(upbeat music) - my name is susan jane brown, and i'm a staff attorney and wildlands program director for the western environmental law center. i got involved in forest environmental issues when i came to oregon in 1997 to attend lewis and clark law school and wanted to practice environmental law. i had never seen old growth forest before. when you hear people talk about how there are these cathedral forests, and it definitely feels that way. it's good to be humbled by a place like that. particularly here in the northwest, there's a lot of old growth logging. depending on who you talk to, between two and 5% of those native forests are still left. they need all the help that we can give them. i felt that that was really my calling. that was what i wanted to do. i wanted to protect those places. certainly, legal work is really challenging, 'cause at the end of the day, somebody wins and somebody loses. and if you don't win, you know, the implication is that a special place is lost. back in the 70's and 80's we were harvesting billions of board feet every year off of the forests in orego

. >> susan. jane, naomi. >> susan. our winning election. winning the next election. >> it'll be other >> oh, well, it'll be other people cheering now it's the way it works. >> yeah. and says invasion. >> yeah. and says the invasion. afghanistan afghanistan, >> yeah. and says the invasion. afghanistan afghanistan , iran afghanistan of afghanistan, iran and threat of nuclear war. and the threat of nuclear war. >> and val says the >> absolutely. and val says the thing that made me cry at the news was the most anyway , was news was the most anyway, was 911. was ironing and 911. i was ironing and a newsflash started and i was so hoping it wasn't true. i was hoping it wasn't true. i was hoping i was dreaming. and i wept at all those people losing their lives . i suppose we all their lives. i suppose we all remember where we were when we heard about 9/11, didn't we? yeah cry. yeah i didn't cry. >> remember. do remember >> i remember. i do remember sitting in in sort of sitting there in in sort of utter disbelief, really. it wa

jane with love. thanks for having my back. never again. that was dianne. >> she did it with john mccain, which was in a bipartisan way she worked. susanlins, one of her best friends among other senators, holding up watercolors she painted for them on senate floor today. senator schumer and mitch mcconnell -- mitch mcconnell saying he and his wife were close friends and would go out to dinner with her and her husband. it was that legacy, the work on intelligence, the work on guns, and the work across the aisle, and the work on women's issues, reproductive rights. jane, as you know, governor newsom will appoint a senator within a certain amount of time. he will appoint somebody. he said it will be a black person and not one of the house members who have declared for the seat and others. then that person will have to run for election to fill out her term and run again. it's going to be an expensive election. but i think today is a day to think about the legacy more than the politics. >> let's think about how she fought for california, even last night when we were chatting. she was talking about the future of fighting for california. >> w