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Speaker 1: Native Landpod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with

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Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hey, everybody,

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Speaker 1: Welcome home. This is Angela Raie with Native Landpod. I

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Speaker 1: am hosting today another solo pod, and I wish that

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Speaker 1: it were under different circumstances, but unfortunately, the American people

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Speaker 1: at this point are used to going from crisis to crisis.

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Speaker 1: We are facing another one as Republicans continue to delay

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Speaker 1: the vote on the government shut down and risk everything

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Speaker 1: that are they're supposed to protect the American people in

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Speaker 1: this era, at this hour, as we move from crisis

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Speaker 1: to crisis in this administration, we are facing yet another

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Speaker 1: government shut down. Many of you all know that we

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Speaker 1: just experienced something very similar over the summer as the

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Speaker 1: Congress considered HR one or Senate Bill one, and that

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Speaker 1: was designed to gut all of the services that we

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Speaker 1: pay our hard working tax payer dollars into things like healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare,

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Speaker 1: snap benefits. We saw all of that at risk over

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Speaker 1: the summer. The consequences of that bill still taking place,

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Speaker 1: and yet now we're facing another crisis, and so we

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Speaker 1: are going to hear today from some congressional members who

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Speaker 1: are working hard to ensure that the American people's values

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Speaker 1: are protected, their lives are protected, and policies that make

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Speaker 1: a difference to ensure they are better off and closer

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Speaker 1: to pursuing the American dream are also protected. Joining us

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Speaker 1: first is my forever boss. Her name is Congresswoman Maxine Waters.

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Speaker 1: I call her Queen Maxine. She represents the forty third

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Speaker 1: district in California. She is also the ranking member on

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Speaker 1: the House Financial Services Committee, where she works hard to

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Speaker 1: protect what the American people want to see every single day,

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Speaker 1: from housing to banking to opportunities for contractors who look

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Speaker 1: like you and I. So I'm bringing to the stage

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Speaker 1: now Congresswoman Maxine Waters.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Congresswoman, Well, hello, thank you so much. I'm so

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Speaker 2: pleased to be on with you today.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you I'm so sorry to cut you off.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Go ahead, that's o co.

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Speaker 2: I'm just wanting to say thank you, I'm glad to

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Speaker 2: be along with you.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to see you and you look beautiful this

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Speaker 1: weekend during the Annual Legislative Conference that you're a vent

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Speaker 1: and of course, walking across the stage. Seeing the members

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Speaker 1: congress Woman, you've been doing this for many years. You've

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Speaker 1: been working hard to be the voice of the people

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Speaker 1: in Congress. When I think of the conscience of the Congress,

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Speaker 1: which is the moniker for the Congressional Black hau because

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Speaker 1: you certainly represent that. But I just want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you for a moment. Can you explain what this

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Speaker 1: particular shutdown means to the American people right now and

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Speaker 1: what is all at stake? Well?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, First of all, I am very concerned and really

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Speaker 2: upset about the crisis that we find ourselves in. This

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Speaker 2: crisis is initiated by the President and Republicans, and literally

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Speaker 2: the President is using his power once again to show

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Speaker 2: that he's going to tell this entire nation who's in charge.

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Speaker 2: And it's all about a big power play and some

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Speaker 2: of the right wing philosophies that go along with that.

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Speaker 2: The President of the United States has under his control

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Speaker 2: basically all of a cabinet that he has selected, many

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Speaker 2: of them are not qualified. But he's got trouble inside

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Speaker 2: his own Republican caucus, and he does not have the

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Speaker 2: to do. Some of them want cuts even deeper, and

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Speaker 2: usually they expect the Democrats to bail them out when

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Speaker 2: basically most of what they want and throw some crumbs

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Speaker 2: to the Democrats. We're not having it. We are not

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Speaker 2: going to have it. We're not going to have it

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Speaker 2: because this president has led the way for cuts in

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Speaker 2: medical care in a way that we never dream would happen.

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Speaker 2: Whether we're talking about Medicaid and Medicare, we're talking about

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Speaker 2: the support of this government for the people of this

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Speaker 2: many of them will die without Medicaid and Medicare. We're

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Speaker 2: talking about the survival of the ACA and the work

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Speaker 2: existing conditions, we're talking about saving that. We're talking about

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Speaker 2: and so we've made this a top prior. Trump cannot

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Speaker 2: Of course, it didn't turn out very well. Nothing happened

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Speaker 2: what we have in the continuing Resolution, and let's identify

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Speaker 2: some concerns you have and let's deal with them later.

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Speaker 2: And of course, Haikem and Schumer said, no way, we're

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Speaker 2: along with some other very important things, but you got

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Speaker 2: Give us now what we're asking for and we'll take care.

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Speaker 1: Of you later.

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Speaker 2: That's not going to happen, but people will be hurt

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Speaker 2: very badly. It's not only in healthcare, but just think

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Speaker 2: and still we've never been able to cover them all.

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Speaker 2: They're still standing in line sometimes for years. We will

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Speaker 2: increase homelessness if we do not do that. Let's look

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Speaker 2: at what they're trying to do with food stamps and

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Speaker 2: on and on and on. If we go along with

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Speaker 2: absolutely pull the rug out from under Americas in very

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm so glad you mentioned HUD, which for

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Speaker 1: I want to just come to this for a moment,

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Speaker 1: because we're seeing this administration do some really unprecedented things

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Speaker 1: with federal websites. We know that they were taking down

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Speaker 1: to you all. It says the radical left are going

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Speaker 1: This is a home page, and there's also a pop

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Speaker 1: It says, the radical left are going to shut down

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Speaker 1: the government and inflict massive pain on the American people

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Speaker 1: unless they get their one point five trillion dollar wish

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Speaker 1: list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the

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Speaker 1: government open for the American people, so he's essentially telling

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Speaker 1: this story. Congresswoman painting this image that they're the Party

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Speaker 1: do you feel, as the ranking member on Financial Services

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Speaker 1: seeing something like this on the HUD website. What's your

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got to do the best job that we

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Speaker 2: we've been doing, we've been town hall meetings. Many of

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Speaker 2: our members not only are doing town hall meetings in

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Speaker 2: they are Republicans and letting them know who's doing what

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Speaker 2: I've been involved in about eleven protests to actions. We

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Speaker 2: They are lying, they are misleading the people. They are

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Speaker 2: the President of the United States, through executive orders, is

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Speaker 2: exercising the kind of power that we have never witnessed before,

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Speaker 2: and we've got to stand up. We've got to be strong.

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Speaker 2: We cannot give in. We cannot be hustled by them,

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Speaker 2: we cannot be frightened or intimidated by them. We've got

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Speaker 2: to fight, fight, fight, And they're the ones who are

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Speaker 2: willing to shut down the government. They're in charge. They

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Speaker 2: But no, they're trying to put us in a position

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Speaker 2: social security is on the line, and so I want

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Speaker 2: people to listen carefully to what he's saying and what

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Speaker 2: know and understand that Democrats want to keep the government open,

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Speaker 1: think there's a huge misnomer when the Republican Party considers

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Speaker 1: actually represented by a Republican It is the zip code

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Speaker 2: Well, what we have to keep saying to them is,

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Speaker 2: one trillion dollars out of Medicaid that they're talking about.

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Speaker 2: And so they've led their people to believe that it

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Speaker 2: not those people who are getting too much. They don't

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Speaker 2: deserve it. That's why he goes after diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Speaker 2: That's why he goes after education. That's why they go

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Speaker 2: after food stamp. Because really, what they're told and what

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Speaker 2: our next to say you've gotten too much, you're making

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Speaker 1: when they can't get the food benefits they need to

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Speaker 1: feed their families, when they can't receive the access to

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Speaker 1: healthcare they need to survive. What is the excuse for

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Speaker 1: sending in the National Guard right now? What is the

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Speaker 1: real purpose of that? And that is the point. We

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Speaker 1: really need to ensure that we are clear about what

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Speaker 1: our actual needs are. So we normally tell you to

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Speaker 1: call your member. This isn't one of those times where

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Speaker 1: you call in and make a request, y'all. This is

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Speaker 1: a time where you call in and issue a demand,

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Speaker 1: a requirement. If you live in this state, this is

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Speaker 1: what you must be doing. If you have your own

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Speaker 1: snap benefit story, your own Medicare story, your own Medicaid

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Speaker 1: story for your children, what the healthcare needs are for

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Speaker 1: your children for them to survive in this moment. This

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Speaker 1: is a matter of life and death, and we cannot

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Speaker 1: escape that. We can't tell people that they that they

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Speaker 1: really don't need this. How does this shut down different

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Speaker 1: from past ones? One of the questions says, I think

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Speaker 1: that because of the number of cuts that we saw

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Speaker 1: take place in the bills that passed this summer, that

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Speaker 1: again that Senate bill won s one. We called it,

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Speaker 1: They called it the big beautiful Bill. We call it

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Speaker 1: a lot of other things that are not beautiful, ugly, trifling, wrong, foul.

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Speaker 1: That bill was already putting the most vulnerable Americans right

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Speaker 1: in the cross hair of harm, right in the cross

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Speaker 1: hairs of harm. This bill will double down on that.

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Speaker 1: I would submit to you all that if these services

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Speaker 1: are halted during this shutdown, that there are very there's

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Speaker 1: very well a possibility that these services don't return. Right.

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Speaker 1: This is what we are up against. Shutdowns are as

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Speaker 1: a result of Congress being at an impass not able

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Speaker 1: to get on the same page with each other, and

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Speaker 1: or the administration. When they have that type of a stalemate, right,

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Speaker 1: there's an impast there's nothing they can do to get

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Speaker 1: on the same page. That is, when the government shut downs,

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Speaker 1: shuts down, they shut down all non essential activity. What

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Speaker 1: I'm also telling you is different about this moment is

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Speaker 1: that this government, this administration, sees essential activities, essential workers,

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Speaker 1: different than a lot of common sense folks, y'all. So

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Speaker 1: these are the other things that could be in harm's

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Speaker 1: way because they are. They will say that even some

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Speaker 1: of these things that we would deem essential if they

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Speaker 1: support people of color, if they support immigrant communities, those

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Speaker 1: things could also be in harms way. Federal courts cold

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Speaker 1: potentially being in harms way. People who are locked up

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Speaker 1: waiting on bail to be released on bail may be

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Speaker 1: in harms way. This is a question that we keep

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Speaker 1: seeing over and over again. Why won't the Dems buck harder? Y'all?

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Speaker 1: This is a million dollar question, and it's so frustrating

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Speaker 1: because there are a lot of people who are representing

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, including our next guest, who you know,

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Speaker 1: don't don't don't have it in them to compromise or

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Speaker 1: to capitulate. They are fighting every single day to make

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Speaker 1: sure that our interests in our needs are met, and

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Speaker 1: so there are some fighters. I wish I could answer

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Speaker 1: you why all of them aren't coming together to fight.

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Speaker 1: And what I would say to you is so much

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Speaker 1: of this has to do with the districts they represent.

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Speaker 1: Some members feel like if they revolt or if they

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Speaker 1: fight back, that that means they will lose their seats.

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Speaker 1: There are still others, though, who are deciding, even on

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Speaker 1: the Republican side of the aisle. I think you're going

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Speaker 1: to see this a lot more, especially as you get

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Speaker 1: closer to the twenty twenty sixth election, who are saying,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I got to vote my conscience, and

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Speaker 1: if that means I lose my seat or I have

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Speaker 1: to retire after this term, I will because I'm going

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Speaker 1: to do what's right. I want to be able to

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Speaker 1: live with myself. I want history to be kind to me.

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Speaker 1: These are some of the things they're saying to ensure

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Speaker 1: that they are doing what is represents the American people

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Speaker 1: in the best way. We have someone who says, I'm

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Speaker 1: a federal contractor and was financially impacted by the government

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Speaker 1: shutdown during his first term. I would love to hear

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Speaker 1: about your story where you're a federal contractor how you

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Speaker 1: were impacted by that. I think people need to know

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Speaker 1: when these types of non essential activities are stalled, people

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Speaker 1: get thrown off there. You don't get your payments in time. Contractors,

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Speaker 1: subcontractors don't get payments in time. There are some instances

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Speaker 1: where payroll is halted. People don't get paid if they're

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Speaker 1: the non essential during a government shut down, the economy

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Speaker 1: is already crazy. Eggs is already seventy five million dollars. Like,

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Speaker 1: come on, somebody said Lolo. Are we to hold our

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Speaker 1: black mayors and governors accountable for asking for National Guard? Yes,

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Speaker 1: yes you are if they are doing things that directly

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Speaker 1: put you in harm's way. I did see some pastors

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Speaker 1: who are saying they also want the National Guard, particularly

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Speaker 1: in Memphis. You know, it's an interesting time to be

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Speaker 1: calling on federal support when we see the ways in

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Speaker 1: which our kids have been stopped and frisked, They have

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Speaker 1: been profiled, they have been harassed, some of them have

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Speaker 1: been physically harmed by National Guard and other federal law

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Speaker 1: enforcement being in cities, including in the district most recently.

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Speaker 1: So I would definitely suggest holding folks accountable. They said

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Speaker 1: that they can't be activated in a city without mayor

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Speaker 1: all approval. That I don't think is true. I believe

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Speaker 1: that the governor actually has that authority. It's a state

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Speaker 1: based criteria. If you know, have something different. Fact check

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Speaker 1: me boo. Who gonna check mayboo? Fact check me boo.

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Speaker 1: But I believe that it is actually a gubernatorial level

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Speaker 1: decision on whether or not to activate the state's National Guard.

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Speaker 1: We have another question, Angela, how can we as a

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Speaker 1: community help our federal workers who have been severely impacted

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Speaker 1: by this administration. I think it's a great question. I

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Speaker 1: would love for us all to be answering that. I

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Speaker 1: think that somebody should start a fund. I have my

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Speaker 1: good sister friend of Alicia Butterfield Jones, who has started

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Speaker 1: a fund to help black women who have been impacted

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Speaker 1: by the firings, by the mass layoffs, by the elimination

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Speaker 1: of DEI departments and spaces and corporations, and in the

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Speaker 1: federal government where DEI was once and equity was once

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Speaker 1: appreciated and even supported. So those types of funds are

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Speaker 1: necessary to ensure that people can live and thrive right now.

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Speaker 1: I think if you have a friend who's been impacted

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Speaker 1: by a federal layoff, a forced resignation, or an early retirement,

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Speaker 1: it's a great opportunity in time right now to let

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Speaker 1: them know where there may be a job announcement, a

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Speaker 1: contracting opportunity. For those of us who run our own businesses,

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Speaker 1: this is a great moment for us to bring people

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Speaker 1: in where we need support and say, hey, I've got

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Speaker 1: this opportunity, or I have this thing I've been struggling

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Speaker 1: with how to put it into place. Maybe I can

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Speaker 1: give you a contract even if it's for a short term,

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Speaker 1: just to help make ends meet. If you have twenty

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Speaker 1: dollars or thirty dollars to donate to some fund every month,

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Speaker 1: including the one Valisia stood up, I think it would

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Speaker 1: be great. Valisia runs Seed. I can not remember the

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Speaker 1: name of the fund she started, but Seed is her

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Speaker 1: organization and you can certainly check her out on Instagram

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Speaker 1: at Valicia V A. L E. I. S H A

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Speaker 1: and see how you can donate to the fund that

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Speaker 1: she's established. Additionally, there's another question, can the Dems. Oh sorry,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Lolo just sent this to me. Valicia's fund

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Speaker 1: is not through Seed. It is the Global State of

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Speaker 1: Women Rapid Relief Fund Global State of Women Rapid Relief Fund,

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Speaker 1: and you can find more information on that on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: If you have another question from light Moca, can the

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Speaker 1: DEM governors, ags and mayors band together in a soft

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Speaker 1: secession where they withhold federal money? They wouldn't withhold federal money.

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Speaker 1: Federal money is definitely being withheld from them, but there

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Speaker 1: are certain ways in which they can withhold the ways

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Speaker 1: that they interact with the federal government. There are there

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Speaker 1: are moneies that go into federal government pockets where they

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Speaker 1: could do that. I know there have been conversations about

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Speaker 1: this from Illinois to Maryland to some of the other

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Speaker 1: Northeastern states. Certainly, there are ways that the governors and

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Speaker 1: the attorneys general. You all know, many of the suits

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Speaker 1: being filed against the federal government have been led by

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Speaker 1: these state attorneys general. Those are the kinds of things

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Speaker 1: that must be done. It's not just a form of resistance.

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Speaker 1: It's also a way to present a real to mount

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Speaker 1: a real opposition, and to present some real alternatives to

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Speaker 1: our people right now in this moment. So there are

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Speaker 1: those kinds of things happening as well. Oh, here we go, y'all.

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Speaker 1: This is a hard question, but I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: my hard truth. Right now, we have Angela. Do you

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Speaker 1: expect to have free and fair midterm elections? I'm concerned

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Speaker 1: Ice will wreak havoc in black and brown communities on

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Speaker 1: election day. Well, I hate to tell y'all this. We

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Speaker 1: don't have to wait till the midterms. There are mayoral races.

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Speaker 1: There's a mayoral race. Actually, early voting has already begun

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Speaker 1: in New Orleans. There is a Virginia gubernatorial race coming up.

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Speaker 1: We can see what they decide to do in these

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Speaker 1: races to determine whether or not there will be free,

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Speaker 1: fair elections. I have a hard time believing and even

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Speaker 1: saying that we are free and fair elections.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: We had the current sitting President of the United States

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Speaker 1: who was charged in Georgia for asking them to find

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Speaker 1: some more votes in twenty twenty, so it ain't been

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Speaker 1: free and fair for some time. I question the outcome

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Speaker 1: of Stacy Abrams race. I questioned the outcome of Andrew

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Speaker 1: Gilliams race. Those are twenty eighteen races, right, I also

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Speaker 1: question now I'm in the twenty twenty two race for

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Speaker 1: Stacy Abrams. I think free and fair is a you know,

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Speaker 1: a far cry away from where we are right now

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Speaker 1: because of the ways in which the Supreme Court gutted

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Speaker 1: the Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five. Again, we're

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Speaker 1: celebrating that sixtieth anniversary right now. I question whether or

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Speaker 1: not we can have free and fair elections without the

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Speaker 1: full protection of the Voting Rights Act, which we do

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Speaker 1: not have right now. Congress Woman Sewell has introduced on

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Speaker 1: multiple occasions the Voting Rights Advancement Act. It is passed

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Speaker 1: the House when the Democrats were in charge multiple times,

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Speaker 1: I believe three in prior years, and she keeps introducing

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Speaker 1: it even now and they're still not support Do you

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Speaker 1: know understand and know that the Voting Rights Act reauthorization

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Speaker 1: used to be a bipartisan effort, a by partisan effort.

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Speaker 1: You want to know when it stopped being a bipartisan effort.

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Speaker 1: I am so happy you asked. It is when Barack

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Speaker 1: Obama won. So in two thousand and eight, Barack Obama

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Speaker 1: wins the election for president. They have not been able

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Speaker 1: to pass another Voting Rights reauthorization Act in a bipartisan

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Speaker 1: manner since then. This is where we are. This is

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Speaker 1: where we are. So I'm going back really click to

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Speaker 1: the Global State of Women Rapid Relief Fund. The link

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Speaker 1: for that is Global State of Women again, that's Global

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Speaker 1: Stateofwomen dot com. If you want to donate resources to

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Speaker 1: support black women who have been left out of the

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Speaker 1: federal workforce, who have been thank you all so much,

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Speaker 1: who have been taken out of the federal or the

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Speaker 1: private sector workforce or on the state level. This is

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Speaker 1: the fund that our good sister and friend Valicia Butterfield

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Speaker 1: Jones stood up to support these women who have been impacted.

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Speaker 1: We are now looking at at who should the public

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Speaker 1: be holding accountable? Is my next question, Who should the

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Speaker 1: public be holding accountable forgetting us here? Everyone seems to

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Speaker 1: be pointing the finger at the other side. Well, there's

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Speaker 1: a saying, when there's one point finger pointing at you,

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Speaker 1: it's a whole bunch more pointing this way. I think

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Speaker 1: that it's a good time for us to be taking

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Speaker 1: stock on what we did right in this last election cycle,

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Speaker 1: what we did wrong. Where do we fail to collectively

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Speaker 1: come together. For the folks who voted third party, where

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00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: is your candidate? What is she doing? For the folks

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Speaker 1: who wanted a Kamala Harris to pass a purity test

649
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 1: even though they knew that they agreed with her on

650
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: eighty to eighty five to ninety percent on issues, you

651
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Speaker 1: have to figure out if it was worth it. For

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Speaker 1: those who said, you know what, this election doesn't apply

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Speaker 1: to me. I'm just going to sit at home. I'm

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00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 1: tired of elections. I want to know if you feel

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Speaker 1: protected in this environment that we're in now. For the

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Speaker 1: elected officials who refuse to endorse or endorse late, or

657
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Speaker 1: didn't stump or didn't go to their communities and ask

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Speaker 1: for additional support. I want to ask you if it

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Speaker 1: was worth it for those of you who decided that

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Speaker 1: you didn't want another black president, or you didn't want

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Speaker 1: a woman president, or you you know didn't couldn't stand

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Speaker 1: with her because of her position on lgbt QIA rights,

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Speaker 1: or whether or not she was going hard enough for guys.

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Speaker 1: I want to know if it was worth it. I

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Speaker 1: can tell you that that is my big sister, and

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Speaker 1: she is my friend, and I know her heart and

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Speaker 1: I know where she stands, and we don't agree on

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Speaker 1: every single issue. But what I know for sure is

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Speaker 1: I would prefer to have someone in that office who

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Speaker 1: has experience, who was a prosecuting attorney, who was a

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Speaker 1: state attorney general, who was a United States senator, who

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Speaker 1: had experienced as the vice president, who has worked at

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Speaker 1: every level of government, has always been a public servant,

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Speaker 1: who understands what HBCU's need. Because she went to one

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Speaker 1: who understands the importance of coming together geographically, across racial lines,

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Speaker 1: income lines, all of that, I would have so preferred her.

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Speaker 1: And I still haven't forgiven this country for what you

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Speaker 1: did allegedly, because I'm still not sure about these election results.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna just end up being an election denier from

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Speaker 1: this episode, and I'm totally fine with it. But let

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Speaker 1: me tell y'all, I would have so much rather have

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Speaker 1: that conversation with her, debate our differences, figure out where

683
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Speaker 1: we can find common ground and get there. Rather than

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Speaker 1: having someone who is ill fitted and unprepared and unwilling

685
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Speaker 1: to have any type of conversation unless it's on advancing

686
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Speaker 1: the priorities of Project twenty twenty five, I would so

687
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Speaker 1: much rather have her. And so we are seeing yet

688
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: again why having someone in the White House who has

689
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Speaker 1: my way or highway mentality, who was charged with ninety

690
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 1: one felonies dropped down to eighty eight never properly prosecuted.

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Speaker 1: I want to know. I want to know if we

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Speaker 1: all agree that it was worth it. I certainly don't

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Speaker 1: agree with that, right. I know you wanted somebody to blame,

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Speaker 1: and I know I'm telling you to turn to you.

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00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: I'm turning to me too. I want to know if

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Speaker 1: I did everything that I could have possibly done. I tried,

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Speaker 1: but maybe there's something else I could have done. I

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Speaker 1: also want to say this, and it may be an

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Speaker 1: unpopular opinion, right now I want you all to study

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Speaker 1: what Merrick Garland did. Study what Merrick Garland did as

701
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:12,879
Speaker 1: the US Supreme Court justice nominee bi Barack Obama, who

702
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: never got an opportunity to serve in the Supreme Court.

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00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at that. I actually wanted a black

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Speaker 1: woman then too. I think that that would have resulted

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Speaker 1: in a higher turnout for Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 1: But I want to know how he went from becoming

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Speaker 1: what would have been a very moderate Supreme Court justice

708
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: to somehow Biden advisors and strategists and President Biden himself

709
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: thinking that this man was going to be a fierce

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Speaker 1: advocate as the Attorney General of the United States. I

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Speaker 1: would have preferred Sally Yates. I would have preferred them

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Speaker 1: as Eric Holder if he would come back, I would

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Speaker 1: have preferred they asked Stacy Abrams. I would have preferred

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Speaker 1: somebody that had a fight in them to ensure that

715
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Speaker 1: this man was prosecuted in a timely way. Instead, what

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Speaker 1: they allowed for was enough time for the former president

717
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Speaker 1: to mount a case. Now well now he's the current

718
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Speaker 1: president again, but to mount a case to say, you

719
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 1: know what I actually want to see if I could

720
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Speaker 1: be immune from any criminal liability if I was acting

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Speaker 1: in my official capacity. That's where we are now, where

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Speaker 1: the President of the United States could say, I may

723
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Speaker 1: have committed a crime, but I should be immune from

724
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Speaker 1: it because I took an oath. Well, because you took

725
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:38,240
Speaker 1: an oath, it should mean that you are not going

726
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 1: to commit a crime to get the job done. How

727
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: about taking an oath of office and being the type

728
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Speaker 1: of public servant that could do within the best interest

729
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: of the people and not your pocketbooks. How about that?

730
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Speaker 1: How about you try to do that? So this is

731
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Speaker 1: where we are. We are in quite the crisis yet again,

732
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Speaker 1: and I want to know what is our next collective

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Speaker 1: best steps. As I said, the State of the people

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Speaker 1: for this last government crisis we were in had a

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Speaker 1: sixty nine and a half hour marathon, and I will

736
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Speaker 1: tell y'all at the time, I thought that was our

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Speaker 1: best way to fight. Now I'm questioning what is our

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Speaker 1: best way to fight If all of the tools that

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Speaker 1: we normally use are no longer at our disposal, If

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Speaker 1: calling our members of Congress does a result in the

741
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Speaker 1: type of sea chains that we know we deserve, I

742
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: think that we've got to figure out how to do

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Speaker 1: this differently, And I'm raising with you all now in

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Speaker 1: this moment that it may have to look different because, sorry,

745
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: because the old tools don't work. These people are under

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Speaker 1: the thumb of a dictator. He wants to be a

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00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: dictator so bad that they're willing to do anything that

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Speaker 1: he says, even if it is at the of people

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Speaker 1: who voted for them, of people who reside in their districts.

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Speaker 1: That is a very very challenging place to be. It's

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Speaker 1: very very challenging. So I just think that we've got

752
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: to figure out if we're doing our best. Are you

753
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,440
Speaker 1: going to town halls of these members of Congress who

754
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Speaker 1: are now refusing to answer your calls and telling them

755
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Speaker 1: what you expect to see. Are you are you sending notes?

756
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: Are you on social media posting videos that could go

757
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: viral telling them why the makeup of their districts dictates

758
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Speaker 1: that they need to vote a different way. Are you

759
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: ensuring that people with large platforms have the information and

760
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Speaker 1: the tools they need to show up to these town

761
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Speaker 1: halls to challenge these members of Congress on social media,

762
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:57,359
Speaker 1: to challenge them in press interviews. Are you telling your

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00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: local newspaper, your local news outlets this is how this

764
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: member of Congress voted, and I want you to know.

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Speaker 1: Let me bring up a recent example while we still

766
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Speaker 1: go through this troubleshooting, and again, thank you all for

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Speaker 1: your patients. What I want to know is if you

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Speaker 1: all paid attention to that resolution honoring the life of

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk. Our dear sister and friend, Jasmine Crockett, who

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Speaker 1: we're hoping joins us before the end of the show today,

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Speaker 1: said recently that there were only two white members of

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Speaker 1: Congress Democrats. Two white Democrats who voted no on the

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk resolution. Y'all can get good practice in right

774
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Speaker 1: now asking them what the hell they were doing. That's

775
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Speaker 1: what this moment requires. It's not a high member of Congress.

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Speaker 1: So and so I'm just calling because I'm urging you

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Speaker 1: to vote no on X y Z. That's not what

778
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Speaker 1: time we're on. The type of time we're on now

779
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: is HI. This is Angela RII calling Member XYZ. I'm

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00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: calling you because I need you to understand how detrimental

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Speaker 1: your vote is. I'm calling you because I need you

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Speaker 1: to know you've been on the wrong side of history

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Speaker 1: on the last five votes. I'm calling you because I

784
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: want I want to know. I want you to know

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Speaker 1: that if you continue to vote against our interests, we

786
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: will vote you out. Those are your only two options.

787
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Speaker 1: You either are with us or you're against us. I

788
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,240
Speaker 1: want to be clear about that. And in fact, staff

789
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 1: for so and so, I appreciate you picking up the phone,

790
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: but where is your boss. I want to talk to

791
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Speaker 1: the Legislative director. I want to talk to the chief

792
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Speaker 1: of staff, and in fact, I really want to talk

793
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: to Member x YZ because they got me confused. I

794
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 1: will be right outside your office with a full rally.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be at the district office every day

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out just what the hell you doing

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00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: because you stay on the wrong side of the issues,

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Speaker 1: and that is the thing. We have got to figure

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Speaker 1: this out. We have got to challenge these members in

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Speaker 1: a different way. And let me just say this, because

801
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: I think some of us mess this up. To y'all,

802
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: I'm giving you a little primer on how the HEILL works. Unexpectedly,

803
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: but it's probably a good time to go through this primer.

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Speaker 1: Y'all spend a lot of time calling the wrong member.

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Speaker 1: Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congresswoman Evad Clark, all

806
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Speaker 1: of the CBC members, they don't need these calls. They

807
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 1: gonna vote the right way on the government shutdown. Some

808
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: of them messed up on the Charlie Kirk resolution. That's

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Speaker 1: the story for another day. But on the shutdown, that's

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Speaker 1: not what you need to call. You need to call

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Speaker 1: these Republicans. Y'all need to call Speaker Mike Johnson. You

812
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:41,399
Speaker 1: need to call Republican leadership. You need to figure out

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Speaker 1: what it is they're doing. Because the conscience of the

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Speaker 1: Congress is going to vote together. The conscience of the

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Speaker 1: Congress is going to vote together. You need to call

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Speaker 1: the members of Congress who are confused about how they

817
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: got there and who they represent. That's what you got

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Speaker 1: to call. So there. I saw something recently where there's

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Speaker 1: a conversation again after the federal government takeover of DC,

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Speaker 1: where there were some DC folks saying, we need the

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Speaker 1: Congressional Black Caucus to stand with us on DC statehood.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, the Congressional Black Cauk has been

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Speaker 1: with y'all on DC statehood since it was founded in

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one. In nineteen seventy one, the Congressional Black

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Speaker 1: Caucus went to Richard Nixon with sixty one recommendations of

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Speaker 1: what would be what would result in the betterment of

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Speaker 1: Black America, the types of policies that would ensure the

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Speaker 1: protection and the development and the strengthening and the uplifting

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Speaker 1: of Black America. One of the key pillars of that

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Speaker 1: sixty one point recommendation plan was DC statehood. The Congressional

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Speaker 1: Black Caucus understands, right. So I just got to be

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Speaker 1: very clear about the fact that the members, the CBC

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Speaker 1: members are with y'all them other ones, so demand that

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Speaker 1: they tell you in writing how they're planning to vote.

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Speaker 1: You can reach out to these members on social media.

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Speaker 1: You can reach out to them by calling their office.

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Speaker 1: You can go to their town halls. Go on their

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Speaker 1: website and see when their next public event is. Go

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Speaker 1: look on their social media and see when their next

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Speaker 1: town hall is. I just did a teletown hall actually

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Speaker 1: with Congresswoman Frederick W. Wilson. It was amazing. Shout out

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Speaker 1: to you, Congressoman Wilson. You did an amazing, amazing job,

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Speaker 1: and there were forty thousand. She called me recently, I

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Speaker 1: think it was last week. She called me last week

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Speaker 1: and said forty thousand people. Forty thousand of her constituents

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Speaker 1: were on that teletown hall. People are thirsty for knowledge

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Speaker 1: in this moment. We just did the CBC Foundations Annual

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Speaker 1: Legislative Conferences this past week. The theme was made for

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Speaker 1: this moment. If you tuned into our live show, you

850
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:51,919
Speaker 1: know that we talked about it over and over again.

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Speaker 1: If you came to any of the sessions, you know

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Speaker 1: that because I asked everybody to tell us why they

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Speaker 1: were made for this moment. In fact, in the comments

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Speaker 1: right now, as we get ready to transition, I want

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Speaker 1: you all to tell us while you're made for this moment.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna put some of those up in social on

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Speaker 1: our stories, and right now it gives me great pleasure.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we were able to troubleshoot everything. Congress from A.

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Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett is joining us right now. She represents Texas's

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Speaker 1: Congressional District thirty. My good, sister, how you doing. I'm well?

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm good? You sound very chill today.

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Speaker 1: I'm hype because I've been in here yelling about this

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Speaker 1: crazy government shutdown. Ma'am. Yeah, let me take off my pen.

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Speaker 1: You like it before you say, before I get loose.

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Speaker 3: Before I get before I start talking stuff. Let me

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Speaker 3: take my pin.

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Speaker 1: You should have left it on you took it, you

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Speaker 1: had it. You took an oath of office to do

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Speaker 1: just that, to tell the people the truth, and you

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Speaker 1: do it every single day before you get into the

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Speaker 1: shutdown says I want to just acknowledge this because I

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Speaker 1: think it's important you get hit really hard. The opposition

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Speaker 1: is coming at you regularly. And Wes Moore joined us

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Speaker 1: for our live show on Saturday, and he said something

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Speaker 1: so good that our sister Dawn told him. He said

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Speaker 1: that when he was running for governor that she told

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Speaker 1: him was gonna get hard, that people were gonna start

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Speaker 1: coming at him relentlessly. And when that happens, No, it's

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Speaker 1: because you're doing everything right, and so you get hit often,

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Speaker 1: especially from the other side. Sometimes it's internal friendly fire too,

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Speaker 1: And I just want to remind you in this moment.

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Speaker 1: I know you know, but sometimes it's good to hear

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Speaker 1: from your sister friends too. That I want you to

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Speaker 1: know is because you're doing so much right. And if

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Speaker 1: there is never anything else to remind you, I hope

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Speaker 1: you can always hear in your mind what I heard

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Speaker 1: at the Phoenix Awards dinner Saturday for the CBC Foundation.

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Speaker 1: You all, when Congresswoman Crockett's name was called, the audience

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Speaker 1: roared and it gave me goosebumps. It was this beautiful moment,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, I hope she hears and receives

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Speaker 1: this love. I know they were cheering for the outfit too,

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Speaker 1: but I think they were mostly cheering for the way

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Speaker 1: in what you represent us so well. So I want

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Speaker 1: to tell you thank you and I love you before

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Speaker 1: this audience as well. You are always representing us even

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Speaker 1: when it's hard, So I want you to know we

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Speaker 1: see you, Sis.

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Speaker 3: I love you so very much and I'm happy that

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Speaker 3: you are still in this space. For those of you

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Speaker 3: that don't know the full story of Angela Rye, she

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Speaker 3: is definitely not new to this. She is as true

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Speaker 3: as they come, and there's so much that she does

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Speaker 3: behind the scenes that y'all will never know about until

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Speaker 3: she puts it in whatever best selling book she decides

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Speaker 3: is going to be brought forth next right, But that's

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Speaker 3: what this work takes. It takes being able to build coalitions,

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Speaker 3: coalitions that are inside as well as outside, as well

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Speaker 3: as understanding the rules to the game so that hopefully

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Speaker 3: you can figure out how to maneuver. And I think

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Speaker 3: that one of the things about the moment that we're

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Speaker 3: living in is that we have somebody who does not

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Speaker 3: care about the rule, and so he out here wilding.

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Speaker 3: But the rest of us know that if we come

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Speaker 3: anywhere near crossing the line of like breaking any rule,

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Speaker 3: we know that it's not gonna be friendly fire. It's

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Speaker 3: just gonna be fire. We've seen how they've acted with

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Speaker 3: our siss, Tis James. We know that he believes in

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Speaker 3: going after his political enemies. We saw what he did

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Speaker 3: with my good siss who sits at the which one

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Speaker 3: is she?

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Speaker 1: Oh, at the agency she's at she's at she's the

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Speaker 1: only black woman Federal Board of Governors.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Ever, for I'm like, I was like, yeah, So I

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Speaker 1: was like, but we met barely passed the Civics test today,

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Speaker 1: but we did pass.

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Speaker 3: But that but that is the issue, Like, so you know,

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Speaker 3: I have to make sure that I am always checking

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Speaker 3: myself and staying within the rules. You saw that I

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Speaker 3: was pulling off my pen because I didn't want any

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Speaker 3: drama because of something that I said.

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Speaker 1: So it's all those things.

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Speaker 3: So it's like, how do you function within the rules

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Speaker 3: against someone who is lawless?

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Speaker 1: It is a wild dynamic to be in.

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Speaker 3: But I appreciate the fact that there is some resistance

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Speaker 3: and opposition coming in the form of this shut down.

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Speaker 3: I don't appreciate the harm that is going to exist

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Speaker 3: as relates to all American people, especially our federal government workers,

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Speaker 3: who I love and adore and I appreciate. But sadly enough,

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Speaker 3: they've been violating the law and going after them since

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Speaker 3: the day he swore in. The illegal riffs that have

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Speaker 3: taken place, and even some of the things that the

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Speaker 3: courts has ruled as being lawful, they've not been smart.

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Speaker 3: We know that these agencies haven't been at full capacity anyway,

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Speaker 3: and now we're talking about just the big hit that

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Speaker 3: it's at actually happening to our economy overall, because the

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Speaker 3: largest employer period in the United States is the federal government,

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Speaker 3: so pulling out that many workers impacts all of us.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, so as relates to the shutdown, Listen, the

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Speaker 3: last time we had a shut down, it was Trump.

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Speaker 3: The longest shutdown we've ever had, it was under Trump.

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Speaker 3: So don't get caught up in this nonsense that it's

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Speaker 3: the Democrat's fault. You know, the bad part is that

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Speaker 3: people don't understand civics or they listen to people that

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Speaker 3: are gaslighting them and the facts of the facts. The

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Speaker 3: Republicans control everything.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: There are people that want to talk about the filibuster.

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Speaker 3: We can talk about the philibuster if you want to

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Speaker 3: talk about the philibuster. But the reality is that y'all

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Speaker 3: control everything. You control every single lever right now. So

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Speaker 3: when you're in control, that means that it is up

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Speaker 3: to you to figure out how it gets done. When

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden was, you know, he had a house and

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Speaker 3: he had a Senate, he was able to get the

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Speaker 3: largest bill that we've ever seen as relates to infrastructure.

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Speaker 3: He got that passed. He didn't have sixty in the Senate.

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Speaker 3: He was able to get the Chips and Science Act done,

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Speaker 3: he didn't have sixty in the Senate. So people expect

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Speaker 3: you to be able to govern when you have the majority.

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Speaker 3: That means you're just in the best negotiation space. But

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Speaker 3: when you sit up there and you basically shun the

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Speaker 3: people that you need and then you want to come

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Speaker 3: around and just be like, well, just go do this

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but we not your flunkeys. And that is

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Speaker 3: not what we campaigned on. We didn't campaign on making

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Speaker 3: life worse or more harmful for people. So I don't

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Speaker 3: really know what the negotiating space looks like. I don't

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Speaker 3: sit at the negotiation table, but I can tell you

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Speaker 3: that usually when you go in and you negotiate with somebody,

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Speaker 3: the first rule is that you have to at least

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Speaker 3: be on the page where you can say we're going

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Speaker 3: to enter into honest negotiations.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: Imagine walking into buy a car and you know that

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Speaker 3: you've got cash to pay for the car, and the

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Speaker 3: dealer tells you, yes, I will accept forty thousand dollars

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Speaker 3: for this car if you pay cash. And then you

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Speaker 3: pull up with the cash and you're like, give me

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Speaker 3: the keys, and then he's like, I've took your forty racks,

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Speaker 3: but I'm gonna need another five.

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Speaker 1: You gonna look at him and be like, you can

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Speaker 1: go to hell because that's not what we agree to. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's exactly what's happened.

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Speaker 3: We've seen that Democrats have entered into negotiations as it

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Speaker 3: relates to getting other funding bills passed, and as soon

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Speaker 3: as Donald Trump came in, he decided to claw back

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Speaker 3: whatever he wanted to clawback. He decided to illegally just

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Speaker 3: stop money from going out, whether it was to USAID

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Speaker 3: or USAID or otherwise. So we also have to have

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Speaker 3: assurances that even if we say, okay, we will do X,

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Speaker 3: we have to know that you're not gonna pull back

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Speaker 3: X and do what you want to do anyway. So

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Speaker 3: we really are in a bad way, and I need

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Speaker 3: the American people to understand how many problematic dynamics we

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Speaker 3: have in this moment.

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Speaker 1: Sis. I want to ask you this too, because I

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Speaker 1: think it's so important. I keep getting asked. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be perfectly and transparent and honest with you. I keep

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Speaker 1: getting asked, what do we do, Like, you know, like

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Speaker 1: what do the what does the American people need to

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Speaker 1: do in this moment? Not just about the shutdown? But

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're sensing this even from last

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Speaker 1: week at the conference, like people are so hungry for

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Speaker 1: like give me something I can do, because it feels

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Speaker 1: like we're grasping at straws. You talk about we, you know,

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Speaker 1: having people who know the rules of the game. I

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Speaker 1: got to be honest with you. I don't know these rules.

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Speaker 1: There are no rules, and so I am struggling to

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Speaker 1: tell people what to do and what and how to

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Speaker 1: do it because every like every tactic that I have

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Speaker 1: at my disposal from when I worked on the Hill,

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Speaker 1: which was fifty gizillion years ago, now it's changed, right,

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Speaker 1: And so I want to know one for you? Does

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Speaker 1: that make you deepen into the fight? Right? Or does

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Speaker 1: it do you? Are you ever a point where you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm discouraged because this is some nonsense that I just

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Speaker 1: can't get with. I think it's important for people to

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Speaker 1: understand Jasmine the human versus the fighting Congresswoman Crockett, and

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Speaker 1: how you navigate those two things, because I bet you

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Speaker 1: a lot of folks are feeling that dichotomy. I know,

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Speaker 1: I am yeah, Angela is asking this question because she

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Speaker 1: knows the answer. No, I'm serious, because you might be like.

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Speaker 3: She knows that there are times that she hits me

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Speaker 3: up and I'm over it. I am like, people just

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Speaker 3: don't get that, like I do this because I legitimately

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Speaker 3: like love this country and I love my people like period.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 3: That's it, that's all. There is nothing else. Life is

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Speaker 3: really complicated for me to navigate right now, from the

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Speaker 3: death threats to the death threats to you know, also

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Speaker 3: just a lack of security that they provide considering the

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Speaker 3: death threats to like the fact that I'm used to

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Speaker 3: working for myself and being able to go out and

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Speaker 3: dictate how much money I bring in.

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Speaker 1: So here it is, I.

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Speaker 3: Have these death threats, I have these costs that are

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Speaker 3: associated with death threats to try to keep me safe,

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Speaker 3: and then they're not really deciding that they're not going

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Speaker 3: to participate in that. But I also have like these

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Speaker 3: chains on me because I am a worker, right, Like,

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Speaker 3: I mean, anybody that's known me since I could work,

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Speaker 3: people used to talk about me all the time. I

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Speaker 3: work three jobs when I was in law school and

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Speaker 3: was still top of my class. Like I hustle. I

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Speaker 3: work hard for everything that I want. So like, I've

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Speaker 3: got all of these parameters, and there are times that

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Speaker 3: I get so frustrated because I go out, I get

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Speaker 3: all of the heat that's thrown on me, and I

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Speaker 3: don't ever know who are on my side will even

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Speaker 3: back me up if somebody comes for me, right, But

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Speaker 3: then I get a chance to actually be with the

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Speaker 3: people you talk about ALC. I was not feeling ALC.

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Speaker 3: I did not want to do ALC. I was like,

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Speaker 3: this feels like the wrong thing to be doing in

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Speaker 3: this moment, Like we're having parties. There is nothing so

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Speaker 3: party about like right now, Like people are losing. And

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Speaker 3: when I say people, I mean all people, but definitely

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Speaker 3: Black folk are losing. So I just was really torn

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Speaker 3: about ALC as a whole. And I was like, ain't

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Speaker 3: nobody comes to this, Like people are holding on to

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Speaker 3: their money because of all of the uncertainty. I was

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Speaker 3: just not feeling any of it. And like most things,

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01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 3: showing up and seeing the people that's where I get

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01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:48,919
Speaker 3: my energy from.

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01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 1: I had a chance to sit down.

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01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 3: A group of us sat down with the Vice President

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Speaker 3: on Saturday morning, and it's my first time seeing her

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Speaker 3: in person since the certification of the election. We went

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01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 3: over to her office in the Senate prior to her

1082
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 3: having to stand up there and do her job. We

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01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 3: went we had like a sit down, a pow wow

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01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 3: with her. So this is my first time seeing her

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01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:21,440
Speaker 3: in about eight months or so. And she was talking

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01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:25,600
Speaker 3: about how we have to get out a DC and

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01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 3: she wasn't just talking about physically, but like mentally, because

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01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:32,360
Speaker 3: you can get just drained by like being here, and

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01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:36,680
Speaker 3: she was like, you gotta basically touch grass. You got

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01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 3: to actually see the people, talk to the people. And

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01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 3: that is the thing that keeps me in this fight,

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01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 3: you know, the whole Laura Lumer thing. You brought that

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01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 3: up when I missed y'all, which I had to because

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01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 3: of the way my life is set up. I could

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01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:55,520
Speaker 3: not go through the front of the convention center, so

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01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 3: I didn't get to go live with y'all. They had

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01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 3: to bring me around the back to get into the

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01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:03,960
Speaker 3: convention center. So like even my routes getting into buildings

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01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:08,840
Speaker 3: are changed sometimes on how large.

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Speaker 1: Of a gathering it is.

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Speaker 3: And literally we're supposed to be going to get me

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01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:16,000
Speaker 3: like fitted for my bulletproof vests, like this is not

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01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 3: Like I wake up days and I'm like why right?

1104
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,480
Speaker 3: And then I see people and I hear the stories

1105
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:28,959
Speaker 3: of people, and most importantly young people that are inspired,

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01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 3: and I think, Okay, God, I get it now. I

1107
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:35,080
Speaker 3: get why you chose me for this moment. But I

1108
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 3: can tell y'all that much like many of you, I

1109
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 3: want to give up for different reasons though. And again,

1110
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:48,560
Speaker 3: even when the Lumer situation happened. I was flying in

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01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 3: and out of New York on that day to speak

1112
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Speaker 3: at Unga, so I had no idea, like I'm busy,

1113
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 3: like I'm working right, like I'm working. And it wasn't

1114
01:05:57,680 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 3: until I got back to DC that I was made

1115
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 3: aware of what was going on. But by that time,

1116
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 3: the Internet had dragged her for filth and like there

1117
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 3: was nothing to be said, like y'all left, no drums,

1118
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:10,440
Speaker 3: like y'all ate y'all ate her up, y'all.

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01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:13,720
Speaker 1: Still eating her up? And again you know what?

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Speaker 3: Like seeing that happen completely organically, like people just being

1121
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 3: like not on our watch, it makes me say, yes,

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01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 3: I have to stay in this fight, like these people

1123
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,920
Speaker 3: are out there saying you will not come for somebody

1124
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:33,560
Speaker 3: that is always protecting and fighting for us. So who

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01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 3: am I to give up in that moment? So yes,

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01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 3: DC may let me down in so many ways, so

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01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 3: very often, but every time I am given an opportunity

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01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:49,440
Speaker 3: to just be with the people, that is where I

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01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 3: am re energized and when I refocus and say, this

1130
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:56,440
Speaker 3: is just what has to be done in this moment.

1131
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 3: So I do want to say mad love to each

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01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:02,000
Speaker 3: of you when you are trying to figure out things

1133
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 3: that you can do. Just know that literally y'all are

1134
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 3: keeping me in this game from the small dollar donations.

1135
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:12,920
Speaker 3: I think I was looking at our donations for this quarter,

1136
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 3: and we've had one hundred and maybe twenty something thousand people.

1137
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:20,920
Speaker 3: That's a lot of people. One hundred and twenty thousand

1138
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 3: people so far this quarter have contributed to me. They've

1139
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 3: contributed a dollar, five dollars, ten dollars. It makes a difference,

1140
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 3: like that money adds up. And so when I'm having

1141
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:34,680
Speaker 3: to pay for security, like, it's y'all that keep me safe,

1142
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:38,200
Speaker 3: right when I'm getting trolls on the internet, it's y'all

1143
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 3: that are coming.

1144
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,480
Speaker 1: To my to have my back.

1145
01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:44,080
Speaker 3: And so I just really want to say thank you

1146
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 3: because when I do hit those lows, it's always y'all

1147
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:51,600
Speaker 3: that bring me back. And so, yes, there are things

1148
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 3: that you can do. I just gave you examples, even

1149
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 3: if it's a matter of making sure when they come

1150
01:07:57,960 --> 01:08:02,240
Speaker 3: for somebody that you know is doing things purely because

1151
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:06,160
Speaker 3: they want a better country, have their back. Get on

1152
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 3: the internet and drag them people for filth. Don't make

1153
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 3: them have to figure out how to amplify and really

1154
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:18,120
Speaker 3: make a statement that helps. Also, Unfortunately, you know, I'm

1155
01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:19,720
Speaker 3: a real one, so I'm not gonna lie to you

1156
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 3: and say that there's a ton that we can do

1157
01:08:22,040 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 3: in this exact moment for these exact things. But they

1158
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:28,799
Speaker 3: didn't get here overnight. So I need people to be patient.

1159
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 3: They have been working for fifty years to overturn Row.

1160
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:34,360
Speaker 3: It took them fifty years. Now we ain't got fifty

1161
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 3: years to be working on some of this stuff. But

1162
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:41,360
Speaker 3: just understand that progress comes, but sometimes it doesn't come

1163
01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:43,519
Speaker 3: as fast as we want it to come. So some

1164
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:45,160
Speaker 3: of the things that we have going on right now,

1165
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:48,880
Speaker 3: we know that November fourth is another election day. It's

1166
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 3: going to be a big election day in the state

1167
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:54,639
Speaker 3: of California. Prop fifty is something that I need everyone

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01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:56,679
Speaker 3: to vote yes on. I need you posting on social

1169
01:08:56,760 --> 01:08:59,240
Speaker 3: media about it. I need you talking to your friends,

1170
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:03,960
Speaker 3: families and about Prop fifty and why it matters. If

1171
01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:07,360
Speaker 3: you are looking for us to kind of semi immediately

1172
01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 3: stop some of the pain. Then we have to win

1173
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 3: the House. I don't know what our chances of winning

1174
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:15,280
Speaker 3: the Senate are, but we are in good position.

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01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:17,840
Speaker 1: That is why he is trying to rig the game.

1176
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 1: Because he knows the change it the maps exactly.

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01:09:21,479 --> 01:09:24,640
Speaker 3: We should be ready to go ahead and take the

1178
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 3: House and start to really get some accountability. So yeah,

1179
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 3: we need to vote yes on Prop fifty on November four.

1180
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 3: We also know that there's a gubernatorial race in the

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01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 3: state of Virginia. Virginia right now has a Republican that

1182
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:40,960
Speaker 3: controls that state. We need to get a Democrat that

1183
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:43,599
Speaker 3: is going to be in power. You talked about Wes Moore.

1184
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:46,880
Speaker 3: Wes Moore was able to push back on this administration

1185
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:51,160
Speaker 3: as the governor. So to protect those that are in Virginia,

1186
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 3: we need a governor that will push back. So it's

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01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 3: important that we make sure everybody and anybody in Virginia

1188
01:09:57,160 --> 01:10:00,439
Speaker 3: gets out and they actually vote on November fourth, not

1189
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:01,600
Speaker 3: only for governor.

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01:10:01,360 --> 01:10:03,960
Speaker 1: And not for that black lady, that black lady crazy.

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01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,639
Speaker 1: I love black people, but some people are just skinned

1192
01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:11,440
Speaker 1: forul she is exhibit A. Yeah y'all, yeah, no, she wild.

1193
01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:16,559
Speaker 3: But also every House member is up in Virginia. So like,

1194
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 3: look at what the state of California did as it

1195
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:22,040
Speaker 3: relates to ice. They passed a bill that said no

1196
01:10:22,200 --> 01:10:24,920
Speaker 3: law enforcement can be out here in these streets with

1197
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 3: no masks. Like part of fighting back is our states

1198
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,320
Speaker 3: kind of rising up to protect their people, just like

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01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 3: our city councils can do some of the same.

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01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:36,200
Speaker 1: So you've got that election November four. You introduced a

1201
01:10:36,240 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 1: bill like that in the House too. I know that

1202
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:39,920
Speaker 1: you're talking about the elections, but I do want to

1203
01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:44,200
Speaker 1: say this. What Jasmine's bill does is the moral thing

1204
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 1: to do. I can't remember the acronym for the so

1205
01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:49,960
Speaker 1: that they have to be unmasked. What is she introduced

1206
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:53,400
Speaker 1: a lot of bills, you're claire, that's it, that's it.

1207
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:56,920
Speaker 1: But the thing is it is designed to make sure

1208
01:10:56,960 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: that these federal operatives, federal law enforcement agents, cannot be

1209
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:04,679
Speaker 1: covered up while they're harassing our children and our elders

1210
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 1: and our people on American streets. Y'all need to tell

1211
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:09,320
Speaker 1: your members to vote for that. There should be a

1212
01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:11,840
Speaker 1: motion to discharge. That's what you do. There should be

1213
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 1: a motion to discharge to make them have to vote

1214
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 1: on this bill that Actually, you know what, I may

1215
01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:19,720
Speaker 1: I may discharge it. I may discharge it. That's a

1216
01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:21,640
Speaker 1: that's good. I think you should make them be on

1217
01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:23,680
Speaker 1: the record for that and call every one of them

1218
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 1: out when they won't sign on to that, So get

1219
01:11:26,439 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 1: your back.

1220
01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:32,800
Speaker 3: Is that bill and for sure and just so y'all

1221
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 3: understand discharge that's what we're trying to do on the

1222
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 3: Epstein files. It is very difficult to get a discharge

1223
01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:43,479
Speaker 3: petition done, but we are one signature away from getting

1224
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:45,439
Speaker 3: it done on the Epstein file, and I don't think

1225
01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:48,800
Speaker 3: that we've actually had enough signatures, which it takes two

1226
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 3: hundred and eighteen signatures to be able to then basically

1227
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:55,880
Speaker 3: usurp the Speaker and get a bill to the floor.

1228
01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:58,200
Speaker 3: So this is kind of like when people go out

1229
01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:01,439
Speaker 3: and they petition their government. Sometimes if the government don't

1230
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:02,760
Speaker 3: do what you want them to do, they can do

1231
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:05,760
Speaker 3: petitions in certain states. That's basically what it is.

1232
01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 1: We're saying.

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01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:08,120
Speaker 3: Listen, the Speaker is the only one that can put

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01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:10,439
Speaker 3: a bill on the floor, but if he refuses to,

1235
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:13,559
Speaker 3: then we as House members can come together and say no,

1236
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:16,599
Speaker 3: we're going to do this and we're going to override you. Well,

1237
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 3: right now, we have four Republicans on the bill, We've

1238
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:23,440
Speaker 3: got every Democrat on the bill, and the last Democrat

1239
01:12:23,479 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 3: that would be two hundred and eighteen to sign she

1240
01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:28,960
Speaker 3: just won her seat. And he refuses to swear her in.

1241
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:32,840
Speaker 3: In fact, the Democrats went to the floor today because

1242
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:35,640
Speaker 3: we are in a performer session. They have sworn in

1243
01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:39,759
Speaker 3: Republicans just this term during performa. They could have sworn

1244
01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:43,200
Speaker 3: her in. They refuse to swear her in because they

1245
01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:45,479
Speaker 3: don't want her to sign that because then that starts

1246
01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 3: the process of having to put this on the floor

1247
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:52,599
Speaker 3: by the time we get back into session and actually

1248
01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:55,559
Speaker 3: vote on it. But I can discharge this. And that's

1249
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 3: another thing that Angela brings up a lot of times.

1250
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:00,960
Speaker 3: If you're a Democrat and you're represented by Republican you

1251
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:01,640
Speaker 3: don't want to call them.

1252
01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:02,800
Speaker 1: You want to call the Democrats.

1253
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:05,679
Speaker 3: You need to call the people they represent, you them

1254
01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:08,240
Speaker 3: and tell them what it is that you want them

1255
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 3: to do. Also talk to like your Republican neighbors and

1256
01:13:11,880 --> 01:13:14,920
Speaker 3: friends or whatever, tell them too. Like a lot of

1257
01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 3: this stuff, like when we look at things like SNAP

1258
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:20,760
Speaker 3: benefits under the shutdown, snap benefits will continue for approximately

1259
01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:25,160
Speaker 3: in additional thirty days. But rural America uses more SNAP

1260
01:13:25,160 --> 01:13:26,680
Speaker 3: benefits than urban America.

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01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 1: They I pulled when MW was on earlier. I pulled

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Speaker 1: the ZIP call with the highest number of SNAP beneficiaries

1263
01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 1: is in South Dakota. I mean that's okay. I just,

1264
01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:43,400
Speaker 1: I just, I just want you to be clear. Yeah,

1265
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:44,400
Speaker 1: zero products.

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01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:47,040
Speaker 3: They try to make the face of SNAP and also

1267
01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:49,240
Speaker 3: don't buy into their stereotypes. They try to make the

1268
01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 3: face of all violence be black. But we know that

1269
01:13:52,479 --> 01:13:55,360
Speaker 3: as we have just endured. I don't know how many

1270
01:13:55,960 --> 01:13:58,839
Speaker 3: shootings here recently. I think there were four mass shootings

1271
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 3: in like twenty four hours here recently. The face of

1272
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:04,280
Speaker 3: mass shoodents ain't black, folks. I just want to be

1273
01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:11,439
Speaker 3: clearing it. It's white, homegrown males. That's the face of it, right,

1274
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 3: The face of SNAP benefits. It's not the welfare queen.

1275
01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 3: That was a whole thing that they pushed out there, right,

1276
01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:25,120
Speaker 3: so that in people's minds they would believe that it

1277
01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:30,280
Speaker 3: was some hood black woman or whatever. That is not

1278
01:14:30,400 --> 01:14:34,880
Speaker 3: the face of SNAP benefits. The face is rule white America.

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01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: That is the face of SNAP benefits. Right.

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01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:39,719
Speaker 3: So when I fight for it, I'm not just fighting

1281
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 3: for my constituents, I'm fighting actually harder for theirs. Same

1282
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:46,519
Speaker 3: thing with Medicaid. Medicare all of the government assistance. The

1283
01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 3: numbers are going to be higher in those areas, so

1284
01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:53,439
Speaker 3: you know it is unfortunate that this is where we

1285
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:58,720
Speaker 3: find ourselves. But until we start having conversations that are

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01:14:58,720 --> 01:15:02,639
Speaker 3: with everybody so that we can educate even those and say, listen,

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01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:05,479
Speaker 3: you're about to lose your health care, you're about to

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01:15:05,520 --> 01:15:06,760
Speaker 3: lose your ability to eat.

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01:15:07,960 --> 01:15:09,880
Speaker 1: Your member voted for it. Right.

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01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:14,320
Speaker 3: But again, we've got these elections on November fourth, New Jersey.

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01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:16,880
Speaker 3: If you're in New Jersey, definitely show up for that

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01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:20,440
Speaker 3: gubernatorial race. It's a tight one. We have an opportunity

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01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 3: again to make sure that we've got a Democrat holding

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01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:29,440
Speaker 3: that governor's mansion. So we saw what happened when Democrats

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01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:32,280
Speaker 3: are fired up and they can focus. We ended up

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01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:35,520
Speaker 3: with two Democratic senators out of the state of Georgia

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01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:38,320
Speaker 3: because there was nothing else going on. So if you've

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01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:41,680
Speaker 3: got that extra energy right now, find one of these

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01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,559
Speaker 3: elections that you really are passionate about. Make phone calls

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01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:48,840
Speaker 3: for Prop fifty, make phone calls for some of these

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01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 3: state representatives that are running in Virginia, or the gubernatorial

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01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 3: candidate or the goubernatorial candidate that is in New Jersey.

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01:15:56,240 --> 01:15:59,200
Speaker 3: And we have an opportunity in Tennessee because we have

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01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:02,200
Speaker 3: a special election because yet another Republican was up to

1305
01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:03,880
Speaker 3: no good, so he decided he was going to go

1306
01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:07,760
Speaker 3: ahead and get out. And so you know, I mean,

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01:16:08,320 --> 01:16:09,960
Speaker 3: is it a long shot to think that we can

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01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:13,479
Speaker 3: flip the seat. Maybe, but can it make a huge

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01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:16,519
Speaker 3: difference if we flip that seat in the immediacy. Yes,

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01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:21,679
Speaker 3: And we have been overperforming by no less than ten

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01:16:21,720 --> 01:16:25,120
Speaker 3: points right now and all of our special elections. So

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01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:30,400
Speaker 3: research that Tennessee race for Mark Green seat and maybe

1313
01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:32,320
Speaker 3: we can end up with a random pickup. We did

1314
01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:35,479
Speaker 3: it when we took the George Santo seat last time.

1315
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:36,080
Speaker 1: That's true.

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01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:39,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, we flipped that seat. So it's not impossible. But

1317
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 3: we've got a dream big and we've got to work hard,

1318
01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:45,800
Speaker 3: and so I say put your energy into whatever is

1319
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 3: in front of us right right now, and then ultimately

1320
01:16:49,320 --> 01:16:51,520
Speaker 3: we've got to turn our attention to the midterms.

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01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 1: That is true, And on that there's a happy note

1322
01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:57,120
Speaker 1: that I want to end with, because I know you've

1323
01:16:57,160 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 1: got a lot to do today, including holding the line

1324
01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:03,320
Speaker 1: for the House of Representatives if they can find the line.

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01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 1: But we have our dear sister and friend who's joining us,

1326
01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:10,040
Speaker 1: who's also a fighter for the people, but in a

1327
01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:14,280
Speaker 1: different way. She founded win with Black Women and Joe

1328
01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:18,439
Speaker 1: taka Edie and your sorority sister is coming on there,

1329
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:22,240
Speaker 1: she is is coming on, she is is gonna share

1330
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 1: with us. She didn't get an opportunity to give her

1331
01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:31,040
Speaker 1: remarks after winning one of the Phoenix Awards this past Saturday,

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01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:33,600
Speaker 1: so I said I would yield the floor for my

1333
01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:35,400
Speaker 1: podcast to do that, but I want to make sure

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01:17:35,439 --> 01:17:38,120
Speaker 1: y'all get to love on each other before congress Woman

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01:17:38,160 --> 01:17:41,639
Speaker 1: Crockett has to go. Joe, Yeah, so I'm gonna jump.

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01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:44,160
Speaker 1: But congrats to both of you.

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01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 3: I don't know if Angela made it clear that she

1338
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:50,160
Speaker 3: won finish award as well, but congrats to both of you.

1339
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:54,080
Speaker 3: And you know, one of the greatest parts probably about

1340
01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:56,600
Speaker 3: Phoenix was just the fact that they took time to

1341
01:17:56,720 --> 01:18:05,320
Speaker 3: specifically acknowledge black women, something that unfortunately this country still

1342
01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:08,120
Speaker 3: has not gotten right. And so I am so happy

1343
01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:12,920
Speaker 3: to say that the Caucus and the Foundation understood the

1344
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 3: assignment and recognize the work that people see out front

1345
01:18:18,479 --> 01:18:22,519
Speaker 3: as well as how much we labor behind closed doors,

1346
01:18:22,640 --> 01:18:25,840
Speaker 3: and they decided to acknowledge your mini works. You both

1347
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 3: are invaluable to this movement. Black women are invaluable to

1348
01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 3: every movement. And I cannot wait till the history books

1349
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 3: are written about just the courageous things that you've done,

1350
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:42,360
Speaker 3: the innovative things that you have done to number one,

1351
01:18:42,439 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 3: make sure that people are woke, but also to make

1352
01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:47,800
Speaker 3: sure that we are moving this country forward and we

1353
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:51,400
Speaker 3: are never looking back. So thank you and congratulations to

1354
01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:55,639
Speaker 3: both of you, amazing human beings, because besides the fact

1355
01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 3: that y'all are badasses when it comes to being in

1356
01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 3: these streets your heart, you're just good people. And I

1357
01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:07,840
Speaker 3: can't say that about everybody, So.

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01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:21,639
Speaker 1: She wouldn't Joe, you're on mute. Joe, You're on mute

1359
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:23,360
Speaker 1: in case you're talking, Joe.

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01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:25,960
Speaker 4: You would think that I would have this right after

1361
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:28,280
Speaker 4: about five years on when with black women calls. But

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01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:30,680
Speaker 4: I have to say progress women, Crockett. You know, I

1363
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:34,200
Speaker 4: often say if I am in a foxhold, there are

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01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:35,720
Speaker 4: a few people that I want to be in a

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01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:39,080
Speaker 4: foxhold with, And let me tell you, you are absolutely

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01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:40,920
Speaker 4: number one on that list of who I want to

1367
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 4: be in a foxhold with because you are a fighter.

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01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:45,720
Speaker 4: You are representative of what it means to be a

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01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 4: black woman who understands the call to action, and I

1370
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:51,639
Speaker 4: just want to personally thank you for all that you do,

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01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:55,560
Speaker 4: all that you endure, and just the way that you

1372
01:19:55,760 --> 01:19:58,920
Speaker 4: lead with power and conviction, and you speak truth to

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01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:01,479
Speaker 4: power even when it's a uncomfortable and I think it's

1374
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 4: important for us to not only lift that up and

1375
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 4: celebrate it because people will try you. And the thing

1376
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:12,240
Speaker 4: that you do is that you keep going despite what

1377
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 4: anybody has to say or these these comments that these

1378
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:18,080
Speaker 4: these folks, and you know, I get real piping mad.

1379
01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:21,040
Speaker 4: And you know that because at last time I checked,

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01:20:21,040 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 4: there ain't nothing out of your name.

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01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:24,559
Speaker 5: I won't even go there because I know.

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01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:25,400
Speaker 1: We live right now.

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01:20:25,439 --> 01:20:27,680
Speaker 4: But let me tell you, I want to say to

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01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:30,439
Speaker 4: those who want to ever, I actually Angela, may I.

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01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:31,720
Speaker 1: Please you may you may.

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01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:34,160
Speaker 5: You got to say this.

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01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:37,000
Speaker 4: Right because I've been wanting to say this because that

1388
01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:39,360
Speaker 4: was a certain somebody I'm not even gonna give her

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01:20:39,439 --> 01:20:42,120
Speaker 4: name any air, but she decided that she wanted to

1390
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,479
Speaker 4: get twitter fingers or ex figures of whatever kind of

1391
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 4: figures that you want to call it, and that she

1392
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 4: wanted to call my sore war, my congresswoman, my sister,

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01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:55,080
Speaker 4: our sister, our leader out of her name. She wanted

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01:20:55,120 --> 01:20:59,720
Speaker 4: to call her ghetto. And it ain't nothing already black women. Yes,

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01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:02,200
Speaker 4: one thing she did get right is black women are

1396
01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:04,800
Speaker 4: leading in this country. But one thing that she needs

1397
01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:07,479
Speaker 4: to understand is that what she's not gonna do is

1398
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:09,120
Speaker 4: call us out of our name and think that it

1399
01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 4: is okay, and to think that we forgot about it,

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01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:15,400
Speaker 4: because we have not. Because one thing that I will

1401
01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:17,679
Speaker 4: say is that we will not sit back and let

1402
01:21:17,720 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 4: them continue to call us out of our name and

1403
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:22,240
Speaker 4: to do whatever they want to say when we're doing

1404
01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:24,800
Speaker 4: what we're supposed to do is representing our people, and

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01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:27,559
Speaker 4: that's what you do. Congresswoman Jasmin Crockett, So, I hope

1406
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:30,639
Speaker 4: the lady is watching. I hope you watch it.

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01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 1: Well. If she not watching, we're gonna make sure we

1408
01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:35,720
Speaker 1: add her in a clip. We see you. You don't

1409
01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:39,240
Speaker 1: want these problems, I would say, like a West Coast person,

1410
01:21:39,720 --> 01:21:41,639
Speaker 1: but Joe takes about to do her speech, So I'm

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01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:47,040
Speaker 1: gonna say anyway, Jazzman, at least she took her pin offs.

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01:21:47,080 --> 01:21:49,799
Speaker 1: Since we love you, thank you so much for spending

1413
01:21:49,840 --> 01:21:51,639
Speaker 1: so much time with us. We are praying your strength.

1414
01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:54,320
Speaker 1: And if we need to get a bulletproof vest, we

1415
01:21:54,360 --> 01:21:55,960
Speaker 1: gonna get it. I'm gonna get you a helmet too,

1416
01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:58,160
Speaker 1: because we need you to keep your heart, your mind,

1417
01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:00,880
Speaker 1: and everything protected. And we definitely got your front and

1418
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:04,880
Speaker 1: your back. Sure you're lucky, prob. We love you sis. Byebye,

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01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:08,519
Speaker 1: Joe Taka Edie. I am going to yield the floor

1420
01:22:08,600 --> 01:22:10,639
Speaker 1: and the screen, but before I do, I just want

1421
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:15,200
Speaker 1: you all to know this. Joe Taka Edie is my

1422
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:18,280
Speaker 1: sister for a long time. She's been in movement work

1423
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:22,519
Speaker 1: for a while in Double ACP Senior advisor, still very

1424
01:22:22,560 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: active with n DOUBLEACP and runs at her own strategy firm.

1425
01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 1: And on top of all of that, during COVID, saw

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01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:32,280
Speaker 1: fit that black women had a space to gather, to

1427
01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 1: come together, to strategize, to encourage one another and runs

1428
01:22:36,880 --> 01:22:40,599
Speaker 1: these amazing calls every other Sunday for win with Black women.

1429
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:44,719
Speaker 1: Because of Joe Teika, black women are winning even more.

1430
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:48,559
Speaker 1: She is the person who was behind the one hundred

1431
01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:51,720
Speaker 1: plus thousand Black women who came together as well as

1432
01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:55,519
Speaker 1: other allies and supporters for Kamala Harris shortly after she

1433
01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:58,320
Speaker 1: announced that she in fact would be the Democratic nominee.

1434
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:02,040
Speaker 1: And Joe Taika does so much on the scene, behind

1435
01:23:02,080 --> 01:23:03,920
Speaker 1: the scenes, on the side of the scenes to make

1436
01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:06,720
Speaker 1: sure that we are uplifted in power, whether it is

1437
01:23:06,760 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 1: selling a book to the audience, whether it is running

1438
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:12,719
Speaker 1: for office, or having someone's back when they have found

1439
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:14,880
Speaker 1: themselves in the crosshairs of the man. And we know

1440
01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:17,120
Speaker 1: the man is finding us in the cross hairs more

1441
01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 1: and more every single day. But it is for that

1442
01:23:19,240 --> 01:23:22,880
Speaker 1: reason that she was recognized by this year's Annual Legislative

1443
01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: Conference co chairs as one of the Phoenix Award winners.

1444
01:23:26,680 --> 01:23:28,880
Speaker 1: I was one as well. I am grateful. It's not

1445
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 1: about me right now, so is Kamala Harris, our forever MVP.

1446
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 1: But Joe Teika Edie has the floor right now to

1447
01:23:36,600 --> 01:23:38,559
Speaker 1: share her remarks with you all. You can take me

1448
01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:39,920
Speaker 1: off screen, y'all, let her have a moment.

1449
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:44,519
Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much to you, my sister Angela Raie,

1450
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:46,759
Speaker 4: And I will say that when I look at that fotsho,

1451
01:23:47,320 --> 01:23:49,040
Speaker 4: you are definitely a sister that would be.

1452
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:49,720
Speaker 1: In there with me.

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01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 4: I am very grateful for this opportunity and thank you.

1454
01:23:55,360 --> 01:23:59,160
Speaker 4: And I'm going to share the remarks that I was

1455
01:23:59,240 --> 01:24:05,360
Speaker 4: going to share on Saturday night. So first of all,

1456
01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:07,519
Speaker 4: I just want to start off by saying I am

1457
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:12,200
Speaker 4: so deeply honored to stand here tonight to receive the

1458
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:17,679
Speaker 4: Phoenix Award alongside my sisters are Forever Vice President Kamala

1459
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:20,479
Speaker 4: Harris and my sister Angela Rye.

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01:24:21,040 --> 01:24:25,440
Speaker 5: This is humbling beyond measure. To receive this award.

1461
01:24:25,120 --> 01:24:28,679
Speaker 4: From my friend and my sister, my SOROL Senator Angela

1462
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:32,720
Speaker 4: Alsinbrooks makes it all the more meaningful. I want to

1463
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 4: thank the Congressional Black Caucus, the conscious of our Congress,

1464
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:39,639
Speaker 4: and I want to think it's members past and present

1465
01:24:40,200 --> 01:24:42,960
Speaker 4: is staff for being the moral compass in times what

1466
01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:46,920
Speaker 4: our nation has lost his way. I also want to

1467
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:50,040
Speaker 4: take a moment of personal privilege to thank my family

1468
01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:54,439
Speaker 4: and my friends because they are my foundation. I am

1469
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:57,960
Speaker 4: a daughter of a small town in South Carolina, Johnsonville,

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01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:01,479
Speaker 4: South Carolina. I grew up on a dirt road watching

1471
01:25:01,600 --> 01:25:06,519
Speaker 4: mister Jim Clyiver fight for us every single day. I

1472
01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:09,160
Speaker 4: was raised by parents who believe that faith and hard

1473
01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:12,880
Speaker 4: work would carry you further than fear ever would. My

1474
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 4: father em and Edie gave me the discipline and the vision.

1475
01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:20,920
Speaker 4: And my mother, Leonora Abraham Edie may her soul rest

1476
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:25,680
Speaker 4: in internal peace, gave me love, courage, and the roadmap.

1477
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:26,000
Speaker 5: For my life.

1478
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:29,000
Speaker 4: She is here with me tonight, and I honor not

1479
01:25:29,160 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 4: only my mother, but all Black women like her, women

1480
01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:38,200
Speaker 4: who soul, who sacrifice, who labor without recognition, but who

1481
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 4: seeds had made it possible for all of us to

1482
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:45,320
Speaker 4: stand in this very room tonight. I do not accept

1483
01:25:45,320 --> 01:25:48,320
Speaker 4: this award for myself, but I accept it on behalf

1484
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:51,360
Speaker 4: of the sisters of women with black women, and on

1485
01:25:51,400 --> 01:25:54,960
Speaker 4: behalf of the forty four thousand and the additional one

1486
01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:59,080
Speaker 4: hundred thousand allies who came together and answered the call

1487
01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:03,679
Speaker 4: and helped shift this nation. I accept this on behalf

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01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:07,400
Speaker 4: of the ninety two percent of Black women who election

1489
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:12,600
Speaker 4: after election hold the line for democracy and often do

1490
01:26:12,720 --> 01:26:16,840
Speaker 4: it without any recognition and sometimes even a thank you.

1491
01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:21,640
Speaker 4: But let me be clear, this is a time that

1492
01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:25,360
Speaker 4: is calling us all to action. This is not the

1493
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:29,400
Speaker 4: time to whisper. We must war. This is not the

1494
01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:33,439
Speaker 4: time to shrink. We must rise. This is not the

1495
01:26:33,479 --> 01:26:35,960
Speaker 4: time to waiver. We must focus.

1496
01:26:36,360 --> 01:26:38,760
Speaker 5: We are living in times of chaos.

1497
01:26:39,120 --> 01:26:44,000
Speaker 4: Our freedoms are under attack, our bodies, our votes, our schools,

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Speaker 4: our safety, our very stories. And yet in this chaos

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Speaker 4: we must have clarity. And if you have ever wondered,

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Speaker 4: what might you have done during the height of the

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01:26:56,439 --> 01:26:59,719
Speaker 4: civil rights movement. If you ever wondered if you would

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01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:03,040
Speaker 4: have mark with doctor King, Might you have called to

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01:27:03,120 --> 01:27:07,240
Speaker 4: action with Malcolm X? Would you have written like Baldwin,

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01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:11,639
Speaker 4: use your artistry like Ruby d and Ozzie Davis. Might

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01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 4: you have sung a song of freedom like Marvin Gay

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01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:18,519
Speaker 4: or Nina Simone a put pen to paper like Baldwin?

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01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:24,080
Speaker 4: Might you have organized like Rustin? Or if you've ever asked,

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Speaker 4: would you have convened like doctr Hype? You don't need

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01:27:28,240 --> 01:27:33,360
Speaker 4: to wonder anymore because this is your civil rights movement,

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01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:39,120
Speaker 4: and this is our movement. Doctor Kreta Scott King reminded

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01:27:39,200 --> 01:27:42,880
Speaker 4: us that freedom is never one in one generation. It

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01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:45,880
Speaker 4: must be fought and one in every generation.

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Speaker 1: And that means.

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Speaker 5: Us, and that means now.

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Speaker 4: One thing that I know for sure, and two things

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01:27:54,439 --> 01:27:58,160
Speaker 4: that I know for certain is that organized people will

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01:27:58,200 --> 01:28:02,559
Speaker 4: defeat organized chaos every day, all day, any day, but

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Speaker 4: only if we act. So tonight I beg and ask

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Speaker 4: the question, who are you and what are you willing

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Speaker 4: to do? Because in this moment of deep chaos, silence

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Speaker 4: is not an option, Retreat is not a strategy, and

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Speaker 4: shrinking will not be our story.

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Speaker 5: We are the daughters and.

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Speaker 4: Sons of those who endure the unimaginable and still believe

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Speaker 4: in the impossible. We are the heirs to greatness, bound

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01:28:29,439 --> 01:28:33,800
Speaker 4: by broken chains, but molded into boundless excellence. And much

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Speaker 4: like the phoenix that we celebrate tonight, we will rise

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01:28:37,400 --> 01:28:41,080
Speaker 4: from the fire. The fire will not consume us, it

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01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:45,720
Speaker 4: will refine us. We will not be buried, but we

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01:28:45,800 --> 01:28:50,800
Speaker 4: will be planted. And what is planted will certainly and

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01:28:50,960 --> 01:28:55,920
Speaker 4: always grow. For such a time as this, we, my people,

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01:28:56,000 --> 01:29:00,200
Speaker 4: my brothers and sisters, we shall rise. I pray that

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Speaker 4: we are called to our conviction and that we were

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Speaker 4: at and that we never forget that we are indeed

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Speaker 4: the power.

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Speaker 5: Thank you God, best peace, love and blessings.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Yay y'all. I love it. It's so good.

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Speaker 1: It's so good. It's so good. Congratulations on this prestigious honor.

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Speaker 1: There's a member of Congress spouse who reached out and

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01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 1: was talking about it's a pinnacle award, and it is,

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01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:32,880
Speaker 1: and there's not anyone more deserving than you. I've wanted

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01:29:32,920 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 1: to make sure that we had this opportunity to do

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01:29:35,479 --> 01:29:39,920
Speaker 1: this together, to celebrate together, and also for an opportunity

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01:29:39,920 --> 01:29:42,680
Speaker 1: for our audience to hear your very powerful words, So

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01:29:42,760 --> 01:29:45,280
Speaker 1: thank you for sharing those. This has been a whole

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01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:48,080
Speaker 1: black women's show, and what better way to end a

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01:29:48,200 --> 01:29:50,519
Speaker 1: black women's show than the one who make sure that

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01:29:50,600 --> 01:29:53,439
Speaker 1: we stay winen with black women. I love you, Joe Taking,

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01:29:53,560 --> 01:29:57,320
Speaker 1: I love you going. Let people know how to find you.

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Speaker 5: I'm always for the movement. Go to win.

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01:30:00,160 --> 01:30:01,760
Speaker 4: If you can only go to one place, go to

1552
01:30:01,800 --> 01:30:04,360
Speaker 4: win with black women. Go to at win with black women.

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01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:06,600
Speaker 4: On all socials, you can find us, you want to

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01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:10,160
Speaker 4: find me. I'm at Joe, Taika, Edie and on all

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Speaker 4: social platforms. But we look forward to engaging and on

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01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:16,719
Speaker 4: most Sunday nights. If you're a black woman who share

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01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:19,439
Speaker 4: our values, who share our values, we look forward to

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01:30:19,439 --> 01:30:20,840
Speaker 4: you joining us on a Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Night, who share our values. Emphasis on sharing our values.

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Speaker 1: I love you, Sys, Thank you so much to our

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01:30:28,000 --> 01:30:30,599
Speaker 1: viewing audience. I know this has been a slightly longer

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01:30:30,920 --> 01:30:33,960
Speaker 1: Native lamp Pod, but it's been so good. Thank you

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01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:36,040
Speaker 1: all so much for tuning in. If you have not

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Speaker 1: Native Lampod, and of course on iHeart Ihearts Radio app,

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Speaker 1: and anywhere you get your podcasts check us out. Every

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Speaker 1: Thursday is our main pod, solo pods most Tuesdays, and

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Speaker 1: we have some on Mondays as well. We have a

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Speaker 1: special treat coming up for O one hundredth episode, so

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Speaker 1: I hope you all will stay tuned for that. I

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Speaker 1: don't mind if y'all start guessing in the comments what

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Speaker 1: might be happening for that one hundred the episode. The

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Speaker 1: news will be breaking very very soon. Until next time.

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Speaker 1: Welcome home, y'all. I'll see you soon bike this government

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