1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 1: with Reason Choice Media. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hey, everybody, 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: it's Angela Rae. Welcome home. This is a special edition 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: of a solo pod with my good friend, Congressoman Latifa 5 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 1: Simon of California's twelfth Congressional District to talk about what 6 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,159 Speaker 1: in the actual hell happened outside of the Department of 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,479 Speaker 1: Education last week. So we had a conversation that same 8 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: day to talk about everything that happened and what recourse 9 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: members of Congress have to protect taxpayer money, taxpayer resources 10 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: and all of the things, and what is the role 11 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: of Congress and overseeing this government that is clearly going rogue. 12 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: So please tune into this conversation I first had on 13 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: Instagram live. Welcome Home, Happy Friday, y'all. It is a 14 00:00:54,480 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: special podcast, non podcast live. We're about to get into 15 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: what's happening in these DC streets. 16 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 2: That's what we're about to do. 17 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: You all probably have seen footage of our members of 18 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: Congress outside of the Department of Education at an all 19 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: access entrance by the way, and some random was out 20 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: there and wouldn't let them in. So I am going 21 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: to add this wonderful human being to this thread. She's here. 22 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 2: How you doing, sin, I'm good, I'm good. I'm amped up. 23 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 3: It's been a long week, but this is the work 24 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 3: that I'm so blessed to do. 25 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 1: They're messing with the wrong one and the best coast 26 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: is out here. So for those of you who do 27 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: not know, this is Congresswoman Latifa Simon. She represents California's 28 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: twelfth district, following in the shoes of a deer mentor 29 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: and sister of ours, the Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and Latifa 30 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: is a force to be reckoned with. And if y'all 31 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: didn't see it already today, you will learn quickly. Today, Latifa, 32 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: you joined members of Congress outside of the Department of Education, 33 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: and I keep pointing out at an all access interests. 34 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: Can you talk about why you guys wanted to go 35 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 1: down to the Department of Education today. 36 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 2: And what happened. 37 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 1: For those who haven't seen the footage yet, well. 38 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 3: I'm so happy to tell these stories. Sometimes a little 39 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 3: clips on the news station. Yes right, don't tell you 40 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 3: I didn't have a bullhorn, but I'm a thirty year organizer, 41 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 3: so I was screaming. My mom called me and said, 42 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 3: stop screaming, and I'm never going to let down for 43 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 3: our babies. 44 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 2: Ever. 45 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 3: I haven't since I started working in juvenile halls and prisons, 46 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,839 Speaker 3: in jails when I was seventeen year olds years old, 47 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 3: and on the streets of San Francisco and in Oakland. 48 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 3: It's what I do, is what you are paying me 49 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 3: to do, to not hold back. So a couple of 50 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 3: days ago, members of Congress, we wrote a letter to 51 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 3: the Department of Education. We have an acting director under 52 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 3: the Trump administration, and we asked if we could have 53 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 3: a Congress station because here's what happened last week. When 54 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 3: federal funding freezes were on the horizon. We were getting 55 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 3: thousands of calls from special education teachers, from organizations working 56 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,519 Speaker 3: and headstart mothers who were like, if they cut off funding, 57 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 3: what are we going to do? We got calls from 58 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 3: mothers with children with autism saying that they had a 59 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 3: full time aid for their children. And with the federal 60 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 3: funding freeze arise, and with this threat to close the 61 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 3: Department of Education, millions millions of children were literally going 62 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 3: to be thrown out of support services. We wrote the 63 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 3: letter requesting a meeting. We didn't get a response. We called, 64 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 3: so today we came and we rolled up. It is 65 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 3: a public building. In fact, everybody on this line is 66 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 3: paying a little bit of money every time they get 67 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 3: their paychecks to ensure that we all were elected representatives 68 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 3: and you yourself. 69 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 2: Have access to the Department of Education. They literally sent. 70 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 3: Out a security guard. There were dozens of members of Congress. 71 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 3: They sent out a security guard. They locked the doors, 72 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 3: and they sent out Homeland Security. You couldn't see that 73 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 3: behind those those dark doors, but there was a line 74 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 3: of officers from Homeland Security ready to take down members 75 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 3: of Congress should we enter. They blocked the building from 76 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 3: American citizens. 77 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: And when you do talk about that, just for a moment, 78 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 1: here's the thing that was astonishing to me. The first 79 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: video that I saw Latifa was Queen Maxine, who is 80 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 1: some people call her AUNTI max Queen Maxine with her 81 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 1: little bit powerful self standing in front of this white 82 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: man who I think, you know how like they tell 83 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 1: you to id people, so my ID might be wrong. 84 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: He's in a brown shirt like layman's clothes, with like 85 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: a fluorescent bandage on his neck. So this could be 86 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: like anybody like I'm like, I don't know if I'm 87 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: looking at an insurrectionist or a plane police officer. I 88 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: don't know who this man is in front of Congresswoman Waters, 89 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 1: but he's telling her that she can't get in. I 90 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: remember there was a back and forth of members saying 91 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: he's a contractor and him telling her that he's an 92 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: official government employee. Did you all ever resolve that, Like, 93 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: what's this man even a government worker? 94 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 3: So what I want you all to understand is what 95 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 3: I'm learning to understand. But you already know what we 96 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 3: are seeing on Capitol Hill. It is shockhocking because our 97 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 3: grandmothers want order. 98 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 2: Let's just be clear, we want order. We are orderly people. 99 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 3: We are working for communities that have order and promise. 100 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 3: The folks who are in the administration don't believe that 101 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 3: anyone should follow the law. 102 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 2: Clearly, Clearly, if they were. 103 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 3: Law abiding folk, they wouldn't have let out dozens of 104 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 3: folks who attack police officers on January sixth. Regardless what 105 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 3: you want to think about law enforcement, the hypocrisy is insane. 106 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 3: This man who's playing clothes did not clearly identify himself 107 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 3: as somebody who's taught folks who are going up against 108 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 3: law enforcement, you always ask them to identify themselves. Their 109 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 3: badge he threw out, you know, after questioning some kind 110 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 3: of badge. 111 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 2: Who knew what it was. But he didn't. 112 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 3: Clearly articulate what department he was working with and who 113 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 3: he was, So. 114 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 1: He continued, he did have a badge, he. 115 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 3: Saw, he pulled it out. We didn't know what kind 116 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 3: of badge it was. Was it made from a printer? 117 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 3: You're if you're a member of law enforcement, you know, 118 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 3: and you are trying to clearly identify yourself, if you're 119 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 3: doing the right thing, You're certainly not supposed to stand 120 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 3: in front of a building surrounded by members duly elected 121 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 3: members of Congress and look at them smugly. The disrespect 122 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 3: was palpable. But the real injury is to. 123 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 2: The parents on this phone. 124 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 3: The real injury is we were going to do, I 125 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 3: believe the people's business to ask what were we supposed 126 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 3: to tell our constituents? What are we supposed to that 127 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 3: you all want to close down a department? Then I 128 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 3: just give me a couple seconds here about DOE, the 129 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 3: Department of Education. They set national standards, not just on 130 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 3: basic curriculum, what we should be learning, because that's really 131 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 3: that happens at the state level. They set national standards 132 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 3: for obedience to federal laws like Ada. So imagine you 133 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 3: have a child, your baby is wheelchair bound, and your 134 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 3: baby is in California and they can get into any 135 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 3: school they have support services. That's the law that California 136 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 3: abides by, but it's pushed by the Department of Education. 137 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 3: You move back to Arkansas to be closed to your people. 138 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 3: If in fact they close down the Department of Education, 139 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 3: there are no national standards for accessibility. There are no 140 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 3: national standards for entries into our state and local universities. 141 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 2: There's no financial aid as you've known it. This is 142 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 2: critical stuff. I don't care how you vote, who you 143 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 2: voted for. 144 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 3: What I do know is we have babies in our 145 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 3: communities who deserve the best. Does the Department of Education 146 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 3: need to be stronger and better yes. Do our teachers 147 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 3: need to be paid more and trained and loved on 148 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 3: and unionized, Yes, But you don't get there from closing 149 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 3: down really the essential department that is supposed to provide 150 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 3: national standards for our children and our teachers. 151 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: So you, for the people who just join you talked 152 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: about you all writing this letter last week about what's 153 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: happening with the Department of Education. A lot of folks 154 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: who are following the news know that what Donald Trump 155 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: is talking about doing is shuttering the Department of Education. 156 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: What we have seen, Latipa, and now I'm talking to 157 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: you like a sister too. Yeah, what we have seen 158 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: is a very very clear fight that's easy to follow 159 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,199 Speaker 1: in the news. On the judicial side, right, a lot 160 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: of cases there have been thirty six law suit file 161 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 1: that I know of so far on the fifty four 162 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: executive orders and actions from the Trump administration, that's right, 163 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: has not been as clear, and I'm hearing a lot 164 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 1: of pushback about it. You know, I get sensitive because 165 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,319 Speaker 1: the CBC is my family, the Hills Ranch. One of 166 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: the things that I keep hearing is that where like, 167 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: where are the members of Congress? What's going on? Why 168 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 1: are they confirming? And this, of course is not that 169 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: person's not you all, but why is the Senate confirming 170 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: people like RFK and Tulca Gabbert. Where is the fight? 171 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 2: Where's the legislation? 172 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: Not understanding necessarily that we don't have the executive branch 173 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: and we don't have the legislative branch. 174 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:35,719 Speaker 2: So when you're in. 175 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: The minority, just for a moment for those who are 176 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: really just starting to understand and pay attention to how 177 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: this works. When you're in the minority, what does the 178 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: fight look like? What are you all talking about doing. 179 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: I know you all are involved with the lawsuits. When 180 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: you think about as my role as a member from 181 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: California's twelve, this is what I see my role in being, 182 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: my role being in this fight right now. 183 00:09:57,920 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 2: I think it's three things. 184 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 3: One, we have to continue to tell folks what it 185 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 3: is with love and respect and understanding under a trifecta, 186 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 3: like you said, House, Senate right, and honestly, they have 187 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 3: the courts. So we still believe, if we will still 188 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 3: want to believe in this thinly veiled democracy, we are. 189 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 2: Going to sue, sue, sue, sue, sue. 190 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 3: Their organizations like the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights under 191 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 3: Law and Democracy Forward NAACP. I can go on and 192 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 3: out Asian Law Caucus. They are holding this administration to 193 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 3: the fire. The judicial system is it's not perfect, but 194 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 3: judges have been doing the right thing in the last 195 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 3: week and throwing these executive orders right back to the 196 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 3: White House and saying this is unconstitutional. This is unconstitutional. 197 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 3: That has taken a level of coordination that unfortunately we'd 198 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:50,959 Speaker 3: all don't see. But that's why we're having this conversation 199 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 3: right now. But two, there's two other things that Congress 200 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 3: can do. We can block our votes. We can hold 201 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:03,959 Speaker 3: our votes. You don't get votes to racist You don't 202 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:05,560 Speaker 3: give votes to folks who. 203 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 2: Don't care about our children. 204 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 3: You don't give votes to folks who who don't believe 205 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 3: in the most basic of healthcare principles. And we have 206 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 3: been doing that in the Senate, and I got to say, 207 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 3: my heart has been breaking. 208 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 2: You don't give votes to. 209 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 3: Policies that want to send you two thousand pound bombs 210 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 3: over to kill twenty thousand children. I think we got 211 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 3: to hold the line. And again, we are a part 212 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 3: of a body, and our leadership is saying, let's be strategic, 213 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 3: and I agree with that. For me, my focus is 214 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 3: making sure that one we are heard, our stories are clear, 215 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 3: that I am fighting with integrity on the streets and 216 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 3: inside the Congress. But more importantly for me, I represent Oakland, 217 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:51,680 Speaker 3: I represent Oakland, I represent Berkeley, I represent the Bay, 218 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 3: and I need folks to know that one my office 219 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 3: is we are day in and day out, and they 220 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 3: have a fighter, but more importantly, they have. 221 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 2: A key this government. This government. 222 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 3: What's important too for folks who know who are on 223 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 3: the ground. These funding freezes affected federally qualified health centers. 224 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 2: You know, the health centers right in. 225 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 3: Your community that you'd rather go to sometimes in the hospital, 226 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 3: that are wonderful, that have positions that look like us. 227 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 3: Those folks this week didn't know if they were going 228 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 3: to get paid. So I've been meeting with our health centers. 229 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 3: I've been meeting with our school principles. 230 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 2: We've been meeting. 231 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 3: We took I took Catherine Clark, who is right under 232 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 3: Hakien Jeffrey. She's a Democratic leader in the Congress. I 233 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 3: took her on a tour of the Children's Hospital of Oakland. 234 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 3: There are parents who literally are scared to bring their 235 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 3: children in for scheduled, scheduled heart transplants and sickle cell 236 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 3: treatments because they believe that they may be deported. These 237 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 3: are our Haitian brothers and sisters. These are our Latino 238 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 3: brothers and sisters. This chaos is killing people, and so 239 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 3: for us to be there on the ground, but listen, 240 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 3: and the last thing I want to say in my 241 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 3: TED talk, sister, I am reminding folks that you and me, 242 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 3: our parents were born into segregation. 243 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 2: We have been here. Black folks have been here, and 244 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 2: we have. 245 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:29,719 Speaker 3: Consistently with praise, worship, policy again, and culture, through litigation, 246 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 3: through movement, building, through study, through discipline, we have fought 247 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 3: horrific policies back. 248 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 2: No freedom has ever been given to us. 249 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 3: We've always had to take those freedoms through again. The 250 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 3: systems that have promised us, that have promised them, We've 251 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 3: held those promises. 252 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 2: Both want to go super hard. I think we should. 253 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 3: The ground is strong, the legislative body, we must be 254 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 3: stronger than we've been. But I'm not going nowhere. I'm 255 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 3: four weeks in and this is where I think to 256 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 3: be exists. 257 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. I'm proud that you were there. 258 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: I was so proud to hear your voice earlier. I 259 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: think the one thing, like I try to look at 260 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:10,719 Speaker 1: the comments. I try to sit past the trolls and 261 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: look at the comments. And one of the things that 262 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 1: we're seeing is people saying, what do we the people do? 263 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: And they're also asking, like one of the things that 264 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: I'm kind of frustrated by is there are Republicans who 265 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: just barely eat their way into Congress. You guys have there. 266 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: It's the smallest majority, the smallest great depression, and so 267 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: there's leverage points that y'all have to get people to 268 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: vote with you. Yes they're opposed to recommit, that you 269 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: can force them on the issues to say that Elon 270 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: Musk South Africans, Elon Musk does not have the power 271 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: that he thinks he has. That the Department of Government 272 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: Efficiency is a random hair brained idea from Donald Trump, 273 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: who ain't even the real president. I would say Elon 274 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: Musk is the president of Stephen Miller's vice He did 275 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: not even been in control of this project twenty twenty 276 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: five by the Heritage Foundation is running this. And so 277 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: when you consider what levers you have with your colleagues, 278 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: who's in charge of going across the island being like, 279 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: if y'all don't vote with us over here, I guarantee 280 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: you you're going to be a one term wherever district 281 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: you came from. 282 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 2: I think that's on the line. There's a march is 283 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 2: going to be crazy. 284 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 3: In the United States Congress without without the Democrats, the 285 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 3: Republicans have no way forward, so we have to hold 286 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,359 Speaker 3: our vote. We have to hold our votes for reconciliation. 287 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 3: That's a budget process. We have to hold our votes. 288 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 3: And the majority is so thin. If for of them 289 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 3: don't come to work, we win a vote. Hey, it 290 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 3: is so thin, and that's why I have I have hope. 291 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 3: But you know, Angela, I also know we are going 292 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 3: to win back the House in twenty twenty six because 293 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 3: poor folks, people of color, They're going to see the 294 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 3: very demonic ways of an administration that doesn't love its people. 295 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 3: They'll be able to see through the lives right. They'll 296 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 3: be able to see through the attacks on the smallest, 297 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 3: most critical safetyiness that unless you've lived it, you don't know. 298 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 2: Listen, I was a team mom. You know. I got 299 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 2: a twenty eight year old daughter. I had SNAP and 300 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 2: I also had WIG and I. 301 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 3: Would be at the counter and the grocery store having 302 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 3: to put back groceries. 303 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 2: I know what that feels like. I know what that 304 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 2: feels like. 305 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 3: I know what it felt like when a community college 306 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 3: finally transferring into a four year university. 307 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 2: I have an MPa. 308 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 3: Now I can look through a budget. I can be clear. 309 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 3: I can educate our folks. They can educate me. I'm 310 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 3: not going anywhere. I think our people are doing the 311 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 3: right thing by calling members of Congress. I want you all, 312 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 3: particularly you all in Republican districts, to call them, to 313 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 3: call them every day. The Democrats in fact, and we 314 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 3: should be. We're getting more calls than the folks who 315 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 3: are complicit in this mess. 316 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 2: Enjoy all up their line. The majority has the power 317 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 2: right now. Phone number which we can sue. 318 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: The phone number is two zero two two two four 319 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: three one two one. That is the Capital switchboard operator. 320 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: You can have her send you or them. I don't 321 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: know who's going to answer the phone, I said her, 322 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: that's bias. You can have the person who answers sends 323 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: you to your respective members' offices, even if you're adjacent. 324 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 1: Let's say you work in that Republican members this year, 325 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: whatever it is, if you are impacted by that district 326 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 1: at all, they are beholden to you. Why because whether 327 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 1: you voted for them or not, you pay their salary. 328 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: And that is exactly why our members today went to 329 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: the Department of Education. They said, if you're not going 330 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: to listen to oversight, we're gonna go and oversee you 331 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 1: on federal land that is paid for by our constituents. 332 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: And I was it was remarkable to me to see 333 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 1: what's happening. Donald Trump is saying he's given over Department 334 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: of Education in the Pentagon to Elon Musk next to 335 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: go through everything. Meanwhile, the courts have said, actually, Elon Musk, 336 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: you're now barred from handling any data. 337 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 2: At Treasury. 338 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: They're saying the actually the federal funding freeze is unfrozen. 339 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: They said USAID employees who are supposed to be placed 340 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: on administratively by midnight tonight, not so fast that would 341 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 1: have And then they were cutting five thousand workers to 342 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety workers at USAID. They said that 343 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,199 Speaker 1: for all of the foreign aid that was supposed to 344 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 1: be frozen for ninety days, that's on hold as well. 345 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: So the courts are playing their part. Ye are saying, 346 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: what do we do? 347 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 2: We're sewing. 348 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, you guys are suing. But it also is 349 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: important to make sure that the people are supporting you 350 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 1: in your efforts to switch sway some of those votes, 351 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: to win some of those votes. Thank you for the 352 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: person who puts the number two zero two two two four, three, 353 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 1: one two one on there. And the last thing I 354 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: want to just have you in on because there are 355 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: a couple of questions that came in. Somebody said it's 356 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: a coup. Yeah, and there are a lot of people 357 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 1: who've been saying it's not a coup because the American 358 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,719 Speaker 1: people voted for this. But really, what the American people 359 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: voted for when you look at the majority of voters, 360 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: they voted for the couch, They voted to be absent, 361 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: they abstained. So when you look at the terminology of 362 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: a coup and what you see happening, is it reminiscent 363 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:16,959 Speaker 1: of a coup to you? 364 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 3: You know, it does feel like a takeover because this 365 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 3: administration isn't. 366 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:21,400 Speaker 2: Following the law. 367 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 3: They don't follow the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the 368 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 3: Federalist papers. We all know who the Framers were, but 369 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 3: they're not even respecting. They're not even respected in that word, right, 370 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,679 Speaker 3: And so in the sense that it feels chaotic and 371 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 3: crazy and it's by design, yeah, I think we can 372 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 3: own that that it does feel like a coup. I 373 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 3: want to push back and I don't think that majority 374 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 3: of the American public, as brilliant as we are, from 375 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 3: you know, the person who just got out of prison, 376 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 3: to the homeless person who is struggling to get housing. 377 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 2: Who voted that day. 378 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 3: I don't think that folks could have imagined that a 379 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 3: administration would go after the snap benefits of or. 380 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: What where we talked these people. You know, let me 381 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 1: let people and I just want you to see this. 382 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: Let me just tell you what I've been doing. I 383 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: just want you to see this. I have literally been 384 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: You're gonna laugh. 385 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 2: This is hold on. Let me close this. 386 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: So you can see them look here. Yeah, so I 387 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 1: have since the summertime, I have been studying this. This 388 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 1: is Project twenty twenty five. G You know, I printed 389 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:31,919 Speaker 1: it because I was not gonna give them my book money, 390 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,360 Speaker 1: so I got it printed at the FedEx Kikos. And 391 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 1: this is every time there's some another executive order he passes, 392 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: I literally go through here and find the page or 393 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 1: find the person he appointed to fulfill whatever the job is. 394 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 2: This is so beyond Donald Trump. 395 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:55,159 Speaker 1: This is Harriet Foundation since years and you know, they 396 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 1: just remained this. 397 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 3: This is a strategy to destabilize the social state net. 398 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,199 Speaker 3: But what folks didn't understand is that it was going 399 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,160 Speaker 3: to be them too. So for young women who are 400 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 3: forced to give birth in over twenty two states, your childcare. 401 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 2: May not be a real thing. 402 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,959 Speaker 3: You're forced to give birth because you don't have reproductive 403 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 3: health freedoms. So you're not only your childcare, your health care, 404 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 3: you're housing all of these social safety nets that are 405 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 3: supposed to. 406 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 2: Be pro life. 407 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 3: Ye are in fact going to push more folks into 408 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 3: deep poverty. We know that, So I don't feel like 409 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,479 Speaker 3: as brilliant as we are as a nation. I do believe, 410 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 3: particularly people who are suffering the most are the most 411 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 3: intelligent because we've had to survive so much. Nobody could 412 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 3: have predicted, even if you're reading that that folks would 413 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 3: really put into play the evil that we're seeing. When 414 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 3: the guy I'm written on paper, I know some people did, 415 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 3: but to folks who are just sick and tired of government, 416 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 3: and I wanted to be a rebel and vote for 417 00:21:55,800 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 3: the bully. I'm furious at the reality that more people 418 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 3: will be poor, more people will die, they won't be 419 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 3: able to get the medicaid and the medicare that they deserve. 420 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 3: That Little girls like my daughter who buried her father 421 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 3: when he was three. 422 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 2: He had leukemia he died. 423 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 3: I am a widow that their children like her, who 424 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 3: will not get survivor's benefits should this administration be successful. 425 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 2: This is real talk. 426 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 3: But you know what, I still have hope that we 427 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 3: could push this stuff aside. You have to because we 428 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 3: deserve better. So the fight is with you all and 429 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 3: your vote. It is the most powerful thing that we have. 430 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 2: You saw it. 431 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 3: The folks who voted for Donald Trump. They got them 432 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 3: and now we're having to deal with it. You can 433 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 3: do different next time. But in the interim, we do fight. 434 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 3: We march, we organize, we educate, We protect each other. 435 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,919 Speaker 3: We protect each other, we love one another. I refuse 436 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:58,640 Speaker 3: to spit venom at these folks directly. I can talk 437 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,199 Speaker 3: about their policies. But again, my grandmother loved Jesus. I 438 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,399 Speaker 3: was raised Muslim, I went to a Jewish day school. 439 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 3: I'm very bay Area and all literally the children of Gabriel, right, 440 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 3: you know, the children of David, the children of Jesus, 441 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,639 Speaker 3: the children of Muhammad. We are taught in our text 442 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 3: to love our neighbors. So when we think that USAID 443 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 3: has nothing to do with us, you want to pull 444 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 3: back the millions of dollars that are going overseas to 445 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 3: protect the spread of HIV so your son doesn't get it. 446 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 3: I want you to think again to stop famine so 447 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 3: that we don't even have more forced migration. We want 448 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 3: to be a friend to our allies and really keep 449 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 3: us stable. We don't do that by making ourselves an 450 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 3: international enemy. I'm here for the fight for folks who 451 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 3: are really frustrated. 452 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 2: I get it. 453 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,679 Speaker 3: I'm frustrated too for folks who don't buy it. 454 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 2: I get that too. 455 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,959 Speaker 3: We have to earn the respect of the people on 456 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 3: the ground, and I'm honored to be able to serve 457 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 3: and to take the feedback. I'm honored to be on 458 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,439 Speaker 3: to be on you know your channel right here and 459 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 3: invite me back. I would love to talk to you anytime. 460 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 1: I want to make sure like I'm doing a better 461 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 1: job of providing access to my privilege. My point of 462 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,880 Speaker 1: privilege is y'all are my family, and I thank God 463 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 1: for you every day. I thank God for the fight, 464 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 1: and I know that when y'all are like, Okay, this 465 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: fight might have been a little off, I know that 466 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 1: y'all will pivot. I want to make sure that the 467 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 1: people who follow me, or they follow our podcast, Native 468 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,920 Speaker 1: lampid have access to you all and see the fight 469 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 1: when Lisa won't cover it because it's not as clickbaity 470 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: as whatever crazy nonsense Donald. I want them to know 471 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: there are fighters like Congresswoman Latif Assignment from California's twelve 472 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: district fighting for us every single day, and so I 473 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: thank God for you. I'm glad y'all went to the 474 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: Department Education. 475 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 2: Next time, y'all. 476 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 1: Need to go down there with some gangsters though, because 477 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,360 Speaker 1: he ain't about to stare listen, so you. 478 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 2: Know what in the face. 479 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: In fact, go down there and be like I wish 480 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: you would not let me in here, down there with 481 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 1: you woes like what we are. 482 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 3: What I appreciate is we are three weeks. In three 483 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 3: four weeks, it's feeling like a year. Our tactics and 484 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 3: strategies will continue, you know, to be even you know, 485 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 3: I think more sophisticated. 486 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 2: But what's important. 487 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 3: You know, I am a kingsy and I have read 488 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 3: all of the king Papers a thousand times. When you 489 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 3: shine a mirror to evil, you know you we cannot 490 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 3: be what we hate. I will never be a violent, racist, homophobe. 491 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 3: I will never be those things. Right, we are surgical 492 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 3: in our strategy, and it is not. It doesn't show 493 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 3: up as quick as the man who propels violence. You 494 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 3: see the immediate effect. We cannot be what we hate. 495 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 3: That said, we got work to do because we will 496 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 3: win this. 497 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 2: We will. We lost an. 498 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 3: Election, but that doesn't mean that we don't love the 499 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 3: promise of democracy. My babies deserve us to be working 500 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 3: twenty four hours a day. That's what I signed up 501 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 3: to do. I love you, says and thanks guys. Nice 502 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 3: to meet so many of you. All appreciate you. 503 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 1: Y'all go follow Latifa at Rep. L Simon on her 504 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: page and make sure you stay. She is on it 505 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: like she's fighting when y'all don't know she's fighting. She's 506 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,479 Speaker 1: studying when y'all don't know, she's up and working on 507 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: our behalf, even beyond California twelfth the greater parts of America. 508 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: So thank you for standing and a ground a Department 509 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 1: of education today, syst and we look forward to a victory. 510 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: We know it's coming soon. I'll have like all the 511 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: ring lights and everything like that. 512 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 3: I don't have all that yet, having a little phone, 513 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 3: but I'm perfect. 514 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: I'm on my phone too. I just got a. 515 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 2: Good light under here. Yeah, it's a great lights. 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