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Rep. Jackie Speier of California made the choice not to run for re-election this year. CBS News' Scott MacFarlane speaks with the congresswoman on how her experience of getting caught in an ambush by Jonestown cult members as a congressional staffer 44 years ago influenced her life dedicated to public service.
Speier's "Pinocchios" comment draws applause
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Transcript: Rep. Jackie Speier on "Face the Nation"
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Cohen: Trump lawyers changed Moscow testimony
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Jackie Speier on how the Jonestown massacre changed her life
In November 1978 Jackie Speier was an attorney on the staff of Congressman Leo Ryan that was investigating human rights abuses by Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple cult in Guyana. While on a fact-finding mission, Speier was shot five times by Jones' followers, but survived. Some 900 members of the cult did not, victims of a mass murder-suicide. Speier, now a Congresswoman from California, talks about surviving the horror, and how that formative moment changed her.
Jackie Speier on surviving the Jonestown massacre
In 1978 the Calif. Congresswoman, then a congressional attorney, was nearly killed in a savage attack while on a fact-finding mission into Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple cult
Female lawmakers call for House investigation into Trump misconduct
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Transcript: Rep. Jackie Speier on "Face the Nation"
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-California, joined "Face the Nation" Sunday to discuss the fallout from the flood of sexual assault and harassment allegations across the U.S.
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CIA chief Burns says that without aid, Ukraine "could lose on the battlefield"
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U.K. takes a big step closer to a phased-in ban on all tobacco sales
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