joining me now is spencer overton, president of the joint center for political and economic studies. in 2018 we have such little people of color in powerful staff positions in the congress, including among top democratic congress people. >> that's right, reverend sharpton. even though our nation is increasingly people of color, the top staff is overwhelmingly we found that americans are more likely to elect a person of color to the u.s. house of representatives than the actual members of the house are to hire top staff of color. >> wow. >> you know, it's just amazing. and as you mention the problem is not a republican or democratic one. we found when you look at white democrats, even though they represent districts that are on average 37% people of cull, less than 8% of their top staff is people of color. and we also found that republicans, there are more white republicans that have chiefs of staff of color than white democrats. >> now, when you look to at this so people, our viewers understand, senior staff members, the ones that decide what the congressional member, the priorities,