i am the democratic candidate and had numerous groups -- [laughter] >> host: get ready for it, mes cahill. >> guest: rebels and prepared. i had numerous organizations asking me to speak. you are a candidate and we want you at the seabed and that was the expectation and i had to shift gears from focusing on the process a loan to being the candidate for the general election, and it was hard to get much attention be on the fact that a sixth grade class had started this campaign and was running it because certainly that was the cute factor desolate in the media and it was a benefit but it did make it hard to talk about issues like education and mental health and nuclear waste in nevada because they didn't take me that seriously so it was difficult. >> host: well, watch, ms. cahill, which you wish for because you certainly got it. i think people would be interested in your view of teaching. this is a serious teacher. she thinks about teaching for home teaching wasn't just all i will do this on till i can do something else, and i want to question you about your view of teaching. you say in the

let me read from ms. cahill. the holiday season always reminded me how little we had and how unfair i felt that was to my children. she's talking about her own three children now. they were awesome little kids and i felt so guilty that no matter how hard i worked there was never enough. we are talking about a mother who was a schoolteacher and worked three jobs, people come in order to support her family. people don't think of teachers as underpaid but my own children qualified for free and reduced lunches which meant we fell below the poverty line. how sad is that? socio-economic we, our family ranked in the bottom 25th percentile even though i was college-educated and an award winning teacher. you think if that doesn't get you let's try this. ms. cahill help to an elderly black grandmother deliver groceries at thanksgiving or christmas, one of those holidays. >> guest: she's a saint. >> host: after doing her duty helping deliver the groceries, we read this later on in a book that is never self pity but is unspar

cahill for congress," and the subtitle, one phyllis teacher, her sixth grade class and the election that changed their lives forever. let mell, how does a divorced mother with three children, no house, two bedrooms, one bath, how did you figure that out, apartment, two or three jobs, one cocktail waitress and where you sometimes get helm or galt home mabey 2:00, 4:00, who's counting, in the morning, extra curricular activities for students -- how does such a woman beside to run for of all things congress? not the school board or the city council but the congress? >> guest: right. well, actually, the students asked me to run for president first but i wasn't old enough. so, then we had to look for something else. >> host: you could have went down to senator. >> guest: we did. we marched through. we talk to the supreme court because i couldn't run for that and then they wanted segment protect and speaker of the house and they marched right on down. yes, they did. >> host: finally got to the bottom, those of us in the house of representatives. >> guest: they felt it needed to be something important and that was a federal race,

cahill for congress", and the subtitle: one fear was teacher, her sixth grade class, and the election that changed their lives forever. let me just ask the obvious question, how does a divorced mother of three children and no house, a two-bedroom one bath, apartment coming to three jobs, one cocktail waitress and it shall we call it where you sometimes get home or got home and two or maybe 4:00 o'clock in the morning, extracurricular activity for her students -- have such a woman decides to run for of all things congress, not the school boards or city council or the congress? >> guest: well, actually the students asked me to run for president first, but i wasn't for that so that we had to look as something else. >> host: un down to senator. >> guest: they want to know if we could run for the supreme court and i could really run for that and then they wanted senate to protect and speaker of the house and the march right on down. >> host: those of us in the house of representatives on the bottom. >> guest: they felt it needed to be something important and it was a federal race, they wanted to be in washington d.c. ended to mat

cahill. >> guest: and was something i wasn't prepared for. i had numerous organizations asking meto come speak, you know, you're the candidate, we want to at this event and that was the expectation, and now i had to shift gears from focusing on the process a loan to being the candidate for the general election, and it was hard to get much attention beyond the fact a sixth grade class started this campaign and was running it because certainly that was the key factor that sold in the media and it was a benefit, but it did make it hard to talk about issues like education and mental health and nuclear waste in nevada because they didn't take any of them seriously, so it was difficult >> host: watch, ms. cahill, what you wish for because you shore got it. i think people would be interested in your view of teaching. this is a serious teacher, france. this is someone that thinks about teaching for whom teaching was unjustly will do this on july can do something else. and i want to question you about your view of teaching. >> guest: yes. >> host: you say in the book instead of helping bui

me. i would much rather find out what they know and teach to their strengths rather than try to ferret out their weaknesses. ms. cahill, i have to ask you in the era of much of left behind were there is a certain modicum how do you make sure that these children answer these got you questions and get teats said that they do have a comprehensive? and how did you do that in a campaign and make the campaign part of what is already at difficult learning process for teachers and students in our country in any case? >> well, the campaign. we certainly had a number of other things, a number of areas in our curriculum that we had to get to. when it was meant our it was manpower and we did not do campaign staff. >> he did have to teach? >> oh, absolutely. and that was being responsible and making sure that they had been exposed to and could master that curriculum so that they could move on to seventh grade and be where they need to be. so it is completely appropriate. we used our social studies block time to have our campaign meetings. after school and the stance of things. i was very clear with the school district about how i

cahill by abortion? and my heart really kind of ached for him because i knew that he was trying to see if we lined up, you know, with his religious views. and he liked mehe didn't not want to like me. >> host: and he didn't want the wrong answer. >> guest: he wanted his answer. i said sweetheart, what i really care about is what you think. i think what's important here is what you believe. so what do you think about that issue? and he said, well, i think it's wrong. i think that's a life. and that could have been me. and, you know, most children will associate those issues with themselves. and i understand that and so i very empathetically totally understand i don't think what i believe on this issue is important. what i believe is important and i really hope you talk to your mom and dad about that. it's important that you have those family conversations. >> host: that is a wonderful demonstration in the kind of cross-examination you want a teacher do rather than quote answer the question. will be a mess, honestly. i think it's going to be a mess. if we can stay in the front of the field, we'll be okay. >> starting alongside vickers will be last year's