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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome, Hey, everybody.

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Speaker 4: This episode is a replay of one of our interviews

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Speaker 4: from our live stream as a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's

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Speaker 4: Annual Legislative Conference. If you want to listen to or

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Speaker 4: episode description. You can also find a full list of

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Speaker 4: all the guests we interviewed.

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Speaker 3: Welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 4: We are so fortunate to be joined now by Congressman

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Speaker 4: Troy Carter, who is an Annual Legislative Conference co chair.

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Speaker 3: He is representing New Orleans.

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Speaker 4: And we also are being joined by Congresswoman Joyce Batty,

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Speaker 4: who is a CBC Foundation board member. And we also

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Speaker 4: see present the extraordinary, extraordinarily brilliant and beautiful Summerly. Congresswoman Summerly.

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Speaker 4: We might as well get y'all all up, because you'll

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Speaker 4: come to go line up.

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Speaker 3: To march across that stage. In just a moment, she

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Speaker 3: didn't walk, She floated. She did floated. She elegantly floated

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Speaker 3: into conceeats.

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Speaker 4: I want to shout out my friends Quentin and Stephanie Brown,

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Speaker 4: who are here.

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Speaker 3: Also, we're gonna get them on. We got all the members,

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Speaker 3: y'all because they gotta go, They gotta go. Line up.

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Speaker 3: Look at you.

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Speaker 5: You look beautiful, beautiful and handsome and handsome.

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Speaker 3: So happy to have you guys here.

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Speaker 4: So from vision to victory. We are the last day

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Speaker 4: of the conference. How do you think we've done? Are

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Speaker 4: we closer to the victory? And this is a non

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Speaker 4: partisan question, to be.

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Speaker 6: Very We're absolutely closer to the victory.

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Speaker 4: Get closer to the mic.

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Speaker 6: We're absolutely closer to the victory. When you look at

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Speaker 6: the excitement, the energy, the commitment, people see the opportunity

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Speaker 6: to save our democracy. And I think while this has

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Speaker 6: been a great opportunity to come together, party with a purpose.

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Speaker 6: While we're having a good time, we're also talking about

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Speaker 6: significant policy. We're talking about making sure that the antidote

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Speaker 6: to Trump twenty twenty five is November fifth, twenty twenty

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Speaker 6: four vote.

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Speaker 4: I want to come to you, miss baby, and I

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Speaker 4: also want to defer to my colleagues. But I wanted

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Speaker 4: to start here because I heard someone say to me

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Speaker 4: the other day.

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Speaker 3: They were like, there's a member of Congress.

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Speaker 4: She got this short PIXI cut and she had sharper

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Speaker 4: and she gave us our marching orders at Black Women's Agenda.

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Speaker 4: So I know you can tear the house now. So

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Speaker 4: what you got for us, I know you got something

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Speaker 4: to say. And by the way, we would not be

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Speaker 4: here at this conference without the advocacy, the fierce advocacy

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Speaker 4: a Congressman Joyce Bady, and she does it for the

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Speaker 4: people every single day.

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Speaker 7: So thank you, no, thank you all for doing this.

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Speaker 7: And I certainly agree with Congressman Troy Carter. And let

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Speaker 7: me just say, we are closer because we have a platform.

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Speaker 7: We are closer because we have a candidate fat not

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Speaker 7: partisan when you think about we're here for CBC FLC.

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Speaker 7: We took fifty percent of little Black babies out of poverty.

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Speaker 7: We put thirty five dollars cap on insulin for our

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Speaker 7: seniors and others. We put sixty five billion dollars into

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Speaker 7: HBCUs and I'm an HBCU see you graduate. And if

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Speaker 7: that's not good enough, let's talk about loan forgiveness one

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Speaker 7: hundred and sixty seven billion dollars for some sixty four

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Speaker 3: So we have a platform.

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Speaker 7: Economy is better. Fifteen million jobs inflation. Now, if you

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Speaker 7: look at the plan of the two different visions, I

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Speaker 7: certainly want to be on the sister's vision.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm just saying KKK.

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Speaker 7: You know what we usually think about when we hear that, Well,

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna give it a DEI name on King's Day,

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Speaker 7: Katanji Jackson. Brown's gonna square in kam La Harris.

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Speaker 4: Right, that's my kkj kk.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm because I got a black job. My black

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Speaker 7: job twenty twenty five. As Troy said, it's bad. It

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Speaker 7: dismantles everything that we believe in in our values. So

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna call it twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Vote.

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Speaker 7: I just need everybody to vote. But let's not get

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Speaker 7: we are a long way from it until we get

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Speaker 7: the energy and double it for the next fifty some

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Speaker 5: Love that congress Woman Lead, thank you so much for

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Speaker 5: joining us. I love the margin orders we just got

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Speaker 5: from Congressman Baby Jotaka Edie, who I'm sure you guys.

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Speaker 3: Know her, one of my dear friends.

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Speaker 5: Yes, we love Joe Teka and her work around one

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Speaker 5: with black women. She addressed the conference this week and

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Speaker 5: one point that she made here in DC inauguration weekend,

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Speaker 5: there is no accommodation. Hotels are sold out. That is

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Speaker 5: how confident people are about this election. And so I

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Speaker 5: hear your caution Joe Taka's marching orders, where if you

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Speaker 5: have a hotel room booked here, but you ain't registered

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Speaker 5: nobody to vote.

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Speaker 3: There, then you ain't been doing your job.

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Speaker 5: So Congressoman Lee, I'm curious what you would say to

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Speaker 5: people out there who are rightfully celebratory of this moment

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Speaker 5: after what we've been through as a people and as

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Speaker 5: a country. What are your marching orders to our audience

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Speaker 5: watching right now?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, so listen, I'm in Pennsylvania, So I always take excitement.

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Speaker 8: I take joy that I see especially in these places,

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Speaker 8: right because when we gather, we bring this sort of energy,

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Speaker 8: but when we go home, we forget sometimes that we're

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Speaker 8: going back to people who are.

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Speaker 2: In these circles.

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Speaker 8: Yeah right, they're not getting dressed up tonight. They haven't

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Speaker 8: been able to hear all the inspiration from these panels.

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Speaker 8: They haven't absorbed all the black excellence that we've been absorbing.

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Speaker 8: So we got to go back to the states just

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Speaker 8: like mine, to western Pennsylvania, and we actually have to

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Speaker 8: talk to people who are not as tuned in as

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Speaker 8: we are, and that's not as easy. And it's okay

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Speaker 8: to admit that when we talk about what solar Baby

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Speaker 8: said that we have a plan, we have to take it.

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Speaker 2: That's our responsibility.

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Speaker 8: We have to go on doors and we have to

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Speaker 8: let folks know what's that stake and what we can

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Speaker 2: We have to let people know.

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Speaker 8: That hope isn't something that is just a word, but

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Speaker 8: when we step up for ourselves, we can get those

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Speaker 8: things done. But you know, that is translating all of

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Speaker 8: this into some actual action. We always get folks who

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Speaker 8: And I love rallies, y'all, I do. There's a lot

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Speaker 8: of energy out these rallies. But the reality is is

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Speaker 8: We need to go and get.

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Speaker 2: Black folks on college campuses.

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Speaker 8: We got to go and get young folks who are

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Speaker 8: reasonably concerned about a lot of stuff. We need to

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Speaker 8: take that concern and we need to help connect them

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Speaker 8: into the system. We need to plug them in, and

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Speaker 8: we got to be patient with them. So I'm seeing

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Speaker 8: this and I think that this is a really good foundation.

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Speaker 8: But we know in these fifty something days, we have

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Speaker 8: work to do still.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's so.

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Speaker 5: It's kind of like an analogy for the kids who

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Speaker 5: show up to the guidance counselor's office because they want

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Speaker 5: are in the most need. It's the kids who are

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Speaker 5: not participating. So I love that you made that point.

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Speaker 5: I think that's a poignant.

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Speaker 9: I don't want to be a Donald downer, but I

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Speaker 9: do want to say a lot of people elect people

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Speaker 9: to public office and then they start to criticize those

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Speaker 9: individuals basically saying, well, they didn't get done.

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Speaker 1: What it is that they said they would do.

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Speaker 9: I often try to remind folks, look, we came here

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Speaker 9: that taken away before then we're still seeing laws that

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Speaker 9: are passed that bring us into our full existence. What

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Speaker 9: does Kamala Harris. In addition to folks going out and

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Speaker 9: voting and organizing for her, what companionship does she need

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Speaker 9: in order to facilitate the movement of an agenda that

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Speaker 9: makes life different for people in the streets.

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Speaker 3: She needs an.

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Speaker 6: Acheen Jeffries to be Speaker of the House.

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Speaker 3: We need to have.

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Speaker 6: A full complement of democratic senators in the majority in

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Speaker 6: the US Senate. We need a patient community, a faith

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Speaker 6: based community, an academia, nonprofit and business to recognize that

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Speaker 6: the alternative is no democracy. The alternative is a reversal

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Speaker 6: of people's rights. The alternative is a total ignoring of

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Speaker 6: the Constitution and the rights that we have.

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Speaker 2: We cannot go backwards.

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Speaker 6: And so when you think about where we are, we

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Speaker 6: most consequential candidate to have ever served as vice president,

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Speaker 6: and no one has had as much experience as she

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Speaker 6: will suggest otherwise. Everyone should stand and defend and just

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Speaker 3: The facts bear out.

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Speaker 6: Kamala Harris clearly has the requisite skill sets, temperament and abilities.

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Speaker 6: What we have to do as a people, as Jesse

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Speaker 6: Jackson said in nineteen eighty eight, you can't helpe me in.

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Speaker 3: You have to vote me in.

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Speaker 6: So we've got to remind people that for the next

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Speaker 6: fifty one fifty two fifty three days.

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Speaker 3: We got to hump.

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Speaker 6: We got to just as as Selig just said, we

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Speaker 6: can't depend on the circles that we're in. We're the

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Speaker 6: choir preaching to the choir. We've got to go out

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Speaker 6: can't afford to think we've got this thing one so

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Speaker 6: we can celebrate. No, No, it's going to be close. And

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Speaker 6: in order to make sure that we could defend what

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Speaker 6: will happen on election day, we have to make sure

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Speaker 6: it is a solid victory.

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Speaker 3: You know, I want to flag for you all.

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Speaker 4: Of course, the Congressional Black Caucus is known as the

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Speaker 4: conscience of the Congress. And with the three of you

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Speaker 4: all sitting here, you all have divergent politics. Your politics

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Speaker 4: aren't all the way aligned. And what I love about

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Speaker 4: this is people get to see themselves reflected in each

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Speaker 4: see from how you vote, from the way you negotiate,

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Speaker 4: from what you say in committee, the differences. There was

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Speaker 4: one moment yesterday that I wanted to mention at the

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Speaker 4: top of the show, and I forgot until now.

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Speaker 3: But this conference is always.

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Speaker 4: A convening for people of divergent opinions and perspectives to share.

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Speaker 3: In forums, people get up and ask questions, sometimes want

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Speaker 3: a debate with y'all. But there was this really harrowing

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Speaker 4: I was walking out of the Salamander and there was

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Speaker 7: Thank you so much. Do we realize that now, I'll

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Speaker 7: But what's even better when you put it all together,

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Speaker 2: We got both parts that we wanted.

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Speaker 8: And if I could add to that, just even with

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Speaker 2: That's what this is about. And right now, when we.

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Speaker 2: What we know, what Republicans know, and what.

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Speaker 8: We need to know, is that that coalition of black folks,

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Speaker 2: So we need to pull that together.

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Speaker 7: You need to go back and tell them when they

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Speaker 7: So we have to make sure we keep our history.

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Speaker 4: This lady said, I have receipts, and on type of received,

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Speaker 4: y'all also have time. We have the chairwoman Terry Sewell

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Speaker 4: And I know y'all got to get ready to go

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Speaker 4: meet your president.

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Speaker 7: Thank you for letting me.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Congressman Carter, Congresswoman Baby, Congressman summer Lee. We

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