joining meas kelly morrison. you are starting orientation tomorrow.ask, i was surprised to learn you would be the only pro- choice ob/gyn in congress, that's exciting, but how does it feel? how are you feeling to be called congressman elect? >> thank you for having me on. i am honored to have been elected to represent minnesota's third district and it's a unique distinction to be the first and only pro-choice ob/gyn in a moment in history when reproductive freedom is very much under attack. i will have a unique voice to stand up to those attacks. >> you ran on a lot of issues but abortion rights was front and center, how important do you think that issue and your background and outspoken approach to that was in your race? >> i ran for office in the wake of trump's 2016 election because i was concerned as an ob/gyn and the implications for reproductive care. i think it still matters. the doves decision overturning roe v. wade which you will know and more than one in three american women live under a ban or severe restriction. abortion rights matter a l

kelly morrison. welcome to both of you. dr. morrison. welcome back to the show.information disinformation about reproductive healthcare has not only gotten worse, it has caused women to die. on one hand a lot of the country is in a grim place right now. your election marks a very important moment in congress. you are there to be that smart, informed voice for your soon to be colleagues. >> i appreciate that. thank you so much for having me on. i do feel a responsibility as the first and only pro-choice, pro-abortion rights, pro- reproductive freedom ob/gyn in congress. to be that voice to stand up, to speak against the possibility of any further restrictions on reproductive freedom for american women and their families, frankly. >> congresswoman elect bynum, of you have similar priorities reproductive health care, mental health care, hospitals and doctors facilities in the neighborhoods, life and property are not harmed by wildfires, the economy, social justice. none of those are partisan. reproductive healthcare has become a bit of a partisan issue, but fundamen

kelly morrison won her race in the third congressional district.lenges around abortion is that there has been so much myth and disinformation about it for so many decades, the people have been told things that just aren't true about reproductive health care. i think that's probably my role to have a calm, clear discussion about what the facts are and what the ramifications of abortion bans are. in oregon, janelle bynum flipped a republican seat in the state's fifth congressional district. she will be the first black woman to represent oregon in congress. >> i'm proud to be a groundbreaker. because of what that means, not just for my children but for all young people across our state to see that change is possible and that when something big has never been done before, it might just be because you haven't accomplished it yet. >> joining us now, janelle bynum, and dr. kelly morrison, welcome to both of you. great to talk to you since we last talked. it has caused women to die. so on one hand, a lot of country is in a grim place right now. but your el

conversations with the viewer for the course of the next few years representative select janel bynum and kelly morrison. club. she's fighting to stop book banning across the country and she's got a road map for the rest of us to help join the fight for the freedom to read. i hope you'll join us. that's tonight's "last word." >>> another-turning personnel pick by president-elect trump. >> robert f. kennedy jr. to be the next health and human services. >> it's serious work. not a goofy reality show. >> people like you, bobby. don't get too popular. >> still sending shock waves across washington. >> i was looking at my phone, don't love that. don't love that. >> matt gaetz to serve as attorney general. >> i would describe it as trolling. >> he breaks things to break things. >> marco rubio is his pick for secretary of state. >> rubio once called donald trump a con artist who can't be trusted with the nuclear codes. >> the fox news host and decorated combat veteran. >> he has no experience and no policy experience. >> tulsi gabbard to be director of national intelligence. >> someone who aligned with russia,

kelly, if you will. okay, thanks. i just want to thank dean morrison and the jacks and center and everybody for putting on this this program. i want to just comment on a personal connection i have to this matter. during world war two, my mom, who was born and raised portland, oregon, was one of the 120,000 japanese-americans who were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in these, quote unquote, camps. my mom at the time was a second grader. my grandparents had a small grocery store and they own their own home and a car. and then in may 1942, pursuant to general dewitt's civil union, civilian exclusion orders, my mom, that second grader, became an evacuee prisoner number 16013e. she my grandparents were incarcerated in four different detention centers over the span of three and a half years. and for unknown reasons. they from portland, oregon, wound up in arkansas in an arkansas detention center separated from relatives and their neighbors and support system from portland, the pacific northwest, japanese americans were seemingly all but my