1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: I cannot contain my joy and I am just filled 4 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: with such pride and joy and excitement for the confirmation 5 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: of Justice Katanji Brown Jackson. Yes, she won't be officially 6 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: Justice Katanji Brown Jackson until stephren bryar Um officially leaves 7 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, but which will happen in June. But 8 00:00:54,720 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: I gotta say, folks that yesterday, watching the final vote 9 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 1: come in, watching the history being made, watching vice presidents, 10 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: oftentimes missing Kamala Harris pound the gavel and declare that 11 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: she has been confirmed, is an extraordinary moment. And I 12 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:30,199 Speaker 1: want us to take pause to celebrate and appreciate this 13 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: moment because they're fleeting right, because there is just so 14 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: much that is going on in our country and in 15 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: our world right now that it is so easy for 16 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: us to just speed bump over this right. Let it 17 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: just be a flash in the pan, and then something 18 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: catastrophic will happen tomorrow or later in the day and 19 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: this will all be lost. And this is why, friends, 20 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: I want to say on this Friday. Why meditation to 21 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: me has become so important and such an integral practice 22 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: of mine, and it is because it forces me to 23 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: be present. It forces me to be with my breath 24 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 1: and in my body at the time that I am practicing. 25 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: And it's so important because we future cast, that's what 26 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: I call it, future casting, when you start to make 27 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: up stories that we often tell ourselves in our minds 28 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: about what could possibly go wrong in the future. Renee 29 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: Brown referred to it as catastrophizing. Right when you are 30 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: your brain is working through all of these fight or 31 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: flight scenarios as a way to keep you safe. Sure, 32 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: but it also robs you of the joy that you 33 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 1: can experience in the present moment. And you know, by 34 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 1: virtue of where we are in our politics, it's really 35 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: easy for us to think about what the next few 36 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: months will look like, what the next few years will 37 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: look like. I mean, I am forced to do that 38 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: because of my line of work, but in my personal life, 39 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 1: I try really hard to be in the moments that 40 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: I am and to really like even when I find 41 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: myself kind of again going off the deep end, going 42 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: towards the dark side where it's so easy to live 43 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: I even physically will ground my feet if they're in 44 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: my shoes, if they are barefoot, I will ground my feet. 45 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: I will feel, you know, my hands, feel my body 46 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: as a reminder to send a signal to my brain 47 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: that I am here. And so when the gavel was 48 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: struck and the applause broke out in the chamber of 49 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: the Senate floor, I mean, my heart bursts right because 50 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: I realize, let's do away with those fucking racists, which 51 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: I will get to later in the show. Let's do 52 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: away with the disrespectful and awful treatment that we witnessed 53 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: over four days of her the confirmation hearings. Let's do 54 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: away with all of that, just for a moment, and 55 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: think about this. Two hundred and thirty some odd years, 56 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty some odd years, our court has 57 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: been filled with only white men, two black men, and 58 00:04:52,960 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: if I'm counting correctly, I think now five women, Katangi 59 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: Brown Jackson being the first, the first black woman to 60 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 1: sit on the Supreme Court. And I want you to 61 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: think about, and I'm going to get choked up, think 62 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: about the image that sends to young people. And I 63 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: don't just mean like little black girls that are in 64 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,839 Speaker 1: Kate through twelve. I'm talking about what it says to 65 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 1: young people, young Black women right now, who are in 66 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: law school, who are in clerking positions, that they can 67 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: be the second that one of the largest glass ceilings 68 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:52,799 Speaker 1: that have hovered over our heads has finally been shattered 69 00:05:53,400 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: and been shattered with a woman who has such grace, intelligence, beauty, right, dignity, integrity, 70 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: a woman with natural hair, which for many of you 71 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: may not seem like a big deal, but I just 72 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: want you to understand that we had to pass federal 73 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: legislation entitled the Crown Act that would bar discrimination against 74 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 1: mostly black women with regard to their hair presentation not 75 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: being seen as professional. If you remember, it was only 76 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 1: a handful of years ago that this was a huge 77 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: topic of conversation in the US military because they were 78 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 1: saying that braids that black women were using who were 79 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: in active duty did not fit uniform. Well, what were 80 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,080 Speaker 1: they supposed to do? Shave their heads and putting our 81 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 1: hair just throwing it back in a ponytail like white 82 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: women do, is not healthy for our hair. That has 83 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: always been a point of contention about how we look 84 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: and how other people, namely white people, get to dictate 85 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: not only beauty standards, but what it means to be 86 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: a professional. So for Katangi Brown Jackson not only to 87 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: be this brilliant black woman, but for me and for 88 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: so many of us that had been told when we 89 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: were making our first steps, first foray into natural hair, 90 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: my own grandparents, God rest their souls, but my grandparents 91 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: when I told them that I was gonna lock my hair. 92 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: We're from Jamaica, by the way. When I said that 93 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: I was going to lock my hair, my grandparents were like, 94 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: where you're going to work? What kind of job are 95 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: you going to have? Because you see, we have always 96 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: Black people have always been raised to think about what 97 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: white people will think about us, and that we always 98 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: know and we're taught that their perception of us was 99 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: always going to be negative. And so then we would 100 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: have to be forced to spend our time and energy 101 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: making ourselves palpable to people who've never seen the need 102 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: to provide us with any dignity or respect, and frankly, 103 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: to go even further, still want to debate our humanity, 104 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 1: which is why we have to sit around and continue 105 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: to chant and march with regard to black lives. So again, 106 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,959 Speaker 1: I just the weight, the layeredness. I won't even say 107 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: the weight, because the weight indicates that there is something 108 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: that weighs on us in this moment of celebration, and 109 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: it's not that, but the layers that are present in 110 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: this confirmation. For this woman, who she is, where she 111 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: came from, what she looks like, fucking matters in a world, 112 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:39,079 Speaker 1: in a white world that has always seen black people 113 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: as less than. So to see her is to see 114 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: myself is for so many black women who have dealt 115 00:09:53,840 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: with the kind of overt racism and series of microaggression 116 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: that we saw in four days, many have spent their 117 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 1: entire professional life working under that kind of duress and 118 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: for jobs that are not that prestigious, but that you 119 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,559 Speaker 1: actually you do need right in order to put food 120 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: on the table. So you have to have the kind 121 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 1: of fortitude that black women have to have in this country, 122 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: right is extraordinary. And what pisces me off most often 123 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: with regard to that is how it's just overlooked. Right. 124 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 1: People want to give us the moniker of strong black 125 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: woman and either use that as a compliment or use 126 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: it as an insult, right, and neither should really exist. 127 00:10:54,520 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: You use it as a compliment that denies the reasons 128 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: why we have to be strong, right, It makes the 129 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: responsibility of strength to fall on us rather than for 130 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: society to actually shift. It's always about how we can 131 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: contort to meet other people's needs and expectations, but not 132 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: the expectations that we should have on the world to 133 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: be better. And then when it's used as an insult, 134 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: it's like all black women are too strong, right, that's 135 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: why they never find a man or a woman. And 136 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: that's bullshit as well, because if you had to walk 137 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:45,719 Speaker 1: through life not only dealing with consistent, consistent misogyny, and 138 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: then you want to add racism on top of that, 139 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: and there's a term for it, misogyn noir, right, which 140 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: is the complexity of living and dealing with the intersectionality 141 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 1: of being both. And so to see Katangi Brown Jackson, 142 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: to see her glowing daughters, to see her husband, her parents, 143 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: to think about the enormous weight that she was carrying 144 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 1: for those days of disgusting accusations by the White Supremacist Party, 145 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: Senator Corey Booker really encompassed in that now viral clip 146 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: how millions of us felt. And that's why I am 147 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: saying I will not allow these racist white Republicans to 148 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: rob my joy. I will not allow them to live free. 149 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: In my head, day in and day out, I say 150 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: what the fuck I say, and then I move on, 151 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: because there is nothing that they want more than for 152 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: us to live a life that is in fear of 153 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: what they may do, right, to live a life of shame, 154 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 1: right for people like me who also happen to be queer. 155 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: So I won't give them that, and I don't want 156 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: you to give them that either. I want instead for us, 157 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: on this day, on this celebratory day, to give all 158 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 1: of what would be the negative, hateful energy that the 159 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: Republican Party rightly deserves. I want us instead to give 160 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 1: that energy, to shift it into the positive, into the beauty, 161 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: into the light. For Katanji Brown Jackson and her entire family, 162 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: her friends, her colleagues, everyone who got her to that moment. 163 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: I want us to give that energy to them, because 164 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: they deserve it. She deserves it, and for all of 165 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: the little black girls who will see not only not 166 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: only a vice president that looks like them, but it's 167 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice that looks like them. Don't ever let 168 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: anybody tell you that something is impossible. Because it is 169 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: impossible until it is done. So I refuse to live 170 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: a life that is so small, because that is what 171 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 1: Republicans do, and that is what they want. They want 172 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: a small and to stay in our place. They want 173 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: a small so that we're just grateful for the scraps 174 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: that come our way and don't demand our just do 175 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: That's the purpose, you know, That's one of the effects 176 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: of their culture war campaign that they are raging is 177 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: to make all of us who have finally started to 178 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: be seen to feel like we are seen and accepted, 179 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: to go back to living fearful, small, shame filled lives. 180 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: And I refuse. I refuse. So on this day, I 181 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: celebrate Katangi Brown Jackson. I celebrate all of the black 182 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: women who feel seen, feel heard, feel celebrated for our extraordinary, 183 00:16:52,080 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: extraordinary attributes that, for once, the exception and all black 184 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: lady black woman was not overlooked by for some mediocrity, 185 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: some white mediocrity, the audacity of those people to sit 186 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 1: up there and push through their last two disgusting representatives, 187 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: the last two justices, give me a break. Couldn't hold 188 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 1: a fucking candle to Katangi Brown Jackson. They don't even 189 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: deserve to sit on this same bench with her. But 190 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: we see you, Republicans, We know who you are. And 191 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: even though mainstream media loves to hold their tongue for 192 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 1: some semblance of neutrality, I call a spade a spade. 193 00:17:53,680 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: Y'all are some racist, hateful, disgusting pieces of shit. Ted 194 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 1: Cruz is your representative. Lindsey Graham is your representative. Donald 195 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 1: Trump is your fucking deity. So how dare you, how 196 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: dare you even begin to come out your mouth with 197 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: any hotshit directed at this pristine black woman. And I'll 198 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:31,639 Speaker 1: say this too before I move on to me. You 199 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: know what equity truly looks like. It doesn't look like 200 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: exceptionalism in order to be accepted. It looks like black people, 201 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: people of color being able to be as fucking mediocre 202 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 1: and basic as white people and still get the job, 203 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: still get the promotion. That's what equity looks like to me, 204 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 1: not that we all have to be exceptional, but that 205 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: we can all just be and still get the job done. 206 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: Switching gears, now, folks, you know I have been talking 207 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: about him, probably more than I am interested in ever 208 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: talking about Tucker Carlson. But the fact is that you 209 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: are seeing over the last couple of weeks, really series 210 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: of intense sanctions going out against Putin and Russia and 211 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: Russian oligarchs coming in from the G seven countries, the 212 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: United States and others in an attempt to break down 213 00:19:53,920 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: Russia's economy. And Russia right now is currently ex boarding, 214 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: blackmailing all of Europe because they are dependent on Russia's oil, right, 215 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: and wheat and a lot of other shit that comes 216 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 1: out of that country. And we're seeing more sanctions because 217 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: of what we have seen transpire in Bucha and new 218 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: news of what has happened in Marapol. And what disgusts 219 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: me about Tucker Carlson and Fox News is that outside 220 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 1: of a handful of anchors, no one pushes back at 221 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: the fact that Kremlin talking points airing on American television 222 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 1: and networks to tens of millions of Americans across the 223 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: country is a threat to our national security. And I 224 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 1: really wish, among other things, that Democrats would actually push 225 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 1: back with forceful language as it pertains to Fox News. Now, 226 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: you may say, well, Danielle, there is you know, the 227 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 1: constitution freedom of the press, Okay, but you're not You 228 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 1: don't have just because we have freedom of the press, 229 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 1: that doesn't not mean that you are free from people's 230 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 1: opinions and pushback. And so while you may not be 231 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: able to actually shut down a Fox News and I 232 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: argue that I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure 233 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 1: that you could find ways to point to the fact 234 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:48,120 Speaker 1: that they are a dangerous entity, right that they spread 235 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: lies about COVID that contributed to almost a million people, 236 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: if not over a million people at this time I've 237 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: lost track losing their lives to COVID. That you can 238 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: point to the lies that they have told about somehow 239 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: Trump losing or having the election stolen from him, and 240 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: how that then planted the seeds for insurrectionists to go 241 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: and try and storm and take over the Capitol building. 242 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 1: I think that there are many things that you can 243 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 1: point to, and there is an actual criminal case to 244 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 1: be brought against the network and their biggest talking heads 245 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 1: like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingram. What you need is 246 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: the actual will to do so, because the evidence is clear. 247 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: So what discuss me is that you have Fox News 248 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: allowing people to come on air to plant seeds of 249 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 1: doubt about what we have all seen images and video 250 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 1: of out of Buscha and now Mattow Paul, how is 251 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 1: that okay? How is it okay that Tucker Carlson can 252 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 1: be labeled as like a news anchor because he's sure 253 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 1: as fuck is not a journalist, right like he is 254 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: nobody's journalist. And you know, I remember I'm not because 255 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: I am not too old. I remember when Tucker Carlson 256 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: was on MSNBC. I fucking hated him. Then I thought 257 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 1: that he offered absolutely nothing to anyone's fucking conversations. So 258 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,440 Speaker 1: the fact that he has turned himself into a caricature, 259 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: a Russian puppet and asset, and then there is really 260 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 1: no outcry of the poison that this network is spewing 261 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: out into the public is really problematic because to me, again, 262 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: if we had an activated Apartment of Justice, then we 263 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:08,360 Speaker 1: would have an outlet that would actually do something right, 264 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: that would if nothing else, if nothing comes about an 265 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 1: in depth investigation, then by all means, the point of 266 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 1: an investigation is to find out information, right. I want 267 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: to find out if Tucker Carlson is a Russian asset. 268 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,439 Speaker 1: I want to find out if he is bought and 269 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: sold and is paid to spew lies and hate on 270 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: national television at the direction of Vladimir Putin, at the 271 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 1: direction of the Kremlin. How is that not pertinent and 272 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: important information to know? How do you not decide to 273 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: address these situations head on? You know? And I'll take 274 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:59,120 Speaker 1: it now to Merritt Garland, so you know, news comes out, 275 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:07,919 Speaker 1: news comes out that the Department of Justice has denied 276 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: the ability of the House Commission to see the I 277 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: think it is ten boxes of White House documents that 278 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: Donald Trump took with him to Morrow lago. And initially, 279 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 1: I'm like, why the fuck are they blocking the House 280 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:38,199 Speaker 1: Commission's ability to look through these ten boxes of documents 281 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump just walked out of the White House 282 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: with without anybody saying anything, that he's had these for 283 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:55,879 Speaker 1: over a year. Well, it turns out that the reason 284 00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: why they're blocking the House Commission from getting said boxes 285 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 1: and looking through them is because the Department of Justice, 286 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: many believe, and what they've been trying desperately not to say, 287 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: is that they have an ongoing investigation into Donald Trump 288 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: and his criminal activity and behavior. Now, while I would 289 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:25,120 Speaker 1: like there to be more news about that so that 290 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: we can continue linking Donald Trump and his entire entourage 291 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: to criminal work right. The tepidness, right, the unsuredness that 292 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: this Department of Justice displays and that democrats you know, 293 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: readily show, is just so fucking disheartening. And I said 294 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 1: this in a video that I posted on TikTok yesterday, 295 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: that like, you can't lead from the back, right. I 296 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: remember when I ran track and cross country in high school. 297 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,679 Speaker 1: You used to love running. And you know, while I 298 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: was never the fastest person, I was not a sprinter either. 299 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: I was a middle distance and long distance runner, which 300 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 1: kind of makes Actually now, I haven't even never thought 301 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: about why I have like stamina for the type of 302 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: bullshit that I deal with with work, probably from that. 303 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: But I say that to say that my coaches. You know, again, 304 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:40,120 Speaker 1: I wasn't the fastest person, but I was the one 305 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: that was like called upon to get the team hype, 306 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: to like come together, and you know, my voice was 307 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: always appreciated and needed. And my coach used to say, 308 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,719 Speaker 1: you can't lead from the back, right, People will only 309 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: follow you if you were out front. Democrats constantly think 310 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: that they can lead from behind, think that they can 311 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 1: just poke up their heads a little bit. But then 312 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: they're like, don't hit me. Don't hit me. Don't hit me. 313 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:24,400 Speaker 1: You can't run shit like that. You have to be fearless, right. 314 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: You got to call people out to check you and 315 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,439 Speaker 1: be like, so what do you all hot up in 316 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: the collar about? Because the last time I checked, you 317 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 1: did eleven hour interview with Hillary Clinton when she was 318 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: Secretary State about Benghazi. You wasted tax dollars money for 319 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: I don't even know how many fucking hearings were done, 320 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 1: and it came up with zero indictments, zero because you 321 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: didn't have a leg to stand on and it was 322 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: all a media campaign. I wish that Democrats would do 323 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: the same thing, because you know why, they have a 324 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 1: fucking legal leg to stand on, because they have actual 325 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: evidence of wrongdoing to point to to say we cannot 326 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: allow this shit to slide. And they're gonna say that 327 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: we are politicizing everything and anything, so we gonna take 328 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: a hit regardless, we might as well do something. We 329 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: might as well poke out our chest, put our shoulders back, 330 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: and actually put our back into the fucking work that 331 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 1: needs to be done to restore faith and integrity into 332 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: our agencies and into our government. If you know that 333 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: your opponent is gonna come for you regardless. Why is 334 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 1: doing nothing the choice that you would make, because it 335 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: wouldn't be my choice. Right If you're gonna hit me 336 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: over the head, if you're gonna call me outside of 337 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: my name, you're gonna call me everything a child of God? 338 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: Why would I then think that the best move that 339 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: I could make would be to sit silent or to 340 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: call you my friend and think that somehow I'm gonna 341 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: lure the hive of wasps to me with somebody's honey. 342 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: It makes absolutely no sense. But these are the moves 343 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: that Democrats make. They make moves from a place of fear. 344 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 1: Everything they do is about reacting or trying to preempt 345 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: what it is that they think that Republicans are doing. 346 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck what Republicans are doing. I 347 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: don't because I know that at the core of every 348 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: move that they are making is about tearing our democracy apart, 349 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: ripping up the Constitution, and inserting there forever king. I 350 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: know that that is what they are doing, and Democrats 351 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: know that that is what they are doing. So tell 352 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: me again why you think slow walking and tepidness is 353 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: the kind of energy you want to show up with. 354 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: I have no idea but we have reached a place 355 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: and a space in time when it's either you going 356 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: to put your whole self in the game, right or 357 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: you're just gonna lay down and let them have their 358 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 1: way with this country, with everything that has been fought for, 359 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: bled for. You're just gonna give up, because that's what 360 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: the fuck it looks like. But you know the person 361 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: that isn't giving up. You know, the person that I 362 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: appreciate the most right now is our friend. And I 363 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: say our friend because I just think that she is 364 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: rock solid. New York Attorney General Tish James. New York 365 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: Attorney General Tish James has gone to a federal court 366 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: to say that Donald Trump needs to be fined ten 367 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a day for failure to show up to 368 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 1: be interviewed to provide the documentation that is being asked 369 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 1: for that like, I'm coming for him. Ten thousand dollars 370 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: a day may seem like nothing to Donald Trump, but 371 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it right because you're not going to 372 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: sit around and dick us around here in New York 373 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: like you've been doing for the past forty fucking years 374 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: with your salum fucking buildings and your tax evasion. She's 375 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 1: the only one to me who is actually working right, 376 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: who is actually like yeah, so no, So she has 377 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 1: asked a judge, not a judge, to hold excuse me, 378 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 1: not a federal judge. Let me say that, not a 379 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: federal judge, a judge, to hold Trump in contempt for 380 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 1: refusing to turn over documents and find him ten thousand 381 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:44,520 Speaker 1: dollars a day until he complies. And I'm saying, yeah, 382 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 1: that seems about right right, because I don't know what 383 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: the fuck else we're going to do is just sit 384 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: down and allow Donald Trump to dictate to us what 385 00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: he wants to do and when he wants to do it, 386 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 1: like he's been allowed to do for way too fucking long. 387 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: I'll tell you this too. What I find, also, ha 388 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:15,879 Speaker 1: ha funny is that look who else has decided to 389 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 1: stick their head out after two high profile prosecutes prosecutors 390 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 1: in his office quit Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District attorney 391 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:32,359 Speaker 1: who wouldn't release the letters of resignation from the two 392 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 1: top prosecutors who were going after Donald Trump, who then 393 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 1: quit in protests earlier this year because they don't know 394 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 1: what the fuck is happening with the investigation and why 395 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 1: nobody has been interviewed and they haven't been able to 396 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,480 Speaker 1: move forward in them and over a month and if 397 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,279 Speaker 1: you remember, I mean our friend Glenn Kirshner and I 398 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 1: have talked about this many a times. Sivance before departing, 399 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: called a special grand jury to stay sit for a 400 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 1: longer period of time than their normal handful of weeks, 401 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:16,520 Speaker 1: because that's how much information is there, right, So I 402 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,360 Speaker 1: have called for and have said it on social media 403 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:24,960 Speaker 1: a million times. I want Alvin Bragg investigated. I want 404 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:30,000 Speaker 1: his donors looked into. I want to follow the money 405 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:35,160 Speaker 1: because I don't know why, now unless you're just a 406 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 1: complete and total punk, that you would stop your lawyers 407 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: from moving forward, or that they would even get an 408 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: inkling that you were not going to be interested in 409 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,200 Speaker 1: persecuting Donald Trump to the fullest extent of the law, 410 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,399 Speaker 1: with all of the evidence that you have in front 411 00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:00,640 Speaker 1: of you, enough evidence that your predecessor, again this special 412 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:06,560 Speaker 1: grand jury, so that that could be so. So this 413 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,600 Speaker 1: is what is being said, according to the Washington Post, 414 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:15,399 Speaker 1: and I'm like nah. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said 415 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:20,319 Speaker 1: Thursday that Donald Trump's business practices remain under criminal investigation, 416 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:25,520 Speaker 1: despite two high profile departures, a leadership shake up, an 417 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:30,240 Speaker 1: upcoming grand jury term expiration, and as The Daily Beast 418 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:35,680 Speaker 1: reports about the prosecutors returning documents to people. In a statement, 419 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,839 Speaker 1: Bragg insisted that his office was still pursuing its three 420 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,720 Speaker 1: year investigation without fear or favor. He said a team 421 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:51,200 Speaker 1: of career prosecutors were exploring evidence not previously explored. Mark 422 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,480 Speaker 1: Pomerantz and Carrie Dunne, a pair of senior level prosecutors 423 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,880 Speaker 1: who had been tapped to lead the probe, quit on 424 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,319 Speaker 1: February twenty third, and said case had been suspended indefinitely. 425 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 1: Brag denied that, adding that the grand jury expiration was 426 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:10,440 Speaker 1: not magic timing that would force his office to drop 427 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:14,360 Speaker 1: a case. The new spells trouble for Trump, who was 428 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:21,839 Speaker 1: earlier Thursday hit by Attorney General Tish James Folks. I 429 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 1: think Alvin Bragg is full of shit. As I've said 430 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,719 Speaker 1: here many times before, I will believe it when I 431 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:34,720 Speaker 1: see it. And yeah, grand jury expirations are in fact 432 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:39,400 Speaker 1: magic because they expire, and unless you can prove that 433 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 1: you need another special grand jury, then you're done zo. Right, 434 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,640 Speaker 1: So you would think that having had that expiration date. 435 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:52,640 Speaker 1: In mind that you would have been working feverishly to 436 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,000 Speaker 1: continue the work of your predecessor to bring this motherfucking 437 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:00,319 Speaker 1: criminal to justice. But all of a sudden you get 438 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:04,279 Speaker 1: in things closed down, and then your two top level 439 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:08,839 Speaker 1: prosecutors quit and say that the work was suspended indefinitely. 440 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,680 Speaker 1: You see pushback in the press and everybody calling you 441 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:19,680 Speaker 1: everything right, you have no friends in New York and 442 00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,960 Speaker 1: then you want to come out and give some weak 443 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:29,319 Speaker 1: ass pr spin. Miss me with the bullshit, folks. You know, 444 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,640 Speaker 1: all I will say is the news comes at us 445 00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:38,719 Speaker 1: at breakneck pace. We know this. I tell you to 446 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:44,200 Speaker 1: be sparing with how much time you spend marinating in it. 447 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:49,840 Speaker 1: Today I started off with great news, something that we 448 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:54,399 Speaker 1: should all collectively be sharing and rejoicing in. And I'll 449 00:38:54,480 --> 00:39:02,960 Speaker 1: leave you all with this today, which is again, take 450 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,719 Speaker 1: time each and every day find one thing that you 451 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:13,640 Speaker 1: are grateful for that you can just give sixty seconds 452 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:19,800 Speaker 1: of gratitude four right. It could just be your breath, 453 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:24,640 Speaker 1: it could just be opening your eyes, It could be 454 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,280 Speaker 1: anything so small or so big, but do it, because 455 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:35,560 Speaker 1: a regular gratitude practice can actually transform your life, and 456 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,880 Speaker 1: it allows us to not only look at the good. 457 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,280 Speaker 1: I mean, look at the bad and investigate the bag 458 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,920 Speaker 1: and analyze the bad. But it allows us to see 459 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:51,800 Speaker 1: the good in even bad situations. That does not mean 460 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 1: that we overlook the obvious. It's that we also look 461 00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:03,280 Speaker 1: for something that brings us joy. Folks. I am very 462 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:08,200 Speaker 1: excited on this historic day to welcome to Woke a 463 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,719 Speaker 1: f Daily for the first time, Deputy Counsel to the 464 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:18,359 Speaker 1: President Danielle Conley. Another Danielle, which I always love. Can 465 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:24,640 Speaker 1: you just express what it means to have Judge Kentangi 466 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:30,320 Speaker 1: Brown Jackson confirmed and what it means for this administration, 467 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:34,319 Speaker 1: but what it means for you as a black woman. So, 468 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,000 Speaker 1: first of all, thank you so much for having me. 469 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,719 Speaker 1: Everyone over here right now is elated. We're all on 470 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:46,040 Speaker 1: cloud fifty seven at this point because you know, there 471 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:51,759 Speaker 1: there's just so much joy behind ultimately getting from the 472 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,520 Speaker 1: President from the time he was on the campaign promising 473 00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:58,080 Speaker 1: to nominate a black woman for the Supreme Court to 474 00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,640 Speaker 1: the day of her confirmation. And I think the moment 475 00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:05,879 Speaker 1: is so historical, Danielle, because you know, from the start 476 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,120 Speaker 1: of our nation's history, from the time we started the 477 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,520 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, right we've had one hundred and fifteen Supreme 478 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,480 Speaker 1: Court justices. Out of that one hundred and fifteen, only 479 00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,919 Speaker 1: five of them have been women, and none of those 480 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,560 Speaker 1: women have been Black women. And so she is literally 481 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,120 Speaker 1: making history. Today was literally a history making moment as 482 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:27,120 Speaker 1: we watched the vice president, first black woman vice president, 483 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,720 Speaker 1: preside over the confirmation of the first black woman Supreme 484 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,080 Speaker 1: Court justice. And you know, as a black woman lawyer, 485 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:41,200 Speaker 1: there's just nothing more meaningful than that. You know, I 486 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,799 Speaker 1: was thinking about what it must be like right now, 487 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:49,040 Speaker 1: and I'm certain that you must know young black women 488 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,120 Speaker 1: that are in law schools across this country right now, 489 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:57,520 Speaker 1: what they what can you express to us what it 490 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,440 Speaker 1: has been, what it was like, were you one of 491 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:06,000 Speaker 1: only a few black women in your law school in 492 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:10,440 Speaker 1: your class, and kind of speak to some of what 493 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:16,239 Speaker 1: Judge Katanji Brown Jackson offered up during her hearing process 494 00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,480 Speaker 1: as the experiences as to what it means to be 495 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:24,000 Speaker 1: a black woman attorney in these United States. So I 496 00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,880 Speaker 1: will say that I was super fortunate because I went 497 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,160 Speaker 1: to Howard Law School, where I was in law school 498 00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,920 Speaker 1: filled with black women to my right and to my left, 499 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:38,160 Speaker 1: and it was wonderful and it was awesome but but 500 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,520 Speaker 1: I will also say that, like, as a young black lawyer, 501 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,560 Speaker 1: you know, I grew up idolizing Justice Third Good Marshall 502 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,160 Speaker 1: and Consence Baker Motley, but never really envisioned, you know, 503 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,160 Speaker 1: this idea that a black woman in my lifetime would 504 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,280 Speaker 1: sit on the Supreme Court. And so I think for 505 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:59,480 Speaker 1: so many like black women lawyers and for women lawyers period, 506 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,480 Speaker 1: and and you know, young girls sort of looking up 507 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:06,480 Speaker 1: and saying, oh, this is this, this is achievable, this 508 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,800 Speaker 1: is there's somebody that looks like me on this court. 509 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,520 Speaker 1: And I really do believe that the power of representation. 510 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,080 Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's real. Like, I think one of 511 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,680 Speaker 1: the things that this confirmation showed is that black women 512 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,520 Speaker 1: belong in all rooms. They belong in all spaces, including 513 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:27,120 Speaker 1: the nation's highest court. And so you know, when little 514 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:31,000 Speaker 1: black girls like dream about being a Supreme Court justice, 515 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,399 Speaker 1: they can look up and see somebody who looks like them. 516 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:38,240 Speaker 1: And that's that's not a small thing. Danielle. While um, 517 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:44,279 Speaker 1: the appointment of Judge Jackson won't shift the balance of 518 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,120 Speaker 1: the court, we have a six to three court now 519 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:52,399 Speaker 1: with um really uh, life altering decisions that they are 520 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:57,640 Speaker 1: going to be making um in June, life changing decisions. 521 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,040 Speaker 1: What do you think that her impact will be on 522 00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,920 Speaker 1: the bench. What will that look like. Look, you know, 523 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:10,880 Speaker 1: the President chose her because it is crystal clear that 524 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:14,600 Speaker 1: she has a commitment to ensuring that she's fair, that 525 00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:20,160 Speaker 1: she's impartial, and that the justice system works for all Americans. 526 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,359 Speaker 1: We know that, right I can't say how she's going 527 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,960 Speaker 1: to rule in any particular case, but we know that 528 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,080 Speaker 1: she has a commitment to the rule of law and 529 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:32,520 Speaker 1: the commitment to ensuring that she is a fair and 530 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:36,759 Speaker 1: impartial judge. And so, you know, I think when we 531 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,560 Speaker 1: think about some of the big decisions that will be 532 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,640 Speaker 1: before the court, you know, having someone who has had 533 00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:45,400 Speaker 1: unique perspectives that she's had throughout her professional trajectory, like 534 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,280 Speaker 1: being a district court judge, which the only other Supreme 535 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,279 Speaker 1: Court justice to have been a district court judge is 536 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:56,200 Speaker 1: Justice pseudomyor being a former federal public defender. She will 537 00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,680 Speaker 1: be the only public defender to have ever been on 538 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,759 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, the only you know, judge who has 539 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,880 Speaker 1: the experience of actually having represented criminal defendants people accused 540 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,000 Speaker 1: of crimes. Bringing that vanished point to the court is 541 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,680 Speaker 1: extremely important and so I think that you know, um, 542 00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,759 Speaker 1: you know, history, we'll see what her legacy is. But 543 00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,719 Speaker 1: you know, I can't imagine that all of these professional 544 00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:23,759 Speaker 1: experiences that she's had, coupled with her life experiences will 545 00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,359 Speaker 1: ultimately shape the kinds of things that we see from 546 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,040 Speaker 1: her on the bench. Why do you think that we 547 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,799 Speaker 1: needed to have a declaration from this president on the 548 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:39,719 Speaker 1: campaign trail about appointing a black woman justice. Why did 549 00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:44,799 Speaker 1: that declaration need to be made? And if it hadn't, right, like, 550 00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,880 Speaker 1: would we still be in this would we still be 551 00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:52,000 Speaker 1: in this space? I wonder? So, you know, I think 552 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:57,279 Speaker 1: that the president recognized that, you know, it is so 553 00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:01,839 Speaker 1: critical for the public to have confidence in the judiciary 554 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,240 Speaker 1: at the highest level. And in order for the public 555 00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,839 Speaker 1: to have confidence in the judiciary, people need to look 556 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:11,239 Speaker 1: up and see that that judiciary reflects like people who 557 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,160 Speaker 1: look like them in their communities. And so, you know, 558 00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:17,640 Speaker 1: I think that that promise that he made about you know, 559 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,040 Speaker 1: nominating the first black woman Supreme Court justice, I mean 560 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:25,640 Speaker 1: that his promise that was one promise about sort of equity, 561 00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:30,680 Speaker 1: but he made other promises around ensuring that the judiciary 562 00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,960 Speaker 1: like is diverse and has followed through in those promises. So, 563 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,240 Speaker 1: for example, with respect to the lower the federal courts 564 00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:42,080 Speaker 1: of appeopals, he's nominated twenty people and out of those 565 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,719 Speaker 1: twenty nine have been black women. Five of those black 566 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,360 Speaker 1: women have already been confirmed. Right, So you know, he 567 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,879 Speaker 1: made the promise with respect of the Supreme Court. But 568 00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:52,800 Speaker 1: his commitment to diversity at the highest levels of government, 569 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,360 Speaker 1: whether you're talking about the federal judiciary or even in 570 00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:59,960 Speaker 1: this administration, like thinking about the people who are you know, 571 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,600 Speaker 1: a part of his cabinet, the people who are part 572 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,360 Speaker 1: of his team in the West Wing, it is diverse. 573 00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,880 Speaker 1: It is something that he is committed to because he 574 00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,800 Speaker 1: thinks it's important that the government looks like the people 575 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:16,040 Speaker 1: that it serves. And my final question for you it 576 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:22,640 Speaker 1: is with regard to the public's faith in our judiciary. Right, 577 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:29,320 Speaker 1: it has been deeply politicized over the last four years 578 00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:34,200 Speaker 1: from the prior administration. How do you think that this 579 00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:38,960 Speaker 1: administration goes about restoring that faith and integrity that we 580 00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:44,279 Speaker 1: used to have as a nation in our highest court. So, 581 00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:48,640 Speaker 1: you know, I really think that the nomination of Judge 582 00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:52,120 Speaker 1: Jackson was a step in that direction. You know the 583 00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,480 Speaker 1: fact that she did get by a partisan support and 584 00:47:55,320 --> 00:48:00,200 Speaker 1: received the votes from Senators Collins, Murkowski, and Romney. It's 585 00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:02,560 Speaker 1: not a small thing, um. And you know, I think 586 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:06,239 Speaker 1: that someone of you know, her talent and with her 587 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:10,320 Speaker 1: impeccable credentials and with her professional trajectory like was worthy 588 00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,799 Speaker 1: of and deserving of bipartisan support. And so you know, 589 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:17,160 Speaker 1: the hope is that, UM, you know, we we we 590 00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:20,640 Speaker 1: can continue to sort of view judges no matter who's 591 00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,880 Speaker 1: in power, like we look at we look at their credentials, 592 00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,840 Speaker 1: we look at, you know, whether they're qualified to do 593 00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:31,920 Speaker 1: the job and make decisions based on that. Well, it 594 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,600 Speaker 1: is an exciting day. I hope that you have a 595 00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:39,760 Speaker 1: celebration in your future, UM, for this big day for 596 00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,319 Speaker 1: us as black women, but for the country. Thank you 597 00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,040 Speaker 1: Danielle Connley for making time to join wok F. We 598 00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:55,200 Speaker 1: appreciate you. Thank you very much. That is it for 599 00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:59,759 Speaker 1: me today, dear friends on this woke F as always, 600 00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,120 Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 601 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,919 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.