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Speaker 3: of our interviews from our live stream at the Democratic
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Speaker 3: guests we've interviewed. Welcome home, y'all.
Speaker 4: We have majority leader Chuck Schumer, who's joining us now.
Speaker 4: Quite a big difference from just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 5: Huh, oh man, are we cooking? Cooking it?
Speaker 6: I have been at every convention since nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 6: None is as happy, none is as unified, and none
Speaker 6: is as committing to win as this.
Speaker 5: One that's going all away. That's right, It is so great.
Speaker 5: I cannot tell you given more than eight and more
Speaker 5: than eight.
Speaker 6: Even because you know why, there's a that we have
Speaker 6: the pause, if we have Kamala, we have walls.
Speaker 5: But you know there's a negative.
Speaker 6: We cannot let that son of a gun get back
Speaker 6: into office.
Speaker 5: So it's both ways.
Speaker 7: Hey, bitch man, say son of a bit, that's okay,
Speaker 7: that's okay.
Speaker 5: The son of a gun, Okay, son of a gun.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna tell you that that president is no efing good.
Speaker 5: How sad you know, Senator, you introduce him from Brooklyn.
Speaker 5: You know we use these words. You know, I like
Speaker 5: that you introduced that and no King Zach.
Speaker 7: After the Supreme Court presidential ruling and in light of
Speaker 7: the Supreme Court recent rulings, how concerned are you about
Speaker 7: them potentially interfering in this election? Because you know, Donald
Speaker 7: Trump's gonna sound you bet. Trump has no principles, he
Speaker 7: has no morals.
Speaker 6: He will do anything he can to win, no matter
Speaker 6: what corner he has to cut, no matter how many
Speaker 6: rules and laws he has to break. That's why he's
Speaker 6: going to go to jail, but in it because of
Speaker 6: the previous stuff he's done. And so let me just say,
Speaker 6: we are vigilant. We got the best election lawyers on
Speaker 6: the case. We are training thousands of lawyers. We are
Speaker 6: making sure on election day they don't screw around and
Speaker 6: deter people from voting. You know what they used to do,
Speaker 6: they used to tell they used to send out an
Speaker 6: African American neighborhoods voting day has been changed. Vote Thursday.
Speaker 6: These guys won't stop in anything. That's what the Republicans
Speaker 6: used to do. But we are now prepared. We were
Speaker 6: not prepared years ago.
Speaker 5: We are majority Leader Schumer.
Speaker 4: You know one question that I have for you, based
Speaker 4: on what you just said, I think is so important
Speaker 4: because folks regularly are donating to campaigns or to campaign committees,
Speaker 4: and you're just talking about training a bunch of lawyers.
Speaker 4: Is that some of the ways that you all are
Speaker 4: using the contribution this.
Speaker 6: Money is using every way, obviously TV, obviously digital.
Speaker 5: But we're getting out to vote.
Speaker 6: You know, the best way to get out to vote,
Speaker 6: particularly among our young people who aren't voting that much,
Speaker 6: knocking on doors and explaining it better than an ad,
Speaker 6: better than anything. We're putting close to half our money
Speaker 6: into door knocking and talking to people. But we're also
Speaker 6: putting our money into just what Charlemagne said, and that
Speaker 6: is preventing them from stealing this election.
Speaker 5: They'll stop at nothing.
Speaker 7: Why are more people in your position just calling out
Speaker 7: the Supreme Court as a illegitimate institution?
Speaker 6: They should, you know, the right wing, these very rich,
Speaker 6: greedy people who didn't want to pay any taxes, who
Speaker 6: didn't want the government to do any you know, they said,
Speaker 6: I built my company with my own hands, although half
Speaker 6: of them inherited it, And they say, how dare your
Speaker 6: government tell me how I had to treat my workers,
Speaker 6: my customers, or the land and air and water that
Speaker 6: I own.
Speaker 5: That's what they did. And they realized, Charlemagne that they.
Speaker 6: Couldn't get this done even when they controlled the elected
Speaker 6: branches of government House, Senate, because they were and president,
Speaker 6: because it was so far to the f and right,
Speaker 6: so far to the right, and so they tried to
Speaker 6: take over the courts. We have an obligation to try
Speaker 6: and stop them. The Supreme Court is a more rass
Speaker 6: now who would have thought of this, the ethics of
Speaker 6: that court. So these rich fact rich people are paying
Speaker 6: for or cars for trips at the same time they're
Speaker 6: paying somebody to some law firm to go to lawyer
Speaker 6: and make their case.
Speaker 5: That is outrageous.
Speaker 6: And I'll tell you who should we should blame, among others,
Speaker 6: the Chief Justice John Roberts, who once said he's calling
Speaker 6: balls and strikes. He could stop this with the flick
Speaker 6: of his pen. Where the hell is he? Literal mates?
Speaker 5: I just want to.
Speaker 2: So the President has made it a stated goal to
Speaker 2: get reform on the Supreme Court. I'm just I what's
Speaker 2: your prognosis for a week between now lamed uck and
Speaker 2: obviously a new presidency?
Speaker 6: Framed uncle hard because the Republicans control the House, a
Speaker 6: few right wingers seem to run the show and they
Speaker 6: will stop at nothing to keep the court the way
Speaker 6: it is.
Speaker 5: But if we and please vote, vote, vote, vote.
Speaker 6: If we keep the Senate, win the House, win the presidency,
Speaker 6: Supreme Court reform is going to be at the top
Speaker 6: of our agenda because we cannot let these unelected people
Speaker 6: take away women's rights, take away others.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: You know, we talk about freedom. They used to talk
Speaker 6: about freedom. They don't believe in freedom.
Speaker 5: We do.
Speaker 6: So we also believe in economic freedom. We believe you
Speaker 6: should have a good education so you can get a
Speaker 6: decent job. Freedom to be able to pick your job.
Speaker 6: We talk about freedom to be able to afford a house.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: One of the great things Kamala just did. Kamala just
Speaker 6: did is this young people. A lot of young people
Speaker 6: have enough money to pay the monthly mortgage, but they
Speaker 6: don't have any money for.
Speaker 5: The down payment.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, one can save that much these days, and
Speaker 6: so what she said, what Kamala said is very simple.
Speaker 6: Twenty five thousand bucks the federal government, if you're a
Speaker 6: first time home buyer, to help you with that down payment.
Speaker 6: People when they hear that, particularly the younger people, when
Speaker 6: we have to make sure vote, they're.
Speaker 5: Gonna love that.
Speaker 6: She knows what she's talking about. I knew her in
Speaker 6: the Senate. She was great.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry glad to no no.
Speaker 3: I was actually gonna piggyback on your question about the Court.
Speaker 3: You know, Charlie called it an illegitimate institution, and I
Speaker 3: have to echo that sentiment for the people out there
Speaker 3: who may not understand the severity of what is the
Speaker 3: power of this court and what they've done, what specifically
Speaker 3: can be done as soon as possible. Do we expand
Speaker 3: the courts? That has to go through the Senate. If
Speaker 3: we do, I mean because at this point our democratic
Speaker 3: institutions are corona.
Speaker 6: The first step in getting it, getting rid of the
Speaker 6: morass on the court is to vote.
Speaker 5: Because if they keep.
Speaker 6: The House, if they win the Senate, or if they
Speaker 6: win the predsidency, any one of the three, they will
Speaker 6: block it. They will fight for this court but once
Speaker 6: we get it, there are very There are a lot
Speaker 6: of proposals out there on the table. There's expanding the court,
Speaker 6: there's term limits, there's I have a proposal that's much simpler.
Speaker 6: It's limiting their jurisdiction in certain areas. You know, Justice
Speaker 6: Alito said, Congress can't regulate the courts. Well, pardon me, sir,
Speaker 6: mister justice. You didn't either read or understand the Constitution.
Speaker 6: That's what it says it explicitly in this right. And
Speaker 6: so we can do that relatively easily and limit the
Speaker 6: kind of jurisdiction that they have.
Speaker 8: But they expanded the fact that you got a justice
Speaker 8: who's prepared to expand the power of the court do
Speaker 8: their own word or do their own written opinion, absolutely
Speaker 8: with no accountability, no teeth and ethics, and you know
Speaker 8: why to hold them.
Speaker 6: Account In the past, maybe people said they'll never get
Speaker 6: it done.
Speaker 5: Well, we saw what happened with choice. Absolutely.
Speaker 6: We heard what one of the justices I think it was,
Speaker 6: I can't remember which one. Maybe it was Justice Thomas.
Speaker 6: He said, next is gay rights. He sure did gay marriage, but.
Speaker 4: He's not gonna go after biracial marriage exactly.
Speaker 6: You never know what You never know what these guys
Speaker 6: will do, but he can'tone. The hypocrisy of these folks
Speaker 6: is so large you can't hold them to any standard consistency.
Speaker 6: Look at this when justice, when Mitch McConnell said that
Speaker 6: you should you don't can't vote on a justice within
Speaker 6: about six months before the election a year and then
Speaker 6: there was another vacancy and he puts someone in several
Speaker 6: a month before. If no consistency, they will do anything
Speaker 6: to keep this court UH intact because they know that
Speaker 6: their agenda is so filling the writing that no one
Speaker 6: will accept it in the elected branches. This has to
Speaker 6: be You are right, This has to be one of
Speaker 6: our biggest fights.
Speaker 7: But doesn't it take more courage from Democrats when it
Speaker 7: comes to situations like that. Democrats have a reputation for
Speaker 7: being cowards because they don't push back on things like.
Speaker 5: Well, hey Charlemagne, I'm from Brooklyn.
Speaker 4: We fight, so I want to just say Senator Schumer
Speaker 4: staff is waving him down so hard he almost lost
Speaker 4: his train of thought.
Speaker 5: I am afraid of my staff.
Speaker 4: We are so grateful for your time tonight. Thank you,
Speaker 4: thank you, the majority of the leader Schumer, we are
Speaker 4: looking let me just.
Speaker 6: Say, folks, on to victory. We must win to future
Speaker 6: this country, the future of the world, democracy depends on this.
Speaker 6: And and by the way, can I just say, one
Speaker 6: of the very first things we're going to do if
Speaker 6: we keep the get the power is put the John
Speaker 6: Lewis Right Voting Rights Act, the Freedom to Vote Act,
Speaker 6: on the floor of the Senate, changing those rules, and
Speaker 6: we will get it done.
Speaker 5: I love it, I love it. Thank you. We appreciate
Speaker 5: your sentiment. All that.
Speaker 4: Careful.
Speaker 5: We got a big agenda. We got it. We need
Speaker 5: to be in there.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Last time we had the power, we had the most
Speaker 6: successful congress, most sexual presidency. Give Joe Biden credits since
Speaker 6: Johnson and maybe since Roosevelt. It'll happen again even more.
Speaker 6: You ain't seen you ain't seen nothing yet to.
Speaker 4: Okay, be careful, Thank you, Thank you so much for joining.
Speaker 5: Thank you for doing this.
Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer, who the majority leader in the United States Senate,
Speaker 4: wapping him up as he departs. This is Native Lampard
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Speaker 4: Senator Schumer, that step is insane.
Speaker 7: Schumer said he agrees with expanding the Supreme Court.
Speaker 4: Yes, he did, and we also asked for some reparations. Uh,
Speaker 4: we also asked for a reparations. Be able to hit
Speaker 4: that floor.
Speaker 5: We'll see.
Speaker 4: Be careful that that somebody up.
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