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Speaker 4: Pissing me off udivisa own face and growing backlash after
Speaker 4: giving Donald Trump the royal treatment. Last week, the network
Speaker 4: hosted a very friendly, our long exclusive interview with Trump
Speaker 4: that his son in law, Jared Kushner helped arrange.
Speaker 1: I'd mother meal.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's more shocking that Univision gave Trump
Speaker 3: a softball interview or that Trump led a Latin guy
Speaker 3: into his house. How did that happen? What did he
Speaker 3: think he was there to mow the lawn. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Journalist Enrique A. Sevedo interviewed Donald Trump for Univision Now.
Speaker 3: For decades, Univision has been the channel that Latinos have
Speaker 3: trusted for news, whether it's news about the world or
Speaker 3: news about a sexy lady.
Speaker 1: Minrd Willing took off against the most powerful woman in
Speaker 1: town for a more.
Speaker 3: And don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with Univision
Speaker 3: interviewing Trump. In fact, I thought it would be opportunity
Speaker 3: to confront him on his hardline anti Latino policies.
Speaker 1: But instead of.
Speaker 3: An interview worthy of Univision, we saw this ca Camerda
Speaker 3: in New York Times.
Speaker 5: Senapole came out this week. It has you with forty
Speaker 5: two percent of Latino voters support. That's some president for
Speaker 5: our Republican candidate. What do you think that the message
Speaker 5: voters are sending with his numbers?
Speaker 1: It's a forty two percent.
Speaker 5: Like I was saying, unpresidented for a Republican candidate. What
Speaker 5: do you think voters are responding to your message? Do
Speaker 5: you think the vorder is now more secure because of
Speaker 5: that relationship and the partnership You've been able to build
Speaker 5: with Mexico. More and more Latinos are identifying themselves as conservatives.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that is? Wait?
Speaker 3: Wait, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but those are your questions
Speaker 3: to the guy who might be the next president, mister Trunk.
Speaker 1: Why why are you so beloved by the Latino community?
Speaker 1: I mean, I was.
Speaker 3: Expecting this guy's follow up question to be is it
Speaker 3: true that to look upon your penis it will be like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, gazing into the very face of God.
Speaker 1: I mean, no tearity, how big is it? Tell them?
Speaker 1: Tell me what to start, Tell me to start?
Speaker 3: And you know, just to be clear, we Latinos are
Speaker 3: not a monolith. There are some of us that do
Speaker 3: support Trump, and my family we refer to him as
Speaker 3: the crazy uncle who doesn't get invited to Thanksgiving. But
Speaker 3: that's just my house. But as a news organization for
Speaker 3: the Latino community, Univision has a responsibility to fully report
Speaker 3: what a second Trump presidency could mean for them, and
Speaker 3: the truth is that that shit is mad scary.
Speaker 6: We have learned so much more about Trump's proposal for
Speaker 6: a twenty twenty five agenda, particularly when it comes to immigration.
Speaker 6: It's plan would essentially call for building detention camps for
Speaker 6: migrants who are rounded up around the country to be
Speaker 6: held at until they are deported. This is an extreme
Speaker 6: escalation from what we saw in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 7: Among his promises mass deportations, ending birthright citizenship, and denying
Speaker 7: entry to legal immigrants based on their ideological beliefs.
Speaker 3: We will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.
Speaker 1: And nobody has any idea where these people are coming from.
Speaker 5: And we know they come from prisons, we know they
Speaker 5: come from mental institutions, insane asylums, we know they're terrorists.
Speaker 1: It's poisoning the blood of our country.
Speaker 3: Wait wait, wait, what Latino immigrants are poisoning the blood
Speaker 3: of our country?
Speaker 1: Mother, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Your blood is ninety nine percent big mac. Also also wait,
Speaker 3: did he really say immigrants are coming from insane asylums.
Speaker 3: That's not what getting granted asylum.
Speaker 1: Means, moron.
Speaker 3: And by the way, birthright citizenship is in the Constitution,
Speaker 3: just so you know. Oh, and I know most Republicans
Speaker 3: stop reading after the Second Amendment, but stick around because
Speaker 3: that fourteenth m That shit gets good. So the question
Speaker 3: is why would Univision avoid asking Trump about the radical
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five agenda, and more disturbingly, why did the
Speaker 3: network cancel ads from the Biden campaign that was set
Speaker 3: to run during the interview? Oh yeah, and why did
Speaker 3: it cancel a separate interview it had planned with Biden's
Speaker 3: Hispanic media director. I mean, canceling opposing views is bad enough,
Speaker 3: but canceling ad revenue that's down.
Speaker 1: That's down right on American.
Speaker 3: And I don't know all the answers, but maybe it
Speaker 3: has something to do with Univision's new co CEO, Bernardo
Speaker 3: goo Mez, being close friends with Jared Kushner, Trump's son
Speaker 3: in law and the only man with the skin of
Speaker 3: a flower tortilla.
Speaker 1: Look, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm just asking the tough questions. Unlike Univision's interviewer. The
Speaker 3: point is, though Univision has got to come back to
Speaker 3: its core values. I'm not saying they shouldn't have Trump
Speaker 3: on the air. I'm just saying, if you do decide
Speaker 3: to sit down with a lying insurrectionist who wants to
Speaker 3: bring back interment camps like it's freaking nineteen forty two,
Speaker 3: you might want to point it out in the interview
Speaker 3: because there needs to be honest journalism and parody. The
Speaker 3: Latino community needs you to step up because the stakes
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four or two damn high.
Speaker 3: You need to expose the truth and not just about Trump,
Speaker 3: but also about how they are not those iber Madre
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Speaker 8: Welcome back to The Daily Show.
Speaker 9: Our guest tonight is a former prosecutor and veteran serving
Speaker 9: his first term in Congress. He represents North Carolina's fourteenth
Speaker 9: Congressional district and he's running for Attorney General in North Carolina.
Speaker 8: Please welcome Democratic Representative Jeff Jackson, Corow.
Speaker 2: Congress and Jackson, thank you for being here.
Speaker 1: Thank you so.
Speaker 2: Excited to have you. You are an incredibly successful politician,
Speaker 2: but most people know you from your TikTok videos. You
Speaker 2: do these incredible explainers that distill down pretty complex issues
Speaker 2: in a really clear, digestible way. Is the intent to
Speaker 2: simplify these issues for people and get that engagement? Are
Speaker 2: you really just posting foot picks?
Speaker 7: Every consultant in DC told me to go the foot direction. Yes,
Speaker 7: I said, that's not what I'm about.
Speaker 9: No, you're a hands guy, we know you are. I
Speaker 9: love a good hand, TikTok, Oh, show me that that
Speaker 9: Vogue arrow, give me some of this. Lauren Bolbert had
Speaker 9: a great hands video a few months ago. Great great,
Speaker 9: is that what you're talking about.
Speaker 7: I'm a kitchen table guy, right, I have a kitchen table.
Speaker 7: I put a camera on the other side, I look
Speaker 7: into it, I say, here's the most interesting thing that
Speaker 7: happened to me in Congress this week, and then I
Speaker 7: posted to a bunch of different social media platforms. I
Speaker 7: have been really surprised by the level of interest in
Speaker 7: this political environment where everyone is yelling at each other
Speaker 7: all the time. To be able to speak in a
Speaker 7: normal tone of voice and try to convey some of
Speaker 7: the complexity and some of the nuance that there would
Speaker 7: be broad interest for that, I think is really encouraging.
Speaker 2: I think it's a good signing now.
Speaker 9: I feel though the platforms that we have our conversations
Speaker 9: on dictate the types of conversations we have, and TikTok
Speaker 9: is a short attention span platform, Like, what does it
Speaker 9: say about our democracy that this is where the conversations
Speaker 9: are happening.
Speaker 7: I've been surprised. I wouldn't have expected that, So I
Speaker 7: post to TikTok, but also Facebook, readit Twitter. The place
Speaker 7: where most people view is TikTok. When I'm home in
Speaker 7: my district, constituents come up and they say, hey, I
Speaker 7: appreciate what you posted on TikTok. I would not have
Speaker 7: predicted that. I will tell you I've got seven hundred
Speaker 7: and sixty thousand some odd constituents. My senses, about three
Speaker 7: hundred thousand of them are on TikTok.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 7: I know TikTok's got all kinds of issues, but I
Speaker 7: think that reaching my constituents where they are is also
Speaker 7: something of real value. It should be normal and expected
Speaker 7: that your elected officials try and use social media to
Speaker 7: keep you posted about what they're doing.
Speaker 2: It should be part of our job. You think.
Speaker 9: You think half of your constituents are on TikTok. How
Speaker 9: many high schools do you have in your district?
Speaker 7: You know, I've got a lot of young people, but look,
Speaker 7: there are people of all ages on all of these
Speaker 7: social media platforms. And every once in a while you
Speaker 7: meet a grandma who comes up and says, I really
Speaker 7: love you on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Sweet.
Speaker 7: Usually they mentioned Facebook, but sometimes TikTok.
Speaker 2: So you were talking about some of the issues with TikTok.
Speaker 2: Nikki Haley has just openly spoken about banning TikTok and
Speaker 2: the security concerns. Do you have those concerns?
Speaker 7: Yeah, those concerns are all legit. Look, I have a
Speaker 7: phone that has one app on it, and that app
Speaker 7: is TikTok, and that's how I handle that.
Speaker 1: And that's because you fear what could happen.
Speaker 9: I mean, because the overall threat is that essentially the
Speaker 9: Chinese government has access to your information and can influence
Speaker 9: the discourse because of it.
Speaker 7: Those are all absolutely credible concerns. As long as roughly
Speaker 7: half of my constituents are there, I'm gonna try and
Speaker 7: use it for good and keep them posted about what
Speaker 7: I'm doing.
Speaker 9: I want to talk about some of the people you
Speaker 9: work with. You called out on your famous TikTok videos
Speaker 9: that a lot of the people in Congress you sense,
Speaker 9: are faking this outrage, that what we're seeing at home
Speaker 9: is essentially a bunch of people faking it. Who would
Speaker 9: you put on blasts? Who are you talking about?
Speaker 2: And does it rhyme with Schmerjorie, Schmahler, Schmid.
Speaker 7: All I will say is this It's not George Santos.
Speaker 1: Never he's not faking it. Never a false word from
Speaker 1: that gentleman. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 7: I've been in committees and I have watched when the
Speaker 7: camera turns on, people's personalities change completely right before your eyes.
Speaker 7: It's really jarring. It is literal theater. And you've got
Speaker 7: a handful of people there who are in competition with
Speaker 7: each other every day to be the most outrageous, which
Speaker 7: is why it feels like when you look at Congress,
Speaker 7: they're on this escalator that's just increasingly crazy and angry.
Speaker 7: It's because they're playing a very specific game to try
Speaker 7: and get the attention of a very specific group of people,
Speaker 7: and it's awful and exhausting. Most of people up there
Speaker 7: aren't playing that game. The people we keep getting served up,
Speaker 7: they're playing the outrage Olympics every day. That's how they
Speaker 7: treat their job in Congress as the day we tryouts
Speaker 7: for the outrage Olympics.
Speaker 9: Now I find it interesting because you have found the success.
Speaker 9: You don't seem like the outrage kind of guy.
Speaker 2: You always seem like you're at like an even five.
Speaker 1: It's about it.
Speaker 9: You got like a nice energy, good den.
Speaker 2: Like I'm not gonna drink with you, but I will
Speaker 2: pick you up if you drink too much.
Speaker 9: Yea, I will, no questions, ask give me a call, right,
Speaker 9: I'm that guy. Yeah yeah, why.
Speaker 1: Do you think.
Speaker 7: Let me tell you something else? I think right now,
Speaker 7: that's the dat American needs.
Speaker 9: I could also say, kind of a tipsy uncle who
Speaker 9: can whip this country back into shape?
Speaker 2: To an all, we're dangerously close.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like uncle is going to turn on us.
Speaker 1: We better shape up.
Speaker 2: What does boil your blood? Does anything get you going?
Speaker 1: Outright?
Speaker 7: Political corruption? For example, my state, North Carolina a horrible
Speaker 7: history with jerrymandering. Jerry Mandering is just letting politicians draw
Speaker 7: their own districts, because when you do that, they're all
Speaker 7: going to cheat my party. When my party had the
Speaker 7: ability to draw the districts in North Carolina, they always cheated.
Speaker 7: When I was in the state legislature, the first bill
Speaker 7: I ever filed was to end jerry mandering, and they
Speaker 7: sent it to a committee that hasn't met in twenty years.
Speaker 7: We can't let politicians draw their own districts because they
Speaker 7: screw the voters every single time. No more jerry mandering
Speaker 7: across the entire country.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a huge it's issue. But how do we fix
Speaker 2: this cancer on political discourse? How do you solve that?
Speaker 7: Don't vote for anyone who isn't explicitly committed to independent redistricting.
Speaker 7: Independent redistricting is how you solve jerry mandering. If there
Speaker 7: is any elected official or a candidate who says, well,
Speaker 7: I don't know if i'm forward, maybe maybe not, uh huh,
Speaker 7: we should just have a bright line. Jerry mandering is unethical.
Speaker 7: There is never a defense for drawing districts to favor
Speaker 7: one party or the other. Don't vote for anyone who
Speaker 7: would ever engage in that behavior. That's how we solve it.
Speaker 9: Now, well, you've been in Congress for eleven months now,
Speaker 9: and you're you're planning on getting jerry mandered out, and
Speaker 9: you're running for attorney general.
Speaker 2: Attorneys general, attorneys general.
Speaker 7: It's very awkward, don't know.
Speaker 2: Could you do an explainer on why it's attorneys general and.
Speaker 9: Short TikTok length because it's easier to understand, and also
Speaker 9: I think I would get bored.
Speaker 7: More for more than thirty seconds about it's a bad
Speaker 7: decision that someone made a long time ago.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, well you're welcome, but even your new role
Speaker 9: that you're running for right now, would you be able
Speaker 9: to address jerry mandering?
Speaker 7: Absolutely? Look, the Attorney general's job is standing up for people.
Speaker 7: It's sort of the opposite of what you see a
Speaker 7: lot of in Congress. It's not about the theatrics. It's
Speaker 7: not about the left or the right. It's just about
Speaker 7: doing what's right, standing up against political corruption, against business corruption,
Speaker 7: especially when consumers are getting screwed, and organized crime. We
Speaker 7: got a huge fentanyl problem in North Carolina. We got
Speaker 7: it across the entire country. The Attorney General gets to
Speaker 7: be directly involved in handling all of that. It's a
Speaker 7: really wonderful job.
Speaker 2: Wow. Well, thank you staring.
Speaker 4: On with us.
Speaker 2: You seem like the perfect guy for the job, that's
Speaker 2: for sure. Give it up for representative.
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