WEBVTT - Ambassador Susan Rice on Policy Differences Between Trump and Harris 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:05.160 Ambassador Susan Rice is an American diplomat, policy advisor, and 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.520 public official. As a member of the Democratic Party, Rice 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:12.119 served under the last three Democratic US presidents and as 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.520 the twenty second Director of the United States Domestic Policy 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.800 Council from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three, as 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.079 the twenty seventh US Ambassador to the United Nations from 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.319 two thousand and nine to twenty thirteen, and as the 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.040 twenty third US National Security Advisor from twenty thirteen to 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:33.320 twenty seventeen. And she is our guest today. Welcome to 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:34.160 the show, Ambassador. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:35.480 It's great to be with you both. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:40.280 Thank you so much for that. So obviously this. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:45.800 Is an incredible time to live through. There's a lot 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.960 of in a scary time. I want to act like 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:50.919 it's not scary too, you know what I mean. I'm 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.560 living here with you all. But you know, we've seen 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:58.240 a lot of changes, and it's not lost on us 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.760 that we get to have this commonversation with what we 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:07.479 consider royalty. You know, you are not just the type 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.360 of person, but indeed the individual that we look up to. 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:14.840 You know, you've reached heights that once upon a time 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:20.119 we're unthinkable even in our own lifetimes. And so to eat, 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:24.000 to meet you means a lot, certainly, to have a conversation, 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.839 To have you as a guest on our show means 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.959 the world. When I talk about the times that we're 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.720 living in, I'm referring specifically to you. Know, this is 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.400 a show where we've discussed quite a bit that takes 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:41.240 place in the political arena. We are on the cusp 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:48.960 of potentially nominating a black woman to electing electing. 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:52.720 Sorry, to the presidency of the United States, and. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.320 This is something that has caused a lot of excitement 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.440 in a lot of circles around the country, not the 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:05.760 least of which is black women. And so to have 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:10.880 a person on our program that has more insight into 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.160 the goings on political goings on in DC, has more 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:18.800 insight into things like foreign policy, domestic policy, has insight 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:25.040 into the implications of one administration versus the other, can 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:29.640 help us to perhaps take what excitement we do have 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.200 and channel that into action to ensure that we get 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:34.640 the outcomes that we're hoping for. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.760 Certainly we're hoping for on this show, but. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.760 Also it might help us to understand how to best 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:48.120 support the president, how to best interpret policies and understand 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:49.920 how they might affect our lives on the ground and 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:51.440 so forth and so on. So this is where that 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:55.519 comes from. So I don't want to keep talking about why. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:57.720 I want to get to the good stuff. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.840 So I'm really glad to be here, looking forward to 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:00.560 our conversation. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:01.120 Thanks gooks. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:01.920 Good fantastic. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.959 So one of the questions that we were talking about 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:10.560 this would have been yesterday for us. You know, there's 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.400 been there's been so much said about Donald Trump's Agenda 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.679 forty seven and and you know, Project twenty twenty five 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.600 more specifically, because we understand the Project twenty twenty five 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:25.560 is really something that you know, he's tried to distance 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.440 himself from, but we kind of know better around here. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.359 His name is mentioned over three hundred times in Project 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:33.639 twenty twenty five, you understand. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:35.920 And all the authors of Project twenty twenty five are 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:37.000 his closest advisors. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.880 Thank you, sir, exactly. So let's start at the beginning. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:46.440 What are some domestic policy concerns you have with Project 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:50.160 twenty twenty five or Agenda forty seven or whatever, And 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.880 then we're gonna ask the same about the Harris administration. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.240 Well, first of all, is you probably know. Project twenty 0:03:56.280 --> 0:04:01.320 twenty five is a nine hundred page document that Donald 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:08.000 Trump's advisors from his prior administration spent many, many months writing, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:13.119 and it covers all aspects of domestic policy, and it's 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.200 really truly quite frightening. Let me just give you a 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.400 few examples of some of the things that I think 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:23.080 are most dangerous. First of all, when it comes to 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.800 economic policy, what Trump has said is he intends to 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:35.119 impose a twenty percent tariff on everything that comes into 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:40.159 the country from another country. So that's our fuel, that's 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:44.640 our food, that's our toys, that's our liquor, that you 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:49.680 name it. It's literally everything we import. And you know, 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:54.920 Trump lies and says, well, the foreign countries will pay 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.120 for that. No, the American consumer will pay for that. 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:03.160 Because what happens is, if I'm a company that's selling 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.800 into the United States, I'll buy it from France. Let's 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.279 say we're talking about you know, Kanyac, just as an example, 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.040 buy it from France, sell it into the United States. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.640 But that twenty percent tariff the company has to pay, 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.680 and then it passes on the cost to the American consumer. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.400 So that's a tax on Americans. The cost of that 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:28.160 tax is. 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:32.520 Going to be four thousand dollars for the average American 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.440 family a year on top of all of the other 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.960 economic concerns that we have his tax policy. We're going 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:45.279 to have a new tax legislation come up for consideration 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.360 in Congress next year. This is the renewal of the 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:52.720 Trump tax cuts from twenty seventeen. And what he intends 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:57.560 to do is give massive tax breaks to the richest Americans, 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:02.760 the billionaires and multi multimillionaires and the richest corporations, and 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.839 do that at the expense of working in middle class Americans. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.320 So that too, is going to be a huge burden 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:15.560 on American families. He wants to cut social Security and Medicare. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.360 Every single budget that he submitted when he was president 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.520 cut social Security and Medicare. Now, there was just a 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:27.640 study that came out this week that said by a 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:32.560 very respected think tank in Washington, nonpartisan think tank, that 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.640 Trump's policies on Social Security will ensure that Social Security 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:41.000 runs out of money in six years time, wow, and 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.120 that the average person will pay one third. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.520 More for their Social Security. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.240 So he wants to get you know, cut social Security, 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.440 cut Medicare, and he is pledged to eliminate Obamacare, the 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:58.320 Affordable Care Act, which has enabled more Black Americans to 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.039 have health insurance than at any time time in our history. 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.719 It has reduced the cost of health care. Now we 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.800 have ninety two percent of Americans with health insurance. That's 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:15.600 the highest rate ever in our history. And Black healthcare 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:19.240 coverage has gone way up over the last three and 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.160 a half years under Vice President Harrison and Joe Biden. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.840 He wants to get rid of all that prompt He 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:30.200 wants to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. And then, 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:35.640 if you're concerned about women's reproductive rights, whether you're a 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:41.560 man or a woman, your father, a husband, a boyfriend, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.360 Donald Trump's Project twenty twenty five would impose a national 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:51.720 ban on abortion and make it harder to get birth control, 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:59.200 harder to get in vitro fertilization, criminalize doctors who prescribe 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:05.960 abortion metation through the mail, and require states to record 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:11.560 and register with the federal government women's miscarriages and abortions. 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:16.240 It's Orwellian, So all of those rights and freedoms go away. 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:22.800 And if you have a girlfriend or a daughter or 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.960 a mother who has a pregnancy that for whatever reason, 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.480 they can't go through with. That's all of our problem 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.960 when Donald Trump is president. So those are some examples. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:36.840 Let me give you just one other set of examples. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.600 He wants to eliminate the Department of Education. The Department 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:45.240 of Education is the department that funds low income schools 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:49.520 in our country. It's the department that makes head Start possible. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.719 So if you're a low income three or four year 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.400 old and you want to get the beginnings of an education, 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.480 head Start, which has been so impactful, will be eliminated. 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.680 It will wipe out any prospect of student loan relief. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.959 The Department of Education under President Biden and Vice President 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:10.040 Harris has forgiven student loan debt for five million Americans. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.720 That'll all be wiped out. So when you talk about 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:17.120 just getting rid of whole departments, you're really talking about 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.720 getting rid of institutions, particularly the Department of Education, that 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.920 benefits Black Americans and gives us the opportunity to get 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.400 an education. So I could go on and on, but 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:28.840 those are just some examples of what a Trump agenda 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:29.720 would bring. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.600 I will not pretend that we don't want you to 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.840 go on. And we were having a conversation off air 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.320 today about misinformation and about there's still being voters that 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.960 are undecided or voting against their own best interests by 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:47.360 aligning themselves with our former president's agenda and Project twenty 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.880 twenty five and not really processing how those things will 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.800 impact their lives, especially people who are not minority, who 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.680 are not women, who do not feel like anything in 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.560 their lives would change under our former press. In contrast, 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.280 we know, even though they continue to say that she 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.960 does not discuss policy, and we know that this is nonsense. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.880 Can you highlight some things that are contrary the agenda? 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.040 The opportunity economy is a place that we can start 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.080 with Vice President Harris and things that her and Governor 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.240 Laws want to bring forward that will not just impact 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.280 minorities but all Americans. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.040 Yes, I can, and I will. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:30.440 But before I go to what Harris Wall's administration will bring, 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.520 I just want to share one other thing that really 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.000 is what's in many ways keeping me up at night 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.280 the most about Donald Trump and the prospect of him 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:44.400 coming back to the White House. He has said, and 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.480 I believe he means, based on what he did in 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.320 his first term, that he wants to be a dictator 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.520 from day one. He wants to terminate the Constitution. But 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.679 what he said most recently and keeps repeating even when 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.600 people who are speaking on his behalf try to walk 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.439 it back, is that he believes that the greatest threat 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.520 to the United States is not Russia, it's not China. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:10.959 It's what he calls the enemy within, Yes, his political opponents, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.720 and basically that's anybody who votes against him or doesn't 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.280 agree with him, or comes from a different party. And 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.679 he said that he is prepared to use the military 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.600 of the United States to go after the enemy within. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.160 That's running on a platform, a campaign platform of civil war. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:30.960 There's no other way to put it. That's what he 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:35.040 intends to do. That's if he's elected, and if he's 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.160 not elected. I think what he's doing with that rhetoric 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.560 is trying to give free license to his supporters to 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:46.480 go on a rampage. So that's another, you know, serious 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:47.600 as a heart attack concern. 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:48.359 Absolutely. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.880 Let's turn to Vice President Harris and what she's proposing. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:53.120 She's put out a. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:12:01.160 Very comprehensive set of policy proposals and starting let's start 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:02.240 with the economy. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.840 Her basic framework is we need. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.600 An economy that works for everybody, not just for the 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:13.400 rich and for some people. And she calls it an 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.880 opportunity economy. And what she's trying to do is give 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.840 people what they need to get ahead, not just to 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.000 you know, scrounge every day and get by. So, for example, 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.240 if you have a good idea and you want to 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:33.200 start a business, if you're an average person, it's really 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.280 hard to do. It's really hard to go to a bank, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.200 you know, as just a regular person and be able 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.199 to get the kind of capital that you need to. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:43.200 Start a business. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.600 She's got two really important initiatives for that. The first 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.800 one is she said that she will give up to 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:54.720 one million loans worth as much as twenty thousand dollars 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.199 that'll be fully forgivable if you want to start a 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.040 business and you're a black man, black woman, or other 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.880 person who's had difficulty gaining access to capital. In addition 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.280 to that, she's saying, right now, our tax code is 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.560 if if you want to start a business, you can 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.000 only get a tax deduction of five thousand dollars to 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:16.680 start a business. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:17.960 That doesn't do anything for anybody. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.760 She's saying, let's increase that ten times and give you 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.680 fifty thousand dollars tax break in the first year of 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.480 your business to get started. Put those two things together. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.560 You got a good idea. You know, that's a way 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.199 to start a business. Whether it's a you know, you're 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.280 you know, single owner, you know, sole owner of your 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:43.160 business with your you know, maybe you're a fitness trainer, 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:49.520 or maybe you're you know, uh doing a transportation whatever 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.760 it is, that's a business and you can get you 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.040 know what it's what you need to get started and 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.280 then expand it, get some employees. That's you know, one 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:03.079 thing if you are working for a wage in your 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:08.000 low income person without a family, or just maybe you're 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.160 by yourself or you're married, there's something called the earned 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.640 income tax credit that you know, we need to expand 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.800 and extend. She's prepared to do that. That's worth fifteen 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:24.040 hundred dollars a year for every individual who's low income, 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:28.680 working needs extra money in their pocket. Donald Trump, you know, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.760 wants to impose this, as I mentioned, four thousand dollars 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.360 tax on every working family. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.760 She's saying she's going. 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.240 To give a tax cut, a meaningful tax cut, to 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:44.760 one hundred million working families in this country. So, for example, 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:50.000 the child tax credit the Child Tax Credit. We were 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.760 able to extend and expand in the first year of 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:58.400 the Biden Harris administration that cut black child poverty in 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:03.240 this country in half, but then Congress wouldn't extend it. 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.400 She is prepared to not just renew and extend it, 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.800 but expand it so that your first year, if you 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.440 have a child, you're going to get a six thousand 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.240 dollars tax credit for the first year of that child, 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.360 so you can buy your diapers, you can buy the crib, 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.120 you can get your car seat, you can just get started. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:25.960 And then every year thereafter while that child is you know, 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.440 a minor, you would get thirty six hundred dollars a 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.960 year as a tax break for every child you have. 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.240 That's huge for working families if you're trying to, you know, 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.200 rent in a place where like so many cities, the 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:46.040 rent is just too high and you can't get you know, 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:50.360 you can't get in. She's talking about tax incentives to 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:54.440 increase affordable rental housing in this country so that we 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.400 actually have the supply that we need so that the 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.800 prices come down and if you want to buy a 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.600 home home for the first time. She's doing two things 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:07.800 that are really important. First is building two three million 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:12.360 new affordable homes, again through a tax credit scheme, so 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.160 that builders have an incentive to build low income and 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:21.080 affordable homes. And secondly, give you a twenty five thousand 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:26.320 dollars down payment assistance for your first time home purchase. 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.800 Those are just some of the examples of what were 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.160 in her economic plan. If you got an elderly parent, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.560 do you know how expensive it is to give that 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.400 person decent elder care? 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:39.880 Yes? 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.320 Do I've been there too. I wasn't until recently. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:48.000 Sadly, my parents passed having young kids at home for 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.600 a period, and elderly parents who were who were, you know, 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:56.920 in really bad health. She is committed to having Medicare 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.800 pay for home care so you don't have to send 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.120 your mom or dad to a nursing home where they 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.800 may get, you know, not the best care out there, 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.880 but Medicare would help you be able to take care 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.400 of your parents in the comfort of their own home. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.000 These are the kinds of things that matter so much 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:21.119 to regular folks. Your grandma or your mom might be 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:26.879 on Medicare, and under Biden and Harris, if they're diabetic 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.840 and they're on insulin, it used to be that your 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.840 insulin could cost three, four or five hundred dollars a month, 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.000 depending on what kind of health insurance you had. They 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.240 capped it at thirty five dollars a month. You can 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.960 no longer have to pay if you're on Medicare more 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.280 than thirty five dollars a month for your insulin. Kamala 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.239 Harris wants that to be available to everybody, not just 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.040 your seniors on Medicare, because there are a lot of us, 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.160 you know, who are under sixty five who are dealing 0:17:55.160 --> 0:18:02.400 with insulin. And the other thing is under President bind 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.439 and Vice President Harris, they passed a law so that 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.280 now you no longer will have to pay, if you're 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.280 a senior on Medicare more than two thousand dollars a 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.280 year for all your prescription drugs. Now, that's lots of 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.240 people are on these expensive cancer drugs and everything else. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.840 It can cost ten twenty thousand dollars a year. You'll 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.800 never have to pay, no matter how sick you are 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.320 or what kind of drugs you need, more than two 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.679 thousand dollars a year if you're on Medicare. She also 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:33.160 will extend that to everybody, not just seniors. So these 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.840 are the kinds of programs and plans that actually really 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:37.280 matter in people's lives. 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:45.320 So clearly there are two very different agendas or the 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:52.800 administrations that we have to choose from. I want to 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:54.879 go back just a bit because I think that there 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:58.640 are some things that need unpacking for our listeners. Specifically, 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:04.520 one of the things that I want to unpack is 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:11.240 let's talk about the insulin in the insulin cap. Now, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:15.480 for our show, we have black listeners and then we 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:19.760 have allies. We refer to listeners of our show as allies. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.960 These are people who are allies. I mean, I don't 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:29.480 have to explain that to you, so, but I want to. 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:33.040 I want to make sure that everyone understands the significance 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.400 of insulin in the black community or. 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:36.400 Of our non black listeners. 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.720 Because diabetes, sugar diabetes, you know what I mean. This 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.840 is something that you know, my grandmother had, She was diabetic. 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.120 Both my grandmothers. One of my grandmother's lost her leg 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:54.760 from diabetes shortly after coming to the US from Cuba. 0:19:55.000 --> 0:20:04.000 She lost her leg Afro Cuban woman. That's something that 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.560 shapes outcomes, you know what I mean. For these companies 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:12.720 to be able to price gouge for it to disproproportionately 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.919 affect black families, because diabetes is something that it's a 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:21.159 human condition, but it disproportionately affects black people. There you go, 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:27.840 that's something that's significant. I also want to mention the 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:31.480 Social Security element where you said that Donald Trump's agenda 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.720 would bankrupt it in six years. You can correct me 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:36.400 if I'm wrong. I'm sure you know way more about 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.600 it than I do. But the last time I checked, 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.520 social Security will solvent. I'm not mistaken. 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.280 It's currently solvent, okay, And we have a long term 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:49.840 problem that you know right now with baby boomers and 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:51.959 everybody else, we're taking more out of Social Security than 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:56.040 people are paying you and so there's the constant challenge 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:59.280 that will hit in the mid twenty thirties right now 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:03.720 unless we put more money into Social Security, and we've 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.600 got to keep it and replenish it. What Trump's proposals 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:11.640 would do is accelerate, you know, bring forward the date 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:15.760 whereby it becomes insolved, and in the process require. 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:17.040 People to pay a third more. 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:23.000 And that's you know, he's putting out this proposal which 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:25.879 sounds really good. You don't have to pay taxes on 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:30.320 your Social Security. Well, not everybody pays tax on sociecurity. 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:33.159 It's certain people and the certain people who pay taxes 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.120 that goes straight into the trust fund and it keeps 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.480 it solvent. And the other thing that people don't realize 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:42.840 is all these undocumented people that he's going to deport, 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:47.200 they pay into the Social Security Trust Fund and they 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:52.040 don't take anything out, but their wages are are withheld 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:55.680 to help the rest of us pay for Social Security. Now, 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:58.400 you know, we can talk about immigration, that's not my point, 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:01.560 But the point is that, you know, policies have consequences. 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:06.320 Things that sound good actually have consequences for regular Americans 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:08.879 who rely on their Social Security and want to know 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.159 that if I'm paying into it today, is going to 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:12.520 be there for me when I need it. 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.080 Now, there's one last thing I wanted to touch on 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.040 for the benefit of our listeners. 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:21.800 And this is Headstart. 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:23.600 Oh yeah. 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:25.920 So one of the things that. 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:29.640 One of the conversations that we've had on this show 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:40.240 is how investment in impoverished communities, low income communities, shapes 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:44.520 outcomes for people that want the crime rate to drop. 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:49.720 Head start programs, after school programs. There's a direct correlation 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:55.040 between crime rates lowering and after school programs and head 0:22:55.040 --> 0:23:01.159 Start programs being incorporated into you know, the community, and 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:06.800 the being accessible to the people. These are for people 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:10.280 who can fear for the safety of their communities. These 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:12.760 are for people who you know, we we definitely have 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:15.720 an activist element in our show. I'm not going to 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:17.679 pretend like I'm not a part of that activist element. 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:23.119 These are people that want to see these types of 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:30.160 investments in the community rather than and increase display in police. 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:34.000 This this very program that we're talking about here shapes 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:37.760 those outcomes, and I think it's important to delineate these 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:41.840 three things and paint these pictures fully for our listeners. 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:43.320 Just so that they understand that. Yeah, so I just 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:44.000 wanted to make sure. 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:46.120 No head starts critically important. Yeah. 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.639 If the data shows if you can give a kid 0:23:49.960 --> 0:23:52.880 starting at age three or four, you know, the beginnings 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:55.160 of an education, which is what head Start does, their 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:58.639 high school completion rate goes way up, their prospects to 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:02.239 you know, stay out of jail goes way up. And 0:24:02.440 --> 0:24:07.200 you know, we need to invest in housing, we need 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:11.040 to invest in education, We need to invest in our 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:15.439 communities so that people have hope and they have opportunities 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:19.200 and jobs. You know Trump's approach, and he's been very 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:22.320 clear to go back to what he said his agenda 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:25.560 is in Project twenty twenty five. He wants to bring 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:29.800 back stopping frisk and make that, you know, the standard everywhere. 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:33.520 He wants to give police free rein to do whatever 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:37.159 they hell they want. And you know who's going to 0:24:37.240 --> 0:24:40.520 suffer most from that, that's us. Yeah, you know, you 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:44.480 know remember after George Floyd he called the people protesting 0:24:44.600 --> 0:24:48.280 thugs and he said, when you know, the looting start starts, 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:49.360 the shooting starts. 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:50.520