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Speaker 1: Native lamb Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 4: Welcome.

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Speaker 3: This is Native Lampod. It is day two of Live

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Speaker 3: from the Ship.

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Speaker 5: We are at the DNC, happy to be here. We

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Speaker 5: had an incredible show yesterday. We are your hosts Angela Rye,

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Speaker 5: Tiffany Cross, and Andrew Gillam.

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Speaker 3: And this is episode thirty four.

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Speaker 4: Thirty four. It is thirty four.

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Speaker 3: This is episode this episode is the same age as me.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, so that would be not true.

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Speaker 3: Eight years since last night.

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Speaker 5: Aria, No, I'm just saying, welcome home, y'all. We are

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Speaker 5: thrilled to be here. We have an incredible show. But

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Speaker 5: before we get into to today's show, I would love

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Speaker 5: to hear about you all's highlights from last night at

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Speaker 5: the Democratic National Convention.

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Speaker 1: Wait, do you mean highlights from like what happened as

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Speaker 1: a convention or just highlights from our time here in Chicago.

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Speaker 4: Maybe the convention?

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Speaker 3: Has there been so many Yes, that is crazy about

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Speaker 3: what happened to that man.

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Speaker 1: We have a story for you that will tell another time.

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Speaker 1: But there was something that happened yesterday, So be sure

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Speaker 1: to tune in the data lampard every time we broadcast.

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Speaker 3: Yes when we we have to escape the city. So I.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Jamie Harrison is saying, hello, big chair of the

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Speaker 1: d what we did.

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Speaker 3: I know you're coming on tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: For our viewers at home, Jamie Harrison is the chair

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Speaker 1: of the Democratic National Convention. He's got an amazing job.

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Speaker 1: Dinner National Committee. Forgive me, he's done an amazing job

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Speaker 1: the past couple of years. He as you may remember,

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Speaker 1: is out of South Carolina, ran for Senate and now

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Speaker 1: he chairs the d n C.

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Speaker 3: So we're honored to be here with him.

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Speaker 1: Angela moderated an event with him earlier this week, so

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Speaker 1: he'll be on tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna be on tomorrow. He's gonna be on tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: And I know investments for helping us win stuff they

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Speaker 4: can't see.

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Speaker 1: But we have a whole audience that's standing here in

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Speaker 1: front of us watching. So we want to shout these

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Speaker 1: guys out for being here, being loyal native Lampine UH fans.

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Speaker 1: But I want to say the highlight for me yesterday

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Speaker 1: was definitely Joe Biden. His There were so many moments

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Speaker 1: but when he closed out and said, like America, I've

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Speaker 1: given you everything, I can't. Yes, I don't want to say.

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Speaker 1: I was in somebody's room watching this, having some snacks,

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Speaker 1: and I saw a little tear come out of somebody's eyes.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say, who stopping.

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Speaker 3: Stopping You guys sad time out.

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Speaker 5: I am so pissed off right now. You guys watched

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Speaker 5: this together and didn't tell me.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let me just say this is.

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Speaker 4: No let your food from the lobby, and you went

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Speaker 4: up to your room.

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Speaker 5: Well, and I shouldn't have done that because I got

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Speaker 6: But we'll story.

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Speaker 1: My god, but I was not planning to go to Andrew's.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it too, Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: I just had.

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Speaker 5: Me over here in time out and plussy versus Ferguson's seversation.

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Speaker 3: Over here, we have a lot of yellow.

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Speaker 4: Alert, Yellow girl alert, yellow girl alert.

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Speaker 5: Myself there, you can shop by myself.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's so confused. It's fine, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Angela was on the call handling business. She's been responsible

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Speaker 1: for the production, doing so many things. I was one

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Speaker 1: of my from Andrew and I were exhausted, and I

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Speaker 1: told Andrew I didn't want anything to eat, and he

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Speaker 1: were he did.

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Speaker 3: He ordered me something.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, he ordered me a salad and he was like,

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Speaker 1: to watch Biden and so I think Andrew was ready

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Speaker 3: Anyway, we watched and at the end of.

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Speaker 1: The speed I looked over to Andrew and it was

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Speaker 3: That's a singlenzels here.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So what was your highlight, Andrew, Andrew tips highlight?

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Speaker 4: Was you crying sometimes?

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Speaker 7: You know?

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Speaker 4: You yawned?

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Speaker 3: Yes, and you know we yawned in this feed.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, no, it was over. I was

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Speaker 4: going to be over. But in truth, I was touched

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Speaker 4: sincerely by one the love the almost five minute ovation

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Speaker 4: that Democrats gave to Joe Biden last night. It was

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Speaker 4: it was so due, it was so merited. I said

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Speaker 4: he committed the most selfless act in politics. I think

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Speaker 4: that I certainly can remember during my lifetime. Yeah, and

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Speaker 4: it still has Donald Trump flamoxt because he didn't think

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Speaker 4: it was possible for the most powerful person in the

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Speaker 4: was really that was really touching. I thought Hillary Clinton's

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Speaker 4: thought it was a really powerful address given by her.

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Speaker 4: And we talked Yesterda about whether or not she might

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Speaker 4: she previously was challenged by Trump. Unfortunately the election I'll

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Speaker 4: come was what it was. And then to now see

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Speaker 4: Kamala another woman in this position where she's competing to

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Speaker 4: vanquish this great enemy of ours with a great chance

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Speaker 4: her and I love that.

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Speaker 5: I will say very briefly my highlight yesterday in addition

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Speaker 5: and the question Siviny asked him to just pull out

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Speaker 5: like the best of him and like knowing y'all, I

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Speaker 5: don't know if y'all really know. He does not like

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Speaker 5: to do press that much, and he was like, I'm

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Speaker 5: just gonna be here, y'all. A Macari and Derek and

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Speaker 5: that was fantastic. I will also say I love to

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Speaker 5: see Jasmine Crockett, AOC, Lauren Underwood, the women who are

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Speaker 5: undergirding this party, this convention, a new generation.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about passing the torch in real time.

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Speaker 5: Seeing that happen over and over again throughout last night

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Speaker 5: it really means to be a big tent.

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Speaker 3: Tonight's theme is a.

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Speaker 5: Bold vision for America's future, and I think we'll see

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Speaker 5: more of that, and of course to help us talk

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Speaker 5: just honor, but to support and to build infrastructure in

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Speaker 5: communities of color and to the rising majority. As Tiffany

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Speaker 5: Cross always says, is Latasha Brown.

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Speaker 7: Voters matter.

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Speaker 3: We would love beautiful of Native Lampid.

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Speaker 5: We are thrilled to have Latasha Brown joining you.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 1: As if you watch news, if you follow politics closely,

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Speaker 1: you know Latasha very well.

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Speaker 3: She has an amazing voice.

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Speaker 1: But what I love about Latasha is you cannot tell

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Speaker 1: the story of America without talking about Latasha Brown and

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Speaker 1: the work that she does. We don't want to leave

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Speaker 1: out cliff Albright as well as our partner and co

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Speaker 1: founder of Black Voters Matter. But Latasha, you show up

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Speaker 1: when nobody calls.

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Speaker 6: That's right.

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Speaker 1: When Hurricane Katrina happened, nobody asked you. You just sprung

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Speaker 1: into action and you love everybody. But you love black

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Speaker 1: folks like you love yourself.

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Speaker 4: And it is just the body of the sister spirit. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 4: bring it, but in a young that's missionary. That's right.

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Speaker 3: Woman like Ethereal Spirits, she's an impact, she's our deity.

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Speaker 5: But she's definitely yes herself, Yes, and an evangelist, warrior,

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Speaker 4: Welcome, says thank you.

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Speaker 6: I am at the Native Pod.

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Speaker 8: I'm just happy to be here in Native This is

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Speaker 8: our land, this is out and I feel that, I

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Speaker 6: I'm so proud of y'all. I love each and every

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Speaker 8: Like every week I'm listening because I was like, listen,

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Speaker 8: let me get grounded, let me get right. I was like, Angela,

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Speaker 8: gonna bring some fire and get some spice on it.

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Speaker 8: They're typically gonna like, look, well, I'm just saying, and literally,

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Speaker 5: I love that you are doing the people's work, and

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Speaker 5: it is always our honor not only to lift you

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Speaker 5: up and to encourage you, but anytime you've call on us,

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Speaker 5: we want to be there with you. I'll never forget

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Speaker 5: And t If I hope you don't mind me telling

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Speaker 5: MSNBC digitive and we knew there was no other place

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Speaker 5: work of black voters matter is so critical, especially in

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Speaker 8: You know, I think that it's important for us to

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Speaker 8: recognize that if change is to happen, if we're going

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Speaker 8: to have the nation that we desire, we deserve and

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Speaker 6: So we've got to generate it.

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Speaker 8: But it's not just been strategy that's moved us forward.

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Speaker 8: It's been spirit. It's been strategy in the spirit, the

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Speaker 8: Voters Matter, we wanted to create an organization that was

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Speaker 8: unapologetic about being black. Right we ride around in a

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Speaker 8: and affirm that and not just say that we're participating

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Speaker 6: We're a power building group.

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Speaker 8: We're real clear that all the work that we're doing

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Speaker 8: is really about how do we build power for black folks.

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Speaker 8: And when people are talking about voting, yes, voting is

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Speaker 8: one key, you know, and is a very very powerful tool,

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Speaker 8: but it's also a space of when you own your agency.

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Speaker 8: There's something about voting that's really about owning your agency

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Speaker 8: that that's fundamentally you know, And also we've got to

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Speaker 8: harming our communities, there has to be a consequence. So

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Speaker 5: We have some work to do, including always building black

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Speaker 3: Look at them over here. Cunningham, activist, writer and a

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Speaker 3: Were waiting for one more to join us, she said, Brittany,

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Speaker 1: You're an activists out of Missouri. You also served on

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Speaker 1: Preaching, and hell a lot of preaching, and she and

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Speaker 3: But she's also as a one said a Machety member.

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Speaker 3: So thank you for being here.

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Speaker 11: But you know, I thought I'm a little bit mad

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Speaker 3: I could not speak after Latasha. The word has been misinformation.

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Speaker 11: Benediction has been prayed, the collection play has been passed

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Speaker 11: Can we talk about that at some point because nobody

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Speaker 11: So, I really think that this question about action is

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Speaker 11: Because there are a lot of folks for whom this

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Speaker 3: But guess what we hear?

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Speaker 11: Yea, So now you've got to go dream bigger. Now

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Speaker 11: But also like, when is the last time somebody ever

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Speaker 11: There is a reason why people are feeling squeezed out.

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Speaker 11: There is a reason why folks are saying, well, you

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Speaker 11: Like if I'm trying to get something done for my son,

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Speaker 11: for y'all nephew, then I'm gonna go come on and

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Speaker 11: back to make it happen. Why would I not do

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Speaker 11: that for my people? Why would I not vote and protest.

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Speaker 11: Why would I not protest and strategize. Why would I

448
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Speaker 11: not strategize and use content and media like I'm not

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Speaker 11: leaving nothing on the table for our freedom.

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Speaker 3: I refuse to do that.

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Speaker 11: And that's the kind of activity that we have to

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Speaker 11: decide to be engaged in every single day.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 5: I just want to tell y'all real quick, while the

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Speaker 5: show's going on. This is actually one of my favorite

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Speaker 5: parts of the Democratic National Convention. But it's real special today.

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Speaker 5: The roll call is happening right now.

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Speaker 12: I love it.

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Speaker 5: And Ritt, while you were talking about imagination, you saw

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Speaker 5: Wes Moore holding Mike like a hip hop artist.

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Speaker 3: Governor, No, it was.

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Speaker 5: Dope Governor Wes Moore, our black governor from from Maryland,

463
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Speaker 5: but our black governor because we ain't got enough, okay,

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Speaker 5: saying that Maryland is committing its votes to Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 3: What a historic moment.

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Speaker 5: You talk about imagination all the time, You talk about

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Speaker 5: it all the time. They're also holding everybody, including our

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Speaker 5: dear sister Aaron, So talk about imagination that is.

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Speaker 1: But can we just take a moment to acknowledge that

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Speaker 1: though yes, said this historic candidate at the first black

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Speaker 1: woman president or the president Alex because I speaking into

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Speaker 1: existence Holidasha you, I hope you don't mind me violating

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Speaker 1: our confidentiality agreement and.

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Speaker 6: Talking about.

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Speaker 1: Yes o Latasha, what about the hell is fine? But Natasha,

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Speaker 1: we were all at the Machete group chat. We were

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Speaker 1: in there and we talked eight thousands. Have you missed

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Speaker 1: the group chat for an hour? You come back in

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Speaker 1: a SI.

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Speaker 3: This is worth violating. And she on the stage with

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Speaker 3: three when we were talking about.

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Speaker 1: The chances for vice president here and Latasha wrote this,

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Speaker 1: I'm like this is going in my book. It was

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Speaker 1: a dissertation where Latasha was saying, essentially, we are spiritual

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Speaker 1: beings having a human experience and it's just time. There

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Speaker 1: was no other option that it is time the work

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Speaker 1: that black women have done. And you I can't echo

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Speaker 1: your words as beautifully and poetically and lyrically as you do,

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Speaker 1: but I've read that and got teary. I because there

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Speaker 1: is no other option other than for this to happen.

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Speaker 1: We talk about the dream and the hope of the slave,

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Speaker 1: and some would argue the dream and the hope of

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Speaker 1: the enslaves was not to succeed here in America, but

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Speaker 1: to go home, back to our roots. And here we

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Speaker 1: have a convergence, a confluence of all of that happening.

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Speaker 1: We have gone to the motherland together and now we

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Speaker 1: have this bridge of the enslaved everywhere. She is the

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Speaker 1: daughter of immigrants. Yes, people don't realize that the enslaved

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Speaker 1: were also in Jamaica.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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Speaker 1: We are reaching across continents, We are reaching across nations

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Speaker 1: and leading the way here in America.

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Speaker 11: And I'm just I have goosebumps so for for what

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Speaker 11: gives you because I share that spirit with you, what

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Speaker 11: gives you that.

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Speaker 1: Self assured, unshaken faith that the wind is at our back.

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Speaker 3: Now this is going to.

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Speaker 7: Happen because we're here, like and I need people to

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Speaker 7: sit in it.

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Speaker 4: We are here.

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Speaker 8: We are literally the children, the great great great grandchildren

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Speaker 8: of those who they're they were so our families, our

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Speaker 8: ancestors were so dehumanized, they weren't even considered full human beings,

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Speaker 8: right that to be able to read right here we

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Speaker 8: are literally running colleges, creating colleges, establishing them.

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Speaker 6: Were her hair.

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Speaker 4: Come hair?

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Speaker 3: Okay, no, no, no, that's.

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Speaker 7: That's already.

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Speaker 1: By two additional machete members. Part of our Machete group chat.

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Speaker 1: We have the amazing Carrie Champion.

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Speaker 3: You all know Ferry Champion. She has done amazing work

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Speaker 3: in media, in sports.

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Speaker 1: She's constantly calling me asked me to explain something sports

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Speaker 1: related to her. It's exhausting, but she is amazing. You've

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Speaker 1: seen Carrie everywhere. I call her the cat Walk Assassin.

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Speaker 1: You can see why and be my sister in journalism.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Haynes, I know you all see her, and so

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Speaker 1: many people tell me how much they enjoy Aaron Haynes,

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Speaker 1: who is the face of the nineteenth Please check out

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Speaker 1: her newsletter in that platform. But so many people Aaron

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Speaker 1: always tell me how amazed think you are on television,

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Speaker 1: And I was telling Angela on the way here. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: they don't even know the real Errand because as great

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Speaker 1: as she is on.

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Speaker 3: MSN at.

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Speaker 11: The swats air, she is the wittiest and funniest in

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Speaker 11: our group, but also just so smart. Your scope on

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Speaker 11: things so it is.

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Speaker 3: I just feel like this is a dream, wrong call,

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Speaker 3: just a technical thing. Who are you brand me and

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Speaker 3: carrying that you can lift up your little you're sharing.

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Speaker 3: I'm so sorry my fickness is pushing you out.

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Speaker 6: You're just one.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to tell people that let's start.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with Aaron and will work our way down Aaron.

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Speaker 1: As as a journalist, you take a difference of things.

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Speaker 1: What what does this moment mean for you? Because I

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Speaker 1: feel like some people enter this space as a journalist,

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Speaker 1: some people enter this space as a woman, some people

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Speaker 1: enter this space as a black person.

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Speaker 3: Where are you right now?

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Speaker 6: In what order?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 13: I mean, look, you got to unmute. Listen to black women.

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Speaker 6: I'm speaking.

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Speaker 3: I'm speaking exactly from freaking to the d n C.

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Speaker 10: Here.

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Speaker 9: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: He's not kidding.

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Speaker 13: I mean, listen, I'm all of those things obviously at once.

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Speaker 13: I bring all those lived identities to who I am

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Speaker 13: as a journalist. Don't apologize for that, but you know,

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Speaker 13: I really thought about, you know, boarding my plane in

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Speaker 13: Chicago on Sunday. Sunday was the one hundred and fourth

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Speaker 13: anniversary of the nineteenth Amendment, which is the amendment for

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Speaker 13: which my newsroom is named. Uh an amendment which guaranteed

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Speaker 13: the right for some but not all, women.

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Speaker 6: The right to vote.

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Speaker 13: Hello, we had to fight twice as hard or even

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Speaker 13: longer before we had our full access to the franchise.

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Speaker 13: We're still fighting, our access to this democracy still being challenged.

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Speaker 13: You see that we could have seen that this week

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Speaker 13: coming into this convention, right, which could have been a

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Speaker 13: contested convention, open convention. That's not what we're seeing here.

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Speaker 13: We are seeing a Democratic party that is unified behind

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Speaker 13: a black woman who could become the first woman president

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Speaker 13: of the United States. That is not a moment that

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Speaker 13: we necessarily saw coming when we started the nineteenth four

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Speaker 13: almost five years ago. Literally the nineteen started after the

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Speaker 13: twenty sixteen election, when we saw these tired tropes around electability,

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Speaker 13: around readiness, around ambition, and we knew that there was

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Speaker 13: a different way to talk about women, to talk about

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Speaker 13: our leadership, to talk about gender and our politics in

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Speaker 13: this country, in the emerging small de democracy that you

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Speaker 13: talked about much, Tiffany, that you continue to talk about.

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Speaker 13: So yeah, I mean, I come to a convention where

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Speaker 13: the diversity that I'm seeing in the arena is reflected

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Speaker 13: on stage as well as in the audience. That's not

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Speaker 13: something that I saw just a month ago at the

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Speaker 13: Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

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Speaker 3: That is striking to me.

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Speaker 13: I think we know it's real, but to see it

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Speaker 13: happening to see it in reality, a true representative democracy

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Speaker 13: really in this arena, and abortion, which we knew was

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Speaker 13: on the ballot, was on stage last night. That's still

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Speaker 13: remarkable to think about. So, I mean, I don't know,

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Speaker 13: as a journalist, this is just a remarkable moment to

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Speaker 13: cover as a black woman. I am thinking about everybody

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Speaker 13: from Shirley Chisholm to Jesse Jackson to I mean, just

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Speaker 13: so many people that paved the way for this moment

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Speaker 13: to be possible. Mignon Moore, Donna Brazil, Lea Daughtry, Yolanda Carro,

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Speaker 13: I mean all just front and center in this moment.

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Speaker 13: They helped to manifest the moment which we now find ourselves.

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Speaker 13: And as a journalist, I mean, I can't not mention

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Speaker 13: them in this conversation. So yeah, there's a lot there.

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Speaker 13: And obviously the Nineteenth is feeling pretty good about, you know,

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Speaker 13: the idea that we had four years ago, because it's

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Speaker 13: all on full display this week.

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Speaker 1: And your combridge is constantly beautiful.

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Speaker 5: God also the host of the Amendment podcast, which we

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Speaker 5: didn't say, And speaking of podcast hosts, we also have.

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Speaker 3: Carrie Chamber a podcast hosts.

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Speaker 5: The podcast host, but we also have Carrie Champion here.

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Speaker 5: What I love about you being here, Carrie is this

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Speaker 5: isn't something where you had to come.

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Speaker 3: You felt compelled to come.

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Speaker 5: I know you have that headset on, but if you

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Speaker 5: don't mind picking up that mike, we love to talk

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Speaker 5: to you about what.

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Speaker 3: Made you want to be here. And Andrew Gillham, just

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Speaker 3: because the women are occupied with six of these seats,

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Speaker 3: I need a way in here, a double.

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Speaker 14: Dutch first, second, first, first and foremost, thank you guys

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Speaker 14: for having me. I was just with I'm standing I

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Speaker 14: just want to talk about my machetes for a minute.

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Speaker 14: I'm standing out front. I'm waiting for someone to bring

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Speaker 14: me a cidential and who do I see just walk

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Speaker 14: up on me and it was like, no, I got

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Speaker 14: you follow me, I have a pass. We so are

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Speaker 14: in sync with one another. Of all the people that

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Speaker 14: I could see standing in front of the United Center,

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Speaker 14: Aaron walks up on me and gives me of all

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Speaker 14: the people, and it was just like, I love you

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Speaker 14: so much. I love this, I love the sisterhood.

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Speaker 4: I love what you all are doing.

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Speaker 14: You all know that, Andrew, I love you, and I

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Speaker 14: love I love Britt because she's letting one of my butt.

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Speaker 4: Cheeks just come to.

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Speaker 14: It is yet holding on. This is the workout for

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Speaker 14: the day. So I am a CNN contributor, but I

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Speaker 14: did not have to come. But I was like, if

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Speaker 14: I missed this moment, I miss I miss Barock's moment.

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Speaker 14: But if I missed this moment, this to me felt

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Speaker 14: so substantial and so bigger than us. And I felt

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Speaker 14: like this appointment in which Kamala Harris has in this

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Speaker 14: moment felt divine. It is a testimony to everything can

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Speaker 14: happen in a in a blink of any of overnight.

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Speaker 14: My God is so real, and so I was able

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Speaker 14: to witness what happened to this woman three, four or

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Speaker 14: five months ago. Nobody could have told me this is

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Speaker 14: where we would be, And in an instant, I am

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Speaker 14: sitting here and I'm all like, this is a testimony

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Speaker 14: to those who believe and who have chosen. So what's

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Speaker 14: meant for you is meant for you, and no one

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Speaker 14: can take it away from you. And I'm watching in

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Speaker 14: real time, and so I had to be here because

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Speaker 14: I live that. I believe that we all do. We've

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Speaker 14: been in these moments and it's something special in my world.

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Speaker 4: Of sports.

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Speaker 14: As we all know, I said this, it's not an

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Speaker 14: accident where you have these two entities where women's athletics

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Speaker 14: is taken off in a way in which we have

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Speaker 14: never seen before. And then when we look at women

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Speaker 14: in the world fighting, and we're saying, and I've said

666
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Speaker 14: this before, not on my damn watch, you want to

667
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 14: take away these things bit by bit. You played your hand,

668
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 14: you over played your hand. And now we are here

669
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 14: and we are righteous, and we are taking back what

670
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 14: is ours. There is this idea in sports that everyone

671
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 14: needs a good a good story, a good rivalry story,

672
00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 14: always needs a really good person, and they need the foil, right,

673
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 14: they need a good athlete and they need a foil.

674
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 14: But in this instance, women, black women are the foil.

675
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 14: We are taking it and we're taking it back. You

676
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 14: thought you were the superhero, but the story is ours.

677
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 14: And I am so grateful to be here. And I'm

678
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 14: more excited because I thought I was coming on tomorrow,

679
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 14: but since you guys have me on to day, I'm

680
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 14: just hanging out but checking off.

681
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 5: Well, we are so grateful, y'all. We promise, y'all, we

682
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 5: need it. Only about five minutes of your time, so

683
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 5: We're gonna let y'all head on out. Natasha got people.

684
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 3: To seeing things to do. We got some other guests

685
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 3: coming up. But we are so so grateful for you. Yes,

686
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 3: you're welcome.

687
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 4: Let me put eyes on you all. It is really

688
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 4: really really beautiful fold to see this. Uh, this sisterhood,

689
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 4: This sisterhood, y'all have created a monkst incredible black women

690
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 4: who are doing it big, doing it bad. Aeron, so

691
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 4: proud for you of you.

692
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 5: No take Edie is joining us as Aaron is the party.

693
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 5: Joe take a Edie is the founder of Win with

694
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 5: Black Women and as she is also as she hugs Aaron,

695
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 5: coming up here, come sit by me.

696
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 3: Joe comes in by me.

697
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 5: Joe, I know that Andrew, Andrew got some things to say.

698
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 5: He got some reflections from last time too, So I

699
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 5: want you to bring in Joe take. As she puts

700
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 5: her headphones on.

701
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 10: Win.

702
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 6: Hello.

703
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 4: Everybody around the globe probably by now knows who you are,

704
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 4: given the fact that Joe take it on that what.

705
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 4: Four weeks ago, decided that she was going to host

706
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 4: UH the welcoming fundraiser for Kamala Harris as she was

707
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 4: basically named endorsed by Joe Biden on that Sunday, that

708
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 4: faithful Sunday, when he decided he would no longer pursued

709
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 4: the Democratic nomination for re election to the presidency. And

710
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 4: then everybody started hearing about this Black Women's Call that

711
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 4: was going to take place, that almost near forty that

712
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 4: had been taking place, but we didn't know it right.

713
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 4: The rest of the world didn't know what you had

714
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 4: envisioned and created four years prior. And so we got

715
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 4: invited into this space, just very briefly to get a

716
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 4: glimpse at the kind of power that you have been

717
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 4: manifesting for four years with this group, made very evident

718
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 4: and obvious for anyone to see when y'all pulled forty

719
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 4: thousand women together on a phone call, Black women the

720
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 4: initial call. Then we had black men, and we had

721
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 4: the white sisters, and then we had what do we bros?

722
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 4: What do we call the white guys? So I'm understating

723
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 4: the power of it, your taker, But I'd love for

724
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 4: you to want just vision back to four years ago

725
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 4: and what you thought about what you envisioned, and men

726
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 4: bring us forward to like how did all these calls

727
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 4: come together?

728
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: Can I tell you, Joe Teka our comments, and we

729
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 1: can probably see people are saying, I am I was

730
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: one of the.

731
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Speaker 3: Forty four thousand. So there are people who are so fighted.

732
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Speaker 15: Sorry good, yeah, yeah, you know, I think in order

733
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 15: to go back four years, we probably have to go

734
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,959
Speaker 15: back sixty years, okay, right, because when with black women

735
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 15: was born out of the lineage of the work, the struggle,

736
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 15: the fight of black women who came before us that

737
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 15: poured into the next generation of Black women, who poured

738
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 15: into the next generation of Black women, who poured into

739
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 15: the next generation, the colored girls.

740
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 16: Because four years ago, we all as.

741
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 15: Black women were collectively outraged by the narrative, the sexism

742
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 15: and the racism that had entered the conversation as it

743
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 15: related to who was going to be vice president. Every

744
00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 15: single capable woman black woman that was being named was

745
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,919
Speaker 15: facing racist, sexist, ad hominal attacks, and we as black

746
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 15: women were all outrage.

747
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 16: I picked up the phone. I called Mignon Moore.

748
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 15: Before I had called Mignon, I had saw a Facebook

749
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 15: video by Bishop Leodatri and I called Mignon. I said, Mignyon,

750
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 15: what are y'all gonna do? Meaning the Colored girls? Mignon said,

751
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 15: what are y'all gonna do? She meant, what are you, Tiffany, Angela, Brittany, Latasha, Shavon,

752
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 15: all of us, what are we gonna do? And so

753
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 15: it took me twenty minutes to sit there and gather myself.

754
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 15: After I got gathered by Mignon Moore, and I put

755
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 15: out an email and I send that email to sixty

756
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 15: five sister friends from every sector that I had had

757
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,399
Speaker 15: the opportunity to work, of which two of those sister

758
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 15: friends are.

759
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 16: Sitting right here on the stage, Angela Rai.

760
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 15: And Tiffany Cross. And the first person to reply back

761
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 15: to that email, I believe was Yolanda Carraway and then

762
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 15: Donna Brazil. So it's something about the colored girls who

763
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 15: were mentored by doctor Dorothy Irene Hyatt, who was mentored

764
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 15: by A Sicily Tyson. And so you think about that night,

765
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 15: the first night August second, I believe August first, that

766
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 15: we came together. It was ninety of us and we said,

767
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 15: right then, not on our watch, they will not speak

768
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 15: on black women in this way. And then we went

769
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 15: on to say that there needed to be a black

770
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 15: woman at the top of the ticket, and we said

771
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 15: it's time. But what we also said that we were

772
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 15: going to continue to do the work. And I think

773
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 15: the important part of it is that black women have

774
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 15: always done the work when no one was looking. Always

775
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,280
Speaker 15: and when with black women over the last four years,

776
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 15: we would not be who we are today or then

777
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 15: had it not been for women that paid the way

778
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 15: or mentored us to be in position to have the

779
00:38:58,160 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 15: courage and conviction to.

780
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 16: Continue the work. And that has been so important.

781
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 15: And over the last four years it's been sisters like

782
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 15: Tiffany and Angela to say yes, who say like, we're

783
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 15: not just in the political arena with women, with black women.

784
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 15: We have fought for black women anytime racism is sexism

785
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 15: has been hurled their way, whether or not it's a

786
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 15: sister that is, you know, unlawfully detained in a Russian

787
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 15: prison and that we need to lift our voices collectively

788
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 15: and break our home, or if they're putting racist attacks

789
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 15: against a young, beautiful black woman who is the Little Mermaid.

790
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 15: We said we're gonna buy out one hundred theaters, and

791
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 15: so that's the work that we've been doing. So on

792
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,959
Speaker 15: July twenty first, our meeting was already set. Black Women

793
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 15: was already gonna meet. We just needed to shift the agenda,

794
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 15: and I think that's the importance. All we had to

795
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 15: do was shift the agenda. The meeting was already set.

796
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 15: Sisters caught on fire. And it's important to know. We

797
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 15: had forty four thousand on zoom. Bless it be a

798
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 15: black woman, because our zoom opened up at ten pm

799
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:58,720
Speaker 15: that night and that's.

800
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Speaker 16: Where we grew.

801
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 15: But we had fift the thousand other black women. There

802
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 15: were thirty thousand in clubhouse. There were ten thousand on

803
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,439
Speaker 15: a conference call line. And that just shows that black

804
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 15: women would figure out what we need to do anywhere anyhow.

805
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 15: And the last thing that I would say is that

806
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 15: that fundraising link Star Jones dropped that fundraising link at

807
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 15: eleven twenty pm.

808
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 16: Wow, and by one a m. We had raised one

809
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 16: point six million dollars.

810
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 3: Wow.

811
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 4: You bad know that we made.

812
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 3: We are bad black women.

813
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 4: But I just want to exclamation mark this point, which

814
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 4: was the meeting was already said. We just had to

815
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 4: pivot the agenda, y'all. The other way to say that

816
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 4: is when you when you stay ready, you don't have

817
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 4: to get ready.

818
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 15: Speaking of that, my President President ready to say we've

819
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 15: been joined.

820
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Speaker 17: The President, welcome the delta Sigma Theater president, Miss Elsie

821
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 17: Cook Holmes, who is one of the forty four thousand

822
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 17: and that that j'll take us called upon it and

823
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 17: including one of the original sixty.

824
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 3: So we wanted to be here.

825
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 5: I thought that it was really important, y'all know, I'm

826
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 5: about to say some a little reckless. It was really

827
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 5: important for people that show colors and signs to know

828
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 5: that colors and signs have united. They have united behind

829
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 5: at Aka Nominee and I love to see it. I

830
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 5: got to spend some time with you a President Homes

831
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 5: at the mid Western Regional Conference at Delta, and to

832
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 5: watch how many of you are are supporting Kamala Hairs

833
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 5: without reservation, which is beautiful to see.

834
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 18: I will tell you we are excited and this is

835
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 18: a moment of unity. This is a moment of unity.

836
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 18: To your point, regardless of what colors you wear, one

837
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 18: of our divine nine sisters is a candidate for the

838
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 18: United States President, and so it is so awesome. We

839
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 18: certainly and Delta are pleased and proud that she is

840
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 18: following the footsteps of our sorrow Shirley Chisholm, who in

841
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 18: nineteen seventy two broke ground at a time when she

842
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,240
Speaker 18: really had to bring her.

843
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 6: Own chair to have that seat at the table.

844
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 18: But look where we are fifty two years later, and

845
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 18: it shouldn't have taken fifty two years, but we are

846
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 18: here and we are meeting the moment collectively. Joe Taka

847
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 18: has done amazing work since twenty twenty.

848
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 6: But what started with such a few has.

849
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 18: Grown to a movement and I think that everyone is

850
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 18: following in those footsteps. And we from a D nine perspective,

851
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 18: Delta Sigma Theta has been doing this work a long time.

852
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 18: All of our organizations have and we know what's going

853
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 18: to take all of us, and we are all in love.

854
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people in the comments and

855
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 1: welcome and thank you for being here. With that, a

856
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: lot of people are asking Joe take like how did

857
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 1: you do this so quickly? And you just explained this work,

858
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: what's happening? You have been in this in four years,

859
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: and so I think it's so important to note for people.

860
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 3: Some people get in this for the glory. Some people

861
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 3: get in this to tell a story. Some people get

862
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 3: in this.

863
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 1: To hop on a hashtag and build a plat form

864
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: and not a community. You were an organizer, you were

865
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: part of the NAACP at staff. You and I have

866
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: known each other for a long time. You know what

867
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: I always say about you, and I can't pass this

868
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: opportunity to say, I think Joe take is one of

869
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: the most beautiful people y'all. I'm so her cheekbones and

870
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: I think one of the most Yeah, well, people are

871
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: people are noticing, people are noticing. And you also what

872
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: people may not know about you. You have an amazing

873
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 1: singing voice. Just you bless us with your melodic tombre

874
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: of your voice all the time.

875
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 3: But if you could speak to the people who.

876
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:40,359
Speaker 1: Who maybe hop on that hashtag activism and just press

877
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 1: them to do a little more, especially at this moment,

878
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 1: in this time for people. If I was live during

879
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: the Civil rights movement, I would whatever you're doing now

880
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: is what you would have been doing.

881
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 3: So what's your piece of advice for them?

882
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 16: You know, my advice is that movement work is not

883
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 16: like a microwave.

884
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 15: We we can't just pop it in the microwave like

885
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 15: you do a bag of popcorn and just pop your

886
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 15: way to freedom and to a movement. The work is consistent, Often,

887
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 15: the work is hard, and the work often happens most

888
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 15: importantly when no one is looking.

889
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Speaker 16: And I think that is the part that in this

890
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:19,879
Speaker 16: moment right now.

891
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 15: Yes we can use a hashtag, but we actually have

892
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 15: to put boots on the ground.

893
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 16: We actually have to talk to voters.

894
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 15: We cannot just assume that we're going to win this

895
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 15: election on zoom. Yes we can meet on zoom, but

896
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 15: we actually got to get on doors. We got to

897
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 15: get in community. We have to meet people where they are,

898
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 15: and we have to meet people everywhere. That is what

899
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 15: it is going to take to win this election. That

900
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 15: is how movements have always been won. It's consistency. It's consistency,

901
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 15: and it happens over time. It's never overnight. It's never overnight. Yes,

902
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 15: people may find out about you overnight, but the work

903
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 15: is never overnight. And that's what it's gonna take for

904
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 15: us in this next you know.

905
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 19: And beyond that you've already shown up, and beyond seventy seven,

906
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 19: yes speaking of seventy seven, so so matter presid I'm

907
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 19: gonna ask you to just open up the window a

908
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 19: little bit into the kind of incredible organizing that members

909
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:20,720
Speaker 19: of D nine organizations I'm.

910
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Speaker 4: Very familiar, specifically with with Delta's my unfortunate to be

911
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 4: married to one my sisters won my auntie one the

912
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 4: reds all around, Yes, yes, highly influenced by them. And

913
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 4: what I know is that whether there's a black woman

914
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 4: at the top of the ticket in a in a

915
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Speaker 4: race or not, you all have a deeply invested interest

916
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 4: in ensuring that our community stays awake and stays organized.

917
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 4: I'd like to hear you if you would, if it's

918
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 4: possible to just illuminate for us, how what kind of

919
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 4: ways in which should people expect to see deltas at

920
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 4: the alumni alumni level as well as on community uh

921
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 4: and university campuses. How can we andnticipation seeing them organized?

922
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 4: If y'all listening and seeing and y'all haven't heard the news,

923
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 4: I'm sure y'all already heard from your your present around

924
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 4: how y'all organized it. But tell the rest of us

925
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,879
Speaker 4: what can we expect to see when the full breath,

926
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 4: weight and scope of your membership gets to work around

927
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 4: activating voter registration and turnout.

928
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Speaker 6: Absolutely so, first of all, to your point, we are

929
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Speaker 6: not new to this.

930
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Speaker 18: We are truly true to this, and we have been

931
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Speaker 18: since nineteen thirteen when we fought for women's suffrage at

932
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 18: the time that black folks could not.

933
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Speaker 6: Could not vote.

934
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Speaker 18: But fast forward to now, we are educating voters, We're

935
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 18: mobilizing voters. We're making sure that voters are registered, that

936
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Speaker 18: they check their registration status so that they won't be

937
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 18: surprised when they go to the polls to cast their balots.

938
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Speaker 18: We're making sure that the vote is protected and doing

939
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 18: that through a number of ways. We have trained our

940
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 18: members throughout our regional conference cycles this summer, and we

941
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Speaker 18: have additional ways to train our members as well as

942
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Speaker 18: the community.

943
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Speaker 6: And we're brought in that to the Divine nine not

944
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Speaker 6: only on.

945
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:09,399
Speaker 18: Election registration, education and mobilization, but that all important voter

946
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 18: protection amassing lawyers, pole watchers, pole monitors, making sure that

947
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Speaker 18: we have that army of individuals who can be prepared to.

948
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Speaker 6: Make sure that our vote is protected.

949
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Speaker 18: And we've taken this step further in Delta in terms

950
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Speaker 18: of three lawsuits to make sure that there's over thirty

951
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:35,280
Speaker 18: states have passed laws that make it more difficult instead

952
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 18: of easier, to vote.

953
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 6: And so as a result of that in Georgia.

954
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 18: In Texas into as a coplaintive into two lawsuits with

955
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 18: LDF and we're just entering in one in Mississippi, and

956
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 18: it's around fighting the law that make it more difficult

957
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 18: to vote to try to roll back those laws. And

958
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 18: we're being proactive in other states as well, because it's

959
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 18: absolutely critical that we know that you.

960
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Speaker 3: Are have so much to do and we're so grateful

961
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 3: that you are have joined us.

962
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 5: And before we have you on step off, I just

963
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 5: want to make sure you have the opportunity to say

964
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 5: hello to our good.

965
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 3: Friend, Congresswoman Ayana Presley of the amazing I love you,

966
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:20,280
Speaker 3: great to see you, and we love you. Joe Tak.

967
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 16: Thank you, thank you so much.

968
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 15: Before I go, I do want to say one thing,

969
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 15: and it's so important, and I want to be on

970
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 15: the record saying this. People talk about the forty four thousand,

971
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 15: the extra fifty thousand that we had elsewhere, they talk

972
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 15: about women with black women, But it's important to note

973
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 15: that that right after that call, the very next day,

974
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,879
Speaker 15: the very next day, who had our backs black men,

975
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 15: black men, And that's so important. And now there's been

976
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 15: hundreds and hundreds of zoom and zooms all over, but

977
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 15: it's so important. People try to often defide us as

978
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 15: a people that black women winning with black women means

979
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,400
Speaker 15: that we can't win with black men. But we are

980
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Speaker 15: winning together as people, and I feel like we're more

981
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 15: united than we ever have been. And I think in

982
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 15: this moment, we think about Shirley Chisholm, and we think

983
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 15: about how she said, if they don't give you a

984
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:16,359
Speaker 15: seat at.

985
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 16: The table, bring a folding share.

986
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 15: But what I dare say is that in this moment

987
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 15: right now, black people are leading, Black women are leading,

988
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 15: and we are building a new table and we're making

989
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 15: sure everybody has.

990
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 3: A seat at the table.

991
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 18: We're doing that from a D nine perspective as well,

992
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 18: all across. So we've got five fraternities focus heavily on

993
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 18: this work, the fource sororities focused heavily on this work,

994
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 18: partnering with Joe Taker, partnering with n C and W

995
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 18: broad strategies to make sure that we are all in together.

996
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 18: And our hashtag is D nine Stronger Together, because we

997
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 18: know it's going to take every single one of us

998
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Speaker 18: to make sure that we bring this home, have.

999
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 5: A seat at our table, and we will see y'all soon.

1000
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 5: We can't wait to see y'all seventy seven.

1001
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 3: Days and up until then, it's good y'all. Welcome home

1002
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:11,919
Speaker 3: to our congress Woman.

1003
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Speaker 6: I appreciate it.

1004
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: We're joined now by Congressman Ayana Pressley. She is the

1005
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: first black woman to represent Boston in the House of Representatives.

1006
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: So another historic candidate during this time that we are

1007
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: making history here at the DNC. I have to we

1008
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: love you, Joe Taco. We thank you, Madam President. I

1009
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: have to tell you, guys, when you saw me the

1010
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: last time we were together on set, I was broadcasting

1011
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: from Martha's vineyard and I camped out at the congress

1012
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 1: Woman's home every day. I was trying to get Angela

1013
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: to come up there with me and Andrew. So at

1014
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: some point we will do a podcast, we hope, and

1015
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: from the Congressman. But we're so happy to have you.

1016
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: But honestly, because you yourself were a historic candidate, you

1017
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 1: took the office that belonged to Congress on the shurelytism

1018
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: in Congress. What does this moment mean to you to

1019
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: watch another black woman ascend to the highest heights of

1020
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 1: the United States government?

1021
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 6: All right, I'm feeling this on so many levels.

1022
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,840
Speaker 20: So first and foremost, actually, the dress that I'm wearing

1023
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 20: was is a custom piece inspired by a Shirley Chishlm dress. Wow.

1024
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 20: And so even though it is quite warm, that is

1025
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 20: why I'm wearing it in this full circle moment. And

1026
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 20: also though I have the humbling honor of being the

1027
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 20: congresswoman representing the mass Chists seventh which includes the city

1028
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 20: of Boston, as the first woman of color, black woman,

1029
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 20: well personal color period to represent the comonwealth in the House.

1030
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:43,320
Speaker 20: But a lot of people don't know Chicago is the

1031
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 20: city that raised me. So it is full circle in

1032
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 20: every way. And it is I won't call it a

1033
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 20: surreal experience because I think that denies us that it's real.

1034
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 3: It is attainable.

1035
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 20: So it is heady to be on the precipice of

1036
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 20: this historic moment when black women have been the backbone

1037
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 20: of the Democratic Party, have been at the front line

1038
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 20: of ushering in every great movement throughout history.

1039
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 3: For us to take our.

1040
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 20: Rightful place at the top of this ticket, uh, it is.

1041
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 20: It is long overdue. And everyone just keeps saying how

1042
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 20: joyful they feel, how hopeful they feel, and yeah, it's

1043
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 20: an incredible experience. And then to be here with you all, yes, yes,

1044
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 20: So it's like welcome home time too.

1045
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 4: Since street. We jumped off text like, hey, I got you.

1046
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 4: That was amazing, that was awesome. The worst thing that

1047
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 4: I didn't respond after, you know, but.

1048
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 20: Also shout out to Boston because your theme song, you know,

1049
00:52:56,320 --> 00:53:00,080
Speaker 20: one of the many incredible creatives and we have the

1050
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 20: city of Boston.

1051
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 3: We are actually being joined and well, he's handshaking.

1052
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:09,879
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's coming up right now, the colleague, Yes,

1053
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 5: your colleague, Congressman Hakim Jeffries, who is the Democratic leader

1054
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 5: in the House.

1055
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Speaker 6: I think he is.

1056
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 20: He walking, he's here because we have to get people

1057
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 20: to understand that we're going to do everything to ensure

1058
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 20: that Kamala Harris is Madam President.

1059
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 3: But she has got to have a Democratic.

1060
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 6: Majority in the House.

1061
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 20: We have to grow our numbers in the Senate in

1062
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 20: order to advance this agenda for more just America of

1063
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 20: freedom and that's about the future. So it's so important

1064
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 20: that the Democrats get that gavel back and that a

1065
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,720
Speaker 20: King Jeffries is our speaker to fully advance this agenda.

1066
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 20: Kamala can do it alone.

1067
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just y'all have y'all Democrats have been incredible

1068
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 4: the way y'all have held the line. The Republicans couldn't

1069
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,839
Speaker 4: get together anyway these last couple of months that they've

1070
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,919
Speaker 4: been in charge. But I'm curious to know, is there

1071
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 4: give us the prognosis on whether or not you think

1072
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 4: you all will have the opportunity to win back the

1073
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Speaker 4: House where we're.

1074
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely so, I'm you know.

1075
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 20: A national surrogate for the Vice President was recently in Pennsylvania,

1076
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Speaker 20: critical battleground state, and I was so.

1077
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 3: Encouraged by what I saw there.

1078
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 20: First of all, knocking doors many Republicans that said they

1079
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 20: do plan to vote for Kamala. Secondly, in that eighteen

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00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 20: to thirty five demographic, again a constituency that had been

1081
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 20: there was a huge enthusiasm gap that no longer exists.

1082
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 20: People said, I just feel again more hopeful Kamala's future focused,

1083
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 20: and I feel that I'm a part of something important.

1084
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 20: Women from every age and walk of life, and this

1085
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 20: is the thing that black women do uniquely. We want

1086
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 20: to acknowledge the power of this representation. It is transformative

1087
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 20: and it is meaningful. But everyone sees themselves reflected in

1088
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 20: Black women. So because we live in intersectionality, her story

1089
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 20: is the story of multitudes, and so it is a

1090
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 20: deeply re is it vision for our countries, centering the

1091
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 20: humanity and dignity of every person of every family model,

1092
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 20: in contrast to institutionalized Trumpism in Project twenty twenty five,

1093
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 20: which will cause harm to everyone who calls this country home.

1094
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 20: Control every aspect of your life from your bedroom to

1095
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 20: your womb, dismantle the federal government and our democracy as

1096
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 20: we know it. In contrast to Kamala Harris and Tim Walls,

1097
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 20: who are about your freedoms, you know, preserving your freedoms,

1098
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 20: expanding your freedoms, and about the future. So I think

1099
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 20: with this economic agenda they've just rolled out, they show

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Speaker 20: that they have not forgotten the plot. They see the people,

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Speaker 20: and they want to mitigate the harm and the struggles

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Speaker 20: of everyday people. But they also want to meet you

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Speaker 20: at your aspiration. And that's the joy part. That is

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Speaker 20: the joy part. Every great movement requires three things imagination, strategy,

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Speaker 20: and stamina. And I see all of that being animated

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Speaker 20: in real time, and we are going to get her

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Speaker 20: across that finish line and into the Oval Office.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 3: We absolutely love it. Hire somebody, We love you. We

1110
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Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining us. We know you

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Speaker 3: got to keep running and then listen history marriage.

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Speaker 21: I want you all to know this is one of

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Speaker 21: the baddest women serving in the United States House of Representative,

1114
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Speaker 21: one of my favorites.

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Speaker 10: She holds it.

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Speaker 21: Down district for the Commonwealth, for the nation, and it's

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Speaker 21: honor for me just to be able to serve with,

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Speaker 21: get to know and be friends with the great.

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Speaker 20: So I am so grateful for your leadership and thank

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Speaker 20: you for being a family. You appreciate it. You know

1121
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Speaker 20: Boston loves a king because he has some k Verdian roots.

1122
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Speaker 20: Come on back, Rose on.

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Speaker 3: The ground, Well we are. I'm thrilled.

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Speaker 5: First of all, thank you so much for being here

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Speaker 5: with us today. We know that your team has literally

1126
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Speaker 5: been like she got five minutes. You know you got

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Speaker 5: a run.

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Speaker 3: We thank you and it's my hunter too to be able.

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Speaker 5: As Anna said Frint family, Haqim Jeffries has been family

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Speaker 5: from I'd say day zero, I'm irin Andrew, you're not

1131
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Speaker 5: on mute in the middle of my intro, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Hakim Jeffries came in to see us when he was

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Speaker 5: coming into Congress, and one of my favorite moments was

1134
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Speaker 5: as a staff person him just being like, Okay, what

1135
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Speaker 5: do I need to do.

1136
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 3: Who do I need to know?

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Speaker 5: And because of his genuine intellectual curiosity, I know. I

1138
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Speaker 5: was like, this dude is going to be speaker, and

1139
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Speaker 5: we are on the eve of that dream. And it's

1140
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Speaker 5: really knowing that that will come to pass. I want

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Speaker 5: to know, in the middle of your history making journey

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Speaker 5: now as Democratic leader in the House.

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Speaker 3: And where we are today, how does it feel.

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Speaker 21: Well, Azela is great to be with you, I could

1145
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 21: say here in Chicago, of course, this amazing team, Uh,

1146
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Speaker 21: your heir in Chicago. It's joyful, it's aspirational. Uh, it's

1147
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Speaker 21: you find, it's electrifying. But we also know that there's

1148
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Speaker 21: a mission ahead of us over the next few months,

1149
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 21: and the other side can be diabolical. Yeah, and so

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Speaker 21: we you know, we're here to thank President Biden, of

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Speaker 21: course for his work he's passed the torch, to celebrate

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Speaker 21: and elevate Kamala Harris and Tim Walls, but then to

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Speaker 21: make sure that we're doing the work necessary so that

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Speaker 21: they're successful in November, that we do take back the

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Speaker 21: gavels in the United States House, and that we do

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Speaker 21: what's necessary to.

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Speaker 10: Hold the Senate.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's so important. It's going to be a lot

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Speaker 3: of people who will lose their minds.

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Speaker 1: Congressman, and we when we have a black woman president,

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Speaker 1: a black House speaker, black governors elected, more black mayors elected,

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Speaker 1: and it really speaks to our ancestors built this country

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Speaker 1: for free. That's a phrase I came up with myself. Originally.

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Speaker 3: She saw that for me to see Angelus is all

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Speaker 3: the time.

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Speaker 1: And to finally see our work, the fruits of our

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Speaker 1: labor come together at this moment. A lot of people,

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Speaker 1: I don't think necessarily understands the role of the Speaker

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Speaker 1: of the House, because that is a title that you

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Speaker 1: are about to assume. Because we speak things into existence on.

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Speaker 3: This podcast, I can what is the role of the

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Speaker 3: House Speaker?

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Speaker 21: Well, you know, I'll say that it's been an honor

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Speaker 21: to stand on the shoulders of Nancy Pelosi, Senny Hory,

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Speaker 21: and Jim Clyburn, you know who were legendary leaders. Of course,

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Speaker 21: Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the United States House

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Speaker 21: of Representatives, she'll go down in history, we believe is

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Speaker 21: the greatest speaker of all time, along with you know

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Speaker 21: Stenny who did his thing, and of course the great

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Speaker 21: legendary Jim Clyburn and they all collectively actually made the

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Speaker 21: decision to pass the torch to the next generation of

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Speaker 21: Democrats in the House last year, and as a result,

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Speaker 21: Petere Aguilar, Catherine Clark and myself now is House Democratic Leader.

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Speaker 21: The role of Speaker, of course done incredibly well, you

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Speaker 21: know by Nancy Pelosi, really is a constitutional officer in

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Speaker 21: the House of Representatives who presides over the House, determines

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Speaker 21: the agenda, make sure that legislation moves through the House

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Speaker 21: actually can get out of the House and hopefully make

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Speaker 21: it through the Senate and become law. And also, depending

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Speaker 21: on which party the Speaker is a member of at

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Speaker 21: that given point in time, is also responsible for making

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Speaker 21: sure politically, you know, things go right and that you're

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Speaker 21: interacting with the other branches of government, you know, particularly

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Speaker 21: the President, the Vice President, as well as the Senate.

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Speaker 3: It's a crucial role. I just want to give a

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Speaker 3: quick shout out before I toss it to Andrew.

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Speaker 1: I know your wonderful, amazing intellectual brother, Hassan Jeffries, doctor

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Speaker 1: Hassan Jeffries. I met Hassan and when I met hassign

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Speaker 1: over in the nineties, over twenty years ago, you were

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Speaker 1: running for office then, so you have been a public servant.

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Speaker 3: Your whole life.

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Speaker 10: This is like a family affairs.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I want to give a shout out to the

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Speaker 1: men of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated as well, because

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Speaker 1: we were just talking about the importance of the fraternities

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Speaker 1: in this work and you are a member along with

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Speaker 1: your brother.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, mister Speaker to be. I have marveled from

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Speaker 4: Afar down in Florida at the way you have been

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Speaker 4: able to manage and keep a very vast ideologically ranged

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Speaker 4: caucus together. I mean the fact that you all have

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Speaker 4: held on some of the votes that have come been

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Speaker 4: put to the floor, that you have in many ways

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Speaker 4: performed as the Speaker of the House and delivering very

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Speaker 4: key legislation that could have otherwise been off the table

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Speaker 4: or otherwise undermined.

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Speaker 3: More effective than the active absolutely more effected.

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Speaker 4: Because he delivers. I just got to ask a lot

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Speaker 4: of folks around the country are nervous around the kinds

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Speaker 4: of tactics that may be taken to either uncertify not

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Speaker 4: certify put spoke, you know, obstructions in the wheel in

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Speaker 4: order to delay the Congress's ability to do what is

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Speaker 4: your ceremonial. But also constitutional responsibility to count the votes,

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Speaker 4: the Electoral College votes, so on and so forth, and

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Speaker 4: certify the presidency. Please tell us that there are scenario planning,

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Speaker 4: there are stop gaps in the way, fel safes that

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Speaker 4: can ensure that if we are out here encouraging people

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Speaker 4: to go vote, they do their job, that when it

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Speaker 4: comes to you all that we can rely on some

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Speaker 4: protection that this election will not be stolen, will not

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Speaker 4: be undermined by the other side, but that people can

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Speaker 4: have some relative reliability on our democracy.

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Speaker 21: Well, Andrew, great to see you, thank you for your

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Speaker 21: public service. And it is a very important question. I

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Speaker 21: think the good news is, first of all, we got

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Speaker 21: to make sure all the reasons that you articulated, all

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Speaker 21: of the uncertainty. Because whoever holds the gavels, whoever is

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Speaker 21: in the majority on January sixth, which is the date

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Speaker 21: set forth in the Constitution to certify the election. The

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Speaker 21: new Congress is sworn in on January third, meaning whoever

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Speaker 21: is in the majority as a result of the November

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Speaker 21: election will have the ability to decide whether to certify

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Speaker 21: or not. And there's an open question if the Republicans

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Speaker 21: continue to hold the majority because so many of their

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Speaker 21: members are election deniers and have chosen simply to bend

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Speaker 21: the need to Donald Trump, who has already trying to

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Speaker 21: lay the groundwork to claim, falsely if he loses or

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Speaker 21: when he loses, that the election was stolen.

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Speaker 10: So we got to take back the House. That's important.

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Speaker 21: But we actually did act legislatively and passed a bill

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Speaker 21: called the Electoral Reform count Act in two thousand and

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Speaker 21: twenty two that did two important things. One, it may

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Speaker 21: clear that the vice president's role is only ceremonial important

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Speaker 21: now the good in this particular situation, of course, the

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Speaker 21: vice president is Kamala Harris. But for future elections, we've

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Speaker 21: made it clear that no one can do what Donald

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Speaker 21: Trump tried to do in bullying Mike Pence to unilaterally

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Speaker 21: declare the election invalid and toss the electoral votes over

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Speaker 21: to him. But perhaps the second, yet most important part

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Speaker 21: of that legislation is it used to be the case

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Speaker 21: that it only took one member out of all four

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Speaker 21: hundred and thirty five to object to the election in

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Speaker 21: the House and one member out of one hundred to

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Speaker 21: object in the Senate.

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Speaker 10: That's all that was required.

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Speaker 21: And then you can create this whole scenario where shenanigans

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Speaker 21: and games can be played, and that's what was set

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Speaker 21: in motion. On January sixth of twenty twenty one. We

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Speaker 21: changed that so now it requires at least twenty percent

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Speaker 21: of the House and twenty percent of the Senate, so

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Speaker 21: that means at least a little over eighty members have

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Speaker 21: to object. Now, you know, on the other side of

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Speaker 21: the out you might be able to get to that

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Speaker 21: number in the House, but we don't think you can

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Speaker 21: get to that number in the Senate because there still

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Speaker 21: are enough traditional Republicans but we don't believe will go

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Speaker 21: along with Donald Trump's shenanigans to try to undermine the results.

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Speaker 21: And so this is an example of legislation actually being

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Speaker 21: advanced in response to a crisis that puts us in

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Speaker 21: a much stronger position.

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Speaker 4: Well, the best feel safe, y'all if you didn't catch

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Speaker 4: it at the beginning of the answer is to put

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Speaker 4: Democrats back in charge the House representative That commercial.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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Speaker 5: The other thing that I think is really important about

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Speaker 5: the role of the speaker. You talk about the Democratic

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Speaker 5: Party being a big tent party all the time, so.

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Speaker 3: Your job is not going to be very easy.

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Speaker 5: You have people across the ideological spectrum. You know that

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Speaker 5: and have experienced that as the Democratic leader as well.

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Speaker 5: Talk about some of the things that you will have

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Speaker 5: to do to get people on the same page and

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Speaker 5: some of the big picture ideas you have in that role.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna use as a personal example. He is my

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Speaker 5: leader too, And I texted him when I was.

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Speaker 3: Like, when did everybody got an indorse come? He knows it,

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Speaker 3: and he was like, let me be leader for a day.

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Speaker 4: I was like, bye, right, I'm sure that happened an hour.

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Speaker 3: After spouting I was it was.

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Speaker 5: But I but I think that it's important because you're

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Speaker 5: going to deal with people who are throwing tantrums. I'm

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Speaker 5: one of them sometimes, and you're going to be dealing

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Speaker 5: with folks who are like, I know the best way

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Speaker 5: I can follow me? How do you bring everybody together?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: No, it's a great question.

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Speaker 21: And you know, I think one we've adopted a philosophy

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Speaker 21: and approach and this is something that I learned from

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Speaker 21: Jim Clyburn that unity is different than unanimity.

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Speaker 6: Wow.

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Speaker 21: And the House Democratic Caucus represents the gorgeous mosaic of

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Speaker 21: the American people with the closest institution to the American

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Speaker 21: people by design and on the House Democratic caucuside, we

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Speaker 21: have incredible diversity across every possible measure. But that means

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Speaker 21: with people who have different life experiences, different perspectives, different constituencies,

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Speaker 21: they may take a different view on a given issue

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01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 21: or two. But we're not expecting unanimity. We are, however,

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Speaker 21: expecting unity, which means that we're united around these principles

1319
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 21: of fighting for justice, fighting for freedom, putting people over politics,

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Speaker 21: and so we can have our family discussions, which we

1321
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 21: often do.

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Speaker 10: Sometimes they're exuberant. We prefer them to be private, not public.

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Speaker 21: But once we get through those family discussions, we find

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Speaker 21: the highest common denominator. And this is what we've done

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Speaker 21: throughout the entire Congress in order to get to the

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Speaker 21: best possible result for the American people.

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Speaker 4: Now, there will always be some folks who will say, well.

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Speaker 21: You didn't go far enough, and our general view, learning

1329
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:02,400
Speaker 21: from our civil rights legends right who went through a

1330
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Speaker 21: similar process as they were working through the Civil Rights Act,

1331
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Speaker 21: the Voting Rights Act, and the Fair Housing Act, that

1332
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Speaker 21: sometimes you just have to live to fight another day. Yeah,

1333
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Speaker 21: but we're all united in terms of where we want

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Speaker 21: to go.

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Speaker 4: Not make the perfect the enemy of the good, which

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Speaker 4: oftentimes too often happens the speaker to be. We know

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Speaker 4: that your time is extremely valuable. I just got to

1338
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Speaker 4: throw you some crazy love over his oratory. Yes, I

1339
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 4: mean I've been moved on occasion where this stuff should

1340
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Speaker 4: be for process. Yes, And I keep getting The Congressman

1341
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:42,799
Speaker 4: gets up and begins to speak, and he evokes history,

1342
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Speaker 4: and he evokes emotion, and he connects and weaves together

1343
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Speaker 4: such an incredibly diverse set of experiences of the American

1344
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Speaker 4: people to bring all of us into investment and whatever

1345
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Speaker 4: it is that they're attempting to do. It's it is.

1346
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Speaker 4: It is a power. We're yes, But more than anything,

1347
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Speaker 4: it is a blessing. And I'm so glad that you've

1348
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Speaker 4: been imbued with it because I think it's an essential

1349
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 4: part of what allows you to be the kind of

1350
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Speaker 4: uh successful speaker that I think you've already shown yourself to.

1351
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Speaker 3: Be by here a little hip hop every Now.

1352
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Speaker 1: That's why my quick favorite quote from the Congressman is

1353
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Speaker 1: during the impeachment hearings and a Republican member said, I

1354
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 1: just don't know why we're here, and the Congressman stood

1355
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Speaker 1: up and answered him and.

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Speaker 11: Listed innumerable reasons why we were here, uh and and

1357
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Speaker 11: laid out a beautifully argued case. And at the end

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Speaker 11: he said, so, if you don't know, Brooklyn is always

1359
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Speaker 11: in the house.

1360
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Speaker 6: And we love it.

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Speaker 3: Literally, I love you on this podcast. We're championedlations.

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Speaker 21: This is amazing podcast. Gratulations are all the success. And

1363
01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 21: you know, Angela and Tiffany Andrew appreciate you all.

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Speaker 10: Family.

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Speaker 3: You don't let you be leader for a day, but

1366
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Speaker 3: tomorrow you got to be. Mister Speaker.

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Speaker 10: Absolutely, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 3: It's fantastic. I love it, love it, love it.

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Speaker 4: Man. I'm so proud of if I came. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 4: I heard him first in Florida when he came down

1372
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Speaker 4: and did some some organizing work. Yeah, throughout the race

1373
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Speaker 4: and so on and so forth. But his leadership is incredible.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: I we're now saying goodbye. If you're.

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Speaker 22: Definitely be interesting, how we all we make sure we

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Speaker 22: hunt race.

1378
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Speaker 3: Really quickly.

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Speaker 1: The California role call happened while we had mister Speaker on,

1380
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Speaker 1: which is symbolic because of course this is Vice President

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Speaker 1: Harris home States, where she has won more elections than

1382
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So It's an honor to see that history unfold.

1383
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Speaker 3: And this suit is fly child. Yes, and her suit

1384
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Speaker 3: is amazing. Handla's gonna bring in Uh. Ted her next

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Speaker 3: guest Andela.

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Speaker 5: Our dear friend Ted James has joined us. Ted James

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Speaker 5: has been a State rep in Louisiana. He has worked

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Speaker 5: for the Small Business Administration in this administration. He is

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Speaker 5: running for mayor and baton rouge and he is Uh.

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Speaker 5: He's a dear friend of ours. My favorite thing to

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Speaker 5: say about Ted is when the people need something.

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Speaker 3: They're done. They do one thing and it's two words

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Speaker 3: all Ted. That is when your brother just left the

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Speaker 3: set as well.

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Speaker 10: I love it.

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01:11:57,640 --> 01:11:59,559
Speaker 3: Given too much. We've been talking about the D nine

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Speaker 3: and the all shouting you.

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Speaker 10: Out, so let me tell you something.

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Speaker 23: It was such an honor to walk up and see

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Speaker 23: my three dear friends and thank you all for always

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Speaker 23: elevating our voices.

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Speaker 4: And I'm honored to be here. But to see the

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Speaker 4: next peak of the house. Yeah, a good cap a

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Speaker 4: man was also heartwarming. Yeah, I bet, I bet I

1405
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:25,839
Speaker 4: bet tad you you've been at the legislative level making moves.

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Speaker 4: Your reputation is far outside of the state of Louisiana

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Speaker 4: outside of Baton Rouge. But we know that that community

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Speaker 4: has shaped the person that you are, the wonderful public servant.

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Speaker 4: And I know we've got listeners and viewers down there,

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Speaker 4: y'all show ted some great love. You're going from the

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Speaker 4: legislature now back to the local Now. I'm welcoming you

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Speaker 4: because I'm I'm a man of the local level. I

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Speaker 4: know you're tell us. Tell us what has animated your

1414
01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 4: desire to make your way from the state level of

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Speaker 4: governing on behalf of your community to now being Mayor Andrew.

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Speaker 23: I'll tell you it's the opportunity in their administration to

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Speaker 23: travel across the country. And I watched other mayors do

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Speaker 23: what I watched you do, raise the quality of life

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Speaker 23: through investing in small businesses there. Baton Rouge is very

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Speaker 23: similar to Talent Has in that the two major universities,

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Speaker 23: one Southern University, how to amplify that HBCU culture through

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Speaker 23: making sure that those young people have entrepreneurship opportunities where

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Speaker 23: they decide to stay in Baton Rouge and I leave

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Speaker 23: for opportunities other places.

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Speaker 4: I love that. I love that, and so tell us

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Speaker 4: what's the shake for those who don't know. Give us

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Speaker 4: the lay of the land. What when's the primary? When's

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Speaker 4: the general?

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Speaker 23: What's the what's the Louisiana We have open primers. We

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Speaker 23: call them jungle primier. So we are all running on

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Speaker 23: November fifth, and the top two vote getters will go

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Speaker 23: December seventh, unless one of us receive fifty percent of

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Speaker 23: the vot plus one. I'm working to receive fifty percent

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Speaker 23: plus one. But if not, we go to a runoff

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Speaker 23: in December.

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Speaker 4: So I didn't realize, y'all. So y'all go beyond the November.

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Speaker 4: That's right, okay, okay, all right, all right.

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Speaker 1: So you know a lot of people we think you're

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Speaker 1: a superstar. Some of our audience are not familiar with you.

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Speaker 1: If somebody does not live in in Baton Rouge, I'm

1441
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Speaker 1: curious your thoughts on.

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Speaker 3: Why they matter. But before you answer that, I see Angela.

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Speaker 1: Has you all saw Angela Leaf said she went and

1444
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Speaker 1: grabbed us another member of Congress. We are joined now

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Speaker 1: by Congressman Gregory Meeks out of New York. He serves

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Speaker 1: on the Foreign Relations Committee, and Angela, in her capacity

1447
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Speaker 1: as a former executive director of the Congressional Black Hawk,

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Speaker 1: is worked very closely with Congressman Gregory Meeks, so it's.

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Speaker 3: Wonderful to be doing by you. He's also the chair

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Speaker 3: of the Congressional black Hawk is Pack.

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Speaker 6: He walked by yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I was like, today, we're snatching him. I'm probably gonna

1453
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Speaker 3: get in trouble. Just stand, but I was like, I

1454
01:14:48,680 --> 01:14:49,599
Speaker 3: need it. For three minutes.

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Speaker 5: I just wanted mister Meeks in the middle of Ted

1456
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:56,599
Speaker 5: talking about the importance of electoral politics running for overs himself.

1457
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Speaker 5: Mister Meeks, you fight every day to ensure that our

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01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:02,639
Speaker 5: numbers incre We are a strong sixty. Now, CBC members,

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01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:05,360
Speaker 5: I want you to talk about why it's so important

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Speaker 5: to invest in entities like.

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Speaker 3: The Congressional black Hawk as Pack, shameless plug. I sit

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Speaker 3: on the board so I chair.

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Speaker 23: No.

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01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:15,919
Speaker 12: Look, what we're talking about is having real power in America.

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Speaker 12: What we're talking about is making a game change. And

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Speaker 12: this is why this is a historic moment. You talk

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01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 12: about sixty. Now, what happens with that sixty We're going

1468
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 12: to have at least five members when we take back

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Speaker 12: to the majority in the House. We're going to have

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Speaker 12: five members of the CBC that will be chairs of

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Speaker 12: full committees. You look at people like Bennie Thompson from

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Speaker 12: Mississippi being Chair of Homeland Security. We talk about education

1473
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:44,559
Speaker 12: and we want to make sure that we got real history.

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01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:48,479
Speaker 12: Bobby Scott from Virginia will be Chair of Education and Labor.

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01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:50,960
Speaker 12: We talk about how black farmers have been robbed and

1476
01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:55,200
Speaker 12: no justice. David Scott from Georgia will be Chair of

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Speaker 12: the Agriculture Committee. We talk about financial services, which is

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01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:00,599
Speaker 12: really important.

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01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:02,720
Speaker 10: You talk about all the finance in the world, sins

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01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:05,880
Speaker 10: the Maxine. Now Maxine will be Chair.

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Speaker 12: Of the Financial Services Committee, and your little brother here

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Speaker 12: I will be Chair of the House Foreign Fans Committee,

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Speaker 12: and over thirty one members of the CBC will be

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Speaker 12: chairs of major subcommittees. So we are talking about investing

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01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:24,440
Speaker 12: in the CBC. We are talking about setting the policies

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Speaker 12: for the United States of America and getting justice for

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Speaker 12: many people across. You know, we're talking about if we're

1488
01:16:30,560 --> 01:16:33,799
Speaker 12: talking about voting rights, if we're talking about criminal justice reform,

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Speaker 12: if we're talking.

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Speaker 10: About creating wealth and reducing the wealth gap. That's what

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Speaker 10: this is all about.

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Speaker 12: And making this, you know, a statement that then turns

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Speaker 12: into reality. But to me, this is doctor King's dream.

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01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,240
Speaker 12: It's a good time to be alive today right now

1495
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 12: when you look at the fact, you know, I can

1496
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Speaker 12: tell you at me and my age, many individuals did

1497
01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:58,599
Speaker 12: not think that we would see another person of color

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Speaker 12: being president.

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Speaker 10: One thing that I will say that Don Da Khan

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Speaker 10: was right about.

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Speaker 12: You know what we look at when I see Barack

1502
01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:11,360
Speaker 12: Obama and now I see Kamala Harris. I know where

1503
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:12,200
Speaker 12: a black job is?

1504
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 7: This president of.

1505
01:17:15,160 --> 01:17:15,760
Speaker 10: Black job.

1506
01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:17,719
Speaker 4: That what this is really all about.

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01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:20,639
Speaker 10: It's about real power, yes, and make it a difference.

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01:17:20,760 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 5: Black jobs do not have it without black packs.

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01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:24,559
Speaker 3: So I just wanted to get you on your first

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01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:26,960
Speaker 3: shout out, so thank you. Does he have to run

1511
01:17:27,080 --> 01:17:28,599
Speaker 3: right now? I want to ask one quick.

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01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:31,479
Speaker 23: Wife, sorry, Congressman, want another member from Ben Rouge and

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01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:34,920
Speaker 23: Cleo Field, get him.

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01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:38,240
Speaker 10: That's right him and quite easy. You know they bring

1515
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:39,000
Speaker 10: a lot of history.

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Speaker 1: Congressman, I want to ask one quick question. We had

1517
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Speaker 1: your colleague, Congressman Bennie Thompson on yesterday, the ranking member

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01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:51,599
Speaker 1: on Homeland Security, and he spoke about how oftentimes foreign

1519
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:54,200
Speaker 1: policy issues are not the top of the list of

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01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:57,840
Speaker 1: priorities for people, especially in our community, who are juggling

1521
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:01,400
Speaker 1: so much from how to pay the mortgage to keeping

1522
01:18:01,439 --> 01:18:03,519
Speaker 1: their kids save to you know, sending kids to school.

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01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:07,000
Speaker 1: And I'm just curious because you serve on the Foreign

1524
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:10,760
Speaker 1: Awaces Committee. It is crucial, a crucial committee because what

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01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 1: happens overseas very much impact what happens here from a

1526
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:18,599
Speaker 1: budget standpoint to policy. What would you say going into

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01:18:18,720 --> 01:18:23,719
Speaker 1: this new cycle, this election cycle is the chief issue

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Speaker 1: when it comes to foreign policy.

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Speaker 10: Well, there's a number of them. First and foremost.

1530
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 12: You know, when you talk about the situation that's happening,

1531
01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:36,600
Speaker 12: whether it's the Middle East, it is really important that

1532
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 12: we deal with that, to deal with what we're talking

1533
01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:40,719
Speaker 12: about with the challenges with China.

1534
01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 10: But I'll tell you what we don't talk about enough

1535
01:18:43,600 --> 01:18:47,320
Speaker 10: that should be on the front burner. What's happening in Sedan, Yes.

1536
01:18:47,240 --> 01:18:51,120
Speaker 12: You know where you have more people dying every day

1537
01:18:51,479 --> 01:18:54,280
Speaker 12: and it's not anyone's talking about it. And so when

1538
01:18:54,360 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 12: I become the chair again, that becomes on the front

1539
01:18:57,040 --> 01:19:00,160
Speaker 12: burner to talk about what's happening in Haiti, is you

1540
01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 12: know something that's really important that looked like us, That

1541
01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:05,320
Speaker 12: makes a difference when you look even at brisk going

1542
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 12: on where there's more black people than any place else

1543
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 12: in the world other than the continent of Africa is

1544
01:19:10,479 --> 01:19:13,760
Speaker 12: Brazil and how they are affected with reference to dealing

1545
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:16,560
Speaker 12: with the issues in Venezuela, and then you talk that

1546
01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:19,720
Speaker 12: deals with this migrant crisis that you're talking about, so

1547
01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:21,040
Speaker 12: we've got to deal with those.

1548
01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:23,759
Speaker 10: It's those issues are on the on the front burner,

1549
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:24,639
Speaker 10: and it's all.

1550
01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:27,960
Speaker 12: Interconnected because when you have the war like in Ukraine,

1551
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:31,320
Speaker 12: a lot of people don't understand what happens there is

1552
01:19:31,360 --> 01:19:34,800
Speaker 12: when you talk about uh food and food shortages with

1553
01:19:34,920 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 12: the Black Sea because of that war is blocking some

1554
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 12: of the passage, which brings up the price of food

1555
01:19:41,400 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 12: and thereby causes inflation. It's all interconnected because the world

1556
01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 12: now is much smaller than it used to be and

1557
01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:52,920
Speaker 12: we are living with a global economy. We're talking about

1558
01:19:53,560 --> 01:19:56,200
Speaker 12: the fact that each you know, when you talk about

1559
01:19:56,280 --> 01:19:59,560
Speaker 12: food chains, which gets in if they're shut down in

1560
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:03,519
Speaker 12: effect success you talk about energy, that's a global issue

1561
01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:05,600
Speaker 12: of which we got to deal in trade in the

1562
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:10,640
Speaker 12: cost of gas. That is you know, some people look

1563
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:12,920
Speaker 12: at it as just something that's far away, but it

1564
01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:17,800
Speaker 12: is domestic because it affects us domestically each in every day,

1565
01:20:17,880 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 12: and that's why you got to consider looking at foreign policy,

1566
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:25,040
Speaker 12: and it's even and it's harder to talk about diplomacy

1567
01:20:25,439 --> 01:20:27,800
Speaker 12: as opposed to going to war. And what we try

1568
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:29,200
Speaker 12: to do is to try to make sure that we're

1569
01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:32,479
Speaker 12: talking about doing things in a diplomatic way, because then

1570
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:35,479
Speaker 12: it is cheaper than having to go to war that

1571
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:36,719
Speaker 12: costs American people.

1572
01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:40,559
Speaker 4: That's what that's why you are in forigm relations, that's

1573
01:20:40,560 --> 01:20:42,479
Speaker 4: why you're about to be the chair game. Because that

1574
01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:47,200
Speaker 4: was one of the most accessible explanations I've heard as

1575
01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:49,840
Speaker 4: to why when folks say, all I see is all

1576
01:20:49,920 --> 01:20:53,559
Speaker 4: our money going overseas someplace else, and that's what they

1577
01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 4: summarize foreign policy to be. But when you talk about

1578
01:20:56,479 --> 01:20:59,280
Speaker 4: gas prices and you talk about the prices serial because

1579
01:20:59,320 --> 01:21:02,400
Speaker 4: we can't be that's right, or you talk about blockades

1580
01:21:02,479 --> 01:21:05,920
Speaker 4: that then raise the costs because of the shortages, low supply,

1581
01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:11,720
Speaker 4: high demand, higher prime in place, it is so these

1582
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:14,280
Speaker 4: are the I hope that we continue to talk about

1583
01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:16,879
Speaker 4: it in that way because folks large in our community.

1584
01:21:16,920 --> 01:21:19,599
Speaker 4: When you when you have need yourself, it's very hard

1585
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:23,120
Speaker 4: to then see what are your tax dollars being used

1586
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:27,040
Speaker 4: to fill another need when in fact what looks obvious

1587
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:29,240
Speaker 4: may not be so obviously and.

1588
01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:32,240
Speaker 10: What we learned from the pandemic. If somebody is sick

1589
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:33,840
Speaker 10: someplace else in the world, that come here.

1590
01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:36,679
Speaker 12: So it's important to make sure that we are working

1591
01:21:36,760 --> 01:21:39,120
Speaker 12: with others so that it keeps us safe and.

1592
01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:41,160
Speaker 10: Healthy because they are safe and healthy.

1593
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:44,040
Speaker 12: So all of that is interconnected, and that's why we've

1594
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 12: got to make sure that we stay involved and understand

1595
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 12: what's taking place in a final fair situation, what you're

1596
01:21:49,080 --> 01:21:49,360
Speaker 12: doing on.

1597
01:21:49,400 --> 01:21:54,760
Speaker 3: We wish you well, but I just want to shout

1598
01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:56,520
Speaker 3: how Alpha by alphab return.

1599
01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,760
Speaker 4: Shouted them out rest of the week.

1600
01:22:02,479 --> 01:22:08,120
Speaker 3: We are so grateful to Ted Jay, the congressman chair,

1601
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:09,320
Speaker 3: to be in here.

1602
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:11,400
Speaker 24: With you.

1603
01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:12,439
Speaker 9: Thank you.

1604
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:15,040
Speaker 4: And while the Congressman is making transition, I'm gonna welcome

1605
01:22:15,160 --> 01:22:20,200
Speaker 4: up another mayor to talk to Tay. I hope you're staying.

1606
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:21,080
Speaker 4: I think.

1607
01:22:22,680 --> 01:22:23,280
Speaker 7: Melvin Carter.

1608
01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:27,559
Speaker 3: Oh, we're welcoming Melvin Carter to the to the stays.

1609
01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:29,880
Speaker 1: And we had to be brief because we had a

1610
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:32,720
Speaker 1: long I don't know what, just so that we have

1611
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:33,679
Speaker 1: a long line to guests.

1612
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:38,840
Speaker 3: So we have Adrian waiting as well, So hi, mister mayor,

1613
01:22:39,040 --> 01:22:41,879
Speaker 3: we he might want to come on this side.

1614
01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 4: Over there, so y'all. We're just inviting. We're just inviting

1615
01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:54,479
Speaker 4: in the mayor of the Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is

1616
01:22:54,880 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 4: the first African American ever to be elected to that position.

1617
01:22:58,600 --> 01:23:00,840
Speaker 4: First a lot of first and he's a member of

1618
01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:01,719
Speaker 4: Alpha Pi Alpha.

1619
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:02,559
Speaker 24: Uh.

1620
01:23:03,120 --> 01:23:05,439
Speaker 4: I just mentioned that the Beta new chapter at Florida

1621
01:23:05,520 --> 01:23:08,280
Speaker 4: A and M University, which also suggests to me that

1622
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 4: he is a rattler. Y'll, so Melvin put those earphones on.

1623
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 4: Uh all right, so I know your time is them

1624
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:19,280
Speaker 4: and you just missed that. Yeah, that's you missed that

1625
01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:22,360
Speaker 4: incredible introduction that I just gave of you. Is that, yes,

1626
01:23:22,479 --> 01:23:25,920
Speaker 4: right before Adrian shropshid. I appreciate and so we just

1627
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:27,320
Speaker 4: want you to tell a little bit of the people

1628
01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 4: what you're working on over there in Minnesota. Man, with

1629
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 4: your governor leaving that there may be something coming.

1630
01:23:34,320 --> 01:23:38,000
Speaker 7: Down and governor is about to be my gun.

1631
01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:42,000
Speaker 4: Understand she l t too.

1632
01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 6: Always started I even got on.

1633
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:47,880
Speaker 3: I'm not on your side.

1634
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:53,160
Speaker 7: That's right. It's good to see y'all man. I appreciate it.

1635
01:23:53,280 --> 01:23:54,839
Speaker 7: We're just trying to do our best in Minnesota.

1636
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:55,160
Speaker 9: You know.

1637
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:56,840
Speaker 25: One of the things that you know this really well

1638
01:23:56,960 --> 01:23:59,799
Speaker 25: at somebody who served as mayor. We've learned a model

1639
01:23:59,840 --> 01:24:02,639
Speaker 25: of of like city building, the centers around stuff. It's buildings,

1640
01:24:02,720 --> 01:24:05,439
Speaker 25: it's streets and stuff like that. In Saint Paul, when

1641
01:24:05,439 --> 01:24:08,080
Speaker 25: my dad was growing up, they bulldozed seven hundred people's

1642
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:10,800
Speaker 25: homes to lay a street because that's how our values were.

1643
01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:13,160
Speaker 25: So our goal is just to say, when we say

1644
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:15,200
Speaker 25: we believe in people, we're just gonna go all in

1645
01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:18,040
Speaker 25: on betting on our folks. Whether that's piloting guaranteed income,

1646
01:24:18,240 --> 01:24:20,479
Speaker 25: whether that's starting fifty dollars to start a college savings

1647
01:24:20,479 --> 01:24:22,320
Speaker 25: account for every child born in our city, whether that's

1648
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:24,479
Speaker 25: raised in the minimum wage, giving people up to one

1649
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 25: hundred and ten thousand dollars and forgivable financing and purchase

1650
01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:30,280
Speaker 25: of home or renovating existing home, just going all in

1651
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:31,400
Speaker 25: on our folks, y'all.

1652
01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:33,120
Speaker 4: He said a lot right there, because he's a man

1653
01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:37,559
Speaker 4: who understands what time restraints mean. But guaranteed minimum income

1654
01:24:38,080 --> 01:24:41,599
Speaker 4: piloting that program in his city, right, that's a huge

1655
01:24:41,680 --> 01:24:44,280
Speaker 4: deal for a lot of people all across America. And

1656
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:48,000
Speaker 4: the Brothers being innovative with that all of his own,

1657
01:24:48,320 --> 01:24:51,559
Speaker 4: I gotta say we also joined by another incredible human

1658
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:53,400
Speaker 4: I'm gonna let your church.

1659
01:24:53,479 --> 01:24:56,320
Speaker 5: Sire is the executive director of Black pat We are

1660
01:24:56,439 --> 01:24:58,519
Speaker 5: so honored, Adrian, to be partnered with you.

1661
01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:00,880
Speaker 3: We are looking forward to work with you beyond.

1662
01:25:00,680 --> 01:25:03,800
Speaker 5: This convention for the next seventy seven days and if

1663
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:07,919
Speaker 5: it needs to be seventy seven years. Are so grateful

1664
01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:11,240
Speaker 5: for everything you're doing. You are killing it, You've been

1665
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:13,360
Speaker 5: killing it. I just got a shout out she from

1666
01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:14,560
Speaker 5: the West coast.

1667
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:16,479
Speaker 10: To us.

1668
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:28,240
Speaker 3: You know, there was just a roll call on the

1669
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:28,960
Speaker 3: floor of unity.

1670
01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:29,640
Speaker 10: We're not doing that.

1671
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:33,000
Speaker 4: I get it, I get it.

1672
01:25:33,439 --> 01:25:36,000
Speaker 5: But Adrian, can you please tell our listeners because I

1673
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 5: think it's so important. Congressman Weeks was just here talking

1674
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 5: about the role of the Congressional black Hawk is Pack talking.

1675
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:42,080
Speaker 3: About how important it is.

1676
01:25:42,160 --> 01:25:44,840
Speaker 5: And I have those sixty seats, the thirty plus members

1677
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:47,480
Speaker 5: who will be chairs of so committees should the Democrats

1678
01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:50,400
Speaker 5: take over the House in the fall, and so I

1679
01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:53,040
Speaker 5: would love for you to talk about the important work

1680
01:25:53,160 --> 01:25:55,880
Speaker 5: that Black Pack is doing and how folks listening and

1681
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:57,439
Speaker 5: watching at home can get involved.

1682
01:25:57,560 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 23: Yeah.

1683
01:25:57,840 --> 01:25:59,280
Speaker 24: So I'm one of the things that you said that

1684
01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:02,080
Speaker 24: is so import and as we have seventy seven days, yes,

1685
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:04,160
Speaker 24: but we got a lot of people to talk to, Okay,

1686
01:26:04,280 --> 01:26:06,519
Speaker 24: and so when we think about you know, whether it

1687
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:08,839
Speaker 24: is knocking on doors, which we're doing in the battleground

1688
01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:11,040
Speaker 24: states across the country, having conversations which we've been doing

1689
01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:14,080
Speaker 24: for months, and you know, we had the little change

1690
01:26:14,280 --> 01:26:16,120
Speaker 24: at the top of the ticket, and suddenly it is

1691
01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:21,800
Speaker 24: like the change, this guy's kind of opened up, right,

1692
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:23,519
Speaker 24: And so I think that you you see, like the

1693
01:26:23,600 --> 01:26:27,799
Speaker 24: excitement is real, the energy is real among like across

1694
01:26:28,040 --> 01:26:32,679
Speaker 24: our elders, our younger people. But the job is not done.

1695
01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 24: We still have a single job, and we still need

1696
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:35,960
Speaker 24: to reach a lot of people. So there are a

1697
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:39,640
Speaker 24: lot of folks who don't understand who the vice president is.

1698
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:42,240
Speaker 24: They want to understand her record. You still have a

1699
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:44,720
Speaker 24: lot of people who are saying I might vote third party, right,

1700
01:26:44,800 --> 01:26:46,080
Speaker 24: I'm not sure if I'm going to say. So. You

1701
01:26:46,120 --> 01:26:47,760
Speaker 24: still have the folks who are saying I might stay home.

1702
01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:49,719
Speaker 24: And so we have to reach all of those people.

1703
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:52,360
Speaker 24: And we have this truncated timeline. We talk about seventy

1704
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 24: seven days, but we know that the ballots go out

1705
01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:57,960
Speaker 24: in North Carolina on September sixth, and then they go

1706
01:26:58,080 --> 01:26:59,920
Speaker 24: out in Pennsylvania and they guess, well, people will how

1707
01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:03,479
Speaker 24: balance in their hands and they will be voting, and

1708
01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:05,519
Speaker 24: we need to get the information to it. So our job,

1709
01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:07,760
Speaker 24: in all of our job, but certainly blackpacked job, is

1710
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:09,640
Speaker 24: to make sure we're delivering the information, whether it's on

1711
01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:12,680
Speaker 24: the doors, whether it's in business and businesses and communities,

1712
01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:15,800
Speaker 24: whether it's on the radio, and delivering the message, whether

1713
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:18,000
Speaker 24: it's digitally, whether it's mail, whatever. Is to make sure

1714
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:20,640
Speaker 24: that we are talking to people, making sure that they

1715
01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:23,040
Speaker 24: understand the stakes. Because people do understand the stakes, they

1716
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:24,680
Speaker 24: know that it's a democracy or dictatorship.

1717
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:25,920
Speaker 3: People get all of that right.

1718
01:27:26,479 --> 01:27:28,479
Speaker 24: They also feel right now and this is the great part,

1719
01:27:28,680 --> 01:27:31,599
Speaker 24: is that there's history at stake right now as well,

1720
01:27:31,880 --> 01:27:33,720
Speaker 24: and people are ready to make history. And so I

1721
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:36,120
Speaker 24: think that you know, we need to keep people motivated.

1722
01:27:36,160 --> 01:27:37,960
Speaker 24: We need to ride this wave coming out of the convention,

1723
01:27:38,080 --> 01:27:39,559
Speaker 24: but we also need to do the work that needs

1724
01:27:39,600 --> 01:27:40,960
Speaker 24: to be done, the hard work to make sure that

1725
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:43,280
Speaker 24: people turn out. Motivation is not a vote, it is,

1726
01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:45,760
Speaker 24: so we need to make sure that people who are

1727
01:27:45,840 --> 01:27:49,479
Speaker 24: motivated find themselves to the ballot box. And then obviously

1728
01:27:49,520 --> 01:27:51,040
Speaker 24: we need to make sure that the votes are counted

1729
01:27:51,360 --> 01:27:53,439
Speaker 24: and that the election is certified on they.

1730
01:27:53,439 --> 01:27:56,800
Speaker 1: They ran outside of an election cycle, because you know,

1731
01:27:57,040 --> 01:27:58,840
Speaker 1: some people it's like what the congressional back clock is.

1732
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:01,559
Speaker 1: For example, some people think as a legislative body that's

1733
01:28:01,560 --> 01:28:04,720
Speaker 1: there to solve or address issues related to black people, you.

1734
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:06,280
Speaker 3: Know, and it's a bit more complex than that.

1735
01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:08,720
Speaker 1: So outside of an election year, what exactly is the

1736
01:28:08,840 --> 01:28:11,960
Speaker 1: role of black pack, what's the significance and is there

1737
01:28:12,040 --> 01:28:13,880
Speaker 1: a call to action? Is there a way for our

1738
01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:18,160
Speaker 1: audience to support uplift get involved in a tangible way.

1739
01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:20,479
Speaker 24: Well, So the reality is that there is never outside

1740
01:28:20,479 --> 01:28:23,240
Speaker 24: an election cycle, all right, So every year that there is.

1741
01:28:23,200 --> 01:28:24,120
Speaker 3: An election, so we talk.

1742
01:28:24,160 --> 01:28:25,919
Speaker 24: I mean, this is we get excited about the presidential

1743
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:28,360
Speaker 24: and we should, but there's down ballot races this cycle

1744
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:30,000
Speaker 24: as well, that people need to pay attention to their

1745
01:28:30,040 --> 01:28:33,280
Speaker 24: congressional races, their state races. But we know that every

1746
01:28:33,320 --> 01:28:35,200
Speaker 24: year is an election, and whether it is your city

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01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 24: council or is your mayor or is your school board.

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01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:39,880
Speaker 3: There is something that people should be painted.

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Speaker 24: There was someone about to make a decision about your life,

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Speaker 24: and so we ask people to stay engaged. We try

1751
01:28:45,920 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 24: and make sure that people stay engaged in all the

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01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:51,200
Speaker 24: elections across you know, after the big ones. But we

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01:28:51,320 --> 01:28:53,280
Speaker 24: also want to make sure that people are engaged in

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01:28:53,320 --> 01:28:55,600
Speaker 24: the legislative fights, because sometimes we elect our friends to

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01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:58,360
Speaker 24: office and then we just leave them on their own

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01:28:58,880 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 24: right if we don't stay there to support them and say, well, here,

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01:29:02,479 --> 01:29:04,040
Speaker 24: we're gonna help you. We're gonna push you when we

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01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:06,240
Speaker 24: need to push you right, and we're gonna we're gonna

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01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:07,599
Speaker 24: show up for you when you need us to show

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01:29:07,640 --> 01:29:09,200
Speaker 24: up for you. So we want to make sure people

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01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:10,880
Speaker 24: stay in gaged in the legislative advocacy.

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Speaker 6: People can suit.

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Speaker 24: We are recruiting volunteers right now in a big way obviously,

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01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:18,320
Speaker 24: for people to do both virtual volunteer work and also

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01:29:18,400 --> 01:29:20,400
Speaker 24: to do the volunteer work in their local community.

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Speaker 3: So if folks want to.

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Speaker 24: Get involved, they can go to our website blackpack dot

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Speaker 24: com and sign up to volunteers.

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Speaker 4: But before you jump off the stage, because I know you,

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01:29:29,280 --> 01:29:32,280
Speaker 4: they get pulled every direction. You have a unique perspective

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01:29:32,320 --> 01:29:34,560
Speaker 4: to offer to the listeners, which is you are a

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01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:37,519
Speaker 4: mayor in the state Liesten where the next Vice President

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01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:41,160
Speaker 4: of the United States is coming from. As as governor,

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01:29:41,760 --> 01:29:44,120
Speaker 4: what should we know about Tim Wallas that we don't know.

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Speaker 25: First of all, you should know I am the mayor

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Speaker 25: of the city that our next vice president lives in.

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Speaker 7: Just let's just that's to be well done, That's right.

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Speaker 25: So you know, listen to Governor and I've worked really

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01:29:55,640 --> 01:29:58,080
Speaker 25: closely together over the past four or five years or so.

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Speaker 25: You know, it's no secret that Minnesota, as has the

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01:30:00,720 --> 01:30:02,280
Speaker 25: rest of the world, been through a whole lot. And

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01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:05,120
Speaker 25: let me tell you, he's just been a consistent person.

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01:30:05,720 --> 01:30:07,280
Speaker 25: What you see is what you get, whether he's on

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01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:09,800
Speaker 25: the stage at a rally or whether he's you know, uh,

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01:30:10,120 --> 01:30:12,000
Speaker 25: you know, in the neighborhood, you know, talking to folks

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01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:16,120
Speaker 25: on the block. Just an incredible person who has who

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01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:19,559
Speaker 25: connects with people individually, who does the tough right thing

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Speaker 25: when it's time to have a tough conversation. He's somebody

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01:30:22,400 --> 01:30:24,880
Speaker 25: I believe in wholeheartedly. And I'm excited to see him

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Speaker 25: as our vice president.

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Speaker 4: I love that. Well, we can't wait to see what

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01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:29,080
Speaker 4: happens next for you as well, sir.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we've been joined finally parents with You're gonna use

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Speaker 1: this Mike Terrence Woodberry, who runs Hit Strategies of polling

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01:30:50,479 --> 01:30:55,559
Speaker 1: firm and his week reference your work constantly on Native

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01:30:55,640 --> 01:30:57,519
Speaker 1: land pod and the amazing work that you're doing. You're

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01:30:57,560 --> 01:31:01,200
Speaker 1: also doing polling work for this can pain uh for

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Speaker 1: President Alex We call her Kamala Harris. So thank you

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Speaker 1: for joining us, and thank you before you we welcome officially.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Adrian, and thank you, mister Mayor. And Adrian's

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Speaker 3: I understand with us.

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Speaker 6: Mister Mayor.

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01:31:14,560 --> 01:31:16,120
Speaker 7: I'm trying to find somebody take a picture for me.

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01:31:21,560 --> 01:31:23,120
Speaker 4: She's gonna get she's gonna do it.

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01:31:23,280 --> 01:31:27,200
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, But in the meantime, sorry, I'm learning to

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01:31:27,400 --> 01:31:30,000
Speaker 5: mute these. I didn't want you to hop off, Adrian.

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01:31:30,040 --> 01:31:33,040
Speaker 5: I actually I was looking most forward to this part

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01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:36,320
Speaker 5: of the conversation where Terrence is present and you are

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01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:40,040
Speaker 5: in part because I feel like we got our collective

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01:31:40,120 --> 01:31:43,599
Speaker 5: start together, you know, like in real life.

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Speaker 3: And that's right before Terrence was doing work on Andrew's campaign.

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01:31:48,439 --> 01:31:51,040
Speaker 5: I really got to know Terrence when he was working

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01:31:51,080 --> 01:31:54,160
Speaker 5: with Cornell Belcher brilliant corners and we all work together

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01:31:54,680 --> 01:31:56,599
Speaker 5: with s C. I you doing some of the same

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01:31:56,680 --> 01:31:59,120
Speaker 5: kind of work, Terrence. Since then, you've done some incredible

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01:31:59,160 --> 01:32:01,280
Speaker 5: work and even its Adrian, I would love for you

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01:32:01,360 --> 01:32:03,840
Speaker 5: all to talk about the importance of that work, the

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Speaker 5: importance of that synergy, even if y'all ain't contracted right now,

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01:32:06,520 --> 01:32:08,760
Speaker 5: because you can't you with the official official now he

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01:32:08,840 --> 01:32:11,960
Speaker 5: big time, Adrian, Hey, big time, Can you talk about

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01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:13,519
Speaker 5: the importance of laying that groundwork?

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01:32:13,760 --> 01:32:14,360
Speaker 7: Absolutely?

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Speaker 9: Look, men, me and Adrian been on this journey for

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01:32:16,160 --> 01:32:16,680
Speaker 9: a long time.

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Speaker 10: Agrient.

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Speaker 9: You remember we were actually focus grouping the name Black

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01:32:20,760 --> 01:32:30,360
Speaker 9: Black Pack. I think, I think, in fact, we had

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Speaker 9: we had I remember one responding a focus group said

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Speaker 9: to us when we were talking about putting together a

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Speaker 9: black agenda and what it takes to put together a

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01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:38,479
Speaker 9: black agenda, And I said, well, tell me how you

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01:32:38,600 --> 01:32:38,720
Speaker 9: like it.

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01:32:38,760 --> 01:32:39,920
Speaker 7: They said, well, I mean I just.

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Speaker 10: Want mind you to all black.

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Speaker 4: I like it like my coffee, he said.

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Speaker 7: He said, can we just call it the Coffee Party?

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01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:47,760
Speaker 9: I love that we are, you know, And since then

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Speaker 9: we have kept our finger on the pust of black voters.

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Speaker 9: You know, we are in We've done over seventy focus

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Speaker 9: groups this year. We've we've conducted over two dozen polls.

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Speaker 9: And one thing that I was that I was picking

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Speaker 9: up early even in the research we were doing with

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Speaker 9: Blackpack was the the role that perception of power plays

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Speaker 9: in how black voters precede themselves. Look posters often use

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01:33:11,400 --> 01:33:14,600
Speaker 9: a proxy like motivation or enthusiasm to.

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Speaker 7: Determine who's actually going to vote.

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Speaker 12: Right.

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Speaker 9: Well, one thing we've learned in these focus groups is

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Speaker 9: that not all black folks are voting enthusiastically. Right at

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01:33:22,320 --> 01:33:24,600
Speaker 9: A young man tell me the Philadelphia focus group that

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01:33:24,680 --> 01:33:26,120
Speaker 9: voting for him is like taking out the trash.

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01:33:26,640 --> 01:33:28,000
Speaker 7: He won't always want to do it, but if you

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01:33:28,000 --> 01:33:28,360
Speaker 7: don't do it.

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Speaker 4: Then shit starts to stinker out here. Yeah, you know

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01:33:30,760 --> 01:33:31,120
Speaker 4: what I mean?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 9: So that young man, he don't sound that he's going

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01:33:34,640 --> 01:33:36,840
Speaker 9: to vote enthusiastically, but he gonna take the trashot on

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01:33:36,880 --> 01:33:37,439
Speaker 9: the election day.

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Speaker 7: And so we've been measuring perceptions of power.

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Speaker 10: Here's what that looks like.

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01:33:40,960 --> 01:33:43,519
Speaker 9: We ask this question on every poll that Hit Strategies does,

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01:33:43,920 --> 01:33:46,360
Speaker 9: regardless of how often you vote, how much power does

1864
01:33:46,400 --> 01:33:48,280
Speaker 9: your vote have to make a difference in your community.

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01:33:48,720 --> 01:33:51,200
Speaker 9: The higher they rate those perceptions of power, the more

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Speaker 9: likely they are to vote.

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Speaker 10: And what we are seeing right.

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Speaker 9: Now in the last four weeks is a level of power,

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Speaker 9: of collective power that is.

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Speaker 10: Being express as being demonstrated.

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01:34:01,120 --> 01:34:03,360
Speaker 9: And I do expect that to drive a still election day.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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01:34:05,280 --> 01:34:08,439
Speaker 1: I'm curious because you know, I on this show often

1874
01:34:08,479 --> 01:34:11,639
Speaker 1: say the polls do not matter. I think they matter

1875
01:34:11,720 --> 01:34:14,400
Speaker 1: to campaigns. I don't think it's a healthy exercise to

1876
01:34:14,479 --> 01:34:17,439
Speaker 1: constantly berate the public with polls. You know it matters

1877
01:34:17,520 --> 01:34:18,360
Speaker 1: most as a candidate.

1878
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:19,000
Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 1: I also think it's how you interpret the information from

1880
01:34:23,400 --> 01:34:26,200
Speaker 1: the polls. What week did you ask this question? What

1881
01:34:26,360 --> 01:34:28,599
Speaker 1: was the specific question asked? What did the focus group

1882
01:34:28,680 --> 01:34:31,200
Speaker 1: look like? Was there a black person posing these questions

1883
01:34:31,240 --> 01:34:32,080
Speaker 1: to a room full of light?

1884
01:34:32,280 --> 01:34:33,439
Speaker 4: Very important right there?

1885
01:34:33,560 --> 01:34:38,920
Speaker 1: Sometimes are communicating with our communities. Looks very different for

1886
01:34:39,040 --> 01:34:40,479
Speaker 1: people who are suspicious about the.

1887
01:34:40,520 --> 01:34:42,879
Speaker 3: Polls, who you know, don't believe the polls.

1888
01:34:43,240 --> 01:34:45,840
Speaker 1: What would you say to naysayers like me? And I

1889
01:34:45,840 --> 01:34:47,479
Speaker 1: would imagine a lot of people out there.

1890
01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:51,040
Speaker 9: Look first, I want to I think what Tiffany means

1891
01:34:51,120 --> 01:34:53,040
Speaker 9: when she says that polling doesn't matter.

1892
01:34:53,320 --> 01:34:54,479
Speaker 10: I think what she's think.

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01:34:54,800 --> 01:35:01,400
Speaker 9: I don't want to men explain Tiffany at all. I

1894
01:35:01,479 --> 01:35:03,479
Speaker 9: think what Tiffany means is that poles can't tell you

1895
01:35:03,479 --> 01:35:04,479
Speaker 9: who's going to win today.

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01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:05,679
Speaker 10: And that is true.

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01:35:05,960 --> 01:35:08,559
Speaker 9: Polls right now are not predictive of who the winner

1898
01:35:08,600 --> 01:35:10,719
Speaker 9: of this is just because someone's up two points today

1899
01:35:10,800 --> 01:35:14,439
Speaker 9: or down two points tomorrow. That ain't predict Hello, listen,

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01:35:15,439 --> 01:35:17,360
Speaker 9: and so and so what we are doing at his

1901
01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:21,000
Speaker 9: strategies is, you know, maintaining keeping our finger on the posse,

1902
01:35:21,280 --> 01:35:24,360
Speaker 9: following that trend line, understanding what people are hearing, what's

1903
01:35:24,439 --> 01:35:26,920
Speaker 9: what's resonating, and what's not. You know, we started hit

1904
01:35:26,960 --> 01:35:30,960
Speaker 9: strategies to correct the record on on on what is

1905
01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:34,160
Speaker 9: being misrepresented and underrepresenting our polling, and far too often

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01:35:34,200 --> 01:35:34,920
Speaker 9: that's black folks.

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01:35:35,000 --> 01:35:37,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, can I just jump in.

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01:35:38,439 --> 01:35:40,759
Speaker 24: I think we should talk about sample sizing these polls,

1909
01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:42,720
Speaker 24: right and so I think the party like polls are

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01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:45,840
Speaker 24: instructive right there. They help us understand what we need

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01:35:45,920 --> 01:35:47,640
Speaker 24: to do. They point out the problems that we have

1912
01:35:47,920 --> 01:35:50,320
Speaker 24: and how we can address them. But we know that

1913
01:35:50,439 --> 01:35:52,920
Speaker 24: some of the larger poles just have sall sample sizes

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01:35:53,000 --> 01:35:56,120
Speaker 24: of black voters, right and then and then draw conclusions

1915
01:35:56,600 --> 01:35:59,719
Speaker 24: about what broadly black voters think from a really tiny

1916
01:36:00,080 --> 01:36:02,200
Speaker 24: set of folks. And I think that that's part of

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01:36:02,240 --> 01:36:03,640
Speaker 24: the things that one of the things that people need

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01:36:03,720 --> 01:36:06,960
Speaker 24: to understand is that we should polls are interesting. No

1919
01:36:07,040 --> 01:36:09,000
Speaker 24: one should be following the polls like they're being asked

1920
01:36:09,040 --> 01:36:11,320
Speaker 24: to follow the polls right now is actually they're actually

1921
01:36:11,360 --> 01:36:11,880
Speaker 24: not helpful.

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01:36:11,960 --> 01:36:12,320
Speaker 10: That's right.

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01:36:12,520 --> 01:36:13,840
Speaker 9: Well, I do want to tell you one thing that

1924
01:36:13,840 --> 01:36:15,519
Speaker 9: we're seeing in the polls right now, because you know,

1925
01:36:16,439 --> 01:36:18,680
Speaker 9: regardless of the sample size, there are some trends that

1926
01:36:18,720 --> 01:36:20,840
Speaker 9: are undeniable right and what we have seen in the

1927
01:36:20,920 --> 01:36:23,880
Speaker 9: last four weeks is the ability of Kamala Harris to

1928
01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:29,080
Speaker 9: consolidate the Democratic coalition more quickly than I ever imagined possible.

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01:36:29,560 --> 01:36:32,559
Speaker 9: She's doing twelve points better with women voters, fifteen points

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01:36:32,600 --> 01:36:35,720
Speaker 9: better with young voters, and twenty two points better with

1931
01:36:35,840 --> 01:36:36,479
Speaker 9: the black voters.

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Speaker 6: Twenty two points.

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Speaker 4: Wow, in four weeks.

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Speaker 9: We still have work to do. I'm not ready to

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01:36:40,680 --> 01:36:43,960
Speaker 9: call her president elect yet because we got work to do.

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01:36:46,040 --> 01:36:48,479
Speaker 9: We have work to do, but we are The trend

1937
01:36:48,520 --> 01:36:49,760
Speaker 9: line is going in the right way, and a lot

1938
01:36:49,800 --> 01:36:52,040
Speaker 9: of that is being powered by black voters can work.

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01:36:52,439 --> 01:36:56,560
Speaker 5: One of our favorite political worker bees public Servants extraordinariy

1940
01:36:56,640 --> 01:36:59,840
Speaker 5: the only elected official to ever submit a comment.

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01:36:59,560 --> 01:36:59,880
Speaker 10: To Nate.

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01:37:02,200 --> 01:37:05,679
Speaker 5: Governor Girl Gil Chris, our good friend from Michigan.

1943
01:37:06,680 --> 01:37:08,479
Speaker 3: How you doing, brothers, well, y'all.

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01:37:08,439 --> 01:37:10,519
Speaker 26: Happy to be here with you. Is such an honor

1945
01:37:10,560 --> 01:37:12,960
Speaker 26: and a privilege. And now I was on my phone

1946
01:37:13,439 --> 01:37:15,840
Speaker 26: talking to y'all and now we're here to DNC. Talking

1947
01:37:15,840 --> 01:37:17,280
Speaker 26: to y'all is great, we.

1948
01:37:18,040 --> 01:37:18,720
Speaker 3: Phone, now we're here.

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01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:21,800
Speaker 1: Yes, we're so thankful because Angela, we didn't know that

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01:37:21,920 --> 01:37:23,280
Speaker 1: you were going to come on. And angel said, I

1951
01:37:23,280 --> 01:37:26,160
Speaker 1: have a surprise, a surprise guest coming on.

1952
01:37:26,320 --> 01:37:27,920
Speaker 3: And we saw you. We were thrilled to have you.

1953
01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:29,360
Speaker 3: This is so exciting.

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01:37:30,120 --> 01:37:33,639
Speaker 1: I want to ask because I remember when Big Gretch

1955
01:37:33,720 --> 01:37:36,400
Speaker 1: as we call her affectionately, who I believe we will

1956
01:37:36,479 --> 01:37:41,799
Speaker 1: see tomorrow. I'm so Governor Gretchen Whitmer out of Michigan

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01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:45,479
Speaker 1: will be joining us tomorrow. But I remember covering your

1958
01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:49,080
Speaker 1: campaign from a distance, seeing the the You're the first

1959
01:37:49,280 --> 01:37:53,800
Speaker 1: black lieutenant governor. Yes, so all these historic candidates who

1960
01:37:53,840 --> 01:37:56,599
Speaker 1: have ascended to power at this time, and we've been

1961
01:37:56,640 --> 01:38:01,280
Speaker 1: consistently asking people, As another historic candidate, what does this

1962
01:38:01,439 --> 01:38:05,280
Speaker 1: moment mean to you? To be serving in government when

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01:38:05,360 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 1: the country is poised to be led by a black.

1964
01:38:08,360 --> 01:38:11,880
Speaker 26: Woman, It is incredibly inspiring. Look, Kamala Harris, she has

1965
01:38:12,000 --> 01:38:15,240
Speaker 26: made history in every single victory that she has and

1966
01:38:15,320 --> 01:38:17,840
Speaker 26: I think what that's a demonstration of is She's never

1967
01:38:17,960 --> 01:38:20,200
Speaker 26: won alone. She has always thought about how to create

1968
01:38:20,280 --> 01:38:22,519
Speaker 26: more space and opportunity to kick these doors down so

1969
01:38:22,640 --> 01:38:24,680
Speaker 26: more of us can walk through them, and all of

1970
01:38:24,800 --> 01:38:26,920
Speaker 26: us who are intellected service we should have that same

1971
01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:29,479
Speaker 26: kind of energy. And so for me, I don't want

1972
01:38:29,560 --> 01:38:32,720
Speaker 26: to be amazing. I don't want to be singular. I

1973
01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:35,280
Speaker 26: want to be the door opener. I want to be

1974
01:38:35,400 --> 01:38:39,120
Speaker 26: the person who inspires the next person to go even farther,

1975
01:38:39,439 --> 01:38:42,320
Speaker 26: who's even hungrier and more ambitious, like tupac'saire. Right, you

1976
01:38:42,360 --> 01:38:43,640
Speaker 26: ain't got to be scared about me. You got to

1977
01:38:43,640 --> 01:38:44,800
Speaker 26: worry about the one coming after me.

1978
01:38:44,920 --> 01:38:45,000
Speaker 3: Right.

1979
01:38:45,200 --> 01:38:47,280
Speaker 26: They not gonna take no, They're not gonna ask no questions.

1980
01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:47,680
Speaker 6: Yeah right.

1981
01:38:47,920 --> 01:38:49,400
Speaker 26: I think the same kind of thing needs to be

1982
01:38:49,880 --> 01:38:52,559
Speaker 26: the kind of just spirit that we bring to the service,

1983
01:38:52,640 --> 01:38:55,160
Speaker 26: that you know, we can make things happen. That when

1984
01:38:55,200 --> 01:38:58,480
Speaker 26: we organize and we work together, we can bring everybody

1985
01:38:58,840 --> 01:39:02,080
Speaker 26: into the conversation, everybody to the table, everybody to the room,

1986
01:39:02,479 --> 01:39:04,560
Speaker 26: And when we include more people in decision making, we

1987
01:39:04,600 --> 01:39:05,280
Speaker 26: make better choices.

1988
01:39:05,400 --> 01:39:08,200
Speaker 4: I love that, Lieutenant Governor, when you are you know,

1989
01:39:08,280 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 4: we all heard early on in y'all's administration, the whole

1990
01:39:11,120 --> 01:39:15,920
Speaker 4: plot to you know, guess kidnap the governor and all

1991
01:39:15,960 --> 01:39:19,280
Speaker 4: this kind of insane stuff that's happening in the state

1992
01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:22,599
Speaker 4: of Michigan. I'm curious to know, as a brother, as

1993
01:39:22,680 --> 01:39:26,040
Speaker 4: you go out to various parts of the state, I'm

1994
01:39:26,080 --> 01:39:28,720
Speaker 4: assuming showing up in places where you're not expected, but

1995
01:39:28,880 --> 01:39:31,320
Speaker 4: you remind them that you're the governor for the entire state,

1996
01:39:31,840 --> 01:39:34,360
Speaker 4: not just for a portion of the state. How are

1997
01:39:34,439 --> 01:39:37,880
Speaker 4: you received. How do you find yourself being able to

1998
01:39:37,920 --> 01:39:41,600
Speaker 4: talk to folks who not are just ideologically different, but

1999
01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:47,760
Speaker 4: as people may reject your very being. Yeah, what does

2000
01:39:47,800 --> 01:39:49,360
Speaker 4: that feel like? What is that like? And how do

2001
01:39:49,479 --> 01:39:52,400
Speaker 4: you if it's possible to bridge, how do you go

2002
01:39:52,439 --> 01:39:53,040
Speaker 4: about bridging?

2003
01:39:53,320 --> 01:39:57,040
Speaker 26: So Yeah, unfortunately I have experienced the same level of

2004
01:39:57,120 --> 01:40:00,439
Speaker 26: death threat to me to my family. Look, we had

2005
01:40:00,479 --> 01:40:04,439
Speaker 26: the pregame for January sixth, on April thirtieth of twenty

2006
01:40:04,560 --> 01:40:07,519
Speaker 26: twenty in the state of Michigan. In the weeks after that,

2007
01:40:07,960 --> 01:40:11,040
Speaker 26: there were men with long guns that line the sidewalks

2008
01:40:11,080 --> 01:40:12,479
Speaker 26: that walked up to the Capitol or I had to

2009
01:40:12,520 --> 01:40:14,840
Speaker 26: go to preside over the state Senate. I'm walking through

2010
01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:16,240
Speaker 26: there like it's a start and lineup. You know what

2011
01:40:16,280 --> 01:40:17,840
Speaker 26: I'm saying at a basketball game, we walked through and

2012
01:40:17,840 --> 01:40:20,240
Speaker 26: everybody's on the side. So unfortunate left had to deal

2013
01:40:20,280 --> 01:40:22,640
Speaker 26: with that suspicious packages under my vehicles, these content things

2014
01:40:22,680 --> 01:40:24,320
Speaker 26: that that mail are sent to my home, my parents

2015
01:40:24,400 --> 01:40:27,360
Speaker 26: home being swatted last week, like these kinds of things happened.

2016
01:40:27,400 --> 01:40:30,760
Speaker 26: But to answer your question, Andrew, when I go to

2017
01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:33,320
Speaker 26: places like Escanaba, Michigan, which is in the western part

2018
01:40:33,320 --> 01:40:35,280
Speaker 26: of the Upper Peninsula Michigan, I was there this past

2019
01:40:35,360 --> 01:40:38,040
Speaker 26: Thursday for the up State Fair to talk to farmers

2020
01:40:38,120 --> 01:40:40,840
Speaker 26: about why they need to have access to a dream

2021
01:40:40,880 --> 01:40:42,599
Speaker 26: of health and wealth, just like everybody else in Michigan

2022
01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:45,120
Speaker 26: needs to have access to that dream. They say thank

2023
01:40:45,160 --> 01:40:47,160
Speaker 26: you because they don't expect a six eight dark skinned

2024
01:40:47,200 --> 01:40:49,960
Speaker 26: brother from Detroit to be up there asking them questions.

2025
01:40:49,680 --> 01:40:52,680
Speaker 7: About rabbits du rights.

2026
01:40:53,800 --> 01:40:55,600
Speaker 26: But I also go to the ur Peninsula more than

2027
01:40:55,640 --> 01:40:57,960
Speaker 26: any state elected officials going through their peninsula in twenty years,

2028
01:40:57,960 --> 01:40:59,599
Speaker 26: and moved there four times a year for multiple days.

2029
01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:02,439
Speaker 26: That's because because I think all of us need to

2030
01:41:02,600 --> 01:41:04,519
Speaker 26: understand that we are all in this together. I think

2031
01:41:04,560 --> 01:41:07,320
Speaker 26: that's the biggest difference frankly between us and our opponents

2032
01:41:07,360 --> 01:41:09,680
Speaker 26: that their vision for the future is so small that

2033
01:41:09,800 --> 01:41:11,880
Speaker 26: it can't include all of us. It can't include black folks,

2034
01:41:11,880 --> 01:41:13,800
Speaker 26: it can't include women, it can't include young people, it

2035
01:41:13,840 --> 01:41:16,400
Speaker 26: can't in clue elders, it can't include the lgbt Q

2036
01:41:16,479 --> 01:41:19,800
Speaker 26: plus community. And so by showing up, you show people

2037
01:41:19,880 --> 01:41:22,479
Speaker 26: that you respect them enough to serve them. And I

2038
01:41:22,560 --> 01:41:23,000
Speaker 26: think you got to.

2039
01:41:22,960 --> 01:41:23,760
Speaker 7: Respect people to serve them.

2040
01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:24,000
Speaker 16: Well.

2041
01:41:24,040 --> 01:41:25,840
Speaker 1: People are I just want to say, people are shouting

2042
01:41:25,880 --> 01:41:27,400
Speaker 1: you out, all the people joining us, thank you all

2043
01:41:27,439 --> 01:41:31,799
Speaker 1: for watching at home. That they're saying they love Garland Gilchrist,

2044
01:41:31,800 --> 01:41:34,200
Speaker 1: but they're saying he might be in Michigan, but he

2045
01:41:34,320 --> 01:41:36,040
Speaker 1: has Bullet County, Alabama roots.

2046
01:41:42,479 --> 01:41:45,240
Speaker 26: Yeah, my mother's people are from Union Springs, Alabama. I

2047
01:41:45,320 --> 01:41:47,360
Speaker 26: spend about a month every summer as a kid playing

2048
01:41:47,360 --> 01:41:48,959
Speaker 26: in the red dirt down there in Alabama.

2049
01:41:49,400 --> 01:41:50,679
Speaker 10: And that's all good.

2050
01:41:50,840 --> 01:41:51,400
Speaker 7: That's all good.

2051
01:41:52,439 --> 01:41:53,599
Speaker 3: Are YouTube soda?

2052
01:41:56,160 --> 01:41:56,880
Speaker 9: I love it well.

2053
01:41:56,920 --> 01:41:59,800
Speaker 5: We are so grateful to all of you, like not

2054
01:42:00,080 --> 01:42:02,360
Speaker 5: just we started the show with Natasha Brown talking about

2055
01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:05,719
Speaker 5: building black power. It is so poetic and so necessary

2056
01:42:05,800 --> 01:42:07,800
Speaker 5: and divine that we're talking about that at the At

2057
01:42:07,840 --> 01:42:11,240
Speaker 5: the close of our show, Adrian Shropshire with Black Pack

2058
01:42:11,400 --> 01:42:14,679
Speaker 5: y'all is it black Pats dot Com, Lieutenant Governor Garland

2059
01:42:14,680 --> 01:42:20,120
Speaker 5: Gil Chris and our friends Terrence Woodbury from the whole

2060
01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:24,920
Speaker 5: God's right every time, the coffee party, the black party,

2061
01:42:25,040 --> 01:42:25,719
Speaker 5: all the things.

2062
01:42:25,800 --> 01:42:26,240
Speaker 6: We love it.

2063
01:42:26,360 --> 01:42:28,560
Speaker 3: But yes, we appreciate y'all. Thank you so much. We

2064
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:31,599
Speaker 3: can't wait to celebrate with y'all this week so much

2065
01:42:33,000 --> 01:42:35,200
Speaker 3: history makers. Welcome home.

2066
01:42:39,680 --> 01:42:40,120
Speaker 9: You guys.

2067
01:42:40,280 --> 01:42:41,160
Speaker 3: Indeed, we'll see you.

2068
01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:49,200
Speaker 9: Man.

2069
01:42:49,360 --> 01:42:53,479
Speaker 4: I gotta tell y'all, Angela Tiff, what a incredible set

2070
01:42:53,520 --> 01:42:55,200
Speaker 4: of guests here.

2071
01:42:55,360 --> 01:42:56,880
Speaker 3: I feel like I can't.

2072
01:42:58,760 --> 01:42:59,640
Speaker 6: I'm going to come out.

2073
01:43:00,240 --> 01:43:05,160
Speaker 4: You want me to, We got you, We got a text.

2074
01:43:05,200 --> 01:43:08,880
Speaker 4: I gotta see you man. All right, this brother impressive.

2075
01:43:09,080 --> 01:43:11,080
Speaker 4: I just got to say, this is my my, my,

2076
01:43:12,040 --> 01:43:16,200
Speaker 4: my first time hearing tenant governor in long form.

2077
01:43:18,720 --> 01:43:26,960
Speaker 5: Taking Why didn't sound like we were saying about the

2078
01:43:27,080 --> 01:43:29,559
Speaker 5: same Damn you don't want to Yeah, you.

2079
01:43:30,280 --> 01:43:30,920
Speaker 4: Make my comment.

2080
01:43:32,560 --> 01:43:37,040
Speaker 3: Got sit down somewhere, covered by the table. You'll be

2081
01:43:37,120 --> 01:43:39,160
Speaker 3: covered by the table. But this was my first time

2082
01:43:40,000 --> 01:43:40,639
Speaker 3: split y'all.

2083
01:43:40,760 --> 01:43:46,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, she don't want to show everybody everything. But but

2084
01:43:46,520 --> 01:43:48,360
Speaker 4: in real time, y'all, this is my first time with

2085
01:43:50,680 --> 01:43:54,280
Speaker 4: Lieutenant Governor Gil Chris hearing him in long form interview

2086
01:43:54,479 --> 01:43:58,640
Speaker 4: in impressive rock with heavy impressive brother. Yeah, and I

2087
01:43:58,840 --> 01:44:01,240
Speaker 4: just can't wait to see with the future holes because

2088
01:44:01,760 --> 01:44:04,960
Speaker 4: you know, big Wretch is she bad? And I see

2089
01:44:05,160 --> 01:44:07,920
Speaker 4: that there may be some political wins that may shift. Yeah,

2090
01:44:08,600 --> 01:44:10,880
Speaker 4: because we need our best talent on the field, from

2091
01:44:10,920 --> 01:44:13,880
Speaker 4: the cabinet to governors to who's in the Senate, in

2092
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:17,840
Speaker 4: the House, and I will predict all of us will

2093
01:44:17,880 --> 01:44:20,679
Speaker 4: need to keep our eyes out on the lieutenant governor

2094
01:44:20,720 --> 01:44:21,000
Speaker 4: to see what.

2095
01:44:21,120 --> 01:44:23,519
Speaker 1: I'm so happy you asked them about the kidnapping plot.

2096
01:44:23,800 --> 01:44:27,200
Speaker 1: I do want to say we're speaking before we hear

2097
01:44:27,280 --> 01:44:34,680
Speaker 1: from the Obama's. I don't believe Michelle right later. It's

2098
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:37,080
Speaker 1: because some of you all may be watching this tomorrow,

2099
01:44:38,040 --> 01:44:40,800
Speaker 1: So forgive us if you're watching this tomorrow. But what

2100
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:44,400
Speaker 1: do you guys, what significance do the Obamas still play

2101
01:44:44,560 --> 01:44:46,679
Speaker 1: on a national political stage at this point?

2102
01:44:47,960 --> 01:44:51,320
Speaker 3: You ruffle some feathers, which a comment. I did ruffle

2103
01:44:51,360 --> 01:44:52,720
Speaker 3: some feathers, and I don't regret it.

2104
01:44:52,880 --> 01:44:57,320
Speaker 5: I think you know, tonight is a remarkable opportunity as

2105
01:44:57,400 --> 01:45:01,479
Speaker 5: we are in Chicago, which is is where Michelle Obama

2106
01:45:01,520 --> 01:45:04,960
Speaker 5: and Barack Obama have long made their home. This is

2107
01:45:05,000 --> 01:45:07,960
Speaker 5: where history is made for him, and I think today

2108
01:45:08,120 --> 01:45:11,840
Speaker 5: could be a turning point that I would have liked

2109
01:45:11,880 --> 01:45:14,719
Speaker 5: to see a lot sooner, but I would I cannot

2110
01:45:14,800 --> 01:45:16,439
Speaker 5: wait for Michelle Obama's speech.

2111
01:45:16,520 --> 01:45:19,760
Speaker 3: I cannot wait for Barack Obama's speech, because.

2112
01:45:19,439 --> 01:45:23,000
Speaker 5: What I do know is they have the power of

2113
01:45:23,120 --> 01:45:25,760
Speaker 5: the spoken and written word on their side, and they

2114
01:45:25,880 --> 01:45:29,519
Speaker 5: have the opportunity to pass, to continue passing the torch.

2115
01:45:29,680 --> 01:45:32,759
Speaker 5: Right we know last night on the floor, Joe Biden

2116
01:45:32,840 --> 01:45:36,320
Speaker 5: didn't really use opportunity to pass the torch to Kamala

2117
01:45:36,360 --> 01:45:38,120
Speaker 5: Harrison in the way that I thought. I felt like

2118
01:45:38,240 --> 01:45:40,720
Speaker 5: last night's no. I was surprised I didn't get to

2119
01:45:40,720 --> 01:45:42,760
Speaker 5: say this y'all earlier because we had to run. But

2120
01:45:42,880 --> 01:45:46,439
Speaker 5: I actually thought that last night was a State of

2121
01:45:46,479 --> 01:45:48,240
Speaker 5: the Union part too, like y'all will kick me off

2122
01:45:48,280 --> 01:45:50,080
Speaker 5: the valley, y'all will catch all these accomplishments.

2123
01:45:50,479 --> 01:45:54,040
Speaker 3: Now, he did a great job. I was gonna say

2124
01:45:54,320 --> 01:45:56,759
Speaker 3: he did a great job, so say.

2125
01:45:58,920 --> 01:46:01,599
Speaker 5: You always are child, But I was going to say,

2126
01:46:02,080 --> 01:46:04,760
Speaker 5: you know, to me, he did a great job of

2127
01:46:04,880 --> 01:46:06,760
Speaker 5: saying And when they said thank you, Joe, he was like,

2128
01:46:06,800 --> 01:46:07,720
Speaker 5: and thank Kamala too.

2129
01:46:08,280 --> 01:46:11,760
Speaker 3: But I'm just talking about the expectation I had was.

2130
01:46:11,800 --> 01:46:14,320
Speaker 5: That he was going to tell them everything he knew

2131
01:46:14,320 --> 01:46:16,439
Speaker 5: about Kamala Harris. He was going to tell them about

2132
01:46:16,479 --> 01:46:18,879
Speaker 5: all the things that was in her portfolio where she shined,

2133
01:46:19,120 --> 01:46:20,920
Speaker 5: and focus on those accomplishments.

2134
01:46:21,479 --> 01:46:23,479
Speaker 3: I'm not faulting him. I understand why he did what

2135
01:46:23,560 --> 01:46:23,880
Speaker 3: he did.

2136
01:46:24,360 --> 01:46:28,880
Speaker 5: But tonight, Barack Obama, after being our actual first black

2137
01:46:28,920 --> 01:46:31,920
Speaker 5: president of the United States, has the opportunity to show

2138
01:46:32,360 --> 01:46:36,040
Speaker 5: Kamala Harris and her support base what it takes and

2139
01:46:36,280 --> 01:46:38,880
Speaker 5: why he will be someone who should roll up his

2140
01:46:39,000 --> 01:46:41,479
Speaker 5: sleeves and get his ass do really like I said,

2141
01:46:41,560 --> 01:46:43,200
Speaker 5: and this could be the first one. I want this

2142
01:46:43,320 --> 01:46:45,080
Speaker 5: to be the test case. And for him to show me.

2143
01:46:45,439 --> 01:46:47,879
Speaker 3: Proved to me all was wrong. Barack Obama proved.

2144
01:46:47,680 --> 01:46:50,200
Speaker 5: To me that that call add that y'all did was

2145
01:46:50,320 --> 01:46:52,760
Speaker 5: you know, just because the schedule didn't work, proved to

2146
01:46:52,840 --> 01:46:54,960
Speaker 5: me to not friend after fifty years.

2147
01:46:54,720 --> 01:46:57,160
Speaker 1: In service and government. I do think that President Biden

2148
01:46:57,240 --> 01:46:59,320
Speaker 1: earned his time to say this is what I've done.

2149
01:46:59,360 --> 01:47:02,080
Speaker 1: I think his time like I don't think it was

2150
01:47:02,160 --> 01:47:04,280
Speaker 1: his job in that moment to talk about her. I

2151
01:47:04,320 --> 01:47:06,519
Speaker 1: think other people have been doing that in their speeches.

2152
01:47:06,560 --> 01:47:08,120
Speaker 1: I think she will have to do that and make

2153
01:47:08,120 --> 01:47:10,000
Speaker 1: her case for the American people. And I would love

2154
01:47:10,040 --> 01:47:12,360
Speaker 1: to hear from her to talk about, you know, her

2155
01:47:12,439 --> 01:47:15,760
Speaker 1: accomplishments and you know, let the American people know what

2156
01:47:15,880 --> 01:47:18,920
Speaker 1: she's done. I'm also curious because I'm like you, Angel,

2157
01:47:18,960 --> 01:47:21,639
Speaker 1: I want to hear from forever flowus Michelle Obama.

2158
01:47:23,320 --> 01:47:24,719
Speaker 3: For it was it four years ago.

2159
01:47:24,720 --> 01:47:27,000
Speaker 1: When she told us when they go that may have

2160
01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:31,120
Speaker 1: been longer, twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, when they go low,

2161
01:47:31,240 --> 01:47:34,000
Speaker 1: we go high. And I do wonder eight years later,

2162
01:47:34,560 --> 01:47:36,280
Speaker 1: where she stands on that message.

2163
01:47:36,520 --> 01:47:38,760
Speaker 4: Yes, I don't think she'll reform it tonight, but.

2164
01:47:39,280 --> 01:47:44,280
Speaker 3: I would be mad if she didn't war with black women.

2165
01:47:44,439 --> 01:47:47,400
Speaker 1: And you know, my warning call and battle cry to

2166
01:47:47,439 --> 01:47:49,080
Speaker 1: my sisters is you do not ever want to be

2167
01:47:49,200 --> 01:47:51,920
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of black women. And I think

2168
01:47:52,000 --> 01:47:56,320
Speaker 1: people look to her specifically for messaging sometimes more often

2169
01:47:56,320 --> 01:47:56,519
Speaker 1: than not.

2170
01:47:56,600 --> 01:47:58,720
Speaker 3: We wanted to hear from her before we did.

2171
01:48:00,479 --> 01:48:02,479
Speaker 4: I do, and I'll tell you why because I think

2172
01:48:02,560 --> 01:48:05,679
Speaker 4: one I think she comes off as one thousand percent

2173
01:48:05,840 --> 01:48:08,920
Speaker 4: sincere in every word that crosses her lips, whether it's

2174
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:11,680
Speaker 4: true or not, it's the feeling that I get the

2175
01:48:11,760 --> 01:48:14,280
Speaker 4: other thing from the video that they did. The endorsement video,

2176
01:48:14,680 --> 01:48:16,479
Speaker 4: she said, I just got to say to my sister,

2177
01:48:16,800 --> 01:48:20,120
Speaker 4: which was Coke, Yes, we know that, we understood, we

2178
01:48:20,200 --> 01:48:24,040
Speaker 4: need to pivot. In the conversation that took place, She's like, girl,

2179
01:48:24,520 --> 01:48:27,160
Speaker 4: if I could tell you direct, I'm proud of you.

2180
01:48:27,840 --> 01:48:30,720
Speaker 4: I think she's going to bring that level. I think

2181
01:48:30,760 --> 01:48:33,040
Speaker 4: she's going to bring that level of lived experience of

2182
01:48:33,080 --> 01:48:37,200
Speaker 4: what it means to be an accomplished lawyer black woman

2183
01:48:37,640 --> 01:48:40,960
Speaker 4: who's just at the top of your game, almost seemingly

2184
01:48:41,040 --> 01:48:44,040
Speaker 4: without even trying, right, But I know it is with

2185
01:48:44,160 --> 01:48:45,720
Speaker 4: a lot of effort, a lot of work, a lot

2186
01:48:45,760 --> 01:48:46,320
Speaker 4: of preparation.

2187
01:48:46,439 --> 01:48:46,519
Speaker 10: Right.

2188
01:48:46,560 --> 01:48:49,000
Speaker 4: I don't want to dismiss what it requires to be

2189
01:48:49,160 --> 01:48:51,760
Speaker 4: at the level that they are at, but there is

2190
01:48:51,920 --> 01:48:54,040
Speaker 4: so much more that they share in common than what

2191
01:48:54,640 --> 01:48:57,920
Speaker 4: I think devised their experience. And I think that's what

2192
01:48:58,040 --> 01:49:01,639
Speaker 4: we're going to see a full thought lay into, which

2193
01:49:01,760 --> 01:49:04,439
Speaker 4: is every word I think is going to be buttressed

2194
01:49:04,479 --> 01:49:07,880
Speaker 4: and supported by that shared experience from women who grew

2195
01:49:07,920 --> 01:49:12,040
Speaker 4: up on different sides of the country, who different you know, parents,

2196
01:49:12,080 --> 01:49:15,920
Speaker 4: different upbring different background, but as professional Black women in America,

2197
01:49:16,760 --> 01:49:19,360
Speaker 4: what it has meant to be to get to the

2198
01:49:19,479 --> 01:49:22,760
Speaker 4: top of your game when everybody is calling for you.

2199
01:49:23,120 --> 01:49:23,320
Speaker 24: You know.

2200
01:49:23,640 --> 01:49:25,040
Speaker 3: The other thing is tonight.

2201
01:49:25,160 --> 01:49:27,679
Speaker 5: We talked about the Obama speaking tonight, but there's also

2202
01:49:27,800 --> 01:49:31,080
Speaker 5: another really important speech, and I think the one it

2203
01:49:31,160 --> 01:49:32,680
Speaker 5: adds to the point you were making that there are

2204
01:49:32,720 --> 01:49:35,080
Speaker 5: other folks who also need to make the case.

2205
01:49:34,960 --> 01:49:35,679
Speaker 3: For Kamala Harris.

2206
01:49:35,880 --> 01:49:39,919
Speaker 5: There's one particular person who has been a powerful surrogate

2207
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:44,519
Speaker 5: for her, who has corrected people on the pronunciation of

2208
01:49:44,600 --> 01:49:47,160
Speaker 5: her name, and he reminded the American people that if

2209
01:49:47,200 --> 01:49:49,560
Speaker 5: you can't pronounce it, don't worry because after November you

2210
01:49:49,640 --> 01:49:51,120
Speaker 5: can call her mad and Vice President.

2211
01:49:51,240 --> 01:49:54,000
Speaker 3: That I mean Madam president. She's mad and vice president now.

2212
01:49:54,360 --> 01:49:56,479
Speaker 5: But the person who said you can just call her

2213
01:49:56,520 --> 01:49:58,920
Speaker 5: Madam president is none other than her husband, Doug im

2214
01:49:58,960 --> 01:50:00,840
Speaker 5: Hoffin will also be in the stage tonight.

2215
01:50:01,120 --> 01:50:02,560
Speaker 4: I don't think we've heard enough from him, right. I

2216
01:50:02,640 --> 01:50:08,679
Speaker 4: think people still they by her side. But the man's

2217
01:50:08,680 --> 01:50:10,280
Speaker 4: got his own lived experience.

2218
01:50:10,360 --> 01:50:14,720
Speaker 5: It's powerful of himself, a wonderful, brilliant political strategy, is

2219
01:50:14,800 --> 01:50:17,280
Speaker 5: a brilliant lawyer. I think that he is going to

2220
01:50:17,320 --> 01:50:19,439
Speaker 5: be powerful tonight, and I think he might end up

2221
01:50:19,439 --> 01:50:21,680
Speaker 5: being a secret weapon in somebody that people slept on.

2222
01:50:21,760 --> 01:50:24,800
Speaker 3: I really do to ask you, guys. I want to

2223
01:50:24,880 --> 01:50:27,240
Speaker 3: point out that Ken Chanel is speaking right now, and

2224
01:50:28,080 --> 01:50:28,439
Speaker 3: I think.

2225
01:50:28,360 --> 01:50:30,680
Speaker 5: The former CEO of an American restaurant of the few

2226
01:50:30,720 --> 01:50:32,800
Speaker 5: black ones we had a full fortune five vener company,

2227
01:50:33,200 --> 01:50:34,240
Speaker 5: and I I don't quite know.

2228
01:50:34,280 --> 01:50:36,840
Speaker 3: Why he's speaking. I can't.

2229
01:50:36,840 --> 01:50:38,400
Speaker 1: We can't hear him. We can only see him on screen.

2230
01:50:38,439 --> 01:50:40,120
Speaker 1: But you and I talked about the fact that he

2231
01:50:40,160 --> 01:50:42,519
Speaker 1: would be taking the podium tonight. So but my point

2232
01:50:42,600 --> 01:50:45,720
Speaker 1: in saying that is you can catch him later in

2233
01:50:45,800 --> 01:50:47,920
Speaker 1: the clips because right now we're speaking, and to stay

2234
01:50:47,960 --> 01:50:54,240
Speaker 1: tuned to Native Land Pod Major Yet no disrespect to

2235
01:50:54,880 --> 01:50:58,120
Speaker 1: Ken Chanelt, but you were you were making a point

2236
01:50:59,080 --> 01:51:00,120
Speaker 1: about Doug m.

2237
01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:02,080
Speaker 3: Hoff. And I want to ask you, guys, do you

2238
01:51:02,240 --> 01:51:03,160
Speaker 3: think that.

2239
01:51:05,120 --> 01:51:09,599
Speaker 1: Black men can receive Doug im Hoff because the first

2240
01:51:09,640 --> 01:51:15,160
Speaker 1: time Vice President Senator Harris ran there were people anyway.

2241
01:51:15,800 --> 01:51:19,400
Speaker 4: Even if even if they don't, even if they don't,

2242
01:51:21,920 --> 01:51:25,439
Speaker 4: I believe that black men receive her. I am you know,

2243
01:51:25,640 --> 01:51:30,600
Speaker 4: sometimes y'all, y'all, we're gonna be here nothing.

2244
01:51:31,880 --> 01:51:32,160
Speaker 6: Move on.

2245
01:51:32,920 --> 01:51:35,040
Speaker 4: What I'm saying is talk about.

2246
01:51:37,640 --> 01:51:38,000
Speaker 6: Believe.

2247
01:51:39,040 --> 01:51:46,280
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, we cannot we can. Can I just ask

2248
01:51:46,320 --> 01:51:46,839
Speaker 3: the audience.

2249
01:51:47,479 --> 01:51:54,800
Speaker 5: Can we evolve? Do we we can't evolve? I mean,

2250
01:51:54,880 --> 01:51:58,880
Speaker 5: I forgive people from the standpoint of Andrew.

2251
01:51:58,680 --> 01:51:59,679
Speaker 6: Is still trying to make them.

2252
01:52:02,240 --> 01:52:02,439
Speaker 4: Point.

2253
01:52:03,280 --> 01:52:07,160
Speaker 3: I want to I want to come back, brother.

2254
01:52:07,280 --> 01:52:09,200
Speaker 5: I love you, but just know that this is paid

2255
01:52:09,240 --> 01:52:11,840
Speaker 5: up pay back from that Fox News interview, that thank

2256
01:52:11,920 --> 01:52:16,679
Speaker 5: you moment, Andrew. I just want to say, I'm sorry.

2257
01:52:16,840 --> 01:52:19,799
Speaker 5: I forgive people, and I can love you from a distance,

2258
01:52:19,920 --> 01:52:22,720
Speaker 5: and you're welcome to vote on this ticket. But one

2259
01:52:22,760 --> 01:52:24,599
Speaker 5: thing I will never forget is when I was at

2260
01:52:24,640 --> 01:52:27,320
Speaker 5: the National Action Network conference and her ass got up

2261
01:52:27,360 --> 01:52:30,200
Speaker 5: there and said that at the name of Donald Trump,

2262
01:52:30,240 --> 01:52:33,200
Speaker 5: every niche a bell. So I'm glad that somebody gave

2263
01:52:33,240 --> 01:52:37,000
Speaker 5: Omarosa a credential to come to this conference, to this convention,

2264
01:52:37,439 --> 01:52:39,639
Speaker 5: and for her to be taking pictures of the podcast.

2265
01:52:39,920 --> 01:52:42,639
Speaker 5: And I hope that she's I hope that she live

2266
01:52:42,680 --> 01:52:46,200
Speaker 5: streaming so she can hear this. Shout out girl, post

2267
01:52:46,280 --> 01:52:49,200
Speaker 5: a picture and see the comments. Because I will never

2268
01:52:49,320 --> 01:52:52,160
Speaker 5: forget you're doing that. Andrew was making a great point

2269
01:52:52,200 --> 01:52:53,440
Speaker 5: about the importance.

2270
01:52:53,040 --> 01:52:55,720
Speaker 9: Of no.

2271
01:53:00,439 --> 01:53:01,200
Speaker 3: I know, but I don't know.

2272
01:53:02,000 --> 01:53:03,680
Speaker 4: Here seven minutes.

2273
01:53:05,880 --> 01:53:07,040
Speaker 3: Over time, because we want to hear you.

2274
01:53:07,520 --> 01:53:10,080
Speaker 4: We're not going over to this simple You said whether

2275
01:53:10,160 --> 01:53:12,280
Speaker 4: or not black man can receive him in this way,

2276
01:53:12,680 --> 01:53:14,720
Speaker 4: And my point was, it doesn't matter if we do

2277
01:53:14,840 --> 01:53:17,160
Speaker 4: or don't we receive her. And I think that it

2278
01:53:17,320 --> 01:53:21,280
Speaker 4: is enough to be for her that we will show up,

2279
01:53:21,479 --> 01:53:24,360
Speaker 4: show out, vote, and see her elevated to the presidency.

2280
01:53:24,520 --> 01:53:28,240
Speaker 4: I don't think it's a petty negro somewhere who may

2281
01:53:28,560 --> 01:53:32,760
Speaker 4: harbor whatever resentment may exist as a relationship. What you

2282
01:53:32,800 --> 01:53:36,800
Speaker 4: know what I think, y'all? Are I think us this woman?

2283
01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:38,360
Speaker 4: I think you might. You might.

2284
01:53:41,479 --> 01:53:41,919
Speaker 3: Anybody.

2285
01:53:42,160 --> 01:53:46,000
Speaker 4: Don't keep your I don't know anybody will take much

2286
01:53:46,080 --> 01:53:47,800
Speaker 4: attention from y'all. Y'all have your.

2287
01:53:50,120 --> 01:53:51,400
Speaker 3: Taking pictures. It was weird.

2288
01:53:52,040 --> 01:53:59,120
Speaker 4: She could be a fan of the show, ain't the one?

2289
01:53:59,400 --> 01:53:59,560
Speaker 11: You know what?

2290
01:53:59,680 --> 01:54:03,400
Speaker 4: Y'all? We wanted to be with you and say one

2291
01:54:03,479 --> 01:54:04,679
Speaker 4: thing that you to your point.

2292
01:54:05,880 --> 01:54:06,720
Speaker 6: Wait, no, no, no.

2293
01:54:08,560 --> 01:54:10,320
Speaker 3: Point. I was gonna make so last night Steve Kerr

2294
01:54:10,439 --> 01:54:12,320
Speaker 3: was on the stage. No no, no, no, no, no,

2295
01:54:12,360 --> 01:54:18,519
Speaker 3: no noall. Coach Yes played with Michael Jordans for the Bulls. Okay, okay,

2296
01:54:19,400 --> 01:54:21,960
Speaker 3: which when which coach? Which team does he coach? Now

2297
01:54:22,680 --> 01:54:26,479
Speaker 3: he's he coaches for the NBA team. This one the

2298
01:54:28,160 --> 01:54:30,760
Speaker 3: Yes exactly which one is that is that the Golden State.

2299
01:54:32,160 --> 01:54:35,720
Speaker 3: So he won the championship. That's true. To point. Okay,

2300
01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:41,880
Speaker 3: so we know that because I want to save the

2301
01:54:41,960 --> 01:54:45,000
Speaker 3: last day anyway to point here, my coach, Okay, the

2302
01:54:45,080 --> 01:54:48,200
Speaker 3: point is this, you guys. Last night, during his speech, Andrew,

2303
01:54:48,280 --> 01:54:49,040
Speaker 3: this is important.

2304
01:54:49,520 --> 01:54:53,320
Speaker 5: During his speech, he did this to Donald Trump, which

2305
01:54:53,440 --> 01:54:55,840
Speaker 5: is what Steph Curry does when he hits them three.

2306
01:54:56,280 --> 01:54:57,640
Speaker 3: You should notice, Tiff, you're watching them.

2307
01:54:58,600 --> 01:54:59,040
Speaker 4: But I just like.

2308
01:55:00,920 --> 01:55:02,600
Speaker 5: That means like good night night. He said, Donald Trump,

2309
01:55:02,600 --> 01:55:05,080
Speaker 5: go go go night night in November. Right, So here's

2310
01:55:05,920 --> 01:55:08,320
Speaker 5: yes on this during his speech last night. Here's the point.

2311
01:55:09,120 --> 01:55:11,400
Speaker 3: Here's the point. I think black men.

2312
01:55:12,000 --> 01:55:17,480
Speaker 5: Who have the ability to be persuaded by white men

2313
01:55:17,960 --> 01:55:20,640
Speaker 5: who have done powerful things and have been good allies

2314
01:55:20,680 --> 01:55:23,400
Speaker 5: in black spaces will receive Doug im Hoff just like

2315
01:55:23,480 --> 01:55:26,120
Speaker 5: they received received Steve Kerr. Steve Kerr has been a

2316
01:55:26,360 --> 01:55:29,440
Speaker 5: fantastic ally. He stood with us on black issues. He

2317
01:55:29,480 --> 01:55:32,360
Speaker 5: stood with the team during the the.

2318
01:55:32,520 --> 01:55:34,640
Speaker 3: Unrest surrounding George Floyd, and been a.

2319
01:55:34,960 --> 01:55:37,280
Speaker 5: Fierce fighter by Jamie We love you, Gotta see Jamie

2320
01:55:37,280 --> 01:55:41,240
Speaker 5: Harrison tomorrow. He's been a fierce protector of black rights.

2321
01:55:41,640 --> 01:55:44,000
Speaker 5: And racial justice in this in these really treacherous times.

2322
01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:45,640
Speaker 5: So yes, I think Doug im Hoff will be received

2323
01:55:45,680 --> 01:55:47,120
Speaker 5: like all right.

2324
01:55:47,320 --> 01:55:49,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't think there's anything that can stop.

2325
01:55:50,560 --> 01:55:51,400
Speaker 3: I don't think it's.

2326
01:55:53,080 --> 01:55:55,240
Speaker 4: This hands I know, but I don't know.

2327
01:55:55,920 --> 01:55:59,720
Speaker 3: I just need to wipe it off. My apologize for

2328
01:56:00,040 --> 01:56:01,040
Speaker 3: and you made a few minutes ago.

2329
01:56:03,800 --> 01:56:07,000
Speaker 4: I was trying to make the point, make.

2330
01:56:08,720 --> 01:56:12,240
Speaker 3: You're a lyingt okay right out the word tell.

2331
01:56:12,200 --> 01:56:16,400
Speaker 4: Us there, tell us that you got four minutes to

2332
01:56:16,440 --> 01:56:17,800
Speaker 4: make there, that's it.

2333
01:56:18,040 --> 01:56:20,080
Speaker 3: Why when you are a lying Okay?

2334
01:56:21,000 --> 01:56:21,240
Speaker 6: Okay?

2335
01:56:21,320 --> 01:56:23,240
Speaker 5: Can I ask you a question? What was your highlight

2336
01:56:23,400 --> 01:56:25,800
Speaker 5: from the podcast today? We have so many great guests,

2337
01:56:25,840 --> 01:56:30,640
Speaker 5: so many amazing conversations. Speaker, Yeah, I love collaborate on that,

2338
01:56:30,760 --> 01:56:31,200
Speaker 5: or well.

2339
01:56:31,160 --> 01:56:33,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just want to say I'm I'm so excited.

2340
01:56:33,800 --> 01:56:37,280
Speaker 4: I'm a legislative I really do. Yeah, I'm a lover

2341
01:56:37,360 --> 01:56:39,200
Speaker 4: of the house in the sense that I think it's

2342
01:56:39,560 --> 01:56:42,920
Speaker 4: it is part of the greatest deliberative body country. At

2343
01:56:42,960 --> 01:56:45,440
Speaker 4: least it once was. Now it is. Lot y'all is

2344
01:56:45,480 --> 01:56:48,560
Speaker 4: writing confetti on us. I think they're trying to this.

2345
01:56:48,600 --> 01:56:50,440
Speaker 5: Is what happens when people piss on us and tell

2346
01:56:50,560 --> 01:56:52,960
Speaker 5: us to bring us back full circle.

2347
01:56:52,720 --> 01:56:57,960
Speaker 4: Today that the power of the speaker, Yes, what this

2348
01:56:58,160 --> 01:57:01,800
Speaker 4: man well encompass in his being and is all the

2349
01:57:01,880 --> 01:57:05,720
Speaker 4: way clear about the fact that he is in service. Yeah,

2350
01:57:06,480 --> 01:57:10,200
Speaker 4: I love it. It's beautiful. It's not ego, not tripping.

2351
01:57:10,720 --> 01:57:12,800
Speaker 4: He knows that he is there. He could not hold

2352
01:57:12,840 --> 01:57:14,800
Speaker 4: the Democratic call because the way that he has these

2353
01:57:14,880 --> 01:57:19,200
Speaker 4: last two years without being acutely aware that he is

2354
01:57:19,320 --> 01:57:22,200
Speaker 4: in service in that position to others. And I love

2355
01:57:22,240 --> 01:57:24,800
Speaker 4: the fact that the ego, if it exists, it comes

2356
01:57:24,840 --> 01:57:29,680
Speaker 4: out at the right times as a tool and not

2357
01:57:30,000 --> 01:57:33,480
Speaker 4: to make him a tool. He uses it as a tool.

2358
01:57:33,760 --> 01:57:37,760
Speaker 5: I have to say to and Andrew that my highlight

2359
01:57:37,880 --> 01:57:42,440
Speaker 5: today was starting the show, well, yeah, with the machetes,

2360
01:57:42,480 --> 01:57:46,800
Speaker 5: but also Natasha Brown talking about building black political power,

2361
01:57:46,880 --> 01:57:49,680
Speaker 5: and we literally at every turn in the show had

2362
01:57:49,760 --> 01:57:52,280
Speaker 5: that confirmation, whether it was from Delta Sigma Theater or

2363
01:57:52,320 --> 01:57:55,920
Speaker 5: when with Black Women or Black Pack and the work

2364
01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:58,280
Speaker 5: that Terrence is doing it every turn there are people

2365
01:57:58,280 --> 01:58:01,920
Speaker 5: who are in public service themselves or working to facilitate

2366
01:58:02,040 --> 01:58:05,760
Speaker 5: opportunities for the next generation of public servants who are black.

2367
01:58:06,160 --> 01:58:08,480
Speaker 5: That was so powerful to me and I loved being

2368
01:58:08,480 --> 01:58:11,120
Speaker 5: able to share that space with y'all and for.

2369
01:58:11,200 --> 01:58:14,360
Speaker 4: Their listeners, you know, the folks who tune in, who

2370
01:58:14,400 --> 01:58:17,640
Speaker 4: are real faithful to be able to expose them to

2371
01:58:17,720 --> 01:58:19,800
Speaker 4: those voices that they can hear from directly, because so

2372
01:58:19,880 --> 01:58:23,480
Speaker 4: many times people have jaded views of people in politics

2373
01:58:23,520 --> 01:58:26,760
Speaker 4: who are elected officials. And I feel like, just in

2374
01:58:26,840 --> 01:58:28,600
Speaker 4: the last two days and we're not even done, we're

2375
01:58:28,600 --> 01:58:31,200
Speaker 4: halfway at the point, right that we've been able to

2376
01:58:31,360 --> 01:58:35,600
Speaker 4: set in front of folks, not the mystery of the individual,

2377
01:58:35,680 --> 01:58:37,760
Speaker 4: but the person. And you get a flavor for who

2378
01:58:37,840 --> 01:58:40,360
Speaker 4: they are, they come, what they're doing, and that they're

2379
01:58:40,400 --> 01:58:43,000
Speaker 4: working on your behalf. And I hope that it renews

2380
01:58:43,040 --> 01:58:48,400
Speaker 4: in some people a sense of encouraged believe that everybody

2381
01:58:48,480 --> 01:58:50,320
Speaker 4: ain't bad who's in this game. In fact, more often

2382
01:58:50,360 --> 01:58:52,320
Speaker 4: than not, if we take take a look a long

2383
01:58:52,480 --> 01:58:55,520
Speaker 4: enough look, we see more good. Yeah, we see a

2384
01:58:55,560 --> 01:58:56,600
Speaker 4: lot more good than bad.

2385
01:58:56,760 --> 01:59:02,560
Speaker 1: And yes, I think anytime that I get to share

2386
01:59:02,640 --> 01:59:08,120
Speaker 1: space with Latasha, I was telling her partner earlier, I

2387
01:59:08,200 --> 01:59:12,160
Speaker 1: get so jealous of anytime somebody else gets Vlatasha's time

2388
01:59:12,440 --> 01:59:14,360
Speaker 1: when I'm talking to her and she starts talking to

2389
01:59:14,840 --> 01:59:17,000
Speaker 1: you know, her auntie or her her niece and I'm

2390
01:59:17,040 --> 01:59:20,240
Speaker 1: just like, you know, if I'm like, like I want

2391
01:59:20,280 --> 01:59:22,080
Speaker 1: to just spend time. I want to have lunch in something,

2392
01:59:22,240 --> 01:59:24,840
Speaker 1: and she's like, oh, my sister friend from so and

2393
01:59:24,920 --> 01:59:27,200
Speaker 1: so going to join and someone, you know, Like I

2394
01:59:27,320 --> 01:59:31,280
Speaker 1: just want my time with her because she really is

2395
01:59:31,640 --> 01:59:36,360
Speaker 1: an impath, a visionary. And we talk about politics on

2396
01:59:36,480 --> 01:59:39,600
Speaker 1: this show, but Latasha has poured into all of us

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Speaker 1: on such a deep personal level. And if I can

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Speaker 1: bottle her up and give her away for Christmas.

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Speaker 3: I would do it. And it would be price.

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Speaker 5: Probably, But I do want to say Andrew made a

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Speaker 5: good point as we get ready to close out the show,

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Speaker 5: Ti if we only have two days left, it's going

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Speaker 5: by so fast. But you guys tomorrow, I mean, my

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Speaker 5: only call to action is that y'all tune in the

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Speaker 5: next two days. Tomorrow is historic for Native Lampid. Tomorrow

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Speaker 5: we will be live streaming still, but we are in

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Speaker 5: collaboration with The Breakfast Club, the number one morning show

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Speaker 5: in the country, and we'll be joined by our good

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Speaker 5: brother and friends, Charlemagne and the God also known as

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Speaker 5: Lenard Michelvey.

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Speaker 3: So are we is the Breakfast Club? Like are we

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Speaker 3: airing as the Breakfast Club? We are airing at our

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Speaker 3: Native lampod and the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 5: Okay, yes, so like in the morning it will be

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Speaker 5: so we're still live streaming, yes, and they are also

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Speaker 5: taping for the Breakfast Club the next morning, so it

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Speaker 5: will air on Thursday morning and Friday morning on the

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Speaker 5: Breakfast Club. We will still be streaming tomorrow. We hope

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Speaker 5: that y'all will tune.

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Speaker 3: In Who's on tomorrow?

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Speaker 5: Oh, you'll got to go to our Instagram page which

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Speaker 5: is at Native lampod and all of our social handles

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Speaker 5: are at Native lampid to see who our guests will be.

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Speaker 1: Well, the rumor is that Beyonce or Taylor Swift is coming.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's still the rumor. Is Beyonce

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Speaker 1: joining us on sets?

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Speaker 4: I have change.

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Speaker 3: I don't think you're ready days until the election.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Last morning, Thank you for joining the Natives Attentional with.

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Speaker 2: The info and all of the latest red gulum and

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Speaker 2: cross connective to the statements that you leave on our socials.

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Speaker 2: Thank you sincerely for the patients. Reason for your choice

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Speaker 2: is clear, so grateful it took the execute roles. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for serve, defend and protect the truth and in

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Speaker 2: pat Well walking.

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Speaker 7: Home to all of the natives, we thank you.

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Speaker 3: Welcome home, y'all.

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