School. She went on to become the head of the Democratic Party in the great state of new mexico. While she was head of the Democratic Party in that state, she helped flip that state to democratic control in the legislature. Deb haaland ran for congress herself in 2018. She was able to run as, in her words, a 35th generation new mexican. 35 generations of her family. She won that race. She and Sharice Davids from kansas became the first two native american women ever elected to congress, both elected in the same year. Deb haaland has been a very highprofile and sort of instantly Effective Member of Congress Since she got there. She was vice chair of the Natural Resources committee as a freshman. She was chair of the subcommittee on public lands. Now as interior secretary in the Biden Administration, deb haaland will be in charge of public lands federally as well as in charge of all the agencies that the the federal agencies that exert so much almost unimaginable amounts of power over th
Great state of new mexico. While she was head of the Democratic Party in that state, she helped flip that state to democratic control in the legislature. Deb holland ran for congress, herself, in 2018. She was able to run as, in her words, a 35thgeneration. New mexican. She won that race and she became one of two native american women elected to congress, both elected in the same year. Deb haaland has been a highprofile and sort of instantly Effective Member of Congress Since she got there. She was vice chair of the Natural Resources committee as a freshman. She was chair of the subcommittee on public lands. Now, as interior secretary in the Biden Administration, deb haaland will be in charge of public lands federally, as well as in charge of all the agencies that, the federal agencies that exert so much almost unimaginable amounts of power over the lives of native americans, including, of course, the bureau of indian affairs. Nominating deb haaland to be interior secretary, nominating
Civic sense institution, who should it be . Im going to noodle on that. Thats exactly right. You get bonus points if you figure out who it should be not just for bringing it back to its former glory but also for adding Postal Service banking to the list of things that happened at the Postal Service. If you can come up with that, you win a free tv show. All right, my friend. Im on it. All right. Well done. Nobody better. If anybody can come up with that, it is chris hayes. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here this thursday night. For the first time ever, which is almost unbelievable, but its true. For the first time ever, a native american is going to be a cabinet secretary in the United States. Deb hollands mother was a navy veteran, a native american woman, a citizen of the na gu na fa web low. Her father was a norwegian american and an active duty marine. Deb holland went to 13 different Public Schools before graduating from high school. She p
There are reports of diplomatic discussions to end the seven day old israelgaza conflict. Since last tuesday, israel has launched more than 1400 air strikes on gaza. Now the air strikes have killed more than 185 other. 1400 others have been injured. The casualties from those air strikes from the israeli side, rockets strikes have wounded at least 22 people from the gaza side. No one has been killed. Gaza has launched rocket attacks into israel, iron dome has repelled that. These are reports of cease fires and pauses and so i think some of the reports are getting a little ahead of themselves. Lets get to what officials are saying. Secretary of state john kerry has been talking about a pause in this fighting, perhaps 24 hours, perhaps 48 hours, perhaps 72 hours. And in order to try and advance the diplomatic solution, he is flying or planning to fly to cairo tomorrow. Egypt has historically been a mediator between hamas and israel, thats why he is flying to egypt, and also to fly to doha
The control tower was hit with a rocket. A 7 billion settlement between citigroup and the u. S. Government over sub prime mortgages. Only some of that money is going back to homeowners. Well tell you where the rest of it is going. Secretary of state john kerry speaking live in Vienna Austria is discussing Irans Nuclear program there. He condemned the situation in the middle east. Right now, he is talking about iran. The Additional Protocol needs to be adhered to and a specific set of verification and transparency measures need to be put in place, among other things that make the promises real. Thats the nature, its not specific to iran. Any country would be in the same place and need to do the same thing as they do with respect to any kind of agreement. Libya, we are obviously deeply concerned about the level of violence in libya, and every single day in the state department, we make assessments about the level of violence, about our personnel who are there, about our embassy, about th