bym delighted to be joined anna palmer, our senior washington correspondent. group of women that is up of five the topic of our conversation, the peacemakers, making policy in a polarized government to this morning -- government. we have the democratic congressman from hawaii, the democratic senator from minnesota, the republican congresswoman from florida, and republican from missouri and wagner. . tweets.rget to use we will be tracking your questions. thank you for joining us for this conversation. >> we wanted to start the conversation with the senator. era so much talk about how women in the senate get along, bipartisan, they have dinners. how well do you know these women? >> we are really good friends. when people talk about how, in the days of old, people used to work together, that is how we do. there are 20 women. we used to be 16, which was unfortunate because they referred to us as sweet 16. [laughter] we made united states history inn there was a traffic jam the united states senate women's bathroom. [laughter] light probably came to most recently w