide my decision. that wouldn t be doing my duty to my constituents if i allowed politics to trump what i believe is right. how much did you talk about impeachment during your campaign? during my campaign i almost never spoke about it unless directly asked, and at all times i said the same thing, which is we have to allow mr. mueller to do his investigation. and what about voters in your district who might think, oh, you know, she didn t say anything about it during the campaign and now here she is
that wouldn t be doing my duty to my constituents if i allowed politics to trump what i believe is right. how much did you talk about impeachment during your campaign? during my campaign i almost never spoke about it unless directly asked, and at all times i said the same thing, which is we have to allow mr. mueller to do his investigation. and what about voters in your district who might think, oh, you know, she didn t say anything about it during the campaign and now here she is doing something, making a big decision that she could have told us about during the campaign. i really couldn t have shared this information until now because what i m doing is using the facts and the evidence that mr. mueller found in order to make my conclusion that we need to begin an impeachment inquiry. so i was not in mr. mueller s shoes. i didn t know what he was finding. and like the rest of the american public, i had to allow him to do his job. but when he comes forward and says that there ar
way we began it, focusing on the record number of women in both parties running for office this year. tonight we ll take a look at california congressional district 25 where 31-year-old first-time candidate katie hill is running against republican incumbent congressman steve knight. kyung lah is outfront. look it up. if you don t look at us, we re coming. that s just the reality of it. reporter: democrat katie hill, age 31, a first-time candidate propelling a millenial-led challenge against a male incumbent 20 years older. you ve seen what congress looks like. yeah. you don t look like most people in congress. right. we ve got to change the face of politics if we want to really get people engaged around around politics and mobilize people to effect social change. reporter: that s why her campaign for california s 25th congressional district looks like this.
primary system. there was this much discussed nightmare scenario for democrats in which there would be too many of them running. so in key races there would be so many democrats on the ballot, they would split the democratic vote. and even in districts where republicans had tons of enthusiasm to throw out the incumbent republican member of congress, in those districts you d end up with two republicans on the ballot in the general election in november. big worry for democrats, that with all these democratic candidates they d split the vote and republicans would box them out for november. it was big worry for the democrats. in the end, it worked out fine for them. better than fine, actually. the democratic party pretty much got exactly what they wanted. a democrat made the top two, made the general election in almost every single california congressional district, cluting a bunch of very red looking republican-held districts. there were 53 congressional races up for grabs, and a few of t