. >>> mike brennan and american hosting boston university. final seconds of the first half, the ball gets out, and he balls out. 23 points. au up 11 at the half. second half, nelson taking over. the eagsou union tjunior finds to the basket. american beats boston university 86-74. >>> alex ovechkin haso decided sit out this year's all-star game. ovi, well, he's played in 251 straight games, including the playoffs, but deciding to rest. he'll now be subject to a one-game suspension either before or after the all-star break. ovi isn't the only capital that got the selection. braden holtby and john carlson earned selections. ixrlson tied f third amongst defensemen with s goals and 32 assists this year. and we started with silver h lining about this? ovi could end up with about ten days off, so, he's notd, inju no need to be concerned, but when you're trying to make a push to win back-to-back stanley cups, would get the rest he needs. >> last year's season went so long, too. >> exactly. >> the longest ever in his career. >> need some time off. >>

a video of alexandria 0ccasio—cortez dancing while she was a student at boston university was sharedngress. but, instead of discrediting her, many people instead have celebrated her dance moves. laura westbrook reports. upbeat drums. this is a video of a girl dancing, but it's just who is dancing that's got people talking. alexandria 0casio—cortez is the youngest woman ever elected to the us congress. this footage, from 2010, is from when she and other students at boston university tried to recreate a scene from the movie, the breakfast club. it was posted on twitter to try to discredit the congresswoman the day before she was sworn into office. but the tactic backfired. many instead took to social media to praise her. molly ringwald, the actor from the breakfast club, tweeted, "you're in the club," while others responded asking for dancing lessons. even russell crowe tweeted his admiration for the congresswoman. 0casio—cortez. ms 0casio—cortez is part of a new wave of faces in the most diverse congress in history, but the 29—year—old in particular has been the subject of intense scr

this footage, from 2010, is from when she and other students at boston university tried to recreate aed on twitter to try to discredit the congresswoman the day before she was sworn into office. but the tactic backfired. many instead took to social media to praise her. molly ringwald, the actor from the breakfast club, tweeted, "you're in the club," while others responded asking for dancing lessons. even russell crowe tweeted his admiration for the congresswoman. 0casio—cortez. ms 0casio—cortez is part of a new wave of faces in the most diverse congress in history, but the 29—year—old in particular has been the subject of intense scrutiny online, with critics calling her out for what she wears, to trying to discredit her financial struggles. what this highlights is just how divided the political landscape in america is. the congresswoman responded to the controversy with another video. # yeah, what is it good for? as congress enters a new era, this new law maker isn't afraid for her critics to know that she dances to a different tune. laura westbrook, bbc news. world war i brought abo

grave can the consequences great well i talked to laurence kotlikoff professor of economics in boston university and write in candidate in twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election. and american politics is paralyzed the president congress. over the mexican border. leading to a record breaking government shutdown has the most resources to. what needs to be done to break the stalemate and look like. lor's could like oh thank you very much for being my pleasure tonight welcome pleasure to have you with this. program but we love you on our channel so it was a lot about donald trump is it loggerheads with congress demanding five billion dollars to build his wall with mexico obviously something that democratic congress want to give to him so do you feel like it's a win or lose situation as a zero sum affair was is there a way out of this thing. well there is a way out were jews that what the democrats want is to have amnesty amnesty for the millions of young children who grew up. you know grew up not as citizens of the us but grew up in the u.s. because their parents brought them over. and got them i

and we're back with laurence kotlikoff professor of economics in boston university and write in candidate and twenty six and u.s. presidential election professor so let's talk about the impact that trump's decisions can have when global economy because obviously with the white house's new approach for trait trade deals it will lead to a permanent and substantial shift in global economic balance because right now it cannot come as china same wave more liberal and free trade than liberal america. you know i think. in many ways china's a much more capital stick society than we are the in the long run picture. is wonder if china and india. dominating the world economy the developed world economy as they catch up through time and there's also also going to be lots and lots of people in the middle east and in africa sub-saharan africa if you look at the projections are just amazing we're going to be adding two and a half china's in terms of total world population in the through the end of the century we have about seventeen twenty percent of world g.d.p. right now we're heading to about five pe

it was filmed at boston university, where ocasio- cortez graduated in 20-11...with a degree in economics and international relations. she was part of a group of student dancers ... who were imitating scenes from popular films of the 1980s. the troll wrote: "here is america's favorite commie know- it- all acting like the clueless nitwit she is." (ken) social media came to her defense.... comedian patton oswalt sarcastically tweeting.... well, ocasio cortez is officially done. she'll never recover from the world seeing her... ...dancing adorably and having fun with her friends in high school? (ken) today... ocasio cortez responded with a new dance video... this one outside her new office on capitol hill.she tweeted: "i hear the gop thinks women dancing are scandalous. wait till they find out congresswome n dance too! have a great weekend everyone"this video has garnered hundreds of thousands of likes on twitter....and the account that posted the original dance video... no longer exists. (pam) take a look at this nasa satellite image ... showing snow all over the w

a video of alexandria occasio—cortez, dancing while she was a student at boston university, was sharedtbrook reports. this is the video of a girl dancing, but it is just who is dancing that‘s got people talking. alexandra cortez is the youngest woman ever elected to the us congress. this footage from 2010 is from when she and other students at boston university tried to recreate a scene from the movie the breakfast club. it was posted to try to discredit her the day before she was sworn into office. but the tactic back—fired. many instead took to social media to praise her. molly ringwald tweeted, you‘re in the club. others asked for dancing lessons. russell crowe even tweeted his admiration. she is part of a new wave of faces in the most diverse congress in history. but the 29—year—old in particular has been the subject of intense scrutiny online, with critics calling her out or what she wears to trying discredit her financial struggles. what this highlights is just how divided the political landscape in america is. the congress woman responded to the controversy with another video. a

how grave can the consequences well i talked to laurence kotlikoff professor of economics in boston university and write in candidate in twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election. and american politics is paralyzed the president congress. over the mexican. government shutdown who has the most resources to win. what needs to be done to break the stalemate and look like a loser. or is quickly go thank you very much for being my pleasure tonight welcome to pleasure to have you with us as usual. program but we love you on our channel so it was a lot about donald trump is a loggerheads with congress a man in five billion dollars to build his wall with mexico obviously something that democratic congress want to give to him so do you feel like it's a win or lose situation as a zero sum affair was is there a way out of this thing. well there is a way out were jews that what the democrats want is to have amnesty amnesty for the millions of young children who grew up. because you know grew up not as citizens of the us but grew up in the u.s. because their parents brought them over. and got them into the

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it appears to be an edited version of a 2010 youtube video of boston university students doing the breakfastb dance. many were quick to defend ocasio-cortez after the video got more than five million views, saying it was just a young college student dancing with her friends. well today look at this. ocasio-cortez posted this new video on twitter. she points and twins to some music playing in the background, as you can see. the congresswoman then laughs as she enters her new office in the capitol. >>> well, it's going to be a wet weekend with a series of storms. but before the rain, we got to enjoy another round of breathtaking sunsets tonight. it's been a beautiful few days recently. abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel joins us with live doppler 7. that's changing, sandhya? >> it is. those sunsets were breathtaking. we have two storms coming our way this upcoming weekend. now with all the extra clouds, temperatures are running higher than where they were yesterday at this time. you remember the last couple of mornings have been very cold. we're going to get out of that a bit. but there wi

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and i believe boston university.ant to move on to her saying something about in the 60 minute interview on taxes. take a listen. >> once you get to the tippy top on your 10 millionth dollar. you see tax rates of 60-70%. it doesn't meal all dollars are taxed at that high rate. but as you climbing up that ladder you should be contributing more. >> the way she presents her accept. the tippy top. she is a 30-year-old adult woman. she does not understand economics and a lot of these interviewers aren't hitting back haring her to explain her position. she is making $140,000. i suggest we take 70% of hers. judge jeanine: she suggested during the partial shutdown congress people shouldn't take a salary. but she is taking hers. >> just the tippy top, judge. judge jeanine: another thing from the 60 minute interview where she cam pairs herself to lincoln and franklin roosevelt. >> president lincoln made the radical decision to seen it he man pace proclamation, and franklin roosevelt established social security. that was radical

> she did well in school and with the help of scholarships, loans and financial aid attended boston university. her sophomore year, her father died of cancer. >> we were really working on the classic american dream. and overnight it was all taken away. my mom was back to cleaning homes and driving school buses to keep a roof over our heads. >> she moved back to the bronx after graduating college and spent the next few years working as a community organizer and advocate for children's literacy. in may of 2017, the one bedroom apartment she shares with her boyfriend, became her makeshift campaign headquaters as she launched a seemingly improbable run for congress. she was working as a waitress and bartender at the time. like many members of her generation, she says she had student loans to pay and no health insurance. >> i really understood the frustration that working people had across the political spectrum. when anybody is saying the economy is going great, we are at record levels, there's a frustration that says, well, the economy is good for who. >> unemployment is at record lows. >> i don'

grave can the consequences be well i talked to laurence kotlikoff a professor of economics in boston university and write in candidate in twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election. american politics is paralyzed the president congress. or the mexican. government shutdown who has the most results is. what needs to be done to break the stalemate and look like. lor's quickly go thank you very much for being my pleasure tonight welcome to pleasure to have you with us as usual always very sever here on my program but we love you on our channel and it was a lot about donald trump is a loggerheads with congress demanding five billion dollars to build his wall with mexico obviously something that democratic congress want to give to him so do you feel like it's a win or lose situation as a zero sum affair was is there a way out of this thing well there is a way out which is that what the democrats want is to have amnesty amnesty for the millions of you.

widely shared on twitter eshoing new york congressman cortez shot while she auz was a student at boston university part of an omosh to '80s movies. the clip was posted the day before the new congress was sworn in, in an parent bid to embarrass the young est woman ever elected to congress. it called her a comy and a clueless nitwit and inspired a back lash from those who saw nothing wrong with a college student having fun. she responded by tweeting a new video of herself dancing into her office. this was just the latest example of an ongoing effort by critbics to diminish her. >> a socialist. >> proud socialist. >> democratic socialist. >> reporter: she's become a lighting rod for conservatives. >> she's surez suggesting we br socialist -- >> reporter: a right-wing examiner tweeted this photo of her walking down the hallway in a blazer. she wasn't shy about fighting back, posting in response, dark hates light. that's why you tune it out. including ongoing questions about her working class roots by calling out corny republicans and telling one poster you didn't even know who i was seven months ago.

congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez dancing on a rooftop.shot while she was a student at boston university, it's part of a several-minute homage to 80's movies like the breakfast club.the clip was posted the day before the new congress was sworn in, in an apparent bid to embarrass the 29-year-old bronx-born latina -- the youngest woman ever elected to congress.the since- deleted anonymous post called the self-described democratic socialist a "commie" and a "clueless nitwit".and inspired a backlash from those who saw nothing wrong with a college student having fun. ocasio-cortez responded by tweeting a new video of herself dancing into her office.the dancing post was just the latest example of an ongoing effort by critics of ocasio-cortez to diminish her. natsot"a socialist.""proud socialist.""democratic socialist."she's become a lightning rod for conservatives.natsot"she's proposing that we take on, that we bring socialism to our country. right now in venezuela, there are people who can't afford shoes."in november, a columnist for the right-leaning washington examiner tweeted this photo of

. >> shannon: she was an economics minor at boston university.he knows may be more about the economy than other people out there. have a great weekend. it's not just lawmakers ramping up verbal jabs, fox news media analyst howie kurtz standing by joining us next says the media criticism of the president has reached unprecedented new heights. >> if this continues, we are going to ask your cabinet to take a vote on whether you are fit for office and invoke the 25th amendment. >> shannon: the president is getting support from a very unlikely source -- what he and progressive democratic senator elizabeth warren agree on, stick around to find out. former cia station chief daniel hoffman live after the break after the present have vowed to troops out of syria, we could end up with even more american resources and lives in the region. patrick woke up with back pain. but he has work to do. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pil

separately a troll on twitter posted part of a video that she danced in when she was in college at boston university. it was a video and here's the context that played off of a trend that reenacted dance scenes from brat pack movies like the breakfast club. you will see familiar moves right there. so she tweeted out a different video of herself dancing outside her congressional office. ♪ se kupp, the host of se kupp unfiltered on cnn joining us to talk about this. stand by. let's listen to democrats outside the white house after this meeting with president trump. >> good afternoon. we just completed a lengthy and sometimes contentious conversation with the president. we agreed that we will continue our conversations. but we recognize on the democratic side that we really cannot resolve this until we open up government. we made that very clear to the president. services are being with held from the american people and paychecks are being held with help from people who served the needs of the american people and our border security will suffer if we do not resolve this issue. we are committed to keepi

he holds a bachelors degree from boston university and doctorate from georgetown and he's the recent author of a book that is somewhat on point to our subject, depth of expertise, the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters. thank you for being with us. i would like to open the discussion. i want to encourage those of you in the audience or i would like to begin by talking about technological changes, you see it in your classrooms. there has been -- technology changing the way professors relate to students. let's get real specific on the ground. how has your classroom changed? we will get your experiences, we can talk about pros and cons of this. >> thank you for having me. a pleasure to be here. i would say i teach pretty traditional seminar style graduate and undergraduate classes. when i first started teaching 15 years ago, the overhead projectors, i was using overhead slides and having to make those so there are simple ways to make my life easier with embedded video, with skype sessions, to show up on screen for 15 or 20 minutes. i rarely receive hard copies of

say a religious group did not like the fact that he plagiarized during his time at boston university.ent the right height of history? the problem is, when we start making this theater of offensiveness, where does it end? secondly, who gets to decide? >> martha: good questions, thank you very much. coming cap next, the sweeping expansion of abortion rights under new york governor andrew cuomo allowing the procedure up until birth in some cases. guy benson and marie harf are up next. >> we pointed to the direct direction of this president and this government. ♪ coricidin hbp is the #1 brand that gives powerful cold symptom relief without raising your blood pressure. coricidin hbp. saved an average of $412," syou probably won't believe me. but you can believe this, real esurance employee nancy abraham. look her up online. esurance, it's surprisingly painless. i never count trthe wrinkles.s. and i don't add up the years. but what i do count on, is staying happy and healthy. so, i add protein, vitamins and minerals to my diet with boost®. boost® high protein nutritional drink has 20 grams

in history from boston university. he worked for eight years at "vanity fair" where he was an assistant editor and covered the news media for vf.com, he won the 2010 mirror award for best commentary, digital media. his first book "on press" is out now from harvard or university press. so once more, thank you all for coming out, and i will turn it over to matthew. [applause] >> thanks for the kind introduction, and thank you all for being here. so i want to talk a little bit about the book this evening, and what i want to focus on is some of the parallels between the material i cover in the book which is a history of american journalism in the 1960s and '70s and what's going on with american journalism and politics today. because that's really a thing that surprised me as i, as i researched and wrote the book. when i first started working on the project, it was 2012. i was a graduate student in history, and i was really mostly focused on the past. so it was kind of a pleasant surprise, actually, when this book would up

god, she's dancing, she is dancing, the silly video made by a group of student ambassadors at boston universityshowed it at a hockey game that season and duringor generaltation. they were playing of mauj to the classic '80s movie the breakfast club doing the famous dance moves from the famous scene in that movie. this was supposed to an attack on the congresswoman. the twitter account that published the clip wrote, here the america's know it all acting like the clueless nit wit she is. right ask left had a different reaction. charlotte wrote, i keep watching the dancing video, can't find the problem. she's having fun, has friends, likes music. it's hard for me to figure out why she would feel embarrassed about videos of her having a good time andens da dancing in high school, when paul ryan took these while running for vice president. i hear the gop thinks women dancing are scandalous, wait till they find out congresswomen dance too. ♪ >>> since literally if first day of his campaign donald trump has been smearing undocumented immigrants as criminals and terrorists. since becoming president he

it appears to be an edited version of a 2010 yubtd video of students at boston university doing the breakfastdance. saying it was just a young n college student dancing with her ocasio-cortez posted the new video on twitter. she points and schwinns to some music playing in the background she laughs and enters her office in the capitol. >>> still ahead on abc 7 mornings, a man on a mission, tracking skoalen cell phones and computers. the far away places where some electronics end up and his interaction with the thieves. but first a live look outside from our golden gate bridge camera. you can see the cloudy skies out there. the roads are slick. lisa argen has the full accuweather fo what'with coverage havinthroughout your home? how about having internet that can help you save on wireless phone service? xfinity gives you the fastest speeds from america's best internet provider to stream on all your devices. plus, with xfinity mobile included, you can switch your wireless carrier and save hundreds of dollars a year. now that's simple, easy, awesome. get started for $29.99 a month for 12 months.

she did well in school, and with the help of scholarships, loans, and financial aid, attended boston universitybut in her sophomore year, her father died of cancer. >> ocasio-cortez: we were really working on the classic american dream. and overnight, it was all taken away. my mom was back to cleaning homes and driving school buses to keep a roof over our heads. >> cooper: she moved back to the bronx after graduating college, and spent the next few years working as a community organizer and advocate for children's literacy. in may of 2017, the one-bedroom apartment she shares with her boyfriend became her makeshift campaign headquarters, as she launched a seemingly improbable run for congress. she was working as a waitress and bartender at the time. like many members of her generation, she says, she had student loans to pay, and no health insurance. >> ocasio-cortez: i really understood the frustration that working people had across the political spectrum. when anybody is saying, "the economy is going great. we are at record levels." there's a frustration that says, "well, the economy's good fo

blumenthal senior lecturer at boston university under the nixon republican party they developed an innovative and effective model for youth campaign. voting younger voters for the campaign. issues such as marijuana, the environment in the draft. please help me welcome seth blumenthal. >> thank you. thanks for the introduction. and thanks to politics and prose and i'm delighted to be here. thank you c-span and of course you guys for coming out to hear my talk. if i can just briefly frame what motivated me to write this book. the project began as an attempt to reconsider richard nixon's influence on the republican party ability to win over a generation. and also the influences on consumer terrorism and campaign strategies and image making. to look beyond watergate at richard nixon's influence on politics. that was an approach that most nixon scholars that was a pretty good idea. when i began this project, the term presidency has made my efforts increasingly difficult as the emphasis on the watergate has become re- centered. still with the rise of politics recently with their unusually strong tu

shot while she was a student at boston university, it's part of a several minute homage to '80s movies breakfast club." the clip was posted the day before the new congress was sworn in. in an apparent bid to embarrass the 29-year-old bronx-born latina, the youngest woman ever elected to congress. the since deleted annonymous pot called the self-described democratic socialist a commy and a clueless knit winit-wit. he responded by tweeting a new videoherself dancing into her office. an ongoing effort by critics to diminish her. >> a socialist -- >> proud socialist. >> democratic socialist. >> she's become lightning rod for conservatives. >> she's proposing that we take -- that we bring socialism to our country right now. in venezuela, there are people would can't afford shoes. >> reporter: tweeted this photo of ocasio cortez walking down a hallway in a blazer. apparently seeking to raise doubts about whether she struggles economically. ocasio cortez wasn't shy about fighting back, posting a response, dark hates light. that's why you tune it out. she perrys attacks from conservatives incl

account shared it it appears to be edited version of a 2010 youtubed individual of students at boston universityng the breakfast club dance. many were quick to defend her saying it was a young college student dancing with her friends. ocasio-cortez posted this new video on she points and spins to music playing in the background. the congresswoman laughs as she enters her office in the capitol. >> time is 5:36 still ahead, a man upon a mission tracking solen cell phones and computers, the far away places where some electronics end up and his interaction with the thieves. >>> first heading to break a live look outside from the emeryville camera. you can see the city in the pro on the bay bridge affecting the commute. lisa argen will have the ful what'with coverage havinthroughout your home? how about having internet that can help you save on wireless phone service? xfinity gives you the fastest speeds from america's best internet provider to stream on all your devices. plus, with xfinity mobile included, you can switch your wireless carrier and save hundreds of dollars a year. now that's simple, e

she did well in school and with the help of scholarships and loans and financial aid attended boston universityer sophomore year her father died of cancer. >> we were really working on the classic american dream and overnight it was all taken away. my mom was back to cleaning homes and driving school buses, to keep a roof over our heads. >> she moved back to the bronx after graduating college and spent the next few years working as a community organizer and advocate for children's literacy. in may of 2017 the one-bedroom apartment she shares with her boyfriend became her makeshift campaign headquarters where she launched a improbable run for congress. she was working as a waitress and bartender at the time. like many members of her generation, she had student loans to pay and no health insurance. >> i really understood the frustration that working people have across the political spectrum. when anybody is saying the economy is going great, we are at record levels, there is a frustration that says well the economy is good for who? >> unemployment is at record lows. >> i don't think that tells th

right wing twitter user who posted part of a video of her dancing when she was in college at boston university, a video that played off a trend at the time and re-enacting seens from the grekz club, breakfast club and here is ocasio-cortez's response to the critic. ♪ >> still dancing. that is the goal, to make her look bad, it appears to have back-fired. >> look, she may have, from my standpoint, horrible economics, but she's charming and charismatic. the video makes her look great. i actually, i don't know who would put that video out thinking it would hurt her. and i don't know anybody other than this one anonymous twitter feed that mocked her over. it like almost every conservative i've seen, it makes her seem likeable, i don't know why this is a big deal. let's talk about the fact that she wants to tamp, you know, people at a 70% rate, rather than the fact she is young and fun. like i don't get why that is a problem. >> ron, final thoughts? >> well, look, i do think that all of this energy on the left is something that the democrats are going to have to figure out how to manage. because on

we are going back to graduate school, she was at boston university, i was at golden theological center. and driving up to -- we actually said, hey, we've got to start school, what do you think, should we stick around? >> no, no. >> this is in a day when there was no cell phones, and so we are on the way with our, you know, u-haul, and we let up, they'd been looking for us. there is the press corps at our house, our little apartment. there's our friends beating for us and then we find out, literally find out that as quick as hand was going to resign, and that was going to change everything. so we had to jock on a eleven the next day to come to washington for the swearing-in of my father. >> that was a big summer for the ford family, a wedding -- >> it was. >> your dad becomes president. yeah. so this is august 9, 1974, and your mother if said in her memoir that this was the haddest cay of her life. why do you think that is? why did she say that? >> yeah, i remember her saying that. i think the two reasons. at one level she was very sad, as many of us were, to see a sitting president, ri

of the boston university, student village alone we grew by 400%. [applause] vote, whiche latino is 7% of the electorate of the massachusetts seven group from 2014 to 2018 by 71%. no poll was going to capture that. ultimately this work is about the future of our democracy, the soul of the democratic party. it is bigger than one electoral cycle. this is not some buildup for 2020. this is bigger than the buildup. this is about igniting the electorate because we are at a preservationth the and vitality of our democracy at stake. mentioned the democratic establishment did not back to when you ran for congress and you are not the first woman to be asked to wait her turn. how should the party support women candidates and not just the usual suspects? so.sley: um-i did not expect to have any establishment support and i made a point to not personalize any of it. i knew this was going to be a hard one. i am going to digress to say, what i struggled with and for those of you who do not know me, there's nothing wrong with ambition but i am no ambitious upstarts

student vote at the boston university student village alone, we grew by 400%. 400%. [applause] >> the latino vote, which is 7% of electric for the massachusetts seven, grew from 2014-2018 by 71%. so no paul was going to capture that. no post going to capture that, and i think ultimately this word is about the future of our democracy, the soul of the democratic party. it is bigger than one electoral cycle, and this is not some buildup for 2020. this is is bigger than the buildup for 2020. this is about igniting and expanding the electorate, engaging the voices because we are at a crossroads where the preservation and the vitality of our democracy are at stake. >> you mentioned several times the democratic establishment did not back you when you ran for congress. you are not the first woman to be asked to wait her turn. so going forward how should the party support women candidates and not just the usual suspects? >> i can, i expect to have a lot of, if any, establishment support and i made the decision early on to not personalized in the other. i was new to this. i ne

shot while she was a student at boston university, it's part of a several-minute homage to '80s movies breakfast club." the day was posted the day before the new congress was sworn in, in an apparent bid to embarrass the 29-year-old bronx-born latina. the since-deleted anonymous post called the self-described democratic socialist a commie and a clueless nit wit and inspired a backlash from those who saw nothing wrong with a college student having fun. ocasio-cortez responded by tweeting a new video of herself dancing into her office. the dancing post was just the latest example of an ongoing effort by critics of ocasio-cortez to diminish her. >> a socialist. >> democratic socialist. >> reporter: she's become a lightning rod for conservatives. >> she's proposing that we take -- that we bring socialism to our country right now in venezuela there are people who can't afford shoes. >> reporter: in november, a columnist for the right-leaning "washington examiner" tweeted this photo of ocasio-cortez walking down a hallway in a blazer, apparently seeking to raise doubts about whether she stru

she did well in school and with the help of scholarships, loans and financial aid, attended boston university sophomore year, her father died of cancer. >> we were really working on the classic american dream. and overnight, it was all taken away. my mom was back to cleaning homes. and driving schoolbuses to keep a roof over our heads. >> she moved back to the bronx after graduating college and spent the next few years working as a community organizer and advocate for children's literacy. in may of 2017, the one bedroom apartment she shares with her boyfriend became her makeshift headquarters as she launched a seemingly improbable run for congress. she was working as waitress and bartender at the time. like many members of her generation, she says she had student loans . >>> i really understood the frustration that working people had across the political spectrum. when anybody is saying the economy is going great, we are at record levels, there's a frustration that says, well, the economy is good for who? >> unemployment is at record lows. >> i don't think that that tells the whole story. whe