to meet the needs of our districts and our country. fairness is our economy and diversity in our country. she also tweeted out a picture that you see there of the two of them as well. ocascio-cortez, as you know, fredricka, is a prolific tweeter, but we haven t seen her tweet anything at all since this meeting. in fact, we ve tried to run her down as we were here trying to get any sort of insight in how the meeting went. she sort of dodged our cameras. so it s very clear that they want one message going forward and that message is going to come from the speaker when she gives her briefing in just a few minutes. all right. jason, lauren, thank you so much. in fact, house speaker pelosi is talking right now, particularly about election security. let s listen in. on other issues that mr. mueller testified to as well. yesterday on steps of the capitol, perhaps you were there, we celebrated the 200 days of
she said was very good with the congresswoman alexandria ocascio-cortez, and then just saying it s too early to be talking about impeachment. why is this so important for her to do this just ahead of this recess? i think she s trying to set the tone and put impeachment on the back burner as people go home and congressmen talk to their constituents, and i don t think that there is going to be a great push on those congress members in the democratic caucus who have not endorsed impeachment to actually get on that impeachment train, because mueller s testimony was pretty weak in persuading more americans to support this. this is not something a majority of americans support yet, and nancy pelosi knows that impeachment is not going to go anywhere in the senate and could only hurt her party right now in the 2020 elections. daniel, we heard our manu raju who asked the question about whether or not house speaker nancy pelosi was trying
the hatchet with congresswoman ocascio-cortez in your meeting? i don t think there was ever any hatchet. reporter: she called you disrespectful. i have some level of confidence and actually joy in seeing diversity in our caucus. we are the democratic party. ever since i came here, we have been engaged in differences of opinion in our caucus, and that is a good thing. we are not a lock step, rubber stamp representation of anything except representatives of our district and what that means. so in our caucus we have our differences, respect that instead of making a big issue of it. respect that. those are our differences and how we express ourselves as representatives of our districts is our responsibility.
come back to capitol hill united, it s still an open question. fredricka. and again, at any moment now we are to here from the house speaker nancy pelosi. jason, you ve been following congresswoman alexandria ocascio-cortez. what more are you hearing from the expectations about this meeting. well, ocascio-cortez went into this meeting with a couple of goals. namely she wanted to make sure that there was an open line of communication. she also wanted to make sure that everyone was on the same page when it comes to the major issues here. in terms of what happened during that meeting, as soon as the speaker came out of it, she said it went well. she was also asked if the two were able to resolve some of their differences, to which the speaker replied i didn t know that we had that many differences. clearly they did. otherwise we wouldn t have had the meeting that we saw here today. the speaker for her part, she also tweeted about what happened after the meeting and she said the follow
actually, yesterday we had 219 votes for the bill. is anybody asking any questions about that? 219, a very unified caucus in doing what we needed to do for the american people, even though it was a compromise. i certainly wanted more. but it was a compromise. when we win the white house and we win the united states senate and we continue to win the house of representatives, then we ll have more leverage in that conversation. but i don t think i would never even say that it was a hatchet. but i do think that we sat down today. we had a good meeting. and the congresswoman is a very gracious member of congress, so we had a very positive conversation about our districts and how we represent our country and how we need to meet the needs, the diversity of america