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Speaker 1: Welcome home. This is Angela Raie with Native Landpod. I
Speaker 1: am hosting today another solo pod, and I wish that
Speaker 1: it were under different circumstances, but unfortunately, the American people
Speaker 1: at this point are used to going from crisis to crisis.
Speaker 1: We are facing another one as Republicans continue to delay
Speaker 1: the vote on the government shut down and risk everything
Speaker 1: that are they're supposed to protect the American people in
Speaker 1: this era, at this hour, as we move from crisis
Speaker 1: to crisis in this administration, we are facing yet another
Speaker 1: government shut down. Many of you all know that we
Speaker 1: just experienced something very similar over the summer as the
Speaker 1: Congress considered HR one or Senate Bill one, and that
Speaker 1: was designed to gut all of the services that we
Speaker 1: pay our hard working tax payer dollars into things like healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare,
Speaker 1: snap benefits. We saw all of that at risk over
Speaker 1: the summer. The consequences of that bill still taking place,
Speaker 1: and yet now we're facing another crisis, and so we
Speaker 1: are going to hear today from some congressional members who
Speaker 1: are working hard to ensure that the American people's values
Speaker 1: are protected, their lives are protected, and policies that make
Speaker 1: a difference to ensure they are better off and closer
Speaker 1: to pursuing the American dream are also protected. Joining us
Speaker 1: first is my forever boss. Her name is Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
Speaker 1: I call her Queen Maxine. She represents the forty third
Speaker 1: district in California. She is also the ranking member on
Speaker 1: the House Financial Services Committee, where she works hard to
Speaker 1: protect what the American people want to see every single day,
Speaker 1: from housing to banking to opportunities for contractors who look
Speaker 1: like you and I. So I'm bringing to the stage
Speaker 1: now Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
Speaker 2: Hi, Congresswoman, Well, hello, thank you so much. I'm so
Speaker 2: pleased to be on with you today.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you I'm so sorry to cut you off.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Go ahead, that's o co.
Speaker 2: I'm just wanting to say thank you, I'm glad to
Speaker 2: be along with you.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to see you and you look beautiful this
Speaker 1: weekend during the Annual Legislative Conference that you're a vent
Speaker 1: and of course, walking across the stage. Seeing the members
Speaker 1: walk across the stage is always my favorite thing. So
Speaker 1: congress Woman, you've been doing this for many years. You've
Speaker 1: been working hard to be the voice of the people
Speaker 1: in Congress. When I think of the conscience of the Congress,
Speaker 1: which is the moniker for the Congressional Black hau because
Speaker 1: you certainly represent that. But I just want to talk
Speaker 1: to you for a moment. Can you explain what this
Speaker 1: particular shutdown means to the American people right now and
Speaker 1: what is all at stake? Well?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, First of all, I am very concerned and really
Speaker 2: upset about the crisis that we find ourselves in. This
Speaker 2: crisis is initiated by the President and Republicans, and literally
Speaker 2: the President is using his power once again to show
Speaker 2: that he's going to tell this entire nation who's in charge.
Speaker 2: And it's all about a big power play and some
Speaker 2: of the right wing philosophies that go along with that.
Speaker 2: The President of the United States has under his control
Speaker 2: basically all of a cabinet that he has selected, many
Speaker 2: of them are not qualified. But he's got trouble inside
Speaker 2: his own Republican caucus, and he does not have the
Speaker 2: votes in his caucus to do exactly what he wants
Speaker 2: to do. Some of them want cuts even deeper, and
Speaker 2: usually they expect the Democrats to bail them out when
Speaker 2: they don't have the votes, so that they can get
Speaker 2: basically most of what they want and throw some crumbs
Speaker 2: to the Democrats. We're not having it. We are not
Speaker 2: going to have it. We're not going to have it
Speaker 2: because this president has led the way for cuts in
Speaker 2: medical care in a way that we never dream would happen.
Speaker 2: Whether we're talking about Medicaid and Medicare, we're talking about
Speaker 2: the support of this government for the people of this
Speaker 2: country who need assistance with meniccare, and they will die,
Speaker 2: many of them will die without Medicaid and Medicare. We're
Speaker 2: talking about the survival of the ACA and the work
Speaker 2: that we did to get to the Obamacare where people
Speaker 2: who had been excluded from coverage altogether because of pre
Speaker 2: existing conditions, we're talking about saving that. We're talking about
Speaker 2: the subsidies that go along with it, and the tax cuts,
Speaker 2: and so we've made this a top prior. Trump cannot
Speaker 2: be trusted. They had the one first meeting with him yesterday.
Speaker 2: Of course, it didn't turn out very well. Nothing happened
Speaker 2: no agreements were made. There was an attempt by the
Speaker 2: Vice President to say, trust us, you know, vote for
Speaker 2: what we have in the continuing Resolution, and let's identify
Speaker 2: some concerns you have and let's deal with them later.
Speaker 2: And of course, Haikem and Schumer said, no way, we're
Speaker 2: not going for that. Whatever we agree on, and we're
Speaker 2: pushing for having healthcare at the top of the agenda
Speaker 2: along with some other very important things, but you got
Speaker 2: to sign on the dotted line. We don't trust that.
Speaker 2: Give us now what we're asking for and we'll take care.
Speaker 1: Of you later.
Speaker 2: That's not going to happen, but people will be hurt
Speaker 2: very badly. It's not only in healthcare, but just think
Speaker 2: about her and Section eight and all of the people
Speaker 2: who are only able to have decent living and safe
Speaker 2: living for their families because they're being subsidized with Section eight,
Speaker 2: and still we've never been able to cover them all.
Speaker 2: They're still standing in line sometimes for years. We will
Speaker 2: increase homelessness if we do not do that. Let's look
Speaker 2: at what they're trying to do with food stamps and
Speaker 2: on and on and on. If we go along with
Speaker 2: what the President and the Republicans would have we would
Speaker 2: absolutely pull the rug out from under Americas in very
Speaker 2: detrimental ways where so many people would be hurt.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm so glad you mentioned HUD, which for
Speaker 1: our listeners and our viewing audience is the Housing and
Speaker 1: Urban Development Agency the use Department of Housing and Urban Development. Rather,
Speaker 1: I want to just come to this for a moment,
Speaker 1: because we're seeing this administration do some really unprecedented things
Speaker 1: with federal websites. We know that they were taking down
Speaker 1: our history earlier in this term, and now they have
Speaker 1: a website. Uh, they're using HUD to push political messaging,
Speaker 1: and so if our viewing audience would go to HUD
Speaker 1: dot gov, you'll see this and I'm gonna read it
Speaker 1: to you all. It says the radical left are going
Speaker 1: This is a home page, and there's also a pop
Speaker 1: up screen that comes up that says the same thing.
Speaker 1: It says, the radical left are going to shut down
Speaker 1: the government and inflict massive pain on the American people
Speaker 1: unless they get their one point five trillion dollar wish
Speaker 1: list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the
Speaker 1: government open for the American people, so he's essentially telling
Speaker 1: this story. Congresswoman painting this image that they're the Party
Speaker 1: of the people when we see how they continue to
Speaker 1: inflict harm on the American people. Grocery prices have not
Speaker 1: gone down. They're making Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare access
Speaker 1: far more difficult to attend. We talked about snap. We
Speaker 1: know what happened with summer jobs. We're seeing what's happening
Speaker 1: with funding for our schools. They're trying to make it
Speaker 1: harder for people to maintain their jobs. They're showing people
Speaker 1: out of federal government work and employment opportunities. How do
Speaker 1: do you feel, as the ranking member on Financial Services
Speaker 1: seeing something like this on the HUD website. What's your
Speaker 1: response to that?
Speaker 2: Well, we've got to do the best job that we
Speaker 2: can do to educate the people. One of the things
Speaker 2: we've been doing, we've been town hall meetings. Many of
Speaker 2: our members not only are doing town hall meetings in
Speaker 2: their own districts, but they're going to adjacent districts where
Speaker 2: they are Republicans and letting them know who's doing what
Speaker 2: and telling them the truth about what Trump and the
Speaker 2: Republicans are doing. We have to continue to do that.
Speaker 2: I've been involved in about eleven protests to actions. We
Speaker 2: are organizing. We're on the streets in some of these
Speaker 2: communities all over the country and people are learning and
Speaker 2: so got to do a better job than they're doing.
Speaker 2: They are lying, they are misleading the people. They are
Speaker 2: thinking that the people are stupid and don't know that
Speaker 2: the President of the United States, through executive orders, is
Speaker 2: exercising the kind of power that we have never witnessed before,
Speaker 2: and he's doing it to the detriment of millions of
Speaker 2: people in this country. We've got a fight on our hands,
Speaker 2: and we've got to stand up. We've got to be strong.
Speaker 2: We cannot give in. We cannot be hustled by them,
Speaker 2: we cannot be frightened or intimidated by them. We've got
Speaker 2: to fight, fight, fight, And they're the ones who are
Speaker 2: willing to shut down the government. They're in charge. They
Speaker 2: have the majority in the Senate, the majority in the House,
Speaker 2: and they own the White House, and if they wanted
Speaker 2: to do right by the people, they could do that.
Speaker 2: But no, they're trying to put us in a position
Speaker 2: where we will be blamed. And I think the people
Speaker 2: are catching on to this that we're the ones not
Speaker 2: to blame. That we're fighting they're even threatening. They said
Speaker 2: social security is on the line, and so I want
Speaker 2: people to listen carefully to what he's saying and what
Speaker 2: they're doing, and pay attention to what you just showed
Speaker 2: them that they're advertising through the hub HUD website, and
Speaker 2: know and understand that Democrats want to keep the government open,
Speaker 2: but we're not going to throw away the rights of
Speaker 2: the people and the rights of the people to have
Speaker 2: their government assist them in a decent quality of life.
Speaker 1: Kiersonman, I know that you have to leave, but I
Speaker 1: do want to ask you this last question because I
Speaker 1: think there's a huge misnomer when the Republican Party considers
Speaker 1: who is in most need of snap benefits, and for
Speaker 1: those at home that don't realize snap benefits are food
Speaker 1: stamps when you consider that sometimes in their minds, it's
Speaker 1: clear that they see blacks, back and brown faces, black
Speaker 1: and brown families. But there's data that suggests that the
Speaker 1: population that requires the most amount of food stamps is
Speaker 1: actually represented by a Republican It is the zip code
Speaker 1: five one seven five zero, and that zip code, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: five to seven fives now I'm getting a wrong. Five
Speaker 1: seven five seven zero is what I'm trying to say
Speaker 1: five seven five seven zero. That's in South Dakota. Congresswomen,
Speaker 1: South Dakota, seventy one percent of the people in that
Speaker 1: zip code live in poverty. What do you say to
Speaker 1: them where they will be massively impacted by this.
Speaker 2: Well, what we have to keep saying to them is,
Speaker 2: don't be misled by the President and the Republicans who
Speaker 2: are making you believe it's those people of color, it's
Speaker 2: those immigrants. It's those people that's causing you problem, and
Speaker 2: we're trying to save you. When you look at that area,
Speaker 2: and you look at Appalachia, and you look at the
Speaker 2: rural commune, you look at the hospitals that's going to
Speaker 2: be closed in rural communities if they cut medicaid, the
Speaker 2: one trillion dollars out of Medicaid that they're talking about.
Speaker 2: And so they've led their people to believe that it
Speaker 2: is people of color and people in inner cities who
Speaker 2: are getting all of the support from government and they're
Speaker 2: the ones. And these people, really, many of them don't
Speaker 2: know because they've been fed a racist message and they've
Speaker 2: bought into it oftentimes, and they're standing up for the
Speaker 2: people of this country who should be running it and
Speaker 2: not those people who are getting too much. They don't
Speaker 2: deserve it. That's why he goes after diversity, equity and inclusion.
Speaker 2: That's why he goes after education. That's why they go
Speaker 2: after food stamp. Because really, what they're told and what
Speaker 2: they're trying to do, is they're trying to limit the
Speaker 2: success of people of color and put their feet on
Speaker 2: our next to say you've gotten too much, you're making
Speaker 2: too much money, you're buying houses, you're doing too much.
Speaker 2: Those people who too are gonna get hurt. Believe that,
Speaker 2: and they don't know until the access gonna fall on them.
Speaker 2: We're trying to tell them every day what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: We have pregnant women who won't be able to deliver
Speaker 2: babies in rural communities. The hospitals won't be there, the
Speaker 2: obgyn services won't be there. We hope they are listening
Speaker 2: because this president is a liar who cannot be trusted.
Speaker 2: And here is mean, Honri, low down, dirty and no good.
Speaker 1: Well that's that on that And if you all do
Speaker 1: not know, this is the legendary Congressman Maxine Waters. She
Speaker 1: is the best fighter I know I learn from the best.
Speaker 1: Let's square up. Let's square up. We gotta fight to
Speaker 1: get engage in and it needs to be a bipartisan fight.
Speaker 1: It should be multi racial, multi ethnic. It is a
Speaker 1: coalition where all of us should be apart because we
Speaker 1: want protection for all of us. Thank you so much, Congress.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for not only your podcasts, and
Speaker 2: as I reminded people the other day, you had a
Speaker 2: podcast before most people didn't even know what it was.
Speaker 2: And you've been with this and you've been communicated. You're
Speaker 2: an organizer. You're someone who really does understand the legislative process.
Speaker 2: You have headed the Black conquers. You've worked in this
Speaker 2: atmosphere for so long that you know it, you know
Speaker 2: without even thinking about it. So thank you for the
Speaker 2: work that you do, and thank you for helping us
Speaker 2: out as we try to move past what could be
Speaker 2: a shutdown of government.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Congressoman if you all can't tell,
Speaker 1: this is the very first political job I've ever had
Speaker 1: working for this queen. So she's just slightly biased, but
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I love you, I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, everybody, we've had a little bit of a
Speaker 1: love fest with somebody who I love dearly, Congressman Maxine Waters.
Speaker 1: I want you all to know that if she continues
Speaker 1: to engage in this fight for the people, she's got
Speaker 1: to raise money. And one thing that I love about
Speaker 1: the congresswoman is the resources that she raises even through
Speaker 1: her campaign work to help to solve some of the
Speaker 1: many crisis across the country. She doesn't just do casework
Speaker 1: and help to solve issues for people in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: forty three, California forty three. Rather she is across the
Speaker 1: country working on issues. People reach out to her first.
Speaker 1: They know her and trust her very well, as do I,
Speaker 1: and she's still someone that I will go to for support.
Speaker 1: So I just want to deepen into this for a
Speaker 1: minute as we wait for our next guests to join us.
Speaker 1: There's a lot on the line with this government shut down,
Speaker 1: and I think what's frustrating for me, and I'll just
Speaker 1: tell y'all is last time, when we were dealing with
Speaker 1: a Senate bill, one that the House was considering in
Speaker 1: the summer, we decided to do a sixty nine and
Speaker 1: a half hour marathon. We didn't know how long it
Speaker 1: was gonna be, but we know we wanted it to
Speaker 1: lead right up into this vote, and Hakeem Jeffries ended
Speaker 1: up doing I think a twenty four hour plus maybe
Speaker 1: it was twenty five hours on the House floor also protesting,
Speaker 1: and so we spent a lot of effort in combating
Speaker 1: what we knew was likely to occur. What was shocking
Speaker 1: to me, though, is when we reached out to members
Speaker 1: of Congress. Our default normally is to tell you all,
Speaker 1: because I know some of you are in the comments
Speaker 1: right now, like what are we gonna do about this?
Speaker 1: But we normally tell you is to call your representatives. Well,
Speaker 1: when we called representatives over the summer, especially those who
Speaker 1: are on the Republican side who would most likely to
Speaker 1: flip votes because they lived in mixed party districts or
Speaker 1: districts that were less conservative, some of them hung up
Speaker 1: on us, some of them send us straight to voicemail,
Speaker 1: some of their staff got honorey and rude. But what
Speaker 1: we saw was that they were pretty much convinced. So
Speaker 1: we don't know what this president has on some of
Speaker 1: these folks, but what we do know is that they've
Speaker 1: been compromised, that their consciences have been seared with a
Speaker 1: hot iron from a biblity to use a biblical term.
Speaker 1: But there is someone who I think regularly represents not
Speaker 1: just the conscience of the Congress, but also the conscience
Speaker 1: of the people. She says the quiet part out loud.
Speaker 1: She says what needs to be said in hearing rooms,
Speaker 1: she says what needs to be said on the House floor,
Speaker 1: she says what needs to be said in interviews. And
Speaker 1: she's normally representing not just the interests of black folks,
Speaker 1: but I think all well meaning people. She is my
Speaker 1: dear sister and friend, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett from Texas's thirtieth
Speaker 1: congressional district. She's joining us now to talk about the
Speaker 1: government shut down and all that is at stake. And
Speaker 1: we don't have a video for Congresswoman Crockett just yet,
Speaker 1: but when we do, we will bring her back on one.
Speaker 1: So I just want to flag that this particular shutdown
Speaker 1: is even more harmful. And the reason for that is because,
Speaker 1: and you guys know, we've been going from crisis to crisis,
Speaker 1: So there's one shut down to the next. Right, it's
Speaker 1: not like there's smooth government operations. We're going to continue
Speaker 1: to fund the government at the levels that has been
Speaker 1: funded were We've been going from shutdown to shut down
Speaker 1: for many, many years. This is what happens when you
Speaker 1: jerrymander districts, especially racially, and it results in the kinds
Speaker 1: of problems that we've been having. But as we continue
Speaker 1: to go from shut down to shut down, what happens
Speaker 1: is it puts some essential workers in the government. It
Speaker 1: is highly subjective to determine who is an essential worker,
Speaker 1: but it puts essential workers at risk. We already have
Speaker 1: a number of those people who are at risk because
Speaker 1: many of them were forced to resign, forced to retire,
Speaker 1: given the opt shouldn't option to retire. There's a big
Speaker 1: piece about this in the Washington Post just over the weekend.
Speaker 1: So a number of these workers are right in harms
Speaker 1: way already. So my concern is that if the government
Speaker 1: shuts down, they have get another out to get rid
Speaker 1: of people like scientists, like people who are working to
Speaker 1: preserve history, like the folks who are working to you know,
Speaker 1: preserve civil rights, who might be flying under the radar
Speaker 1: right now. And so that is the issue. That is
Speaker 1: the issue. So we are still waiting for Congressman Crockett
Speaker 1: to join us, but I know that'll just be a moment.
Speaker 1: I think. The other thing that I want to bring
Speaker 1: to you all's attention is Donald Trump just today said
Speaker 1: that he was expecting that there will probably be a shutdown.
Speaker 1: This president is highly cavalier, very cavalier about he doesn't
Speaker 1: care because he's busy. They're getting ready to sell Trump
Speaker 1: OURX with Pfizer prices. They're getting ready to do whatever
Speaker 1: other business deal under violating clearly the Monument's clause, which
Speaker 1: it appears that he is regularly doing, so he doesn't
Speaker 1: have time to think about how a government shut down
Speaker 1: might impact the least of these. When I was at
Speaker 1: the UH where my mother gets cancer treatment yesterday. She
Speaker 1: gets chemo on Mondays, two Mondays on one Monday off,
Speaker 1: and we were in there, it was it was so many,
Speaker 1: there were so many people, and my dad said to me,
Speaker 1: he said, you know, it's good that people can come
Speaker 1: to be treated, but it's probably gonna get so much
Speaker 1: worse once more government services are are are cut. And
Speaker 1: so that's what we're up against. But today when the
Speaker 1: President talked about the government was probably going to shut down,
Speaker 1: what he continues to repay repeat is something that has
Speaker 1: been debunked over and over again. But this is what
Speaker 1: happens when you have someone who is a pathological liar,
Speaker 1: so it seems, who continues to spreads falsehoods. He used
Speaker 1: a video that he posted on Trump Trump's Social Trump
Speaker 1: socials really what it is but true Social yesterday of
Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer is saying words
Speaker 1: or it sounds like there's a voiceover on Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: words that he's never said. And then you have Hakeem
Speaker 1: Jeffries standing there with a sombrero and a fake mustache.
Speaker 1: What is the purpose of this, Well, let me tell you, so,
Speaker 1: he says today they want to give Cadillac Medicare to
Speaker 1: illegal aliens at the cost to everyone else. This has
Speaker 1: been debunked. Undocumented people are not eligible to enroll in
Speaker 1: subsidized programs like Medicaid, Medicare or the Affordable Care Act,
Speaker 1: and this is sourced per The Guardian, But he continues
Speaker 1: to repeat this claim. He continues to try to draw
Speaker 1: a wedge between the migrant community and people who are
Speaker 1: here and suffering, who feel like there is someone who
Speaker 1: is responsible for what they have not received. There's someone
Speaker 1: that needs to someone who is to blame for this right,
Speaker 1: and I think that, uh, you know, we just we
Speaker 1: just have these issues that we have to continue to
Speaker 1: fight back against what I think is unfortunate. Here is
Speaker 1: it appears that while Congress is deadlocked, the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: unlike with the Charlie Kirk resolution, is mostly together. Right. Uh,
Speaker 1: they seem like they're in lockstep and they're planning to
Speaker 1: vote no on this bill that would cause so much
Speaker 1: harm to the American people. But it appears also that
Speaker 1: the Republican Party is not in lockstep the government. The
Speaker 1: government funding unless there is some type of agreement, will
Speaker 1: be cut off by midnight, that is today. An number
Speaker 1: of government services will be in harm's way as of
Speaker 1: tonight midnight Eastern time. That can bring so many of
Speaker 1: our government services to a complete halt, to a screeching halt.
Speaker 1: We know that a government shutdown doesn't just impact government workers,
Speaker 1: doesn't just impact the people who are before the government today.
Speaker 1: That causes issues with refund checks from the IRS, it
Speaker 1: causes issues with Social Security payments. It is normal at
Speaker 1: this point for government shutdowns to be the way of governing.
Speaker 1: I don't know when that became a responsible way of
Speaker 1: doing so, but that is exactly what's happening. This also
Speaker 1: is in part you know, the Republican Party work to
Speaker 1: try to overturn the Affordable Care Act, what they call Obamacare,
Speaker 1: which is a President Obama's crowning and most signature achievement.
Speaker 1: They continue to go after that. They're trying to gut
Speaker 1: those healthcare protections and services in this bill as well.
Speaker 1: And I will let me see this is the other
Speaker 1: thing again. We're just working out technical delays with the
Speaker 1: Congressman Jasmine Crockett, so y'all stay tuned. I also have
Speaker 1: a very special surprise at the end of the program.
Speaker 1: But they are also saying that there are hold on.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I'm getting this right and
Speaker 1: have the most update information. Chuck Schumer is also saying
Speaker 1: that his colleagues are telling lies. I want to know
Speaker 1: who among you is expecting truth from this party that
Speaker 1: is clearly under Donald Trump's thumb. And what I want
Speaker 1: to do right now is take some questions, Lolo, if
Speaker 1: you could either come on screen or just text me
Speaker 1: the questions that are popping up, the comments that are
Speaker 1: popping up in our thread. I want to make sure
Speaker 1: that we have what we need and we are answering
Speaker 1: people and their questions in this moment. This shutdown can
Speaker 1: be scary, and I know folks are used to again
Speaker 1: moving from crisis to crisis and then this administration. But
Speaker 1: people want to know what is going to happen and
Speaker 1: what's at risk for them. They're battling, or you all
Speaker 1: are battling people coming into your communities taking over. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is now being asked by governors of states in
Speaker 1: the South to bring in the National Guard. We saw
Speaker 1: that happen in Tennessee, dealing with that in Memphis right now,
Speaker 1: we're seeing that happen. Louisiana's governor just today is asking people,
Speaker 1: is asking the Trump administration to send in the National Guard,
Speaker 1: putting people at risk, primarily in New Orleans. What is
Speaker 1: not a mistake. Memphis is run by a black mayor,
Speaker 1: I would say one that was a little soft on
Speaker 1: whether or not to receive the National Guard. New Orleans
Speaker 1: is ran by a black mayor. This is not by accident.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing that is going to be maddening to
Speaker 1: some people watching. The National Guard and other federal law
Speaker 1: enforcement agencies have the resources, have the funding to go
Speaker 1: into communities that really don't need their services in this hour,
Speaker 1: when they can't get the food benefits they need to
Speaker 1: feed their families, when they can't receive the access to
Speaker 1: healthcare they need to survive. What is the excuse for
Speaker 1: sending in the National Guard right now? What is the
Speaker 1: real purpose of that? And that is the point. We
Speaker 1: really need to ensure that we are clear about what
Speaker 1: our actual needs are. So we normally tell you to
Speaker 1: call your member. This isn't one of those times where
Speaker 1: you call in and make a request, y'all. This is
Speaker 1: a time where you call in and issue a demand,
Speaker 1: a requirement. If you live in this state, this is
Speaker 1: what you must be doing. If you have your own
Speaker 1: snap benefit story, your own Medicare story, your own Medicaid
Speaker 1: story for your children, what the healthcare needs are for
Speaker 1: your children for them to survive in this moment. This
Speaker 1: is a matter of life and death, and we cannot
Speaker 1: escape that. We can't tell people that they that they
Speaker 1: really don't need this. How does this shut down different
Speaker 1: from past ones? One of the questions says, I think
Speaker 1: that because of the number of cuts that we saw
Speaker 1: take place in the bills that passed this summer, that
Speaker 1: again that Senate bill won s one. We called it,
Speaker 1: They called it the big beautiful Bill. We call it
Speaker 1: a lot of other things that are not beautiful, ugly, trifling, wrong, foul.
Speaker 1: That bill was already putting the most vulnerable Americans right
Speaker 1: in the cross hair of harm, right in the cross
Speaker 1: hairs of harm. This bill will double down on that.
Speaker 1: I would submit to you all that if these services
Speaker 1: are halted during this shutdown, that there are very there's
Speaker 1: very well a possibility that these services don't return. Right.
Speaker 1: This is what we are up against. Shutdowns are as
Speaker 1: a result of Congress being at an impass not able
Speaker 1: to get on the same page with each other, and
Speaker 1: or the administration. When they have that type of a stalemate, right,
Speaker 1: there's an impast there's nothing they can do to get
Speaker 1: on the same page. That is, when the government shut downs,
Speaker 1: shuts down, they shut down all non essential activity. What
Speaker 1: I'm also telling you is different about this moment is
Speaker 1: that this government, this administration, sees essential activities, essential workers,
Speaker 1: different than a lot of common sense folks, y'all. So
Speaker 1: these are the other things that could be in harm's
Speaker 1: way because they are. They will say that even some
Speaker 1: of these things that we would deem essential if they
Speaker 1: support people of color, if they support immigrant communities, those
Speaker 1: things could also be in harms way. Federal courts cold
Speaker 1: potentially being in harms way. People who are locked up
Speaker 1: waiting on bail to be released on bail may be
Speaker 1: in harms way. This is a question that we keep
Speaker 1: seeing over and over again. Why won't the Dems buck harder? Y'all?
Speaker 1: This is a million dollar question, and it's so frustrating
Speaker 1: because there are a lot of people who are representing
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, including our next guest, who you know,
Speaker 1: don't don't don't have it in them to compromise or
Speaker 1: to capitulate. They are fighting every single day to make
Speaker 1: sure that our interests in our needs are met, and
Speaker 1: so there are some fighters. I wish I could answer
Speaker 1: you why all of them aren't coming together to fight.
Speaker 1: And what I would say to you is so much
Speaker 1: of this has to do with the districts they represent.
Speaker 1: Some members feel like if they revolt or if they
Speaker 1: fight back, that that means they will lose their seats.
Speaker 1: There are still others, though, who are deciding, even on
Speaker 1: the Republican side of the aisle. I think you're going
Speaker 1: to see this a lot more, especially as you get
Speaker 1: closer to the twenty twenty sixth election, who are saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, I got to vote my conscience, and
Speaker 1: if that means I lose my seat or I have
Speaker 1: to retire after this term, I will because I'm going
Speaker 1: to do what's right. I want to be able to
Speaker 1: live with myself. I want history to be kind to me.
Speaker 1: These are some of the things they're saying to ensure
Speaker 1: that they are doing what is represents the American people
Speaker 1: in the best way. We have someone who says, I'm
Speaker 1: a federal contractor and was financially impacted by the government
Speaker 1: shutdown during his first term. I would love to hear
Speaker 1: about your story where you're a federal contractor how you
Speaker 1: were impacted by that. I think people need to know
Speaker 1: when these types of non essential activities are stalled, people
Speaker 1: get thrown off there. You don't get your payments in time. Contractors,
Speaker 1: subcontractors don't get payments in time. There are some instances
Speaker 1: where payroll is halted. People don't get paid if they're
Speaker 1: the non essential during a government shut down, the economy
Speaker 1: is already crazy. Eggs is already seventy five million dollars. Like,
Speaker 1: come on, somebody said Lolo. Are we to hold our
Speaker 1: black mayors and governors accountable for asking for National Guard? Yes,
Speaker 1: yes you are if they are doing things that directly
Speaker 1: put you in harm's way. I did see some pastors
Speaker 1: who are saying they also want the National Guard, particularly
Speaker 1: in Memphis. You know, it's an interesting time to be
Speaker 1: calling on federal support when we see the ways in
Speaker 1: which our kids have been stopped and frisked, They have
Speaker 1: been profiled, they have been harassed, some of them have
Speaker 1: been physically harmed by National Guard and other federal law
Speaker 1: enforcement being in cities, including in the district most recently.
Speaker 1: So I would definitely suggest holding folks accountable. They said
Speaker 1: that they can't be activated in a city without mayor
Speaker 1: all approval. That I don't think is true. I believe
Speaker 1: that the governor actually has that authority. It's a state
Speaker 1: based criteria. If you know, have something different. Fact check
Speaker 1: me boo. Who gonna check mayboo? Fact check me boo.
Speaker 1: But I believe that it is actually a gubernatorial level
Speaker 1: decision on whether or not to activate the state's National Guard.
Speaker 1: We have another question, Angela, how can we as a
Speaker 1: community help our federal workers who have been severely impacted
Speaker 1: by this administration. I think it's a great question. I
Speaker 1: would love for us all to be answering that. I
Speaker 1: think that somebody should start a fund. I have my
Speaker 1: good sister friend of Alicia Butterfield Jones, who has started
Speaker 1: a fund to help black women who have been impacted
Speaker 1: by the firings, by the mass layoffs, by the elimination
Speaker 1: of DEI departments and spaces and corporations, and in the
Speaker 1: federal government where DEI was once and equity was once
Speaker 1: appreciated and even supported. So those types of funds are
Speaker 1: necessary to ensure that people can live and thrive right now.
Speaker 1: I think if you have a friend who's been impacted
Speaker 1: by a federal layoff, a forced resignation, or an early retirement,
Speaker 1: it's a great opportunity in time right now to let
Speaker 1: them know where there may be a job announcement, a
Speaker 1: contracting opportunity. For those of us who run our own businesses,
Speaker 1: this is a great moment for us to bring people
Speaker 1: in where we need support and say, hey, I've got
Speaker 1: this opportunity, or I have this thing I've been struggling
Speaker 1: with how to put it into place. Maybe I can
Speaker 1: give you a contract even if it's for a short term,
Speaker 1: just to help make ends meet. If you have twenty
Speaker 1: dollars or thirty dollars to donate to some fund every month,
Speaker 1: including the one Valisia stood up, I think it would
Speaker 1: be great. Valisia runs Seed. I can not remember the
Speaker 1: name of the fund she started, but Seed is her
Speaker 1: organization and you can certainly check her out on Instagram
Speaker 1: at Valicia V A. L E. I. S H A
Speaker 1: and see how you can donate to the fund that
Speaker 1: she's established. Additionally, there's another question, can the Dems. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: thank you, Lolo just sent this to me. Valicia's fund
Speaker 1: is not through Seed. It is the Global State of
Speaker 1: Women Rapid Relief Fund Global State of Women Rapid Relief Fund,
Speaker 1: and you can find more information on that on Instagram.
Speaker 1: If you have another question from light Moca, can the
Speaker 1: DEM governors, ags and mayors band together in a soft
Speaker 1: secession where they withhold federal money? They wouldn't withhold federal money.
Speaker 1: Federal money is definitely being withheld from them, but there
Speaker 1: are certain ways in which they can withhold the ways
Speaker 1: that they interact with the federal government. There are there
Speaker 1: are moneies that go into federal government pockets where they
Speaker 1: could do that. I know there have been conversations about
Speaker 1: this from Illinois to Maryland to some of the other
Speaker 1: Northeastern states. Certainly, there are ways that the governors and
Speaker 1: the attorneys general. You all know, many of the suits
Speaker 1: being filed against the federal government have been led by
Speaker 1: these state attorneys general. Those are the kinds of things
Speaker 1: that must be done. It's not just a form of resistance.
Speaker 1: It's also a way to present a real to mount
Speaker 1: a real opposition, and to present some real alternatives to
Speaker 1: our people right now in this moment. So there are
Speaker 1: those kinds of things happening as well. Oh, here we go, y'all.
Speaker 1: This is a hard question, but I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: my hard truth. Right now, we have Angela. Do you
Speaker 1: expect to have free and fair midterm elections? I'm concerned
Speaker 1: Ice will wreak havoc in black and brown communities on
Speaker 1: election day. Well, I hate to tell y'all this. We
Speaker 1: don't have to wait till the midterms. There are mayoral races.
Speaker 1: There's a mayoral race. Actually, early voting has already begun
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. There is a Virginia gubernatorial race coming up.
Speaker 1: We can see what they decide to do in these
Speaker 1: races to determine whether or not there will be free,
Speaker 1: fair elections. I have a hard time believing and even
Speaker 1: saying that we are free and fair elections.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: We had the current sitting President of the United States
Speaker 1: who was charged in Georgia for asking them to find
Speaker 1: some more votes in twenty twenty, so it ain't been
Speaker 1: free and fair for some time. I question the outcome
Speaker 1: of Stacy Abrams race. I questioned the outcome of Andrew
Speaker 1: Gilliams race. Those are twenty eighteen races, right, I also
Speaker 1: question now I'm in the twenty twenty two race for
Speaker 1: Stacy Abrams. I think free and fair is a you know,
Speaker 1: a far cry away from where we are right now
Speaker 1: because of the ways in which the Supreme Court gutted
Speaker 1: the Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five. Again, we're
Speaker 1: celebrating that sixtieth anniversary right now. I question whether or
Speaker 1: not we can have free and fair elections without the
Speaker 1: full protection of the Voting Rights Act, which we do
Speaker 1: not have right now. Congress Woman Sewell has introduced on
Speaker 1: multiple occasions the Voting Rights Advancement Act. It is passed
Speaker 1: the House when the Democrats were in charge multiple times,
Speaker 1: I believe three in prior years, and she keeps introducing
Speaker 1: it even now and they're still not support Do you
Speaker 1: know understand and know that the Voting Rights Act reauthorization
Speaker 1: used to be a bipartisan effort, a by partisan effort.
Speaker 1: You want to know when it stopped being a bipartisan effort.
Speaker 1: I am so happy you asked. It is when Barack
Speaker 1: Obama won. So in two thousand and eight, Barack Obama
Speaker 1: wins the election for president. They have not been able
Speaker 1: to pass another Voting Rights reauthorization Act in a bipartisan
Speaker 1: manner since then. This is where we are. This is
Speaker 1: where we are. So I'm going back really click to
Speaker 1: the Global State of Women Rapid Relief Fund. The link
Speaker 1: for that is Global State of Women again, that's Global
Speaker 1: Stateofwomen dot com. If you want to donate resources to
Speaker 1: support black women who have been left out of the
Speaker 1: federal workforce, who have been thank you all so much,
Speaker 1: who have been taken out of the federal or the
Speaker 1: private sector workforce or on the state level. This is
Speaker 1: the fund that our good sister and friend Valicia Butterfield
Speaker 1: Jones stood up to support these women who have been impacted.
Speaker 1: We are now looking at at who should the public
Speaker 1: be holding accountable? Is my next question, Who should the
Speaker 1: public be holding accountable forgetting us here? Everyone seems to
Speaker 1: be pointing the finger at the other side. Well, there's
Speaker 1: a saying, when there's one point finger pointing at you,
Speaker 1: it's a whole bunch more pointing this way. I think
Speaker 1: that it's a good time for us to be taking
Speaker 1: stock on what we did right in this last election cycle,
Speaker 1: what we did wrong. Where do we fail to collectively
Speaker 1: come together. For the folks who voted third party, where
Speaker 1: is your candidate? What is she doing? For the folks
Speaker 1: who wanted a Kamala Harris to pass a purity test
Speaker 1: even though they knew that they agreed with her on
Speaker 1: eighty to eighty five to ninety percent on issues, you
Speaker 1: have to figure out if it was worth it. For
Speaker 1: those who said, you know what, this election doesn't apply
Speaker 1: to me. I'm just going to sit at home. I'm
Speaker 1: tired of elections. I want to know if you feel
Speaker 1: protected in this environment that we're in now. For the
Speaker 1: elected officials who refuse to endorse or endorse late, or
Speaker 1: didn't stump or didn't go to their communities and ask
Speaker 1: for additional support. I want to ask you if it
Speaker 1: was worth it for those of you who decided that
Speaker 1: you didn't want another black president, or you didn't want
Speaker 1: a woman president, or you you know didn't couldn't stand
Speaker 1: with her because of her position on lgbt QIA rights,
Speaker 1: or whether or not she was going hard enough for guys.
Speaker 1: I want to know if it was worth it. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that that is my big sister, and
Speaker 1: she is my friend, and I know her heart and
Speaker 1: I know where she stands, and we don't agree on
Speaker 1: every single issue. But what I know for sure is
Speaker 1: I would prefer to have someone in that office who
Speaker 1: has experience, who was a prosecuting attorney, who was a
Speaker 1: state attorney general, who was a United States senator, who
Speaker 1: had experienced as the vice president, who has worked at
Speaker 1: every level of government, has always been a public servant,
Speaker 1: who understands what HBCU's need. Because she went to one
Speaker 1: who understands the importance of coming together geographically, across racial lines,
Speaker 1: income lines, all of that, I would have so preferred her.
Speaker 1: And I still haven't forgiven this country for what you
Speaker 1: did allegedly, because I'm still not sure about these election results.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just end up being an election denier from
Speaker 1: this episode, and I'm totally fine with it. But let
Speaker 1: me tell y'all, I would have so much rather have
Speaker 1: that conversation with her, debate our differences, figure out where
Speaker 1: we can find common ground and get there. Rather than
Speaker 1: having someone who is ill fitted and unprepared and unwilling
Speaker 1: to have any type of conversation unless it's on advancing
Speaker 1: the priorities of Project twenty twenty five, I would so
Speaker 1: much rather have her. And so we are seeing yet
Speaker 1: again why having someone in the White House who has
Speaker 1: my way or highway mentality, who was charged with ninety
Speaker 1: one felonies dropped down to eighty eight never properly prosecuted.
Speaker 1: I want to know. I want to know if we
Speaker 1: all agree that it was worth it. I certainly don't
Speaker 1: agree with that, right. I know you wanted somebody to blame,
Speaker 1: and I know I'm telling you to turn to you.
Speaker 1: I'm turning to me too. I want to know if
Speaker 1: I did everything that I could have possibly done. I tried,
Speaker 1: but maybe there's something else I could have done. I
Speaker 1: also want to say this, and it may be an
Speaker 1: unpopular opinion, right now I want you all to study
Speaker 1: what Merrick Garland did. Study what Merrick Garland did as
Speaker 1: the US Supreme Court justice nominee bi Barack Obama, who
Speaker 1: never got an opportunity to serve in the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at that. I actually wanted a black
Speaker 1: woman then too. I think that that would have resulted
Speaker 1: in a higher turnout for Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: But I want to know how he went from becoming
Speaker 1: what would have been a very moderate Supreme Court justice
Speaker 1: to somehow Biden advisors and strategists and President Biden himself
Speaker 1: thinking that this man was going to be a fierce
Speaker 1: advocate as the Attorney General of the United States. I
Speaker 1: would have preferred Sally Yates. I would have preferred them
Speaker 1: as Eric Holder if he would come back, I would
Speaker 1: have preferred they asked Stacy Abrams. I would have preferred
Speaker 1: somebody that had a fight in them to ensure that
Speaker 1: this man was prosecuted in a timely way. Instead, what
Speaker 1: they allowed for was enough time for the former president
Speaker 1: to mount a case. Now well now he's the current
Speaker 1: president again, but to mount a case to say, you
Speaker 1: know what I actually want to see if I could
Speaker 1: be immune from any criminal liability if I was acting
Speaker 1: in my official capacity. That's where we are now, where
Speaker 1: the President of the United States could say, I may
Speaker 1: have committed a crime, but I should be immune from
Speaker 1: it because I took an oath. Well, because you took
Speaker 1: an oath, it should mean that you are not going
Speaker 1: to commit a crime to get the job done. How
Speaker 1: about taking an oath of office and being the type
Speaker 1: of public servant that could do within the best interest
Speaker 1: of the people and not your pocketbooks. How about that?
Speaker 1: How about you try to do that? So this is
Speaker 1: where we are. We are in quite the crisis yet again,
Speaker 1: and I want to know what is our next collective
Speaker 1: best steps. As I said, the State of the people
Speaker 1: for this last government crisis we were in had a
Speaker 1: sixty nine and a half hour marathon, and I will
Speaker 1: tell y'all at the time, I thought that was our
Speaker 1: best way to fight. Now I'm questioning what is our
Speaker 1: best way to fight If all of the tools that
Speaker 1: we normally use are no longer at our disposal, If
Speaker 1: calling our members of Congress does a result in the
Speaker 1: type of sea chains that we know we deserve, I
Speaker 1: think that we've got to figure out how to do
Speaker 1: this differently, And I'm raising with you all now in
Speaker 1: this moment that it may have to look different because, sorry,
Speaker 1: because the old tools don't work. These people are under
Speaker 1: the thumb of a dictator. He wants to be a
Speaker 1: dictator so bad that they're willing to do anything that
Speaker 1: he says, even if it is at the of people
Speaker 1: who voted for them, of people who reside in their districts.
Speaker 1: That is a very very challenging place to be. It's
Speaker 1: very very challenging. So I just think that we've got
Speaker 1: to figure out if we're doing our best. Are you
Speaker 1: going to town halls of these members of Congress who
Speaker 1: are now refusing to answer your calls and telling them
Speaker 1: what you expect to see. Are you are you sending notes?
Speaker 1: Are you on social media posting videos that could go
Speaker 1: viral telling them why the makeup of their districts dictates
Speaker 1: that they need to vote a different way. Are you
Speaker 1: ensuring that people with large platforms have the information and
Speaker 1: the tools they need to show up to these town
Speaker 1: halls to challenge these members of Congress on social media,
Speaker 1: to challenge them in press interviews. Are you telling your
Speaker 1: local newspaper, your local news outlets this is how this
Speaker 1: member of Congress voted, and I want you to know.
Speaker 1: Let me bring up a recent example while we still
Speaker 1: go through this troubleshooting, and again, thank you all for
Speaker 1: your patients. What I want to know is if you
Speaker 1: all paid attention to that resolution honoring the life of
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk. Our dear sister and friend, Jasmine Crockett, who
Speaker 1: we're hoping joins us before the end of the show today,
Speaker 1: said recently that there were only two white members of
Speaker 1: Congress Democrats. Two white Democrats who voted no on the
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk resolution. Y'all can get good practice in right
Speaker 1: now asking them what the hell they were doing. That's
Speaker 1: what this moment requires. It's not a high member of Congress.
Speaker 1: So and so I'm just calling because I'm urging you
Speaker 1: to vote no on X y Z. That's not what
Speaker 1: time we're on. The type of time we're on now
Speaker 1: is HI. This is Angela RII calling Member XYZ. I'm
Speaker 1: calling you because I need you to understand how detrimental
Speaker 1: your vote is. I'm calling you because I need you
Speaker 1: to know you've been on the wrong side of history
Speaker 1: on the last five votes. I'm calling you because I
Speaker 1: want I want to know. I want you to know
Speaker 1: that if you continue to vote against our interests, we
Speaker 1: will vote you out. Those are your only two options.
Speaker 1: You either are with us or you're against us. I
Speaker 1: want to be clear about that. And in fact, staff
Speaker 1: for so and so, I appreciate you picking up the phone,
Speaker 1: but where is your boss. I want to talk to
Speaker 1: the Legislative director. I want to talk to the chief
Speaker 1: of staff, and in fact, I really want to talk
Speaker 1: to Member x YZ because they got me confused. I
Speaker 1: will be right outside your office with a full rally.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be at the district office every day
Speaker 1: trying to figure out just what the hell you doing
Speaker 1: because you stay on the wrong side of the issues,
Speaker 1: and that is the thing. We have got to figure
Speaker 1: this out. We have got to challenge these members in
Speaker 1: a different way. And let me just say this, because
Speaker 1: I think some of us mess this up. To y'all,
Speaker 1: I'm giving you a little primer on how the HEILL works. Unexpectedly,
Speaker 1: but it's probably a good time to go through this primer.
Speaker 1: Y'all spend a lot of time calling the wrong member.
Speaker 1: Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congresswoman Evad Clark, all
Speaker 1: of the CBC members, they don't need these calls. They
Speaker 1: gonna vote the right way on the government shutdown. Some
Speaker 1: of them messed up on the Charlie Kirk resolution. That's
Speaker 1: the story for another day. But on the shutdown, that's
Speaker 1: not what you need to call. You need to call
Speaker 1: these Republicans. Y'all need to call Speaker Mike Johnson. You
Speaker 1: need to call Republican leadership. You need to figure out
Speaker 1: what it is they're doing. Because the conscience of the
Speaker 1: Congress is going to vote together. The conscience of the
Speaker 1: Congress is going to vote together. You need to call
Speaker 1: the members of Congress who are confused about how they
Speaker 1: got there and who they represent. That's what you got
Speaker 1: to call. So there. I saw something recently where there's
Speaker 1: a conversation again after the federal government takeover of DC,
Speaker 1: where there were some DC folks saying, we need the
Speaker 1: Congressional Black Caucus to stand with us on DC statehood.
Speaker 1: And I was like, the Congressional Black Cauk has been
Speaker 1: with y'all on DC statehood since it was founded in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one. In nineteen seventy one, the Congressional Black
Speaker 1: Caucus went to Richard Nixon with sixty one recommendations of
Speaker 1: what would be what would result in the betterment of
Speaker 1: Black America, the types of policies that would ensure the
Speaker 1: protection and the development and the strengthening and the uplifting
Speaker 1: of Black America. One of the key pillars of that
Speaker 1: sixty one point recommendation plan was DC statehood. The Congressional
Speaker 1: Black Caucus understands, right. So I just got to be
Speaker 1: very clear about the fact that the members, the CBC
Speaker 1: members are with y'all them other ones, so demand that
Speaker 1: they tell you in writing how they're planning to vote.
Speaker 1: You can reach out to these members on social media.
Speaker 1: You can reach out to them by calling their office.
Speaker 1: You can go to their town halls. Go on their
Speaker 1: website and see when their next public event is. Go
Speaker 1: look on their social media and see when their next
Speaker 1: town hall is. I just did a teletown hall actually
Speaker 1: with Congresswoman Frederick W. Wilson. It was amazing. Shout out
Speaker 1: to you, Congressoman Wilson. You did an amazing, amazing job,
Speaker 1: and there were forty thousand. She called me recently, I
Speaker 1: think it was last week. She called me last week
Speaker 1: and said forty thousand people. Forty thousand of her constituents
Speaker 1: were on that teletown hall. People are thirsty for knowledge
Speaker 1: in this moment. We just did the CBC Foundations Annual
Speaker 1: Legislative Conferences this past week. The theme was made for
Speaker 1: this moment. If you tuned into our live show, you
Speaker 1: know that we talked about it over and over again.
Speaker 1: If you came to any of the sessions, you know
Speaker 1: that because I asked everybody to tell us why they
Speaker 1: were made for this moment. In fact, in the comments
Speaker 1: right now, as we get ready to transition, I want
Speaker 1: you all to tell us while you're made for this moment.
Speaker 1: We're gonna put some of those up in social on
Speaker 1: our stories, and right now it gives me great pleasure.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we were able to troubleshoot everything. Congress from A.
Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett is joining us right now. She represents Texas's
Speaker 1: Congressional District thirty. My good, sister, how you doing. I'm well?
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm good? You sound very chill today.
Speaker 1: I'm hype because I've been in here yelling about this
Speaker 1: crazy government shutdown. Ma'am. Yeah, let me take off my pen.
Speaker 1: You like it before you say, before I get loose.
Speaker 3: Before I get before I start talking stuff. Let me
Speaker 3: take my pin.
Speaker 1: You should have left it on you took it, you
Speaker 1: had it. You took an oath of office to do
Speaker 1: just that, to tell the people the truth, and you
Speaker 1: do it every single day before you get into the
Speaker 1: shutdown says I want to just acknowledge this because I
Speaker 1: think it's important you get hit really hard. The opposition
Speaker 1: is coming at you regularly. And Wes Moore joined us
Speaker 1: for our live show on Saturday, and he said something
Speaker 1: so good that our sister Dawn told him. He said
Speaker 1: that when he was running for governor that she told
Speaker 1: him was gonna get hard, that people were gonna start
Speaker 1: coming at him relentlessly. And when that happens, No, it's
Speaker 1: because you're doing everything right, and so you get hit often,
Speaker 1: especially from the other side. Sometimes it's internal friendly fire too,
Speaker 1: And I just want to remind you in this moment.
Speaker 1: I know you know, but sometimes it's good to hear
Speaker 1: from your sister friends too. That I want you to
Speaker 1: know is because you're doing so much right. And if
Speaker 1: there is never anything else to remind you, I hope
Speaker 1: you can always hear in your mind what I heard
Speaker 1: at the Phoenix Awards dinner Saturday for the CBC Foundation.
Speaker 1: You all, when Congresswoman Crockett's name was called, the audience
Speaker 1: roared and it gave me goosebumps. It was this beautiful moment,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I hope she hears and receives
Speaker 1: this love. I know they were cheering for the outfit too,
Speaker 1: but I think they were mostly cheering for the way
Speaker 1: in what you represent us so well. So I want
Speaker 1: to tell you thank you and I love you before
Speaker 1: this audience as well. You are always representing us even
Speaker 1: when it's hard, So I want you to know we
Speaker 1: see you, Sis.
Speaker 3: I love you so very much and I'm happy that
Speaker 3: you are still in this space. For those of you
Speaker 3: that don't know the full story of Angela Rye, she
Speaker 3: is definitely not new to this. She is as true
Speaker 3: as they come, and there's so much that she does
Speaker 3: behind the scenes that y'all will never know about until
Speaker 3: she puts it in whatever best selling book she decides
Speaker 3: is going to be brought forth next right, But that's
Speaker 3: what this work takes. It takes being able to build coalitions,
Speaker 3: coalitions that are inside as well as outside, as well
Speaker 3: as understanding the rules to the game so that hopefully
Speaker 3: you can figure out how to maneuver. And I think
Speaker 3: that one of the things about the moment that we're
Speaker 3: living in is that we have somebody who does not
Speaker 3: care about the rule, and so he out here wilding.
Speaker 3: But the rest of us know that if we come
Speaker 3: anywhere near crossing the line of like breaking any rule,
Speaker 3: we know that it's not gonna be friendly fire. It's
Speaker 3: just gonna be fire. We've seen how they've acted with
Speaker 3: our siss, Tis James. We know that he believes in
Speaker 3: going after his political enemies. We saw what he did
Speaker 3: with my good siss who sits at the which one
Speaker 3: is she?
Speaker 1: Oh, at the agency she's at she's at she's the
Speaker 1: only black woman Federal Board of Governors.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Ever, for I'm like, I was like, yeah, So I
Speaker 1: was like, but we met barely passed the Civics test today,
Speaker 1: but we did pass.
Speaker 3: But that but that is the issue, Like, so you know,
Speaker 3: I have to make sure that I am always checking
Speaker 3: myself and staying within the rules. You saw that I
Speaker 3: was pulling off my pen because I didn't want any
Speaker 3: drama because of something that I said.
Speaker 1: So it's all those things.
Speaker 3: So it's like, how do you function within the rules
Speaker 3: against someone who is lawless?
Speaker 1: It is a wild dynamic to be in.
Speaker 3: But I appreciate the fact that there is some resistance
Speaker 3: and opposition coming in the form of this shut down.
Speaker 3: I don't appreciate the harm that is going to exist
Speaker 3: as relates to all American people, especially our federal government workers,
Speaker 3: who I love and adore and I appreciate. But sadly enough,
Speaker 3: they've been violating the law and going after them since
Speaker 3: the day he swore in. The illegal riffs that have
Speaker 3: taken place, and even some of the things that the
Speaker 3: courts has ruled as being lawful, they've not been smart.
Speaker 3: We know that these agencies haven't been at full capacity anyway,
Speaker 3: and now we're talking about just the big hit that
Speaker 3: it's at actually happening to our economy overall, because the
Speaker 3: largest employer period in the United States is the federal government,
Speaker 3: so pulling out that many workers impacts all of us.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so as relates to the shutdown, Listen, the
Speaker 3: last time we had a shut down, it was Trump.
Speaker 3: The longest shutdown we've ever had, it was under Trump.
Speaker 3: So don't get caught up in this nonsense that it's
Speaker 3: the Democrat's fault. You know, the bad part is that
Speaker 3: people don't understand civics or they listen to people that
Speaker 3: are gaslighting them and the facts of the facts. The
Speaker 3: Republicans control everything.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: There are people that want to talk about the filibuster.
Speaker 3: We can talk about the philibuster if you want to
Speaker 3: talk about the philibuster. But the reality is that y'all
Speaker 3: control everything. You control every single lever right now. So
Speaker 3: when you're in control, that means that it is up
Speaker 3: to you to figure out how it gets done. When
Speaker 3: Joe Biden was, you know, he had a house and
Speaker 3: he had a Senate, he was able to get the
Speaker 3: largest bill that we've ever seen as relates to infrastructure.
Speaker 3: He got that passed. He didn't have sixty in the Senate.
Speaker 3: He was able to get the Chips and Science Act done,
Speaker 3: he didn't have sixty in the Senate. So people expect
Speaker 3: you to be able to govern when you have the majority.
Speaker 3: That means you're just in the best negotiation space. But
Speaker 3: when you sit up there and you basically shun the
Speaker 3: people that you need and then you want to come
Speaker 3: around and just be like, well, just go do this
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but we not your flunkeys. And that is
Speaker 3: not what we campaigned on. We didn't campaign on making
Speaker 3: life worse or more harmful for people. So I don't
Speaker 3: really know what the negotiating space looks like. I don't
Speaker 3: sit at the negotiation table, but I can tell you
Speaker 3: that usually when you go in and you negotiate with somebody,
Speaker 3: the first rule is that you have to at least
Speaker 3: be on the page where you can say we're going
Speaker 3: to enter into honest negotiations.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Imagine walking into buy a car and you know that
Speaker 3: you've got cash to pay for the car, and the
Speaker 3: dealer tells you, yes, I will accept forty thousand dollars
Speaker 3: for this car if you pay cash. And then you
Speaker 3: pull up with the cash and you're like, give me
Speaker 3: the keys, and then he's like, I've took your forty racks,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna need another five.
Speaker 1: You gonna look at him and be like, you can
Speaker 1: go to hell because that's not what we agree to. Well,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what's happened.
Speaker 3: We've seen that Democrats have entered into negotiations as it
Speaker 3: relates to getting other funding bills passed, and as soon
Speaker 3: as Donald Trump came in, he decided to claw back
Speaker 3: whatever he wanted to clawback. He decided to illegally just
Speaker 3: stop money from going out, whether it was to USAID
Speaker 3: or USAID or otherwise. So we also have to have
Speaker 3: assurances that even if we say, okay, we will do X,
Speaker 3: we have to know that you're not gonna pull back
Speaker 3: X and do what you want to do anyway. So
Speaker 3: we really are in a bad way, and I need
Speaker 3: the American people to understand how many problematic dynamics we
Speaker 3: have in this moment.
Speaker 1: Sis. I want to ask you this too, because I
Speaker 1: think it's so important. I keep getting asked. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be perfectly and transparent and honest with you. I keep
Speaker 1: getting asked, what do we do, Like, you know, like
Speaker 1: what do the what does the American people need to
Speaker 1: do in this moment? Not just about the shutdown? But
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're sensing this even from last
Speaker 1: week at the conference, like people are so hungry for
Speaker 1: like give me something I can do, because it feels
Speaker 1: like we're grasping at straws. You talk about we, you know,
Speaker 1: having people who know the rules of the game. I
Speaker 1: got to be honest with you. I don't know these rules.
Speaker 1: There are no rules, and so I am struggling to
Speaker 1: tell people what to do and what and how to
Speaker 1: do it because every like every tactic that I have
Speaker 1: at my disposal from when I worked on the Hill,
Speaker 1: which was fifty gizillion years ago, now it's changed, right,
Speaker 1: And so I want to know one for you? Does
Speaker 1: that make you deepen into the fight? Right? Or does
Speaker 1: it do you? Are you ever a point where you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm discouraged because this is some nonsense that I just
Speaker 1: can't get with. I think it's important for people to
Speaker 1: understand Jasmine the human versus the fighting Congresswoman Crockett, and
Speaker 1: how you navigate those two things, because I bet you
Speaker 1: a lot of folks are feeling that dichotomy. I know,
Speaker 1: I am yeah, Angela is asking this question because she
Speaker 1: knows the answer. No, I'm serious, because you might be like.
Speaker 3: She knows that there are times that she hits me
Speaker 3: up and I'm over it. I am like, people just
Speaker 3: don't get that, like I do this because I legitimately
Speaker 3: like love this country and I love my people like period.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: That's it, that's all. There is nothing else. Life is
Speaker 3: really complicated for me to navigate right now, from the
Speaker 3: death threats to the death threats to you know, also
Speaker 3: just a lack of security that they provide considering the
Speaker 3: death threats to like the fact that I'm used to
Speaker 3: working for myself and being able to go out and
Speaker 3: dictate how much money I bring in.
Speaker 1: So here it is, I.
Speaker 3: Have these death threats, I have these costs that are
Speaker 3: associated with death threats to try to keep me safe,
Speaker 3: and then they're not really deciding that they're not going
Speaker 3: to participate in that. But I also have like these
Speaker 3: chains on me because I am a worker, right, Like,
Speaker 3: I mean, anybody that's known me since I could work,
Speaker 3: people used to talk about me all the time. I
Speaker 3: work three jobs when I was in law school and
Speaker 3: was still top of my class. Like I hustle. I
Speaker 3: work hard for everything that I want. So like, I've
Speaker 3: got all of these parameters, and there are times that
Speaker 3: I get so frustrated because I go out, I get
Speaker 3: all of the heat that's thrown on me, and I
Speaker 3: don't ever know who are on my side will even
Speaker 3: back me up if somebody comes for me, right, But
Speaker 3: then I get a chance to actually be with the
Speaker 3: people you talk about ALC. I was not feeling ALC.
Speaker 3: I did not want to do ALC. I was like,
Speaker 3: this feels like the wrong thing to be doing in
Speaker 3: this moment, Like we're having parties. There is nothing so
Speaker 3: party about like right now, Like people are losing. And
Speaker 3: when I say people, I mean all people, but definitely
Speaker 3: Black folk are losing. So I just was really torn
Speaker 3: about ALC as a whole. And I was like, ain't
Speaker 3: nobody comes to this, Like people are holding on to
Speaker 3: their money because of all of the uncertainty. I was
Speaker 3: just not feeling any of it. And like most things,
Speaker 3: showing up and seeing the people that's where I get
Speaker 3: my energy from.
Speaker 1: I had a chance to sit down.
Speaker 3: A group of us sat down with the Vice President
Speaker 3: on Saturday morning, and it's my first time seeing her
Speaker 3: in person since the certification of the election. We went
Speaker 3: over to her office in the Senate prior to her
Speaker 3: having to stand up there and do her job. We
Speaker 3: went we had like a sit down, a pow wow
Speaker 3: with her. So this is my first time seeing her
Speaker 3: in about eight months or so. And she was talking
Speaker 3: about how we have to get out a DC and
Speaker 3: she wasn't just talking about physically, but like mentally, because
Speaker 3: you can get just drained by like being here, and
Speaker 3: she was like, you gotta basically touch grass. You got
Speaker 3: to actually see the people, talk to the people. And
Speaker 3: that is the thing that keeps me in this fight,
Speaker 3: you know, the whole Laura Lumer thing. You brought that
Speaker 3: up when I missed y'all, which I had to because
Speaker 3: of the way my life is set up. I could
Speaker 3: not go through the front of the convention center, so
Speaker 3: I didn't get to go live with y'all. They had
Speaker 3: to bring me around the back to get into the
Speaker 3: convention center. So like even my routes getting into buildings
Speaker 3: are changed sometimes on how large.
Speaker 1: Of a gathering it is.
Speaker 3: And literally we're supposed to be going to get me
Speaker 3: like fitted for my bulletproof vests, like this is not
Speaker 3: Like I wake up days and I'm like why right?
Speaker 3: And then I see people and I hear the stories
Speaker 3: of people, and most importantly young people that are inspired,
Speaker 3: and I think, Okay, God, I get it now. I
Speaker 3: get why you chose me for this moment. But I
Speaker 3: can tell y'all that much like many of you, I
Speaker 3: want to give up for different reasons though. And again,
Speaker 3: even when the Lumer situation happened. I was flying in
Speaker 3: and out of New York on that day to speak
Speaker 3: at Unga, so I had no idea, like I'm busy,
Speaker 3: like I'm working right, like I'm working. And it wasn't
Speaker 3: until I got back to DC that I was made
Speaker 3: aware of what was going on. But by that time,
Speaker 3: the Internet had dragged her for filth and like there
Speaker 3: was nothing to be said, like y'all left, no drums,
Speaker 3: like y'all ate y'all ate her up, y'all.
Speaker 1: Still eating her up? And again you know what?
Speaker 3: Like seeing that happen completely organically, like people just being
Speaker 3: like not on our watch, it makes me say, yes,
Speaker 3: I have to stay in this fight, like these people
Speaker 3: are out there saying you will not come for somebody
Speaker 3: that is always protecting and fighting for us. So who
Speaker 3: am I to give up in that moment? So yes,
Speaker 3: DC may let me down in so many ways, so
Speaker 3: very often, but every time I am given an opportunity
Speaker 3: to just be with the people, that is where I
Speaker 3: am re energized and when I refocus and say, this
Speaker 3: is just what has to be done in this moment.
Speaker 3: So I do want to say mad love to each
Speaker 3: of you when you are trying to figure out things
Speaker 3: that you can do. Just know that literally y'all are
Speaker 3: keeping me in this game from the small dollar donations.
Speaker 3: I think I was looking at our donations for this quarter,
Speaker 3: and we've had one hundred and maybe twenty something thousand people.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of people. One hundred and twenty thousand
Speaker 3: people so far this quarter have contributed to me. They've
Speaker 3: contributed a dollar, five dollars, ten dollars. It makes a difference,
Speaker 3: like that money adds up. And so when I'm having
Speaker 3: to pay for security, like, it's y'all that keep me safe,
Speaker 3: right when I'm getting trolls on the internet, it's y'all
Speaker 3: that are coming.
Speaker 1: To my to have my back.
Speaker 3: And so I just really want to say thank you
Speaker 3: because when I do hit those lows, it's always y'all
Speaker 3: that bring me back. And so, yes, there are things
Speaker 3: that you can do. I just gave you examples, even
Speaker 3: if it's a matter of making sure when they come
Speaker 3: for somebody that you know is doing things purely because
Speaker 3: they want a better country, have their back. Get on
Speaker 3: the internet and drag them people for filth. Don't make
Speaker 3: them have to figure out how to amplify and really
Speaker 3: make a statement that helps. Also, Unfortunately, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: a real one, so I'm not gonna lie to you
Speaker 3: and say that there's a ton that we can do
Speaker 3: in this exact moment for these exact things. But they
Speaker 3: didn't get here overnight. So I need people to be patient.
Speaker 3: They have been working for fifty years to overturn Row.
Speaker 3: It took them fifty years. Now we ain't got fifty
Speaker 3: years to be working on some of this stuff. But
Speaker 3: just understand that progress comes, but sometimes it doesn't come
Speaker 3: as fast as we want it to come. So some
Speaker 3: of the things that we have going on right now,
Speaker 3: we know that November fourth is another election day. It's
Speaker 3: going to be a big election day in the state
Speaker 3: of California. Prop fifty is something that I need everyone
Speaker 3: to vote yes on. I need you posting on social
Speaker 3: media about it. I need you talking to your friends,
Speaker 3: families and about Prop fifty and why it matters. If
Speaker 3: you are looking for us to kind of semi immediately
Speaker 3: stop some of the pain. Then we have to win
Speaker 3: the House. I don't know what our chances of winning
Speaker 3: the Senate are, but we are in good position.
Speaker 1: That is why he is trying to rig the game.
Speaker 1: Because he knows the change it the maps exactly.
Speaker 3: We should be ready to go ahead and take the
Speaker 3: House and start to really get some accountability. So yeah,
Speaker 3: we need to vote yes on Prop fifty on November four.
Speaker 3: We also know that there's a gubernatorial race in the
Speaker 3: state of Virginia. Virginia right now has a Republican that
Speaker 3: controls that state. We need to get a Democrat that
Speaker 3: is going to be in power. You talked about Wes Moore.
Speaker 3: Wes Moore was able to push back on this administration
Speaker 3: as the governor. So to protect those that are in Virginia,
Speaker 3: we need a governor that will push back. So it's
Speaker 3: important that we make sure everybody and anybody in Virginia
Speaker 3: gets out and they actually vote on November fourth, not
Speaker 3: only for governor.
Speaker 1: And not for that black lady, that black lady crazy.
Speaker 1: I love black people, but some people are just skinned
Speaker 1: forul she is exhibit A. Yeah y'all, yeah, no, she wild.
Speaker 3: But also every House member is up in Virginia. So like,
Speaker 3: look at what the state of California did as it
Speaker 3: relates to ice. They passed a bill that said no
Speaker 3: law enforcement can be out here in these streets with
Speaker 3: no masks. Like part of fighting back is our states
Speaker 3: kind of rising up to protect their people, just like
Speaker 3: our city councils can do some of the same.
Speaker 1: So you've got that election November four. You introduced a
Speaker 1: bill like that in the House too. I know that
Speaker 1: you're talking about the elections, but I do want to
Speaker 1: say this. What Jasmine's bill does is the moral thing
Speaker 1: to do. I can't remember the acronym for the so
Speaker 1: that they have to be unmasked. What is she introduced
Speaker 1: a lot of bills, you're claire, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 1: But the thing is it is designed to make sure
Speaker 1: that these federal operatives, federal law enforcement agents, cannot be
Speaker 1: covered up while they're harassing our children and our elders
Speaker 1: and our people on American streets. Y'all need to tell
Speaker 1: your members to vote for that. There should be a
Speaker 1: motion to discharge. That's what you do. There should be
Speaker 1: a motion to discharge to make them have to vote
Speaker 1: on this bill that Actually, you know what, I may
Speaker 1: I may discharge it. I may discharge it. That's a
Speaker 1: that's good. I think you should make them be on
Speaker 1: the record for that and call every one of them
Speaker 1: out when they won't sign on to that, So get
Speaker 1: your back.
Speaker 3: Is that bill and for sure and just so y'all
Speaker 3: understand discharge that's what we're trying to do on the
Speaker 3: Epstein files. It is very difficult to get a discharge
Speaker 3: petition done, but we are one signature away from getting
Speaker 3: it done on the Epstein file, and I don't think
Speaker 3: that we've actually had enough signatures, which it takes two
Speaker 3: hundred and eighteen signatures to be able to then basically
Speaker 3: usurp the Speaker and get a bill to the floor.
Speaker 3: So this is kind of like when people go out
Speaker 3: and they petition their government. Sometimes if the government don't
Speaker 3: do what you want them to do, they can do
Speaker 3: petitions in certain states. That's basically what it is.
Speaker 1: We're saying.
Speaker 3: Listen, the Speaker is the only one that can put
Speaker 3: a bill on the floor, but if he refuses to,
Speaker 3: then we as House members can come together and say no,
Speaker 3: we're going to do this and we're going to override you. Well,
Speaker 3: right now, we have four Republicans on the bill, We've
Speaker 3: got every Democrat on the bill, and the last Democrat
Speaker 3: that would be two hundred and eighteen to sign she
Speaker 3: just won her seat. And he refuses to swear her in.
Speaker 3: In fact, the Democrats went to the floor today because
Speaker 3: we are in a performer session. They have sworn in
Speaker 3: Republicans just this term during performa. They could have sworn
Speaker 3: her in. They refuse to swear her in because they
Speaker 3: don't want her to sign that because then that starts
Speaker 3: the process of having to put this on the floor
Speaker 3: by the time we get back into session and actually
Speaker 3: vote on it. But I can discharge this. And that's
Speaker 3: another thing that Angela brings up a lot of times.
Speaker 3: If you're a Democrat and you're represented by Republican you
Speaker 3: don't want to call them.
Speaker 1: You want to call the Democrats.
Speaker 3: You need to call the people they represent, you them
Speaker 3: and tell them what it is that you want them
Speaker 3: to do. Also talk to like your Republican neighbors and
Speaker 3: friends or whatever, tell them too. Like a lot of
Speaker 3: this stuff, like when we look at things like SNAP
Speaker 3: benefits under the shutdown, snap benefits will continue for approximately
Speaker 3: in additional thirty days. But rural America uses more SNAP
Speaker 3: benefits than urban America.
Speaker 1: They I pulled when MW was on earlier. I pulled
Speaker 1: the ZIP call with the highest number of SNAP beneficiaries
Speaker 1: is in South Dakota. I mean that's okay. I just,
Speaker 1: I just, I just want you to be clear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: zero products.
Speaker 3: They try to make the face of SNAP and also
Speaker 3: don't buy into their stereotypes. They try to make the
Speaker 3: face of all violence be black. But we know that
Speaker 3: as we have just endured. I don't know how many
Speaker 3: shootings here recently. I think there were four mass shootings
Speaker 3: in like twenty four hours here recently. The face of
Speaker 3: mass shoodents ain't black, folks. I just want to be
Speaker 3: clearing it. It's white, homegrown males. That's the face of it, right,
Speaker 3: The face of SNAP benefits. It's not the welfare queen.
Speaker 3: That was a whole thing that they pushed out there, right,
Speaker 3: so that in people's minds they would believe that it
Speaker 3: was some hood black woman or whatever. That is not
Speaker 3: the face of SNAP benefits. The face is rule white America.
Speaker 1: That is the face of SNAP benefits. Right.
Speaker 3: So when I fight for it, I'm not just fighting
Speaker 3: for my constituents, I'm fighting actually harder for theirs. Same
Speaker 3: thing with Medicaid. Medicare all of the government assistance. The
Speaker 3: numbers are going to be higher in those areas, so
Speaker 3: you know it is unfortunate that this is where we
Speaker 3: find ourselves. But until we start having conversations that are
Speaker 3: with everybody so that we can educate even those and say, listen,
Speaker 3: you're about to lose your health care, you're about to
Speaker 3: lose your ability to eat.
Speaker 1: Your member voted for it. Right.
Speaker 3: But again, we've got these elections on November fourth, New Jersey.
Speaker 3: If you're in New Jersey, definitely show up for that
Speaker 3: gubernatorial race. It's a tight one. We have an opportunity
Speaker 3: again to make sure that we've got a Democrat holding
Speaker 3: that governor's mansion. So we saw what happened when Democrats
Speaker 3: are fired up and they can focus. We ended up
Speaker 3: with two Democratic senators out of the state of Georgia
Speaker 3: because there was nothing else going on. So if you've
Speaker 3: got that extra energy right now, find one of these
Speaker 3: elections that you really are passionate about. Make phone calls
Speaker 3: for Prop fifty, make phone calls for some of these
Speaker 3: state representatives that are running in Virginia, or the gubernatorial
Speaker 3: candidate or the goubernatorial candidate that is in New Jersey.
Speaker 3: And we have an opportunity in Tennessee because we have
Speaker 3: a special election because yet another Republican was up to
Speaker 3: no good, so he decided he was going to go
Speaker 3: ahead and get out. And so you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: is it a long shot to think that we can
Speaker 3: flip the seat. Maybe, but can it make a huge
Speaker 3: difference if we flip that seat in the immediacy. Yes,
Speaker 3: And we have been overperforming by no less than ten
Speaker 3: points right now and all of our special elections. So
Speaker 3: research that Tennessee race for Mark Green seat and maybe
Speaker 3: we can end up with a random pickup. We did
Speaker 3: it when we took the George Santo seat last time.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we flipped that seat. So it's not impossible. But
Speaker 3: we've got a dream big and we've got to work hard,
Speaker 3: and so I say put your energy into whatever is
Speaker 3: in front of us right right now, and then ultimately
Speaker 3: we've got to turn our attention to the midterms.
Speaker 1: That is true, And on that there's a happy note
Speaker 1: that I want to end with, because I know you've
Speaker 1: got a lot to do today, including holding the line
Speaker 1: for the House of Representatives if they can find the line.
Speaker 1: But we have our dear sister and friend who's joining us,
Speaker 1: who's also a fighter for the people, but in a
Speaker 1: different way. She founded win with Black Women and Joe
Speaker 1: taka Edie and your sorority sister is coming on there,
Speaker 1: she is is coming on, she is is gonna share
Speaker 1: with us. She didn't get an opportunity to give her
Speaker 1: remarks after winning one of the Phoenix Awards this past Saturday,
Speaker 1: so I said I would yield the floor for my
Speaker 1: podcast to do that, but I want to make sure
Speaker 1: y'all get to love on each other before congress Woman
Speaker 1: Crockett has to go. Joe, Yeah, so I'm gonna jump.
Speaker 1: But congrats to both of you.
Speaker 3: I don't know if Angela made it clear that she
Speaker 3: won finish award as well, but congrats to both of you.
Speaker 3: And you know, one of the greatest parts probably about
Speaker 3: Phoenix was just the fact that they took time to
Speaker 3: specifically acknowledge black women, something that unfortunately this country still
Speaker 3: has not gotten right. And so I am so happy
Speaker 3: to say that the Caucus and the Foundation understood the
Speaker 3: assignment and recognize the work that people see out front
Speaker 3: as well as how much we labor behind closed doors,
Speaker 3: and they decided to acknowledge your mini works. You both
Speaker 3: are invaluable to this movement. Black women are invaluable to
Speaker 3: every movement. And I cannot wait till the history books
Speaker 3: are written about just the courageous things that you've done,
Speaker 3: the innovative things that you have done to number one,
Speaker 3: make sure that people are woke, but also to make
Speaker 3: sure that we are moving this country forward and we
Speaker 3: are never looking back. So thank you and congratulations to
Speaker 3: both of you, amazing human beings, because besides the fact
Speaker 3: that y'all are badasses when it comes to being in
Speaker 3: these streets your heart, you're just good people. And I
Speaker 3: can't say that about everybody, So.
Speaker 1: She wouldn't Joe, you're on mute. Joe, You're on mute
Speaker 1: in case you're talking, Joe.
Speaker 4: You would think that I would have this right after
Speaker 4: about five years on when with black women calls. But
Speaker 4: I have to say progress women, Crockett. You know, I
Speaker 4: often say if I am in a foxhold, there are
Speaker 4: a few people that I want to be in a
Speaker 4: foxhold with, And let me tell you, you are absolutely
Speaker 4: number one on that list of who I want to
Speaker 4: be in a foxhold with because you are a fighter.
Speaker 4: You are representative of what it means to be a
Speaker 4: black woman who understands the call to action, and I
Speaker 4: just want to personally thank you for all that you do,
Speaker 4: all that you endure, and just the way that you
Speaker 4: lead with power and conviction, and you speak truth to
Speaker 4: power even when it's a uncomfortable and I think it's
Speaker 4: important for us to not only lift that up and
Speaker 4: celebrate it because people will try you. And the thing
Speaker 4: that you do is that you keep going despite what
Speaker 4: anybody has to say or these these comments that these
Speaker 4: these folks, and you know, I get real piping mad.
Speaker 4: And you know that because at last time I checked,
Speaker 4: there ain't nothing out of your name.
Speaker 5: I won't even go there because I know.
Speaker 1: We live right now.
Speaker 4: But let me tell you, I want to say to
Speaker 4: those who want to ever, I actually Angela, may I.
Speaker 1: Please you may you may.
Speaker 5: You got to say this.
Speaker 4: Right because I've been wanting to say this because that
Speaker 4: was a certain somebody I'm not even gonna give her
Speaker 4: name any air, but she decided that she wanted to
Speaker 4: get twitter fingers or ex figures of whatever kind of
Speaker 4: figures that you want to call it, and that she
Speaker 4: wanted to call my sore war, my congresswoman, my sister,
Speaker 4: our sister, our leader out of her name. She wanted
Speaker 4: to call her ghetto. And it ain't nothing already black women. Yes,
Speaker 4: one thing she did get right is black women are
Speaker 4: leading in this country. But one thing that she needs
Speaker 4: to understand is that what she's not gonna do is
Speaker 4: call us out of our name and think that it
Speaker 4: is okay, and to think that we forgot about it,
Speaker 4: because we have not. Because one thing that I will
Speaker 4: say is that we will not sit back and let
Speaker 4: them continue to call us out of our name and
Speaker 4: to do whatever they want to say when we're doing
Speaker 4: what we're supposed to do is representing our people, and
Speaker 4: that's what you do. Congresswoman Jasmin Crockett, So, I hope
Speaker 4: the lady is watching. I hope you watch it.
Speaker 1: Well. If she not watching, we're gonna make sure we
Speaker 1: add her in a clip. We see you. You don't
Speaker 1: want these problems, I would say, like a West Coast person,
Speaker 1: but Joe takes about to do her speech, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say anyway, Jazzman, at least she took her pin offs.
Speaker 1: Since we love you, thank you so much for spending
Speaker 1: so much time with us. We are praying your strength.
Speaker 1: And if we need to get a bulletproof vest, we
Speaker 1: gonna get it. I'm gonna get you a helmet too,
Speaker 1: because we need you to keep your heart, your mind,
Speaker 1: and everything protected. And we definitely got your front and
Speaker 1: your back. Sure you're lucky, prob. We love you sis. Byebye,
Speaker 1: Joe Taka Edie. I am going to yield the floor
Speaker 1: and the screen, but before I do, I just want
Speaker 1: you all to know this. Joe Taka Edie is my
Speaker 1: sister for a long time. She's been in movement work
Speaker 1: for a while in Double ACP Senior advisor, still very
Speaker 1: active with n DOUBLEACP and runs at her own strategy firm.
Speaker 1: And on top of all of that, during COVID, saw
Speaker 1: fit that black women had a space to gather, to
Speaker 1: come together, to strategize, to encourage one another and runs
Speaker 1: these amazing calls every other Sunday for win with Black women.
Speaker 1: Because of Joe Teika, black women are winning even more.
Speaker 1: She is the person who was behind the one hundred
Speaker 1: plus thousand Black women who came together as well as
Speaker 1: other allies and supporters for Kamala Harris shortly after she
Speaker 1: announced that she in fact would be the Democratic nominee.
Speaker 1: And Joe Taika does so much on the scene, behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, on the side of the scenes to make
Speaker 1: sure that we are uplifted in power, whether it is
Speaker 1: selling a book to the audience, whether it is running
Speaker 1: for office, or having someone's back when they have found
Speaker 1: themselves in the crosshairs of the man. And we know
Speaker 1: the man is finding us in the cross hairs more
Speaker 1: and more every single day. But it is for that
Speaker 1: reason that she was recognized by this year's Annual Legislative
Speaker 1: Conference co chairs as one of the Phoenix Award winners.
Speaker 1: I was one as well. I am grateful. It's not
Speaker 1: about me right now, so is Kamala Harris, our forever MVP.
Speaker 1: But Joe Teika Edie has the floor right now to
Speaker 1: share her remarks with you all. You can take me
Speaker 1: off screen, y'all, let her have a moment.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much to you, my sister Angela Raie,
Speaker 4: And I will say that when I look at that fotsho,
Speaker 4: you are definitely a sister that would be.
Speaker 1: In there with me.
Speaker 4: I am very grateful for this opportunity and thank you.
Speaker 4: And I'm going to share the remarks that I was
Speaker 4: going to share on Saturday night. So first of all,
Speaker 4: I just want to start off by saying I am
Speaker 4: so deeply honored to stand here tonight to receive the
Speaker 4: Phoenix Award alongside my sisters are Forever Vice President Kamala
Speaker 4: Harris and my sister Angela Rye.
Speaker 5: This is humbling beyond measure. To receive this award.
Speaker 4: From my friend and my sister, my SOROL Senator Angela
Speaker 4: Alsinbrooks makes it all the more meaningful. I want to
Speaker 4: thank the Congressional Black Caucus, the conscious of our Congress,
Speaker 4: and I want to think it's members past and present
Speaker 4: is staff for being the moral compass in times what
Speaker 4: our nation has lost his way. I also want to
Speaker 4: take a moment of personal privilege to thank my family
Speaker 4: and my friends because they are my foundation. I am
Speaker 4: a daughter of a small town in South Carolina, Johnsonville,
Speaker 4: South Carolina. I grew up on a dirt road watching
Speaker 4: mister Jim Clyiver fight for us every single day. I
Speaker 4: was raised by parents who believe that faith and hard
Speaker 4: work would carry you further than fear ever would. My
Speaker 4: father em and Edie gave me the discipline and the vision.
Speaker 4: And my mother, Leonora Abraham Edie may her soul rest
Speaker 4: in internal peace, gave me love, courage, and the roadmap.
Speaker 5: For my life.
Speaker 4: She is here with me tonight, and I honor not
Speaker 4: only my mother, but all Black women like her, women
Speaker 4: who soul, who sacrifice, who labor without recognition, but who
Speaker 4: seeds had made it possible for all of us to
Speaker 4: stand in this very room tonight. I do not accept
Speaker 4: this award for myself, but I accept it on behalf
Speaker 4: of the sisters of women with black women, and on
Speaker 4: behalf of the forty four thousand and the additional one
Speaker 4: hundred thousand allies who came together and answered the call
Speaker 4: and helped shift this nation. I accept this on behalf
Speaker 4: of the ninety two percent of Black women who election
Speaker 4: after election hold the line for democracy and often do
Speaker 4: it without any recognition and sometimes even a thank you.
Speaker 4: But let me be clear, this is a time that
Speaker 4: is calling us all to action. This is not the
Speaker 4: time to whisper. We must war. This is not the
Speaker 4: time to shrink. We must rise. This is not the
Speaker 4: time to waiver. We must focus.
Speaker 5: We are living in times of chaos.
Speaker 4: Our freedoms are under attack, our bodies, our votes, our schools,
Speaker 4: our safety, our very stories. And yet in this chaos
Speaker 4: we must have clarity. And if you have ever wondered,
Speaker 4: what might you have done during the height of the
Speaker 4: civil rights movement. If you ever wondered if you would
Speaker 4: have mark with doctor King, Might you have called to
Speaker 4: action with Malcolm X? Would you have written like Baldwin,
Speaker 4: use your artistry like Ruby d and Ozzie Davis. Might
Speaker 4: you have sung a song of freedom like Marvin Gay
Speaker 4: or Nina Simone a put pen to paper like Baldwin?
Speaker 4: Might you have organized like Rustin? Or if you've ever asked,
Speaker 4: would you have convened like doctr Hype? You don't need
Speaker 4: to wonder anymore because this is your civil rights movement,
Speaker 4: and this is our movement. Doctor Kreta Scott King reminded
Speaker 4: us that freedom is never one in one generation. It
Speaker 4: must be fought and one in every generation.
Speaker 1: And that means.
Speaker 5: Us, and that means now.
Speaker 4: One thing that I know for sure, and two things
Speaker 4: that I know for certain is that organized people will
Speaker 4: defeat organized chaos every day, all day, any day, but
Speaker 4: only if we act. So tonight I beg and ask
Speaker 4: the question, who are you and what are you willing
Speaker 4: to do? Because in this moment of deep chaos, silence
Speaker 4: is not an option, Retreat is not a strategy, and
Speaker 4: shrinking will not be our story.
Speaker 5: We are the daughters and.
Speaker 4: Sons of those who endure the unimaginable and still believe
Speaker 4: in the impossible. We are the heirs to greatness, bound
Speaker 4: by broken chains, but molded into boundless excellence. And much
Speaker 4: like the phoenix that we celebrate tonight, we will rise
Speaker 4: from the fire. The fire will not consume us, it
Speaker 4: will refine us. We will not be buried, but we
Speaker 4: will be planted. And what is planted will certainly and
Speaker 4: always grow. For such a time as this, we, my people,
Speaker 4: my brothers and sisters, we shall rise. I pray that
Speaker 4: we are called to our conviction and that we were
Speaker 4: at and that we never forget that we are indeed
Speaker 4: the power.
Speaker 5: Thank you God, best peace, love and blessings.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yay y'all. I love it. It's so good.
Speaker 1: It's so good. It's so good. Congratulations on this prestigious honor.
Speaker 1: There's a member of Congress spouse who reached out and
Speaker 1: was talking about it's a pinnacle award, and it is,
Speaker 1: and there's not anyone more deserving than you. I've wanted
Speaker 1: to make sure that we had this opportunity to do
Speaker 1: this together, to celebrate together, and also for an opportunity
Speaker 1: for our audience to hear your very powerful words, So
Speaker 1: thank you for sharing those. This has been a whole
Speaker 1: black women's show, and what better way to end a
Speaker 1: black women's show than the one who make sure that
Speaker 1: we stay winen with black women. I love you, Joe Taking,
Speaker 1: I love you going. Let people know how to find you.
Speaker 5: I'm always for the movement. Go to win.
Speaker 4: If you can only go to one place, go to
Speaker 4: win with black women. Go to at win with black women.
Speaker 4: On all socials, you can find us, you want to
Speaker 4: find me. I'm at Joe, Taika, Edie and on all
Speaker 4: social platforms. But we look forward to engaging and on
Speaker 4: most Sunday nights. If you're a black woman who share
Speaker 4: our values, who share our values, we look forward to
Speaker 4: you joining us on a Sunday.
Speaker 1: Night, who share our values. Emphasis on sharing our values.
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