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Speaker 3: Welcome, Hey, everybody, we are back.
Speaker 4: It's day three, it's the Democratic National Convention. We are here,
Speaker 4: live in the Shy and it's not just the Native
Speaker 4: Lamb Pod. Today we are joined by Charlemagne the God.
Speaker 4: It is a breakfast team moment.
Speaker 5: He's Angelai, Andrew Gillim, Tiffany cross Man.
Speaker 6: Welcome, and I guess you can welcome us, but welcome.
Speaker 7: What do you say? What do y'all say? Welcome home?
Speaker 1: Welcome home, y'all put that seven Twain.
Speaker 8: You don't have to say. I feel super live.
Speaker 1: I still am high off Michelle Obama's remarks last Yes.
Speaker 8: That's what he said, was it, Michelle?
Speaker 7: Although you're trying to say you were smoking?
Speaker 8: How you trying to put me onst No me, they't
Speaker 8: know what I do anyway.
Speaker 9: Hey, Hey, throwing shame, I'm just saying.
Speaker 4: Shame or throwing shape Shane Day three, Day three, Yeah,
Speaker 4: your highlight was Michelle Obama?
Speaker 1: Yes, Angela and I gotta tell them like we talked
Speaker 1: about that. Andrew left us well. Bakari left us.
Speaker 4: Don't start Andrew, so you know they'd be saying that Andrew.
Speaker 3: Crazy.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it was an amazing night last night, Leonard. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you watched, but it was so Angela
Speaker 1: I both thought that she was the closer.
Speaker 5: The audacity of President Obama to go after Michelle Obama
Speaker 5: like he should have.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, it wasn't even close.
Speaker 5: And lit, President Obama is an amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing speaker,
Speaker 5: but last night, compared to Michelle, he just seemed kind
Speaker 5: of made yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, so so I said this, I think we have
Speaker 1: an audience here again, guys, people walking by seeing us
Speaker 1: that you can't see. But I said that I need
Speaker 1: to watch President Obama's speech again later because it's not
Speaker 1: fair to make the comparison so quickly after Michelle Obama.
Speaker 1: It's like anybody who tries to speak after Latasha Brown
Speaker 1: last night. You know, she had such a gifted speaker,
Speaker 1: and she was so impassioned. And we when we got
Speaker 1: off the air last night, we asked, you know, four
Speaker 1: years ago or eight years ago, she said, when they
Speaker 1: go lo, we go high.
Speaker 8: Will she abide by that? And last night she did not.
Speaker 6: Shed yesterday that it was too personal. Yes, and that's
Speaker 6: why I thought I said I was looking most forward
Speaker 6: to her. But I don't think we have to make
Speaker 6: the comparison between the two speeches.
Speaker 9: We're in heavilyly gonna do it. But they had two
Speaker 9: different jobs.
Speaker 3: The problem is, but they did a joint endorsement, that's fine, But.
Speaker 9: For the purposes of last night, they had two different jobs.
Speaker 6: The problem is is he was the good cop, and
Speaker 6: the good cop doesn't follow the bad cop.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 4: But I don't know that she was the bad cop.
Speaker 4: I think that she was the truth telling.
Speaker 5: And President Obama was still like in politician more, I'm like,
Speaker 5: you're not running for nothing.
Speaker 7: You can speak.
Speaker 10: You know what.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be honest with y'all. I know I'm probably
Speaker 4: gonna get dried again. The thing that I will say
Speaker 4: that I'm probably gonna get dragged for again in real
Speaker 4: time is.
Speaker 3: I feel like I didn't even like when he.
Speaker 4: Said yes, she can like it felt like everything had
Speaker 4: to be about him.
Speaker 3: It had to be about.
Speaker 4: His way of doing things about It had to be
Speaker 4: two thousand and eight, it had to be when you know,
Speaker 4: when I was working on these homeowners, whatever it was
Speaker 4: I came remember the homeowners policies, and he was like, Kama,
Speaker 4: push my administration and then we did.
Speaker 10: X y Z.
Speaker 4: That was that was even problematic to me, that like,
Speaker 4: why can't she just have her moment? Why can't you
Speaker 4: just talk about all of her accomplishments. Why does it
Speaker 4: have to be in your vein, in your light. Yeah
Speaker 4: I get it, I get it. But sorry, y'all, I
Speaker 4: know you're about to drag they be dragging me.
Speaker 6: Answer that you thought that on Monday that the President
Speaker 6: should have given her more shine? And I told Tiffany,
Speaker 6: we were all fair, and I said he did. He
Speaker 6: gave her all the shine that was necessary on that
Speaker 6: faithful Sunday when he was when he said them out
Speaker 6: and by the way, dot dot she that's that's all
Speaker 6: I expected.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I just feel like if people
Speaker 4: are saying she's been in obscurity for so long, then
Speaker 4: you have to let people know all of the ways
Speaker 4: that she shined where y'all didn't necessarily enable her to
Speaker 4: shine's job.
Speaker 9: But President.
Speaker 8: Saying when did he talk Monday? Think no, he was
Speaker 8: talking about Biden Monday.
Speaker 6: Off.
Speaker 8: Michelle, you are still I'm.
Speaker 7: Still sleeping from Monday night because they had him speak
Speaker 7: way too late.
Speaker 9: Because past they're talking every.
Speaker 3: Dingy over them two minute speeches.
Speaker 4: You guys, I do want to know, is there a
Speaker 4: particular line from Michelle Obama? It sounds like everybody's favorite
Speaker 4: is Michelle Obama? Was their particular line?
Speaker 9: Escalator to the top.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was a good word. And when you say
Speaker 7: affirmative action for what was it.
Speaker 8: Of generation was better.
Speaker 9: Than a quip she hit.
Speaker 6: It was so multi dimensional when you start to pull
Speaker 6: that statement apart, it gave us life because it hit
Speaker 6: different audiences differently.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and that's what she intended.
Speaker 6: It was a double triple, quadruple ondra because it hit
Speaker 6: folks right where they stood in their own lived experience.
Speaker 9: Yeah, written wise, written speech wise.
Speaker 7: I thought it was great.
Speaker 5: And she was able to like address her blackness and
Speaker 5: black people without turning out, turning off the white electort,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, because she has.
Speaker 8: Been It came across to me as that she did
Speaker 8: not care who it turned us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she operated and the conviction of her beliefs she delivered.
Speaker 1: Someone tweeted that this was the second time the Secret
Speaker 1: Service failed and assassination attempt of Donald Trump because she assassinated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously we're not condoning by violence or encourage you want
Speaker 1: to do an assassination attempt, but it was it was allegory.
Speaker 1: It was symbolic of what they were saying. And I
Speaker 1: just thought the line that I like the most is
Speaker 1: when she said, when we meet a mountain, we do
Speaker 1: not have an escalator to carry us to the time.
Speaker 1: And I the cable news media has called it zingers,
Speaker 1: and I just think that's such a miss because it's
Speaker 1: not zingers for us. This is our lived experience in
Speaker 1: this country as black people, more specifically as black women,
Speaker 1: at a time when all we have poured into this country,
Speaker 1: a black woman has ascended to the highest heights of
Speaker 1: the United States government, and now we are poised to
Speaker 1: be led by a black woman. I love the intimate
Speaker 1: we are part of the largest most intimate sorority of anyone,
Speaker 1: the black women when we come in our space. And
Speaker 1: I love when she came on stage and said, Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: my girl.
Speaker 3: We know what that means.
Speaker 4: Can we just say, she said, my sister there, Can
Speaker 4: we just tell take this moment to.
Speaker 3: Tell white people, y'all don't try that at home.
Speaker 4: Now you see a black woman, no, no, no, no, even
Speaker 4: my sister, you see a black woman, don't say my girl.
Speaker 4: It means something different for y'all than it does for us.
Speaker 4: They don't need Yeah, please don't say boy to grown
Speaker 4: as buddy.
Speaker 5: I found out yesterday that the boy buddy is white
Speaker 5: people's boy. White men don't like to be called buddy. Hey, buddy. Really,
Speaker 5: that's what I found out.
Speaker 6: Yes, no, that's we always have to have our ears
Speaker 6: open to each of the news in community think they
Speaker 6: feel it.
Speaker 10: I mean, boy is a slavery.
Speaker 9: Pace to debate.
Speaker 3: I just want to know where it came from.
Speaker 1: Well, I think when President Obama spoke this was my
Speaker 1: favorite line from him.
Speaker 8: Look we on YouTube. I'm gonna keep it a buck.
Speaker 1: When he was basically saying Donald Trump gives a little
Speaker 1: dick energy. When he was talking about what's the obsession
Speaker 1: with this crowd size?
Speaker 8: We all understood what that meant.
Speaker 1: And these were I think two people who were in
Speaker 1: the public eye for so long and they were somewhat handcuffed,
Speaker 1: you know, they were imprisoned by the White House. Michelle
Speaker 1: Obama's often described it that way, that she didn't have
Speaker 1: her freedom and now that they are let loose, they
Speaker 1: just came out and I think it was eight years
Speaker 1: of built up. Can you believe this ship that this
Speaker 1: man has put us through? And here we are today
Speaker 1: with our get back.
Speaker 5: President Obama was given like late night talk show host
Speaker 5: energy yea last night.
Speaker 7: I did feel that.
Speaker 5: You know, I still don't understand how Dave was at
Speaker 5: the house listening to both of them speeches and he said,
Speaker 5: you know what, I'm gonna go after you ain't no
Speaker 5: way he heard that speech. You know, she was supposed
Speaker 5: to be the protocol. Wise, she should have been the
Speaker 5: closes because we have, you know, the vice president Kamala
Speaker 5: been running for president.
Speaker 7: Let a woman close.
Speaker 4: Out and not even let a woman let give spaces,
Speaker 4: simple as that. It is like she literally was like
Speaker 4: hands down. Everybody that we talked to today, they're like, man,
Speaker 4: Michelle Obama.
Speaker 3: And here's the other thing that's funny.
Speaker 4: You know, people are obsessed with Michelle Obama running for president.
Speaker 4: She's been like so clear, but you see in those
Speaker 4: moments why, like you're like, there's there's she is brilliant addiction.
Speaker 6: I think the attraction to Michelle Obama, at least for me,
Speaker 6: and I can't speak for everybody else is in politics,
Speaker 6: you hear so much subterfuge, You hear so much color language.
Speaker 6: You have to always look for the subtext because the
Speaker 6: politician can never just say it like it is. And
Speaker 6: she has been she was last night who she has
Speaker 6: always been a truth teller. She came, she told the truth,
Speaker 6: and people were in tears off being blessed being an
Speaker 6: earshot of the truth being told in this kind of
Speaker 6: a line.
Speaker 5: Why is that, though, Andrew, Why is it that politicians
Speaker 5: still can't speak truth to power?
Speaker 7: Because I feel like the language of politics is dead.
Speaker 5: I feel like, you know, if it's one thing that
Speaker 5: former President Trump did, he killed the language of politics.
Speaker 5: So I feel like everybody can speak truthfully and freely
Speaker 5: if they.
Speaker 6: Have the courage to. I wish that were the case. Unfortunately,
Speaker 6: I think he killed it for him, right, but for
Speaker 6: everybody else we are measured by a different static.
Speaker 8: So he wasn't the first to do it.
Speaker 1: There have been plenty of black politicians who came out
Speaker 1: and spoken honest truth. They won their district. They are
Speaker 1: congressional Black Hawkas members who have done that. There are
Speaker 1: people who run at the local level who have spoken
Speaker 1: truth to power. They may not have the national stage.
Speaker 1: I have a testimony when you speak of truth on
Speaker 1: the national stage and commit the cardinal.
Speaker 8: Sent of maga, doesn't you give me?
Speaker 1: But But I'm just saying it doesn't mean that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump somehow innovated this.
Speaker 7: On that level. I think that on that level.
Speaker 9: He's raggedy.
Speaker 6: He's raggedy out loud, and his raggedy is acceptable in
Speaker 6: the political arena. That does not translate to everybody else.
Speaker 6: I don't want folks going out there and trying that
Speaker 6: believing that it's possible. Madam President, we are core Secretary.
Speaker 3: We have been we have been joined. We've been joined
Speaker 3: by Congresswoman.
Speaker 4: Marsha Fudge is Secretary the titles Secretary Marsha Fudge as well,
Speaker 4: who has who has served as let her.
Speaker 3: Put her headphones, yes, let her put her headphones on?
Speaker 4: Secretary, served as the Housing and Urban Development Secretary.
Speaker 3: Most recently.
Speaker 4: She is also the co chair of UH Harris Walls
Speaker 4: UH for President, and as Andrew has said, he was
Speaker 4: kept saying, Madam President, I was just at the mid
Speaker 4: Western conference for Delta Sigma Theta, where I got to
Speaker 4: speak and the love that she has as a past
Speaker 4: president of Delta Sigmath Data is beyond and so.
Speaker 3: We are so so happy to see you and have you.
Speaker 3: How are you doing?
Speaker 9: I am wonderful.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 7: I don't do interviews.
Speaker 10: I'm not doing with you all because I like him.
Speaker 10: I don't do that.
Speaker 7: You did Breakfast Club before, and.
Speaker 10: You did so she left you.
Speaker 12: That's why she ran that thing, backing the work, That's
Speaker 12: why you're interview.
Speaker 3: I have no time for TV.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that you're joining us. You led the
Speaker 1: Housing an Urban Development Agency, cabinet level agency during this administration.
Speaker 8: I'm curious your thoughts because there are a lot.
Speaker 1: Of people who are very eager to hear specific policy
Speaker 1: points coming from Vice President Harris's campaign. She alluded to
Speaker 1: some housing policy when she did her economic rollout in
Speaker 1: North Carolina.
Speaker 8: What did you make of the specific points that she
Speaker 8: made about housing?
Speaker 1: Because so many people in our community, generationally, we've had
Speaker 1: to battle redline communities. Now we're battling challenges with banking
Speaker 1: and financing. I know in Georgia that's a big issue.
Speaker 1: What did you make of her policy points and what
Speaker 1: advice might you offer when it comes to home ownership?
Speaker 1: And the policy that she builds around now.
Speaker 10: She wrote them the list of her I had a
Speaker 10: little input on that. I did have some input in it.
Speaker 10: What we are talking about is making sure that we
Speaker 10: can have home ownership we have for so long. You
Speaker 10: said it right, whether it be redlining, whether it be
Speaker 10: the increasing rents. What we know is that housing is
Speaker 10: a crisis in this country, but it is especially a
Speaker 10: crisis in core communities and communities like ours. What are
Speaker 10: you going to hear is how we're going to address
Speaker 10: down payment assistance. What you're going to hear is how
Speaker 10: we can keep people in their homes. What you're going
Speaker 10: to hear is we have started programs. We have actually
Speaker 10: sued appraises and they have now finally decided that they're
Speaker 10: going to change the way they appraise properties in our neighborhoods.
Speaker 10: We are looking at how we can make more people
Speaker 10: of color credit worthy by not counting double basically for
Speaker 10: student loan debt credit card. So we are finding ways
Speaker 10: to make an easier process. But in the meantime, what
Speaker 10: we are doing is we are also making it easier
Speaker 10: for people to live in housing that we have by
Speaker 10: assisting with more resources for rent more resources for public
Speaker 10: housing and the one thing that I'm really, really very
Speaker 10: proud of, and she probably won't mention it, but I
Speaker 10: think that you need to know. When I first came
Speaker 10: to HUD, if you had a criminal record, you could
Speaker 10: not live in public houses. We changed that.
Speaker 9: Yes, I did it on my way out the door.
Speaker 10: Because we have.
Speaker 5: Secretary of Judge. Like, that's something that y'all should be
Speaker 5: making billboards about.
Speaker 10: We should, but you know, sometimes you can't tell people
Speaker 10: what you.
Speaker 13: Do it until it's done.
Speaker 10: But now it's done, and so we're telling people because
Speaker 10: it brings families together. If people come out of out
Speaker 10: of incarcerated situations and they have no place to go,
Speaker 10: the rate of citivism goes up really, really hot. So
Speaker 10: we're trying to do away with that. But we are
Speaker 10: working very diligently and you will see some I don't
Speaker 10: want to preempt her speech, but you are going to
Speaker 10: see that she is serious about housing in this country,
Speaker 10: whether it's private equity people coming in and buying houses
Speaker 10: up in our community. They literally told me that they
Speaker 10: will buy a house in six minutes. They'll make a
Speaker 10: decision to come into my neighborhood and buy a house
Speaker 10: in six minutes, they put a few thousand dollars in it.
Speaker 10: They raise the rent so that the people who live
Speaker 10: there can't live there anymore. So we're dealing with those issues.
Speaker 5: So her speech tomorrow is going to be heavy on policy,
Speaker 5: because that's one of the thing that you know, listeners
Speaker 5: were calling in the breakfast club this week saying that
Speaker 5: they don't feel like they're hearing enough policy talk here
Speaker 5: at the DNC.
Speaker 7: So is she going to focus on that heavy tomorrow?
Speaker 10: She is going to focus on policy, and she is
Speaker 10: going to address housing. Wow, not as in depth as
Speaker 10: I have, but you will know that it is a priority,
Speaker 10: and it is a.
Speaker 4: Priority I You know, one of the things Vin Special
Speaker 4: I think is so important is a black woman is
Speaker 4: running for president.
Speaker 3: You are serving as a.
Speaker 4: Black woman campaign the co chair, and I have never
Speaker 4: known you to back away from any black issue. You
Speaker 4: are a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and
Speaker 4: there are folks who are literally questioning her blackness. This
Speaker 4: aka from Howard University, this prosecutor with the progressive record
Speaker 4: that has always fought for and on behalf of black people,
Speaker 4: black mothers in the Senate. But can you please tell
Speaker 4: the listeners who are somehow still skeptical, the viewers who
Speaker 4: are somehow still skeptical.
Speaker 3: Why this is not a question for you at all?
Speaker 3: Why you're very clear about that.
Speaker 10: Let me say first this, she's black, and in the
Speaker 10: other one, let's start. Let's start there. When I first
Speaker 10: met Kamala Harris some years ago, the reason we met
Speaker 10: is because I was working in black communities to make
Speaker 10: sure that my people got something out of our vote.
Speaker 7: There you go, and.
Speaker 10: Even today, she understands I hold this campaign accountable.
Speaker 14: That's right.
Speaker 10: I was on a call last week and I was
Speaker 10: asking how much money have we put into our community?
Speaker 10: How many grassroots organization have we given money to? That
Speaker 10: It wasn't a comfortable conversation, but it's a conversation that
Speaker 10: we needed to have, and she made clear to them.
Speaker 10: Give Marcia Funch what she wants because she knows that
Speaker 10: I am her voice for black people, because you know,
Speaker 10: I'm an apologetically black, I said, and she is as well.
Speaker 10: You know she has a persona that is going to
Speaker 10: be important for all people. But do not underestimate her
Speaker 10: blackness ever.
Speaker 5: Secondary For if a black man in Chicago walked through
Speaker 5: you right now, say tell me three tangible things that
Speaker 5: the Biden has administration did over the last you know,
Speaker 5: three and a half years, almost four years.
Speaker 7: What would you say, Well.
Speaker 10: Let me start. I can start and give you a
Speaker 10: whole lot of them. I'm gonna start with getting us
Speaker 10: out of COVID when black people were dying disproportionately, a
Speaker 10: fourteen hundred dollars checks, child text credit where we gave children,
Speaker 10: every child in the family three hundred dollars a month
Speaker 10: for a whole year.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 10: Then I can go to the money that we put
Speaker 10: in education, in healthcare, the fact that we have done
Speaker 10: away with student debt, and I can go on and on.
Speaker 10: You want me to do some more?
Speaker 14: Answer who.
Speaker 1: I think what's so important about that? Though in Charlottage,
Speaker 1: to your point, disinformation is readily available. So if people
Speaker 1: have those questions as listed, their accomplishments are listed on
Speaker 1: the Biden the White House website. And I encourage people
Speaker 1: to go and seek information yourself, share information responsibly, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of misinformation and disinformation. Specifically, as you know,
Speaker 1: Charlemagne targeted to black men, and speaking of black men,
Speaker 1: we do want to bring into the conversation.
Speaker 10: Democrat Joe Biden nominated and confirmed more black women to
Speaker 10: the federal mix. All other presidents come by, not just
Speaker 10: he picked up a black vice president, a black Supreme
Speaker 10: Court justice, and I can go on, but I'm gonna
Speaker 10: leave it to.
Speaker 6: Team Child before you in the reason why that's important
Speaker 6: because it's not just symbolic because there's a black face.
Speaker 6: It's because there's a collective lived experience that when you're
Speaker 6: sitting on that bench and you look out into the
Speaker 6: courtroom on the events and the prosecution side, and you've
Speaker 6: grown up understanding that there's an over incarceration and over
Speaker 6: prosecution and over surveillance in our.
Speaker 9: Community, then you just happen to take a different approach.
Speaker 6: You've seen white judges sit up there at the bench
Speaker 6: and say, if it wasn't for your father, right, I
Speaker 6: would have you in the slammer because they have personal relationship,
Speaker 6: and we don't criminalize that when they have personal relationship.
Speaker 5: Judges that kind of humanity when they see us, though,
Speaker 5: because a lot of times you see those black judges
Speaker 5: understand they don't have that, but you're public defender.
Speaker 1: You're any more public defenders to be elevated. So often
Speaker 1: we pay an outsize on ation to the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: but the lower courts are also incredibly impactful, specifically specifically
Speaker 1: when it comes to us in a very unforgiving criminal
Speaker 1: justice system. But mister chair, I know you've been trying
Speaker 1: to get in here, so thank you for doing it.
Speaker 8: North Carolina connection.
Speaker 14: That my partner right over there. Okay, Now, my Auntie,
Speaker 14: my Auntie secretary.
Speaker 5: You know I executive produced Jamie's documentary in the Bubble.
Speaker 14: In the Bubble, that's right.
Speaker 4: It's the phenomenal film. We did a panel on it
Speaker 4: this week.
Speaker 14: Jamie.
Speaker 4: I want to hear from you because I know you
Speaker 4: have to go. He literally carved out a little bit
Speaker 4: of time for us. I want the people to hear
Speaker 4: from you about why this moment, how this moment feels
Speaker 4: to you, what you are expecting tonight. We haven't even
Speaker 4: got into the jendad that we know. We'll hear from
Speaker 4: Tim Wallas tell us all the things well.
Speaker 15: Onar one, I want to add something on the black
Speaker 15: judges job I and Kamala Harris. Over two hundred judges,
Speaker 15: fifty nine of them may have been black. Now, black
Speaker 15: people I'm doing my black man only represent about thirteen
Speaker 15: percent of the populations fifty nine over that's over twenty
Speaker 15: five percent of the judges he has appointed have been black.
Speaker 14: This is exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Trump appointed over two hundred white men the lifetime appointments
Speaker 1: on the federal bench.
Speaker 15: That's that's exactly right. But when you think about it,
Speaker 15: he's appointed, as the Secretary said, more black women to
Speaker 15: the Pelic Court than all presidents combined. And so we
Speaker 15: got to give him credits, right, and we got to say,
Speaker 15: there's still more work to do. Yes, But when you
Speaker 15: think about this administration, what they have done is that
Speaker 15: they have transformed things. They even changed the political process.
Speaker 15: Right all of my life. We have started the political
Speaker 15: process in Iowa, New Hampshire.
Speaker 14: And ain't nothing wrong with Ivory in New Hampshire. I
Speaker 14: love him.
Speaker 15: Good Democrats in that state have been but not very
Speaker 15: many of us that live in those state outs.
Speaker 14: But this president and this vice president said, we got
Speaker 14: to change that.
Speaker 15: If we keep saying that black folks make up the
Speaker 15: heart and the soul in the backbone of the Democratic Party,
Speaker 15: then why are they relegated to the back of the
Speaker 15: bus to choose the next president instead of being at
Speaker 15: the front of the US and that's why Joe Biden,
Speaker 15: Kama Harris, and yours truly at the DNC changed the schedule.
Speaker 15: We moved South Carolina to be the first the state
Speaker 15: where forty percent of enslaved people came through the port
Speaker 15: of Charleston, which exactly where many of their progeny pick cotton.
Speaker 15: Now are the first people to pick the most powerful
Speaker 15: person on the face of the earth. And then he
Speaker 15: added Georgia, and he added Michigan, and he moved up Nevada,
Speaker 15: and as a result of that, for the first time
Speaker 15: in American history, four out of the five early states
Speaker 15: were led by black women.
Speaker 3: Now, Jamison, here's the only thing.
Speaker 4: Yes, I love that you are a foot soldier for
Speaker 4: the party and you are faithful to it, and I
Speaker 4: love then no matter what we.
Speaker 3: Try to do, we always hell staffers.
Speaker 4: Sir, I'm going to need you to take some ownership
Speaker 4: for some of you are pomplishments as chair, and I
Speaker 4: want the folks to know about the work that you're doing.
Speaker 3: It's so important, Jamie.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of investment that you've made in our
Speaker 4: communities before you got up here. Misbudge was like, no,
Speaker 4: I'm asking about where the money is being spent. Even
Speaker 4: when I am friendly, we still have demands to make.
Speaker 4: So talk about some of those things and what else
Speaker 4: you're expecting from the convention. But save your voice, and
Speaker 4: we need to find you a mint tea right away.
Speaker 10: I'm here.
Speaker 14: I've been drinking tea all day, Jesus.
Speaker 15: But you know that's when you have a family reunion
Speaker 15: and everybody get together and everybody is happy and dancing, and.
Speaker 9: You the cousin that got to speak to everybody.
Speaker 5: You drinking connact man.
Speaker 3: Please don't listen.
Speaker 15: Sometimes the tea got a little bit in it.
Speaker 14: But listen.
Speaker 15: I'm so proud and I'm proud to do my black
Speaker 15: job as share of the DNC along with my sister
Speaker 15: in the struggle menyard More, who I know is going
Speaker 15: to be here right now.
Speaker 14: Y'all.
Speaker 15: We have put on and that, and I'm not just
Speaker 15: bragging on us, but people are telling me this is
Speaker 15: the best convention that you've ever attended ever in their
Speaker 15: lives life. We gabbled in think about the history of
Speaker 15: this moment. Sixty years ago, Fanny lou Hamer testify at
Speaker 15: the Credentials Committee of the DNC Convention and in that
Speaker 15: it was an all white delegation.
Speaker 14: Black folks couldn't be a part of it.
Speaker 15: And you fast forward sixty years and a black woman
Speaker 15: from South side of Chicago and a black round headed
Speaker 15: kid from Orangeburg, South Carolina gabbled in a convention of
Speaker 15: the Democratic Party where we are nominating a black woman
Speaker 15: to be President of the United States.
Speaker 14: Folks.
Speaker 15: Think about the moment, folks, and I think, I think
Speaker 15: sometimes we get so caught up in it.
Speaker 14: We got to step back and really think about the.
Speaker 15: Moment that we are in and what Mignon and I
Speaker 15: We're not just there because you know, people like to call.
Speaker 14: You token head. We're not just sitting there. I'm looking
Speaker 14: at the money that we utilized.
Speaker 15: We made sure that the first contracts that we offered
Speaker 15: at this convention, we're going to black folks. The production,
Speaker 15: a lot of the production for this convention, it was
Speaker 15: a black production team for the first time in the history.
Speaker 15: What we have done in terms of diversity, equity inclusion
Speaker 15: at the DNC, I've made sure that the contracts, our
Speaker 15: largest contract on DNC goes to the black firm, our
Speaker 15: security firm.
Speaker 14: So we are making progress. Are we there yet? Hell? No?
Speaker 14: But do are we making progress?
Speaker 10: To get there.
Speaker 15: We are having Marsha Fudge and Cedric Richmond over in
Speaker 15: the campaign and Jim Cliburn over the campaign as co chairs,
Speaker 15: and Secretary Fudge.
Speaker 14: Is on it. I already on staff at the.
Speaker 15: Campaigner tell me, oh Man, I was on with Secretary
Speaker 15: Fudge and she was asking some questions.
Speaker 5: I wanted to ask you, Secretary Judge, how does this energy,
Speaker 5: you know, as a woman, different from Hillary in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 5: like the energy around the vice president.
Speaker 10: That's very, very different. First, let me you say that
Speaker 10: I was very involved in the Hillary Clinton campaign, and
Speaker 10: I believe that because of people like Hillary Clinton and
Speaker 10: Barbara Jordans and Shirley Chisholm, that Kamala has a chance.
Speaker 10: They started kicking in that ceiling for us, and so
Speaker 10: now it's just full of cracks and we're just gonna
Speaker 10: tear it down. But it's different because she is mine. Yes,
Speaker 10: she is one of mine. The history that was history,
Speaker 10: but not like this. I got chill set kids. She
Speaker 10: is one of mine. I love them, and I'm so
Speaker 10: proud to be able to work with somebody who I
Speaker 10: believe is going to bring this country together, who is
Speaker 10: going to show people that we are not just competent,
Speaker 10: we are superior in many ways. So they think because
Speaker 10: it's just because she's black. No, it's not because she's black.
Speaker 10: It's because she's the best. She's qualified, she's educated, she
Speaker 10: has worked hard. I mean, nobody gets to that place
Speaker 10: just by the work. And I feel it every single day.
Speaker 4: I know you are having so much to do, and
Speaker 4: so we're so so grateful missus Fudge. I am ever
Speaker 4: grateful that you made time to do an interview. She
Speaker 4: was like, I'm doing this for y'all. We you keep
Speaker 4: asking the tough questions and tell us where we can
Speaker 4: lean in and support you.
Speaker 7: His administration accountable, keep holding them all account.
Speaker 10: I was getting to say that, because listen, when I
Speaker 10: walk in the room, they just like Lord. But let
Speaker 10: me just say this one thing. To black men in particular,
Speaker 10: I hear a lot about she was a prosecutor. I
Speaker 10: was a prosecutor too. But but what I don't hear
Speaker 10: is who speaks for that mother whose son or daughter
Speaker 10: is killed. What I don't hear is when George Floyd
Speaker 10: was killed, they wanted a black prosecutor. When Taylor was killed,
Speaker 10: they wanted a black proctor. You can't have it before.
Speaker 10: They want a diversion program, you want a black prosecutor.
Speaker 10: We do our jobs, but it's also us to give
Speaker 10: you a second chance. It's also black prosecutors that will say,
Speaker 10: you know what, I know that you should be in jail,
Speaker 10: but I'm going to give you a break.
Speaker 7: She's done that with the Back on Track program.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, you want to tell that part of the story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me tell you what you have been summoned.
Speaker 4: You have to do more interviews. Jamie's staying with us.
Speaker 4: I want you to say, okay, I say, for like
Speaker 4: five more minutes, thank you.
Speaker 9: Sectary.
Speaker 4: Yes, he doesn't want to leave because he's with family.
Speaker 3: You guys. Just so you know, I they.
Speaker 8: Said they said five minutes.
Speaker 3: I didn't get thirty minutes. I didn't get to I
Speaker 3: didn't get to say this.
Speaker 4: When Jamie was come on because we were in the
Speaker 4: middle of a conversation. But Jamie, I just want you
Speaker 4: to know, as your sister from the Hill, I'm so very,
Speaker 4: very proud of what you've done. I know that you've
Speaker 4: caught hell in this position. He's laughing, but I'm so serious.
Speaker 9: I cannot wait for.
Speaker 4: Domary, and I just want you to know Jamie, take
Speaker 4: every moment that you can't speak to appreciate all that
Speaker 4: you've accomplished, and know that without your work, brother, we
Speaker 4: would not have had a Kamala Harris at the top
Speaker 4: of this ticket. I want you to know Fanny Lou
Speaker 4: Hamer is so proud of you pursuing and carrying on
Speaker 4: her legacy.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 4: I got goosebumps telling you this, but I want you
Speaker 4: to know there are so many young black boys and
Speaker 4: young black girls who are looking at you now and
Speaker 4: they know that even this lane is possible for them
Speaker 4: to They may not ever want to run for office.
Speaker 4: You've done both. You know I recruited you to go
Speaker 4: back and do it again. We go see what happens.
Speaker 4: But I just want you to know.
Speaker 1: That can I I want to get some contact to
Speaker 1: you because I want our viewers to understand what it
Speaker 1: meant to disrupt that primary schedule. For so long, the
Speaker 1: primaries were led by Iowa and New Hampshire. These are
Speaker 1: states that are ninety three and ninety four percent white, respectively.
Speaker 1: So when you disrupt that cycle, by the time they
Speaker 1: went through those populations, it was really difficult for black
Speaker 1: people or any people of color to ascend beyond that,
Speaker 1: compounded by the fact that the donor base is largely
Speaker 1: white and male. So when you empower our people in
Speaker 1: South Carolina to be the leading voice on how this
Speaker 1: country will be run at a time when the demographics
Speaker 1: are so changing, because that's what a lot of this
Speaker 1: disruption is about.
Speaker 8: I don't think people can fully appreciate.
Speaker 1: The size, the gigantic, and the sizable impact that we'll
Speaker 1: have on the American body politic and the political landscape.
Speaker 1: I think that's such an important context, given that we
Speaker 1: know that there are a lot of people who are
Speaker 1: grossly uncomfortable with a black woman ascending to the highest
Speaker 1: office of the land, and they've made it known that
Speaker 1: they will not accept election results that they don't like.
Speaker 8: Do you have concerns about this November?
Speaker 15: I always have concerns, particularly when I know the people
Speaker 15: on the other side of the.
Speaker 7: Out You know, they're going to try to still the election.
Speaker 5: Come on, They're gonna refuse to certify the results of
Speaker 5: the election.
Speaker 7: You know that if it gets to the Supreme Court,
Speaker 7: they might even overturn it.
Speaker 14: You know that, Charlie Mane, I ain't confused.
Speaker 15: I know and that and that's why for the last
Speaker 15: three and a half years, I've been building the biggest
Speaker 15: voter protection program in the history of the Democratic National Committee.
Speaker 14: Gotcha, it is.
Speaker 15: Because I understand and I know. I come we come
Speaker 15: from South Carolina. We know that they like to do
Speaker 15: all of the little high jacks and the things that
Speaker 15: you know. I remember going to the campus of Benedict
Speaker 15: College and young lawyer coming out of Georgetown and having
Speaker 15: to be there and stand with those young people because
Speaker 15: the Republican Party there sent some goons from Georgia to
Speaker 15: try to keep the kids at Benedict from voting. So
Speaker 15: I know all of the tricks in the trades and
Speaker 15: the things that they like to do. And that is
Speaker 15: why we built this biggest, the largest voter protection program.
Speaker 14: Ever in the history of the DNC.
Speaker 15: And that is why I know my team is saying like,
Speaker 15: you need to go, you need to go. That is
Speaker 15: why we have been working at this. But let me
Speaker 15: just say this and then I'm a rap. Why this
Speaker 15: moment is important. Republican Party is a party built on
Speaker 15: the foundation of fear.
Speaker 14: We are the party built on a foundation hole.
Speaker 15: Republican Party believes that our better days are in our past.
Speaker 15: But we know that our better days are in the future.
Speaker 15: Let me give you all a glimpse of the future,
Speaker 15: the glimpse of the future which motivates me each and
Speaker 15: every day. January twentieth, twenty twenty five, We're in Washington,
Speaker 15: d C.
Speaker 14: Is a coal and breast day.
Speaker 15: We're at the US Capitol, a building built with a
Speaker 15: hands of slaves, and standing on adist there is a
Speaker 15: black woman, a delta in a black.
Speaker 14: You're reclaiming my time living, I said.
Speaker 15: Standing on that dice is a black woman in a
Speaker 15: black robe, a delta now hushman, the first black woman
Speaker 15: Justice of the Supreme Court. Her name is Kantanji Brown Jackson.
Speaker 15: And they're in her hand. She is holding a bible,
Speaker 15: the Bible of Fi Frederick Douglas. And then another black
Speaker 15: woman steps out, wearing white or maybe even a tan suit,
Speaker 15: and she steps up and she puts her hand on
Speaker 15: that bible.
Speaker 14: This black woman an a ka.
Speaker 15: A graduate of a historically black college and university, and
Speaker 15: she puts.
Speaker 14: Her hand up and says, I.
Speaker 15: Swear to protect and defend the constitution of these United States, folks.
Speaker 14: That is what we are working on here. That is
Speaker 14: what we are working for each and every day, and
Speaker 14: it gives me chills.
Speaker 3: And you're making us cry, tells me chills to.
Speaker 14: Think about that. So folks, don't sit on your damn mans.
Speaker 14: You get it off and you better work. You better
Speaker 14: work to make this happen. That's right.
Speaker 15: That is our future. It is only our future though
Speaker 15: if we make it.
Speaker 3: Jamie, can you please take Leonard off the stage, because.
Speaker 4: But I want to say that you guys, we have
Speaker 4: recreated on Native Lampard at Breakfast Club right now this
Speaker 4: moment of the Chair of the d n C and
Speaker 4: the Chair of the Democratic National Convention Flowers.
Speaker 3: Has joined the day.
Speaker 4: Jamie has to go.
Speaker 15: She's coming up to we have Make sure you're watching
Speaker 15: the bubble with James doc and Charlomagne. I got a
Speaker 15: challenge to you, a voter registration challenge. I want to
Speaker 15: put up one hundred k to get black voters of
Speaker 15: four hundred thousand black voters in South Carolina, Wretchard, I
Speaker 15: need you to match it.
Speaker 7: Match one thousand, one hundred thousand. I got you.
Speaker 10: Let's do it.
Speaker 8: Let's kind of challenge for.
Speaker 3: We got Bishop Leadaughtry.
Speaker 11: Also be careful because I fellow.
Speaker 4: Madam Chair minyall More. We are so so very very
Speaker 4: proud of you. We are thrilled to be sitting with
Speaker 4: you today.
Speaker 9: Y'all should know.
Speaker 4: Does not do interviews like that. She made time for
Speaker 4: us because she loves us too. And we have Bishop
Speaker 4: Leadaughtry also joining that she will be on with us,
Speaker 4: and just a moment, Bishop Daughtry is here as well.
Speaker 3: This is two of the colored girls.
Speaker 7: You should break down what Minyon More does.
Speaker 4: Going to tell us a little bit about what she
Speaker 4: does everything. We have Congressman Waters join us in just
Speaker 4: a moment as well. But we have this tremendous moment,
Speaker 4: and I want folks to know, Mignyon, you have been
Speaker 4: counseling and advising Kamala Harrison's before the transition in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: You have been advising presidents, You and Lea and Donna
Speaker 4: and Yolanda and Tina presidents since Jesse Jackson's campaign. You
Speaker 4: all held the line and we didn't even know that
Speaker 4: you would be holding the line for us. Please talk
Speaker 4: about the significance of this moment.
Speaker 16: You know.
Speaker 11: I tell you I really haven't had a chance to
Speaker 11: take it all in because it has been so much
Speaker 11: just trying to pull all the pieces of the convention together.
Speaker 11: But it struck me when they brought Reverend Jackson out
Speaker 11: on Monday night and they gave him his flowers while
Speaker 11: he was alive. Many of us came through when there
Speaker 11: was no body to blaze the trails. So he gave
Speaker 11: us the seat at the famous table that Shirley Chisholm
Speaker 11: always talked about. And we didn't have a lot of
Speaker 11: money working for him or working for his campaigns, but
Speaker 11: what he allowed us to do was to learn, and
Speaker 11: we were able to match our white counterparts.
Speaker 10: With the skill sets.
Speaker 11: And it was all because we learned through the Jackson campaign.
Speaker 11: And to see this come full circle me, Donald, Leah, Tina,
Speaker 11: We've been working together for a long time. But we
Speaker 11: also believe that it's also a baton moment for us.
Speaker 11: You know, I love Angela, I love Brittany, I love Tiffany,
Speaker 11: I love all these women because they are fierce fighters
Speaker 11: for our people, and we don't sometimes we don't even
Speaker 11: have to say anything. All we got to do is
Speaker 11: say we got you. And so I want to say
Speaker 11: publicly we got you. We got all of you. Every
Speaker 11: time you go through the fire, just know if you
Speaker 11: pick up the phone. We got you, and thank you
Speaker 11: for all that you're doing. And so this moment represents
Speaker 11: all the hard work that you young women have been
Speaker 11: out here telling us, fighting for justice, fighting for social rights.
Speaker 11: It's because of you we also sit here, and this
Speaker 11: moment means you have a seat at the most powerful
Speaker 11: table in America if we do what Jamie has said, vote.
Speaker 1: I want to give our viewers some context because not
Speaker 1: everyone knows who the colored girls are, So I think
Speaker 1: it's important for you all to know. It was a
Speaker 1: coalition of women who worked in politics, black women who
Speaker 1: worked in various different industries. You were in the church,
Speaker 1: among other things, as a bishop, but all of you
Speaker 1: all worked on campaigns. But you assented to become so
Speaker 1: powerful in your reach and expertise that anyone who wanted
Speaker 1: to run for president of the Democratic Party would first
Speaker 1: come and sit at your.
Speaker 8: Table, the table that you helped build.
Speaker 1: That was happening long before the Obamas were in office,
Speaker 1: that was happening during the Clinton years, and so I
Speaker 1: just think it's so impressive. I also think Mignon and
Speaker 1: thank you for your wonderful words. You know, I've loved
Speaker 1: you for a long time. I also think minon. A
Speaker 1: lot of people don't really know what the chair of
Speaker 1: the DNC convintion actually does. So if you could give
Speaker 1: our viewers and listeners some insight into what your role
Speaker 1: is here.
Speaker 11: You know this role was I was asked by the
Speaker 11: White House to assume this role. It originally started as
Speaker 11: a role that would come in and help a young
Speaker 11: man by the name of Alex Hornbrook helped pull the
Speaker 11: pieces of this convention together. And thank god, my sister
Speaker 11: Leah has already paved the way for us, so I'm
Speaker 11: not breaking any ground here because she had already paved
Speaker 11: the way. So and this is my hometown. So I
Speaker 11: came back to Chicago thinking I was just going to
Speaker 11: spend a couple of days a week. It turned into
Speaker 11: a couple of months and now it's been many, many months.
Speaker 11: But virtually we build the infrastructure, and what we say
Speaker 11: is we build literally and figuratively the stage that the
Speaker 11: nominees have to stand on. We also play a strong
Speaker 11: hand in the programming of this convention. It's a lot
Speaker 11: of different pieces. People don't see behind the scenes. When
Speaker 11: you look at all these mags you're going through. That
Speaker 11: took a year's worth of work with the Secret Service.
Speaker 11: It took a year's work for work with the Cargo
Speaker 11: Police Department, took a year's worth of work with the
Speaker 11: city to make sure our delegates were safe, our visitors
Speaker 11: were safe. And so that's one big part of it,
Speaker 11: because you got to remember, we came in at a
Speaker 11: very troubled time, and so we had to ensure the
Speaker 11: first part of our journey was to ensure that we
Speaker 11: could make sure that our delegates and their families were saved.
Speaker 11: The second part of this is just to make sure
Speaker 11: that people can hear the message because it's the largest
Speaker 11: stage that our nominee will get, and our nominee just
Speaker 11: happens to be Kamala Harris.
Speaker 13: Now, we did not know.
Speaker 11: Six weeks ago, three weeks ago that we would be
Speaker 11: building the stage for the first black woman to take
Speaker 11: that stage over. But we had put all the pieces
Speaker 11: together and so the transition just came with the program.
Speaker 11: And Leac can add more to it because you know, it's.
Speaker 3: So much also been at convention.
Speaker 1: CEO, Yes, answer has a question for you, Lisa, You're
Speaker 1: right on que.
Speaker 6: I actually just wanted to pass out some roses, y'all's way,
Speaker 6: not that I have the position to pass out anything,
Speaker 6: but to say that you didn't have to be a woman,
Speaker 6: black woman organizer to fall under y'all's clutch. I remember
Speaker 6: when I got invited by Bill Clinton to come and
Speaker 6: sit at a table of mayors and help to engineer
Speaker 6: this mayor and I ran into I ran into you,
Speaker 6: madam chair, and I mentioned and you said, well.
Speaker 9: How you think you got that? Baby?
Speaker 6: And it was just a subtle way of saying how
Speaker 6: you all even for I understand the connection that y'all have.
Speaker 6: Y'all were, y'all were burnished through the fire together. I
Speaker 6: wasn't with you, right, I'm you know, Florida, and came
Speaker 6: up and you couldn't name me from out of me
Speaker 6: but you but you looked out anyway, and you said,
Speaker 6: take a place here, learn what you need to learn,
Speaker 6: and take it from there.
Speaker 9: And I got it. I just I want to I would.
Speaker 6: I just want to extend my heartfelt appreciation for what
Speaker 6: you all do do. The names that I cannot call,
Speaker 6: the people whose faces I will not recognize, but that
Speaker 6: y'all know because you stood in the gap and bend
Speaker 6: the bridge for them.
Speaker 9: So your sisterhood of.
Speaker 6: Four extends out to a plethora unnamed dun check number
Speaker 6: of acolytes all over this country and probably the world.
Speaker 9: So we thank you for it.
Speaker 6: Thank you and Nataliah. We didn't get your prayer. We
Speaker 6: weren't in there, did you? Did you bring the word
Speaker 6: for the opening because we were up here doing the show.
Speaker 6: I just I just as a woman of the cloth.
Speaker 6: Obviously there's that, but you are also one of the
Speaker 6: most polished, direct, accomplished and accomplishing women that any of
Speaker 6: us know. And I just wonder from a training standpoint
Speaker 6: for young folks who are coming up after, we're often
Speaker 6: getting questions on this show, what could I do? How
Speaker 6: do I find purpose? How do I find me? How
Speaker 6: do I exercise a role bigger than where I am?
Speaker 6: What advice would you give to this next generation of
Speaker 6: young people who want to emulate?
Speaker 10: Well, first of all, thanks for having me.
Speaker 17: I appreciate being with you and spending this time. I
Speaker 17: would say to young people, purpose isn't something that drops
Speaker 17: out of the sky, right, It doesn't just drop out
Speaker 17: of the sky and you know, oo angel singing, and
Speaker 17: there's your purpose. You learn your purpose through the doing,
Speaker 17: through the work, and sometimes you gotta try a whole
Speaker 17: lot of things. When I was in college, I thought
Speaker 17: I was gonna be an investment banker, all right, And
Speaker 17: then I went to work for a bank and as
Speaker 17: an internship, I said, this is not it. I'm not
Speaker 17: gonna spend my time denying people's mortgages.
Speaker 13: So I need it.
Speaker 17: So I tried something else, and then I tried something else,
Speaker 17: and then I tried something else, and eventually went back
Speaker 17: to my training in the church, which was a political
Speaker 17: and how do you change people's lies through using the
Speaker 17: political power that we have?
Speaker 13: So I said, test it out.
Speaker 10: There's no one answer.
Speaker 17: Try something, step out there, experiment until you find the
Speaker 17: thing that sings to you. Katie Canna says, find the
Speaker 17: work that your soul must have.
Speaker 13: And so you won't know by sitting on Google.
Speaker 17: You gotta get out there and just try a bunch
Speaker 17: of things and find the thing that works for you.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: We know that you have so much to do for
Speaker 4: the convention. Alex Is almost jumped on the stage to go,
Speaker 4: and we're so so grateful for your time. We are
Speaker 4: cheering for you.
Speaker 3: We are right here. I'm checking on you every night, too.
Speaker 3: Leah Bishop, Leah, we love you.
Speaker 4: Thank you all so much for paving the way and
Speaker 4: for can you continuing to carry this.
Speaker 3: Is our mentor getting ready to.
Speaker 9: She's coming.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: We're welcoming to the stage, Congressoman Maxine Waters. This is
Speaker 1: a very special guest because she happens to be Angela
Speaker 1: Rized Mentor, so this is an exciting time to have
Speaker 1: her joined. She's also the ranking member of the Financial
Speaker 1: Services Committee in the House of Representatives. And when we
Speaker 1: say ranking member, that's because Democrats do not control the
Speaker 1: lower chamber in Congress right now. Uh so, when should
Speaker 1: Democrats take back the House, she will become the chair
Speaker 1: of Financial Services.
Speaker 8: But what touches me about.
Speaker 1: This moment, Angela, is that we are welcoming your mentor
Speaker 1: to this set. And I know how much of this
Speaker 1: moment must mean to you to have her here.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and and and just so you all know, as
Speaker 4: you see her walk up here in her stilettos, she
Speaker 4: still got her.
Speaker 18: She does, she put a little bag up, she does
Speaker 18: her marches and her protests like this, Honey.
Speaker 10: I want you, I'm good.
Speaker 19: I'm absolutely enthused for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 19: You know, I usually don't get excited you know, I
Speaker 19: usually don't get with the masses when they're talking about
Speaker 19: ya ya yay, things are so good.
Speaker 10: But I am inspired, you know, I really am.
Speaker 19: And I feel like a cloud is being lifted because
Speaker 19: Trump has been just such a nasty, dirty, deplorable human
Speaker 19: being that he has caused us to feel almost depressed.
Speaker 19: And so I feel that this cloud is being lifted
Speaker 19: and we have an opportunity to go forward with some hope.
Speaker 5: As an Ogmus Waters, you know who has seen America
Speaker 5: change so much throughout your lifetime, you know, how does
Speaker 5: it feel as a black woman to see another black
Speaker 5: woman in a position to potentially be the next brother?
Speaker 19: Well, you know, I really do feel that change has
Speaker 19: come about. I really do think that we're in a
Speaker 19: period of time where we're seeing America face the truth
Speaker 19: about the citizens of this country and the fact that
Speaker 19: they have been excluded and denied. And you have competent, capable,
Speaker 19: talented women men and women, but black women who have
Speaker 19: really been undermined us consistently in this country now rising
Speaker 19: to the position of power and influence. So I feel
Speaker 19: really good about being a black woman right now.
Speaker 4: Yes, Well, you know the thing that I think is
Speaker 4: so important about this moment, Congresswoman, is I've watched you
Speaker 4: labor a long time, and before that you were still laboring.
Speaker 4: You've done the work from divestment in apartheid in South
Speaker 4: Africa to paving the way for moments like this. Yes,
Speaker 4: do you feel like you can celebrate some of your work?
Speaker 4: I know you're not done, but do you feel like
Speaker 4: you know what, I'm just gonna take this all in
Speaker 4: because I know this wouldn't have happened without my contribution.
Speaker 10: Well, I'll tell you what I feel. I really do feel.
Speaker 19: I want the young people to know and understand the
Speaker 19: history from whence we have come, and the struggles that
Speaker 19: we have faced and the sacrifices that we have. Oftentimes,
Speaker 19: you know, they think that everything is new, that's just
Speaker 19: happening now, or because they have arrived. But I am
Speaker 19: grateful for their arrival, but I want them to know
Speaker 19: what has gone into them getting to this point.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I asked Secretary for it the same thing. And
Speaker 5: I want to ask you as well, how different is
Speaker 5: this moment now as opposed to twenty sixteen with Hillary.
Speaker 19: Well, I think if the fact that it's a black
Speaker 19: woman is different, you know what I'm saying, this is
Speaker 19: something that America never dreamed really about.
Speaker 10: I never thought about the possibility of. And so yes, Hillary.
Speaker 19: Was a woman and had women behind her, Black women,
Speaker 19: white women, women, you know, hoping that she could be president.
Speaker 19: But to have a black, capable, competent woman whose career
Speaker 19: has led us to this point, who has done everything
Speaker 19: anybody could have told her that she should have done
Speaker 19: in order to get to this point in her life,
Speaker 19: in our lives, it's different, and it's inspiring. It's motivational,
Speaker 19: and it's like, you know, you can sit back and
Speaker 19: you can watch it and you can say, yeah, we
Speaker 19: knew that someday it might happen, but we weren't sure.
Speaker 10: But we're gonna keep on fighting for it.
Speaker 9: Yeah that congress woman, I'm across the hall over here,
Speaker 9: how are you good?
Speaker 6: Well, we've we've been joined by a woman, a guest
Speaker 6: to be granted, grant.
Speaker 3: I love it to be a movie. I feel like.
Speaker 6: Super But before before we get to the governor, I
Speaker 6: just want to say, growing up in Florida and where
Speaker 6: I grew up, I didn't have a black representative in Congress.
Speaker 6: I didn't my member of Congress. Uh uh it was Republican,
Speaker 6: and I you know, we never met him, but I was.
Speaker 6: I was a nerd and would watch c SPAN as
Speaker 6: a sixth Greater all the way through high school, and
Speaker 6: any time I would talk about my member of Congress,
Speaker 6: I would name check you because you were the voice
Speaker 6: for not just folks in southern California. You were advocating
Speaker 6: for black folks all over the country.
Speaker 9: When you took banks to task, when you took.
Speaker 6: Mortgage lenders to task, when you held folks accountable for
Speaker 6: their racism, their redlining. You were doing that for everybody,
Speaker 6: not just South Los Angeles.
Speaker 10: That's right.
Speaker 9: So we want to thank you for that dedicated service.
Speaker 6: And now I want to ask you, because you're about
Speaker 6: to be the chairwoman of the Financial Services Committee when
Speaker 6: we take back the.
Speaker 9: House of Representatives.
Speaker 6: I'm curious to know whether or not you've got a
Speaker 6: top three that you just got to when you get there,
Speaker 6: that you're going to be dismantling, raising up, expanding as
Speaker 6: you take leadership there.
Speaker 19: Oh my goodness, Thank you so very much, firt. Thank
Speaker 19: you for thanking me for the work that.
Speaker 10: I have done.
Speaker 19: It was just part of what I signed up for,
Speaker 19: and I enjoyed every minute of it, and no matter
Speaker 19: the sacrifice of the toughness, sometimes it was.
Speaker 10: What I was prepared to do. But let me tell you.
Speaker 19: I served as chair of the Financial Services Committee until
Speaker 19: we lost the House, and now I'm hopeful that I'll
Speaker 19: get that gavel back because once I got it back,
Speaker 19: I know what to do. That's and so let me
Speaker 19: tell you. Top on my agenda is housing. We have
Speaker 19: a housing crisis in this country. Every night in the
Speaker 19: Los Angeles Greater Los Angeles area, there's seventy thousand people
Speaker 19: on the streets. In this country, there are seven hundred
Speaker 19: and fifty three thousand people sleeping on the streets at night.
Speaker 19: We have a housing crisis in this country, and we
Speaker 19: can do better. As a matter of fact, in addition
Speaker 19: to the bills that I have one hundred and fifty
Speaker 19: billion dollar bill, I've had a bill for three hundred
Speaker 19: and fifty billion dollars. It was killed by Cinema and Mansion.
Speaker 19: But we now have the bill redone one hundred and
Speaker 19: fifty billion dollars. We also have the President Biden who's
Speaker 19: already talking about creating new units, affordable units and doing
Speaker 19: something I never thought I would agree to, and that
Speaker 19: is given tax credits to the developers who are willing
Speaker 19: to build affordable units and do it in such a
Speaker 19: way that not only are they affordable, but they're safe
Speaker 19: and they're secure. They're not only in the inner cities,
Speaker 19: but they're in the rural areas, in suburbia and in
Speaker 19: all of the country because it's needed everywhere. So that's
Speaker 19: one of my top priorities. The second thing that we've
Speaker 19: got to do is we've got to make sure that
Speaker 19: the banks and financial institutions of this country, first of all,
Speaker 19: a paying the affair taxes. Number two, that they're not
Speaker 19: ripping us off with predatory lending. We've got to do
Speaker 19: more than we ever did with the Dodd Frank reforms
Speaker 19: and make sure we bring them in and we make
Speaker 19: sure that we move with diversity and inclusion and get
Speaker 19: some black people up in the c suits so that
Speaker 19: the influence that they can have to make things right
Speaker 19: in some of our banks. We've got some gangster banks, absolutely,
Speaker 19: and they're stealing from us every day.
Speaker 10: So I want to make sure I do that.
Speaker 19: But we've got to move forward with a I, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency,
Speaker 19: and all of these things that are new to us
Speaker 19: that we've got to get more, you know, learn to
Speaker 19: mad we have to learn more about and so it's
Speaker 19: a lot of work that you have to do on
Speaker 19: financial services.
Speaker 10: But I'm ready to do it.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much, Congress.
Speaker 4: Are you saying I know that we that we are,
Speaker 4: that we have not limited time because they have you
Speaker 4: doing all the things.
Speaker 3: I see her team.
Speaker 4: Over here, and you're okay, Governor, And I'm going to.
Speaker 1: Make Angela a little jealous over here because I got
Speaker 1: a gift.
Speaker 10: I got the whole.
Speaker 12: I got the whole, so I get to hold this.
Speaker 1: Yes, the governor has very kindly brought us a gift.
Speaker 8: This is the lip Bar. It is a black owned business.
Speaker 1: The CEO Melissa Butler, who's a friend a.
Speaker 8: Member of Delta Sigma Data.
Speaker 1: They say, I give a lot of D nine love,
Speaker 1: but this is a wonderful the lip Bar. We give
Speaker 1: you free advertising. A girl's amazing. Yes, she has been
Speaker 1: so supportive to us, called big grutch Bright.
Speaker 10: I love it.
Speaker 1: It's literally you see. So thank you so much, Governor.
Speaker 1: We're so honored to have you with us. You were
Speaker 1: the talk of the town for a while when all
Speaker 1: this conversation came and I want to ask because we
Speaker 1: have a very diverse audience listening tonight, and it's so
Speaker 1: significant to have Vice President Harris as sind to this level.
Speaker 1: There there is some conversation about a divide among us
Speaker 1: as women. You know, will women who you know previously
Speaker 1: supported Trump?
Speaker 9: White women say it?
Speaker 10: Will?
Speaker 1: Will white women consider Thank you, Leonard.
Speaker 8: I appreciate that white women who.
Speaker 1: Has previously not voted in their interests, or perhaps voted
Speaker 1: in their interests, if we're honest about what some of
Speaker 1: their interest is, will they consider this a victory for
Speaker 1: them as well, that a woman has ascended to this ticket.
Speaker 8: Not that you speak for all guess let me real
Speaker 8: quite disclaimer.
Speaker 9: I do not speak for all white women.
Speaker 20: Yeah, this white woman is so excited. My kids are excited.
Speaker 20: I'm here with my two daughters are twenty two and
Speaker 20: twenty years old. And I remember driving to Philadelphia in
Speaker 20: the twenty sixteen convention and my kids were in the
Speaker 20: backseat and I thought, oh my god, these girls have
Speaker 20: only known eight years of a black president and we're
Speaker 20: on the cusp of a woman president. And these are
Speaker 20: two things I never could conceive of growing up in
Speaker 20: this country. And obviously twenty sixteen did not turn out
Speaker 20: the way I was hoping it would. We're as excited,
Speaker 20: if not more, about Kamala Harris and Tim Walls.
Speaker 8: I mean, this is a huge, huge chapter in.
Speaker 20: America leaders who And yes, I'm excited because she's going
Speaker 20: to break the last very but I'm excited because she
Speaker 20: is the most qualified kid.
Speaker 8: She is strong, she has smart, she knows how to get.
Speaker 20: Shit done, and she is the type of person who's
Speaker 20: lived a life that we can relate to.
Speaker 8: You know, she's a normal person.
Speaker 20: She took care of her mom at the end of
Speaker 20: her life, she took care of her sister's kids at
Speaker 20: the ganders.
Speaker 10: She's going to deliver.
Speaker 20: And so I do think we can pull a lot
Speaker 20: of white women who maybe were on the sidelines or
Speaker 20: maybe went the other way thinking Trump would make their
Speaker 20: lives better than they realized that's not the case, and
Speaker 20: we're going to pull people more people into the right now.
Speaker 20: We're excited, we're feeling it. We got a lot of
Speaker 20: hard work to do in the state of Michigan. It
Speaker 20: is a dead heat right now, which is a vast
Speaker 20: improvement from where we were a month ago. But it's
Speaker 20: sobering when you think about how much work we got
Speaker 20: to do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I want no one to ask you because I
Speaker 5: saw a day that said she had the vice president
Speaker 5: had a three point lead on Trump in Michigan. What
Speaker 5: can she do to keep that momentum going and not
Speaker 5: fumble Michigan the way Hillary Clinton did in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 20: Well, I mean, we're on the ground in Michigan. I
Speaker 20: don't think anyone's going to out Yeah, I was going.
Speaker 9: To get to that.
Speaker 20: No one's gonna take Michigan for granted. But you know,
Speaker 20: doing that voter contact, it's so important. We cannot write
Speaker 20: anyone off. We can't make any assumptions that people okay,
Speaker 20: but the black community is just going to show up
Speaker 20: because it's Kama hairs. No, we got to do the work.
Speaker 20: We got to show up, We got to earn people's support,
Speaker 20: and that is true in every community, and so that's
Speaker 20: what we're doing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I got a question for you in a queen vaccine.
Speaker 5: You know, we know that a lot of Republicans probably
Speaker 5: won't certify the results of the election coming over them.
Speaker 5: But if it gets to the Supreme Court, in light
Speaker 5: of a lot of their recent rulings, I think they
Speaker 5: might overturn it if the vice president wins.
Speaker 7: How concerned to y'all about are y'all about that?
Speaker 19: I'm very concerned that Trump has been able to put
Speaker 19: in place people in several states who are in charge
Speaker 19: of the election system, and that's real. And some of
Speaker 19: them are going to be turning people away. Some are
Speaker 19: going to be finding they did not dot the I
Speaker 19: across the t all kinds of little tricks. And so
Speaker 19: we've got to be on top of this. Not only
Speaker 19: do we have to have monitors, we have to anticipate
Speaker 19: when we learn things are going on. We have to
Speaker 19: move very quickly to get our lawyers out there, you know,
Speaker 19: challenging because I think this is real, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yes, I want to because Charlie wrote up a point
Speaker 1: about a fumble in Michigan, and I think it speaks
Speaker 1: right to the question about, you know, will people accept
Speaker 1: election results that they don't like? You know firsthand, Governor,
Speaker 1: about the dangers of fanatics and what I would call
Speaker 1: cult members who literally try to kidnap you. Thank god
Speaker 1: their plan was foiled. But also in twenty sixteen, the
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand votes out of Detroit that were discounted.
Speaker 1: As you know, Hillary Clinton lost Michigan that year. Had
Speaker 1: she carried miss and she lost by ten thousand votes,
Speaker 1: Had she had those seventy five thousand votes out of
Speaker 1: Detroit been counted, she would have won Michigan and thus
Speaker 1: won the presidency. How concerned are you about the infrastructure
Speaker 1: of this country and voting voting rights and voter suppression
Speaker 1: when it comes to November and it being a fair
Speaker 1: playing field.
Speaker 20: Well, I am concerned about it, But I want to
Speaker 20: make a couple important points. We know four years ago
Speaker 20: when Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden by one hundred
Speaker 20: and fifty thousand votes, a landslide. Comparatively, he challenged the
Speaker 20: votes in Wayne County, not the other eighty two counties,
Speaker 20: but Wayne County.
Speaker 8: Where Detroit is based.
Speaker 20: Right, so we know the game that they want to play.
Speaker 20: I'll just share this. In twenty twenty two, I won
Speaker 20: reelection and we flipped both the House and Senate. And
Speaker 20: in the week of that, with just a one seat
Speaker 20: majority of both chambers, we enhanced our election laws. We
Speaker 20: made it easier for people to participate. You can vote
Speaker 20: three weeks in advance in person, no reason.
Speaker 8: The absentee greater.
Speaker 20: Penalties for people that mess with and threatened election workers.
Speaker 20: These are good strides we've made. All that being said,
Speaker 20: we got to get ready because, as a Congressman said, now,
Speaker 20: one thing that I want to point out that I
Speaker 20: think should give us all some hope, not false hope,
Speaker 20: but some hope is in the most important swing states
Speaker 20: in the country, we got Tony Evers as the governor
Speaker 20: in Wisconsin. We got Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania, were Katie
Speaker 20: Hobbs in the Arizona. We got Roy Cooper in North Carolina,
Speaker 20: and me and Michigan. We got Democrats who are going
Speaker 20: to make sure these votes are protected and counted. It's
Speaker 20: still going to be a challenge, just go by to challenge.
Speaker 3: If any of our.
Speaker 20: Opponents had been in the position we're in, I'd be
Speaker 20: a lot more work.
Speaker 6: I agree with you, Governor, and I think the beauty
Speaker 6: of it is is that we do have you there
Speaker 6: as hopefully feel safe. My concern is, as you know,
Speaker 6: most of these elections are run municipally at the county.
Speaker 9: Level, and you may have these conservative counties that may.
Speaker 6: Want to flaunt, you know, the rule of law. You've
Speaker 6: got great Secretary of state, so and so forth. I'm
Speaker 6: i am having been in Florida in two thousand, come
Speaker 6: from the state where the US Supreme Court waited in
Speaker 6: three four and said this is not President said, and
Speaker 6: it will never be repeated.
Speaker 9: We have got to be on guard.
Speaker 6: I think we've got to let everybody raise the symbol
Speaker 6: before they ever do. And I just want to say
Speaker 6: you have been an outstanding governor, holding the banner, looking
Speaker 6: these terrorists straight in the face and letting them bring it.
Speaker 9: I'm big wretch.
Speaker 20: Worried about making thank you coman Michigan as we get
Speaker 20: close to this election, we welcome you.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much for this.
Speaker 4: And you were so happy to have Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Speaker 4: joining us today as we have.
Speaker 1: We're welcoming the senator who's in our camera shop, Senator Schubert,
Speaker 1: come to a thank you.
Speaker 8: Congresswoman.
Speaker 10: We love you.
Speaker 4: We have Chuck Schumer, who is the majority leader in
Speaker 4: the United States Senate, who will be joining us just momentarily.
Speaker 7: What's up, man, How are you to.
Speaker 4: See you wherever your most comfortable.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're going to get his to have sit on
Speaker 3: because he can't hear anything we're saying. But has that happened.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: What a phenomenal moment to have that generational conversation.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm trying to take a breath. But it's a lot.
Speaker 7: Right When you have a Queen.
Speaker 5: Maxine Waters come up here, and then you got big
Speaker 5: Wretch come up here at the same time, it's a lot.
Speaker 4: And then we have Majority Leader Chuck Schumer who's joining
Speaker 4: us now.
Speaker 3: Quite a big difference from just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 21: Huh, oh man, are we cooking? I have been at
Speaker 21: every convention since nineteen eighty four. None is as happy,
Speaker 21: none is as unified, and none is as committing to
Speaker 21: win as this.
Speaker 14: One that's going all away.
Speaker 9: That's right, It is so great.
Speaker 14: I cannot tell.
Speaker 7: You even more than eight and more than eight.
Speaker 21: Even because you know why, there's a that we have
Speaker 21: the positive we have Kamala, we have walls, but you
Speaker 21: know there's a negative. We cannot let that son of
Speaker 21: a gun get back into office.
Speaker 14: So it's both ways.
Speaker 7: Hey, bitch man, say son of a bit, it's okay,
Speaker 7: it's okay, the.
Speaker 9: Son of a gun.
Speaker 3: Okay, some of a gun.
Speaker 21: I'm gonna tell you that that president is no effing good.
Speaker 9: How's that?
Speaker 13: You know?
Speaker 7: Senator, you introduce them from Brooklyn.
Speaker 14: You know we use these words.
Speaker 5: You know, I like that you introduced that and no
Speaker 5: King Zach after the Supreme Court Presidential Community ruling. In
Speaker 5: light of the Supreme Court recent rulings, how concerned are
Speaker 5: you about them potentially interfering in this election because you
Speaker 5: know Donald Trump's.
Speaker 14: You bet Trump has no principles, He has no morals.
Speaker 14: He will do anything he can to win, no.
Speaker 21: Matter what corner he has to cut, no matter how
Speaker 21: many rules and laws he has to break. That's why
Speaker 21: he's going to go to jail, but in it because
Speaker 21: of the previous stuff he's done. Right, And so let
Speaker 21: me just say we are vigilant. We got the best
Speaker 21: election lawyers on the case. We are training thousands of lawyers.
Speaker 21: We are making sure on election day they don't screw
Speaker 21: around and deter people from voting. You know what they
Speaker 21: used to do, they used to tell they used to
Speaker 21: send out African American neighborhoods. Voting day has been changed,
Speaker 21: vote Thursday. These guys won't stop at anything. That's what
Speaker 21: the Republicans used to do. But we are now prepared.
Speaker 21: We were not prepared years ago.
Speaker 3: We are Majority Leader Schumer.
Speaker 4: You know, one question that I have for you, based
Speaker 4: on what you just said, I think is so important
Speaker 4: because folks regularly are donating to campaigns or to campaign committees,
Speaker 4: and you're just talking about training a bunch of lawyers.
Speaker 4: Is that some of the ways that you all are
Speaker 4: using the contribution this money.
Speaker 21: Is using every way, obviously obviously digital. But we're getting
Speaker 21: out the vote, you know, the best way to get
Speaker 21: out the vote, particularly among our young people who aren't
Speaker 21: voting that much, knocking on doors and explaining it better
Speaker 21: than an ad, better than anything. We're putting close to
Speaker 21: half our money into door knocking and talking to people.
Speaker 21: But we're also putting our money into just what Charlemagne said,
Speaker 21: and that is preventing them from stealing this election. They'll
Speaker 21: stop at nothing.
Speaker 5: Why are more people in your position just calling out
Speaker 5: the Supreme Court as an illegitimate institution?
Speaker 21: They should, you know, the right wing, these very rich,
Speaker 21: greedy people who didn't want to pay any taxes, who
Speaker 21: didn't want the government to do any you know, they said,
Speaker 21: I built my company with my own hands, although half
Speaker 21: of them inherited it, And how dare your government tell
Speaker 21: me how I had to treat my workers, my customers,
Speaker 21: or the landing, air and water that I own. That's
Speaker 21: what they did. And they realized Charlemagne that they couldn't
Speaker 21: get this done even when they controlled the elected branches
Speaker 21: of government House, Senate, because they were and president, because
Speaker 21: it was so far to the f and right, so
Speaker 21: far to the right, and so they tried to take
Speaker 21: over the courts. We have an obligation to try and
Speaker 21: stop them. The Supreme Court is a more rass now.
Speaker 21: Who would have thought of this, the ethics of that court.
Speaker 21: So these rich, fact rich people are paying for cars
Speaker 21: for trips at the same time they're paying somebody to
Speaker 21: some law firm to go to lawyer and make their case.
Speaker 21: That is outrageous. And I'll tell you who should we
Speaker 21: should blame, among others, the Chief Justice John Roberts, who
Speaker 21: once said he's calling balls and strikes. He could stop
Speaker 21: this with the flick of his pen. Where the hell
Speaker 21: is he lies?
Speaker 9: I just so the President.
Speaker 6: Has made it a stated goal to get reform on
Speaker 6: the Supreme Court. I'm just I what's your prognosis for
Speaker 6: a week between now lamed uck and obviously a new presidency?
Speaker 21: Framed Uncle hard because the Republicans control the House. A
Speaker 21: few right wingers seemed to run the show, and they
Speaker 21: will at nothing to keep the court the way it is.
Speaker 14: But if we and please vote, vote, vote, vote.
Speaker 21: If we keep the Senate, win the House, win the presidency,
Speaker 21: Supreme Court reform is going to be at the top
Speaker 21: of our agenda because we cannot let these unelected people
Speaker 21: take away women's rights, take away others' rights. You know,
Speaker 21: we talk about freedom. They used to talk about freedom.
Speaker 21: They don't believe in freedom.
Speaker 7: We do.
Speaker 21: So we also believe in economic freedom. We believe you
Speaker 21: should have a good education so you can get a
Speaker 21: decent job. Freedom to be able to pick your job.
Speaker 21: We talk about freedom to be able to afford a house.
Speaker 21: You know, one of the great things Kamala just did.
Speaker 21: Kamala just did is this young people. A lot of
Speaker 21: young people have enough money to pay the monthly mortgage,
Speaker 21: but they don't have any money for the down payment. Yeah,
Speaker 21: no one can save that much these days. And so
Speaker 21: what she said, what Kamala said is very simple. Twenty
Speaker 21: five thousand bucks the federal government, if you're a first
Speaker 21: time home buyer, to help you with that down payment.
Speaker 21: People when they hear that particularly younger people, and when
Speaker 21: we have to make sure vote, they're gonna love that.
Speaker 21: She knows what she's talking about. I knew her in
Speaker 21: the Senate.
Speaker 14: She was great.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry going to no no.
Speaker 1: I was actually gonna piggyback on your question about the Court.
Speaker 1: You know, Charlie called it an illegitimate institution, and I
Speaker 1: have to echo that sentiment for the people out there
Speaker 1: who may not understand the severity of what is the
Speaker 1: power of this court and what they've done, what specifically
Speaker 1: can be done as soon as possible. Do we expand
Speaker 1: the courts? That has to go through the Senate. If
Speaker 1: we do, I mean because at this point our democratic
Speaker 1: institutions are corona.
Speaker 21: The first step in getting it, getting rid of the
Speaker 21: morass on the court, is to vote. Because if they
Speaker 21: keep the House, if they win the Senate, or if
Speaker 21: they win the presidency, any one of the three, they
Speaker 21: will block it.
Speaker 14: They will fight for this court.
Speaker 21: But once we get it, there are very There are
Speaker 21: a lot of proposals out there on the table. There's
Speaker 21: expanding the court, there's term limits, there's I have a
Speaker 21: proposal that's much simpler. It's limiting their jurisdiction. In certain areas.
Speaker 21: You know, Justice Alito said, Congress can't regulate the courts.
Speaker 21: Well me, sir, mister Justice, you didn't either read or
Speaker 21: understand the Constitution that he says it explicitly in this
Speaker 21: and so we can do that relatively easily and limit
Speaker 21: the kind of jurisdiction that they have.
Speaker 6: But they expanded the fact that you've got a justice
Speaker 6: who's prepared to expand the power of the court do
Speaker 6: their own word or do their own written opinion, absolutely
Speaker 6: with no accountability, no teeth and ethics, and you know,
Speaker 6: to hold them account in the past, maybe peop said
Speaker 6: they'll never get it done.
Speaker 14: Well, we saw what happened with choice.
Speaker 9: Absolutely.
Speaker 14: We heard what one of.
Speaker 21: The justices I think it was, I can't remember which one,
Speaker 21: Maybe it was Justice Thomas. He said, next is gay right?
Speaker 21: He sure did gay marriage.
Speaker 4: But he's not gonna go after biracial marriage exactly.
Speaker 14: You never know what you never know what these guys
Speaker 14: will do.
Speaker 21: But he can't the hypocrisy of these folks. You can
Speaker 21: hold them to any standard of consistency. Look at this
Speaker 21: when Justice when Mitch McConnell said that you should not
Speaker 21: you don't can't vote on a justice within about.
Speaker 14: Six months before the election.
Speaker 21: A year and then there was another vacancy, and he
Speaker 21: puts someone in several a month before. If no consistency,
Speaker 21: they will do anything to keep this court.
Speaker 14: Intact because they.
Speaker 21: Know that their agenda is so fiduring the bedding that
Speaker 21: no one will accept it in the elected ranches. This
Speaker 21: has to be you are right, this has to be
Speaker 21: one of our biggest fights.
Speaker 5: We doesn' to take more courage from Democrats when it
Speaker 5: comes to situations like that. Democrats have a reputation for
Speaker 5: being cowards because they don't push back on things.
Speaker 14: Like well, hey Charlemagne, I'm from Brooklyn. We fight.
Speaker 3: So I want to just say Senator Schumer.
Speaker 4: Staff is waving him down so hard he almost lost
Speaker 4: his train of thought.
Speaker 14: Yea, I am afraid of my stand.
Speaker 4: We are so grateful for your time tonight. Thank you,
Speaker 4: Thank you the majority of the leader Schumer.
Speaker 3: We are looking.
Speaker 21: Let me just say, folks, on to victory. We must
Speaker 21: win to future this country, the future of the world
Speaker 21: democracy depends on this. And and by the way, can
Speaker 21: I just say one of the very first things we're
Speaker 21: going to do if we keep the get the power
Speaker 21: is put the John Lewis right, Voting Rights Act, the
Speaker 21: Freedom to Vote Act on the floor of the Senate,
Speaker 21: changing those rules, and we will get it done it.
Speaker 14: We appreciate.
Speaker 8: Your sentiment.
Speaker 3: All that. Be careful.
Speaker 14: We got a big agenda.
Speaker 9: We got it.
Speaker 3: We need to be in there. Thank you so much.
Speaker 21: Last time we had the power, we had the most
Speaker 21: successful congress, most sexual presidency. Give Joe Biden credits since
Speaker 21: Johnson and maybe since Roosevelt. It'll happen again even more.
Speaker 21: You ain't seen you ain't seen nothing. And yet we're
Speaker 21: not trying to get.
Speaker 3: Careful.
Speaker 10: Okay, be careful.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining.
Speaker 14: Us, for doing this.
Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer, who is the majority leader in the United
Speaker 4: States Senate, U tapping him up.
Speaker 8: As he departs.
Speaker 4: This is Native Lampard in partnership with Breakfast Club, and
Speaker 4: we are getting ready to welcome our next guest. But
Speaker 4: in the meantime, be careful, Senator Schumer, that step is insane.
Speaker 7: He agrees with expanding the Supreme Court.
Speaker 4: Yes, he did, and we also asked for some reparations. Uh,
Speaker 4: we also asked for a reparations to be able to
Speaker 4: hit that floor.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 4: Be careful that that.
Speaker 7: To take somebody up.
Speaker 4: We're being joined by Alexis McGill Johnson, who is the
Speaker 4: president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Speaker 3: You're not to be able to hear until you put
Speaker 3: your heads in, but we love you.
Speaker 8: We love it wherever you live.
Speaker 6: You like.
Speaker 8: Jo Alexis Miguil.
Speaker 4: Yes, we are being joined by the lovely So Alexis,
Speaker 4: you just were on the.
Speaker 3: Floor giving a rousing speech.
Speaker 4: Talk to us about why this moment is so mission
Speaker 4: critical for Planned Parenthood and everything that's at stake.
Speaker 9: Oh my, well, look we welcome home.
Speaker 4: Welcome home, y'all, welcome home exactly.
Speaker 22: Look, we have the opportunity to elect the most pro
Speaker 22: reproductive freedom ticket this nation has ever seen.
Speaker 3: Right, we lift your mic.
Speaker 8: We want to make sure you do.
Speaker 22: Look, we have an opportunity to elect the most pro
Speaker 22: reproductive freedom fighter ticket that we have ever seen. And
Speaker 22: we have been living in a public healthcare crisis for
Speaker 22: the last two years. Right, we are living in a
Speaker 22: world where twenty two states have banned acted us through abortion,
Speaker 22: and that impacts over half of all black women living
Speaker 22: in those states. And so when we have Vice President
Speaker 22: Kamala Harris, who has traveled around the world who understands
Speaker 22: this issue inside and out for sure, deeply, and we
Speaker 22: have a movement that is united and poised around what
Speaker 22: possibility we could bring in terms of federal legislation.
Speaker 3: It just feels like we're like, we're in a.
Speaker 22: Moment where you can really do this, and we know
Speaker 22: it's also going to energize the party of the base
Speaker 22: as it has been over the last two years.
Speaker 1: I have to say on Monday Night, I mean truly,
Speaker 1: abortion took the stage. People spoke about their own heartfelts, heart.
Speaker 8: Wrenching, gut wrenching experiences.
Speaker 1: From the young woman who spoke about being raped by
Speaker 1: her stepfather, and she was saying, you know what is
Speaker 1: so beautiful about having to carry your father's child?
Speaker 8: Essentially?
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of polling data, a lot
Speaker 1: of conversations that happens around abortion, and they say, oh,
Speaker 1: ex percent of people support a woman's right to choose.
Speaker 1: And I always say, I don't really give a damn
Speaker 1: how many people support it. The only person that matters
Speaker 1: is the person this body. It is, oh, our bodily autonomy.
Speaker 1: Absolutely So I'm curious for you because I asked Big
Speaker 1: Gretch the Michigan governor. She was on with us earlier
Speaker 1: about white women and the voting block. In Georgia in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, white women outpaced even white men in voting
Speaker 1: for Governor Brian Kemp, Republican Governor Brian Kemp, who ran
Speaker 1: on anti choice an anti choice platform. How do you
Speaker 1: think that crucial voting block who can impact all of
Speaker 1: our lives will show up given the change and historic
Speaker 1: nature of this ticket.
Speaker 3: Look, here's the thing we have seen.
Speaker 22: We have seen since a LA in the last two years,
Speaker 22: ballot initiatives that have driven kind of participation across party,
Speaker 22: across race, across demographic, across rural urban, right because it
Speaker 22: got really personal really quickly. Yeah, right, you have right now,
Speaker 22: Obgyns are many Obguans are leaving states with bands mass exodus.
Speaker 22: Many Obgan residents are not even matching into those those
Speaker 22: band states. They are seeing the hurt and the burden
Speaker 22: and they have driven these ballad initiatives.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 22: So that's like kind of our first proof point that
Speaker 22: we have seen kind of a I think a realignment
Speaker 22: that is possible when you put reproductive freedom at the center,
Speaker 22: and when you center the experiences of the people who
Speaker 22: are most harmed.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 22: Our job, you know, at Planned Parent, had Action Fund,
Speaker 22: other organizations actually make the connection between the ballid initiative,
Speaker 22: the policy maker, and the people who are making the
Speaker 22: bad policies right, because it's one thing to come up
Speaker 22: and say, yeah, I really want this right in my
Speaker 22: in my state, but we also got to remind people
Speaker 22: that these are the same people who to get away
Speaker 22: from you in the in the first place.
Speaker 3: So, you know, I think.
Speaker 22: White women will will have come on reproductive freedom. Think
Speaker 22: what Donald Trump has put forward and JD Vance had
Speaker 22: put forward in terms of their uh you know, connection
Speaker 22: to twenty project twenty twenty five is terrifying and we've
Speaker 22: lived through that.
Speaker 3: So you know, that's where we're working.
Speaker 1: And we hope they channel the spirit of Shirley Chisholm
Speaker 1: and not Phylish Slaughly.
Speaker 8: But time will tell, you know.
Speaker 22: But the other thing I would say is that the
Speaker 22: upside for this election, this is always going to be
Speaker 22: a tight election.
Speaker 3: It was always going to be a turnout game.
Speaker 22: And you know, every candidate from every Democratic candidate, since
Speaker 22: I believe since Clinton has really only maxed out at
Speaker 22: around of the white vote, we weren't we weren't we
Speaker 22: weren't they tried so hard to get it, That's what
Speaker 22: I'm saying, And that's what I'm saying, like, like it
Speaker 22: actually is the upside and the energy that we are
Speaker 22: experiencing for the folks who are are being our joyful
Speaker 22: warriors right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, did you ever think that you would see a
Speaker 5: time where women's reproductive rights were so blatantly under attack?
Speaker 10: Like no, absolutely not.
Speaker 12: No.
Speaker 22: I mean I'm born, you know, five months five months
Speaker 22: after row, right, or five months before depending on how
Speaker 22: which which year I use?
Speaker 9: Who are you talking to? Who are you're talking to?
Speaker 3: But She's like, either way, I still got it kept.
Speaker 3: So no, I mean, honestly, it's like it's it is.
Speaker 22: It's not only witnessing the fact that my two daughters
Speaker 22: who are here twelve and fifteen, that they are growing
Speaker 22: up with less rights right than my eighty four year
Speaker 22: old mother did, but the fact that they are coming
Speaker 22: after other things, right, They're coming after IVF they are
Speaker 22: coming after contraception, They're coming after.
Speaker 10: No fault divorce.
Speaker 22: I mean all of the ways in which they can
Speaker 22: control our bodies, our relationships, our minds. Like that's the
Speaker 22: thing that I the kind of going back piece that
Speaker 22: is so resonant with the vice president's campaign.
Speaker 6: Man, President, Can I ask so Leader Schumer was up
Speaker 6: here talking about potential reforms to the court. Yes, love
Speaker 6: to know how you all, once we are beyond this
Speaker 6: November election and hopefully save bodily autonomy, democracy and all
Speaker 6: the other stuff that's on the line, can we expect
Speaker 6: planned parenthood, the force that you all bring to the
Speaker 6: table to the political discourse, to be engaged on this
Speaker 6: fight around the courts? And if so, what does that
Speaker 6: look like? What is the what is the gold standard
Speaker 6: of what you'd like to see by way of a
Speaker 6: reform around this haphazard, almost illegitimate And my eyes, I
Speaker 6: think we I think we can all say that court
Speaker 6: that is ravaging the constitution absolutely.
Speaker 22: I mean, look, you know, so we actually just put
Speaker 22: out our court reform platform just within the last year
Speaker 22: or so, right, because we've always relied on the courts
Speaker 22: as a backstop for protecting reproductive freedom. We've always focused
Speaker 22: on that. But you know, to your point, the the
Speaker 22: you know, illegitimacy of watching these decisions that are blatantly,
Speaker 22: you know, in our opinion, unconstitutional come down and the
Speaker 22: impact in the horror that we are seeing, so, you know,
Speaker 22: supporting first of all, we can we can we can
Speaker 22: start with the easy lift, right.
Speaker 3: We need some court reform ethics, We need some some ethics.
Speaker 22: We also need term limits, right right, there's there should
Speaker 22: not be a lifetime appointment with young justices that are
Speaker 22: being put in as chief justice to run the table
Speaker 22: for generations and in fact generations to come. So I
Speaker 22: think those are the things that that that at minimum
Speaker 22: we need to start thinking about.
Speaker 3: I think we need to talk about expanding the court.
Speaker 16: Right.
Speaker 3: Uh, we expand the court in lower district.
Speaker 22: Courts all the time, right, I think we get exactly,
Speaker 22: And so how are we living in a world right
Speaker 22: now where we've had nine justices who are completely out
Speaker 22: of sync with where Americans are in understanding their interpretational constitution.
Speaker 8: Right, Well, we just want to thank you so much
Speaker 8: for taking It's a busy time.
Speaker 1: I know our viewers at home Kans, but there are
Speaker 1: people out there watching and we appreciate the work that
Speaker 1: you do. You and I have shared the stage a
Speaker 1: few times and it's always an honor to it.
Speaker 6: It's also impressive to see isn't it crazy that black
Speaker 6: women are at that at the intersection of the biggest
Speaker 6: fights right now taking place in the country biggest fights
Speaker 6: is not an accident.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 4: We have been joined by Melanie Campbell, who is the
Speaker 4: founder and uh she runs a tremendous organization with the
Speaker 4: National Coalition of Black Civic Participation as well as Black
Speaker 4: Women's Roundtable mentored by Dorothy Hite, and has been a
Speaker 4: big sister, a leader, a bright shining star for so
Speaker 4: many of us. And mel you know, I just want
Speaker 4: to say, we talk about it all the time, but
Speaker 4: in this work as a part of the civil rights movement,
Speaker 4: so often the women who do the work every day
Speaker 4: are not given the attention, the shine, the respect they deserve.
Speaker 4: And what I love about you is you are going
Speaker 4: to claim it. You are going to make sure that
Speaker 4: you make space for all your sisters, and you do
Speaker 4: it with such grace. Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 12: This is all all of my favorite I'm a fan
Speaker 12: girl of all four of you are.
Speaker 9: Only because you're raised more than half of us.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know, oh you know.
Speaker 10: Maybe over here go two thousand.
Speaker 9: That's right. I was on the board. You honored me.
Speaker 10: The boy black you vote.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, you know the folk.
Speaker 4: You Yes, I mean I'm.
Speaker 3: And I met you in New York doing your thing early.
Speaker 14: Okay, absolutely, it's been a minute.
Speaker 10: Absolutely I watched you for far and awesome work.
Speaker 4: But I want to know about your work right now
Speaker 4: because you are never you are tireless in the fights
Speaker 4: you are doing it. What are you looking at doing
Speaker 4: as we get closer to November? You know we are
Speaker 4: seventy six days now away from the election. So what
Speaker 4: does that work look like about tell the election?
Speaker 12: Well, you know, we started in October last year because
Speaker 12: we knew we had a problem down in Florida. We
Speaker 12: used Florida as a backdrop with to your with the Fam,
Speaker 12: you to your Alma model and started its Power to
Speaker 12: Ballot campaign, going and going in the community, really listening
Speaker 12: to our folks, especially our young folks, about what was concerned.
Speaker 10: So we're going to pick up on.
Speaker 12: Our Power to Ballot campaign right now. We try to
Speaker 12: make sure people are prepared, right are you vote ready?
Speaker 12: Because I'm excited about this. You know, I'm here in
Speaker 12: my personal capacity so I can say.
Speaker 4: What the heck I want right now, and so say
Speaker 4: you didn't need a name out of the titles.
Speaker 15: Right.
Speaker 12: So but you know, I told folks, don't call me
Speaker 12: by no inauguration. You got to get across the finish.
Speaker 14: His people teach us.
Speaker 12: Folks will call it and give away jobs in twenty sixty. Hello,
Speaker 12: we walk up the next morning, nobody got no job.
Speaker 10: So nobody got no job, got no black job. Right,
Speaker 10: They're gonna be no jobs.
Speaker 12: So that's what I'm trying to get folks to be
Speaker 12: really serious about.
Speaker 10: One, it's okay to.
Speaker 12: Have Latasha tell us it's kay to have joy, right,
Speaker 12: but we have to be strategic about what we need
Speaker 12: to do. And so to me, it's like we're gonna
Speaker 12: leave this place. We're gonna get on the ground, and
Speaker 12: we gotta make sure because because the enemy never sleeps.
Speaker 10: Yes, right, all right?
Speaker 12: And when I like about what Michelle Obama did last night,
Speaker 12: she was unapologetic with black and that was so refreshing,
Speaker 12: right because she used that platform. And we gotta we
Speaker 12: gotta get our folks out and we gotta make.
Speaker 3: Sure they're coming for us.
Speaker 12: Right, We're gonna you can have when an enemy coming
Speaker 12: for you and you might we're gonna go. We're gonna
Speaker 12: turn to look at the enemy in the eye. And
Speaker 12: we gotta do that so that every chance, every opportunity
Speaker 12: where they think they're gonna try to suppress us, we
Speaker 12: got to be in their face. Yes, that's what I'm
Speaker 12: gonna I'm gonna be on the ground, folks, And so.
Speaker 9: I love that. So can you. What's your prognosis?
Speaker 6: A lot of people when talking about young people, young
Speaker 6: young organizing, give a glass half empty sort of reflection
Speaker 6: on young people. They're not engaged, they're not interested, they
Speaker 6: got other things to do. I have a suspicion that
Speaker 6: that's not been your experience when it comes to organizing
Speaker 6: and raising up the next generation of young leaders in
Speaker 6: the country. I love for you to just give us
Speaker 6: some bright spots on your prognosis of what this next
Speaker 6: generation leadership looks like. Those folks that are coming through
Speaker 6: and are coming across your path, the folks you're training
Speaker 6: and seeing on college campuses around the country.
Speaker 12: I'm gonna start with you, yes, maam, because you know
Speaker 12: they say the same thing about your generation.
Speaker 3: So you show that when you did all that you did.
Speaker 12: From when you were on the campus all the way
Speaker 12: up to when you ran right on several cases and
Speaker 12: took on that public service. Right, they are still that's
Speaker 12: still happening, right, I was on I was at FAMU.
Speaker 12: Those students were fired up and ready. So the idea
Speaker 12: that they're not when you got a twenty five year
Speaker 12: old and Frost who became a congress person.
Speaker 14: It's like, folks to step it up.
Speaker 12: It's like the reality, though, is that there are those
Speaker 12: who don't see that this thing is this this system
Speaker 12: is working for them, right, and so we have to
Speaker 12: be real about that right and call it. It's not
Speaker 12: about being an operative of the Democratic Party. It's about
Speaker 12: being strategic about how we leverage our power. And my
Speaker 12: thing has is when young people have the opportunity, like
Speaker 12: you have the opportunity I had the opportunity to give space.
Speaker 10: To leave well, Latasha and.
Speaker 12: I were on a panel with Brittany earlier today, Packney
Speaker 12: earlier today. And the thing is that we have to
Speaker 12: keep building institutions right and giving space for young people
Speaker 12: to step up and organize.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm.
Speaker 12: Considered legacy now, I'm like, Lord, I don't like that word. So,
Speaker 12: but I'm but I've been around. I've been around because
Speaker 12: I don't have a second husband yet, but.
Speaker 3: We rather have let you go to go find.
Speaker 14: Y'all.
Speaker 12: Notice I'm working, working, No, she's gonna find me.
Speaker 4: Shot up, Welcome up, our brother.
Speaker 10: Shot.
Speaker 3: Yes, I didn't see you.
Speaker 4: I'll find but we're gonna come on, come on, we're
Speaker 4: Shot Robinson, Color Change, Maw.
Speaker 3: We're gonna tell you. Thank you so much.
Speaker 7: Hope you get.
Speaker 4: Why she did start it though she did. We love
Speaker 4: you man, Shot Robinson from Color of Change, And I'll
Speaker 4: find David, who oversees the Global Black Economic Forum for
Speaker 4: Essence and is working on quite the venture to ensure
Speaker 4: that black folks turn out to vote in November.
Speaker 8: Soft folker, We'll start.
Speaker 3: With you and then come to your shot. Talk to
Speaker 3: us about what you have going on.
Speaker 16: So this, as everyone knows, is one of the most
Speaker 16: important election of our lifetime. I mean, I think we
Speaker 16: hear about this all the time every four years, but
Speaker 16: this is really an existential threat to our economic freedom
Speaker 16: whether we can actually be free moving forward. And what
Speaker 16: we're doing at the Global Black Economic Form working along
Speaker 16: with Essence, is we launched an initiative called Paint the
Speaker 16: Polls Black.
Speaker 7: That's it.
Speaker 16: We want to make sure people understand that our rights
Speaker 16: are on the line. And so this is about voter education,
Speaker 16: voter registration, voter mobilization, and importantly voter protection, because if
Speaker 16: you show up to vote and they tell you that
Speaker 16: you need a third form of ID or they tell
Speaker 16: you that the polling station is closed, when in fact
Speaker 16: is open for another two or three hours, that's voter suppression.
Speaker 16: And if you don't know what your rights are, you
Speaker 16: don't know who to call all. So we entered into
Speaker 16: a partnership with the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights to
Speaker 16: make sure that people have the information right.
Speaker 7: We can't be in.
Speaker 16: A position now where people are mobilized, they're registered to vote,
Speaker 16: and they show up but they can't vote. We see
Speaker 16: what's happening in Georgia, we see what's happening across the country.
Speaker 16: They just passed a piece of legislation where anyone can
Speaker 16: challenge can challenge your ability to vote without any evidence.
Speaker 16: So you may register to vote, show up to vote
Speaker 16: in a month from now, two months from now, then
Speaker 16: they tell you you're no longer in the voting roles.
Speaker 16: No one told you what do you do.
Speaker 9: Democracy?
Speaker 8: Exactly exactly exactly, and know the.
Speaker 6: Vigilante you're empowering these these A carry only says, these
Speaker 6: people got carry laws right, open carry laws, and now
Speaker 6: it can come to you and check you on whether
Speaker 6: or not you can vote.
Speaker 1: And tons of black folks start showing up with guns
Speaker 1: to check white people. They got the right to vote.
Speaker 1: Then you'll see those laws change. I want to bring
Speaker 1: in Rashard Robertson in the conversation who runs Color of Change,
Speaker 1: and I you know, I think for a lot of
Speaker 1: us who have worked in this space covered politics for
Speaker 1: a long time, you guys are household names for us.
Speaker 8: We know your organizations and what you do.
Speaker 1: But for a lot of the people out there, they
Speaker 1: may not know what Color Change is and the significance
Speaker 1: of your organization. You are a civil rights organization. The
Speaker 1: unique thing about your organization. You'll correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: You don't take corporate money. Correct, so you you do.
Speaker 1: You are not beholden to anyone's agenda, So you can
Speaker 1: be truthful and stay true to the agenda and goals
Speaker 1: of the people. Talk a little bit about what Color
Speaker 1: Change does and your role in that organization.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so Color Change is going to be twenty years
Speaker 13: old next year.
Speaker 3: Believable.
Speaker 13: Special Justice organization. It's just that's incredible. And we were
Speaker 13: actually founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and that's
Speaker 13: important because it does speak to what you were just saying, Tiffany.
Speaker 13: We were founded when black people were literally on their roots,
Speaker 13: begging for the government to do something and left to die.
Speaker 13: And that moment that really illustrated a whole set of
Speaker 13: things that we already knew, right geographic segregation, generational poverty,
Speaker 13: the impacts of what's been done to our planet, and
Speaker 13: so many other systems. But at the heart of it,
Speaker 13: no one was nervous about disappointing black people at all.
Speaker 13: And if folks are not nervous about disappointing your community,
Speaker 13: doesn't matter what kind of research report you have that
Speaker 13: illustrates a bunch of facts and figures, doesn't matter what
Speaker 13: kind of app you have. You can't code your way
Speaker 13: out of systemic oppression. You can't nonprofit executive direct your
Speaker 13: way out of systemic oppression. And so what we do
Speaker 13: is we leverage people power and narrative change. We were
Speaker 13: founded with a single email to about one thousand people
Speaker 13: saying join a new movement, and since then we have
Speaker 13: grown to a movement of millions of folks, black people,
Speaker 13: and allies of every race, and we run strategic campaigns
Speaker 13: and so you're not going to see a campaign from
Speaker 13: Color of Change, it says, tell Mitch McConnell to stand
Speaker 13: up for affirmative action, because who cares how many people
Speaker 13: sign that petition. Mitch McConnell's not going to stand up
Speaker 13: for a permative action, right, But there are corporations that say,
Speaker 13: buy our products or use our services, and we can't
Speaker 13: have them, you know, coming to us by day and
Speaker 13: then taking away our vote by night, taking away our
Speaker 13: freedom by night, taking away our ability to access education
Speaker 13: and employment opportunities. And so the millions of members at
Speaker 13: Color of Change, we leverage them three hundred and sixty
Speaker 13: five days a year, and so that's not just about
Speaker 13: coming out to vote. And so one of the things
Speaker 13: that's been really exciting is the work we've been doing
Speaker 13: around prosecutor reform, because so much of the criminal justice system,
Speaker 13: we get angry about what's happening, and so we've over
Speaker 13: the last several years, we have both put prosecutors in
Speaker 13: office and we've taken some out. And what we do
Speaker 13: is we leverage our members to use technology and we
Speaker 13: build this back end system that allows our members to
Speaker 13: reach out to irregular voters, voters who don't show up
Speaker 13: to every election. Oftentimes they don't care about what's happening
Speaker 13: at the top of the ticket, and we give them
Speaker 13: very real things to do. But we also let the
Speaker 13: prosecutors know that when we endorse them, we're gonna put
Speaker 13: you in there, but we might take you out. And
Speaker 13: over time, we're gonna show up after the election for accountability,
Speaker 13: and so up and down the ballot we try to
Speaker 13: do that. We've endorsed, obviously Kamala Harris this election cycle,
Speaker 13: but we've also over the years pushed Vice president or
Speaker 13: Center Harris. But that is actually how democracy works, and
Speaker 13: that is what we have to do. And so part
Speaker 13: of what does it mean to be not just present,
Speaker 13: not just visible, but powerful is that our ability to
Speaker 13: constantly be in this space. We also endorse Andrew Gillim
Speaker 13: up here, and that's my dear brother, and we've worked
Speaker 13: with all of you on this stage in different ways.
Speaker 4: You know, it's so interesting as we sit here, we've
Speaker 4: been talking about it every day, but as we're sitting here,
Speaker 4: you talked about holding folks accountable and including prosecutors that
Speaker 4: you would both support and not be afraid to take out.
Speaker 4: And as you said that, there were a couple of
Speaker 4: mayors that walk by, Eric Adams, Well, and you haven't
Speaker 4: seen them yet, but the mayor of Chicago is also
Speaker 4: walking around.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I was okay, I was definitely about to call him
Speaker 4: the mayor of Baltimore's name, but I was thinking, Alfonso,
Speaker 4: if you could way in here on the importance of
Speaker 4: not just engaging folks around the voting part of our
Speaker 4: civic responsibility and engagement, but also on the accountability part.
Speaker 4: We have a job to do just like they have
Speaker 4: a job to do for us.
Speaker 3: We pay them. So what happens on the other side
Speaker 3: of the election.
Speaker 16: Look, I think as we talk about the importance of voting,
Speaker 16: if we don't hold our elected officials accountable, we devalue
Speaker 16: our vote. Yeah, right, So if you show up to
Speaker 16: vote for an elected official and you cast your ballot
Speaker 16: and then six months later or a year later, they
Speaker 16: failed to follow up on their promises, your vote is devalued,
Speaker 16: and you're telling them that your vote is devalued. So
Speaker 16: it's important that we hold them accountable. Is important that
Speaker 16: we follow up and all of our organizations, the Color
Speaker 16: of Change, the Global Black Economic Form. We're here to
Speaker 16: make sure that we hold these elected officials accountable. We
Speaker 16: can talk about the issues. We can talk about employment, housing,
Speaker 16: public accommodation, credit. In all of those categories, Black people
Speaker 16: suffer significant disparities. So if we're electing people to address
Speaker 16: those disparities, we have to hold them accountable. And if
Speaker 16: we don't, all they have to do is the following
Speaker 16: two or four years or six years, depending on where
Speaker 16: they are. They'll say what they say every election cycle.
Speaker 16: We vote for them every election cycle and nothing changes.
Speaker 16: So part of the apathy that I'm concerned about is
Speaker 16: people say, I vote every election cycle and nothing changes. Well,
Speaker 16: nothing changes because we're not holding our elected officials accountable.
Speaker 6: Heartly, Well, can I get off of the other side
Speaker 6: of that, which is we're in Chicago. Kim Fox came
Speaker 6: in as a prosecutor and ushered in reforms across this community,
Speaker 6: and now she has decided not to run for reelection,
Speaker 6: largely because the police union and all of the institutions
Speaker 6: that she upset with her reforms challenged her and said
Speaker 6: we will come after you, we will take you down.
Speaker 6: The same thing happened with Aramisayala. There are cases that
Speaker 6: we can cite all over the country where we have
Speaker 6: gotten behind these reform oriented prosecutors, these reform oriented elected officials,
Speaker 6: but nobody has been there to have their back to
Speaker 6: make sure that we got some protection for our folks.
Speaker 6: And this may not be y'all's job that are sitting here.
Speaker 13: That.
Speaker 14: Is our job.
Speaker 13: And Kim was the first prosecutor we elected. We actually
Speaker 13: then showed back up for her re election, and I
Speaker 13: remember we had people at the doors knocking our members
Speaker 13: that the door is knocking, and this is just important
Speaker 13: for the community understand. We have people are knocking before
Speaker 13: COVID hit and we had to like go everything digital,
Speaker 13: and folks were mad at her for prosecuting r Kelly
Speaker 13: and mad that she didn't prosecute Jesse Smollett, And we
Speaker 13: had to spend a lot of time trying to help
Speaker 13: people make sense of all that and really talk big
Speaker 13: picture around all the things that she was no longer prosecuting,
Speaker 13: the people that had been released, the things she had
Speaker 13: done on drugs, the reduction in size of Cook County Jail,
Speaker 13: which is one of the largest jails in the country.
Speaker 13: This was very clear because I just saw Kim yesterday
Speaker 13: and yes, the police union we have a police union
Speaker 13: prosecutor kind of engagement program. Just recently, we've had victories
Speaker 13: at the City Council here in Chicago where we've been
Speaker 13: reducing the power of the police unions. They were actually
Speaker 13: trying to bring the cases when against police where they
Speaker 13: are being held accountable. They tried to make all those
Speaker 13: hearings private and we won at the City Council recently
Speaker 13: mobilized our members to hold them accountable. But we need
Speaker 13: more people. No single organization can do it alone. And
Speaker 13: the attacks on Amorousyola and Kim Fox are not just
Speaker 13: about attacks on prosecutors.
Speaker 9: I think people have.
Speaker 13: To understand the larger thing we're going to be facing
Speaker 13: selection cycle. They are not attacking Kim Fox the same
Speaker 13: way they are attacking Larry Krasner, a district attorney in
Speaker 13: Pennsylvania Philadelphia, who's doing the similar work. They are attacking
Speaker 13: them in very unique ways, going after them as black women,
Speaker 13: going after their families, working to try to make them unsafe.
Speaker 13: And part of the work that has to be sort
Speaker 13: of recognized. The muscle we have to build in our
Speaker 13: community is understanding that we won't have good people to
Speaker 13: go in those positions. Yes, if we don't sort of
Speaker 13: constantly build power to protect recognize, accountability and protection have
Speaker 13: to go hand in hand, and when someone does the
Speaker 13: things that we want them to do, we have to
Speaker 13: champion it, not just so that they see it, but
Speaker 13: others who might not yet be there see that there
Speaker 13: is hope on the side of freedom, is hope on
Speaker 13: the side of doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: I just really quickly, I just wanted to say, I
Speaker 1: think that's such important work shop because Republicans take a
Speaker 1: victory lap frequently on the First Step Act that is
Speaker 1: at the federal level, and they are eroding.
Speaker 8: What that that did at the federal level at the
Speaker 8: local levels.
Speaker 1: The First Step Act, that's called the First app First
Speaker 1: Step aact because there needs to be a second step
Speaker 1: and a third step and a fourth step. All those
Speaker 1: federal policies only apply to federal police.
Speaker 13: Is over eighty eighty to eighty five percent of people
Speaker 13: are prosecuted and put behind bars at the local level,
Speaker 13: right right, right, So, yes, we can win a lot
Speaker 13: of things at the at the federal level, and we should,
Speaker 13: but so much of this happens at the local level.
Speaker 6: And parathetically, just so that we keep some context of
Speaker 6: the national election, Donald Trump wants to give immunity to
Speaker 6: all law enforcement officers. Okay, so let's be clear about
Speaker 6: the differences as well as this dells down.
Speaker 1: Man, you want to know what the Biden administration has done,
Speaker 1: think about what it would mean for you to have
Speaker 1: a Donald Trump who wants to grant every law enforcement
Speaker 1: on community for the unity community.
Speaker 10: And let's be clear.
Speaker 13: They are not prosecuting crimes on Wall Street and on
Speaker 13: Capitol Hill. We're at the highest level. This is not
Speaker 13: about the kind of big, systemic level crimes that they're
Speaker 13: putting people behind bars for that actually hurt people. They're
Speaker 13: attacking people for low level crimes, one on one crimes.
Speaker 13: But the sort of big, high level sort of crimes
Speaker 13: that that that fleece and steal our communities, that put
Speaker 13: us in harm's way, that that that that steal people's paychecks,
Speaker 13: that make people unsafe, that steal people's health. Those things
Speaker 13: are not being prosecuted at the high levels.
Speaker 3: Right then, Yeah, oh.
Speaker 10: No, I was.
Speaker 7: I was thinking about something else earlier.
Speaker 5: You know, tip uh tiff reference of Victory leap, and
Speaker 5: I thought that was such a good term because it
Speaker 5: feels like Democrats are already taking one. It feels like
Speaker 5: it's not enough energy going into energizing people to vote,
Speaker 5: registering people to vote. It feels like it's almost a
Speaker 5: coorination happening here. But the election is not a guarantee,
Speaker 5: So how do we make sure people are focused on
Speaker 5: actually voting over the next eighty days.
Speaker 16: I would say everyone, if you if you didn't listen
Speaker 16: to Michelle Obama's speech last night, we should have it
Speaker 16: on repeat. We should have it on repeat. It was
Speaker 16: one of the best, if not the best.
Speaker 3: Do you think it should have been last we've been
Speaker 3: talking about it.
Speaker 7: You should have been that easily.
Speaker 16: Yes, I'll just say I think it was the best
Speaker 16: National Convention speech.
Speaker 7: I've ever heard in my life. So good period.
Speaker 3: But what about Barack Obama in two thousand.
Speaker 13: Y opinion about it?
Speaker 16: But you know, we have to understand that this is
Speaker 16: going to be a fight over the next few weeks,
Speaker 16: over the next few months. This is great, we are
Speaker 16: mobilizing here. There are folks that are that are coming
Speaker 16: with the same vision and the same perspective. But when
Speaker 16: we leave the stadium, there are a lot of people
Speaker 16: who disagree what's happening here, and so we have to
Speaker 16: be mindful about the work that we need to do.
Speaker 16: As she said, we have to make sure we're standing up,
Speaker 16: we're doing the work. And for those who think that
Speaker 16: we've won this election, you just have to talk to
Speaker 16: people in your own family that you know well.
Speaker 5: He just says something that's real. An event like this
Speaker 5: energizes the opposition.
Speaker 6: We also shouldn't be afraid of our own shadows that
Speaker 6: we can stand in. We can stand in excitement and
Speaker 6: victory and enjoy about our nominee. But what people don't
Speaker 6: get to see at their home screens is what these
Speaker 6: delegates are during during the day. I've been a delegate
Speaker 6: several times. They're in workshops, they're learning trainings, they're doing
Speaker 6: door to door training in the morning, all the way
Speaker 6: up until they have to check in here in the afternoon.
Speaker 6: So I don't want folks to have the illusion that
Speaker 6: they are in any way drunk with joy and not
Speaker 6: sobered by the work that can.
Speaker 4: I just say, we're going to close our Rashida, speaking
Speaker 4: of the work we all got to go do.
Speaker 3: Ashat, We're gonna close out with you.
Speaker 13: I just want folks to join us over the next
Speaker 13: seventy six days in doing voter contact work. We are
Speaker 13: in Michigan, we are in North Carolina, we are in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 13: we are Wisconsin, and so people we we are having
Speaker 13: a conversation, we are doing analysis, and people want to
Speaker 13: know how to take action. Join us at the Color
Speaker 13: of Change pack. We are going to be doing Volunteers
Speaker 13: will be reaching the voters who are not yet voted,
Speaker 13: not yet committed to vote, voters who may have skipped
Speaker 13: some elections, and we are going to be communicating, engaging,
Speaker 13: and so you can text the word commit to five
Speaker 13: five one five six the word commit to five five
Speaker 13: one five six. I'm just all about action in this
Speaker 13: moment because we are talking a lot about everything that
Speaker 13: we need to do, and so I want to just
Speaker 13: demystify it for everyone. There's a lot of places you
Speaker 13: can go, not just Color of Change Pack, but I
Speaker 13: want to invite you that we have a tested, true
Speaker 13: data driven program that's going to be reaching voters. And
Speaker 13: we've proven over the the years that we are able
Speaker 13: to turn voters out that don't regularly vote in elections
Speaker 13: through the power of people like you who are listening,
Speaker 13: who do want to get involved and who want to volunteer,
Speaker 13: and that's a way to engage.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Where can people find out more information about your initiative
Speaker 4: as well?
Speaker 16: I would say go to painthoposed black dot com, go
Speaker 16: to gbet dot com.
Speaker 7: As Rishad said.
Speaker 16: That many of us doing this work, you can go
Speaker 16: to a variety of organizations. We're going to have events
Speaker 16: over the next few months. For the first event, we
Speaker 16: have more than two hundred thousand people participate.
Speaker 8: Wonderful.
Speaker 10: So I want to come.
Speaker 7: Thank you all for having me.
Speaker 3: Thank you for sure.
Speaker 5: This is my first DNC convention. I didn't notice was
Speaker 5: so exhausted say that this is so exhausted convention, he said,
Speaker 5: because I was exhausted watching it Monday right because it
Speaker 5: stayed up, stayed stayed up so late.
Speaker 7: And last night was was good.
Speaker 9: It was energizing.
Speaker 7: But then being here today exhausted again but still energized.
Speaker 8: Exhausted and energized at the same time.
Speaker 4: I feel that too a headache, you know, I promised
Speaker 4: Tiff and Andrew.
Speaker 8: I've been looking the whole time.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised and I feel like I'm about to be ghosted,
Speaker 4: and I'm frustrated. But tomorrow, but maybe I don't know
Speaker 4: if I'm gonn run that thing back. But here's what
Speaker 4: I was gonna tell y'all. Tonight is a unique night.
Speaker 4: We've seen so much on the convention stage, including moments
Speaker 4: where you see uh passing of the proverbial torch from
Speaker 4: generation to generation. Right now, Bill Clinton is on the
Speaker 4: convention floor speaking tonight. We'll also hear from vice presidential
Speaker 4: candidate Tim Walls. I also just want to take a
Speaker 4: moment to acknowledge, in the midst of us being here,
Speaker 4: Congressman Bill passed. Girls passed away from New Jersey, so
Speaker 4: you also saw moments where they were recognizing him from
Speaker 4: the convention floor. I like to know what you all
Speaker 4: are looking forward to tonight.
Speaker 1: Well kind of, I just say quickly, Angela to bring
Speaker 1: you all in on the conversation, the inside conversation. She
Speaker 1: promised Andrew and me, She said, have a surprise guest
Speaker 1: for you all.
Speaker 7: At the end.
Speaker 8: I trust her.
Speaker 1: I said, don't let it be a dog. She said,
Speaker 1: it is not a dog. Get the dog off your mind.
Speaker 7: I love you, I love yes Strange and so the whole.
Speaker 1: Time I've been looking out in this audience, like, who
Speaker 1: is this? If one of my exes come up here,
Speaker 1: I'm about to walk off somebody.
Speaker 3: Do you like that girl?
Speaker 1: I like somebody out about that? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I've been looking at everybody in the audience. I ain't
Speaker 1: see the surprise.
Speaker 4: So maybe you can just keep your eyes over here
Speaker 4: and talk to us about what you what you are
Speaker 4: looking for, maybe a concern that you have about tonight.
Speaker 3: Is there anything.
Speaker 8: Charlotte, I want to hear, Charlotte, what are you looking for?
Speaker 3: I know he's concentrating.
Speaker 5: Any I was thinking about it, you, so I knew
Speaker 5: what I was looking for Monday night. I was looking
Speaker 5: for the Hillary Clinton. I was looking for the Jasmine Crockett,
Speaker 5: And I knew what I was looking forward to Tuesday night.
Speaker 5: I was looking forward to the Obama's tonight maybe Secretary
Speaker 5: of People. But I'm really honestly thinking about tomorrow. I'm
Speaker 5: really thinking about tomorrow because I feel like just listening
Speaker 5: to the callers that I've been calling into the breakfast
Speaker 5: club and the things that they've been saying, a lot
Speaker 5: of them feel like they.
Speaker 7: Haven't heard enough policy talk all week long.
Speaker 5: I feel like Bernie Sanders laid out some things that
Speaker 5: he wanted, you know, the Harrison administration to do if
Speaker 5: they get in. So I think tomorrow the VP really
Speaker 5: has to talk to the issues. We got the hope, right,
Speaker 5: we got all the hope we needed yesterday.
Speaker 7: Hope is great.
Speaker 5: Hope is like a light in darkness, like give us
Speaker 5: a little glimpse of light in darkness.
Speaker 7: And we definitely got the fear. We know the fear.
Speaker 7: We know we're up at this.
Speaker 5: But tomorrow she has to really come in here and
Speaker 5: just lay out policy. She has to speak to the issues.
Speaker 5: She has to speak to the people who you know,
Speaker 5: are barely keeping food on their table and a roof
Speaker 5: over their head. So that's what I'm really hoping that
Speaker 5: she nails the speech, especially being that she hasn't done
Speaker 5: any interviews right in the.
Speaker 7: Last few weeks of all eyes.
Speaker 5: Are really really going to be on her in a
Speaker 5: real way tomorrow, So she has to nail it. Because
Speaker 5: she doesn't, she's gonna get very scrutinized, well, you know, unjustly.
Speaker 8: Scrutinized for sure.
Speaker 1: And I just want to remind the viewers that this
Speaker 1: campaign took off in a very uh not a non
Speaker 1: traditional way, and it normally takes a campaign two to
Speaker 1: three months to pull together a policy plan. It has
Speaker 1: been I think a month today when she became the
Speaker 1: presidential candidate. She did enter the foray into the policy
Speaker 1: with her economic address in North Carolina a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and she called for the expandon of the child tax credit,
Speaker 1: which we talked about. That includes a six thousand dollars
Speaker 1: credit for parents in the first year of a child's fire.
Speaker 8: She proposed forty billion.
Speaker 3: Yes, y'all, Andrew.
Speaker 1: Native Lampard, She's proposed forty million dollar tax incentive for
Speaker 1: a new housing construction. And she endorsed a federal ban
Speaker 1: on price gouging. So this this is the bit of
Speaker 1: policy we've heard from her. She does not have a
Speaker 1: policy plan on her website just yet, but I can't
Speaker 1: show you, Charlotte Meane that she will.
Speaker 8: We'll talk about that yet, to add.
Speaker 9: To what you've already laid out.
Speaker 6: So she did a special speech around the economy, and
Speaker 6: that speech hope to close the gap between she and
Speaker 6: Donald Trump around credibility. Who do you trust more on
Speaker 6: the economy? That was crucial.
Speaker 8: But what's his policy plan?
Speaker 9: Nobody's asking nobody's asking. Nobody ask.
Speaker 6: But the other thing it's important for those who are
Speaker 6: not as familiar with the Democratic Convention on what happens
Speaker 6: here is that there is a policy agenda that must
Speaker 6: be approved by the Convention that states what the administration's
Speaker 6: goals must be moving forward from this place.
Speaker 9: So there's there, there, and this thing is chalk full.
Speaker 6: If you can think of an issue, there is a
Speaker 6: policy prescript that is coming out of this convention that
Speaker 6: is intended to address it. Now, she won't be able
Speaker 6: to parade all over the country giving policy pieces every day,
Speaker 6: because the truth is is that voters.
Speaker 9: Want to know her better. They don't know her.
Speaker 6: In fact, the big criticism is that she's been aidden
Speaker 6: in the closet for two or three of the four years,
Speaker 6: which is well. But but to the to the person
Speaker 6: who has limited line of sight and attention, you haven't seen.
Speaker 3: They haven't put her.
Speaker 9: Out for sure.
Speaker 6: So so I actually think policy, yes, she will need
Speaker 6: to talk about some big ideas, big ideas. I don't
Speaker 6: want to hear the policy prescript. I want to hear
Speaker 6: the big ideas. The other thing that she's got to
Speaker 6: do is I think she has to demystify and get
Speaker 6: in front of what we can expect over these next
Speaker 6: few weeks, which are going to be a whole bunch
Speaker 6: of lies, untruth, mistruce, half truth about who she is.
Speaker 6: They've already begun that on walls going after his IVF.
Speaker 6: He used her on terminology going after his military service.
Speaker 6: Where's yours? Trump bone, spur, Where's yours? But so so so,
Speaker 6: I think she's got to get in front of that.
Speaker 6: And this will be the largest stage of audience eyes
Speaker 6: that she will have between now an election day, this
Speaker 6: this this night, tomorrow night, and I think that it
Speaker 6: would be a loss, It would be a fail if
Speaker 6: she got up there and talked policy prescript all night,
Speaker 6: your big ideas, and introduce herself in a way that
Speaker 6: makes people comfortable with looking at her for the next
Speaker 6: four years as our president and commander in chief.
Speaker 4: And the best way for her to do that is
Speaker 4: for her to rest in her own the comfort of
Speaker 4: her own being, like knowing who she is and being
Speaker 4: comfortable with being Kamala in front of everyone. I think
Speaker 4: one of the things we talk about at nauseum is
Speaker 4: the Kamala Harris that we know is so dope and
Speaker 4: so cool and so chill.
Speaker 3: I love even.
Speaker 4: Yesterday we talked about some of our highlights from last night,
Speaker 4: but I forgot to say this about Doug m hof.
Speaker 4: He talked about the one thing he knows about Kamala
Speaker 4: Harris that she will never stop fighting for us. She
Speaker 4: does it on a micro level. She does it in conversations.
Speaker 3: One on one.
Speaker 4: When my mom got diagnosed with cancer, Kamala Harris was
Speaker 4: the first phone call when we got the podcast. When
Speaker 4: we announced the podcast, Kamala Harris was one of the
Speaker 4: first phone calls. She is one of the most genuine
Speaker 4: carrying people, and I think that this nation is starving
Speaker 4: for that.
Speaker 1: I kept a voicemail from her on my first show.
Speaker 1: She called Angela knows I'm horrible on my phone. I
Speaker 1: didn't miss a call from the Vice president twice because
Speaker 1: I didn't answer the phone, and I kept a voicemail
Speaker 1: because she was just saying, Bravo, Tiffany, I'm so proud.
Speaker 8: I love the show.
Speaker 1: I watched the show, so she is me one.
Speaker 8: She's a regular person. She's just you just adore it.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh you, I get why you say you're
Speaker 1: my girl, And I think what the country is going
Speaker 1: to have to get used to. What they're gonna learn
Speaker 1: is black women. It's a duality of our kind. We
Speaker 1: can sit on a national stage and talk policy, domestic policy.
Speaker 1: We can kill you on the spades table. She can
Speaker 1: kill it in a stroll line on the campus. I
Speaker 1: know you do dominoce, you throw bones. She can kill
Speaker 1: it in a stroll line on Howard University's campus with
Speaker 1: the aka's. She can smile in your face and be
Speaker 1: saying f you. At the same time. This is we've
Speaker 1: always had to be.
Speaker 6: And we don't need America to receive all of that right, but.
Speaker 7: We do know the same.
Speaker 5: Going to Andrews point, if she shows up tomorrow and
Speaker 5: she's just herself and she is, you know, showing her person,
Speaker 5: all of that's gonna show up regardless, because none of
Speaker 5: the stuff that she's saying is new. If you've been
Speaker 5: following her, she's been talking about rebuilding the middle class.
Speaker 5: She's been talking about wanting everybody to have the opportunity
Speaker 5: to own the business, opportunity to own a home. She's
Speaker 5: been talking about putting money, you know, into in the
Speaker 5: in the more working class people's pockets.
Speaker 7: So if she just shows up and be herself tomorrow.
Speaker 7: I think we're in for a treat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. I love that so much.
Speaker 4: Well, we are almost to the end of our show
Speaker 4: and I'm still counting all my special guests to show
Speaker 4: that I am so you got me nervous.
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm not killing time.
Speaker 8: You got plenty to talk about.
Speaker 3: Definitely do what you got, Tiff.
Speaker 8: Well, I want to tell charlet Mane what happened to
Speaker 8: our friend the other day.
Speaker 6: Today, not until we are all stalized grounds.
Speaker 3: We're gonna tell you, but you gotta start later. Congressman
Speaker 3: Lucy macbeth is walking by you all.
Speaker 8: We love we have you, Congress, and you want to
Speaker 8: come say hide to the native lamb Bam. You don't
Speaker 8: have to.
Speaker 3: She's like she has business. Is a picture?
Speaker 1: Oh he wants to come up here and take a picture. Okay,
Speaker 1: let him take him.
Speaker 10: He wasn't taking.
Speaker 3: We are not done yet.
Speaker 4: If you were saying that you wanted to talk about something,
Speaker 4: I hope it was the.
Speaker 1: Table the story I want to tell our viewers when
Speaker 1: we leave Chicago. We do have a story to tell
Speaker 1: you that happened to our friend, but I will table it.
Speaker 4: But there's a whole convention happening with the whole robust agenda,
Speaker 4: including Nancy Pelosi, who's up speaking right now.
Speaker 10: Gotta be something else before her.
Speaker 9: Yes, you do.
Speaker 8: Here's a question.
Speaker 1: Here's a question I have for you all. Some people
Speaker 1: say that former President Bill Clinton, because of his complicated
Speaker 1: history not complicated. Let me not say it's not complicated
Speaker 1: because of his history. He is somewhat of an anachronism
Speaker 1: here at the convention because of what happened with Monica Lewinsky,
Speaker 1: and we're looking at him in twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Four pales in comparison to what Donald Trump got going
Speaker 5: to run its But if we're.
Speaker 1: Only going to compare ourselves to the lowest common denominator,
Speaker 1: what does that say about the Democrats?
Speaker 9: They're not in the same category.
Speaker 1: You don't think that, of course not, But but do
Speaker 1: you all have I don't have an issue with him speaking,
Speaker 1: you know, I think if we you can look at
Speaker 1: my personal life and have you know something to say?
Speaker 8: Is this my surprise?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, no redemption.
Speaker 14: Look, we're just saying what is redemption?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 9: Well, I mean when do I mean that legit? I
Speaker 9: love to hear your thoughts on this.
Speaker 6: Charlemagne like, when when do we get to stop judging
Speaker 6: people forever by their worst day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm there experience. I'm not driven off. Bill Clint
Speaker 5: gets some head in the White House.
Speaker 7: That happened.
Speaker 5: It happened a long time ago. That's between him, between
Speaker 5: him Hillary. If Hillary's forgiving him, who were we to
Speaker 5: stand around and be like, oh, he shouldn't be on
Speaker 5: you know the stage in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: That's the extent of the issues.
Speaker 1: Well, there were multiple iss no need to be visited,
Speaker 1: it was twenty but.
Speaker 6: The private consenting adults, she was a young adult. No, no,
Speaker 6: When you said other things, I'm sorry, I'm also her.
Speaker 9: You said, I get it, but.
Speaker 8: I don't have an opinion about it. I just threw
Speaker 8: it out there. Yeah, a question.
Speaker 4: I guess my bigger issue, if I could be honest
Speaker 4: with y'all, is there hasn't been enough. We actually met
Speaker 4: a young man earlier who's one of the youngest delegates
Speaker 4: at d n c's from Oklahoma's name was Antoine Jackson.
Speaker 7: I thought, oh, no, no.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 3: I don't know what exactly.
Speaker 4: There was, but I was just saying that my bigger
Speaker 4: issue is is the fact that there hasn't been as much.
Speaker 3: I think since Monday, inter generation. I want to see
Speaker 3: more young folks.
Speaker 7: That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, it was like, why Bill Clinton didn't Nancy Pelosi?
Speaker 7: No, I have some.
Speaker 4: Of the young people, which man during that primetime moment.
Speaker 4: Jasmine Crockett was great, AOC was great. Keep that same energy.
Speaker 4: If they don't have big platforms yet, find the dopest
Speaker 4: person and create that platform like Barack Obama did.
Speaker 5: I said that before you know the convention even happened.
Speaker 5: We were talking about just the lineups, and I was
Speaker 5: saying to myself, this is the week that the Democrats
Speaker 5: should showcase that new generation.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 5: I want to see governor with Governor Shapiro, Governor Wes Moore,
Speaker 5: Jasmine Crocks.
Speaker 3: It's more spoke today. So that was them.
Speaker 7: So I didn't eve se him come up here.
Speaker 4: Okay, he was much earlier, but that's my point, and
Speaker 4: that's my point.
Speaker 3: Why was he so early?
Speaker 5: That's right, And they don't even have them, like they
Speaker 5: weren't listed as prime time slots. When you saw the
Speaker 5: Week of Speakers, he was like, where where where? I
Speaker 5: don't even think Javin Crockett was on the lineup on Monday,
Speaker 5: she wasn't in the listing, she was.
Speaker 9: Saying.
Speaker 8: When you went to the schedule of speaker she was, she.
Speaker 4: Was definitely in the lineup. I remember us talking about
Speaker 4: But you're saying an earlier version. Maybe earlier, maybe he
Speaker 4: had he had one embargo. Don't fancy pin This is.
Speaker 1: A challenge though, I do think because as we expand
Speaker 1: the tent, you know, there are a lot of Republicans
Speaker 1: who have come over to call Republicans for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 8: And I do.
Speaker 1: I think we have to be vigilant and as we
Speaker 1: expand uh the tent on this side of the divide,
Speaker 1: we have to hold this party accountable to us. Do
Speaker 1: not extend the platform that we help build and uphold
Speaker 1: the infrastructure of this country to then accommodate these never
Speaker 1: trumpers who created this, uh, this predicament that we're in now.
Speaker 1: You cannot reward the people who helped to put this
Speaker 1: man in office, who changed their mind later by ignoring
Speaker 1: the interests of the people who have danced with you
Speaker 1: since the beginning that if that was what they did, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not, but we haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 8: So I'm saying we have to continue to hold well.
Speaker 1: We don't know because we haven't seen the other side
Speaker 1: of what this election looks like. So once it's a
Speaker 1: president Kamala Harris, we have to make sure this party
Speaker 1: does not start going out of their way to accommodate
Speaker 1: conservative Republican voters who they are consistently so excited to seduce.
Speaker 7: That's I agree with you, Tiff.
Speaker 5: I think right now that's important to do only because
Speaker 5: you have a woman of color at the top of
Speaker 5: the ticket and you still have not convinced those white
Speaker 5: people in the Midwest, you know that, to go out
Speaker 5: there and support her.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we want to convince them.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, once you get in office, like, don't
Speaker 1: be trying to turn this into a Republican light.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but that's why we have an agenda coming out
Speaker 6: of this convention which is sign sealed, you know, only
Speaker 6: prepared by Democrats.
Speaker 3: Andrew.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm just gonna have to eat crow real
Speaker 4: quick because as we're speaking, Latifa who is running for
Speaker 4: Congress in Barbaraly's old seat, literally Barbara.
Speaker 3: Ly who was passed as a baton from Shirley Chisholm.
Speaker 4: It's speaking, Uh, Latifa, who's running for and I cannot
Speaker 4: why can't I think that her last name right now,
Speaker 4: Latifa Simon is running for Congress out of Oakland.
Speaker 3: She's speaking right now.
Speaker 4: So I just was criticizing that we're not seeing that
Speaker 4: intergenerational pieceship right now.
Speaker 3: So my business.
Speaker 5: But this is after to This is after two institutional pieces, right,
Speaker 5: so it's like that's two older pieces.
Speaker 3: But that's so this is still dope. It's more in
Speaker 3: prime time.
Speaker 4: Good right like this is and we like her like
Speaker 4: she came up and she was hilarious. She's so dope,
Speaker 4: really smart. Shout out to our girl.
Speaker 6: A g.
Speaker 3: This is one of Alicia Garza's besties too.
Speaker 7: So did was supposed to speaking it, I.
Speaker 3: Think broke some news.
Speaker 8: Op to come on the show either.
Speaker 3: I think you just broke some news on this.
Speaker 7: I didn't break news that that's started on CNN's website.
Speaker 8: To surprise Angela.
Speaker 3: No girl, but I'm gonna tell you what this.
Speaker 9: Is, she coul We do know.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow, Wow, tomorrow will be back. It was the day
Speaker 4: four of the Democratic National Convention, and we will be
Speaker 4: joined by some phenomenal guests and we will be so
Speaker 4: excited to hear from Madame Vice President Kamala Harris and
Speaker 4: see what her plans are for the country as we
Speaker 4: move forward. Y'all, it is seventy six days until the election.
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