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Speaker 1: you tonight. Donald Trump might want to get another lawyer.
Speaker 1: The one Ukraine just got picked up for season two
Speaker 1: and dul say loan finds black people in the mountains.
Speaker 1: Plus better or rock will be joining us on the show.
Speaker 1: So let's do this, people. That sounds straight if you
Speaker 1: say that last. All right, all right, before we get
Speaker 1: into the big stories, let's catch up on a few
Speaker 1: other things going on in the world. First Up, the
Speaker 1: producers of the James Bond movies have announced that costing
Speaker 1: is officially underway for the next double or seven. Yes, but, but, but,
Speaker 1: they say. Whoever takes the role must make a ten
Speaker 1: to twelve year commitments, which is a bit weird. I mean,
Speaker 1: if there's one thing James Bond is not known for
Speaker 1: its long term commitments. In Health News, a panel appointed
Speaker 1: by the Department of Health and Human Services has formally
Speaker 1: recommended that all Americans under the age of sixty should
Speaker 1: be screened for anxiety. And I'm gonna Save you some time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone's God damn ags. All right, probably screened. Doesn't mean
Speaker 1: if you live in America and you don't have anxiety.
Speaker 1: You're asked me, is a mental health screen like a
Speaker 1: full one? And, by the way, I love how they're
Speaker 1: recommending the screenings, but only for people under the age
Speaker 1: of sixty. Yeah, what about the people over sixty five?
Speaker 1: It's basically like they're like, well, whatever you're worried about,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be over soon. So, in Military News, Space
Speaker 1: Force has officially released its theme song. He has a sample.
Speaker 1: It sucks in UH. In Economic News, the Federal Reserve
Speaker 1: has raised interest rates yet again. Yeah, to try and
Speaker 1: get inflation under control. And I don't know, people, after
Speaker 1: three big interest rates increases that like they haven't stopped inflation.
Speaker 1: Maybe's trying to try to try something different. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe we just invite inflation to a party. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then when it gets drunk, it passes out with Dick
Speaker 1: on its face. It won't change anything, but it'll be funny. Inflation.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to some of the biggest
Speaker 1: stories of the day, starting with the only ex president
Speaker 1: who spends more time with his lawyers than his grandkids,
Speaker 1: Donald Jurassic trump. Now it turns out the former president
Speaker 1: is somehow in more legal trouble than ever, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna find out why in another installments of America's most
Speaker 1: tremendously wanted. Now we all know that Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: already in legal trouble for January six, for stealing classified documents,
Speaker 1: for meddling in the vote count in Georgia and for
Speaker 1: having an ask that just will not quit. But now
Speaker 1: he's also in big trouble with New York's attorney general.
Speaker 1: We are in unprecedented territory once again. The New York
Speaker 1: Attorney General is just filed a sweeping fraud lawsuit against
Speaker 1: former president trump, three of his adult children and the
Speaker 1: trump organization, a g letitia James says they were involved
Speaker 1: in a decade long financial scheme that allowed trump to
Speaker 1: falsely inflate his net worth by billions of dollars. James
Speaker 1: says the investigation uncovered some two hundred examples of false
Speaker 1: valuations of trump's assets, and she thinks this civil case
Speaker 1: will have serious criminal fallout. The pattern of fraud and
Speaker 1: deception that was used by Mr Trump and the trump
Speaker 1: organization for their own financial benefit is astounding. Claiming you
Speaker 1: have money that you do not have does not amount
Speaker 1: to the art of the deal, it's the art of
Speaker 1: the steel. Oh, Donald trump is in trouble now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because when a prosecutor uses a rhyme, you're about to
Speaker 1: do time. Now, I'M NOT gonna lie. I'm not optimistic,
Speaker 1: but if half of what the Attorney General is saying
Speaker 1: is true, trump isn't even even bigger comment than we
Speaker 1: all thought, because he's accused of lying about the value
Speaker 1: of his properties for decades, for decades to defraud the
Speaker 1: banks into giving him better loans. Right, and these are
Speaker 1: not small amounts, and a small for instance, Mara Lago
Speaker 1: was worth seventy five million dollars and what a trump
Speaker 1: said was worth seven hundred and forty million dollars. How?
Speaker 1: Because I upgraded it, folks, yeah, totally upgrade. I added
Speaker 1: a rap room, he's got a foosball table and everything.
Speaker 1: He also claimed. He also claimed that his eleven thousand
Speaker 1: Square Foot Department was actually thirty thousand square feats, which
Speaker 1: was a lie. So this man is gonna be the
Speaker 1: first person to ever get in legal trouble for claiming
Speaker 1: his apartment is a grower, not a shower. And I'M
Speaker 1: gonna say, I've got to say it would be so
Speaker 1: funny if this is what takes trump down. Huh, can
Speaker 1: you imagine? He tried to overthrow the government, but then
Speaker 1: they get him for lying about having an in unit
Speaker 1: washer dryer. It's like that's the thing that locks him up.
Speaker 1: And and according to this lawsuit, it wasn't just Donald.
Speaker 1: Apparently the whole family was involved in the scheme, which
Speaker 1: is pretty disappointing. I mean, I expect this from Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: you know, and and also from dawn junr and and
Speaker 1: also from Ivanka, but but Eric Actually, actually, yeah, he
Speaker 1: seems like the Kara Guy who would do this. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to some international news, and it's about Ukraine.
Speaker 1: We want to begin this morning with that breaking news
Speaker 1: out of Russia. Overnight, Vladimir Putin doubling down in his
Speaker 1: war against Ukraine. VIBRARY Putin is preparing for a longer
Speaker 1: and more intense war on Ukraine. In a speech carried
Speaker 1: nationally in Russia, the president said he will put up
Speaker 1: three thousand military reserves to active duty. Vladimir Putin's being
Speaker 1: pushed into a corner warning the waist. He still has
Speaker 1: weapons of mass destruction, read that as nuclear and he's
Speaker 1: prepared to use them, because we will use all the
Speaker 1: means at our disposal to protect Russia and people. He
Speaker 1: said this is not a bluff. Wow, wow, wow. Seriously,
Speaker 1: Putin nukes. The N word, not cool man, not cool.
Speaker 1: That's America's word to use. He does sound serious, though.
Speaker 1: You heard him, you heard what he said. He said
Speaker 1: this is not bluff. To be fair, this is not
Speaker 1: a bluff. Is what someone who's bluffing would say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be very effective if he was like all,
Speaker 1: nuke entire world, but I am bluffing, so don't lorry.
Speaker 1: By the way, I know this is random, but I
Speaker 1: found it funny that he has the two landlines behind
Speaker 1: him in the victor. No, I mean like I get
Speaker 1: the one, the one. Maybe that's what like the nuclear
Speaker 1: codes Sayway, but what's the other line for's? He also
Speaker 1: like a part time telemarketers. Just like Mr Andrew Bob,
Speaker 1: I'm preparing for Nuclear War, which is why in life
Speaker 1: and shorts is very important right now. Could I throw
Speaker 1: the shield through it, poem. You know, one of the
Speaker 1: most frustrating things about this war is that the only
Speaker 1: reason it's still going on is because Vladimir Putin is
Speaker 1: trying to save face, right. He just he just doesn't
Speaker 1: want to be seen to be losing. And it made
Speaker 1: me wonder, do you think Putin knows how to lose? Like,
Speaker 1: do you think he knows how? Because think about it,
Speaker 1: the Dude plays an annual hockey game with the Russian team.
Speaker 1: lets him score thirty two goals, right. He somehow wins
Speaker 1: the judo contest against professionals every year. So it actually
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me that he can't accept the concept that
Speaker 1: he can lose. You know, it's it's almost like when
Speaker 1: parents let their kids win everything and when they're like wow, billy,
Speaker 1: you ran so fast, you win again. Then the kid
Speaker 1: grows up thinking that losing isn't a part of life.
Speaker 1: All right. That's why, when I raised my four year
Speaker 1: old nephew last weekend, I smoked his ass. Bamn, let
Speaker 1: him in the dust. Yeah, then I gave him a
Speaker 1: rematch and I smoked his ass again. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: he cried, yes he cried, but you know what he
Speaker 1: won't do? Invade Ukraine. Yeah, all right. Finally, let's turn
Speaker 1: to the world of sports, where some really exciting stuff
Speaker 1: going on. In baseball, Aaron judge is on a historic
Speaker 1: home run. Chear crushing it out there. In football, the
Speaker 1: giants won a game. But the most exciting us of
Speaker 1: all he's coming out of the NBA, and it's because
Speaker 1: the king has a new crown and it looks like
Speaker 1: basketball icon, Lebron James, is trying something new. The Lakers
Speaker 1: star posted this picture on his instagram stories, sitting in
Speaker 1: a barber's chair with no hair. For years, Lebron's hairline
Speaker 1: has been the subject of countless means. Okay, okay, who
Speaker 1: it is? Lebron Jays? I love it. This is a dope.
Speaker 1: Look no one that's making use Lebron James. Not only
Speaker 1: does he look better, this is gonna be trouble for
Speaker 1: the rest of the lead. Can you imagine a more
Speaker 1: Aerodynamic Lebron? He's gonna be unstoppable. Two points. I'm calling
Speaker 1: it right now. I'm glad Lebron did this. I'm glad
Speaker 1: proud of him, because his hair kept on receiving further
Speaker 1: and further back. There's nothing wrong with that, but it
Speaker 1: just was, you know, he's Lyne was so far back.
Speaker 1: Steph carry was hitting threes from behind. It grandy, disrespectful,
Speaker 1: steph double. For Real. He looks it. I like it, slick,
Speaker 1: got the bed. In fact, it's so good it's inspired
Speaker 1: me to do it too. That's right, the time has come.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Lebron. Example. No, I'm guys, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: Calm down, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. God blessed me. Come down.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for the headlines, but before we go,
Speaker 1: let's check it on traffic without very arms. Why would
Speaker 1: you everybody while this goes? What's happening in the traffic?
Speaker 1: Oh my dog, dog, it's crazy, man. He's the police.
Speaker 1: They chasing some dude. He stole a party bus. Man,
Speaker 1: this ship is wild, zigzagging all out of traffic. He
Speaker 1: pulled over early and let all the strippers out. That
Speaker 1: is a gentleman. You don't see that kind of chivalry.
Speaker 1: No more hunt and I've been I've been. I've been
Speaker 1: on this type of party bus before. That's a Chevrolet.
Speaker 1: Gas Mileage on that one seek about fourteen. If it's empty,
Speaker 1: they can be rolling this chase, Michael, another four hours.
Speaker 1: This is this is why is that happening right now?
Speaker 1: Where's this? This? This is from eight months ago. I
Speaker 1: just figured this is more interesting than whatever you want
Speaker 1: me to talk about. Me, it's more interesting. Roy Traffic
Speaker 1: is interesting. Yeah, that's why I'm watching it. This is
Speaker 1: not the traffic. Roy People want to know what's happening
Speaker 1: on the road. Do the traffic. Why don't? Why do
Speaker 1: you never want to do the traffic? All right, you want,
Speaker 1: you want to regular traffic. Can we do the traffic,
Speaker 1: regular traffic? You have it now. Is that interesting? I
Speaker 1: want you to tell me that. An like tell me
Speaker 1: what's happening. What's going on? Fine, fine, I tell you
Speaker 1: what's happen. Look, James Bond, you said they gotta. They're
Speaker 1: looking for a new James Bond. Right, yea, I sent
Speaker 1: him a resume. We're gonna see what's happening. Who Do
Speaker 1: you like? Who Do you want? Who? Who Do you
Speaker 1: think should be the new James Bond? Well, yeah, that
Speaker 1: they cost him now and uh, I hope it's interest about.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna laugh all now. I know that's your boy.
Speaker 1: No disrespect, but I just don't think that. You know,
Speaker 1: I love it yourself. I'm just not sure if now
Speaker 1: it's the time to drop a black James Bond on
Speaker 1: white people. They're really sensitive right now. White people. They
Speaker 1: get sensitive right now. They they they lost their queen.
Speaker 1: You just can you just can't drop up black James
Speaker 1: when the weekend you already saw what happened with a
Speaker 1: little mermaid. We did a little mermaid. Look half a fish.
Speaker 1: We took half a fish. We almost didn't survive the wait.
Speaker 1: You can't hum back and take James Bond right after that.
Speaker 1: You can't do that. Man. See this, this, this is
Speaker 1: what Y'all forget. Bro James Bond is the white man's
Speaker 1: dream job. It's a dream drive for a white man.
Speaker 1: He traveled, he drink on the job, he gets to
Speaker 1: shoot people, he don't get in trouble for it, no
Speaker 1: paperwork and you get to have a whole lot of sex.
Speaker 1: Ain't had an STD when? When? Last time? When the
Speaker 1: last time you saw James Bond by e condom? You
Speaker 1: my car. It's a dream job. So if we take
Speaker 1: that from white men, it's gonna be backlash and I
Speaker 1: just don't know if I'm ready for the backlash that
Speaker 1: will come from getting a black James, because if we
Speaker 1: mess with their classics, they're gonna mess with our classics.
Speaker 1: That's what's gonna Happen. Do you want to lose the classics?
Speaker 1: Do you want to lose with ice ice cube and
Speaker 1: Chris Tucker created any come there? Do you want a
Speaker 1: white Friday? Because that's what's gonna Happen if we get
Speaker 1: up black James Bond, they get a white Friday and
Speaker 1: I don't want that. Is that what you want? You
Speaker 1: want Mark Wahlberg riding around the hood with Timp, with
Speaker 1: Timothy Chow, met child, challenge, child, how you say his name?
Speaker 1: You know the one. You know the one I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: So what are you saying? I'm saying, and that you know,
Speaker 1: if it's already a movie, let white people have it,
Speaker 1: all right. Just worry about the new stuff that's coming along.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. We talked about diversity and film and
Speaker 1: all this ship. The secret to turn in white characters
Speaker 1: black is that you gotta strategically do it from the books,
Speaker 1: then nobody noticed. Would you change your book character into
Speaker 1: a different race on screen? Talking about it? Because people
Speaker 1: don't read books. Nobody to be reading your book is
Speaker 1: still like in The New York Times bestseller. How long
Speaker 1: ago did your book? You know how many books then
Speaker 1: came out? Sayce your book? That's how much people don't read.
Speaker 1: They ain't even buy the movie books. They would just
Speaker 1: re read your book over and over there. That makes
Speaker 1: no chance. What question? What are you what is your
Speaker 1: points fact? How can you not follow this? I'm making
Speaker 1: perfect sense. Look, when you have white characters in a
Speaker 1: book and you flip them into black characters on screen,
Speaker 1: nobody cares. It's already been happening for decades. Morgan Freeman,
Speaker 1: Shaw Shankra dips in the book. That is a white character, like,
Speaker 1: for Real, for Real, I'm dead. Asked Morgan Freeman's character
Speaker 1: and Shaw Shank redemption was written as a white man.
Speaker 1: Same thing. Jackie Brown, the home of Pam Grill, much
Speaker 1: respect to Pam Grib the book that that movie is
Speaker 1: based on, was a white woman. Wo Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 1: You flip the book into the blackness. That's how you
Speaker 1: do it. I get one more. I get one more.
Speaker 1: The book confess Fletch, you know, the fletch movie, to
Speaker 1: the franchise? Yes, in the in the new did the
Speaker 1: confess fletch the new and the COP that's investigating fletch
Speaker 1: in the book is a white man. But who did
Speaker 1: they cast and confess fletch? Who, I was saying, representation?
Speaker 1: Did you representation? Did you? Did you take us on
Speaker 1: this whole journey just to promote your new movie with
Speaker 1: on happening? Is that? Is that all this whole thing
Speaker 1: was about? Come on, dog, I would never come on
Speaker 1: this show and promote confess fletch, currently in theaters and
Speaker 1: available on deman and after that on the showtime paramount
Speaker 1: plus Bonder. Why would I do that? That's disrespectful, Bro
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is that if we were trying to
Speaker 1: boil representation down to solely black faces telling white stories
Speaker 1: and but it's more than that. It's about black faces
Speaker 1: telling original stories. So just give us more that. Like
Speaker 1: like you. Like Indris Elba, cool, I like indriest Elba.
Speaker 1: So rather than indress Elba playing James Bond, what I
Speaker 1: would like to see is something in the same field.
Speaker 1: You know, you could have him with a gun and
Speaker 1: he's a smooth talker with the ladies. But, but, but
Speaker 1: he's in Harlem right as a Harlem, and now that's
Speaker 1: a that's a fresh idea. And they leather jacket too. Here,
Speaker 1: leather jacket and Harlem and he's, you know, fighting crime.
Speaker 1: You made that. I did not make ship shot. I
Speaker 1: made you come up with stop shot. That's a different that.
Speaker 1: You're talking about shoft. My movie is called Shoft. Is Different.
Speaker 1: He put the little thing over the aid. Would Junior,
Speaker 1: everybody show. But when we come back to say Sloan
Speaker 1: is gonna find out what black people don't do. So
Speaker 1: don't go away, welcome back to day shows. You know,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of stereotypes about what black people
Speaker 1: in America like and what they don't. But Dul say
Speaker 1: Sloan breaks down those stereotypes in our brand new segments.
Speaker 1: We don't do that. She placed her hand on his
Speaker 1: throbbing M H Oh, Hello, I'm duel saying and I'm
Speaker 1: here to take you on a journey. But first, what
Speaker 1: do these things have in common? Go Yoga, eye diving,
Speaker 1: owners matching outfits with their pets. That's right, it's stuff
Speaker 1: white people love to do, and black people don't do
Speaker 1: white people's stuff. Right. Wrong. I traveled far and wide
Speaker 1: and I've discovered their own pockets of black people who
Speaker 1: like to partake in such Caucasian activities. So sit down,
Speaker 1: relax and get some damn popcorn, because this ship is crazy.
Speaker 1: Here it is another installment of we don't do that's good.
Speaker 1: In this segment we're looking at mountaineers. Now that them.
Speaker 1: There we go meet team full circle, a group of
Speaker 1: mountaineers that plan to be the first black expedition to
Speaker 1: summit Mount Everest, and they hope to inspire and recruit
Speaker 1: me into their world. Oh No, see y'all, see these
Speaker 1: nails you got me missed. Go out expensive. Once I
Speaker 1: finally got them off that Damn Wall, I asked the
Speaker 1: only question on my mind. Why? Why? Why? You know, realistically,
Speaker 1: I think the Y is because we've all been climbing
Speaker 1: for a number of years now and all of our
Speaker 1: past just kind of come together at this one point
Speaker 1: to say, Hey, let's go to Everest, because that's the
Speaker 1: path that everybody's on. There's only a handful of black
Speaker 1: people who have even been on the mountain, and because
Speaker 1: we're going to climb Everest and it has the name,
Speaker 1: there's no way that you can't talk about the lack
Speaker 1: of diversity. There is a lack of representation of black
Speaker 1: people doing these things, and for good reason. Mount Everest
Speaker 1: is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, meaning it's deadly
Speaker 1: as hell. In fact, out of the over ten thousand
Speaker 1: successful summits that have been recorded on Everest, fewer than
Speaker 1: ten of those climbers have been black. So what are
Speaker 1: some Commons you all get when people find out you
Speaker 1: all the mountaineers? Oh, black people don't do that, black
Speaker 1: people don't do snow, we don't ski, we don't do camping.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh l we don't do that, and that
Speaker 1: can become a very real self imposed limitation. It's until
Speaker 1: you see someone that looks like you that does it.
Speaker 1: It's we don't do those things. They don't believe that
Speaker 1: your mountaineers. If I go to a store to buy
Speaker 1: a piece of mountaineering equipment, sometimes people will explain to
Speaker 1: me what it is, and I'm sure you get things
Speaker 1: explained to you a lot because it's because you're a
Speaker 1: woman and they don't realize that I'm a vendor of
Speaker 1: a lot of climbing equipment, yet despite all that, they're
Speaker 1: still climbing. Even no one ship like this could happen.
Speaker 1: It's an inhospitable place. People are not meant to live there. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just glad you know that. Just nature was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: get down. There is lesser air as well after a
Speaker 1: certain point over, you know Ft. yes, you need oxygen,
Speaker 1: so you have to bring your own air to outside,
Speaker 1: but that's where all the air lives. Yes, ma'am. What else? Avalanches? Okay, so,
Speaker 1: just to get this straight, so avalanche, Frost Bite of
Speaker 1: various areas, running out of air. So fainting, dying, brain swelling.
Speaker 1: How do you know your brain is swallen? You could
Speaker 1: go blind, like you can't see. Why y'all doing this again?
Speaker 1: Just seems like this doesn't explain to me what's on
Speaker 1: the top of this mountain. Best View in the world,
Speaker 1: the joy of like just digging deep and pushing yourself.
Speaker 1: That's what so much of this is about, is that
Speaker 1: journey and is the process. It is going through, that process,
Speaker 1: being transformed by it and hopefully, Oh hell of a
Speaker 1: lot more black and Brown folks with all of your
Speaker 1: appendages still attached. Have you considered glamping. People don't even
Speaker 1: know the things that they can do until they're exposed
Speaker 1: to it come to what we do. But, um, that's
Speaker 1: why you're here to join us and get together, to
Speaker 1: learn about what we're doing, to climb a big mountain.
Speaker 1: I don't think I have to go outside. My producer
Speaker 1: just said, yes, I have to go outside. Um, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool.
Speaker 1: So this team that's training for Everest wants me to
Speaker 1: join them on a fun little Colorado hike on a
Speaker 1: mountain outside. It's now on time and very little air.
Speaker 1: All Right, I think we've gone far enough. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take a take a quick break. We've only been walking
Speaker 1: ten minutes. You see, you a high yeah, I just
Speaker 1: need to get into some essentials. You know, I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: I've never seen a sequined backpack before our here in
Speaker 1: the back country. I got some essential oils, just occation.
Speaker 1: Or you don't want to get a funky you might,
Speaker 1: you know, meet a nice man a few things that
Speaker 1: she was missing. Water, food, you know, the mountains high,
Speaker 1: so I need to be high layers. That would help. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how much? How much further of you doing? Not long
Speaker 1: at all. Actually, just heard up there. It's been so
Speaker 1: nice me. I'M gonna have to go back. Listen, I
Speaker 1: am so proud to know that there are black people
Speaker 1: out here that are willing to make history and take
Speaker 1: on this kind of challenge. But the only thing I'm
Speaker 1: trying to climb is in your elbow. It turns out
Speaker 1: we can do this well, not me, with other people
Speaker 1: like this amazing team, and I'm gonna be celebrating them
Speaker 1: and cheering them on from inside, on my couch and
Speaker 1: with all of my openages. No, it's not sharp for
Speaker 1: helping me down. I'm too hard. It's too hard. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for that. Right. Stay tuned, because if
Speaker 1: we come back, candidate for Texas governor, Bed Rock, will
Speaker 1: be joining me right here. You don't want to welcome
Speaker 1: back to day show. My guest tonight is currently running
Speaker 1: for Governor of Texas. He's also written a new book.
Speaker 1: We've got to try how the fight for voting rights
Speaker 1: makes everything possible. Please welcome bed rock. Better all, welcome
Speaker 1: back to the day show. Thank you for having me back.
Speaker 1: You are back on the campaign trail, this time for
Speaker 1: a different position, governor of Texas. It is uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting time. To be dealing with politics in Texas,
Speaker 1: because it feels like everything is happening in and around Texas.
Speaker 1: So let's let's jump straight into it. You know, you
Speaker 1: run before. You came super close, you didn't take it.
Speaker 1: What do you think will be different this time and why?
Speaker 1: It's really about where Texas is and what Texans are
Speaker 1: willing to do about it. So, Um, you mentioned all
Speaker 1: these things that are coming to a head in our state.
Speaker 1: We have the most extreme abortion ban in America, no
Speaker 1: exception for raper. Incest begins at conception. Um, speaking of
Speaker 1: democracy and the right to vote, it is harder to
Speaker 1: cast a ballot or get on the roles in Texas
Speaker 1: and any other state in the union. It's been seventeen
Speaker 1: weeks since those nineteen kids and two teachers were killed
Speaker 1: in Uvaldi. Gun violence the leading cause of death for
Speaker 1: kids and teenagers in that state. But instead of succumbing
Speaker 1: to the temptation to despair or submitting to this, Texans
Speaker 1: are rising up and they're volunteering on this campaign, they're
Speaker 1: knocking on doors, they're turning out in record numbers and
Speaker 1: they're gonna win this election in November, which is really
Speaker 1: a rough random on all these issues. Are we going
Speaker 1: to be defined by this extremism and our hatred and
Speaker 1: the way that we make each other afraid of one another?
Speaker 1: Are we gonna come together and do big things together?
Speaker 1: So it's it's an exciting time to be doing this
Speaker 1: and a great state to be in, and we're gonna win.
Speaker 1: You know, there there's no there's no denying that you
Speaker 1: you've always had a charismatic way about you. There's no
Speaker 1: denying that you've been really popular on the national stage. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: sometimes it feels like the majority of Texas isn't exactly
Speaker 1: on the same page that you are. You know, a
Speaker 1: good example is is the bussing stunt that's happening right now,
Speaker 1: you know, with Greg Abbott Bussing people to all over
Speaker 1: the country to prove a point. You're against that. You've
Speaker 1: spoken out against it multiple times, but more than fifty
Speaker 1: percent of Texans go yeah, this is the right move
Speaker 1: because it sends a message to Washington D C. How
Speaker 1: do you? You know? How do you how do you
Speaker 1: work that in your mind, the idea that you are
Speaker 1: opposed to so many Texans where they say no, this
Speaker 1: is actually what we want. I actually think that this
Speaker 1: extremism that we see in our current governor and government
Speaker 1: in Texas is reflective of the fact that we have
Speaker 1: a badly broken democracy. Seven million Texans didn't vote in
Speaker 1: the last election. In seven million who are eligible to
Speaker 1: did not. And if a majority right now thinks that
Speaker 1: busting migrants to D C or Chicago is a good idea, maybe,
Speaker 1: as you suggested, it's a reflection of the fact that
Speaker 1: our immigration system is so badly broken and people want
Speaker 1: to do something. What I propose, though, is instead of
Speaker 1: these stunts, which are um so cruel and unkind, not
Speaker 1: just to those migrants but to those of us who
Speaker 1: live in Texas, to the Border Patrol agents who we
Speaker 1: put on their backs this entire immigration system that is
Speaker 1: so badly broken, what if, instead, we had, for example,
Speaker 1: a Texas based guest worker program or the ability to
Speaker 1: join family and not wait twenty years in line, which
Speaker 1: is the back of the line in Mexico or India
Speaker 1: or the Philippines to come to the US today? What
Speaker 1: if you were trying to claim asylum, you didn't wait
Speaker 1: six years for your claim to be adjudicated, which is
Speaker 1: the current way time? What if Texas led the way
Speaker 1: in rewriting our immigration laws to reflect our values, our interests,
Speaker 1: in our needs and we say look, you want to
Speaker 1: come to this country, you must follow our laws, but
Speaker 1: our laws will follow our values. I Want Texas to
Speaker 1: lead on that. It's it's admirable, you know, I I think.
Speaker 1: I think it's admirable. I I think you're proposing solutions,
Speaker 1: but it seems like America is getting to a place
Speaker 1: where people are less enthused by long term plans and
Speaker 1: more riled up by an immediate idea that seems like
Speaker 1: it will work, even if it may not. So you
Speaker 1: know you're out there, you're speaking to people. I know
Speaker 1: that you knock on doors and talk to people personally.
Speaker 1: So I'd love to know. Have you met a person
Speaker 1: who doesn't agree with you on immigration, doesn't agree with
Speaker 1: you on these issues and has changed their mind and
Speaker 1: what was it that made them change their mind? It's interesting.
Speaker 1: We we were in a town called hamp hill in
Speaker 1: East Texas and in that county they literally have about
Speaker 1: three percent high speed Internet access, so huge infrastructure problems there.
Speaker 1: It's a very red Republican Rural County, so half the
Speaker 1: group that comes out is Republican. You know, twenty or
Speaker 1: wearing make America great against shirts and Donald Trump hats
Speaker 1: on and this guy stands up and asked a very
Speaker 1: legitimate question. He's wearing a trump hat. He said my
Speaker 1: mom immigrated to this country from Canada and to renew
Speaker 1: her green card we had to stand in this line
Speaker 1: every so often. She worked three jobs because my dad,
Speaker 1: who was disabled in World War Two fighting for this country,
Speaker 1: could not work. I started working when I was fourteen
Speaker 1: years old. We we played by the rules, we followed
Speaker 1: the law and I don't know why Batto people are
Speaker 1: coming in between ports of entry right now and and
Speaker 1: not following our laws. And I think his anger was legitimate.
Speaker 1: M His experience was valid and he asked a really
Speaker 1: good question, and so we talked about you know, is
Speaker 1: busting migrants fixing this problem at all will know is
Speaker 1: building a mile and a half of border wall, which
Speaker 1: is what Greg Abbott has done, helping anything? Well, no,
Speaker 1: I guess it's not. Well, what if we address the
Speaker 1: fact that people have legitimate reasons to want to come
Speaker 1: here to work or to join family or to seek
Speaker 1: asylum in a country that is comprised by and large
Speaker 1: of asylum seekers and refugees and what if we in Texas, you,
Speaker 1: as a Republican, and I, as a Democrat, actually lead
Speaker 1: on this issue? And he's nodding his head and comes
Speaker 1: over at the end of the meeting, shakes my hand
Speaker 1: and says, you know what, you might have earned my
Speaker 1: vote by coming out here to hemp hill and having
Speaker 1: this conversation. So it works. So dialogue works. How do
Speaker 1: you then bring people together true solve an issue that
Speaker 1: you know, you talk about in this book the fights
Speaker 1: for voting rights. Where America is particularly divided right now
Speaker 1: is how the policies view the issue of voting. You
Speaker 1: Have Donald Trump and the Republicans saying that the re
Speaker 1: election was stolen, there were millions of illegal votes. None
Speaker 1: of this has been proven. In fact the opposite has
Speaker 1: been proven, you know. And and then at the same
Speaker 1: time you have Republicans saying, well, if if Democrats say
Speaker 1: that we should accept the elections, why don't they accept
Speaker 1: the elections? You know, after they lose, Stacey Abrams will
Speaker 1: say it wasn't legitimate. You know, how do you then
Speaker 1: break that? How do you get beyond that dialogue to
Speaker 1: even begin the conversation of having everybody votes? It helps
Speaker 1: for me at least to understand that not only can
Speaker 1: we do what you just described, Um, we've done it
Speaker 1: before against much longer odds. One of the stories that
Speaker 1: I tell in this book we've got to try, is
Speaker 1: about a black doctor, Nel Passo Lawrence Nixon, who never
Speaker 1: missed an election until the democratic controlled legislature in ninety
Speaker 1: three outlaws voting by black Texas. Nonetheless, he pays his
Speaker 1: poll tax the next year shows up. They say, Dr Nixon,
Speaker 1: you know we can't let you vote and he says,
Speaker 1: I know you can't, but I've got to try. For
Speaker 1: the next twenty years he fights this battle, a very
Speaker 1: lonely one, takes it to the Supreme Court, wins two
Speaker 1: signal victories there and by ninety four he's helped to
Speaker 1: integrate elections once again in Texas and has laid the
Speaker 1: path for lb j to work on and ultimately signed
Speaker 1: the Voting Rights Act into law in nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 1: So if that guy could do it against those odds,
Speaker 1: and who were we now in Texas who have inherited
Speaker 1: his sacrifice and his service and his struggle? We can't
Speaker 1: squander it. We have to build on it and make
Speaker 1: sure that we win it back. So in our campaign
Speaker 1: we're targeting the very voters who are themselves the targets
Speaker 1: of suppression intimidation, to bring them in and make them
Speaker 1: the margin of victory on election night. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: our democracy back. It's a both difficult monsters of trying
Speaker 1: well for the best of luck. Thank of Someonech for
Speaker 1: joining on the show and trapping them out to try
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