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community under scrutiny from the senate intelligence committee this morning, as they deliver their annual report on the major global threats to the nation topped by mounting concerns over china and its authoritarian leader. >> the ccp represents both the leading and most consequential threat to u.s. national security and leadership globally, and its intelligence specific capabilities made it the most serious and consequential intelligence rival. judiciary committee chairman dick durban. and the push by a congressional majority, backed by president biden, to overrule a local washington, d.c. criminal code. the first challenge to home rule for the nation's capital in three decades. on this international women's day, the groundbreaking story of navy captain janet

days, the first african american woman to be commander of the naval station in norfolk, virginia. good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington where the senate intelligence committee is putting the decision making of u.s. intelligence leaders under the microscope using today's annual worldwide threats hearing to dig deeper into concerns over china, russia, iran and north korea, along with concerns over the popular social media app tiktok. >> could the chinese government, through its ownership, if they wanted to and they were willing to cooperate or forced, could they use tiktok to control data on millions of users? >> yes. >> could they use it to control the software on millions of devices given the opportunity to do so? >> yes. >> could they use it to drive narratives, like to divide

americans against each other? >> yes. i would make the point on that last one in particular that we're not sure we would see many of the outward signs of it happening if it was happening. >> if tiktok is bad for america -- we talked about all of these disadvantages and potential harm that's caused by it -- should the fact it's popular among people under the age of 35 be the reason why we don't take strong action against it? >> not from my perspective. >> joining me now, ben rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to president obama,and chuck rosenberg. the director laid out in the most clear terms how he views, first of all, the danger of tiktok, owned by a chinese company, and clearly not private. it's a chinese company. the government's ability to gather information on americans. >> that's right. we know the chinese government

well enough to say with confidence it's an adversary and collecting information about america and americans and people all over the world is one of its key goals. one of the problems with tiktok, as you know, through its corporate structure, can be controlled by the chinese government. about 135 or so million americans have that app on their phone. social media, tiktok, and privacy are incompatible. if you are on social media, you have given your data to whatever company has created the app. the concern is that 135 million americans have given some control over their private information ultimately to the chinese government. what's the chinese government going to do with it?

how do we tailor a solution? i'm confident banning the use of tiktok from more than 100 million americans is really not going to solve the problem. >> one of the thins raised at a briefing yesterday on this was, we are all concerned about our privacy and intrusion when it comes from our own government, but we don't seem to -- at least 100 million people, many of them under 30, but not all, and certainly it's a big advertising medium now, for many, many corporations, and don't seem to be concerned about tiktok. more broadly, let's talk about chinese advances, military, technological, artificial intelligence, this is why china is the biggest threat, because it's a global threat on so many platforms. we have a hot war in europe, but it's china that is the biggest threat to our country.

>> that's absolutely right. i know avril. she's correct. i want to agree in saying tiktok is the tip of the tiktok, the tip of all of this. there's an enormous footprint going on. the director is aware of chinese espionage going on. we are in a foot race with china for artificial intelligence, quantum computing. china is expanding their nuclear arsenal significantly. the strategic challenge out there for us is china. it's appropriate to have this conversation about tiktok. that is a tiny sliver of the larger conversation we need to be having about how to face the competition, how to face the strategic challenges coming from china, which are military, economic, informational,

cultural. it's a big basket of concern out there. we gotta address it. >> ben, my colleague here, who covers intelligence and the pentagon, has a story up now on our digital platform that china has become a really difficult intelligence target. they are our largest superpower rival and adversary in so many ways. the admiral knows better than i what's going on in the south china sea. now it's so hard to discern what is happening at the senior levels. we saw it with the spy balloon and all the arguments over did president xi know, did he not know, did he approve it? the power of the communist party, right? >> that's exactly right, andrea. the reality is, our insight into the leadership thinking and decision making of the chinese communist party is quite limited. they are a tough intelligence

target. it's a very closed society. the reality is not having been in government the last couple years, that probably got harder during the zero covid period of time. if you lock down a country and you restrict interactions between foreigners and your own people as the chinese government did, that only makes it a tougher intelligence target. what that means is, we have huge questions like, what are china's leadership intentions with regard to taiwan? when might they want to potentially launch a military intervention there? might they just want to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze? we will have to make a lot of judgments about the chinese leadership by watching. obviously, trying to gather intelligence, but we can't bet on stealing the secret that's going to tell us exactly what they are up to. tiktok is another example of this. if you hear the director, this question of not just the data collection but what is the propaganda value of tiktok? this is one of the only social media apps that you don't necessarily select the content

you get. on twitter, you get content from the people you are following, largely, or instagram. tiktok is feeding you literally videos that are determined by an algorithm. we don't know how that works and what the interaction is between the chinese communist party and the ownership of tiktok. it's another example of the situation where we have to gather together as much as we can in terms of intelligence, but we have to make judgments from a policy perspective. we can't ask the intelligence community to tell us exactly what xi is thinking at a given moment. >> ben, in fact, in part of this report -- it's a 40-page report of threat assessassessments, is china is more engaged in local and national elections in the u.s. admiral, i want to talk about covid, the origins and that debate. here is a key exchange between senator collins on the differing opinions at top levels. we know the fbi had one opinion that it was a leak from a lab

and the rest of the intelligence community thought it wasn't. they couldn't confirm that and it could have been from natural causes. they all say it was not a bioweapon, that it was accidental. here was the exchange. >> i just don't understand why you continue to maintain on behalf of the intelligence community that these are two equally plausible explanations. they simply are not. >> i share your frustration with the fact china hasn't been more cooperative to provide intelligence that would be used for scientists and others who work on these questions. you are right, this is critically important. it has been extremely challenging. let me give you where we are in the intelligence community with more precision to your point. there are four elements plus our national intelligence council

that assess with low confidence that the infection was most likely caused by natural exposure to an infected animal. they are divided on this issue. >> the bottom line, admiral, is that china hid the evidence, couldn't disclose evidence, didn't allow the world health organization or others to get in. >> indeed. that's really the point here is that we know it came from china. whether it came out of a wet market or was leaked inadvertently out of a lab, the point is, it came out of china. china has a significant obligation, my view, to cooperate with this so that we can all reverse engineer whatever happened and make sure it doesn't happen again. millions have died globally, a million here in the united states, probably double that in china since they came out of

their misguided zero covid policy. there has been immense pain globally economically. china owes the world an explanation here. final thought, you were showing a moment ago the general. we haven't touched on cyber and the risk to our massive cyber infrastructure. i think that is a risk well worth underlining that i know will be covered in this hearing as well. >> indeed. that's one of the reasons why china remains -- russia is active there as well, as you know. but russia is now being bested by china in terms of all of that. thank you so much. chuck, stay with us. we have more to talk about today. the department of justice saying the louisville metro police department has shown a pattern of depriving citizens of their constitutional rights. this is a review conducted after the death of brianna taylor, who was shot and killed in the

botched raid in 2020. the attorney general announcing the review conducted by the civil rights division just moments ago. >> the report finds that lmpd uses excessive force, including unjustified neck restraints and the unreasonable use of police dogs and tasers, conducts searches based on invalid warrants, unlawfully executes warrants without knocking and announcing, unlawfully stops, searches, detains and arrests people, unlawfully discriminates against black people in enforcement activities, violates the rights of people engaged in critical speech and discriminates against people with behavioral health disabilities when responding to them in crisis. >> ron allen has been covering this for us. ron, why did the federal

government step in? why didn't louisville act three years ago when brianna taylor was killed? >> in part because there's never been a police officer convicted of a crime in connection with her death. there are four officers who are facing charges for lying to obtain the search warrant and knowing it was false. merrick garland said that raid never should have happened. there was another officer who was found not guilty in a state court of firing recklessly into an adjoining apartment. he faces similar charges, but not for firing at brianna taylor. that is in part why the federal government stepped in here to try and bring some measure of justice here. this is a top to bottom pattern and practice investigation that has gone on for two years, every aspect of the louisville police department. it harkens back to the obama administration who announced numerous investigations like

this and in minneapolis after george floyd was killed. they seem to happen -- they tend to happen in places where local prosecutors or grand juries choose not to prosecute police officers in these very high profile cases. there are more than a dozen similar investigations going on now across the united states. at the end of the day, what's happening now is there's a process undergoing where the city and the justice department create what's called a consent decree which lists a number of things legally binding the department has to do. it is overseen by a monitor to make sure the reforms happen in a specified period of time. it's a very, very tough, tough investigation with a very, very strict set of things the department has to do to comply. >> ron allen, thank you so much. there's backlash against

walgreens continuing to grow after the drugstore -- giant drugstore chain announced it is not going to dispense medication abortion pills in 20 states, even in states where abortion is legal and even though the fda long approved these pills. critics, including top democratic lawmakers say wall -- walgreens is caving. senator dick durbin is calling it thuggish intimidation tactics and blames state officials for, quote, bullying private businesses into denying critical help. dick durbin joins me now. thank you so much. you spoke to the ceo of walgreens. what was her position? >> it raises questions as to whether they should have taken this action or waited until it works its way through our

courts. there are questions that still have not been resolved. let me say the bottom line as far as i'm concerned, this is a reminder to every person in america who is concerned about reproductive freedom that what's going on across america is nothing short of revolutionary. the elimination in the dobbs decision of a constitutional right for women to make the choice on their own future was unprecedented. it never happened before. now we are seeing it play out, not in the supreme court of the united states across the street, but in pharmacies around the nation. this is what you get when you decide you are going to let every state legislature establish the law when it comes to something as basic as freedom. >> in texas, there's a federal court -- u.s. district court judge expected to rule on a lawsuit to pull fda approval of the same abortion pill. hhs secretary says he expects a decision and adds what he says is, my suspicion is he is

beginning to read the law. he went through your committee in 2017. what's going on with the ruling? >> i can tell you the ruling, of course, is for the judge to make. the bottom line is this. the food and drug administration decided 20 years ago this drug was legal and safe and it's been used since then in consistent with that fda approval. now the opponents of this law or of this measure are going into court and trying to reverse it. think about that for a second. to take a drug that's been on the market legally and effectively for 20 years and to challenge it in court. one judge in texas is going to decide if a nation for some period of time -- it shows the extremes they are willing to go to to deny basic rights of american women. >> also in texas, which has been the leader in fighting against women's health and abortion rights, we are seeing a lawsuit

brought by women who say that they have suffered medical harm when their abortion access was denied. i want to play what one of the women said -- i believe this was to yamiche alcindor. >> to then go through this additional trauma where the state was saying, you don't have control of your body, was just further isolation. it was dehumanizing. you just don't feel like a person fully. >> lauren miller was able to go out of state, senator. but yamiche did a story the other night on a woman who had to go into the icu because she was carrying a fetus with no heartbeat and was unable to get the medical attention and could not prove that it was medically needed. now will have a very difficult time conceiving in the future because of the scar tissue that she endured. this is happening all over the country now.

>> andrea, it's not an isolated situation. it is happening all over the country. it's a decision by the republican party and the judges that support their position to take away the right of individual women and their doctors to make this entirely personal and sometimes life or death decision. to have legislators trying to draw up standards that apply in every case ultimately will create the kind of awful situations we have just heard described where some women will have their health and their lives in danger because the legislature decided to take a political position. for 50 years, we guaranteed the right of a woman to make that choice. there were limits, and there should have been. i don't disagree with that. the bottom line is saying this is left up to every state legislature and every state governor is just not in the best interest of medical care of our population. >> the senate is expected to vote later today on the d.c. crime law, which d.c. counsel has withdrawn but they are pushing ahead with the vote.

you said senator cory booker made a moving speech at the lunch yesterday. have you rethought your position about whether or not this would become, as you know, the first time in 30 years that congress will have reversed a decision by d.c. lawmakers in violation of what is supposed to be home rule? >> there are many parts of this new criminal code in d.c. that i would jump at if we could put them into the state of illinois or on a federal basis. crime guns, for example. gun violence is one of the leading causes of death in america and the leading cause of death for those under 18. d.c. in this vision of their criminal code, version of the criminal code is moving forward to try to control these crime guns. i salute that. some of the penalties are increasing and some are going down. it's back and forth. it seems to be a balanced approach. for congress to pre-empt any local government is in this situation i think unwise. >> you are going to vote not to

reverse it. >> i'm voting no. that's right. >> you think it will be reversed? they have the votes? >> i think that's the case. >> as a long time whip counter, i sure you know what you are talking about. dick durbin, thank you so much for being with us today. >> you are welcome. fake news. new details revealed in a lawsuit showing that fox news hosts who spread baseless election conspiracy theories on the air behind the scenes didn't believe it. what that means for the network and the billion dollar lawsuit next. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. this is msnbc. tonight? -yeah. no. there's my little marzipan! [ laughs ] oh, my daughter gives the best hugs! we're just passing through on our way to the jazz jamboree. [ imitates trumpet playing ] and we wanted to thank america's number-one motorcycle insurer -for saving us money. -thank you. [ laughs ] mara, your parents are -- exactly like me? i know, right? well, cherish your friends and loved ones.

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arizona for joe biden. the network's former managing editor saying, it's remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things. this as carlson is trying to whitewash the deadly insurrection calling it peaceful chaos while using security footage of 44,000 hours he got from speaker kevin mccarthy. the u.s. capitol police chafe -- chief saying he cherry picked and fails to provide context about the chaos and violence. mitch mcconnell yesterday agreeing and mitt romney today. >> i want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief of the capitol police.

my concern is how it was depicted, which is a different issue. clearly, the chief of the capitol police, in my view, correctly describes what most of us witnessed firsthand on january 6. >> try to pretend it was something other than that are despicable and dangerous. >> despicable and dangerous says mitt romney. joining me now ali vitali, phil rucker and david jolly. back with us, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official. ali, to you. the speaker has really divided republicans by letting tucker carlson have that footage. >> between the chambers of congress. the conversations that you saw snippets of from some senate republicans sound different than the conversations i have been

having with republican lawmakers in recent weeks basically since mccarthy decided to give this footage to tucker carlson exclusively. the speaker's office says after that at some point other news organizations, including nbc, will get a chance to look at that footage. the word that republicans on the house side especially keep using is transparency. look no further than the contrast between house speaker mccarthy fielded questions about this yesterday and what you played from mitch mcconnellccon. >> do you regret giving him this footage so he can whitewash the events on that day? >> no. >> the capitol police chief says it was cherry picked, it was misleading and offensive. do you have any concerns about anything aired? >> i didn't see what was aired. what i want to do is give transparency to everybody. >> again there, mccarthy saying no regrets and also that this is

full transparency despite the fact that one news organization have this and capitol police and others are saying it's cherry picking of the material. >> a security threat according to the january 6 committee. david jolly, your reaction to the private texts, emails at fox? especially after arizona was called. they were first to call arizona for biden. >> andrea, hard questions for fox news now are breaking into public light, not just for their entertainment hosts but for their news division withholding the very call of the results of the presidential election. as you know now that many of the people they were platforming as guests, that fox news knew they were lying to the american people. hard questions about the integrity of fox news. also, hard questions about their ties to donald trump, the person and the candidate. clearly shows were designed to promote donald trump for purposes of ratings.

i also think that ties to kevin mccarthy and his decision ali was mentioning. this is a bad faith event by tucker carlson to whitewash this. kevin mccarthy trying to hide behind transparency doesn't work. this is part of his legacy as speaker of the house. this behavior you typically would not see from a speaker. but we have come to expect from kevin mccarthy. >> when you talk about close ties, they asked rupert murdoch about the fact he sent biden tv commercials before they aired to jared kushner, obviously the president's top aid, phil, that's pretty remarkable. he said, yeah, he is my friend. >> yeah, andrea, it was so interesting seeing these new materials that came in last night just how involved rupert murdoch was in involved and what

they were saying in communications with the trump team. my colleague has a great story on this this morning at "the washington post" showing this media mogul in action behind the scenes firing off text messages, emails, complaining about the decision desk at fox news, wondering why trump had gone mad and why the children -- i guess jared and ivanka were the reference there -- were not effective in trying to help the president in those really critical weeks after the election. >> chuck, let's talk about the legal basis here. this is basically a defamation suit. a huge dollar number they put on their damage request in their complaint. what are their chances of winning given all this material that has come out? >> generally, first, for context, defamation suits are hard to win. there's a good reason for that. journalists, reporters are very good at what they do, but

they're not perfect. they make mistakes. mistakes are not actionable under defamation law. you would have to show that a reporter or a journalist reported false information maliciously, actual malice. it's a tough standard. now here in this case, andrea, dominion has some pretty good evidence that fox acted maliciously. fox will say in court when the trial begins in april in delaware that we are giving a platform to people making these claims, even if we don't believe it ourselves. dominion will say on the other hand, you knew this to be false, you acted maliciously and in acting maliciously, you damaged our business, our reputation, our credibility and our ability to sell our products to other places that are holding elections. we sell voting machines. you said that our machines are corrupted and they are unreliable. does dominion win?

it's as good of a defamation case i have seen. but the malice standard makes it difficult for a plaintiff -- for dominion to prevail. the answer is, we will see. >> this is a jury trial. it depends also on what happens in that space. phil, let's talk also about the release to tucker carlson and the way that story has been framed by tucker, by showing these benign videos of people walking, which hardly represents what really happened. the family of brian sicknick, the officer who died after the attack, is blasting him for distorting what happened that day. in a statement they say, every time the pain of that day seems to have ebbed a bit, organizations like fox rip our wound opens again. we are sick of it. leave us the hell alone. instead of spreading for leaders from trump, why don't you focus on real news? yet the lies keep coming, phil. that's a very passionate --

obviously, coming out of the deep wounds they feel, the loss of their son. >> it certainly is. the narrative that tucker carlson has put forward about the january 6th attack is not true. it does not hold up to the factual evidence in the video and frankly, to what we witnessed in real time on january 6th, the attacks at the capitol. that's why i think you saw senate leader mcconnell and mitt romney siding with the police chief there. it's just not journalism, it's not credible, it's not based in fact. >> certainly, undercuts the republican narrative that they are the anti-crime party, because the people that they are talking about were police officers, uniformed and ununiformed police officers. let's talk about how the attack is being prosecuted by the justice department. more than 999 defendants have been arrested, about 326 have

been criminally charged, 106 charged with deadly or dangerous weapons, 140 police officers were assaulted that day. how do you square this drive to change the whole narrative about january 6th? >> you don't. you can't. what happened at the capitol on january 6th was -- you pick the word. riot, insurrection, mob, trying to take control of the capitol and thwart the peaceful transfer of power after a fair and free election. you pick the term. what fox is doing and what republicans who defend fox are doing is one of two things, really. it's just politics or it's profit. fox is trying to hold its viewers, sell ads and has a narrative for these viewers that is just utterly false, doing a

disservice to them and to the nation. >> and to our profession. it could be both, profit and politics. ali, phil, david and chuck, thank you all so much. home rule. how washington, d.c.'s effort to reform its century old criminal code has driven a wedge between members of the president's party. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton, washington, d.c., joining me next. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. -to-severe ec. it doesn't care if you have a date,... ...a day off,... ...or a double shift. make your move and get out in front of eczema... with steroid-free cibinqo. not an injection,... cibinqo is a once-daily pill for those who didn't respond to past treatments. and it's proven to help provide clearer skin and relieve itch fast. cibinqo continuously treats eczema whether you're flaring or not. cibinqo can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. before and during treatment, your doctor should check

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senator dick durbin told me he believes the votes are there to reject it. but he will not vote to do that. if it happens, it would be the first time in more than three decades that d.c. lawmakers are being overruled by a congress in which they have no voting representation in either the house or the senate. the president tweeting that he supports d.c.'s statehood but does not support lowering penalties for carjackings, which critics say is misstating the d.c. measure. this amid republican attacks that democrats are soft on crime as the president is preparing to announce his re-election bid. joining us now, congresswoman eleanor holmes norton, democratic delegate representing d.c. in the house. it's always great to see you. as a d.c. resident, putting that out there, i have long believed that taxation without representation going back to our

founding fathers and should not exist. there i am in favor of statehood. i'm going to put it out there. what does this mean for statehood when for the first time since 1991 congress is overruling something the d.c. council decided on? >> i'm hoping this does not set back our drive for d.c. statehood. we have passed it twice in the house. it has a vote. it has had a hearing in the senate. i hope this is seen as one of a kind. it's a crime bill. with crime going up around the country, i believe the focus on crime is where this disapproval resolution is and why the president after saying he would sign the criminal code then did an aboutface and said he would not. i think he was responding to crime around the country. >> was that a mistake?

are you disappointed with the president? >> i believe it was a mistake. this crime code had not been revised in 100 years. we see people revising their crime codes all over the country. that's all d.c. was doing. the revisions reflected what judges had already done. they raised crimes -- they raised penalties on some crimes, lowered on others. and the crime code reflected that. it was in keeping with that. the refusal of the president to sign it after saying he would -- not to sign it after saying he would is a great disappointment to a president who has always stood for home rule. he indicated he is still for home rule, but he deserted us on this. >> the mayor was against this

crime code. it was done by the council without her support. there was disagreement at the local level about -- >> she wasn't against the entire -- she was not against the entire criminal code. she wanted to make some changes. that's why she vetoed it. all we asked for was let her do her work and don't overturn this until she does. it's easy to misconstrue her being against the criminal code -- being against portions of the criminal code as being against the entire criminal code the way republicans were. but she never got the chance to interface with the council and make the changes she desired. >> it did make major changes on guns. that's something that senator durbin was pointing out to me. what was the positive impact that this code would have done

on guns, which have been so out of control? >> i do think that had something to do with the changes the mayor wanted to make, because of the rise in gun violence across the district of columbia. but that's happening across the united states. i think she should have been allowed to make changes. i'm sure she could have gotten the council to agree. that and carjacking, other crimes of the kind, should have -- she should have been allowed to work with the congress instead of having disapproval resolution overturned. >> 16 weeks working on this. >> what did you say? >> i was going to say, they spent 16 weeks working on the crime code. now they have to start over. how do you see this going in terms of actually coming up with

a code that might have support? >> starting over is very difficult because this code, it was revised for the first time in 100 years, since 1901. there are not a great deal of revisions that have to be made. i hope council will continue to work on this matter. we see revisions of criminal codes in 50 states across the united states. the district isn't the only one doing this. lots of states have old criminal codes. i'm hoping we get another chance at this before the session is ended. >> congresswoman, as always, you are a very vocal representative for the district, even though you don't have a vote. you have a lot of power, impact. we thank you very much for your service. >> thank you, andrea. on this international women's day, we will meet a woman breaking barriers on multiple fronts. she's the first african american

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today is international women's day, and women around the globe are marching, celebrating, pushing for equality. later today at the white house, the first lady and secretary of state tony blinken are going to host the state department's annual international women of courage award ceremony honoring 11 women for their exceptional courage, strength, and leadership. nbc's sheinelle jones caught up with another trailblazer, the first african american woman to become commanding officer of naval station norfolk. ♪♪ >> so this is the world's largest naval base. >> correct. >> and you are the first african american woman to be made commanding officer of this base. what does it mean to be the first? >> it means that i'm not the last. it always takes the first, and then after that game on. >> game on is right. as commanding officer of naval station norfolk, captain janet

days manages nearly every aspect of the base, home to the u.s. atlantic fleet with over 56,000 military personnel, 63 ships and submarines, 18 squadrons, and an average of 1,150 ship movements per year. >> it almost feels like a small city. >> think about it as being a mayor, everything from managing the infrastructure, the supply, the utilities, all the support services, not to mention the operational component and the personnel that come to this base. >> how'd that go? >> one of the people who inspired you to pursue a career in the military is your dad. >> absolutely. as a little girl growing up and your dad's an army man, i saw how people responded to him. my dad had a huge influence on me joining the military. >> raised by a single father, when he was deployed to vietnam, captain days and her siblings were temporarily placed in foster care until he returned. >> and you know, you realize and even for me as a parent, the love that he had for you guys. >> without a doubt. >> and the sacrifice that it

took. >> and being in the army was a means and a way for him to provide for us. >> thank you. >> you served as the destroyer squadron, and aboard the dwight d. eisenhower, including a deployment to afghanistan. >> i served on board destroyers. that would have been unheard of back in the early '90s, because these ships go to combat. today 30 years later women serve in multitude of capacities in the navy. >> captain days gave me a tour of norfolk's naval ships from the patrol boat. >> this is the world's largest naval base? >> yeah. never ever is there not activity and action happening here 24/7. ships come in, we repair ships. we supply ships. we do upkeep, training. our stretch and our reach is wide. >> how do you move forward and navigate in a world like this when you don't see anybody else blazing those trails? >> i had wonderful mentors. they just weren't women, and said you would be great at this. >> do you ever think about it

when sometimes you're the only one who looks like you in a room? >> no, i'm used to it. >> yes, i see it, but it doesn't bother me. whatever my purpose is for being there, i'm going to do my job. >> her impressive resume includes being the commanding officer of the u.s.s. mcfaul, a warship and says there were challenges along the way. >> you've had moments where people would question and say, you know, who's in charge here, and you say i am. >> i did have an incident where the pilot boarded the ship, went over to my executive officer and said, hey, captain, are we ready to get underway. i heard that and said we absolutely are. he turned beet red. i don't believe it was intentional, but i think it's just the norm. >> reporter: now, over a month into the new job, captain days is still getting used to the attention and says young african american sailors often ask to shake her hand. >> they want to shake your hand and they say they're super proud of you. it's taken a little bit for that to sink in, and women, women of

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