 Here with Senator Barbara Boxer for her lecture, an election like no other, and what lies ahead. I'm Erin Curley with CalTV News. This school year, Senator Barbara Boxer donated two decades' worth of her congressional papers to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. She also kicked off the new Barbara Boxer lecture series, an annual event focusing on women in leadership. Our nation has struggled lively with civil rights, voting rights, but also for our precious environment, the rights of workers, the rights of immigrants, this constant creation of a more perfect union, it's not easy, it's two steps forward, it's one step back, or sometimes it's seventeen steps back, like it is right now. Senator Boxer discussed her hopes for the future. It's an American vow that our kids live a better life than we do, and we help each other through hard times. Was Secretary Clinton a perfect candidate? Absolutely not. Am I the perfect candidate? No way. I told you, you're going to be a perfect candidate for yourself. She explained why she retired. It seemed like the right thing to do, but I didn't feel like I was weaving anything undone. There's a lot of fighters back there, and I'm going to help them in my path, through my path, get re-elected and get new people in. As I served with five presidents, I fought Ronald Reagan and Jayne Conda, and talked about the future of the Democratic Party. Now ten days out, opening up a floating, baloney case. She didn't handle assaults on her right, I didn't get the message out as best I could for her. Calling, with elites, Russians are coming, they came. Discussed the election. Trump was so outrageous, that's another reason people didn't vote, is that he could never win. Instead, of course, we have a guy who insulted more than half the country. I'm going to list the people who insulted, and he insulted women like crazy, that's already more than half the country. Immigrants, Muslims, African-Americans, veterans, the disabled. Did I leave anybody out? President Obama. President Obama, right? African-Americans. Latinos. Absolutely. Uphold. Uphold. What? Uphold. Uphold. I want to say what Alicia Keys said. Does anyone remember basically what she said? She said, we are mothers, caregivers, activists, artists, entrepreneurs, doctors, leaders of industry and technology. Our potential is unlimited. And that described the marches all over the world. You can compromise on a bill, but never compromise on a person. We marry up the Hillary message of standing together makes us strong. And the Bernie message of, we got a fight for the rights of a middle class.