Joining us now for the first time on higher learning, we are very excited, joining us are representing

from Minnesota's fifth congressional district, congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

Thank you so much for joining us on higher learning.

Yeah, so excited to be here with you. We're excited too. We don't normally typically do this setup. My co-host Van Lathen, he's on the screen here joining us from Los Angeles, wherever you normally are. But we're happy to be here in her person. Hey, what's up? How are you? We met. Remember we met? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I was telling my, my, I was reminding my husband, you had the cowboy hat.

When we met. My cowboy had era, I made an impassion plea to the Democrats in Maryland. I guess

that was two years ago. I'm not sure they listen, Rep. I'm not sure they listen to me.

Yeah, I don't think they listened much.

They were distracted by the cowboy hat.

That's probably what it is.

What is going on here?

Okay, we want to definitely make sure we consider your time.

Thank you again for joining us.

I'm going to just jump right in.

There's so much to cover right now.

But you've been in Congress since 2019.

How different does governing feel right now compared to when you first joined Congress?

I mean, it's a continuation of chaos. You know, our class was sworn in doing a government shutdown. Our class had two presidential impeachments.

We survived an insurrection.

We, you know, survived COVID as legislators.

I'm still trying to match faces to names because so many years people wore masks.

And, you know, it's, it's, and then now we have another Trump presidency.

So it's just been, I think, a chaotic seven and a half years. So chaos, you're used to chaos. You like the chaos then, kind of, because I think, I don't know if I like the chaos, but it's been our norm, you know, so that's kind of the mode that we've been set on. And that's, that's where we seem to stay. It's interesting when you talk about chaos too because as someone said to me the

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