On the national stage, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a leading voice in the charge to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Back home in her district, she says impeachment is also a top concern.  

"If anything, that's the vast majority of what I'm hearing and seeing. People say, ‘Keep fighting!’ They say, ‘Don’t pay attention to a lot of this critique that we get,’" Ocasio-Cortez said.

We met Ocasio-Cortez at a New York Restoration Project community garden in the Westchester Square section of the Bronx and at a community health center, which offers a gardening and arts program for the disabled.  

After winning a spot in a community garden of her own back in D.C., she got curious about what was available in the Bronx.  

"That was my first opportunity to grow something. I think it's really important that our community learns about that," she said.

The freshman congresswoman recently met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after days of controversy over the Speaker’s comments about the influence of Ocasio-Cortez and other prominent  freshman members of Congress. At this point, Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez disagree over whether to proceed with impeachment.  

"The speaker, her focus is making sure that we have the votes. So before we only had 90 odd members in support of impeachment, immediately after Mueller's testimony we're now at 109 and now more are calling for impeachment," Ocasio-Cortez said.

Speaking after the Democratic presidential debates in Detroit, Ocasio Cortez said she's not any closer to making an endorsement yet, but she did mention those who stuck out.

"On the first night, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren did a great job. I think Julian Castro, Corey Booker—we're having really fabulous folks," she said.

She said she also kept an eye on how her fellow New Yorkers, Mayor Bill de Blasio and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, performed at the debate.

"I'm always cheering to make sure that our city and our state was represented well on stage and I think they did that," she said.

While she didn't directly mention de Blasio's debate performance, she said she was glad the issue of police reform was brought up. Both protesters and candidates referenced the death of Eric Garner and the police officer involved in his death.

"I'm glad that that conversation was not just brought up by the folks on the stage but by the folks in the audience," Ocasio-Cortez said.

As Congress takes a summer break, we can expect to see more of Ocasio-Cortez in her Queens and Bronx Districts as the fight over impeachment continues to loom in the nation's capital.