concerted effort to turn people here, workers here 50% people of color in front of and behind the camera. we have nbcu academy trying to create a pipeline for people of color. this is my life s work. it s been a long-time frustration, and i m heavily to make sure this show is representative, like you see on the screen today. but being in media, cristela, i m sure this is something you ve experienced. absolutely, you know, it s that thing where so i think one of the biggest are problems we have is that if we don t have more of us in the rooms, what i find personally in my career is that sometimes i find myself being the only one in a room where i have to explain a culture that is foreign to someone while i pitch a story or while i pitch a show. and you can t assume that people are going to understand a summary of your version of the culture, you know, where they would actually want to take a chance. so it s this thing where we have to change the narrative, and actually, it s this co
being wrecked and people are sick from asthma but people can t afford bills and companies have record profits. and that is happening in our country. and she ll say look, i spent my whole life prosecuting and the second largest office in america and this is my life s work to take on people threatening our country and keeping the system unjust for regular people in america. so she s going to talk about that over the next four months and as we get to iowa, that is when you want to do really well. you don t want to do it is nice to do well in the summer of the off year but that doesn t determine the outcome of a race. we want to peak at the new year and be competitive. see how it unfolds. we ll see how it unfolds tonight. absolutely. we re looking at it more than two hours from now. ian, thank you for come in. we have more. up next, an update on the crisis and the real crisis in syria. i m your cat. ever since you brought me home, that day. i ve been plotting to destroy you. sizi
been working over and over and over on what s happening to america s working families to america s middle class. this is my life s work. warren described how her research into bankruptcy abuses sparked the beginning of her political transformation. i looked around in the middle of that fight and i realized all the money was on one side. and all the hurting was on the other. and that s when i jumped in politically. warren began advocating for the middle class. american families who need your help. ultimately spearheading the creation of the consumer financial protection bureau and for what she now calls economic patriotism. these giant multinational corporations they re not patriotic. they don t have any loyalty to this country to these work persons they have loyalty to exactly one thing and that is the profitability of the bottom line. that s it. and today, the one-time republican is leading the
striking policy shift. i didn t think much about politics. at a cnn townhall in april, warren addressed her swing to the left away from her conservative roots. in late mid-1990s i ve been working over and over on what s happening to america s working families, america s middle class. this is my life s work. warren described how her research into bankruptcy abuses spark the beginning of her political transformation. i looked around the middle of that fight and i realized all the money was on one side and all the hurting was on the other. and that s when i jumped in. warren began advocating for the middle class. america families who need your help. ultimately spear heading the creation of the consumer financial protection bureau for what she now calls economic patriotism. these giant multinational corporations they re not patriotic. they don t have any loyalty to
to your point, in nothing. can that actually happen? when you have parents of the parkland kids who died? when you have students who aren t going away. they re not getting fatigued. i m looking at my facebook page and i see people i know day in and day out. saying i m going to be there. there are parents who are now saying this is my life s work. this commission might exist but if it doesn t do anything, these people aren t going away. and these kids might not all be old enough to vote yet, but they will be next year and the year after and for decades beyond that. there s more than 300 million guns in america, one in every three households owns a gun. the second amendment has been recognized twice by the supreme court as an individual right. if you abolish the nra tomorrow, this would still be true. gun control wouldn t ring out across the land. we ve been going after the safety of schools since 1990 is the first time the gun free zone act, whatever it s called, was