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there is, it's a tomorrow morning. all past episodes are available now. you can go to the qr code on your screen for a link. it's a podcast about loss and grief. we have had a series of conversations with stephen colbert and others. this week's episode -- about the sudden loss of her husband in 2012 and how she and her two young children at the time coped with the grief and still do. that is episode seven of the podcast, comes out tomorrow morning. you can find it on apple caught passed or whatever you get your podcast. the nude continues right now. cnn tonight with jake tapper starts now. i interviewed elizabeth alexander a few months ago. she is lovely. >> that's cool. yeah she gave the first poetry reading -- she read a poem apricot hamas and our girl. >> she's wonderful. i'm sure this is an obvious one, but i assume you have reached out to the white house because president biden losing his son, losing his wife and young

daughter back in the 70s, that would be very moving. i once had a very long off the record conversation with him about it and that is one of his subjects that he is most human and authentic about. >> yeah, he has experienced incredible loss and speaks on it. that would be a good conversation. thank you, jake. >> all right, anderson. well, welcome to cnn tonight. i am jake tapper in washington. tonight, we are just two weeks away from the critically important midterm elections and i have been talking to strategists and pollsters from both parties today to try to get a sense and share with you what they think the lay of the land is right now, so like me to be your guide if you will, as we take a look at what they think is actually going on out there. because earlier this month, you might remember, we told you about how president biden's polls had fallen in this election. his winds versus candid -- the headwinds and it's very challenging the democrats. majority disapproval of president biden. high inflation, possible

recession among other factors -- the head cases hindering republicans, what republican senate leader mitch mcconnell diplomatically referred to as candidate quality issues. that is republican candidates with limited appeal or various scandals, creating challenges in races that theoretically they should be running away with. but those headwinds, they seem to be changing and getting a little stronger and the politicos with whom i spoke to t republicans are picking up about 25 seats. they only need to win five. to flip the house. four congressman kevin mccarthy to become house speaker kevin mccarthy. how worried are democrats? well, just today, president biden directed the democratic national committee to transfer another $18 million to help house and senate democrats and

their races. that includes a very high profile race in new york, featuring the head of the democratic congressional campaign committee, a member of house democratic leadership. the -- is apparently so worried about his own chairman that they are throwing another $600,000 into the race to defend him. that alone for democrats is alarming, but democrats are concerned about have seats in new england, that is a flashing red light. first lady jill biden heads to rhode island tomorrow to help with democratic house candidate there. vice president kamala harris visited connecticut earlier this month to help a house democratic candidate there. and republicans are reportedly now recommitting money in new hampshire, to try to unseat democratic senator maggie hassan. continuing our trip now through the political landscape, let's go visit my home commonwealth of pennsylvania. tonight, the two senate

candidates in that race are in their first and only debate. democratic lieutenant governor john fetterman versus republican candidate mehmet oz. >> also having to talk about something called the of rule, that if he is on tv, he is lying. >> john fetterman takes everything to an extreme and those extreme positions hurt us all. >> now, this race looked like a slam dunk victory for fetterman earlier this summer. and not just because at 68, he towers over doctor oz. >> people have been trying to label me my entire life. i do not look like a typical politician. i don't even look like a typical person. >> since then, the polls have tightened. they seem to be basically within the margin of error right now. and while all this has been out memes on social media by fetterman, who paints and as a phony and a quack, fetterman has been hit with millions of dollars in campaign ads, attacking him on tv for being soft on crime. >> john fetterman's record on crime is crazy. >> john fetterman supports decriminalizing dangerous drugs

like fentanyl and heroin. >> fetterman's ideas are radical, deadly, and wrong. >> and for pennsylvanians in those in the tri-state area, you will likely soon see more tv ads just like those because today, the top republican super pac announced they will throw another $6 million into the race. and now, it is possible that doctor oz could become senator oz. even though oz has a net negative favor ability rating in pennsylvania. more people disapprove of him there than approve of him. quite a big gap at that. let's turn west now. let's go from pennsylvania to americas -- a race in which momentum seems to be going to the gop. republicans are attacking the lieutenant governor, in this case, mandela barnes, for being soft on crime. you know, a washington post analysis out today found that republicans have spent tens of millions of dollars more attacking democrats on crime than on inflation. now, just two months ago, democrats were confident that barnes will be able to knock off senator ron johnson, now

the race is a toss-up. people i spoke with today think that ron johnson probably even has a slight edge. and the democratic finger-pointing has begun. >> the national party has totally failed us and so it will come down to wisconsin democrats.

people are just hitting their heads against the wall and thinking, how did we let this happen? >> over 1000 miles away, let's go to arizona. republican heavyweights are trying to boost blake masters, the republican nominee against incumbent democratic senator mark kelly. kelly, it is believed, may have a slight edge, but that race two is tightening. and the last two weeks, former vice president mike pence and senator rick scott of florida, have flown into campaigned with him. the next leg of our midterms journey is to navigate the roadblocks that stand between democrats and electoral success. >> what has happened in the last two months that has changed this race? >> i think inflation. i mean, everybody is feeling it in their pocketbook. >> that is the number one concern for americans right now, and yet, a new poll from monmouth says 63% of americans believe that president biden is not paying enough attention to the issues that matter most to

them. and that may be part of the reason why democrats are starting to face some structural problems. with various racial minorities, groups that they have been able to rely upon for electoral support in the past, blacks, latinos, asian americans, pacific islanders, groups that are starting to peel away from automatically supporting democrats. one poll shows that hispanic support for democrats an d congressional races has dropped by about 13 points since 2016 and 2018 elections. 13 points, that might not sound like much to you, but even if just a sliver of minority voters cast a ballot for republicans or stay at home, that could be, in these tight races, enough to hand republicans a victory and voter

enthusiasm for democrats among democratic groups and demographics, right now, that appears a real challenge as senator bernie channels -- sanders told me two days ago. >> i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people and working people who will be voting democratic. i think we have to do is contrast what a strong -- with your corporate agenda of the republicans. so, the headwinds are discouraging those voters from voting democratic and among key swing voters, democrats who control the white house and the house and the senate, they are being held responsible for the state of the nation. the democrats have everything to lose. so, here is, where on our midterms, you would expect we would bump into the face of the party, president joe biden. nobody would fault you for assuming biden is right now out there, blitzing the country,

rallying in every single battleground state, along with bruce green springsteen and jay-z and bon jovi, trying to protect his majority. but the reality is, he is not, not even in pennsylvania, where the famous son of scranton has roots. as of now, democratic candidates and pennsylvania do not seem to want him there. that makes it all the more challenging for biden and his party to buck historical trends because history shows that the party in power tends to loose eats in the midterm elections. for george w. bush in 2006, he took a thumping. >> but there is a close election. if you look at race by race, it was close. it was -- >> for barack obama in 2010, despite star-studded rallies, he took a shellacking. >> i'm not representing for every future president that they take a shellacking like i did last night. >> a thumping, a shellacking, i am not sure what joe biden might trot out in two weeks. stomping, perhaps? but if biden acknowledges a

walloping, it is not as if it would be unprecedented. now, the past might not be pro law however when it comes to something else. as our election guide, i need to warn you, watch your step. we are entering uncharted territory. this will be the very first elections install trump convinced a huge swath of the american public that the u.s. election system is rigged. it's a false charge, but it led to a bloody insurrection and this time around, we are seeing big signs of potential trouble. candidates and key races across the country continue to lie to voters about the 2020 election.

these, are in some cases, the very same people who will be in charge of certifying the election results if they win. the list includes secretary of state candidates in nevada and arizona, plus arizona's governor candidate, kari lake. that could become a huge problem in 2024 if those folks get a lasted and if they continue to swear allegiance to trump's lies instead of the u. s. constitution. another issue, now, not in 2024, but now, is allegations of voter intimidation we are hearing. intimidation by vigilantes, some of them are now under investigation. last friday, two armed individuals in tactical gear were spotted at a ballot drop box in mesa, arizona. also in the grand canyon state, a group calling itself clean elections usa accused of stalking ballot boxes, taking photos of voters license plates, this is impacting mostly, we are towed, latino voters and in particular, the elderly. seniors often prefer a ballot drop off to standing in long lines, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of those voters. and, yet clean elections usa

has allegedly accused at least one voter, perhaps your average grandma, of being a mule. a mule is a reference to a fringe of voter fraud conspiracy that was amplified in the latest maga propaganda film, the widely discredited, fact challenged, 2000 mules. >> now, we come to the most important question of all, was the magnitude of o trafficking enough to tip the balance in the 2020 presidential election? caucus member -- saying that our politics are partisanship is in a partisan death spiral. what does he make of today's state of play? we will ask him, next.

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who end up -- he was the founding member of the house freedom caucus. he was the first republican to come out against trump during trump's first impeachment. he subsequently decided to leave the republican party and switch to become an independent. then, he left congress and became a libertarian. so, what does he make of the state of the politics of the november elections. he joins me live in studio. good to see you. when you left the republican party in 2019, you wrote in a washington post of that that you've become disenfranchised by the two party system -- three years later, do you feel that same way still? >> yes, absolutely, and i think don't think anything that has

been changed structurally to make it better. if you look at what president biden is doing, what speaker pelosi is doing, what the senate majority leader is doing and then if you look at what the republicans are doing, it is the same dysfunction, the same partisanship, the same lack of representative government. it does not work the way our constitution is designed. >> so, what we need to happen? do you think the parties are just being pulled far two extremes? does there need to be last gerrymandering? what changes? >> i think some of those electoral changes would help. with respect to gerrymandering, if you have ranked voting in some states, i think that would help. i think you need structural reforms in congress. that can only be handled at the

top. someone like speaker pelosi or the speaker of the house is, kevin mccarthy, who i don't think we'll do this, needs to decentralize the congress and let members participate. right now, they don't participate at all. they are basically given legislation and told, take it or leave it. i think that leads to a lot of performative politics because, when you can't debate policy, you debate personalities. and i think that is what happens all the time in congress. >> it's actually one of the reasons when people watch tv ads and they say congressman jones and nancy pelosi -- honestly, the kind of votes that happen in congress are pretty baked in. most people vote 95% with their party, it seems. >> when i first got to congress, we had more folks on the floor,

more amendment votes, and we were able to participate. members of congress today, at least in the house of representative, can't even offer amendments that will be taken up. the leadership says you need to send it to the rules committee and they will vet it and have a vote on it. there are very few amendments now on the house floor and that means you don't get to differentiate -- when i first got in you might have 100 vindmans on a piece of legislation, some i think that's too much, but what's nice about it is you get to know who your member of congress is and you also get to discover the outcome, you get to actually represent people, you will get in there and you have just this giant pie of material and you put it together and you see what comes up. >> you live in michigan. battleground state, lots of competitive races. the governor's race is competitive. what do you sense? you heard my monologue earlier talking about how it seems right now democrats and republicans feel as though republicans are going to

probably have a pretty good night in two weeks. what are you picking up? >> i think republicans will take back the house. i think the senate is a close call, but it seems like increasingly, they might take the senate as well. i'm not sure this is a good thing for republicans a long run, especially for kevin mccarthy. he's the speaker of the house. >> why? mccarthy's job miserable. >> and kevin mccarthy, not somebody that you have a tremendous regard for, for his leadership skills. >> not someone i admire. i think he's basically craven. i think his goal in life i s basically to empower himself and i have seen him go through congress, not knowing what he's talking about, switching policy on a dime. we saw that with president trump or one day he saying trump is responsible for january 6th and another day he's saying, trump is great and he's not responsible. so, you know, he is a guy who's

about himself and i think that is really bad for congress. but when you look at how congress has functioned under speaker pelosi or brian or even under boehner, it has been a pretty closed off space for a long time. if we don't fix, that you will keep having people like kevin mccarthy. i want to ask you about the debate in your home state between the democratic governor gretchen whitmer and the republican nominee, tutor dixon. let's listen to a quick snippet from that. >> she refuses to accept the outcome of the last election. she has not yet said she will accept the outcome of the next election, so when she will accept the vote of the people -- she's an election denier and has never said that joe biden actually won this last election. >> i would like to comment on gretchen whitmer and her demeanor tonight, coming after me, calling me an election denier. we know that this is going to be the way the evening goes, but i'm wondering when she will say that she can't run with lieutenant governor garland -- anymore because i believe that

he is also an election denier. >> all right. just to give people some facts here -- to dixon is referring to a 2017 detroit city -- he asked for a recount and after is completed, he accepted the results. that is entirely different than dickson who says she does not believe that joe biden won the presidency in 2020 and has spread false claims about widespread voter fraud. >> this is a real sickness in the republican party, these election lies. >> yes, it's a big problem. but the democrats keep handing them ammunition, so i think that is also -- you have people like stacey abrams and others over the years, who have said things, and they will latch on to anything. even if there is a little bit, the republicans will latch onto it. it's partisan politics and it's not the same degree, it's not the same level, and it might

only be a few people in the democratic party and a lot of people in the republican party, but unfortunately what happens, and i've seen this in politics, is if one party gives them a little bit, they'll say, you're just like us, there's no difference. and we're just trying to defend democracy the same way you are. >> dixon is the -- including the republican nominees for secretary of state and attorney general. i know you and i thought you an interesting legislator. your successor, peter meijer, the same. what is going on in the republican party in michigan? i guess it's the same thing that's going on nationally. >> it's the same thing everywhere, but when you look at peter meijer's race, he came close to winning, right? it wasn't like a blow out by the trump backed candidate. so, i think there is a possibility in opening for people to move this back in the right direction in select places in the country, not everywhere, maybe west michigan is very different from a lot of

other places and the country. but i don't think it is a wholesale, everywhere, trump backed candidates are going to win. and you saw that in places like georgia as well and other races, where there are some non trump candidates that have succeeded. >> good to see you, justin amash. always good to have you. i'm glad you're spending more time in your family. want to make a change in the world? do you like the people in iran. they are rising up against oppression right now. do not fling food at famous masterpieces. it is an important tale of two tactics. the powerful and pointless, when we return. data driven enterprise accelerator. seatgeek is the ticketing app for fans like boomstick lady. no free throw is safe from the roar of her sticks. seatgeek helps her find a seat in the direct eyeline of the shooter, so she can sit where her boomsticks make the biggest boom. everybody ok? seatgeek handles the tickets to sports, concerts, and more,

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accusations, trolling, smearing, it does seem as though political debates too often -- is that the intellectual level of an infant making a mess with food in order to get attention. perhaps it is actually not so surprising to see protests often -- is that the intellectual level of an infant making a mess with food in order to get attention. perhaps it is actually not so surprising to see protests about a very important issues, reduced to this. over the weekend, a pair of german protesters threw mash potatoes at claude monet's painting, at a museum. earlier this month, tomato soup was thrown at vincent van gogh's sunflowers in london. two people smeared chocolate cake on the wax figure of king charles. when there's no museum around, supermarket milk seems to work. the so-called milk for stones are becoming more common across the uk. the paintings are all covered in glass, so thankfully, they're all fine. but spare a thought for the store clerk, who had to clean up all that milk.

all of this is part of a series of protests that we are told about the role of fossil fuels and climate change, if you put that together on your, own congratulations. the spectacle has long served a purpose in protest, everything from naked women showering in the streets, to a guy with a sign, climbing with landmarks, even globe-trotting -- the baby trump alone, they have been employed to grab attention and draw cameras to issues of some sort. admittedly, some tactics work better than others. but this isn't a suffragette flashing a painting at the national gallery more than 100 years ago. that was about how men viewed women and art broke of enis, and it is not the sounds of liberty tossing tea into boston harbour.

the objective in those cases went beyond a viral moment, of course. that requires convincing people, mobilizing them, to demand action. we see that right now in iran. people out on the streets, doing the hard work of protesting, organizing, channeling the frustrations into what is now six weeks of protests. look, i'm not saying protest need to be nice or polite. but the goal should theoretically be about change, applying pressure to officials and power, convincing the public of a wrong that needs to be righted, in the murder of george floyd. enraged people across the country. they took to the streets. they made their voices heard. while the flu can -- was not as counterproductive -- substantive reforms passed on the local level. the movement worked, more than a dozen cities increased funding for community programs, such as supportive housing, violence prevention. voters went to the ballots and they increased oversight of law enforcement in red and blue states. more than 30 states enacted

police reforms through their legislatures. the americans bankrolling protests such as the soup smearing, i don't know. they're promising now more of the stunts. climate protests over the years have prompted real substantive changes in public opinion, in law. and that is the thing. the kids smearing food on our right now, they are right about the planet, but their approach is lazy. it is sloth. they are just attacking what is available. it is only slightly more of an effort then tweeting out a hashtag. and it is far more polarizing. they are exacting. they are inciting. no change. another attention seeking fail, the artist formerly known as kanye west.

not a good idea to re-brand yourself as a antisemite. an opportunity for us to keep shining the light on the rise of hate. that is next.

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growing fallout tonight for ye, the artist formerly known as

kanye west, after a string of recent antisemitic remarks. today, adidas, that produces the popular yeezy schuline, says it is ending the partnership with the performer. foot locker is now pulling yeezy from shelves. gap doing the same after ending its partnership with the ye last month. corporate america is taking action. it is clear that ye the's antisemitism is having an impact. this weekend, a hate group displayed this banner for. it reads, kanye is right about the jews. another sign read, honk if you know. a number of people raised their arms in a nazi salute. as you can see there. let's talk to the greater los angeles, rabbi -- actors and host of what we need to talk podcast. rabbi, went through your mind when you saw this in new york city -- how is the jewish community in los angeles responding?

>> the jewish community is on edge right now because this incident is not the only incident of antisemitism. you've been leaflets dropping out of neighborhoods, vicious antisemitism, right at their doorstep. so we are feeling a little bit on edge right now. we are feeling a little bit uncomfortable, here in los angeles. [inaudible] -- what do white house groups have to do it that he's a black man speaking out against jews? >> sorry, you went out a little bit. i did not hear. you >> ansari! >> do you think part of the reason that white hate group in los angeles is making hay out of kanye west's remarks is because he is black and this is about dividing minority groups? >> i think that does definitely play a part into it and i think that they are using his

blackness as a way to affirm their hate. and i don't think that kanye realizes that he is being used and so i do think that it is very disappointing to see and it is frustrating. it's frustrating as a black woman, a black person in america to see somebody being used to further west promised ideology. >> rabbi, in 2016, adidas -- between the rock, or are the rapper rather, between a non athlete and an athletic brand -- adidas now says they will lose about $246 million from their fourth quarter sales after suffering the relationship. what is your take on adidas taking this action? how important is it do you think for corporations to take action, despite the fact that it is against their bottom line? >> i think it is incredibly important. we can put a number on it, like 246 millions, like you said. but the truth is, we can't put a number on hate itself. and as you said earlier, the

whole point of trying to divide us as historically marginalized community in this country, that has been a tool of white supremacy in this country for hundreds of years. and as angelinos, i want to say that we will not stand for that. we will come together and we will try to move beyond this moment and try to build a city that lives up to our namesake. >> and yet, melinda, i have to say, i did not hear much of an outcry anywhere after alabama republican senator tommy tuberville a few weeks ago made a hideously racist statement, in which he seemed to suggest that democrats support crime. democrats support reparations because they want that money to go to the people committing the crime. in other words, he was saying blacks are responsible for all crime. he said this at a rally. i don't think there has been

any price he has paid. >> that is interesting because i was not even aware of those comments as well and i think that because kanye is in the position he is in, he will get more backlash thann tuberville. so, yeah, that is news to me. i was not aware of those comments. >> let me ask you also, because earlier this month on the house judiciary committee -- they tweeted, kanye, elon, trump. about kanye west, elon musk, and donald trump, seemingly a show of support for all three men-- but since those remarks, since that tweet, kanye went on his latest antisemitic rant. are you surprised the tweet has not been taken down at all? >> i am not surprised because one thing that i have noticed about the republican party is that they will fall in line with each other no matter what they are standing for. so, if the goal is to support kanye, support trump, and support elon, no matter what they say or do, then that tweet will remain up, absolutely. >> rabbi, another recent

comment that was criticized by the anti-defamation league for antisemitism--was a comment that trump said u.s. jews need to get their act together and appreciate what they have in israel before it is too late. i don't know that means, before it is too late. the ceo of the adl citing these comments as disgusting. what do you think? >> i think no matter who says what and who is the person that is espousing views like that, we as a jewish community and we as a historically marginalized community, just need to stand up to hate. that is what is going to make america different than other countries, is when groups like ours, groups like jews and african americans and latinos and aapi and all those groups that have always been left out, come together and stand up and say, we are just not going to live this way. we will build a city that is better than we found it. and i think that needs to be the core of how we move

forward. out of this moment, out of the kanye moment, and into whatever the future holds for us. >> all right, thank you, rabbi noah farcus, he and melinda. good to have both of you on. there is also a good in the world. people who championed diversity, gender equality, such as my next guest, a scientist with a truly remarkable hobby. prepare to be inspired. it is coming up.

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♪ how many female scientists can you name off the top of your head? marie curie, rosyln franklin, they might come to mind. but there are so many other names worth knowing in the field of stem. it is an area where women are historically underrepresented, often discriminated against. such as mathematician gladys west, whose work was key to making gps technology possible. or chemist -- whose invention revolutionized dental procedures around the world. or immunologist kissee corbett at the forefront of developing moderna covid vaccine. these are only some stem pioneers, relatively unsung,

who up until recently, did not even have a wikipedia page. their achievements, however, are now being highlighted thanks to another notable scientist, jess wade, a british physicist and advocate for women in stem. she has written more than 1700 wikipedia pages for female and minority scientists over the past five years. she's also the author of the children's book nano, which introduces readers to the tiny building blocks that make up the world around us. and she joins me now. thank you so much for joining us. take me back to 2017, when you wrote your first wikipedia page entry. what prompted you to do it in the first place and why wikipedia? >> i loved the idea of telling people of incredible scientists and engineers who have made discoveries. and i love the idea of translating those stories on to platforms or people will read them. whether they're young people, parents, teachers. whether they're somebody sitting in a university classroom, and they just want to find out about that pioneer who made that breakthrough, and love that they are scrolling around on the internet and they

realize, hey, it was someone who is just like me. it is someone from my hometown. where they went to my university. so, i think wikipedia is a really powerful platform for that storytelling and also to give people their credit for making these incredible discoveries and contributions to our understanding of the world. >> there are so many girls and women around the world, who are still being told that science is not for them. matt is not for them. do you think raising the profile of these unsung female scientists, do you think that will inspire them? >> i hope it does a little bit of the inspiring part. i hope it does a lot of giving people credit where credit is due. you know, we don't only not get enough people into science, but we don't do a enough of a good job celebrating the ones we have. so, we don't document their incredible discoveries, their kind of groundbreaking contributions to science or innovation or engineering. so, i hope we do some of the inspiring. i think we rely heavily on teachers for that.

so, a huge thank you teachers for doing the bulk of that. but we also need to do that part of really honoring the scientists and engineers that we have so that we keep them. >> as many may know, wikipedia is built by volunteers. we have had at least 15 wikipedia biographies deleted by an editor, although, in at least one case, you successively fought to get a biography restored. why are they taking these down and tell me about this successful incident. >> clarice phelps is just another phenomenal scientists. she was a navy engineer, so she was in the u.s. navy originally and then she was trained as a nuclear chemist at the time and went on to make a discovery that contributed to a new element in the periodic table. clarice phelps was responsible for one of these super heavy

elements in the periodic table. she's incredible! but unfortunately, it is really hard to find enough references, saying how incredible she is, because the scientific community have not done a good enough job of honoring her. so, we as scientists, have not given her enough words or written enough books about her. when it comes to the wikipedia page, it's hard to find those references and put them in. so, definitely, when i started editing, i was a little bit too enthusiastic. it is really hard for me to stay as neutral as you need to be when you are writing wikipedia. if you are writing about such icons. like gladys west or kizzy corbett. so, that is a challenge. but also, just kind of learning the ropes a little bit. as you get familiar with something, you learn how to write a more compelling argument or document someone's history in a better way. so, at first, i found it a little challenging. and people definitely do have -- they get a little bit prickly. those old school wikipedia editors -- if you come in and say, historically, we have not done a good enough job of celebrating women and people of color, so we will do that now,

they get a little bit kind of prickly that they have not been doing that the whole time. so, sometimes that is causing people to say that they should be deleted. >> the foundation that hosts wikipedia's site says that over the past three years, more than 75,000 biographies about women are now online. wikipedia and sister making progress when it comes to representing 50% of the world. how much more work do you think they need to do? >> we all need to do a huge amount of work, offline and online. when i started this project, english language wikipedia was about 17% of the biographies were about women. now we're up to about 19%. that is been four years. really now, we need to keep going and keep this momentum up, but we need to do it in our textbooks and we need to do in our classrooms and we have to have journalists like you and broadcasters like you featuring women scientists and scientists of colors in your television program, so that people are talking about them and the scientists are household names, so one day we don't need campaigns like mine. but it's just completely part

of society. >> i have been trying to book kizzy corbett for two years. we are trying. they need to say yes. whose biography are you working on publishing next? >> oh, i don't know! i've had so many suggestions come in over the past few days! i was just sitting down on my inbox now to try to go through them and find the next one. i will find out as i go through my emails! >> your enthusiasm is infectious, jess wade. think you so much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you so much for having me. >> and we will be right back. what is clay matthews doing in my house? here's you wiping tears of joy with it after a win. i am never washing you. your wife tells me these are complete strangers? you're drooling, ted! and here it is in the delivery room of your daughter's birth? ew, dad!? alyssa, how old are you again? i'm thirteen. thirteen years, ted! honey, i love you. but it's time to wash that jersey. deeply. when clay matthews says it, it makes so much sense. it's dirtier than it looks. it's got to be tide hygienic clean.

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