WEBVTT - Street Politicians Dropping Gems 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:04.840 Up in the morning. You the morning I'm talking right, 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:07.560 and if you're about to experience a morning showing like 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:12.080 any club, what you guys are doing right now, that's 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.600 the hub culture. Baktist Club is my morning spit. I 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.320 need it and I love it. Something you like, You're 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:21.160 really not popping until you do the Bactist Club. The 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.200 waiting come to y'all show man. I know you gotta 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:25.880 be a big time celebrity to be up in here. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:29.320 You gotta be you gotta be big time Atli and Charlotte. 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:36.560 Ain't the guy to breakfast club? Bitches? Did your time 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.400 to get it off your chests? Whether you're man or 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.720 blast so so you better have the same industry we 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.080 want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:47.760 who's this Elijah from Raley Alija? Get it off your chest? Yo? 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.960 Why is it kids don't want to go to HBC schools. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.560 I think because of publicity they get no shot on 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.400 esp agin. First of all, what's the HBC school HBCU? 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.920 You mean, bro? I know what you meant, see Hugh Charlemagne, 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.960 the gods smartest you forgot to you. I didn't know 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.520 what you talking about whatever, But like, look, you don't 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.000 see some colord of state on they don't get games. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:15.400 Espnuld play game. I agree, I agree with you, I 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.520 definitely agree. Agree. It's up to you know what, though, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.679 it's up to those those those superstar athletes from those states. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.240 Somebody's gonna have to make the sacrifice to say, you 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.160 know what, White Ice is not colder, and I'm gonna 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.000 go to an HBCU. I'm gonna take my talents to 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:29.959 an HBCU. That's the only way they're gonna start getting 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:31.680 A couple of them are doing. The young lady that 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.280 went to baseball and another brother went to Howard he 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.960 plays basketball. So there's a couple of them doing it though. Yeah, 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.319 but still put the most kids want to shine. They 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.840 want to they want school so they can get the 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.400 complicity to see a household thing. But they don't get that. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.200 So I feel like ESPN should take the additiative to 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:56.680 have a game. They just ad TUUM schools so they 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.280 could get some kind of shot, because it's not that's 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.160 the reason one of them want to go. You're right, well, 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.280 I agree with you, BT or revote, Maybe BT or 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.960 revote you start d them games. I don't know how 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.800 that works. I don't know how that works with TV contracts, 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.120 but I do think it's I do agree with you, sir, 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.160 Thank you brother. Hello, who's this? I said? What I'm 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.280 getting off your chest? I just want to get off 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.080 my test off on Pattison? And it's not for none 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.119 of the good looking people to do here. There's nothing 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.560 to do in Patterson. No, not for the looking people. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.120 Not for the good looking people. Jerseys open. What are 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.640 you talking about about Patterson? I want something about it? 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.920 You mean, like you said, the good looking people, looking people. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.760 I can think of a million things for good looking 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.880 people to do in Patterson. Number one is get robbed. 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.799 Oh nod tonight. There's a lot of restaurants open in Patterson. 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.440 I go to Oili, Poole and spots already. Okay, So 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.240 what else you want to do is coronavirus? Like if 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.160 we're in the pandemic, read a book, you work. I'm 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.520 saying after, I'm are you boring to raid in Patterson? Sir? 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.880 H how old are you? I'm through? Man? See what 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.360 you should have done is you should have got you 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:01.720 some good education and you should have done good in 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:03.480 high school, so you could have went off to college. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.280 I did, Oh you went to college. Yeah, you went 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:11.960 to school at college. Oh, okay, leave Patterson. It's okay 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.680 to leave Patterson. Hello, who's this? You know? What's king 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.520 in radway? South Carolina staff crew to that? What's get 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.760 it off your chest? I I just can't round to 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.240 take what's up with dollar? Man? I want to bless. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.440 I wanted to put in my freestyle report that time 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.440 with y'all. Oh, I swear you wasther from South Carolina. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.720 Always shut this down. But go ahead, the head brother, 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.960 go ahead. I life did the same way. Sometimes I 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:37.520 feel like I way go up to the same day 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.080 trying to make a living man. I'm trying to make 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:40.680 it out. I'm trying to make sure that my family dow. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.080 So we spitching that. So every day I hustled. Y'all 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.000 pay to guard day watching me in the streets, and 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.480 somebody would try to play man wady, so I keep 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.640 my breaking low. Y'all give me your bag. You got down. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.240 You gotta slow that down, my South Carolina bredren. You're 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.160 going too fast, like what you're gonna? What's up? You're 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:02.560 wrapping like your life depends on it. Drum. That's disrespectful drum. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.120 I was drum, drum, that's disrespectful. Don't hang up on 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.200 my soft Carolina breaks back. It's all him now. Now 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.480 you guys know, Envy's back and it's all him. Wow. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.080 He was like, Envy's back and it's all him. Wow. Goodness, 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:22.840 damn Jesus Christ. Get it off your chest. Eight hundred 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:24.720 five eight five one oh five one. If you need 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.479 to vet, hit us up now with the Breakfast Club. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:33.320 Good morning. I'm I'm telling you if this is your 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.400 time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.400 or blessed. Eight hundred five eighty five one oh five one. 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.680 We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.039 who's this? Okay? Good morning? Three lest Tita, how dj 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:51.440 v hay what I'm good morning? How are you? I'm fine? 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.880 Thank you. Last time I called Charlomagne, you wasn't there, 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.360 but I'm glad to hear your voice. I had a 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.240 question for you, Charlomagne. Yes, man, why are you always 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.000 why are you all always yawning in the microphone like that? 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.760 Like why do you do that? Why do you do that? Y'all? Simple? 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:10.600 Ye don't tell me because I'm tired because I wake 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.839 up early in the morning. Don't tell me that, uh duh, 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.440 it's sick something in the morning. No, you're not. You're 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.240 not still yawning white. You're not still yawning wiping coal 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.280 out your eye and six something in the morning. So 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.839 you went mute, don't know, abody want to hear all that. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.640 That's just to me. That's like somebody yawning right next 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.719 to me in my ear. I was like, damn, sorry, 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.560 what are you doing right now? You're like, oh, yeah, 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.640 because if you're oh, I don't really know. Well, you're 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.800 gonna hate to know that. I passed gas too sometime. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.120 Not in my clothes though, oh not. Yeah, yeah, you 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.040 go to the bathroom, you pull your hands down right 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.200 well anyway, thank you. Oh one more thing, one more thing. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:52.000 Elijah McClean, Sandra Bland, Brianna Sailor. Let's do that right 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.680 out like that. Hello, who's that? Just about to yawn 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:01.680 before she said that, By the way, Hello, who's this? Hello? Hey? 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.760 What's your name? Bro? Hello? Money making Mitch? How you're 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.239 doing with money making? Mitch? You ain't making no money 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.920 right now? You ain't making no money in a recession. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.039 You crazy cut it out, Charlomagne guard, how you making money? 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.440 Tell me how you making money by giving proper advice 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.480 on how people should should be really cleaning the house. 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.480 That's enough money for me to educate these people you're finessing. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.000 Of course, Um, if you really, really really want to 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.760 kill as coronavirus or to all hospitals and everybody's home, 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.480 just start from sterilization room. Start from the bathroom, then 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.920 work your way out. Everything you use in the bathroom 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.200 you should use around the whole apartment. Every hospital that's scared, 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:45.440 they have training. Wee. Sterility is important. So if you 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:49.200 just expand your sterilization apartment and make the whole hospital 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:54.640 strel then everything, every item, every equipment, every instrument can 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.760 actually be used properly. All these money making Mitch, Let 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:00.839 me ask you a question, will actually paying for this 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:06.559 advice of cleaning the bathroom clean your bathroom? Actually? I agree, 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.719 I agree that you have to do sterilization, but you 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.800 do know that it's transmitted from person to person right exactly, 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.520 But it depends on how many people are in your house, 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.880 and do you have a team that's doing sterilization. This 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.120 is a family, this isn't people from next door to 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:23.040 my house. How are you making many of this? Yeah? Many? 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.480 Or you're talking about financial money. I don't need financial money. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.480 I don't need know financers. I'm fine. Financial money is 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.720 but yeah, my money is there. But financially I'm fine. 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.920 But the other money is the other important money. That's 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:41.960 is information. Knowledge is poss knowledge is currency. You mean 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.840 you know so that so that right there alone, I'm 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.120 saving lives by telling people. I saw it in the military. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.040 Seventeen years as a medical officer, I've done I've done 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.480 the all forms of surgery. I've been in so many 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.360 different situations and we treat every patient. Now this is 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.640 the coronavirus. We treat every patient as if they were HIZ. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.160 Now we have to treat every patients. I just they 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:06.040 have HIV, corona um and all these other symptoms. That's 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.800 that's that's that's pretty dope because now you have to 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.560 stay on top of sterility to arrest of your life. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:16.120 You understand this is no waking call. What thank you 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.520 brother for calling man? We really don't understand. But you know, 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.760 to each you're talking about that type of money. You're 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.800 talking about financial money. What other money is there? I'm 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:28.960 he he made, he made currency, that's all. What was this, 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.400 Mike Man, Mike Man, what I'm getting about? Mike Man? 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.840 I was man all this stuff? Man, Uh, you don't 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:41.040 really man, years this man, you waited five years to 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.160 tell us that. No. I waited five years, y'all. Man, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.120 I've been calling for five years straight. Man, So what 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.760 are you going to say? No, Man, just shout out 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.040 the boys of our bust In Corporated. Man, we on 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.480 our wead work very better. Man. Ain't matter. I'm happy 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.360 to be alive. There you go, Okay, happy to be here. 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.600 I appreciate it. Man, get it off your chess eight 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.920 hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.000 need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:13.880 Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela yee, 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.280 Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.680 a special guest on the line this morning. Yes, the 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:22.960 new senior advisor to the President elect. That's right, Cedric Richmond. 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.400 Welcome back, brother, Good morning everybody. How y'all doing, blessed 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.600 Black and Holly Favor. Congratulations on being named Senior Advisor 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.959 to the President. Man to tell people what that position means, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.280 because they didn't they didn't even know what coach hair was. Wait, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.800 what does that mean? This is the first time. It's 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.880 not a free position on the Biden campaign. I can 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.760 tell you that. Let me just it will be Director 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:47.400 of Public Engagement, which means I'll engage in interact with 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.079 everybody from the civil rights community, to the LGBTQ community, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:56.920 to Black Lives Matter, to the Latino community. And I'll 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.440 be in the White House as a senior advisor to 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.960 the President for him to bounce stuff off, to have 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.920 him put in decisions. And sometimes you know, it's that 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.960 question is who's at the table? It's my expectation to 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:09.640 be at the table. Do you get a chance to 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.960 breathe and say, yes, we finally made it, We finally 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.400 did it because it was a long fight, and the 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.840 fight continue for a minute, or do it now you 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.240 look at it and say, Okay, now we got a 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.079 whole lot more to do. Well, we have a lot 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.480 of work to do. This president has left chaos and 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:27.520 confusion all across the country, especially a raging pandemic. But 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.240 we you know, I don't have to tell you all. 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:31.800 You know, we have a lot of work to do. 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.400 When you start talking about systematic racism, when you start 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.520 talking about addressing poverty, when you start talking about addressing 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:43.000 climate change, and you start talking about addressing police reform, 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.040 criminal justice reform, all of those things we've talked about. 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.960 Now it becomes the time to put up a shut 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.000 up and so we have work to do. And that's 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.760 the part that is the awesome task. I saw you 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:57.640 said that this was the hardest decision you've had to 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.679 make in your life. So what were your reservation? Well, 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.319 first of all, I haven't had a boss in twenty 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.160 one years except the people who put me in office. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.160 And the other part was making sure that you know 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:14.040 it's meaningful. And Charlomagne, I will tell you that between 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.640 you and DL, because both of you all on interviews 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.400 asked me the same question at some point, which was 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.920 who do we hold accountable if things go around or 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.800 we don't live up to expectations, And the real question was, well, 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.880 if I don't go in, then I'm cheating people of 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.959 that voice, of all of the people I'm convinced to 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.840 be a part of this movement. And then you know, 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.800 it was just to uproot your family and moved to DC. Look, 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.160 I like DC, but New Orleans is the best city 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.960 in the country, and so all of those factors went in. 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:49.680 But at the end of the day, it's something I 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.640 had to do. Was it hard to leave your congressional seat. Absolutely? 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.520 I mean, first of all, I just got reelected. It's 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:02.000 been six elections going into my eleventh Assistant to the Whip, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.200 which is a leadership position in the House, and the 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.520 more seniority you get, the more you can help your district. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:11.000 But in this broken government that we have now, with 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:16.280 the Senate controlled by Republicans or could be controlled by Republicans, 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.760 Mitch McConnell's just going to continue to block everything that's 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.520 important us, like the George Floyd Policing Act, which he's blocking, 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:28.320 and are the Voting Rights Extension which he's blocking. So 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.120 part of it is, you know, there's more than one 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:31.880 way to skin a cat, and so if we can't 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.560 get it done legislatively, let's go into executive branch and 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.520 see what we can get done there. Who you think 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.520 should get that seat? Your old seat? Oh, look, there's 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.360 a number of qualified people who are running, and I 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.320 will look at him, I'll talk to each and every 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.080 one of them, and I'll probably make a recommendation to 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.680 the voters. But it's important to keep someone who will 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.200 put the constituents over ambition or anything like that. So 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.480 and look, everybody that's running has a track record, so 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.080 voters will be able to judge them. How are you 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.680 navigating through Donald Trump not trying to help with this 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.720 transition phase? What are you guys able to do to 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.280 get around that? Well, the good news is Joe Biden 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.680 has been in the White House before and so there's 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:19.400 some institutional knowledge there. But it's a hindrance. And the 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.720 sad part about it is it puts Americans at jeopardy. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.640 So if we're talking about having a cohesive rollout of 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.559 the vaccines, if they're ready, it would be nice to 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.480 know where they are, what's their plan, so that we 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.480 could come in or adjust their plan and have our 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.000 own plan ready. But you need to know those type 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.200 of things, especially on national defense and security briefings. One 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.520 of the glaring items in the nine to eleven report 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.679 was that because it wasn't a smooth transition, there were 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.040 gaps and the terrorists were able to exploit those gaps. 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.200 So those are the things you don't want to happen. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.959 But there are a number of people who used to 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.400 be in the Trump administration that is volunteering information. And 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.400 so we're doing the best we can with what we got. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.360 But I don't think that's adequate, and we know it's 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.679 not adequate for the American people. So we just, you know, 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.400 hopefully expect to temper tance from the stop and we 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.559 can get to transition and get ready for one of 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.800 peaceful transition, but to a moving presidency coming up. And 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.720 I was gonna ask, is there any way to forcefully 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.360 do that by law? You know the fact that these 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:27.800 laws or all these states to come in and say 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.000 you know now that you did leave, that you did lose. 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.320 Is any way to forcefully say no, we need this information. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.640 You have to or you go to jail. Is that possible? 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.720 Or know that doesn't happen like that? But there's some 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.760 legal routes you can take. But I'll just tell you 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.040 from my time in Congress, when Donald Trump tells its 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.800 cabinet secretaries and not to cooperate with committee investigations, to 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:49.400 ignore our subpoenas, we hold them in contempt, and then 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.800 nothing still happens. This is a lawless punch that is 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.760 in the White House right now, and you know, without 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.000 Donald Trump freeing them up, I expect them to continue 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:04.720 to be a problem. However, I do think at some 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.640 point Donald Trump is going to realize that it's bigger 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.880 than him for the first time. I think he will 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.160 understand that this is not all about him, or he'll 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.400 just take his ball and go home and say, you know, 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.560 if y'all want Sleepy Joe, take Sleepy Joe. Y'all all 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.560 want me back in four years. So I'm taking my 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.920 ball and going home. Whatever it looks like, it just 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:26.840 needs to happen so that we can get on with 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:31.000 the business of transition and preparing to run the greatest 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.080 country on Earth. We got more with Cedric Richmond. When 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.320 we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:44.400 the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Chalomagne, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.280 the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.080 it with Cedric Richmond. Charlomagne, Cedric, are you ready for 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:50.960 all the smoke that's gonna come you away? Though? Because 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.360 I posted you on my Instagram yesterday a couple of 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:57.280 days ago, congratulating you, and immediately people started coming with 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.480 all types of you know, rhetoric whose climate advocates and 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.760 leaders who fight against toxicare pollution sin that he's terrible 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:06.920 for the environment because he got tied to the oil 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.520 and gas industry. But what do you say to that. Look, 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:13.160 I understand their concern. They also have to understand that 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.320 in my congressional district we have hundreds of thousands of 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:21.080 jobs tied to people showing up working every day anywhere 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:26.400 from hotels to all in gas to refineries. And that's 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.800 just the district that I represent. But what I would 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.720 just tell them is that they all applaud Don mckeachen 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.880 as being one of the leaders on environmental justice. Well, 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.240 when we were deciding to put our climate plan together, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.480 it was me that called Don mckeachen, who's a difference 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.360 in mine, and said, Hey, we want the best environmental 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.240 justice plan that we can find, and we want you 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.720 at the table when I want you involved. So I 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.560 know the damage that's going on out there, and I 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.600 think we have assembled the team to put it together. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:03.520 And we had a robust climate change plan. And by 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.280 the way, Joe Biden and its climate plan won the presidency. 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.400 Nobody else did. Yeah, but then that's why they were 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.160 kind of upset too, because they said that you raked 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.919 in big money from the fossil fuel industry and voted 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.680 to help oil and gas companies. Is that true? No, 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.000 that's not true. Now, I did receive contributions from the 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.200 oil and gas company. They're businesses in my district, and 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.040 just because you write a check doesn't mean you only 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.840 And at some point the activists are gonna have to 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.600 understand that. Man, you're the third politician I heard say that, 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.720 and it makes perfect sense to me, Like you can, 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.119 you know, have somebody donate to your campaign, But as 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.000 long as you're still serving the interest of the people 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.600 and not, then what's the problem. Environmentalists have also donated 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.080 to my campaign, So look, I just think that it's 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:52.400 it's a distraction. And when you know people are out 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.800 there just trying to get it done, we should come together, 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:57.760 especially when you win an election, and the fact that 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.359 Democrats are fighting after we win makes absolutely no sense. 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:03.439 We should be at the table figuring out where we 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.119 go from here. And I think that's what Joe Biden 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.919 wants to do. So look, Sunrise and all the environmental groups. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.880 I'm going to reach out to them and make sure 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.240 that they understand that this is the Biden Climate plan, 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.760 this is the agenda we're going to embark on them. 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.760 So let's take people out of it, focus on the plan. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.280 And so I forgot who said it. It It might have 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.280 been King, but I heard Obama repeated before it's not 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.160 about the man, it's about the plan. And I believe 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:34.120 in Joe Biden's climate plan and his environmental justice plan. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.159 I was going to ask, how do you undo the 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.159 damage done by the president now and his constituents who 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.720 are saying that there's voter fraud and this whole election 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:45.880 was rigged, and there's a lot of people who don't 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.920 believe in the system. So how do you undo that damage? Well? 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.120 One first five, making sure we get to January twentieth 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.880 and watch him leave the White House and watch Joe 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.400 Biden go into the White House, because I think what 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:01.440 we've seen over the campaign is that Joe Biden people 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.520 believe him, and he can restore trust in government, the 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.040 election system. The Trumpsters out there that believe that somebody 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.440 stole the election, they're going to believe that no matter 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:14.280 what I mean. They created the term alternative facts, and 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:19.159 people believe it. Unfortunately, he has a percentage of the 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.879 population that will believe whatever he says. He says the 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.560 news media's line, and they believe it. So it's upon 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:26.840 us once we take office, to make sure we restore 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.199 people's faith in governments, restore the faith in the election system. 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.439 You have republican governor's, Republican Secretary of States like in 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.679 Georgia saying we had a recount, Joe Biden's the winner. 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:42.640 The election was fair, there was no fraud, and those 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.480 people who are going to choose to believe the alternative 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.760 facts are just going to believe that. Now, how can 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.840 we help you and Senator Harris and everybody in the 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.399 White House keep those promises for black people? How can 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:57.080 we help on the ground. Well, I think you have 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:59.840 to keep raising issues. We don't get a pass because 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.200 one and I think that that's important, and I think 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:05.080 I said it on this show before, Charlotte Mane. But 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.320 I try to give you the thirty second of it. 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:11.159 When Jesse Jackson, John Lewis and Martin Luther King and 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.080 all those people, not Martin, but when the civil rights 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.680 leaders went into visit London, Johnson after the passage of 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.119 the Civil Rights Act that told him they needed a 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.720 voting Rights Act. He said, I can't do it. They said, no, 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:24.040 you have to do it. He said, I want to 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.920 do it, but I don't have the political capital are 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.800 the will of the people to do it. So help 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.800 me by when you leave this room, make me do it. 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.360 Go create the environment out there, create the demand for 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:40.280 that change that will help me usher it in. So 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:44.680 to the extent that people are still talking about Black 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.760 Lives Matter movement, whether it helped or hurt, Black Lives 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.920 Matter movement is a partner in the struggle for progress 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.560 in this country, and we recognize that. We applaud them, 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.960 and the more that they push, the more that we're 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.359 able to do. And so that's what we need from 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:02.080 you too. I mean, we have to make sure that 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.760 our people are engaged. And if that means our people 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.040