1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,959 Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody recording once again from the 3 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: Brooklyn Bunker. You know, folks, as Amicron continues to ravage 4 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: the country, as we get new news that Feiser has 5 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: been approved for an at home pill to treat COVID 6 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: so that you no longer have to go into the hospital, 7 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: clogging up our hospitals in a way that they have 8 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: not seen since twenty twenty, but we are hearing about daily. 9 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: Is great news. But what would be even better is 10 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: if we had more than sixty one percent of the 11 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,480 Speaker 1: population that was vaccinated. I know that I am beating 12 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: a dead horse every time that I go back down 13 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: this road, but it discuss me to no end that 14 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: no one from the Trump administration is being held accountable, 15 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:06,119 Speaker 1: even as we receive more reports on the fact that 16 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: they had information for the public to share about COVID nineteen. 17 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: They had the protocols that they should have been using, 18 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: and they just refused. Instead, they saw it as an 19 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: opportunity to weaponize a virus, right, turning people against each 20 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: other and creating absolute chaos so that they could hold 21 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: on to power. Right. We lost over eight hundred thousand Americans, 22 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,320 Speaker 1: and that number continues to tick up, and they're twenty 23 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: five percent of the population that will refuse still to 24 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 1: get vaccinated. They're killing their own constituents, they're killing their 25 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: own followers, and yet still here we are, sixty one 26 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: percent of the population is vaccinated. You know, all I 27 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: can continue to say, following my conversation yesterday with our friend, 28 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzel is, friends, do everything within your power 29 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: to stay safe. As Jonathan said yesterday, now is not 30 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: the time for us to want to get COVID right now. 31 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: It's not the time for us to allow ourselves to, 32 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: you know, fall and lag in our daily habits that 33 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: that we've created, washing our hands six feet of distance, 34 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: wearing a mask. Make sure that you are vaccinated, make 35 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: sure that you are boosted, and just stay as safe 36 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: as possible this holiday season. I want to switch gears 37 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: now to going back to that son of a bitch 38 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: from West Virginia, Joe Mansion coming up later in the show. 39 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: I have the opportunity. I'm so excited to bring you 40 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: this conversation. I've wanted to interview this member of the squad, 41 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: Representative Jamal Bowman, from New York for the longest time 42 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: since he was elected. He is outspoken, he is passionate, 43 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: he is thoughtful and strategic, you know, everything that we 44 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: actually want out of the Democratic Party, but yet don't 45 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: get in mass. And we have a very candid conversation 46 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 1: about his thoughts on Joe Mansion, which he has not 47 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: minced any words on any of the shows that he 48 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: has appeared on. But the reality is this that we, 49 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 1: as he will share with us, are moving into a 50 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: really dark season, right. And I'm not just talking about winter. 51 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: I'm talking about, you know, the winter of our politics. 52 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: I'm talking about the dark corners right that we are 53 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: headed into when we know that we have a rabid 54 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: Republican Party that is willing to do anything and everything 55 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: in order to hold power. We have a really apathetic 56 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: Democratic Party that is not messaging in the way that 57 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: they need to message. And one of the things that 58 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: I bring up two Congressmen Bowman, is this, you know, 59 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: it is evident right that the Republicans have embraced the 60 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: likes of Marjorie Taylor Green, have embraced the likes of 61 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: Laura Beaubert as the new faces the Republican Party. They're 62 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: not moderate, they're not economically fiscal. They are crazy white 63 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: nationalists that are armed, that don't just use violence as 64 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: a threat, they use it as a campaigning tool as well. 65 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 1: They use it as a fundraising tool. If you see 66 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: the reception that Kyle Rittenhouse a murderer, right, a person 67 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 1: that murdered two people in cold fucking blood, two citizens 68 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: of this country. If you see the type of embrace 69 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,919 Speaker 1: that he is received from the Republican Party, from Lauren Bobert, 70 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: from others, right, they are making no qualms about who 71 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: they are, who they see their future as. And the 72 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: question that I ask Congressman Bowman is why won't Democrats 73 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: embrace who their future is? Why do they continue to 74 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: run from the likes of him, as well as Congresswoman 75 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 1: Omar and Ocasio Cortez and Pressley, And you know, it 76 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: just makes no fucking sense. Right. We know the demographics 77 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: of this country are rapidly shifting. We know that white 78 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: supremacy tied into capitalism, which are just one and of 79 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,599 Speaker 1: the same, are going to be what destroys this country. 80 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: We know why people voted in mass right for the 81 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: historic twenty twenty election. We know why the squad was 82 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: ushered into power in twenty eighteen. And it's because we right, 83 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: who still believe in progress, who still believe in justice, 84 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: believe in these young voices of color, And yet our 85 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 1: folks that are in leadership, the Peloses and the Schumer's right, 86 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: are still running from these people, are trying to distance 87 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: themselves from them. And I'm thinking to myself, but yet 88 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: you want to continue to run to the fucking mansions 89 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: of the world. You think that it's the independence that 90 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 1: saved you in twenty twenty. You think that that's what 91 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 1: got the Biden administer stration in. You think that that's 92 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: what solidified a democratic majority in Congress. You think it 93 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: was the independence or the fucking Republican karens that you 94 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: still try in court. It isn't right. It's people of color, 95 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: it's progressives, and they continue to ignore these people to 96 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: their fault. Right. You know, I just saw right before 97 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: it came on air that Biden has decided to extend 98 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: the waiver for paybacks of student loans until May because 99 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: of the omicron variant rise. And I gotta tell you, 100 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: if Joe Biden wants Democrats to stay in power, you 101 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: know what he could do instead of delaying the inevitable, 102 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: maybe cancel fucking student loan debt, right, maybe for those 103 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,480 Speaker 1: people that have student loan debt that is above fucking, 104 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: you know, fifteen thousand dollars that you fucking canceled that 105 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: shit out. It's just consistently amazing to me, and by amazing, 106 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: I mean absurd that we can make the excuses as 107 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: to why you continue to give tax breaks to the rich, 108 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: on why you continue to allow loopholes to exist so 109 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: that they don't have to pay their fair share. Then 110 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: you want to turn around and you want to tell people, oh, 111 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: if you want to be successful, if you want to 112 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: be quote unquote wealthy or middle class, you got to 113 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: go to school. You got to get an education. Then 114 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: those same people listen to you. They go to school, 115 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: they go to get an education, only to be saddled 116 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: with six figures worth of debt too, then have to 117 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: work in a low level, low paying job that they 118 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: are tied to not only for their benefits, but so 119 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: that they get to pay back the very institutions that 120 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: gave them blown you know, blown up fucking student loan debt. 121 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: It just doesn't make any sense, you know, everywhere It 122 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: doesn't matter at which at which end of the educational 123 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: spectrum that you're looking at, whether you're looking at preschoolers 124 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: or you're looking at those that are headed into post 125 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: secondary learning. We don't care. We don't care about you, 126 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: We don't care about students, we don't care about young students, 127 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: we don't care about older students. We don't want to 128 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: invest in workers in this country. And then we want 129 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: to turn around and say that they're lazy, right, We 130 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: want to allow the mansions of the world to say, no, 131 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: you don't deserve tax credit, you don't deserve student loan 132 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: debt relief, you don't deserve any of these things because we, 133 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: the rich and the mighty, who are wielding our swords 134 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: of power, believe that you are lazy and undeserving. You know, 135 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: it's amazing to me, and I will say this in 136 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 1: the interview with the congressman, you know us him. If 137 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: I have very little hope right about Congress and the 138 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: direction that Congress is going in. How do you feel? 139 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 1: How does it feel to show up every day into 140 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: a chamber with people that you know want to kill you? Right? Like? 141 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: What must that feel like? This isn't just oh, I'm 142 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: going to work and Peggy over there gets on my nerves. 143 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: Or every day, No, it's like I'm going to work 144 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: with somebody that put my face on their website and 145 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: with a with crosshairs, right, or I get on talk 146 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: radio and I tell them, oh, yeah, she's a terrorist 147 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: and we should kill them, like I You know, folks, 148 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: I swear to you, this year for me cannot end 149 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: soon enough because you know, and I'll just continue to 150 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 1: say this, I need a break, and I think that 151 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: we all need a break. And I wish, I wish 152 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: that I had the power to be able to say, 153 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: you know what, America, you know what, you deserve a sabbatical, 154 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: You deserve a year off, You deserve some time to 155 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: breathe right that we have if you, folks, if you 156 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: really think about it, as we're reflecting on, you know, 157 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: this year that has just passed, the fact that we 158 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: have been working, continuing to work, pay bills, pay rent, 159 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: pay mortgages, find ways to put food on the table 160 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: during this health pandemic where now in New York folks 161 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: are back to wearing masks just outside right, Like we 162 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: had gotten to a place where it's like, okay, we 163 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: all have our masks, and as soon as we're walking 164 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 1: into any store, any restaurant, our masks go on. And 165 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: it wasn't right. It was in twenty twenty when we 166 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: knew very little about COVID. So we're walking around out 167 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 1: on the streets and you're masked up because we don't know, right, 168 00:10:55,720 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: we didn't know how the virus worked. Well, now we're 169 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: back at what it feels like in New York right 170 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: now square one. And I know it's not square one 171 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: because we have a vaccine and we have a boost, 172 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: but I mean square one. Is it pertains to fear 173 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: Like I am not walking out of my apartment building 174 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: without a mask on. I am walking down the street 175 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: with a mask on. Right, I am seeing lines wrapped 176 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: around you know, city mds and pop up testing sites 177 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: because people are fearful. And you know the fact that 178 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 1: we are able to make it through this year. If 179 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 1: you are getting to the end of your workload for 180 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: the year, I know it may not have been perfect, right, 181 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: there may be some things left that will just have 182 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: to wait. But I want you to give yourselves a 183 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:54,559 Speaker 1: pat on the back. I want you to give yourself 184 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: some high praise because you know, I don't know who 185 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: is due the studies right now on our emotional state 186 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: as a collective, what it means to go through or 187 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: exist in collective trauma and anxiety and depression. And I'm 188 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: going to be you very candid. I've had many moments 189 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: as I'm trying to close out for the end of 190 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:25,439 Speaker 1: the year this week, where I was in full blown 191 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 1: tears because things just feel so big, right, like the problems, 192 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: they just feel so unwieldly, like are we ever going 193 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: to be able to wrap our arms around this? Are 194 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 1: we ever going to be able to tackle this issue? 195 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about Omicron, because it'll be 196 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: Omicron right now and in a couple of months it'll 197 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: be something else. That's the reality of where we're living 198 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: now that any moment, any reprieve that we have in 199 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: between these very enjoy them, right, Enjoy the ability to 200 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: socialize with your friends, Enjoy the ability to you know, 201 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: to connect with family, because we are going to be 202 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: living in what I believe are just going to be 203 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: consistent waves of this virus that will happen between November 204 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: and February of every year. So you know, during the show, 205 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: I have been you know, the past couple of weeks, 206 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,599 Speaker 1: I've been talking about fire seasons and these once in 207 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: a century tornadoes and once in a century storms and 208 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: all of these things. Well, the reality is that we're 209 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: living inside of a once in a century pandemic that 210 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: I don't think is ever going to end. I think 211 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: that much in the same way that we have these 212 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: different seasons right that through climate change have become exasperated 213 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: over time, that we're going to be living in and 214 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: with COVID forever, and that there will be seasons that 215 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: are way worse, that see a lot more death and 216 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:04,199 Speaker 1: a lot more illness than others. And that is simply 217 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: right because of wealthy nations desire not to provide lower 218 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,319 Speaker 1: incominations with the ability to manufacture at a high level 219 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: their own vaccines. It has to do with Donald Trump 220 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 1: and the Trump administration's initial handling of COVID nineteen that 221 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: after a year of being lied to every single day 222 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: by every single member, by every single fucking outlet that 223 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: a Republican would go on that the damage was already done. 224 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: The genie had already left the bottle, and we were 225 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: never going to be able to put it back. And 226 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: because of that, we'll never have one hundred percent of 227 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: the country vaccinated. We won't even ever get to probably 228 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: eighty percent of the country vaccinated, right, and that is 229 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: because of the Trump administration. And I'm just wondering why 230 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: we ever, we will never call a fucking spade a spade. 231 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: We'll keep talking about well some people and over there 232 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: and conservatives and the saying no, no, it's one person, 233 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: one party to blame for this. Fucking own it before 234 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: they do, right, But that's not what Democrats do. And 235 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: so in my conversation with Congressman Jamal Bowman coming up next, 236 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: we are going to talk about a range of topics. 237 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about COVID, We're going to talk 238 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: about build back better, and we're going to talk about 239 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: what he hopes to manifest in twenty twenty two. That 240 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: conversation coming up right now, folks. I am so excited 241 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: to welcome to wakayeff Daily for the very first time. 242 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: Congressman Jamal Bowman, who represents the sixteenth Congressional District of 243 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: New York, which is the North Bronx and Westchester and 244 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: has been one of the most outspoken, vocal progressive voices 245 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: in the House of representatives that I've been dying to 246 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: talk to you. Congressman, let me just say one, your 247 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: spirit and your passion give me hope at a time 248 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 1: when I am not the only one in America these 249 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: days that is feeling hopeless. As we're trying to head 250 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: into the holiday season and into the new year. The 251 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: first question that I have for you, I mean, is 252 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: the question that is on everyone's mind. Why is Joe Mansion, 253 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: a man that was elected by two hundred and ninety 254 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: thousand Americans the President of the United States. Why is 255 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: he the one that is leading our democracy when eighty 256 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: one million people voted for Joe Biden, voted for Vice 257 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: President Kamala Harris, voted for change, and he's sitting on 258 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: a yacht and a maserati doing anything but creating change. 259 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: You are speaking to the reason why we have to 260 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: deal with the electoral College and change what's happening there. 261 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: You are speaking to the reason and why we need 262 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: to elevate the issue of the filibuster and ending the 263 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 1: filibuster right now, because it's that issue I think that 264 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: will uncover sort of the historical and systemic discrimination and 265 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 1: how it exists in Congress and throughout much of America's institutions. 266 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: We have a system of minority rule, which means it's 267 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 1: a fifty fifty split. So Democrats have a slim majority 268 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 1: in the Senate, but the fifty Republicans represent way less 269 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:39,400 Speaker 1: people than the fifty Democrats, and those fifty Republicans, their 270 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 1: votes have as much power as the fifty Democrats. And 271 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,959 Speaker 1: what makes it worse to your point, is we have 272 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: one Democrat. And I would say too, because I think 273 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: Senator Cinema is an alignment with some of what we've 274 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,159 Speaker 1: been fighting against. We have one Democrat that's pretty much 275 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 1: caucusing as a Republican, pretty much behaving as a Republican. 276 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 1: And on the one hand, you could say, well, you know, 277 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: his state was won by Donald Trump at thirty nine points, 278 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: so he's behaving in alignment with that. That is true. 279 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: On the other hand, he represents a state where that 280 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: has some of the highest poverty rates in the country, 281 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 1: where has the seventh highest poverty rate when we're talking 282 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:27,360 Speaker 1: about childhood poverty, when you talk about climate injustice, when 283 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: you talk about lack of access to healthcare and the 284 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: history of an opioid epidemic, as well as a literal 285 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,880 Speaker 1: scandal where private industry poisoned the people of West Virginia. 286 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: When you talk about those things and what constituents they 287 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 1: are really dealing with, and who mentions donors are and 288 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 1: how those donors and special interests literally control Congress, that's 289 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: when we begin to have the right conversations and bigger 290 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: conversations about what's happening there. So that's a very long 291 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 1: answer to the simple question of why he has so 292 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: much power. The short answer is we have a slim majority. 293 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: The longer answer is, wait a minute, this is all 294 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 1: pretty corrupt and how it wor right? Yeah, because I'm 295 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 1: because I'm saying I sit around on woke a f 296 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: you know, on a regular basis, and I say to myself, 297 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: if this is what winning looks like, then I hate 298 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 1: to see what losing would look like. Right, Because if 299 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: if winning looks like no voting rights legislation, no build 300 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 1: back better, no direction on climate change, if it looks 301 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: like the House of Representatives passing hundreds of pieces of 302 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: legislation that without the graveyard of Mitch McConnell still goes 303 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: to die, right, then what is it that we are 304 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:51,479 Speaker 1: telling the American people to vote for you know, And 305 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 1: so I ask you, you know, as as a staunch Democrat, 306 00:19:55,200 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: as a staunch progressive, are we messaging as Democrats in 307 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 1: the way that we need to? Should we take a 308 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: piece of the Republican playbook? And in my humble opinion, 309 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: I'm not putting words in your mouth, but go after 310 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,199 Speaker 1: Mansion in the same way that we see Republicans go 311 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,440 Speaker 1: after people that refuse to tout Donald Trump's big lie. 312 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 1: It's a time for the niceties to end. So no, 313 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: we are not messaging correctly. Yes, it's time for the 314 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: niceties to end, but I wouldn't even say it's time 315 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: for the niceties to end. It's time for us to 316 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 1: tell the truth. We just have to tell the truth 317 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: about who we are, where we come from, how we 318 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: got here, and where we want to go. That's it. 319 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 1: Let's just have honest conversations about that. And because you know, 320 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,399 Speaker 1: the Republican Party and the Democratic Party both kind of 321 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: serve the same master when we talk about moderate and 322 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: conservative Democrats and Republicans. The master is money, The master 323 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:06,360 Speaker 1: is green, the large corporations, the master of special interests. 324 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,880 Speaker 1: This is why we're trying to get big money out 325 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: of politics and afore, the People Act that we passed 326 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: out of the House back in March would have done 327 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,199 Speaker 1: just that, but as you mentioned, it hasn't moved in 328 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: the Senate at all, and partly because Mansion didn't support it, 329 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: rewrote the bill, and now we're going to deal with 330 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: his rewrite of the bill. Right, So it's all of that. 331 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 1: It's also about getting organized, right, So we need to 332 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: get organized on the outside of Congress. And I'm talking 333 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: living room to living room conversation after conversation, what do 334 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: we want the country in the world to look like 335 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 1: twenty years from them? And then what are we doing 336 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: individually and collectively every day in our lives to get 337 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 1: to that world Because you're not going to defeat settler 338 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: colonialism in just a couple of years, because it's taken 339 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: hundreds of years to build. But we also need to 340 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 1: be organized on the inside, meaning is the Democratic Party 341 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: really going to embrace its big tent and it's and 342 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: it's brilliant communicators and orators and fundraisers like Ayana Presley, 343 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: Corey Bush and AOC. Are we really going to embrace 344 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: people like that to make the party what we should be, 345 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 1: which is the leader of the next iteration of American democracy, 346 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: and we need to get organized in doing that. What's 347 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,959 Speaker 1: happening in the Senate. How could we win a supermajority 348 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: in the Senate next year? How is the Senate working 349 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 1: with the House? How are we working with the White House? 350 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: What's our twenty year plan? None of that is happening 351 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 1: at the level as should. And that's why we need to, 352 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:44,439 Speaker 1: you know, we need to do more to make the 353 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,120 Speaker 1: change that's necessary to get that done. You know, I'm 354 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 1: really thankful that you mentioned your other colleagues, you know 355 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: who collectively the mainstream or the right wing. I don't 356 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 1: even know who has named this squad. And one of 357 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 1: the things that I find really frustrating is that it 358 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 1: is evident that the Republican Party has decided to embrace 359 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: what we had hoped was just the fringe, the Marjorie 360 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: Taylor Greens, the Lauren Bouberts, the Matt Gates. We thought 361 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: that that was the fringe of the Republican Party, but 362 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: we now know that it is the face. Why do 363 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: you think or do you believe that the Democrats that 364 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: are in leadership run from the progressives and don't have 365 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,120 Speaker 1: their back in the same way that we are seeing 366 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: the Republicans consistently have the back of their most rapid members. 367 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: You're talking about members that have threatened violence and death 368 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,199 Speaker 1: against their sitting colleagues. And I sit around and I 369 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:47,120 Speaker 1: read strongly worded statements rather than you know, seeing the 370 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: full breadth of the Democratic leadership embrace and have the 371 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 1: back of their warriors. You know, I agree. When I 372 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: was on the outside looking in, still a middle school principle, 373 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,120 Speaker 1: just paying attention to what was going on, I said 374 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: to myself, Wow, we have Nancy Pelosi, who's the Speaker 375 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 1: of the House, who as a woman who's been in 376 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: leadership in that space for a very long time. And 377 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 1: you got these four new, dynamic, incredible women in Congress 378 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 1: coming into you know, shake things up and move things 379 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 1: forward in a good way. And imagine if Speaker Pelosi 380 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: would embrace them in a way that truly empowered them 381 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: and centered them. We had an opportunity to do that 382 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: with the Democratic National Convention that we just had, and 383 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: I saw all these other faces and all these other people. 384 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,919 Speaker 1: I mean, we had a case at who's a Republican 385 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 1: gets some airtime at the DNC and others not saying 386 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 1: they shouldn't, but that would have been the perfect time 387 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: to elevate people like Rett Presley and Kazio potez Omar 388 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: and to leave and others. So that so that because 389 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,959 Speaker 1: they represent the full breath of America and what America is, 390 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: so we can't run away from it. We have to 391 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: be who we are, and we have to be honest 392 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 1: about who we are. But I'll tell you, you know, 393 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: we have people in Congress who are quote unquote frontliners, 394 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: which means they are you know, they're in swing districts 395 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: who the party caters to and dictate sort of how 396 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: we should go about doing business as a party to 397 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: support them, and of course we want to maintain the majority. 398 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: But when we do that, we only target independence, and 399 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: we only target moderates, and we don't target the eighty 400 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: million people who consistently do not vote in presidential elections 401 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: because they don't believe in our politics and our democracy. 402 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 1: One reason they don't believe is because for thirty one 403 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: years it was Elliot Ingle in the seat versus a 404 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: jamal bowment. Now you got a Jamalowment in the seat. 405 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: So let's do something with that. Let's not just you know, 406 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 1: continue to maintain a status quo that's that's long since past. 407 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 1: You know. I want to feel encouraged by the consistent 408 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: fire that comes out of the progressive voices in the House. 409 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 1: But it's almost as if Democrats consistently want to go 410 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: after people of color, which is the base of their constituent, 411 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: go after black people, black women, the base of the 412 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 1: Democratic Party, and then once they get our vote, they 413 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: hide those very voices and the very people that God 414 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 1: us excited to begin with. Right It's the same feeling 415 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: that I have currently right now about Vice President Kamala Harrison. 416 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: Why we haven't seen her front and center. It's this 417 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: sense of fear that Democrats have of whatever type of 418 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: retribution or reaction Republicans are going to bring them. Is 419 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: there a way do you see? And I know we 420 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: haven't turned the calendar year yet, but is there a 421 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: way for Democrats to win these mid terms, to make 422 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 1: some type of significant pivot in our messaging and in 423 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 1: the sense of urgency about what's at stake in this 424 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: upcoming election season? Yes, but you use the perfect word, 425 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: which is urgency. You know, like, if we don't act 426 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: and respond with urgency going into January, then we have 427 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,439 Speaker 1: no shot. We already have to climb out of a 428 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: ditch that we've dug for ourselves because we didn't communicate 429 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: our successes with the American Rescue Plan, because there were 430 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,919 Speaker 1: a lot of successes there. We used a lot of 431 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:28,719 Speaker 1: political capital to pass the bipartisan bill. We pretty much 432 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: spent most of the year doing that. But we haven't 433 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: moved to needle on voting rights. As you mentioned right, 434 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,479 Speaker 1: we haven't moved to needle on George Floyd. George Floyd 435 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: died in the Senate with a whisper. It died with 436 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: a whisper. There's not even there are no longer negotiations happening, 437 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: and it's just dead. And the whole world stood up 438 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 1: to demand police accountability and police reform, and George Floyd 439 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,439 Speaker 1: was supposed to be that, and that there's been no 440 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: delivering on that. There's been no deliverance on the Women's 441 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,160 Speaker 1: Health Protection Act, which would supersede whatever the Supreme Court 442 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,439 Speaker 1: does in terms of women's reproductive rights. No movement on 443 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: common sense gun reform. I mean, you think about it. 444 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: You haven't talked about gun reform probably all year, and 445 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 1: we had we've had one hundred and eighty school shootings 446 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,959 Speaker 1: and a big one in Michigan. So Democrats have to 447 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 1: react with the urgency and move with the urgency to 448 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: kill the filibuster, in my opinion, and get these bills passed. 449 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 1: And we got to do everything we in our power 450 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 1: to get Mansion on board. And that's about holding him accountable. 451 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: And until now that wasn't really happening, and now it's happening, 452 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: and now we see him complaining about all of the 453 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: pressure people up putting on him. That's the thing with 454 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: people with people of privilege right there, So you see 455 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: the vivillage and their comfort. Once they're challenge a little bit, 456 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: all hell breaks loose for them while ignoring the the 457 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: hundreds of years of systematical black people and several decades 458 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 1: of systemical oppression of everyone else. You know what drives 459 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: me crazy about Joe Mansion, And there are many and 460 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: I won't bore you with them because I know that 461 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: you in many ways feel the same way. But what 462 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 1: drives me crazy right now is that he continues to 463 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: say things need to be rewritten right, that he does 464 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: not answer to the people of New York in LA 465 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,719 Speaker 1: That's that's one of his favorite things right, you know, 466 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: because it's only in West Virginia that apparently real Americans live. 467 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess I'm an avatar because I 468 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: live in Brooklyn. But you know, the thing that he 469 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: continues to say is, you know the people of West Virginia, 470 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: those are the people that are on my mind. But 471 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: to your point at the top, they're behind in every 472 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 1: socioeconomic indicator that you can look at. Right, But this 473 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: man has been in power in their state for four decades. 474 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: Just recently this week, the coal union right, which is 475 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 1: the biggest in his state, has come out and said 476 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: we need build back better. Right, So if he's not 477 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: listening to them, and then his buddies on Wall Street 478 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: also just came out and said you need build back 479 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: better because we're going to go into an economic downturn 480 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: without it. So his donors on Wall Street are telling 481 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: him we need this. The supposed coal miners that he 482 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: loves to bring out every campaign season, he say that 483 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 1: they need this. But Joe Manchin is sitting and saying 484 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: he doesn't like the way people talk to him. I 485 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: don't know what more compromise do you think that you're 486 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: willing to give when we've already come down from three 487 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 1: and a half trillion dollars to one point seven five trillion. 488 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: He wasn't comfortable with that. Apparently he's not comfortable with 489 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: the childcare tax, he's not comfortable with climate change legislation. 490 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: So where do you see the room, Congressman, in terms 491 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: of being able to get this through when the media, 492 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: to me, also frames it as if it's your problem. 493 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: This is if it's the progressives problem and Joe Mansion 494 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: is just trying to be a moderate centerist. Yeah, absolutely, 495 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: And thank you for saying what you said about the 496 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: media's framing, because I've noticed that throughout my time in Congress, 497 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: and it's it's crazy that they're constantly asking progressives to 498 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,720 Speaker 1: compromise and ask for less and if we don't take this, 499 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 1: we get nothing. And the reason why they're doing that 500 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 1: because the power structure is controlled by corporation. So we're 501 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: talking about the corporate media and we're talking about a 502 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,959 Speaker 1: status quo that has done everything in this power for 503 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 1: several decades to keep progressives from having a voice. So 504 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 1: for me, and this goes back to the Democratic Party, 505 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 1: including Mansion, if you have boots on the ground in 506 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: your district, and across the country. You'll really understand what 507 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 1: the needs of your people are, what the needs of 508 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: the people that you serve are. But we don't have 509 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: boots on the ground. We're in ivory towers. We're in 510 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: ivory towers, reading polling, watching from afar what's happening, and 511 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: then making decisions based on that in alignment with a 512 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: status quo. That's that's embedded both consciously and subconsciously in 513 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: how we do business. So we have to disrupt all 514 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: of that because the reality is, again, tens of millions 515 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 1: of people have been lost faith, not even now, they 516 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: already were gone, and we're losing many more. And I 517 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: also worry about the psyche of the American people. Right 518 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: we were we were sort of coasting through Obama and 519 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 1: you know, I love the sign. I always go back 520 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: to this, if Hillary were the one, we would have 521 00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: all been in brunch. That's a great sign, a great sign. 522 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 1: And then we got Trump and it's like, you know, 523 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: that's how God works, like you thinks you're chilling bomb. 524 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: Take that. So we took four years of Trump and 525 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: we had an insurrection, and now we got twenty million 526 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 1: radicalized across this country, ready to take up arms to 527 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: defend their freedom. So if that doesn't wait, Joe Manchin 528 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: up and President Biden up and many of the old 529 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: status co op to to understand we need to do better. 530 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: I don't know what does. So for me to speak 531 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: out and for others to speak out, we have to 532 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: do that. And even though people don't always hear it 533 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 1: or understand it, we're actually speaking out with love, with 534 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 1: love for the people, with love for the planet. And 535 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: we think if we move forward with love and cooperation 536 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,200 Speaker 1: instead of the competition that's that's damn that is killing us, 537 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: then you know, what are we gonna do? You know, 538 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 1: I'm so I'm so grateful for the fact that you 539 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 1: that you have brought up, you know, this sense of 540 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,520 Speaker 1: urgency and the fact that twenty million Americans have been radicalized. 541 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: And if they looked and if they looked like me 542 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 1: and you, right, if they were a Muslim, if they 543 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 1: prayed in a different way, where do we think that 544 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: those people would be? What do we think that the 545 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 1: headlines on every news station, on in every paper, on 546 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,440 Speaker 1: every blog would be twenty million white people in this 547 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 1: country are radicalized. We are learning every single day about 548 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:28,840 Speaker 1: the ways in which this that former administration criminalized in administration, 549 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 1: put together a war room right and a plan to 550 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 1: overtake the government, are still doing so and nothing is happening. 551 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 1: What is the faith level that you have right now 552 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 1: in the one six Commission, right in the committee to 553 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: be able during what is going to be one of 554 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,400 Speaker 1: the most consequential years right this? Twenty twenty two to 555 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,640 Speaker 1: me is more consequential than twenty twenty four, because I 556 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,239 Speaker 1: don't think we get to twenty twenty four without some 557 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 1: serious in twenty twenty two. But what faith level do 558 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 1: you have right now, Congressmen and your fellow members and 559 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: their ability to actually get the job done here. I 560 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:15,359 Speaker 1: have faith in the January sixth Commission. I have less 561 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 1: faith in Joe Mansion and the Senate. But I have 562 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 1: unlimited faith, omnipotent faith in people, in human beings to 563 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 1: do great and be great. So my faith is in 564 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,840 Speaker 1: my constituents, the majority of them are black and brown. 565 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,880 Speaker 1: My faith is in the progressive way of moving forward, 566 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 1: and we have a ton of constituents who fit that category. 567 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,920 Speaker 1: If what happens in Congress doesn't translate to the people, 568 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 1: then we're going to lose. And that's what continuously happens, right, 569 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 1: does a disconnect between Washington and the people, and the 570 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 1: only conduce that connects them is mainstream media. And that's problematic. 571 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 1: The other thing is, you know, I mentioned the people 572 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:12,800 Speaker 1: because what has transformed this country historically has been sustainable 573 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,920 Speaker 1: movements throughout history. You know, the George Floyd Uprising was 574 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 1: powerful and important, but it was only a year. We 575 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 1: need sustainable organizing an action for five to ten years, 576 00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,880 Speaker 1: for five to ten to fifteen to twenty that starts 577 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 1: in liver rooms and expands through school boards, city councils, 578 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,879 Speaker 1: state houses, and Congress. That is what we need more 579 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:47,360 Speaker 1: than anything else. And so I hope that the people 580 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,600 Speaker 1: take a breather during the holiday season as much as 581 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,840 Speaker 1: I can, enjoy it, rest and get ready for it. 582 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,360 Speaker 1: To your point A twenty twenty two, that's going to 583 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:02,239 Speaker 1: require us to be consistently engaged in our democracy on 584 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:03,880 Speaker 1: the day to day basis. And one other thing I 585 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 1: want to mention, we can't eat our own as we 586 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,640 Speaker 1: build this movement and as we engage with this movement, 587 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,879 Speaker 1: because we are very critical of each other, right, it's 588 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,879 Speaker 1: like crabs in the barrel. We pull each other down 589 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 1: very critical. You know, I gotta get mine. It's us 590 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:27,120 Speaker 1: versus them. That's colonial thinking, and we have to recognize 591 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: that as colonial thinking and free ourselves of that because 592 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:34,240 Speaker 1: it's going to take all of us to defeat colonialism 593 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,800 Speaker 1: once and for all in the next five to ten years. 594 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,520 Speaker 1: But this year being a consequential year to your point, 595 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 1: you know, want to I want to ask you this 596 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 1: because I think that it's really important, particularly as people 597 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:51,160 Speaker 1: hopefully have an opportunity to get some rest and recharge 598 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,080 Speaker 1: as we head into the new year. How do you 599 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,000 Speaker 1: keep your hope going? How do you? You know, because 600 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,000 Speaker 1: I said, if I had to go to work with 601 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,239 Speaker 1: some of your colleagues, I think I would have quit, 602 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,400 Speaker 1: Like I think, I think I would have been like, 603 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:10,840 Speaker 1: so I'm good and I'm out. Um, you know it. 604 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:15,160 Speaker 1: How do you continue to go to the hill, you know, 605 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,799 Speaker 1: day in and day out and continue fighting when I 606 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:23,920 Speaker 1: can imagine if I feel exhausted, right and I'm not 607 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,279 Speaker 1: in your shoes, that you must be exhausted. So I 608 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,839 Speaker 1: want to be very honest, it's very hard. It's very 609 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 1: very hard. It's tiring, it's stressful, it's often overwhelming. Even 610 00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,799 Speaker 1: being a middle school principal in the bronx around the 611 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:46,640 Speaker 1: corner from the projects. Uh you know, that wasn't as 612 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,840 Speaker 1: stressful as this can be at times, but that was 613 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:53,279 Speaker 1: good preparation for me. So I'm happy for that. But uh, yes, 614 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,640 Speaker 1: dealing with children, yes, but it starts with this and 615 00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:01,920 Speaker 1: I'm not promoting this particular brand of alkaline iodide water, 616 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,839 Speaker 1: but it starts with like, you know, our diets and 617 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,800 Speaker 1: you know, drinking brother, getting your vegetables, in getting your sleep, 618 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,880 Speaker 1: unplugging from social media, turning the TV off. If you 619 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:18,080 Speaker 1: have a loved one, spend time with them just doing 620 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,920 Speaker 1: nothing or reading or whatever relaxes you find what relaxes you. 621 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:27,600 Speaker 1: I'm blessed to have three children. Oldest is twenty in college, 622 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,480 Speaker 1: my son, my second oldest is twelve, and my youngest 623 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,680 Speaker 1: is Maya. She's seven, my only daughter. So when you're 624 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,680 Speaker 1: a dad, and you gotta when you're a girl, dad, 625 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:42,480 Speaker 1: like nothing can really like that center is everything for you, right, 626 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,600 Speaker 1: So for me, I try to just you know, like 627 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,760 Speaker 1: monitor myself and I'm getting when I feel the triggers 628 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,680 Speaker 1: and whatever, and just unplug because to your point, it's 629 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,799 Speaker 1: it's tremendously hard. And then the last thing just to 630 00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,720 Speaker 1: connect with that we really need each other. We need 631 00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:05,200 Speaker 1: each other, and it's really important for us to be 632 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,000 Speaker 1: there for each other, not just as black people, but 633 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:12,680 Speaker 1: anyone who who's woke, who realizes that we have to 634 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,200 Speaker 1: this is wrong, like what like the way things have 635 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,880 Speaker 1: been can no longer be. We need a new world 636 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,960 Speaker 1: and it's on us to build that world together. So 637 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,279 Speaker 1: just just be there for each other as we go 638 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,680 Speaker 1: through all of these stressful times. I mean, I just 639 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,960 Speaker 1: you know, once again, I can't thank you enough, first 640 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,840 Speaker 1: for making time to join woke af but in all honesty, 641 00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:40,480 Speaker 1: for your belief in our democracy right and and the 642 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,000 Speaker 1: fact that your voice can change it. I'm a former 643 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:48,880 Speaker 1: educator as well. I taught first in second grade. With 644 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:54,959 Speaker 1: that and I transitioned my education of youth into trying 645 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,920 Speaker 1: to educate you know, adults, which is a lot harder. 646 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:05,440 Speaker 1: But you know, I really I feel that there you 647 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,919 Speaker 1: provide me with the sliver of hope that I need. 648 00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:11,920 Speaker 1: That if more good people, if more warriors like yourself 649 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 1: take up the mantle of protecting our democracy, then maybe 650 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:20,279 Speaker 1: we will say it right. Because I think again that 651 00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:25,120 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two is the most consequential political year that 652 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,799 Speaker 1: we will ever see. And if we continued with the 653 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,440 Speaker 1: lack of urgency at the helm of the Democratic Party, 654 00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,799 Speaker 1: then we will lose it. And it won't just be 655 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:40,239 Speaker 1: because of republican insurrectionists obstructionists, it will be because of 656 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:45,280 Speaker 1: democratic apathy. Final question for you, what are you hoping 657 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:50,279 Speaker 1: to manifest in twenty twenty two? Great question. So I 658 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:54,760 Speaker 1: was just texting with my chief of staff, Sarah, who 659 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,920 Speaker 1: is originally from Eritrea, East Africa, which is the birthplace 660 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:04,000 Speaker 1: of civilization, who started her career a professional career as 661 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,200 Speaker 1: a teacher in my school many years ago and it 662 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,600 Speaker 1: is now my chief of staff. So we were texting 663 00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,520 Speaker 1: and we're settling up a meeting to talk about our 664 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:15,560 Speaker 1: ten year plan and our twenty years and you know, 665 00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:19,000 Speaker 1: I want to highlight that because you know, oftentimes we 666 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:23,839 Speaker 1: just we just were, We're trapped. We're possessed with this 667 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:30,200 Speaker 1: moment to moment, day to day, anxiety, stress inducing way 668 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,600 Speaker 1: of being. A year to year is good, but the moment, 669 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,160 Speaker 1: the moment, day to day, week to week, month, that's 670 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,560 Speaker 1: too much. So we're going to take a step back 671 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,399 Speaker 1: twenty years from now. What do we want the world 672 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:42,960 Speaker 1: to look like, and how can we be a part 673 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,880 Speaker 1: of it ten years from now? What we wanted to 674 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,040 Speaker 1: look like, and how can we be a part of 675 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,160 Speaker 1: it next year? What do we need to get done. 676 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,319 Speaker 1: We gotta get built back better done. We gotta get 677 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:58,280 Speaker 1: voting rights done. We gotta get secure women's reproductive rights 678 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,640 Speaker 1: and access to healthcare, equity about access to healthcare through 679 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:05,560 Speaker 1: passing the Women's Health Protection Act. We gotta get immigration 680 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,240 Speaker 1: reform done. And we gotta get George Floyd and gun 681 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:14,080 Speaker 1: control done. So my energy is manifesting towards all of that. Now. 682 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,520 Speaker 1: I realize maybe two or three of those things may 683 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:21,160 Speaker 1: not happen, but I absolutely think that four or five 684 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,680 Speaker 1: of those things can happen. So I'm looking to manifest 685 00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,719 Speaker 1: those things in Congress while also building power in the 686 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,440 Speaker 1: district because you know, this is a new thing for 687 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,440 Speaker 1: the district, first personal color representing this district in history, 688 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:39,040 Speaker 1: So it's a paradigm shift, and you know, I want 689 00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,480 Speaker 1: the district to continue to trust me, to rock with me, 690 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,960 Speaker 1: because I'm going to rock with them because everything I 691 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,919 Speaker 1: fight for starts with the most needy person in our 692 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,680 Speaker 1: district and part of that group, and I want to 693 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,520 Speaker 1: mention this before our goal. New York State is fighting 694 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,080 Speaker 1: for care workers this year, so fair pay for home 695 00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:59,920 Speaker 1: care workers. Right now, home care workers don't even earn 696 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,799 Speaker 1: The average is under minimum wage is twelve fifty hour 697 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,040 Speaker 1: and they do some of the toughest work. We got 698 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,759 Speaker 1: to make sure New York State pass passes policy that 699 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:13,440 Speaker 1: pays a prevailing wage to homecare workers so they can 700 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,800 Speaker 1: finally live with dignity. I want to give a special 701 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,359 Speaker 1: shout out to them and hopefully that manifest in New 702 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:24,799 Speaker 1: York State. Congressman Jamal Bowman, thank you so much. Thank 703 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,279 Speaker 1: you for your work, thank you for your passion, thank 704 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,880 Speaker 1: you for your time, and I hope that we can 705 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:34,239 Speaker 1: continue this conversation with you in the new year. Appreciate you, 706 00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,719 Speaker 1: of course, Peace and love. Thanks for having me, God 707 00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:45,400 Speaker 1: bless you. Happy holidays. That is it for me today. 708 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,200 Speaker 1: Here Folks on woke app as always, power to the 709 00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,239 Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and 710 00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:53,640 Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.