WEBVTT - On This Week’s Episode of “How to Be a Dictator” 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.760 Native Lampod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:05.119 Recent Choice Media. 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.880 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:10.640 Welcome, Welcome home. Y'all. This is episode ninety two of 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.840 Native Lampod, where we give you all things politics and culture. 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.040 We are your hosts Angela Raie, There's Andrew Gillien and 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.680 Tiffany Cross. What's going on, y'all? What are we talking 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.240 about today? 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.200 I think we got to talk about DC. As you know, 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.880 I'm here in the nation's capital and it is on fire. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.960 It is on lockdown, and it's giving twenty twenty vibes 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:40.879 post the uprising, I'll say, after George Floyd. So I 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:42.040 definitely want to get into that. 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.519 With a direct target on the backs of black mayors. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.720 It appears all across the country. Angela, tiff good to 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.080 be back with you. Welcome backstate side. Sis. We also 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.240 got to get into this redistricting, which I think is 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.600 monopolizing a lot of national conversation, and I think we 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.640 got to level it so that people know where they 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:03.319 fit into it. 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:04.640 You know. 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.040 I think the other thing that's very important is to 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.200 your point, Andrew, we are welcoming tip back, and I 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.560 think her journey to the Motherland helps us to realize 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.920 that our politics are not in fact flat. They touched 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.760 the globe and we, especially as the people, got to 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:21.560 be connected. So I can't wait to get this update 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.399 from Tip. I would say a quad, but but that 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.319 ain't it when you say, yeah, everybody. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:38.320 Spoke French and ingala, So I'm. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:39.560 Andrew what we say all the time, welcome. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:42.720 States. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.760 Step off message anyway, I wanted if you guys don't mind, 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.080 I just want to do a quick shout out. Right 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.960 before we started the show. Uh, I learned that a 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.360 good friend of mine, who I've known since middle school, 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.240 was killed tragically in a car accident. His name is 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.280 Teddy Huger. I just want to dedicate this episode of 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.680 Native Lamppod to him and his family. He hard to 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:08.800 have his baby girl, and I think she's three now, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:10.880 so I just want to send leve to his family. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.920 It's a reminder for everybody at home that life is 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.000 indeed short and we are living in some trying times, 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.040 and in the midst of all that, on a macro level, 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.600 people are also suffering and grieving. So I just wanted 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:36.959 to learn to everyone Greeving loved ones today. Thanks time. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.519 Reporting live from Washington, d C. I'm right outside of 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:43.040 Metro station, so if you're here, trained my apologies. I 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:44.320 just want to give you all the update about the 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.440 situation on the ground here in Washington, d C. So, 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.919 as you guys know, for the past couple of days, 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.320 this administration has been agitating local Washingtonians with the federalization 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.840 of our police force, with the deployment of National Guard. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.200 He's doing everything that he can to a rode our 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.040 local autonomy. Our council members are taking issue with the 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.040 fact that section seventy forty of the Home Rule Act 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.720 was invoked, effectively giving the executive control over our public 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.160 safety functions and our decision making functions in the city. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.440 But the thing is, Donald Trump issued this order under 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.840 the guise of a public safety emergency. But what we 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:18.160 know to be true here on the ground is that 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.800 there is no public safety emergency now. Outside of the 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.919 thing that went viral where Elon's doge boy got beat 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.200 up downtown last week, crime is actually down here in DC, 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.920 violent crimes especially, and so it's important to note that 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.800 this is not done for public safety. If this was 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.960 done for public safety, you would have to wonder how 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.680 that kind of decision making could be coming from the 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.800 same person who decided to release the insurrectionists that wek 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.720 havoc on this same city. I mean, if you prioritize safety, 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.240 why would you do that? Or if you truly care 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.160 about safety, where is the unredacted Epstein list. I mean, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.240 there's so many things that could promote more safety than 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.480 coming and eroding the autonomy of a duly elected black 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.440 legislature here in the form of our city council and 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.120 our mayor. So we know it's not safety. We know 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.120 it's a graph for control. We know this is a 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.040 test for fascism to see how far will be allowed 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.760 to go. And so to my folks that are outside 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.720 of DC, turn our voices up. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:12.680 Most people don't. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.280 Care about DC because they don't see it as out 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.160 of side, out of mind. They think we're just the politicians. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.520 We are a real city with real people and real experiences. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:22.039 That are being affected by this. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.400 And to my folks in the city, let's stay educated, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.919 because I mean, the reality is there's only but so 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.479 much you can do to push back against the unchecked 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.200 powers of the President of the United States. And we 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.880 didn't do that to ourselves. The GOP capitulated, they kiss 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:36.560 his ass and give. 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:37.359 Him everything that he wants. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.880 The Democrats are right there sort of bowing down. And 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.720 so for us as community members here in DC who 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.200 have the most to lose, it's important to look out 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:47.800 for each other. I know, I just helped somebody get 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:52.320 de arrested yesterday, or diffuse the situation rather where cops 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.120 were just surrounding the guy and had no cause to 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.479 arrest him. And so just our vigilance can save us. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.320 I saw folks interacting with that t app and having 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.400 all the details to share about folks, let's share some 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:02.400 things about the presidence of. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:03.760 These federal agencies in our city. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:05.960 Let's insulate ourselves and make sure that we're safe. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.280 And so that's all. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:07.720 I have. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.240 Hope to be joining you on the show soon, but 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.120 in the meantime between times, pray for DC. 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:13.039 Free DC. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.680 That is from ty Hobson Powell, who has been on 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.680 the show with us before. In addition to that really 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.279 incredible update, those encouraging words, we have got another, Andrew 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.920 gillim Tiff. We got a new word in our yeah, 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.960 in our vocabulary, it is de arrested. I am gonna 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.159 make sure that I get some people de arrested in 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:34.479 this moment. I love that time. 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.000 I think he was going to words de escalation, de escalty. 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:38.920 But yeah, it's fine, but I like the arrest I 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:40.760 would like the arresting people. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.960 Well, he was you want to come to he was 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.320 one of the three young people. Yeah, do we know 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:47.280 remember how old he was? 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.840 He's in his early thirties. But you know at Grandma's house, 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.239 you sit at the young young people's table. Yeah, until 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.640 you're forty five. I'm forty five, so I think I 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.320 get graduated up in October. T if I want to 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.360 come to you, Because we actually did my solo pod 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:09.320 yesterday on the same issue. We had mother ms Corey A. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:14.359 Korra masters Berry on, we had Tony Lewis, who's a 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.640 prolific activist and author in DC, and we also had 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.120 Dion Reader. But I want to come to you because 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.000 you live in the heart of the nation's capital. What 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.440 are you scan tif, how are you feeling and how 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.640 do you encourage residents to respond in this moment? 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:28.840 Well, I one, I see a lot of pushback from 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:33.120 the residence, a rainbow coalition of pushback. I've even stopped 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.800 and chatted with a few people, and a lot of 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:40.560 white men have been very vocal, and I would say 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:46.600 even provocative when it comes to the increased presence of 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.160 law enforcement. And when I've asked, you know, why are 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.599 you yelling? What's your interests? And they say, I have 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.680 a lot of privilege here, and I plan to use 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.159 my privilege as much as I can to disrupt what's happening. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.520 And you can see that very blatantly in how they're 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.880 approaching the residents of the city. Where I happen to live. 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:09.480 I'm surrounded by public housing, and in these public housing units, 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.800 it's community, you know, like the old folks sit out 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.480 there and play cards, the old men hang on the corner, 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.760 and all of that is gone. Then there are people, 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.720 you know, who are out there doing things that are 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:28.000 not community minded. They might be criminal. And you know, 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.880 Trevor Noah writes this in his book Born a Crime. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.360 And you know, this is something that I'm privileged to 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.400 be able to have this conversation with you all, because 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:40.559 there's a nuance that's lost in legacy media, and there 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:46.360 are certain rules, regulations and understanding to neighborhood politics. You know, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.200 I want to say hood politics, but neighborhood politics, that 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.240 your intention is not always to break the law. So 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.400 if like, there's always a dude he's gone now I 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.080 don't know where he is, but he's in a wheelchair 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.320 and he sits behind my building and he sells Lucy's 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.680 And yes, technically he's breaking the law, but this man 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.040 doesn't deserve to be slammed to the ground. This is 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.600 how we lost Eric Gardner. He didn't deserve to be choked, 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.400 you know, So there are there is something about living 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.640 in a black city. You had on Coorra masters Berry 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.160 and I just am heartbroken at so many younger people 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.640 don't know Marion Barry anymore, but Mary and Barry was 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.119 about that life and he was on the front lines 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:22.960 of these types of things. And I imagine if we 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.200 had a mayor like Marion Barry. Right now, there is 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.120 footage of him and an amazing documentary on HBO where 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.400 he's protesting. He's joining the protesters and a police officer 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.960 approach approaches him and he loves him dead in the 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.200 face and says, I wish you mother would put your 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.280 hands on me. I just feel like, yes, you know, 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.680 his legacy has been reduced. But let me just offer 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.839 a little bit of information. Ty did such a great job. 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.679 The Trump administration has deployed the National Guard through the 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.160 end of September. As Ty said, this is only allowable 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.640 under section forty of the DC Home Rule Act with 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.920 Congressional seven forty forgive me for the DC Home Rule Act, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.319 with of course, the approval of Congress. Nothing meets that standard. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.560 He talked about crime being down, It's true. Crime is 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.880 down twenty six percent after a thirty five percent drop 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.640 in in twenty twenty four. Overall crime is down a 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:17.560 seven percent, and that's according to the Metropolitan PD. This 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.120 this for the people who are outside of DC who 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.160 are not as plugged in. Believe me, this is coming 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:28.640 soon to a city near you. He's threatened this to Chicago, Oakland, Baltimore. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.960 DC does not have voting representation in Congress. We don't 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.080 even control our own National Guard, unlike Puerto Rico and 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:41.000 other territories. So the President is overriding the will of 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.200 residence here. And I just want you all to get 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.120 an up close and personal peak of what that looks 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.679 like and what could be happening in your very neighborhood. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:53.280 You know, I was playing. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.000 You got your idea on your check? 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.959 Uh no, I live? Okay, Cool, it's a cigarette. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.880 Did y'all get to call us up about right here? No, 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:07.440 So we're doing checks. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:08.800 Keep everybody safe down here, right. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:10.760 Have you ever you heard of the federal surge that 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.680 Donald Trump's putting out right? 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:13.080 You didn't? 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.120 You don't following three anything like that? 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:16.520 All right? 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.840 So yeah, Trump's Trump's got a federally He's kind of 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.920 coming together for seven days and going out trying to 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.200 stop the violent crime. Quality of life offense is smoking 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.360 drinking in public, right, can't happen outside. 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:31.320 Right, most people know that. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.240 So we're contacting people trying to advise. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:36.720 Him to the wall. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.120 On your eggs because when you walked up at the 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.160 moment you walked up on your eggs, get. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.880 Well, it's smoke like the odor of marijuana front marijuana 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.760 in the air. Right, Just know, right, learn tea, tell 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:53.920 your boys, like yo, everybody's out from FBI to the police. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.720 So do your thing. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.199 Let him know, don't be smoking outside, don't be drinking 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.360 outside because Donald Trump's. 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.480 I play that to say, this man is sitting in 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.760 his home on his front stoop in his home and 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.800 if you're listening, what you don't see. It's about six 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:18.240 or seven law enforcement officers from various agencies surrounding him 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.319 and another person. Some of the more violent videos have 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.800 been people literally fleeing, running when they see them approaching. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:30.280 And to me, I'm curiously hear from you guys. This 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.760 is a litmus test on how much will we take now? 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:35.360 I don't know what it looks like to stand up 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.480 to this. I want us to survive, but I know 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.520 we can't roll over and take this. So how much 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.480 are we willing to take? Because the more and more 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.760 we accept this, the more and more we normalize this, 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.480 the more it's going to spread. So I don't know 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.240 what the pushback is, but it has to be something. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.200 And right now I do see a lot of people, 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.760 I mean yelling at them. A friend of the show, 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:04.400 Booker Squared, welcomed police this way. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:15.280 What the whole. I can't imagine being a black. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.719 Person defending this ship. I can't imagine a black person. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:22.000 To an organization the play session. But that's just meant. 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:24.640 I don't know. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.000 Why they left them five black officers. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:29.640 And they're not dropped. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.200 I don't want to let you know. 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.160 The Elizabeth Booker Houston, who was a friend of the show, 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:39.839 has been a guest on the show. That is her 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.400 welcoming uh the added law enforcement and it's a very 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:49.760 bodacious movie, right right. So I don't know she's. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:53.560 Been protesting the Heritage Foundation is before the the DC 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:58.120 takeover though, So yes, I didn't mean I just I 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.439 just wanted to clarify that. I think she's been insistent. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:01.360 She've been out there. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.959 Your question, your point if I could, about how much 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:11.280 would we take and surviving whatever the experience is. I 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:16.880 really think the gentleman demonstrated well right, not escalating, you know, 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.280 the officer asking him for information while he sits on 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:26.440 his property, minding his business, not inviting an interrogation like this. 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.080 And the truth is is these kinds of situations don't 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:34.000 prevent violent crimes. What they, nine times out of ten 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.960 or ten times out of ten times will do is 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.640 take what might be a normal situation in a normal 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.960 neighborhood and escalated off of anything. It could have been 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.800 a refusal to give a license or get off the 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.000 porch and go inside and grab it and come back 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.440 and show me, and any hesitation could have been a 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.400 whole different kind of situation, and we all know what 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.120 those potential conclusions could have been. So law enforcement, on 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.640 one hand, should be serving the role of de escalation 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:09.400 of of of of how do you say down, I 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.679 mean just de arresting, right right right, but basically eliminating 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.719 anxiety in situations. And when you go out in your 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.600 face with that kind of show a force of law 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.560 enforcement and bless his heart, but a law enforcement agent 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.520 who's not really able to explain what the hell they 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.680 out there doing. I mean he says, we're here to 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.720 prevent crimes, and you know, in my opinion, you're here 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:36.520 to potentially provocate, provocate a situation that could could spiral 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.240 out of control. So it's where we how far we go? 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:44.800 Is one, survive each incident, survive each of these moments, folks, 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.000 as you're out there. But two, I think we have 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.960 to protest. I think we you know, it starts from 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.720 the top down and from the bottom up. You don't 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.840 have to wait for instructions for you from your mayor. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.160 Your may or may not give those instructions to get 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.920 out and show your disapproval. But as we saw in LA, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:06.400 the display of nonviolent disapproval pushed them back and made 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.160 them a little caddy about their appearance there because they 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.400 didn't belong. So I think people have to raise their 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.080 voices and show that this is not the role of 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.320 the federal government. You resist it. We understand that you 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:24.560 are on orders, but you right now represent this person 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.720 who's attempting to manipulate everything about what we think and 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.280 what we know to put in front of us a whole, 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.560 you know, situation that didn't deserve this, doesn't require it. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.480 If you really care, put some money back in. Put 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.880 that billion dollars you took out of the budget from 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.880 local governments. Give that back to local law enforcement so 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.520 they can actually do the work of preventing crime instead 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:50.360 of this scapegoating to basically avoid talking about, you know, 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.600 a child molester and what his role is in that molestation. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.040 So I want to get into this really quickly. So 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:02.800 Donald Trump issued this executative memorandum to the Secretary Pete 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.760 Hegseth on Monday, calling for this DC takeover. What is 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:11.400 ordinary in these circumstances is that the federal government would 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:15.880 exercise its jurisdiction in Section seven forty to take over 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.960 the Metropolitan Police Department as well as bringing the National 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.960 Guard and other law enforcement entities from the FEDS in 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.400 a state of emergency. What I'm wondering is why it 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.760 wasn't a state of emergency on January sixth. What I'm 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.080 wondering is why it's not an emergency when ice is 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:36.600 raiding people's homes, separating families. I want to know why 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.600 it's not a state of emergency when crime was up 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:43.640 thirty percent. Again, it's dropped thirty percent. So I am 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.320 hoping that the mayor, that the Attorney General in DC 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.160 rely on these points when they go to argue the 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:54.000 subjective standard that Donald Trump is relying upon to interpret 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.800 Section seven forty, and they push back, why does that 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.840 matter right now? Andrew everything you're saying in LA. We 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.880 were on a panel in Tunica, Mississippi for the CBC 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:07.399 Institute the Mississippi Policy Conference. Nana Jumfi, who's been a 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:11.679 guest on our show, talked about LA being ready. They 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.359 were ready to protest, they were ready for what was coming. 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.240 What I think that, to Tip's point around a litmus 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.560 test too, is a lot of our folks are unready. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.080 They did not know how bad this was coming. This 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.240 man that Tip just played sitting on his front porch 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.560 is like, what are you even talking about? Friend? Right Like, 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.240 he has no idea this is coming. So we need 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.360 some of the court actions taken so that we can 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.560 buy our folks time to organize. I wanted to say 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.000 that in closing because I know we have a very 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.680 important update to get to from Tip about her trip 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.960 to the Motherland. So I know we want to transition 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.119 into that, but want to leave it open for just 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.639 a moment, literally, a moment for any closing words from 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:50.680 y'all before we transition. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.000 If you get ready, if you stay ready, you don't 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.239 have to get ready. He listed the cities that are 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.679 at the top of the list. Y'all take this time 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:00.960 to get. 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.879 Ready from the fire happening in DC to the fire 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:08.359 happening across the globe and the Democratic Republic of Congo. 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.439 I want to give you an update on what I 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.720 bore witness to their stay tuned that's coming up on 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:27.560 the other side of the spring. The one thing I 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.320 can tell you about visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo, 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:34.119 it's nothing to see every few feet a member of 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:39.199 the government in camouflage holding aks just everywhere all over 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:41.880 the corner so it was really interesting to be traveling 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.200 and then to come back to DC and see this through. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.520 Line of Wow, this is what. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:53.239 America is inching towards, and it's a frightening site. I 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.399 know there's a lot happening domestically, so I'm going to 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:59.080 be really quick, but I missed the show last week 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.120 and just wanted to to make a connection with what 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.680 happened in Africa and how it impacts us here. And 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.560 what I'll say is the very way how we're communicating 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:14.879 with each other now on our computers, our smartphones, electric vehicles, 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.359 all of these things are emblems of the modern world 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:21.080 and they all are powered from batteries that are powered 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:25.040 by cobalt. Cobalt is in the mineral rich country of 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.000 the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's mined by workers who 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.760 are laboring in slave like conditions. So every time we 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.000 use our computer, every time we answer our phone, every 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.679 time we're on our smartphone, every time we see an 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.760 EV or get into an electric vehicle, I want us 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:45.159 to remember there are black folks working in slave like 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:50.080 conditions to mine the cobalt right now, Because my question 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:52.960 while I was over there was, well, who is buying 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:57.360 who's the consumer. Of course, America is the largest consumer economy. 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:01.239 China at this point accounts for sixty percent of all 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:08.040 global cobalt processing, which turns into lithium ion batteries. The 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:12.439 mining industry has ravaged the landscape of the DRC. So 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.840 as you see the images being played right now of 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:23.320 bloody hacking of limbs, it is internal conflict because the 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:25.520 rebels have tried to seize control. And you have to 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.840 this place should be Wakanda, This should be the wealthiest 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.760 when you think about how it is powering the insant right, 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:35.560 this is literally vibranium that is powering the world and 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.440 the people there. Here you can be impoverished and still 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.959 have a microwave, You can still have a refrigerator and 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.440 be well below the poverty line. When I say poor there, 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.040 I mean they literally have dirts and that's it. And 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.040 so they're trying to survive. So I even had to 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.040 understand somewhat of the rebels as horrific and barbaric as 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.919 it was, that they too are trying to survive. Millions 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:59.040 of trees have been cut down, the air of the 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:02.359 mining area. Areas are hazy with grit. The water has 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:07.159 been contaminated with toxic effluence from the mining process. Cobalt 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.560 is toxic to touch and breathe. There are hundreds of 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:13.000 thousands of poor Congolese people touching and breathing it in 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:15.439 every day. You'll see young mothers with babies straped to 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:19.479 the straped to their backs, breathing in this dust. Trump 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.720 administration did just recently cut a deal between Rwanda and 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.920 what we mostly know of this conflict is the Rwandan 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.440 conflict that we all remember a lot of us. Yes, 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:35.120 it became humanized to us in the movie Hotel Rwanda. 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.320