1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woka F Daily. We 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: meet your girl, Danielle Moody. This week, woke f Daily 3 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: is looking at and reflecting on the year of hate. 4 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: This year, the shadow of Trumpism and all that it 5 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: represents had loomed large over America, and in my upcoming 6 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: conversation with Representative Stacy Plasket, we spoke with the congresswoman 7 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: roughly two weeks following the insurrection. I want you all 8 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:51,959 Speaker 1: to think back to January sixth, which is coming up 9 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: frankly on its anniversary, and when woke f returns live, 10 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: it will be the anniversary week of the one six insurrection, 11 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: which of course Donald Trump right now is saying was 12 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: a red flag operation or a fake flag whatever the 13 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: fuck he's making up these days. But nonetheless, in the 14 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: conversation that we would have with Stacy Plasket following the insurrection, 15 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 1: it's just amazing to me because honestly, I still can't 16 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: wrap my mind around the fact that we watched as 17 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:36,279 Speaker 1: thousands of enraged, rabbit foaming at the mouth white people 18 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: descended on our Capitol building with Trump flags and Confederate flags, 19 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: wearing Trump hats and screaming and spewing and beating police officers, 20 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: whom you know they love, love to uplift right when 21 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: they're on quote unquote their side, meaning kneeling on the 22 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: necks of black people, or beating us or murdering us, 23 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: then they are for the police. But when the police 24 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: are in fact trying to stop a riotous insurrectionist, treasonous 25 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 1: ass mob from taking over our Capitol building, they had 26 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 1: no problem with using violence. Remember five people, five people 27 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 1: ended up dead that day. It's been eleven months since 28 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 1: the insurrection. It's been eleven months. And asked me how 29 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: many people have been arrested by the thousands that you 30 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: saw descend on the Capitol building. Well, according to insider 31 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: dot com, seven hundred and twenty seven people have been charged, 32 00:02:53,200 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 1: only seven hundred and twenty seven. Eleven months later, after 33 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty seven minutes of uninterrupted violence of 34 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: please coming from inside of the Capitol Building. That we 35 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: now have learned through the release of former Chief of 36 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: Staff Mark Meadows text messages that Republicans from inside the 37 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: chamber Republicans on Fox News, his own fucking son was 38 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: trying to get hold of the President of the United 39 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: States on that faithful day as he was sitting, no doubt, 40 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: eating popcorn and popping bond bonds and just loving the 41 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: fact that his adoring fans, who he had told us 42 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: straight up that he could kill somebody in the middle 43 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: of Fifth Avenue and watch his poll numbers increase. He 44 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: told us who these people were, and before he told us, 45 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton told us that this basket of deplorable people 46 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: would do anything and everything and believe anything and everything 47 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: because somehow this magician Donald Trump had hypnotized them with 48 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: the thing that we know is the most alluring for 49 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: white America, which is the return to white supremacy and 50 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: dominant rule. He waved that in their faces like stakes 51 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: in front of a starved crowd, and told them that 52 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: he was going to return them to their glory days. 53 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: You know, the glory days of when white people would 54 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: walk down the street and black people had to bow 55 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 1: their heads and remove themselves from in front of them 56 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: where they could walk into stores, and we had to 57 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: address them as black people as miss and mister, while 58 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: they referred to us as boy and girl, if not 59 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: just the and word, that they could return to a 60 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: time when segregation was the law of the land and 61 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: they didn't have to feel bad or ikey about their 62 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: thoughts right, or the fact that they would cheer on 63 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 1: lynchings and beatings in the same way that the George 64 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: Floyd challenge right took social media by storm following Derek 65 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: Chauvin's disgusting act of murdering an unarmed black man in 66 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: cold blood in broad fucking daylight. These are Donald Trump's people, 67 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: and over the course of four years he had fed 68 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: them a bunch of fucking lies. He appealed to their 69 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: worst sense of self and allowed them right to free 70 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: themselves from the confines and the shackles of their hoods, 71 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: where they could just march with their tiki torches and 72 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: their khaki pants down city streets, declaring that they were 73 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: going to take their country back, declaring that they were 74 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 1: not going to be overtaken by the Jews or their 75 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: you know lasers that Marjorie Taylor Green said they had 76 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: in space that they could fully embrace their anti Semitism, 77 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: their anti Islam, their anti everything that homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, 78 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: misogyny could all be welcomed back in because how dare 79 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: the political correctness of the twenty first century hold them hostage. 80 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: They wanted their liberty, and they were willing to use 81 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: fire extinguishers and battering rams and to concoct and build 82 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: a full fucking guillotine on the st up said the 83 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 1: Capitol Building, so that they could return to the days 84 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump told them they could have back. Thousands 85 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: of people descended on Washington, DC that faithful day. Donald 86 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: Trump would tweet at them, tweet at the world, and 87 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: say that one six was going to be wild. They 88 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: were organizing in broad daylight, on Facebook, on TikTok, on 89 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: every social media apparatus, saying what they were going to 90 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: be doing. Did the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, did 91 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: they intervened? No? And why is that? What is the excuse? 92 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: We've yet to hear it eleven months later. Oh, we 93 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: didn't think it would be that bad. Oh we thought 94 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was going to use the trees and act. 95 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: Oh we thought that we would get in trouble. No, No, 96 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: none of those things really are true. They just knew 97 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: that their whiteness would protect them. You see, policing was 98 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: never set up in a way that it was meant 99 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: to police white people. It was meant to protect white 100 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: people from everybody else them in their property. It's why 101 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: right now Kyle Rittenhouse is the most famous Republican, a 102 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: murtyrer that they are celebrating and fighting over to make 103 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: their new intern. Donald Trump, after one hundred and eighty 104 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: seven minutes of violence and bloodshed, would finally offer to 105 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: the American people a statement in which he said, we 106 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: love you. To the insurrectionists. Donald Trump never came out 107 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: with force to say we need the National Guard, we 108 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: need police. These people are doing things in my name 109 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 1: that I don't agree with. You never heard that out 110 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: of the mouth of Donald Trump or Rudy Giuliani or 111 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: any of the members of Fox News. No, only behind 112 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: closed doors and in tweets that they thought would never 113 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: be discovered, did they offer their truth their fear. This 114 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: is going to make us look bad. Laura Ingram said, 115 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: this isn't good for us, because once again they were 116 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:32,719 Speaker 1: more concerned with their power and the perception thereof than 117 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: anything else than the actual harm that they were doing. 118 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: It wouldn't be until June of twenty twenty one that, 119 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: after a battle in Congress that barely barely passing the 120 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,599 Speaker 1: House of Representatives, did we get at one six commission 121 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: six months after the insurrection, Kevin McCarthy would pull back 122 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: all of his Republicans and only two, only two would 123 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: decide that they were actually going to put country ahead 124 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:22,119 Speaker 1: of party. That would be Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger. 125 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 1: You see, for the entire year, people have wanted to 126 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: hail Liz Cheney as some type of savior. Oh at 127 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: least she has sense, they would say, this is the 128 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: same woman who minds you voted over ninety percent of 129 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: the time with Donald Trump. The only thing that Liz 130 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:51,959 Speaker 1: Cheney wouldn't go along with. She was totally fine withincarcerating 131 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: and locking in cages undocumented children. She was totally fine 132 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: with a rise in police brutality. She was totally fine 133 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: with the criminalization of immigration and people of color. She 134 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 1: was also fine, up until recently, with the harassment and 135 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: the persecution of lgbt people, one of which her sister 136 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: is her dad. Dark Vader would move quicker on the 137 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: issue of LGBTQ equality than Liz Cheney did. But it 138 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: doesn't take much in these American streets these days to 139 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:34,679 Speaker 1: be hailed as a hero. All you have to do 140 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: is state the fucking obvious. Donald Trump did not win 141 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: the election in twenty twenties. A matter of fact, every 142 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: single document that has been uncovered by the one six 143 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: Commission has shown the lengths at which all of the 144 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: people around Donald Trump went to to ensure a second term, 145 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: or maybe a never ending term like his Powell putin. 146 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: It's been eleven months, friends, and sadly, the FBI tells 147 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: us that they are still quote working on identifying all 148 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 1: of those people who descended on our Capitol building, defecated 149 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: in its whole ways, stole property, threatened to hang the 150 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: vice president of the United States, and yet we're able 151 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: to go back home. Yet recent reports from the New 152 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 1: York Times tells us about the FBI infiltrating the protests 153 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: in Oregon and other places back in twenty twenty because 154 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: you know, those pesky black and brown people yelling about, 155 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: you know, not being murdered in the streets and treated 156 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: like second class citizens and dogs. They're so pesky and 157 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: they caused so much trouble. Not at all the alerts 158 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: and the reports that told you for a decade that 159 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: white supremacy was rising in this country and that the 160 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: threat that we needed to be paying attention to wasn't isis, 161 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: But the Boogoaloo Boys, the oath keepers and others. Where 162 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: was the infiltration into the insurrectionists that were organizing out 163 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: in broad daylight? But you wouldn't infiltrate your own because sadly, 164 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: there were too many active military that participated in the insurrection. 165 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: There were too many active or former police officers that 166 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: took out their trunk flags and stormed the capital on 167 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: that day. In this upcoming conversation with Congresswoman Stacy Plasket, 168 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: who also was an active voice and participating in the 169 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: impeachment the second impeachment of the disgrace president, former President 170 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. In this episode, we will talk to her 171 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: and you will be reminded of where we were, how 172 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: we were feeling as a nation on one six twenty one, 173 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: how shaken to the core were we and had no 174 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: idea what the year ahead would look like, but we 175 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: were certain that it couldn't be fucking good if this 176 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 1: is how we were starting. Coming up next, my conversation 177 00:14:53,520 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: with the brilliant Congresswoman Stacy Plasket. It is so wonderful 178 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: to have you back on wik af again, a Congresswoman Plaskic. 179 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: I am excited to talk to you because so much 180 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: has happened since since the last time you joined us. 181 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: So first of all, how have you been, how have 182 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: you been since since our since our last time. I 183 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: know that you were telling me about the COVID rates 184 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: and the Virgin Islands and what has been happening and 185 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: whether or not folks have been able to get tested. 186 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: And now we have a new vaccine, so I'd love 187 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: to know how things are, how things have been progressing 188 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: in the Virgin Islands right now. Well, thanks for asking 189 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 1: about that. We have a really dedicated team and unlike 190 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 1: I think other places around the country, Virgin Islanders are 191 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: not only resilient, but they understand disaster. And so when 192 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: there are directives that come from leadership, the governor stating 193 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: that the way that we saved ourselves is socially distance 194 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: and to wear a mask, people understand that. And particularly 195 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: for us, we have a culture that is very, very 196 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: careful of our elders and so the notion that we 197 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: might be getting them sick by not doing that thing 198 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: that is really very it's very heartwrenching to us. And 199 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: so we have been better, I think than other places 200 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: about doing that. Our issue was always with our young 201 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: people who don't want to follow the guidelines in the 202 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: same way. Along with visitors coming in, we're trying to 203 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: implement test taking for those who want to come as 204 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: a tourist destination. Because I know that the governor is 205 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: really pulled as well because he wants to keep our 206 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 1: economy going and so much of our GDP support and 207 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:12,880 Speaker 1: our revenues come from tourism, and so being sensitive to that. 208 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 1: Creating a safe place for people to come down while 209 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:21,159 Speaker 1: at the same time doing that cognizant of a pandemic 210 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: has been a real challenge. I will say that one 211 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,880 Speaker 1: of the things that we are grateful for is that 212 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 1: in Congress's legislation, the Virgin Islands has been included. So 213 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: we're really trying to get our students back to school 214 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 1: in a safe manner. We're trying to do distribution of 215 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: the vaccine and of testing we have. You know, people 216 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: are in the States have distribution and shipping issues. Well, 217 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:58,199 Speaker 1: shipping issues become even larger when you are off of 218 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 1: the mainland, and so they've been dealing with that as well. 219 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: You know, my concern is that when the Biden Harris 220 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 1: Camp administration comes on board, that there has to be 221 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: an address of lost revenues to locations, to states, governments, 222 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: and to municipalities because they're going to need the support 223 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: to keep teachers and you know, local officials, police on 224 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: the street. And I know that's something that we are 225 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 1: holding our breaths as the quarters to move track along 226 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: that we will have a dip in those revenues. Yeah, 227 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's incredibly hard to watch as 228 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:48,159 Speaker 1: states and different municipalities struggle, right because the idea is 229 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 1: that we want to keep capacity down. We don't want 230 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 1: to have as many travelers, we don't want to have 231 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:55,719 Speaker 1: as many people eating in restaurants. And here in New 232 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: York City where I am, you know, indoor dining is 233 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:02,239 Speaker 1: closed again as as the numbers continue to spike. And 234 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 1: so it's this fine line of being able to both 235 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: keep people safe, but then also safety understanding is at 236 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: economics as well. Right, So we cannot be truly safe 237 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 1: when we have communities that are economically vulnerable. And so 238 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: being able to understand both the push and the pull 239 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,640 Speaker 1: of where we find ourselves in the midst of this pandemic. 240 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: You know, we we we are at a place right 241 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 1: now whereas you and I are speaking, we are at 242 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: four hundred thousand deaths of the coronavirus, just something that 243 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: is would have been unthinkable, right because when you look 244 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: at the countries that come behind us, we're almost double 245 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: the amount of deaths that they have had. And you 246 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 1: say to yourself, how, how you know, how could that be? 247 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 1: Can you remember when it was twenty thousand and we 248 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: were I passed twenty thousand, That's what I'm saying. And 249 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: this this was you know, we we were, we were 250 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,919 Speaker 1: talking but a few months ago, and we hadn't reached, 251 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:05,439 Speaker 1: you know, into the hundreds of thousands. And so the rapidness, 252 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: the rapid descent that we have seen in this country, UM, 253 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: I think it shows our moral deficit um to taking 254 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 1: care of one another. I want to talk about January 255 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: sixth and were you I mean, because you know what, 256 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: I can't. I can't see it. My anxiety has been 257 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 1: through the roof since. UM. I have been feeling incredibly 258 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: uneasy and I can't. And as as we continue to 259 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: see videos come out, as we continue to see reports 260 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 1: of your fellow your fellow members of Congress, Congresswoman Aana 261 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: Pressley talking about the fact that our panic button was 262 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: ripped out of her office that we are talking about 263 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: how vulnerable the black and people of color members were. 264 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 1: I want to know how you are feeling, how you 265 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: felt that day, and how you were feeling now as 266 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 1: this continues to as the investigations just get underway and 267 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: things begin to unfold. Yeah, I for the most part, 268 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: have been doing really well, and I've been doing a 269 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,640 Speaker 1: lot of check ins of some of my colleagues. I 270 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: was not on the floor at the time. I just 271 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:26,360 Speaker 1: always feel like there's some hand, the ancestors are always 272 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: watching out for me. I happened to be in my office, 273 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:36,360 Speaker 1: was watching c SPAN and getting my jacket and getting 274 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 1: myself together to go on the floor, and just happened 275 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: to be turned around a couple of times and didn't 276 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: leave the office when I recognize on c SPAN that 277 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 1: something had gone awry. But particularly I have been reaching 278 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: out to my colleagues, my friends who were in the 279 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: gallery port because the members who were on the floor, 280 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,360 Speaker 1: I know how real that trauma was, but they were 281 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: with the way much faster than the ones who were 282 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: in the gallery and kind of left there for a 283 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 1: while before the Capitol police could get to them. Because 284 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 1: the way of exit is not the same, and I 285 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: recognize that they're not doing as well as some of 286 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 1: the others. And you know, Danielle, we were talking earlier 287 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,959 Speaker 1: about my other role as a mother. Yeah, that's you know, 288 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: something that I've been doing is you know, because afterwards 289 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 1: I checked my staff. I even called particularly the younger 290 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: staff who weren't here. But I know that them seeing 291 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: something like that is going to affect how they operate, 292 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: and that those these young people who come to Washington 293 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,919 Speaker 1: are so full of hope. I know they have so 294 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,400 Speaker 1: much passion, and to see an assault like that on 295 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 1: our democracy and on people was something that I tried 296 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,360 Speaker 1: to help them work through. You know, I had a 297 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: moment yesterday. It was a hard time for me, but 298 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: I have to tell you I've really thrown myself into work, 299 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: and the work that I'm doing I think is so 300 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:30,400 Speaker 1: incredibly important as an impeachment manager. And Jamie Raskin's words, 301 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 1: I saw him on cable news yesterday when he said 302 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 1: he lost his son in twenty twenty and he'll be 303 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: damned if he loses his country in twenty twenty one. 304 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 1: You know, I have had the good fortune of also 305 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: speaking with Congressman, speaking with Representative Raskin, and to think 306 00:23:55,640 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: about how committed you know, you have to be to 307 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: this country, to the constitution, to this democracy, to be 308 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,959 Speaker 1: able to push through the unspeakable trauma of losing a 309 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: child to now working so desperately not to lose a country. 310 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 1: Can you talk to us about what it is like 311 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: to be an impeachment manager, what you what has come 312 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,439 Speaker 1: up for you as as as a representative, but also 313 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 1: as as you know, just a believer in democracy, a 314 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: believer in institution. Right yeah, um, well, you know, um, 315 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: my legal career began in the Bronx District Attorney's office, 316 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: which is kind of a trial by fireplace. You're given 317 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 1: a week of training and then you're sent assigned to 318 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: a courtroom and giving a stack of cases and uh, 319 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,919 Speaker 1: you know, people pride themselves there on being very fast paced, 320 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: night court, weekend, core, complaint room, the whole bit, And 321 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: so I kind of took this the same way of 322 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,120 Speaker 1: just throwing myself into it. But one of maybe the 323 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: things that as well comes as a Bronx district attorney 324 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 1: is being very i have to say, unemotional about criminal 325 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 1: trial and just getting to the facts and to justice. 326 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: And I've really tried to be this way in working 327 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: through how we are going to present this case is 328 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 1: not getting caught up in the emotion of what we 329 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,199 Speaker 1: all experience, but how do we prove the elements of 330 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 1: the crime place on January and leading up to January sixth, Right, 331 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: because January sixth was the fulfillment of a conspiracy or 332 00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:01,440 Speaker 1: throw this government. Insurrection doesn't occur at the beginning of 333 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: an individual's time and office. It occurs at the end. 334 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: And this is classic to what our founding fathers anticipated 335 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: when they were drafting the Constitution and discussed impeachment while 336 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: an impeachment was going on in England, while they were 337 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 1: having the conversation about putting impeachment, because impeachment is two parts. One, 338 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: it is removing that individual from the clear and present 339 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: danger that they prevent they present, but it is also 340 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:40,160 Speaker 1: preventing that individual or individuals from ever being able again 341 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: to do that. It's qualification of the person from being 342 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,479 Speaker 1: able to run for office, from receiving the trappings of 343 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 1: what we give those individuals who were our former presidents. 344 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: That doesn't just include the tax player, social Security retirement 345 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 1: pay staff, and the others. It includes um you know, briefings, right, say, right? 346 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: Do we want this individual to continue to have access 347 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 1: to the leavers of power? Um, knowing what he will 348 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 1: do to retain power for himself. Um. Those are the 349 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 1: reasons that we are having in this drib. You know, 350 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: tell me what is different between the one article that 351 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: we are looking at right now, which is incitement and insurrection, correct, 352 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 1: versus what we were looking at, which in twenty nineteen, 353 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 1: which was obstruction of justice? Right? What are the what 354 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: are the what are the impeachment one point zero and 355 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: now impeaching two point zero? Right? Two point zero is 356 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: always bigger, better. The differences is that we've all seen 357 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: the crime. M. The difference is that not only were 358 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: we all witnesses, but that the jurors were actually victims 359 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: of the crime. That is going to be the difference 360 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: in how this is presented. And the issue is now 361 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: for these senators, if they are able as victims and 362 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 1: continuing ongoing victims as they are threatened right by this 363 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 1: president and by those conspirators who are with them with him, 364 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: are they able to transcend that or to be protected 365 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 1: from that, to be able to render a verdict? Let 366 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: me ask you this question too, So, Donald Trump has 367 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: what roughly forty eight hours left as president of the 368 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: United States. He is signaling that he is about to 369 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: pardon roughly one hundred people, including himself, his family, his friends, 370 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: if he is convicted in the Senate, which we still 371 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: know as an uphill battle. Are these pardons potentially reversible? 372 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 1: Can they be stopped? Oh? That's that's a great scholarly 373 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 1: constitutional issue, which you know, the conviction will of course, uh, 374 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: you know, just thinking logically happen after the pardons of 375 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 1: Dick and Plays. Probably not right. But the impeachment and 376 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: the conviction, as well as the disqualification does not are 377 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: separate and apart from any pardons. And additionally, of course 378 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 1: there's always state crimes for which he is to probably 379 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: have to deal with once leaving office, whether he is 380 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: impeached and convicted or not. Yeah, I you know, Congresswoman 381 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: say that his crimes in the past, you know. And 382 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: he can only pardon himself for that which he has 383 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 1: already done, not that for which he could potentially do 384 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: or any other individual. But this trial, this impeachment, for one, 385 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: for those in the House, the impeachment was a constitutional duty, 386 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 1: fulfillment of what many members, including those bold ten individuals 387 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: on the Republican side felt was a fulfillment of their 388 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 1: constitutional duty. You know, pray for them as well, because 389 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: they as well are being threatened right now for having 390 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: taken that position. This is the only time in history 391 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:08,719 Speaker 1: when there has been such a bipartisan, resounding impeachment of 392 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: a president. Right and now what we are doing is 393 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: you hear this notion by many people of let's just 394 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: move on the rush to healing, let the healing begin. 395 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: You know, jam and Raskin uses this term. A president 396 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: does not get a senior skip day to act up 397 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 1: and do what he wants to do because it's the 398 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 1: last couple of weeks of his presidency. And these individuals 399 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,479 Speaker 1: who are purporting proposing this are saying that he's supposed 400 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: to get skipped weeks as a president, and you know, 401 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,080 Speaker 1: it is the height of Also as a black person, 402 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 1: I feel it's the height of a privilege. When I 403 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 1: hear white men saying that we should put us what 404 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 1: he did, forget about it, and let him move on. 405 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 1: It reminds me of my time in high school in 406 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 1: boarding school, you know, going to a prep school as 407 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 1: one of the few black people there. When senior year. 408 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: People would kind of absolve the young white boys of 409 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: misdeeds because you know, they've got this bright future ahead 410 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 1: of them at Yale or wherever they were going to go. 411 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: But don't you, ever black person try and do something 412 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 1: like that, because you should be so grateful we had 413 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: given you this opportunity before and not be healing. And 414 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: this country cannot continue to condone this bad behavior, this conspiracy, 415 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: this absolute rending of our constitution in our democracy. We 416 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: can continue to be a shining light and the greatest 417 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: country if we deal head on with the issues that 418 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: we had. You know, throughout even last summer, when people 419 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 1: were talking about systemic racism, I was really kind of 420 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 1: ticked off when I would hear black people saying how 421 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 1: ashamed they were of our country in comparison to others. 422 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 1: I think the great thing about in America is that 423 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 1: we do confront our issues where other countries kind of 424 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 1: sweep them under the rug. You can't be a black 425 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 1: person and live in France and ever be considered French. 426 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. Is the happiest country in the 427 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: world is Denmark. And the reason it's the happiest country 428 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,640 Speaker 1: in the world is because they sold my grandparents and 429 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: their land to the United States and paid off their 430 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: debt and came out of depression, a depression financial depression 431 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 1: that they were in, and use that money and those 432 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: resources to make themselves happy. But they don't even discuss it. 433 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: They never acknowledge that that happened. They're three hundred years 434 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 1: of slavery. So at least in the United States, we 435 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: deal with our our wrongs, and we cannot at this point, 436 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 1: just because of the amount of trauma and that this 437 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 1: president has caused us simply pretend we can forget it, 438 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: the rape and pillage and instructure that he is not 439 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,440 Speaker 1: exacted on this country and think that we're going to 440 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,400 Speaker 1: continue to be whole people if we don't deal and 441 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 1: make sure that the perpetrator has to pay. You know, 442 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,319 Speaker 1: when you say whole people, that really sits with me, 443 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 1: because I don't think still to this day, to this point, 444 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:41,359 Speaker 1: that white Americans really understand how adversely racism affects them, 445 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 1: how adversely white supremacy affects them, how it has affected 446 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:51,319 Speaker 1: our entire country, every every facet of it. I think 447 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 1: to myself, where would America be if not for the 448 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 1: oppression and suppression of various marginalized groups. How much would 449 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: our g DPB how much would we be you know, 450 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 1: how how how big of a beacon and like could 451 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 1: we be if we allowed all people to to attain 452 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: their American dream, whatever the version of that American dream 453 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,799 Speaker 1: was one of the questions that I have for you, Congresswoman, 454 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,759 Speaker 1: is this You know you are a member also of 455 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:25,360 Speaker 1: the Oversight UH Committee. There are conversations right now, reports 456 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,760 Speaker 1: that are being had that Republican members of your House 457 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:34,920 Speaker 1: um are part of this conspiracy, and there are calls 458 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 1: for them to be removed. Right tours that were tours 459 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,160 Speaker 1: or as as some have said, reconnaissance right that was 460 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:50,280 Speaker 1: done with members of Congress leading these terrorists, these perpetrators 461 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 1: around the Capitol the day before. How are they going 462 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,719 Speaker 1: to be dealt with? Because I don't see how you all, right, 463 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: that are that hold up our democracy can work shoulder 464 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: to shoulder with those people that purposefully put you in 465 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,719 Speaker 1: harm's away. And frankly, it is only through the grace 466 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 1: of God and luck that we did not see a 467 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:17,759 Speaker 1: procession of funerals following January sixth. I have great confidence 468 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,520 Speaker 1: that the Speaker Nancy Pelosi as well as our leadership 469 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,480 Speaker 1: are going to address that that this is not something 470 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 1: that they have forgotten, not something that will not be addressed. 471 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,160 Speaker 1: Neither they or the members are going to allow that. 472 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,640 Speaker 1: And so I think as time goes on, you'll see 473 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: a greater discussion about that. Right now, I'm just singularly 474 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:50,080 Speaker 1: focused on, you know, the preparation with my colleagues for 475 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,719 Speaker 1: the trial at hand, But I know that those conversations 476 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 1: are very, very real and that that's going to happen. 477 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 1: But you know, Danielle, as as I keep when people 478 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,319 Speaker 1: ask me, do I feel safe around my colleagues? I mean, 479 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:11,880 Speaker 1: what black person in America ever truly feel safe? And 480 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,879 Speaker 1: you know, as as I, my sons have told me, 481 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 1: you know, I need to keep my head on a 482 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:22,960 Speaker 1: swivel until something is done. I'm grateful that the Speaker 483 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,200 Speaker 1: has really instituted some of the measures that he had 484 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:31,120 Speaker 1: She has and will enforce minds and other actions against 485 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,160 Speaker 1: members who do not follow them. But let's remember that 486 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,080 Speaker 1: these members not only you know, there are the allegations 487 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,920 Speaker 1: of the reconnaissance of criminal conspirators, but there was also 488 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:48,640 Speaker 1: discussion of members carrying weapons as well, members tweeting out 489 00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 1: locations to groups during the insurrection, but members also refusing 490 00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:00,640 Speaker 1: to wear masks and putting other members in harm's way 491 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:06,360 Speaker 1: physically because they cannot accept the truth. They cannot accept 492 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:10,640 Speaker 1: the truth that President Donald Trump lost the election. You know, 493 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,880 Speaker 1: they don't want to accept the truth that in places 494 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:17,279 Speaker 1: like Philadelphia and Detroit and black people came out and 495 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,160 Speaker 1: vote because they don't want those to be counted as 496 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: votes because we are not people, so therefore our votes 497 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,120 Speaker 1: don't count. And they don't want to accept the truth 498 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:32,279 Speaker 1: about COVID and this pandemic and what it means to 499 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,240 Speaker 1: America as well, and therefore they won't wear a mask 500 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:43,520 Speaker 1: on top of that. It's just a travesty, really, Congresswoman, 501 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,239 Speaker 1: I know, thank you so much for your time. My 502 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,800 Speaker 1: final question for you, as you are in preparation for 503 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:54,759 Speaker 1: the impeachment trial, what are your hopes coming out of this, 504 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,399 Speaker 1: knowing the kind of Senate that we're facing, knowing that 505 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:04,440 Speaker 1: in a handful of days we are finally finally switching 506 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:09,040 Speaker 1: administrations are what are your hopes moving forward? As as 507 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:12,680 Speaker 1: we move forward? Um, you know, I am just so 508 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,279 Speaker 1: incredibly grateful that we have the kind of staff and 509 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,200 Speaker 1: team that we have just preparing for this track trial 510 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:25,120 Speaker 1: from the judiciary and oversight staffers who are not sleeping 511 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:31,000 Speaker 1: from the time that we you know, the impeachment articles 512 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:35,160 Speaker 1: were drafted by members of the team who were in 513 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:41,759 Speaker 1: hiding and writing impeachment articles to a team which is 514 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:47,840 Speaker 1: absolutely solidified and working together. And you know Jamie Raskin 515 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:52,319 Speaker 1: as the lead manager being so masterful and guiding us 516 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 1: as our law school professor almost in this instance. But 517 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,360 Speaker 1: it's my hope that not only will the American people, 518 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:07,080 Speaker 1: but the Senate be awakened to the truth, that they 519 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,759 Speaker 1: have the courage to act upon that truth, because this 520 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,279 Speaker 1: will be a time that is not forgotten. I think 521 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 1: as more information comes out, they would be mindful of 522 00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 1: being on the right side of history in this. We 523 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,919 Speaker 1: know that this president is one who does not learn 524 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:31,759 Speaker 1: his lesson, yeah, and so he has to be contained. 525 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,720 Speaker 1: But I think that that will show the American people 526 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,520 Speaker 1: that the Republic is still standing and that we can 527 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:45,080 Speaker 1: move on while that is happening, to contain to bring 528 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:49,280 Speaker 1: to justice those individuals who have tried to shaken our republic, 529 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,239 Speaker 1: that the republic continues. With the first five and ten 530 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,439 Speaker 1: days of this administration and the great things that they're 531 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,480 Speaker 1: going to do, and while the Senate, which is the 532 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:04,759 Speaker 1: greatest liberative body, works not only on an impeachment, but 533 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:09,120 Speaker 1: on confirmation and on a package to bring us to 534 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:14,959 Speaker 1: economic prosperity. Again, knowing that with us having Democrats having 535 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,879 Speaker 1: the House, the Senate, and the White House, that we 536 00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,560 Speaker 1: are going to try and uplift those who have been 537 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,960 Speaker 1: forgotten not just in four years, but for a very 538 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:31,000 Speaker 1: long time. That there's equality and education, in wealth creation, 539 00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:36,200 Speaker 1: and in healthcare, so many things that so many Americans 540 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:40,920 Speaker 1: need moving forward. Congresswoman Stacy Plaskett, I can't thank you 541 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,279 Speaker 1: enough for your time. I can't thank you enough for 542 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:48,440 Speaker 1: your commitment to our democracy, and I wish you well 543 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,920 Speaker 1: as you prepare for the impeachment trial. And I just 544 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,919 Speaker 1: we can't thank you enough. So please stay safe. Can 545 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,879 Speaker 1: you also please take care of yourself because I see 546 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,160 Speaker 1: how much this is affect did you as well? Thank 547 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:07,200 Speaker 1: you as your big sis, we need you well to 548 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:12,600 Speaker 1: keep keep your strong voice and the kind of intuitive, 549 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,480 Speaker 1: insightful and well researched questions that you have for us. All. 550 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:26,880 Speaker 1: Thank you be well, Okay, you take care. That is 551 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,600 Speaker 1: it for me today, Dear folks on woke as always 552 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,800 Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power. 553 00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,279 Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fun