. >> the late great journalist gwynn eiffel in 2009.wing year, in 2010, kamala harris became california's attorney general. then in 2016, on the same night donald trump won the presidency, kamala harris became only the second black woman ever elected to the united states senate. and honestly, the way she won, she made it look easy. today, there of course, is a problem in the united states senate. after the president chose an oval office meeting attended by a bunch of senators yesterday as the occasion on which he was going to describe immigrants from africa and haiti as coming from bleep-hole countries. senators durbin and lindsey graham were in the meeting. they are both standing by a multiple-sourced published account that the president did use those words, that language. but senators tom cotton and david purdue, they were also at the meeting and they just can't quite remember, maybe, maybe not, who can say. even though both of these senators, purdue and cotton were in the room, both have put out a joint statement saying they do not r