Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 2: Everybody's DJ n V, Charlamagne the gud We are the
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: we have Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 3: Welcome.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I'm excited to be here with y'all.
Speaker 2: She's a US representative from Texas thirtieth Congregational District, a
Speaker 2: congressional district.
Speaker 1: I should say, how are you to welcome?
Speaker 4: I'm good.
Speaker 1: I was just having a conversation about you. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was talking about good sister Amanda Seals, and she
Speaker 1: brought you.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, yes, my sister. Yeah, she's going hard.
Speaker 5: Amanda is really doing the people's work as far as
Speaker 5: I'm concerned, right, because Amanda has leaned in and said, listen,
Speaker 5: there's certain things that I don't know about politics. So
Speaker 5: if I don't know these things, I got to make
Speaker 5: sure that I'm communicating to the people that follow me
Speaker 5: so that they can better be informed about what's going on.
Speaker 5: So she will pick up the phone and give me
Speaker 5: a quick call when she's got questions, because.
Speaker 1: I feel like you need people like her to be translators, right.
Speaker 1: I've always felt like the messaging from the Democratic.
Speaker 5: Party sucks, you know, that's the nice way of putting it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, she's been able to translate it up in
Speaker 1: a very digestible way for people.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, And you know, it's just one of those things
Speaker 5: I say, the Democrats love to write a thesis, yes,
Speaker 5: when really when it comes to the Republicans, they like,
Speaker 5: what are not cards? Like what are cliff notes? And
Speaker 5: that's what we need to do. People are busy trying
Speaker 5: to figure out how they're going to keep a roof
Speaker 5: over their head, keep food in their bellies, keep yas
Speaker 5: in the car, and we're giving out what literally looks
Speaker 5: like bills half the time. We're telling them, you know,
Speaker 5: thousands of pages of stuff, and people are saying, give
Speaker 5: me the top lines because I got to get to work.
Speaker 5: And so I think it is important to make sure
Speaker 5: that you have really good ambassadors that are delivering the message,
Speaker 5: but they are also delivering it in a very accurate way,
Speaker 5: because we know that there's a ton of misinformation and
Speaker 5: disinformation that's out in these streets.
Speaker 2: I always tell people that sometimes you have to explain
Speaker 2: it like you're talking to a child, because some times
Speaker 2: people don't know on the don't necessarily understand politics.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and when we're.
Speaker 2: In school, a lot of times we take those classes
Speaker 2: just to get through it because we're more concerned with our.
Speaker 3: Major Absolutely, what got you into politics?
Speaker 4: Oh Lord, clearly I need my head checked. But no
Speaker 4: for me.
Speaker 5: You know, I actually practiced law, so I've been licensed
Speaker 5: I think at this point for about eighteen years in Texas,
Speaker 5: Arkansas and federal courts. And as I was walking into court,
Speaker 5: whether it was the civil rights cases or the criminal
Speaker 5: defense cases, I will walk in and I would say,
Speaker 5: this system is not working. Like when you walk in
Speaker 5: and you know that you're going to lose because the
Speaker 5: laws that are on the books don't work for people
Speaker 5: that look like me and you. Then I'm like, something
Speaker 5: has to be done. And maybe it's because the lawmakers
Speaker 5: just don't understand what they're doing. Now I found out
Speaker 5: that they absolutely understood. Yeah, they know what they're doing.
Speaker 5: I was the green one, but that's what drove me
Speaker 5: into politics. And my very first race for the state
Speaker 5: House in Texas, oddly enough, a man by the name
Speaker 5: of George Floyd and ended up being killed between my
Speaker 5: primary and my runoff. And when I was running initially
Speaker 5: I said, we're in the midst of a modern day
Speaker 5: civil rights movement, and people thought that I was like
Speaker 5: being extra when I said that, But ultimately, like when
Speaker 5: he ended up being killed, I'm like, this is what
Speaker 5: I'm talking about. Like, if we don't start to understand
Speaker 5: how these systems work, who puts the police chief in charge?
Speaker 5: Who writes the policies for the police chiefs? Who makes
Speaker 5: the laws that allow for them to kill us and
Speaker 5: then face no retribution?
Speaker 4: Like who does that?
Speaker 5: And so when I ended up participating in so many
Speaker 5: of the protests, and when I would go out there,
Speaker 5: I was like, what's the best role I can play
Speaker 5: keeping people out of jail? So I represented over six
Speaker 5: hundred people pro bono during those protests, and no one
Speaker 5: ended up with a conviction that I helped.
Speaker 4: And so I made sure we got people out of jail.
Speaker 5: I made sure I told them what the law was,
Speaker 5: and I made sure I told them, now, how do
Speaker 5: we go from policy or how do we go from
Speaker 5: protesting to policy? And ultimately that's why I think I
Speaker 5: was successful, And I think that you know, we have
Speaker 5: to have more people that didn't grow up saying I'm
Speaker 5: going into politics. But we have to have more people
Speaker 5: that say, you know what, something is wrong with my
Speaker 5: community and I need to step up to the plate.
Speaker 3: So what's your job in politics? And somebody will say, well,
Speaker 3: what is Jasmin Crocott's job? What do you do?
Speaker 1: Black congresswoman?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I am. No, I'm just kidding with that.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: So my job is to write the laws. We write
Speaker 5: the laws for the entire country. But beyond that, the
Speaker 5: biggest thing that we do is we hand out money.
Speaker 4: We are the ones and that's what we're not doing
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 5: When everybody's like, oh, the government is about to shut down,
Speaker 5: what does a shutdown mean? That means that we're about
Speaker 5: to stop delivering money. So we are supposed to appropriate
Speaker 5: all the money. So when people say, hey, we got
Speaker 5: to pay our taxes, whether it's corporate taxes, personal taxes,
Speaker 5: whatever moneys we actually collect into the treasury. We have
Speaker 5: to then disseminate that money. So when people are saying, hey,
Speaker 5: we don't have money come into our community, actually you
Speaker 5: may have mo money come into your community. The question
Speaker 5: is what are the people that are in receipt of.
Speaker 4: That money doing with the money.
Speaker 5: Right, So, in a state like Texas, a lot of
Speaker 5: times we say, listen, Greg Abby, he not about this life.
Speaker 4: And so what we need to do is work around him.
Speaker 5: We need to make sure that those county executives and
Speaker 5: make sure that those city elected officials get the money,
Speaker 5: because we can't trust our governor to do what he's
Speaker 5: supposed to do as we appropriate that money. So a
Speaker 5: lot of times it's a combination. You know, most people
Speaker 5: want to show up for one race, right like they'll
Speaker 5: show up for the presidential they'll vote for president, and
Speaker 5: then they don't show up for city council. Chances are
Speaker 5: somebody like me, I'm collecting the money and I'm sending
Speaker 5: it down and I'm saying, hey, this is what it
Speaker 5: needs to be used for. Or for instance, one of
Speaker 5: the great bills that most people haven't really zoned in
Speaker 5: on that the Democrats as well as the President signed
Speaker 5: into law was the Infrastructure Act. So we've all saw,
Speaker 5: we all saw what happened in Flint, Michigan. We all
Speaker 5: know what happened. We also know what happened down in Jackson,
Speaker 5: Mississippi with their water. So this administration, that Biden Harris
Speaker 5: administration said, listen, what we're going to do is make
Speaker 5: sure we start addressing environmental injustice issues, whether it's the air,
Speaker 5: the water, or the soil, because it's literally killing people
Speaker 5: every single day that look like us.
Speaker 4: And so what they've done is.
Speaker 1: It's something real. What you said just now is absolutely true.
Speaker 1: I understood what you said. How come Democrats can't see flint.
Speaker 1: We're gonna fix the dirty water Flint. We're gonna make
Speaker 1: sure y'all got clean with flint. We made sure y'all
Speaker 1: got clean water. This bill makes sure y' now.
Speaker 4: I agree with that they not doing that, but it
Speaker 4: is a combination of things. Right, So.
Speaker 5: The presidential administration, they gotta do their part, but also
Speaker 5: congressional So when I show up like I've delivered millions
Speaker 5: of dollars to my community, my community is a majority
Speaker 5: majority minority district. So almost eighty percent of my district
Speaker 5: is black or brown. And so what I've done is
Speaker 5: we got the big fake chicks. We call all the
Speaker 5: media listen, we do.
Speaker 1: Like keep it simple.
Speaker 4: I mean, seriously, you got to keep it simple.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: I bring my EPA administrator out and that's y'all are
Speaker 5: getting his money because of this bill and because of
Speaker 5: the president and the Vice president and I tell them,
Speaker 5: and we're doing amazing things. But the thing is we
Speaker 5: as members, we also have to carry some of that
Speaker 5: water because it's only so many places that the president
Speaker 5: and the vice president can get to, right, So it
Speaker 5: is a team effort. I just don't know that, like
Speaker 5: we all get on the same page.
Speaker 4: I don't know we have issame.
Speaker 1: By the way. That's that right. There is such a
Speaker 1: simple thing a president could say or a vice president
Speaker 1: could say, so people can point to and say this
Speaker 1: is what the administration. I don't need to know all
Speaker 1: the minutia been. I don't even know everything in there.
Speaker 1: The wall are getting clean exactly, that's it. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And the bill was like over a thousand pages exactly
Speaker 5: exactly right, Yeah, and you just need the top lines.
Speaker 3: So we spoke about the president. What's your thoughts on Biden.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of black people are not efforting
Speaker 2: them right now, not riding with them necessarily, don't even
Speaker 2: want to vote on them.
Speaker 5: I know, I know it's stressing me out. It's stressed
Speaker 5: me out. Listen, it's stressing me out because you know,
Speaker 5: I have direct access to the president obviously, and I
Speaker 5: almost wish everyone could have a real sit down with
Speaker 5: the president, like a one on one and a real
Speaker 5: sit down with the vice president. I'm gonna be real
Speaker 5: because it's just one of those things that most people
Speaker 5: don't have access to. And I'm gonna be honest with
Speaker 5: you about this. Trump was amazing at propaganda. I mean,
Speaker 5: when we got the stimulus checks, they were delayed because
Speaker 5: he said, I want to I want to put my
Speaker 5: signature on it.
Speaker 4: Now. Trump wasn't the one that said, hey, this is
Speaker 4: what we need to do for the people.
Speaker 5: It was the Democratic House, the Democratic Senate to pass
Speaker 5: the legislation.
Speaker 4: He didn't even initiate it.
Speaker 5: He just signed it into law, right, But he was like,
Speaker 5: this is a good opportunity. The problem is that it's
Speaker 5: exactly what you just said, Like, we need a president
Speaker 5: that's gonna go around and brag on himself. He needs
Speaker 5: to be bragging about the fact he and his VP,
Speaker 5: who graduated from an HBCU, needs to be bragging about
Speaker 5: the fact that they actually have given more money to
Speaker 5: HBCUs than Trump ever did.
Speaker 4: But you know what Trump did.
Speaker 5: He sat back, he took a picture with all the
Speaker 5: HBCU presidents. So everybody's like, oh, Trump gave no no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: Let's let's be real about this. This actually was the
Speaker 5: result of a bill that was signed into law by
Speaker 5: a Republican by a Bush and ultimately this was a reauthorization.
Speaker 5: In the reauthorization, he actually wanted to zero out the HBCUs.
Speaker 5: But a black woman out of North Carolina, my colleague
Speaker 5: almost she said, oh, this is not what we gonna do,
Speaker 5: and so she fought for it. She was able to
Speaker 5: get the money back in So once he signed it
Speaker 5: back into law, he was like, well, let's take a picture,
Speaker 5: Like we have to do some of the gimmicky things,
Speaker 5: the things that will allow people to see and visualize.
Speaker 4: But let me tell you something, it's just wax shit.
Speaker 1: Like when they kneeling down and kN t cloth, you
Speaker 1: know in Congress, Like that's nobody asked for that.
Speaker 4: I wasn't part of that son.
Speaker 5: With that, you know what I'm saying, because I do
Speaker 5: try to have conversations, you know. I just had a
Speaker 5: conversation about Cardi b and her and what she has
Speaker 5: said like behind closed doors. I think that is one
Speaker 5: of the benefits of having some of the younger members
Speaker 5: or the members that haven't really been ingrained in politics
Speaker 5: like that, because we can translate and say, hey, we
Speaker 5: need to work on the messaging on this, because this
Speaker 5: is what's out in the streets. But back to the president,
Speaker 5: we have two options. We have one person that, hey,
Speaker 5: a lot of people say, isn't perfect. And this is
Speaker 5: what we do in this country is we are always
Speaker 5: searching for perfection, whether it's in our preacher at church
Speaker 5: or whether it's in our president.
Speaker 4: And the reality is that none of us is perfect.
Speaker 4: I promise you.
Speaker 5: While I believe that my district loves me, there are
Speaker 5: some people that definitely don't agree with me on certain things.
Speaker 4: That's just what it is in life.
Speaker 5: We don't agree with our spouses on everything in life, right,
Speaker 5: and so we don't necessarily have to agree with this
Speaker 5: president on everything. But let me tell you something, he
Speaker 5: at least is not a danger. My concern is the
Speaker 5: fact that Trump is an actual threat and danger to us,
Speaker 5: whether it's our democracy. This is somebody that sat back
Speaker 5: and said on day one, I'm going to be a dictator.
Speaker 5: Do we not understand what it means to have a
Speaker 5: dictatorship like in this country, in the Land of the Free.
Speaker 5: And let's talk about like when we really look at
Speaker 5: his homies on the Republican side. We've seen the dysfunction
Speaker 5: in the Republican House, We've seen what they want to do.
Speaker 4: All they have is chaos.
Speaker 5: And so until somebody comes at me and tells me, hey,
Speaker 5: this is a policy issue that Trump is trying to
Speaker 5: bring forward, he ain't brought no policy to the table.
Speaker 5: He won't even debate because he knows that he doesn't
Speaker 5: have a stance. The only thing that he's trying to
Speaker 5: do is make sure he can stay out of prison.
Speaker 5: And listen, I can appreciate the hustle, I can't, right,
Speaker 5: but the reality is that we have always been subjected
Speaker 5: to the prison system in this country, and he should
Speaker 5: not be above the law. And that's the only reason
Speaker 5: that he's trying to get back. So I know, I mean,
Speaker 5: I get it, but you're like, it's not everything you.
Speaker 1: Said, but it's still the Democrat's fault. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why. There's also a third option. The third option
Speaker 1: is the couch. You got. You got Trump, the criminal,
Speaker 1: Biden the coward, and you got the couch. I'm a couch.
Speaker 4: I argue that the couch means the Trump wins.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I argue that, like, it may be three options,
Speaker 5: but we still we got two out of three comes
Speaker 5: up with Trump, and I think that that's a problem.
Speaker 4: And for everyone, you.
Speaker 2: Don't think Biden is mentally. That's the reason they say
Speaker 2: that is because we've seen so many things. It seems
Speaker 2: like early signs of dementia, right, And anybody who's been
Speaker 2: around anybody that has dementia, when you start seeing things
Speaker 2: like that, it brings you back to those moments. Now
Speaker 2: when he's not in those moments, Yeah, he seems fine,
Speaker 2: but it's those moments that scare you because anybody that
Speaker 2: knows somebody in dementia, it comes fast and it comes
Speaker 2: without with time. So you're talking about another four years
Speaker 2: and four years, you know, showing.
Speaker 1: Getting no younger. He needs to just step aside. Three.
Speaker 5: He's not getting any younger. None of us are getting
Speaker 5: any younger.
Speaker 3: I might, I might add.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say this.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say that, does you need to step aside? No,
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna say that you need.
Speaker 4: We gonna lose. We gonna lose. We s'all don't lose
Speaker 4: if we don't have Joe.
Speaker 1: He said, there's fifty other people in the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: he thinks could beat Trump. He said that. So if
Speaker 1: there's fifty other people he thinks he could be, that
Speaker 1: could be Trump.
Speaker 5: He needs to step d Listen, I'm telling you all
Speaker 5: this is first of all, it's not gonna happen because
Speaker 5: we have deadlines, like, for instance, my file and deadline
Speaker 5: is going to be on Monday in Texas.
Speaker 4: Like, you don't have time, you don't have time, step down.
Speaker 1: They have to change the rules.
Speaker 5: No no, no, no no no no no no no
Speaker 5: no no no no.
Speaker 4: He will still be on the ballot.
Speaker 5: It's just like people die and still end up on
Speaker 5: the ballots because like, the rules are the rules. So
Speaker 5: the reality is that we don't have time to even
Speaker 5: get somebody onto all these ballots, not to mention the
Speaker 5: amount of money that it takes to run campaigns, like
Speaker 5: it is just not realistic. And and here's the deal.
Speaker 5: We have a president that has accomplished so much, and
Speaker 5: so right now out everybody like, well, forget the accomplishments.
Speaker 5: They need to start selling and telling, in a very
Speaker 5: short sentence, exactly what they've accomplished. When is it that
Speaker 5: somebody is saying like excelled, and then people say, well,
Speaker 5: step aside because you old, because that's essentially what it
Speaker 5: amounts to when I hear you on what you're.
Speaker 4: Saying, old has nothing to do with it is We
Speaker 4: talked about him not getting younger.
Speaker 2: For me, I said, it's the dementia of what I've
Speaker 2: seen like this, like my dad dementia.
Speaker 3: It's early dementia of what I see. Well, eighty eight
Speaker 3: years old, he's considered old.
Speaker 2: But he has no signs of dementia. He's he can run,
Speaker 2: he could jump, he could do everything, he can think straight.
Speaker 2: But my mother in law had who passed away from dementia,
Speaker 2: was a totally different story, and it was one of
Speaker 2: those things we could have a great conversation on Monday.
Speaker 3: On Tuesday, she didn't know who I was.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the old president versus fascism any day.
Speaker 5: Oh that part, as well as when do we get
Speaker 5: to the point in a country where we think that
Speaker 5: it's okay to have somebody who's not facing one but
Speaker 5: ninety one and ninety one felony, Like I mean, like seriously,
Speaker 5: like there is no so to me, I don't understand
Speaker 5: why it's even a debate because there used to be
Speaker 5: a time in this country you couldn't even be.
Speaker 4: Accused of something way less significant.
Speaker 5: But I will tell you about your comments on the
Speaker 5: dimension because I don't want you to think that I'm
Speaker 5: ducking it at all. I've not seen anything that makes
Speaker 5: me think that. What I think people forget is the
Speaker 5: fact that the president actually has overcome a speaking impediment.
Speaker 5: So people forget the fact, they forget Joe's story, they
Speaker 5: forget the fact that he actually has a speaking impediment
Speaker 5: that he actually went through I think speech therapy to
Speaker 5: try to overcome. And I personally believe it's not a
Speaker 5: matter of like you're able to necessarily change that.
Speaker 4: You learn how to work around it.
Speaker 5: And I believe what people are seeing is a result
Speaker 5: of the fact that he is getting older and those
Speaker 5: skills that he's used to kind of overcome some of
Speaker 5: that is starting to seep back in.
Speaker 4: That is personally what I believe that I'm seeing.
Speaker 5: But as somebody who listen, I just tell my staff
Speaker 5: because they got an event that they want to do,
Speaker 5: and I was like, y'all know, I hate these picture lines, right,
Speaker 5: Like they're probably mad that I just said that on
Speaker 5: the radio, But like we have to do these.
Speaker 3: Picture lines there line.
Speaker 5: Basically, you know, when you have any event, then everybody
Speaker 5: wants to take yes, and so you don't get to
Speaker 5: enjoy the event because you're just standing there. You're taking
Speaker 5: pictures the whole time everybody else is mingling. So the
Speaker 5: White House I think has over thirty something Christmas parties, absolutely,
Speaker 5: and we just had the members Christmas party. So they
Speaker 5: separate them into different The media had one. The members
Speaker 5: just had ours on Monday.
Speaker 3: Black media because I went to the Black media one last.
Speaker 4: Year, so.
Speaker 1: I love it. I lived for it.
Speaker 5: They're they're a good time. You should you should do it,
Speaker 5: just just to okay fae. So anyway, So but literally
Speaker 5: they were standing there for hours, and I remember somebody
Speaker 5: like staff was like President, do you do you need
Speaker 5: a break?
Speaker 4: He was like nope, I'm good.
Speaker 5: Like he never got to mingle, and he he was
Speaker 5: up there for I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4: I don't like to do it for an hour.
Speaker 5: So those are the things that people don't see, is
Speaker 5: the behind the scenes and how I mean, this man
Speaker 5: wakes up early, he works late, and you know, I
Speaker 5: remember the only time I've been into the Oval office,
Speaker 5: he brought a small group of us in and he
Speaker 5: was talking to us. And when I tell you that
Speaker 5: he can remember stuff back way way long ago, and
Speaker 5: I probably can't tell you what happened about two three years.
Speaker 1: Ago like that. I mean, I can't give him credit
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just saying, like he.
Speaker 1: Really memories, I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 5: I also want to point out why everybody want to
Speaker 5: talk about our president a is oh we got old
Speaker 5: versus all.
Speaker 4: I just want to I just want to be clear
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 5: The problem they both AARP like I just let's let's
Speaker 5: be honest.
Speaker 1: And I talked about this on the Daily Show this week.
Speaker 1: The other problem is Democrats have demonized every Republican candidate forever.
Speaker 1: Because I can read Member everybody was yes, everybody was
Speaker 1: the person that's going en democracy. Everybody was the person
Speaker 1: that was going usher in fascism. Everybody was everybody. They've
Speaker 1: demonized everyone, John McCain, Mitt Romney, anyn George Bush. I
Speaker 1: remember when George Bush literally was like the anti Christ
Speaker 1: to people. I know. Now him and Michelle hugged up
Speaker 1: every time we see them. So it's like now when
Speaker 1: there is actually a threat nobody believes you, because that's
Speaker 1: all Democrats ever sell, is fear.
Speaker 5: Well, I think that the Republicans sell fear more than
Speaker 5: anybody on the other side. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean I will agree. I think that what we've
Speaker 5: seen is we've seen politics shift, right, So we never
Speaker 5: thought we would have a Trump and so yeah, in
Speaker 5: that time, a Mitt Romney or George Bush was extreme, right,
Speaker 5: But now we've got people that have literally said no
Speaker 5: to reproductive access. We have people that are under federal
Speaker 5: indictments or felony indictments. I mean, my Attorney general is
Speaker 5: out here telling doctors that he's about to prosecute them
Speaker 5: if they abide by a court order to save a
Speaker 5: woman's life. Like this is what we're living in. So no,
Speaker 5: it is definitely next level when you're talking about the
Speaker 5: fact that people who should be in prison who haven't
Speaker 5: faced their charges for over seven years, are going out
Speaker 5: and trying to send other people to prison who are
Speaker 5: actually trying to do their jobs. Right now, doctors are
Speaker 5: facing up to life in prison in the state of
Speaker 5: Texas if they have anything to do with abortion, even
Speaker 5: if it is medically necessary. Because you had idiots that
Speaker 5: don't understand anything about medicine, writing the laws for doctors
Speaker 5: to follow, and the doctors are like, we don't understand
Speaker 5: what this is. Yeah, so I mean it is extreme.
Speaker 1: I just think, y'all, I think Democrats became the party
Speaker 1: who cried wolf.
Speaker 4: And you may be right.
Speaker 5: I wasn't in politics back then. I mean, you may
Speaker 5: be right. I mean I was voting, I was paying attention,
Speaker 5: and I agree. I never felt the angst. It's more
Speaker 5: so the angst that got me into politics.
Speaker 4: It was the fear.
Speaker 5: I remember when Trump got elected, I was researching what
Speaker 5: it would take for me to get my dual citizenship
Speaker 5: between the United States and Canada, because I was like,
Speaker 5: I don't know if I'm gonna need to get up
Speaker 5: and out of it.
Speaker 1: Do you think I'm doing the past year? What have
Speaker 1: I've been saying in this room for the longest. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not even exaggerating, like.
Speaker 4: I'm not either. No, no, no, no, I'm not either.
Speaker 5: I mean that was that was a fear moment for me,
Speaker 5: and a number of my colleagues, especially in my current class,
Speaker 5: were like that's when they got engaged and was like,
Speaker 5: wait a minute, ain't nobody coming to save us. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna have to step up and save us, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. So, like like I need people to
Speaker 5: understand that, like none of us is perfect, we will
Speaker 5: never give you the policies that you believe are perfection
Speaker 5: on this planet. It's just not going to happen, especially
Speaker 5: because Democrats do believe.
Speaker 4: In governing right.
Speaker 5: In governance, that means that at some point in time,
Speaker 5: you probably have to compromise. So we will never give
Speaker 5: you exactly what you want, But what we will do
Speaker 5: is do our damnedest to make sure that you were
Speaker 5: safe in this country. And you know, people don't understand
Speaker 5: from a foreign like I really just want people just
Speaker 5: one day to sit down and google some foreign policy stuff.
Speaker 5: From a foreign policy stance, I am very concerned about
Speaker 5: our safety in this country. People weren't given to Reville
Speaker 5: a hard time as it relates to our military, and
Speaker 5: the Republicans only decided to step up once they were like, okay,
Speaker 5: this is reaching a fever pitch. We just had to
Speaker 5: authorize four hundred promotions. People don't understand. In the military,
Speaker 5: you reach a point in which the only way you
Speaker 5: can be promoted is if the Senate confirms you to
Speaker 5: that promotion. If you don't get promoted, then you're out.
Speaker 5: We would have lost some of our top brass at
Speaker 5: a time in which we have conflicts that are breaking
Speaker 5: out everywhere. That is a problem, that is a national
Speaker 5: security problem. People don't understand. I know people are all
Speaker 5: upset about funding Ukraine. I know they upset, right, but
Speaker 5: they don't understand that we have the authority to send
Speaker 5: our stores to Ukraine the stuff that we had to
Speaker 5: protect us. So right now we need to replenish. So
Speaker 5: a bunch of that money is to replenish our own
Speaker 5: stores of ammunition right now. So it's not just about
Speaker 5: it looks like because the top line is funding, funding, funding,
Speaker 5: and it's not kind of getting into the minutia.
Speaker 4: But we need to make sure we're safe.
Speaker 5: And people need to also understand that if Putin is
Speaker 5: successful in Ukraine, then he next most likely goes to
Speaker 5: maybe Poland. If he goes to Poland, that means that
Speaker 5: our troops, our husbands, our brothers, our sons, our sisters,
Speaker 5: our mothers, our cousins, our aunties, they're the ones that
Speaker 5: are actually going to go into wars.
Speaker 4: So we are talking about no, they already they already
Speaker 4: signed up.
Speaker 5: We're about to We're about to send our service members in.
Speaker 5: So like this is a matter of like keeping us
Speaker 5: safe as well, like we would rather spend money and say, hey,
Speaker 5: you want to defend yourself, Yes, we want to see
Speaker 5: you take down this army.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, But people want to eat right now.
Speaker 4: I agree with it.
Speaker 1: If I'm in St. Louis, South Carolina, Texas and money.
Speaker 5: I don't disagree, roof, I don't disagree. I don't care
Speaker 5: about I agree with all of it. But let me
Speaker 5: tell you who the enemy today is. It's still a Republicans.
Speaker 5: I sit on the Agriculture Committee right now. We have
Speaker 5: the Farm Bill. The Farm bill is where we get
Speaker 5: the snap benefits from. Guess who trying to cut the
Speaker 5: snap benefits? Republicans? Guess how much people? I just want
Speaker 5: you all to guess how much do people get a
Speaker 5: day for snap benefits?
Speaker 1: I forgot.
Speaker 5: No, no, no one person a day to eat? How
Speaker 5: much do they get?
Speaker 1: And there's.
Speaker 5: A day they get six dollars a day, six dollars
Speaker 5: a day. It's all that they're getting and Snap benefits.
Speaker 5: And I'm having a fight with Republicans that are like
Speaker 5: it's too much money.
Speaker 4: Will they buy popcorn?
Speaker 5: You can't do nothing with the money in the first place.
Speaker 5: They're like, we need to balance the budget. So I
Speaker 5: just want to be clear. We can walk and chew
Speaker 5: gum six dollars a day. We can feed people in
Speaker 5: this country for sure, And honestly, we need to be
Speaker 5: making sure that we're increasing the amount that that they're
Speaker 5: getting because we know how much food is costing. But
Speaker 5: right now I'm trying to hold the line and just
Speaker 5: get the dag on six dollars a day. We have
Speaker 5: the money to do it all. The problem is we
Speaker 5: pick people against each other. We say, well, we can't
Speaker 5: feed y'all because we're sending money off to warp. No,
Speaker 5: we can actually do it both, and we are demanded
Speaker 5: to do it both.
Speaker 4: We have twelve appropriations bills.
Speaker 5: The Republicans can't get none of them passed because the
Speaker 5: extremists say, we want to cut it all for people
Speaker 5: that are complaining about housing.
Speaker 4: We had a bill.
Speaker 5: You know what, when they put their appropriations up, they
Speaker 5: wanted to cut thirty percent of hood's where you get
Speaker 5: your housing vouchers from.
Speaker 1: Why Democrats don't fight for this publicly though, Like like,
Speaker 1: we can't y'all can't just fight in Congress.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess it's not sexy. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I don't know, because it looks like Democrats are always
Speaker 1: just laying down and rolling over and letting Republicans just
Speaker 1: run all over there. That's why you go viral when
Speaker 1: you call a gop out and call them a bunch
Speaker 1: of asshole Republicans, which you did. Yeah, why did you
Speaker 1: do that?
Speaker 4: Because they are what you mean?
Speaker 1: I know, But what was the specific thing that made
Speaker 1: you that triggered you that Dan said, no, I'm tired
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know when I sit there, the Oversight Committee
Speaker 5: is where all the drama is. This is where the
Speaker 5: impeachment inquiry is, and you know, it's insulting that we
Speaker 5: have idiots like Marjorie Sayley Green, Lauren Bobert, Paul got Star,
Speaker 5: Jim Jordan's. I mean, you just name all of the
Speaker 5: nonsense Republicans and they sit on this committee and they
Speaker 5: sit there so high and mighty, and they talk noise constantly,
Speaker 5: and they're like, oh the Biden crime family.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, I'm sorry, have you met the Trumps?
Speaker 5: Like, like, who is it this in court every single
Speaker 5: day or every other day with something, whether it's the
Speaker 5: fraudulent businesses that he's run, or whether it's his criminal
Speaker 5: issues on the state level, on the federal level, and
Speaker 5: you're trying to make something out of nothing?
Speaker 4: Is this what we're doing?
Speaker 1: Just getting dited on nine new.
Speaker 5: Taxa Okay, all right, so we are okay, so we're
Speaker 5: gonna go down. Listen, listen, listen, Listen to me. Now
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say, okay, crime okay, well, well, okay, there
Speaker 5: we go, because I'm the criminal defense attorney.
Speaker 4: But I will say this.
Speaker 5: He has been charged for paying his taxes late or
Speaker 5: filing his taxes late.
Speaker 4: Not not now. Now, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe all your listeners that are listening in now have
Speaker 5: always paid their.
Speaker 4: Taxes on time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I've seen too many of us go to
Speaker 1: jail for that.
Speaker 4: For taxes.
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, well you don't normally listen, people don't normally
Speaker 5: get caught up.
Speaker 1: They he never paid.
Speaker 4: But here's the deal.
Speaker 2: I think there was a promise accountant did something wrong,
Speaker 2: and I thought it went lead acounting totally did something wrong.
Speaker 3: So he was at his counting.
Speaker 5: But but but what I'm talking about is like everyday people.
Speaker 5: There are people every day people that don't get charged
Speaker 5: with this, like this is very rare. Like most of
Speaker 5: the time you sit down and they say, okay, I
Speaker 5: got busy or okay I didn't have this, or okay,
Speaker 5: my accounting this or whatever, and they work it out
Speaker 5: and Hunter has paid his due. And listen, as a
Speaker 5: criminal defense attorney, I got a lot of parents that
Speaker 5: would be in jail right now if they was getting
Speaker 5: caught up for what their kids did. So I'm not
Speaker 5: saying that Hunter is guilty or not guilty. What I
Speaker 5: am saying is that he's presumed innocent undeal right.
Speaker 4: So that's that part.
Speaker 5: But that's his son, right, So like, how is it
Speaker 5: that his son who he did not put into position?
Speaker 5: Unlike Trump, he took his whole family and was like
Speaker 5: y'all gone and come into the administration. We know that
Speaker 5: his son in law did not have the ability to
Speaker 5: get a top security clearance. I don't know why or
Speaker 5: what was in his background that prevented him, and Trump
Speaker 5: overrode that.
Speaker 4: That was a national security threat in and of itself.
Speaker 5: And even as we talk about again these conflicts that
Speaker 5: currently exist, we know that this dude was keeping this
Speaker 5: stuff in his bathroom at Marie Lago and on the
Speaker 5: stage and all this other kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 5: He did have them right, But what happened when they
Speaker 5: asked for him back, he gave him up.
Speaker 1: And in fact, I know people do that argument, and
Speaker 1: he gave him back, but he still took him from
Speaker 1: where he took. No.
Speaker 5: No, and I don't I don't disagree with that, but
Speaker 5: a lot of people take things home a senator.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 5: No, the and the stuff that you're gonna have as
Speaker 5: a senator is not gonna be the same stuff that
Speaker 5: you're gonna have as a president.
Speaker 4: That's the other thing. Like the level is like there's
Speaker 4: levels to this.
Speaker 5: So the things that he's gonna have as a senator
Speaker 5: are not gonna be the same level.
Speaker 4: But the reality is that people do take stuff home.
Speaker 5: Now, I try to leave everything at you know, work,
Speaker 5: and most of the time I don't get anything that's
Speaker 5: that's sensitive. Anyway, when we go in and we're giving briefings,
Speaker 5: they're like, we're taking your phones, we're taking your head.
Speaker 4: Sets, were taken everything, we're taking your watch.
Speaker 5: We go win for those security briefings and we're not
Speaker 5: supposed to talk about exactly what happens in those briefings,
Speaker 5: so there's very little that we're given on paper. But
Speaker 5: as a president, you definitely are given so much more so.
Speaker 5: Number one, the level of secrecy and harm that could
Speaker 5: be caused by what Biden had, which was from when
Speaker 5: he was in the Senate as well as when he
Speaker 5: was vice president, completely different level than the access that
Speaker 5: you have as a president. In addition to that, we
Speaker 5: know that Trump was walking up out the White House
Speaker 5: and literally was like, I'm taking my documents with me,
Speaker 5: like this was a very intentional taking afterwards versus an
Speaker 5: unintentional taking. And it's the same thing that we do
Speaker 5: with anything else in law. We look at the intent
Speaker 5: of something the men's rea. We look at was this
Speaker 5: intentionally and normally? Was this reckless? Or was this careless
Speaker 5: and negligent? Those are the standards. What Trump did was
Speaker 5: very intentional. What Biden did was very unintentional. And the
Speaker 5: way Another thing that we know is that when somebody said, yo,
Speaker 5: we think you got some documents, Biden said, listen, go in,
Speaker 5: look for whatever y'all want to look for, and take it.
Speaker 5: What Trump did he said, now cut the cameras, make
Speaker 5: sure you delete the footage. Like he was absolutely trying
Speaker 5: to hoard it and hide it, and he was going
Speaker 5: out and he was bragging, and he was showing these
Speaker 5: secret documents to people, and literally it put us in.
Speaker 4: Harm's way as well as some of our allies.
Speaker 5: I still have questions about who he'shod showed what too,
Speaker 5: and whether or not some of the conflicts that we
Speaker 5: see that exists right now are a result of his mishandling.
Speaker 4: That is very unnerving to me.
Speaker 5: And what people don't understand is that there are conflicts
Speaker 5: that are taking place in places like Africa. We've got
Speaker 5: conflicts in Sudan. We've got people that have forgotten what
Speaker 5: happened with the Haitians. And when the Haitians were trying
Speaker 5: to come in as migrants, it was my governor that
Speaker 5: had officers on horses that were whipping them and acting
Speaker 5: like you know, this was slavery yet again. But people
Speaker 5: don't say, well, why were the Haitians trying to get
Speaker 5: up here? They forget that the president had been murdered,
Speaker 5: right and so like. But you know, I don't know
Speaker 5: how many people was trying to stand with the Haitians,
Speaker 5: which I feel a way about right, and I don't
Speaker 5: know how many people are really trying to stand with
Speaker 5: the Sudanese people and and all that.
Speaker 1: So so now you you can say nothing, It's okay.
Speaker 1: He it's okay to say nothing. They didn't do anything, nothing,
Speaker 1: it's okay. Yeah. Do you think Hunter Biden being indicted
Speaker 1: on the non new tax charges is political?
Speaker 4: Absolutely? Absolutely.
Speaker 5: I mean he's already listen, we know that he already
Speaker 5: had indictments that he was facing for basically the same thing.
Speaker 5: And what we typically do if I put on my
Speaker 5: legal hat is you work out a deal. You work
Speaker 5: out a deal and you say, listen, we will do
Speaker 5: X y Z in exchange for this, and it cleans
Speaker 5: everything up. I never work a deal where I'm only
Speaker 5: gonna resolve one issue. I work it all out, because
Speaker 5: who wants to keep having to go back and back
Speaker 5: and back or whatever.
Speaker 4: Now granted, it was.
Speaker 5: The judge that blew the deal up, which judges can
Speaker 5: always decide if they're going to accept or reject. But
Speaker 5: I think it's the little disingenuous of the DOJ in
Speaker 5: general to say, all right, well.
Speaker 4: It's a free for all. Now you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: This isn't you know, like George Santo's right, like for instance,
Speaker 5: this it was like, no, I ain't taking your deal.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: He had nine counts.
Speaker 5: So the AUSA comes back and was like, Okay, if
Speaker 5: we're gonna have to try it, then we're gonna try it.
Speaker 5: Bro right, So superseding indictment. Now you got twenty three
Speaker 5: twenty three counts. This wasn't that type of situation. You
Speaker 5: had someone who said, I am accepting responsibility, I am
Speaker 5: willing to do what needs to be done to fulfill
Speaker 5: the requirements and moving on. So I think that, you know,
Speaker 5: it's a little different, and I do think that it's politics,
Speaker 5: but you know, this is what we this is the
Speaker 5: world were living in.
Speaker 4: It's an election cycles.
Speaker 1: Them talking about impeaching Biden is definitely politics. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: they've said that. I forgot what you guys said it.
Speaker 1: But he literally said I'm doing this to be able
Speaker 1: to give President Trump or when they bring up is
Speaker 1: impeachments and see, I believe the problem is they normalize
Speaker 1: so much of Trump's criminal behavior that when they finally
Speaker 1: decided to take some action, it all looks political. So
Speaker 1: every thing looks politically look like I mean all, but
Speaker 1: I'm saying all of it like we know what it is.
Speaker 1: We know why Republicans are talking about impeaching body, we
Speaker 1: know why Hunter Biden got indicted. And on the flip side,
Speaker 1: when the people that are actually committing the crimes, when
Speaker 1: things happen to them, it all looks like a tit
Speaker 1: for tack. So we the American people, don't know what's
Speaker 1: what and who's who. So you can't tell me this
Speaker 1: person is a criminal when this person is getting charged
Speaker 1: to You can't tell me this person is a bad
Speaker 1: guy for getting impeached when they're talking about impeaching them too,
Speaker 1: because all I hear is the wording yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: Because what they're trying to do is they are trying
Speaker 5: to act as if they're the same, and they're not.
Speaker 4: They're not. There's a huge difference.
Speaker 1: But they look the same to the American people.
Speaker 4: They do look the same.
Speaker 5: But like, what I need people to remember is I
Speaker 5: remember very vividly when Trump said he could go and
Speaker 5: shoot somebody in broad daylight and get away with it.
Speaker 5: That's what he said, and essentially that's what he's been doing.
Speaker 5: He been shooting his shot all over this country acting
Speaker 5: a fool and basically dare people to come for him.
Speaker 4: And guess what. It took a lot of black folk
Speaker 4: and they made right.
Speaker 5: Three out of four of the prosecutors that are going
Speaker 5: after Trump are black. There are other prosecutors in this
Speaker 5: country that could be going for his neck as well.
Speaker 5: We just saw some fake electors in another state that
Speaker 5: ended up entering into an agreement with the prosecution. Those
Speaker 5: fake electors were a part of a larger scheme. They
Speaker 5: didn't go after Trump though. It's like not going after
Speaker 5: the dope dealer, but instead going after the dude that's
Speaker 5: on the corner.
Speaker 4: Like this needs to stop.
Speaker 5: And so it took a black woman in Georgia, It
Speaker 5: took a black woman in New York. It took a
Speaker 5: black man in New York to say enough is enough,
Speaker 5: because they ain't never questioned coming for us, but now
Speaker 5: it's like we want to tiptoe around. In fact, he
Speaker 5: should be in jail right now. I don't care what
Speaker 5: nobody say, but anybody who's ever dealt with the criminal
Speaker 5: justice system or even any legal system, knows that there
Speaker 5: is a decorum in court. There's certain things that you
Speaker 5: can't do. You can't be out here threatening the judge.
Speaker 5: No one would dare to do that, right because you
Speaker 5: already know you were going to be locked up.
Speaker 1: But they don't never do it.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You're saying it is absolutely true.
Speaker 4: I get it, but but there's no action.
Speaker 5: But guess guess who's gonna do it if it happens,
Speaker 5: If if he goes to jail for contempt of court
Speaker 5: or violating a gag order, It's gonna be the black
Speaker 5: woman in DC because everybody else is like, WHOA right,
Speaker 5: It's gonna be the black woman in DC.
Speaker 1: And when he becomes if he becomes president, which I
Speaker 1: pray he doesn't.
Speaker 4: I pray he doesn't either, Guess.
Speaker 1: Who's going to prison all those black women? You just
Speaker 1: need you notice though, I mean, I'm saying, but it's
Speaker 1: really that, it's really that serious. He's already said it.
Speaker 1: He's told you what he's going to do to his
Speaker 1: critics and his political opponent. He has.
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna keep the faith and I'm I'm a
Speaker 5: hope and pray on that one.
Speaker 1: You think with George Santos, you think the congresshould have
Speaker 1: came before the court in that situation.
Speaker 5: I think that we did what was right for sure,
Speaker 5: I absolutely do, because here's the deal with What people
Speaker 5: don't understand is that we have our own systems in
Speaker 5: place as well, and so we have our system, you
Speaker 5: don't necessarily have to be facing criminal charges to go
Speaker 5: before ethics and for ethics to deliver an opinion and
Speaker 5: to do an investigation. George Santos refused to resign. We've
Speaker 5: had people historically resign for way less. But he decided, no,
Speaker 5: who gonna check me boo, like y'all gonna have to
Speaker 5: kick me out. And I don't know if this was
Speaker 5: about him getting an unemployment check, because y'all know that
Speaker 5: was part of his issue, was the unemployment fraud. And
Speaker 5: so I guess he say, listen, y'all gonna see me
Speaker 5: fired publicly.
Speaker 4: And so I can collect my chick. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know what his thought process was, but it's
Speaker 5: I do think that the right thing was done. Because
Speaker 5: he was accused of things that were associated with him
Speaker 5: being in office, they were associated with him seeking office,
Speaker 5: and they conducted their own investigation. He was given an
Speaker 5: opportunity to defend himself. He failed to participate that is
Speaker 5: due process. Due process doesn't necessarily have to be a
Speaker 5: criminal trial, because due process is simply that I am.
Speaker 4: Making an allegation.
Speaker 5: It can be a civil allegation, but you have to
Speaker 5: be given an opportunity to defend yourself. He was given
Speaker 5: that opportunity. They had thousands upon thousands of pages of
Speaker 5: evidence against him, and they came to a conclusion in
Speaker 5: a bipartisan way of the facts in that case, and
Speaker 5: they were absolutely egregious and he shouldn't be serving.
Speaker 1: You think it's gonna set a bad president because now
Speaker 1: you see Vetter Maern coming after Menindez, and you see
Speaker 1: they just sensor Jamal Bowman, And you think that's going
Speaker 1: to set a president to where.
Speaker 5: Well they I mean, now they didn't censored and censured
Speaker 5: and censored to They didn't water down what a censor's
Speaker 5: supposed to be.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 5: You know, I don't think that it sets a bad
Speaker 5: precedent because I don't know that we will ever have
Speaker 5: another person in Congress that will be half as egregious as.
Speaker 1: George Santos, especially in the Republican Party.
Speaker 5: As far as like who they are as people, yes,
Speaker 5: but as far as committing crimes that are specifically associated
Speaker 5: with them being in office.
Speaker 4: No, And that's the thing.
Speaker 5: Like representation looks like electing the person that you feel
Speaker 5: like represents you. Unfortunately, Georgia feels like Marjorie Taylor Green.
Speaker 4: Is a good representation of them.
Speaker 5: They feel like Matt Gates. Now there is a rumor
Speaker 5: that they are really trying to work through the Matt
Speaker 5: Gates stuff because they're still very upset with him. I
Speaker 5: don't know what they're gonna do with that, but you know,
Speaker 5: he was facing some very serious allegations. They weren't necessarily
Speaker 5: tied to his office, but you know, rapist kind of
Speaker 5: a big deal. And so you know, ultimately they decided
Speaker 5: not to move forward with criminal charges for the out
Speaker 5: sexual rape allegations that he had against him.
Speaker 1: I don't know, because you've had you got both presidential
Speaker 1: candidates who got accusations do well. But I'm what I'm saying, candidates,
Speaker 1: we got a president who has accusations and a candidate
Speaker 1: Trump who has accusation.
Speaker 5: So but the difference with Matt Gates, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So Matt Gates, ultimately they decided no criminal charges. So
Speaker 5: I think that they'll be in a weird space depending
Speaker 5: on what they have, Like I don't know what they have.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like the January sixth Commission, like they
Speaker 5: were unable they were able to find out a lot
Speaker 5: of things that weren't not.
Speaker 4: I don't know if Trump would be facing.
Speaker 5: His criminal charges but for January six right, So I
Speaker 5: don't know if ethics has received additional information or something
Speaker 5: like that. And it still may end up causing an
Speaker 5: issue for Matt Gates down the line, but Matt Gates
Speaker 5: is still there, so I mean, I think that the
Speaker 5: President's is still in place because he does have the allegations,
Speaker 5: but he's not been brought up to be kicked out
Speaker 5: by Democrats or Republicans. No one has tried to censor him,
Speaker 5: no one has tried to expel him, and I don't
Speaker 5: anticipate that anything would happen unlessen until there actually was
Speaker 5: an investigation where he was given an opportunity again to
Speaker 5: defend himself. And I think again for Santos, it was
Speaker 5: the fact that he literally, I mean, he had one
Speaker 5: of his colleagues go off because he had ran his
Speaker 5: credit card up for ten thousand dollars. So one of
Speaker 5: his own Republican colleagues, was like, bro, like you did
Speaker 5: it to me? Like so yeah, like it was very personal,
Speaker 5: like I gave you my credit card information because I
Speaker 5: was supporting your candidacy and you ran it up going
Speaker 5: to I don't know what he Yeah, I'm assuming that's
Speaker 5: where he went on that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got two more questions, and I think the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party is making the same mistake with Biden that they
Speaker 1: made with RBG.
Speaker 5: Ooh, that is a very interesting way to phrase it. Listen,
Speaker 5: I'm ride with Biden. That's we have no other option.
Speaker 5: We have no other option.
Speaker 1: I mean, would you be riding with Biden? How would
Speaker 1: you be calling for Biden this episode?
Speaker 5: I wouldn't be calling for him this episode only because literally,
Speaker 5: this guy has a great track record. Again, who's looking
Speaker 5: at fixing the water and Flint?
Speaker 1: Can he win? I agree with you, the track record
Speaker 1: is dead. But can he win? Can he win next
Speaker 1: year in a general election? Can Biden and hire Us win?
Speaker 1: Are they still a winnable ticket?
Speaker 4: I think they are. I think they are. I think that.
Speaker 5: We got a lot of work to do, and I
Speaker 5: think that, you know, we tripping if we feel like
Speaker 5: we got this thing in the bag. I don't think
Speaker 5: we should ever underestimate the power of Trump and his cult.
Speaker 5: We should never do that, right, And I also think
Speaker 5: that it's important for people that if historically felt like
Speaker 5: they were left out, ignored, or just taken for granted.
Speaker 5: I think it's important that we have the conversations with
Speaker 5: those communities and tell them that no, no, no, no, we
Speaker 5: are fighting for you. Like I just said, most people
Speaker 5: don't know six dollars a day and the Republicans trying
Speaker 5: to snatch it, you know what I'm saying, Like no,
Speaker 5: like we can do this, Like don't do this to us, right,
Speaker 5: like or the fact that you want to make sure
Speaker 5: that housing vouchers aren't available when we're dealing with a
Speaker 5: housing crisis in this entire country.
Speaker 4: Like, no, we are trying to fight for these things.
Speaker 5: And listen, if you let them empower, you may not
Speaker 5: have a roof over your head for show. You may
Speaker 5: not have food in your belly for show. So like,
Speaker 5: we are fighting for these things and it is a
Speaker 5: team effort. I think that what we do is we
Speaker 5: give too much power to the president. The president isn't
Speaker 5: a king. That's not what we have in this country.
Speaker 5: It takes an entire team. So I need people to
Speaker 5: understand that they need to research who is running for
Speaker 5: the state House so you don't end up with the
Speaker 5: George Santos because that was a democratically healthy and a
Speaker 5: Democrat needs to take it back. So like, I need
Speaker 5: people to say, yes, we've got the president and the
Speaker 5: vice president, but they can't get nothing done by themselves.
Speaker 5: They still need a Senate that's gonna work with them.
Speaker 5: They still need a House that's gonna work with them.
Speaker 5: And so we put so much focus on the president
Speaker 5: as if he is the one person that can do
Speaker 5: at all, and that's just not what it is. I
Speaker 5: need people to start putting some pressure on these members
Speaker 5: that are sitting in the US House as well as
Speaker 5: the US Senate and making sure that they're researching them
Speaker 5: and they're voting for the right candidates so that we
Speaker 5: can get the right team. Because last time we had
Speaker 5: the House, we had the Senate, and we had the
Speaker 5: White House. Everybody's like, why didn't y'all caught afi Row
Speaker 5: like that. That's been like a major blast, right.
Speaker 1: Because y'all had it was the Senate.
Speaker 4: The Senate was the problem.
Speaker 1: But it was to y'all people constantly holding stuff up
Speaker 1: in the Senate, Jo Cinema, and now nobody flexed on
Speaker 1: either one of them. Donald Trump I'm talking about Donald
Speaker 1: Trump would have had a nickname for both of them.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump would have been calling them out. Donaldrum would
Speaker 1: have been putting pressure on them. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But but but look at this.
Speaker 5: Cinema decided let me go in and not even try
Speaker 5: to pretend I'm a Democrat.
Speaker 1: No more.
Speaker 5: Right, So Cinema is not running as a Democrat. Her
Speaker 5: polling is trashed, and so one of my Democratic House
Speaker 5: colleagues is running against her, Ruben Diego. He about to
Speaker 5: smash her like that. That is the plan. He's gonna
Speaker 5: hopefully take that seat. So now we got one. Joe
Speaker 5: Manchin what he decided to do.
Speaker 1: Never mind, guess when he runs for president. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear nobody that's a Democrat talk shit about him,
Speaker 1: because y'all didn't talk shit about him.
Speaker 4: I did, so you said nobody, right, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to Everybody was tiptoeing around Joe
Speaker 1: for the most part, wouldn't call him out when he
Speaker 1: was blocking every single agenda in the Biden administration. But
Speaker 1: when he runs for president. Everybody gonnary demon, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna hear back. Guy, don't do that.
Speaker 4: Now, Well, I'm gonna be consistent. I'm gonna hear him out.
Speaker 4: I'm representative.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it for joining US. Representative Jasmine Crockett, Thank
Speaker 2: you so much. How can people follow if they want
Speaker 2: to follow you?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: So, my official accounts are at Rep. Jasmine R E,
Speaker 5: P J A, S M I N E and my
Speaker 5: campaign accounts, which is where I do most of the two.
Speaker 4: That is Jasmine for us.
Speaker 1: Now, Jasmin Congresswoman. Jasmine is one of the dope ones.
Speaker 1: If you pay attention, she's one of the dope ones.
Speaker 1: You one of the people, and I'm glad it is
Speaker 1: actually in the position that you're in, like people like
Speaker 1: you should be the future of democracy, but probably won't
Speaker 1: because we won't have a democracy. Yeah.
Speaker 4: If not, if y'all let Trump back, Yep, it's over.
Speaker 1: It's over.
Speaker 3: Well, there you have it. It's the Breakfast Club. It's
Speaker 3: Representative Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club