Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I cannot contain my joy and I am just filled
Speaker 1: with such pride and joy and excitement for the confirmation
Speaker 1: of Justice Katanji Brown Jackson. Yes, she won't be officially
Speaker 1: Justice Katanji Brown Jackson until stephren bryar Um officially leaves
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, but which will happen in June. But
Speaker 1: I gotta say, folks that yesterday, watching the final vote
Speaker 1: come in, watching the history being made, watching vice presidents,
Speaker 1: oftentimes missing Kamala Harris pound the gavel and declare that
Speaker 1: she has been confirmed, is an extraordinary moment. And I
Speaker 1: want us to take pause to celebrate and appreciate this
Speaker 1: moment because they're fleeting right, because there is just so
Speaker 1: much that is going on in our country and in
Speaker 1: our world right now that it is so easy for
Speaker 1: us to just speed bump over this right. Let it
Speaker 1: just be a flash in the pan, and then something
Speaker 1: catastrophic will happen tomorrow or later in the day and
Speaker 1: this will all be lost. And this is why, friends,
Speaker 1: I want to say on this Friday. Why meditation to
Speaker 1: me has become so important and such an integral practice
Speaker 1: of mine, and it is because it forces me to
Speaker 1: be present. It forces me to be with my breath
Speaker 1: and in my body at the time that I am practicing.
Speaker 1: And it's so important because we future cast, that's what
Speaker 1: I call it, future casting, when you start to make
Speaker 1: up stories that we often tell ourselves in our minds
Speaker 1: about what could possibly go wrong in the future. Renee
Speaker 1: Brown referred to it as catastrophizing. Right when you are
Speaker 1: your brain is working through all of these fight or
Speaker 1: flight scenarios as a way to keep you safe. Sure,
Speaker 1: but it also robs you of the joy that you
Speaker 1: can experience in the present moment. And you know, by
Speaker 1: virtue of where we are in our politics, it's really
Speaker 1: easy for us to think about what the next few
Speaker 1: months will look like, what the next few years will
Speaker 1: look like. I mean, I am forced to do that
Speaker 1: because of my line of work, but in my personal life,
Speaker 1: I try really hard to be in the moments that
Speaker 1: I am and to really like even when I find
Speaker 1: myself kind of again going off the deep end, going
Speaker 1: towards the dark side where it's so easy to live
Speaker 1: I even physically will ground my feet if they're in
Speaker 1: my shoes, if they are barefoot, I will ground my feet.
Speaker 1: I will feel, you know, my hands, feel my body
Speaker 1: as a reminder to send a signal to my brain
Speaker 1: that I am here. And so when the gavel was
Speaker 1: struck and the applause broke out in the chamber of
Speaker 1: the Senate floor, I mean, my heart bursts right because
Speaker 1: I realize, let's do away with those fucking racists, which
Speaker 1: I will get to later in the show. Let's do
Speaker 1: away with the disrespectful and awful treatment that we witnessed
Speaker 1: over four days of her the confirmation hearings. Let's do
Speaker 1: away with all of that, just for a moment, and
Speaker 1: think about this. Two hundred and thirty some odd years,
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty some odd years, our court has
Speaker 1: been filled with only white men, two black men, and
Speaker 1: if I'm counting correctly, I think now five women, Katangi
Speaker 1: Brown Jackson being the first, the first black woman to
Speaker 1: sit on the Supreme Court. And I want you to
Speaker 1: think about, and I'm going to get choked up, think
Speaker 1: about the image that sends to young people. And I
Speaker 1: don't just mean like little black girls that are in
Speaker 1: Kate through twelve. I'm talking about what it says to
Speaker 1: young people, young Black women right now, who are in
Speaker 1: law school, who are in clerking positions, that they can
Speaker 1: be the second that one of the largest glass ceilings
Speaker 1: that have hovered over our heads has finally been shattered
Speaker 1: and been shattered with a woman who has such grace, intelligence, beauty, right, dignity, integrity,
Speaker 1: a woman with natural hair, which for many of you
Speaker 1: may not seem like a big deal, but I just
Speaker 1: want you to understand that we had to pass federal
Speaker 1: legislation entitled the Crown Act that would bar discrimination against
Speaker 1: mostly black women with regard to their hair presentation not
Speaker 1: being seen as professional. If you remember, it was only
Speaker 1: a handful of years ago that this was a huge
Speaker 1: topic of conversation in the US military because they were
Speaker 1: saying that braids that black women were using who were
Speaker 1: in active duty did not fit uniform. Well, what were
Speaker 1: they supposed to do? Shave their heads and putting our
Speaker 1: hair just throwing it back in a ponytail like white
Speaker 1: women do, is not healthy for our hair. That has
Speaker 1: always been a point of contention about how we look
Speaker 1: and how other people, namely white people, get to dictate
Speaker 1: not only beauty standards, but what it means to be
Speaker 1: a professional. So for Katangi Brown Jackson not only to
Speaker 1: be this brilliant black woman, but for me and for
Speaker 1: so many of us that had been told when we
Speaker 1: were making our first steps, first foray into natural hair,
Speaker 1: my own grandparents, God rest their souls, but my grandparents
Speaker 1: when I told them that I was gonna lock my hair.
Speaker 1: We're from Jamaica, by the way. When I said that
Speaker 1: I was going to lock my hair, my grandparents were like,
Speaker 1: where you're going to work? What kind of job are
Speaker 1: you going to have? Because you see, we have always
Speaker 1: Black people have always been raised to think about what
Speaker 1: white people will think about us, and that we always
Speaker 1: know and we're taught that their perception of us was
Speaker 1: always going to be negative. And so then we would
Speaker 1: have to be forced to spend our time and energy
Speaker 1: making ourselves palpable to people who've never seen the need
Speaker 1: to provide us with any dignity or respect, and frankly,
Speaker 1: to go even further, still want to debate our humanity,
Speaker 1: which is why we have to sit around and continue
Speaker 1: to chant and march with regard to black lives. So again,
Speaker 1: I just the weight, the layeredness. I won't even say
Speaker 1: the weight, because the weight indicates that there is something
Speaker 1: that weighs on us in this moment of celebration, and
Speaker 1: it's not that, but the layers that are present in
Speaker 1: this confirmation. For this woman, who she is, where she
Speaker 1: came from, what she looks like, fucking matters in a world,
Speaker 1: in a white world that has always seen black people
Speaker 1: as less than. So to see her is to see
Speaker 1: myself is for so many black women who have dealt
Speaker 1: with the kind of overt racism and series of microaggression
Speaker 1: that we saw in four days, many have spent their
Speaker 1: entire professional life working under that kind of duress and
Speaker 1: for jobs that are not that prestigious, but that you
Speaker 1: actually you do need right in order to put food
Speaker 1: on the table. So you have to have the kind
Speaker 1: of fortitude that black women have to have in this country,
Speaker 1: right is extraordinary. And what pisces me off most often
Speaker 1: with regard to that is how it's just overlooked. Right.
Speaker 1: People want to give us the moniker of strong black
Speaker 1: woman and either use that as a compliment or use
Speaker 1: it as an insult, right, and neither should really exist.
Speaker 1: You use it as a compliment that denies the reasons
Speaker 1: why we have to be strong, right, It makes the
Speaker 1: responsibility of strength to fall on us rather than for
Speaker 1: society to actually shift. It's always about how we can
Speaker 1: contort to meet other people's needs and expectations, but not
Speaker 1: the expectations that we should have on the world to
Speaker 1: be better. And then when it's used as an insult,
Speaker 1: it's like all black women are too strong, right, that's
Speaker 1: why they never find a man or a woman. And
Speaker 1: that's bullshit as well, because if you had to walk
Speaker 1: through life not only dealing with consistent, consistent misogyny, and
Speaker 1: then you want to add racism on top of that,
Speaker 1: and there's a term for it, misogyn noir, right, which
Speaker 1: is the complexity of living and dealing with the intersectionality
Speaker 1: of being both. And so to see Katangi Brown Jackson,
Speaker 1: to see her glowing daughters, to see her husband, her parents,
Speaker 1: to think about the enormous weight that she was carrying
Speaker 1: for those days of disgusting accusations by the White Supremacist Party,
Speaker 1: Senator Corey Booker really encompassed in that now viral clip
Speaker 1: how millions of us felt. And that's why I am
Speaker 1: saying I will not allow these racist white Republicans to
Speaker 1: rob my joy. I will not allow them to live free.
Speaker 1: In my head, day in and day out, I say
Speaker 1: what the fuck I say, and then I move on,
Speaker 1: because there is nothing that they want more than for
Speaker 1: us to live a life that is in fear of
Speaker 1: what they may do, right, to live a life of shame,
Speaker 1: right for people like me who also happen to be queer.
Speaker 1: So I won't give them that, and I don't want
Speaker 1: you to give them that either. I want instead for us,
Speaker 1: on this day, on this celebratory day, to give all
Speaker 1: of what would be the negative, hateful energy that the
Speaker 1: Republican Party rightly deserves. I want us instead to give
Speaker 1: that energy, to shift it into the positive, into the beauty,
Speaker 1: into the light. For Katanji Brown Jackson and her entire family,
Speaker 1: her friends, her colleagues, everyone who got her to that moment.
Speaker 1: I want us to give that energy to them, because
Speaker 1: they deserve it. She deserves it, and for all of
Speaker 1: the little black girls who will see not only not
Speaker 1: only a vice president that looks like them, but it's
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice that looks like them. Don't ever let
Speaker 1: anybody tell you that something is impossible. Because it is
Speaker 1: impossible until it is done. So I refuse to live
Speaker 1: a life that is so small, because that is what
Speaker 1: Republicans do, and that is what they want. They want
Speaker 1: a small and to stay in our place. They want
Speaker 1: a small so that we're just grateful for the scraps
Speaker 1: that come our way and don't demand our just do
Speaker 1: That's the purpose, you know, That's one of the effects
Speaker 1: of their culture war campaign that they are raging is
Speaker 1: to make all of us who have finally started to
Speaker 1: be seen to feel like we are seen and accepted,
Speaker 1: to go back to living fearful, small, shame filled lives.
Speaker 1: And I refuse. I refuse. So on this day, I
Speaker 1: celebrate Katangi Brown Jackson. I celebrate all of the black
Speaker 1: women who feel seen, feel heard, feel celebrated for our extraordinary,
Speaker 1: extraordinary attributes that, for once, the exception and all black
Speaker 1: lady black woman was not overlooked by for some mediocrity,
Speaker 1: some white mediocrity, the audacity of those people to sit
Speaker 1: up there and push through their last two disgusting representatives,
Speaker 1: the last two justices, give me a break. Couldn't hold
Speaker 1: a fucking candle to Katangi Brown Jackson. They don't even
Speaker 1: deserve to sit on this same bench with her. But
Speaker 1: we see you, Republicans, We know who you are. And
Speaker 1: even though mainstream media loves to hold their tongue for
Speaker 1: some semblance of neutrality, I call a spade a spade.
Speaker 1: Y'all are some racist, hateful, disgusting pieces of shit. Ted
Speaker 1: Cruz is your representative. Lindsey Graham is your representative. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is your fucking deity. So how dare you, how
Speaker 1: dare you even begin to come out your mouth with
Speaker 1: any hotshit directed at this pristine black woman. And I'll
Speaker 1: say this too before I move on to me. You
Speaker 1: know what equity truly looks like. It doesn't look like
Speaker 1: exceptionalism in order to be accepted. It looks like black people,
Speaker 1: people of color being able to be as fucking mediocre
Speaker 1: and basic as white people and still get the job,
Speaker 1: still get the promotion. That's what equity looks like to me,
Speaker 1: not that we all have to be exceptional, but that
Speaker 1: we can all just be and still get the job done.
Speaker 1: Switching gears, now, folks, you know I have been talking
Speaker 1: about him, probably more than I am interested in ever
Speaker 1: talking about Tucker Carlson. But the fact is that you
Speaker 1: are seeing over the last couple of weeks, really series
Speaker 1: of intense sanctions going out against Putin and Russia and
Speaker 1: Russian oligarchs coming in from the G seven countries, the
Speaker 1: United States and others in an attempt to break down
Speaker 1: Russia's economy. And Russia right now is currently ex boarding,
Speaker 1: blackmailing all of Europe because they are dependent on Russia's oil, right,
Speaker 1: and wheat and a lot of other shit that comes
Speaker 1: out of that country. And we're seeing more sanctions because
Speaker 1: of what we have seen transpire in Bucha and new
Speaker 1: news of what has happened in Marapol. And what disgusts
Speaker 1: me about Tucker Carlson and Fox News is that outside
Speaker 1: of a handful of anchors, no one pushes back at
Speaker 1: the fact that Kremlin talking points airing on American television
Speaker 1: and networks to tens of millions of Americans across the
Speaker 1: country is a threat to our national security. And I
Speaker 1: really wish, among other things, that Democrats would actually push
Speaker 1: back with forceful language as it pertains to Fox News. Now,
Speaker 1: you may say, well, Danielle, there is you know, the
Speaker 1: constitution freedom of the press, Okay, but you're not You
Speaker 1: don't have just because we have freedom of the press,
Speaker 1: that doesn't not mean that you are free from people's
Speaker 1: opinions and pushback. And so while you may not be
Speaker 1: able to actually shut down a Fox News and I
Speaker 1: argue that I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that you could find ways to point to the fact
Speaker 1: that they are a dangerous entity, right that they spread
Speaker 1: lies about COVID that contributed to almost a million people,
Speaker 1: if not over a million people at this time I've
Speaker 1: lost track losing their lives to COVID. That you can
Speaker 1: point to the lies that they have told about somehow
Speaker 1: Trump losing or having the election stolen from him, and
Speaker 1: how that then planted the seeds for insurrectionists to go
Speaker 1: and try and storm and take over the Capitol building.
Speaker 1: I think that there are many things that you can
Speaker 1: point to, and there is an actual criminal case to
Speaker 1: be brought against the network and their biggest talking heads
Speaker 1: like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingram. What you need is
Speaker 1: the actual will to do so, because the evidence is clear.
Speaker 1: So what discuss me is that you have Fox News
Speaker 1: allowing people to come on air to plant seeds of
Speaker 1: doubt about what we have all seen images and video
Speaker 1: of out of Buscha and now Mattow Paul, how is
Speaker 1: that okay? How is it okay that Tucker Carlson can
Speaker 1: be labeled as like a news anchor because he's sure
Speaker 1: as fuck is not a journalist, right like he is
Speaker 1: nobody's journalist. And you know, I remember I'm not because
Speaker 1: I am not too old. I remember when Tucker Carlson
Speaker 1: was on MSNBC. I fucking hated him. Then I thought
Speaker 1: that he offered absolutely nothing to anyone's fucking conversations. So
Speaker 1: the fact that he has turned himself into a caricature,
Speaker 1: a Russian puppet and asset, and then there is really
Speaker 1: no outcry of the poison that this network is spewing
Speaker 1: out into the public is really problematic because to me, again,
Speaker 1: if we had an activated Apartment of Justice, then we
Speaker 1: would have an outlet that would actually do something right,
Speaker 1: that would if nothing else, if nothing comes about an
Speaker 1: in depth investigation, then by all means, the point of
Speaker 1: an investigation is to find out information, right. I want
Speaker 1: to find out if Tucker Carlson is a Russian asset.
Speaker 1: I want to find out if he is bought and
Speaker 1: sold and is paid to spew lies and hate on
Speaker 1: national television at the direction of Vladimir Putin, at the
Speaker 1: direction of the Kremlin. How is that not pertinent and
Speaker 1: important information to know? How do you not decide to
Speaker 1: address these situations head on? You know? And I'll take
Speaker 1: it now to Merritt Garland, so you know, news comes out,
Speaker 1: news comes out that the Department of Justice has denied
Speaker 1: the ability of the House Commission to see the I
Speaker 1: think it is ten boxes of White House documents that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump took with him to Morrow lago. And initially,
Speaker 1: I'm like, why the fuck are they blocking the House
Speaker 1: Commission's ability to look through these ten boxes of documents
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump just walked out of the White House
Speaker 1: with without anybody saying anything, that he's had these for
Speaker 1: over a year. Well, it turns out that the reason
Speaker 1: why they're blocking the House Commission from getting said boxes
Speaker 1: and looking through them is because the Department of Justice,
Speaker 1: many believe, and what they've been trying desperately not to say,
Speaker 1: is that they have an ongoing investigation into Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and his criminal activity and behavior. Now, while I would
Speaker 1: like there to be more news about that so that
Speaker 1: we can continue linking Donald Trump and his entire entourage
Speaker 1: to criminal work right. The tepidness, right, the unsuredness that
Speaker 1: this Department of Justice displays and that democrats you know,
Speaker 1: readily show, is just so fucking disheartening. And I said
Speaker 1: this in a video that I posted on TikTok yesterday,
Speaker 1: that like, you can't lead from the back, right. I
Speaker 1: remember when I ran track and cross country in high school.
Speaker 1: You used to love running. And you know, while I
Speaker 1: was never the fastest person, I was not a sprinter either.
Speaker 1: I was a middle distance and long distance runner, which
Speaker 1: kind of makes Actually now, I haven't even never thought
Speaker 1: about why I have like stamina for the type of
Speaker 1: bullshit that I deal with with work, probably from that.
Speaker 1: But I say that to say that my coaches. You know, again,
Speaker 1: I wasn't the fastest person, but I was the one
Speaker 1: that was like called upon to get the team hype,
Speaker 1: to like come together, and you know, my voice was
Speaker 1: always appreciated and needed. And my coach used to say,
Speaker 1: you can't lead from the back, right, People will only
Speaker 1: follow you if you were out front. Democrats constantly think
Speaker 1: that they can lead from behind, think that they can
Speaker 1: just poke up their heads a little bit. But then
Speaker 1: they're like, don't hit me. Don't hit me. Don't hit me.
Speaker 1: You can't run shit like that. You have to be fearless, right.
Speaker 1: You got to call people out to check you and
Speaker 1: be like, so what do you all hot up in
Speaker 1: the collar about? Because the last time I checked, you
Speaker 1: did eleven hour interview with Hillary Clinton when she was
Speaker 1: Secretary State about Benghazi. You wasted tax dollars money for
Speaker 1: I don't even know how many fucking hearings were done,
Speaker 1: and it came up with zero indictments, zero because you
Speaker 1: didn't have a leg to stand on and it was
Speaker 1: all a media campaign. I wish that Democrats would do
Speaker 1: the same thing, because you know why, they have a
Speaker 1: fucking legal leg to stand on, because they have actual
Speaker 1: evidence of wrongdoing to point to to say we cannot
Speaker 1: allow this shit to slide. And they're gonna say that
Speaker 1: we are politicizing everything and anything, so we gonna take
Speaker 1: a hit regardless, we might as well do something. We
Speaker 1: might as well poke out our chest, put our shoulders back,
Speaker 1: and actually put our back into the fucking work that
Speaker 1: needs to be done to restore faith and integrity into
Speaker 1: our agencies and into our government. If you know that
Speaker 1: your opponent is gonna come for you regardless. Why is
Speaker 1: doing nothing the choice that you would make, because it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be my choice. Right If you're gonna hit me
Speaker 1: over the head, if you're gonna call me outside of
Speaker 1: my name, you're gonna call me everything a child of God?
Speaker 1: Why would I then think that the best move that
Speaker 1: I could make would be to sit silent or to
Speaker 1: call you my friend and think that somehow I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lure the hive of wasps to me with somebody's honey.
Speaker 1: It makes absolutely no sense. But these are the moves
Speaker 1: that Democrats make. They make moves from a place of fear.
Speaker 1: Everything they do is about reacting or trying to preempt
Speaker 1: what it is that they think that Republicans are doing.
Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck what Republicans are doing. I
Speaker 1: don't because I know that at the core of every
Speaker 1: move that they are making is about tearing our democracy apart,
Speaker 1: ripping up the Constitution, and inserting there forever king. I
Speaker 1: know that that is what they are doing, and Democrats
Speaker 1: know that that is what they are doing. So tell
Speaker 1: me again why you think slow walking and tepidness is
Speaker 1: the kind of energy you want to show up with.
Speaker 1: I have no idea but we have reached a place
Speaker 1: and a space in time when it's either you going
Speaker 1: to put your whole self in the game, right or
Speaker 1: you're just gonna lay down and let them have their
Speaker 1: way with this country, with everything that has been fought for,
Speaker 1: bled for. You're just gonna give up, because that's what
Speaker 1: the fuck it looks like. But you know the person
Speaker 1: that isn't giving up. You know, the person that I
Speaker 1: appreciate the most right now is our friend. And I
Speaker 1: say our friend because I just think that she is
Speaker 1: rock solid. New York Attorney General Tish James. New York
Speaker 1: Attorney General Tish James has gone to a federal court
Speaker 1: to say that Donald Trump needs to be fined ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a day for failure to show up to
Speaker 1: be interviewed to provide the documentation that is being asked
Speaker 1: for that like, I'm coming for him. Ten thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a day may seem like nothing to Donald Trump, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it right because you're not going to
Speaker 1: sit around and dick us around here in New York
Speaker 1: like you've been doing for the past forty fucking years
Speaker 1: with your salum fucking buildings and your tax evasion. She's
Speaker 1: the only one to me who is actually working right,
Speaker 1: who is actually like yeah, so no, So she has
Speaker 1: asked a judge, not a judge, to hold excuse me,
Speaker 1: not a federal judge. Let me say that, not a
Speaker 1: federal judge, a judge, to hold Trump in contempt for
Speaker 1: refusing to turn over documents and find him ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a day until he complies. And I'm saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: that seems about right right, because I don't know what
Speaker 1: the fuck else we're going to do is just sit
Speaker 1: down and allow Donald Trump to dictate to us what
Speaker 1: he wants to do and when he wants to do it,
Speaker 1: like he's been allowed to do for way too fucking long.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this too. What I find, also, ha
Speaker 1: ha funny is that look who else has decided to
Speaker 1: stick their head out after two high profile prosecutes prosecutors
Speaker 1: in his office quit Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District attorney
Speaker 1: who wouldn't release the letters of resignation from the two
Speaker 1: top prosecutors who were going after Donald Trump, who then
Speaker 1: quit in protests earlier this year because they don't know
Speaker 1: what the fuck is happening with the investigation and why
Speaker 1: nobody has been interviewed and they haven't been able to
Speaker 1: move forward in them and over a month and if
Speaker 1: you remember, I mean our friend Glenn Kirshner and I
Speaker 1: have talked about this many a times. Sivance before departing,
Speaker 1: called a special grand jury to stay sit for a
Speaker 1: longer period of time than their normal handful of weeks,
Speaker 1: because that's how much information is there, right, So I
Speaker 1: have called for and have said it on social media
Speaker 1: a million times. I want Alvin Bragg investigated. I want
Speaker 1: his donors looked into. I want to follow the money
Speaker 1: because I don't know why, now unless you're just a
Speaker 1: complete and total punk, that you would stop your lawyers
Speaker 1: from moving forward, or that they would even get an
Speaker 1: inkling that you were not going to be interested in
Speaker 1: persecuting Donald Trump to the fullest extent of the law,
Speaker 1: with all of the evidence that you have in front
Speaker 1: of you, enough evidence that your predecessor, again this special
Speaker 1: grand jury, so that that could be so. So this
Speaker 1: is what is being said, according to the Washington Post,
Speaker 1: and I'm like nah. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said
Speaker 1: Thursday that Donald Trump's business practices remain under criminal investigation,
Speaker 1: despite two high profile departures, a leadership shake up, an
Speaker 1: upcoming grand jury term expiration, and as The Daily Beast
Speaker 1: reports about the prosecutors returning documents to people. In a statement,
Speaker 1: Bragg insisted that his office was still pursuing its three
Speaker 1: year investigation without fear or favor. He said a team
Speaker 1: of career prosecutors were exploring evidence not previously explored. Mark
Speaker 1: Pomerantz and Carrie Dunne, a pair of senior level prosecutors
Speaker 1: who had been tapped to lead the probe, quit on
Speaker 1: February twenty third, and said case had been suspended indefinitely.
Speaker 1: Brag denied that, adding that the grand jury expiration was
Speaker 1: not magic timing that would force his office to drop
Speaker 1: a case. The new spells trouble for Trump, who was
Speaker 1: earlier Thursday hit by Attorney General Tish James Folks. I
Speaker 1: think Alvin Bragg is full of shit. As I've said
Speaker 1: here many times before, I will believe it when I
Speaker 1: see it. And yeah, grand jury expirations are in fact
Speaker 1: magic because they expire, and unless you can prove that
Speaker 1: you need another special grand jury, then you're done zo. Right,
Speaker 1: So you would think that having had that expiration date.
Speaker 1: In mind that you would have been working feverishly to
Speaker 1: continue the work of your predecessor to bring this motherfucking
Speaker 1: criminal to justice. But all of a sudden you get
Speaker 1: in things closed down, and then your two top level
Speaker 1: prosecutors quit and say that the work was suspended indefinitely.
Speaker 1: You see pushback in the press and everybody calling you
Speaker 1: everything right, you have no friends in New York and
Speaker 1: then you want to come out and give some weak
Speaker 1: ass pr spin. Miss me with the bullshit, folks. You know,
Speaker 1: all I will say is the news comes at us
Speaker 1: at breakneck pace. We know this. I tell you to
Speaker 1: be sparing with how much time you spend marinating in it.
Speaker 1: Today I started off with great news, something that we
Speaker 1: should all collectively be sharing and rejoicing in. And I'll
Speaker 1: leave you all with this today, which is again, take
Speaker 1: time each and every day find one thing that you
Speaker 1: are grateful for that you can just give sixty seconds
Speaker 1: of gratitude four right. It could just be your breath,
Speaker 1: it could just be opening your eyes, It could be
Speaker 1: anything so small or so big, but do it, because
Speaker 1: a regular gratitude practice can actually transform your life, and
Speaker 1: it allows us to not only look at the good.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the bad and investigate the bag
Speaker 1: and analyze the bad. But it allows us to see
Speaker 1: the good in even bad situations. That does not mean
Speaker 1: that we overlook the obvious. It's that we also look
Speaker 1: for something that brings us joy. Folks. I am very
Speaker 1: excited on this historic day to welcome to Woke a
Speaker 1: f Daily for the first time, Deputy Counsel to the
Speaker 1: President Danielle Conley. Another Danielle, which I always love. Can
Speaker 1: you just express what it means to have Judge Kentangi
Speaker 1: Brown Jackson confirmed and what it means for this administration,
Speaker 1: but what it means for you as a black woman. So,
Speaker 1: first of all, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Everyone over here right now is elated. We're all on
Speaker 1: cloud fifty seven at this point because you know, there
Speaker 1: there's just so much joy behind ultimately getting from the
Speaker 1: President from the time he was on the campaign promising
Speaker 1: to nominate a black woman for the Supreme Court to
Speaker 1: the day of her confirmation. And I think the moment
Speaker 1: is so historical, Danielle, because you know, from the start
Speaker 1: of our nation's history, from the time we started the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, right we've had one hundred and fifteen Supreme
Speaker 1: Court justices. Out of that one hundred and fifteen, only
Speaker 1: five of them have been women, and none of those
Speaker 1: women have been Black women. And so she is literally
Speaker 1: making history. Today was literally a history making moment as
Speaker 1: we watched the vice president, first black woman vice president,
Speaker 1: preside over the confirmation of the first black woman Supreme
Speaker 1: Court justice. And you know, as a black woman lawyer,
Speaker 1: there's just nothing more meaningful than that. You know, I
Speaker 1: was thinking about what it must be like right now,
Speaker 1: and I'm certain that you must know young black women
Speaker 1: that are in law schools across this country right now,
Speaker 1: what they what can you express to us what it
Speaker 1: has been, what it was like, were you one of
Speaker 1: only a few black women in your law school in
Speaker 1: your class, and kind of speak to some of what
Speaker 1: Judge Katanji Brown Jackson offered up during her hearing process
Speaker 1: as the experiences as to what it means to be
Speaker 1: a black woman attorney in these United States. So I
Speaker 1: will say that I was super fortunate because I went
Speaker 1: to Howard Law School, where I was in law school
Speaker 1: filled with black women to my right and to my left,
Speaker 1: and it was wonderful and it was awesome but but
Speaker 1: I will also say that, like, as a young black lawyer,
Speaker 1: you know, I grew up idolizing Justice Third Good Marshall
Speaker 1: and Consence Baker Motley, but never really envisioned, you know,
Speaker 1: this idea that a black woman in my lifetime would
Speaker 1: sit on the Supreme Court. And so I think for
Speaker 1: so many like black women lawyers and for women lawyers period,
Speaker 1: and and you know, young girls sort of looking up
Speaker 1: and saying, oh, this is this, this is achievable, this
Speaker 1: is there's somebody that looks like me on this court.
Speaker 1: And I really do believe that the power of representation.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's real. Like, I think one of
Speaker 1: the things that this confirmation showed is that black women
Speaker 1: belong in all rooms. They belong in all spaces, including
Speaker 1: the nation's highest court. And so you know, when little
Speaker 1: black girls like dream about being a Supreme Court justice,
Speaker 1: they can look up and see somebody who looks like them.
Speaker 1: And that's that's not a small thing. Danielle. While um,
Speaker 1: the appointment of Judge Jackson won't shift the balance of
Speaker 1: the court, we have a six to three court now
Speaker 1: with um really uh, life altering decisions that they are
Speaker 1: going to be making um in June, life changing decisions.
Speaker 1: What do you think that her impact will be on
Speaker 1: the bench. What will that look like. Look, you know,
Speaker 1: the President chose her because it is crystal clear that
Speaker 1: she has a commitment to ensuring that she's fair, that
Speaker 1: she's impartial, and that the justice system works for all Americans.
Speaker 1: We know that, right I can't say how she's going
Speaker 1: to rule in any particular case, but we know that
Speaker 1: she has a commitment to the rule of law and
Speaker 1: the commitment to ensuring that she is a fair and
Speaker 1: impartial judge. And so, you know, I think when we
Speaker 1: think about some of the big decisions that will be
Speaker 1: before the court, you know, having someone who has had
Speaker 1: unique perspectives that she's had throughout her professional trajectory, like
Speaker 1: being a district court judge, which the only other Supreme
Speaker 1: Court justice to have been a district court judge is
Speaker 1: Justice pseudomyor being a former federal public defender. She will
Speaker 1: be the only public defender to have ever been on
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, the only you know, judge who has
Speaker 1: the experience of actually having represented criminal defendants people accused
Speaker 1: of crimes. Bringing that vanished point to the court is
Speaker 1: extremely important and so I think that you know, um,
Speaker 1: you know, history, we'll see what her legacy is. But
Speaker 1: you know, I can't imagine that all of these professional
Speaker 1: experiences that she's had, coupled with her life experiences will
Speaker 1: ultimately shape the kinds of things that we see from
Speaker 1: her on the bench. Why do you think that we
Speaker 1: needed to have a declaration from this president on the
Speaker 1: campaign trail about appointing a black woman justice. Why did
Speaker 1: that declaration need to be made? And if it hadn't, right, like,
Speaker 1: would we still be in this would we still be
Speaker 1: in this space? I wonder? So, you know, I think
Speaker 1: that the president recognized that, you know, it is so
Speaker 1: critical for the public to have confidence in the judiciary
Speaker 1: at the highest level. And in order for the public
Speaker 1: to have confidence in the judiciary, people need to look
Speaker 1: up and see that that judiciary reflects like people who
Speaker 1: look like them in their communities. And so, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that that promise that he made about you know,
Speaker 1: nominating the first black woman Supreme Court justice, I mean
Speaker 1: that his promise that was one promise about sort of equity,
Speaker 1: but he made other promises around ensuring that the judiciary
Speaker 1: like is diverse and has followed through in those promises. So,
Speaker 1: for example, with respect to the lower the federal courts
Speaker 1: of appeopals, he's nominated twenty people and out of those
Speaker 1: twenty nine have been black women. Five of those black
Speaker 1: women have already been confirmed. Right, So you know, he
Speaker 1: made the promise with respect of the Supreme Court. But
Speaker 1: his commitment to diversity at the highest levels of government,
Speaker 1: whether you're talking about the federal judiciary or even in
Speaker 1: this administration, like thinking about the people who are you know,
Speaker 1: a part of his cabinet, the people who are part
Speaker 1: of his team in the West Wing, it is diverse.
Speaker 1: It is something that he is committed to because he
Speaker 1: thinks it's important that the government looks like the people
Speaker 1: that it serves. And my final question for you it
Speaker 1: is with regard to the public's faith in our judiciary. Right,
Speaker 1: it has been deeply politicized over the last four years
Speaker 1: from the prior administration. How do you think that this
Speaker 1: administration goes about restoring that faith and integrity that we
Speaker 1: used to have as a nation in our highest court. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I really think that the nomination of Judge
Speaker 1: Jackson was a step in that direction. You know the
Speaker 1: fact that she did get by a partisan support and
Speaker 1: received the votes from Senators Collins, Murkowski, and Romney. It's
Speaker 1: not a small thing, um. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: that someone of you know, her talent and with her
Speaker 1: impeccable credentials and with her professional trajectory like was worthy
Speaker 1: of and deserving of bipartisan support. And so you know,
Speaker 1: the hope is that, UM, you know, we we we
Speaker 1: can continue to sort of view judges no matter who's
Speaker 1: in power, like we look at we look at their credentials,
Speaker 1: we look at, you know, whether they're qualified to do
Speaker 1: the job and make decisions based on that. Well, it
Speaker 1: is an exciting day. I hope that you have a
Speaker 1: celebration in your future, UM, for this big day for
Speaker 1: us as black women, but for the country. Thank you
Speaker 1: Danielle Connley for making time to join wok F. We
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Thank you very much. That is it for
Speaker 1: me today, dear friends on this woke F as always,
Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.