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Speaker 3: Welcome, Hey, fam You're about to hear a replay of

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Speaker 3: one of our interviews from our live stream at the

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Speaker 3: Democratic National Convention. If you want to listen to or

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Speaker 3: all the guests we interviewed.

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Speaker 4: Welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 1: We're welcoming to the stage Congressoman Maxine Waters. This is

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Speaker 1: a very special guest because she happens to be Angela

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Speaker 1: Rized Mentor, so this is an exciting time to have

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Speaker 1: her join. She's also the ranking member of the Financial

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Speaker 1: Services Committee in the House of Representatives. And when we

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Speaker 1: say ranking member, that's because Democrats do not control the

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Speaker 1: lower chamber in Congress right now.

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Speaker 4: So when should Democrats.

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Speaker 1: Take back the House, she will become the Chair of

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Speaker 1: Financial Services.

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Speaker 4: But what touches me about.

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Speaker 1: This moment, Angela, is that we are welcoming your mentor

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Speaker 1: to this set. And I know how much of this

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Speaker 1: moment must mean to you to have her.

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Speaker 3: Here, absolutely, and and and just so you all know,

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Speaker 3: as you see her walk up here in her stilettos.

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Speaker 2: She still got her.

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Speaker 3: She she put a little bag up.

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Speaker 5: She does her marches and her protests like this.

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Speaker 2: Honey, that's that's right, Queen. I'm good.

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Speaker 6: I'm absolutely enthused for the first time in a long time.

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Speaker 6: You know, I usually don't get excited, you know, I

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Speaker 6: usually don't get with the masses when they're talking about yeah,

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Speaker 6: ya yay, things are so good.

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Speaker 2: But I am inspired, you know, I really am.

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Speaker 6: And I feel like a cloud is being lifted because

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Speaker 6: Trump has been just such a nasty, dirty, deplorable human

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Speaker 6: being that he has caused us to build almost pressed

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Speaker 6: and so I feel that this cloud is being lifted

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Speaker 6: and we have an opportunity to go forward with some hope.

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Speaker 7: As an Ogmus Waters, you know, who has seen America

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Speaker 7: change so much throughout your lifetime. You know, how does

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Speaker 7: it feel as a black woman to see another black

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Speaker 7: woman in a position to potentially be the next brother?

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, I really do feel that change has

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Speaker 6: come about.

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Speaker 2: I really do think that we're in.

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Speaker 6: A period of time where we're seeing America face the

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Speaker 6: truth about the citizens of this country and the fact

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Speaker 6: that they have been excluded and denied. And you have competent, capable,

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Speaker 6: talented women men and women, but black women who have

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Speaker 6: really been undermined us consistently in this country now rising

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Speaker 6: to the position of power and influence. So I feel

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Speaker 6: really good about being a black woman right now.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know the thing that I think is so

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Speaker 3: important about this moment, congress Woman, is I've watched you

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Speaker 3: labor a long time, and before that you were still laboring.

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Speaker 3: You've done the work from divestment in apartheid in South

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Speaker 3: Africa to paving the way for moments like this. Yes,

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Speaker 3: do you feel like you can celebrate some of your work?

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Speaker 3: I know you're not done, but do you feel like,

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Speaker 3: you know what, I'm just gonna take this all in

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Speaker 3: because I know this wouldn't have happened without my contribution.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what I feel. I really do feel.

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Speaker 6: I want the young people to know and understand the

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Speaker 6: history from which we have come, and the struggles that

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Speaker 6: we have faced and the sacrifices that we have made. Oftentimes,

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Speaker 6: you know, they think that everything is new, that it's

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Speaker 6: just happening now, or because they have arrived. But I

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Speaker 6: am grateful for their arrival. But I want them to

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Speaker 6: know what has gone into them getting to this point.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I asked Secretary for it the same thing. And

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Speaker 7: I want to ask you as well, how different is

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Speaker 7: this moment now as opposed to twenty sixteen with Hillary.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think if the fact that it's a black

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Speaker 2: I never thought about the possibility of.

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Speaker 6: And so yes, Hillary was a woman and had women

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Speaker 2: Women, you know, hoping that she could be president.

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Speaker 6: But to have a black, capable, competent woman whose career

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Speaker 6: has led us to this point, who has done everything

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Speaker 6: anybody could have told her that she should have done

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Speaker 6: and it's like, you know, you can sit back and

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Speaker 2: But we're gonna keep on fighting for it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's it, Congresswoman. I'm across the hall over here. Well,

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Speaker 8: we've we've been joined by a woman, a guest to

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Speaker 4: I love it to be a movie I feel like.

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Speaker 8: But before before we get to the governor, I just

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Speaker 8: want to say, growing up in Florida and where I

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Speaker 8: grew up, I didn't have a black representative in Congress.

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Speaker 8: I didn't my my member of Congress uh uh was

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Speaker 8: but I was. I was a nerd and would watch

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Speaker 8: high school, and any time I would talk about my

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Speaker 8: member of Congress, I would name check you because you

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Speaker 8: were the voice for not just folks in southern California.

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Speaker 8: You were advocating for black folks all over the country.

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Speaker 8: When you took banks to task, when you took mortgage

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Speaker 8: lenders surceass, when you when you held folks accountable for

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Speaker 8: their racism, their redlining. You were doing that for everybody,

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Speaker 8: not just South Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 8: So we want to thank you for that dedicated service.

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Speaker 8: And now I want to ask you, because you're about

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Speaker 8: to be the chairwoman of the Financial Services Committee when

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Speaker 8: we take back the House of Representatives. I'm curious to

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Speaker 8: you just got to when you get there, that you're

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Speaker 8: going to be dismantling, raising up, expanding as you take leadership. There.

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Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, thank you so very much, Firt. Thank

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Speaker 6: you for thanking me for the work that I have done.

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Speaker 6: It was just part of what I signed up for,

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Speaker 6: and I enjoyed every minute of it, and no matter

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Speaker 6: the sacrifice, so the toughness, sometimes it was what.

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Speaker 2: I was prepared to do. But let me tell you, I.

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Speaker 6: Served as chair of the Financial Services Committee until we

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Speaker 6: Top on my agenda is housing. We have a housing

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Speaker 6: In this country, there are seven hundred and fifty three

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Speaker 6: a housing crisis in this country, and we can do better.

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Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, in addition to the bills

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Speaker 6: that I have one hundred and fifty billion dollar bill,

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Speaker 6: I've had a bill for three hundred and fifty billion dollars.

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Speaker 6: It was killed by cinema and mansion, but we now

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Speaker 6: We also have the President Biden who's already talking about

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Speaker 6: creating new units, affordable units, and doing something I never

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Speaker 6: not only in the inner cities, but they're in the

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Speaker 6: because it's needed everywhere. So that's one of my top priorities.

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Speaker 6: The second thing that we've got to do is we've

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Speaker 6: got to make sure that the banks and financial institutions

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Speaker 6: of this country, first of all, a paying the affair taxes.

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Speaker 6: Number two, that they're not ripping us off with predatory lending.

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Speaker 6: We've got to do more than we ever did with

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Speaker 6: the Dodd Frank reforms and make sure we bring them

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Speaker 6: in and we make sure that we move with diversity

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Speaker 6: c suites so that the influence that they can have

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Speaker 6: to make things right in some of our banks. We've

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Speaker 6: got some gangster banks, talk about oh absolutely.

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Speaker 2: And they're stealing from us every day. So I want

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Speaker 6: But we've got to move forward with AI, artificial intelligence,

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Speaker 6: cryptocurrency and all of these things that are new to

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Speaker 6: too mad to learn more about. And so it's a

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Speaker 6: lot of work that you have to do on financial services.

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Speaker 6: But I'm ready to do it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: Congress, are you saying I know that we that we

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Speaker 5: that we have not limited time because they have you

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Speaker 5: doing all the things. I see her team over here

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Speaker 5: and you're okay, they said, but Governor this as well.

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Speaker 1: So this is Governor Breten a big miss and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna make Angela a little jealous over here because I

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Speaker 1: got a gift.

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Speaker 4: I got the whole.

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Speaker 5: I got the whole, so I get to hold this.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the governor has very kindly brought us a gift.

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Speaker 4: This is the lip Bar.

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Speaker 1: It is a black owned business CEO Melissa Butler, who's

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Speaker 1: a friend a member of Delta Sigma Theta. They say,

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Speaker 1: A girl amazing, Yes, she has been so supportive.

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Speaker 4: To us, called big Gut brought. I love it. It's literally.

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Speaker 1: So thank you so much, Governor. We're so honored to

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Speaker 1: have you with us. You were the talk of the

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Speaker 1: I want to ask because we have a very diverse

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Speaker 1: President Harris as sind to this level. There is some

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Speaker 1: conversation about a divide among us as women. You know,

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Speaker 1: will white women consider thank you, Leonard. I appreciate that

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Speaker 1: white Let me real quick disclaimer.

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Speaker 4: I do not speak for all white women. This wait woman,

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Speaker 4: this white woman is so excited. My kids are excited.

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Speaker 9: I'm here with my two daughters, are twenty two and

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Speaker 9: twenty years old, and I remember driving to Philadelphia in

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Speaker 9: the twenty sixteen convention and my kids were in the backseate.

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Speaker 9: I thought, Oh my god, these girls have only known

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Speaker 9: eight years of a black president, and we're on the

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Speaker 9: cusp of a woman president. And these are two things

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Speaker 9: I never could conceive of growing up in this country.

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Speaker 9: And obviously twenty sixteen did not turn out the way

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Speaker 9: I was hoping it would. We're as excited, if not more,

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Speaker 9: about Kamala Harris and Tim Walls.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is a huge, huge.

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Speaker 9: Chapter in America leaders who And yes, I'm excited because

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Speaker 9: she's going to break the last very but I'm excited

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Speaker 9: because she is the most qualified kid. She is strong,

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Speaker 9: she has smart, she knows how to get shit done,

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Speaker 9: and she is the type of person who's lived a

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Speaker 4: You know, she's a normal person.

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Speaker 9: She took care of her mom at the end of

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Speaker 4: At the game, there's she's going to deliver.

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Speaker 9: And so I do think we can pull a lot

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Speaker 4: That's not the case, and.

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Speaker 9: We're going to pull people more people into the pold.

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Speaker 9: Right now, we're excited, we're feeling it. We got a

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Speaker 9: It is a dead heat right now, which is a

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Speaker 7: I want no one to ask that said she had

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Speaker 4: Well, hiring, we're on the ground in Michigan.

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Speaker 9: I don't think anyone's gone I was gonna get that.

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Speaker 9: No one's gonna take Michigan for granted. But you know,

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Speaker 9: doing that voter contact it's so important. We cannot write

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Speaker 4: No, we got to do the work. We got to

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Speaker 9: We got to earn people's support, and that is true

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I got a question for you and Queen Vaccine.

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Speaker 7: You know, we know that a lot of Republicans probably

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Speaker 2: Are y'all about that?

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Speaker 6: I'm very concerned that Trump has been able to put

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Speaker 2: Yes, I want to.

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Speaker 1: Because Charlie wrote up a point about a fumble in Michigan,

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Speaker 1: You know first hand, Governor, about the dangers of fanatics

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Speaker 1: also in twenty sixteen, the seventy five thousand votes out

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Speaker 4: Well, I am concerned about it. But I want to

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Speaker 9: We know, four years ago, when Donald Trump lost to

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Speaker 9: So we know the game that they want to play.

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Speaker 9: I'll just share this in twenty twenty two, I won

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Speaker 9: These are good strides we've made. All that being said,

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Speaker 4: It's still going to be a challenge, just going to

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Speaker 9: If any of our opponents had been in the position

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Speaker 8: I agree with you, Governor, and I think the beauty

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Speaker 8: as hopefully feel safe. My concern is, as you know,

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Speaker 4: Want a flaun.

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Speaker 2: You know, the rule of law.

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Speaker 8: You've got great secretary of State, so on and so forth.

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Speaker 8: I am having been in Florida in two thousand, come

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Speaker 2: Never be repeated.

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Speaker 8: We have got to be on guard. I think we've

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Speaker 8: And I just want to say you have been an

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Speaker 4: Straight in the face and letting them bring it.

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Speaker 9: I'm big wretch, was worried about making angry.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you so much come.

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Speaker 9: To Michigan as we get closer to this election.

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Speaker 4: We welcome you to do that.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, congress woman, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: We love you so much.

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