while celebrities sometimes use their stardom to go into politics, she reached fame as a politician. the 31-year-old is outspoken, uncompromising, and not just navigating the political world but trying to change it. all while love her or hate her, everyone is watching. you re now in your second term in the house. you have 12 million twitter followers, 9 million instagram followers and they all know you by three letters. aoc. so what s it like to be aoc? you know, it s an interesting question because i just feel like i m me. what i really try to be is to be like my neighbors and to be like the folks at the bow dega i get coffee from but there s surreal parts of the experience but i don t feel like that s part of me. i feel like it s part of this really weird world that i ve walked into. how are you feeling? can you put it into words? nope, i cannot put this into words. this was election night in june of 2018. when she stunned everyone including herself. beating congr
xfinity is here to inspire your biggest dreams that s it for us, tonight. together, as ever, as one. we ll get through this pandemic. it s never been more true, than now. lucky for you, on a friday night, you get the upgrade, laura coates, in for don lemon on don lemon tonight. good to see you, counselor. good to see you, too. you know, it s my ten-year wedding anniversary. so i m so you know, i love being here. but shout-out to my husband. happy anniversary, as well. shout-out to your husband. thank god and blessings to you, both, for finding a way to stay together. we all know it s work. we know it s not easy. ten years is a beautiful milestone. it is, indeed. and he s cute, so it helps. of course, he is. of course, i would expect no less. so, let me ask you a quick take. obviously, have tons of news tonight. simone biles has decided to withdraw from the event finals for vault and uneven bars which means she is not out of everything, but she is now out of va
to discuss that and the legacy of trump s term in office. and an eye-opening discovery that may save your life one day. a way to edit the genetic code itself. newly minted nobel laureate tells me about the promise of crisper. but first, here s my take. more than 150 million americans made their own personal decisions when they voted in this year s election, but it is now the unenviable job of commentators to explain the meaning of those choices. at the broadest level it s fair to say that the vote was a repudiation of donald trump. presidents rarely lose their bids for re-election. only five in the last 125 years and trump has won as few electoral votes as hillary clinton did last time an lost the popular vote by a larger margin than when jimmy carter defeated gerald ford in the wake of watergate. and yet it s obvious that the country remains deeply divided. after an impeachment, a pandemic, and the worst economic paralysis since the great depression, republicans overwhelming
is there any precedent for these unpresidential acts? almost 74 million votes. i have a great panel of historians to discuss that, and the legacy of trump s term in office. an eye-opening discovery that may save your life one day. a way to edit the genetic code itself. a newly minted nobel laureate tells me about the promise of crispr. but first, here s my take. more than 150 million americans made their own personal decisions when they voted in this year s election, but it is now the unenviable job of commentators to explain the meaning of those choices. at the broadest level it s fair to say that the vote was a repudiation of donald trump. presidents rarely lose their bids for re-election. only five in the last 125 years and trump has won as few electoral votes as his nemesis, hillary clinton, did last time and he lost the popular vote by a larger margin than when jimmy carter defeated gerald ford in the wake of watergate. and yet it s obvious that the country remai
top of the hour, i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. the message from whistleblower frances haugen is that facebook should declare moral bankruptcy and seek help from congress. she testified in front of a senate committee today sf. she s the former employee of accusing the social media giant of knowing how harmful their algorithm is for children and our entire democracy. i believe facebook s products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy. the company s leadership knows how to make facebook an instagram saver and won t make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people. congressional action is needed. they won t solve this crisis without your help. cnn s donie o sullivan joins us live from capitol hill. so i mean, she just put to words what many people have been fearing for years about the algorithm of facebook, that it does much more harm than good, so where are we and what can lawmakers actually do? re