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Speaker 1: jam packed show alligates us moving into your house. Ukraine
Speaker 1: is now at war with Elon Musk and Republicans don't
Speaker 1: care about being Republicans anymore. Plus how it gets tonight
Speaker 1: as a US Congresswoman from St. Louis, Corey Bush is
Speaker 1: going to be joining us on the show. But through
Speaker 1: these people, let's sound straight into today's headlines. All right.
Speaker 1: Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up
Speaker 1: on a few other things going on in the world.
Speaker 1: Starting off in Asia. This morning, North Korea once again
Speaker 1: fired a missile over the north coast of Japan into
Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean, a provocation that they losted five years ago.
Speaker 1: And if you're wondering why it was so much time
Speaker 1: in between launchers, well that's how long it took North
Speaker 1: Korea to pull the giant rubber band back once again.
Speaker 1: In labor news, the f A has officially announced that
Speaker 1: flight attendants must now get an extra hour of mandatory
Speaker 1: rest between flights, which is great. Yeah, this is fantastic.
Speaker 1: They deserve that hour and they also deserve someone who
Speaker 1: will wake them up from their sleep every thirty minutes
Speaker 1: to asked them if they'd like a drink anything else.
Speaker 1: Oh and some big celebrity news from the world of
Speaker 1: Scooby Doo. After fifty three years, the character Velma has
Speaker 1: officially come out of the closets as a lesbian. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure right now that someone was like as a conservative.
Speaker 1: Can I just say I am outraged? Whatever happened to
Speaker 1: the Wholesome family show about a drug addict who got
Speaker 1: so high he thinks his dog is talking to him
Speaker 1: real this is this is a great move for representation,
Speaker 1: although it will make things a little awkward for the
Speaker 1: villains at the end of every episode all and I
Speaker 1: would have gotten away with it, Joe, if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for you. Weird kids, I mean not not Velma, You're cool.
Speaker 1: I'm an ally. I'm just saying that, like a bunch
Speaker 1: of kids who spend their time solving crimes, that's weird.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's weird that you you like women,
Speaker 1: that you live your truth. Girlfriend. By the way, can
Speaker 1: I say girl Frank and I say, oh boy one?
Speaker 1: Are those cops getting here? All? This is awkward? All
Speaker 1: right to some of the bigger stories of the day,
Speaker 1: Starting off with the off the math of Hurricane In.
Speaker 1: Officials say that nearly half a million people in Florida
Speaker 1: are still without power and repairing damage to homes and
Speaker 1: businesses could cost up to seventy five billion dollars. And
Speaker 1: because this is Florida, there's one more effect of hurricanes
Speaker 1: you might not have thought of. Floridians returning to their
Speaker 1: homes after Hurricane In are facing a new danger alligators.
Speaker 1: A reminder of what people can't see in the waters.
Speaker 1: In addition to downpower lines after hurricanes or tropical storms,
Speaker 1: wildlife like alligators and snakes can wash into communities. Literally
Speaker 1: right now, there's an alligatory right in front of us,
Speaker 1: So you really have to keep waiting to get in there.
Speaker 1: This is about as good a reason why as you
Speaker 1: should not go in the water. We do not know
Speaker 1: everything that is in there right now, but we know
Speaker 1: that that is a problem here. Yeah, that is definitely
Speaker 1: a problem. Okay, flood waters are bringing alligators and water
Speaker 1: snakes into people's neighborhoods. I mean, I've heard of gentrification,
Speaker 1: but the shiftens next level, you know, And of course
Speaker 1: this was always bound to happen. Remember, alligators live in water.
Speaker 1: If your place is filled with water, you can expect
Speaker 1: alligators too. It's sort of like if you fill your
Speaker 1: house with beer. Oh, don't be surprised when Brett Kavanaugh
Speaker 1: shows up. It's still like beer, mom. I won't say.
Speaker 1: I would say. One nice thing about living in America
Speaker 1: is that if something like this happens to you, everyone
Speaker 1: sends condolences and offers help. Yeah, because back home in Africa,
Speaker 1: if you say crocodiles and snakes are being sshed into
Speaker 1: her house, everyone will be like, what did you do
Speaker 1: that Jesus is sending you this critures that definitely is
Speaker 1: in your life. You need to prayer, what did you do?
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything. You did something. But let's move
Speaker 1: on to the latest news out of Iran. It has
Speaker 1: been over two weeks since the Iranian people took to
Speaker 1: the streets protesting the death of Massa Armini, who died
Speaker 1: in police custody after being arrested for not covering her
Speaker 1: hair properly. They claimed. Now, despite the Iranian government attempts
Speaker 1: to shut the protesters down, the people in the streets
Speaker 1: are still growing in numbers. This morning, concern of a
Speaker 1: renewed clashes in Iran's universities after two weeks of unrest
Speaker 1: and deadly protests sweeping across the country. On Monday, Iran's
Speaker 1: top technology university was shuddered following an hour's long standoff
Speaker 1: between students and the police that turned the prestigious institution
Speaker 1: into the latest flashpoints. And it's not just college campuses.
Speaker 1: Resistance in high schools too. Young Iranian girls removing their
Speaker 1: heads are while chanting from their schools, a stunning act
Speaker 1: of defiance and another sign of young women leading the
Speaker 1: way in these historic protests. Addressing the latest violence for
Speaker 1: the first time around, Supreme Leader Ayata Haamane expressed support
Speaker 1: to the security forces and condemned the riots on Monday,
Speaker 1: calling them a bitter incident and accusing the United States
Speaker 1: and Israel, Iran's arch adversaries of orchestrating the disturbances. First off,
Speaker 1: come on, man, you can't blame the US and Israel
Speaker 1: for everything. You can't. It's like this is because of US,
Speaker 1: and no, this is Iranians protesting what the Iranian government
Speaker 1: is doing to them, all right, It's not about America
Speaker 1: or Israel. I bet the student comes out of the
Speaker 1: bathroom at a party like, looks like Israel clogged up
Speaker 1: your toilet. Oh and secondly, can I just say how
Speaker 1: every single day I'm continuously impressed by the bravery and
Speaker 1: the tenacity of the women and the girls in your eye,
Speaker 1: this is so impressive to see because remember, remember, they
Speaker 1: are risking their lives protesting a brutal regime, which I
Speaker 1: know for a fact I wouldn't have the guts to do.
Speaker 1: I won't lie. Yeah, Like like once my mom thought
Speaker 1: it was a Friday when it was actually a Saturday,
Speaker 1: and I was so scared during her wrath that I
Speaker 1: just went to school. Yeah, I just hung out alone
Speaker 1: for the whole day. Somehow I still got bullied. It
Speaker 1: turns out the biggest bullies lie within Anyway, Let's move
Speaker 1: on to some breaking news about Elon Musk, the man
Speaker 1: who will save the world or blow it up by
Speaker 1: accident could go either way. Every day it seems like
Speaker 1: the mad genius is in the news for something else.
Speaker 1: And over the weekend he introduced his vision for the future,
Speaker 1: a humanoid robot called Optimists, which he says will allow
Speaker 1: for a future where there is no poverty, which I
Speaker 1: assume means when the robots kill us all, no one
Speaker 1: will be poor. Then yesterday the Musk made more news
Speaker 1: when he got in a beef with the president of Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Off the Musk posted a Twitter pole asking whether Russia
Speaker 1: should be allowed to annex parts of their neighboring country
Speaker 1: and people. Not only is this insensitive Twitter pole, it's
Speaker 1: not the place to be deciding the future of a
Speaker 1: country that basically has the same legitimacy as those fortunate
Speaker 1: tell of things you used to do in middle school.
Speaker 1: You know, he's like this says you live in Hawaii
Speaker 1: and get married to Becky and then invade the gun
Speaker 1: Bass region. It's not thing, Elon, But if you thought
Speaker 1: that was big, this morning, Elon Musk made forty billion
Speaker 1: dollars worth of news. A dramatic new twist in the
Speaker 1: Elon Musk Twitter saga. After months of trying to back out,
Speaker 1: a new report says Musk is now going through with
Speaker 1: the deal after all. Musk is now reportedly proposing to
Speaker 1: buy Twitter for the original offer price. When Berg News
Speaker 1: reports Musk may the proposal in a letter to Twitter,
Speaker 1: he says he'll buy at the original offer price of
Speaker 1: a share. Musk has been trying to back out of
Speaker 1: the deal first signed in April. Okay, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the hell is happening here, but apparently the Twitter
Speaker 1: deal is now back on. Yeah. I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be surprised. Elon Musk is notorious for not
Speaker 1: pulling out of a deal. He stays in there. He's consistent.
Speaker 1: And you know one thing about this story, It just
Speaker 1: shows you how being a billionaire so wild. You know,
Speaker 1: they go back and forth on buying a giant company.
Speaker 1: The way most people move Ultra Mini boots back in
Speaker 1: and out of the Amazon cart, like are they ugly?
Speaker 1: Are they chic? I changed my mind every day. Follow
Speaker 1: On the other hand, this may be the most relatable
Speaker 1: thing that Elon has ever done. Everyone does this. They
Speaker 1: try and leave Twitter with a big announcement just to
Speaker 1: come crawling back. All right, that's it for the headlines.
Speaker 1: But before we go to a quick break, let's check
Speaker 1: it on the stock market without find expert Michael Cost
Speaker 1: to everybody, what is happening in the market today. I'm
Speaker 1: crushing it. I am crushing it. I am crushing it
Speaker 1: as hard as my heart felt crushed when I learned
Speaker 1: that Velma is a lesbian. I mean, I thought I
Speaker 1: always had something with that cartoon, you know, Trevor, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, man to man, you ever fall for a cartoon?
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes I look at the Ninja Turtles and
Speaker 1: I think, damn, you know, if they just weren't teenagers
Speaker 1: but so hot. Speaking of hot, I got a hot
Speaker 1: tip for you. All right, so pay attention to the end.
Speaker 1: I got a hot tip. Now, Trevor behind me. This
Speaker 1: is Twitter's stock chart today after it was announced that
Speaker 1: Elon Musk agreed to buy it. Okay, now, before we
Speaker 1: get to that, just a second. That story about the
Speaker 1: alligators in Florida infiltrating people's homes, I mean, can you
Speaker 1: even imagine that when they walk it in there, doing
Speaker 1: that stupid little alligator walk. You know. But you gotta
Speaker 1: understand why is this happening? Why are alligators getting in
Speaker 1: our homes? Well, it's it's simple economics. Okay. Alligators are
Speaker 1: teaching us how the American housing market functions. Alligators live
Speaker 1: in swamps. Why because they can't afford houses? Okay, not
Speaker 1: with these interest rates. Okay, but then market conditions change
Speaker 1: are hurricane strikes? What does that bring? Liquidity? Okay, there's
Speaker 1: liquid everywhere. This is why I'm an expert. Alligators now
Speaker 1: can ride that liquidity right into a four bedroom house.
Speaker 1: This is why that's happening. Okay. Anyways, Twitter, Okay, Twitter
Speaker 1: stock is going through the roof because Elon Musk has
Speaker 1: to buy it. And that's the best case scenario for
Speaker 1: a business when a person has to buy the product. Right,
Speaker 1: flowers Onalentine's Day, turkey on Thanksgiving, insulin on Halloween. These
Speaker 1: are must have items. Okay, right here, this is the
Speaker 1: important fact, right, huge jump in value. Now, I thought
Speaker 1: it was because they finally added a delete button, but
Speaker 1: my publicist tells me that's been there for years. Wish
Speaker 1: I would have known that Okay, but look, this is
Speaker 1: great financial news for all of us. One, no big
Speaker 1: costly trial, Trevor to the sale of Twitter is essentially over.
Speaker 1: And three now Ellen can finally focus on the next
Speaker 1: big thing, perfecting his cutting edge robot. You all saw this, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, everyone made fun of Ellen because you
Speaker 1: needed four people to help this robot walk. Four people
Speaker 1: to help a robot walk. But this is why Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is a genius. You're all worried about robots taking
Speaker 1: our jobs. If Ellen makes some robots are gonna add jobs, right,
Speaker 1: four people for every robot robot needs to go party.
Speaker 1: We're all gonna get paid now. I promised you a
Speaker 1: hot tip, right, Okay, Um, don't fall in love with
Speaker 1: a lesbian cartoon. It will only break your heart. Back
Speaker 1: to you, Trevor quick Cook. Everybody, I'm gonna say, tub
Speaker 1: whill we come back. We're gonna be taking a look
Speaker 1: at the abortion scandal that is rocking the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: So don't go away, Welcome back to the Day Show.
Speaker 1: Ever since Donald Trump took over, the Republican Party has
Speaker 1: been falling further and further away from everything they stood for.
Speaker 1: All right, they used to be about fiscal responsibility, conservative values,
Speaker 1: and overthrowing the occasional Mid East country. But after Trump,
Speaker 1: Republicans have realized that they now have two choices. They
Speaker 1: can either stick to their values or they can win
Speaker 1: with Trump. But they can't have both a right and
Speaker 1: as the mid terms get up, we're seeing the choice
Speaker 1: that the Republicans have made in the types of candidates
Speaker 1: that the party's putting up. You know, people like Marjorie
Speaker 1: Taylor Green, who believes that Jewish space lasers start wildfires.
Speaker 1: There's people like Doug Mastriano, who was at the Capital
Speaker 1: on January six. There's even doctor Oz, who's running in
Speaker 1: a state he didn't even live in and who we
Speaker 1: just found out did laboratory experiments that reportedly killed hundreds
Speaker 1: of dogs, which is not a great look. There's literally
Speaker 1: a Disney villain who did that, right, Like, what's next,
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out Dr Oz botched the surgery that
Speaker 1: killed the Grandma and Coco. But this is the Republican Party, now,
Speaker 1: this this is the same party that was once led
Speaker 1: by Paul Ryan. Do you remember that guy, small government
Speaker 1: by partisan immigration, I respect the troops. Remember him? If
Speaker 1: he got caught in the same room as these new
Speaker 1: p people. They beat him to death with his own khakies.
Speaker 1: That's what they do. But one of the most glaring
Speaker 1: examples of how Republicans have completely bent the need to
Speaker 1: Trump is with Georgia's candidate for Senate, Herschel Walker. So
Speaker 1: let's take a look at Walker in our latest edition
Speaker 1: of Fringe Watching. Unlike most of the mega Republicans who
Speaker 1: are infecting the party, Herschel Walker actually has a long
Speaker 1: history with Trump. Back in the nineteen eighties, he played
Speaker 1: football for Donald Trump's U s f L team until
Speaker 1: the whole league collapsed, which, of course it did. I mean,
Speaker 1: if Trump is a part of anything, it will collapse. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I bet if Donald Trump goes to heaven in six weeks,
Speaker 1: God will be at the at the pawn shop, like,
Speaker 1: I don't understand what happened? You was so successful? How
Speaker 1: much will you give me for the pearly gates? But
Speaker 1: since then, the two men have stayed in the same
Speaker 1: mental league, and it's not hard to see why, you see,
Speaker 1: just like Trump, Walker believes the election was stolen. Just
Speaker 1: like Trump, he believes that January six wasn't Trump's faults,
Speaker 1: And just like Donald bleached Trump, herschel Walker has some
Speaker 1: interesting ideas on how to cure COVID. Herschel Walker raved
Speaker 1: about what he calls a dry mist that can kill
Speaker 1: COVID and an interview in do you know right now?
Speaker 1: I have something They can bring you into a build
Speaker 1: room that would clean you from COVID as you won't
Speaker 1: through this. This drive me as you won't through the door.
Speaker 1: It would cure any COVID on your body e P
Speaker 1: A f they approved. When you leave, it would chair
Speaker 1: of the virus as you leave. Busy a product. Do
Speaker 1: you know they don't want to talk about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder why they don't want to talk about that.
Speaker 1: Walk through a dry miss. It sounds to me like
Speaker 1: herschel Walker accidentally walked through a car wash. They got
Speaker 1: a secret cold machines. They'll spray you, clean, dry you off.
Speaker 1: Then a guy comes out back to you with your butt.
Speaker 1: But they don't want to talk about that. No, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. Anyone can say
Speaker 1: something silly, anyone can make a dumb mistake. But what
Speaker 1: makes herschel Walker special is that, just like Trump, he
Speaker 1: seems proud to be ignorant a head scratcher from Georgia's
Speaker 1: Republican Senate nominee herschel Walker Walker downplaying expectations ahead of
Speaker 1: his debate with Senator Raphael Warnock, telling reporters I'm not
Speaker 1: that smart. Republican herschel Walker declaring that there are fifty
Speaker 1: two states in America. She's written and has given interviews
Speaker 1: about playing Russian Roulette with a gun. Georgia Sena candidate
Speaker 1: herschel Walker is making headlines after his comments about evolution.
Speaker 1: Think so at one time science said man came from ades,
Speaker 1: did it not? If that is true, why that's the apes? Yeah?
Speaker 1: If there's humans, then why there's two apes? If there's
Speaker 1: an iPhone? How come my grandma still has a land?
Speaker 1: Like checkmate, Charles Darwin, how does that happen? I will
Speaker 1: say it is refreshing to see a politician just straight
Speaker 1: up saying I'm not that smart. I like that. You
Speaker 1: don't usually see politicians acknowledging their flaws straight up, like
Speaker 1: you never heard Bill Clinton go, look the truth is.
Speaker 1: I just love getting a head. It's one of my
Speaker 1: top three hobbies for sure. It's just to kind of
Speaker 1: thing out, more work, kind of right, and just like
Speaker 1: Trump boasts about being the world's best golfer. Herschel Walker
Speaker 1: is a monster at reimagining his own success. Before and
Speaker 1: during his campaign, Walker has lied repeatedly. He falsely claimed
Speaker 1: to have graduated a top percentile from the University of Georgia.
Speaker 1: He exaggerated claims about the success of his businesses. Georgia
Speaker 1: Senate candidate Herschel Walker misstated his income on federal documents
Speaker 1: by more than three million dollars. Walker has reportedly overstated
Speaker 1: his role with the for profit group accused of taking
Speaker 1: advantage of military veterans. In a two thousand seventeen speech,
Speaker 1: Walker said this, I worked with the Cobb County Police Department,
Speaker 1: and I've been in criminal justice all my life. And
Speaker 1: two years later, while giving a speech to soldiers, he's said,
Speaker 1: I spent time at Quantico at the FBI training school.
Speaker 1: We all didn't know I was an agent. They didn't
Speaker 1: know because he wasn't. And according to the Atlantic Journal Constitution,
Speaker 1: the Cobb County Police Department said they have no record
Speaker 1: of any involvement with Walker. God damn Herschel. Walker basically
Speaker 1: lied about every aspect of his life. He probably shows
Speaker 1: up at the airport gate like as a first responder,
Speaker 1: a ministry of veteran and a baby under two years old.
Speaker 1: I got to bother this play first. Also, I'm the pilot.
Speaker 1: We now. One of the main reasons Republicans love herschel
Speaker 1: Walker is because, as a black man, he's never afraid
Speaker 1: to tell black men what they're doing wrong. Put up
Speaker 1: your pants, smile at the police, and let white people
Speaker 1: touch your hair. It's good luck, you know. In fact,
Speaker 1: one of the things, one of the major things that
Speaker 1: herschel Walker focused on again and again and again was
Speaker 1: how much he hated that black men love abandoned their children,
Speaker 1: something white men never do. And then we found out
Speaker 1: the abandoning was coming from inside the house. For years,
Speaker 1: he has repeatedly criticized black men who leave their children.
Speaker 1: But tonight, Georgia's Republican nominee for US Senate, Herschel Walker,
Speaker 1: is admitting that he has a ten year old son
Speaker 1: who he didn't raise. Court documents show that the boy's
Speaker 1: mother had to sue him for paternity and child support.
Speaker 1: Just a day after news broke that Walker had a
Speaker 1: secret ten year old son, the Daily Beast discovered that
Speaker 1: Walker actually has two more additional children. He has never
Speaker 1: publicly acknowledged. Yeah, that's right, not one, but three secret children.
Speaker 1: How do you even keep that many kids secret? I mean,
Speaker 1: at some point you've got to confuse their names. It's like,
Speaker 1: I love you, Susan, I mean Claire, I mean Frank,
Speaker 1: I mean Susan. You are Susan, and I love you.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I understand that it doesn't matter to
Speaker 1: me how many kids you have or with how many people. Right,
Speaker 1: I think in America there's too much moralizing around some
Speaker 1: of these issues. But it does matter if you spend
Speaker 1: all your time vilifying other men for doing the same
Speaker 1: thing that you do. You vilifying them, you're calling them out,
Speaker 1: Oh it's because they're black men, and you know what,
Speaker 1: it's not. It's bullshit, you know. And this always happens
Speaker 1: to It always happens when a politician comes down weirdly
Speaker 1: hard on a specific group of people. That's when you
Speaker 1: should be suspicious. Well, they come down to one thing.
Speaker 1: There's a politician that's like, we have to stop these
Speaker 1: perverts that love to lick the back of people's knees
Speaker 1: at the public pool. Like, I think this dude licks
Speaker 1: the back of people's knees so Walker loves conspiracies, he
Speaker 1: lies about his achievements, and I guess, just like Trump,
Speaker 1: he pretends he doesn't have some of his kids. And
Speaker 1: right now, if you're thinking there's no way Hershel Walker
Speaker 1: could be more hypocritical than this, well, I hope you
Speaker 1: didn't place a bet. There is a new twist in
Speaker 1: the pivotal senate race in Georgia. The website The Daily
Speaker 1: Beast is reporting Republican candidate Herschel Walker paid for a
Speaker 1: woman he was dating to get an abortion in two
Speaker 1: thousand nine. Georgia Republican Senate candidate hers Walker says he
Speaker 1: is pro life and supports a nationwide abortion band with
Speaker 1: no exceptions, but new reporting from The Daily Beast claims
Speaker 1: he encouraged a woman he was dating in two thousand
Speaker 1: nine to get an abortion and help pay for it.
Speaker 1: The woman, whose identity was not published, provided The Daily
Speaker 1: Beast with the receipt for the procedure to get well
Speaker 1: card and an image of a seven hundred dollar check
Speaker 1: allegedly signed by Walker, wow an anti abortion Republican court
Speaker 1: paying for his girlfriend's abortion. That is a bombshell, especially
Speaker 1: because he left behind so much proof. I mean, this
Speaker 1: woman says that she has a receipt, a check and
Speaker 1: a get well called that he signed the only way
Speaker 1: that could be more of a pay per troll, as
Speaker 1: if he bought a souvenir t shirt from the abortion
Speaker 1: kelling his gift shop and not believe it or not
Speaker 1: believe it or not. This is just the tip of
Speaker 1: the iceberg when it comes to hershel Walker, right. He
Speaker 1: has multiple allegations of domestic abuse against him, including on
Speaker 1: his ex wife. His own son, who is a prominent conservative,
Speaker 1: has said most of the stories are true, and herschel
Speaker 1: Walker himself said that sometimes he couldn't control his own brain.
Speaker 1: But despite all of this, he still has the full
Speaker 1: support of the Republican Party, including a top aide to
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell, who just today said it's full speed ahead
Speaker 1: in Georgia because clearly mcconne's lack locker is not my bravery, daughter, water,
Speaker 1: our care, mam. And so you see, as the term
Speaker 1: elections approached, day after day, we're seeing that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has completely transformed what being a conservative means because less
Speaker 1: than a decade ago, a candidate this hypocritical, this flawed,
Speaker 1: and this off the rails would not have had the
Speaker 1: support of the party. But because now winning is more
Speaker 1: important than any principle or any value that these politicians
Speaker 1: once held, they're willing to go full speed ahead, even
Speaker 1: if it means going full speed into a brick wall.
Speaker 1: All right, stay tuned, because when we come back, Congresswoman
Speaker 1: Corey Bush is gonna be joining me on the show.
Speaker 1: So don't go ahay. Welcome back to the game show. Yes,
Speaker 1: tonight is the first black woman to represent Missouri in Congress.
Speaker 1: She's here to talk about her new memoir, The Forerunner,
Speaker 1: a Story of Pain and Perseverance in America. Please welcome
Speaker 1: Hungresswoman Corey Bush, Congresmy Bush, welcome to the show. Thank
Speaker 1: you for amazing This is a really interesting time to
Speaker 1: speak to you because the last time we spoke was
Speaker 1: virtually that was over zoom right, and you had been
Speaker 1: in Congress for a few weeks a feel like yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that, And now you've been there for two years,
Speaker 1: two years almost two years. I'm almost almost I would
Speaker 1: love to know. I would love to know, as somebody
Speaker 1: who is freshly part of the machine that runs America,
Speaker 1: if you had a magic wand what would you change
Speaker 1: about the way the capital works? You know, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have everything, um move based upon seniority. Also, there are
Speaker 1: great people doing great things that have lived experience and
Speaker 1: lived experienced account for something, and oftentimes in Congress it
Speaker 1: has that. I feel like you, You're You're the perfect
Speaker 1: person speaks to that. You know, we we've spoken a
Speaker 1: little bit about your journey, and your book goes so
Speaker 1: much deeper into your life. When we spoke last time,
Speaker 1: I had an understanding, a slight one of the journey
Speaker 1: you had been through. After reading the book, though, I
Speaker 1: realized there is so much more or that defines who
Speaker 1: you are or what you've gone through and who you
Speaker 1: you know, what's what's sort of shaped who you've gone
Speaker 1: on to become. You know, you're talking the book about
Speaker 1: suffering through sexual assaults. You're talking the book about suffering
Speaker 1: through domestic abuse. You talk about coming back time and
Speaker 1: time again, dusting yourself off, working through your trauma and
Speaker 1: and and building yourself back stronger. Tell me what that
Speaker 1: has done for how you see your role as a
Speaker 1: lawmaker in America. Yeah, it it keeps so that pain
Speaker 1: stays before me. Um. I I still remember what that
Speaker 1: pain was like to be hungry to go for days
Speaker 1: without eating, just making sure my children ate. I remember
Speaker 1: what it was like to close my eyes and hope
Speaker 1: my kids, my kids didn't freeze to death in a car,
Speaker 1: you know, while we were sleeping um in the car, unhoused.
Speaker 1: I remember what it was like to be um brutalized
Speaker 1: by the police back in Ferguson. I remember what it
Speaker 1: was like to go through those sexual assaults and not
Speaker 1: have any type of help, not have any UH crime
Speaker 1: victims support helping me. I remember what it was like
Speaker 1: to not get justice. And so because I still I
Speaker 1: physically can feel the pain, and I remember what it
Speaker 1: was like, I have to push that, you know, that
Speaker 1: much harder because somebody else is going through it right now,
Speaker 1: and you know, for me to just feel like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm in Congress, you know, we can do all of
Speaker 1: these incremental changes, and you know, I await my turn,
Speaker 1: you know, no, but there's somebody that's hurting the way
Speaker 1: that I, you know, had to struggle and hurt for
Speaker 1: so long when I was wondering who helps, who speaks
Speaker 1: to my issues, Who's going to help me? There's somebody
Speaker 1: saying that right now, and I'm in a position to
Speaker 1: do something and so why am I in the position
Speaker 1: if I'm not willing to push and put everything on
Speaker 1: the line to save lives. It's it's not easy because
Speaker 1: you work in an environment where everything is so slow oftentime.
Speaker 1: When you talk to lawmakers and when you talk to
Speaker 1: congress people who've been doing it for a long time,
Speaker 1: they do have a certain apathy towards how long something takes.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of exchanging of you know, favors and deals.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of this is how the machine works.
Speaker 1: Are you able to get through to some of your
Speaker 1: your your older companions and your work colleagues now, are
Speaker 1: you able to express to them the urgency behind some
Speaker 1: of the initiatives that you're trying to move forward? You know,
Speaker 1: having the conversations, yes, um, And many of them come
Speaker 1: to me. You know, it took a while for some
Speaker 1: of them to see like, Okay, this is why she
Speaker 1: pushed it so hard. Are this is why she keeps
Speaker 1: driving these same issues. This is why she cares so
Speaker 1: much about UM. People being evicted? Are um? You know,
Speaker 1: black maternal health issues and all and so on and
Speaker 1: so on. They now, some of them get it, and
Speaker 1: so they'll come to me and say hey, how do
Speaker 1: you feel about this? But um, but still getting a
Speaker 1: bill passed or getting a bill uh. You know, that
Speaker 1: is one where we get to look at what is
Speaker 1: actually happening in our communities, not bypassed the things that
Speaker 1: are uncomfortable actually address. Do you have to address poverty
Speaker 1: head on? You can't play around with You have to
Speaker 1: address it. You have to if you if we want
Speaker 1: to deal with crime, we have to address the root
Speaker 1: causes of crime head on. And who better to be
Speaker 1: able to put forth legislation to do that than people
Speaker 1: who have gone through that. And so that's the thing.
Speaker 1: So so that's where we're we're seeing. I am seeing
Speaker 1: change in that area, but it's just gonna take a
Speaker 1: lot more work. And when when you when you look
Speaker 1: at some of the work, you know, I I appreciate
Speaker 1: how nuanced you on the book you You you share
Speaker 1: um really intimate and painful stories regarding your journey with
Speaker 1: UM abortion. In the book you Know, you you talk
Speaker 1: about being a rape victim and you talk about how
Speaker 1: you had an abortion after that. You also talk about
Speaker 1: having an abortion at the age of nineteen. And as
Speaker 1: you read through these stories, it would be so easy
Speaker 1: for you as a Democrat to make it seem, you know,
Speaker 1: like a rallying cry that's that's clear, that has no
Speaker 1: nuance in it. And yet in the book you talk
Speaker 1: about the conflict around abortion, you talk about the pain
Speaker 1: and the and and the difficulty of making that decision,
Speaker 1: seeing the topic through different lenses. I really found it
Speaker 1: painfully honest, because it feels like an American culture now,
Speaker 1: every issue is binary. No one wishes to discuss the
Speaker 1: messy around the truth. Why did you choose to share
Speaker 1: it like that? And were you afraid that some would say, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, Corey, why are you giving them ammunition on us?
Speaker 1: Why are you why are you giving people you know,
Speaker 1: the little the little crack in the door to talk
Speaker 1: about the messy side of the topic of abortion. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I really toil with it. I mean I wanted to
Speaker 1: take it out of the book at one point, and
Speaker 1: you know, I you know, I didn't wanna. I did
Speaker 1: think about like the attacks or how my words could
Speaker 1: be weaponized, um, you know, against abortion clinics and providers.
Speaker 1: But but there is you know, I can't overlook what
Speaker 1: I went through because it's not just my story, it's
Speaker 1: the story. Especially some of that it's the story of
Speaker 1: so many black and brown women that have gone and
Speaker 1: and and pregnant, people who have had abortions or sought
Speaker 1: out those you know, they were seeking out those services
Speaker 1: and weren't able to get them. And so I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't push past that because that's part of the story.
Speaker 1: And if we don't, if we're to uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're silent about those issues, or if we allow folks
Speaker 1: to silence us, because if we're afraid of what they'll say,
Speaker 1: then we will never get those we will never see
Speaker 1: change in those areas. So I need people to know
Speaker 1: that still don't believe her, or still don't believe them.
Speaker 1: I need them to know this is what you're pushing
Speaker 1: to the side when you blame it on us, when
Speaker 1: you say, like, so, uh, those pieces really matter when
Speaker 1: we're telling our stories because it helps to helps people
Speaker 1: to see it helps to humanize the situation for people
Speaker 1: a lot more. I think it really does. But but
Speaker 1: it's interesting that you brought up the weaponizing of your words.
Speaker 1: You know, you've been very vocal in how you wish
Speaker 1: that your you know, your area in St. Louis would
Speaker 1: reallocate its funding and start creating programs that would prevent crime,
Speaker 1: programs that would inspire people to or give people access
Speaker 1: to jobs, etcetera. In the community. Many people have now
Speaker 1: said to you that you're anti police. How do you
Speaker 1: find that nuance? How do you find the nuance? Well,
Speaker 1: how do you even find the balance and trying to
Speaker 1: have a conversation with people where you propose solutions to
Speaker 1: issues in the long term without making it feel like
Speaker 1: you're completely neglecting the short term. You know, we have
Speaker 1: to remember that there were people who spoke out against
Speaker 1: slavery the abolishment of slavery. Did that make Were they
Speaker 1: right or were they just going along with the status quo?
Speaker 1: Is it about the easy thing or the right thing?
Speaker 1: And for me, it's about the right thing. And so
Speaker 1: I understand that people look at it as being anti police.
Speaker 1: I'm not anti police, not in any way. I want
Speaker 1: police to do police work. I don't want police to
Speaker 1: be therapists. I don't want police to be mental health providers.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want police killing black folks, you know,
Speaker 1: disproportionately in this country and with and with impunity. I
Speaker 1: want folks to be safe in my community. And because
Speaker 1: us I have the power of the pen and the
Speaker 1: power of the purse. Along with my colleagues, it's up
Speaker 1: to me to do something about it. I myself being
Speaker 1: a victim of police violence, but witnessing um other other
Speaker 1: families go through this, sitting with those families, hearing those stories.
Speaker 1: I'm a Ferguson protester. I remember four hundred days of
Speaker 1: protests and protests after that. My purpose is to change
Speaker 1: what we allow, change what public safety is. It should
Speaker 1: be actual safety for all, not for some. It should
Speaker 1: be for all. And if if if me being uh,
Speaker 1: me being getting criticized and attacked and and being isolated,
Speaker 1: um is what has to happen to bring that about
Speaker 1: to help the conversation continue to move. That's fine because
Speaker 1: it can save a life. If I save one life,
Speaker 1: then it was worth it because somebody died because we
Speaker 1: didn't push harder. M pay this as the Sooners joining
Speaker 1: on the showbody really pricing before is a way Donna
Speaker 1: where a book of soul tell me someone WA's everybody,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take your quick creak. We'll be right back
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