WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Rep. Jasmine Crockett On Improving Dem. Messaging, Biden's Track Record, Trump's Dictatorship + More 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:05.320 Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning. 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.680 Everybody's DJ n V, Charlamagne the gud We are the 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.799 Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Absolutely, 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:13.520 we have Jasmine Crockett. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:14.040 Welcome. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:16.920 Thank you so much. I'm excited to be here with y'all. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:21.040 She's a US representative from Texas thirtieth Congregational District, a 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:21.920 congressional district. 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:23.479 I should say, how are you to welcome? 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:24.160 I'm good. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.280 I was just having a conversation about you. I mean, 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:28.520 I was talking about good sister Amanda Seals, and she 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:28.840 brought you. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:33.280 Yes, yes, yes, yes, my sister. Yeah, she's going hard. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.360 Amanda is really doing the people's work as far as 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.200 I'm concerned, right, because Amanda has leaned in and said, listen, 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.800 there's certain things that I don't know about politics. So 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:45.639 if I don't know these things, I got to make 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.320 sure that I'm communicating to the people that follow me 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.159 so that they can better be informed about what's going on. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.920 So she will pick up the phone and give me 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.920 a quick call when she's got questions, because. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.800 I feel like you need people like her to be translators, right. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.920 I've always felt like the messaging from the Democratic. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:07.640 Party sucks, you know, that's the nice way of putting it. 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.520 Yeah, okay, she's been able to translate it up in 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:12.080 a very digestible way for people. 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.000 Absolutely, And you know, it's just one of those things 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.440 I say, the Democrats love to write a thesis, yes, 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.319 when really when it comes to the Republicans, they like, 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.720 what are not cards? Like what are cliff notes? And 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.319 that's what we need to do. People are busy trying 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:27.680 to figure out how they're going to keep a roof 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.520 over their head, keep food in their bellies, keep yas 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:35.280 in the car, and we're giving out what literally looks 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.679 like bills half the time. We're telling them, you know, 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.920 thousands of pages of stuff, and people are saying, give 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:42.920 me the top lines because I got to get to work. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.280 And so I think it is important to make sure 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.920 that you have really good ambassadors that are delivering the message, 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.920 but they are also delivering it in a very accurate way, 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.640 because we know that there's a ton of misinformation and 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.240 disinformation that's out in these streets. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.160 I always tell people that sometimes you have to explain 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.480 it like you're talking to a child, because some times 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.840 people don't know on the don't necessarily understand politics. 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:04.960 Absolutely, and when we're. 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.720 In school, a lot of times we take those classes 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.120 just to get through it because we're more concerned with our. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.320 Major Absolutely, what got you into politics? 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:17.520 Oh Lord, clearly I need my head checked. But no 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:18.120 for me. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.440 You know, I actually practiced law, so I've been licensed 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.000 I think at this point for about eighteen years in Texas, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.560 Arkansas and federal courts. And as I was walking into court, 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.720 whether it was the civil rights cases or the criminal 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.360 defense cases, I will walk in and I would say, 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.680 this system is not working. Like when you walk in 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.200 and you know that you're going to lose because the 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.240 laws that are on the books don't work for people 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.760 that look like me and you. Then I'm like, something 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.239 has to be done. And maybe it's because the lawmakers 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.400 just don't understand what they're doing. Now I found out 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.720 that they absolutely understood. Yeah, they know what they're doing. 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.920 I was the green one, but that's what drove me 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:55.400 into politics. And my very first race for the state 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:59.040 House in Texas, oddly enough, a man by the name 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.840 of George Floyd and ended up being killed between my 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:06.200 primary and my runoff. And when I was running initially 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:07.760 I said, we're in the midst of a modern day 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.240 civil rights movement, and people thought that I was like 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.200 being extra when I said that, But ultimately, like when 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:15.960 he ended up being killed, I'm like, this is what 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.040 I'm talking about. Like, if we don't start to understand 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.600 how these systems work, who puts the police chief in charge? 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.000 Who writes the policies for the police chiefs? Who makes 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.920 the laws that allow for them to kill us and 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:30.760 then face no retribution? 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:32.119 Like who does that? 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.840 And so when I ended up participating in so many 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:37.640 of the protests, and when I would go out there, 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.440 I was like, what's the best role I can play 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.680 keeping people out of jail? So I represented over six 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:47.080 hundred people pro bono during those protests, and no one 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.440 ended up with a conviction that I helped. 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.560 And so I made sure we got people out of jail. 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.200 I made sure I told them what the law was, 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.320 and I made sure I told them, now, how do 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.360 we go from policy or how do we go from 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:02.400 protesting to policy? And ultimately that's why I think I 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.440 was successful, And I think that you know, we have 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.640 to have more people that didn't grow up saying I'm 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.080 going into politics. But we have to have more people 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.480 that say, you know what, something is wrong with my 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.520 community and I need to step up to the plate. 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.680 So what's your job in politics? And somebody will say, well, 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.719 what is Jasmin Crocott's job? What do you do? 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:20.719 Black congresswoman? 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.680 Yeah, that's what I am. No, I'm just kidding with that. 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:25.120 No. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.560 So my job is to write the laws. We write 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.800 the laws for the entire country. But beyond that, the 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.680 biggest thing that we do is we hand out money. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.880 We are the ones and that's what we're not doing 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:36.240 right now. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.640 When everybody's like, oh, the government is about to shut down, 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.320 what does a shutdown mean? That means that we're about 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.080 to stop delivering money. So we are supposed to appropriate 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.479 all the money. So when people say, hey, we got 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.600 to pay our taxes, whether it's corporate taxes, personal taxes, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.880 whatever moneys we actually collect into the treasury. We have 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.159 to then disseminate that money. So when people are saying, hey, 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.440 we don't have money come into our community, actually you 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.080 may have mo money come into your community. The question 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.640 is what are the people that are in receipt of. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:05.880 That money doing with the money. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.240 Right, So, in a state like Texas, a lot of 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.120 times we say, listen, Greg Abby, he not about this life. 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.200 And so what we need to do is work around him. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.919 We need to make sure that those county executives and 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.839 make sure that those city elected officials get the money, 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:22.039 because we can't trust our governor to do what he's 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.039 supposed to do as we appropriate that money. So a 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.160 lot of times it's a combination. You know, most people 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.360 want to show up for one race, right like they'll 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.919 show up for the presidential they'll vote for president, and 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.799 then they don't show up for city council. Chances are 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.760 somebody like me, I'm collecting the money and I'm sending 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.760 it down and I'm saying, hey, this is what it 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.640 needs to be used for. Or for instance, one of 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.200 the great bills that most people haven't really zoned in 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.640 on that the Democrats as well as the President signed 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.000 into law was the Infrastructure Act. So we've all saw, 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.120 we all saw what happened in Flint, Michigan. We all 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.360 know what happened. We also know what happened down in Jackson, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.640 Mississippi with their water. So this administration, that Biden Harris 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.360 administration said, listen, what we're going to do is make 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.080 sure we start addressing environmental injustice issues, whether it's the air, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.240 the water, or the soil, because it's literally killing people 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.200 every single day that look like us. 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.040 And so what they've done is. 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.960 It's something real. What you said just now is absolutely true. 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.760 I understood what you said. How come Democrats can't see flint. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.440 We're gonna fix the dirty water Flint. We're gonna make 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.440 sure y'all got clean with flint. We made sure y'all 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.680 got clean water. This bill makes sure y' now. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.080 I agree with that they not doing that, but it 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.520 is a combination of things. Right, So. 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.599 The presidential administration, they gotta do their part, but also 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.520 congressional So when I show up like I've delivered millions 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.480 of dollars to my community, my community is a majority 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:47.160 majority minority district. So almost eighty percent of my district 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.520 is black or brown. And so what I've done is 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.800 we got the big fake chicks. We call all the 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:53.240 media listen, we do. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:54.400 Like keep it simple. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.480 I mean, seriously, you got to keep it simple. 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:56.760 Right. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.599 I bring my EPA administrator out and that's y'all are 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.880 getting his money because of this bill and because of 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.400 the president and the Vice president and I tell them, 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.880 and we're doing amazing things. But the thing is we 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.240 as members, we also have to carry some of that 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.840 water because it's only so many places that the president 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.080 and the vice president can get to, right, So it 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.560 is a team effort. I just don't know that, like 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.040 we all get on the same page. 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:22.800 I don't know we have issame. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.440 By the way. That's that right. There is such a 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.800 simple thing a president could say or a vice president 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.800 could say, so people can point to and say this 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.200 is what the administration. I don't need to know all 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.320 the minutia been. I don't even know everything in there. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.320 The wall are getting clean exactly, that's it. Yeah. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.320 And the bill was like over a thousand pages exactly 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.080 exactly right, Yeah, and you just need the top lines. 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.760 So we spoke about the president. What's your thoughts on Biden. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:47.840 You know a lot of black people are not efforting 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.920 them right now, not riding with them necessarily, don't even 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:51.560 want to vote on them. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:56.840 I know, I know it's stressing me out. It's stressed 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.960 me out. Listen, it's stressing me out because you know, 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:04.120 I have direct access to the president obviously, and I 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.640 almost wish everyone could have a real sit down with 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.800 the president, like a one on one and a real 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.680 sit down with the vice president. I'm gonna be real 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.360 because it's just one of those things that most people 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.400 don't have access to. And I'm gonna be honest with 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:22.600 you about this. Trump was amazing at propaganda. I mean, 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.320 when we got the stimulus checks, they were delayed because 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.840 he said, I want to I want to put my 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:29.680 signature on it. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.200 Now. Trump wasn't the one that said, hey, this is 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:34.400 what we need to do for the people. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.160 It was the Democratic House, the Democratic Senate to pass 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:38.040 the legislation. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:39.720 He didn't even initiate it. 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.320 He just signed it into law, right, But he was like, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.200 this is a good opportunity. The problem is that it's 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.040 exactly what you just said, Like, we need a president 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.400 that's gonna go around and brag on himself. He needs 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.000 to be bragging about the fact he and his VP, 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.200 who graduated from an HBCU, needs to be bragging about 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.760 the fact that they actually have given more money to 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.959 HBCUs than Trump ever did. 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:01.920 But you know what Trump did. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.280 He sat back, he took a picture with all the 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:09.560 HBCU presidents. So everybody's like, oh, Trump gave no no, no, no, no, no, 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.080 Let's let's be real about this. This actually was the 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.160 result of a bill that was signed into law by 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.599 a Republican by a Bush and ultimately this was a reauthorization. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:24.400 In the reauthorization, he actually wanted to zero out the HBCUs. 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.120 But a black woman out of North Carolina, my colleague 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.600 almost she said, oh, this is not what we gonna do, 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.320 and so she fought for it. She was able to 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.160 get the money back in So once he signed it 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:36.840 back into law, he was like, well, let's take a picture, 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.960 Like we have to do some of the gimmicky things, 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.160 the things that will allow people to see and visualize. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.840 But let me tell you something, it's just wax shit. 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.800 Like when they kneeling down and kN t cloth, you 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.680 know in Congress, Like that's nobody asked for that. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:54.360 I wasn't part of that son. 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:58.800 With that, you know what I'm saying, because I do 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.360 try to have conversations, you know. I just had a 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.719 conversation about Cardi b and her and what she has 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.640 said like behind closed doors. I think that is one 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.760 of the benefits of having some of the younger members 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.839 or the members that haven't really been ingrained in politics 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.320 like that, because we can translate and say, hey, we 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.400 need to work on the messaging on this, because this 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.880 is what's out in the streets. But back to the president, 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.000 we have two options. We have one person that, hey, 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.880 a lot of people say, isn't perfect. And this is 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.320 what we do in this country is we are always 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.720 searching for perfection, whether it's in our preacher at church 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.320 or whether it's in our president. 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.040 And the reality is that none of us is perfect. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:37.880 I promise you. 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.320 While I believe that my district loves me, there are 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.679 some people that definitely don't agree with me on certain things. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:44.920 That's just what it is in life. 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:49.320 We don't agree with our spouses on everything in life, right, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.680 and so we don't necessarily have to agree with this 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.360 president on everything. But let me tell you something, he 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.440 at least is not a danger. My concern is the 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.480 fact that Trump is an actual threat and danger to us, 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.240 whether it's our democracy. This is somebody that sat back 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.360 and said on day one, I'm going to be a dictator. 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.960 Do we not understand what it means to have a 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:13.320 dictatorship like in this country, in the Land of the Free. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.840 And let's talk about like when we really look at 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.880 his homies on the Republican side. We've seen the dysfunction 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.640 in the Republican House, We've seen what they want to do. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.160 All they have is chaos. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.400 And so until somebody comes at me and tells me, hey, 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.120 this is a policy issue that Trump is trying to 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.760 bring forward, he ain't brought no policy to the table. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.760 He won't even debate because he knows that he doesn't 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.040 have a stance. The only thing that he's trying to 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:39.720 do is make sure he can stay out of prison. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.920 And listen, I can appreciate the hustle, I can't, right, 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.440 but the reality is that we have always been subjected 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.880 to the prison system in this country, and he should 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.199 not be above the law. And that's the only reason 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:57.280 that he's trying to get back. So I know, I mean, 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.559 I get it, but you're like, it's not everything you. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.000 Said, but it's still the Democrat's fault. And I'll tell 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.360 you why. There's also a third option. The third option 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.840 is the couch. You got. You got Trump, the criminal, 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.520 Biden the coward, and you got the couch. I'm a couch. 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.800 I argue that the couch means the Trump wins. 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.160 Yeah, so I argue that, like, it may be three options, 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.120 but we still we got two out of three comes 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.000 up with Trump, and I think that that's a problem. 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:25.120 And for everyone, you. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:30.319 Don't think Biden is mentally. That's the reason they say 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.640 that is because we've seen so many things. It seems 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.000 like early signs of dementia, right, And anybody who's been 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.120 around anybody that has dementia, when you start seeing things 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.559 like that, it brings you back to those moments. Now 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.280 when he's not in those moments, Yeah, he seems fine, 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.440 but it's those moments that scare you because anybody that 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.560 knows somebody in dementia, it comes fast and it comes 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.640 without with time. So you're talking about another four years 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.800 and four years, you know, showing. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.120 Getting no younger. He needs to just step aside. Three. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.360 He's not getting any younger. None of us are getting 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:00.880 any younger. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:02.880 I might, I might add. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.280 I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say this. 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.400 I'm gonna say that, does you need to step aside? No, 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.040 I'm not gonna say that you need. 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.640 We gonna lose. We gonna lose. We s'all don't lose 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:13.600 if we don't have Joe. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.839 He said, there's fifty other people in the Democratic Party 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.120 he thinks could beat Trump. He said that. So if 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.320 there's fifty other people he thinks he could be, that 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:21.959 could be Trump. 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:23.800 He needs to step d Listen, I'm telling you all 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.120 this is first of all, it's not gonna happen because 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.359 we have deadlines, like, for instance, my file and deadline 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.719 is going to be on Monday in Texas. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.679 Like, you don't have time, you don't have time, step down. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:36.760 They have to change the rules. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.240 No no, no, no no no no no no no 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:39.959 no no no no. 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:41.160 He will still be on the ballot. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.320 It's just like people die and still end up on 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.520 the ballots because like, the rules are the rules. So 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.400 the reality is that we don't have time to even 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.960 get somebody onto all these ballots, not to mention the 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.600 amount of money that it takes to run campaigns, like 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.640 it is just not realistic. And and here's the deal. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.440 We have a president that has accomplished so much, and 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:03.040 so right now out everybody like, well, forget the accomplishments. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.319 They need to start selling and telling, in a very 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.880 short sentence, exactly what they've accomplished. When is it that 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.719 somebody is saying like excelled, and then people say, well, 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.920 step aside because you old, because that's essentially what it 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:17.520 amounts to when I hear you on what you're. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.760 Saying, old has nothing to do with it is We 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:20.880 talked about him not getting younger. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.120 For me, I said, it's the dementia of what I've 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:24.760 seen like this, like my dad dementia. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.840 It's early dementia of what I see. Well, eighty eight 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.200 years old, he's considered old. 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.080 But he has no signs of dementia. He's he can run, 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.160 he could jump, he could do everything, he can think straight. 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.920 But my mother in law had who passed away from dementia, 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.040 was a totally different story, and it was one of 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.000 those things we could have a great conversation on Monday. 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.360 On Tuesday, she didn't know who I was. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.560 I'm taking the old president versus fascism any day. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.800 Oh that part, as well as when do we get 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.840 to the point in a country where we think that 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.880 it's okay to have somebody who's not facing one but 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:58.600 ninety one and ninety one felony, Like I mean, like seriously, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.680 like there is no so to me, I don't understand 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:03.680 why it's even a debate because there used to be 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.000 a time in this country you couldn't even be. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.040 Accused of something way less significant. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.720 But I will tell you about your comments on the 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.360 dimension because I don't want you to think that I'm 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.440 ducking it at all. I've not seen anything that makes 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.800 me think that. What I think people forget is the 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:23.640 fact that the president actually has overcome a speaking impediment. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.360 So people forget the fact, they forget Joe's story, they 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.440 forget the fact that he actually has a speaking impediment 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.600 that he actually went through I think speech therapy to 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.320 try to overcome. And I personally believe it's not a 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.760 matter of like you're able to necessarily change that. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.320 You learn how to work around it. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.080 And I believe what people are seeing is a result 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.640 of the fact that he is getting older and those 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.800 skills that he's used to kind of overcome some of 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.160 that is starting to seep back in. 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.120 That is personally what I believe that I'm seeing. 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:00.560 But as somebody who listen, I just tell my staff 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.120 because they got an event that they want to do, 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.080 and I was like, y'all know, I hate these picture lines, right, 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.680 Like they're probably mad that I just said that on 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.920 the radio, But like we have to do these. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.160 Picture lines there line. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.280 Basically, you know, when you have any event, then everybody 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.240 wants to take yes, and so you don't get to 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.800 enjoy the event because you're just standing there. You're taking 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.480 pictures the whole time everybody else is mingling. So the 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:28.160 White House I think has over thirty something Christmas parties, absolutely, 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.040 and we just had the members Christmas party. So they 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.800 separate them into different The media had one. The members 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:36.600 just had ours on Monday. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.560 Black media because I went to the Black media one last. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.560 Year, so. 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:43.160 I love it. I lived for it. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.840 They're they're a good time. You should you should do it, 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.640 just just to okay fae. So anyway, So but literally 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.680 they were standing there for hours, and I remember somebody 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.760 like staff was like President, do you do you need 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:56.080 a break? 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.120 He was like nope, I'm good. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.280 Like he never got to mingle, and he he was 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:01.640 up there for I couldn't do it. 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.200 I don't like to do it for an hour. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.879 So those are the things that people don't see, is 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.920 the behind the scenes and how I mean, this man 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.760 wakes up early, he works late, and you know, I 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.439 remember the only time I've been into the Oval office, 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.000 he brought a small group of us in and he 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.480 was talking to us. And when I tell you that 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.800 he can remember stuff back way way long ago, and 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.800 I probably can't tell you what happened about two three years. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.640 Ago like that. I mean, I can't give him credit 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:30.879 for that. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:32.920 I mean, I'm just saying, like he. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:40.040 Really memories, I'm not gonna do it. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.119 I also want to point out why everybody want to 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.160 talk about our president a is oh we got old 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:45.000 versus all. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:46.360 I just want to I just want to be clear 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:46.720