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Speaker 1: Why are you talking to people on Twitter that cannot

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Speaker 1: a husband. If you got to go outside of your

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Speaker 1: house all the time to get sex, what's the point

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Speaker 1: of having a wife. Don't they say that maybe your

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Speaker 1: wife ain't putting it down, Something ain't going on in

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Speaker 1: your house. See, being a candidate has all to do

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Speaker 1: with what you're able to do in your district. This

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Speaker 1: is why I say if you want to be an

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Speaker 1: activist's a single issue activist, then you need to run

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Speaker 1: a pack. I'm not discouraging you from running. I'm just

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Speaker 1: telling you what it is. When you run a pack,

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Speaker 1: then you can spread your net wide and you can

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Speaker 1: raise money from all across. The most powerful political action

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Speaker 1: committee in the country is a Jewish pack, and they're

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Speaker 1: the most powerful. They raise the most money, they get

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Speaker 1: the most shit done, and they're not candidate's slash activists.

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00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: They are single issue activists, meaning who gonna be for

441
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Speaker 1: Israel and who ain't? And if you ain't for Israel,

442
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Speaker 1: we're gonna drop money on your campaign. They did it

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Speaker 1: with Senator Turner. We're gonna make sure your ass lose.

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Speaker 1: They did it to Senator Turner. Can I give you

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Speaker 1: some breaking news. They also did it with Representative Rashida

446
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Speaker 1: to Leave in Detroit. But Rashida run her race. You

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Speaker 1: know why she run her race, Tory because that girl

448
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Speaker 1: is a beast on the ground. So they wasn't able

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Speaker 1: to say big money came in and stolen from her.

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Speaker 1: To leave is a beast on the ground. Detroit don't

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Speaker 1: have nobody black representing them. What does that say? What

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Speaker 1: is the story I just told you about about Michigan.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they took Detroit for granted a little bit too long.

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Speaker 1: They have zero black representation in Congress, So that tells

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Speaker 1: me that you're on the ground work matters. They raise

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Speaker 1: more money than Rashida to leave, and she ain't black,

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Speaker 1: and she's still held onto that seat and she ran

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Speaker 1: against the establishment. So this old I need money, it's

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Speaker 1: always big money. Yeah, that's true. But at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, I'm always gonna be looking for your

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Speaker 1: ground game, and if your ground game is trash, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a hard time being taken serious. If you

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Speaker 1: can't give but five people to show up at best

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Speaker 1: in a room, you're gonna have a hard time be

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Speaker 1: taken serious. You can have the best speeches in the world,

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Speaker 1: but if only five people show up in the room,

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Speaker 1: ain't nobody counting how many people you get to come

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Speaker 1: in this Twitter space because it's irrelevant And I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that to this I'm saying that to hope they

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Speaker 1: encourage you guys to get organized. We don't want to

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Speaker 1: be organized, so we don't want to be no group.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, then well I guess you don't want to

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Speaker 1: have no numbers. Then it's gonna make nobody make no

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Speaker 1: moves because that's what you have to do. Being scattered

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Speaker 1: is not organized, and that's why they call it organized. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you want to be a provocateur, that's fine. We

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Speaker 1: need provocateurs. We need people that's going to I do

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Speaker 1: it all the time. Hey, let the people know we

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Speaker 1: need to do this. But don't confuse that would influence

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Speaker 1: and organize it on politics, because it's not the same.

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Speaker 1: If you can't get five people to show up at best,

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Speaker 1: if you can't get twenty people to show up at

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Speaker 1: best by hearing your name, then it's not effective organizing.

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Speaker 1: It's just not And I'm gonna say this, and I

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Speaker 1: don't mean to step on th toes, but if the

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Speaker 1: toes get stepped on, it just is what it is.

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Speaker 1: There was some conversations with Gave, the candidate that y'all supported,

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Speaker 1: And I gotta say this because although I understand the

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Speaker 1: issue that many of you have that they should have

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Speaker 1: supported him because he's a reparations candidate, what I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you is he raised more money than everybody in

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Speaker 1: their race, and he couldn't get his high school graduating

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Speaker 1: class to show up. And that's a problem. If you

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Speaker 1: can't get one hundred and fifty people to show up

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Speaker 1: for you at the polls, and this is his second

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Speaker 1: time running, that's a problem. That means he's not spending

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Speaker 1: time organizing. He's busy sitting up on Twitter talking to y'all.

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Speaker 1: I'm just giving you all the facts, y'all. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: but he ran against the establishment, so what can I

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Speaker 1: can name all type of races I've ran against the establishment?

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Speaker 1: Award is very easy to have influence. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to hear that shit. If you can't get one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty people to show up, Just the fact that

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00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: you sitting up on Twitter now, one of my canons

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Speaker 1: be sitting up talking to y'all on Twitter, because it

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Speaker 1: ain't none y'all can do for him. All y'all did

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Speaker 1: was calls in problems. Bringing him to Twitter to talk

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00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: didn't do nothing but causing problems. Let me say it again,

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Speaker 1: Twitter will not help you win a race, but can

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Speaker 1: damn show help you lose one. Bringing him to Twitter,

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Speaker 1: which y'all savvy selves, didn't do nothing but help but

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Speaker 1: give him problems. He didn't want to be, he didn't

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Speaker 1: want to do interviews, he didn't want to be on

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Speaker 1: the ground. I read all this stuff about him. I

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Speaker 1: just didn't say nothing. But since we're here, let me

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Speaker 1: let me go ahead and say it. Oh no, they

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Speaker 1: like him in this community. Oh okay, then well why come

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Speaker 1: he can't get one hundred and fifty people? Why did

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Speaker 1: he come in dead last raise more money than everybody.

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00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: That's a problem, y'all. I'm telling you that's a problem.

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Speaker 1: And anybody want to dispute me, don't tell me what

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Speaker 1: you read no book. We gonna compare numbers and numbers

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Speaker 1: on what it mean to run a campaign. I got

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Speaker 1: three hundred of y'all came to my training in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Y'all got on y'all own with y'all own dime. Why

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Speaker 1: did y'all get on with y'all own dime to come

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Speaker 1: from La Houston, Dallas, Chicago. So you mean to tell

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Speaker 1: me me is not a candidate. People were willing to

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Speaker 1: get on the plane on their own dime, pay for

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Speaker 1: their own hotel to come rock with me for twelve hours.

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Speaker 1: Three hundred of you, and you mean to tell me

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Speaker 1: a candidate that was born and raised and ran more

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Speaker 1: than once can't get one hundred and twenty people to

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Speaker 1: show up at the poll for fifteen minutes. And no, baby,

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Speaker 1: that's a problem. Oh he got twenty four percent of

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Speaker 1: the vote. Let me tell you about what percentages look

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Speaker 1: like in real time. If I polled two people and

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Speaker 1: I say do you want apple? Are oranges? And one

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00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: of you raise your hand and say apples? Do you know?

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Speaker 1: I can say fifty percent of the people want apples.

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Speaker 1: It ain't but two of y'all, So I ain't nobody

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Speaker 1: impressed by no twenty four percent. Try again, I know

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Speaker 1: what win numbers look like. So he needed to get

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Speaker 1: his ass. Yes he can be for reparations. Yes you

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Speaker 1: can support him. Yes he is the better candidate. If

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Speaker 1: that's what y'all say. I don't know. But what makes

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00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: him a bad candidate is his field game is trash.

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00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: And you can run and tell them my citing. What

549
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,479
Speaker 1: he looks like is somebody that's raising money off Twitter

550
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: to sit on his ass and not knock on doors.

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Speaker 1: And that ain't got nothing to do with him being

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Speaker 1: white or black. Oh they like him?

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 1: I can't tell because award is easy to win. You

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Speaker 1: don't need but three four hundred people you can't get

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Speaker 1: at my high school graduated one hundred and fifty people

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Speaker 1: down your church. It's one hundred people at most people church.

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Speaker 1: So you mean tell him you can't get twenty five

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Speaker 1: people from the church, twenty five people from your high school,

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Speaker 1: twenty five people from your wife, his family, twenty five

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Speaker 1: of your cousins to get one hundred and fifty people

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Speaker 1: to the room. No, don't let him twist that shit

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00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: up to you, I said again. His ground game is track,

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Speaker 1: especially if you ran before. Because if you ran before,

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00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: where was one hundred and fifty people that rock with

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Speaker 1: you the first time? After they rock with you the

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00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: first time, you should have kept on engaging them so

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Speaker 1: in case you run a second time. That's where most

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Speaker 1: people go wrong. They don't engage the people from the

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Speaker 1: first time. Let me give you an example. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: bring Marcus up. I really am gonna shut up the

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Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders that I was telling y'all about. Danielle Green.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you how I look in real time.

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Speaker 1: I know Miss Mama say here we go again with

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Speaker 1: the receipts. She probably didn't already put it in the compettion.

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Speaker 1: I'll let me know she did it. They hated it

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00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: when I give receipts because that's what separates the boys

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Speaker 1: from the men and the women from the girls. After

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Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders lost, he didn't give a damn about what

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Speaker 1: went on in Flint. Never talked to him ever again

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton as well. Guess what I did, stayed in

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Speaker 1: contact with Danielle Green when it was time to sue Flint.

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Speaker 1: You know, when Ben Crump went to sue you know,

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Speaker 1: the one y'all say, be grifting, But he ain't never

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Speaker 1: asked y'all for one dollar. He ain't never asked you

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Speaker 1: for no donation. All he ever did was get paid

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00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: for the work that he actually did. Meanwhile, y'all paid

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Speaker 1: two thousand dollars to you know, just to be in

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Speaker 1: the room with folks. But you know he's the grifter.

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00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: But whatever, we'll deal with that another time. When we

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00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: went in sue Flint, and I'm not making excuses for

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00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: being because I got my issues with him too. But

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Speaker 1: when it was time to go super Flint and get

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Speaker 1: that six hundred million dollar lawsuit that we got in one,

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Speaker 1: guess who I went back to to make sure they

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Speaker 1: got the money. First, Danielle and Danyelle helped me get

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Speaker 1: a room full of one thousand people that was from

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Speaker 1: that relationship in twenty fifteen. You see how it worked, Nikki.

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00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: I'm trying to help him connect the dots. You see

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Speaker 1: how it works, Sonny. From twenty fifteen, that same woman

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Speaker 1: that Bernie Sanders hugged was also that same woman to

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Speaker 1: help me get a thousand people in the room to

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Speaker 1: get a piece of the six hundred million dollar lawsuit

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00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: from the one y'all say be grifting. They gave away

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00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: the money, didn't ask for the money, but gave away

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Speaker 1: the money. And then guess what else. I put Daniel

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Speaker 1: Green on MSNBC two or three times. Guess what daniel Green.

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00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: Guess what she did after that, Marcus? She ran for

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Speaker 1: school board and she won. See that's how shit is done.

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00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:25,239
Speaker 1: That's why I like the receipts. Tell me who you

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Speaker 1: take from somebody that was just giving a candidate a

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Speaker 1: hug to getting a thousand people in the room to

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Speaker 1: get paid and then turning that person into a candidate.

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Speaker 1: When you can do that, then you can argue with me.

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00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: Then you can tell me what your great idea is.

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00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: Until then, take notes and don't take it in a

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Speaker 1: way of shade. I'm telling you how to be better.

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00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: I'm telling you you can do better. I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: you can do more with these Twitter spaces than just talking.

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00:32:53,360 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: I'm telling you how you can be taken serious. Not

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Speaker 1: just doing interviews. It's not just talking. What are you

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00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: doing with that information? How do they fear you? They're

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Speaker 1: not fearing you based on you talking, casting a wide net,

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Speaker 1: talking to random people all over the country. Yes, that

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00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: is one part of it, but it is not all

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Speaker 1: of it. If you're going to be a candidate or

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Speaker 1: an activist. It was important that you got up and

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00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: talked at the task force meeting, absolutely, but the deal

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Speaker 1: was already cut before you went to the task force meeting.

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Speaker 1: If you set on a task force, you would know this.

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Speaker 1: That's why some of y'all need to volunteer to sit

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Speaker 1: on task force, like I did with Metro Plan, like

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Speaker 1: I did with Membership Mission and Review, like I did

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Speaker 1: with the Orange County League on Voters. If you ever

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00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: set on a government task force, you'll see how it works,

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00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: and that way you can keep game on knowing when

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Speaker 1: you need to be speaking, and it's way before the meeting. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you need to be on record at the task Force.

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Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, the deal was already cut, the

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Speaker 1: governor already knew what he was gonna do before then,

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Speaker 1: and you still have not yet presented somebody to run

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Speaker 1: in the state of California. Reparationists. Oh, we got Marcella,

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Speaker 1: but marcell in South Carolina. Though, who running in California?

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Speaker 1: I asked all that when I went to the rally,

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Speaker 1: where are they? And I'm not talking I see you, Diana,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not This ain't no shade. I'm just addressing

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Speaker 1: everybody on Twitter all at one time. I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about running for president. I'm talking about who is running

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Speaker 1: for state senator or state rep or on the local

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Speaker 1: level in California. I'm not talking about you running for president, Dion.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about who is running for state rep or

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Speaker 1: state senator in California. So that next time there's a

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Speaker 1: task Force, you have a person in place. Because the

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Speaker 1: method of saying we just ain't gonna vote for him,

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Speaker 1: they don't give a damn for those of you that

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Speaker 1: just joined you are actually helping them. You only hurt

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Speaker 1: them when you have a candidate to split their vote.

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Speaker 1: They hope you stay home because it just makes it

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Speaker 1: easier for them to give to your win number. You

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Speaker 1: would know that if you ever had to work field

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Speaker 1: on a campaign.

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