and i credit tammy duckworth, we really helping me through that. tammy and i are college classmates. and i credit myself with helping her get to run for congress in 2008 and we helped her again in 2012. w i was here for her confirmation hearing when she was assistant secretary of the va and very close to her. she told me, mark, don't worry, i'll let you have my whole team. and you run with our team and you know, we'll work hard to raise money. and i didn't have to worry about the creation of a team because tammy helped me there. every single member of her team, media, poll, print, even fund-raising was her team. so we did that. and we just focused on fund-raising and, like i said, we started from nothing. we were trying to raise about a million dollars for the primary. we came in a little bit short. so that delayed our tv buys. but we had one solid month of tv and that got us over the top. now, incredible we started 20 points down and we won by 18. we swung that 38 points, which is a lot of work. >> does it feel like, though, that you have to contin

and let us not forget about tammy duckworth in illinois and would be a first, the first woman who has seen combat to serve in the united states senate. these are very smart, talented women who bring and meant diverse perspectives -- immense diverse perspectives to their jobs today. so we will very much have the resources to back up our senate and house candidates. emily's list has had already an incredibly strong start to our fundraising this election cycle and are ahead of any cycle previous. and because of that, we are going to do what we always do for our senate races. and help hillary clinton become president of the united states. mr. mcardle: president of emily's list, thank you so much. ms. schriock: absolutely. thank you so much for having me. mr. mcardle: and we will now continue with the roundtable portion of a program. we are joined by matea gold and alexis simendinger. i want to start with, how concerned do you think emily's from her statements about hillary clinton's e-mails and the prospects of a joe biden candidacy in the democratic primary? ms. simendinger: i thought it