WEBVTT - Native Land Pod | Live at the DNC | Day 2 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.200 Native lamb Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:04.760 with Reisent Choice Media. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.600 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.680 Welcome, Welcome home, y'all. 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:10.039 Welcome. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.560 This is Native Lampod. It is day two of Live 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:14.200 from the Ship. 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.840 We are at the DNC, happy to be here. We 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.800 had an incredible show yesterday. We are your hosts Angela Rye, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.160 Tiffany Cross, and Andrew Gillam. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.239 And this is episode thirty four. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.200 Thirty four. It is thirty four. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.760 This is episode this episode is the same age as me. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.320 Oh my god, so that would be not true. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:34.560 Eight years since last night. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.280 Aria, No, I'm just saying, welcome home, y'all. We are 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:41.920 thrilled to be here. We have an incredible show. But 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:46.160 before we get into to today's show, I would love 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.720 to hear about you all's highlights from last night at 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:50.200 the Democratic National Convention. 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.640 Wait, do you mean highlights from like what happened as 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.280 a convention or just highlights from our time here in Chicago. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.080 Maybe the convention? 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:07.880 Has there been so many Yes, that is crazy about 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:08.840 what happened to that man. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.200 We have a story for you that will tell another time. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.280 But there was something that happened yesterday, So be sure 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.920 to tune in the data lampard every time we broadcast. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.560 Yes when we we have to escape the city. So I. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.920 Hi, Jamie Harrison is saying, hello, big chair of the 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:27.760 d what we did. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.920 I know you're coming on tomorrow. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.480 For our viewers at home, Jamie Harrison is the chair 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.479 of the Democratic National Convention. He's got an amazing job. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.119 Dinner National Committee. Forgive me, he's done an amazing job 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.760 the past couple of years. He as you may remember, 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.920 is out of South Carolina, ran for Senate and now 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:48.960 he chairs the d n C. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:50.880 So we're honored to be here with him. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.200 Angela moderated an event with him earlier this week, so 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:55.440 he'll be on tomorrow. 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.920 He's gonna be on tomorrow. He's gonna be on tomorrow. 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.520 And I know investments for helping us win stuff they 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:04.040 can't see. 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.840 But we have a whole audience that's standing here in 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.639 front of us watching. So we want to shout these 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.280 guys out for being here, being loyal native Lampine UH fans. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.679 But I want to say the highlight for me yesterday 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:21.359 was definitely Joe Biden. His There were so many moments 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.880 but when he closed out and said, like America, I've 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:29.440 given you everything, I can't. Yes, I don't want to say. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.239 I was in somebody's room watching this, having some snacks, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.120 and I saw a little tear come out of somebody's eyes. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.960 I don't want to say, who stopping. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.519 Stopping You guys sad time out. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.120 I am so pissed off right now. You guys watched 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:45.200 this together and didn't tell me. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:46.440 Okay, let me just say this is. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:52.040 No let your food from the lobby, and you went 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:52.680 up to your room. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.720 Well, and I shouldn't have done that because I got 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:55.560 in the elevator. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.440 But we'll story. 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.920 My god, but I was not planning to go to Andrew's. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:01.840 I don't want to hear it too, Okay, all right, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:03.880 I just had. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.320 Me over here in time out and plussy versus Ferguson's seversation. 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:12.360 Over here, we have a lot of yellow. 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.120 Alert, Yellow girl alert, yellow girl alert. 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:19.080 Myself there, you can shop by myself. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:23.200 Everybody's so confused. It's fine, Thank you, thank you. 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.639 Angela was on the call handling business. She's been responsible 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.840 for the production, doing so many things. I was one 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.480 of my from Andrew and I were exhausted, and I 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.639 told Andrew I didn't want anything to eat, and he 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:35.840 were he did. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:36.600 He ordered me something. 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.400 Anyway, he ordered me a salad and he was like, 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:41.920 do you want to I'm coming to your room there 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.160 to watch Biden and so I think Andrew was ready 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:44.600 to go to sleep. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.000 Anyway, we watched and at the end of. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.160 The speed I looked over to Andrew and it was 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.040 a little single Denzels here rolling down. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:51.480 That's a singlenzels here. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.200 Okay, So what was your highlight, Andrew, Andrew tips highlight? 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.120 Was you crying sometimes? 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:56.280 You know? 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:56.840 You yawned? 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.960 Yes, and you know we yawned in this feed. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.120 No, no, no, no, no, no, it was over. I was 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.880 going to be over. But in truth, I was touched 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:09.840 sincerely by one the love the almost five minute ovation 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.560 that Democrats gave to Joe Biden last night. It was 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.839 it was so due, it was so merited. I said 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:19.559 it yesterday, I said to Get today that I think 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:24.240 he committed the most selfless act in politics. I think 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:28.279 that I certainly can remember during my lifetime. Yeah, and 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.440 it still has Donald Trump flamoxt because he didn't think 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.919 it was possible for the most powerful person in the 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.279 world to say, you know what, I'm gonna step back 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:39.480 when they have an opportunity to stay there. So that 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.360 was really that was really touching. I thought Hillary Clinton's 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.200 although we didn't get to hear it all, I saw 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.960 some of the you know, the recap of it. I 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.080 thought it was a really powerful address given by her. 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.240 And we talked Yesterda about whether or not she might 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.800 feel some sort of way being at this convention where 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:02.000 she previously was challenged by Trump. Unfortunately the election I'll 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.440 come was what it was. And then to now see 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.760 Kamala another woman in this position where she's competing to 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:14.080 vanquish this great enemy of ours with a great chance 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.080 of being able to do so, she showed up for 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:16.960 her and I love that. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:23.120 I will say very briefly my highlight yesterday in addition 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.159 to sitting here with Congressman Thompson, who is just a legend, 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.119 and the question Siviny asked him to just pull out 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.279 like the best of him and like knowing y'all, I 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.080 don't know if y'all really know. He does not like 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:34.920 to do press that much, and he was like, I'm 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.200 just gonna be here, y'all. A Macari and Derek and 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.960 that was fantastic. I will also say I love to 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:48.920 see Jasmine Crockett, AOC, Lauren Underwood, the women who are 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:53.320 undergirding this party, this convention, a new generation. 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.640 You're talking about passing the torch in real time. 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.440 Seeing that happen over and over again throughout last night 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.200 was incredible. I think you really saw them embody what 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:02.680 it really means to be a big tent. 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:04.520 Tonight's theme is a. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.560 Bold vision for America's future, and I think we'll see 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.120 more of that, and of course to help us talk 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.240 about that future and how we continue to to not 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.560 just honor, but to support and to build infrastructure in 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.480 communities of color and to the rising majority. As Tiffany 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.360 Cross always says, is Latasha Brown. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:25.359 Voters matter. 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.360 We would love beautiful of Native Lampid. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.839 We are thrilled to have Latasha Brown joining you. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:38.520 Here. 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.799 As if you watch news, if you follow politics closely, 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.640 you know Latasha very well. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.000 She has an amazing voice. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.640 But what I love about Latasha is you cannot tell 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:52.359 the story of America without talking about Latasha Brown and 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:53.960 the work that she does. We don't want to leave 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.320 out cliff Albright as well as our partner and co 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.800 founder of Black Voters Matter. But Latasha, you show up 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:00.840 when nobody calls. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:01.400 That's right. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.760 When Hurricane Katrina happened, nobody asked you. You just sprung 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.400 into action and you love everybody. But you love black 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:10.760 folks like you love yourself. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:15.040 And it is just the body of the sister spirit. Yes, yeah, 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.760 bring it, but in a young that's missionary. That's right. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:24.160 Woman like Ethereal Spirits, she's an impact, she's our deity. 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:33.960 But she's definitely yes herself, Yes, and an evangelist, warrior, 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:38.200 all the things. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.040 Only depression depression. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.000 Welcome, says thank you. 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.000 I am at the Native Pod. 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.120 I'm just happy to be here in Native This is 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.240 our land, this is out and I feel that, I 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:52.840 feel the spirit. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.080 I'm so proud of y'all. I love each and every 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:55.480 one of you. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.120 Like every week I'm listening because I was like, listen, 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.679 let me get grounded, let me get right. I was like, Angela, 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.040 gonna bring some fire and get some spice on it. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:07.200 They're typically gonna like, look, well, I'm just saying, and literally, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.080 my brother is always I'm gonna be the voice of 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:10.680 reason until I. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.280 I love that you are doing the people's work, and 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.160 it is always our honor not only to lift you 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.560 up and to encourage you, but anytime you've call on us, 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.880 we want to be there with you. I'll never forget 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:27.400 And t If I hope you don't mind me telling 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.040 this story. We're on the other side of you know what, 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:34.000 MSNBC digitive and we knew there was no other place 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.160 we should be but in Atlanta, next to you, working 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.559 with you, and I remember, like the people that you 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.520 pour into, pouring back into Tiffany talk about why the 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.640 work of black voters matter is so critical, especially in 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:47.280 a moment like this. 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:49.679 You know, I think that it's important for us to 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.000 recognize that if change is to happen, if we're going 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.880 to have the nation that we desire, we deserve and 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:55.959 we're going to have to create it. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:57.360 So we've got to generate it. 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.079 And the way that we generated, we're gonna have to 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.560 generate it. Really, it has to be strategy. We need strategy, right, 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.280 But it's not just been strategy that's moved us forward. 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.400 It's been spirit. It's been strategy in the spirit, the 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.240 spirit and the ancestors, the spirit of resistance, the spirit 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.760 of freedom, the spirit of love like loving each other 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.439 when we haven't had anything else, when we didn't have money, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.280 when we didn't have land, when we didn't have kind 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.120 of the politics, what we had is we had this 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.520 sense of self and the love of each other that 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.920 would actually take us through. And so for us with 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.240 Voters Matter, we wanted to create an organization that was 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.280 unapologetic about being black. Right we ride around in a 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.400 big bus, a fifty eight foot bus and say we're 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.080 in the blackest bus in America. We wanted to own 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.280 and affirm that and not just say that we're participating 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.240 in the election because we're really not an election group. 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:45.560 We're a power building group. 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.680 We're real clear that all the work that we're doing 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.920 is really about how do we build power for black folks. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.360 And when people are talking about voting, yes, voting is 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.800 one key, you know, and is a very very powerful tool, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.640 but it's also a space of when you own your agency. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.240 There's something about voting that's really about owning your agency 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.920 that if a decision is being made about me and mine, 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:08.960 I need to be a part of that process. Right 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.880 that that's fundamentally you know, And also we've got to 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.480 have this space around. When people are actually hurting and 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.959 harming our communities, there has to be a consequence. So 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.800 you can't continue to serve in the office and hurt 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.080 and harm us. We've got to send a message loud 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.800 and clear like this, this ain't going down like that, right. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.840 But also to create space, create space if there's nothing 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.760 else for harm reduction, to reduce the harm happening to us, 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.439 to actually work collectively together and really move towards a vision, 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.719 a collective vision. So that's the work that we do 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.240 and that's why we do it. You know, if you 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.480 want to the three things, I call it three ms. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.280 The three things we do is money, it's movement building. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:47.800 And it's message. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.760 In the last seven years, we've really been blessed. One 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.599 of the things that we always would sit around and 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.480 were like, how could we invest in black communities. We've 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.679 invested over forty I think as of now, I think 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:02.079 it's over forty one million dollar and black leg grassroot 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:03.800 groups in the last six years. 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:05.840 In the last six years to do power building. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:10.679 That's everything from reparations, organizing around reparations, to organizing around 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:15.600 police accountability, to actually do an election work, to referendums. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.599 At the end of the day, how black communities define. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:19.640 What power building is for them. 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.760 We want to be in alignment with them and support 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.240 them around that. In addition that, we also know that 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.120 the message matters. That's why I'm so happy you all 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.360 are doing this podcast. We need black media, We need 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.599 places like this. I want if I had all the 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.320 money in the world right when I hear the lottery, 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.160 I promise y'all that my first investment is going to 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.160 be this podcast right there right because the world needs 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.040 to hear your voices. You all have clarity, and I'm 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.400 just really really grateful to be in relationship with you. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:47.760 You know what. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.079 I just first of all, everything you said cosan, love, love, love, 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:52.880 that whole investment piece at the end, they're truth. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:53.240 Yeah. 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.559 Yeah, But I have to tell you I am in 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.680 all of your mission vision and the fact that you're 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.839 defining yourself outside of any election cycle. So often donors 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.719 and media and others like to put organizing in the 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:11.560 black community and the bucket of election turnout and what's 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.200 happening with the black vote and the da da da 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:14.760 da dad, and you're saying, no, no, no, that's not 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:16.880 the box that we're We're not in an anty box. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.760 And what I have to say as a person who 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.280 had run for office and have gone into communities where 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.080 we have felt really disempowered, really not invested in, really 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.880 not seeing it's groups and efforts like yours who were 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.679 there before the election after the election, putting pieces back 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.240 together and renewing in people a belief a system that 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.640 they're not some commodity to be traded on, but rather 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.120 we're an investment to be made. We are a community 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.479 that gives, we feel, we love, we breathe, we have disappointments, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.040 we have ups, we have downs. And what you're doing 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.439 is you're helping. You're helping to give that greater credibility, 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.880 and hopefully what it will do is recruit greater investment 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.600 in our community that is there outside of anybody's election cycle. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:04.920 Because if we do that work and people start to 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.520 believe that that's how change gets created, that this is 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.400 an element of the change that we're trying to see, 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.160 then I have to believe that we won't need the 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:17.439 investment of these short term voter registration turn out projects. Why, 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.160 because the work will be there three sixty five and 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.800 I'm just curious before we go to our other bad 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:27.920 age so over year is that how are you experiencing 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.440 the donor class as it relates to investing in that kind. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:35.319 Of move largely white male donor for very part of 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.640 what we actually decided that when we started the organization, 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.079 and I just want to be honest, Cliff and I 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.640 we always tell the story we quit our jobs and 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.719 we started the organization. We had the idea that we 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.839 wanted to create. The name is actually Black Voters Matter Fund. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.439 We were very intentional from the beginning that has organizers 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.400 for multiple decades. That part of the challenge we had 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.960 sometimes when there was an election or there wasn't there 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.000 was an election happening, but if the candidate than not 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.199 invest in the campaign or a party, there were no resources. 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.560 But it mattered, it mattered who. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.360 Was found a commissioner, it mattered who the sheriff was, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.160 but there were no resources available if the party or 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:13.760 a candidate wasn't putting in there. And we were like, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.600 our power should not be tied into whether a candidate 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.600 believes that that is important enough. We've got to find 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.960 a way that the candidate that we're running for, the 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.440 candidate that we're doing our work for the candidate that 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.480 is ongoing is black power. We wanted to be very 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.440 intentional about being black. That's what our colors are. Our 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.040 colors ain't red, white, and blue. I know that this 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.880 is pretty around, is pretty right, but our colors are red, black. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:37.040 And green. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:37.640 Right. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:39.920 That we wanted to literally lift up and have a 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.640 foundation around black liberation and be unapologetic with it. And 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.920 so that our alignment wasn't with a political party or 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.240 political candidate. Our alignment was really around how do we 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.680 help black folks as they define build power in their 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.560 local communities. And if we do that enough and we're 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.760 connecting that enough and we get black folks just to 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.720 believe in their own power just that point black period. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.640 If black people believe in our own power, what we 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.640 have shown is we will change this nation. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.840 We have everything that we have stood in. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.160 The space of our power, even whether whether we had 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.840 the majority of numbers or not, right, we have created change. 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.640 And so that's what we wanted to literally build off 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:19.520 the rich. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.080 History of that, the real history of struggle, a spirit, 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.480 a strategy, and putting those things together really to advance 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.000 not just black liberation for us because I actually fundamentally 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.200 believe that all people will actually benefit from black liberation. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.440 If you lift up those communities that are on the fringes, 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.880 those communities that have been marginalized, then it has always 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.280 made life better for all of us. We black folks 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.400 fight for housing, our white kind of parts. Everybody been 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.840 in the fits from housing. So that's what our venson is, 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.320 that's our dream, and we're just really grateful to be 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.600 in service of the ancestors. We are grateful to be 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.400 in service of our people. We are grateful to go 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.800 around and say in this space right now, baby be clear, bowl, 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:05.040 beautiful and black, to get. 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:06.360 On the road with you. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.680 We have some work to do, including always building black 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.120 power and speaking of red, black and green. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:20.120 Look at them over here. Cunningham, activist, writer and a 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.720 friend of ours. We are part of a machete's crew. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.160 Were waiting for one more to join us, she said, Brittany, 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:27.920 we are so thrilled for you to be here. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.080 You're an activists out of Missouri. You also served on 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:37.200 a council or the President Barack Obama. You do a 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.800 lot of social commentating, but also a lot of work 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:40.880 on the ground. 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:41.160 Still. 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.960 Preaching, and hell a lot of preaching, and she and 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:46.840 Latasha both do some amazing singing. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.800 But she's also as a one said a Machety member. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.280 So thank you for being here. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.480 But you know, I thought I'm a little bit mad 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.520 because I love you all so much. But the agreement 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.320 was that if I was going to do Native Lampire. 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:07.320 I could not speak after Latasha. The word has been misinformation. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.399 Benediction has been prayed, the collection play has been passed 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.760 right everybody out in the vestibule. 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:14.840 Now it's the letter. 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.639 Every time, every time she delivers a sermon. 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.480 I'm I'm really happy you're joining us on separate because 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:24.800 one I just love when we all get to be 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:29.280 together as our sister circle. We were in Mexico together 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.800 a few weeks. You can check some of our thirst 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:32.600 traps if you like. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:33.040 But. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:39.919 Specific for. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.960 Yourself, thank you. 0:17:58.640 --> 0:17:59.680 I try to stand the part. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.479 What is the task for people watching at home right now? 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.200 Because I think you know, I was just talking to 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.600 one of the mayors earlier saying this was a the 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.160 plot line here was so unbelievable. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.560 It rivals a Tyler Perry plot. This we're in a movie. 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.760 I said, this is ridiculous. It's just not believable. But 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.359 yet here we are when the country turn like that. 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.720 It wasn't even a month ago that Vice President Harris 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:24.600 is now our nominee. 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.280 So for all the people who were a bit. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.359 Apathetic, who are now excited and hopeful, what beyond that 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.040 hope and excitement do people need to be doing right 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:34.680 now to make this a decisive win. 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.600 I love this question because it's action oriented. 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.480 And Natasha and I were together last night having a 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.840 conversation about organizing with some folks. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.679 Listen, you're let's be honest about it. 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.439 Message, but don't worry. But they did the same thing. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.200 They watched the space together. You really feel like I'm 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:00.000 in the middle. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.040 You as an amattle girl, and you the. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.080 Youngest, so you know you already Kitchen, I do it. 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.679 Can we talk about that at some point because nobody 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.360 acknowledges that, but it's true. I get a real rough 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:15.000 But this is the right question, right because we often 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.920 are talking about a lot of the things that we 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.200 are dealing with, the trauma that we endure, the ways 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.200 we've had to survive and be creative and innovative, and 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:29.160 yet we often don't have the time left to be imaginative, 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.280 to be strategic to actually dream up the world that 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.280 we deserve and say, let's plan backwards from it and 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.840 figure out how we get there together, because it's not 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:39.280 freedom if we don't get there together. 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:39.560 Right. 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.560 So, I really think that this question about action is 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.359 so important. But the action starts within. You actually have 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.880 to begin to take the time to expand your imagination. 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.120 Like sit outside for five minutes, stare at the sky 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:55.480 and say, like, if I'm truly going to be my 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:59.040 ancestor's wildest dreams, then how wild can my dreams get? 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.480 Because there are a lot of folks for whom this 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.720 week and the culmination of it, and the nomination of 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:09.359 Vice President Harris to the ticket will be their wildest dreams. 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:10.600 But guess what we hear? 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.000 Yea, So now you've got to go dream bigger. Now 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.200 we have to go id eight further. Now we have 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.360 to go expand. So I think that that's the first 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.160 thing we do. The second thing that we do, in particular, 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:25.000 is we have honest conversations with one another. There is 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:29.280 a tendency in our community to say go vote because 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.520 I said so, yeah, to say go vote because I 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.760 literally has watched somebody say I'll put you over my 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.040 knee and spank you, And I was like, I don't. 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:40.280 I don't think you should be telegrown people that a. 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:42.920 But also like, when is the last time somebody ever 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.760 condescended you into anything that's right? Like when somebody said 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.560 to you when you were an actual child people, As 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:49.520 an actual child. 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:52.120 You rebella. So what we're going to do as an adult? Exactly? 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.120 There is a reason why people are feeling squeezed out. 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:57.119 There is a reason why folks are saying, well, you 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.600 told me four years ago is the most important election 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.480 in my life time, and now you're telling me again 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:03.639 you said that eight years ago, So how is it 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:05.160 the most important every time? 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:06.280 I thought that was last time? 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:09.320 Exactly Exactly. 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.879 So we have to acknowledge where people are and then 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:15.080 encourage them, as Latasha has been saying, to actually dig 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.080 deep and reach into our own power. 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.399 I'm not a person who likes to leave any tool 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:21.639 or power on the table. 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.120 Like if I'm trying to get something done for my son, 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.639 for y'all nephew, then I'm gonna go come on and 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.680 back to make it happen. Why would I not do 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.680 that for my people? Why would I not vote and protest. 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:36.960 Why would I not protest and strategize. Why would I 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.879 not strategize and use content and media like I'm not 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:41.760 leaving nothing on the table for our freedom. 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:43.000 I refuse to do that. 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.000 And that's the kind of activity that we have to 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.399 decide to be engaged in every single day. 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:48.280 I love that. 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:50.119 I just want to tell y'all real quick, while the 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:52.639 show's going on. This is actually one of my favorite 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.560 parts of the Democratic National Convention. But it's real special today. 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:57.560 The roll call is happening right now. 0:21:57.800 --> 0:21:58.240 I love it. 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.680 And Ritt, while you were talking about imagination, you saw 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:03.920 Wes Moore holding Mike like a hip hop artist. 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:05.560 Governor, No, it was. 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:11.480 Dope Governor Wes Moore, our black governor from from Maryland, 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:13.600 but our black governor because we ain't got enough, okay, 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.719 saying that Maryland is committing its votes to Kamala Harris. 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:20.000 What a historic moment. 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:22.560 You talk about imagination all the time, You talk about 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:25.280 it all the time. They're also holding everybody, including our 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:29.200 dear sister Aaron, So talk about imagination that is. 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:31.800 But can we just take a moment to acknowledge that 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:36.119 though yes, said this historic candidate at the first black 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.560 woman president or the president Alex because I speaking into 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:43.600 existence Holidasha you, I hope you don't mind me violating 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:46.119 our confidentiality agreement and. 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:46.960 Talking about. 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:53.120 Yes o Latasha, what about the hell is fine? But Natasha, 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:55.159 we were all at the Machete group chat. We were 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:57.640 in there and we talked eight thousands. Have you missed 0:22:57.680 --> 0:22:59.280 the group chat for an hour? You come back in 0:22:59.320 --> 0:22:59.720 a SI. 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:04.920 This is worth violating. And she on the stage with 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:10.240 three when we were talking about. 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:16.159 The chances for vice president here and Latasha wrote this, 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:17.920 I'm like this is going in my book. It was 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:23.240 a dissertation where Latasha was saying, essentially, we are spiritual 0:23:23.640 --> 0:23:28.199 beings having a human experience and it's just time. There 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:31.240 was no other option that it is time the work 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:34.119 that black women have done. And you I can't echo 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:37.399 your words as beautifully and poetically and lyrically as you do, 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:40.680 but I've read that and got teary. I because there 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:43.800 is no other option other than for this to happen. 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:45.879 We talk about the dream and the hope of the slave, 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:48.080 and some would argue the dream and the hope of 0:23:48.119 --> 0:23:50.760 the enslaves was not to succeed here in America, but 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.280 to go home, back to our roots. And here we 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:56.439 have a convergence, a confluence of all of that happening. 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:59.320 We have gone to the motherland together and now we 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:02.920 have this bridge of the enslaved everywhere. She is the 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:07.040 daughter of immigrants. Yes, people don't realize that the enslaved 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:08.200 were also in Jamaica. 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:11.320 Exactly. 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:15.600 We are reaching across continents, We are reaching across nations 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:17.880 and leading the way here in America. 0:24:18.000 --> 0:24:21.800 And I'm just I have goosebumps so for for what 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:24.800 gives you because I share that spirit with you, what 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:25.560 gives you that. 0:24:26.200 --> 0:24:30.960 Self assured, unshaken faith that the wind is at our back. 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:32.159 Now this is going to. 0:24:32.160 --> 0:24:36.399 Happen because we're here, like and I need people to 0:24:36.480 --> 0:24:36.920 sit in it. 0:24:37.240 --> 0:24:37.880 We are here. 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:42.400 We are literally the children, the great great great grandchildren 0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:46.719 of those who they're they were so our families, our 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:50.679 ancestors were so dehumanized, they weren't even considered full human beings, 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:53.840 right that to be able to read right here we 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:58.120 are literally running colleges, creating colleges, establishing them. 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:03.879 Were her hair. 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:05.960 Come hair? 0:25:08.160 --> 0:25:13.240 Okay, no, no, no, that's. 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:19.880 That's already. 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:28.760 By two additional machete members. Part of our Machete group chat. 0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:31.199 We have the amazing Carrie Champion. 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:34.160 You all know Ferry Champion. She has done amazing work 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:35.520 in media, in sports. 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:38.200 She's constantly calling me asked me to explain something sports 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:41.960 related to her. It's exhausting, but she is amazing. You've 0:25:42.000 --> 0:25:44.280 seen Carrie everywhere. I call her the cat Walk Assassin. 0:25:44.480 --> 0:25:48.359 You can see why and be my sister in journalism. 0:25:48.880 --> 0:25:50.840 Aaron Haynes, I know you all see her, and so 0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:53.040 many people tell me how much they enjoy Aaron Haynes, 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:55.480 who is the face of the nineteenth Please check out 0:25:55.520 --> 0:25:58.760 her newsletter in that platform. But so many people Aaron 0:25:58.880 --> 0:26:01.280 always tell me how amazed think you are on television, 0:26:01.520 --> 0:26:03.480 And I was telling Angela on the way here. I'm like, 0:26:03.560 --> 0:26:05.840 they don't even know the real Errand because as great 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:06.439 as she is on. 0:26:06.600 --> 0:26:08.480 MSN at. 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:20.359 The swats air, she is the wittiest and funniest in 0:26:20.480 --> 0:26:24.200 our group, but also just so smart. Your scope on 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:25.000 things so it is. 0:26:25.359 --> 0:26:31.480 I just feel like this is a dream, wrong call, 0:26:32.520 --> 0:26:35.879 just a technical thing. Who are you brand me and 0:26:38.040 --> 0:26:42.159 carrying that you can lift up your little you're sharing. 0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:45.359 I'm so sorry my fickness is pushing you out. 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:47.680 You're just one. 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:54.160 You don't have to tell people that let's start. 0:26:54.240 --> 0:26:56.359 Let's start with Aaron and will work our way down Aaron. 0:26:57.359 --> 0:27:00.639 As as a journalist, you take a difference of things. 0:27:01.800 --> 0:27:05.720 What what does this moment mean for you? Because I 0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:09.160 feel like some people enter this space as a journalist, 0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:12.160 some people enter this space as a woman, some people 0:27:12.359 --> 0:27:13.840 enter this space as a black person. 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:15.840 Where are you right now? 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:16.640 In what order? 0:27:17.520 --> 0:27:17.720 Yeah? 0:27:17.760 --> 0:27:26.600 I mean, look, you got to unmute. Listen to black women. 0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:27.240 I'm speaking. 0:27:29.280 --> 0:27:32.920 I'm speaking exactly from freaking to the d n C. 0:27:33.119 --> 0:27:33.239 Here. 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:35.159 Here we go. 0:27:35.640 --> 0:27:37.119 He's not kidding. 0:27:38.040 --> 0:27:42.440 I mean, listen, I'm all of those things obviously at once. 0:27:42.760 --> 0:27:44.439 I bring all those lived identities to who I am 0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:47.159 as a journalist. Don't apologize for that, but you know, 0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:50.000 I really thought about, you know, boarding my plane in 0:27:50.080 --> 0:27:52.560 Chicago on Sunday. Sunday was the one hundred and fourth 0:27:52.600 --> 0:27:54.840 anniversary of the nineteenth Amendment, which is the amendment for 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:59.120 which my newsroom is named. Uh an amendment which guaranteed 0:27:59.160 --> 0:28:00.879 the right for some but not all, women. 0:28:01.240 --> 0:28:01.920 The right to vote. 0:28:01.960 --> 0:28:04.800 Hello, we had to fight twice as hard or even 0:28:04.880 --> 0:28:07.800 longer before we had our full access to the franchise. 0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:12.520 We're still fighting, our access to this democracy still being challenged. 0:28:13.600 --> 0:28:16.560 You see that we could have seen that this week 0:28:16.680 --> 0:28:19.040 coming into this convention, right, which could have been a 0:28:19.119 --> 0:28:22.800 contested convention, open convention. That's not what we're seeing here. 0:28:22.880 --> 0:28:26.440 We are seeing a Democratic party that is unified behind 0:28:27.320 --> 0:28:29.480 a black woman who could become the first woman president 0:28:29.840 --> 0:28:33.560 of the United States. That is not a moment that 0:28:33.600 --> 0:28:37.200 we necessarily saw coming when we started the nineteenth four 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:42.120 almost five years ago. Literally the nineteen started after the 0:28:42.160 --> 0:28:47.360 twenty sixteen election, when we saw these tired tropes around electability, 0:28:47.520 --> 0:28:51.600 around readiness, around ambition, and we knew that there was 0:28:51.600 --> 0:28:53.720 a different way to talk about women, to talk about 0:28:53.760 --> 0:28:56.160 our leadership, to talk about gender and our politics in 0:28:56.240 --> 0:28:59.240 this country, in the emerging small de democracy that you 0:28:59.320 --> 0:29:02.280 talked about much, Tiffany, that you continue to talk about. 0:29:02.840 --> 0:29:06.440 So yeah, I mean, I come to a convention where 0:29:06.600 --> 0:29:10.560 the diversity that I'm seeing in the arena is reflected 0:29:10.920 --> 0:29:13.160 on stage as well as in the audience. That's not 0:29:13.280 --> 0:29:15.160 something that I saw just a month ago at the 0:29:15.200 --> 0:29:16.920 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. 0:29:17.000 --> 0:29:18.240 That is striking to me. 0:29:18.960 --> 0:29:20.440 I think we know it's real, but to see it 0:29:20.520 --> 0:29:24.560 happening to see it in reality, a true representative democracy 0:29:24.680 --> 0:29:28.800 really in this arena, and abortion, which we knew was 0:29:28.840 --> 0:29:31.680 on the ballot, was on stage last night. That's still 0:29:31.800 --> 0:29:34.240 remarkable to think about. So, I mean, I don't know, 0:29:35.760 --> 0:29:38.760 as a journalist, this is just a remarkable moment to 0:29:38.840 --> 0:29:41.440 cover as a black woman. I am thinking about everybody 0:29:41.520 --> 0:29:46.840 from Shirley Chisholm to Jesse Jackson to I mean, just 0:29:47.160 --> 0:29:49.560 so many people that paved the way for this moment 0:29:49.640 --> 0:29:54.520 to be possible. Mignon Moore, Donna Brazil, Lea Daughtry, Yolanda Carro, 0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:57.840 I mean all just front and center in this moment. 0:29:58.160 --> 0:30:01.080 They helped to manifest the moment which we now find ourselves. 0:30:01.120 --> 0:30:03.120 And as a journalist, I mean, I can't not mention 0:30:03.280 --> 0:30:07.600 them in this conversation. So yeah, there's a lot there. 0:30:07.920 --> 0:30:12.600 And obviously the Nineteenth is feeling pretty good about, you know, 0:30:12.760 --> 0:30:15.360 the idea that we had four years ago, because it's 0:30:15.440 --> 0:30:17.520 all on full display this week. 0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:19.560 And your combridge is constantly beautiful. 0:30:19.880 --> 0:30:22.400 God also the host of the Amendment podcast, which we 0:30:22.480 --> 0:30:24.960 didn't say, And speaking of podcast hosts, we also have. 0:30:25.040 --> 0:30:26.640 Carrie Chamber a podcast hosts. 0:30:26.880 --> 0:30:29.440 The podcast host, but we also have Carrie Champion here. 0:30:29.520 --> 0:30:31.960 What I love about you being here, Carrie is this 0:30:32.160 --> 0:30:33.680 isn't something where you had to come. 0:30:33.760 --> 0:30:35.160 You felt compelled to come. 0:30:35.560 --> 0:30:37.160 I know you have that headset on, but if you 0:30:37.200 --> 0:30:40.040 don't mind picking up that mike, we love to talk 0:30:40.120 --> 0:30:41.600 to you about what. 0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:44.400 Made you want to be here. And Andrew Gillham, just 0:30:44.480 --> 0:30:47.000 because the women are occupied with six of these seats, 0:30:47.000 --> 0:30:48.720 I need a way in here, a double. 0:30:48.600 --> 0:30:53.240 Dutch first, second, first, first and foremost, thank you guys 0:30:53.240 --> 0:30:55.240 for having me. I was just with I'm standing I 0:30:55.360 --> 0:30:57.200 just want to talk about my machetes for a minute. 0:30:57.440 --> 0:30:59.480 I'm standing out front. I'm waiting for someone to bring 0:30:59.560 --> 0:31:02.400 me a cidential and who do I see just walk 0:31:02.480 --> 0:31:03.400 up on me and it was like, no, I got 0:31:03.440 --> 0:31:06.239 you follow me, I have a pass. We so are 0:31:06.360 --> 0:31:08.600 in sync with one another. Of all the people that 0:31:08.640 --> 0:31:10.440 I could see standing in front of the United Center, 0:31:10.520 --> 0:31:13.200 Aaron walks up on me and gives me of all 0:31:13.240 --> 0:31:15.120 the people, and it was just like, I love you 0:31:15.240 --> 0:31:17.200 so much. I love this, I love the sisterhood. 0:31:17.240 --> 0:31:18.240 I love what you all are doing. 0:31:18.320 --> 0:31:21.080 You all know that, Andrew, I love you, and I 0:31:21.200 --> 0:31:23.640 love I love Britt because she's letting one of my butt. 0:31:23.560 --> 0:31:24.520 Cheeks just come to. 0:31:27.680 --> 0:31:30.520 It is yet holding on. This is the workout for 0:31:30.720 --> 0:31:35.680 the day. So I am a CNN contributor, but I 0:31:35.720 --> 0:31:37.120 did not have to come. But I was like, if 0:31:37.160 --> 0:31:40.040 I missed this moment, I miss I miss Barock's moment. 0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:43.280 But if I missed this moment, this to me felt 0:31:43.400 --> 0:31:46.240 so substantial and so bigger than us. And I felt 0:31:46.320 --> 0:31:49.440 like this appointment in which Kamala Harris has in this 0:31:49.560 --> 0:31:53.400 moment felt divine. It is a testimony to everything can 0:31:53.520 --> 0:31:56.800 happen in a in a blink of any of overnight. 0:31:56.920 --> 0:31:59.680 My God is so real, and so I was able 0:31:59.800 --> 0:32:02.840 to witness what happened to this woman three, four or 0:32:02.840 --> 0:32:04.920 five months ago. Nobody could have told me this is 0:32:04.960 --> 0:32:08.400 where we would be, And in an instant, I am 0:32:08.520 --> 0:32:10.520 sitting here and I'm all like, this is a testimony 0:32:10.600 --> 0:32:12.920 to those who believe and who have chosen. So what's 0:32:13.000 --> 0:32:15.120 meant for you is meant for you, and no one 0:32:15.200 --> 0:32:17.600 can take it away from you. And I'm watching in 0:32:17.760 --> 0:32:19.760 real time, and so I had to be here because 0:32:19.800 --> 0:32:22.120 I live that. I believe that we all do. We've 0:32:22.160 --> 0:32:25.080 been in these moments and it's something special in my world. 0:32:25.120 --> 0:32:25.600 Of sports. 0:32:25.680 --> 0:32:28.120 As we all know, I said this, it's not an 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:31.400 accident where you have these two entities where women's athletics 0:32:31.520 --> 0:32:32.840 is taken off in a way in which we have 0:32:33.000 --> 0:32:36.280 never seen before. And then when we look at women 0:32:36.360 --> 0:32:38.560 in the world fighting, and we're saying, and I've said 0:32:38.560 --> 0:32:41.360 this before, not on my damn watch, you want to 0:32:41.400 --> 0:32:44.040 take away these things bit by bit. You played your hand, 0:32:44.160 --> 0:32:46.520 you over played your hand. And now we are here 0:32:46.680 --> 0:32:48.560 and we are righteous, and we are taking back what 0:32:48.680 --> 0:32:52.760 is ours. There is this idea in sports that everyone 0:32:52.920 --> 0:32:56.520 needs a good a good story, a good rivalry story, 0:32:56.720 --> 0:33:01.240 always needs a really good person, and they need the foil, right, 0:33:01.520 --> 0:33:03.560 they need a good athlete and they need a foil. 0:33:03.640 --> 0:33:06.520 But in this instance, women, black women are the foil. 0:33:06.600 --> 0:33:08.640 We are taking it and we're taking it back. You 0:33:08.720 --> 0:33:10.840 thought you were the superhero, but the story is ours. 0:33:11.480 --> 0:33:15.160 And I am so grateful to be here. And I'm 0:33:15.200 --> 0:33:17.080 more excited because I thought I was coming on tomorrow, 0:33:17.120 --> 0:33:19.680 but since you guys have me on to day, I'm 0:33:19.720 --> 0:33:21.280 just hanging out but checking off. 0:33:23.520 --> 0:33:25.600 Well, we are so grateful, y'all. We promise, y'all, we 0:33:25.840 --> 0:33:28.000 need it. Only about five minutes of your time, so 0:33:28.080 --> 0:33:31.080 We're gonna let y'all head on out. Natasha got people. 0:33:30.880 --> 0:33:33.160 To seeing things to do. We got some other guests 0:33:33.200 --> 0:33:39.040 coming up. But we are so so grateful for you. Yes, 0:33:39.920 --> 0:33:40.480 you're welcome. 0:33:43.000 --> 0:33:58.400 Let me put eyes on you all. It is really 0:33:58.680 --> 0:34:02.640 really really beautiful fold to see this. Uh, this sisterhood, 0:34:02.880 --> 0:34:07.120 This sisterhood, y'all have created a monkst incredible black women 0:34:07.240 --> 0:34:10.480 who are doing it big, doing it bad. Aeron, so 0:34:10.640 --> 0:34:11.640 proud for you of you. 0:34:12.560 --> 0:34:15.319 No take Edie is joining us as Aaron is the party. 0:34:15.440 --> 0:34:18.160 Joe take a Edie is the founder of Win with 0:34:18.280 --> 0:34:22.240 Black Women and as she is also as she hugs Aaron, 0:34:22.280 --> 0:34:23.400 coming up here, come sit by me. 0:34:23.520 --> 0:34:24.320 Joe comes in by me. 0:34:24.440 --> 0:34:28.000 Joe, I know that Andrew, Andrew got some things to say. 0:34:28.040 --> 0:34:30.000 He got some reflections from last time too, So I 0:34:30.080 --> 0:34:32.279 want you to bring in Joe take. As she puts 0:34:32.320 --> 0:34:33.120 her headphones on. 0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:35.000 Win. 0:34:36.080 --> 0:34:36.360 Hello. 0:34:38.320 --> 0:34:42.040 Everybody around the globe probably by now knows who you are, 0:34:42.200 --> 0:34:45.719 given the fact that Joe take it on that what. 0:34:46.160 --> 0:34:48.760 Four weeks ago, decided that she was going to host 0:34:49.400 --> 0:34:54.120 UH the welcoming fundraiser for Kamala Harris as she was 0:34:54.480 --> 0:34:57.520 basically named endorsed by Joe Biden on that Sunday, that 0:34:57.600 --> 0:35:00.360 faithful Sunday, when he decided he would no longer pursued 0:35:00.360 --> 0:35:03.880 the Democratic nomination for re election to the presidency. And 0:35:04.000 --> 0:35:07.000 then everybody started hearing about this Black Women's Call that 0:35:07.160 --> 0:35:11.560 was going to take place, that almost near forty that 0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:14.040 had been taking place, but we didn't know it right. 0:35:14.160 --> 0:35:17.200 The rest of the world didn't know what you had 0:35:17.480 --> 0:35:20.960 envisioned and created four years prior. And so we got 0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:23.560 invited into this space, just very briefly to get a 0:35:23.640 --> 0:35:27.239 glimpse at the kind of power that you have been 0:35:27.880 --> 0:35:32.440 manifesting for four years with this group, made very evident 0:35:32.560 --> 0:35:36.360 and obvious for anyone to see when y'all pulled forty 0:35:36.400 --> 0:35:39.719 thousand women together on a phone call, Black women the 0:35:39.800 --> 0:35:42.080 initial call. Then we had black men, and we had 0:35:42.160 --> 0:35:45.520 the white sisters, and then we had what do we bros? 0:35:45.600 --> 0:35:53.480 What do we call the white guys? So I'm understating 0:35:53.600 --> 0:35:55.360 the power of it, your taker, But I'd love for 0:35:55.400 --> 0:35:58.279 you to want just vision back to four years ago 0:35:58.360 --> 0:36:00.279 and what you thought about what you envisioned, and men 0:36:00.320 --> 0:36:02.799 bring us forward to like how did all these calls 0:36:02.840 --> 0:36:03.320 come together? 0:36:03.920 --> 0:36:06.600 Can I tell you, Joe Teka our comments, and we 0:36:06.680 --> 0:36:09.320 can probably see people are saying, I am I was 0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:09.719 one of the. 0:36:09.760 --> 0:36:12.560 Forty four thousand. So there are people who are so fighted. 0:36:13.719 --> 0:36:17.680 Sorry good, yeah, yeah, you know, I think in order 0:36:17.719 --> 0:36:20.000 to go back four years, we probably have to go 0:36:20.160 --> 0:36:24.959 back sixty years, okay, right, because when with black women 0:36:25.120 --> 0:36:28.880 was born out of the lineage of the work, the struggle, 0:36:30.040 --> 0:36:32.640 the fight of black women who came before us that 0:36:32.760 --> 0:36:35.200 poured into the next generation of Black women, who poured 0:36:35.239 --> 0:36:38.160 into the next generation of Black women, who poured into 0:36:38.280 --> 0:36:40.560 the next generation, the colored girls. 0:36:40.680 --> 0:36:44.080 Because four years ago, we all as. 0:36:44.080 --> 0:36:48.120 Black women were collectively outraged by the narrative, the sexism 0:36:48.200 --> 0:36:51.000 and the racism that had entered the conversation as it 0:36:51.080 --> 0:36:55.319 related to who was going to be vice president. Every 0:36:55.560 --> 0:37:00.640 single capable woman black woman that was being named was 0:37:00.719 --> 0:37:04.919 facing racist, sexist, ad hominal attacks, and we as black 0:37:04.960 --> 0:37:06.080 women were all outrage. 0:37:06.400 --> 0:37:08.640 I picked up the phone. I called Mignon Moore. 0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:14.040 Before I had called Mignon, I had saw a Facebook 0:37:14.160 --> 0:37:17.800 video by Bishop Leodatri and I called Mignon. I said, Mignyon, 0:37:17.880 --> 0:37:21.239 what are y'all gonna do? Meaning the Colored girls? Mignon said, 0:37:21.480 --> 0:37:28.360 what are y'all gonna do? She meant, what are you, Tiffany, Angela, Brittany, Latasha, Shavon, 0:37:28.920 --> 0:37:31.400 all of us, what are we gonna do? And so 0:37:31.920 --> 0:37:34.480 it took me twenty minutes to sit there and gather myself. 0:37:34.560 --> 0:37:38.399 After I got gathered by Mignon Moore, and I put 0:37:38.440 --> 0:37:41.440 out an email and I send that email to sixty 0:37:41.560 --> 0:37:48.080 five sister friends from every sector that I had had 0:37:48.120 --> 0:37:51.399 the opportunity to work, of which two of those sister 0:37:51.520 --> 0:37:52.200 friends are. 0:37:52.120 --> 0:37:54.480 Sitting right here on the stage, Angela Rai. 0:37:54.880 --> 0:37:59.640 And Tiffany Cross. And the first person to reply back 0:37:59.719 --> 0:38:02.440 to that email, I believe was Yolanda Carraway and then 0:38:02.520 --> 0:38:07.480 Donna Brazil. So it's something about the colored girls who 0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:11.480 were mentored by doctor Dorothy Irene Hyatt, who was mentored 0:38:11.960 --> 0:38:15.600 by A Sicily Tyson. And so you think about that night, 0:38:15.840 --> 0:38:18.880 the first night August second, I believe August first, that 0:38:18.960 --> 0:38:22.359 we came together. It was ninety of us and we said, 0:38:22.440 --> 0:38:25.400 right then, not on our watch, they will not speak 0:38:25.520 --> 0:38:27.279 on black women in this way. And then we went 0:38:27.360 --> 0:38:30.120 on to say that there needed to be a black 0:38:30.160 --> 0:38:31.879 woman at the top of the ticket, and we said 0:38:31.960 --> 0:38:35.799 it's time. But what we also said that we were 0:38:35.840 --> 0:38:37.560 going to continue to do the work. And I think 0:38:37.600 --> 0:38:40.600 the important part of it is that black women have 0:38:40.800 --> 0:38:44.440 always done the work when no one was looking. Always 0:38:45.000 --> 0:38:47.280 and when with black women over the last four years, 0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:51.759 we would not be who we are today or then 0:38:52.000 --> 0:38:54.200 had it not been for women that paid the way 0:38:54.440 --> 0:38:58.040 or mentored us to be in position to have the 0:38:58.160 --> 0:38:59.880 courage and conviction to. 0:39:00.120 --> 0:39:02.880 Continue the work. And that has been so important. 0:39:02.920 --> 0:39:05.520 And over the last four years it's been sisters like 0:39:05.640 --> 0:39:10.239 Tiffany and Angela to say yes, who say like, we're 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:13.200 not just in the political arena with women, with black women. 0:39:13.320 --> 0:39:17.120 We have fought for black women anytime racism is sexism 0:39:17.400 --> 0:39:19.840 has been hurled their way, whether or not it's a 0:39:19.960 --> 0:39:23.840 sister that is, you know, unlawfully detained in a Russian 0:39:24.280 --> 0:39:27.279 prison and that we need to lift our voices collectively 0:39:27.320 --> 0:39:30.000 and break our home, or if they're putting racist attacks 0:39:30.040 --> 0:39:33.120 against a young, beautiful black woman who is the Little Mermaid. 0:39:33.200 --> 0:39:35.080 We said we're gonna buy out one hundred theaters, and 0:39:35.200 --> 0:39:36.840 so that's the work that we've been doing. So on 0:39:36.960 --> 0:39:40.959 July twenty first, our meeting was already set. Black Women 0:39:41.080 --> 0:39:44.120 was already gonna meet. We just needed to shift the agenda, 0:39:44.239 --> 0:39:46.560 and I think that's the importance. All we had to 0:39:46.600 --> 0:39:48.799 do was shift the agenda. The meeting was already set. 0:39:48.920 --> 0:39:51.600 Sisters caught on fire. And it's important to know. We 0:39:51.719 --> 0:39:54.560 had forty four thousand on zoom. Bless it be a 0:39:54.600 --> 0:39:57.000 black woman, because our zoom opened up at ten pm 0:39:57.120 --> 0:39:58.720 that night and that's. 0:39:58.520 --> 0:39:59.040 Where we grew. 0:39:59.160 --> 0:40:01.719 But we had fift the thousand other black women. There 0:40:01.760 --> 0:40:04.600 were thirty thousand in clubhouse. There were ten thousand on 0:40:04.680 --> 0:40:07.439 a conference call line. And that just shows that black 0:40:07.480 --> 0:40:11.120 women would figure out what we need to do anywhere anyhow. 0:40:11.160 --> 0:40:12.640 And the last thing that I would say is that 0:40:12.760 --> 0:40:16.680 that fundraising link Star Jones dropped that fundraising link at 0:40:16.760 --> 0:40:18.080 eleven twenty pm. 0:40:18.440 --> 0:40:21.120 Wow, and by one a m. We had raised one 0:40:21.160 --> 0:40:22.239 point six million dollars. 0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:22.640 Wow. 0:40:22.800 --> 0:40:24.600 You bad know that we made. 0:40:25.160 --> 0:40:26.560 We are bad black women. 0:40:26.680 --> 0:40:28.680 But I just want to exclamation mark this point, which 0:40:28.760 --> 0:40:30.320 was the meeting was already said. We just had to 0:40:30.360 --> 0:40:32.480 pivot the agenda, y'all. The other way to say that 0:40:32.719 --> 0:40:35.560 is when you when you stay ready, you don't have 0:40:35.680 --> 0:40:36.319 to get ready. 0:40:36.480 --> 0:40:42.399 Speaking of that, my President President ready to say we've 0:40:42.440 --> 0:40:43.040 been joined. 0:40:43.080 --> 0:40:47.280 The President, welcome the delta Sigma Theater president, Miss Elsie 0:40:47.440 --> 0:40:50.960 Cook Holmes, who is one of the forty four thousand 0:40:51.480 --> 0:40:53.279 and that that j'll take us called upon it and 0:40:53.360 --> 0:40:55.040 including one of the original sixty. 0:40:55.480 --> 0:40:56.640 So we wanted to be here. 0:40:56.800 --> 0:40:58.640 I thought that it was really important, y'all know, I'm 0:40:58.640 --> 0:41:00.919 about to say some a little reckless. It was really 0:41:01.040 --> 0:41:04.440 important for people that show colors and signs to know 0:41:04.560 --> 0:41:07.640 that colors and signs have united. They have united behind 0:41:07.680 --> 0:41:10.320 at Aka Nominee and I love to see it. I 0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:13.160 got to spend some time with you a President Homes 0:41:13.280 --> 0:41:17.600 at the mid Western Regional Conference at Delta, and to 0:41:17.719 --> 0:41:21.040 watch how many of you are are supporting Kamala Hairs 0:41:21.080 --> 0:41:22.879 without reservation, which is beautiful to see. 0:41:24.160 --> 0:41:27.160 I will tell you we are excited and this is 0:41:27.800 --> 0:41:30.880 a moment of unity. This is a moment of unity. 0:41:31.360 --> 0:41:34.719 To your point, regardless of what colors you wear, one 0:41:34.760 --> 0:41:39.440 of our divine nine sisters is a candidate for the 0:41:39.760 --> 0:41:44.160 United States President, and so it is so awesome. We 0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:48.440 certainly and Delta are pleased and proud that she is 0:41:48.520 --> 0:41:51.960 following the footsteps of our sorrow Shirley Chisholm, who in 0:41:52.080 --> 0:41:56.960 nineteen seventy two broke ground at a time when she 0:41:57.800 --> 0:41:59.240 really had to bring her. 0:41:59.160 --> 0:42:02.160 Own chair to have that seat at the table. 0:42:02.640 --> 0:42:06.480 But look where we are fifty two years later, and 0:42:06.560 --> 0:42:08.759 it shouldn't have taken fifty two years, but we are 0:42:08.920 --> 0:42:13.000 here and we are meeting the moment collectively. Joe Taka 0:42:13.440 --> 0:42:16.080 has done amazing work since twenty twenty. 0:42:16.600 --> 0:42:19.440 But what started with such a few has. 0:42:19.600 --> 0:42:24.239 Grown to a movement and I think that everyone is 0:42:24.320 --> 0:42:27.759 following in those footsteps. And we from a D nine perspective, 0:42:27.920 --> 0:42:30.279 Delta Sigma Theta has been doing this work a long time. 0:42:30.680 --> 0:42:32.799 All of our organizations have and we know what's going 0:42:32.880 --> 0:42:36.359 to take all of us, and we are all in love. 0:42:36.600 --> 0:42:38.600 You know, a lot of people in the comments and 0:42:38.680 --> 0:42:40.840 welcome and thank you for being here. With that, a 0:42:40.920 --> 0:42:43.600 lot of people are asking Joe take like how did 0:42:43.640 --> 0:42:45.879 you do this so quickly? And you just explained this work, 0:42:46.200 --> 0:42:48.560 what's happening? You have been in this in four years, 0:42:48.880 --> 0:42:51.520 and so I think it's so important to note for people. 0:42:51.680 --> 0:42:54.600 Some people get in this for the glory. Some people 0:42:54.680 --> 0:42:56.960 get in this to tell a story. Some people get 0:42:57.000 --> 0:42:57.200 in this. 0:42:57.320 --> 0:43:00.359 To hop on a hashtag and build a plat form 0:43:00.480 --> 0:43:03.719 and not a community. You were an organizer, you were 0:43:03.880 --> 0:43:07.560 part of the NAACP at staff. You and I have 0:43:07.719 --> 0:43:09.200 known each other for a long time. You know what 0:43:09.239 --> 0:43:11.160 I always say about you, and I can't pass this 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:13.600 opportunity to say, I think Joe take is one of 0:43:13.640 --> 0:43:16.840 the most beautiful people y'all. I'm so her cheekbones and 0:43:16.960 --> 0:43:19.400 I think one of the most Yeah, well, people are 0:43:19.440 --> 0:43:23.440 people are noticing, people are noticing. And you also what 0:43:23.560 --> 0:43:26.160 people may not know about you. You have an amazing 0:43:26.440 --> 0:43:31.360 singing voice. Just you bless us with your melodic tombre 0:43:31.480 --> 0:43:32.680 of your voice all the time. 0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:35.200 But if you could speak to the people who. 0:43:36.520 --> 0:43:40.359 Who maybe hop on that hashtag activism and just press 0:43:40.520 --> 0:43:44.399 them to do a little more, especially at this moment, 0:43:44.480 --> 0:43:46.400 in this time for people. If I was live during 0:43:46.440 --> 0:43:48.600 the Civil rights movement, I would whatever you're doing now 0:43:48.719 --> 0:43:49.719 is what you would have been doing. 0:43:49.880 --> 0:43:51.520 So what's your piece of advice for them? 0:43:51.560 --> 0:43:55.279 You know, my advice is that movement work is not 0:43:55.640 --> 0:43:56.719 like a microwave. 0:43:57.600 --> 0:44:00.200 We we can't just pop it in the microwave like 0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:03.080 you do a bag of popcorn and just pop your 0:44:03.120 --> 0:44:10.520 way to freedom and to a movement. The work is consistent, Often, 0:44:10.600 --> 0:44:14.640 the work is hard, and the work often happens most 0:44:14.680 --> 0:44:16.000 importantly when no one is looking. 0:44:16.480 --> 0:44:18.759 And I think that is the part that in this 0:44:19.000 --> 0:44:19.879 moment right now. 0:44:20.320 --> 0:44:23.600 Yes we can use a hashtag, but we actually have 0:44:23.760 --> 0:44:24.880 to put boots on the ground. 0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:26.960 We actually have to talk to voters. 0:44:27.320 --> 0:44:31.239 We cannot just assume that we're going to win this 0:44:31.440 --> 0:44:34.560 election on zoom. Yes we can meet on zoom, but 0:44:34.680 --> 0:44:36.800 we actually got to get on doors. We got to 0:44:36.840 --> 0:44:39.120 get in community. We have to meet people where they are, 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:41.960 and we have to meet people everywhere. That is what 0:44:42.120 --> 0:44:44.600 it is going to take to win this election. That 0:44:44.760 --> 0:44:49.319 is how movements have always been won. It's consistency. It's consistency, 0:44:49.440 --> 0:44:53.759 and it happens over time. It's never overnight. It's never overnight. Yes, 0:44:54.080 --> 0:44:56.879 people may find out about you overnight, but the work 0:44:57.000 --> 0:44:59.160 is never overnight. And that's what it's gonna take for 0:44:59.320 --> 0:45:01.719 us in this next you know. 0:45:04.320 --> 0:45:08.960 And beyond that you've already shown up, and beyond seventy seven, 0:45:09.040 --> 0:45:12.920 yes speaking of seventy seven, so so matter presid I'm 0:45:12.920 --> 0:45:14.840 gonna ask you to just open up the window a 0:45:14.880 --> 0:45:18.960 little bit into the kind of incredible organizing that members 0:45:19.040 --> 0:45:20.720 of D nine organizations I'm. 0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:23.600 Very familiar, specifically with with Delta's my unfortunate to be 0:45:23.640 --> 0:45:25.880 married to one my sisters won my auntie one the 0:45:26.000 --> 0:45:29.560 reds all around, Yes, yes, highly influenced by them. And 0:45:30.160 --> 0:45:34.120 what I know is that whether there's a black woman 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:36.000 at the top of the ticket in a in a 0:45:36.480 --> 0:45:40.720 race or not, you all have a deeply invested interest 0:45:40.800 --> 0:45:43.840 in ensuring that our community stays awake and stays organized. 0:45:43.840 --> 0:45:46.040 I'd like to hear you if you would, if it's 0:45:46.080 --> 0:45:49.480 possible to just illuminate for us, how what kind of 0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:52.920 ways in which should people expect to see deltas at 0:45:53.280 --> 0:45:57.480 the alumni alumni level as well as on community uh 0:45:57.560 --> 0:46:01.320 and university campuses. How can we andnticipation seeing them organized? 0:46:01.600 --> 0:46:04.040 If y'all listening and seeing and y'all haven't heard the news, 0:46:04.080 --> 0:46:06.319 I'm sure y'all already heard from your your present around 0:46:06.320 --> 0:46:07.920 how y'all organized it. But tell the rest of us 0:46:08.200 --> 0:46:10.879 what can we expect to see when the full breath, 0:46:11.000 --> 0:46:14.080 weight and scope of your membership gets to work around 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:16.960 activating voter registration and turnout. 0:46:17.440 --> 0:46:20.520 Absolutely so, first of all, to your point, we are 0:46:20.600 --> 0:46:21.200 not new to this. 0:46:21.520 --> 0:46:24.640 We are truly true to this, and we have been 0:46:24.760 --> 0:46:27.680 since nineteen thirteen when we fought for women's suffrage at 0:46:27.719 --> 0:46:28.960 the time that black folks could not. 0:46:29.640 --> 0:46:30.520 Could not vote. 0:46:30.840 --> 0:46:35.719 But fast forward to now, we are educating voters, We're 0:46:35.840 --> 0:46:40.560 mobilizing voters. We're making sure that voters are registered, that 0:46:40.640 --> 0:46:43.520 they check their registration status so that they won't be 0:46:43.600 --> 0:46:45.920 surprised when they go to the polls to cast their balots. 0:46:46.360 --> 0:46:50.000 We're making sure that the vote is protected and doing 0:46:50.080 --> 0:46:53.279 that through a number of ways. We have trained our 0:46:53.360 --> 0:46:57.719 members throughout our regional conference cycles this summer, and we 0:46:57.880 --> 0:47:01.040 have additional ways to train our members as well as 0:47:01.120 --> 0:47:01.680 the community. 0:47:01.760 --> 0:47:04.360 And we're brought in that to the Divine nine not 0:47:04.560 --> 0:47:04.880 only on. 0:47:04.960 --> 0:47:09.399 Election registration, education and mobilization, but that all important voter 0:47:09.560 --> 0:47:16.200 protection amassing lawyers, pole watchers, pole monitors, making sure that 0:47:16.719 --> 0:47:21.520 we have that army of individuals who can be prepared to. 0:47:22.120 --> 0:47:23.880 Make sure that our vote is protected. 0:47:24.080 --> 0:47:27.040 And we've taken this step further in Delta in terms 0:47:27.160 --> 0:47:31.400 of three lawsuits to make sure that there's over thirty 0:47:31.440 --> 0:47:35.280 states have passed laws that make it more difficult instead 0:47:35.320 --> 0:47:36.279 of easier, to vote. 0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:39.520 And so as a result of that in Georgia. 0:47:39.640 --> 0:47:44.160 In Texas into as a coplaintive into two lawsuits with 0:47:44.440 --> 0:47:47.400 LDF and we're just entering in one in Mississippi, and 0:47:47.520 --> 0:47:50.640 it's around fighting the law that make it more difficult 0:47:50.680 --> 0:47:53.440 to vote to try to roll back those laws. And 0:47:53.560 --> 0:47:57.040 we're being proactive in other states as well, because it's 0:47:57.120 --> 0:47:59.400 absolutely critical that we know that you. 0:47:59.560 --> 0:48:02.440 Are have so much to do and we're so grateful 0:48:02.440 --> 0:48:03.680 that you are have joined us. 0:48:04.160 --> 0:48:06.640 And before we have you on step off, I just 0:48:06.719 --> 0:48:08.279 want to make sure you have the opportunity to say 0:48:08.320 --> 0:48:09.440 hello to our good. 0:48:09.320 --> 0:48:15.680 Friend, Congresswoman Ayana Presley of the amazing I love you, 0:48:16.080 --> 0:48:20.280 great to see you, and we love you. Joe Tak. 0:48:23.120 --> 0:48:24.640 Thank you, thank you so much. 0:48:24.800 --> 0:48:26.839 Before I go, I do want to say one thing, 0:48:27.320 --> 0:48:29.719 and it's so important, and I want to be on 0:48:29.800 --> 0:48:33.520 the record saying this. People talk about the forty four thousand, 0:48:33.760 --> 0:48:37.040 the extra fifty thousand that we had elsewhere, they talk 0:48:37.080 --> 0:48:40.040 about women with black women, But it's important to note 0:48:40.440 --> 0:48:44.000 that that right after that call, the very next day, 0:48:44.480 --> 0:48:47.879 the very next day, who had our backs black men, 0:48:48.840 --> 0:48:52.440 black men, And that's so important. And now there's been 0:48:52.960 --> 0:48:56.480 hundreds and hundreds of zoom and zooms all over, but 0:48:56.600 --> 0:48:59.480 it's so important. People try to often defide us as 0:48:59.520 --> 0:49:02.960 a people that black women winning with black women means 0:49:03.040 --> 0:49:05.400 that we can't win with black men. But we are 0:49:05.480 --> 0:49:08.239 winning together as people, and I feel like we're more 0:49:08.360 --> 0:49:10.960 united than we ever have been. And I think in 0:49:11.080 --> 0:49:14.160 this moment, we think about Shirley Chisholm, and we think 0:49:14.200 --> 0:49:15.920 about how she said, if they don't give you a 0:49:15.960 --> 0:49:16.359 seat at. 0:49:16.320 --> 0:49:17.520 The table, bring a folding share. 0:49:17.560 --> 0:49:20.080 But what I dare say is that in this moment 0:49:20.200 --> 0:49:24.200 right now, black people are leading, Black women are leading, 0:49:24.400 --> 0:49:27.160 and we are building a new table and we're making 0:49:27.160 --> 0:49:28.040 sure everybody has. 0:49:27.960 --> 0:49:28.759 A seat at the table. 0:49:31.280 --> 0:49:33.520 We're doing that from a D nine perspective as well, 0:49:33.680 --> 0:49:37.200 all across. So we've got five fraternities focus heavily on 0:49:37.280 --> 0:49:40.120 this work, the fource sororities focused heavily on this work, 0:49:40.440 --> 0:49:42.880 partnering with Joe Taker, partnering with n C and W 0:49:43.840 --> 0:49:47.440 broad strategies to make sure that we are all in together. 0:49:47.760 --> 0:49:52.040 And our hashtag is D nine Stronger Together, because we 0:49:52.160 --> 0:49:54.719 know it's going to take every single one of us 0:49:55.120 --> 0:50:00.160 to make sure that we bring this home, have. 0:50:00.200 --> 0:50:02.480 A seat at our table, and we will see y'all soon. 0:50:02.800 --> 0:50:04.960 We can't wait to see y'all seventy seven. 0:50:04.800 --> 0:50:10.839 Days and up until then, it's good y'all. Welcome home 0:50:10.960 --> 0:50:11.919 to our congress Woman. 0:50:12.000 --> 0:50:12.840 I appreciate it. 0:50:21.560 --> 0:50:24.640 We're joined now by Congressman Ayana Pressley. She is the 0:50:24.840 --> 0:50:28.640 first black woman to represent Boston in the House of Representatives. 0:50:28.719 --> 0:50:31.680 So another historic candidate during this time that we are 0:50:31.760 --> 0:50:35.160 making history here at the DNC. I have to we 0:50:35.280 --> 0:50:37.680 love you, Joe Taco. We thank you, Madam President. I 0:50:37.800 --> 0:50:40.000 have to tell you, guys, when you saw me the 0:50:40.120 --> 0:50:43.560 last time we were together on set, I was broadcasting 0:50:43.600 --> 0:50:46.880 from Martha's vineyard and I camped out at the congress 0:50:46.960 --> 0:50:51.040 Woman's home every day. I was trying to get Angela 0:50:51.680 --> 0:50:53.640 to come up there with me and Andrew. So at 0:50:53.680 --> 0:50:55.480 some point we will do a podcast, we hope, and 0:50:56.120 --> 0:50:59.880 from the Congressman. But we're so happy to have you. 0:51:00.040 --> 0:51:04.680 But honestly, because you yourself were a historic candidate, you 0:51:05.840 --> 0:51:08.839 took the office that belonged to Congress on the shurelytism 0:51:09.480 --> 0:51:12.000 in Congress. What does this moment mean to you to 0:51:12.080 --> 0:51:14.960 watch another black woman ascend to the highest heights of 0:51:15.000 --> 0:51:15.920 the United States government? 0:51:15.960 --> 0:51:17.680 All right, I'm feeling this on so many levels. 0:51:17.760 --> 0:51:20.840 So first and foremost, actually, the dress that I'm wearing 0:51:21.320 --> 0:51:24.960 was is a custom piece inspired by a Shirley Chishlm dress. Wow. 0:51:25.000 --> 0:51:27.120 And so even though it is quite warm, that is 0:51:27.160 --> 0:51:29.520 why I'm wearing it in this full circle moment. And 0:51:29.640 --> 0:51:31.440 also though I have the humbling honor of being the 0:51:31.520 --> 0:51:34.600 congresswoman representing the mass Chists seventh which includes the city 0:51:34.640 --> 0:51:38.239 of Boston, as the first woman of color, black woman, 0:51:38.360 --> 0:51:40.839 well personal color period to represent the comonwealth in the House. 0:51:41.760 --> 0:51:43.320 But a lot of people don't know Chicago is the 0:51:43.360 --> 0:51:46.080 city that raised me. So it is full circle in 0:51:46.320 --> 0:51:49.560 every way. And it is I won't call it a 0:51:49.680 --> 0:51:53.600 surreal experience because I think that denies us that it's real. 0:51:54.239 --> 0:51:55.239 It is attainable. 0:51:55.360 --> 0:51:58.239 So it is heady to be on the precipice of 0:51:58.360 --> 0:52:02.239 this historic moment when black women have been the backbone 0:52:02.280 --> 0:52:05.319 of the Democratic Party, have been at the front line 0:52:05.360 --> 0:52:08.160 of ushering in every great movement throughout history. 0:52:08.480 --> 0:52:09.520 For us to take our. 0:52:09.520 --> 0:52:13.000 Rightful place at the top of this ticket, uh, it is. 0:52:13.200 --> 0:52:17.160 It is long overdue. And everyone just keeps saying how 0:52:17.280 --> 0:52:22.600 joyful they feel, how hopeful they feel, and yeah, it's 0:52:22.600 --> 0:52:25.600 an incredible experience. And then to be here with you all, yes, yes, 0:52:26.280 --> 0:52:28.799 So it's like welcome home time too. 0:52:33.360 --> 0:52:39.160 Since street. We jumped off text like, hey, I got you. 0:52:39.520 --> 0:52:42.080 That was amazing, that was awesome. The worst thing that 0:52:42.200 --> 0:52:47.000 I didn't respond after, you know, but. 0:52:47.160 --> 0:52:56.000 Also shout out to Boston because your theme song, you know, 0:52:56.320 --> 0:53:00.080 one of the many incredible creatives and we have the 0:53:00.160 --> 0:53:00.840 city of Boston. 0:53:01.480 --> 0:53:07.120 We are actually being joined and well, he's handshaking. 0:53:07.239 --> 0:53:09.879 I don't know if he's coming up right now, the colleague, Yes, 0:53:10.080 --> 0:53:14.680 your colleague, Congressman Hakim Jeffries, who is the Democratic leader 0:53:15.040 --> 0:53:15.600 in the House. 0:53:15.680 --> 0:53:17.080 I think he is. 0:53:17.160 --> 0:53:21.680 He walking, he's here because we have to get people 0:53:21.719 --> 0:53:23.960 to understand that we're going to do everything to ensure 0:53:24.280 --> 0:53:26.160 that Kamala Harris is Madam President. 0:53:26.400 --> 0:53:28.440 But she has got to have a Democratic. 0:53:28.040 --> 0:53:29.560 Majority in the House. 0:53:29.680 --> 0:53:32.279 We have to grow our numbers in the Senate in 0:53:32.560 --> 0:53:36.680 order to advance this agenda for more just America of 0:53:36.840 --> 0:53:40.320 freedom and that's about the future. So it's so important 0:53:40.400 --> 0:53:43.080 that the Democrats get that gavel back and that a 0:53:43.200 --> 0:53:46.720 King Jeffries is our speaker to fully advance this agenda. 0:53:46.800 --> 0:53:47.960 Kamala can do it alone. 0:53:48.120 --> 0:53:52.080 Yeah, I just y'all have y'all Democrats have been incredible 0:53:52.160 --> 0:53:55.080 the way y'all have held the line. The Republicans couldn't 0:53:55.080 --> 0:53:57.839 get together anyway these last couple of months that they've 0:53:57.840 --> 0:54:00.919 been in charge. But I'm curious to know, is there 0:54:01.840 --> 0:54:03.799 give us the prognosis on whether or not you think 0:54:03.840 --> 0:54:05.840 you all will have the opportunity to win back the 0:54:05.880 --> 0:54:06.920 House where we're. 0:54:06.800 --> 0:54:08.239 Oh, absolutely so, I'm you know. 0:54:08.840 --> 0:54:13.160 A national surrogate for the Vice President was recently in Pennsylvania, 0:54:13.280 --> 0:54:15.680 critical battleground state, and I was so. 0:54:18.400 --> 0:54:19.799 Encouraged by what I saw there. 0:54:19.920 --> 0:54:22.560 First of all, knocking doors many Republicans that said they 0:54:22.640 --> 0:54:26.520 do plan to vote for Kamala. Secondly, in that eighteen 0:54:26.560 --> 0:54:30.400 to thirty five demographic, again a constituency that had been 0:54:30.800 --> 0:54:33.400 there was a huge enthusiasm gap that no longer exists. 0:54:33.560 --> 0:54:36.840 People said, I just feel again more hopeful Kamala's future focused, 0:54:37.080 --> 0:54:38.880 and I feel that I'm a part of something important. 0:54:39.120 --> 0:54:41.120 Women from every age and walk of life, and this 0:54:41.280 --> 0:54:43.839 is the thing that black women do uniquely. We want 0:54:43.880 --> 0:54:46.680 to acknowledge the power of this representation. It is transformative 0:54:46.680 --> 0:54:50.200 and it is meaningful. But everyone sees themselves reflected in 0:54:50.360 --> 0:54:55.920 Black women. So because we live in intersectionality, her story 0:54:56.440 --> 0:54:59.160 is the story of multitudes, and so it is a 0:54:59.320 --> 0:55:03.279 deeply re is it vision for our countries, centering the 0:55:03.360 --> 0:55:06.880 humanity and dignity of every person of every family model, 0:55:07.480 --> 0:55:11.440 in contrast to institutionalized Trumpism in Project twenty twenty five, 0:55:11.760 --> 0:55:14.359 which will cause harm to everyone who calls this country home. 0:55:14.440 --> 0:55:17.080 Control every aspect of your life from your bedroom to 0:55:17.200 --> 0:55:20.160 your womb, dismantle the federal government and our democracy as 0:55:20.320 --> 0:55:24.520 we know it. In contrast to Kamala Harris and Tim Walls, 0:55:24.719 --> 0:55:29.000 who are about your freedoms, you know, preserving your freedoms, 0:55:29.040 --> 0:55:31.560 expanding your freedoms, and about the future. So I think 0:55:31.600 --> 0:55:34.279 with this economic agenda they've just rolled out, they show 0:55:34.320 --> 0:55:37.080 that they have not forgotten the plot. They see the people, 0:55:37.400 --> 0:55:39.640 and they want to mitigate the harm and the struggles 0:55:39.680 --> 0:55:41.600 of everyday people. But they also want to meet you 0:55:41.680 --> 0:55:45.040 at your aspiration. And that's the joy part. That is 0:55:45.120 --> 0:55:50.719 the joy part. Every great movement requires three things imagination, strategy, 0:55:51.239 --> 0:55:54.600 and stamina. And I see all of that being animated 0:55:54.800 --> 0:55:56.719 in real time, and we are going to get her 0:55:56.920 --> 0:55:59.040 across that finish line and into the Oval Office. 0:55:59.120 --> 0:55:59.520 I love it. 0:56:00.120 --> 0:56:02.759 We absolutely love it. Hire somebody, We love you. We 0:56:02.840 --> 0:56:05.239 thank you so much for joining us. We know you 0:56:05.320 --> 0:56:10.160 got to keep running and then listen history marriage. 0:56:10.440 --> 0:56:11.719 I want you all to know this is one of 0:56:11.760 --> 0:56:15.600 the baddest women serving in the United States House of Representative, 0:56:16.320 --> 0:56:17.360 one of my favorites. 0:56:17.760 --> 0:56:18.319 She holds it. 0:56:18.400 --> 0:56:22.480 Down district for the Commonwealth, for the nation, and it's 0:56:22.600 --> 0:56:24.800 honor for me just to be able to serve with, 0:56:24.960 --> 0:56:27.400 get to know and be friends with the great. 0:56:29.239 --> 0:56:32.120 So I am so grateful for your leadership and thank 0:56:32.160 --> 0:56:42.200 you for being a family. You appreciate it. You know 0:56:42.360 --> 0:56:44.719 Boston loves a king because he has some k Verdian roots. 0:56:48.280 --> 0:56:49.680 Come on back, Rose on. 0:56:49.680 --> 0:56:53.600 The ground, Well we are. I'm thrilled. 0:56:54.440 --> 0:56:56.319 First of all, thank you so much for being here 0:56:56.360 --> 0:56:58.480 with us today. We know that your team has literally 0:56:58.560 --> 0:57:00.160 been like she got five minutes. You know you got 0:57:00.239 --> 0:57:00.480 a run. 0:57:00.560 --> 0:57:04.120 We thank you and it's my hunter too to be able. 0:57:04.160 --> 0:57:08.680 As Anna said Frint family, Haqim Jeffries has been family 0:57:08.840 --> 0:57:13.160 from I'd say day zero, I'm irin Andrew, you're not 0:57:13.280 --> 0:57:14.960 on mute in the middle of my intro, thank you. 0:57:16.600 --> 0:57:19.280 Hakim Jeffries came in to see us when he was 0:57:19.360 --> 0:57:22.920 coming into Congress, and one of my favorite moments was 0:57:23.040 --> 0:57:25.040 as a staff person him just being like, Okay, what 0:57:25.120 --> 0:57:25.640 do I need to do. 0:57:25.720 --> 0:57:26.560 Who do I need to know? 0:57:27.040 --> 0:57:31.120 And because of his genuine intellectual curiosity, I know. I 0:57:31.240 --> 0:57:33.320 was like, this dude is going to be speaker, and 0:57:33.520 --> 0:57:37.520 we are on the eve of that dream. And it's 0:57:37.600 --> 0:57:39.760 really knowing that that will come to pass. I want 0:57:39.800 --> 0:57:43.120 to know, in the middle of your history making journey 0:57:43.240 --> 0:57:45.440 now as Democratic leader in the House. 0:57:45.680 --> 0:57:47.880 And where we are today, how does it feel. 0:57:48.640 --> 0:57:50.480 Well, Azela is great to be with you, I could 0:57:50.480 --> 0:57:54.360 say here in Chicago, of course, this amazing team, Uh, 0:57:55.080 --> 0:57:59.720 your heir in Chicago. It's joyful, it's aspirational. Uh, it's 0:57:59.800 --> 0:58:03.480 you find, it's electrifying. But we also know that there's 0:58:03.480 --> 0:58:05.480 a mission ahead of us over the next few months, 0:58:05.800 --> 0:58:08.640 and the other side can be diabolical. Yeah, and so 0:58:09.320 --> 0:58:12.640 we you know, we're here to thank President Biden, of 0:58:12.800 --> 0:58:16.560 course for his work he's passed the torch, to celebrate 0:58:16.640 --> 0:58:20.280 and elevate Kamala Harris and Tim Walls, but then to 0:58:20.360 --> 0:58:23.240 make sure that we're doing the work necessary so that 0:58:23.440 --> 0:58:27.200 they're successful in November, that we do take back the 0:58:27.280 --> 0:58:29.400 gavels in the United States House, and that we do 0:58:29.480 --> 0:58:30.160 what's necessary to. 0:58:30.160 --> 0:58:30.680 Hold the Senate. 0:58:31.080 --> 0:58:33.320 Yes, it's so important. It's going to be a lot 0:58:33.360 --> 0:58:35.320 of people who will lose their minds. 0:58:35.400 --> 0:58:38.880 Congressman, and we when we have a black woman president, 0:58:39.200 --> 0:58:44.360 a black House speaker, black governors elected, more black mayors elected, 0:58:44.520 --> 0:58:49.520 and it really speaks to our ancestors built this country 0:58:49.800 --> 0:58:52.880 for free. That's a phrase I came up with myself. Originally. 0:58:53.800 --> 0:58:56.760 She saw that for me to see Angelus is all 0:58:56.840 --> 0:58:57.480 the time. 0:58:57.760 --> 0:59:01.440 And to finally see our work, the fruits of our 0:59:01.600 --> 0:59:04.800 labor come together at this moment. A lot of people, 0:59:04.880 --> 0:59:07.960 I don't think necessarily understands the role of the Speaker 0:59:08.080 --> 0:59:11.880 of the House, because that is a title that you 0:59:12.080 --> 0:59:14.800 are about to assume. Because we speak things into existence on. 0:59:14.840 --> 0:59:17.720 This podcast, I can what is the role of the 0:59:17.800 --> 0:59:18.400 House Speaker? 0:59:18.920 --> 0:59:23.000 Well, you know, I'll say that it's been an honor 0:59:23.560 --> 0:59:27.640 to stand on the shoulders of Nancy Pelosi, Senny Hory, 0:59:27.680 --> 0:59:31.840 and Jim Clyburn, you know who were legendary leaders. Of course, 0:59:31.960 --> 0:59:35.240 Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the United States House 0:59:35.320 --> 0:59:37.880 of Representatives, she'll go down in history, we believe is 0:59:38.120 --> 0:59:40.800 the greatest speaker of all time, along with you know 0:59:40.960 --> 0:59:43.640 Stenny who did his thing, and of course the great 0:59:43.760 --> 0:59:47.440 legendary Jim Clyburn and they all collectively actually made the 0:59:47.560 --> 0:59:50.600 decision to pass the torch to the next generation of 0:59:50.680 --> 0:59:54.920 Democrats in the House last year, and as a result, 0:59:55.160 --> 0:59:58.520 Petere Aguilar, Catherine Clark and myself now is House Democratic Leader. 0:59:59.160 --> 1:00:01.760 The role of Speaker, of course done incredibly well, you 1:00:01.800 --> 1:00:07.440 know by Nancy Pelosi, really is a constitutional officer in 1:00:07.960 --> 1:00:12.240 the House of Representatives who presides over the House, determines 1:00:12.320 --> 1:00:17.360 the agenda, make sure that legislation moves through the House 1:00:17.640 --> 1:00:20.040 actually can get out of the House and hopefully make 1:00:20.080 --> 1:00:23.600 it through the Senate and become law. And also, depending 1:00:23.640 --> 1:00:27.240 on which party the Speaker is a member of at 1:00:27.280 --> 1:00:29.840 that given point in time, is also responsible for making 1:00:29.880 --> 1:00:32.440 sure politically, you know, things go right and that you're 1:00:32.480 --> 1:00:35.760 interacting with the other branches of government, you know, particularly 1:00:36.160 --> 1:00:40.280 the President, the Vice President, as well as the Senate. 1:00:40.480 --> 1:00:42.560 It's a crucial role. I just want to give a 1:00:42.640 --> 1:00:44.440 quick shout out before I toss it to Andrew. 1:00:45.200 --> 1:00:49.920 I know your wonderful, amazing intellectual brother, Hassan Jeffries, doctor 1:00:50.080 --> 1:00:53.520 Hassan Jeffries. I met Hassan and when I met hassign 1:00:54.000 --> 1:00:56.320 over in the nineties, over twenty years ago, you were 1:00:56.400 --> 1:00:59.200 running for office then, so you have been a public servant. 1:00:58.920 --> 1:00:59.440 Your whole life. 1:00:59.560 --> 1:01:00.640 This is like a family affairs. 1:01:01.440 --> 1:01:03.760 Yes, I want to give a shout out to the 1:01:03.880 --> 1:01:06.800 men of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated as well, because 1:01:06.800 --> 1:01:09.120 we were just talking about the importance of the fraternities 1:01:09.200 --> 1:01:10.760 in this work and you are a member along with 1:01:10.840 --> 1:01:11.200 your brother. 1:01:11.520 --> 1:01:15.400 Thank you, mister Speaker to be. I have marveled from 1:01:15.440 --> 1:01:18.880 Afar down in Florida at the way you have been 1:01:18.960 --> 1:01:25.200 able to manage and keep a very vast ideologically ranged 1:01:25.600 --> 1:01:29.760 caucus together. I mean the fact that you all have 1:01:29.920 --> 1:01:31.960 held on some of the votes that have come been 1:01:32.000 --> 1:01:34.880 put to the floor, that you have in many ways 1:01:34.960 --> 1:01:37.840 performed as the Speaker of the House and delivering very 1:01:37.920 --> 1:01:41.440 key legislation that could have otherwise been off the table 1:01:41.520 --> 1:01:42.560 or otherwise undermined. 1:01:42.600 --> 1:01:45.760 More effective than the active absolutely more effected. 1:01:45.400 --> 1:01:48.600 Because he delivers. I just got to ask a lot 1:01:48.640 --> 1:01:51.200 of folks around the country are nervous around the kinds 1:01:51.240 --> 1:01:55.240 of tactics that may be taken to either uncertify not 1:01:55.520 --> 1:02:02.120 certify put spoke, you know, obstructions in the wheel in 1:02:02.360 --> 1:02:05.360 order to delay the Congress's ability to do what is 1:02:05.480 --> 1:02:09.919 your ceremonial. But also constitutional responsibility to count the votes, 1:02:09.960 --> 1:02:11.840 the Electoral College votes, so on and so forth, and 1:02:11.840 --> 1:02:16.000 certify the presidency. Please tell us that there are scenario planning, 1:02:16.200 --> 1:02:20.120 there are stop gaps in the way, fel safes that 1:02:20.240 --> 1:02:22.880 can ensure that if we are out here encouraging people 1:02:22.920 --> 1:02:25.320 to go vote, they do their job, that when it 1:02:25.400 --> 1:02:27.640 comes to you all that we can rely on some 1:02:27.760 --> 1:02:31.240 protection that this election will not be stolen, will not 1:02:31.360 --> 1:02:34.680 be undermined by the other side, but that people can 1:02:34.960 --> 1:02:37.800 have some relative reliability on our democracy. 1:02:38.280 --> 1:02:40.040 Well, Andrew, great to see you, thank you for your 1:02:40.120 --> 1:02:45.120 public service. And it is a very important question. I 1:02:45.200 --> 1:02:47.400 think the good news is, first of all, we got 1:02:47.520 --> 1:02:50.600 to make sure all the reasons that you articulated, all 1:02:50.680 --> 1:02:54.800 of the uncertainty. Because whoever holds the gavels, whoever is 1:02:54.880 --> 1:02:58.600 in the majority on January sixth, which is the date 1:02:59.000 --> 1:03:02.960 set forth in the Constitution to certify the election. The 1:03:03.040 --> 1:03:07.440 new Congress is sworn in on January third, meaning whoever 1:03:07.560 --> 1:03:09.560 is in the majority as a result of the November 1:03:09.640 --> 1:03:14.080 election will have the ability to decide whether to certify 1:03:14.240 --> 1:03:17.560 or not. And there's an open question if the Republicans 1:03:17.640 --> 1:03:21.160 continue to hold the majority because so many of their 1:03:21.280 --> 1:03:26.040 members are election deniers and have chosen simply to bend 1:03:26.120 --> 1:03:29.280 the need to Donald Trump, who has already trying to 1:03:29.320 --> 1:03:33.120 lay the groundwork to claim, falsely if he loses or 1:03:33.160 --> 1:03:36.120 when he loses, that the election was stolen. 1:03:37.440 --> 1:03:39.960 So we got to take back the House. That's important. 1:03:40.600 --> 1:03:45.760 But we actually did act legislatively and passed a bill 1:03:45.880 --> 1:03:50.680 called the Electoral Reform count Act in two thousand and 1:03:50.800 --> 1:03:55.200 twenty two that did two important things. One, it may 1:03:55.320 --> 1:03:59.160 clear that the vice president's role is only ceremonial important 1:03:59.280 --> 1:04:03.000 now the good in this particular situation, of course, the 1:04:03.120 --> 1:04:07.560 vice president is Kamala Harris. But for future elections, we've 1:04:07.600 --> 1:04:09.760 made it clear that no one can do what Donald 1:04:09.800 --> 1:04:13.760 Trump tried to do in bullying Mike Pence to unilaterally 1:04:14.040 --> 1:04:18.960 declare the election invalid and toss the electoral votes over 1:04:19.080 --> 1:04:23.840 to him. But perhaps the second, yet most important part 1:04:23.880 --> 1:04:26.600 of that legislation is it used to be the case 1:04:27.360 --> 1:04:30.440 that it only took one member out of all four 1:04:30.560 --> 1:04:33.960 hundred and thirty five to object to the election in 1:04:34.040 --> 1:04:37.760 the House and one member out of one hundred to 1:04:37.880 --> 1:04:38.840 object in the Senate. 1:04:38.920 --> 1:04:40.080 That's all that was required. 1:04:41.040 --> 1:04:45.800 And then you can create this whole scenario where shenanigans 1:04:46.040 --> 1:04:48.880 and games can be played, and that's what was set 1:04:48.960 --> 1:04:53.440 in motion. On January sixth of twenty twenty one. We 1:04:53.640 --> 1:04:57.480 changed that so now it requires at least twenty percent 1:04:57.600 --> 1:05:02.200 of the House and twenty percent of the Senate, so 1:05:02.320 --> 1:05:05.800 that means at least a little over eighty members have 1:05:05.960 --> 1:05:10.880 to object. Now, you know, on the other side of 1:05:10.880 --> 1:05:12.520 the out you might be able to get to that 1:05:12.640 --> 1:05:16.000 number in the House, but we don't think you can 1:05:16.040 --> 1:05:18.800 get to that number in the Senate because there still 1:05:18.960 --> 1:05:23.280 are enough traditional Republicans but we don't believe will go 1:05:23.440 --> 1:05:27.560 along with Donald Trump's shenanigans to try to undermine the results. 1:05:27.600 --> 1:05:31.360 And so this is an example of legislation actually being 1:05:31.440 --> 1:05:35.040 advanced in response to a crisis that puts us in 1:05:35.080 --> 1:05:35.960 a much stronger position. 1:05:36.040 --> 1:05:38.439 Well, the best feel safe, y'all if you didn't catch 1:05:38.480 --> 1:05:40.360 it at the beginning of the answer is to put 1:05:40.440 --> 1:05:44.360 Democrats back in charge the House representative That commercial. 1:05:44.880 --> 1:05:45.120 You know. 1:05:45.200 --> 1:05:47.280 The other thing that I think is really important about 1:05:47.320 --> 1:05:50.000 the role of the speaker. You talk about the Democratic 1:05:50.040 --> 1:05:52.560 Party being a big tent party all the time, so. 1:05:52.680 --> 1:05:54.240 Your job is not going to be very easy. 1:05:54.320 --> 1:05:58.400 You have people across the ideological spectrum. You know that 1:05:58.560 --> 1:06:01.520 and have experienced that as the Democratic leader as well. 1:06:02.120 --> 1:06:03.920 Talk about some of the things that you will have 1:06:04.080 --> 1:06:07.480 to do to get people on the same page and 1:06:07.560 --> 1:06:09.920 some of the big picture ideas you have in that role. 1:06:10.080 --> 1:06:12.160 I'm gonna use as a personal example. He is my 1:06:12.280 --> 1:06:14.360 leader too, And I texted him when I was. 1:06:14.400 --> 1:06:17.760 Like, when did everybody got an indorse come? He knows it, 1:06:17.920 --> 1:06:19.640 and he was like, let me be leader for a day. 1:06:19.640 --> 1:06:22.040 I was like, bye, right, I'm sure that happened an hour. 1:06:21.920 --> 1:06:23.880 After spouting I was it was. 1:06:25.800 --> 1:06:28.080 But I but I think that it's important because you're 1:06:28.120 --> 1:06:29.960 going to deal with people who are throwing tantrums. I'm 1:06:29.960 --> 1:06:32.000 one of them sometimes, and you're going to be dealing 1:06:32.040 --> 1:06:33.800 with folks who are like, I know the best way 1:06:33.880 --> 1:06:36.720 I can follow me? How do you bring everybody together? 1:06:37.000 --> 1:06:37.160 Yeah? 1:06:37.240 --> 1:06:38.120 No, it's a great question. 1:06:38.680 --> 1:06:44.320 And you know, I think one we've adopted a philosophy 1:06:44.360 --> 1:06:46.200 and approach and this is something that I learned from 1:06:46.240 --> 1:06:50.160 Jim Clyburn that unity is different than unanimity. 1:06:51.080 --> 1:06:51.320 Wow. 1:06:52.120 --> 1:06:56.280 And the House Democratic Caucus represents the gorgeous mosaic of 1:06:56.360 --> 1:07:00.280 the American people with the closest institution to the American 1:07:00.320 --> 1:07:04.320 people by design and on the House Democratic caucuside, we 1:07:04.440 --> 1:07:10.480 have incredible diversity across every possible measure. But that means 1:07:10.560 --> 1:07:16.040 with people who have different life experiences, different perspectives, different constituencies, 1:07:16.400 --> 1:07:18.480 they may take a different view on a given issue 1:07:19.440 --> 1:07:23.960 or two. But we're not expecting unanimity. We are, however, 1:07:24.080 --> 1:07:27.880 expecting unity, which means that we're united around these principles 1:07:28.280 --> 1:07:31.720 of fighting for justice, fighting for freedom, putting people over politics, 1:07:32.200 --> 1:07:34.400 and so we can have our family discussions, which we 1:07:34.520 --> 1:07:34.920 often do. 1:07:35.600 --> 1:07:40.760 Sometimes they're exuberant. We prefer them to be private, not public. 1:07:41.680 --> 1:07:45.120 But once we get through those family discussions, we find 1:07:45.200 --> 1:07:47.760 the highest common denominator. And this is what we've done 1:07:47.800 --> 1:07:50.280 throughout the entire Congress in order to get to the 1:07:50.360 --> 1:07:52.400 best possible result for the American people. 1:07:52.920 --> 1:07:55.520 Now, there will always be some folks who will say, well. 1:07:55.440 --> 1:07:59.280 You didn't go far enough, and our general view, learning 1:07:59.360 --> 1:08:02.400 from our civil rights legends right who went through a 1:08:02.480 --> 1:08:06.000 similar process as they were working through the Civil Rights Act, 1:08:06.040 --> 1:08:09.760 the Voting Rights Act, and the Fair Housing Act, that 1:08:10.080 --> 1:08:12.640 sometimes you just have to live to fight another day. Yeah, 1:08:12.920 --> 1:08:15.720 but we're all united in terms of where we want 1:08:15.760 --> 1:08:15.920 to go. 1:08:16.439 --> 1:08:19.280 Not make the perfect the enemy of the good, which 1:08:19.400 --> 1:08:24.080 oftentimes too often happens the speaker to be. We know 1:08:24.160 --> 1:08:26.080 that your time is extremely valuable. I just got to 1:08:26.160 --> 1:08:30.120 throw you some crazy love over his oratory. Yes, I 1:08:30.200 --> 1:08:33.519 mean I've been moved on occasion where this stuff should 1:08:33.560 --> 1:08:38.000 be for process. Yes, And I keep getting The Congressman 1:08:38.080 --> 1:08:42.799 gets up and begins to speak, and he evokes history, 1:08:42.960 --> 1:08:46.080 and he evokes emotion, and he connects and weaves together 1:08:46.760 --> 1:08:52.320 such an incredibly diverse set of experiences of the American 1:08:52.400 --> 1:08:56.519 people to bring all of us into investment and whatever 1:08:56.600 --> 1:08:59.160 it is that they're attempting to do. It's it is. 1:08:59.400 --> 1:09:01.879 It is a power. We're yes, But more than anything, 1:09:01.960 --> 1:09:04.680 it is a blessing. And I'm so glad that you've 1:09:04.720 --> 1:09:07.799 been imbued with it because I think it's an essential 1:09:07.880 --> 1:09:10.080 part of what allows you to be the kind of 1:09:10.720 --> 1:09:13.479 uh successful speaker that I think you've already shown yourself to. 1:09:13.479 --> 1:09:15.400 Be by here a little hip hop every Now. 1:09:17.680 --> 1:09:20.280 That's why my quick favorite quote from the Congressman is 1:09:20.360 --> 1:09:22.840 during the impeachment hearings and a Republican member said, I 1:09:22.960 --> 1:09:25.479 just don't know why we're here, and the Congressman stood 1:09:25.560 --> 1:09:26.880 up and answered him and. 1:09:27.120 --> 1:09:30.519 Listed innumerable reasons why we were here, uh and and 1:09:30.680 --> 1:09:34.200 laid out a beautifully argued case. And at the end 1:09:34.320 --> 1:09:50.000 he said, so, if you don't know, Brooklyn is always 1:09:50.040 --> 1:09:50.559 in the house. 1:09:50.640 --> 1:09:51.280 And we love it. 1:09:51.479 --> 1:09:56.120 Literally, I love you on this podcast. We're championedlations. 1:09:56.160 --> 1:09:59.840 This is amazing podcast. Gratulations are all the success. And 1:10:00.280 --> 1:10:02.519 you know, Angela and Tiffany Andrew appreciate you all. 1:10:02.960 --> 1:10:03.280 Family. 1:10:06.760 --> 1:10:08.479 You don't let you be leader for a day, but 1:10:08.600 --> 1:10:10.200 tomorrow you got to be. Mister Speaker. 1:10:11.560 --> 1:10:14.600 Absolutely, thank you, thank you. 1:10:15.520 --> 1:10:15.920 I love it. 1:10:16.000 --> 1:10:18.000 It's fantastic. I love it, love it, love it. 1:10:18.200 --> 1:10:21.679 Man. I'm so proud of if I came. I mean, yes, 1:10:21.800 --> 1:10:23.840 I heard him first in Florida when he came down 1:10:23.880 --> 1:10:27.800 and did some some organizing work. Yeah, throughout the race 1:10:27.880 --> 1:10:30.559 and so on and so forth. But his leadership is incredible. 1:10:30.680 --> 1:10:30.960 Thank you. 1:10:31.360 --> 1:10:32.840 I we're now saying goodbye. If you're. 1:10:34.680 --> 1:10:46.760 Definitely be interesting, how we all we make sure we 1:10:46.960 --> 1:10:48.439 hunt race. 1:10:49.840 --> 1:10:50.439 Really quickly. 1:10:50.840 --> 1:10:54.400 The California role call happened while we had mister Speaker on, 1:10:55.360 --> 1:10:58.679 which is symbolic because of course this is Vice President 1:10:58.720 --> 1:11:02.400 Harris home States, where she has won more elections than 1:11:02.479 --> 1:11:07.200 Donald Trump. So It's an honor to see that history unfold. 1:11:07.400 --> 1:11:09.760 And this suit is fly child. Yes, and her suit 1:11:09.840 --> 1:11:15.800 is amazing. Handla's gonna bring in Uh. Ted her next 1:11:15.920 --> 1:11:17.040 guest Andela. 1:11:18.080 --> 1:11:22.360 Our dear friend Ted James has joined us. Ted James 1:11:22.439 --> 1:11:25.559 has been a State rep in Louisiana. He has worked 1:11:25.600 --> 1:11:30.160 for the Small Business Administration in this administration. He is 1:11:30.920 --> 1:11:35.800 running for mayor and baton rouge and he is Uh. 1:11:36.040 --> 1:11:38.360 He's a dear friend of ours. My favorite thing to 1:11:38.439 --> 1:11:42.000 say about Ted is when the people need something. 1:11:41.800 --> 1:11:44.160 They're done. They do one thing and it's two words 1:11:44.600 --> 1:11:47.840 all Ted. That is when your brother just left the 1:11:48.880 --> 1:11:49.599 set as well. 1:11:49.840 --> 1:11:50.240 I love it. 1:11:57.640 --> 1:11:59.559 Given too much. We've been talking about the D nine 1:11:59.640 --> 1:12:01.960 and the all shouting you. 1:12:02.000 --> 1:12:03.840 Out, so let me tell you something. 1:12:04.000 --> 1:12:06.000 It was such an honor to walk up and see 1:12:06.720 --> 1:12:09.439 my three dear friends and thank you all for always 1:12:09.520 --> 1:12:11.360 elevating our voices. 1:12:11.600 --> 1:12:14.920 And I'm honored to be here. But to see the 1:12:15.000 --> 1:12:17.280 next peak of the house. Yeah, a good cap a 1:12:17.360 --> 1:12:20.800 man was also heartwarming. Yeah, I bet, I bet I 1:12:20.880 --> 1:12:25.839 bet tad you you've been at the legislative level making moves. 1:12:26.040 --> 1:12:30.800 Your reputation is far outside of the state of Louisiana 1:12:30.880 --> 1:12:33.960 outside of Baton Rouge. But we know that that community 1:12:34.000 --> 1:12:36.920 has shaped the person that you are, the wonderful public servant. 1:12:36.960 --> 1:12:39.400 And I know we've got listeners and viewers down there, 1:12:39.560 --> 1:12:42.920 y'all show ted some great love. You're going from the 1:12:43.000 --> 1:12:45.760 legislature now back to the local Now. I'm welcoming you 1:12:45.840 --> 1:12:47.960 because I'm I'm a man of the local level. I 1:12:48.040 --> 1:12:51.559 know you're tell us. Tell us what has animated your 1:12:51.680 --> 1:12:55.000 desire to make your way from the state level of 1:12:55.120 --> 1:12:59.240 governing on behalf of your community to now being Mayor Andrew. 1:12:59.280 --> 1:13:02.360 I'll tell you it's the opportunity in their administration to 1:13:02.560 --> 1:13:05.920 travel across the country. And I watched other mayors do 1:13:06.000 --> 1:13:08.360 what I watched you do, raise the quality of life 1:13:08.439 --> 1:13:12.519 through investing in small businesses there. Baton Rouge is very 1:13:12.560 --> 1:13:15.920 similar to Talent Has in that the two major universities, 1:13:16.040 --> 1:13:22.040 one Southern University, how to amplify that HBCU culture through 1:13:22.479 --> 1:13:26.280 making sure that those young people have entrepreneurship opportunities where 1:13:26.320 --> 1:13:28.639 they decide to stay in Baton Rouge and I leave 1:13:28.720 --> 1:13:30.160 for opportunities other places. 1:13:30.280 --> 1:13:32.439 I love that. I love that, and so tell us 1:13:32.439 --> 1:13:34.760 what's the shake for those who don't know. Give us 1:13:34.800 --> 1:13:38.240 the lay of the land. What when's the primary? When's 1:13:38.280 --> 1:13:38.759 the general? 1:13:38.840 --> 1:13:41.519 What's the what's the Louisiana We have open primers. We 1:13:41.560 --> 1:13:44.200 call them jungle primier. So we are all running on 1:13:44.320 --> 1:13:47.360 November fifth, and the top two vote getters will go 1:13:47.479 --> 1:13:50.680 December seventh, unless one of us receive fifty percent of 1:13:50.720 --> 1:13:54.000 the vot plus one. I'm working to receive fifty percent 1:13:54.040 --> 1:13:55.920 plus one. But if not, we go to a runoff 1:13:56.000 --> 1:13:56.559 in December. 1:13:57.240 --> 1:13:59.920 So I didn't realize, y'all. So y'all go beyond the November. 1:14:00.120 --> 1:14:02.240 That's right, okay, okay, all right, all right. 1:14:02.320 --> 1:14:06.280 So you know a lot of people we think you're 1:14:06.320 --> 1:14:09.680 a superstar. Some of our audience are not familiar with you. 1:14:09.720 --> 1:14:14.120 If somebody does not live in in Baton Rouge, I'm 1:14:14.200 --> 1:14:15.960 curious your thoughts on. 1:14:16.240 --> 1:14:19.240 Why they matter. But before you answer that, I see Angela. 1:14:19.320 --> 1:14:21.680 Has you all saw Angela Leaf said she went and 1:14:21.800 --> 1:14:24.840 grabbed us another member of Congress. We are joined now 1:14:25.120 --> 1:14:28.160 by Congressman Gregory Meeks out of New York. He serves 1:14:28.200 --> 1:14:33.560 on the Foreign Relations Committee, and Angela, in her capacity 1:14:33.640 --> 1:14:36.120 as a former executive director of the Congressional Black Hawk, 1:14:36.240 --> 1:14:39.240 is worked very closely with Congressman Gregory Meeks, so it's. 1:14:39.160 --> 1:14:42.240 Wonderful to be doing by you. He's also the chair 1:14:42.320 --> 1:14:43.960 of the Congressional black Hawk is Pack. 1:14:44.000 --> 1:14:44.840 He walked by yesterday. 1:14:44.880 --> 1:14:47.120 I was like, today, we're snatching him. I'm probably gonna 1:14:47.120 --> 1:14:48.600 get in trouble. Just stand, but I was like, I 1:14:48.680 --> 1:14:49.599 need it. For three minutes. 1:14:49.920 --> 1:14:52.760 I just wanted mister Meeks in the middle of Ted 1:14:52.880 --> 1:14:56.599 talking about the importance of electoral politics running for overs himself. 1:14:56.920 --> 1:14:59.240 Mister Meeks, you fight every day to ensure that our 1:14:59.320 --> 1:15:02.639 numbers incre We are a strong sixty. Now, CBC members, 1:15:02.760 --> 1:15:05.360 I want you to talk about why it's so important 1:15:05.400 --> 1:15:06.960 to invest in entities like. 1:15:07.000 --> 1:15:09.639 The Congressional black Hawk as Pack, shameless plug. I sit 1:15:09.680 --> 1:15:11.400 on the board so I chair. 1:15:12.280 --> 1:15:12.320 No. 1:15:12.520 --> 1:15:15.919 Look, what we're talking about is having real power in America. 1:15:16.439 --> 1:15:18.640 What we're talking about is making a game change. And 1:15:18.680 --> 1:15:20.920 this is why this is a historic moment. You talk 1:15:20.960 --> 1:15:24.559 about sixty. Now, what happens with that sixty We're going 1:15:24.640 --> 1:15:26.880 to have at least five members when we take back 1:15:26.920 --> 1:15:31.120 to the majority in the House. We're going to have 1:15:31.280 --> 1:15:34.240 five members of the CBC that will be chairs of 1:15:34.400 --> 1:15:38.200 full committees. You look at people like Bennie Thompson from 1:15:38.200 --> 1:15:42.439 Mississippi being Chair of Homeland Security. We talk about education 1:15:42.560 --> 1:15:44.559 and we want to make sure that we got real history. 1:15:44.760 --> 1:15:48.479 Bobby Scott from Virginia will be Chair of Education and Labor. 1:15:48.680 --> 1:15:50.960 We talk about how black farmers have been robbed and 1:15:51.280 --> 1:15:55.200 no justice. David Scott from Georgia will be Chair of 1:15:55.280 --> 1:15:59.800 the Agriculture Committee. We talk about financial services, which is 1:16:00.000 --> 1:16:00.599 really important. 1:16:00.600 --> 1:16:02.720 You talk about all the finance in the world, sins 1:16:02.760 --> 1:16:05.880 the Maxine. Now Maxine will be Chair. 1:16:06.040 --> 1:16:09.880 Of the Financial Services Committee, and your little brother here 1:16:10.320 --> 1:16:13.479 I will be Chair of the House Foreign Fans Committee, 1:16:13.880 --> 1:16:17.120 and over thirty one members of the CBC will be 1:16:17.320 --> 1:16:20.839 chairs of major subcommittees. So we are talking about investing 1:16:20.880 --> 1:16:24.440 in the CBC. We are talking about setting the policies 1:16:24.720 --> 1:16:27.920 for the United States of America and getting justice for 1:16:28.160 --> 1:16:30.559 many people across. You know, we're talking about if we're 1:16:30.560 --> 1:16:33.799 talking about voting rights, if we're talking about criminal justice reform, 1:16:34.120 --> 1:16:34.919 if we're talking. 1:16:34.680 --> 1:16:38.800 About creating wealth and reducing the wealth gap. That's what 1:16:39.000 --> 1:16:40.040 this is all about. 1:16:40.360 --> 1:16:44.040 And making this, you know, a statement that then turns 1:16:44.120 --> 1:16:47.200 into reality. But to me, this is doctor King's dream. 1:16:47.520 --> 1:16:50.240 It's a good time to be alive today right now 1:16:50.320 --> 1:16:52.400 when you look at the fact, you know, I can 1:16:52.479 --> 1:16:55.000 tell you at me and my age, many individuals did 1:16:55.080 --> 1:16:58.599 not think that we would see another person of color 1:16:58.920 --> 1:16:59.559 being president. 1:17:00.040 --> 1:17:03.400 One thing that I will say that Don Da Khan 1:17:03.600 --> 1:17:04.280 was right about. 1:17:05.400 --> 1:17:07.679 You know what we look at when I see Barack 1:17:07.720 --> 1:17:11.360 Obama and now I see Kamala Harris. I know where 1:17:11.360 --> 1:17:12.200 a black job is? 1:17:12.360 --> 1:17:13.120 This president of. 1:17:15.160 --> 1:17:15.760 Black job. 1:17:16.280 --> 1:17:17.719 That what this is really all about. 1:17:17.920 --> 1:17:20.639 It's about real power, yes, and make it a difference. 1:17:20.760 --> 1:17:23.000 Black jobs do not have it without black packs. 1:17:23.040 --> 1:17:24.559 So I just wanted to get you on your first 1:17:24.600 --> 1:17:26.960 shout out, so thank you. Does he have to run 1:17:27.080 --> 1:17:28.599 right now? I want to ask one quick. 1:17:28.520 --> 1:17:31.479 Wife, sorry, Congressman, want another member from Ben Rouge and 1:17:31.520 --> 1:17:34.920 Cleo Field, get him. 1:17:35.520 --> 1:17:38.240 That's right him and quite easy. You know they bring 1:17:38.320 --> 1:17:39.000 a lot of history. 1:17:40.439 --> 1:17:43.760 Congressman, I want to ask one quick question. We had 1:17:43.880 --> 1:17:47.200 your colleague, Congressman Bennie Thompson on yesterday, the ranking member 1:17:47.240 --> 1:17:51.599 on Homeland Security, and he spoke about how oftentimes foreign 1:17:51.680 --> 1:17:54.200 policy issues are not the top of the list of 1:17:54.280 --> 1:17:57.840 priorities for people, especially in our community, who are juggling 1:17:57.960 --> 1:18:01.400 so much from how to pay the mortgage to keeping 1:18:01.439 --> 1:18:03.519 their kids save to you know, sending kids to school. 1:18:03.920 --> 1:18:07.000 And I'm just curious because you serve on the Foreign 1:18:07.000 --> 1:18:10.760 Awaces Committee. It is crucial, a crucial committee because what 1:18:10.880 --> 1:18:13.800 happens overseas very much impact what happens here from a 1:18:13.840 --> 1:18:18.599 budget standpoint to policy. What would you say going into 1:18:18.720 --> 1:18:23.719 this new cycle, this election cycle is the chief issue 1:18:24.439 --> 1:18:26.040 when it comes to foreign policy. 1:18:26.760 --> 1:18:29.679 Well, there's a number of them. First and foremost. 1:18:29.880 --> 1:18:33.160 You know, when you talk about the situation that's happening, 1:18:33.760 --> 1:18:36.600 whether it's the Middle East, it is really important that 1:18:36.720 --> 1:18:39.200 we deal with that, to deal with what we're talking 1:18:39.200 --> 1:18:40.719 about with the challenges with China. 1:18:41.240 --> 1:18:43.200 But I'll tell you what we don't talk about enough 1:18:43.600 --> 1:18:47.320 that should be on the front burner. What's happening in Sedan, Yes. 1:18:47.240 --> 1:18:51.120 You know where you have more people dying every day 1:18:51.479 --> 1:18:54.280 and it's not anyone's talking about it. And so when 1:18:54.360 --> 1:18:57.000 I become the chair again, that becomes on the front 1:18:57.040 --> 1:19:00.160 burner to talk about what's happening in Haiti, is you 1:19:00.200 --> 1:19:02.720 know something that's really important that looked like us, That 1:19:02.840 --> 1:19:05.320 makes a difference when you look even at brisk going 1:19:05.400 --> 1:19:08.280 on where there's more black people than any place else 1:19:08.360 --> 1:19:10.360 in the world other than the continent of Africa is 1:19:10.479 --> 1:19:13.760 Brazil and how they are affected with reference to dealing 1:19:13.800 --> 1:19:16.560 with the issues in Venezuela, and then you talk that 1:19:17.120 --> 1:19:19.720 deals with this migrant crisis that you're talking about, so 1:19:19.880 --> 1:19:21.040 we've got to deal with those. 1:19:21.120 --> 1:19:23.759 It's those issues are on the on the front burner, 1:19:23.960 --> 1:19:24.639 and it's all. 1:19:24.640 --> 1:19:27.960 Interconnected because when you have the war like in Ukraine, 1:19:28.160 --> 1:19:31.320 a lot of people don't understand what happens there is 1:19:31.360 --> 1:19:34.800 when you talk about uh food and food shortages with 1:19:34.920 --> 1:19:37.880 the Black Sea because of that war is blocking some 1:19:38.040 --> 1:19:40.960 of the passage, which brings up the price of food 1:19:41.400 --> 1:19:46.360 and thereby causes inflation. It's all interconnected because the world 1:19:46.479 --> 1:19:48.840 now is much smaller than it used to be and 1:19:49.120 --> 1:19:52.920 we are living with a global economy. We're talking about 1:19:53.560 --> 1:19:56.200 the fact that each you know, when you talk about 1:19:56.280 --> 1:19:59.560 food chains, which gets in if they're shut down in 1:19:59.640 --> 1:20:03.519 effect success you talk about energy, that's a global issue 1:20:03.720 --> 1:20:05.600 of which we got to deal in trade in the 1:20:06.600 --> 1:20:10.640 cost of gas. That is you know, some people look 1:20:10.680 --> 1:20:12.920 at it as just something that's far away, but it 1:20:13.080 --> 1:20:17.800 is domestic because it affects us domestically each in every day, 1:20:17.880 --> 1:20:21.280 and that's why you got to consider looking at foreign policy, 1:20:21.560 --> 1:20:25.040 and it's even and it's harder to talk about diplomacy 1:20:25.439 --> 1:20:27.800 as opposed to going to war. And what we try 1:20:27.880 --> 1:20:29.200 to do is to try to make sure that we're 1:20:29.200 --> 1:20:32.479 talking about doing things in a diplomatic way, because then 1:20:32.560 --> 1:20:35.479 it is cheaper than having to go to war that 1:20:35.600 --> 1:20:36.719 costs American people. 1:20:38.120 --> 1:20:40.559 That's what that's why you are in forigm relations, that's 1:20:40.560 --> 1:20:42.479 why you're about to be the chair game. Because that 1:20:42.640 --> 1:20:47.200 was one of the most accessible explanations I've heard as 1:20:47.240 --> 1:20:49.840 to why when folks say, all I see is all 1:20:49.920 --> 1:20:53.559 our money going overseas someplace else, and that's what they 1:20:53.640 --> 1:20:56.439 summarize foreign policy to be. But when you talk about 1:20:56.479 --> 1:20:59.280 gas prices and you talk about the prices serial because 1:20:59.320 --> 1:21:02.400 we can't be that's right, or you talk about blockades 1:21:02.479 --> 1:21:05.920 that then raise the costs because of the shortages, low supply, 1:21:06.840 --> 1:21:11.720 high demand, higher prime in place, it is so these 1:21:11.760 --> 1:21:14.280 are the I hope that we continue to talk about 1:21:14.280 --> 1:21:16.879 it in that way because folks large in our community. 1:21:16.920 --> 1:21:19.599 When you when you have need yourself, it's very hard 1:21:20.160 --> 1:21:23.120 to then see what are your tax dollars being used 1:21:23.160 --> 1:21:27.040 to fill another need when in fact what looks obvious 1:21:27.120 --> 1:21:29.240 may not be so obviously and. 1:21:29.280 --> 1:21:32.240 What we learned from the pandemic. If somebody is sick 1:21:32.320 --> 1:21:33.840 someplace else in the world, that come here. 1:21:34.120 --> 1:21:36.679 So it's important to make sure that we are working 1:21:36.760 --> 1:21:39.120 with others so that it keeps us safe and. 1:21:39.200 --> 1:21:41.160 Healthy because they are safe and healthy. 1:21:41.280 --> 1:21:44.040 So all of that is interconnected, and that's why we've 1:21:44.040 --> 1:21:46.160 got to make sure that we stay involved and understand 1:21:46.200 --> 1:21:49.080 what's taking place in a final fair situation, what you're 1:21:49.080 --> 1:21:49.360 doing on. 1:21:49.400 --> 1:21:54.760 We wish you well, but I just want to shout 1:21:54.840 --> 1:21:56.520 how Alpha by alphab return. 1:21:59.080 --> 1:22:01.760 Shouted them out rest of the week. 1:22:02.479 --> 1:22:08.120 We are so grateful to Ted Jay, the congressman chair, 1:22:08.479 --> 1:22:09.320 to be in here. 1:22:11.200 --> 1:22:11.400 With you. 1:22:12.200 --> 1:22:12.439 Thank you. 1:22:12.600 --> 1:22:15.040 And while the Congressman is making transition, I'm gonna welcome 1:22:15.160 --> 1:22:20.200 up another mayor to talk to Tay. I hope you're staying. 1:22:20.720 --> 1:22:21.080 I think. 1:22:22.680 --> 1:22:23.280 Melvin Carter. 1:22:23.720 --> 1:22:27.559 Oh, we're welcoming Melvin Carter to the to the stays. 1:22:27.760 --> 1:22:29.880 And we had to be brief because we had a 1:22:29.960 --> 1:22:32.720 long I don't know what, just so that we have 1:22:32.760 --> 1:22:33.679 a long line to guests. 1:22:33.680 --> 1:22:38.840 So we have Adrian waiting as well, So hi, mister mayor, 1:22:39.040 --> 1:22:41.879 we he might want to come on this side. 1:22:44.160 --> 1:22:50.120 Over there, so y'all. We're just inviting. We're just inviting 1:22:50.240 --> 1:22:54.479 in the mayor of the Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is 1:22:54.880 --> 1:22:58.400 the first African American ever to be elected to that position. 1:22:58.600 --> 1:23:00.840 First a lot of first and he's a member of 1:23:00.880 --> 1:23:01.719 Alpha Pi Alpha. 1:23:02.439 --> 1:23:02.559 Uh. 1:23:03.120 --> 1:23:05.439 I just mentioned that the Beta new chapter at Florida 1:23:05.520 --> 1:23:08.280 A and M University, which also suggests to me that 1:23:08.400 --> 1:23:11.880 he is a rattler. Y'll, so Melvin put those earphones on. 1:23:12.720 --> 1:23:15.760 Uh all right, so I know your time is them 1:23:15.800 --> 1:23:19.280 and you just missed that. Yeah, that's you missed that 1:23:19.360 --> 1:23:22.360 incredible introduction that I just gave of you. Is that, yes, 1:23:22.479 --> 1:23:25.920 right before Adrian shropshid. I appreciate and so we just 1:23:26.000 --> 1:23:27.320 want you to tell a little bit of the people 1:23:27.360 --> 1:23:31.760 what you're working on over there in Minnesota. Man, with 1:23:31.960 --> 1:23:34.519 your governor leaving that there may be something coming. 1:23:34.320 --> 1:23:38.000 Down and governor is about to be my gun. 1:23:39.880 --> 1:23:42.000 Understand she l t too. 1:23:44.720 --> 1:23:46.120 Always started I even got on. 1:23:46.960 --> 1:23:47.880 I'm not on your side. 1:23:50.840 --> 1:23:53.160 That's right. It's good to see y'all man. I appreciate it. 1:23:53.280 --> 1:23:54.839 We're just trying to do our best in Minnesota. 1:23:55.000 --> 1:23:55.160 You know. 1:23:55.320 --> 1:23:56.840 One of the things that you know this really well 1:23:56.960 --> 1:23:59.799 at somebody who served as mayor. We've learned a model 1:23:59.840 --> 1:24:02.639 of of like city building, the centers around stuff. It's buildings, 1:24:02.720 --> 1:24:05.439 it's streets and stuff like that. In Saint Paul, when 1:24:05.439 --> 1:24:08.080 my dad was growing up, they bulldozed seven hundred people's 1:24:08.080 --> 1:24:10.800 homes to lay a street because that's how our values were. 1:24:10.920 --> 1:24:13.160 So our goal is just to say, when we say 1:24:13.200 --> 1:24:15.200 we believe in people, we're just gonna go all in 1:24:15.320 --> 1:24:18.040 on betting on our folks. Whether that's piloting guaranteed income, 1:24:18.240 --> 1:24:20.479 whether that's starting fifty dollars to start a college savings 1:24:20.479 --> 1:24:22.320 account for every child born in our city, whether that's 1:24:22.400 --> 1:24:24.479 raised in the minimum wage, giving people up to one 1:24:24.560 --> 1:24:27.280 hundred and ten thousand dollars and forgivable financing and purchase 1:24:27.280 --> 1:24:30.280 of home or renovating existing home, just going all in 1:24:30.360 --> 1:24:31.400 on our folks, y'all. 1:24:31.479 --> 1:24:33.120 He said a lot right there, because he's a man 1:24:33.120 --> 1:24:37.559 who understands what time restraints mean. But guaranteed minimum income 1:24:38.080 --> 1:24:41.599 piloting that program in his city, right, that's a huge 1:24:41.680 --> 1:24:44.280 deal for a lot of people all across America. And 1:24:44.360 --> 1:24:48.000 the Brothers being innovative with that all of his own, 1:24:48.320 --> 1:24:51.559 I gotta say we also joined by another incredible human 1:24:51.640 --> 1:24:53.400 I'm gonna let your church. 1:24:53.479 --> 1:24:56.320 Sire is the executive director of Black pat We are 1:24:56.439 --> 1:24:58.519 so honored, Adrian, to be partnered with you. 1:24:58.640 --> 1:25:00.880 We are looking forward to work with you beyond. 1:25:00.680 --> 1:25:03.800 This convention for the next seventy seven days and if 1:25:03.840 --> 1:25:07.919 it needs to be seventy seven years. Are so grateful 1:25:08.360 --> 1:25:11.240 for everything you're doing. You are killing it, You've been 1:25:11.320 --> 1:25:13.360 killing it. I just got a shout out she from 1:25:13.439 --> 1:25:14.560 the West coast. 1:25:16.200 --> 1:25:16.479 To us. 1:25:26.800 --> 1:25:28.240 You know, there was just a roll call on the 1:25:28.280 --> 1:25:28.960 floor of unity. 1:25:29.040 --> 1:25:29.640 We're not doing that. 1:25:31.800 --> 1:25:33.000 I get it, I get it. 1:25:33.439 --> 1:25:36.000 But Adrian, can you please tell our listeners because I 1:25:36.000 --> 1:25:38.320 think it's so important. Congressman Weeks was just here talking 1:25:38.320 --> 1:25:41.400 about the role of the Congressional black Hawk is Pack talking. 1:25:41.160 --> 1:25:42.080 About how important it is. 1:25:42.160 --> 1:25:44.840 And I have those sixty seats, the thirty plus members 1:25:44.840 --> 1:25:47.480 who will be chairs of so committees should the Democrats 1:25:47.520 --> 1:25:50.400 take over the House in the fall, and so I 1:25:50.479 --> 1:25:53.040 would love for you to talk about the important work 1:25:53.160 --> 1:25:55.880 that Black Pack is doing and how folks listening and 1:25:55.960 --> 1:25:57.439 watching at home can get involved. 1:25:57.560 --> 1:25:57.760 Yeah. 1:25:57.840 --> 1:25:59.280 So I'm one of the things that you said that 1:25:59.400 --> 1:26:02.080 is so import and as we have seventy seven days, yes, 1:26:02.200 --> 1:26:04.160 but we got a lot of people to talk to, Okay, 1:26:04.280 --> 1:26:06.519 and so when we think about you know, whether it 1:26:06.680 --> 1:26:08.839 is knocking on doors, which we're doing in the battleground 1:26:08.840 --> 1:26:11.040 states across the country, having conversations which we've been doing 1:26:11.080 --> 1:26:14.080 for months, and you know, we had the little change 1:26:14.280 --> 1:26:16.120 at the top of the ticket, and suddenly it is 1:26:16.200 --> 1:26:21.800 like the change, this guy's kind of opened up, right, 1:26:21.880 --> 1:26:23.519 And so I think that you you see, like the 1:26:23.600 --> 1:26:27.799 excitement is real, the energy is real among like across 1:26:28.040 --> 1:26:32.679 our elders, our younger people. But the job is not done. 1:26:32.880 --> 1:26:34.840 We still have a single job, and we still need 1:26:34.880 --> 1:26:35.960 to reach a lot of people. So there are a 1:26:35.960 --> 1:26:39.640 lot of folks who don't understand who the vice president is. 1:26:40.000 --> 1:26:42.240 They want to understand her record. You still have a 1:26:42.280 --> 1:26:44.720 lot of people who are saying I might vote third party, right, 1:26:44.800 --> 1:26:46.080 I'm not sure if I'm going to say. So. You 1:26:46.120 --> 1:26:47.760 still have the folks who are saying I might stay home. 1:26:47.960 --> 1:26:49.719 And so we have to reach all of those people. 1:26:49.920 --> 1:26:52.360 And we have this truncated timeline. We talk about seventy 1:26:52.400 --> 1:26:54.439 seven days, but we know that the ballots go out 1:26:54.800 --> 1:26:57.960 in North Carolina on September sixth, and then they go 1:26:58.080 --> 1:26:59.920 out in Pennsylvania and they guess, well, people will how 1:27:00.080 --> 1:27:03.479 balance in their hands and they will be voting, and 1:27:03.600 --> 1:27:05.519 we need to get the information to it. So our job, 1:27:05.720 --> 1:27:07.760 in all of our job, but certainly blackpacked job, is 1:27:07.800 --> 1:27:09.640 to make sure we're delivering the information, whether it's on 1:27:09.720 --> 1:27:12.680 the doors, whether it's in business and businesses and communities, 1:27:12.880 --> 1:27:15.800 whether it's on the radio, and delivering the message, whether 1:27:15.800 --> 1:27:18.000 it's digitally, whether it's mail, whatever. Is to make sure 1:27:18.040 --> 1:27:20.640 that we are talking to people, making sure that they 1:27:20.720 --> 1:27:23.040 understand the stakes. Because people do understand the stakes, they 1:27:23.120 --> 1:27:24.680 know that it's a democracy or dictatorship. 1:27:24.720 --> 1:27:25.920 People get all of that right. 1:27:26.479 --> 1:27:28.479 They also feel right now and this is the great part, 1:27:28.680 --> 1:27:31.599 is that there's history at stake right now as well, 1:27:31.880 --> 1:27:33.720 and people are ready to make history. And so I 1:27:33.760 --> 1:27:36.120 think that you know, we need to keep people motivated. 1:27:36.160 --> 1:27:37.960 We need to ride this wave coming out of the convention, 1:27:38.080 --> 1:27:39.559 but we also need to do the work that needs 1:27:39.600 --> 1:27:40.960 to be done, the hard work to make sure that 1:27:41.000 --> 1:27:43.280 people turn out. Motivation is not a vote, it is, 1:27:44.120 --> 1:27:45.760 so we need to make sure that people who are 1:27:45.840 --> 1:27:49.479 motivated find themselves to the ballot box. And then obviously 1:27:49.520 --> 1:27:51.040 we need to make sure that the votes are counted 1:27:51.360 --> 1:27:53.439 and that the election is certified on they. 1:27:53.439 --> 1:27:56.800 They ran outside of an election cycle, because you know, 1:27:57.040 --> 1:27:58.840 some people it's like what the congressional back clock is. 1:27:58.880 --> 1:28:01.559 For example, some people think as a legislative body that's 1:28:01.560 --> 1:28:04.720 there to solve or address issues related to black people, you. 1:28:04.760 --> 1:28:06.280 Know, and it's a bit more complex than that. 1:28:06.600 --> 1:28:08.720 So outside of an election year, what exactly is the 1:28:08.840 --> 1:28:11.960 role of black pack, what's the significance and is there 1:28:12.040 --> 1:28:13.880 a call to action? Is there a way for our 1:28:13.960 --> 1:28:18.160 audience to support uplift get involved in a tangible way. 1:28:18.560 --> 1:28:20.479 Well, So the reality is that there is never outside 1:28:20.479 --> 1:28:23.240 an election cycle, all right, So every year that there is. 1:28:23.200 --> 1:28:24.120 An election, so we talk. 1:28:24.160 --> 1:28:25.919 I mean, this is we get excited about the presidential 1:28:25.960 --> 1:28:28.360 and we should, but there's down ballot races this cycle 1:28:28.400 --> 1:28:30.000 as well, that people need to pay attention to their 1:28:30.040 --> 1:28:33.280 congressional races, their state races. But we know that every 1:28:33.320 --> 1:28:35.200 year is an election, and whether it is your city 1:28:35.240 --> 1:28:38.280 council or is your mayor or is your school board. 1:28:38.240 --> 1:28:39.880 There is something that people should be painted. 1:28:39.920 --> 1:28:43.160 There was someone about to make a decision about your life, 1:28:43.439 --> 1:28:45.920 and so we ask people to stay engaged. We try 1:28:45.920 --> 1:28:47.519 and make sure that people stay engaged in all the 1:28:47.600 --> 1:28:51.200 elections across you know, after the big ones. But we 1:28:51.320 --> 1:28:53.280 also want to make sure that people are engaged in 1:28:53.320 --> 1:28:55.600 the legislative fights, because sometimes we elect our friends to 1:28:55.720 --> 1:28:58.360 office and then we just leave them on their own 1:28:58.880 --> 1:29:02.479 right if we don't stay there to support them and say, well, here, 1:29:02.479 --> 1:29:04.040 we're gonna help you. We're gonna push you when we 1:29:04.120 --> 1:29:06.240 need to push you right, and we're gonna we're gonna 1:29:06.240 --> 1:29:07.599 show up for you when you need us to show 1:29:07.640 --> 1:29:09.200 up for you. So we want to make sure people 1:29:09.200 --> 1:29:10.880 stay in gaged in the legislative advocacy. 1:29:11.280 --> 1:29:11.840 People can suit. 1:29:12.080 --> 1:29:15.479 We are recruiting volunteers right now in a big way obviously, 1:29:15.560 --> 1:29:18.320 for people to do both virtual volunteer work and also 1:29:18.400 --> 1:29:20.400 to do the volunteer work in their local community. 1:29:20.479 --> 1:29:21.439 So if folks want to. 1:29:21.400 --> 1:29:23.800 Get involved, they can go to our website blackpack dot 1:29:23.840 --> 1:29:25.640 com and sign up to volunteers. 1:29:26.880 --> 1:29:29.120 But before you jump off the stage, because I know you, 1:29:29.280 --> 1:29:32.280 they get pulled every direction. You have a unique perspective 1:29:32.320 --> 1:29:34.560 to offer to the listeners, which is you are a 1:29:34.680 --> 1:29:37.519 mayor in the state Liesten where the next Vice President 1:29:37.560 --> 1:29:41.160 of the United States is coming from. As as governor, 1:29:41.760 --> 1:29:44.120 what should we know about Tim Wallas that we don't know. 1:29:44.600 --> 1:29:46.320 First of all, you should know I am the mayor 1:29:46.640 --> 1:29:49.280 of the city that our next vice president lives in. 1:29:50.280 --> 1:29:53.160 Just let's just that's to be well done, That's right. 1:29:53.320 --> 1:29:55.599 So you know, listen to Governor and I've worked really 1:29:55.640 --> 1:29:58.080 closely together over the past four or five years or so. 1:29:58.439 --> 1:30:00.680 You know, it's no secret that Minnesota, as has the 1:30:00.720 --> 1:30:02.280 rest of the world, been through a whole lot. And 1:30:02.400 --> 1:30:05.120 let me tell you, he's just been a consistent person. 1:30:05.720 --> 1:30:07.280 What you see is what you get, whether he's on 1:30:07.320 --> 1:30:09.800 the stage at a rally or whether he's you know, uh, 1:30:10.120 --> 1:30:12.000 you know, in the neighborhood, you know, talking to folks 1:30:12.040 --> 1:30:16.120 on the block. Just an incredible person who has who 1:30:16.160 --> 1:30:19.559 connects with people individually, who does the tough right thing 1:30:19.720 --> 1:30:22.360 when it's time to have a tough conversation. He's somebody 1:30:22.400 --> 1:30:24.880 I believe in wholeheartedly. And I'm excited to see him 1:30:24.880 --> 1:30:25.759 as our vice president. 1:30:25.840 --> 1:30:27.519 I love that. Well, we can't wait to see what 1:30:27.640 --> 1:30:29.080 happens next for you as well, sir. 1:30:30.400 --> 1:30:45.760 Yes, we've been joined finally parents with You're gonna use 1:30:45.840 --> 1:30:50.360 this Mike Terrence Woodberry, who runs Hit Strategies of polling 1:30:50.479 --> 1:30:55.559 firm and his week reference your work constantly on Native 1:30:55.640 --> 1:30:57.519 land pod and the amazing work that you're doing. You're 1:30:57.560 --> 1:31:01.200 also doing polling work for this can pain uh for 1:31:01.479 --> 1:31:04.200 President Alex We call her Kamala Harris. So thank you 1:31:04.320 --> 1:31:07.280 for joining us, and thank you before you we welcome officially. 1:31:07.439 --> 1:31:11.960 Thank you, Adrian, and thank you, mister Mayor. And Adrian's 1:31:12.760 --> 1:31:13.760 I understand with us. 1:31:13.760 --> 1:31:14.400 Mister Mayor. 1:31:14.560 --> 1:31:16.120 I'm trying to find somebody take a picture for me. 1:31:21.560 --> 1:31:23.120 She's gonna get she's gonna do it. 1:31:23.280 --> 1:31:27.200 Okay, okay, But in the meantime, sorry, I'm learning to 1:31:27.400 --> 1:31:30.000 mute these. I didn't want you to hop off, Adrian. 1:31:30.040 --> 1:31:33.040 I actually I was looking most forward to this part 1:31:33.080 --> 1:31:36.320 of the conversation where Terrence is present and you are 1:31:36.920 --> 1:31:40.040 in part because I feel like we got our collective 1:31:40.120 --> 1:31:43.599 start together, you know, like in real life. 1:31:43.680 --> 1:31:48.240 And that's right before Terrence was doing work on Andrew's campaign. 1:31:48.439 --> 1:31:51.040 I really got to know Terrence when he was working 1:31:51.080 --> 1:31:54.160 with Cornell Belcher brilliant corners and we all work together 1:31:54.680 --> 1:31:56.599 with s C. I you doing some of the same 1:31:56.680 --> 1:31:59.120 kind of work, Terrence. Since then, you've done some incredible 1:31:59.160 --> 1:32:01.280 work and even its Adrian, I would love for you 1:32:01.360 --> 1:32:03.840 all to talk about the importance of that work, the 1:32:03.880 --> 1:32:06.479 importance of that synergy, even if y'all ain't contracted right now, 1:32:06.520 --> 1:32:08.760 because you can't you with the official official now he 1:32:08.840 --> 1:32:11.960 big time, Adrian, Hey, big time, Can you talk about 1:32:12.000 --> 1:32:13.519 the importance of laying that groundwork? 1:32:13.760 --> 1:32:14.360 Absolutely? 1:32:14.439 --> 1:32:16.120 Look, men, me and Adrian been on this journey for 1:32:16.160 --> 1:32:16.680 a long time. 1:32:16.760 --> 1:32:17.040 Agrient. 1:32:17.439 --> 1:32:20.639 You remember we were actually focus grouping the name Black 1:32:20.760 --> 1:32:30.360 Black Pack. I think, I think, in fact, we had 1:32:30.520 --> 1:32:32.840 we had I remember one responding a focus group said 1:32:32.880 --> 1:32:34.680 to us when we were talking about putting together a 1:32:34.720 --> 1:32:37.040 black agenda and what it takes to put together a 1:32:37.080 --> 1:32:38.479 black agenda, And I said, well, tell me how you 1:32:38.600 --> 1:32:38.720 like it. 1:32:38.760 --> 1:32:39.920 They said, well, I mean I just. 1:32:39.920 --> 1:32:40.800 Want mind you to all black. 1:32:40.800 --> 1:32:42.400 I like it like my coffee, he said. 1:32:42.479 --> 1:32:44.160 He said, can we just call it the Coffee Party? 1:32:45.000 --> 1:32:47.760 I love that we are, you know, And since then 1:32:47.840 --> 1:32:49.920 we have kept our finger on the pust of black voters. 1:32:49.960 --> 1:32:52.599 You know, we are in We've done over seventy focus 1:32:52.680 --> 1:32:56.240 groups this year. We've we've conducted over two dozen polls. 1:32:56.280 --> 1:32:57.599 And one thing that I was that I was picking 1:32:57.680 --> 1:33:00.080 up early even in the research we were doing with 1:33:00.160 --> 1:33:06.400 Blackpack was the the role that perception of power plays 1:33:06.520 --> 1:33:11.360 in how black voters precede themselves. Look posters often use 1:33:11.400 --> 1:33:14.600 a proxy like motivation or enthusiasm to. 1:33:14.680 --> 1:33:16.120 Determine who's actually going to vote. 1:33:16.200 --> 1:33:16.320 Right. 1:33:16.600 --> 1:33:18.640 Well, one thing we've learned in these focus groups is 1:33:18.680 --> 1:33:22.280 that not all black folks are voting enthusiastically. Right at 1:33:22.320 --> 1:33:24.600 A young man tell me the Philadelphia focus group that 1:33:24.680 --> 1:33:26.120 voting for him is like taking out the trash. 1:33:26.640 --> 1:33:28.000 He won't always want to do it, but if you 1:33:28.000 --> 1:33:28.360 don't do it. 1:33:28.400 --> 1:33:30.720 Then shit starts to stinker out here. Yeah, you know 1:33:30.760 --> 1:33:31.120 what I mean? 1:33:31.280 --> 1:33:31.960 Yeah, you know. 1:33:32.360 --> 1:33:34.600 So that young man, he don't sound that he's going 1:33:34.640 --> 1:33:36.840 to vote enthusiastically, but he gonna take the trashot on 1:33:36.880 --> 1:33:37.439 the election day. 1:33:38.040 --> 1:33:40.080 And so we've been measuring perceptions of power. 1:33:40.160 --> 1:33:40.880 Here's what that looks like. 1:33:40.960 --> 1:33:43.519 We ask this question on every poll that Hit Strategies does, 1:33:43.920 --> 1:33:46.360 regardless of how often you vote, how much power does 1:33:46.400 --> 1:33:48.280 your vote have to make a difference in your community. 1:33:48.720 --> 1:33:51.200 The higher they rate those perceptions of power, the more 1:33:51.320 --> 1:33:52.160 likely they are to vote. 1:33:52.200 --> 1:33:53.479 And what we are seeing right. 1:33:53.400 --> 1:33:56.880 Now in the last four weeks is a level of power, 1:33:57.040 --> 1:33:59.439 of collective power that is. 1:33:59.439 --> 1:34:01.000 Being express as being demonstrated. 1:34:01.120 --> 1:34:03.360 And I do expect that to drive a still election day. 1:34:03.800 --> 1:34:04.240 I love that. 1:34:05.280 --> 1:34:08.439 I'm curious because you know, I on this show often 1:34:08.479 --> 1:34:11.639 say the polls do not matter. I think they matter 1:34:11.720 --> 1:34:14.400 to campaigns. I don't think it's a healthy exercise to 1:34:14.479 --> 1:34:17.439 constantly berate the public with polls. You know it matters 1:34:17.520 --> 1:34:18.360 most as a candidate. 1:34:18.880 --> 1:34:19.000 Uh. 1:34:20.080 --> 1:34:23.360 I also think it's how you interpret the information from 1:34:23.400 --> 1:34:26.200 the polls. What week did you ask this question? What 1:34:26.360 --> 1:34:28.599 was the specific question asked? What did the focus group 1:34:28.680 --> 1:34:31.200 look like? Was there a black person posing these questions 1:34:31.240 --> 1:34:32.080 to a room full of light? 1:34:32.280 --> 1:34:33.439 Very important right there? 1:34:33.560 --> 1:34:38.920 Sometimes are communicating with our communities. Looks very different for 1:34:39.040 --> 1:34:40.479 people who are suspicious about the. 1:34:40.520 --> 1:34:42.879 Polls, who you know, don't believe the polls. 1:34:43.240 --> 1:34:45.840 What would you say to naysayers like me? And I 1:34:45.840 --> 1:34:47.479 would imagine a lot of people out there. 1:34:48.000 --> 1:34:51.040 Look first, I want to I think what Tiffany means 1:34:51.120 --> 1:34:53.040 when she says that polling doesn't matter. 1:34:53.320 --> 1:34:54.479 I think what she's think. 1:34:54.800 --> 1:35:01.400 I don't want to men explain Tiffany at all. I 1:35:01.479 --> 1:35:03.479 think what Tiffany means is that poles can't tell you 1:35:03.479 --> 1:35:04.479 who's going to win today. 1:35:04.880 --> 1:35:05.679 And that is true. 1:35:05.960 --> 1:35:08.559 Polls right now are not predictive of who the winner 1:35:08.600 --> 1:35:10.719 of this is just because someone's up two points today 1:35:10.800 --> 1:35:14.439 or down two points tomorrow. That ain't predict Hello, listen, 1:35:15.439 --> 1:35:17.360 and so and so what we are doing at his 1:35:17.479 --> 1:35:21.000 strategies is, you know, maintaining keeping our finger on the posse, 1:35:21.280 --> 1:35:24.360 following that trend line, understanding what people are hearing, what's 1:35:24.439 --> 1:35:26.920 what's resonating, and what's not. You know, we started hit 1:35:26.960 --> 1:35:30.960 strategies to correct the record on on on what is 1:35:31.040 --> 1:35:34.160 being misrepresented and underrepresenting our polling, and far too often 1:35:34.200 --> 1:35:34.920 that's black folks. 1:35:35.000 --> 1:35:37.720 Yeah, so, can I just jump in. 1:35:38.439 --> 1:35:40.759 I think we should talk about sample sizing these polls, 1:35:40.840 --> 1:35:42.720 right and so I think the party like polls are 1:35:42.720 --> 1:35:45.840 instructive right there. They help us understand what we need 1:35:45.920 --> 1:35:47.640 to do. They point out the problems that we have 1:35:47.920 --> 1:35:50.320 and how we can address them. But we know that 1:35:50.439 --> 1:35:52.920 some of the larger poles just have sall sample sizes 1:35:53.000 --> 1:35:56.120 of black voters, right and then and then draw conclusions 1:35:56.600 --> 1:35:59.719 about what broadly black voters think from a really tiny 1:36:00.080 --> 1:36:02.200 set of folks. And I think that that's part of 1:36:02.240 --> 1:36:03.640 the things that one of the things that people need 1:36:03.720 --> 1:36:06.960 to understand is that we should polls are interesting. No 1:36:07.040 --> 1:36:09.000 one should be following the polls like they're being asked 1:36:09.040 --> 1:36:11.320 to follow the polls right now is actually they're actually 1:36:11.360 --> 1:36:11.880 not helpful. 1:36:11.960 --> 1:36:12.320 That's right. 1:36:12.520 --> 1:36:13.840 Well, I do want to tell you one thing that 1:36:13.840 --> 1:36:15.519 we're seeing in the polls right now, because you know, 1:36:16.439 --> 1:36:18.680 regardless of the sample size, there are some trends that 1:36:18.720 --> 1:36:20.840 are undeniable right and what we have seen in the 1:36:20.920 --> 1:36:23.880 last four weeks is the ability of Kamala Harris to 1:36:24.000 --> 1:36:29.080 consolidate the Democratic coalition more quickly than I ever imagined possible. 1:36:29.560 --> 1:36:32.559 She's doing twelve points better with women voters, fifteen points 1:36:32.600 --> 1:36:35.720 better with young voters, and twenty two points better with 1:36:35.840 --> 1:36:36.479 the black voters. 1:36:36.520 --> 1:36:37.599 Twenty two points. 1:36:37.680 --> 1:36:38.719 Wow, in four weeks. 1:36:38.960 --> 1:36:40.640 We still have work to do. I'm not ready to 1:36:40.680 --> 1:36:43.960 call her president elect yet because we got work to do. 1:36:46.040 --> 1:36:48.479 We have work to do, but we are The trend 1:36:48.520 --> 1:36:49.760 line is going in the right way, and a lot 1:36:49.800 --> 1:36:52.040 of that is being powered by black voters can work. 1:36:52.439 --> 1:36:56.560 One of our favorite political worker bees public Servants extraordinariy 1:36:56.640 --> 1:36:59.840 the only elected official to ever submit a comment. 1:36:59.560 --> 1:36:59.880 To Nate. 1:37:02.200 --> 1:37:05.679 Governor Girl Gil Chris, our good friend from Michigan. 1:37:06.680 --> 1:37:08.479 How you doing, brothers, well, y'all. 1:37:08.439 --> 1:37:10.519 Happy to be here with you. Is such an honor 1:37:10.560 --> 1:37:12.960 and a privilege. And now I was on my phone 1:37:13.439 --> 1:37:15.840 talking to y'all and now we're here to DNC. Talking 1:37:15.840 --> 1:37:17.280 to y'all is great, we. 1:37:18.040 --> 1:37:18.720 Phone, now we're here. 1:37:19.160 --> 1:37:21.800 Yes, we're so thankful because Angela, we didn't know that 1:37:21.920 --> 1:37:23.280 you were going to come on. And angel said, I 1:37:23.280 --> 1:37:26.160 have a surprise, a surprise guest coming on. 1:37:26.320 --> 1:37:27.920 And we saw you. We were thrilled to have you. 1:37:28.320 --> 1:37:29.360 This is so exciting. 1:37:30.120 --> 1:37:33.639 I want to ask because I remember when Big Gretch 1:37:33.720 --> 1:37:36.400 as we call her affectionately, who I believe we will 1:37:36.479 --> 1:37:41.799 see tomorrow. I'm so Governor Gretchen Whitmer out of Michigan 1:37:42.000 --> 1:37:45.479 will be joining us tomorrow. But I remember covering your 1:37:45.520 --> 1:37:49.080 campaign from a distance, seeing the the You're the first 1:37:49.280 --> 1:37:53.800 black lieutenant governor. Yes, so all these historic candidates who 1:37:53.840 --> 1:37:56.599 have ascended to power at this time, and we've been 1:37:56.640 --> 1:38:01.280 consistently asking people, As another historic candidate, what does this 1:38:01.439 --> 1:38:05.280 moment mean to you? To be serving in government when 1:38:05.360 --> 1:38:08.559 the country is poised to be led by a black. 1:38:08.360 --> 1:38:11.880 Woman, It is incredibly inspiring. Look, Kamala Harris, she has 1:38:12.000 --> 1:38:15.240 made history in every single victory that she has and 1:38:15.320 --> 1:38:17.840 I think what that's a demonstration of is She's never 1:38:17.960 --> 1:38:20.200 won alone. She has always thought about how to create 1:38:20.280 --> 1:38:22.519 more space and opportunity to kick these doors down so 1:38:22.640 --> 1:38:24.680 more of us can walk through them, and all of 1:38:24.800 --> 1:38:26.920 us who are intellected service we should have that same 1:38:27.000 --> 1:38:29.479 kind of energy. And so for me, I don't want 1:38:29.560 --> 1:38:32.720 to be amazing. I don't want to be singular. I 1:38:32.840 --> 1:38:35.280 want to be the door opener. I want to be 1:38:35.400 --> 1:38:39.120 the person who inspires the next person to go even farther, 1:38:39.439 --> 1:38:42.320 who's even hungrier and more ambitious, like tupac'saire. Right, you 1:38:42.360 --> 1:38:43.640 ain't got to be scared about me. You got to 1:38:43.640 --> 1:38:44.800 worry about the one coming after me. 1:38:44.920 --> 1:38:45.000 Right. 1:38:45.200 --> 1:38:47.280 They not gonna take no, They're not gonna ask no questions. 1:38:47.360 --> 1:38:47.680 Yeah right. 1:38:47.920 --> 1:38:49.400 I think the same kind of thing needs to be 1:38:49.880 --> 1:38:52.559 the kind of just spirit that we bring to the service, 1:38:52.640 --> 1:38:55.160 that you know, we can make things happen. That when 1:38:55.200 --> 1:38:58.480 we organize and we work together, we can bring everybody 1:38:58.840 --> 1:39:02.080 into the conversation, everybody to the table, everybody to the room, 1:39:02.479 --> 1:39:04.560 And when we include more people in decision making, we 1:39:04.600 --> 1:39:05.280 make better choices. 1:39:05.400 --> 1:39:08.200 I love that, Lieutenant Governor, when you are you know, 1:39:08.280 --> 1:39:10.880 we all heard early on in y'all's administration, the whole 1:39:11.120 --> 1:39:15.920 plot to you know, guess kidnap the governor and all 1:39:15.960 --> 1:39:19.280 this kind of insane stuff that's happening in the state 1:39:19.400 --> 1:39:22.599 of Michigan. I'm curious to know, as a brother, as 1:39:22.680 --> 1:39:26.040 you go out to various parts of the state, I'm 1:39:26.080 --> 1:39:28.720 assuming showing up in places where you're not expected, but 1:39:28.880 --> 1:39:31.320 you remind them that you're the governor for the entire state, 1:39:31.840 --> 1:39:34.360 not just for a portion of the state. How are 1:39:34.439 --> 1:39:37.880 you received. How do you find yourself being able to 1:39:37.920 --> 1:39:41.600 talk to folks who not are just ideologically different, but 1:39:42.800 --> 1:39:47.760 as people may reject your very being. Yeah, what does 1:39:47.800 --> 1:39:49.360 that feel like? What is that like? And how do 1:39:49.479 --> 1:39:52.400 you if it's possible to bridge, how do you go 1:39:52.439 --> 1:39:53.040 about bridging? 1:39:53.320 --> 1:39:57.040 So Yeah, unfortunately I have experienced the same level of 1:39:57.120 --> 1:40:00.439 death threat to me to my family. Look, we had 1:40:00.479 --> 1:40:04.439 the pregame for January sixth, on April thirtieth of twenty 1:40:04.560 --> 1:40:07.519 twenty in the state of Michigan. In the weeks after that, 1:40:07.960 --> 1:40:11.040 there were men with long guns that line the sidewalks 1:40:11.080 --> 1:40:12.479 that walked up to the Capitol or I had to 1:40:12.520 --> 1:40:14.840 go to preside over the state Senate. I'm walking through 1:40:14.840 --> 1:40:16.240 there like it's a start and lineup. You know what 1:40:16.280 --> 1:40:17.840 I'm saying at a basketball game, we walked through and 1:40:17.840 --> 1:40:20.240 everybody's on the side. So unfortunate left had to deal 1:40:20.280 --> 1:40:22.640 with that suspicious packages under my vehicles, these content things 1:40:22.680 --> 1:40:24.320 that that mail are sent to my home, my parents 1:40:24.400 --> 1:40:27.360 home being swatted last week, like these kinds of things happened. 1:40:27.400 --> 1:40:30.760 But to answer your question, Andrew, when I go to 1:40:30.880 --> 1:40:33.320 places like Escanaba, Michigan, which is in the western part 1:40:33.320 --> 1:40:35.280 of the Upper Peninsula Michigan, I was there this past 1:40:35.360 --> 1:40:38.040 Thursday for the up State Fair to talk to farmers 1:40:38.120 --> 1:40:40.840 about why they need to have access to a dream 1:40:40.880 --> 1:40:42.599 of health and wealth, just like everybody else in Michigan 1:40:42.640 --> 1:40:45.120 needs to have access to that dream. They say thank 1:40:45.160 --> 1:40:47.160 you because they don't expect a six eight dark skinned 1:40:47.200 --> 1:40:49.960 brother from Detroit to be up there asking them questions. 1:40:49.680 --> 1:40:52.680 About rabbits du rights. 1:40:53.800 --> 1:40:55.600 But I also go to the ur Peninsula more than 1:40:55.640 --> 1:40:57.960 any state elected officials going through their peninsula in twenty years, 1:40:57.960 --> 1:40:59.599 and moved there four times a year for multiple days. 1:40:59.600 --> 1:41:02.439 That's because because I think all of us need to 1:41:02.600 --> 1:41:04.519 understand that we are all in this together. I think 1:41:04.560 --> 1:41:07.320 that's the biggest difference frankly between us and our opponents 1:41:07.360 --> 1:41:09.680 that their vision for the future is so small that 1:41:09.800 --> 1:41:11.880 it can't include all of us. It can't include black folks, 1:41:11.880 --> 1:41:13.800 it can't include women, it can't include young people, it 1:41:13.840 --> 1:41:16.400 can't in clue elders, it can't include the lgbt Q 1:41:16.479 --> 1:41:19.800 plus community. And so by showing up, you show people 1:41:19.880 --> 1:41:22.479 that you respect them enough to serve them. And I 1:41:22.560 --> 1:41:23.000 think you got to. 1:41:22.960 --> 1:41:23.760 Respect people to serve them. 1:41:23.880 --> 1:41:24.000 Well. 1:41:24.040 --> 1:41:25.840 People are I just want to say, people are shouting 1:41:25.880 --> 1:41:27.400 you out, all the people joining us, thank you all 1:41:27.439 --> 1:41:31.799 for watching at home. That they're saying they love Garland Gilchrist, 1:41:31.800 --> 1:41:34.200 but they're saying he might be in Michigan, but he 1:41:34.320 --> 1:41:36.040 has Bullet County, Alabama roots. 1:41:42.479 --> 1:41:45.240 Yeah, my mother's people are from Union Springs, Alabama. I 1:41:45.320 --> 1:41:47.360 spend about a month every summer as a kid playing 1:41:47.360 --> 1:41:48.959 in the red dirt down there in Alabama. 1:41:49.400 --> 1:41:50.679 And that's all good. 1:41:50.840 --> 1:41:51.400 That's all good. 1:41:52.439 --> 1:41:53.599 Are YouTube soda? 1:41:56.160 --> 1:41:56.880 I love it well. 1:41:56.920 --> 1:41:59.800 We are so grateful to all of you, like not 1:42:00.080 --> 1:42:02.360 just we started the show with Natasha Brown talking about 1:42:02.400 --> 1:42:05.719 building black power. It is so poetic and so necessary 1:42:05.800 --> 1:42:07.800 and divine that we're talking about that at the At 1:42:07.840 --> 1:42:11.240 the close of our show, Adrian Shropshire with Black Pack 1:42:11.400 --> 1:42:14.679 y'all is it black Pats dot Com, Lieutenant Governor Garland 1:42:14.680 --> 1:42:20.120 Gil Chris and our friends Terrence Woodbury from the whole 1:42:20.320 --> 1:42:24.920 God's right every time, the coffee party, the black party, 1:42:25.040 --> 1:42:25.719 all the things. 1:42:25.800 --> 1:42:26.240 We love it. 1:42:26.360 --> 1:42:28.560 But yes, we appreciate y'all. Thank you so much. We 1:42:28.600 --> 1:42:31.599 can't wait to celebrate with y'all this week so much 1:42:33.000 --> 1:42:35.200 history makers. Welcome home. 1:42:39.680 --> 1:42:40.120 You guys. 1:42:40.280 --> 1:42:41.160 Indeed, we'll see you. 1:42:49.000 --> 1:42:49.200 Man. 1:42:49.360 --> 1:42:53.479 I gotta tell y'all, Angela Tiff, what a incredible set 1:42:53.520 --> 1:42:55.200 of guests here. 1:42:55.360 --> 1:42:56.880 I feel like I can't. 1:42:58.760 --> 1:42:59.640 I'm going to come out. 1:43:00.240 --> 1:43:05.160 You want me to, We got you, We got a text. 1:43:05.200 --> 1:43:08.880 I gotta see you man. All right, this brother impressive. 1:43:09.080 --> 1:43:11.080 I just got to say, this is my my, my, 1:43:12.040 --> 1:43:16.200 my first time hearing tenant governor in long form. 1:43:18.720 --> 1:43:26.960 Taking Why didn't sound like we were saying about the 1:43:27.080 --> 1:43:29.559 same Damn you don't want to Yeah, you. 1:43:30.280 --> 1:43:30.920 Make my comment. 1:43:32.560 --> 1:43:37.040 Got sit down somewhere, covered by the table. You'll be 1:43:37.120 --> 1:43:39.160 covered by the table. But this was my first time 1:43:40.000 --> 1:43:40.639 split y'all. 1:43:40.760 --> 1:43:46.400 Yeah, she don't want to show everybody everything. But but 1:43:46.520 --> 1:43:48.360 in real time, y'all, this is my first time with 1:43:50.680 --> 1:43:54.280 Lieutenant Governor Gil Chris hearing him in long form interview 1:43:54.479 --> 1:43:58.640 in impressive rock with heavy impressive brother. Yeah, and I 1:43:58.840 --> 1:44:01.240 just can't wait to see with the future holes because 1:44:01.760 --> 1:44:04.960 you know, big Wretch is she bad? And I see 1:44:05.160 --> 1:44:07.920 that there may be some political wins that may shift. Yeah, 1:44:08.600 --> 1:44:10.880 because we need our best talent on the field, from 1:44:10.920 --> 1:44:13.880 the cabinet to governors to who's in the Senate, in 1:44:14.000 --> 1:44:17.840 the House, and I will predict all of us will 1:44:17.880 --> 1:44:20.679 need to keep our eyes out on the lieutenant governor 1:44:20.720 --> 1:44:21.000 to see what. 1:44:21.120 --> 1:44:23.519 I'm so happy you asked them about the kidnapping plot. 1:44:23.800 --> 1:44:27.200 I do want to say we're speaking before we hear 1:44:27.280 --> 1:44:34.680 from the Obama's. I don't believe Michelle right later. It's 1:44:35.000 --> 1:44:37.080 because some of you all may be watching this tomorrow, 1:44:38.040 --> 1:44:40.800 So forgive us if you're watching this tomorrow. But what 1:44:41.000 --> 1:44:44.400 do you guys, what significance do the Obamas still play 1:44:44.560 --> 1:44:46.679 on a national political stage at this point? 1:44:47.960 --> 1:44:51.320 You ruffle some feathers, which a comment. I did ruffle 1:44:51.360 --> 1:44:52.720 some feathers, and I don't regret it. 1:44:52.880 --> 1:44:57.320 I think you know, tonight is a remarkable opportunity as 1:44:57.400 --> 1:45:01.479 we are in Chicago, which is is where Michelle Obama 1:45:01.520 --> 1:45:04.960 and Barack Obama have long made their home. This is 1:45:05.000 --> 1:45:07.960 where history is made for him, and I think today 1:45:08.120 --> 1:45:11.840 could be a turning point that I would have liked 1:45:11.880 --> 1:45:14.719 to see a lot sooner, but I would I cannot 1:45:14.800 --> 1:45:16.439 wait for Michelle Obama's speech. 1:45:16.520 --> 1:45:19.760 I cannot wait for Barack Obama's speech, because. 1:45:19.439 --> 1:45:23.000 What I do know is they have the power of 1:45:23.120 --> 1:45:25.760 the spoken and written word on their side, and they 1:45:25.880 --> 1:45:29.519 have the opportunity to pass, to continue passing the torch. 1:45:29.680 --> 1:45:32.759 Right we know last night on the floor, Joe Biden 1:45:32.840 --> 1:45:36.320 didn't really use opportunity to pass the torch to Kamala 1:45:36.360 --> 1:45:38.120 Harrison in the way that I thought. I felt like 1:45:38.240 --> 1:45:40.720 last night's no. I was surprised I didn't get to 1:45:40.720 --> 1:45:42.760 say this y'all earlier because we had to run. But 1:45:42.880 --> 1:45:46.439 I actually thought that last night was a State of 1:45:46.479 --> 1:45:48.240 the Union part too, like y'all will kick me off 1:45:48.280 --> 1:45:50.080 the valley, y'all will catch all these accomplishments. 1:45:50.479 --> 1:45:54.040 Now, he did a great job. I was gonna say 1:45:54.320 --> 1:45:56.759 he did a great job, so say. 1:45:58.920 --> 1:46:01.599 You always are child, But I was going to say, 1:46:02.080 --> 1:46:04.760 you know, to me, he did a great job of 1:46:04.880 --> 1:46:06.760 saying And when they said thank you, Joe, he was like, 1:46:06.800 --> 1:46:07.720 and thank Kamala too. 1:46:08.280 --> 1:46:11.760 But I'm just talking about the expectation I had was. 1:46:11.800 --> 1:46:14.320 That he was going to tell them everything he knew 1:46:14.320 --> 1:46:16.439 about Kamala Harris. He was going to tell them about 1:46:16.479 --> 1:46:18.879 all the things that was in her portfolio where she shined, 1:46:19.120 --> 1:46:20.920 and focus on those accomplishments. 1:46:21.479 --> 1:46:23.479 I'm not faulting him. I understand why he did what 1:46:23.560 --> 1:46:23.880 he did. 1:46:24.360 --> 1:46:28.880 But tonight, Barack Obama, after being our actual first black 1:46:28.920 --> 1:46:31.920 president of the United States, has the opportunity to show 1:46:32.360 --> 1:46:36.040 Kamala Harris and her support base what it takes and 1:46:36.280 --> 1:46:38.880 why he will be someone who should roll up his 1:46:39.000 --> 1:46:41.479 sleeves and get his ass do really like I said, 1:46:41.560 --> 1:46:43.200 and this could be the first one. I want this 1:46:43.320 --> 1:46:45.080 to be the test case. And for him to show me. 1:46:45.439 --> 1:46:47.879 Proved to me all was wrong. Barack Obama proved. 1:46:47.680 --> 1:46:50.200 To me that that call add that y'all did was 1:46:50.320 --> 1:46:52.760 you know, just because the schedule didn't work, proved to 1:46:52.840 --> 1:46:54.960 me to not friend after fifty years. 1:46:54.720 --> 1:46:57.160 In service and government. I do think that President Biden 1:46:57.240 --> 1:46:59.320 earned his time to say this is what I've done. 1:46:59.360 --> 1:47:02.080 I think his time like I don't think it was 1:47:02.160 --> 1:47:04.280 his job in that moment to talk about her. I 1:47:04.320 --> 1:47:06.519 think other people have been doing that in their speeches. 1:47:06.560 --> 1:47:08.120 I think she will have to do that and make 1:47:08.120 --> 1:47:10.000 her case for the American people. And I would love 1:47:10.040 --> 1:47:12.360 to hear from her to talk about, you know, her 1:47:12.439 --> 1:47:15.760 accomplishments and you know, let the American people know what 1:47:15.880 --> 1:47:18.920 she's done. I'm also curious because I'm like you, Angel, 1:47:18.960 --> 1:47:21.639 I want to hear from forever flowus Michelle Obama. 1:47:23.320 --> 1:47:24.719 For it was it four years ago. 1:47:24.720 --> 1:47:27.000 When she told us when they go that may have 1:47:27.040 --> 1:47:31.120 been longer, twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, when they go low, 1:47:31.240 --> 1:47:34.000 we go high. And I do wonder eight years later, 1:47:34.560 --> 1:47:36.280 where she stands on that message. 1:47:36.520 --> 1:47:38.760 Yes, I don't think she'll reform it tonight, but. 1:47:39.280 --> 1:47:44.280 I would be mad if she didn't war with black women. 1:47:44.439 --> 1:47:47.400 And you know, my warning call and battle cry to 1:47:47.439 --> 1:47:49.080 my sisters is you do not ever want to be 1:47:49.200 --> 1:47:51.920 on the wrong side of black women. And I think 1:47:52.000 --> 1:47:56.320 people look to her specifically for messaging sometimes more often 1:47:56.320 --> 1:47:56.519 than not. 1:47:56.600 --> 1:47:58.720 We wanted to hear from her before we did. 1:48:00.479 --> 1:48:02.479 I do, and I'll tell you why because I think 1:48:02.560 --> 1:48:05.679 one I think she comes off as one thousand percent 1:48:05.840 --> 1:48:08.920 sincere in every word that crosses her lips, whether it's 1:48:09.000 --> 1:48:11.680 true or not, it's the feeling that I get the 1:48:11.760 --> 1:48:14.280 other thing from the video that they did. The endorsement video, 1:48:14.680 --> 1:48:16.479 she said, I just got to say to my sister, 1:48:16.800 --> 1:48:20.120 which was Coke, Yes, we know that, we understood, we 1:48:20.200 --> 1:48:24.040 need to pivot. In the conversation that took place, She's like, girl, 1:48:24.520 --> 1:48:27.160 if I could tell you direct, I'm proud of you. 1:48:27.840 --> 1:48:30.720 I think she's going to bring that level. I think 1:48:30.760 --> 1:48:33.040 she's going to bring that level of lived experience of 1:48:33.080 --> 1:48:37.200 what it means to be an accomplished lawyer black woman 1:48:37.640 --> 1:48:40.960 who's just at the top of your game, almost seemingly 1:48:41.040 --> 1:48:44.040 without even trying, right, But I know it is with 1:48:44.160 --> 1:48:45.720 a lot of effort, a lot of work, a lot 1:48:45.760 --> 1:48:46.320 of preparation. 1:48:46.439 --> 1:48:46.519 Right. 1:48:46.560 --> 1:48:49.000 I don't want to dismiss what it requires to be 1:48:49.160 --> 1:48:51.760 at the level that they are at, but there is 1:48:51.920 --> 1:48:54.040 so much more that they share in common than what 1:48:54.640 --> 1:48:57.920 I think devised their experience. And I think that's what 1:48:58.040 --> 1:49:01.639 we're going to see a full thought lay into, which 1:49:01.760 --> 1:49:04.439 is every word I think is going to be buttressed 1:49:04.479 --> 1:49:07.880 and supported by that shared experience from women who grew 1:49:07.920 --> 1:49:12.040 up on different sides of the country, who different you know, parents, 1:49:12.080 --> 1:49:15.920 different upbring different background, but as professional Black women in America, 1:49:16.760 --> 1:49:19.360 what it has meant to be to get to the 1:49:19.479 --> 1:49:22.760 top of your game when everybody is calling for you. 1:49:23.120 --> 1:49:23.320 You know. 1:49:23.640 --> 1:49:25.040 The other thing is tonight. 1:49:25.160 --> 1:49:27.679 We talked about the Obama speaking tonight, but there's also 1:49:27.800 --> 1:49:31.080 another really important speech, and I think the one it 1:49:31.160 --> 1:49:32.680 adds to the point you were making that there are 1:49:32.720 --> 1:49:35.080 other folks who also need to make the case. 1:49:34.960 --> 1:49:35.679 For Kamala Harris. 1:49:35.880 --> 1:49:39.919 There's one particular person who has been a powerful surrogate 1:49:40.000 --> 1:49:44.519 for her, who has corrected people on the pronunciation of 1:49:44.600 --> 1:49:47.160 her name, and he reminded the American people that if 1:49:47.200 --> 1:49:49.560 you can't pronounce it, don't worry because after November you 1:49:49.640 --> 1:49:51.120 can call her mad and Vice President. 1:49:51.240 --> 1:49:54.000 That I mean Madam president. She's mad and vice president now. 1:49:54.360 --> 1:49:56.479 But the person who said you can just call her 1:49:56.520 --> 1:49:58.920 Madam president is none other than her husband, Doug im 1:49:58.960 --> 1:50:00.840 Hoffin will also be in the stage tonight. 1:50:01.120 --> 1:50:02.560 I don't think we've heard enough from him, right. I 1:50:02.640 --> 1:50:08.679 think people still they by her side. But the man's 1:50:08.680 --> 1:50:10.280 got his own lived experience. 1:50:10.360 --> 1:50:14.720 It's powerful of himself, a wonderful, brilliant political strategy, is 1:50:14.800 --> 1:50:17.280 a brilliant lawyer. I think that he is going to 1:50:17.320 --> 1:50:19.439 be powerful tonight, and I think he might end up 1:50:19.439 --> 1:50:21.680 being a secret weapon in somebody that people slept on. 1:50:21.760 --> 1:50:24.800 I really do to ask you, guys. I want to 1:50:24.880 --> 1:50:27.240 point out that Ken Chanel is speaking right now, and 1:50:28.080 --> 1:50:28.439 I think. 1:50:28.360 --> 1:50:30.680 The former CEO of an American restaurant of the few 1:50:30.720 --> 1:50:32.800 black ones we had a full fortune five vener company, 1:50:33.200 --> 1:50:34.240 and I I don't quite know. 1:50:34.280 --> 1:50:36.840 Why he's speaking. I can't. 1:50:36.840 --> 1:50:38.400 We can't hear him. We can only see him on screen. 1:50:38.439 --> 1:50:40.120 But you and I talked about the fact that he 1:50:40.160 --> 1:50:42.519 would be taking the podium tonight. So but my point 1:50:42.600 --> 1:50:45.720 in saying that is you can catch him later in 1:50:45.800 --> 1:50:47.920 the clips because right now we're speaking, and to stay 1:50:47.960 --> 1:50:54.240 tuned to Native Land Pod Major Yet no disrespect to 1:50:54.880 --> 1:50:58.120 Ken Chanelt, but you were you were making a point 1:50:59.080 --> 1:51:00.120 about Doug m. 1:51:00.200 --> 1:51:02.080 Hoff. And I want to ask you, guys, do you 1:51:02.240 --> 1:51:03.160 think that. 1:51:05.120 --> 1:51:09.599 Black men can receive Doug im Hoff because the first 1:51:09.640 --> 1:51:15.160 time Vice President Senator Harris ran there were people anyway. 1:51:15.800 --> 1:51:19.400 Even if even if they don't, even if they don't, 1:51:21.920 --> 1:51:25.439 I believe that black men receive her. I am you know, 1:51:25.640 --> 1:51:30.600 sometimes y'all, y'all, we're gonna be here nothing. 1:51:31.880 --> 1:51:32.160 Move on. 1:51:32.920 --> 1:51:35.040 What I'm saying is talk about. 1:51:37.640 --> 1:51:38.000 Believe. 1:51:39.040 --> 1:51:46.280 I'm sorry, we cannot we can. Can I just ask 1:51:46.320 --> 1:51:46.839 the audience. 1:51:47.479 --> 1:51:54.800 Can we evolve? Do we we can't evolve? I mean, 1:51:54.880 --> 1:51:58.880 I forgive people from the standpoint of Andrew. 1:51:58.680 --> 1:51:59.679 Is still trying to make them. 1:52:02.240 --> 1:52:02.439 Point. 1:52:03.280 --> 1:52:07.160 I want to I want to come back, brother. 1:52:07.280 --> 1:52:09.200 I love you, but just know that this is paid 1:52:09.240 --> 1:52:11.840 up pay back from that Fox News interview, that thank 1:52:11.920 --> 1:52:16.679 you moment, Andrew. I just want to say, I'm sorry. 1:52:16.840 --> 1:52:19.799 I forgive people, and I can love you from a distance, 1:52:19.920 --> 1:52:22.720 and you're welcome to vote on this ticket. But one 1:52:22.760 --> 1:52:24.599 thing I will never forget is when I was at 1:52:24.640 --> 1:52:27.320 the National Action Network conference and her ass got up 1:52:27.360 --> 1:52:30.200 there and said that at the name of Donald Trump, 1:52:30.240 --> 1:52:33.200 every niche a bell. So I'm glad that somebody gave 1:52:33.240 --> 1:52:37.000 Omarosa a credential to come to this conference, to this convention, 1:52:37.439 --> 1:52:39.639 and for her to be taking pictures of the podcast. 1:52:39.920 --> 1:52:42.639 And I hope that she's I hope that she live 1:52:42.680 --> 1:52:46.200 streaming so she can hear this. Shout out girl, post 1:52:46.280 --> 1:52:49.200 a picture and see the comments. Because I will never 1:52:49.320 --> 1:52:52.160 forget you're doing that. Andrew was making a great point 1:52:52.200 --> 1:52:53.440 about the importance. 1:52:53.040 --> 1:52:55.720 Of no. 1:53:00.439 --> 1:53:01.200 I know, but I don't know. 1:53:02.000 --> 1:53:03.680 Here seven minutes. 1:53:05.880 --> 1:53:07.040 Over time, because we want to hear you. 1:53:07.520 --> 1:53:10.080 We're not going over to this simple You said whether 1:53:10.160 --> 1:53:12.280 or not black man can receive him in this way, 1:53:12.680 --> 1:53:14.720 And my point was, it doesn't matter if we do 1:53:14.840 --> 1:53:17.160 or don't we receive her. And I think that it 1:53:17.320 --> 1:53:21.280 is enough to be for her that we will show up, 1:53:21.479 --> 1:53:24.360 show out, vote, and see her elevated to the presidency. 1:53:24.520 --> 1:53:28.240 I don't think it's a petty negro somewhere who may 1:53:28.560 --> 1:53:32.760 harbor whatever resentment may exist as a relationship. What you 1:53:32.800 --> 1:53:36.800 know what I think, y'all? Are I think us this woman? 1:53:37.000 --> 1:53:38.360 I think you might. You might. 1:53:41.479 --> 1:53:41.919 Anybody. 1:53:42.160 --> 1:53:46.000 Don't keep your I don't know anybody will take much 1:53:46.080 --> 1:53:47.800 attention from y'all. Y'all have your. 1:53:50.120 --> 1:53:51.400 Taking pictures. It was weird. 1:53:52.040 --> 1:53:59.120 She could be a fan of the show, ain't the one? 1:53:59.400 --> 1:53:59.560 You know what? 1:53:59.680 --> 1:54:03.400 Y'all? We wanted to be with you and say one 1:54:03.479 --> 1:54:04.679 thing that you to your point. 1:54:05.880 --> 1:54:06.720 Wait, no, no, no. 1:54:08.560 --> 1:54:10.320 Point. I was gonna make so last night Steve Kerr 1:54:10.439 --> 1:54:12.320 was on the stage. No no, no, no, no, no, 1:54:12.360 --> 1:54:18.519 no noall. Coach Yes played with Michael Jordans for the Bulls. Okay, okay, 1:54:19.400 --> 1:54:21.960 which when which coach? Which team does he coach? Now 1:54:22.680 --> 1:54:26.479 he's he coaches for the NBA team. This one the 1:54:28.160 --> 1:54:30.760 Yes exactly which one is that is that the Golden State. 1:54:32.160 --> 1:54:35.720 So he won the championship. That's true. To point. Okay, 1:54:36.000 --> 1:54:41.880 so we know that because I want to save the 1:54:41.960 --> 1:54:45.000 last day anyway to point here, my coach, Okay, the 1:54:45.080 --> 1:54:48.200 point is this, you guys. Last night, during his speech, Andrew, 1:54:48.280 --> 1:54:49.040 this is important. 1:54:49.520 --> 1:54:53.320 During his speech, he did this to Donald Trump, which 1:54:53.440 --> 1:54:55.840 is what Steph Curry does when he hits them three. 1:54:56.280 --> 1:54:57.640 You should notice, Tiff, you're watching them. 1:54:58.600 --> 1:54:59.040 But I just like. 1:55:00.920 --> 1:55:02.600 That means like good night night. He said, Donald Trump, 1:55:02.600 --> 1:55:05.080 go go go night night in November. Right, So here's 1:55:05.920 --> 1:55:08.320 yes on this during his speech last night. Here's the point. 1:55:09.120 --> 1:55:11.400 Here's the point. I think black men. 1:55:12.000 --> 1:55:17.480 Who have the ability to be persuaded by white men 1:55:17.960 --> 1:55:20.640 who have done powerful things and have been good allies 1:55:20.680 --> 1:55:23.400 in black spaces will receive Doug im Hoff just like 1:55:23.480 --> 1:55:26.120 they received received Steve Kerr. Steve Kerr has been a 1:55:26.360 --> 1:55:29.440 fantastic ally. He stood with us on black issues. He 1:55:29.480 --> 1:55:32.360 stood with the team during the the. 1:55:32.520 --> 1:55:34.640 Unrest surrounding George Floyd, and been a. 1:55:34.960 --> 1:55:37.280 Fierce fighter by Jamie We love you, Gotta see Jamie 1:55:37.280 --> 1:55:41.240 Harrison tomorrow. He's been a fierce protector of black rights. 1:55:41.640 --> 1:55:44.000 And racial justice in this in these really treacherous times. 1:55:44.000 --> 1:55:45.640 So yes, I think Doug im Hoff will be received 1:55:45.680 --> 1:55:47.120 like all right. 1:55:47.320 --> 1:55:49.760 Yeah, I mean, I don't think there's anything that can stop. 1:55:50.560 --> 1:55:51.400 I don't think it's. 1:55:53.080 --> 1:55:55.240 This hands I know, but I don't know. 1:55:55.920 --> 1:55:59.720 I just need to wipe it off. My apologize for 1:56:00.040 --> 1:56:01.040 and you made a few minutes ago. 1:56:03.800 --> 1:56:07.000 I was trying to make the point, make. 1:56:08.720 --> 1:56:12.240 You're a lyingt okay right out the word tell. 1:56:12.200 --> 1:56:16.400 Us there, tell us that you got four minutes to 1:56:16.440 --> 1:56:17.800 make there, that's it. 1:56:18.040 --> 1:56:20.080 Why when you are a lying Okay? 1:56:21.000 --> 1:56:21.240 Okay? 1:56:21.320 --> 1:56:23.240 Can I ask you a question? What was your highlight 1:56:23.400 --> 1:56:25.800 from the podcast today? We have so many great guests, 1:56:25.840 --> 1:56:30.640 so many amazing conversations. Speaker, Yeah, I love collaborate on that, 1:56:30.760 --> 1:56:31.200 or well. 1:56:31.160 --> 1:56:33.720 Yeah, I just want to say I'm I'm so excited. 1:56:33.800 --> 1:56:37.280 I'm a legislative I really do. Yeah, I'm a lover 1:56:37.360 --> 1:56:39.200 of the house in the sense that I think it's 1:56:39.560 --> 1:56:42.920 it is part of the greatest deliberative body country. At 1:56:42.960 --> 1:56:45.440 least it once was. Now it is. Lot y'all is 1:56:45.480 --> 1:56:48.560 writing confetti on us. I think they're trying to this. 1:56:48.600 --> 1:56:50.440 Is what happens when people piss on us and tell 1:56:50.560 --> 1:56:52.960 us to bring us back full circle. 1:56:52.720 --> 1:56:57.960 Today that the power of the speaker, Yes, what this 1:56:58.160 --> 1:57:01.800 man well encompass in his being and is all the 1:57:01.880 --> 1:57:05.720 way clear about the fact that he is in service. Yeah, 1:57:06.480 --> 1:57:10.200 I love it. It's beautiful. It's not ego, not tripping. 1:57:10.720 --> 1:57:12.800 He knows that he is there. He could not hold 1:57:12.840 --> 1:57:14.800 the Democratic call because the way that he has these 1:57:14.880 --> 1:57:19.200 last two years without being acutely aware that he is 1:57:19.320 --> 1:57:22.200 in service in that position to others. And I love 1:57:22.240 --> 1:57:24.800 the fact that the ego, if it exists, it comes 1:57:24.840 --> 1:57:29.680 out at the right times as a tool and not 1:57:30.000 --> 1:57:33.480 to make him a tool. He uses it as a tool. 1:57:33.760 --> 1:57:37.760 I have to say to and Andrew that my highlight 1:57:37.880 --> 1:57:42.440 today was starting the show, well, yeah, with the machetes, 1:57:42.480 --> 1:57:46.800 but also Natasha Brown talking about building black political power, 1:57:46.880 --> 1:57:49.680 and we literally at every turn in the show had 1:57:49.760 --> 1:57:52.280 that confirmation, whether it was from Delta Sigma Theater or 1:57:52.320 --> 1:57:55.920 when with Black Women or Black Pack and the work 1:57:56.000 --> 1:57:58.280 that Terrence is doing it every turn there are people 1:57:58.280 --> 1:58:01.920 who are in public service themselves or working to facilitate 1:58:02.040 --> 1:58:05.760 opportunities for the next generation of public servants who are black. 1:58:06.160 --> 1:58:08.480 That was so powerful to me and I loved being 1:58:08.480 --> 1:58:11.120 able to share that space with y'all and for. 1:58:11.200 --> 1:58:14.360 Their listeners, you know, the folks who tune in, who 1:58:14.400 --> 1:58:17.640 are real faithful to be able to expose them to 1:58:17.720 --> 1:58:19.800 those voices that they can hear from directly, because so 1:58:19.880 --> 1:58:23.480 many times people have jaded views of people in politics 1:58:23.520 --> 1:58:26.760 who are elected officials. And I feel like, just in 1:58:26.840 --> 1:58:28.600 the last two days and we're not even done, we're 1:58:28.600 --> 1:58:31.200 halfway at the point, right that we've been able to 1:58:31.360 --> 1:58:35.600 set in front of folks, not the mystery of the individual, 1:58:35.680 --> 1:58:37.760 but the person. And you get a flavor for who 1:58:37.840 --> 1:58:40.360 they are, they come, what they're doing, and that they're 1:58:40.400 --> 1:58:43.000 working on your behalf. And I hope that it renews 1:58:43.040 --> 1:58:48.400 in some people a sense of encouraged believe that everybody 1:58:48.480 --> 1:58:50.320 ain't bad who's in this game. In fact, more often 1:58:50.360 --> 1:58:52.320 than not, if we take take a look a long 1:58:52.480 --> 1:58:55.520 enough look, we see more good. Yeah, we see a 1:58:55.560 --> 1:58:56.600 lot more good than bad. 1:58:56.760 --> 1:59:02.560 And yes, I think anytime that I get to share 1:59:02.640 --> 1:59:08.120 space with Latasha, I was telling her partner earlier, I 1:59:08.200 --> 1:59:12.160 get so jealous of anytime somebody else gets Vlatasha's time 1:59:12.440 --> 1:59:14.360 when I'm talking to her and she starts talking to 1:59:14.840 --> 1:59:17.000 you know, her auntie or her her niece and I'm 1:59:17.040 --> 1:59:20.240 just like, you know, if I'm like, like I want 1:59:20.280 --> 1:59:22.080 to just spend time. I want to have lunch in something, 1:59:22.240 --> 1:59:24.840 and she's like, oh, my sister friend from so and 1:59:24.920 --> 1:59:27.200 so going to join and someone, you know, Like I 1:59:27.320 --> 1:59:31.280 just want my time with her because she really is 1:59:31.640 --> 1:59:36.360 an impath, a visionary. And we talk about politics on 1:59:36.480 --> 1:59:39.600 this show, but Latasha has poured into all of us 1:59:40.160 --> 1:59:43.400 on such a deep personal level. And if I can 1:59:43.680 --> 1:59:46.840 bottle her up and give her away for Christmas. 1:59:46.600 --> 1:59:48.600 I would do it. And it would be price. 1:59:54.960 --> 1:59:58.240 Probably, But I do want to say Andrew made a 1:59:58.320 --> 2:00:00.320 good point as we get ready to close out the show, 2:00:00.440 --> 2:00:02.200 Ti if we only have two days left, it's going 2:00:02.280 --> 2:00:05.360 by so fast. But you guys tomorrow, I mean, my 2:00:05.480 --> 2:00:07.120 only call to action is that y'all tune in the 2:00:07.160 --> 2:00:12.000 next two days. Tomorrow is historic for Native Lampid. Tomorrow 2:00:12.320 --> 2:00:15.240 we will be live streaming still, but we are in 2:00:15.400 --> 2:00:18.920 collaboration with The Breakfast Club, the number one morning show 2:00:19.040 --> 2:00:21.160 in the country, and we'll be joined by our good 2:00:21.200 --> 2:00:23.600 brother and friends, Charlemagne and the God also known as 2:00:23.720 --> 2:00:25.480 Lenard Michelvey. 2:00:25.600 --> 2:00:28.520 So are we is the Breakfast Club? Like are we 2:00:28.600 --> 2:00:31.160 airing as the Breakfast Club? We are airing at our 2:00:31.240 --> 2:00:33.440 Native lampod and the Breakfast Club. 2:00:33.560 --> 2:00:36.120 Okay, yes, so like in the morning it will be 2:00:36.640 --> 2:00:39.720 so we're still live streaming, yes, and they are also 2:00:39.880 --> 2:00:42.480 taping for the Breakfast Club the next morning, so it 2:00:42.520 --> 2:00:45.400 will air on Thursday morning and Friday morning on the 2:00:45.400 --> 2:00:47.520 Breakfast Club. 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