major ashley ferdinand is a marine on a mission when your alarm clock goes off that 0 dark 30 or earlier. what is the first thought that goes through your maureen veteran my the first thought that goes through my mind is of what can i do for these cadets today. let me represent myself in a way that the marine corps taught me. >> but i can carry on and be an example to the cadets in the school that day. >> ashley ferdinand served 20 years as a marine. her job in the corps was working with marines who got hurt during combat. and for the ones who died. she counsel families in grief. excited. it okay. now she's a leader and a teacher at new orleans military and maritime academy. it's the state school that sets the standard for values and valor and victory. and one more the word better. and that is a very special place in my heart. the word veteran and what that means to me is honor courage commitment. >> and setting the example every single day job and shark. could that johnson. are you doing this morning as a marine. her assignment was signing up new recruits. >> now she recruits inspiratio

ashley, i do want to start with rittenhouse. and cori bush specifically. i want to read these lines from a tweet she. she says, not only do these members feel violence, now they're actively recruiting someone who sole qualification is killing people standing up for black lives and getting away with it. what does this actually say about the state of today's republican party? >> well, to me this isn't a preview of how the republican party would lead, this is exactly how they have been leading and will continue to lead. donald trump's presidency was just that beginning. als for the dark extremist underbelly of the party to come to life. all of these things that we're seeing, currents around vaccines, black lives matter's, this is all again a continuation of what we've seen for the last four years. but really has been existing within the republican party for a very long time. it just never really had a platform. this racist, sexist, violent rhetoric, it has a home within the gop for, now in this foreseeable future. they've proven that time and time again. with