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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Breakfast club.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's the world's most dangerous wanting to show to

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Speaker 3: breakfast club. Charlamagne the God just hilarious. Envy is out

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Speaker 3: but laurn l Ross And we have the twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: eight presidential candidate and the governor of Maryland.

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Speaker 2: Wes moorees here. How are you my brother back man?

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be bad.

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Speaker 3: Good to have you back, man. How you feeling. First

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Speaker 3: of all, I'm feeling great. Okay, I'm feeling great, man.

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Speaker 1: Listen. And you know, contrary to everything else going on

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We continue pushing, I mean, honestly, like getting really big

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Speaker 2: I wanted to.

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Speaker 3: Talk to you about all of that because you know,

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Speaker 3: I know that you're implementing a lot of great things

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Speaker 3: in Maryland, and I wonder what could be replicated on

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Speaker 3: a national level to protect us from a lot of

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Speaker 3: things that this administration is doing that hurt working class

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing, I mean, I think right now

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Speaker 1: we're seeing you know, people you keep on talking about

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Speaker 1: what's the power of the president and how the presidency.

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Speaker 1: I think people all see right now, what's the power

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Speaker 1: of governors, what's the power of states? We have a

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Speaker 1: whole lot more authority than people sometimes give us credit for,

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Speaker 1: but frankly a whole lot more power and authority than

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Speaker 1: think a lot of governors understanding can take on. So,

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Speaker 1: for example, you know, Maryland has more exposure to these

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Speaker 1: federal cuts, the federal public service cuts that the Trump

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Speaker 1: come up with the most aggressive plan to be able

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Speaker 1: to say, how are we going to streamline and support

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Speaker 1: making sure that we can streamline them into available state

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Speaker 1: of thousands of vacancies when it comes to credentialed educators

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Speaker 1: health care facilities, because you're solving two problems, right, You're

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Speaker 1: You're creating jobs, right. So I look at how Maryland

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Speaker 1: has moved now in just these first months where Maryland

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Speaker 1: amongst the lowest unemployment rates in the entire country. Maryland

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Speaker 1: that we've had more federal cuts because the Trump administration

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Speaker 1: about how you getting new businesses on board, about how

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Speaker 1: you're supporting your small businesses, how you're supporting your minority

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Speaker 1: that's the thing. I think that's the kind of posture

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Speaker 3: Am how do you continue to do that if somebody

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Speaker 3: like Trump says, you know what, we're not sending no

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's the money come from.

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Speaker 2: He's done that, okay, So so where's the money coming from.

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Speaker 1: Well, the money comes from you're actually having to build

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Speaker 1: coalitions with the private sector, you're building coalitions with with

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Speaker 1: that you're being creative about who your partner is actually

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Speaker 1: going to be. So for example, you know, I've said

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Speaker 1: very clearly, we've got to make sure that we're focusing

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Speaker 1: we're doing is investing in new industries. You know, I

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Speaker 4: And you all be wondering why I act like that,

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Speaker 4: Me and him act the same way.

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Speaker 5: Now that was his version of Instagram Live.

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Speaker 1: You already know, you already know.

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Speaker 3: Now how would you How would you graide Trump's first

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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I don't even need to because I

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Speaker 1: talk to the people. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: They told me the grade.

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Speaker 1: When I'm talking to to the farmers in the Eastern

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Speaker 1: I talk to everybody who's going out to grocery stores

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Speaker 2: Now are out of a job.

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Speaker 1: Ask them how Trump is going. I'm say, how the

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Speaker 3: I'm no Joe Biden fan, but when I heard Trump

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Speaker 2: Well, that's just not true.

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Speaker 3: What would you say to people, because you know more

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Speaker 1: Listen, you can't when when the stock market jumps, you

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Speaker 1: You can't deploy, you deploy blame. That's not the way

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Speaker 1: this game goes. You know, when you're the chief executive,

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Speaker 1: you take the good and the bad. That's part of

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Speaker 1: the job. That's what leadership actually means. And you cannot

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Speaker 1: It's just it's fundamentally not true. And if Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump take on that same responsibility. I understand this

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Speaker 5: Things because I know you did the service your option. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: so you know, workforce is really important to you. But

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Speaker 5: going to heavily affect black people's right. So what initiatives

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Speaker 1: Are and you know, and we've actually been really aggressive

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Speaker 1: So we have to make sure that everybody knows that

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Speaker 1: That we've been able to pass not just the most

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Speaker 1: allocating capital to small businesses, black businesses. Over three billion

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Speaker 1: been the governor. Right, eighty six percent of all Maryland

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Speaker 2: You're you're from Maryland.

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Speaker 6: Maryland is leading right now with black excellent. Shout out

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Speaker 4: We got the C I double A. Is that continuing?

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Speaker 5: I'm not going to a lot of people said, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: Baltimore's got a better build up right now. Baltimore is

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Speaker 3: To baltimore'slother Nick's Fish House in Baltimore. They just showed

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Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out to interview with the governor, just because.

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Speaker 4: The only thing that can hurt you and Maryland right

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Speaker 7: About that Poland?

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Speaker 1: Is bad? I wish there was an executive board I could.

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Speaker 7: Sunt on that way.

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Speaker 2: You know what I love about Maryland.

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Speaker 3: A couple of months ago, I was in Maryland for

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Speaker 2: I was a what's that place called? Just National Harbor

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Speaker 3: And literally that's the first time people were coming up

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Speaker 2: Don't I don't know if I'm gonna have a job.

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Speaker 3: And these were just regular every day working class people

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Speaker 2: And so I was like damn man.

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Speaker 3: That's what really made me realize what they were doing

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Speaker 1: And what they're doing is illegal. Yes, I mean, listen,

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Speaker 2: Well, no, they already I mean a lot of them

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Speaker 1: The need completely benefiting completely benthany do you I.

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Speaker 3: Have conversations like that? Is it worth you calling them

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Speaker 1: And we need in this moment, we need leaders to lead.

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Speaker 1: That's what we need. And that's again one of the

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 3: When you see the power that Trump wields, right like

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Speaker 2: Like, neither did I.

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Speaker 3: So when you see the kind of power that he wills,

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I Actually, I think the things that

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Speaker 1: You know. I keep a clock that sits on my

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: You got six hundred and thirty four days right now

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Speaker 2: Right, that's why Jess was off for so long that

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Speaker 1: But but this is real. This is a this is

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Speaker 2: She was Jamaican, right, that's right, Yeah, that's common for

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Speaker 1: I was eleven years old when I had handcuffs on

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Speaker 1: very seriously. And frankly, I didn't need Donald Trump to

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Speaker 1: You know for the past two years.

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Speaker 6: What are your thoughts on Trump not wanting to bring

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Speaker 4: I was the guy that was wrong to report it.

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Speaker 1: And here's the thing for me, this actually has nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with immigration, because people will talk about this

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Speaker 1: is a you know, I love what he's doing right, immigration,

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Speaker 1: I said, well, first of all, if Donald Trump really

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Speaker 1: wanted to fix immigration, he could do it simply by

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Speaker 1: calling up Speaker Johnson and saying, I need a comprehensive

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Speaker 1: immigration bill on my desk next week. And you know

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Speaker 1: we'll be on his desk next week, a comprehensive of

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Speaker 1: immigration built. Because Donald Trump is the votes, he's got

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Speaker 1: the House, and he's got the Senate. This has nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with immigration. This just simply has to do

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Speaker 1: with violating the constitution.

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Speaker 2: That's what this is.

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Speaker 1: And so when I think about the case of Abregio Garcia,

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Speaker 1: my point is this due process matters in this. He

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Speaker 1: needs to come home, he needs to stand trial and

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Speaker 1: then let a judge decide what is what the long

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Speaker 1: term what you know, what is what is what is

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Speaker 1: long term? You know a situation is going to be

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Speaker 1: not Donald Trump. You know, if they say, well he

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Speaker 1: was doing X, Y and Z okay, fine, let him

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Speaker 1: come home, let him stand trial, and let him do

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Speaker 1: what basic due process offers to every single person. And

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Speaker 1: if all of that determined is true, then absolutely he

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Speaker 1: should then face consequences and face the sentencing. But but

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Speaker 1: not because Donald Trump looked at a photoshop picture and

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Speaker 1: said this is going to be his fate because that

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Speaker 1: is a very very dangerous slippery slope. And so my

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Speaker 1: whole thing is this, just follow the Constitution, follow due process,

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Speaker 1: and follow what the Supreme Court in a nine zero

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Speaker 1: decision said that he needs to come home and stand trial.

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Speaker 1: I just I stand with the law on thiss and

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Speaker 1: I stand with the Constitution correct me.

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Speaker 3: On some things, right because they mister Garcia has acknowledged

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Speaker 3: that he entered the US illegally in twenty twelve, So

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Speaker 3: was he he.

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Speaker 1: Was here illegally, that's he was undocumented, That's right.

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Speaker 3: So if he's undocumented, does the Constitution still apply to him?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, there's still constitutional protections, okay, and and and

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Speaker 1: not only and especially because what he is being held

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Speaker 1: for or tried for right now are things that he

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Speaker 1: has not not only not been convicted for, not even

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Speaker 1: had a formal accusation of. So this is the problem,

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Speaker 1: is that so Donald Trump right now is trying to

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Speaker 1: rewrite the Constitution. Donald Trump right now is violating the

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Speaker 1: Constitution by not allowing him to come home and have

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Speaker 1: due process. So yes, so the constitution still offers, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, still offers what is the guidance around the

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Speaker 1: federal government's responsibility, around states responsibility, and that still does

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Speaker 1: fall under the situation of Killbergo Garcia.

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Speaker 3: I think that's what's missing in this whole conversation, the

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Speaker 3: fact that, you know, Martin Luther King Jr. Said an

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Speaker 3: injustice anywhere as a threat to justice everywhere. So if

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Speaker 3: you see somebody not receiving due process when they're supposed to,

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Speaker 3: that could impact any of us at any given time.

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Speaker 3: And none of us want to just be snatched off

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Speaker 3: the street and the port it to another country just

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Speaker 3: because and.

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Speaker 1: And and listen, here's the danger today. It's k Abergio Garcia.

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Speaker 1: Who is it tomorrow, Laura Larrosa.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god name.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm just saying it couldn't be saying. I'm

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Speaker 2: using an example and you.

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Speaker 6: I'm trying to try to get him, and you can't

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Speaker 6: tell them that you're from Dela because they like, oh please,

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Speaker 6: nobody's gonna even respect then why would y'all put me

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Speaker 6: in it?

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Speaker 2: No, but we're just using it as an example. It

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Speaker 2: could be anybody.

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Speaker 7: Charlie Magne the guy, but it could be anything.

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Speaker 5: He's coming for you, for me, did you watch the

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Speaker 5: interview that when Trump sat down with Terry Morin.

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Speaker 1: I didn't watch the whole thing, okay.

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Speaker 5: But did you see the part I said, the tattoo thing,

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Speaker 5: because they were going back and forth about the tattoos

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Speaker 5: or whatever. When you see stuff like that, because then

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Speaker 5: media picks it up the other way and uses these

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Speaker 5: tattoos that Trump that there's evidence that doesn't support what

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Speaker 5: Trump is saying, but they use it as a well,

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Speaker 5: he deserved what he got and how do how do

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Speaker 5: you guys in the government didn't fight that because the

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Speaker 5: public opinion sways so much.

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Speaker 1: It's I didn't see the whole interview. I saw I

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Speaker 1: did see clips of it, and I saw that part.

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Speaker 1: And what's really sad to me is it isn't just

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Speaker 1: the fact that we have a president of the United

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Speaker 1: States who is literally buying into conspiracy theories, uh and

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Speaker 1: and photoshop pictures in front of our eyes. What really

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Speaker 1: also bothers me about it is it's the people around

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Speaker 1: him who enable this. Is the people around him who

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Speaker 1: tell them this is true. The people around him will

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Speaker 1: feed him these pictures and say, yes, mister president, you

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Speaker 1: know he had MS thirteen on his knuckles when he didn't.

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Speaker 1: And so it's and this goes back to and this

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Speaker 1: goes back to the idea that in many ways, this

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Speaker 1: has nothing actually to do with kill Marlburgo Garcia. This

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Speaker 1: has nothing even to do with his situation. This just

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Speaker 1: simply has to do with are we willing to follow

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Speaker 1: the law? We Are we a country of laws? Or

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Speaker 1: are we now a country where president of the United

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Speaker 1: States gets to pick and choose which laws we follow,

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Speaker 1: which laws we don't. Are we a country that actually

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Speaker 1: follows the constitution? Are a country that listens when the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court and a unanimous decision. And let me be clear,

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Speaker 1: this Supreme Court hardly ever decides anything.

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Speaker 2: Is Trump's card exactly, this is Trump's card. He put

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Speaker 2: three people on nine zero.

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Speaker 1: The man needs to come home and stand trial. And

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Speaker 1: we have a we have an administration right now that's

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Speaker 1: literally using the Constitution as a suggestion box, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So that's fundamentally the problem and what

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Speaker 1: we continue to, you know, deal with, and the fact

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Speaker 1: that the relationship between the federal government and our states

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Speaker 1: really has been ruptured.

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Speaker 3: So when you run for president in twenty twenty eight,

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Speaker 3: I am not run when you run for president in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight, and and Trump runs again for his

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Speaker 3: third term, what if the point of even running.

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Speaker 2: Because you know it's just gonna be all for.

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Speaker 3: Show wes like you know it, because because literally the

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Speaker 3: thing that bothers me the most is people are normalizing

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Speaker 3: that conversation like Trump running for a third ten.

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Speaker 2: Well, then Obama can run it. If Trump runs for

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Speaker 2: a third term, it's over. The fight is fixed.

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Speaker 1: We notice I am so one, I'm not running, okay,

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Speaker 1: But also I also believe that anyone who's talking about

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight is really delusional because they don't understand

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Speaker 1: what's going on in twenty twenty. I agree. I think

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Speaker 1: anybody is talking about twenty twenty eight right now doesn't

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Speaker 1: understand the situation we are in right now, where we

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Speaker 1: have people who are getting laid off, who have devoted

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Speaker 1: their life to public service, who are getting laid off

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Speaker 1: because someone who wasn't willing to take the same oath

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Speaker 1: that they took now tells them their job is useless.

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Speaker 1: Right that, we have situations where we have small businesses,

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Speaker 1: some cases generational small businesses that are going to go

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Speaker 1: out of business simply because we have these arbitrary tariff

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Speaker 1: policies that have nothing to do with economics but have

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Speaker 1: everything to do with ideology. Right that we have that

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Speaker 1: we have children who rely on the Department of Education,

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Speaker 1: kids who are you know, children who are receiving special

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Speaker 1: needs right, kids who are in rural areas and parts

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Speaker 1: of my state, who now are going to watch their

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Speaker 1: funding not just cut, but in many ways evaporated, because

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Speaker 1: we have a president of the United States who somehow

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Speaker 1: believes the Department of Education is not important anymore. Right. So,

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Speaker 1: I think for anyone who's talking about twenty twenty eight

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Speaker 1: or trying to make moves for twenty twenty eight, my

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Speaker 1: answer is this, I really hope you wake up and

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Speaker 1: realize the world we're living in right now and understanding

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Speaker 1: what's at stake.

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Speaker 3: I think that they're talking about twenty twenty eight because

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Speaker 3: they really don't have any plans for now, Like they

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Speaker 3: don't even they've never seen this before, right, and they

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Speaker 3: don't know how to fight it.

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Speaker 2: So they're just resorting back.

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Speaker 3: To what they know, which is the next election midterms

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six, you know, presidential election in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: But that's why I think leadership matters, right, And that's

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Speaker 1: why I think that's why I'm really proud of the

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Speaker 1: work that we're doing inside of the State of Maryland,

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Speaker 1: Because in the State of Maryland, we basically just said,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna lead regardless, and our state's gonna

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Speaker 1: lead regardless. And so when you're looking at the momentum

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Speaker 1: that we now have within the State of Maryland, the

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Speaker 1: fact that we have gone from a structural deficit to

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Speaker 1: a structural surplus, that for the first time in ten years,

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Speaker 1: we're watching labor force participation actually increase, and new jobs,

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Speaker 1: new business starts actually increasing in the State of Maryland

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Speaker 1: for the first time in ten years. The fact that

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Speaker 1: we are watching new partnerships and new builds, things like

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Speaker 1: the service Yeer option, you know, things like making sure

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Speaker 1: that we're giving people second chances when they're coming back home,

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Speaker 1: like that kind of stuff matters because I think people.

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Speaker 1: One thing I always learned in the military was this,

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Speaker 1: no one pays attention to how you perform when times

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Speaker 1: are easy, because when you're easy, you can show me anything.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you ever want to learn anything about anybody,

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Speaker 1: watch them when it was hard, right, Watch them when

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Speaker 1: it was tough. Watch them when the heat got turned up.

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Speaker 1: Watch them. Did they curl up in the fetal position

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Speaker 1: and just sit there and take it, or did they

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Speaker 1: actually mobilize? And I think what you're seeing in the

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Speaker 1: state of Maryland. When we knew we had this crisis,

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Speaker 1: for example, of violence, that I walked into and saying,

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Speaker 1: I refuse to be a governor that will just sit

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Speaker 1: there and attend funerals and offer thoughts and prayers while

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Speaker 1: my people are dying on the streets, right And so

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Speaker 1: we came in and we said we were going to

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Speaker 1: have the most aggressive push to be able to curtail

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Speaker 1: violence in our state. And now Maryland has amongst the

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Speaker 1: fastest drops and violence anywhere in the country. When we

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Speaker 1: saw what happened in the Key Bridge, when we saw

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Speaker 1: a ship the size of three football field slam into

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Speaker 1: the Key Bridge, knocking out the port of Baltimore, and

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Speaker 1: when people said it's going to take eleven months to

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Speaker 1: be able to clear the channel, when we got together,

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Speaker 1: we supported those families of the six people who we

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Speaker 1: lost that day, and we got that channel cleared in

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Speaker 1: eleven weeks. And when we watch this onsot, we're now

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Speaker 1: standing from the Trump administration where it is very clear

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Speaker 1: my state has become public imming number one for these folks.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 1: Why is it because of you? Well, I think boss

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Speaker 1: is a lot of proximity. And just look at the

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Speaker 1: decisions that they're making when you're going out, when you're

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Speaker 1: going after the NIH the National Suit of Health, when

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Speaker 1: you're going after Social Security, right, you know what those

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Speaker 1: also are. In addition to things that are that are

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Speaker 1: some of America's crown jewels, they are also Maryland assets.

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Speaker 1: When you stand up there to press conference and say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the FBI building, which by the way, was going to

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Speaker 1: be responsible for about four billion dollars of economic activities,

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Speaker 1: seven thousand jobs, something that we worked on for a

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Speaker 1: decade independent of politics, and Maryland won that bid fair

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Speaker 1: and square. And to watch a present in the United

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Speaker 1: States in a press conference stand up there and say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's not going to the state of Maryland because they

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Speaker 1: are a liberal state. At least he showed it. At

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Speaker 1: least he showed himself.

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Speaker 2: Have you have you met him yet? Have you all spoken?

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Speaker 2: We have, okay, and we have all those conversations like, uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're interesting.

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Speaker 2: You never see the photo. Ops, you stay away from

662
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Speaker 2: the cameras when you were around him.

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Speaker 1: Huh, well, no, you know, it's funny. I actually I

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Speaker 1: actually met with him during the Army Navy game, because

665
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Speaker 1: you know, because I go to the Army Navy game

666
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Speaker 1: every almost every year, and when he came to the

667
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Speaker 1: Army Navy game last year, we had a chance to

668
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Speaker 1: meet and we talked about the bridge, and I explained

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Speaker 1: to him why the one hundred percent financing, why the

670
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Speaker 1: cost share for the bridge was so important, because this

671
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Speaker 1: was a port that really serves the entire country, that

672
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Speaker 1: this was a unique situation because we are currently in

673
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Speaker 1: litigation the reason that the porter, the reason that the

674
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Speaker 1: the Key Bridge collapsed was not because of an act

675
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Speaker 1: of God or because of a storm. It was because

676
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Speaker 1: of negligence, because the ship the size of three football

677
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: field slammed into it. Right, and we're currently litigation, and

678
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Speaker 1: so the American people are going to be made whole

679
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Speaker 1: on that. So I walked them through it. I talked

680
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Speaker 1: about the economics. I was thankful that Congress actually passed

681
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent cost share, and so we're in the

682
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Speaker 1: process right now making sure we're going to fulfill the

683
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Speaker 1: commitment to the American people. But I've met with him

684
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Speaker 1: before and again, I will work with anybody. But partnership

685
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: only works when it's both ways. Partnership doesn't work when

686
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Speaker 1: you're given and you're getting nothing back in return.

687
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard you talk about the importance of finding

688
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 3: common ground with the Trump administration, But when you think

689
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Speaker 3: about all the moves that they've currently made, what opportunities

690
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Speaker 3: do you see for y'all to collab?

691
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Speaker 2: I don't, I can't see it.

692
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Speaker 1: Partnership only works when it's both ways. And if you're

693
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Speaker 1: coming after my people, you're if you're literally trying to

694
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Speaker 1: creator our economy, that's not partnership. And so it's just very,

695
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Speaker 1: very difficult to be able to say that this administration

696
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: has been a good part and forget about to me,

697
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: to my people, to the people of Maryland. And I

698
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: think when you go around the state of Maryland, you

699
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: you will hear exactly what I am saying. There is

700
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Speaker 1: a level of frustration that people have right now about

701
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: the situation where where we as a state are actually moving,

702
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Speaker 1: not because of our relationship with the federal government, but

703
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: in many ways, in spite.

704
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Speaker 6: Of you signed into the second look in the expungement

705
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Speaker 6: reform right, and some people feel that expungeon records may

706
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Speaker 6: heighten the sense like heighten the public safety, you know,

707
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Speaker 6: giving people giving some people a second chance, and you

708
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Speaker 6: give some criminals a second chance, they feel like, you know,

709
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Speaker 6: they're gonna make it.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna make it hard for certain people who are

711
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Speaker 4: hard for.

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Speaker 2: Those you know what I mean, Like.

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Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, a lot of times that's

714
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Speaker 6: the case. A lot of times it's not What would

715
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Speaker 6: you say to the people that feel that way?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, first, I would say, I understand the

717
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Speaker 1: concern of something. I also know this, like I'm a

718
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Speaker 1: I'm a child of God, and my faith teaches me

719
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Speaker 1: that that we we believe in second chances and we

720
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Speaker 1: should offer second chances. I also know that when you

721
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Speaker 1: look at things like the Second Chance Act, Uh, not

722
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Speaker 1: only are there there's certain crimes that are not eligible

723
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Speaker 1: for for the second for the for the Second Chance Act.

724
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Speaker 1: So so there are some specific carbouts about you know,

725
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Speaker 1: people who it's you know, when it's had something dealing

726
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: with you know, sexual assault, dealing with children or you know,

727
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: you you know, something to deal with law enforcement. So

728
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Speaker 1: there's certain things that do not fall into the category.

729
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Speaker 1: But also with the Second Chance Act does do it

730
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Speaker 1: says it's not saying it's automatic that you happen. It's

731
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Speaker 1: just simply saying you have a chance to petition, to

732
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Speaker 1: have a second chance and have a second look. And

733
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Speaker 1: so it's just simply giving an opportunity for people who

734
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: in many ways, uh you know, have have now been

735
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Speaker 1: caught up in this system for a long period of time.

736
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Speaker 1: And for us to say that that you know that

737
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Speaker 1: that we don't believe that every sentence should be a

738
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Speaker 1: life sentence, and that again, my faith does teach me

739
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Speaker 1: that second chances should actually mean something and there should

740
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Speaker 1: be pathways for it in in in certain cases, and

741
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Speaker 1: people should have again just the opportunity to petition. This

742
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Speaker 1: is not automatic, but it is the opportunity to petition.

743
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Speaker 1: And I do think for the people who then will

744
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Speaker 1: then qualify these are people who are ready to enter

745
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Speaker 1: back into society and be contributing members to society.

746
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Speaker 3: You know, if people forget about the the second chance,

747
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Speaker 3: if you get the number after that three the three

748
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Speaker 3: strake law two.

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Speaker 2: Kamerlynd doesn't have a three strake law right.

750
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Speaker 1: Well, and here's the thing, it's like we have to

751
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: who of us haven't needed second chances?

752
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Speaker 2: And if you mess that up, that's on you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm like again, I'm a person who is

754
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Speaker 1: needed second and third and eighth chances, and it's because

755
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Speaker 1: people gave me a second chance. It's because people help

756
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Speaker 1: me to understand that the world was bigger than what

757
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: was just directly in front of me, and that not

758
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: all of my prior decisions helped to determine my future.

759
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Speaker 1: That I'm now standing here as a sixty third governor

760
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Speaker 1: of my state. Right, I believe in second chances, and

761
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: I believe that people should earn the right to be

762
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: able to have a second chance as long as you

763
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: have those certain things that are in place, and people

764
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Speaker 1: should have the right to petition for it. And so

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Speaker 1: I just find it really you know, at times when

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Speaker 1: i'm people when people like no, no, no, no no,

767
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Speaker 1: I just find it really rich because for a lot

768
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Speaker 1: of times the people who are like no, no, no, no, no,

769
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Speaker 1: who are people who are standing there because someone in

770
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Speaker 1: their life said.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sure, talking of second chances.

772
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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: Going back to Kim Mark Garcia, so I know that

774
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Speaker 5: Senator Holland is like he went and visited Salvador, and

775
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 5: people were upset that you quickly said that you weren't

776
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,359
Speaker 5: planning to go there. Why were people upset about you

777
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 5: not going there when you already have boots on the ground.

778
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and that's thing I was. I've been

779
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: in very close touch with Senator van Holland. I applauded

780
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Speaker 1: him when he went. We spoke before before or before

781
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Speaker 1: he went, and so you know, I know that as

782
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Speaker 1: a member of the Senate, there are certain responsibilities and

783
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Speaker 1: there's certain uh, there's certain uh uh pathways that they

784
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: have that I, as a governor, do not. That they

785
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: have certain jobs that they can do. As a governor,

786
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: there's certain I know my job is different. Uh. We

787
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: have always been completely aligned on making sure that due

788
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: process is followed, making sure that we can bring kill

789
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: Maarr back home so he can then stand trial. And

790
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Speaker 1: so I've been saying in lockstep with Center van Holland

791
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: the whole time. I applauded him going down and making

792
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Speaker 1: sure that he could come back and report back to

793
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: the family that he had that he put eyes on him,

794
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,760
Speaker 1: uh and said that he's that he's that he's physically okay.

795
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: Because remember when Chris went down there. Nobody was sure

796
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: because no one had heard from him. And so Chris

797
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: going down there to say I now have seen him,

798
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: I know he's okay. Was a really important thing, not

799
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: just for the large society, but it was really important

800
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: for the family. But I also know as a governor,

801
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: I have certain responsibilities and restrictions on things that I

802
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: can do, and I'm going to make sure that we're

803
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: leading from from the perks that I said.

804
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Speaker 3: I think I think you'll have to stop making it

805
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 3: about Garcia and just start making it about making it

806
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 3: about the issue of due process.

807
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Speaker 1: That's all it is.

808
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, because people because it's too you know, they love

809
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 3: to do that at to folks. The point the things

810
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 3: in his character and we I really don't know, but

811
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 3: let's talk about the constitutional violation that's happened.

812
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Speaker 1: And Chelman, you're absolu right, because I'm not. I am

813
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 1: not and I won't defend him.

814
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 2: I don't know.

815
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Speaker 1: His situation, I don't know his background, I don't know

816
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: I have never met with him. So I'm not defending

817
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 1: the person. I'm defending the constitution, right, I'm defending the

818
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: fact that there is due process and we've got to

819
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: be able to follow that. And frankly, once due process

820
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: happens again, if a judge rules that no, you know,

821
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: he is a threat to side, he is this, he

822
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: is that he needs to be set back, then you

823
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: know what, go ahead. Because there is nothing that I

824
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: care about more and I think people are saying that

825
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: with our track record in Maryland, there's nothing I care

826
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: more about than public safety. Like I make sure that

827
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: our people are safe. I will make sure we have

828
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 1: made historic investments in local law enforcement. We have made

829
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: historic investments, and not just our state's attorneys, but also

830
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: Maryland's one of the only states that actually puts balance

831
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: sheet into the US Attorney to make sure we're getting

832
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: trigger pollers off the street, to make sure we're getting

833
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: violent offenders off the street. That we've made historic investments

834
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: in violence prevention programs and violence interrupts, you know, people

835
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: like we are us and safe streets that are down

836
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. So no one can ever question my commitment

837
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: to public safety. But also I think you can be

838
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: committed to public safety and committed to the Constitution, and

839
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Speaker 1: I don't think that those two things are at odds

840
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Speaker 1: with one another.

841
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Speaker 3: I got two more questions because I know you gotta go.

842
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 3: I love the fact that governors have their boots on

843
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 3: the ground. And I saw Governor Jos Shapiro on Bill

844
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 3: Maher and I forgot what Bill asked him, but he

845
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 3: was just like, look, I'm not focused on what they

846
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 3: got going on in DC. I'm focused on what I

847
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 3: got going on in Pennsylvania. So I like that, how

848
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 3: do we keep you from being a corny DC type

849
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:13,280
Speaker 3: in DC?

850
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 1: So corny man, listen, you know the You know how

851
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: I guess is I didn't come from that. You know

852
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, like, listen, when when I first

853
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: ran for governor, I ran against statewide elected officials. I

854
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: ran against cabinet secretaries, the former head of the DNC,

855
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 1: the former head of the Democratic Party ran for governor,

856
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: and then me, guy who'd never run for office for

857
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: my life. But I was connected to the people, right.

858
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: It was the people that made me the governor. It

859
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 1: wasn't a party, it wasn't a political establishment. In fact,

860
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,439
Speaker 1: the political stablishing wanted somebody else. So when I got

861
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: into that seat, I decided, I'm not going to turn

862
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 1: into something that I never was in the first place.

863
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, so the way I have

864
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: continued to lead is I'm about the people. I will

865
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: always stand with the people. A political party does not

866
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 1: give me my talking points.

867
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Speaker 3: Good, don't let them change you, because you know they're

868
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 3: already talking about you in twenty twenty eight and they'll

869
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 3: be like, well's come over and start saying this, and

870
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 3: start doing that, and meet this person and take money

871
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 3: from this person.

872
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 2: And then you know what I mean, Like, I don't.

873
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't play that game because I didn't

874
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: get here. That's not how I got here in the

875
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: first place. Man, Or like I mean, like I'm I am,

876
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: I am. I am the most improbable governor in this

877
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: country when you think about my journey, right, when you

878
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 1: think about my life path, and you know, and and

879
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: and again, I'm a person of faith. And Hezekiah Walker, No,

880
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: he's got a line he says, when I think about

881
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 1: my story, I can't help but give God glory. There

882
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: you go. I know where my strength comes from. My

883
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: strength doesn't come from a political party. My strength don't

884
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,439
Speaker 1: come from political bosses. I don't. I don't.

885
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 2: I don't.

886
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,399
Speaker 1: I don't follow that. I follow the people that got

887
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,760
Speaker 1: me here in the first place the people who bucked

888
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 1: the political system, which was the people. And so I'm

889
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: not at all concerned about becoming a creature of something

890
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: that didn't create me in the first place. And actually,

891
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: I think that the main thing that people can do

892
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: right now is stay true and stay committed and stay authentic.

893
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: You know, when people say, well, what direction should people

894
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: go in or how should people talk or whatever like that,

895
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: I always find that question so confusing. I'm like, be authentic,

896
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: because if you're not authentic, the people will suss it out,

897
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: and the people will snuff it out, and they'll take

898
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: care of you the way they take care of you.

899
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 3: My final question, this is something that I love about you.

900
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 3: Is something that doctor Lumar Johnson loves about you, the

901
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 3: fact that.

902
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 2: You have a black woman.

903
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 3: Because so many people in positions of power like you

904
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 3: and government, especially black people, they don't.

905
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 2: Now, love is love, love who you want to love.

906
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 3: But as a man who loves to see black men

907
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 3: with black women, and I have a beautiful black families.

908
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 2: I love it. What is the importance to that.

909
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: You know, It's funny when when I got married we're

910
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: married now, but eighteen years my wife, she's beautiful, man,

911
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: and she's just an amazing human being. And I remember

912
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: when we said our vows. This shows you how corny

913
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 1: I was when we first got we give our vows,

914
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know my vows. I'm gonna keep

915
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: it fresh and sexy.

916
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, I'm gonna keep that sound like someone fly

917
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 2: a party Baltimore.

918
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,919
Speaker 1: But you know what he was to me. She said,

919
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: I will be your greatest defender. I will be your

920
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: greatest defender. That's what Black women are and that's what

921
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: they've always been. Like I'm telling you, man, when you

922
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: think about what black women have meant to us, you know,

923
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,959
Speaker 1: the whole you know, we was you know, raised by women.

924
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 1: A game came from women, you know what I'm saying. Like,

925
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: Black women have always been our anchor. Black women have

926
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 1: always been our guide. Black women have always been the

927
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 1: ones to when the whole world denied us, they defended

928
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: us and they lifted us up. And you know, and

929
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: I think about this where even the work that we're

930
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: doing right now in Maryland around our young men and boys,

931
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: do you know who beautifully have been some of the

932
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: greatest champions of the work that Maryland is doing that

933
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: really the nation leading work on supporting our young men

934
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: and boys women because they know that's talking about their

935
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: sons and their husbands and their fathers and their uncles

936
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: and their friends. And it's so beautiful to watch because

937
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: it is very indicative of how Black women and women

938
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: as a whole have always been our greatest defenders. That

939
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 1: when the whole world came at us, oftentimes it was

940
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 1: women who stood in front of us with shields and

941
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: say not today. And I'm so i cannot be more

942
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: lucky about the fact that I've married my best friend.

943
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: I married someone who I love and who I respect

944
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 1: and who I adore, and someone who you know, I'm

945
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: so thankful is on my side because I never want

946
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: to be on the other side of her spirit ever,

947
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 1: but someone who I am who.

948
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 3: I would ride for because she's always wroth.

949
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 2: Oh my god, beautiful.

950
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,320
Speaker 5: She's the first African American first lady to say she is.

951
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 1: She sure is, she sure is. She's a beast too,

952
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: She's a beast. Y'all gotta come down, y'all gonna come.

953
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 4: In fact, you're gonna have crabs if we come.

954
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely absolutely. And in fact, she is the co

955
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: chair of the Prignance festival, so for y'all, so you know,

956
00:43:50,520 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: you know, pregnant, so pregnant, pret pregnant. The second Yes,

957
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: it's a second leg of the Triple Crown, one of

958
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 1: the biggest horse races inside of the entire country. But

959
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: it's but it's also it's a big deal because it's

960
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: a whole festival around it and it's in beautiful Park Heights, Baltimore,

961
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: the home of Brandon Scott. But my, but my amazing wife,

962
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: our States First Lady is the coach chair. You got

963
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: to see what she is doing the build out. She's

964
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: having club quarantine. Uh d Nice is coming down there,

965
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: bringing a bringing, Jada kids, bringing too short, I mean,

966
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 1: bring everybody from seventeenth.

967
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:36,280
Speaker 4: Yes, I'll be there at me fourteenth, full week of stuff.

968
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 3: Well, right, Governor Westmore, thank you brother. We appreciate you man.

969
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 3: We love the work you're doing in Maryland, and I mean,

970
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 3: you know, somebody need to replicate it on the national stage.

971
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 3: And I hope that you know, somebody gets the opportunity

972
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 3: to so, because I don't know if we will have

973
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 3: a democracy in twenty twenty eight or night, but we'll see,

974
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 3: oh we.

975
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: Will, as long as we don't as all, we're gonna

976
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: forfeit it. Yeah, now that's what I'm saying, like like,

977
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: I mean, like we have to understan and it's like

978
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: the power does belong to the people. That's the beauty

979
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: of where we're at right now. And I'll say this

980
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: one thing for our close too, And this is why Maryland,

981
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: I think actually is really important in this situation. I'm

982
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: a big I'm a big history buff, so like, especially

983
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,760
Speaker 1: in really difficult times, I generally tend to lean on history,

984
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: and I like a lot of Maryland history, and you know,

985
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 1: in really difficult times like now, I'll read about famous

986
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: Marylanders like Harriet Tubman or Frederick Douglass or Third Good Marshall,

987
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: And I think to myself, imagine having a conversation with

988
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: Harriet Tubman, who, by the way, one of the great

989
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 1: things about being governor is I have the power to commission.

990
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: And I made Harriet Tubman a general last year, so

991
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,800
Speaker 1: she's now General Harriet Tubman. And I think about what

992
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: would a conversation be like with General Tubman telling her

993
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: about the dangers of this moment. And I think about

994
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: the way she would look at me and say, do

995
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 1: you know what I've been through. M hmm. Do you

996
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 1: know what it was like when I had to run

997
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: from my life for my freedom in the middle of

998
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: the night, running from dogs and people were guns. And

999
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:11,800
Speaker 1: then when I finally made it to Pennsylvania and I

1000
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: got my freedom, I then decided to go back to

1001
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: bring more people and where she became one of the

1002
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: greatest conductors in the underground railroad.

1003
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:21,879
Speaker 2: Right.

1004
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: And I think to myself, what a conversation where Harriet

1005
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 1: Tubtan will be like telling her how tough my job is,

1006
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: how difficult we've got it, and watch her look at

1007
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: me and say I would have shot him.

1008
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, why are you arguing with people in Congress.

1009
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: In the middle of the night. Not get what you

1010
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, but like, let's let's not

1011
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 1: forget where we come from, Like for all these people like,

1012
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: oh this is tough, and oh this please don't forget

1013
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,959
Speaker 1: our history. Please don't forget our ancestors. Please don't forget

1014
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: what they had to go through. And listen, you know,

1015
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: as Kate I says, we're gonna be.

1016
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:14,320
Speaker 2: Don't take the Harriet tell meing thing out of context.

1017
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 2: That was a nice black joke.

1018
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 7: We're not trying to shoot anybody, Okay, think about exactly.

1019
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 4: But you know, tell okay, I know you gotta go.

1020
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 4: Do you listen to Votto?

1021
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 2: Shut up jes. Thank you, appreciate you, We thank you

1022
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:44,720
Speaker 2: for coming. Governor west Moll Wake up in the morning

1023
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club