What do I love about America? It's a promise of liberty and justice for all and that

promise has not been yet achieved. Our young people now are demanding that this country live up to its creative liberty and

justice for all.

Hey I'm Kelly Corrigan and wondering is my favorite pastime. Like I wonder

how change really happens for a person or in this case a country.

I mean we've been through a lot. So as a way to restore some hope for our democracy. My guests are one, a 74-year-old

newlywed named Barbara Lee who's been in the House of Representatives for 22 years

and two, a young woman named Jessica Jackson who, working with Van Jones and now Kim

Kardashian, is making her mark on criminal justice reform from outside the Capitol.

We'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan Wonders.

Hey there, I'm Kelly Corrigan and I am knee-deep in a series of 10 episodes

asking the same question. How does change really happen? This week I'm wondering

about how we make and protect the laws that protect us.

I was struck by an Obama quote that goes,

and so the world watches America, the only great power in history made up of people from every corner of the planet,

comprising every race and faith and cultural practice,

to see if our experiment in democracy can work, to see if we can do what

no other nation has ever done, to see if we can actually live up to the meaning of our creed. My first guest is

Jessica Jackson, who is the gutsyest person I've talked to in ages. She was a high

school dropout, a kid who tried and used a lot of drugs, who fell in love with and married

an addict. And then, as you'll hear, her husband and the father of her two-month-old went to jail and everything changed. We'll start there.

So you're in a courtroom, you're 22 years old, you're newly sober,

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