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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Hey bam, You're about to hear a replay of one

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Speaker 3: of our interviews from our live stream at the Democratic

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Speaker 3: National Convention.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: You can also find a full list of all the

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Speaker 3: guests we've interviewed. Welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 4: We have majority leader Chuck Schumer, who's joining us now.

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Speaker 4: Quite a big difference from just a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 5: Huh, oh man, are we cooking? Cooking it?

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Speaker 6: I have been at every convention since nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 6: None is as happy, none is as unified, and none

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Speaker 6: is as committing to win as this.

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Speaker 5: One that's going all away. That's right, It is so great.

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Speaker 5: I cannot tell you given more than eight and more

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Speaker 5: than eight.

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Speaker 6: Even because you know why, there's a that we have

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Speaker 6: the pause, if we have Kamala, we have walls.

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Speaker 5: But you know there's a negative.

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Speaker 6: We cannot let that son of a gun get back

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Speaker 6: into office.

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Speaker 5: So it's both ways.

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Speaker 7: Hey, bitch man, say son of a bit, that's okay,

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Speaker 7: that's okay.

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Speaker 5: The son of a gun, Okay, son of a gun.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna tell you that that president is no efing good.

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Speaker 5: How sad you know, Senator, you introduce him from Brooklyn.

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Speaker 5: You know we use these words. You know, I like

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Speaker 5: that you introduced that and no King Zach.

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Speaker 7: After the Supreme Court presidential ruling and in light of

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Speaker 7: the Supreme Court recent rulings, how concerned are you about

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Speaker 7: them potentially interfering in this election? Because you know, Donald

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Speaker 7: Trump's gonna sound you bet. Trump has no principles, he

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Speaker 7: has no morals.

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Speaker 6: He will do anything he can to win, no matter

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Speaker 6: what corner he has to cut, no matter how many

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Speaker 6: rules and laws he has to break. That's why he's

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Speaker 6: going to go to jail, but in it because of

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Speaker 6: the previous stuff he's done. And so let me just say,

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Speaker 6: we are vigilant. We got the best election lawyers on

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Speaker 6: the case. We are training thousands of lawyers. We are

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Speaker 6: making sure on election day they don't screw around and

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Speaker 6: deter people from voting. You know what they used to do,

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Speaker 6: they used to tell they used to send out an

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Speaker 6: African American neighborhoods voting day has been changed. Vote Thursday.

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Speaker 6: These guys won't stop in anything. That's what the Republicans

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Speaker 6: used to do. But we are now prepared. We were

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Speaker 6: not prepared years ago.

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Speaker 5: We are majority Leader Schumer.

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Speaker 4: You know one question that I have for you, based

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Speaker 4: on what you just said, I think is so important

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Speaker 4: because folks regularly are donating to campaigns or to campaign committees,

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Speaker 4: and you're just talking about training a bunch of lawyers.

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Speaker 4: Is that some of the ways that you all are

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Speaker 4: using the contribution this.

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Speaker 6: Money is using every way, obviously TV, obviously digital.

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Speaker 5: But we're getting out to vote.

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Speaker 6: You know, the best way to get out to vote,

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Speaker 6: particularly among our young people who aren't voting that much,

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Speaker 6: knocking on doors and explaining it better than an ad,

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Speaker 6: better than anything. We're putting close to half our money

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Speaker 6: into door knocking and talking to people. But we're also

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Speaker 6: putting our money into just what Charlemagne said, and that

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Speaker 6: is preventing them from stealing this election.

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Speaker 5: They'll stop at nothing.

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Speaker 7: Why are more people in your position just calling out

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Speaker 7: the Supreme Court as a illegitimate institution?

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Speaker 6: They should, you know, the right wing, these very rich,

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Speaker 6: greedy people who didn't want to pay any taxes, who

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Speaker 6: didn't want the government to do any you know, they said,

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Speaker 6: I built my company with my own hands, although half

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Speaker 6: of them inherited it, And they say, how dare your

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Speaker 5: That's what they did. And they realized, Charlemagne that they.

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Speaker 6: Couldn't get this done even when they controlled the elected

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Speaker 6: because it was so far to the f and right,

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Speaker 6: now who would have thought of this, the ethics of

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Speaker 6: that court. So these rich fact rich people are paying

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Speaker 5: That is outrageous.

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Speaker 6: And I'll tell you who should we should blame, among others,

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Speaker 6: the Chief Justice John Roberts, who once said he's calling

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Speaker 6: balls and strikes. He could stop this with the flick

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Speaker 6: of his pen. Where the hell is he? Literal mates?

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Speaker 5: I just want to.

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Speaker 2: So the President has made it a stated goal to

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Speaker 2: get reform on the Supreme Court. I'm just I what's

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Speaker 2: your prognosis for a week between now lamed uck and

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Speaker 2: obviously a new presidency?

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Speaker 6: Framed uncle hard because the Republicans control the House, a

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Speaker 6: few right wingers seem to run the show and they

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Speaker 6: will stop at nothing to keep the court the way

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Speaker 6: it is.

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Speaker 5: But if we and please vote, vote, vote, vote.

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Speaker 6: If we keep the Senate, win the House, win the presidency,

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Speaker 6: Supreme Court reform is going to be at the top

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Speaker 6: of our agenda because we cannot let these unelected people

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Speaker 6: take away women's rights, take away others.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 6: You know, we talk about freedom. They used to talk

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Speaker 6: about freedom. They don't believe in freedom.

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Speaker 5: We do.

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Speaker 6: So we also believe in economic freedom. We believe you

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Speaker 6: should have a good education so you can get a

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Speaker 6: decent job. Freedom to be able to pick your job.

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Speaker 6: We talk about freedom to be able to afford a house.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: One of the great things Kamala just did. Kamala just

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Speaker 6: did is this young people. A lot of young people

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Speaker 6: have enough money to pay the monthly mortgage, but they

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Speaker 5: The down payment.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, one can save that much these days, and

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Speaker 6: so what she said, what Kamala said is very simple.

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Speaker 6: Twenty five thousand bucks the federal government, if you're a

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Speaker 6: People when they hear that, particularly the younger people, when

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Speaker 6: we have to make sure vote, they're.

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Speaker 5: Gonna love that.

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Speaker 6: She knows what she's talking about. I knew her in

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Speaker 6: the Senate. She was great.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry glad to no no.

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Speaker 3: I was actually gonna piggyback on your question about the Court.

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Speaker 3: You know, Charlie called it an illegitimate institution, and I

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Speaker 3: have to echo that sentiment for the people out there

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Speaker 3: who may not understand the severity of what is the

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Speaker 3: power of this court and what they've done, what specifically

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Speaker 3: can be done as soon as possible. Do we expand

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Speaker 3: the courts? That has to go through the Senate. If

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Speaker 3: we do, I mean because at this point our democratic

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Speaker 6: The first step in getting it, getting rid of the

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Speaker 6: morass on the court is to vote.

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Speaker 5: Because if they keep.

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Speaker 6: The House, if they win the Senate, or if they

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Speaker 6: win the predsidency, any one of the three, they will

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Speaker 6: block it. They will fight for this court but once

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Speaker 6: we get it, there are very There are a lot

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Speaker 6: of proposals out there on the table. There's expanding the court,

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Speaker 6: there's term limits, there's I have a proposal that's much simpler.

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Speaker 6: It's limiting their jurisdiction in certain areas. You know, Justice

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Speaker 6: Alito said, Congress can't regulate the courts. Well, pardon me, sir,

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Speaker 6: mister justice. You didn't either read or understand the Constitution.

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Speaker 6: That's what it says it explicitly in this right. And

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Speaker 6: so we can do that relatively easily and limit the

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Speaker 8: But they expanded the fact that you got a justice

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Speaker 8: who's prepared to expand the power of the court do

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Speaker 8: their own word or do their own written opinion, absolutely

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Speaker 8: with no accountability, no teeth and ethics, and you know

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Speaker 6: Account In the past, maybe people said they'll never get

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Speaker 6: it done.

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Speaker 5: Well, we saw what happened with choice. Absolutely.

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Speaker 6: We heard what one of the justices I think it was,

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Speaker 6: I can't remember which one. Maybe it was Justice Thomas.

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Speaker 6: He said, next is gay rights. He sure did gay marriage, but.

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Speaker 4: He's not gonna go after biracial marriage exactly.

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Speaker 6: You never know what You never know what these guys

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Speaker 6: will do, but he can'tone. The hypocrisy of these folks

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Speaker 6: is so large you can't hold them to any standard consistency.

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Speaker 6: Look at this when justice, when Mitch McConnell said that

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Speaker 6: you should you don't can't vote on a justice within

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Speaker 6: their agenda is so filling the writing that no one

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Speaker 6: be You are right, This has to be one of

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Speaker 7: But doesn't it take more courage from Democrats when it

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Speaker 7: comes to situations like that. Democrats have a reputation for

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Speaker 5: Well, hey Charlemagne, I'm from Brooklyn.

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Speaker 4: We fight, so I want to just say Senator Schumer

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Speaker 4: staff is waving him down so hard he almost lost

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Speaker 4: his train of thought.

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Speaker 5: I am afraid of my staff.

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Speaker 4: We are so grateful for your time tonight. Thank you,

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Speaker 4: thank you, the majority of the leader Schumer, we are

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Speaker 4: looking let me just.

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Speaker 6: Say, folks, on to victory. We must win to future

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Speaker 6: this country, the future of the world, democracy depends on this.

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Speaker 6: And and by the way, can I just say, one

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Speaker 6: of the very first things we're going to do if

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Speaker 6: we keep the get the power is put the John

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Speaker 6: Lewis Right Voting Rights Act, the Freedom to Vote Act,

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Speaker 6: on the floor of the Senate, changing those rules, and

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Speaker 6: we will get it done.

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Speaker 5: I love it, I love it. Thank you. We appreciate

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Speaker 5: your sentiment. All that.

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Speaker 4: Careful.

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Speaker 5: We got a big agenda. We got it. We need

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Speaker 5: to be in there.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 6: Last time we had the power, we had the most

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Speaker 6: successful congress, most sexual presidency. Give Joe Biden credits since

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Speaker 6: Johnson and maybe since Roosevelt. It'll happen again even more.

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Speaker 6: You ain't seen you ain't seen nothing yet to.

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Speaker 4: Okay, be careful, Thank you, Thank you so much for joining.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for doing this.

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Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer, who the majority leader in the United States Senate,

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Speaker 4: wapping him up as he departs. This is Native Lampard

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Speaker 4: in partnership with Breakfast Club, and we are getting ready

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Speaker 4: to welcome our next guest. But in the meantime, be careful.

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Speaker 4: Senator Schumer, that step is insane.

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Speaker 7: Schumer said he agrees with expanding the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 4: Yes, he did, and we also asked for some reparations. Uh,

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Speaker 4: we also asked for a reparations. Be able to hit

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Speaker 4: that floor.

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