WEBVTT - 236 Days to Save Democracy feat Jemele Hill 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.440 Native Lampod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:08.200 Reason Choice Media. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:10.319 Welcome home, y'all. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.520 This is episode one hundred and twenty two of Native Lampod, 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:15.960 where we give you our breakdown of all things politics 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.960 and culture. I'm Angela Raie with my co host Andrew 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:24.160 Gilliman Bacari sellers. Today we are joined by best selling author, 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.360 journalists and certified social media thug new hosts of Flagrant 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.360 and Funny with our dear sister Carrie Champion Jamail Hill, 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:32.560 who is also. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.280 Host of Politics Podcast. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:36.320 As you all know, it's a part of our recent 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.280 Choice Media network family. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.920 Jamel, Welcome, Mamas and lady. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:42.800 Yeah. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:44.920 I'm so excited to be able to join you guys 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.920 because I am a listener and so you know, it's 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:48.760 just like double judge. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:50.680 I've been waiting on my turn to jump in. I 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:51.480 can double judge. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:52.760 It's been a long time coming. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.800 Like I just been waiting, it has been. It has 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:57.080 definitely been a long time coming. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:59.760 And I think the last time I saw you, Bacari, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.600 I feel like we were doing CNN together. 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.800 I think we had a week on the late night 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.080 Late Night and. 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:11.000 You as always uh sunning people as normal. So I 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.280 enjoyed myself immensely, but happy to be with. 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.320 Gets you everywhere with him. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.759 That's all he needs, That's all he needs. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:22.800 K you. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.000 I appreciate you welcoming me. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.440 We are so grateful to have you well. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.160 Andrews said his babies are on spring break, but car 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.760 is worried about his baby's giving bad luck to the 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.280 final four, but you know, we're gonna keep hope alive 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.520 for the kids. And I just I want to tell 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.280 you all we're thrilled to be here. I still am 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.560 feeling very somber after Reverend Jackson's passing and hearing the 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.680 full weight of everything that he's offered the world. And 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.920 so it is our honor to try to continue at 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.640 least part of his legacy and bringing truth to your homes, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.040 to your cars where you listen to our podcast. And 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.680 right now it's time for us to jump into four 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:04.160 years situational awareness. As Andrew and Baccari arrantly called FAIZA, 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:08.400 that is a court for intelligence, the less serious, the 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:12.040 top secret intelligence less serious. Four year situational awareness could 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.160 also be very serious. And you are going to see 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.120 right now the first clip. Actually it's the headline today 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:22.200 from EPA to dj A. Recent Pro Publica report shows 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:27.280 inherent conflicts between surprise, the Trump administration and several of 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.520 its officials and the entities they are responsible responsible for 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:36.520 overseeing and regulating in more than thirty two hundred financial disclosures. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.079 I encourage you all to go and look at this report. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:40.720 What y'all got on this? 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:43.799 Are we surprised? 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:44.240 I mean. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.640 The entanglements of the Trump administration. 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.080 They are looting government, they are raiding government, and I 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.080 actually just like the boldness of them. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.160 If the American people aren't gonna check them, I. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.240 Mean because and everybody else, everybody else in government was 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.040 like the president's family stealing, I might as well steal too, 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.160 Like you're not gonna be the only one to eat, 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.080 so let me, let me get my little piece. I 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.520 don't think we've seen grifters like this, and I just 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.959 always giggle when they are so they talk about different 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.680 cultures or communities, and we've talked about filing a community 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.560 on this show, and how they label an entire community 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.560 pirates because of they feel as that they're pillaging from 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.200 one sector of government or not. 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.600 And here you are just they still in public broad. 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.440 I just want you to correct me if I'm wrong. 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.080 This is the same government that told you that Snap 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.520 recipients buying an extra box of Caprice was what was 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.080 going to bankrupt everybody. I just want to be sure 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.920 that I have this correct. This is that same government 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:52.080 that if somebody else bought some Dorito's cool ranch flavor, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.280 it was gonna break everything. But it's totally fine for 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.680 them to just openly rob the American taxpayers. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.000 I just want to make sure I got that correct. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.760 We haven't even talked about it. We're not talking about 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.960 it today, but we haven't even talked about them crab legs. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.119 Oh where. 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:14.080 When it is seven hundred each like what he said? 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.200 He said, I got it. I got some old I 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.000 got a little bit of over a budget. 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:22.240 Left over for some books in my day. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.120 I just bombs and lobster tails. I mean, I mean, 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:26.680 I just will never understand. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.760 So Clinda ain't going to Costco because you know, you 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.279 get lobst tails the fat ones for like thirty bucks 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.160 for like Costco. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.800 Spot up friend, well, shout out to Costco. 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.080 It's a home based company who it's very conscious conscious 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.800 and we expe appreciate Costco. If you ever want to advertise, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:45.400 go ahead and do that, because that was free. But 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.920 the next one won't be. Now I'm speaking of free, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.440 let's talk about free love. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.479 Miami Center, Bomb out of Bayo Jay, this is your clip. 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.080 You run it for us, tell us what's going on? 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:56.480 All right? 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:56.839 Bam? 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.720 Out of By you dropped eighty three points, and as 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.960 many a fella has said across social media, this is 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:04.760 exactly what you want to do when your lady comes 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:05.320 see you play. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:06.599 Is drop eighty four points. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.440 Second most highest scoring output in a single game in 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.560 NBA history, will of course being the first with one 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.960 hundred points. Bams is now number two on that list. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.760 Kobe is number three. He had eighty one. Which it 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:24.480 was the twentieth anniversary of that in January, I believe 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.000 it was. And so a lot of love for Bam, 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.280 a lot of love for black love because Bam gave 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:35.640 a very passionate, heartfelt shout out to Ajia Wilson who 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.080 did his press conference with him after the game, and 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.320 it was very cute and very sweet. And it's just 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.719 so ironic because Asia Wilson said that Love and Basketball 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.360 she did not like the movie, and she's literally loving 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:52.840 basketball right, Yeah, you. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.839 Now have the highest game among active players in the NBA. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.600 The person sitting next to you has the w NBA 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.359 type for the WNBA scoring record and the most among 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.080 active players in the WNBA. Just how do you both 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.680 sort of process the events of this evening. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:17.039 Well, she's been gone for like a week, so she 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.440 was complaining about how I got my ten thousand points 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.320 and how she wanted me to wait so to have 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.640 eighty three the first game she's here is very special. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.279 You know, the behind the scenes and the workouts and 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.600 the conversations, they're very motivating, and obviously you see what 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:41.520 she does and you get inspired every day by that. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:43.920 So I'm thankful to have her in my life. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.360 I mean, I see the countless hours that he puts in. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:52.000 I see the early morning workouts, the questioning the self 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.240 that I see all that, and so for him to 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.679 be thriving so well in that space during that time, 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.040 I didn't want to mess up any mo Joe, because 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:04.080 we are two the most routine people ever, and I'm 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:05.640 just like, all right, if I'm not in my seat, 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.920 he's doing pretty well. And I remember I sat down 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.160 and you missed your free throw, and I was like, 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.400 all right, let me go back to the bag. But 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.240 at the same time, I knew I wanted to just 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.320 be there to show my support. But this has been 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:20.720 an incredible game, obviously, but journey for BAM, witnessing it firsthand, 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.320 the highs and the lows of it, it's been so 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.320 much fun. And I know he says that I'm his inspiration, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.240 but I don't think he has a clue how much 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.200 he inspires me to continue to be the person that 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.920 I am. But to show up for him, that's my 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.480 biggest goal, is always just to be present and. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:37.040 Show it for him. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.880 And I was a little mad that you got your 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.760 ten k and I wasn't here, but you made up 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:43.080 for it. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:44.800 I love it. I love it. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.400 I love that all sweet. There's been a lot of hate, man. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.680 Let me tell y'all, y'all, y'allo love button Angela and 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.560 Jamie's little love button down in Houston. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.000 A real pretty what's his name coach at Boston. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:07.640 He straight up hated. He hated he was the court. 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.920 Yeah, he said, he hated on throws he took. He 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:12.360 hated on the fact the team. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.760 Wait a minute, I just want to pause on this 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.880 defamatory fix what you just said about me and Jamil 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:19.280 and this man. We don't have nothing to do with 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.520 this man. We don't want to know before. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:24.920 Palmer, I not. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.280 I never met this man. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:28.640 I want to everybody. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:30.840 Andrew, I don't know if you've seen this man, but 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.520 he's a he is a very handsome attract He is. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.000 A walking problem. 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:42.800 He no tea. I stand with thank you, Harriet. No, 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.880 that's right, shoot the best from Afar. 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.160 I'm wondering if I would be intimidated if if my 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.400 girl was like running me through the fitness workout routine 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.000 because he volunteered a little more than she did. She says, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.319 I've been there. I watch, I watch he's like when 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:04.280 she's there and pushing me and counting me down, so 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:05.160 and so forth. 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.280 Time V of the w n B A, he's sitting 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:09.520 next to a different family work. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.559 I mean, that's a that's a serious deal. That's some intimidation. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.640 But I love that they got a statue mutual inspiration 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:22.840 and motivation and encouragement minus the jealousy. And should the 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:26.040 jealousy show up, it shows up because the other one 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.880 reaches an achievement and you happen not to be present 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:34.200 for I just think that's if we needed, uh, not 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:38.040 not a symbol, but a demonstration of what a healthy looking. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:39.800 And I ain't in the stuff, so I don't know. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:44.640 But what I saw what looks like a healthy, healthy relationship, 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.959 a give and take. I got you when you got me. 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:49.040 I thought that was nice. 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.120 I hate to uh give, give our audience whiplash. That's 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.000 exactly what I'm about to do. There is a thin 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.240 line between love and hate, and so surprised. Fox News 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:02.080 is engaging and Revision is history by showing old footage 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.000 of Donald Trump receiving the remains of soldiers rather than 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.160 the actual footage from March seventh at Dover Air Force 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.200 Base in Delaware. The remains of six soldiers who died 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.319 in an Iranian drone attack after the US and Israel 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.480 conducted airstrikes on the country were brought back home. The 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.240 Commander in chief failed to remove his baseball cap in 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.240 their honor, and Fox News decided to run some different footage. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:25.920 We got both. 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.960 Let's run it meanwhile, turning out to your headlines, President Trump, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.520 First Lady Milania Trump, Vice President JD. Vance, and Secretary 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.400 Lady Usha Vans attending a dignified transfer to honor the 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.559 final homecoming of the six US service members killed in Kuwait. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.800 The solemn ritual returns the remains of troops killed in action. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.319 It is considered one of the most somber duties of 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:46.360 a commander in chief. 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:51.280 So he got the baseball cap on, and he didn't 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.319 remove it normally at his custom as you all know, 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.840 to remove hats for fallen soldiers. You would expect that 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.960 from the commander in chief. Prizes here on the propaganda 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.120 side or on Trump's not knowing the rural side. 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.160 I mean, didn't he tell us, like people dying war 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.680 and like Morris coming, it's. 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:10.160 Just going to be. 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.679 That way was the way in which he. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:18.600 Prepared American families and American men and women who give 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.040 their lives quite literally for the country and protection of 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.800 all of us, and hopes that when the President sends 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.200 you there, he's got a good reason for doing so, 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.840 and that hopefully that reason has something to do with 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:38.160 the safety, security of the country and our respective interests. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:42.920 But the dignified transfer is an incredibly solemn occasion, and 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.160 the same flagrant way in which he talks about life 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:52.160 and other people's lives, not his, but other people's I mean, 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.840 that's basically what he put on demonstration, you know right there. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.200 It's a shame, however, that Fox News has to cape 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:02.800 for him so hard that they literally manipulate footage to 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.720 make him look dignified when his true self is undignified. 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:12.720 Yeah, it's not a surprise considering the length of the 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.400 degree in which Fox lies their viewers every day, and 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.160 I'm often marveled at the fact that we actually allow this. 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.680 The other part too. I'm gonna remember something that actually 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:23.280 George W. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.680 Bush said when he was in office during the Golf War, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.640 and that he stopped playing golf, and a big reason 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.040 why he stopped playing golf is because he didn't want 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.559 the American people to see him playing golf while their 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.760 sons and daughters are at war, because he thought it 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.800 was a bad optic. If George W. Bush is saying that, 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.960 that makes this look even worse than it already does. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:47.120 Yeah. 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.560 I just wanted to note real quick that we're no 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:55.000 longer at six where it's seven soldiers. And I just 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.319 think that as we talk to our listeners about the toll, 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.480 it's not just the bombs that we see and the 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.600 fireworks in the sky. Their real lives that have been lost. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.839 A lot of young people don't have a chance to 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:07.640 grow up because we're in a war that when we 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:09.680 don't know why we're there truly and too, we don't 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:10.640 know how we're going to get out. 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:15.120 So got be over one hundred and six injured. They 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:19.080 were finally forced to release that information. But aside from 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.480 obviously the lives lost, over one hundred men and women 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:28.120 are injured as a result of this incursion, that all 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.040 of us are still scratching our heads trying to figure 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:30.760 out why we're there. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.199 Yes, I want to switch gears quickly to. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:38.480 Again. 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.480 We said last week a broken clock is right twice 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:44.400 a day, but this is. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:45.400 A really good one. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.160 Republican Governor k Ivy showed a little bit of mercy. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:54.079 You all may have been following the activism around Charles 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.800 sunny Burton. He was scheduled to die this week despite 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.680 not pulling the trigger in a nineteen ninety one shooting, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.800 and the Republican governor of Alabama decided to commute his sentence. 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.880 He will still spend the rest of his life in prison, 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.040 but his family is expressing a tremendous amount of gratitude. 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:12.800 Let's roll the clip. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.480 It's been a decade long fight for clemency for Burton's family. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.040 What does today feel like for the family. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:27.240 It feels over. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.840 Amazing, Burton's son and daughter telling w b r C. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.160 They've been praying for this day to come. 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.960 That's when I said, if they want to take my father, 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.720 I meant you and I prayed very hard. He can't 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.360 help my dad, and I think I think it's ivory 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.000 for saving and spare in his life. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.800 We've been fighting this for a very long time, and 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.520 you know, we had our setbacks, we had our triumphs, 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.880 we had our setbacks, and now we just did a 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.880 beautiful triumph for my hard work, for my friends. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:06.480 People weave know like it was a long it was 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.800 a long journ, long journey. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.960 Well that is a somber one, bed. I mean, his 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:13.840 life has been spared. I don't think we should have 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.000 the death penalty any anyway. I want to hear from 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.000 y'all what you got. 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.880 Yeah, I got. I'll never forget this. And I don't 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.720 know if y'all know this, but that Angela made me 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.920 think about this. Kate Balwin one night or one day 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:32.240 was interviewing me after the mother Emanuel shooting about Dylan Ruth, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.880 and she asked me directly on TV, how do I 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.680 feel about the death penalty and just losing nine people 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.640 that I knew? In that fashion, I was literally like, 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.160 I don't know. It made me question faith, It made 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.320 me question judgment, It made me question and then people 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.600 get sensationalized when they talk about the death penalty, like 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.280 what happens if somebody storms in the house and rape 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.240 your entire family and throws away your favorite all. You know, 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.520 it makes you, It makes you think about things in 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:01.200 a different way. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:02.600 And so I am. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.680 Still politically unsettled, although I do know that the death 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.160 penalty disproportionately affects people who look like Sonny. My last 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.760 point is you've got to always remember, particularly in the South, 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.280 hands of one, hands of all, if you're out. I 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.680 hope young people listen to this make good decisions, because 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.720 if you're out and somebody makes a crash, dummy decision. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:21.880 All of y'all going away. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.600 Over there on the northwest, where Angela is in California, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.640 they call it fell any murder. In the South, we 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.440 call it hands of one, Hands of all. And so 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.360 many people want to know why Sonny's in the situation 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.200 he is, and that is the reason that he is 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.640 going to still serve the rest of his life in prison. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:43.480 Yeah, the daughter of the deceased man who was killed 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.240 all those years ago wrote to the governor spoke up. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:51.040 She said, her voice as a survivor of her lost 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.200 loved one, should mean something, and she said, if you 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.120 think this is justice, this is not justice. I don't 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.720 believe this to be justice. Do not take this man's life. 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.880 Oddly enough, y'all, the man who actually pulled the trigger, 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:09.040 uh and and and uh killed the deceased, actually had 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.920 his his sentence was commuted. He was on death row 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:16.239 and was removed. Sonny was the only one remaining on 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.359 death row, and he actually didn't pull the trigger. But 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.640 as as Bakari, our attorney resident, is pointing out, if 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.919 you with the people who do the crime, everybody is 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:30.360 charged for the same crime. And in this case, obviously 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:34.320 it worked out for the better. But y'all, I'm just curious. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.080 Angela and Bacari, our resident attorneys, like, when do we 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:43.600 see the law change so that you know that individuals 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.439 who didn't touch a gun didn't kill anyone. May have 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.399 been in a car in the commission of an act, 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:50.560 but may not have known the act was going down, 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:55.480 is prosecuted and god forbid, put on death row having 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.440 not even done the you know, done the deed. 0:17:58.040 --> 0:17:58.159 Uh. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.000 But but this is a good this is a good 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.240 one for k Ivy. She did say that she did 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.119 this to preserve the future of the death penalty in 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:06.560 that state. 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.600 Well, and I will say, Andrew, as you know as 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.119 a former LAGED official, it is up to the states. 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.280 They have to decide individually what the law will be. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.560 And that is up to the legislatures. Why it's so 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:22.720 important for us to vote. And I know you have 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:24.600 something on this. The Georgia special election. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:30.000 Yeah, so there was an election this week, y'all. Marjorie 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:35.800 Taylor Green seat down in Georgia and the most Republican 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.760 seat in the entire delegation from the state of Georgia. 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:45.480 And there were some positive, I think outcomes. We'll see 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.399 what happens in the long run. But take a look 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.600 at who the two finalists are and what was a 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:50.440 very crowded feel. 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.199 Democrat Sean Harris finished as a top vote getter with 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:58.000 thirty seven percent of the vote, while Republican Clay Fuller 0:18:58.040 --> 0:18:59.840 came in second with thirty four percent. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.919 Well, I think you're sitting with the results tonight. The 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.520 voter support what President Trump is doing in an endorsement 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.040 our campaign, and I think the Republican Party is going 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.720 to unite around us because they know that the Democrat 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.320 is too dangerous. We can't have a Democrat representing Georgia fourteen. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.120 It would be a tragedy for our community. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.200 I think what you're going to see here real soon 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.879 is people going to say what I'm going to put 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.680 beside this time party, I'm going to vote with us 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.399 best for my Kris and grandkids. And that's why I 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:32.080 have nothing but confidence tonight, and I have confidence tomorrow. 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:33.320 And the day after that that. 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.520 More and more Democrats and Republicans and independence are going 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:37.240 to come my way. 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.520 So Sean Harri is there achieved actually the majority of 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:45.000 votes that were cast in that special We could all 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.760 pontificate about what that looks like in the final in May. 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:53.119 Most expect that that seat will remain with Republicans. But y'all, 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:57.000 it is of note that Sewan out performed how Kamala 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.880 Harris did in that very same district shit Chi thirty 0:19:59.920 --> 0:20:02.560 one percent of the vote, he achieved thirty six percent 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.359 of the vote, and so even if that seat doesn't 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:09.439 come the way of Democrats, that just gives you a 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:14.480 light in inlet into how Democrats are overperforming so far 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.040 in these special elections. That trend continues. 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.640 Well, as you just noted Andrew, the race and midterms 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:23.920 are in full effect, but it's not without an intense 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:28.119 redistricting battle. Up next is Virginia, with the map already 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.479 approved by the General Assembly. That map would have ten 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:45.360 seats that lean Democratic. Early voting has begun in Virginia, 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:49.160 and so have the Shenanigans. As we get into our 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:53.360