>>> VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT KAMALA >>> VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT KAMALA HARRIS OFFICIALLY RESIGNED FROM HER SENATE SEAT THIS AFTERNOON. IT IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE SHE MAKES HISTORY AS THE FIRST WOMAN AND WOMAN OF COLOR TO BE SWORN INTO THE SECOND HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE COUNTRY AND SHELL BE SWORN IN BY SONJA SOTOMAYOR.
SHE HERSELF IS USED TO BREAKING BARRIERS. OF COURSE SHE IS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST BLACK GREEK SORORITY FOUNDED ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO ON HOWARD UNIVERSITYS CAMPUS. OUR REPORTER SPOKE TO A FEW OF THE LINE SISTERS TO REFLOEKT THIS HISTORIC MOMENT. >> HOW DOES SHE GOVERN A PEOPLE WHO CANT FATHOM THE POSITION
THAT SHES IN AS BEING LEGITIMATE? >> IM HOPING ONCE THEYRE IN OFFICE, AS THEY BEGIN TO INTRODUCE THEIR PLATFORM TO AMERICA, THAT PEOPLE WHO DID NOT VOTE FOR THEM WILL SEE THAT THEY REALLY ARE FOR THE PEOPLE. AND THAT WAS VICE PRESIDENT-ELECTS CAMPAIGN SLOGAN WHEN SHE WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. FOR THE PEOPLE.
>> I THINK THEY WILL HAVE TO SHOW BY DOING. AND I THINK THAT WILL CONVINCE THEM. >> FOUR YEARS BEFORE, WHEN THE OTHER ADMINISTRATION WON, A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE NOT HAPPY. BUT WE HAVE TO MOVE ON. AND NOT CREATE A DIVIDED COUNTRY. THATS ALL WE CAN PRAY FOR OR HOPE FOR.
THATS WHERE I STAND. >> ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT SECURITY ISSUES? >> ABSOLUTELY. >> YEAH. >> SHES IN OUR HEARTS AND ON OUR MINDS. AND WE HAVE OUR ARMS WRAPPED AROUND HER, AND JOE. >> YES. >> AND NOW MORE THAN EVER WITH THE RECENT EVENTS, I THINK THAT THEYLL BE GIRDED.
WERE CONCERNED BUT WE WILL PRAY COLLECTIVELY AS A NATION FOR THEIR SAFETY. >> ALL RIGHT. JOINING ME NOW, THE HOST OF THE CROSS CONNECTION ON MSNBC. GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH US. SO INTERESTING ENOUGH, OVER THE WEEKEND, KAMALA HARRIS SORORITY CELEBRATE THE ORGANIZATIONS FOUNDING. TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE
IMPACT AS HER ROLE AS VICE PRESIDENT WILL HAVE ON WOMEN, HER FELLOW SORORITY SISTERS AND STUDENTS ATTENDING HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. >> YEAH, THANKS, AMON. THIS IS SUCH AN HISTORIC TIME. AND DURING INAUGURATION, THERES NORMALLY A LOT MORE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE, BUT BECAUSE OF THE VIOLENT INSURRECTION, ITS A LOT
MORE TONED DOWN, BUT THATS NOT STOPPED THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE DIVINE NINE, THE ENTIRE COLLECTIVE OF BLACK ORGANIZATIONS, AND SO EVEN HER ORSORORITY SISTERS, THE LINE SISTERS, WHEN THEY SHOW UPD ON THE CAMPUS OF THE ICONIC HOWARD UNIVERSITY, IT WAS GREAT INTERVIEWING THEM THERE. THEY WERE ENTHUSIASTIC.
I ASKED THEM HOW THEY WERE GOING TO SPEND INAUGURATION AND THEY TALKED ABOUT DOING IT VIRTUALLY AND CELEBRATING THIS VIRTUALLY. SO, IN MANY WAYS, HAVING SOMEONE SOMEONE, YOU KNOW, FROM AN HBCU, IT MAKES IT A LOATH MORE INCLUSIVE THAT SO MANY MORE PEOPLE CAN HAVE AN UP CLOSE AND
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