>> well, i was just thinking when nancy was talking about rick sandra deo connor, taking a job as a second in a law firm. so it's surprisingly still present in subtle ways. everything would have been different for me if i had not been a woman, but i wouldn't have had the joy of not only being a woman but of mentoring women and the sisterhood that we are, and last night, on nbc nightly news -- i think -- we had four women in our bureau who work for now nightly news." lisa mayors, kristen well kerr at the white house, and last night all four of us were on the air, bam, bam, bam. so that was kind of really exciting. i realized it halfway through the show and sent messages to the others and -- it was very, very cool. >> that would never happen happened. it would have been a whole lot easier for me. i always feet that i had to volunteer for everything. and that i was judged by a much tougher standard. i had to work weekends. when i first went to cover the reagan white house, i just was coming in at the bottom. i was number four correspondent in a group of four from nbc. i had to just look for a