channeling shirley chisholm, i would offer leadership in are community. when i was eight years old, i was finally allowed to take swimming lessons. insisteds strict and that we finish swim lessons before playing and the new wave pool that opened and the neighborhood. little young to master being a woman, so like other kids, i was nervous during swim lessons. and one day, particularly bad. the day we learned how to tread water. my heart be accelerated and that is how i found out that i had a heart condition. it causes an irregular rhythm. my condition is treatable. people have literally won olympic medals after being diagnosed with the same condition. that i expect to anytime soon. [laughter] but asswoman underwood: condition like mine can only be managed if you have access to treatment and you have to have access to get care to get diagnosed in the first place. if i had not had access, if i had run into a lifetime cap on my insurance, or if i'd been denied coverage because i had a pre-existing condition, who knows what might have happened or where i would

>> well i think it's really simple and you know shirley chisholm said it best.she wanted to be remembered as a black woman who dared to be herself. more women, more women of color, more black women are raising their hand. standing in spaces, owning it, uniquely and authentically as themselves. and wanting to bring to bear their full contribution. and i'm certainly excited and encouraged by the opportunity to have a greater parity, leadership parity and representation around policy and decision-making tables in the corridors of power. but there are women leading women of color leading black women, in community, every single day. so we need to see that bold activist leadership on all fronts fronts, to resist and be an affront to the insults and assaults that we are experiencing every day. including when it comes to health care. >> congresswoman lee, you and i have been out on the public sphere a long time. and we, one of the unsaid things is misogyny, even in our own communities and movements. i know as a kid even in the civil rights movement, women were not given

>> wolf, the late great shirley chisholm, the first black candidate to run for president in 1972 saidt at the table, bring a folding chair. those women of color had their folding chair. it's good there's diversity to be able to talk to the candidate and say, look, this is what's happening and this is what's needed or this is not what's needed. especially when it comes to the black community that has the highest numbers of negatives in almost every category. and when you look at those who are on medicaid, look at the numbers, women, primarily minority women, women of color, so they brought this issue to the table at a time when there are challenges to roe v. wade. and it needed to be done. so he could really see what was on the table to see all parts, all parts of the spectrum on this very sensitive and controversial topic. >> you think -- >> you know, wolf -- >> go ahead, jeffrey. >> you know, what's so interesting about what's going on now is we're seeing the stakes of the 2020 election. the republican party is moving right abortion. no more exceptions for rape, no more exceptions fo