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

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Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. Hello everyone, It's Angela Raie.

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Speaker 1: I am one of your hosts for Native lampod and

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Speaker 1: normally on Tuesdays, I have something called a solo pod.

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Speaker 2: And y'all, I've been busy.

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Speaker 1: I've been in the streets working with State of the People,

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Speaker 1: and so because of that travel schedule, I have not

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Speaker 1: seen you all in a really long time. So I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say welcome home to myself on Tuesdays and really

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Speaker 1: grateful to be spending this time with you all.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: I have someone joining us today that is truly, truly,

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Speaker 1: truly Native Lamppod fam. She is Congressional Black Caucus family.

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Speaker 1: To me, y'all know, those are my forever bosses. And

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Speaker 1: now as I get.

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Speaker 2: Older, I'm old, y'all.

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Speaker 1: As I get older, some of them are my siblings,

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Speaker 1: and I have adopted this incredible woman as a sibling.

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Speaker 1: She is a fighter for what is right. She represents

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Speaker 1: the congress the tenth Congressional district.

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Speaker 2: In New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: Her name is Congresswoman Lamonica mc iver and she's joining

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Speaker 1: us today to talk about as many things as we

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Speaker 1: can before she has to step out. How you doing, Congresswomen.

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Speaker 3: Hey, sis, it's good to see you, as I'm just

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Speaker 3: excited to finally be on with you and be here.

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Speaker 3: So thank you so much for making time. And I

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Speaker 3: know you've been busy, and I'm just so grateful for

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Speaker 3: all of the work you've been doing as well, and

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Speaker 3: so it's such a pleasure to be here with you today.

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Speaker 2: I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled.

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Speaker 1: So we are getting into some brass tacks, but there

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Speaker 1: are three things at least that I know we got

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Speaker 1: to cover. I want to cover what is wrong with

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Speaker 1: the fits, I want to cover what is wrong with

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Speaker 1: this crazy bill. And I want to cover what this

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Speaker 1: week means to Newark, which of course is your correct

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Speaker 1: congressional district. So in that order, because I want people

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Speaker 1: to we normally on our podcast, I'm in with calls

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Speaker 1: to action, Congress Women, but sometimes there are calls to

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Speaker 1: action that are so imperative you've got to let people

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Speaker 1: know from the outset. So I want to talk about how,

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Speaker 1: in your regular congressional oversight duties, you were outside of

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Speaker 1: an ice attention facility in Newark I know you have

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Speaker 1: had to talk about this and relive this over and

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Speaker 1: over again, but I do want you to talk to

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Speaker 1: our audience about what happened from your perspective the day

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Speaker 1: you were outside with commercemen Bonnie Wats and Coleman Mayor Rasbaraka,

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Speaker 1: who was detained that day and later released. But since

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Speaker 1: then you have been indicted, and I want people to

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Speaker 1: hear about what they say you've been indicted for. We'll

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Speaker 1: make sure in our playback of this video we run

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Speaker 1: the clips back because we got receipts too. But I

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Speaker 1: want you to talk about what happened from your perspective.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: So it's fine for me to talk about it a

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Speaker 3: thousand times because, as I always say, the facts are

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Speaker 3: on my side, and you know I was there doing

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Speaker 3: the people of the tenth elected me to do. I

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Speaker 3: showed up to Delaney Hall as I have showed up

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Speaker 3: to ice detension centers in my district before, to do

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Speaker 3: an oversight visit when my colleagues to colleagues from New Jersey.

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Speaker 3: Once again, we've done these visits before to a site

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Speaker 3: We were not there to protest. We were not there

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Speaker 3: The mayor of the city of Nork was not there

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Speaker 3: Many people saw from videos the mayor was detained and

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Speaker 3: that was caused by those federal agencies and the people

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Speaker 3: later through all of that, leave it or not, we

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Speaker 3: And so that's the reason why oversight is so important

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Speaker 1: And there are two things about oversight that folks don't

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Speaker 1: how members of Congress work. So you really had two

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Speaker 1: also serve on the Committee on Homeland Security, which, for

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Speaker 1: those of you who don't understand, there's something called Rule

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Speaker 1: So they have a trial set for you on November tenth.

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Speaker 1: What do you need the people to understand before you

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Speaker 3: So Number one, I just wanted to thank everybody who's

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks, and I am just so grateful Angela,

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Speaker 3: including you. Thank you for everything that you've been doing,

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Speaker 3: all of those sisters out there who've been checking up

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Speaker 3: on me just to ask how I'm doing. I think

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Speaker 3: people sometimes forget that I'm a mom of a nine

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Speaker 3: And so I'm just grateful for all of the our

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Speaker 3: Rather it's you know, making sure that we're sharing this story,

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Speaker 3: that's www dot Lamonica for Congress dot com, they can

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Speaker 3: And so this is why it's important for all of us.

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Speaker 3: Our democracy is at state and we have to be

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Speaker 1: A Morehouse graduate Monica, we don't know what's going to

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, the bill is awful. It's terrible,

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Speaker 3: and it's based in exactly what they love to push

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Speaker 3: They work for Donald Trump. Period. It's no if and

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Speaker 1: This week in Newark marks the significant well really all

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