johanna hayes speaks to our michel martin about her remarkable journey from high school teacher to mid-term contender. [ music playing ] >>> welcome to the program, etch, i'm christiane amanpour in london. the disappearance of jamal khashoggi has been become emblematic of the shifting power in saudi arabia the accumulation of authority has been ruthless and his foreign policy has been unusually you a audacious. they have been fighting hewitou rebels also known as the forgotten or silent war the saudis have been accused of hiding a conflict while the kingdom's allies the kungs u united states are on mounting criticism for supplying the saudis are powerful weapons, it's heart wrenching and some of the images may be disturbing to some viewers. yemen now faces the worst famine in a century, according to united states which says it is entirely man made, thousands are displaced. the country is teetering on a third cholera outbreak. we have the latest on the conflict as the casualties continue to mount with no end game in sight. >> another day in yemen's bloody war. this exclusive footage was sent

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and the will of the people is choosing people like ayanna pressley and like johanna hayes and that's what we want to see. then you get the message to your point that things are shifting and then we have to also change our way of thinking and doing. >> we are having to, you know, we're ushering a new paradigm in every way, disruptive candidacies disrupting congressional wisdom, when they can run and how they run and when. so i told every aspiring candidate do not put so much emphasis on endorsements because oftentimes those endorsements aren't working. they didn't invest resources. so it is ultimately about us having the runway and bandwidth between the people. the last thing i want to say is, we need to develop a new litmus test for many of these political mobilization empowerment and women's advocacy organization. okay. because they are defaulting to an incumbency clause or a member's voting record on one single issue and an issue that i consider to be the floor and not the ceiling. i think when we -- when we're talking about endorsement it's not just about the dnc as a party all of