Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central August twelfth, twenty ninety.
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Speaker 4: We're coming out on Trevin Noah how.
Speaker 5: A guest tonight is a congresswoman from Massachusetts and she's
Speaker 5: one of the full women.
Speaker 3: Who make up the squad. Ayanna Pressley is here everybody.
Speaker 5: Also on tonight's show, Democrats have an eaton contest, Hong
Speaker 5: Kong protests are now affecting the skies, and I reveal
Speaker 5: which billionaire pedophile killed himself in prison this weekend.
Speaker 3: It might surprise you. So let's catch up on today's headlines.
Speaker 5: Let's beget in the world of sports and superherooness. This
Speaker 5: past weekend was the US Gymnastics Championships, where top athletes
Speaker 5: competed in a range of events including high bars, the
Speaker 5: pommel horse, and the ring thingies. And while all of
Speaker 5: these athletes are pretty amazing, there is one in particular
Speaker 5: who is simply in a league of her own.
Speaker 6: Simone Biles finished off a milestone field weekend with another
Speaker 6: US Gymnastics National championship the final night, including the Olympic
Speaker 6: champ coming the first woman to perform a gravity to
Speaker 6: find triple double during the four exercise that follow another
Speaker 6: history making move Friday on the balance beam, two.
Speaker 5: Flips, two twists, never been done in competition.
Speaker 3: Let me see that. Wow, that was amazing.
Speaker 5: The only time I've seen someone do two flips and
Speaker 5: three twists was when my uncle was drunk and trying
Speaker 5: to get into a hammock.
Speaker 3: That's the only time I've seen that.
Speaker 5: And by the way, by the way, at the end
Speaker 5: of the competition, Simone Biles somehow didn't have a perfect
Speaker 5: score from the judges, which in my opinion means the assholes.
Speaker 5: You know all they know more about gymnastics than I do,
Speaker 5: but I prefer to think of them as assholes because
Speaker 5: if someone does something completely new in a competition, how
Speaker 5: is that not.
Speaker 3: A perfect score? Huh? What are you saying? It's just
Speaker 3: like I've never seen that before. But it could have
Speaker 3: been better. I think it could have been better. And
Speaker 3: can we all.
Speaker 5: Agree that gymnastics is an amazing sport to watch, but
Speaker 5: none of us knows what's really.
Speaker 3: Going on, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 5: Like, if they just land on their feet and do this,
Speaker 5: in my head, it's.
Speaker 3: A perfect score.
Speaker 1: I'm done.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a lot like watching a chef at Benny Hannah.
Speaker 5: As long as they fuss with the knives, I'm impressed.
Speaker 4: It's just like kink kink, kinking, kinking.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, this guy knows how to cook. This
Speaker 3: guy that got out. Moving on to some international news.
Speaker 5: Over the past few months, people in Hong Kong have
Speaker 5: taken to the streets to protest China's increasing influence on
Speaker 5: their previously autonomous city, and after weeks of protests in
Speaker 5: the streets, today they took their demonstration to the next level.
Speaker 7: Now of those massive protests in Hong Kong bringing one
Speaker 7: of the busiest airports in the world who Standstill. This morning,
Speaker 7: outbound flights canceled for the rest of the day after
Speaker 7: thousands of pro democracy demonstrators right there swarming the main terminal.
Speaker 7: This comes after a weekend of violent classes. Hong Kong
Speaker 7: police are defending their use of force, including using tear
Speaker 7: gas inside a train station.
Speaker 5: Damn that airport looks crazy, yet somehow still better than LaGuardia.
Speaker 1: And rarely.
Speaker 5: After seeing this, there is no way you can doubt
Speaker 5: the dedication of these protesters in Hong Kong because.
Speaker 3: They went to the airport not to fly, but to protest.
Speaker 3: Do you know how committed you have to be? Even
Speaker 3: when I am flying, I don't want to go to
Speaker 3: an airport. I hate the airport.
Speaker 5: Last week my mom asked me to pick her up
Speaker 5: from JFK, so.
Speaker 3: She lives there.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I told you, mam, don't test me. You don't test me.
Speaker 3: And can you imagine like getting.
Speaker 5: Off the flight and seeing this, because you forget people
Speaker 5: and landing as well, you'd probably want to get right
Speaker 5: back on your plane because this is chaos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, unless you flew on Spirit Airlines. Spirit Airlines, it's.
Speaker 5: Like a violent Chinese protest in the sky. And finally,
Speaker 5: while many in the US are still dealing with last
Speaker 5: weekend's mass shootings, some jackass in Missouri thought it was
Speaker 5: a good idea to do this tonight.
Speaker 8: Dmitriandre Chenko is in jail on charges of making a
Speaker 8: terrorist threat after setting off fears of a mass shooting.
Speaker 8: The twenty year old walked into this walmart in Springfield, Missouri,
Speaker 8: dressed in body armor carrying an assault rifle. He had
Speaker 8: one hundred rounds of ammunition. A store manager pulling the
Speaker 8: fire alarm, sending customers fleeing outside, police saying under Chenko
Speaker 8: told them he quote wanted to know if that Walmart
Speaker 8: honored the Second Amendment, and that due to three recent
Speaker 8: shootings and a stabbing, he wanted to protect himself.
Speaker 1: His intent was not to cause peace or.
Speaker 3: Comfort to anybody that was in the business here.
Speaker 1: In fact, he's lucky he's alive still.
Speaker 5: To be honest, Yeah, this kid walked into a Walmart
Speaker 5: wearing full body armah and carrying a giant ass gun
Speaker 5: and he says it was all like a prank or
Speaker 5: an experiment. And I'll be honest, I don't know how
Speaker 5: much he demonstrates the power of the Second Amendments, but
Speaker 5: that was a very effective demonstration of white privilege.
Speaker 3: That's what that was. Because, uh, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna warn you now.
Speaker 5: I will warn you now, do not try this shit
Speaker 5: if you are black, all Muslim, all one of.
Speaker 3: Those Greek people who are super tanned.
Speaker 5: I will say this though, like the kid has exposed
Speaker 5: how crazy open carry laws are. Right in many states,
Speaker 5: you can just walk around with an inssault rifle, and
Speaker 5: it's completely legal until the moment you threaten someone, which
Speaker 5: is terrifying in a country where there's this many shootings.
Speaker 5: Open carrier is like having a law where you're allowed
Speaker 5: to dress up like a clown and sneak into someone's
Speaker 5: bedroom with a knife.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the person's just like, Oh, are you here
Speaker 3: to stab me? It's like, no, No, I'm just testing
Speaker 3: the law man. Go back to sleep.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 3: That's it for the headlines.
Speaker 5: Let's move on to our main story, Jeffrey Epstein. Since
Speaker 5: his arrest last month for running an underage sex trafficking ring,
Speaker 5: there were hopes that his upcoming trial would finally expose
Speaker 5: the full extent of his crimes and who else was involved.
Speaker 5: But over the weekend that all became a lot less likely.
Speaker 3: We welcome back.
Speaker 9: We continue to follow this breaking news. Accused sex trafficker
Speaker 9: Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Sources say the multimillionaire financier was
Speaker 9: found unresponsive in his Manhattan jail cell early this morning.
Speaker 9: Officials believe he hanged himself.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 5: Pedophile and fake billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in
Speaker 5: his jail cell after he apparently committed suicide on Saturday morning, which,
Speaker 5: if you ask me, is some bullshits, right, No, because
Speaker 5: I wanted Jeffrey Epstein to stay alive for two reasons.
Speaker 5: One so that his victims could get their day in courts,
Speaker 5: and two I want him to snitch on all his
Speaker 5: high profile pedophile friends.
Speaker 3: Now he's dead, this is gone. You know who we need?
Speaker 3: We need that red Lady from Game of Thrones to
Speaker 3: wake his ass up. That's a renaed come on, Jeffrey.
Speaker 5: And what makes this whole Epstein thing even worse is
Speaker 5: that we already had questions about his whole pedophile operation.
Speaker 5: Now we have additional questions about how he died this morning.
Speaker 10: The question on many minds how did Jeffrey Epstein die
Speaker 10: while in federal custody.
Speaker 11: Epstein had been taken off suicide watch and was supposed
Speaker 11: to have been checked by guards every thirty minutes, but
Speaker 11: that procedure was not being followed the night before he
Speaker 11: was found.
Speaker 10: Sources close to the investigation say Epstein underwent a psychiatric
Speaker 10: evaluation and they cleared him from suicide waunch on or
Speaker 10: about July twenty ninth, allowing him to return to his cell.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They weren't checking in on Epstein, and they took him
Speaker 5: off suicide watch.
Speaker 4: Why.
Speaker 5: Like, I'm not an expert on psychology, but if someone
Speaker 5: tries to commit suicide, I don't think two more weeks
Speaker 5: of jail would suddenly improve their outlook on life. Now,
Speaker 5: you may remember the reason this Jeffrey Epstein case blew
Speaker 5: up wasn't just because of the magnitude of his crimes,
Speaker 5: but also because his circle included some high profile individuals,
Speaker 5: everyone from Bill Clinton and Donald Trump all the way
Speaker 5: to famous scientists.
Speaker 3: And even royalty.
Speaker 5: And because the story involved so many people who were
Speaker 5: so powerful, many out there wondering if Epstein really suicided himself.
Speaker 12: This is a suspected suicide, and it just smells fishy
Speaker 12: to so many people.
Speaker 11: The time is so suspicious.
Speaker 5: This comes just one day after those documents were unsealed.
Speaker 7: I not I believe in a conspiracy theory, but I
Speaker 7: do believe there's lots of suspicious activity to investigate here.
Speaker 13: Twitter erupted with a number of other conspiracy theories following
Speaker 13: the news. The shocking news of Epstein's apparent suicide, hashtags
Speaker 13: like Trump body count and Clinton body count, and Epstein
Speaker 13: murder were among the top US trends. Trump retweeted a
Speaker 13: baseless conspiracy theory tying the Clintons to the death of
Speaker 13: Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 5: I mean, I get everyone else on Twitter, but the
Speaker 5: presidents of the United States is also retweeting conspiracy theories
Speaker 5: that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered by the Clintons. Yeah, the
Speaker 5: presidents did this, which is pretty wild. I mean, because
Speaker 5: this is the type of moment where you would think
Speaker 5: the president would be the voice of reason.
Speaker 3: Instead, Trump is jumping into the fray.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, he's like, he's basically that.
Speaker 5: Dad that when a fight breaks out in the little
Speaker 5: league game he runs into the field, but instead of
Speaker 5: breaking it up, starts buddy slamming the third graders.
Speaker 3: Yeah take that.
Speaker 14: Take that, Take Dad, because he's doing this in pub.
Speaker 5: You know what Trump needs. Trump needs a fin stuff.
Speaker 5: That's what he needs. Yeah, one of those secret Instagram
Speaker 5: accounts that only your close friends can.
Speaker 3: See, that's what he needs.
Speaker 5: Then he can use that to just go crazy with
Speaker 5: these racist stuff, conspiracy theories, butt picks. He can just
Speaker 5: let it all out, just get it all out, and
Speaker 5: America doesn't.
Speaker 3: Have to stress. But this time though, this time it's
Speaker 3: not just Trump.
Speaker 5: It seems like everybody thinks that something shady happened here.
Speaker 5: People on the rights are saying it was the Clintons
Speaker 5: who killed Jeffrey. People on the left are saying.
Speaker 3: Trump killed him. Jesse Smoletz says it was two white
Speaker 3: Nigerian guys. And I don't know, guys, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm not a conspiracy theory, but something weird happened here,
Speaker 5: Like I was thinking, maybe it wasn't Trump or the Clintons,
Speaker 5: maybe it was America.
Speaker 10: This incident should make us all troubled about the jail system.
Speaker 5: We know that there are many deaths by suicide in
Speaker 5: jails throughout the country.
Speaker 15: The Metropolitan Correctional Center has been understaffed, leading to low
Speaker 15: morale among guards, and the two guards in the Special
Speaker 15: Housing uniwhere Epstein was kept were both on overtime, one
Speaker 15: of the guards on his fifth overtime shift of the week.
Speaker 11: Sources of the jail tell CBS News they often rely
Speaker 11: on certain inmates to assist guards in monitoring other inmates
Speaker 11: due to a lack of manpower.
Speaker 5: Yeah you heard that. Rights. Thanks to overwork stuff and
Speaker 5: underfunded prisons. Suicide among inmates is all too common in
Speaker 5: the United States, with some prisons so understuffed that gods
Speaker 5: ask other inmates to be on suicide to watch for them,
Speaker 5: which is not ideal. I mean, what if the person
Speaker 5: they put suicide watch is a murderer?
Speaker 3: Huh, what happens? Then? This is like, so the good
Speaker 3: news is he didn't kill himself. So look, man, I'll be.
Speaker 5: Honest, I get why everybody's suspicious of how this all
Speaker 5: went down, because you would think a high profile person
Speaker 5: like Jeffrey Epstein would have eyes on him all the time.
Speaker 5: But to be honest, I also not sure that there's
Speaker 5: a conspiracy here, Like, if anything, for me, the conspiracy
Speaker 5: has been taking place over the last ten years. First
Speaker 5: of all, Epstein magically only served thirteen months for his crimes,
Speaker 5: and in that thirteen months he got to leave prison
Speaker 5: and go to the office six days a week, and
Speaker 5: the prosecutor sealed the case, which protected Epstein and his
Speaker 5: co conspiracies and rubbed his victims of due process.
Speaker 3: That for me was the conspiracy. How did that happen?
Speaker 3: What was going on there? That's the conspiracy?
Speaker 5: And maybe, maybe, just maybe what happened here is the
Speaker 5: result of there not being a conspiracy anymore and Epstein
Speaker 5: being treated for the first time just like everyone else.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 5: So this weekend was the annual Iowa State Fair, and
Speaker 5: because Iowans gets to vote first in the presidential race,
Speaker 5: the fair has always been a major stuff for candidates
Speaker 5: hoping to win over those crucial voters. So let's look
Speaker 5: at how the twenty twenty Democrats did in another edition
Speaker 5: of World War D.
Speaker 3: The Iowa State Fair.
Speaker 5: It's an all American experience where you can do everything
Speaker 5: from win a giant stuffed animal to deep fry and
Speaker 5: eats a giant stuffed animal. And how do the candidates
Speaker 5: show that they can appeal to every day Americans by
Speaker 5: discussing healthcare sharing, education policies known on No, they do
Speaker 5: it by shoving a ton of food in their face.
Speaker 13: The center of the political universe this week, the Iowa
Speaker 13: State Fair. The twenty twenty presidential candidates ready to dive
Speaker 13: into that local cuisine.
Speaker 11: Oh my god, you like it's still good?
Speaker 1: Corn and hot dogs were meant to be married. I
Speaker 1: could eat that at every meal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, of course, the Blasio could eat that
Speaker 5: at every meal. Normally he grinds up bones to make
Speaker 5: his bread. I mean, come on, the corn dog is
Speaker 5: a step up. The candidates I feel bad for at
Speaker 5: this event is Corey Booker because don't forget he's a vegan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at the Iowa State Fair.
Speaker 5: His options are pretty limited. That's like being a Satanist
Speaker 5: on Christian mingle, you know. But it turns out at
Speaker 5: this event the press wasn't only paying attention to what
Speaker 5: was going into the candidate's mouths. They also wanted to
Speaker 5: see what would come out of them out and in
Speaker 5: the wake of the al Paco shooting and President Trump's
Speaker 5: racist rhetoric.
Speaker 3: The hottest topic was white supremacy.
Speaker 8: Front Runner Joe Biden and the other presidential hopefuls are
Speaker 8: flocking to the Iowa State Fair and they're being asked
Speaker 8: flat out if the President is a white supremacist.
Speaker 1: Based on his words and actions. Yes, he is a
Speaker 1: white supremacist.
Speaker 4: We can't have it both ways.
Speaker 12: He can't keep trying to stir this up, give aid
Speaker 12: and comfort to be embraced by the white supremacists, and
Speaker 12: then say, oh, but not me.
Speaker 4: No, he's responsible.
Speaker 1: Enabling white supremacists. As I said earlier, what other conclusion
Speaker 1: can you can you come to? That he supports it
Speaker 1: for some reason, he supports the supremacist. Well that's what
Speaker 1: I'm basically saying.
Speaker 3: So say it.
Speaker 1: I said it.
Speaker 14: No, you can't say he's a white supremacist.
Speaker 1: He supports white supremacy. Is he a white so that?
Speaker 1: What else can you conclude?
Speaker 5: Goddamn that that got aggressive real quick rereads.
Speaker 1: No wird that is.
Speaker 5: There's one minute you're answering questions about polk chops on
Speaker 5: the stick, and then the next thing you're getting yelled
Speaker 5: at to call the presidents.
Speaker 3: A white supremacist. Say it, say it, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3: You know what that sounded like.
Speaker 5: It went from a press conference to a game night
Speaker 5: with you know those friends who take it a little
Speaker 5: too seriously.
Speaker 3: There's like a racist ideology. Sometimes they wear robes. God
Speaker 3: damn it. Just say it, white supremacist, say it? Say it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: Coming into this weekend, former Vice President Joe Biden had
Speaker 5: a clear lead in the Iowa polls.
Speaker 3: But you know that old.
Speaker 5: Story of the race between the torches and the hair,
Speaker 5: Well this was just like that. If the hair was
Speaker 5: seventy six years old and kept sticking his foot in
Speaker 5: his mouth, still.
Speaker 10: Had for us.
Speaker 4: Joe Biden has called himself he has set himself that
Speaker 4: he is a gaff machine in the past. But is
Speaker 4: that now turning from folksy joke to a real problem.
Speaker 1: We have this notion that somehow, if you're poor, you
Speaker 1: cannot do it.
Speaker 9: Poor kids, you're just as writing, just as town as white.
Speaker 8: Kids, wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids.
Speaker 1: I really mean. But think how we think about it.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know what's worse suggesting that poor kids is
Speaker 5: synonymous with black kids, or trying to cover up his
Speaker 5: mistake by just listing as many types of kids as
Speaker 5: he could and hoping no one had noticed what white kids,
Speaker 5: wealthy kids, cabbage patch kids, gap kids, new kids.
Speaker 3: On the block. Thank you, Iowa, thank you.
Speaker 5: But look, look, anyone can make a slip of the tongue, right.
Speaker 5: What's worse than a slip of the tongue, though, is
Speaker 5: a weird memory lapse.
Speaker 3: And Biden had that.
Speaker 12: Too, And in another comment, he said that he had
Speaker 12: met with Parkland students after the shooting at that school
Speaker 12: when he was vice president, but of course that was
Speaker 12: after he had already left office in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: I watched what happened.
Speaker 1: Those kids from Parkland came up to see me, now
Speaker 1: his vice president. They went into the.
Speaker 2: Some of you covered it, and you watch what happened
Speaker 2: when they were from the halls of Congress.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is super awkward.
Speaker 5: Either Biden thinks he was still vice president in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 5: or he's just invented a meeting with Potland kids that
Speaker 5: never happened. And let's be honest, mistakes like this don't
Speaker 5: help the narrative that he's too old to run because
Speaker 5: this sounds like the classic grandpa mistake.
Speaker 14: And know it.
Speaker 5: I'm just like, oh, you made my favorite turkey sandwich.
Speaker 5: Come over here and give you a grandpadcast It's like, sir,
Speaker 5: I'm not your grandson.
Speaker 3: I just work at Subway, but I will take that
Speaker 3: kiss now.
Speaker 5: Now, with some of Biden's gaps, With some of Biden's gaps,
Speaker 5: you at least knew what he was trying to say.
Speaker 5: But this next one was a little harder to translate.
Speaker 11: Here's another sample from Joe Biden on the campaign TROWNL
Speaker 11: just watch this.
Speaker 2: We choose unity over division, we choose science over fiction.
Speaker 4: We choose truth over facts.
Speaker 3: We choose truth over facts. No, Joe, what is going on? Like?
Speaker 5: I know he calls himself a gaff machine, but the
Speaker 5: machine's going into overdrive right now. And in case you're wondering,
Speaker 5: Trump has noticed Biden's many faux pause and is already using.
Speaker 3: Them against him. Yeah. The one upside is that Trump
Speaker 3: is well, he's Trump.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because after Biden said we choose truth over facts,
Speaker 5: Trump tried to come after Biden but then messed it
Speaker 5: up by misquoting the form of VP and fixed it.
Speaker 3: And he was like, Joe, Biden just said we believe
Speaker 3: in facts, not truth, which is the wrong, wrong thing.
Speaker 4: Like at this point, I.
Speaker 5: Don't know which one of these guys is going to
Speaker 5: be presidents, but I know neither of them will be
Speaker 5: able to get through the oath of office. It's just
Speaker 5: gonna be, like I Donald, j Biden, Trump, Joseph, you
Speaker 5: solemnly swear to.
Speaker 4: It's just not gonna work out. Back, Welcome back to
Speaker 4: The Daily Show.
Speaker 5: My guest tonight represents Massachusetts seventh Congressional District in the
Speaker 5: House of Representatives. Please welcome Democratic Congresswoman Anna Presley.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the Daily Show.
Speaker 5: Such an exciting time to have you here.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised that you you made it.
Speaker 5: I thought you would have gone back to the country
Speaker 5: that you that you came from.
Speaker 3: Have you figured out where that is? Yet? Is it Wakanda?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Where? Where is it?
Speaker 1: Where?
Speaker 3: Would where? Where is this world?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: Do you ever think about that from the president and
Speaker 3: go like where where? You know what?
Speaker 14: In all seriousness, I wish that I could, you know,
Speaker 14: feign surprise or some inflated outrage.
Speaker 3: It's a very.
Speaker 14: Predictable prompt from someone who has a long history of
Speaker 14: not only racist rhetoric but racist actions, and every day
Speaker 14: is rolling out racist, xenophobic policies. You know, this is
Speaker 14: really a distraction. These are things that he does to
Speaker 14: distract us from the corruptness, the chaos, and the callousness
Speaker 14: of this administration. But I can't pretend that this rhetoric
Speaker 14: is not dangerous. It's exactly a why I'll pass so happened.
Speaker 5: Let's talk a little bit about the country as it stands.
Speaker 5: You know, as a lawmaker, you are in a unique
Speaker 5: position where you can do more than most people to
Speaker 5: try and change America in a way that you know
Speaker 5: you know, polls have shown even that people wanted to change.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about the shootings. On the one hand, you have,
Speaker 5: you know, the white supremacy, and you know we've.
Speaker 3: Heard you speak about that.
Speaker 5: But you know, everyone has agreed on one commonality and
Speaker 5: that is guns. Where the persons a white supremacist, whether
Speaker 5: the person is mentally ill, whether the person is inspired
Speaker 5: by somebody or just lashing out, the gun is the
Speaker 5: common factor. What do you think America can do about
Speaker 5: people's easy access to guns?
Speaker 14: Okay, well, first I want to say that, yes, guns
Speaker 14: are the common factor. And the common enemy in all
Speaker 14: of this is Mitch McConnell. And so I just want
Speaker 14: to ask all of you, so please give him a
Speaker 14: call and say I sent you lobby him. Why haven't
Speaker 14: we acted? Why haven't we acted?
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 14: Gun violence is a public health crisis and epidemic. This
Speaker 14: is an urban issue. It is a rule issue. It
Speaker 14: is a suburban issue. It is transcendent. It is a
Speaker 14: public health crisis and epidemic. It is pervasive and it
Speaker 14: is growing. New Zealand had a mass shooting and shortly
Speaker 14: thereafter they banned assault weapons. So why haven't we acted
Speaker 14: because of a deficit of political courage and leadership, despite
Speaker 14: a mandate, despite a mandate from this from American citizens
Speaker 14: from every walk of life. Now here's the other thing
Speaker 14: that I want to say is important. So tomorrow we
Speaker 14: could save millions of lives by passing the assault weapons ban.
Speaker 14: I mean again, New Zealand acted in a matter of
Speaker 14: days and band assault weapons right. We could pass an
Speaker 14: assault weapons ban. We could pass universal background checks. I
Speaker 14: also want to give a shout out to my sister
Speaker 14: and service Robin Kelly out of Illinois, because we also
Speaker 14: have to address straw purchasing and gun trafficking, and we
Speaker 14: need to hold two narratives. There are mass shootings and
Speaker 14: there's community based violence. And we also know that there
Speaker 14: are more guns than people. And for as long as
Speaker 14: that is the case, you are going to see an
Speaker 14: intersectionality of violence. Violence begets violence. How many mass shooters
Speaker 14: and perpetrators of violence. We're also abusers of women. You know,
Speaker 14: these things are all interc and so we need to
Speaker 14: hold space for both community based violence for mass shootings.
Speaker 14: We need to prioritize whether we are robbed of a life.
Speaker 14: They're not lost, they're stolen on a city block. Gang
Speaker 14: affiliated or not, or due to domestic terrorism at a mosque,
Speaker 14: a synagogue.
Speaker 1: A church, or a school.
Speaker 14: Every life matters. We've got the whole narrative for both.
Speaker 14: And then finally, an issue that I led on in
Speaker 14: my eight year tenure on the Boston City Council, and
Speaker 14: I'm so proud of my six month tenure as a
Speaker 14: Congresswoman to have convened the first hearing in the history
Speaker 14: of Congress in the Oversight and Reform Committee on Childhood Trauma.
Speaker 14: We have got to address the residual trauma that gun
Speaker 14: violence is leaving in its wake, that is choking at
Speaker 14: the promise of our communities.
Speaker 3: Wow, thank you so much for war on the show.
Speaker 3: Wonderful having Megain.
Speaker 5: I'm excited to see what else you get up to, Congresswoman,
Speaker 5: and I have impress and everybody.
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