The first woman to run a winning presidential campaign in the U.S., and a champion of "alternative facts". This is the story of Kellyanne Conway.
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00:00I don't consider myself famous. I don't consider myself a celebrity because I was a pollster
00:04who went on TV once in a while and I really did just try to bury my head for decades and build this
00:10this firm and I
00:11Had it for 21 and a half years and then I happened to run a campaign and go on TV a lot and he got elected
00:30Kelly and how do you square the fact that the President and Secretary of State do seem to be saying two different things around natural?
00:49For many of us women's empowerment is not a slogan
00:53It comes not from strangers on social media or a sanitized language in a corporate handbook
00:59It comes from the everyday heroes who nurture us who shape us and who believe in us
01:05My mother always said marry a lawyer or a plumber and every time I hire a plumber, I'm like, oh, this is what you get. 200 bucks to come through the door.
02:05Look at the so-called soccer moms as if they didn't have enough to do and they became everybody's
02:14Everybody's favorite flavor of the political culture this season, but soccer moms helped to return a Republican Congress here to Washington
02:35My discovery of the undercover Trump vote, I talked about months ago under a hail of criticism
03:04It was real and not because they don't want to say they're voting for him
03:06But because they really took a chance to vote for somebody who's never been in politics before has never worked in government before
03:24This is a man I've been alone with many times who's never been anything but a gracious and gentleman
03:33If the president was not telling these four congresswomen to return to their supposed countries of origin, to which countries was he referring?
03:51What's your ethnicity?
03:55Why is that relevant to this conversation?
03:57No, no, because I'm asking you a question
03:59My ancestors are from Ireland and Italy
04:01My own ethnicity is not relevant to the question I'm asking
04:03No, no, it is because you're asking about, he said, originally
04:07He said originally from
04:09I am asking you
04:11And you know everything he has said since and to have a full conversation
04:13So are you saying that the president was telling the Palestinian-
04:17The president's already commented on that
04:19To go back to the middle, to go back to the occupied territories
04:21The president's already commented on that
04:31John Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that
04:55Two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized
04:57and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green Massacre.
05:01Man, she has the perfect last name for what she does.
05:05Conway.
05:23Go buy Ivanka's stuff is what I would tell you.
05:25I hate shopping. I'm going to go get some on myself today.
05:28Do you believe that she crossed an ethical line here?
05:31Kellyanne has been counseled, and that's all we're going to go with.
05:35She's been counseled on that subject, and that's it.
05:55Kellyanne's husband wrote that the appointment was unconstitutional.
06:12You mean Mr. Kellyanne Conway?
06:14He wrote that you were unconstitutionally appointing him. Is he wrong?
06:18He's just trying to get publicity for himself.
06:25He's just trying to get publicity for himself.
06:55For voters, there's a difference between what offends them and what doesn't.
06:58For voters, there's a difference between what offends them and what affects them,
07:26and they vote on what affects them, and they ultimately did.