1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Willkate f Daily with 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, Recording from the Home Bunker, Folks. 3 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: For the last couple of months, we have had the 4 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: awesome pleasure of being joined by my friend, the Reverend 5 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: Mark Thompson and host of Make It Plain. And each 6 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 1: month that Mark and I sit down, we go over 7 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: our host of issues that we think are going to 8 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: be impacting how people will be turning out for mid terms, 9 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: and this conversation was pre taped before the breaking news 10 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: around Donald Trump's home being searched and how that will 11 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: impact midterms. But Mark and I do get into a 12 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: conversation about, you know, the Biden administration and being held 13 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: to account for the people that got Biden into office. 14 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: This was prerecorded before the Biden administration had a series 15 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: of legislative wins which we had not seen since the 16 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: beginning of this administration, and the initial rollout of vaccines 17 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: as well as the economic package to help those most 18 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: in need during COVID, which we are still in. But 19 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: Mark and I do get into a fifty thousand foot 20 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: conversation about democratic messaging and also about where we are 21 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: in terms of the case against Britney Griner in Russia 22 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: that has now she has now been sentenced to nine 23 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: years in a Russian prison. There are still talks apparently 24 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: that are happening between Russia and the United States for 25 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: a prisoner swap, but we do know that those things 26 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: can take months, if not years. My hope, my God, 27 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: is that you know, Britney Grinder will not be as 28 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: destroyed human by the time that we are able to 29 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: get her back to the United States. I do believe 30 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: that we will be able to get her back, God willing, 31 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 1: but I hope that it isn't to see a ruined 32 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:17,119 Speaker 1: and fragile and tortured Brittney Griner. And so we talk 33 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: about that and the effects that that case is having 34 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: on the Biden administration and whether or not they have 35 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: been and are continuing to do enough, because it is 36 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: really difficult for US folks to detach not only race 37 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: from this case and gender, but also sexual orientation and 38 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: all of those layers, playing into the fact that if 39 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: this had been you know, a white male NBA player, 40 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: would there have not been more public outcry, Would there 41 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: had not been more public response from this administration. We 42 00:02:54,160 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: can't help, but you know use past history as our guide, 43 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: which is that you know, when things relate to black women, 44 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: this country could give a fuck right. They're banning abortions 45 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: in places, and we have a maternal mortality rate of 46 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: one in five. Black women that go into a fucking 47 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 1: hospital may not come out right. So we know that 48 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: this country cares very little about black women, and we 49 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: have known that since its creation. So how is that 50 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: playing into what we are seeing with Brittney Griner is 51 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: a conversation that Mark and I get into. But as 52 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: I leave you folks this week, I do believe that 53 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: Democrats have momentum that we have not seen before. I 54 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: do believe that we are living in absolutely extraordinarily unprecedented times. 55 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: From dealing with the reality of three different viruses that 56 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: are attacking this country and two of which are also 57 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: attacking the world monkey Pops and COVID, we are living 58 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: with unprecedented climate change that is literally washing away people's 59 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: homes or setting them on fire. We are living at 60 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: a time when you know there is a serial killer 61 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: that is going around New Mexico killing Muslim men. Authorities 62 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: believe that they have picked up that person. They believe 63 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: that person to be a person of interest and their motivation. 64 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: As of this time of this recording, we do not know. 65 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 1: We know that we have a Republican party that is 66 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: a white supremist, fascist party that no longer believes in 67 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 1: democracy or the rule of law applying to anyone, whether 68 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: that is a congressional subpoena or a fucking FBI warranted search, right, 69 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: that everyone believes that Republicans and white people are just 70 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: above the law and should have a whole set of 71 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: different laws, if any, that applied to them. You know, 72 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: that's just coming off the dome, on top of you 73 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: vote of suppression, on top of the overturning of Rov Wade, 74 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 1: like on top of funny, as Leslie and I had 75 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: remarked earlier in the week, you know, the earth actually 76 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: spinning faster for the first time ever in our history, 77 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: and the day's getting shorter. So I don't know if 78 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: we're just part of the leftovers, right and like the 79 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: apocalypse has happened, No idea, But I do know that 80 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: we need to be able to find joy, take breaks, 81 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: take breaths on a regular basis because our nervous system, 82 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: just the unsettledness, the uncertainty that we are living in 83 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: is crazy. It's fucking crazy, and it's why, folks, I'm 84 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: taking a couple of days to go and be with friends, 85 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: and at the end of this month, I will also 86 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: be taking a week off before we get into the 87 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: craziness of the fall, because I recognize that even though 88 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: the news never stops and everything keeps breaking, that if 89 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: I do not take a break, I in fact will 90 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: have a breakdown. And I appreciate so many of you 91 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: that send me tweets and dms and are really prayerful 92 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: and just meditative on sending me positive energy, you know, 93 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,720 Speaker 1: to keep myself healthy and saying, and I send that energy, 94 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: meditation and prayer right back at all of you because 95 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: I know that you listen to this show and you 96 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: show up for Woke a f and for me, because 97 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: you believe in democracy, because you believe in your responsibility 98 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 1: as citizens to this country, and sometimes the responsibility of 99 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: citizenship waghs really fucking heavy, like it is right now 100 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 1: that some days I would rather just not care. I 101 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: would rather just you know, bury my head in the 102 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 1: sand and pretend all of this isn't happening and go 103 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: about my day. But there is just no way for 104 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 1: what is transpiring to not affect us right, So, whether 105 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: we are actively dealing with it or as I talked 106 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: about a couple of weeks ago, you know, this stress 107 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: that kind of is just laying in the back of 108 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: our minds because we're never able to fully relax, right. 109 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: And the reason is because since Donald Trump has ended 110 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: down those fucking stairs, you know, we have been living 111 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: with that ambient stress, that stress that you know, we 112 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: don't know how to meet head on day in and 113 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: day out. We just know that we don't feel right. 114 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: We know that we feel uneasy, and we can't necessarily 115 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: every single day put our fingers on it. And what 116 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: I want to say is that ignoring it is going 117 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: to be a bigger problem than actually meeting these issues 118 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: head on and figuring out what are the tactics, the 119 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: self care tactics that I need to be layering myself 120 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: in and building into a daily routine in order to 121 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: keep me sane and in order to keep me healthy. Right, 122 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: Because even when we have these winds, which this administration 123 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: has had recently, I'm too scared to be excited about 124 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: it because I'm just anticipating the other shoe dropping, and 125 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: that is no way to live. So if you have 126 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: the ability and the privilege to be able to take 127 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: a break before we get ready to go back to 128 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: school not knowing what the fuck that's going to bring, 129 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: or get ready to go back to work or what 130 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: have you, please do take time for yourself, even if 131 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: it is a day that you say, you know what, 132 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:20,239 Speaker 1: you know what, my vacation is going to be turning 133 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: off every single social media app and just focusing on 134 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: real life and real people for one whole day. Because 135 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: I will tell you that the times that I am 136 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: able to take a break and leave this behind, I 137 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: feel renewed, right, I feel re energized. I feel like 138 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: I'm giving myself the strength that is necessary to continue 139 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: pushing on. And I want that for all of us, 140 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: because we are all needed in every single capacity that 141 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: we are able to show up in. Doesn't matter if 142 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: you have a microphone or not. It matters that you 143 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: care and that you want the people around you to care, 144 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: right and in order for that to happen, we need 145 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: to care for ourselves. And so as I bid you 146 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: ado on this day and pick it up on the 147 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 1: other side of the week, remember that your self care 148 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: comes before everything else, because it is a thing that 149 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: allows us to continue pushing along. We cannot, as my 150 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 1: mother says, pour from an empty cup. 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Mark, I want to 182 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: start off today with you know, I never get to 183 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: actually marinate in good news, and as it turns out, 184 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: surprisingly so is Kansas the new Bellweather State? Is this 185 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: the new state that we need to be paying attention to? 186 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: Because out of shock to me but not to others 187 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: who have seen Kansas as more of a moderate and 188 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: not so much of a red red state, they completely 189 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:52,559 Speaker 1: and totally rebuffed the Republican parties push to rewrite their 190 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: constitution and and overturn access to abortion in that state. 191 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 1: Now are everyone is saying, oh, Democrats, we think we 192 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: have a winning issue for you. What did you make 193 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: of the people of Kansas and they're pushback against abortion? Well, 194 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: I think it's finally white women and their allies in 195 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 1: a red state getting it. I think for years, all 196 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,839 Speaker 1: the conversation about row and row being on the block 197 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: and being in jeopardy, for those of us who were 198 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 1: saying it, we're seeing, as chicken little the sky has fallen. 199 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: Now it has actually happened. And just like in sports 200 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: and politics, there's something called an unforced error. I think 201 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: the GOP has made a grave mistake thinking that. But 202 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: they believe they own press, and their own press is 203 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: Fox News, and Fox News tells them every day that 204 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: this is what the American public wants, and this is 205 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: not what the American public wants. Kansas has proved that 206 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: I wish abortions were on every ballot in November. If 207 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: so Democrats, Democrats would win resoundingly. So I think this 208 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: is a wake up called Republicans. But also, as you said, 209 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 1: we need some good news. It ought to serve as 210 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: an inspiration to Democrats of what we can get done 211 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: if we stick together, that the issues that we support 212 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: all the issues many other Americans support, and that we're 213 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: on the right side of this struggle. And I think 214 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: that that's pretty much the way it's going to go. 215 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: And I think I mentioned this to you before. Normally 216 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: the party in power lose a ceasin them in terms. 217 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 1: But Democrats really are not the party in power, even 218 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: though Binds the president. We're not the Supreme Court. The 219 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,839 Speaker 1: right wing Supreme Court is the branch in power. Is 220 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 1: the party in power. Republicans, who are filibustering everything in 221 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 1: the Senate are the party in power. And so I 222 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: think that our base is getting that. I think, look, 223 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: it's just likely it's channing. It took a Republican white 224 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,599 Speaker 1: woman to get Democrats to focus on January sixth to 225 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: the point where it is now and it's helping. It 226 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 1: took a Republican Republican white women collectively in Kansas. Maybe 227 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: it inspires because let's face it, and you've talked about 228 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: this a lot um. I don't want to sound just 229 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: like you because I don't have at the time band 230 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: with getting as trouble as you've been getting into. I 231 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: got I'm barn enough crosses. I want to bear your 232 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: cross right now. I did pick your cross up later 233 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: and help you. Uh you know it's it's in a 234 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: babble some a couple of people help Jesus care to cross. 235 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: I'm saying I'm not gonna help Danielle care her cross journey. 236 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: But um, let me say this as diplomatically as possible. 237 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: Um Democratic Party leadership, and I shouldn't even say that. 238 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: The consultant class Democratic Party, for whatever reason, fields they 239 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: gotta listen to even speech other they didn't say the 240 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: word abortion. So so you do you are in what 241 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, nineteen ninety one, this is twenty twenty, 242 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I'm sorry, twenty twenty two. This is twenty 243 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: twenty two. So you can say abortion. That's where it's at. 244 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: Stop being afraid to say the word. But the consultant class, 245 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: who does not know what it's doing, is advising not 246 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: to do that. The consultant classes becap. They told this Cheney, 247 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't have a committee, maybe we shouldn't have hearings, 248 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: And she had to tell him. She said, why don't 249 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: y'all stand up? It took a Nick Cheney's daughter to 250 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: tell them to stand up for so, you know, I 251 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: hope that this lets people know on our side they 252 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: can stand up, and if it doesn't, let the leadership know, 253 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: it lets the rank and file, the constituents know to 254 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: make the leadership stand up and stop being scared of 255 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: their own shadow. This is a This is a big victory, big, huge, 256 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: devastating to the Republican Party, and I think it foretells 257 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: what more can come if we hold a lot. You know. 258 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: The funny thing is is that the punding class has 259 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: been saying that Republicans are the dog that caught the 260 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 1: car right for forty some odd plus years. They've been 261 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: one Roe v. Wade overturned, one Roe v. Wade overturned 262 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: forty some ide years. They've had their white evangelical Christian base, 263 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 1: you know, telling holding up those signs of mutilated fetuses 264 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: and this, that and the other thing. And now they 265 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: got their wish, right, they got their wish and now 266 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: you are seeing these red states. It's not enough to 267 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: say that you don't have access to abortion. Now we're 268 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: going to criminalize women. Now we're gonna throw We're gonna 269 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: throw women and people with uteruses in jail. We're going 270 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: to monitor your menstrual cycle. But so that like if 271 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: you're going to New York, we know that you're going 272 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 1: on vacation and not going for an abortion or going 273 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: for business. And I think that do you believe Mark, 274 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: it is this kind of owort, no exceptions, not rape, 275 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: not incests. I mean, they're even having conversations. I can't 276 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: believe my mind that they're having conversations about a ten 277 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: year old becoming a mother, about a thirteen year old 278 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: being able to be a parent, and they think that 279 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,639 Speaker 1: that shit is normal. And so do you think that 280 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: it was this that was the overreach for white women 281 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: who were, like they've been voting. I mean we talk 282 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,400 Speaker 1: about this all the time. They've been voting with their 283 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: white men since the beginning of time, right, Like, they 284 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: have not voted Democrat, they don't split. But in this 285 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 1: instance voter registration in Kansas, seventy percent of new voters 286 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 1: were women, right that signed up? So do you think 287 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: that it is about the egregious nature and the criminality 288 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: that white Republican men are I think this around that 289 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 1: has pushed white women a little too far. I think so, 290 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: and I think again, it's about autonomy, women's bodily autonomy. 291 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: And when you put that right in front, I mean 292 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 1: it's really there's no other way to spend what they've done. 293 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 1: They are very clear about controlling women's bodies, and you 294 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: have to be pretty self enslaved to be in denial 295 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: about that, even if you lied to everybody on outside, 296 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: when you clearly in the mirror as a woman, you 297 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: cannot deny what it's going. And then they've announced, thanks 298 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: to hangs here, uncle town Clarence Thomas. Well next we're 299 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: coming for contraception. Next we're coming for marriage equality in 300 00:18:54,640 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: two issues that are important women. So really, you you don't. 301 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: You don't leave a lot of wiggle rooms. So I 302 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: think what's happening now is, as I said, what we 303 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 1: have been saying, even what Hillary said was going to 304 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: happen has actually happened. Nobody believed it. Oh, y'all have 305 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 1: been saying that years. They're not really gonna do it. 306 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: I see, for exam, you take Susan Collins and Canon 307 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 1: telling me he's not you c and then he lied 308 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 1: to me. But to think about there a lot of 309 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: white women as ignorant as Susan Collins, which really is 310 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 1: disqualified for being in the Senate. You know. And I 311 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: don't know what's worse, uh uh um, pretend lying about it, 312 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: if she lied about whether or not she believed Kavanaugh 313 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: or really being I don't know. I don't know what's worse, really, 314 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 1: to be honest with Yeah, I every reason to believe 315 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: she actually believed him. I think she did too, which 316 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: to me actually makes it worse. But it goes to 317 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: your point, why would you believe him? Because we you know, 318 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: we believe our white husbands, we believe our white men. 319 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: We trust these whiteman. I trust this young white man. 320 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: But your friend and mine, Marcos, a daily coach, He 321 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: says something to me, there was also someone controversial. I'm 322 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 1: not gonna carry his cross either on the show. I'm 323 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: avoiding y'all's crosses. He said, you got your own, Yeah, 324 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: I got Um. I'm saying to see you and I 325 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: want y'all hitter is. And I'm when I say, I 326 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:33,439 Speaker 1: know you're gonna agree with me. But Marco says something deep, right, 327 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 1: He said, Markel men take something two women and and 328 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 1: this is his category. Now again the two major constituencies 329 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: that will determine the election black vote. Suburban college educated 330 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: white women, that's it. That's that golden ticket. Suburban college 331 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: that's Willy Wonka factory. Suburban college educated white woman. That's 332 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: what helped Trump get in. He said, Mark's people that said, 333 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 1: suburban college educated white women. That ain't just about their daughters. 334 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: He said, Mark, that's about their sons. This is what 335 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,679 Speaker 1: you mean, said, these surban college educated away with these 336 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 1: soccer moms raise these you know, these golden boys. They 337 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: raise their sons and they want to send to college 338 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: and be successful. And little boys get little girls knocked up. 339 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 1: All right, So ukn't have no not having no options. 340 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: And I said, I didn't thin about They said, no, 341 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: ain't just about daughters. Them women don't want their little 342 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 1: boys called out there because it ain't paying for them babies, right, 343 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 1: you feel me? So? So he said, when you look 344 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: at all of that, all right, it's what everybody he 345 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: was saying. Suburban college educated white women who have daughters, 346 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: that's wanting. But suburban college gets educated white women who 347 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:53,199 Speaker 1: have sons. This affects everybody. It affects if you are 348 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: controlling everybody's life by making these decisions about what women 349 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 1: ought to be with their bodies. So, um, hey, I 350 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,640 Speaker 1: think that this is this is this is real Kansas, 351 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: and see other states are gonna look at it. And 352 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: again I think I said this last time. I was 353 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: do you see his a little mystery that we haven't solved? 354 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:16,640 Speaker 1: And I keep saying whenever I say this to people 355 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: who pushed back to get real quiet. Rapinsburger testified before 356 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: Januars six committee, Trump called him and needs you to 357 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,360 Speaker 1: find me a living dnod in Livenent Vook residents, why 358 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 1: I can't find you them? Thousand of those news that 359 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 1: we're not can you find him? Dude? Because thirty three 360 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: thousand Georgia Republicans did not vote for president at all, 361 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: didn't vote for you at all. That's before Danielle they knew, 362 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 1: that's before January six. What was going on in November 363 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty that thirty three thousand Georgia Republicans wouldn't 364 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: vote for Donald Trump? We all ask ourselves, like, why 365 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 1: did Joe Biden? So that means and I bet they're 366 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: having a few other states. There was already some folks saying, hey, 367 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: you can't get with this dude. He little wut they 368 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 1: were doing that. So now you've got everything that's happened 369 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: since November twenty twenty, right, you got this Jane where 370 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 1: six coming out and if Merrick Garland I knew, don't 371 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 1: get into this Mary Garland because a black woman pushed him. 372 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: Our friend Priston Clark had the courage to prosecute the 373 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 1: officers who killed Brianna Taylor. If he would only have 374 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: the courage to prosecute Trump, well, I don't want to prosecute. 375 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:35,199 Speaker 1: You're a prosecuting the president. You're prosecuting someone who's committing 376 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: crimes outside of the presidency. Al capone, you get him 377 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: on what you can get him on. If he would 378 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 1: only prosecute Trump on witness tampering currently yep, and mail 379 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: fraud like they did to Andrew gillim yep, two hundred 380 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: million dollars on stop to Steel, then what are you doing. 381 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: You're actually getting his constituency behind you, because then his 382 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 1: argument he's a deal Jake, And say all y'all who 383 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: sent Trump that turned fifteen dollars won't getting money back 384 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: for you because that money was not used properly. Even 385 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: the most staunched problems with the way. Wait a minute, 386 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 1: I get my money that I ain't got no gas money. 387 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: Sometimes we get some under back thing. I don't care. 388 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: So if if, if Gland would just do that which 389 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 1: he's afraid to do. Is interesting though, if you notice 390 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: even safe Meal in mouth milktoast Democrats who said he 391 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: shouldn't be prosecuted now saying he should be. He should 392 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: be prosecuted. You got beyond Panetta saying as a conspiracy. 393 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: He never said the word conspiracy in his eighty years 394 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: of life. So so so, what I'm saying is this 395 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: is an opportunity they get. Role was a gift more 396 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: than we know. And I'm telling you we're close to 397 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 1: getting get codified at as law Democrats would have. Senate 398 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: is gonna be law now. Mansion and sentiment, you're gonna 399 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: get him off that filibuster. Suburban college educated white women 400 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 1: called Joe Biden in Spain, and he was old infanato. 401 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 1: Joe Bidden says, I'll never get rid of the filibuster. 402 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: They called him in Spain and hey man, miss president, 403 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: good morning, how are you to days? You are now 404 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: in favor of filibuster reform. The codified roles, have a 405 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 1: nice day. Joe Badden went out before the press and said, 406 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 1: I'm now in favor of modern fan of filibuster because suburban, 407 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 1: college educated white women called him and told him to 408 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: do it. So this is the power that they have. 409 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: Hopefully they'll exercise it as they did in Kansas in November. 410 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,920 Speaker 1: So staying on the topic of the Department of Justice, 411 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: because Merritt Garland pisses me off, and anybody who listens 412 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,360 Speaker 1: to walkaf knows that on a regular basis that I'm 413 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: sitting around much like you, much like everybody else with 414 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: goddamn sense, waiting for Merritt Garland to do exactly what 415 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: it is that you just said. Prosecute Donald Trump for 416 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,399 Speaker 1: the crimes that he is committed. Don't give me bumper 417 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 1: sticker slogans telling me that nobody is above the law, 418 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: because if you had the mount everest of evidence that 419 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: you had against any other person in these United States, 420 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: they would have been indicted from seventeen months ago. But 421 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: I want to look at what the Department of Justice 422 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: has done recently, which is decide to go after the 423 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: four police officers involved in the murder of Brianna Taylor 424 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: who was sleeping in her own goddamn bed when her 425 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 1: door was busted open and her apartment building was shot 426 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: up and she was murdered. Now, if folks remember, there 427 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: was no we're not going to investigate. There was a 428 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: black DA who is a Republican, This, that, and the 429 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: other thing. The family ends up ends up being awarded 430 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:50,880 Speaker 1: monetary damages for her death, but again no criminal charges. 431 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: The Department of Justice has finally changed that. What do 432 00:26:55,480 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 1: you make of this now, Mark, that's huge? Is huge. Again, 433 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: if our sister Christy, and this is why representation matters. 434 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 1: This is why you know, when we fight for some 435 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: of the things we fight for, we want people that 436 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: look like us. They had the perspective. There's a black 437 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: woman who's the sister Attorney General for civil rights, Kristin 438 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: Clark former, he had the largest committed to civil rights 439 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: on the law. She saw this through, she got the prosecution. Then. 440 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: I don't think this was Merritt Garland, but he has 441 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: to support it. Now. No, this is a very big deal, 442 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: and that's what people are looking for. In fact, the 443 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,120 Speaker 1: dj is probably doing Biden a favor by even getting 444 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: this done. But this is a very very important piece 445 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 1: of prosecution. You can tell that they did not announce it. 446 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: They took their time to announce it, to have the 447 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: opportunity to gather all the evidence and to make the 448 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 1: strongest case possible. You're right, this sister was in her home. 449 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,159 Speaker 1: There's no reason why she should be dead. This I 450 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: think is an open, open and shut case. Again though, 451 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: and to me an even easier case is the case 452 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: to try Donald Trump for e either witness tampering or 453 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: I get it. You know they're afraid Biden, the consultants 454 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: Garland are afraid of setting a precedent so that from 455 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: now on, whatever the the the successor party will prosecute 456 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,679 Speaker 1: the previous party's president. I get that that's what they 457 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: don't want to set up. UM. But I think these 458 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,360 Speaker 1: this is a different situation if you confine it. UM. 459 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: I do think it's it's probably more complicated to charge 460 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: Trump with treason and sedition, um. But witness tampering. So 461 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: the people think you go to trials like it's on TV, 462 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 1: it's not go to trial. Did he call you and 463 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: threaten you not testifying? Yes? Did he call yes? Yes? 464 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: That goes to the jury. That's a yes question. And 465 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: a whole lot of evidence. It's just did he call you. 466 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: We got the evidence and the record of the call. 467 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: That's it. He's done. He's done. On the money, we 468 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: got the records. Did y'all send him money, munty? Yes? 469 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: What did he spend the money on himself? Himself? So, 470 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: I mean, these are these things are black and white. 471 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: But apparently the DOJ is fearful of doing that. But 472 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: what we also need to know too, is that the 473 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: DOJ is not monolithic. Their career prosecutors that are in there. 474 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: And when my sources tell me even on Andrew Giller prosecution, 475 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: Mary Garden didn't know about it, that he sought on 476 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 1: news like everybody else did. So there is some level 477 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: of autonomy when it comes to prosecutors in the deal. 478 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 1: So I don't so I don't know, But he's still 479 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: the attorney general, so I don't know whether or not. 480 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: And and you know, Juliani revealed that he himself had 481 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: even caused splits in communities within the DJ and the FBI. 482 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 1: So Donald Trump even tore up the DJ. I mean, really, 483 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: that might be another polish for prosecution, and you call 484 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 1: sedition within the own law enforcement agencies of the United 485 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: States government. I mean, we ask you Giuliani for that 486 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: lock him up there, which which they have decided not 487 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: to with that, but that just recently. But that was 488 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 1: that was for his involvement um with Russia and his 489 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 1: interference with Russia being a being an asset um. You 490 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: know the other thing though here too when you talk 491 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 1: about all of these agencies and the corruption. Right, we 492 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 1: got the missing text messages, right, we got the We 493 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: got the watchdog who then decided that like, oh no, 494 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: we don't need to do a backup, we don't need 495 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: to alert Congress, we don't need to do these things. 496 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: And I'm like, hello, DJ, paging Merrick Garland. Again, this 497 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 1: isn't How many coincidences do you need to equal equal 498 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: corruption is the question. But last thing for you, Mark 499 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: is on Brittany Griner, who, in my humble opinion, did 500 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 1: not receive the type of attention is still is now 501 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 1: it's starting to bubble up back to the service now 502 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: that she has been sentenced. And this sham trial that 503 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: Russia put on where we knew it was a sham trial. 504 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,440 Speaker 1: Everybody who's either been inside of Russia or been on 505 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 1: the receiving end of one of these sentences and just 506 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: release home will tell all of us this, how do 507 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: you feel that we need to proceed as black folks 508 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 1: in the media, as the media in general, to continue 509 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: to put a spotlight on her and her plight so 510 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 1: she's not forgotten. You're really trying to get me in 511 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: trouble now, Yes, you need to ask Medas off there, 512 00:31:52,200 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: But let me try to put this diplomatically. One time recently, 513 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 1: there was an growing movement for people to get out 514 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 1: in the streets on behalf of Brittany Grinder. I remember 515 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: what happened was that the Biden administration realized what was 516 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 1: happening and then woke up the little slow to things. 517 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 1: They woke up and then they convinced many that a 518 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: movement in the streets that was too loud or too 519 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 1: confrontational would in greater Now, if the movement that got 520 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: started and then stopped got Biden to get off his 521 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: rusted dust to do something, then it served It's good. Literally, 522 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: were just on a call for an hour today, was 523 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: from a very prominent civil rights organization begging me to 524 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: give them, you know, the justification to get back down 525 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 1: the streets. I said, well, you know, I don't think 526 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 1: that's what's desirable right now, and I think it's going 527 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 1: to be very difficult to get people behind that because 528 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: the argument is nobody wants to do anything to hurt Brittain. 529 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: You know, I'm the last person who would say not 530 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 1: to do something. But it's complicated because you don't want 531 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 1: to hurt her, and so you don't really know. I 532 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 1: think that I think the original mistake was from the beginning, 533 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,560 Speaker 1: the White House lad people to believe that they were 534 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 1: going to do something that they never did it. So 535 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 1: and they asked people at the beginning to be quiet. 536 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 1: We got this, they didn't had any do squat. So 537 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: for months everybody was quiet. Then many of us say 538 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: we finished being quiet. Then when people started making those 539 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 1: White House came back, Oh, you're right, we're about to 540 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 1: do something. Go back to being quiet again. So now, 541 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 1: technically the sentence thing was should be supposed to be 542 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:08,719 Speaker 1: a formality to get to the next step of negotiation 543 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:15,720 Speaker 1: to end political imprisonment. Who's asked that is the release 544 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:20,759 Speaker 1: of the merchant of death m Victor Bout For that 545 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: to happen, Biden has agreed to. Yep, So what's the 546 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 1: hold of I mean, it ought to be. I mean 547 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,800 Speaker 1: these because they want they want another one. They decided 548 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,720 Speaker 1: that they wanted another one, and this the other person 549 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 1: that they want, who was actually a convicted murderer who 550 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,560 Speaker 1: is serving time in Germany. So isn't even underneath the 551 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 1: United States is purview? Which is just stupid? Um is 552 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,840 Speaker 1: was their follow up? What's their follow up? Asked what 553 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 1: they need to go ahead and get that. They need 554 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,279 Speaker 1: to call Germany now called you and just get the 555 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 1: person released too, because I'm like, it doesn't matter, right, 556 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,800 Speaker 1: Like to me, it doesn't, it doesn't. I'm like, Okay, 557 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 1: they want their murderers back, great, give them to them, 558 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,120 Speaker 1: let them have them. And you know, I don't know 559 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 1: that these individuals ever really were a threat to the 560 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: United States. And knowing the CIA the way we do, 561 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,719 Speaker 1: I mean, the United States could release them and then 562 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,360 Speaker 1: kill them on inside a week later they wanted to. 563 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,120 Speaker 1: I mean, so that's what they do, and they and 564 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,720 Speaker 1: I'm sure they've infiltrated some of the circles in the Kremlin, 565 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 1: so if they want, they can release them and take 566 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,320 Speaker 1: them out. So I think that they just need to 567 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 1: do that. We need Brittany home. I think there's another 568 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,160 Speaker 1: victor of people want. No one likes the idea of 569 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,759 Speaker 1: seeing a woman, an African American woman, locked up in 570 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,399 Speaker 1: a Russian prison for nine years. I don't think that's 571 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:47,680 Speaker 1: something that people can stomach. So while the DJ is 572 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,640 Speaker 1: prosecuting the four officers involved in Brianna Taylor's death, we 573 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:57,360 Speaker 1: can't stop there. We need Brittany Ryanner released yesterday. And 574 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 1: until Brittany Grinner is free, none of us free. We 575 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: all are Brindy Grinner and Ed regard Reverend Mark Thompson 576 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: as always, thank you for your monthly visit to help 577 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:15,239 Speaker 1: make us woke. We appreciate you, Thank you pleasure to 578 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:22,600 Speaker 1: be here. God bless you in your audience. That is 579 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: it for me today, dear friends, on Woke a f 580 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 1: as always. 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