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Speaker 1: Trump. I'm gonna come.
Speaker 4: We all know Donald Trump isn't a details kind of guy.
Speaker 4: We elected him to come up with big, brilliant ideas
Speaker 4: like renaming the Gulf of Mexico. No one else could
Speaker 4: have thought of that or should have thought of that.
Speaker 4: But it's okay that he's not big on details because
Speaker 4: during the campaign he promised us that he.
Speaker 5: Knew a guy.
Speaker 6: I'm going to appoint Elon Musk, who's a fantastic guy
Speaker 6: to lead a government efficiency commission tasked with saving trillions
Speaker 6: of dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse. We have tremendous
Speaker 6: feat tremendous fet.
Speaker 5: Don't take the bait? Does he don't take the bait?
Speaker 5: Be the bigger person, Be the bigger person.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's right.
Speaker 4: Elon Musk, the world's richest man and guy who cheers
Speaker 4: in the wrong parts of saving private Ryan. He promised
Speaker 4: us that he'd give Elon full access to the federal government,
Speaker 4: pull it to the side, and get all up in it.
Speaker 4: And unlike his wedding vows, this is a promise he kept.
Speaker 7: Elon musk sweeping push to make over the federal government,
Speaker 7: sparking democratic panic and warnings of a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 8: Now we have learned that his team has gained access
Speaker 8: to something extraordinarily sensitive, the system that the Treasury Department
Speaker 8: uses to disperse almost every check and expenditure of any
Speaker 8: kind made by the US government.
Speaker 7: That is a vast database with millions of americans personal
Speaker 7: information on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Elon Musk has access to your Social Security number.
Speaker 5: And that is not cool.
Speaker 4: If you want our personal data, Elon, you go buy
Speaker 4: it off the dark web like everyone else. Okay, Now
Speaker 4: you might be thinking, I don't want white nationalist Tony
Speaker 4: Stark to have sole control of the inner workings of
Speaker 4: the federal government. But relax, it's not just Elon. He
Speaker 4: has a fully equipped team.
Speaker 7: Longtime government employees this week were shocked to find that
Speaker 7: their new supervisors from Elon Musk's Doge department include recent
Speaker 7: college and high school graduates between nineteen and twenty four
Speaker 7: years old. One of the young men is apparently a
Speaker 7: former Internet Musk's neuralink company who goes by the online
Speaker 7: handle Big Balls.
Speaker 4: Great Big Balls has my Social Security number. Now I
Speaker 4: feel better. I know we complained about our leaders being
Speaker 4: too old.
Speaker 5: But doesn't this go a little too far in the
Speaker 5: other direction.
Speaker 4: Surely there must be a middle ground somewhere between crypto
Speaker 4: grows and crypt keepers. Not only that Musk has been
Speaker 4: installing his Big Balls and a whole bunch of little
Speaker 4: known agencies that are crucial and actually running the government,
Speaker 4: the GSA, the OPM, the OMB, the OC and SVU.
Speaker 4: And of course, the big question about this takeover, and
Speaker 4: the question we'll be asking ourselves a lot over the
Speaker 4: next four years, is is this legal? Which brings me
Speaker 4: to our news segment, is that legal? To help us out,
Speaker 4: we go to our very own Troy e Wata. Troy,
Speaker 4: thank you for acting as our resident legal expert.
Speaker 9: You can count on me, DESI, I'm versed in legal statutes,
Speaker 9: i have access to a network of law professors, and
Speaker 9: I'm wearing a bow tie.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 4: Can you help us find out if it's legal for
Speaker 4: Musk and as lost boys to access the sensitive information
Speaker 4: of the federal government.
Speaker 9: That is a beautiful question, DESI. It doesn't sound legal,
Speaker 9: but nothing does anymore.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what.
Speaker 9: I'll do some research and I'll get back to you.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, great, well we'll check back in in a minute.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Troy. Now, Elon Musk isn't just going to
Speaker 4: get full access to the federal government just to sit
Speaker 4: back and watch it function like he's some sort of cook. No,
Speaker 4: he's gonna jump in there and.
Speaker 3: Do some cutting.
Speaker 10: This weekend, Musk taking aim at the US Agency for
Speaker 10: International Development, or us AID, which is in charge of
Speaker 10: dispensing tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid.
Speaker 8: USAID employees are waking up this morning to an email
Speaker 8: notice telling them not to show up to work today,
Speaker 8: as Musk says, he is shutting the agency down.
Speaker 4: Yes, the richest man in the world is cutting off
Speaker 4: aid to poor countries. Why can't you just be a
Speaker 4: normal billionaire and co host Shark Tanker run an NBA
Speaker 4: team into the ground. Now, I'm not saying there's not
Speaker 4: some cuts to be made in foreign aid spending. You
Speaker 4: just don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater,
Speaker 4: or what's the expression I'm looking for.
Speaker 11: As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what
Speaker 11: we have here is not an apple with a worm
Speaker 11: in it, but we have actually just a ball of worms.
Speaker 11: And so at the point, which you don't really like.
Speaker 11: If you go to an apple, it's got a women,
Speaker 11: it maybe can take the worm out. But if you've
Speaker 11: got actually just a ball of worms, it's hopeless. And
Speaker 11: us ID is a ball of worms. There is no apple.
Speaker 11: And when there is no apple, this you've just got
Speaker 11: to basically get rid of the whole thing.
Speaker 4: Okay, we get it, We get the metaphor. You don't
Speaker 4: have to keep saying worms over and over again. You
Speaker 4: know I have a metaphor too. Elon Musk's charisma reminds
Speaker 4: me of a ball of worms. Of course, us ai
Speaker 4: D was codified by an Act of Congress, So if
Speaker 4: Trump thinks he can have Elon Musk kill it.
Speaker 5: He must have a strong.
Speaker 4: Legal reason for why he can do that without an
Speaker 4: Act of Congress.
Speaker 6: Will take an Act of Congress to do away with USAID?
Speaker 1: Or I lead you, I don't know. I don't think so.
Speaker 5: Or not? Why should he know? He's just the president.
Speaker 4: Fortunately, we have a legal expert who can help answer
Speaker 4: that question.
Speaker 5: Let's go back to Troy.
Speaker 3: You wata what Troy?
Speaker 4: I got another one for you. Is it legal for
Speaker 4: the president to shut down USAID without an Act of Congress?
Speaker 9: Oh, I'm not done looking at the Treasury Department thing.
Speaker 4: Well, Troy, we kind of need to know this. Now
Speaker 4: we have to keep up with Trump.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, So should I do that question first?
Speaker 1: No? Do both first? Okay.
Speaker 9: Well, it's gonna take a lot of work, so I
Speaker 9: have to.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 4: Obviously, Republicans are standing by Musk for the most part.
Speaker 5: They say that.
Speaker 4: Trump ran on cutting spending and this is all just
Speaker 4: a part of that. But is there perhaps a senator
Speaker 4: who could make that point in the weirdest, creepiest way possible.
Speaker 12: I'm like homach, I mean, I ruling like homewass. I
Speaker 12: could eat an amelet at every meal. I like alma
Speaker 12: was better than sex. Not really, but you get the point.
Speaker 12: I'm like, amass, you gotta make an alms without breaking
Speaker 12: some eggs?
Speaker 4: Did we really have to learn all about this guy's
Speaker 4: sex life just so he could get to a common expression.
Speaker 4: I can only climax when someone steps on my balls. Anyway,
Speaker 4: There's no use crying over spilt milk.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I understand Senator Kennedy's metaphor, but
Speaker 4: I definitely understand why he's been banned from Denny's.
Speaker 5: Anyway.
Speaker 4: If you're looking for Senator Kennedy's wife, she's the woman
Speaker 4: in the grocery store yelling at the eggs.
Speaker 3: You stay away from my husband. U can't pray blood.
Speaker 5: Wow you, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: I'm sure she prefers eggs to having sex with him too.
Speaker 4: But Elon Musk isn't the only one having people fingerbanging
Speaker 4: their eggs Florentine with excitement. Donald Trump is also reducing
Speaker 4: the government workforce, although his interests seemed to be less
Speaker 4: about cost cutting and more about sweet sweet revenge.
Speaker 8: I'm tremendous unrest inside the FBI, as prosecutors and agents
Speaker 8: who worked on the January sixth investigation that are being targeted.
Speaker 8: It looks like a wholesale purge of the FBI. As
Speaker 8: you know, already the eight top officials at the Federal
Speaker 8: Bureau of Investigation have either been fired or forced to resign.
Speaker 8: Now the FBI is being asked to produce a list
Speaker 8: of every employee who worked on any case related to
Speaker 8: January sixth. I am told this is some six thousand
Speaker 8: FBI employees, all told.
Speaker 3: What the fire.
Speaker 4: These agents were doing their job enforcing the law, and
Speaker 4: now they're getting fired. That is not how it works.
Speaker 4: I cannot believe I have to explain firing to the
Speaker 4: star of the Apprentice that was your holes, fake job.
Speaker 4: And this is obviously just the beginning, because Trump is
Speaker 4: going to be targeting everyone that's ever come after him.
Speaker 4: And I just want to say, I'm not scared, So
Speaker 4: mister Trump, bring it on. Okay, that's coming from me.
Speaker 4: Jordan Klepper k L E P P E r E. Now, obviously,
Speaker 4: of course, the big question over Trump's fire Trump firing
Speaker 4: the FBI agents is is that legal?
Speaker 3: Troy?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 9: Well, I'm still doing the other stuff.
Speaker 4: Don't worry about that stuff, but also finish that stuff
Speaker 4: and add on this new stuff. Find out if the
Speaker 4: president's executive powers include the termination of officials ordered by
Speaker 4: the former attorney general to investigate the criminal actions of
Speaker 4: his accomplices.
Speaker 9: I didn't get any of what you just said. Okay,
Speaker 9: I need to get to my notepet.
Speaker 5: The truth is practically everything.
Speaker 4: Trump is doing these days is in a legal gray zone.
Speaker 4: Just today, he announced an executive order dismantling the Department
Speaker 4: of Education, he started a sovereign wealth fund, He's considering
Speaker 4: deporting US prisoners to El Salvador, and he's ordered billions
Speaker 4: of gallons of water to be wasted in Central California.
Speaker 1: Troy, Oh my god, you can't be serious.
Speaker 4: Is the sovereign wealth education citizen deporting water wasting legal?
Speaker 1: How many our.
Speaker 4: Questions are They're going to be more every hour for
Speaker 4: the next four years.
Speaker 9: You're gonna find out in a second if it's legal
Speaker 9: for me to blow my brains out on the air well?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Troy.
Speaker 4: Look, I know, I know this is a hectic pace,
Speaker 4: but it's important that we find out the answers so
Speaker 4: we can be as informed as possible about whether this
Speaker 4: administration's actions are legal.
Speaker 5: Don't you agree?
Speaker 3: Troy? Wait?
Speaker 1: Yo, what's up? Troy got fired by Elon Musk.
Speaker 4: What is that legal for Elon must to fire one
Speaker 4: of our employees?
Speaker 1: Of course it is. Everything Elon does is legal.
Speaker 4: Bro, Wait, who are you? Are you big balls?
Speaker 1: No? Of course not big Balls was my fraternity brother.
Speaker 1: You can call me floppy Tan. Oh God, damn.
Speaker 3: That sloppy taint.
Speaker 5: Everyone? Can we come back? Well, blame your workplace.
Speaker 3: We don't go away.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Daily Show. As we all know,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump is no fan of DEI because it gives
Speaker 4: minorities the jobs that belong to his sons. And now
Speaker 4: that he's president, he's committed to getting rid of diversity initiatives,
Speaker 4: and not just in the federal government.
Speaker 8: President Trump putting CEOs with existing DEI programs on notice.
Speaker 6: These are policies that were absolute nonsense.
Speaker 2: Throughout the government and the private sector.
Speaker 12: Several major companies, from Walmart to Ford Motor Company, McDonald's,
Speaker 12: and Loewe's have already scaled back or abandoned DEI programs.
Speaker 4: Wait Low's had DEI for its employees from walking around
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Speaker 4: in charge of a corporation that's trying to suck up
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Speaker 5: It's a new era.
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Speaker 10: My name is Edward.
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Speaker 13: Hey Edward, you did a great job on that presentation.
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Speaker 12: Perfect.
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Speaker 4: Then am We'll be joining me on the show, But
Speaker 4: don't go away.
Speaker 7: Welcome to day show.
Speaker 4: My guest tonight is the best selling author of Think
Speaker 4: You'll Be Happy and critic acclaimed producer of the Netflix
Speaker 4: film The Six Triple Eight. Please welcome Nicole Amott.
Speaker 1: A worry.
Speaker 4: I'm so delighted to have you here. I was so
Speaker 4: excited to meet you. You're not only a critically acclaimed producer, author.
Speaker 4: You're an entrepreneur, you're a philanthropist, you were the former
Speaker 4: ambassador to the Bahamas.
Speaker 5: Leave some for the rest of us. You are a
Speaker 5: busy woman.
Speaker 1: I'm a busy woman, but it's good. It's a very busy.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm glad while you're as busy as you are.
Speaker 1: Want to be productive with my life.
Speaker 4: You certainly are. This movie was incredible, The six Triple Eight.
Speaker 4: It was just nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Songs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so exciting. I am.
Speaker 10: Diane Warren wrote the song and it's it's you know,
Speaker 10: it's so beautiful, typical Diane Warren. And then you know,
Speaker 10: Gabby Hurr sings the song and the two of them
Speaker 10: coming together and it's just it's one of the most
Speaker 10: beautiful songs I've ever heard, and it was perfect for
Speaker 10: the film. And I think every single person when you
Speaker 10: listen to the journey, it's all of us. We're all
Speaker 10: on our own journeys in life, and it's it's just beautiful.
Speaker 4: It perfectly suits the story. Tell us about the story
Speaker 4: behind the six Trip late. I hadn't heard the story,
Speaker 4: which is great crazy to me. The incredible legendary women,
Speaker 4: these patriots who changed the war.
Speaker 5: What where did you learn.
Speaker 4: About the story and how did you make this happen?
Speaker 10: So I one of my fellow producers, Carrie, sent me
Speaker 10: a sizzle reel and she said, listen, I know that
Speaker 10: you love history in American history, and I think we
Speaker 10: have a great piece of American history that has not
Speaker 10: been told. And I had heard of major Charity Adams,
Speaker 10: but I had no idea about the battalion, and they
Speaker 10: eight hundred and fifty five women, and I had no
Speaker 10: idea about the backlog of mail and seventeen million pieces
Speaker 10: of mail, and they had six months to deliver the mail.
Speaker 10: Everybody had tried to deliver this mail. Everybody, all the men,
Speaker 10: everybody has tried to deliver the mail. No one can
Speaker 10: do it. They figured, we'll just send these women over.
Speaker 10: They're not going to be able to do it. You
Speaker 10: have six months. Good luck.
Speaker 1: They did it in three months.
Speaker 10: And the importance is yes, But that's part of the
Speaker 10: story is that they really as you saw on the clip,
Speaker 10: it's there's no mail. There is low morale. And when
Speaker 10: you have low morale, you cannot win a war. You
Speaker 10: cannot be you can't go forward. If you're not speaking
Speaker 10: to your mother, imaginer, there's no e mail, there's no
Speaker 10: Wi Fi, there's nothing. It's the US Postal Service, right,
Speaker 10: And that is how people stayed connected. It's about connection,
Speaker 10: and humans have to stay connected, feel loved, feel together
Speaker 10: to move forward. And then the men, all of a sudden,
Speaker 10: everything turned around. And the men, you know, we gained
Speaker 10: their vigor and their strength, and they move forward and
Speaker 10: they won. And these women, we have to thank them
Speaker 10: for this. And I wanted to give them their flowers
Speaker 10: and we did in the.
Speaker 5: Most beautiful way.
Speaker 1: Bank you congratulate, Thank you.
Speaker 4: I'm grateful that that story was told in that way.
Speaker 4: I want to talk about your family. Your father, Clarence Avon,
Speaker 4: was a legend in his own right, music producer. There's
Speaker 4: an incredible documentary, The Black Godfather. If you haven't seen it,
Speaker 4: go watch it. It's on Netflix. You produced it, yes,
Speaker 4: and you also you wrote this incredible book, Think You'll
Speaker 4: Be Happy, and you set out to write a self
Speaker 4: help book, and this unimaginable tragedy happened in your family
Speaker 4: and you suddenly had to change course and you decided
Speaker 4: to tell that story.
Speaker 1: Yes, I decided, you know, you have to begin again.
Speaker 1: We all have to begin again.
Speaker 10: In different parts of our lives and at some point
Speaker 10: on our journey. And for me, I wrote think You'll
Speaker 10: be happy after my mom died and after she was killed,
Speaker 10: I mean, and it was just so I mean imagine,
Speaker 10: I mean. I spoke with her the night before everything's great,
Speaker 10: and her last words to me were Okay, think you'll
Speaker 10: be happy. And I figured I'd go to her house
Speaker 10: the next day and see her. There was an attempted robbery.
Speaker 1: Robbery went bad, my mom got caught.
Speaker 10: In the crossfire, and I woke up to a call
Speaker 10: from my husband in the middle of the night saying,
Speaker 10: get to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Your mom's been shot.
Speaker 10: And I I'm telling you, you know, your world shatters,
Speaker 10: your heart shatters. And I realized, a I didn't want
Speaker 10: anyone else to feel so alone. There is no real
Speaker 10: you know, everyone says you're going to feel grief in
Speaker 10: this way, and then you're going to feel this day
Speaker 10: on this way.
Speaker 1: No in stages, it comes in waves.
Speaker 10: Everyone feels it differently, but it is a part of life.
Speaker 10: And I didn't want people to feel ashamed of talking
Speaker 10: about being in grief, and also give people tools how
Speaker 10: not to be taken down by grief. And as you know,
Speaker 10: I felt I was drowning in quicksand a lot of
Speaker 10: the times. And then I thought, you know what, No,
Speaker 10: this man already took a life. My father said, you're
Speaker 10: going to let this man take your life too. Finish
Speaker 10: your book, make the movie, keep going. My dad was
Speaker 10: ninety two and came to live with us, and it
Speaker 10: was but it was such great advice because he said, Nicole,
Speaker 10: you have a life force.
Speaker 1: You have a life. I've given you life. You need
Speaker 1: to do something with your life.
Speaker 10: You need to honor your mother, and you can't let
Speaker 10: someone else again take your life force, your creativity, your future.
Speaker 1: So you know, make the most.
Speaker 10: Who always used to say, you know, you come with
Speaker 10: a number and you end with the number.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do with your dash?
Speaker 10: Your life is your dash, and you have choices every day.
Speaker 10: And so I wanted to honor my mother but also
Speaker 10: share all the lessons I learned from her and great
Speaker 10: life lessons. But you know my father too, but you
Speaker 10: know mostly about my mom. And that's why I just
Speaker 10: think you'll be happy. She left me with a mantra
Speaker 10: to think constructively, to be a good person and to
Speaker 10: show up and create the best life that I can.
Speaker 4: It is such a beautiful, beautiful tribute to her. There
Speaker 4: was one part of your book that really stood out
Speaker 4: to me. There was shortly after it happened, one of
Speaker 4: your first initial thoughts was, please God, don't let me
Speaker 4: hate this man. And I thought, Oh my god, how
Speaker 4: in a moment of that shock and grief, where do
Speaker 4: you reach for that level of grace?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 10: I was so It's so hard to explain, but I've
Speaker 10: never felt that level of despair ever. I know what
Speaker 10: despair ment, and I've felt that way before, but never
Speaker 10: at this level. And I've never felt as furious. And
Speaker 10: I didn't know what to do with it. But I knew,
Speaker 10: going back to my life force, I knew that if
Speaker 10: I hated someone so much, then that means that that
Speaker 10: energy takes over my life force and my light continues
Speaker 10: to dim and my light goes down, and I can't
Speaker 10: be positive, I can't be powerful, I can't be productive
Speaker 10: while I'm busy hating somebody, while I'm busy wishing the
Speaker 10: worst on someone. So for me, it was, you know,
Speaker 10: forgiveness is such a tricky word. I always tell people
Speaker 10: because people think, oh, how could you forgive that person.
Speaker 1: It's not condoning a behavior.
Speaker 10: I'm never condoning violence or negativity or anything.
Speaker 1: But forgiveness is for me.
Speaker 10: It's for my strength, it's for my mental health, it's
Speaker 10: for my spiritual health, my physical health, because unforgiveness is poison,
Speaker 10: and it's almost, you know, like they say, it's as
Speaker 10: you know, the snake will bite you, and instead it's
Speaker 10: unforgiveness is running after the snake and asking the snake,
Speaker 10: why did you bite me? Why did you bite me?
Speaker 10: Why did you bite me? Instead of tending to the
Speaker 10: wound and taking the poison out. So all that just
Speaker 10: came to me, and I just remember falling on my
Speaker 10: knees because at that level, it was that heavy course
Speaker 10: of just shock. And I remember I just said, I
Speaker 10: cannot hate this man, because, believe me, I was filled
Speaker 10: with hatred and it was such a terrible, ugly feeling. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and I'm not that person. And so I just made
Speaker 10: a decision. I'm not going to be that person. I'm
Speaker 10: going to honor my parents, I'm going to honor my mother.
Speaker 10: I'm going to live my life. I'm going to do
Speaker 10: my best. And you know what, if I moved through
Speaker 10: life with my heart and repair. I moved through life
Speaker 10: with my heart and repair.
Speaker 1: It's okay.
Speaker 10: Doesn't mean that the grief goes away. It just means
Speaker 10: I'm moving through life with it. But I try to
Speaker 10: be as it's not as heavy as I think it
Speaker 10: would have been had I not given up the anger,
Speaker 10: had I not given up the fury and the hate.
Speaker 5: I'm so in awe.
Speaker 12: I am.
Speaker 4: I'm just so in awe of your ability to move
Speaker 4: through grief like that and find purpose, and to give
Speaker 4: this gift of a book to other people who are
Speaker 4: experiencing grief, for those for those out there right now
Speaker 4: who are experiencing some kind of grief, what would your
Speaker 4: advice be to them?
Speaker 5: What was most helpful for you?
Speaker 10: Knowing that I'm loved but I mean friends would simply
Speaker 10: text the words I love you, I'm here for you
Speaker 10: for anything, everything, and that just was a healing bomb,
Speaker 10: just you know, being with friends and family and hearing
Speaker 10: I love you even more than I'm so sorry, I'm
Speaker 10: so sorry, I love you kind of cover everything. But
Speaker 10: what it gave me was I had hope, I had
Speaker 10: hoped to move forward.
Speaker 1: I felt that I had a reason to live. It
Speaker 1: was a reminder.
Speaker 10: The more love, the more love you feel from others,
Speaker 10: it reminds you that you have a reason to be here.
Speaker 1: And I do have my dash, and I'd like to
Speaker 1: live out my dash, yeah, you know.
Speaker 10: And in order to do that, and I don't want
Speaker 10: to live out my dash is some you know, angry bitch.
Speaker 1: That's walking around and it's off all the time.
Speaker 10: I want to live my dash with as much joy
Speaker 10: and hope, but never ever, ever give up. That's why
Speaker 10: I wanted to write the book. We all want to
Speaker 10: give up at times, all of us for various different reasons.
Speaker 10: But things do get better, and the bad times do
Speaker 10: not last forever. They feel like they're going to last forever,
Speaker 10: but they don't. Nothing in life lasts forever, and so
Speaker 10: the good always comes back. It comes back differently, and
Speaker 10: it comes back in ways that you may not even
Speaker 10: ever imagine, but the good always swings back into your life.
Speaker 12: I am.
Speaker 4: I want to ask about your former role as the
Speaker 4: ambassador to the Bahamas diplomatically speaking, How sweet is that?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a great post, but people forget it is
Speaker 10: very and it's stereotyping right now.
Speaker 1: But it's very Miami vice.
Speaker 10: It is so people forget that the Bahamas is a
Speaker 10: third border. So we've got Mexico and we've got Canada,
Speaker 10: but people forget the Bahamas is just fifty three miles
Speaker 10: off of the coast, so the Bahamas has to be protected.
Speaker 10: It is a huge law enforcement post, which of course,
Speaker 10: now I'm friends with DA and Coast Guard, and all
Speaker 10: of a sudden, these were my guys. These are my people,
Speaker 10: and I thought, oh wow, this is a completely different
Speaker 10: post than what I really expected. I mean, I knew
Speaker 10: there was a lot of work to do, but it
Speaker 10: is a real law enforcement post. And I think people,
Speaker 10: especially the Coast Guard on my whole team, what they
Speaker 10: did every single day. I'm telling you, guys, they keep
Speaker 10: us safe every single day. The things that we don't
Speaker 10: even know, we will never know, and we should know.
Speaker 1: It's none of our business.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tell me.
Speaker 10: It really isn't nervousiness, but it's they're putting their lives
Speaker 10: at risk.
Speaker 1: And I think that we forget that.
Speaker 10: I think that Coastguards grow out and people think, oh,
Speaker 10: they're just you know, what do they really do? And
Speaker 10: I said, they're actually really humanitarians. You have no idea
Speaker 10: what they find in the issue. You have no idea
Speaker 10: when people flee countries and they decide there's no hope
Speaker 10: for me, and they just decide to, you.
Speaker 1: Know, sometimes go over with a child.
Speaker 10: You know that people do so much good, and I
Speaker 10: think that they all get lumped into one thing and
Speaker 10: oh they're all bad. And it was one of the
Speaker 10: best times I've ever had in my life. One of
Speaker 10: my favorite chapters in my story was serving in the
Speaker 10: Bahamas and meeting new people that I would have never
Speaker 10: met otherwise, you know, completely different lives and we learned
Speaker 10: a lot from each other, and so it.
Speaker 1: Was really great, really great.
Speaker 4: I'm curious about you were hugely instrumental in getting President
Speaker 4: Obama elected, all of your work fundraising in those early days.
Speaker 4: What did you learn about organizing at that time?
Speaker 10: Give us a little home, there's hope, come on, you know,
Speaker 10: you know my mom, Actually I give it to my
Speaker 10: parents because my parents were so politically active also when
Speaker 10: I was growing up, so senators and presidents and everybody was.
Speaker 1: Always in and out of the house.
Speaker 10: So for me, I was always helping my mom since
Speaker 10: I was a little girl, organizing everything, which then as
Speaker 10: I was as I became an adult, I was like,
Speaker 10: I can do this.
Speaker 1: I know what I'm doing. I know how to fundraise.
Speaker 1: I watched my father.
Speaker 10: He had Remember my dad was born in nineteen thirty
Speaker 10: one North Carolina segregation. Jim Crow. I mean, he talks
Speaker 10: about running from the ku Klux Klan. He talks about
Speaker 10: never looking up because his grandma, my grandmother said, I
Speaker 10: would say, why can't you look up? Why were you
Speaker 10: told not to look up? He said, because you didn't
Speaker 10: know if you were going to see someone that you
Speaker 10: knew that was lynched that day. I mean, this is
Speaker 10: in our lifetime. So for me watching my father really
Speaker 10: mobilized and organized to change things for black Americans throughout
Speaker 10: his life. I watched that dedication, I watched that motivation,
Speaker 10: I watched that organization. And so by the time I
Speaker 10: got to working with Senator Obama, at the time, I
Speaker 10: had watched my parents, you know, do everything and host
Speaker 10: everything and raise money.
Speaker 1: But really it was about putting people together. And what I.
Speaker 10: Wanted to do for him, I said, if he's going
Speaker 10: to be the first black president, then all of the fundraisers,
Speaker 10: fundraisers need to look like the United States of America.
Speaker 1: There were always one look, everybody's from Beverly Hills, everybody's
Speaker 1: from No.
Speaker 10: I was like, we're mixing this up and it worked
Speaker 10: and it was great.
Speaker 4: There is real power in just getting people into a
Speaker 4: room together. I thought that was such a beautiful takeaway.
Speaker 1: You have to be together.
Speaker 10: And I really do believe that you want not touch
Speaker 10: diversity with color or race or religion or whatever, but
Speaker 10: you need diversity of ideas.
Speaker 1: You need people to.
Speaker 10: I love being able, for example, to say, you know,
Speaker 10: I didn't think about it that way. I never even
Speaker 10: saw it from that perspective, because you have this different perspective,
Speaker 10: and thank you for that. And some you know, and
Speaker 10: it doesn't always work, but you need that. I think
Speaker 10: you need that. And human beings are different and we
Speaker 10: all have something to give and we all have talents.
Speaker 10: And putting people together and giving different opinions and sharing
Speaker 10: different ideas I think helps us definitely move forward and
Speaker 10: not keep us stuck.
Speaker 4: You have two incredible parents. I know that you are
Speaker 4: making them so very proud. Thank you for being Thank you,
Speaker 4: congratulations on everything you are loved. Areank you, Thank you,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 5: Be You'll be happy and available down it.
Speaker 14: Pul am I that's my show for tonight now here
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Speaker 2: And I'm the Education Department.
Speaker 12: Why nominate Linda McMahon to be the Education Department secretary
Speaker 12: if you're contemp to.
Speaker 6: Be Education Because I told Linda, Linda, I hope you
Speaker 6: do a great job and put yourself out of a job.
Speaker 6: I want her to put herself out of a job.
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