I began the season by asserting that this election cannot be separated from the Me Too movement.

That more than anything, it was a reckoning with male power, with how we've accepted that power as a given. A record number of women are now

headed to Congress with remarkable diversity and as we inevitably look

forward to the next election to 2020.

Several of those women are top of mind.

I want to thank New York for giving me the honor and privilege

to keep fighting for you in the US Senate.

Elections are always about who you fight for.

And I promise you I will fight for your families

as hard as I fight for my own.

That certainly includes the junior senator from New York,

Kirsten Gillibrand, who won by a whopping 30-point margin.

She's on pretty much every list of top contenders for the Democratic nomination in 2020.

And over the past couple of years, she's particularly drawn attention for her

unapologetic challenge to men who abuse their power, including Democrats.

She said Bill Clinton should have resigned after his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

And she took a lot of flack for saying Al Franken had to go to.

Al Franken is a friend of mine.

He did great work in the Judiciary Committee, so it was really hard and

really heartbreaking.

In a conversation on the view, she was challenged about being too aggressive on the matter, and

she did not back down.

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