WEBVTT - Election Night Live with Vice President Kamala Harris 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.720 Native Landpod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:09.119 Reason Choice Media. Nobody knows the troubles I've seen on. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:11.960 Welcome Home to the Native. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.360 The most difficult chapter that I wrote in the book 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.640 was about election Night. It was the most difficult, and 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.360 basically I will tell you that in writing that chapter, 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:30.760 it was the first time my husband, Doug and I 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:36.920 had ever talked about election night. That's how traumatic that 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.239 night had been for so many of us, and. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:43.080 In writing the. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.960 Book, I really reflected on so much of that moment. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.280 That night, of course led to the next day when 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.240 I went to Howard University the night before thinking it 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.360 was going to be a victory speech, but the following day, 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.160 of course, knowing that it wouldn't be, and on my 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:05.040 way to Howard the day after the election, I had 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:09.080 to reconcile in my head that to your point, Angela, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.120 at the end of every rally during those one hundred 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:17.200 and seven days, I would say, when we fight and 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.720 the people right, and that was our call and response. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:26.039 And I had to reconcile that with the outcome of 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:31.440 the election, because it wasn't as trivial as will you 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.679 win some you lose? Some that's not what this was. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.200 That's not what this is. And it was actually on 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:38.760 my way. 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.720 To Howard that I decided to write. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.120 Into the speech what I do believe. And this directly 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:50.120 answers your question. Sometimes the fight takes a while. Sometimes 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.920 the fight takes a while. That doesn't mean that we 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:58.720 give up. It means that we are committed to knowing 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.760 what we stand for and therefore what we fight for. 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.760 It means knowing on a night like tonight, where we 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.600 celebrate these great victories, that we. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:14.000 Can never allow one moment, one individual. 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.240 That guy in the White House or people around him, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.680 or any one election defeat our spirit. 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:26.000 Our spirit is not defeated, It cannot be defeated. 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.200 The moment that that happens is the moment they truly win. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.359 And part of the reason I wrote the. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:38.560 Book is to hopefully remind us of the feeling that 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.240 so many had during those one hundred and seven days, 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:46.840 which was the enthusiasm, the energy, the optimism, the sense 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:51.880 of possibility. Dare I say, the joy that we experience 0:02:52.000 --> 0:03:01.280 those days, But to remind us all that that's in us. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:07.560 I didn't give that it was in you. It's in us. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.000 That light is in each of us. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.959 And we cannot allow a moment like this to extinguish 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.520 that light or dampen that light. We must know it 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.800 is in us, and it's in each of us and 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:26.360 in each other, and especially in moments of darkness like 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:33.639 this moment, that light is particularly important. So part of 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.840 the reason I wrote the book is to remind us 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.320 of that. And then a nightlight tonight where we can 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:43.920 celebrate these elections. Well, I hope reinforce the fact that 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:45.480 we got a big fight in front of us. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:47.400 We're fighting for. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.400 Something, and this is not a moment to be passive 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.640 or to say, you know, wake me up when it's over. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.920 We have too much to do. We have too much 0:03:59.000 --> 0:03:59.240 to do. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:09.000 You know, we do have too much to do. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.120 And one of the things. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.320 That one of the things that I was thinking about 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.680 is how you felt the next day to get. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.880 To that, you know, hold hold on, let me look 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.719 let me, you know, I actually, let me just let me. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.560 I'm sure there are other people here that may want 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.720 to get up, and so let me just let me 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:35.479 and I look. I that I get that I would 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.040 not exist if it weren't people who were active in 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:47.480 protesting injustice. So I understand that I actually write about 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.359 the issue of what has been happening in Gaza in 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:57.560 my book, and I will tell you a lot of 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:02.080 what this process has been from has been about reflection. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.640 Look, we should. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.640 Have done more as an administration. We should have done more. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:20.640 We should have spoken publicly about our criticism of the 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:25.440 way that Netagnahu and his government were executing this war. 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:27.080 We should have. 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:34.080 We should have used We had more levers in terms 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.559 of leverage that we did not use, and I write 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:38.000 about this. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.120 In the book. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:44.640 I I look at this moment and I am happy 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.159 that there is a ceasefire. We will see how long 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:53.760 it lasts that the hostages have been returned. But let's 0:05:53.760 --> 0:06:00.960 be very clear that that inhuman nature of what has 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:06.280 happened to the Palestinian people in Gaza, the innocent civilians, 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:13.040 the extent of hunger, famine, suffering, death is something that 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:23.159 we must acknowledge. And I recognize that I write about 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.480 in the book. I gave a speech five months into 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.280 the war at the foot of the Edmund Pettis Bridge 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:37.919 on bloody Sunday, and I spoke publicly the highest official 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:43.000 in the country about the starvation that was. 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:43.919 Happening in Gaza. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.400 In fact, I also write in the book about how 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:48.719 there were plenty of folks in the White House that 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:52.599 were not happy about me speaking out that way, but 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:58.839 I did so I understand the feeling and the emotion 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.920 behind the folks who have spoken out tonight. We have 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:08.080 work to do, we need to ensure and I also 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.880 have noticed how this administration not only gave a blank 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.040 check to night now Who for the first nine months, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.400 but also have shown no commitment to the day after 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:21.120 in terms of the security of the people of that region, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:26.000 but in particular the need for governance of Gaza, rebuilding 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:31.120 of Gaza, not no changing of the territorial lines. There 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.600 is work to be done, and I appreciate the emotion 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.080 and the sentiment behind the people who have spoken up tonight, 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.400 And please read the book if you want to have 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.120 some sense of how I feel about it. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:55.720 The thing that I very much I've always appreciated, appreciated 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.960 about you is your deep conviction, deep conviction. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:08.800 Mmm. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:26.720 So what's unfortunate about this is this is a deep 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.880 misunderstanding of who I know you to be. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:30.960 You've always been. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:37.160 Someone that has had difficult conversations, have welcomed conflicting views, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.280 different views than your own to the table, and I 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.000 think what's astonishing about this particular moment is you just 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.880 showed alignment right at some times. At some point, protests 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.679 also has to be strategic. We have to be If 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.840 we're aligned, there's nothing to protest, so we can have 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:57.280 a conversation after Yep, yep, we. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:58.479 Love her absolutely. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:04.280 So I wanted to talk about the one hundred and 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.960 eighth day. Yeah, because we were at Howard as you 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.199 know that the night of Breakfast Club and Native Lampire 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.760 was outside. We were ready. You couldn't have told me 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.880 this was gonna any different. I was in shock, as 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.719 I know you were. I want to know what's the 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.520 first thing you said to yourself when you woke up 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.560 on the one hundred day, the day after the election. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.920 Well, the thing I said from the moment I learned 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.000 about the outcome of the election, and I could not 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.520 stop saying it or thinking it is my god. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:42.559 How I felt. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:48.160 I have not had a feeling remotely similar since my 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:55.760 mother died. I was grieving for the American people because 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:56.520 I knew. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.800 What was going to happen, and you told us, Yeah, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.880 I knew what was going to happen. I knew what 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:02.840 was going to happen, and. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.720 It was very It wasn't for me. It wasn't about again, 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.520 it wasn't about a game. It wasn't about you got 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.400 to win this thing. It was literally about what was 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.440 at stake for our country. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:23.800 And you look at what has happened. Everything. 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.680 I mean, we predicted everything except the one thing I 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.359 did not predict was the capitulation. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:32.280 I did not predict that. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:40.160 I did not predict how from universities to media organization's 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.520 newspapers to I mean, just go on and on and 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.920 on titans of industry would. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:54.520 Bend the knee. 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:59.920 But it was it was very difficult, and I was 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.040 clear when you know, we talked about it, and I'm 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.719 not I'm not into saying I told you so. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.560 I don't say that, but I said it for you. 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.679 Well you did tell us so, you did tell us so, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.880 and I'm not saying it. There's nothing to gloat about. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.320 Like as we sit on this stage tonight, election night, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.640 we are on the thirty fifth day of a government shutdown. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.760 People are fighting to make sure they can eat. They're 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.000 having to choose between hunger or healthcare. 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:32.400 No, and let's Let's also be clear that first of all, 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:42.679 the man is allowing for babies to starve in America, 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.520 to starve in America, and. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:56.679 It costs eight billion dollars. It costs eight billion dollars 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:11.319 to fun Snap, which feeds hungry children, and it's it's 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:16.280 just it's okay. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:22.680 Well, And as you were just saying, we were talking 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:27.360 about a criminal in the White House who's starving children 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:28.320 in this country. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.880 So we're planning your time round. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:39.640 Who is sitting in the White House right now, starving 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:46.240 children in our country while building a gilded ballroom at 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:52.679 the White House for his rich friends, giving twenty billion 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:57.439 dollars to a foreign country, while depriving children in this 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.880 country and seniors and and. 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:02.640 People who deserve. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.920 To be seen and protected, depriving them of the basic 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:08.560 necessity of food. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:14.079 Right now, it's happening. And what's happening is that they're even. 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.640 Refusing to reimburse states that are willing to take it 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:24.720 on themselves. The court has said that they must give 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:29.800 those Snap benefits, and they're refusing to do it right 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.600 here in America. 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.160 That the level of callousness. 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:42.560 And cruelty, and let us talk about corruption coming from 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:52.760 this administration is extraordinary, extraordinary. But you know, I think Angela, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.640 it's important. Part of what I think is important about 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.440 this moment is to remember, you know, a lot of 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:04.160 people have been very deeply concerned about obviously what is 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:08.520 happening in our country and to our country. 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:10.000 But I think it's. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.959 Important as we remember those one hundred and seven days 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:17.440 and the election itself. One third of the electorate voted 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:21.080 for him, one third voted for us, and one third 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:25.400 did not vote. Two thirds did not vote for this. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.960 But in the discussion that is happening about the future, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.000 for example, of the Democratic Party and the future of 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:37.200 our democracy, I would urge us to really put some 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:41.320 weight and thought and time into the question why did 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.400 that one third did not vote? 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:45.200 Why did they not. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:53.120 Vote, and really have the difficult conversations that we need 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.800 to have. You know, one of the things that I 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.320 talk about in the book, and I do believe. Look, 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.320 I think that when we think about that one third 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.760 that voted for him, I do believe that there is 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:10.880 a decent number of them who voted for him voted 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.640 for him on one issue which they believed him on, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.400 which is that he would bring down prices on day 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:21.560 one that was their issue. It is the issue for 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:26.040 a lot of Americans, the majority of Americans, and he 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:31.520 lied to them. Obviously, inflation is up, unemployment. 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:32.680 Is up, the cost of food is up. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:37.680 But that was a big issue for a lot of 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.440 people who voted then and are voting now, and it 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.480 has to be one of our number one priorities. In fact, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.560 that's why I made it a priority of mine during 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.000 the one hundred and seven days. From everything for what 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.240 we're going to do to take on price gouging, taking 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.840 on corporate landlords, or buying up all this property and 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.800 jacking up rents. What we need to do around not 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.360 only affordable housing, but affordable child care, paid leave. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.040 What we need to do around having medicare. 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.920 Part of my policy was cover home health care, especially 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.680 for people in the Sandwich generation who are raising children 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.680 and taking care of their elderly relatives. 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:16.640 That's so. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:22.400 But when we think about what happened in the election 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.240 in a way that I hope is really not. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.560 About just re litigating the election, but what did we 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.360 learn in terms of going forward? 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:36.440 A big part of it is that folks felt disconnected 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.320 and also distrustful of the system. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.400 Part of the deep work that we have to do 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:44.320 right now. 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.640 As a country is really deal with the fact that 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.720 you know, it's not new that people have lacked have 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.320 distrusted government and systems. That is not a new phenomena. 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:59.920 It definitely grew during the pandemic when basic necessities and 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.040 systems failed people. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:04.320 But what I. 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:08.040 Also am seeing in our country right now is a 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:12.439 heightened level of distrust between and among the American people. 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.400 And when I speak of that, I don't mean simply 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:21.120 can I trust my neighbor that I don't I can 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:22.240 leave my door unlocked. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:24.320 It's much deeper than that. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:31.560 It is a can I trust that my fellow American, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.119 my neighbor is not a threat to my very existence? 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.560 That's right, and that we have some work to do. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.720 You know a lot of people ask me what can 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:47.159 I do? And first of all, how about No King's 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:54.520 Day two point zero? Right? The millions of people that 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.960 took to the streets, it was phenomenal. 0:17:58.800 --> 0:17:59.880 And so there is that. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.920 There is the work that is happening around these elections 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.679 that we just talked about. There is the work that 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:11.720 people are doing about getting more engaged and supporting nonprofits, 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.960 and in particular now when we are looking at the 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.359 shutdown and so many people that are even more in 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.680 need than they were before. There are many ways that 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:25.440 we can do this that really, I think highlights the 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.080 power of the individual to work on all of these 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.000 issues in a way that we can collectively make a difference. 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.639 But we've got some work to do that is about 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:41.840 fundamentally about trust and among us as people as well 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:42.880 as in our systems. 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:58.000 You talked about the future of the Democratic Party, and 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.800 to me, recently the divide grew from a fracture to 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.600 a major rift around the Charlie Kirk resolution in the 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:10.600 House of Representatives. I remember seeing Jasmine Crockett go on 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.239 air and talk about there were only four just a 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.840 handful of white Democrats who voted no on that resolution, 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.960 growing not just a generational divide or an economic divide, 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.960 but also a racial divide. How do you think that 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.520 can be healed in this moment right now we're on 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.040 a high from these election results tonight. 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:34.120 How can it be healed? We have to honest conversations 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:35.520 the listen. 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:40.720 I mean, the part of what I refer to is 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.680 the first So we came in office the Biden Harris 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.280 administration during the height of the pandemic, so there was 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:53.800 not a lot of interaction personal interaction with folks. And 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.640 the first person that I hosted at the Vice President's 0:19:57.680 --> 0:19:59.920 residence as world leader, and I, during my course of 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:03.760 vice presidency met with over one hundred and fifty world leaders, presidents, 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:08.000 prime minister's, chancellors, and kings. The first person that I 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:15.400 hosted was then Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany. And in fact, 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:19.359 part of what I talk about is, you know, the 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:24.120 press sometimes really does a number on women leaders in. 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:25.280 A variety of ways. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:30.119 She was in spite of how she had been portrayed 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:33.840 by some She was extremely warm, with a sense of humor. 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:35.080 And we got on quite well. 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:39.520 And this was toward the end of her leadership. She'd 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.600 probably been one of the putative leaders of Europe for 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:47.119 fifteen years. And she asked me, she leaned over the 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:49.280 table and she said, what's going on in the United 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:57.160 States around the Well, so this was in twenty one, 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:01.280 but to your point, her point was about voting and 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:05.680 voting rights and the attack on voting rights. And we 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.560 had this whole conversation and I said to her, you know, 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.000 you know, my mother was a scientist, so my analogies 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.760 are either like biology or cooking. 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:17.520 I love to cook. 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:19.879 But so what I said to her is this, and 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:23.560 this is the way I would answer your point. You know, 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:27.000 in the human body, we have things that can attack us. 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.560 But if we are healthy enough, God willing, we have 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:34.359 an immune system that will suppress it. But from time 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.760 to time, something will cause those things to flare up. 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:47.240 And what I said to is, in America, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:50.200 anti Semitism, islamophobia, you name it. 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:54.440 These things have always existed in our country, and there 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:54.879 have been. 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:59.280 Moments where we suppressed it, and there are moments that 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:03.119 it has flared up because it has always been here. 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:05.399 And that's part of what I think is required in 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:06.720 these conversations, which. 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:11.400 Is some honesty about it. This did not just start 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:13.439 in this election cycle. 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:19.840 And you know it does not help, of course, when 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:23.639 there are powerful forces that are trying to erase America's 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:29.000 history and teach our children contrary to what our history 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:29.920 actually is. 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:33.240 I applaud all the teachers who are here. I applaud 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:35.760 God bless you. 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:43.000 Anybody who lives on a school board working for the 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:48.960 school district. Money you get paid enough His teachers and educators. 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:53.360 You do God's work, but you know this. 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:56.040 Is but look at what's happening in terms of the dynamic. 0:22:56.160 --> 0:23:01.720 There is an overt agenda to make a stop talking 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:07.159 about these issues, much less those who are pushing hate 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:10.119 and racism and xenophobia. 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:13.160 And so we have to. 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:17.320 Have those difficult conversations and we have to speak out 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:20.720 where we see it. And I also believe no one 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:28.000 should be made to fight alone. So whenever and wherever 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:30.440 we're saying it, let's speak out. 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:36.280 Speaking of women in power, there's one in particular who 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:39.480 is known for two famous words right now, I dissent 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:44.560 and you had a lot to do with her historic 0:23:44.600 --> 0:23:46.800 placement on the Supreme Court of the United States. 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:53.520 That is Katanji Brown Jackson. Justice Katanji Brown Jackson. Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:54.920 Let me not get too familiar. 0:23:55.000 --> 0:24:00.400 Absolutely, justin, Madam, Justine, madam, just And what I. 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:03.480 Wanted to bring to this audience for just a moment 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:07.080 is your massive portfolio that you were responsible for as 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:11.600 the Vice President of the United States. But Justice Katanji 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:14.960 Brown Jackson is certainly one of them. Talk about how 0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:19.080 she is fueling hope. Right now, I. 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:23.440 Have nothing but profound praise. 0:24:24.920 --> 0:24:31.439 You know, when I talked with her during the process 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:38.200 and interviewed her, one of the things among many that 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:43.760 I was just incredibly excited and about her talent and 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:49.760 her skill and her gift is she has that extraordinary 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:57.840 ability to deconstruct something that feels and often is complicated 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:03.080 and complex and nuanced and just break it down. 0:25:04.880 --> 0:25:08.480 And she is so smart. 0:25:09.880 --> 0:25:16.199 And well informed and obviously extraordinary education and a student, 0:25:16.400 --> 0:25:21.879 and that she when she speaks, it is with a 0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:27.960 level of authority, strength and gravitas that history will read 0:25:28.040 --> 0:25:33.480 her words and understand how we all hoped to articulate 0:25:33.640 --> 0:25:44.919 this moment. And I encourage everyone when you get a 0:25:45.040 --> 0:25:49.119 chance to just pull anyone of her descents. She just 0:25:49.440 --> 0:25:53.679 breaks it down, and she does it in a way 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:56.680 that you know, I pray for her because I will 0:25:56.720 --> 0:26:02.320 tell you, like so many here, whether in our personal 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:10.119 or professional lives, this is a difficult time to speak 0:26:10.200 --> 0:26:15.240 up when, in particular, you are in an environment that 0:26:15.320 --> 0:26:19.080 you know is not welcoming of a difficult conversation, much 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:23.760 less an environment that is at the very least in 0:26:23.840 --> 0:26:28.960 disagreement with you. And she does it in an environment 0:26:29.040 --> 0:26:33.840 that is at least that and an environment where there 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:36.879 is also an overt attack on the rule of law 0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:44.119 and an attempt to basically dismantle our constitution and the 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:48.919 principles behind it. And she's standing firm and she's standing 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:51.359 up for it. But I will also say this on 0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:53.160 the point about the disagreement piece. 0:26:53.240 --> 0:26:53.680 Right now. 0:26:55.720 --> 0:27:00.760 I was listening to something and this person was just 0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:03.919 talking about, Yes, the country has divided. The country is divided. Oh, 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:08.159 I know, I was, I was, it was. It was, okay, 0:27:08.240 --> 0:27:11.680 it was. I was watching local news after the Dodgers game. 0:27:14.119 --> 0:27:17.200 Congratulations by the way, for my husband. I'm a Giants fan. 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:24.080 We have a divided household. 0:27:24.400 --> 0:27:28.920 But in any event, one of the sportscasters was talking 0:27:28.960 --> 0:27:31.200 about the teams coming gether. 0:27:31.480 --> 0:27:35.040 I'm making this far too long, but I kept talking 0:27:35.080 --> 0:27:36.880 about we're in a divided country. 0:27:37.600 --> 0:27:40.760 And here's the thing I would say about that. I 0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:47.400 think that we should all challenge ourselves. Are we are 0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:51.160 we forming an opinion based on certain assumptions, and always 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:54.080 ask ourselves what are the assumptions that are the basis 0:27:54.080 --> 0:27:58.520 of our opinion. For example, I think it is a 0:27:58.640 --> 0:28:04.240