>> saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, conversations with three retiring members of congress. republican peter roskam, john duncan and mike coffman all discuss losing their re-lks bids and reflecting on their time in congress. mr. roskam: we go our app, devices, we want things quickly. yet, jefferson wrote this 14 years after he wrote the declaration of independence. he said the ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. we must be content what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. it takes time to persuade men even to do what is for their own good. my point is that we culturally need to step back and say, look, these things take time. we need to take small steps to get there. mr. duncan: my thing to think we spent trillions now on these wars and that the war in afghanistan is now going on, you know, it's 18 years. i think it's just ridiculous. i think, also, these wars and

our foreign policy have caused us to have more enemies than we would have had. they've done more harm than good. mr. coffman: in the congress of the united states, i believe in the house of representatives, there's simply still even with the reforms that nancy pelosi based on to accept my counterparts in the problem solvers caucus, i believe there's too much power and too few hands with too little getting done for the american people and i fear that's not going to change. >> watch conversations with retiring members of congress saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span.org and listen with the free c-span radio app.

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she's a naval academy graduate to one of the first to go the nuclear power school. her and her husband own the mermaid factory which sells mermaid and dolphin figure reens. denver riggleman is a former air force intelligence officer and national security agency contractor. he retired from the intelligence community to open a distillery outside charlottesville. he previously had run for virginia governor in 2017 but dropped out of the race prior to the republican primary. the other republican joining vay's congressional delegation is ben who early in his career served as chief of staff to the man he succeeds in virginia's sixth congressional district, retiring house judiciary committee chairman bob goodlatte. mr. cline also once ran a sales and marketing firm in addition to being a public prosecutor and attorney in private practice. he also served in the virginia house of delegates since 2002.

democrat abigail spanburger will represent virginia's seventh district. she is the former poster inspector and c.i.a. officer. she later worked for a company now called eab enrollment services which helps colleges and universities develop more diverse student bodies. and democrat jennifer wexton has served as public prosecutor and attorney in private practice. she was elected to the virginia senate in 2013. new congress, new leaders. atch it all on c-span. and now pando media founder sarah lacy holds a discussion on women in the workplace and the recent report released and mckenzie and company. this is an hour, 10 minutes. >> good evening and welcome to in form up. m