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Speaker 1: All right, people, I'm gonna be honest with all the
Speaker 1: news that happened today. I don't think we have enough
Speaker 1: space in today's show. We just don't have the time.
Speaker 1: I even tried to squeeze it all into a corset,
Speaker 1: but it's just made the news look sexy. And I've
Speaker 1: got a roll on bridgets in so there's still not
Speaker 1: enough time. But fortunately not enough time. It's just enough
Speaker 1: time for a segment week hall. Anybody got time for that?
Speaker 1: All right, let's kick things off. With the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: easily one of the top two parties in the United States.
Speaker 1: As you know, Democrats lost control of the House in
Speaker 1: last month's midterm elections, and as they get ready to
Speaker 1: be in the minority, they're making some big changes at
Speaker 1: the top. Democrats in the House have made history with
Speaker 1: their new leadership. Congressman Kim Jeffries of Brooklyn has become
Speaker 1: the first black leader of either party in Congress. He
Speaker 1: will take over from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was you know
Speaker 1: it was, remaining in the House after stepping down from
Speaker 1: the top job. Jeffries is fifty two, thirty years younger
Speaker 1: than the outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A leader with
Speaker 1: the style all his own and a pension for weaving
Speaker 1: in the legacy of hip hop. That is why we
Speaker 1: are here, Mr second Loan. And if you don't know, now,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm glad no one else in the room
Speaker 1: finished that lyric. And I don't know, as much as
Speaker 1: I enjoy it, I think it feels kind of weird
Speaker 1: to quote Biggie in such a serious and boring place
Speaker 1: like Congress. Like I love I love hip hop. I
Speaker 1: love hip hop, but I don't want to hear it everywhere,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, like I don't want my doctor shoehorning
Speaker 1: that ship in So, Mr Noah, what are your symptoms? Palm, sweaty,
Speaker 1: kne's weak, arms are heavy. Please take this very seriously.
Speaker 1: I'm very ill. But that's right off the two nd.
Speaker 1: In fifty years, America finally has a minority minority leader,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. Although you will notice the Democrats only
Speaker 1: gave it to a black guy after they lost the house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like someone crashing their car and then
Speaker 1: being like, hey, keem, I know you've always wanted a BMW.
Speaker 1: You don't need to say thank you. Also, the cops
Speaker 1: want to talk to you by but no, you still
Speaker 1: you still have to give credit to the Democrats. Right,
Speaker 1: Republicans haven't done this yet. I mean they still think
Speaker 1: minority Leader was the original title of black Panther. And
Speaker 1: this isn't just a big deal because Jeffries is black.
Speaker 1: Remember that this also marks a shift for the Democrats
Speaker 1: to a much younger generation of leaders. Although again, and
Speaker 1: we also don't really know, you know, because Kim Jeffreys
Speaker 1: is black, so he could be like ninety. We don't
Speaker 1: actually know how old ears because you realize, even at
Speaker 1: fifty two, for a party leader in America, he's actually
Speaker 1: a young man. I mean, think about it this week.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden was in Congress when Hakim was literally in diapers,
Speaker 1: and now that Hakim is in Congress, Joe Biden is
Speaker 1: the one in diapers. The circle of life. Now, if
Speaker 1: we had more time, we could talk about how the
Speaker 1: House Democrats are just a sideshow for the next two years,
Speaker 1: because the main events is whether Kevin McCarthy will be
Speaker 1: able to wrangle his clown cough crazy to get anything done.
Speaker 1: But we don't have the time to talk about that
Speaker 1: because while Kim Jeffreys is plotting to take over the House,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is plotting to take over our brains. Elon
Speaker 1: must said on Wednesday, a wireless device developed by his
Speaker 1: brainship company, neural Link, is expected to begin human clinical
Speaker 1: trials in six months. The company is developing brainship interfaces
Speaker 1: that it says could enable disabled patients to move and communicate. Again,
Speaker 1: We've been working hard to I be ready for our
Speaker 1: first human. Essentially that it's sort of like having an
Speaker 1: Apple Watch or a fitbit, uh replacing a piece of
Speaker 1: skull with like a you know, a smart watch you
Speaker 1: have in your link device, like I could have in
Speaker 1: your link device, uh implanted right now, and you wouldn't
Speaker 1: You wouldn't even know. I mean, yeah, yeah, Ellen. If
Speaker 1: if you told us you were a part robot, all
Speaker 1: of us would be totally surprised. We would would be like,
Speaker 1: I never saw that coming. Look, I will admit the
Speaker 1: idea of this technology sounds amazing, but in reality, the
Speaker 1: idea of an Apple Watch or a fitbit in my
Speaker 1: brain gives me a little pause because if have you
Speaker 1: ever used an Apple Watch or a fitbit? When it
Speaker 1: messes up on my roost, I'm just like, ah, when
Speaker 1: it messes up in my brain, then what all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I'm on Alex Jones praising Hitler for inventing
Speaker 1: the microphone. Is that what's gonna happen? Just like ah?
Speaker 1: And secondly, if I'm going to get a chip in
Speaker 1: my head, I don't know if I want Elon Musk
Speaker 1: to be in charge of it. You know, like a
Speaker 1: year ago, I would have been like the Tesla guy
Speaker 1: maybe maybe, But now I'm like the Twitter guy. I'll
Speaker 1: pay him eight dollars to stairway. Now, if we had
Speaker 1: more time, we could talk about how Elon previously promised
Speaker 1: that his brainship would be ready for human trials three
Speaker 1: years ago, or how he promised that Tesla's would be
Speaker 1: self driving by or how he built a high speed
Speaker 1: underground training by or how he'd land on Mars by two. Basically,
Speaker 1: this dude to a guy in the strip club making
Speaker 1: it rain with io us. But we don't have time
Speaker 1: to talk about the techno king because some real royals
Speaker 1: have just rocked up to America's shows. It was a
Speaker 1: royal welcome for the Prince and Princess of Wales Wednesday,
Speaker 1: on their first US visit in eight years, here to
Speaker 1: present the earth Shot Prize, which honors environmentalists. They kicked
Speaker 1: off the trip by helping turn Boston City Hall green.
Speaker 1: Catherine and I are absolutely delighted to be with you
Speaker 1: today for our first engagement in a great city of Boston.
Speaker 1: The couple also took in an NBA game courtside, watching
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics beat the Miami Heat. And then they
Speaker 1: hold this big star centered event on Friday night where
Speaker 1: they're going to hand out five prize is worth more
Speaker 1: than a million dollars each too folks who are trying
Speaker 1: to tackle the climate crisis. Okay, First of all, Prince
Speaker 1: William is clearly a liar, a right. No one has
Speaker 1: ever been delighted to be in Boston in December. December?
Speaker 1: What are you excited about? Oh I love chap lips
Speaker 1: and getting thrown up on by Patriots fans. How peachy
Speaker 1: you've been in December? And you might be saying, no, Trevor,
Speaker 1: they having a good time. They even have court sight seats.
Speaker 1: You think these people are impressed by court side seats.
Speaker 1: The man's regular seat is a throne. This man has
Speaker 1: never set on a folding chair in his life. He's
Speaker 1: probably like, look at this thing. This chair has a
Speaker 1: mouth or something. Kates. Now, if we had the time,
Speaker 1: we could talk more about how great it is that
Speaker 1: Prince William and Kates are awarding money to people who
Speaker 1: are trying to solve climate change, or how shitty it
Speaker 1: is that they ignored my idea to plug in a
Speaker 1: bunch of air conditions neither glaciers would have worked. But
Speaker 1: we just don't have the time for that, because while
Speaker 1: these royals are having fun in America, the royals back
Speaker 1: home in the UK are not having a good time
Speaker 1: at all Overshadowing the trip controversy. Back at bucking and Palate,
Speaker 1: the Prince's godmother, Lady Susan Hussy, resigning amid accusations of
Speaker 1: racism in Gosie Flani, the founder of a women's nonprofit
Speaker 1: and a black woman born in the UK, says Tuesday
Speaker 1: at the Palace, Hussey repeatedly asked where she was really from,
Speaker 1: implying she wasn't really British, and Gosie Floni tweeting the exchange,
Speaker 1: which reads in parts, what nationality are you? I am
Speaker 1: born here and I'm British? No, but where do you
Speaker 1: really come from? Where do your people come from? Hussy
Speaker 1: also asking quote what parts of Africa are you from?
Speaker 1: After and goes he said she was from London tonight
Speaker 1: and I witnessed describing her shot at the exchange. If
Speaker 1: it goes he as a white woman, that line of
Speaker 1: questioning wouldn't have taken place. People, How many times do
Speaker 1: we have to go through this? There is only one
Speaker 1: socially acceptable way to find out someone's heritage. You swabbed
Speaker 1: their DNA while they're asleep. Okay, it's the polite thing
Speaker 1: to do. This is like The first thing they teach
Speaker 1: you in avoidable racism one O one it is just
Speaker 1: never say the word from. That's it. A lot of
Speaker 1: racism includes the word from, so just avoid it all together.
Speaker 1: Where are you really from? Go back to where you
Speaker 1: came from? You see this clip from Tucker Carlson from
Speaker 1: just stay away from it? And I also love how
Speaker 1: this woman was given a chance to control our delete
Speaker 1: racism right, but instead she just copy pasted and carried
Speaker 1: on where are you from? I'm born here and I'm British. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you don't understand I'm being racist? How black are you?
Speaker 1: Show me on this map of Africa I brought with me,
Speaker 1: let me put it in once you understand Gang Ganga,
Speaker 1: gang Cook, Pottles stalling from the sky. Now, if we
Speaker 1: had more time, we can talk about how having a
Speaker 1: racist godmother probably made Prince William even more popular in Boston. Oh,
Speaker 1: we can talk about how every scandal in the British
Speaker 1: monarchy is technically a spoiler for a future season of
Speaker 1: the Crown. But we just don't have time for that
Speaker 1: because I know where our shows money comes from, which
Speaker 1: is why we need to go to a commercial break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, walking back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: After two years of votes, of fraud, accusations, and capital riots,
Speaker 1: it is no surprise that Americans have become less confidence
Speaker 1: in the elections. But, as Desilic discovers in her new series,
Speaker 1: America's election infrastructure maybe in even worse shape than you think.
Speaker 1: Hello again, I'm desiltic. When I first started this series
Speaker 1: on our election infrastructure, I was just hoping to boost
Speaker 1: my brand enough to ditch this job and get on
Speaker 1: sixty Minutes. But over the last two installments, I've learned
Speaker 1: that our country is on the terrifying brink of election catastrophe.
Speaker 1: And that's sixty Minutes is looking for more of a
Speaker 1: Hoda copy type. I mean, what the hell I can go, Brennette.
Speaker 1: If that's what it takes, I don't mind anyway. Here's
Speaker 1: our final look at vote Demico are crumbling election infrastructure?
Speaker 1: Who cares? Just roll it? Well, America, we did it,
Speaker 1: election accomplished. Despite a miroaud of election problems, including a
Speaker 1: paper shortage and a lack of poll workers, we successfully
Speaker 1: pull off an election thanks to my reporting. So I'm
Speaker 1: back with Tammy a Democracy Fund Tammy. Great times over.
Speaker 1: We gotta talk to debrief and collect my well earned
Speaker 1: thank you thanks to your work and also my reporting.
Speaker 1: Things are great, right, it did go mostly really well. Um,
Speaker 1: we had a couple of hiccups around the country, but
Speaker 1: in general it did go fairly well. So we should
Speaker 1: take a moment and celebrate that. Tammy, I would love
Speaker 1: to bask with you. Let's bask. God, it feels good
Speaker 1: to bask. It's great to bask in the glory of
Speaker 1: competence and a well executed election. But we do still
Speaker 1: have challenges moving forward. Damn it, dammy. Since the election,
Speaker 1: election officials have been under attack. We know from a
Speaker 1: recent survey that one informable election officials in this country
Speaker 1: have experienced threats of harassment and abuse. So they're going
Speaker 1: to be leaving the field unfortunately in large numbers. How
Speaker 1: many people are getting harassed? Are we talking like a
Speaker 1: handful or like a ship time? Unfortunately, I think it's
Speaker 1: closer to the ship tone. You heard Tammy's filthy mouth
Speaker 1: a ship time. And these threats from disgruntled election deniers
Speaker 1: ranged from local officials to secretaries of state, and Arizona
Speaker 1: elections official was moved to an undisclosed location because of
Speaker 1: threats to his life. In Milwaukee, Elections executive director Claire
Speaker 1: wood All Vogue has been bombarded by hate. In Georgia,
Speaker 1: Secretary of State Bratt Raffinsburger his wife has gotten a
Speaker 1: barrage of threatening text messages. If you had to put
Speaker 1: your finger on it, what or who is responsible for this?
Speaker 1: Starting in the two thousand and sixteen election, we had
Speaker 1: prominent candidates for the presidential office Trump who were running
Speaker 1: saying that the elections were rigged, that there was rampant fraud,
Speaker 1: that in fact it was illegitimate Donald and that carried
Speaker 1: into as well from Tom Trump. So that has created
Speaker 1: an environment that has provided both incentive as well as
Speaker 1: support for people to target election officials. Okay, so Trump,
Speaker 1: But one of the things you might want to think
Speaker 1: about is in fact talking to somebody who was a
Speaker 1: local election official in right. Yeah, and someone should go
Speaker 1: do that. I couldn't agree more. Someone should definitely go
Speaker 1: talk to an election official. He did this twice before
Speaker 1: I did again after being bullied by Tammy to meet
Speaker 1: with the harassed election official. I'm at City Hall in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia to speak with Al Schmidt, former Philadelphia City commissioner
Speaker 1: and Trump's biggest target during the election. In Philadelphia, the
Speaker 1: city commissioners are responsible for running anything election related, from
Speaker 1: voter registration to mail in ballots, to election day operations
Speaker 1: to the final tabulation and certification of the election result.
Speaker 1: I mean, election administrators are really referees in all of this.
Speaker 1: Is it hard to be a referee in Philadelphia? Given
Speaker 1: Eagles fans? It certainly can be challenging, But we have
Speaker 1: the best fans in the country. Can you give some
Speaker 1: examples of the type of harassment that you received. Well,
Speaker 1: the threats were pretty general in nature leading up to
Speaker 1: election day, But in the days that followed, especially after
Speaker 1: the former president targeted me by name on Twitter, that's
Speaker 1: when the threats became much more specific and much more graphic.
Speaker 1: And we're largely targeting my family. I'm sorry, that must
Speaker 1: have been terrifying. I fortunately had the Philadelphia Police Department
Speaker 1: looking after my family sort of night and day, so
Speaker 1: walking the dog, going to the grocery store. You know,
Speaker 1: when I took the kids sledding, the Philadelphia Police Department
Speaker 1: was right there alongside of us. Yeah, yeah, totally get it.
Speaker 1: I'm in the same boat. The police follow my family
Speaker 1: and I around at all times for different reasons. Is
Speaker 1: their accountability for people who who asked election workers. I
Speaker 1: think there's really two types of accountability that are needed.
Speaker 1: One is for people who are making threats of violence
Speaker 1: and clearly breaking the law trying to coerce the people
Speaker 1: responsible for accounting voters votes. And also a different sort
Speaker 1: of accountability for elected officials who are spreading these lies
Speaker 1: that I would hope that voters hold them accountable. Harassers aside,
Speaker 1: how do you make amends with election deniers? You know,
Speaker 1: water under the bridge? Excuse me, would under the bridge.
Speaker 1: I've really gone out of my way to make sure
Speaker 1: that I don't go to political meetings and answer questions
Speaker 1: that people have. And the most reason when I went
Speaker 1: to uh, there's an older gentleman in the back who
Speaker 1: leaned back and said, forget about the facts for a moment.
Speaker 1: Biden lost Like that makes it a real challenge to
Speaker 1: convince someone when their belief system is completely independent of facts.
Speaker 1: And as an election official, you could take away that
Speaker 1: is vote right. I want him to vote, and I
Speaker 1: want him to vote in every election. Do you really do?
Speaker 1: Do you really do? Do you? Though? Most certainly every election? Damn?
Speaker 1: This guy was good, but with all the harassment civil
Speaker 1: servants like him are facing, I was beginning to worry
Speaker 1: that there was no way I could end this story
Speaker 1: on a positive note. I think it's a very encouraging
Speaker 1: sign that we had more people step up to volunteer
Speaker 1: to work on election day in the mid terms than
Speaker 1: ever before. Great. Great, So it's fixed. I did it.
Speaker 1: I mean we did it. So there you have in
Speaker 1: America despite the problems we faced during thanks to al
Speaker 1: and election workers across the country, there's still hope that
Speaker 1: won't be a complete ship show because I can't do
Speaker 1: another one of these. I can't thank you so much
Speaker 1: about because when we come back, the first black Governor
Speaker 1: of Maryland Westmore will be joining me right here on
Speaker 1: the show. So don't go away. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Data Show. My guest tonight is a combat veteran, best
Speaker 1: selling author, and former head of the anti poverty organization
Speaker 1: Robin Hood. He will soon be sworn in as the
Speaker 1: first black governor of the state of Maryland. Please welcome
Speaker 1: Governor Elect Westmore. Ko than um, thank you, Governor Elect Westmore.
Speaker 1: Are you using that yet? I mean it's only gonna
Speaker 1: be a f a short amount of time. And then
Speaker 1: they'll be governor. Western War hasn't sunk in because you
Speaker 1: ran a campaign in a place where nobody expected a
Speaker 1: Democrat to be able to win the seats of governor.
Speaker 1: And yet here you are and you've done it. What
Speaker 1: does it feel like, Let's start with them. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: it feels great because you're right. I mean, when we
Speaker 1: first started this race, we started a one percent uh
Speaker 1: you know, I say that I'm not voting was pulling
Speaker 1: higher than where I was pulling at it like people
Speaker 1: were not at first. And um, but I think what
Speaker 1: we did was we continue to show people we're gonna
Speaker 1: meet people where they were. We're gonna go to every
Speaker 1: part of the state, talk to every part of the state.
Speaker 1: And that also meant even places where there weren't a
Speaker 1: lot of Democrats, and people would literally say to me,
Speaker 1: They're like, you're coming to a lot of places not
Speaker 1: a lot of Democrats, And I'm like, yeah, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of Marylanders and I plan on being their
Speaker 1: governor too. And I think the people show that that mattered.
Speaker 1: When you're able, when you're willing to put in the
Speaker 1: work and earn it, then the people respond. That is
Speaker 1: something that many people spoke about in your campaign. They
Speaker 1: it was very apparent, very early on that that you
Speaker 1: ran a different race to what many establishment politicians run.
Speaker 1: You you didn't pander to a base. You know, you
Speaker 1: spoke to the people of Maryland. You didn't make the
Speaker 1: race national unnecessarily. You spoke to the issues that were
Speaker 1: actually happening in your states. And I'd love to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit about that. You know,
Speaker 1: I think i'll paraphrase you, and that you you said
Speaker 1: at one point you don't understand why patriotism is somehow
Speaker 1: like owned now by Republicans, when everyone can be a
Speaker 1: patriot and everyone can love their country and still want
Speaker 1: to fix it. Talk me through how you came to
Speaker 1: this understanding and whether or not serving in the military
Speaker 1: and your life that led up to this contributor to
Speaker 1: thinking that way. Well, you know, it's it's it's will
Speaker 1: because I would hear people talk about this term of
Speaker 1: patriotism and I became so bothered by because I'm like,
Speaker 1: you haven't earned that right. Where where I I think
Speaker 1: about this this contint where where my definition of patriotism
Speaker 1: was when I left my family and I put on
Speaker 1: the uniform of this country. And I served with the
Speaker 1: eighty second Airborne Division overseas in Afghanistan, and I was
Speaker 1: literally hearing people talk about patriots whose definition of patriotism
Speaker 1: was putting on a baseball cap and and storming the
Speaker 1: capital and trying to take down democracy. And so I
Speaker 1: think about it in my own life. I come from
Speaker 1: a family of patriots, because I come from a family
Speaker 1: of educators. I come from a family of people who
Speaker 1: were served as engineers and made this country with their
Speaker 1: hands I've served from. I come from a family of ministers. Right,
Speaker 1: these are patriots, and so and so I refused to
Speaker 1: be lectured, nor should anybody allow anybody to try to
Speaker 1: bastardize that term of patriotism, because we come from a
Speaker 1: place where I understand what it means to love your country,
Speaker 1: even when your country doesn't love it back, but you
Speaker 1: still love it. Wow. So for many people, they love
Speaker 1: the country. Many people love what they want the country
Speaker 1: to be. They have the ideas of what they want
Speaker 1: to do to fix it. You will actually now going
Speaker 1: to be in that position at a really interesting time
Speaker 1: in America, at an interesting time, you know, for your state,
Speaker 1: because you have a two billion dollar Circlus. You're in
Speaker 1: a position where you're going to be able to spend
Speaker 1: money to make ideas a reality, which is not often
Speaker 1: the case. Talk me through some of your plans. You know,
Speaker 1: for instance, reading through your life, there are many people
Speaker 1: who've read your book and they know the story. But
Speaker 1: for those who don't, you know, your your grandmother left Cuba,
Speaker 1: you know, and moved to Jamaica, Your mom left Jamaica
Speaker 1: and came to the United States, and so you you
Speaker 1: have a family that is from many different places in
Speaker 1: the world, you know, and so and so. You know,
Speaker 1: it's informed how you see healthcare because of you know,
Speaker 1: how young you were when your father died. It's informed
Speaker 1: how you think about education, how you think about basic services.
Speaker 1: So let's let's start. You know, one of the more
Speaker 1: basic ideas, losing your father at such a young age
Speaker 1: because he couldn't get the health care he needed, means
Speaker 1: you are now in a position to change that. What
Speaker 1: are you planning to change for the people in your
Speaker 1: states who may be in that same position? You know,
Speaker 1: I think about where everything that I am and everything
Speaker 1: we ran on has been influenced by my life, right
Speaker 1: where my life has been consistently the consequences of broken
Speaker 1: policies and how it leaves people, how it leaves people behind.
Speaker 1: So when we talk about leave no one behind, which
Speaker 1: I learned in the military when I was seventeen years old,
Speaker 1: leave no one behind is not just a mantra, that
Speaker 1: is a value statement. And so my earliest memories were
Speaker 1: watching my father die in front of me when I
Speaker 1: was three years old because he didn't get the healthcare
Speaker 1: that he needed. That one of my earliest memories was
Speaker 1: when I was eleven years old when I felt handcuffs
Speaker 1: my wrists because I came up in a community that
Speaker 1: was over policed and we knew it that my mother
Speaker 1: was four I was fourteen years old when my mother
Speaker 1: got her first job that gave her benefits. And by
Speaker 1: the way, however, this is a woman who went on
Speaker 1: to earn a master's degree. So when we're having conversations,
Speaker 1: so when we're having conversations about about inequitable pay between
Speaker 1: men and women, or equitable pay between people color and
Speaker 1: non this is not an academic exercise. To me, I
Speaker 1: don't need a white paper to explain this. I've seen this.
Speaker 1: And so when we say that our my entire platform
Speaker 1: that what we're gonna do is build pathways for work,
Speaker 1: wages and wealth for all Marylanders. We mean that, and
Speaker 1: when we talk about work, it means having an education
Speaker 1: system that's teaching our students how not just to be employees,
Speaker 1: but how to be employers. When you're talking about when
Speaker 1: you're talking about wages, it means making sure that people
Speaker 1: getting are getting paid a fair wage, because gone should
Speaker 1: be the days when we have people who are working
Speaker 1: jobs and in some cases multiple jobs, and still living
Speaker 1: at or below a poverty line. And then making sure
Speaker 1: we're focusing on wealth and that's simply the idea that
Speaker 1: you should own more than you owe, and that means
Speaker 1: doing things like being able to address unfair appraisal values
Speaker 1: and historically red line neighborhoods because housing is one of
Speaker 1: the greatest ways to generate wealth, and unfair appraisal vius
Speaker 1: has been one of the greatest wealth thefts that we
Speaker 1: have seen in our society. And it means getting a
Speaker 1: chance for people to have a sense of ownership, increasing
Speaker 1: liquidity to our small businesses or minority owned businesses, women
Speaker 1: owned businesses, really creating a platform and a pathway for
Speaker 1: people to passing onto your children besides debt. So this
Speaker 1: is about work, wages, and wealth. It's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a total task. You know, you seem like you're up
Speaker 1: for the job. You you're really motivated, and you know
Speaker 1: what you want to do about it. Let's talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about you know, being handcuffed when you are
Speaker 1: eleven years old. It means that you have a view
Speaker 1: of the quote unquote justice system that is particularly unjust.
Speaker 1: You can see how it can go wrong so fast. However,
Speaker 1: in America, I've noticed a really interesting trend whereby it
Speaker 1: is almost impossible to criticize constructively a police force without
Speaker 1: being labeled as being anti police, you know, and then
Speaker 1: people say, you're not your anti law and order, you
Speaker 1: don't want anything to happen, when ironically many police men
Speaker 1: and women will complain about their unions and the jobs
Speaker 1: they do, et cetera. How do you find that balance then,
Speaker 1: between saying to the people of your states in Maryland,
Speaker 1: my job is to keep you safe. My job is
Speaker 1: to address what is happening on the ground that leads
Speaker 1: to crime. But at the same time, my job is
Speaker 1: to repair a police force that has lost trust in
Speaker 1: many communities and lost trusts, you know, in the public
Speaker 1: in general. You know, and I think about with our
Speaker 1: race and our campaign. Our campaign was endorsed by both
Speaker 1: Progressive Maryland and the Police Union, and people say, how
Speaker 1: in the world did you pull that one off? Because
Speaker 1: basically it's the idea is this is that I was
Speaker 1: offering the same thing to both sides, a seat at
Speaker 1: the table, that if we are going to actually address
Speaker 1: these issues, we have to make sure that we're doing
Speaker 1: it collectively, and that we have to have a police
Speaker 1: force that is going to move with appropriate intensity and
Speaker 1: absolute integrity and full accountability. But we need to have
Speaker 1: the police force at the table to be able to
Speaker 1: make sure that happens. That we have to make sure
Speaker 1: that yes, we had to get violent offenders off of
Speaker 1: our streets and offer and out of our communities because
Speaker 1: no child, no child should have to compet the neighborhood
Speaker 1: they are afraid of, and we have to get these
Speaker 1: illegal guns out of our neighborhoods. But it's also but
Speaker 1: it also means but we also have to be very
Speaker 1: clear on this too. You're not going to rest your
Speaker 1: way out of this, and you're not going to militarize
Speaker 1: your way out of this. And I do think about
Speaker 1: it from the context where at eleven years old, I
Speaker 1: felt handcuffed my risk. And if someone would have said
Speaker 1: to that eleven year old kid, you know, one day
Speaker 1: you could be the opener, I would have never believed them.
Speaker 1: So we've got to make sure we're investing our kids
Speaker 1: and when we say things like that, that they actually
Speaker 1: believe us. Because if a kid thinks that you don't care,
Speaker 1: they don't care what you think. And so we've got
Speaker 1: to make sure we're coming up with pathways, true pathways
Speaker 1: for all of our children to understand that the future
Speaker 1: of our society, it isn't real unless they're a part
Speaker 1: of it. Oh, I would love to know for me
Speaker 1: as as somebody who's coming into politics. You know, you
Speaker 1: see so many politicians come in with with really clear
Speaker 1: ideas of what they want to do and how they
Speaker 1: want to be, and very quickly they get slowed down
Speaker 1: in the sludge that is politics, whether it be you know,
Speaker 1: outside money, big you know organizations, d n C, R
Speaker 1: n C, whatever it may be. You see them slowing
Speaker 1: down and then they care more about being reelected than
Speaker 1: doing the job that they were elected to do. So
Speaker 1: so I would start with this in the most honest way,
Speaker 1: what would you say is the biggest challenged that you
Speaker 1: will have to face? That people don't understand how challenging
Speaker 1: it is because oftentimes politicians we have to fix this,
Speaker 1: We have to fix the best to fix this. But
Speaker 1: I think it will be interesting for policies to say
Speaker 1: this part here is going to be extremely difficult to
Speaker 1: fix because of X Y Z or Z as you
Speaker 1: say here, like like genuinely, when you say, what do
Speaker 1: you say? What would you say is the toughest issue
Speaker 1: facing Maryland right now? UM? I still think it comes
Speaker 1: back to economics because I still think people feel a
Speaker 1: very real sense of an ease and economic uncertainty about
Speaker 1: where things are. UM. But I think that what we've
Speaker 1: got to do is, first of all, we have to
Speaker 1: let people know and and make sure they can believe
Speaker 1: that we can actually get this done important, it's really important.
Speaker 1: And then also put the concrete plans in place about
Speaker 1: the things we're gonna to do to be able to
Speaker 1: address that. And it means things like when we say
Speaker 1: we're going to invest to get people back to work,
Speaker 1: it means we have to be able to do that
Speaker 1: in job reskilling and job retraining. Where you know, right now,
Speaker 1: in the state of Maryland, we have two available jobs
Speaker 1: for every single person filing for unemployment. And people say, well,
Speaker 1: how does that make sense? Is because we have a
Speaker 1: dynamic economy in the state of Maryland. We're just not
Speaker 1: preparing people to be able to participate in that economy, right,
Speaker 1: So being able to put together the concrete practical plans
Speaker 1: in order to do that, it means being able to
Speaker 1: start earlier. And again, as a leader, I am data
Speaker 1: driven in heart led, right, I wear my heart on
Speaker 1: my sleeve and I acknowledge that. But data matters, and
Speaker 1: I don't move without data. And I know this is
Speaker 1: that of brain development happens in a child by the
Speaker 1: time that child is five years old. So why we
Speaker 1: have children starting school of five makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 1: We have to make sure we have pre K for
Speaker 1: every single child and meet in the state of Maryland.
Speaker 1: And so it really is saying we know what works.
Speaker 1: And again I have I've been a public servant for
Speaker 1: my entire life. I just haven't been a politician, right,
Speaker 1: but I've had a chance. I've led soldiers in combat.
Speaker 1: I let a successful small business helping first generation students
Speaker 1: go to and through college, and then I had a
Speaker 1: chance to lead one of the largest poverty finding organizations
Speaker 1: in this country. I know what works. We know what works.
Speaker 1: Now the question is can we derive the political will
Speaker 1: and the political and the political focus and intentionality to
Speaker 1: actually bring these things to scale. And that's where I
Speaker 1: think we had a unique value proposition that allowed the
Speaker 1: people of Maryland to say, let's go, let's go win
Speaker 1: this decade. Oh. If there's one thing even your worst
Speaker 1: detractors cannot argue is that you're not focused and you're
Speaker 1: not driven. You genuinely all thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining me on the show, having and look forward to
Speaker 1: saying what you do as coming in quest more. Everybody
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