just in this state that i was. i raised all of the pictures that i had with the computer and destroyed the pictures of me from that period to try to write that period of my life with god's help i went through the change and i went back to being in may. so i went through the surgery and the bad side of it was so much pain and so much discomfort and read a gratitude and surgery more and then me for. surgery that i had been in then when he took the bandages of my stomach to show me the skin. i was almost horrified at it to me it was gross but it was surgery and the paperwork that the surgeon gave me. when i had the surgery done the nation really gaming the paperwork and said ok i'm in surge changed to may i'm sixty years old there's no reason for me after a lifetime of being in transition to go and start living dressing as a man a name. there's there's there's no. there's no. there's no benefit to it but there is a benefit and standing before an audience of young kids and college who are considering this. and saying to

and i was. afterword they were -- i got a lot of compliments but from them on -- than on i had what it took to deal with the issues. >> there was a quote that we came across and we wanted to ask you about. it takes 10 years for you to stop being a teenager and to become a full adult and congress. can you explain? >> you are learning and learning and trying and testing and experimenting and seeing what the other people are doing to make decisions and then all of a sudden, boom, you start making your decisions totally without having to worry about your chairman, your mother, your father. do you know what i mean? your leader. you know who you are in the process. you are no longer scurrying around being a teenager. teenagers are trying and learning and it is much harder to be a teenager than an adult, i think.>>> throughout your career you reminded people you are a single mom who was on welfare. how did this experience shape your future career in congress? >> well, it was very important to my career

>> honestly, i was very happy. i mean, other than other and i thought i might die from starvation but because i have loving parents, they prioritize me with everything . and i was so grateful for it but i was a very public child because i couldn't change. in north korea you are taught to use faith to determine your birth. before i was born, my father said my great-grandfather made him into this class in society. and i was never told what i want to become. so society was so hard and all i remember when i looked at north korea is it's great, i didn't know to call it north korea. in my memory everything is great, that's how my childhood was when i was starving and hungry and desperate and scared that even the birds and mice can hear me, that's one thing my mother taught me that even the birds can hear me. but despite that, i think the most important thing was a family to me, that taking back to my childhood, i was lost and i was terrorist in myhousehold . >> where is your family, your sister, your mother, your father t

i was asked to do so, and i did. work itself was interesting, and at the time it appeared that the sexual overtures which had so troubled me had ended. i also faced the realistic fact that i had no alternative job. while i might have gone back to private practice, perhaps in my old firm or at another, i was dedicated to civil rights work, and my first choice was to be in that field. moreover, at that time, the department of education itself was a dubious venture. president reagan was seeking to abolish the entire department. for my first months at the eeoc where i continued to be an assistant to judge thomas, there were no sexual conversations or overtures. however, during the fall and winter of 1982, these began again. the comments were random and ranged from pressing me about why i didn't go out with him to remarks about my personal appearance. i remember his saying that some day i would have to tell him the real reason that i wouldn't go out with him. he began to show displeasure in his tone and voice and his demea

>> i was meeting with attorneys, i was interviewing various attorneys and the attorneys asked if i was willing to take it and i said absolutely. that said, it was almost as anxiety provoking as an airplane flight. >> and you've talked about your recollections and seeing mark judge at that safeway, if there had been an appropriate reopening of this background check and fbi interviews, would that help you find the time period if you knew when he worked at that safeway? >> i think i would find it helpful if i could be provided that date through the irs or anything. >> i assume that's true, but under federal law, but statements made to medical professionals are considered to be more reliable, there's a federal rule of evidence about this. you told your counselor about this back in 2012, is that right? >> my therapist? >> uh-huh. >> my individual therapist, correct. >> and i understand that your husband was also present when you spoke about this incident in front of a counselor and he recalls you using judge kavanagh's name, is that right? >> yes, i just have to slow down a minute, because

i was really taken. this is why i decide to do my book with them, because at first i went with the big publisher, you know, simon & shuster, and i was not really tickled pink with them. but then the association has really blew me away, because they don't short change everything. they go the long way. they like my dessert, union? well, it's going to take several hours. well, let's do it and let's do it. this is why i appreciate working with them. and i hope that we will continue this nice communication we have for a long time. so ladies and gentlemen, i wish you the best of time in d.c. i will see you again around. but enjoy yourself and i hope you enjoyed this little speech, okay? thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you very much. [ cheers ] we're featuring special shows about the war. general pershing created the first united states army under his command. immediate debts were taken to concentrate american forces at one point on the line. artifacts,merican where in northeastern france visiting monum

but i want to give awful picture of who i was. i never had sexual intercourse or anything close to it during high school or for many years after that. in some crowds i was probably a little outwardly shy about my inexperience. i tried to hide that. at the same time i was also inwardly proud of it. for me and the girls who i was friends with, that lack of major or rampant sexual activity in high school was a matter of faith and respect and caution. the committee has a letter from 65 women who knew me in high scho school. they said that i always treated them with dignity and respect. that letter came together in one night 35 years after graduation while a sexual assault allegation was pending against me in a very fraught and public situation where they knew -- they knew they'd be vilified if they defended me. think about that. they put themselves on the line for me. those are some awesome women and i love all of them. you also have a letter from women who knew me in college. most were varsity athletes. they described that i treated t

i also was in d.c. on saturday night aug seventh but i was at a small gathering at bacchis house in rockville with matt did a nice lori and jenny their names are all listed on my calendar i won't use their last names here and then on the weekend of oct aug twenty to twenty second. i was staying at the garrets with pat and chris as we did final preparations for football training camp that began on sunday the twenty second as the calendars confirm the what that weekend before a brutal football training camp schedule was no time for parties. so let me emphasize this point if the party described by dr ford happened in the summer of one thousand nine hundred two on a weekend night my calendar shows all but definitively that i was not there during the weekdays in the summer of one thousand nine hundred two as you can see i was out of town for two weeks of the summer for a trip to the beach with friends and at the legendary five star basketball camp in hone's dale pennsylvania when i was in town i spent much o

reed i was relieved. everyone was nervous. “— for any of you. reed i was relieved. ps have been comfortable. to see his face when he was back in the car, to see him back in that environment was so nice after such, all the stuff he had been through. it was nice to see him back there. what do you think today has meant to him and to you? it has been a coming for him to meet alex. seeing them together is so funny because you can see some many similarities. even nothing to do with the injuries, just than talking about racing. a long journey ahead for both of them. i think we might have to separate! when you see them on the hand cycles... you will a lwa ys on the hand cycles... you will always be legs by the fact that you have had these horrible life changing injuries. and yet neither of you have said they will —— you will let this overtake you. you always have bad days but you have to let it not overtake you. just meeting him and chatting to him, taking all i can from his experiences is enough for me to know that today was an awesome day. what he has been able to do with

was in our embassy. if i could point you to this embassy, this building was built in the to earthquake standards. 1970'swhich is why on the outside it looks pretty secure. on the inside, as you can tell from the mangled remains of the television set, we were absolutely devastated. the rock from our embassy was blown into one of the vehicles. at the time of the bombing i was on the 21st floor. the truck was 2000 pounds of tnt that exploded right here. the mound of rubble that was once a seven-story office building. when thousands of kenyans arrived on the scene, what they found was a building that looked pretty ok compared to the one they have, which was now in total rubble. that created a public relations issue. because our marines did what they were trained to do when the bomb went off. they put on their flak jackets. they got their guns out, put their helmets out, and provided perimeter security. thousands of kenyans saw white men with guns and very determined expressions. guns pointed outward. kenyans were

that was the belief. all i knew that it was saturday morning and i was a child i never wanted to be out playing. and i'm not a witness anymore but i look back on it at a a tk that's the thing about having a grounding in a religion, is you get to pick what you need from it. when you get clarity about it enough. and one together as a witness is your in the world but you're not of the world. so when the world starts treating you or other people as of the, well, i've always been outside of this narrative so i'm good. but i think also being able to concentrate for long hours, not being afraid to be bored is something that is earned by being bored as a child. but it also is something that kind of helped me figure out who i was becoming, and this is why became. >> host: next call for jacqueline woodson is marlena in sterling virginia here in the suburbs. >> caller: how are you guys doing today? ms. woodson, i have a crafts question for you actually. i am an aspiring writer myself. i wonder do you start out with a char

i was. skinny little introvert. i had a speech impediment and tried to talk but a lot of people didn't understand me and my body told me i belong with the boy but my thoughts not mine with me and that i belong with the girls. and i didn't know which way to go i wanted to be like my sisters i thought i should be like my fifth to earth and my older sisters started wearing makeup. and it was some of her makeup in the bathroom. and then in the sixth grade when i was. on the formerly teen and we had a new diving. he would do when he had a chance he would play with me he would fond o. me and. trying to get me to have interaction and just continue to play with me. a map he should cheer into a room. for just a moment. come on criminal and get you into a room back here you're going to keep moving around come on a quiet bad dog bad hold one moment i will. silence the da. da da da da da they do lay down. go lay down first off my name is. i'm an author i've written eight books so far three of them to do with transsexuality i was

music as an act of survival it started when i was seven i started playing piano when i was seventeen and i've struggled with anxiety depression and suicide for most of my life and i think a lot of native people feel the same way even if or are not aware of it or don't talk about it and music at a certain point my life was the only thing that made me feel like i wanted to be alive you know so i think my spirit was just trying to trying to keep me alive and trying to keep me going to music was one of those things like you know people ask me why and i say it's like an itch i have to scratch i was born to make music i was born to do this i was born to see what you've just seen me do and my life would be a waste if i were fulfilling my purpose you know that kind of goes back to that teaching i said if you know something you do it without being asked and i know i'm born to make music and it took me a while to realize that i can do that because i didn't believe in myself i didn't have the tools i didn't have the resources and it was kind of like just pouring myself into the work out of survi

i was properly actually very i mean i've been up for days i was home and then for me i wasn't in the clear state of mind. at that point i just wanted to get away from everything and that's why i lived in east texas and that's what i don't get why you don't just get away from these days because you stayed with one of those stay with one. man same question. and i was wondering what i. will tell what happened i don't. i don't know i mean i guess as between him and whatever god he's choosing a warship right now you know. after an hour you. get to see and to see. so he dropped you off. but how much sense does that make if he if he helps you at gun point he didn't hit at gunpoint right he just felt afraid because he was carrying a gun around the senator really like anything you try to try to get away with get away from like so if i had a gun and i'm holding you. or even if i'm not holding your drive along with me and you know i've done killed two people if you're going to try to talk your way and get away from me whether or not will work cool or not you're going to t

a friend or my sister or another sister or another friend the friend and this i was its force i walked every way it was lovely it was the norm this lawsuit the norm. if they think i'm ok i feel like i'm not really here i'm just dreaming. it's on the last legs. when she was twenty my mother started her own family. together with my father ryan hold a german from her neighborhood the soviets called it west berlin. one of the wars of good. and you out of a neighbor's. place but it. was just. then i think this lady is from germany she used to live here she'd like to take some pictures to remember this place of course come in as if you don't want. to. leave the onus on home. ok i'll just look around for the first run you can your mother privately put on your hat not what you think we're taking the time for. that would settle would you just look at the sooner you start. getting closer to. him seriously just. you know. how they are going to love. you. and this was just the entrance that got the school and it's like there was this little fence and different varieties of grapes grew that. the fo

i was so exhausted and i -- i think i had a panic attack. and i didn't know what it was.o g to the hospital. i think panic attacks feel like you're dying. >> for the next two months, she began having panic attacks regularly. >> i went to go see a doctor, they said, i think you have anxiety, and i thought, what? where could this come from? finally, i had to sit down and sort of say what is this from? i had a moment of clarity of, okay, i have to leave this job. >> and that's exactly what she planned to do. >> i was leaving without a safety net, to say, i'm going to try auditioning. or, broadway shows. >> everyone was like, are you crazy? what are you talking about? >> jessica's parents were equ equally surprised. >> i received a phone call from jessica, she said, basically, i hate this job, mom. i can't do it anymore. >> they were not happy about that. >> how are you going to survive? >> when i was raised it was a matter of, you go out, you get the job, if things are difficult, you make it work. i honestly thought that -- that -- this is a bad decision. >> to have that con

ironically i was the last one up. you, i did get up and was blown back. most of the wounds were from the chest up and very bloodied. i returned to the bomb site the next day. we got first aid and i went over building, which was being used as a crisis center. i returned to what was then a tomb of an embassy. i was given by our security engineer a hard hat he had fashioned overnight. we threw this together as a community. this is the hats of one of the marine security guards who is on duty at the time. these are the logs in both of our embassies. when i arrived on august 7 and i went over, there was no ambassador on shore. we were in business all the time. >> it's quite striking. a.m. i remember that. i had a meeting in my office. there was this usual test about three different alarm systems. later, that same marine got on through the microphone, saying this is not a and here it says 1044 come up bomb exploded in chancery. you cannot must tell by the fact that the printing is bigger than all the others. a bit of a devastating situation. i have never seen thi

it was a real culture clash. i did not write about a specific person, interviewed a lot of train writers. the way demographics worked, there was only one man out of that group. it was all women. so, i was able to sort of used bits of real life and a piece i have read and a true "on my own" grandmothers. >> some characters who are historical people, the biggest thing is-don't think he has any dialogue. but when they pop up a lot of characters in 58 sections deal with people. most of them -- but, the protagonist in the sections i most of the characters are entitled. it was helpful to pick people who are not a lot of historical record on them. it gave them freedom to make stuff up. you get my point, how much of a service can you really do. >> well, that is the challenge in writing fiction about the actual figure, which that is done a couple of different ways. from having conversation with christina previously, the approach i have taken is to use the facts and not to change anything that was true, this still leaves a l

so that was summer what i was hoping was to avoid having to get on an airplane, but i eventually was able to get up the gumption with the help of friends and get on the plane. >> when you were here in the mid-atlantic area back in august, end of july, august. how did you get here? >> also by airplane. i come here once a year during the summer to visit my family. not here, i go to delaware. >> okay. in fact, you fly fairly frequently for hobbies and you had to fly for your work, is that true? >> correct, unfortunately. >> you were consulted by a statustician in australia. >> i have never been to australia, but the company is based in australia and they have an office in san francisco, california. i don't think i will make it to australia. >> it is long. >> i also saw on your cd that you list the following interest of travel and you put hawaii, costa rica, south pacific islands and french polinesia. have you been to those places? >> correct. >> by airplane? >> yes. >> it includes oceanography and tahitian culture. did you travel by air? >> correct. it's easier when it's a vacation. >>

by the time i left high school when i was eighteen i was cross-dressing most of the time once i was away from school and a couple of years afterwards i ended up in san francisco which had a very small gay community and i started i had made the decision by the time i would get to be pretty. quick to handle the truth. i was born in los angeles a good family good people i was taken to my grandmother's house quite frequently as my parents liked to go away on the weekend they lied. camp and fish. became interested in my grandma's house. and i mentioned something to her about that so she decided to make me a purple dress to put it on and wear the dress i finally got so interested and excited about wearing a dress that i get tired of waiting till i was going to go to grandma's house to secretly so i snatched the dress home my mom found the dress. i was never allowed to go to grandma's house again. to change my name secretly when i was about thirteen years old to crystal probably in my late twenties i started to talk to doctors about hormone therapy and i began to take hormone therapy thirty fiv

if anything, i was curious. there was on—board footage, i saw that. uick look at that city can push it under the carpet and forget about it. you never fully forget when an accident like that happens but in order to move forward, for me that's fine, i had to fully understand what i have been through. curious. i was curious to watch the footage of my accident. i was not afraid of it but i guess this is down to the way we are and you can't make sure what kind of reaction we have in particular circumstances and i saw what happened to me, i would join the club of those saying wow, hats off to him, i would not be able to do what he does but it's not true because we are amazing, marvellous machines and sometimes we are capable of surprising ourselves with the reaction we didn't think we could bring in a particular circumstance, but we do. he is a very, very positive young man. the first thing was to work out how to use a clutch with his hand. if i was going to go through everything i had to go through, i didn't want to adjust my ambitions and dreams to assume

why was that location chosen? dr. ford: i had left my grandmother's funeral at fort lincoln cemetery that day and was on a tight schedule to catch manchester, to hampshire, so he came to me. >> he administered a polygraph on the day you attended your grandmother's funeral? dr. ford: correct. it might have been the next day. >> have you ever had discussion with anyone on how to take a polygraph? dr. ford: never. >> i don't just mean countermeasures but any sort of tips or anything like that? dr. ford: no. i was scared of the test itself but was comfortable that i could tell the information in the test would reveal whatever it was going to reveal. didn't expect it to be as long so it was a little stressful. given tips orer advice to somebody looking to take a polygraph test? dr. ford: never. >> did you pay for the polygraph? dr. ford: i don't think so. >> do you know who did pay for the polygraph? dr. ford: not yet, no. >> you have a handwritten statement that you wrote out int -- did anyone assist you writing that statement? n

>> i was alone. she had a staff person. >> okay. >> what did you talk about with congresswoman eshoo and her staff on july 18th and the 20th? >> i described the night of the incident and we spent time speaking about that. i asked her how to -- what my options were in terms of going forward, and how to get that information relaid forward. also, talk talked to her about fears of whether this was confidential information and she discussed the constituent confidentiality principle. >> thank you. >> thank you, chairman grassley. i would like to ask the unanimous consent to submit five articles including one titled "why sexual assault memories stick" and "why didn't kavanaugh accuser come forward police often ignore sexual assault victims." >> i want to begin by thanking you for testifying in front of us today. you came forward with serious and relevant information about a nominee for a lifetime position on our supreme court. you didn't have to. i know you've done it at great personal cost. this is a public

i had it, and it was -- it was it. n't tell my wife which one i liked. she had a sip of the four. she goes, "oh, that's it." i called him. i remember it was 2:30. eddie likes to remind me, no, it was 4:30 in the morning that i called him. but i said, "this is it.i dot e. i don't need to mix it with anything. this is my favorite tasting bourbon on the planet, and that's wild turkey long branch." >> jimmy: long branch. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and that's it. and you've got a little mesquite, a little smokey flavor to it. >> yes, sir. yes, sir. >> jimmy: gosh. we're all doing it wrong. i mean, that is fantastic. [ laughter ] >> it's a hell of a hobby. >> jimmy: i love that. and is that out? >> it is out. yep. and more is coming out this september. going to be wide. it's been a great introduction. and wait until you taste it. it speaks for itself. >> jimmy: yeah. all right. i'll do it. next time you come on we'll have a little. [ cheers and applause ] i have to bring up -- i have to bring up your mom. >> yes. >> jimmy: 'cause i d

i was under the impression that an individual i had met in rome, the so-called professor was able to provide high-level connections in russia that would result in some sort of summit or meeting. mostly for a photo-op. so i sat down, i looked at candidate trump directly in his eyes and i said i can do this for you if it's in your interest, and if it's in the campaign's interest. and the collective energy in room, of course there were some dissenters but the collective energy seemed to be interested? >> the collective energy. was donald trump interested? >> the candidate, he gave me a sort of a nod. he wasn't committed either way but it was -- i took it as he was thinking. >> senator jeff sessions was there, too. >> yes. >> at the table. what was his response? >> my recollection was that the senator was actually enthusiastic about a meeting between the candidate and president putin. >> so you say that then-senator now attorney general jeff sessions was enthusiastic about the idea of candidate donald trump meeting putin, but he has said the exact opposite. in fact, first he said he didn'

recall when i was there i actually was on the terrorism desk. there is a desk called the terrorism desk. and this is when i first learned about al qaeda, the base. i got to be familiar in terms of intercept and collection information of all sorts regarding bin laden and associated movements. it was during my time there and later in the middle east desk and i was actually at the pentagon in the alert center when the attempt to drop the world trade center powers the first time. so it is differently and there might have been far more damage. we actually were issuing reports at that time. and they come back. and we sent the reports out within our distribution channels. i still remember it was a surreal moment with the lead military intelligence officer reports up to the joint chiefs of staff. he came down to our alert center and leaning over the cubicles and says, yeah, looking at me and one of my colleagues. yeah, i saw it but who cares about some rag head spouting off laws in a desert under a fig tree. who cares? you have to remember the context. t

that was a primary motivator. i would say also deeply concerned as well about our environment and our need to grapple with climate change. this is well before it was a common conversation. still yet we have been unable to , come to terms with it. this deep sense of generational responsibility, that he felt obligated to bring to the american people. he knew as you often heard him say was quite a long shot. we were following on the heels of another presidential candidate from massachusetts of the same greek-american extraction. paul had been a survivor of cancer, so we knew that would be a concern to people. it was a real motivation for him. as i look back on it and having seen eugene mccarthy and that powerful motivation that senator mccarthy felt about needing to take the issue of the war in vietnam to the american people, i see a strong connection between how paul was motivated and senator mccarthy, which resonated with me so much as a 22-year-old, so i respected it. i understood what it meant for us as a family. i

condoleezza: i was at my desk. president bush was at that event in florida. to show you our pre-9/11 thinking, i did not go with him that day. my assistant came in and said a plane hit the world trade center. first we thought it was an accident. i called president bush. a few minutes later, we learned the second plane hit the world trade center and we knew it was a terrorist attack. and then just a procession over the day and the next several months of decisions for the president of the united states. the united states had not been attacked on its own territory since the war of 1812. we had no structures or institutions for internal security for the country. it was flying without a compass. david: subsequently president bush decided to invade iraq to topple saddam hussein. so in light of hindsight, had you known there were no weapons of mass destruction, would you have still gone forward? condoleezza: i say to people what you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not yesterday. we simply believed as all the intelligence agencies around the world did

i was the strongest internally i had been in my entire adult life, and i was getting out of prison at 50. i dealt with my trauma related to incest and domestic violence. i addressed my substance abuse issues, and i had gained a real sense of self-worth, but instead of feeling confident and grateful, i felt scared and hopeless about getting out of prison. i would like to tell you that my fears were unwarranted but i can't, and unfortunately, my experience returning home is not unusual. my passion is empowerment and helping others coming out of jails and prisons and creating a more inclusive system for people coming out of jail and prison like me. i want to become a member of the reentry council to further assist in making systemic changes in order to better support justice involved individuals reentering our communities. san francisco is far and ahead many cities, but there's still a lot of work to do. i hope to help and lead initiatives for more reentry navigation, and once i'm off paper, i want to go into the jails and prisons and work on actually what i heard when i first landed in

and again, i didn't know what it was that i was dealing with. and there was a mental -- these horrible messages, at least with me, dealing with this, that are playing out on a loop in my head. you know, you're worthless, you're useless, the world would be a better place without you, why are you here taking irrelevant air, why are you here taking up space, and when you're isolating, you're not talking with anybody, and that's the only voice that you get. so back in 2008, over a six-month period between 2007 and 2008, i had a real low point. over the course of that six months, my grandmother passed away suddenly. i was on the air, doing my show at kgo, kgo talk show, and i got the call that she had a stroke and was probably not going to make it. then about a month after that, my wife decided she didn't want to be married anymore. just one day woke up -- i'm sure that it took more than a day to get there, but she was saying -- i was saying my wife was ill she was sick of my stuff. so my wife decided she didn't want to be married anymore. then, i got

he was downstairs. i didn't know him well but he was downstairs not any where near the event. >> okay. i would like to take that word out if it's possible. >> okay, thank you for clarifying that. the second is the letter that you wrote to senator feinstein dated the july 30th of this year. >> yes. >> did you write the letter yourself? >> i did. >> and i -- since it's dated july 30th did you write it on that date? >> i believe so. it sounds right. i was in delaware at the time. i can look into my calendar and try to figure it out. >> was it written on or about that day? >> yes i traveled on the sixth of july to delaware so that makes sense because i wrote it from there. >> is the letter accurate. >> i will take a minute to read it. i can read fast. >> take your time. >> okay. okay, so i have three areas that i would like to address. >> okay. >> in the second paragraph, where it says the assault occurred in a suburban maryland home. at a gathering that included me and four others. i can't guarantee that the

i don't think that was true. i really don't. their father had been in politics before me, and he had had some disappointment. he was a wonderful legislator and was an excellent speaker, and then he tried to run for lieutenant governor. no, he tried to run for congress. and didn't make it. and he ran at convention and he didn't get the votes. so then he tried to run for lieutenant governor and didn't get it. my girls adored their father, so they weren't that big on -- so, i don't know where i said that but -- and i haven't seen any of them go into politics. >> you mentioned -- i just want to follow up that you talked to who -- you talked to a lot of women, young women, to encourage them to run for politics, and that there are obstacles to that. what are some of the obstacles that you see? >> one of the latest articles -- obstacles -- in fact, i get kidded at the university, because they say that i say constantly to the students, and i really want you to run. so, i guess i say it too much. but parents. parents want a woman to go to

i was just like any other kids. i went to primary school secondary school college i had friends i played football and around the streets. but i grew up during my parents. when i was sixteen i going to that company trucks and i was sentenced to prison for two years. in those two years so i became to change i became to become religious i was looking for a sense of of of belonging. after prison i was deported to somalia and i became part of. but. i first i thought i'd show up with the good guys fighting for the somali people they befriended me. they gave me a way to restart just my life in africa. i was never front line soldier i never carry the gun for them i never killed anyone for them because i could speak english and i was h.t. to the i knew how to use a computer he had me doing other things for them. i'm not. i'm not a terrorist i'm not a suicide bomber. when i saw the civilians dying in the bombings. i begin to understand and realize that is a terrorist organization killing innocent people. that's when i stopped

> i was a musician. i progressed in music to a certain point and then life was very, very hard. and at that point for some reason i was living -- i lived in l.a. for a while. then i decided to go to mexico stit st city. i don't remember how or why. there was a music project we got going. i was going to do my first album as a singer, right? and all of a sudden the producers that were leading this project, they got fired from their companies and never heard from them again. and i had to fend for myself. i was down there. i said okay, what do i do? and there was commercials. i could find a job at starbucks. it pay what starbucks pays in the states. i was raised in the states. it didn't make any sense in my head. i started doing commercials. and then the casting house for commercials did film as well. so i didn't -- i wanted to stop doing commercials. i really enjoyed finding -- i guess a bit more complex characters. i was fortunate enough to get good opportunities, got aligned with the right projects and cha

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i loved where i was. i was from the country. t's so laid-back and small. >> reporter: how was the adjustment for savannah to high school? >> it was an eye-opener for her. >> i think it was a huge culture shock. >> it was a huge culture shock. i remember one time she called me. she was like, i don't think i can do this. >> reporter: emily and joe, savannah's parents, were high school sweethearts. married by age 20. he, a marine at camp lejeune. she, a college student studying business. what were your hopes back then? >> have a family and have a story. >> reporter: but their family's story, the kind every parent of a teenage girl fears, begins on an unseasonably warm october night in 2015. it's joe and emily's 18th wedding anniversary. they're enjoying a rare night away from their four kids, celebrating with a romantic weekend in new york city. but meanwhile, back in alabama, another celebration. an 18th birthday party for one of the spanish fort seniors. how did this party come about? >> everyone was texting about it. >> reporter:

when i look back at that time, i was a sponge. i just absorbed everything. no one around me was undocumented. and mind you, at that time there was no social media, there was no internet. whenever anybody said anybody was, quote/unquote, illegal or whenever anybody talked about the wall or the border or immigration, it was always about mexican people. so this was never -- i just never thought of it as, quote/unquote, my problem. >> you came out there was response from the progressive moment, from your peers, your journalist peers. and the fundamental question was can you write about politics and immigration when you have such a personal story that is at the heart of the issue? >> that was certainly the question back in 2011. originally it was supposed to come out in "the washington post," and the "washington post" ended up killing the story and i had to, like, you know, rally to get it to "the new york times." and the "washington post," of course, had to write a story about why they killed my story, and the headline was, why did "the washington post" deport va

no, i was just joking about that. not a lot because i spent a lot of time being of my brother when he was little. how are you? it's a pleasure to meet you. now, with my brother i figured out at a certain point when we were growing into our teenage years, he stayed little only so long and he was going to be bigger than me at some point that's when i went to him and said we've got to stop fighting . we're too big to fight anymore. we have to argue and we have to show how our minds can be each other. to this day he still regrets. he was waiting to beat me up today and i stopped thegame . it is hard, isn't it? because there are so many cultural influences. even when kids are small, about what toys they should like. the boy toys versus the girl toys, all of those things. but i think feminism rightly defined is respect for women. [applause] and that requires your insistence. it requires making sure that when women talk or men talk, your child learns how not to interrupt. it means teaching him that listening to people's ideas

[laughter] jeff: i have never sought that title. it wasbeing the second wealthiest person in the world. that actually worked fine. [laughter] jeff: it isn't, i would say, some people are naturally curious. the thing, i would much rather they said inventor jeff bezos or entrepreneur jeff bezos or father jeff bezos. those kinds of things are more meaningful to me. it is an output measure. if you look at the financial entrepreneur jeff bezos or success of amazon and the stock, and i own 16% of amazon. amazon is worth roughly $1 trillion. that means what we have built over 20 years is $840 billion of wealth for other people, and that is great. that is how it should be. i believe so powerfully in the ability of entrepreneurial capitalism and free markets to solve so many of the world's problems, not all of them. david: you live in washington state, outside of seattle. the man who was the richest man is named bill gates. what is the likelihood that the two richest men in the world live not only in the same country state, city, but same neighborh

last time i was here i told you that when my mom was a prosecutor and i was in high school she used to practice her closing arguments at the dining room table on my dad and me. as i told you, her trademark line was use your common sense, what rings true, what rings false. her trademark line is a good reminder as we sit today some 36 years after an event occur with no corroboration and refuted by the people who were allegedly there. after being in the public arena of 36 years without a hint, a whiff of an allegation like this. and with my nomination to the supreme court was just about to be voted on at a time when i'm called evil by democratic member of this committee, while democratic opponents of my nomination say people will die if i am confirmed. this onslaught of last-minute allegations does not ring true. i'm not questioning that dr. ford may have been sexually assaulted by some person in some place at some time, but i have never done this to her or to anyone. that's not who i am. it is not who i was. i am innocent of this charge. i intend no ill will to dr. ford and her family. m

i don't know. it was from behind so i don't want to put that solely on him. >> okay. >> miss mitchell, i don't know whether this is fair to interrupt, i want to keep people within five minutes. is that a major problem for you in the middle of a question? because i don't -- we have to -- i've got to treat everybody the same. >> i understand that. >> can i go to senator feinstein or -- >> yes, sir. >> i didn't see the light was red. please do. >> senator feinstein -- >> i gwinnedidn't get to -- >> we're going to come back to that. >> i see. okay. >> when she comes back -- she'll come back and ask you -- >> for the benefit of dr. ford, i think she'll continue that after the five minutes here. >> okay. >> mr. chairman, i would like to begin by putting some letters in the record. >> without objection, so ordered. >> thank you. >> if you want to tell me -- >> 140 letters from friends and neighbors of the witness and a thousand female physicians across the country. those are what the letters are. i want to thank

i was okay to be like i have the two shows. because at that point it had been on for almost a year and they teach you the cold calling script to stick to. thank you. unfortunately we were out of hamilton tickets. >> is that right? they guide you. >> tell them that you are booked or whatever. it was amazing. it was like fantasy camp. >> you have this show on abc and it's a very funny show. >> thank you. >> everybody today at work was like okay, this is a really funny show. everybody assumed a network show is not as good as these other shows on the a services. >> it's so hard to compete, but what the show does best, it's funny. the sentimental stuff, i have two daughters and that's what i'm most proud of. >> suffering from allergies. >> it's really interesting. you were an avowed nerd and probably should have had your face painted when you came out. are you hoping this ensemble gives you like what kevin hart is to the eagles? >> absolutely. there was a ranking on a fan blog of celebrity rams fans. >> were there others? >> number