clarence: i met her when she was part of the harold washington ticket. in the 1980's. springfield.er in after the anita hill, clarence thomas hearings, she decided to run and it was historic. the first female senator from illinois and the first african-american female in the united states senate. when you asked us about senators, until then, alan dixon was another big figure back home who was able to juggle that local and national and everyone viewers, whenour you say al, it is al the pal because he got along. he had staffers who worked on the hill for years. he ran the base closure commission, the base realignment commission after that. when we talk about up and comers, the reason i did not mention tammy duckworth is because she has already up and come. i met her in 2005. dick durbin invited soldiers who were from illinois to be his guests at the state of the union . she was recovering from her wounds at walter reed. dick durbin did a little press availability before hand. i met her. god to evenh my come outside with the kind of wounds she had, we talked about the war

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i'm joins by chief washington reporter for boston harold. great to have all of you with us this sunday afternoon. i want to read more from jennifer wi jennifer willow by's column. she says the tone has just been reset by the white house. if the most powerful people in the nation do not believe my story of abuse in the face of overwhelming evidence then what hope do others have of being heard? kimberly, let me begin with you, if i may. the president's attitude here, coming under a lot of scrutiny. but does his attitude give others license to side with alleged abusers over the women making these accusations? >> i mean, perhaps it does. i think it's problematic for a number of reasons. the obvious being, you know, there are every six seconds someone is the victim of domestic abuse in this country. and i think ignoring these women and essentially calling them liars as miss willoughby said in her piece, that president was essentially calling her a liar. but when you look at the political impact of this, at a time when we are in the middle of the

harold. another dramatic week in washington so let's talk about all that with gabriel di benedet benedetti, national political reporter at politico. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's talk about the memo. the white house kriptcited secu concerns about this. the fbi had the same concerns about the republican memo, but the president rayagreed to rele that. how does the president escape this? >> he hasn't so far. the fbi and intelligence committee were vocally against releasing the republican one. i think what the white house is hoping for is that people essentially don't pay attention to this and focus on some other things over the next few days, but a lot of democrats have been talking about ways to release, scircumventing the white house. there are a lot of democratic members of the house intelligence committee who are trying to figure out if there's a way to read it into the house record or get around the president's objections. it does look politically motivated. >> democrats can't get around this without republican support in congress. any chance republican will side with democrats over the

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