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
practically overnight. it s all part of be being 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 ocasio-cortez. 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 place i get coffee from. but there s also the surreal parts of the experience. but i don t fee
tigray province but has admitted there are problems. now on bbc news, monday in parliament. hello and welcome to monday in parliament. is a shake up of planning rules the way to solve england s housing crisis? we need to take bold steps to provide enough homes in the places where people and communities need them. these proposals are nothing less than a developer s charter that silences local communities so developers can exploit local communities for profit. as convictions for rape hit a record low, thejustice secretary is put under pressure. enough is enough. will he reverse these failures within a year or will he resign? also in this programme, a new voice in the commons. speaks welsh. but first, it was said to be one of the key issues in last thursday s chesham and amersham by election that saw the conservatives lose one of their safest seats. ministers want to make sweeping changes to england s planning rules as part of a drive to increase house building. the full details
a comedienne here with the enduring legacy of selena. this is american voices. first up for us, democracy under attack. state-level republicans launching new efforts to prevent voters from voting. setting the stage for a collision course in the senate. republicans on the federal level already launching their branding campaign calling any federal action nothing more than a power grab by the libs which is truly ironic considering georgia republicans just outlawed handing water to voters standing in line to vote, added restrictions like requiring i.d. to vote and made it harder to vote by mail. we all know that power grab is response to defeat after democrats took the presidency and georgia senate seats in 2020. here s one of the men who dared to beat them at the ballot box fair and square. you have legislators who are running scared. so rather than having the people select their politicians, politicians trying to cherry pick voters. now calls to boycott georgia-base
christmas and i wish you a happy new year in 2022. but before we turn the page on the year of our lord 2021, it is time in this closing week to take stock what we learned this year. the frauds that were exposed. the evils we learned to hate, and the truths we woke up to who we are and who we hope to be. tonight and in the coming days, i will be talking very wise and knowledgeable people who are reckoning with the lesson of the year of chaos and crime. a year that began with a promise that now we could return to normal and ended with a horrifying possibility that this, all of this terrible this is normal now. the images of 2021 that will stick in our minds are many. the footage of brutal criminality in american cities. taking place in broad daylight. our fellow citizens, arrested, not because they stole or ransacked but because they tried to buy a burger without showing their papers. the image of afghanning dropping through the sky as they clung desperately to american planes.