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Speaker 2: Yew I met with the congresswoman at Jacoby Hospital in
Speaker 2: the Bronx to discuss it stand Up to Violence program,
Speaker 2: which has showed an impressive forty six percent reduction in
Speaker 2: retaliatory violence in its first few years.
Speaker 3: As a Democrat focused on violence. Isn't that off brand.
Speaker 4: Well from the Bronx, So it's on brand for where
Speaker 4: I'm from.
Speaker 2: There is a lot of discussion around what progressives can
Speaker 2: do about violence in a big city.
Speaker 4: What the data has showed us is that if you
Speaker 4: respond to violence as a public health issue instead of
Speaker 4: as an incarceration issue, violence decreases. And that's what we're
Speaker 4: doing here at Jacoby Hospital.
Speaker 2: Are there cops here at the hospital that are addressing
Speaker 2: the issue.
Speaker 3: Hell no, okay, no, this is listen.
Speaker 4: And there's security presence and police presence that is standard
Speaker 4: at any hospital, but that's not what this program is about.
Speaker 4: In the traditional response to an incidence of violence, a
Speaker 4: shooting or a stabbing, you may go to the er
Speaker 4: real quick, you get patched up, and then you go
Speaker 4: straight to the precinct. What we decided to do is
Speaker 4: that we said, hey, let's shift the response and see
Speaker 4: what happens when we make the center of response a
Speaker 4: hospital instead of a jail.
Speaker 2: When a patient comes to the er with a gunshot wound,
Speaker 2: the Stand Up to Violence Team works with the victim
Speaker 2: and members of the community to prevent violent retaliation. You're
Speaker 2: essentially talking about preventative medicine here.
Speaker 3: It is it absolutely in America.
Speaker 2: It's not exactly our thing health. We're not known for that.
Speaker 2: We're more of a reactive medicine at.
Speaker 4: Society, and you know, we have caseworkers, we have social workers,
Speaker 4: we have therapists, and we also have people who themselves
Speaker 4: are once incarcerated. Some of our most effective people in
Speaker 4: this work are the former gang members, people who formerly
Speaker 4: spent time at rikers.
Speaker 2: I can hear how Fox News would spin this as
Speaker 2: AOC tries to defund the police and fund gang members.
Speaker 4: If I spent my time worrying about what Fox News said,
Speaker 4: I would I mean, I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 2: We're here in New York City and you're talking about
Speaker 2: funding violence prevention outside of the police, and yet Eric
Speaker 2: Adams has just increased police wages by twenty eight percent.
Speaker 3: Is that misplaced?
Speaker 4: I think? So we are now at a point where officially,
Speaker 4: most officers are paid more than a teacher with a
Speaker 4: master's degree serving these same kids involved in these same incidents.
Speaker 4: We are defunding safety, defunding our public schools, defunding our
Speaker 4: public pools, defunding our parks, defunding our libraries when we
Speaker 4: are taking all of those resources and demanding that every
Speaker 4: single department except the militarized one, because we are sending
Speaker 4: a message about who and what.
Speaker 3: We care about here in a hospital. Do you ever
Speaker 3: get the vibes? Do you ever consider a career in
Speaker 3: the medical profession. It's ho's funny you asked that.
Speaker 4: When I went to college, I went in as a
Speaker 4: pre medical student. Really I wanted to be in obgim actually,
Speaker 4: but you know, life takes us in where it takes us.
Speaker 2: I considered going into the medical profession. I thought I
Speaker 2: could play at handsome doctor on TV.
Speaker 3: Didn't pan out. While we were on.
Speaker 2: The subject of national embarrassments, I had to ask the
Speaker 2: congresswoman about Clarence Thomas, and as BFF Nazi swag collector
Speaker 2: Harlan Crowe, I want to talk a little bit.
Speaker 3: About Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 2: You've said you would even draft articles of impeachment for
Speaker 2: the things that he's done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, has there been any quid pro quo?
Speaker 2: And I said quid pro quot partially because it took
Speaker 2: all that effort to learn what quid procol right back
Speaker 2: in the Ukraine days, and it feels apropos of now.
Speaker 3: And I don't think I used that propos correctly.
Speaker 4: I think that quid pro quo is this bar that
Speaker 4: doesn't even need to be met. The justice is required
Speaker 4: by law to disclose something like that, and he hasn't been.
Speaker 2: Can you empathize though Beyonce came here wanted to take
Speaker 2: you on a sweet vacation, wouldn't you say yes and
Speaker 2: let her show you her Nazi memorabilia tell someone about it.
Speaker 4: But hey, hey, don't put Bay's name on that like that.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying she has not.
Speaker 2: I'm saying if she invested in Nazi memorabilia to show
Speaker 2: that she hates Nazi memorabilia, she'd want to show it off.
Speaker 3: And that whole thing is just, I mean bizarre.
Speaker 4: You also don't keep the linens.
Speaker 2: Around which lens or the Nazi linens? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Who does that?
Speaker 2: Don't you think if you had a billion dollars and
Speaker 2: you've bought everything, you'd probably eventually get to Nazi Lenin's.
Speaker 3: This is a distraction of that whole issue.
Speaker 2: You're right, we're just focused on that as opposed to
Speaker 2: all the money that's going over to Clarence Thompson.
Speaker 3: Although if you're a billionaire, can't billionaires have friends?
Speaker 4: They can? Supreme Court justices are required if they are
Speaker 4: receiving money from people. They shouldn't even be receiving money
Speaker 4: from people. This is why we paid salaries to public servants.
Speaker 4: And if they want to live that kind of lifestyle,
Speaker 4: then they can resign from the court.
Speaker 3: They can retire.
Speaker 2: No, I want to talk about the It's looking as
Speaker 2: if the Supreme Court are going to rule on some
Speaker 2: of the conflicting rulings around Mifipristo. Who do you think
Speaker 2: is going to write the final decision that takes away
Speaker 2: these vital rights from women.
Speaker 3: Is it going to be the guy who cried over
Speaker 3: beer or.
Speaker 2: Is it going to be the buddy with the Nazi
Speaker 2: memorabilia guys.
Speaker 4: You know, my hope is that they we do not
Speaker 4: get to that point, but we also have to face
Speaker 4: the reality that the Supreme Court has chosen to give
Speaker 4: up huge swaths of their own legitimacy. Chief Justice Roberts
Speaker 4: Clarence Thomas Brett Kavanaugh, the Republican Party in then giving
Speaker 4: up trying to take seriously the legitimacy, the standards, the
Speaker 4: integrity of the court. They have given up a very
Speaker 4: large degree of their authority.
Speaker 2: The new news in Florida this week is the six
Speaker 2: week abortion ban. How do women approach that or fight
Speaker 2: back against something like that that's happening in Florida.
Speaker 4: Of course there's the standard vote and mobilize, but I
Speaker 4: want to put that aside for a second. We do
Speaker 4: not have to accept tyranny, and this is a form
Speaker 4: of tyranny. It is a form of violence.
Speaker 3: Women will die.
Speaker 4: People will die because of this decision, and it will
Speaker 4: be by and large the men who sign these laws
Speaker 4: that are killing the women that will die by them.
Speaker 4: And we have a responsibility to help one another, whether
Speaker 4: that is supporting organizations that male mifipristone, which has significantly
Speaker 4: reduced risk, certainly safer than medications like viagra. But ultimately,
Speaker 4: we cannot continue to accept people in power who will
Speaker 4: abuse others for their own game.
Speaker 2: Indictment Week was last week. It might also be a
Speaker 2: month from now too. We could have a lot of indignotities.
Speaker 2: How do you think New Yorkers treated former President Donald Trump?
Speaker 4: I think they treated him like a Florida man.
Speaker 3: He don't belong to us no long.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're not from Queen's anymore. He's it is in
Speaker 4: mar Lgo a person.
Speaker 3: And you said New Yorkers treating him as such? Yeah,
Speaker 3: why wouldn't we.
Speaker 2: Do you think people were weeping when he was booked
Speaker 2: as he claims?
Speaker 4: Maybe George Santos and Marty Taylor Greenon were, but not me.
Speaker 2: Kick it back to La Wario, Maybe kick it back
Speaker 2: to LaGuardia, which is in your district.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's in my district, and so is Rikers, and
Speaker 4: so we have. I have to go in every single
Speaker 4: day watching people get treated far worse for doing far less,
Speaker 4: and then you know, it's like this red carpet that
Speaker 4: gets ruled out. I mean, if you hurt one person,
Speaker 4: you get ten years in prison, But if you hurt
Speaker 4: millions of people, you get your name on a building.
Speaker 3: Congrich woman, thanks for talking, of course, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 5: So sorry, Secretary Boota judge, thank you so much. I
Speaker 5: apologize for being late. I took Amtrak. Okay, Secretary Booha, Judge,
Speaker 5: we are here at the Department of Transportation, which is
Speaker 5: the hub, the central nervous system of America's infrastructure. Yet
Speaker 5: America is a divided nation. So how do you bring
Speaker 5: us all together with projects that literally bring us together?
Speaker 6: Well, I think everybody loves a good transportation project, you know,
Speaker 6: even though not everyone voted for the Infrastructure Law, I
Speaker 6: have yet to meet anybody who is upset when we're
Speaker 6: fixing an airport terminal, upgrading a bridge so that we
Speaker 6: can have a better, safer, more convenient experience and getting
Speaker 6: around this country.
Speaker 5: What have been the biggest accomplishments at the DOT since
Speaker 5: you took over?
Speaker 6: So when we got here, first of all, the biggest
Speaker 6: question back in twenty twenty one about our airlines was
Speaker 6: whether they were going to go out of business. But
Speaker 6: then as the demand returned, we started finding new tools
Speaker 6: to hold those airlines accountable for how they treat passengers.
Speaker 5: What are some of the areas that you think that
Speaker 5: the DOT could improve upon? Have you hit any roadblocks?
Speaker 7: See what you did there? Thank you.
Speaker 6: You know, we're doing a lot right now to hold
Speaker 6: freight railroad companies accountable for their safety practices. But right
Speaker 6: now the fines are capped. For example, if we catch
Speaker 6: a railroad company in an egregious violation involving hazardous material
Speaker 6: to get somebody killed, the highest toughest fine under the
Speaker 6: law that we can assess, it's about two hundred fifty
Speaker 6: thousand dollars. That is not enough in my view to
Speaker 6: get the attention of a multi billion dollar railroad company
Speaker 6: like in Norfolk, Southern. Right now, there's a bipartisan proposal
Speaker 6: in the Senate. It's called the Railway Safety Act, and
Speaker 6: it would do a number of things that I've been
Speaker 6: calling for that I think would make a big difference.
Speaker 6: You know, right now we're dealing with some not all,
Speaker 6: but some Republicans on Capitol Hill who are saying, well,
Speaker 6: we don't want to do too much too fast when
Speaker 6: it comes to getting tough on the railroad companies.
Speaker 7: In my view, we need to act.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: Why do you think some Republicans are stalling on this?
Speaker 5: Is it because they're too busy focused on starting culture wars.
Speaker 6: Well, I do think that the culture wars are getting
Speaker 6: in the way sometimes. I mean, just the other day
Speaker 6: I was testifying in the Appropriation subcommittee explaining how our
Speaker 6: budget was going to help with things like railroad safety,
Speaker 6: air traffic control, and other transportation needs, and we had
Speaker 6: to take a break so that they could all go
Speaker 6: and vote on a bill to kick transgender teenagers off
Speaker 6: of sports teams.
Speaker 7: That was the priority for the House goop that day.
Speaker 6: So these things really are getting in the way of
Speaker 6: our ability to get work done. We're literally building bridges
Speaker 6: and they're literally banning books.
Speaker 5: Is the Department of Transportation going woke?
Speaker 6: I don't think it's woke to build good infrastructure. I
Speaker 6: just saw Fox News taking a run of me for
Speaker 6: the work that we're doing on safety, including the use
Speaker 6: of crash test dummies that simulate men, women, and children,
Speaker 6: And somehow this is considered a woke priority to have
Speaker 6: female crash test dummies, even though not something that's been
Speaker 6: around for.
Speaker 7: A very long time.
Speaker 5: Fox News has made loads of false statements about you
Speaker 5: over the years. What do you think you think it's
Speaker 5: lawsuit time cash in on some of that seven hundred
Speaker 5: and eighty seven million coin.
Speaker 6: It does sound like there's a lot of money in it,
Speaker 6: but I think that'd probably be a bit of a
Speaker 6: distraction in my case.
Speaker 5: Possibly but you know, I mean it could help fund
Speaker 5: some of these projects.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I'd prefer to go through the appropriations process.
Speaker 6: But the amount of money in that lawsuit is as
Speaker 6: much as some of our nationwide transportation infrastructure programs.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean that could repair at least hundreds
Speaker 5: of feet a tunnel.
Speaker 7: It's depending on the tunnel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sect to tell you boo to judge, thank you
Speaker 5: for chatting with us, Thanks for joining us. Real quick
Speaker 5: before I go, can I just get a quick reimbursement
Speaker 5: for the train that I took out here. I was
Speaker 5: literally on the train for about twelve.
Speaker 7: Hours straight, sorry to hear that.
Speaker 5: And this was the Aesla. This was like the best
Speaker 5: train that America has to offer. So if I could
Speaker 5: just get a little little.
Speaker 7: Refund, you're gonna have to take that up with Amtrak.
Speaker 5: Okay, so you'll turn it in.
Speaker 7: You know, sure to send it along for you. Yeah,
Speaker 7: thank you.
Speaker 5: I think you could use your stamp of approval.
Speaker 7: We don't actually use stamps anymore here, but oh hey,
Speaker 7: thanks for looking up.
Speaker 5: Thank you, secretary. It really was an honor. Thank you
Speaker 5: so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he enjoy the trip.
Speaker 5: Oh, this is incredible. Do you mind if I just
Speaker 5: take a spin around?
Speaker 6: Welcome to look around a little bit. Okay, great, Or
Speaker 6: I could just describe things to you.
Speaker 7: It's okay.
Speaker 5: Now, I'll just sneak into some of these desks.
Speaker 3: What does this do?
Speaker 7: Please? Don't touch that. This, don't touch it.
Speaker 6: Or really any any of that. Yeah, just just yeah.
Speaker 7: Hello operator? Excuse yeah?
Speaker 5: How do I turn this on again?
Speaker 7: Please? Don't touch that? What you doing over here? Can
Speaker 7: I borrow your badge? No? Just quick, I'll give it back. Thanks.
Speaker 4: Fun.
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