1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning. 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: Everybody's DJ Envy, Jess Hilari, Charlamage the guy. We are 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building, Congressman. 4 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 3: Welcome. 5 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: What's up man? What's up? 6 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 2: How you're feeling great? 7 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: Seventeen days away from early voting? Man? Really excited about 8 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: my campaign, Really excited to continue to build this grass 9 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: roots movement we've been building for the last four years. 10 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: I'm hype man, ready to go. 11 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 3: You in the fight of your life right now. 12 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: Man. 13 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 4: I thought New York Magazine say that you are the 14 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 4: most endangered democrat in America. 15 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: Damn Yeah, that's crazy. You know, you can't speak up 16 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: for black people. You know, you can't speak up for Gaza. 17 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: You know what I mean. As soon as you start 18 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: speaking up for black and brown people, they're gonna attack you. 19 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: That's how white supremacy works. And so, you know, I 20 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: had the audacity to call for a permanent cease fire 21 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: very early on because we heard what they were saying. 22 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: They talking about amelac and cutting off food and water 23 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: and using white phosphorus and you know, using genocidal line language. 24 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: And so we called for a ceasefire early, and when 25 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: you do that, Apak is going to attack you. They 26 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: don't want any kind of criticism of Israel. And so 27 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: we did that, and they've been coming after us. They're 28 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: gonna spend more money in this race than they have 29 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: ever spent in history to get the first black man, 30 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: first person to color in the US history out of 31 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: the seat. 32 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 4: Two million, that was, no, two million a week. 33 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: By the time we get to the end, it's gonna 34 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: be like twenty seven million. So even back in October, 35 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: they were running negative ads against me, trying to trying 36 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 1: to bully me into, you know, taking the position they 37 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: wanted me to take. And since over the last three weeks, 38 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: they've been spending like two million a week. And election 39 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: day is June twenty fifth, so they're gonna spend two 40 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: million a week up until election day. It will be 41 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: the most expensive primary in US history. So, you know, 42 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: defeat worth that much shit to them. You know, what 43 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: I'm saying to them is worth that much because think 44 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: about it, before I was in office, before I was 45 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: in the seat, it was Elliott Ingle, Congressman Elliot Aingle, 46 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: who was the number one pro Israel hawk, you knowall 47 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: hawk chair the Foreign Affairs Committee. He was there for 48 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: thirty years, and right next to him was neither Lowi, 49 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: who never had any criticism about Israel. Now you got 50 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: me coming in and I'm not you know, I'm not 51 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 1: against any state or whatever, but it's about human rights. 52 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 1: It's about justice. Like if you're not taking care of 53 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: the people next to you, and we're not doing the 54 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: right work for a Palestinian state and a free Palestine, 55 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call that out. And so to them, they 56 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: don't want any criticism, they don't want anyone calling it out. 57 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: And so I've been calling out from the beginning. But 58 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, our foreign policy and 59 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: what we're trying to stop there connects to what's happening here. 60 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,119 Speaker 1: This is a group APAC. They're a racist organization first 61 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 1: and foremost eighty five percent of their money go towards 62 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,679 Speaker 1: targeting black and brown people, right there's number one. Number 63 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 1: two They got true one hundred percent. And my opponent 64 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: who's working with them, who's endorsed by them, has a 65 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: record that doesn't reflect doing anything for black and brown people, 66 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: or very little over the cost of his career, And 67 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:58,799 Speaker 1: so they don't care about black and brown people in 68 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 1: my district. They don't care about people of Gaza. They 69 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: just care about their own power, and so that's why 70 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: they're coming for But we ain't gonna let them buy 71 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: the seat from the people. We decide. The people decide, 72 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: the black and brown people, Progressive people, diverse coalition that 73 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: we have decide on who's going to win this election 74 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: on the twenty fifth. 75 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 4: Now, George, George him, from what I read, him and 76 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 4: Apex have said some pretty racist comments towards you. They 77 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 4: said they put out a mail or I haven't seen. 78 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 3: It where your skin was darkened. 79 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, like wow, that that's that's standard operating procedure and 80 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: that ain't even the. 81 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 3: Worst of it anything. They wish you had a stroke, yo. 82 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: Son he he. He posted a son on his Facebook page. 83 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: People started commenting on this on this post saying they 84 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: hope I have a stroke and referring to me as 85 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: a thug. He did not even comment, He didn't denounce it, 86 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: He didn't condemn it. He didn't even take it down 87 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: until the Working Families Party wrote him a letter. Wrote 88 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: wrote a public letter that put press on him, and 89 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: then he took it down. He said at a black 90 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: history event in New Rochelle two black people that I 91 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: take money from Hamas. He said this publicly, and we 92 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: had to send our lawyers, had to send him a 93 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: seat in secession. Don't talk about me like that whilst 94 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: we're going to go after you. And then he tried 95 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: to deny and say no, I say take money from 96 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: supporters of a mosque, which is also fucked up to say, 97 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: too right, But so you're saying I take money from 98 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: a terrorist organization. You're endorsed by a racist organization. Most 99 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: of their money come from racist maga right wing Republicans. 100 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: They're funded by Maga Republicans. Same Republicans taking out voting rights, 101 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: same people going after affirmative action, women's right to choose, 102 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: same people who supported the insurrectionists. This the people my 103 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,840 Speaker 1: so called opponent, Democrat opponent, his partner went to again 104 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: go after the first black man in the seat. 105 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 2: What's the demographics in your district? 106 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: This majority minority, majority black and Latino, a very large 107 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 1: pro Israel component, Rightjewish, well, not just Jewish. I don't 108 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: want to talk about them as a monolith. They're different, right, 109 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: because there's Jews for Jamal shout out to Jews for 110 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,599 Speaker 1: Jamal out there. You know they support me tremendously. Jewish 111 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: Voices for Peace if not. Now, these are great organizations 112 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: working on good for our pose. But there is a 113 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 1: pro Israel segment of the district that's very active, very 114 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: outraged about my position, and they're going to go out 115 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: and vote. Like this is the ultimate get your ass 116 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 1: out and vote race. Like the black and brown people say, oh, 117 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 1: I don't vote this now whatever, this is the ultimate, 118 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: This is the ultimate moment to show our power. There 119 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: are forty thousand black and Latino men in the district 120 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: who have never voted before. Like they don't even understand. 121 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: They could have decided governor, they could have decided county executive, 122 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: they could have decided local maya, and they can now 123 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: decide a congressman. They've never voted before. 124 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 3: Why do you think they're not energized? Like why do 125 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 3: you feel like they know? 126 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: I mean we know why? 127 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 3: Right? 128 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 1: So political system has never really done anything for black 129 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: people on a big level, right, Like, so, we are 130 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: co sponsor of a resolution calling for sixteen trillion I 131 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: think trillion in reparations for black people. My opponent is 132 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: against that. My opponent is like, it's not realistic. We 133 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: don't need to be talking about reparations for black people 134 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: at this time. So if you're black in America, for example, 135 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: and the federal government has never taken up the issue 136 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: of reparations very seriously, why are you going to be 137 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: engaged in what's happening in the political process. The difference 138 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: now is you got someone like me there, first, black man, 139 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 1: raising the culture, single mom, working class educator. Finally in 140 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: Congress speaking the way I speak, and governing with the 141 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: people the way I do. And so usually, like in 142 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, we tripled voters turnout from twenty eighteen. Why 143 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: because they had a candidate they could believe in, they 144 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: could connect with, so they came out. We need those 145 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 1: numbers and then some in this race because if we 146 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 1: come out to vote in big numbers, my opponent doesn't 147 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: have a pathway to victory, doesn't have no matter what 148 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: money they spend. So this is the ultimate show our 149 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: power as real progressives, people under fifty, people of color, 150 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: come out early. Voter news is June fifteenth is the 151 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: first a come out big numbers and just show our strength. 152 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: If we do that, we trained the trajectory of politics 153 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: in the district, in the county, and the state and 154 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:09,679 Speaker 1: in the country. 155 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 2: What's the biggest thing that you heard about yourself or 156 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 2: the biggest lies that they've been trying to tell, so 157 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 2: that you know, up here you can tell people what's 158 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 2: true or what's not true, because I mean, there's so 159 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 2: much online that you could just tell is just lies. 160 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 2: So what's the biggest things that you heard about yourself. 161 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: That Yeah, so they're trying to paint this picture out 162 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: there that you know, because I voted against a particular bill, 163 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: I'm against President Biden's agenda, right. The fact of the 164 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: matter is, I co wrote me personally, co wrote one 165 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: of President Biden's biggest bills, the Chips and Science Act, 166 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: which is going to bring back semiconductive manufacturing to our 167 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: country and particularly help us build wealth in black and 168 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: brown communities. I wrote that provision into that bill. We 169 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: are pressured Biden to ban ghost guns across the country, 170 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: and he took action to ban ghost guns, which helped 171 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: reduce gun violence across the country. I worked with Elizabeth 172 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: Warren to engaged by it so that he could do 173 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: something to stop housing costs, rental costs from going up 174 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: because the rent is too damn high. Anyone who receives 175 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: freedal money, we should be able to regulate rents. So 176 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: those are just three things. There were many more. At 177 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: the same time. If the president ain't doing right by 178 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: black and brown people in our communities on Gaza, I'm 179 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: gonna say something about that, like I'm not gonna just 180 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: be quiet on that. And that's good governance, right, It's 181 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: good to have that dialogue, have that debate. Hold myself, 182 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: hold me accountable. Shit, we gotta hold each other accountable 183 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: in order to grow. So they're taking one vote, like 184 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: one of the ads I saw. I've been in there 185 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: three years now, voted a thousand times. They taken one 186 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: vote and trying to paint me as the devil because 187 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: I vote a particular way one time. The other thing 188 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: they're trying to say is they're using language like, oh 189 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: we don't like his style, Oh he's too bombastic. Right, 190 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,599 Speaker 1: this is like racially coded dog Wigleso language because you know, 191 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 1: those black people were not allowed to say nothing, you 192 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: know what I mean before Charlotte Man, it's nobody on 193 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: radio talking like you're talking talking, how y'all talk? So 194 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: they want they trying to. They're trying to disempower one 195 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: of my greatest strengths, which is my passion for people 196 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: and humanity and love and the work that we do. 197 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:13,839 Speaker 1: So that's another thing they trying to do. And because 198 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:15,959 Speaker 1: they have so much money, they could just put it 199 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 1: on loops over and over and over again and begin 200 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 1: to brainwash people. I'm glad you said what you said. 201 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: Our people they see it right away, like that's some bullshit. 202 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: Right as soon as they see it, they're like, first 203 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: of all, I know him, I know the work he does, 204 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: I know what he is about, heart him talk a 205 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,679 Speaker 1: million times. What you're saying is not accurately representing his right. 206 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: We brought over a billion dollars to the district and 207 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: that's conservative forty million for gun violence, eighty eight million 208 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: for flood mitigation, investments in climate justice, education, mental health. 209 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: Again targeting particularly the areas that have been ignored, Mount Vernon, Yonkers, 210 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: the Bronx, Newell, black and brown areas. Like always, we 211 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: target in them because y'all ain't been doing he's been 212 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: off his thirty five years. I've done more than three 213 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: years for black and brown people than he's done in 214 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: thirty five years. Is so like, let's debate that instead 215 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: of trying to talk about some some wild shit that 216 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: ain't even accurate. 217 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:08,719 Speaker 3: How did that out of all this affecting you mentally though? 218 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: And the question man, listen, I try to go to 219 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: the gym a lot. You know, weightlifting really helps. I got, 220 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: you know, my wife and my kids. So after a 221 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: long day, I go home mammy and my wife turned 222 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: on the TV watching mindless. I lay on her and 223 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: we just you know, we chill. So you know, you 224 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: know how we eat right, exercise, you try to do 225 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,319 Speaker 1: those things I don't. I ain't had a drink in 226 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 1: twenty twenty twenty four, so that's helpful as well. And 227 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: and pray man like, like pray and meditate, yo, you 228 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,719 Speaker 1: know that's uh. And have people pray for me, like 229 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: when I go to church, the church prays for me, 230 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,679 Speaker 1: the mos prays for me. That's all very helpful because 231 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: some of the forces against me right now and against 232 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,559 Speaker 1: us man and historically are evil forces man like, they 233 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: are not They're not here to help us man people 234 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: people in polity. First of all, white supremacy is all 235 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: about power. This is white supremacist. It's all about power. 236 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: Hour It's all about control, whether it's foreign policy or 237 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: domestic policy. And so Congress is under control of big 238 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: money in politics. Big money in politics is driven by 239 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: white supremacy. A pack is a white supremacist organization and 240 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: their big money decides. Listen, in Congress, let me tell 241 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: you what moves quickly. Anything related to police helping police, 242 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: or anything related to Israel. Those two things move quickly. 243 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: We write a bill today, we voted on that shape tomorrow. 244 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: But what about raising the federal minimum wage, or universal childcare, 245 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: or affordable housing or workforce development programs. You know, one 246 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: of the criticisms of Biden is we passed all these 247 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: historic bills the first five years, the first two years 248 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: I was in Congress. But then on the ground, people 249 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: are still struggling to find good jobs and make enough 250 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 1: money and afford their housing, afford their childcare. And I 251 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: always remind people, not only Biden is for we got 252 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: to vote down ballot. Who is sending the US Senate? 253 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: Who we send it to Congress? What about the state 254 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: we send it? The state we send a state in 255 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,680 Speaker 1: the county billions of dollars, the state in the county 256 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 1: decide how they're gonna use that money. So if we're 257 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 1: not active politically locally, they're not gonna listen to us. 258 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: They just gonna spend the money how they want to 259 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,079 Speaker 1: spend it. And so that's why we need everybody involved, 260 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 1: not just for me and my race. Like I'm good, 261 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: like God forbid, I lost, I got some talent, I 262 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: get a job, be all right, It's not about me. 263 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,319 Speaker 1: It's about what we all represent. Like we represent justice, 264 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: we represent humanity, we represent the American dream for real, 265 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 1: for real opportunity. And that's why everybody got be involved. 266 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,959 Speaker 4: You know, I wanted to ask you because you made 267 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 4: me think it's something. Don't want you to expound on 268 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 4: that more. How do you keeping your position benefit the 269 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 4: people in our community. 270 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: So it's important what we speak about and how we 271 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: speak about it is very important. Right. The person who 272 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: was in the seat before me probably never spoke about 273 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: universal childcare as being a north star where we got 274 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 1: to go as a country. Right, never spoke about fully 275 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: funding our public schools and the idea that in my district, 276 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: if you live in Scarsdale, right, we're spending ten twenty 277 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: thousand more per kid than if you live in the Bronx, Right, 278 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 1: like that issue, the issue of the issue, not just 279 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: the issue of reducing gun violence, but like being on 280 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 1: the ground with the family when they lose a son 281 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,680 Speaker 1: and grieving with that family at a vigil, but then saying, 282 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: we gotta fucking do something about this, because it's not 283 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: just about thoughts and prayers. Okay, we got a right 284 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: to buy it and tell him buying to take action 285 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: on gun violence, and he did that right. Young girls 286 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: stabbed to death in Mount Vernon right again, not just 287 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: being with the family and showing up and talking about 288 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: what's going on, having particularly me like, I'm an educator. 289 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 1: I have a doctor in education. My focus has been 290 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: on trauma, so I know the impact of individual and 291 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,079 Speaker 1: collective trauma on communities and I use that to drive policy. 292 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: So when the young girl stabbed a death, we not 293 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: just thoughts and prayers. It's like, okay, what's the policy 294 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: solution here. How do we bring in money to target 295 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: at risk girls so they have a place to go 296 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: and something to do. That's not just about you know, 297 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: you know, the normal things we have girls do QDQ 298 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: and cheerlead and all that. There's other things, so it's 299 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: about that kind of thing. So it's about lived experiences. 300 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: My lived experiences, my professional experiences as an educator, gives 301 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: me a perspective that guides how I govern with the people. 302 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: And so that's critical versus the offense. Seventy year old 303 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: white man, career, corrupt, corporate, pay to play politician that's 304 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: partnering with big money, racist MAGA Republicans and an election 305 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: deniers while saying crazy shit like I take money from 306 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: Hamas and allowing people to say I have a stroke 307 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: and call me a Doug. Do you want that kind 308 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: of person to see? That kind of person who's literally 309 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: supporting the genocide in Gaza right now. So while I 310 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: called for a ceasefire early, he's never done that. While 311 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: I called it a genocide early, he's never done that. 312 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: This individual is working with APAX to support a genocide 313 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: and Gaza babies being burnt alive and raugh for just 314 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. He supports that. Doesn't want 315 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: to criticize that in Yahoo, he supports that. So you 316 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: want somebody like that in office, or someone like me 317 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: who spent my entire life dedicated to people least lost 318 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: and left behind, mostly intlected, most marginalized. I was in 319 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: education for twenty years. When I saw shit wasn't working 320 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: in education, I opened my own school and ran that 321 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: school's in middle school principal for ten and a half years. 322 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: I saw shit wasn't working for my kids in the community. 323 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: I said, fuck it, I'm running for Congress. See what happened. 324 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: Ran for Congress, won, and now we're in Congress building power. 325 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: So we building power. They scared to death for that shit. 326 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: And so this is why we gotta we gotta come 327 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: out in droves for this race and beyond because we 328 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: got to build power all that. I don't vote ship, 329 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: you've given your power the white supremacy. 330 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 4: But but you said, uh, you know the guy George 331 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 4: Latimer is supporting uh genocide in gods? Yes, right, so 332 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 4: why support him? People say the same thing about President Biden. 333 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, So how do you how do you get 334 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 4: because that's what it gets. That's when it feels like 335 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 4: everybody talking about both sides of their mouth. 336 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: That's it. That's that's the that's the toughest question I get, right, 337 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: And that's why we have been You. 338 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 4: Can't say don't support this guy, could yeah, what was 339 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 4: going on the genocide and God? 340 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 3: But then support president. 341 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 1: But yeah, so that's the That's the number one thing 342 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: we've been consistently critical of the President on is his 343 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: response to Gaza and his response to and Yahoo and 344 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: not doing more the whole and Yahoo accountable. The US 345 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: government should not be sending another weapon to Israel right now. 346 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: We should not be sending another dime to Israel right now, period. 347 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: And the President said his red line was rafa, that 348 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 1: red line was crossed. We need to stop sending weapons, period. 349 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: So I get it. I get how people feel. Anything 350 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: I would say to that, and I hate the lesser 351 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:06,959 Speaker 1: to evil shit. I hat hate it. I hate it. However, 352 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: I was sworn into Congress January third, twenty twenty one. 353 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: Three days later, they attacked the fucking US capital. Five 354 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,880 Speaker 1: people were killed that day, five people died since then, 355 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: And if they would have got their way, multiple members 356 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: of Congress would have been killed. Trump led an insurrection, 357 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 1: and he's on some deport these Latinos. We're going to 358 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:33,239 Speaker 1: do something with the radical left, which is me. You know, 359 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 1: Muslim bands dictator for a day. Y'all heard the Project 360 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 1: twenty five, like they're talking about, like, you know, using 361 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: military to quell protests. That's some whole other shit that 362 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: I don't even imagine what that could possibly be. But 363 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 1: because historically we haven't had political power, we're continually left 364 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 1: with choices that some people feel aren't great for either side. 365 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: I could tell you I've been I've been a member 366 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 1: of Congress while President Biden has been president, and when 367 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: we had control of the House, we did way more governing. 368 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,239 Speaker 1: We did way more, we passed way more laws, did 369 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: way more good things. His achilles heels right now is gaza, 370 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: and he needs to respond differently to that. 371 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,120 Speaker 2: What did you think about Nikki Haley signing the bombs 372 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 2: and all that, And. 373 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: She's a she's a fucking she's a I was gonna say, 374 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: so crazy's she's a white supremacist man. So that's not 375 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,679 Speaker 1: that's not surprising me. Again, there's people like her in 376 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: Congress who believe in peace through strength and peace. True 377 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: strength means peace for white people, and we'll kill and 378 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 1: bomb and destroy any other country, particularly black and brown, 379 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,640 Speaker 1: if we want to. That's what peace through strength mean. 380 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,400 Speaker 1: So signing the bomb is an ode to the military 381 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: industrial complex. And we're strong and we're mighty, and no 382 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: one can defeat us. It's like many of my colleagues 383 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: don't understand diplomacy, don't understand peace, don't understand negotiation. And 384 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 1: when you consider the communities we all came from, we 385 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: did that shit every day, block the block, you know, 386 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: to make sure like shit didn't blow up to something 387 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: crazy and no one got killed. And people still get killed. 388 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: But we try to reduce that as much as possible. 389 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: We do that every day project the project. But fucking 390 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: in Washington, it's like it's just you know, doctor King said, 391 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 1: the the three ills we got to continue to fight 392 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: going forward, racism, capitalism, and militarism, And those are three 393 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: same things we're fighting right now. We got to continue 394 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: to fight those things. 395 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,919 Speaker 2: What do you think about black and brown people? A 396 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 2: lot of people saying, you know, what's going on in 397 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 2: guys in Israel, ain't ol fight an ain't our problem. 398 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 2: We have so many other problems when nobody comes to 399 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,400 Speaker 2: our defense. We have so many issues that nobody helps 400 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 2: to sell on our issues. So why should we dive 401 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 2: into what's happening over there? 402 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: So it's yeah, so it's both, it's white supremacy. So 403 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: what's happening in gods of what's happening in the Congo, 404 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: what's happening to Dan, what's happening in Caribbean. It's all 405 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: part of white supremacy. It's a part genocide of the 406 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: natives and slavering of the Africans, colonization of the continent, 407 00:19:54,119 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: destruction of Latino countries to force mass migration. Climate justice 408 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 1: is all under the umbrella white supremacy. So we should 409 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: all be serious about the feeding white supremacy. But also 410 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: we send three point eight billion in Israel every year. 411 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: They're already a wealthy country and already a powerful country. 412 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: Some have written that they don't even need our three 413 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: point eight billion. That three point eight billion could be 414 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 1: coming a Mount Vernon, Yonkers, Bronx, New Shell, all the 415 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:23,640 Speaker 1: communities that have been redlined and neglected. What we spend 416 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: on the military can be coming here. Not all of it, 417 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: because we got to defend ourselves, but more of it. Right, 418 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: So that's why it matters. It matters like I don't 419 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 1: want my taxpayer money going to commit genocide. I want 420 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: my taxpayer money coming here to help me have childcare, 421 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 1: to help me pay for my housing, to help me, 422 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: you know, develop myself in terms of workforce, to help 423 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: me pay for education, transportation, quality of life. We have 424 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: the biggest wealth in equality in this country since the 425 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: guilded age right now, and in my district. When you 426 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: look at every outcome, health outcomes, education outcomes, economic outcomes, wealth, 427 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 1: Black and Latino people at the bottom. Black's way bottom. 428 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: And so that money that we spent on genocide can 429 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 1: come here to help us. 430 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 4: What would the congressman, what do you think the appropriate 431 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 4: response to October seventh would have been? 432 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 3: Because also with the congressman, you know, war is a. 433 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: Part of it. 434 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 4: Yeah right, you know, like, so what would the appropriate 435 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 4: response have been? 436 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, go after Hamas, not all the civilians, you know 437 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So when we went into Iraq, we 438 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: went to Afghanistan. You know, first we went in trying 439 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: to blow everybody up, and then we were much more surgical, 440 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: much more strategic, and we got Bin louder than we 441 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: got Saddamus saying, what do you want surgical? 442 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 3: Because even when they had those conversations, but what they 443 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 3: call them insurgents. 444 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, the women and the children, like they just say, 445 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: you know, correct, correct, right, But that's what I'm saying. 446 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: Initially we were we were just going in and killing everybody. 447 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 1: That's what Israel's doing right now in Gaza, killing everybody. 448 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: And they use language like this. The president said, there 449 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: are no innocent civilians in Gaza. Uh and yah yah 450 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: who said remember amalac, which is a biblical reference to 451 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 1: a genocidal attack. Right, They color food, water, use white phosphorus, 452 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. You know right now as a 453 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: famine setting in because they're not letting the food get in. Right. 454 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,719 Speaker 1: So this right here are these are war crimes and 455 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: what could have been done is a surgical response to 456 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 1: get Hamas. But here's the bigger picture here. Hamas is 457 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: not a people, it's an idea. It's an idea that 458 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 1: that festers and nurtures in the minds of people who 459 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,919 Speaker 1: are historically oppressed. And so we have to deal with 460 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,640 Speaker 1: the oppression, not just the people who have been nurtured 461 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: as a result of the oppression. So Israel has been 462 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,159 Speaker 1: as referred to as apartheid state. Now Jamal Bowman's words, 463 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 1: the UN Human Rights watched other organizations apartheid state. Right, 464 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: So that means these people are growing up in apartheid. Right. 465 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: There's a military occupation for seventy five years in the 466 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: West that is against international law. There's settlement expansion into 467 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 1: the West Bank or what's supposed to be a Palstinian 468 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: state seven hundred thousand people that is against international law. 469 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,640 Speaker 1: There's the consistent detaining of women and children without due 470 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: process in the West Bank. This is these war crimes, 471 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: and so you got people growing up in that. So 472 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: it's not to justify anything. We condemned October seventh, absolutely outright, 473 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: because killing civilians is wrong. That's a war crime, absolutely, 474 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: but you can't condemn October seventh and then not condemn 475 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 1: what's happened since then or what happened before that. And 476 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: so surgical approach in this moment is better, But what's 477 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,919 Speaker 1: actually better is peace. We've been talking about two state solution. 478 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: We're the Palestinian state. I went there like I went 479 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: to Israel. I went to the West Bank. I've been 480 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 1: to Hebron and Ramala, and the place that's supposed to 481 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: be a Polstadian state, it has seven hundred thousand illegal 482 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: settlers from Israel on that land. So how are we 483 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,719 Speaker 1: going to have a state? We lion like, stop lying 484 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: to the people into ourselves. You want to stop hamas 485 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 1: and stop extremism. Let's have diplomacy and equity and opportunity 486 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: and stop trying to maintain his white supremacist canstas. 487 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,119 Speaker 4: What I've heard a lot of Progrial people saying is 488 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 4: that Harmas doesn't want peace, like Hamas's whole mission is 489 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 4: to wipe Jewish people off to face it face of 490 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 4: the earth. 491 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,160 Speaker 1: And that's why we gotta we gotta deal with Hamas. 492 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: The other part of that is in Yahoo empowered Hamas 493 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: over the course of years to destabilize the Palestinians so 494 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: that because Nan Yahu doesn't want a Palestinian state, yao, 495 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: who wants the Palestinians to leave and if they don't leave, 496 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: he will kill them. That's what he wants, so they 497 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,919 Speaker 1: can have all the land, that's what he wants. And 498 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:47,399 Speaker 1: so he's been empowering Hamas to undermine the PLO and 499 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 1: the Positilian authority so that they don't rise up as 500 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: as quality leaders because then it will be pressure on 501 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: him to have a Palestinian state. So then Yahoo is 502 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: a fucking nightmare in this whole scenario. But the US 503 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,120 Speaker 1: got to step in. We are the ones who support 504 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 1: there are allies, Okay, hold our allies accountable. We want 505 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,919 Speaker 1: to keep them safe. Let's have a Palestinian state. You 506 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: can have a safe Israel and a safe Palestine. You 507 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: could fight anti Semitism and have a free Palestine. And 508 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 1: that's what should we should be focused on. It's like 509 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,239 Speaker 1: we we don't. We don't have complex, nuanced thinking or 510 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: even the heart as we deal with these issues. Lead 511 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: with the heart first and not with fucking missiles. 512 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 3: Like why do you leftist? 513 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 4: Some leftist say they don't feel like you're critical enough 514 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 4: of Israel because. 515 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 1: Oh, clearly. 516 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 4: And clearlywise yeah, I mean, I mean I don't know, man, 517 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 4: I think there's there's there's purity tests out there, you 518 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 4: know what I mean, where like oh. 519 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: If you if you don't say this word this way 520 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: on in this medium, then then then you're not critical. 521 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: But like again, it's not about Israel, right, It's about humanity, right. 522 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: It's about who are we as a human race? And 523 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 1: who are we trying to be? You know what I'm saying. 524 00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: Are we trying to just be in a cycle of 525 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:04,199 Speaker 1: you know, disagreement, conflict, violence, war, genocide so that I 526 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 1: can have power and you can't. Is that just We're 527 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 1: just going to be in that human cycle for the 528 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 1: rest of human existence. All we're going to like put 529 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 1: the guns down, come together and figure out the way 530 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: to share this planet abundantly together. I think we can 531 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: do that. I think there's enough space for everyone to 532 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:24,200 Speaker 1: have land, home, food, clothing, shelter and realize their dreams. 533 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: But why supremacy stops that from happening? And that's why 534 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 1: that you know, the movie Origin and the book Cast 535 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: is so powerful because it talks about that cast system. 536 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: It's not just here, it's all over the place, and 537 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: it's like, fuck, man, like, can't we just figure out 538 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 1: how to live here together without the bullshit? 539 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,399 Speaker 4: I got one more question by is before I'm ask 540 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 4: you saything else, because I really don't know. Why are 541 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 4: both parties so beholden to isral? Is it because of 542 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 4: the money that comes from APEC? Like why what is it? 543 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,199 Speaker 1: I think that's part of it. I think that's a 544 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 1: major part of it. APAK writes resolutions and bills for 545 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 1: us to vote on, and they also fund the re 546 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 1: election campaign of like the majority of members of Congress 547 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 1: Republican and Democrat. That's amazing, that's amazing, And if you 548 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:13,440 Speaker 1: do something against them, they will come after you very aggressive, 549 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 1: like they're doing in my race. When we first got 550 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: to Congress, one of the things we learned of what 551 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: was happening is Israel wasn't sending vaccines to Palestinians, which 552 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 1: is their responsibility as an occupying power. So we wrote 553 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 1: a letter to the concert. Yo, y'all got to send 554 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,959 Speaker 1: them vaccines, Like, what are we doing consultly? You know? 555 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,359 Speaker 1: All kinds of people responded online, crazy, Oh he's talking 556 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 1: about Israel. We met with the consulates, etc. Et cetera, 557 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: good meeting. It was good. We co sponsored a bill 558 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: with one of my colleagues that only said, only asked 559 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 1: the question, what are you doing with our money? We 560 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: want to make sure you're not using our money to 561 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: detain women and children unjustly. We just co sponsored the bill. 562 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: It didn't have a vote. No one took a vote 563 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: on it. It definitely wasn't going to pass. They sent 564 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: a thousand let us to my office. We couldn't even 565 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: do our job for like a week or two because 566 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: they styre constantly bombarded in our office. They were protesting 567 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: outside my mouth Vernon office Israeli flag like and so 568 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,880 Speaker 1: so my colleagues don't want to deal with that. Many 569 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,880 Speaker 1: of them they're like, Yo, I'd rather just chill. Let 570 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 1: me keep this cushiony seat. It's a very cushy job. Man. 571 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:20,679 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You don't make a lot 572 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: of money. You know what I'm saying when you got 573 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: kids and family. But every night in DC there's some 574 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: lobbyist group throwing a free party with free food and 575 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: free drinks in a very nice hotel. And you in 576 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 1: DC look over looking the Capitol drinking. You're like, oh, 577 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 1: this is nice. 578 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 3: We've got the cocaine. 579 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: Though I have no idea. That's why I listen. 580 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 3: They found them in the White House. 581 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 1: I know, allegedly. I don't know. Man, listen, let me 582 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: tell you what I do. When I'm there. I'll vote 583 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: and I take my asshome. 584 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 2: That you feel about the rematch between Biden and Trump? 585 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 2: How do you think it's going. 586 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: I hope this is you know again, I support President Biden, 587 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: even though I'm totally against everything he's doing in Gayza, 588 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: I think he's a better president. And as a Democrat, 589 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: if we have the House and the Senate and he's president, 590 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: we're going to do stuff. 591 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 3: We've heard that before. 592 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: We we have done stuff though we're talking about we've 593 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: done heard that he saved the economy even when Trump 594 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: was in office. We saved the economy. 595 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 4: We heard that last time, but then everything got put 596 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 4: the blame got put on Joe Manson and Christen Cinema 597 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 4: and the whole. 598 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: Democracy. Right. And so it's interesting because you all saw 599 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 1: a brother, brother Rashad Balau, a clip from him shout. 600 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 1: He was talking about Biden and how people are not 601 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: energized by Biden, and and he's right about that. But 602 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: one somebody in the comments was like, yo, we got 603 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 1: thirty US Senate races. Look down ballot like you gotta 604 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 1: look down ballid. They don't have a tell us that. 605 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 4: And I agree with you, but that when we put 606 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 4: Biden in office, they were saying the same thing, right, 607 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 4: do y'all know these thingate is better than us? Y'all 608 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 4: know who not on the same page as y'all? Why 609 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 4: why volunteered that? You know we're all gonna be in 610 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 4: line and then is gonna have to tie. 611 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: Break again again. I'm gonna come back to your question, 612 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: but again it's it's you know, American Rescue Plan, chips 613 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 1: and science that bills we could point to that we 614 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: passed that we went and pass if we didn't have 615 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: all through, right, so real results there. But in terms 616 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,719 Speaker 1: of the thirty down ballots, you get the right senators 617 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: in the Senate. Now we could do more shit. Also, 618 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: there's something called the filibuster. Please please have someone I 619 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: think there's a book called kill Switch. I'm forgetting the 620 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: ought to have him here to talk about the filibuster 621 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: because right now what we have in the Senate, this 622 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: is why we need democracy reform, the democracy reform because 623 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 1: it's not like a simple majority in the Senate could 624 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: pass a bill. You need sixty forty and so what 625 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: we have is minority rule where fifty senators from smaller 626 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: states with less people have as much power in the 627 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: fifty senators. Right, So that that's part of it. But 628 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 1: in terms of the rematch, like again sport By then 629 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: Obie winning, so we could govern together and do more stuff. 630 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: But what they represent, both of them, I hope, is 631 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 1: the end of that kind of politics. Man, Like, it's 632 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: time to evolve into the democracy we can be for everyone, right, 633 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 1: and we need new candidates, right, we need Aana Presley, 634 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: we need uh, you know, Wes Moore. We need Gretchen Whitmore, 635 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: we need Yeah, we need new thinking people, shaparro people 636 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: with new ideas, new thoughts, engage the community differently, and 637 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 1: that has to happen in twenty twenty eight. I hate 638 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: talking about that now. My hope is whoever wins this election. 639 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: I hope it's not Biden. I mean Trump, who tries 640 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: to do some some stay in office forever ship and 641 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 1: we could get him out that. Yeah, but you know, 642 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 1: because I don't know what he's gonna do, and I 643 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: don't know how the military is gonna respond to his 644 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 1: orders and like real dangerous ship. But whoever it is, 645 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 1: four years, like twenty twenty eight, it got to be 646 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: a whole new America and a whole new farm policy. 647 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: So that's that's my hope. 648 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 3: A couple more questions really, this one. 649 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 4: They had a story out there that you had a 650 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 4: secret YouTube page, Yeah, and you would subscribe to channels 651 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 4: that shared like anti Semitic, flat earth and Illuminati conspiracy videos. 652 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 3: Is that true? 653 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,240 Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't even remember that shit, Like whatever the 654 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: YouTube page was or whatever. I mean, I don't know. 655 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: Sometimes you like things, you see a good video that 656 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 1: was like, oh, that shit was well, he said, it 657 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: was kind of interesting. Let me subscribe it. 658 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 3: But why can't you watch? 659 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: That? 660 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 3: Is what I'm saying. I'm not. 661 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: Agree, but it's about creating the perception that I'm a 662 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: conspiracy theorist, radical black nut job. You know, that's what 663 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: they're trying to do. This guy is not for for office. 664 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: He files conspiracy theories and shit that that's what they're 665 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: trying to do. We should be watched whatever we want. 666 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: I don't even know what page they're talking about, so 667 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 1: when I saw that, I'm like, I don't even remember 668 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 1: any of this. 669 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 3: So Marjorie Jaylor Green's a conspiracy theory. 670 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 1: Man, but she's in what what what what district? And Georgia, 671 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: She's in parts of Georgia. So got you got you 672 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: got Georgia, yo, Like fucking uh herschel Walker almost won 673 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 1: that sentence right against Rafaeld Walnock, who's the most upstanding, 674 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,800 Speaker 1: one of the most upstanding people I've seen in my life, 675 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: warnoc hershel Walker talking about was he talking about zombies 676 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 1: and whale wolves or something like that? He almost won, 677 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:24,600 Speaker 1: Like Warnock only won, but like percentage points. So Georgia 678 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 1: and parts of Georgia is a different beasts. 679 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 2: I feel I feel like, you know, with us, I 680 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 2: feel like we always you know, I'm talking about black 681 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,960 Speaker 2: and brown people. I feel like we lose so much, 682 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,760 Speaker 2: right because if you look at the presidency before into 683 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 2: my opinion, my knowledge of what I've seen, it was 684 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 2: about what's going on with us, Right. We could talk 685 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 2: about healthcare, we could talk about you know, free education, 686 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 2: we could talk about all these different things. But now 687 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,760 Speaker 2: it seems like the last six months the only topics 688 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 2: and the only talking points have been gayza in Israel, 689 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 2: and that just it just seems so so what happened 690 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 2: from there? Because that's that's all I'm talking about. I mean, 691 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 2: when when Biden you know, went to you know, More 692 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,120 Speaker 2: House and he was talking the biggest thing that we 693 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 2: took out if it was him talking about the guys 694 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,480 Speaker 2: in Israel. When when all these things happen, it just 695 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 2: seems like we lose the focus of what I'm not 696 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 2: gonna say important because that is important, but what's also important. 697 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 3: That's why America first resonates with people. 698 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, one hundred percent. And who's that is 699 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:18,759 Speaker 1: that Trump's thing? Yeah, that's Trump's saying and that's Republicans thing. 700 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: I mean, they're completely full of shit. But yeah, I 701 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,799 Speaker 1: know why they say that, you know, yeah, it's that's 702 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: why in twenty twenty eight, even now though, but that's 703 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 1: why in twenty twenty eight we need a whole at 704 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 1: the top of the ticket. We need like people to 705 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: constantly bring it back here. Like the fact that federal 706 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,799 Speaker 1: minimum wage is seven twenty five an hour. When I 707 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: first got the Congress, we tried to raise it to fifteen. 708 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,799 Speaker 1: We couldn't do that. It's crazy. The fact that we 709 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,319 Speaker 1: don't have a federal paid leave program like and other 710 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,839 Speaker 1: developed countries have paid leave. You you know, you have 711 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 1: a child, you get to stay home with your child 712 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,839 Speaker 1: X amount of time. I'm I'm really radical with this. 713 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: I think you should have like two years paid person. 714 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: That's right because Russian back it's a Russian rushing back 715 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:05,920 Speaker 1: to work with three months or a few weeks. That's 716 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: breaking a sacred bond between mother and child. 717 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 2: The only problem with that is is if it's a 718 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:13,680 Speaker 2: small business, it hurts. 719 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:14,480 Speaker 1: If it's a. 720 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,319 Speaker 2: Major corporation, correct, it's a little different. But if it's 721 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 2: a small business and you got three employees and that's 722 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,279 Speaker 2: one of your biggest employees that handles things that she 723 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,719 Speaker 2: can't be out for two months, two years, because yeah, 724 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,720 Speaker 2: you would have to pay and then bringing somebody else. 725 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: The federal government step in. We wouldn't be calling on 726 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,759 Speaker 1: the business to do it. The federal government needs to 727 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,960 Speaker 1: step in and do it. That's why we support universal 728 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,879 Speaker 1: health care Medicare for all, because small businesses are really 729 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 1: hurt by this. They gott to provide health care so 730 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,920 Speaker 1: the employees that really hurts their bottom line, if the 731 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 1: federal government took that from them, had a single pay 732 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 1: of system, they wouldn't have to do that. And so 733 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,800 Speaker 1: these are policies that if implemented accordingly, we're going to 734 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:55,880 Speaker 1: have incredible economic results because now we got generations of 735 00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:00,640 Speaker 1: children who are not growing up in trauma because their 736 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,120 Speaker 1: mama is home with them nurturing them, or because we 737 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,760 Speaker 1: have universal childcare to take care of them. But instead 738 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:10,799 Speaker 1: what we have is a system that's everything based on 739 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,719 Speaker 1: open free market capitalism, and so we don't have enough childcare. 740 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,839 Speaker 1: So you got kids growing up in trauma, and those 741 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,040 Speaker 1: are kids who end up in the school of prison pipeline. 742 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,880 Speaker 1: So if we did it right, not just with that policy, 743 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,759 Speaker 1: but others. You will see economic growth tremendously, right. You 744 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 1: will see a decrease in jail and police costs because 745 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:30,920 Speaker 1: you don't need it as much. And you will see 746 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,960 Speaker 1: a decrease in health care costs because guess what, when 747 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,920 Speaker 1: your brain develops accordingly, because you're not dealing with trauma, 748 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: you have better overall health outcomes. Again, this is research 749 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:45,000 Speaker 1: look up adverse childhood experiences and aces, research projects done 750 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,399 Speaker 1: many many years ago in the medical field. And so 751 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:52,960 Speaker 1: we need scholarship and humanity to drive our politics. Right now, 752 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 1: we have big money and war and fucking racism driving 753 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:57,880 Speaker 1: our politics. 754 00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,480 Speaker 4: I'm glad you said. I'm glad you brought up the 755 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,440 Speaker 4: minimum wage too. I was in Florida Saturday. One of 756 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,160 Speaker 4: my book sign as a sister named Kim. She had 757 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,040 Speaker 4: a broke leg and she was like, this is why 758 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,200 Speaker 4: Joe Biden is gonna have to earn my vote, because 759 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,720 Speaker 4: he didn't fight hard enough to get federal minimum wage increase, 760 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,640 Speaker 4: and he didn't fight hard enough to pass voting RECs. 761 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:16,799 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean. 762 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,040 Speaker 4: When you actually talk to people, when you actually travel 763 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,200 Speaker 4: the country and talk to people, Yeah, yeah, you get 764 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,200 Speaker 4: to really see what's on people This. 765 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,759 Speaker 1: Is why he and his people got to go talk 766 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,000 Speaker 1: to pet right, right, because again like like I could 767 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000 Speaker 1: say right because I know a little bit more, not more, 768 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,520 Speaker 1: but different perspective because of in Congress, I would say 769 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,279 Speaker 1: the Joe Mansion thing, and also the Supreme Court shit, 770 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,600 Speaker 1: right like and what they've done with voter rights and 771 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:45,440 Speaker 1: other bills. But again like that, like I don't want 772 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 1: to hear I ain't voting shit. The system don't work 773 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,080 Speaker 1: for me. The system don't work for us historically because 774 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,280 Speaker 1: of racism and all the shit, and that's kept us away. 775 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 1: So we haven't been able to build power. We have 776 00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 1: to build power right now going forward so that we 777 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,560 Speaker 1: don't have this this dilemma where we're picking too candidates 778 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,480 Speaker 1: where most people won't like either one of them. We 779 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,319 Speaker 1: have to build the power in our communities and in 780 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,080 Speaker 1: our political system so that we are deciding who the 781 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,320 Speaker 1: next president is, next governor and next county executive, next mayors, 782 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,839 Speaker 1: but also the down ballot and in between. People go 783 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,320 Speaker 1: back to the static day before forty thousand black and 784 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,200 Speaker 1: Latino men in the district have never voted. They could 785 00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:26,280 Speaker 1: have decided when you so in the west Chester County 786 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,719 Speaker 1: when you decide who the county executive is. That person 787 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,360 Speaker 1: has a two point three billion dollar budget. That person's 788 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,279 Speaker 1: going to make decisions about that budget. If you are 789 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,239 Speaker 1: voting engaged in the process, you could then be like, yo, 790 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,160 Speaker 1: you better put money over here. We vote in your 791 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,479 Speaker 1: ass out of office. When you go walk through parts 792 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:44,919 Speaker 1: of Yonkers, you think you walk through something one hundred 793 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,120 Speaker 1: years ago, like go Yonkers, YMCA, YWCA, Mount Vernon was 794 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:53,359 Speaker 1: in girls club. It's a travesty that these it's these 795 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 1: organizations look like they haven't had any investment in one 796 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,759 Speaker 1: hundred years. And if I go to again of all 797 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 1: parts of my district, right Scottsdale, but they're YMCA after 798 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,399 Speaker 1: Hurricane I was built again in like a month two 799 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,279 Speaker 1: months because they got the resources to do it and 800 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,480 Speaker 1: it's state of the art, while we got to keep 801 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,400 Speaker 1: not having stated the ardship. I want to stay the 802 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,200 Speaker 1: odd ship for all people, but particularly historically marginalized people 803 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,800 Speaker 1: in my district, Mount Vernie, Yokos, the Bronx, et cetera. 804 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,080 Speaker 1: But all over the country, where do they go to us? 805 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:26,160 Speaker 1: Support you brother, thank you bowmanfocongress dot com. We need 806 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,920 Speaker 1: your help. Is seventeen days away from early voting. APAK 807 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,000 Speaker 1: is spending more money in this race than they have 808 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,160 Speaker 1: ever spent in history. I hold that as a fucking 809 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,239 Speaker 1: badger honor because it means I'm fighting for the right thing, 810 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,319 Speaker 1: fighting for freedom, justice, equality, humanity for all people. So 811 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 1: you can help us out, bowmanfocongress dot com. Click the 812 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,440 Speaker 1: donate button, Donate a couple bucks, whatever you could do, 813 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,920 Speaker 1: ten thirty dollars, whatever you could do. But also volunteer 814 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,920 Speaker 1: button because we need people on the door, so volunteer. 815 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 1: We got phone banks doing knocking every single day for 816 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,200 Speaker 1: the next twenty seven days, but definitely before early voting 817 00:39:59,360 --> 00:39:59,960 Speaker 1: June fifteen. 818 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,239 Speaker 2: All right, we appreciate you for joining us. Before you 819 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,239 Speaker 2: walked in, Jess and I were talking about, you know, 820 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,759 Speaker 2: Trump pulling up on your district. Yes, and what did 821 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,480 Speaker 2: you think about that, especially with the sleepy hollow. 822 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:11,600 Speaker 3: Is just like, oh my god, he's about to talk 823 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:12,359 Speaker 3: for another ten minutes. 824 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,279 Speaker 5: He pulled a bit of district. What did you think 825 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,799 Speaker 5: about it? So it wasn't my district. It was the 826 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,480 Speaker 5: South Bronx South, So it wasn't my district. I mean, 827 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,640 Speaker 5: Trump is a fucking clown, like his whole shit. He's 828 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:30,040 Speaker 5: a caricature and that's how he acts, you know, and 829 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:30,760 Speaker 5: that's how he behaves. 830 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,520 Speaker 1: So everything with him is the show's there. It's the bullshit, 831 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,000 Speaker 1: And so I ain't really you know, my sister shout 832 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,160 Speaker 1: to AOC. She went out there and did account of protests, 833 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,520 Speaker 1: and I know other local elected officials did count of protest, 834 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,560 Speaker 1: but he said twenty thousand. It was like thirty five 835 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,880 Speaker 1: hundred there, like it wasn't really twenty He's a clown. 836 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,879 Speaker 1: I hope he goes away literally, you know, gets held 837 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,319 Speaker 1: accountable for what he's done. But uh, I just I 838 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,560 Speaker 1: just can't wait to move forward from him and MAGA 839 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,480 Speaker 1: and raise the consciousness of the people. 840 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,839 Speaker 2: Man as Congressman Jamal Bowman, we appreciate you for joining 841 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:03,440 Speaker 2: us this morning. 842 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:04,040 Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. 843 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,719 Speaker 2: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake that ass up 844 00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:07,759 Speaker 2: in the morning. 845 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:08,960 Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club