Its like an inspiring and, like, allencompassing rallying cry. It stands for our team. Like lets [ bleep ] go. Lets do it. And the lfg, you can put out in the world and not upset mom. Lfg. Lfg. Lets [ bleep ] go. Lets [ bleep ] go. Lets get it. Lets get weird. It took true blood, sweat and tears to obviously get to where i am today. There were times i wanted to give up. I mean, here i am, threetime pro champion, twotime ncaa champion. I have achieved my dream. I wanted to make usa team, and i did. But even though all these athletes sound absolutely incredible, we dont get paid very much. I mean, i was scraping pennies for the past seven years in my career just trying to get by literally living paychecktopaycheck. I had friends who were waitresses who were making three times as much as me in a year. And me being a professional athlete, still to this day i still think its unacceptable. And then it was like, oh, my gosh, holy crap. Megan raised her hand and was like, hey, team, were going
While celebrities sometimes use their stardom to go into politics, she reached fame as a politician. The 31yearold 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 congressman joe crawley in
Practically overnight. It s all part of bebeing aoc. Good morning. I m dana bash. Tonight is the first in a series of special hours where i spend time with people in the news and try to find out what it s like to be them. We begin with congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez. While celebrities sometimes use their stardom to go into politics, she reached fame as a politician. The 31yearold 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 place i get coffee from. But there s also the surreal parts of the experience. But i don t feel like that s part
And marking a commemorative anniversary as biden proposes to close the racial wealth gap in this country. We ll bring that to you live and an activist in belarus stabs himself in the throat in a courtroom instead of giving false testimony. The latest horror spotlighting the brutal dictatorship there. Welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper. We begin today with a health lead and a return to moralsy for millions of cases. Hospitalizations, deaths and cases all at their lowest points since about last year. For the first time since march 2020, 14 months ago, the sevenday average is below 20,000 cases. Just a month ago cases were around 50,000. Now this rapid drop is in large part due to vaccinations. Half of the total u. S. Population has received at least one dose. More than 40% are fully vaccinated, but a new study reported in journal of the american medical association finds vaccinations alone will not stop this pandemic even though they do reduce sickness and deaths considerably. Masks an
Hello, and welcome. President biden has arrived in geneva ahead of tomorrow s summit with president putin of russia. Relations between the two countries are at their lowest point in decades, and mr biden has already said he will lay down america s red lines during the discussions. Our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports. They say that the waters of lake geneva have the power to rejuvenate, to cure. But can a lakeside summit here revive a political relationship that s in very poor health? when vice presidentjoe biden met vladimir putin, he told him he had no soul. More recently, he said he was a killer. Mr putin hit back takes one to know one. So, when they sit down for talks, what message will the white house be putting across to the kremlin? fiona hill was donald trump s senior adviser on russia. She says moscow must be told to behave. The biggest danger that the united states faces right now from russia is the coercive, subversive, covert action that is the hallmark of vla