1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: Doctor Martin Luther King Junior once said that life's most 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others? 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: Come together, everybody and serve your communities. How he's influenced 4 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: me is big. He's the reason I'm here. He's a 5 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: reason why the elections stuff is going on. 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 2: Today is the way it is. You know, this man, 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 2: you know, gave his life for what he believed in. 8 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 2: So he meant the world to me, you know. And yes, 9 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 2: I am named after Martin. 10 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: Everybody else promised we got a special guest this morning. 11 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: He's a family member, though he's a family member right 12 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: around the corner from us, most of us that live 13 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: in this vicinity. He's a United States Senator. He's also 14 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: Georgia's first black senator. He's also served as the senior 15 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: pastor at the Ebenesia Baptist Church in Atlanta since two 16 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: thousand and five. 17 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 2: And this is the very church. 18 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: That doctor Martin Luther King pastor doing this civil rights movement. 19 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: So it's only fitting that he joins us to highlight 20 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: doctor King's legacy. 21 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 2: So let's get to it. 22 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: Please, Welcome to the show, the Honorable Reverend doctor Senator 23 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: Raphael warnut. 24 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome back. 25 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 4: Hello, so great to be with you. Happy King, Dave Man. 26 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 2: How you feeling man? Happy King day? 27 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 4: You know, I'm feeling good and I'm feeling inspired and encouraged. 28 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 4: And and here's why that may sound strange at a 29 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 4: time like this, but you know, every time we come 30 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 4: around to this time of year, celebrating doctor Martine the 31 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 4: King Junior, I'm reminded not only of his work, but 32 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 4: of the improbable odds that he could succeed. You know, 33 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 4: I think we look back at the Civil rights movement 34 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 4: and we act as if those victories were inevitable. They 35 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 4: were quite improbable, they were unlikely. And yet he and 36 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 4: the band, the folks who stood with him, set out 37 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 4: in their words, to redeem the soul of America, and 38 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 4: all of us are the blessed beneficiaries of the efforts 39 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 4: of them keeping the faith. And I think that's so 40 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 4: important in the moment like this, when it's so dark 41 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 4: and we are tempted to give in and to give up. 42 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 4: Who are we to give up? Doctor King and others 43 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 4: stood up, and we're called, this is our moment, this 44 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 4: is our time. 45 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, let's kind of stay right there too. 46 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: Senator, because you know, let's talk about the current state 47 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: that we are in here in this country, especially under 48 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: this current leadership and administration, it's been focusing on erasing 49 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: the civil rights movement from history books. What message do 50 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: you have for the younger generation, especially for men, to 51 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: kind of keep them encouraged. 52 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 4: Now there's a question, there's an all out of soult 53 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:03,239 Speaker 4: on our humanity. And you know what I would say 54 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 4: to young men who are listening to me right now, 55 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 4: and what I would say to people of color, is 56 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 4: that obviously your adversary see your power. If you don't 57 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 4: know that you're powerful, your adversaries certainly know it. If 58 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 4: you don't know that your vote matters, clearly they know 59 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 4: that it counts and that it matters. Otherwise they wouldn't 60 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 4: be working so hard to rob you of your power, 61 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 4: to rob you of your vote, to rob you of 62 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 4: your voice. And I can tell you, as someone who 63 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 4: ran for the United States sinning and won a couple 64 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 4: of times, that I've seen this firsthand. You know, as 65 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 4: I won the first time, they came after my victory 66 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 4: with surgical precision, with all kinds of tricks to try 67 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 4: to make it difficult for us to win. We literally 68 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 4: had to take them to court so that people could 69 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 4: vote the first weekend of the runoff, because they saw 70 00:03:56,360 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 4: this multi racial coalition of conscious ending up at a 71 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 4: moment in our country saying we're going to do this, 72 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 4: and we won. And I won in some ways, I 73 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 4: won't really by the margin of our victory in court. 74 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 4: And so in this moment, know that you have power, 75 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 4: you have possibility, you have a voice. Often say that 76 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 4: a vote is a kind of prayer for the world 77 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 4: that we desire for ourselves and for our children, and 78 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 4: so we have to pray with our lips and our legs, 79 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 4: our hands, and our feet. Refuse to give in to 80 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 4: those who were trying to weaponize despair the civil rights movement, 81 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 4: doctor King, but not only him, people like Fanny lou 82 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 4: Hamer and Ella Baker, some of the young people and 83 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 4: the women who stood up with him. Reminded us that 84 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 4: it's really not about the people in power. It's about 85 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 4: the power that's in the people. And in this moment 86 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 4: when fifteen million Americans have lost their healthcare, in this 87 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 4: moment when they're literally trying to erase, as you said, Steve, 88 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 4: our history, in this moment in which they are putting 89 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 4: boots on the ground in our cities, militarizing our streets, 90 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 4: trying to convince us that our adversaries are our neighbors, 91 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 4: that we are at war with one another. We have 92 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 4: to stand up in this moment. And as doctor King said, 93 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,359 Speaker 4: the arc of the moral universe is long, but it 94 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 4: bends towards justice. And I pray that in this day 95 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 4: and in this moment, we'll be inspired to keep being 96 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 4: in that art. 97 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 1: Hey, a doctor Warner, can you hold on? Sorry, Senator Warner, 98 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: can you hold on one second. We're gonna take a break, 99 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,039 Speaker 1: and we're gonna keep you a little bit longer because 100 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 1: we want to hear more of this. We'll be right 101 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show. 102 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:53,919 Speaker 3: It took America two hundred and seven years to create 103 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 3: a holiday. I didn't know that either honoring a person 104 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 3: of African descent, and even that was a bitter struggle. 105 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 3: You remember, back on November two, nineteen eighty three, President 106 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a federal holiday. And 107 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:10,799 Speaker 3: coming up, we are going to play some of doctor 108 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 3: King's I Have a Dream speech in which he called 109 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 3: for racial equality and an end to discrimination. 110 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 2: That's my speech. 111 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes. 112 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 3: King's delivery of the speech on August twenty eighth, nineteen 113 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 3: sixty three, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during 114 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 3: the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a 115 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 3: defining moment of the American civil rights moment. Delivered to 116 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 3: over two hundred thousand civil rights supporters, the speech is 117 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 3: often considered to be one of the greatest and most 118 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,239 Speaker 3: notable speeches in human history. 119 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 2: Oh no, dought it was a great shot. 120 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, you're listening. Steve Harvey Morning Show. 121 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: A right, everybody, we're back, and our special guest this 122 00:06:54,800 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: morning is a senator, doctor, doctor Senator Raphael Warnock, who 123 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: is the past that there ben. He's a Baptist church, 124 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 1: the same church that was passed by the legendary honorable 125 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: Doctor King, Martin Luther King, and he's with us today. 126 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 2: And we're talking about several things here. 127 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: You know, man, when you talk about when you were 128 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: talking about the crisis here in the country, about how 129 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: hard of a hard it is with the cost of 130 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: living and all of these things like this, and you 131 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: said we were in a spiritual crisis, tell me what 132 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: you meant by that. 133 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 4: Well, look, the fact of the matter is all of 134 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 4: this did not happen all at once. Over the last 135 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 4: few decades, we have seen a massive transfer of wealth 136 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 4: from the bottom to the top. By the way, last summer, 137 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 4: we did see what the passage of the what they 138 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 4: allegedly called the one Big Beautiful Bill, the largest transfer 139 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 4: of wealth from the bottom to the top in American 140 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 4: and just that one bill. But this has been going 141 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 4: on for a long time, and Americans have seen a 142 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 4: growing chasm, not only in terms of wealth, but a 143 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 4: growing chasm between the things that they need, like healthcare, 144 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 4: a livable wage, affordable housing. In a country where now, 145 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 4: on average, the age of a first time homeowner now 146 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 4: has gone up to age forty. Americans have sat back 147 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 4: and watched us witness horror, at the horror of mass 148 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 4: shooting after mass shooting, and yet we can't get the 149 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 4: kind of legislation that we need through the Congress. And 150 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 4: so as people see this happen, this growing chasm between 151 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 4: their needs and what the government is able to deliver 152 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 4: to its people in a democracy, the cynicism sets in 153 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 4: and people become very frustrated and angry, and rather than 154 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 4: looking towards know that they start to turn on each other, 155 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 4: and I think that that really creates the ground and 156 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 4: sets the context for a strong man like Donald Trump 157 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 4: who comes along and says, you know, I'm the one. 158 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 4: I'm the only one who can solve your problem. And 159 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 4: sadly many of our citizens heard that message, but that 160 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 4: ain't said they feel is real. It's the solution that 161 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 4: was wrong, and strong men like him step into the gap, 162 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 4: and they further divide us. And so that's what I 163 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 4: mean by the spiritual crisis. I believe that that spiritual 164 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 4: needs and meeting people's physical needs are inextricably connected, and 165 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 4: when those things can't happen, it represents a basic tear 166 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 4: in the covenant and the fabric of the covenant that 167 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,719 Speaker 4: we have with one another as an American people. And so, 168 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 4: as a pastor who serves in the Senate, as the 169 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 4: leader of Doctor King's Ebenezer Baptist Church, who serves in 170 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 4: government every single day preaching about Jesus feeding the five thousand, 171 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 4: and then trying to deliver that through public policy, when 172 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 4: I go up to Washington during the week, I'm calling 173 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 4: us to renew the commitment that we have to one 174 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 4: another as an American people the whole, powerful politicians and 175 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 4: the corporate lobbyists and big corporate entities that own them 176 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 4: to hold them accountable. Certainly, we're looking towards the midterm, 177 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 4: but we can't wait until the midterm. We have to 178 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 4: continue to fight the good fight in this moment. 179 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, hold on, doctor Warnerck Senator Warner. Oh, we'll 180 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,839 Speaker 1: be right back. We got more with the Steve Harvey 181 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 1: Morning Show. Right after this. 182 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 3: You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. 183 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 2: And everybody. 184 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: We're back on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. And a 185 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: very very special guest this morning is Reverend doctor Raphael Warnock, 186 00:10:58,320 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: Senator from Georgia. 187 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 2: I like, oh, man, if I get to be any. 188 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 4: Of it, I don't care what you call when it's 189 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 4: time for lunch. 190 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: Yes, Senator, here's here's a pressing thing that comes through 191 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: our phone lines and emails bag all the time. We 192 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: know who the president is. I mean, we're stunned at 193 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: what he's allowed to say, what he's allowed to do, 194 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: and how he goes about doing it. And we watch 195 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: the Republican Party. This man has taken over a party 196 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: to the point where whatever he says goes. What are 197 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 1: we doing or what can we do about this, because 198 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: it just seems like he just got freehand. 199 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 4: Part of what we've got to do is we've gotta 200 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 4: we've got to flip the House and we've got to 201 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 4: flip the Senate. We can do that in twenty twenty six, 202 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 4: and that will put some checks on this president. The 203 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 4: challenge we have right now is that they have a 204 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,199 Speaker 4: perfected They've got the White House, they got the House, 205 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 4: and they got the Senate. So you take the House, 206 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 4: for example, if we had the majority in the House, 207 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 4: we'd have subpoena power. We'd be able to call folks 208 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,320 Speaker 4: to account, We'd be able to hold them accountable in 209 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 4: a different way. Now, we still do have some of 210 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 4: that power because I sit on committees in the Senate 211 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 4: where the various secretaries of this administration have to come 212 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 4: in front of us. And if you go back, you 213 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 4: know a few months ago, I was one of the 214 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 4: first members of Congress to call for Secretary of Pete 215 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 4: Hexcess dismissal. I said that the President ought to fire him, 216 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 4: and if he didn't fire him, he needed to resign. 217 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 4: And so as a member of the Senate, as a 218 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 4: member of Congress, we have the power of oversight to 219 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 4: hold people accountable, but they do have the majority. And 220 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 4: so what we've seen is these Republicans literally just give 221 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 4: all their power over to the President. And the answer 222 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 4: to that is for us to make or we show 223 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 4: up and show up big in the midterms. Flip the House, 224 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 4: flip the Senate. We can check him and hold him 225 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 4: to account, and then come twenty twenty eight, we can 226 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 4: then win the White House. And we win the White House, 227 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 4: We've got a whole range of things that I think 228 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:20,559 Speaker 4: we ought to be doing around healthcare, around affordable housing, 229 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 4: and most importantly around repairing our democracy because increasingly we've 230 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 4: seen the people's voices squeeze out of their democracy. And again, 231 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 4: because this is King Day, I'm always inspired by that 232 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 4: movement and by what it represented. Right after they passed 233 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 4: the Civil Rights Bill into law, doctor King and those 234 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 4: who were working with him went to see President Johnson, 235 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 4: who was the president at the time and something of 236 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 4: an ally in the White House, and doctor King said, 237 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 4: you know, I'm glad you were able to help us 238 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 4: and we got the civil Rights Bill passed and the law. 239 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 4: He said, I need a voting rights law. Doctor King 240 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 4: wasted no time, he said I need voting rights, and 241 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 4: the President began to say, in various ways, Doctor King, 242 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 4: you're right, I understand, but I can't get that done 243 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 4: right now. The President of the United States kept saying 244 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 4: various ways, I don't have the power. I just don't 245 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 4: have the power Martin to do that right now. And 246 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 4: they left the meeting, and the staff was feeling all 247 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 4: dejected and demoralized and said, Doc, what are we going 248 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 4: to do. The President of the United States said he 249 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 4: doesn't have the power to get us some voting rights, 250 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 4: and doctor King said, well, if the president doesn't have 251 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 4: any power, we're going to have to go back down 252 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 4: to the South and get himself. Doctor King understood that 253 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 4: the power really is with the people, and so there 254 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 4: are people like me who really are fighting every single 255 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 4: day for the people that we represent. But I'm really 256 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 4: clear that it's really ordinary, everyday people who organize, who 257 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 4: stand up, who push back, who create the context for 258 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 4: the change that we need to see in our country. 259 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: Well, brother, I'll tell you what all we need is 260 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: to marchin orders around here. And I think it's clear 261 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: you've given it to us. See, Okay, look the mid terms, 262 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: so we can bust up this trifecta. 263 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 2: You can't just you just running gangst up in here now. 264 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 3: Man. 265 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: So we you know you, you know we we're gonna 266 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: show up in the polls. You right, We got to 267 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 1: show up, man, for the mid terms. 268 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 2: Is the call. That's what we're gonna do, sir. 269 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 4: The answer to this is the win, win the mid terms, 270 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 4: all right. 271 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do, Senator warnick Man, thank you 272 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: so much. I appreciate your efforts man, and your hard work. 273 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 4: I will have I'd be remiss about it. Remind you, 274 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 4: Steve that doctor King was an alpha. I love you, guys. 275 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 2: I love you too. 276 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 4: Brother. 277 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 3: All right, you're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.