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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, It's Sophia. Welcome to Work in Progress. Hey,

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Speaker 1: whip smarties. Today we have one of my very favorite

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Speaker 1: not because she is an accomplished civil rights attorney who

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Speaker 1: defends our very ideals, not because she happens to be

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Speaker 1: one of the most whip smart people I've ever been

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Speaker 1: of the coolest people on the House floor. It's really

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Speaker 1: for all of these things. Today we are joined by

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Speaker 1: none other than Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. She didn't come to

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Speaker 1: Washington to play nice. She came to defend a true

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Speaker 1: and more gorgeous America. And right now she is standing

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Speaker 1: at the center of one of the most consequential fights,

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Speaker 1: not only in Texas but across the nation over redistricting,

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Speaker 1: access to the ballot, voting rights, and with communities of

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Speaker 1: color will be silenced or heard. As many of you know,

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Speaker 1: this year, Texas Republicans drew a new congressional map that

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Speaker 1: is designed to add five gup seats, which has forced

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Speaker 1: Democrats to sue in court because they're drawing this in

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Speaker 1: ways that would reduce the voting power of some Americans

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Speaker 1: to one fifth a full vote. If that sounds like

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Speaker 1: an eerie ghost of history past that we should be

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Speaker 1: ashamed of. It is, and Jasmine Crockett is not going

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Speaker 1: to take this one laying down. She's here to talk

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Speaker 1: about local politics, national politics, what's going on with the

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Speaker 1: government shut down, what on earth is happening with the

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Speaker 1: Epstein files, and why Speaker Johnson frankly keeps lying to us.

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Speaker 1: She is here to defend a democracy under siege, and

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Speaker 1: she does it with style. Let's dive in with Jasmin

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Speaker 1: crockettar my lighthouse, beacon, north star human being that reminds

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Speaker 1: me that we can speak truth to power. It feels

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Speaker 1: like a weird thing to ask you how you are

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Speaker 1: when twenty twenty five is twenty twenty fiving so hard

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Speaker 1: in more the project way than just the calendar year.

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Speaker 1: But how are you?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know what?

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Speaker 3: I really am not going to complain. There is a

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Speaker 3: lot that I could say. But every day that I

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Speaker 3: I also think about how fortunate I am that in

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Speaker 3: this moment, unlike so many others that are sitting at home,

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Speaker 3: and filling the same level of frustration, if not a

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Speaker 3: higher level of frustration. I at least have a seat

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Speaker 3: an opportunity to kind of sit around and say, oh,

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Speaker 3: pity me. I look at this as an opportunity. I

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Speaker 3: bad guys. And when I say take down, it's the

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Speaker 3: traditional takedown. Right. So I am looking forward to the

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Speaker 3: midterms and I am trying to help other candidates right

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Speaker 3: now because I do believe we should have some oversight.

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Speaker 3: I do believe that the American people deserve real answers.

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Speaker 2: I do believe that it is.

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Speaker 3: Our time to shine a light on all the darkness

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Speaker 3: much as sometimes I wake up and I'm ready to

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Speaker 1: I really love that. That's beautiful. It's interesting, you know,

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Speaker 1: when I when I think about all the ways that

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Speaker 1: I get the privilege. Like you said, you have the

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Speaker 1: privilege of a seat at the table. I have the

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Speaker 1: year in change, call you a friend, you know, see

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Speaker 1: overdue meal. I think about who you are as someone

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Speaker 1: who takes that sacred rage that I think anyone who

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Speaker 1: right now. And you do so from your seat, as

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, you do so from your expertise. You know,

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Speaker 1: What was your vibe as a young woman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so funny because I legitimately have some friends

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Speaker 3: that I've had since elementary and many of them are like,

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Speaker 2: So I was always a smart girl. You know.

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Speaker 3: with all these random things and I'm like, honestly, honey,

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Speaker 3: I've been the same.

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Speaker 2: My entire life.

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Speaker 3: You can go and find from me testing at the

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Speaker 3: top with all the standardized tests from elementary on to

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Speaker 3: So I've always done really really well with the studies.

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Speaker 3: I've always had a bit of bite. So in the

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Speaker 3: third grade, I got in trouble, which I guess is

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Speaker 2: I got in trouble for cursing out my art teacher.

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Speaker 3: So you know, listen, I mean, and you know, I

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Speaker 2: I mean, things happened, but like I was, I was.

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Speaker 2: I was a bit of a smarty and I didn't

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Speaker 3: It was literally like what you see now where I

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Speaker 2: But that teacher decided to try me, and so that's

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Speaker 3: And you know, I got into trouble, but you know,

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Speaker 2: So I am pretty much the same.

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Speaker 3: I probably was a little bit more outgoing back then

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Speaker 3: But like it was different because as a kid, you're

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Speaker 3: nervous because I don't know if you're walking up out

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Speaker 3: trying to kind of understand like what you're trying to do.

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Speaker 3: So obviously that has changed totally, and I wish I

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Speaker 2: But unfortunately that's just kind of a part of growing up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's also it's a real symptom of

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Speaker 1: a sick society. And while I am a great fan

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Speaker 1: I don't deal with it in the way that you do.

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Speaker 1: But let me tell you what I do deal with

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Speaker 1: as an outspoken you know, volunteer for Democracy has changed

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Speaker 1: I gave a talk last week at World Mental Health

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Speaker 1: And then I was like, that's a joke, to be clear,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't need Breitbart to write another article that

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Speaker 1: is going to result in like ten thousand more death

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Speaker 1: But what's amazing to me as a you know, a

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Speaker 1: Like we see the gains made, you know, LGBTQ folks, anybody,

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Speaker 1: three C of every bill. So how does how does

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Speaker 1: ran for office, how does that all come together for you?

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Speaker 2: So this is such a great question.

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Speaker 3: It's it's one of those things that I try to

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Speaker 3: encourage our caucus to think about, right because typically people

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Speaker 2: And imagine if that was the Democrats, they would be gone,

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Speaker 1: communities he attacks. He immediately attacked the LGBTQ community after

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk's murder.

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Speaker 2: And the black community, and then in the black community.

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Speaker 1: They went to the HBCUs uh huh the very next day, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: death threats at all the HBCUs. And then we find

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Speaker 1: out the kid grew up in a very mag of family,

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Speaker 1: and everything went quiet. There's been no autopsy, there's been

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Speaker 1: no reporting, there's been no ballistics confirmed, there's been no nothing.

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Speaker 1: But they did use his death as a white power rally,

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Speaker 1: and Stephen Miller literally stood up there quoting Joseph Goebbels,

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Speaker 1: while Donald Trump and JD. Vance have the nerve to say, well,

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Speaker 1: if the left wasn't calling everyone a Nazi, if you

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Speaker 1: don't want to be called a Nazi, stop quoting Nazis,

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Speaker 1: stop quoting them, stop literally quoting Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler,

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Speaker 1: and stop disappearing people into concentration camps. You can't tell us.

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Speaker 1: It's like someone saying to you, you're not allowed to

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Speaker 1: say the sky is blue, but it is. And meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: this is happening at a time where the Orwellian don't

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Speaker 1: trust your eyes, don't trust your ears. What we're doing

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Speaker 1: right in front of your face, we're not really doing.

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Speaker 1: We see this power grab, you know, they see how

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Speaker 1: their numbers are plummeting. But what's really alarming to me

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Speaker 1: now is watching they're attempting to gut the Voting Rights Act. Well,

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Speaker 1: what's left of it, they've already gott it a lot

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Speaker 1: of it, And the fact that they are trying to

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Speaker 1: redistrict so many states, include your own, to establish a

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Speaker 1: permanent Republican victory in our country regardless of the will

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Speaker 1: of the voters, including my friend in your district. These

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Speaker 1: maps that they're proposing literally would erase your seat, the

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Speaker 1: seat you won, the seat you were elected to serve

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Speaker 1: in by the people in Texas. What the hell are.

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Speaker 2: We gonna do?

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Speaker 1: You know, you're in You're in the halls. So yes,

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Speaker 1: we can write the letters, and yes we can call

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Speaker 1: the reps, and yes we can show up on No

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Speaker 1: King's Day, and yes we can do these things. But

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Speaker 1: what else do you believe is the most decisive action

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Speaker 1: the citizenry can take to push back against the literal

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Speaker 1: theft of democracy? Because if we can't vote for our leaders,

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Speaker 1: then we don't have anything. Then we do have kings?

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Speaker 1: So like, what don't what don't we know that? You know?

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Speaker 1: Because I'm clearly very anxious that I know my listeners

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Speaker 1: are too listen.

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Speaker 3: I don't know much I'm gonna tell you that, but

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Speaker 3: I will tell you that they want you to feel

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Speaker 3: helpless and hopeless and that's the last thing that I

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Speaker 3: want anyone to feel.

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Speaker 2: That is when they win.

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Speaker 3: We have to recognize that it is our power that

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Speaker 3: makes them fearful.

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Speaker 2: That is exactly why they are doing everything that they

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Speaker 2: can to rig the system.

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Speaker 3: But like this does present an opportunity to build back better,

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Speaker 3: to build something that actually does with this country espouses

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Speaker 3: to do, which is to be the land of free

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Speaker 3: and land of opportunity and land of immigrants for all. Right,

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Speaker 3: Like that is what we have the ability to do that.

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Speaker 3: We have the ability to be a true democracy where

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Speaker 3: everyone's voice is counted.

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Speaker 2: Right, we have the ability to do that.

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Speaker 3: Once they break everything, we can fix it and make

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Speaker 3: it better. Now, is it going to come back together

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Speaker 3: better as quickly as it took to break it? Now,

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Speaker 3: so we will need people to do something that they

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Speaker 3: normally or not good at. Be patient, right, but like

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Speaker 3: give us a chance and know that at a very minimum,

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Speaker 3: we are not trying to tear anything down, but we

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Speaker 3: are trying to build it up.

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Speaker 2: We are trying to fortify it so that we don't

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Speaker 2: end up with another.

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Speaker 3: Autocrat that decides that they are going to exploit every

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Speaker 3: loophole that relies on the American people being able to

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Speaker 3: choose a leader that really believes in who we are. Instead,

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Speaker 3: we have a crooked crook that is acting as if

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Speaker 3: he is a gangster and a thug right who is

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Speaker 3: robbing us blind in broad daylight, taking our dollars and

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Speaker 3: sending them to everything that doesn't help us, whether it

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Speaker 3: is you know, making Argentina great again by taking our

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Speaker 3: dollars and sending it there while we are experiencing record

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Speaker 3: bankruptcy filings by our farmers and basically saying, oh, we

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Speaker 3: will boost the the profitability of the farmers in Argentina,

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Speaker 3: while there's been zero out of almost thirteen billion dollars

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Speaker 3: from soybeans specifically that had historically come from China as

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Speaker 3: a purchaser of our soybeans.

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Speaker 2: Right, they're missing those dollars. And I know we're.

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Speaker 3: Talking about the soybean farmers a lot because the whole

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Speaker 3: Argentina thing, but all of our farmers are struggling. And

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Speaker 3: what people don't understand is that I used to serve

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Speaker 3: on the AD Committee and we used to say things

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Speaker 3: like that it's a matter of national security, and it is.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've had an opportunity to travel around the

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Speaker 3: world as a member of Congress, and we've talked about

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Speaker 3: how it looks when say you've got to rely on

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Speaker 3: somebody else to feed your people. That ain't something that

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Speaker 3: you want. We need our farmers to survive for a

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Speaker 3: bunch of different reasons, but one of them is literally

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Speaker 3: a matter of national security. We can not allow ourselves

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Speaker 3: to be dependent upon other people to feed us, because

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Speaker 3: when you end up, say in some tiff, they can

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Speaker 3: just decide we're not going to seale team anymore. We

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Speaker 3: will go and diversify and sell somewhere else and starve us.

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Speaker 3: And yes, this has happened. There is a story I

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Speaker 3: sat down and spoke with in a mirror, and the

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Speaker 3: United States actually helped them out.

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Speaker 2: It's a whole thing. But people don't typically think of

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Speaker 2: food in that way, but we really need to.

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Speaker 3: So while people may be upset with farmers, because for

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Speaker 3: the most part, we can say the average farmer voted

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Speaker 3: for Trump, So you can be upset, But what I

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Speaker 3: tell people all the time is that I need you

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Speaker 3: to survive. That needs to be the refrain that we

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Speaker 3: hear in our voices every time we're looking at somebody

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Speaker 3: and believing that they're the opposite of who we are.

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Speaker 2: We need each other to survive.

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Speaker 3: I mean I need the farmer farming because no matter

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Speaker 3: where you live, we all got to eat, right. So

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Speaker 3: I say all that to say that if we don't

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Speaker 3: start to pull together, whether it is over. You know,

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Speaker 3: the farming issues are even just kind of.

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Speaker 2: The capitulation that we've.

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Speaker 3: Seen around the tariffs and the Republicans right, they know

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Speaker 3: that their policies are not policies that serve the masses.

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Speaker 3: That is why they want to distract and divide. So

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Speaker 3: long as they can keep us divided, then we can't

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Speaker 3: pay attention to all of the corruption and robbing that

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Speaker 3: is taking place. And so it is important that we

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Speaker 3: say listen, we may not agree on ninety percent of

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Speaker 3: the things that we have to talk about, but the

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Speaker 3: ten percent those are foundational things. We all need to

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Speaker 3: eat and hopefully let it be healthy. Now that we

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Speaker 3: have this crazy HHS secretary. We all need to have

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Speaker 3: jobs and gainful employment. As our jobs numbers are tanking.

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Speaker 3: We all need an overall strong economy, one where costs

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Speaker 3: are not going through the roof which we're experiencing that

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Speaker 3: because of the tariffs.

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Speaker 2: These sort of like foundational things.

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Speaker 3: Housing, food, education, jobs, Like this is foundational stuff and

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Speaker 3: I don't really care where you fall on the political spectrum,

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Speaker 3: Like that is the foundation that is that ten percent.

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Speaker 3: We can disagree about LGBTQIA. Hell, I will let you

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Speaker 3: disagree on diversity, equity and inclusion, like I will let

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Speaker 3: you whatever, right, but like right now we don't have

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Speaker 3: our foundational things together. As people are saying that their

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Speaker 3: healthcare bill is going from two hundred dollars a month

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Speaker 3: to six hundred dollars or eight hundred dollars or whatever

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Speaker 3: it is that is going to we're now fighting for

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Speaker 3: a bare minimum by saying, hey, at least if they

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Speaker 3: are receiving their healthcare on the marketplace, you know, we

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Speaker 3: don't want the tax subsidies to expire as they are

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Speaker 3: supposed to expire in December.

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Speaker 2: No, they don't care. So a double whammy.

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Speaker 3: And I say double whamy because the price have already

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Speaker 3: gone up and now you're saying take away the subsidies.

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Speaker 3: But it's even more than that because we know that

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Speaker 3: the jobless numbers are going up as well. We also

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Speaker 3: know that costs are going up. We know that wages

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Speaker 3: are not like it's not even just a double whammy.

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Speaker 3: It's like quadruple like, I don't know, it's a bunch

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Speaker 3: of waiting.

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Speaker 1: Not sustainable, and it's certainly not sustainable in a country

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Speaker 1: where the average American is one unexpected four hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: bill away from bankruptcy. Yeah, and now a word from

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Speaker 1: our sponsors that I really enjoy and I think you

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Speaker 1: will too. You know, It's it's interesting for me watching

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Speaker 1: a lot of people because I talk a lot about

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Speaker 1: the fact that billionaires just aren't paying their fair share,

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Speaker 1: and if they did, the country be in a different place.

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Speaker 1: I get a lot of and I'm sure you do too. Oh,

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Speaker 1: you must just be jealous that you're not a billionaire.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, we are all so much closer God

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Speaker 1: forbid to being a houseless tomorrow than to ever in

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Speaker 1: our lifetime or the next five lifetimes being a billionaire. Like,

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Speaker 1: and it really makes me think about what you were saying.

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Speaker 1: The core of what we're supposed to be has to

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Speaker 1: be agreed upon. But I think what the Republicans are

613
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Speaker 1: very good at doing is making us argue about disagreements

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Speaker 1: about things like you mentioned, whether it's LGBTQ rights, whether

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Speaker 1: it's a DEI, whether it's I don't know the fact

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Speaker 1: that women are people and we should have autonomy over

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Speaker 1: our bodies, crazy idea. I know you know all of

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Speaker 1: these things. And it's not lost on me that the

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Speaker 1: party that fought so hard to pass a bill to

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Speaker 1: harm Americans to help people who don't need it, like

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Speaker 1: you know, the two hundred and eighteen or however many

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Speaker 1: there are billions in this country don't need another jet,

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Speaker 1: but all Americans need to be able to put food

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Speaker 1: on the table. It's not lost on me that they

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Speaker 1: forced that vote through and told people they couldn't leave DC,

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Speaker 1: and now they've shut the government down and won't reopen

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Speaker 1: it because A they don't want y'all to advocate for

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Speaker 1: people's subsidies, and B they know if they swear in

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Speaker 1: that new lady from Arizona that you're going to vote

630
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Speaker 1: on the Epstein files, like they are shutting down the

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Speaker 1: government to protect pedophiles and to protect the alleged kingpin

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Speaker 1: of all the pedophiles, who is as evidenced and in

633
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Speaker 1: his own words said the best friend of our current president. Like,

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Speaker 1: are are we going to get justice there? Do we

635
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Speaker 1: just keep our feet on the gas pedal because I

636
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: know that that is actually something as people are beginning

637
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Speaker 1: to really recognize the pattern of what's going on, and

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00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: they know that Mike Johnson's tying about why he won't

639
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Speaker 1: bring people back, like people of all walks of life

640
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Speaker 1: and of all voting identities are saying, we deserve to

641
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Speaker 1: know how the people in power in our country were

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Speaker 1: connected to that man. You know, we want to know

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Speaker 1: about the money, We want to know about the transfers,

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Speaker 1: we want to know what happened. What do you think

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Speaker 1: happens if and when those files come out?

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Speaker 3: So you're right, they don't want to swear in repulec Rahalva,

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Speaker 3: And I think that this is a really good lesson

648
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Speaker 3: and how far they will go to obstruct and so

649
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Speaker 3: how can you trust these people to govern when it

650
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Speaker 3: seems like the only thing that it seems like they're

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Speaker 3: good at is obstruction, right, Obstructionism got us the Supreme

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Speaker 3: Court that we have, and unfortunately that is the Supreme

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Speaker 3: Court that is now hearing things such as what you

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Speaker 3: were talking about earlier. You know, I don't think that

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Speaker 3: they believe that they can even win, even as they're

656
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 3: trying to steal seats. I think that they are nervous

657
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 3: that they are still going to lose, which has been

658
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 3: my philosophy anyway, because we can talk about the masses

659
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 3: that have been detrimentally impacted, it's the very slim one

660
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 3: percent that has been positively impacted by this administration. And

661
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 3: so we know that the last time that Trump was

662
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 3: in it was a historic midterm as relates to the

663
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 3: number of Republicans that were booted, it was maybe like

664
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 3: forty five or something like that Republican seats that were lost.

665
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 3: And so that's why he started with this scheme. But

666
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 3: he wasn't expecting for California to push back. And so

667
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:35,439
Speaker 3: you have the Supreme Court now hearing rehearing a case

668
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 3: as it relates to the Voting Rights Act and Section

669
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 3: two and whether or not those seats which I have

670
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 3: a Section two seat, will be upheld. And those are

671
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 3: the seats that basically further codify what is laid out

672
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 3: in the Constitution as relates to the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendment.

673
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 3: But right now we have white people saying that they

674
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 3: are the ones that are being discriminated against by allowing

675
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 3: black people to have representation, and the map that they

676
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 3: have drawn in the State of Texas unfortunately reduces the

677
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,240
Speaker 3: voices of black Texans to one fifth of their white

678
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 3: Texan counterparts, as well as our Latino brothers and sisters,

679
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 3: their voices are reduced to one third. So don't tell

680
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 3: me that this is about equity, because frankly, if we

681
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 3: can roll up and just kind of be equal on

682
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 3: any given day, then great, like I'm good like you

683
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 3: can change and you can do yeah. But the problem is,

684
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 3: y'all don't know what equity is. That is why you're

685
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 3: currently in court and now trying to pretend as if

686
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 3: you are the victims. So you've got all of this

687
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 3: that is going on because they know that their bills

688
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 3: are not popular. They also know that they are losing

689
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 3: some of their Republicans. So besides the Epstein situation, once

690
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 3: they swear Grijalva and I told you that the big

691
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,479
Speaker 3: Ugly bill only passed by one vote.

692
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 2: Anyway, Well, now we have at least two new.

693
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 3: Members that have been sworn in two of the three

694
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 3: that we are missing, so we're still down by one.

695
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 3: But literally just having one of them could have changed

696
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:09,240
Speaker 3: the trajectory. We've now seen Marjorie Taylor Green come out

697
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 3: and sound like she's normal.

698
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 2: We just gonna pause there.

699
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 3: But nevertheless, so we've seen Marjorie come out, we've seen

700
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 3: her taking this stance that is like what we've been saying,

701
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 3: right and going against our party. But also she is

702
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 3: on that discharge petition that is being co led by

703
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 3: Rocanna and Thomas Massey. Thomas Massey also another Republican. So

704
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 3: there's four Republicans on there, which is absolutely ridiculous for

705
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 3: them to be in the majority and for them to

706
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 3: be all about law and order allegedly and them not

707
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 3: be you know, running to sign on to this discharge

708
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 3: petition because the refuser, the refuser, the speaker refuses, he

709
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 3: is a refuser. He refuses to bring this to the

710
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,479
Speaker 3: floor for a vote. He could just do the bill.

711
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 3: We didn't have to do this, but this is the

712
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 3: hard way, and this is such like I want people

713
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 3: to understand how big and bad of a situation this is.

714
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 3: We have discharge petitions and basically think of it as

715
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 3: a ballot initiative.

716
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 2: Not every state has them.

717
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 3: Unfortunately we don't have them in Texas. Otherwise a lot

718
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 3: of things will be different.

719
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 2: But it's like a ballot.

720
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 3: Initiative, right, So your elected representatives are not doing what

721
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 3: you think they should be doing. The people can come

722
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 3: together collectively petition their government and change the law. Okay,

723
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 3: that is kind of like what a discharge petition is.

724
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 3: The speaker is the only one they can put a

725
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 3: bill on the floor. And if the speaker refuses to

726
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 3: put a bill on the floor that the body collectively

727
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 3: believes should be on the floor, which is represented by

728
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 3: the two hundred and eighteen signatures, then that's how.

729
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 2: We force it to the floor.

730
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 3: We do it most of the time in a very

731
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 3: symbolic way. This is going to be the first time,

732
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 3: and I don't know when, like years and years and years,

733
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 3: that a discharged petition actually is successful to basically override

734
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 3: the speaker, because most of the time people get in

735
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 3: line behind the party leader and they're just like, you

736
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 3: know whatever, But it's not happening. So I believe that

737
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 3: the speaker as well as the President are most likely

738
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 3: working overtime to try to get some of the Republicans

739
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 3: to come off. But Marjorie ain't going nowhere, nor is

740
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 3: Thomas Massey. So we'll see about the other two and

741
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 3: whether or not they waiver. Okay, once she has sworn

742
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 3: in and we vote on this. This is going to

743
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,720
Speaker 3: be bigger than the subpoenas that have been put out

744
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 3: by the Oversight Committee. It was a subcommittee that came

745
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 3: together and outsmart at them and they were able to

746
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 3: get a subpoena.

747
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 2: Ordered out of committee.

748
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 3: When the Speaker tried to kick us out of DC

749
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 3: early to avoid a vote on the Epstein files, he

750
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 3: didn't want any in. This committee was already set up

751
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 3: and so they were able to do it. So it

752
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 3: was brilliant. It worked kind of. So then we get

753
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 3: some documents, but it's really nothing new, right And basically

754
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 3: at this point in time, if you saw cash Buttel testify,

755
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 3: he's decided what he legally can let out and what

756
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 3: he can and you know, instead of going to a

757
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 3: court and saying, hey, I have this lawful subpoena from

758
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 3: the Congress, I don't believe that these items can be disclosed.

759
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 3: We need the opinion of the court. He has not

760
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 3: done that. He is making his own opinions. And what

761
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 3: we received was representative of somewhere between one and three

762
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 3: percent of the entirety of the file.

763
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 2: That is it. That is it.

764
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 3: He is acting like the rest of it cannot come out,

765
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 3: and that's just not true. And some of the things

766
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 3: that we talked to the survivors with about is that

767
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 3: they had made calls to the FBI, they had made reports,

768
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 3: and obviously with people that experienced trauma, as they're going

769
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 3: through and saying, because at least one of them is

770
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 3: actually like a trauma counselor at this point, you know,

771
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 3: there's different mechanisms that people engage in to kind of

772
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 3: like the human brain is going to protect you in

773
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 3: different ways. It looks different for every different person, and

774
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 3: so some of them really want to see, like in

775
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 3: that moment, like what I reported, Like I want to

776
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 3: see like and I want to see what they did

777
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 3: after I made that report, Like I want to see

778
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 3: who got involved, who followed up, who did what. They

779
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 3: won't even allow them to see their own files, like

780
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 3: their lawyers were like, can you just ask them to

781
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 3: allow them to see their own files to see what

782
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 3: when they were the victims that made reports and they

783
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 3: want to know what work, if any, was done, like

784
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 3: they should have a right, and they.

785
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 2: Don't even want to do that.

786
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 3: So I will tell you that I fully anticipate there

787
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 3: are photos obviously lud photos as we heard, you know,

788
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 3: one of his cabinet members talking the other day about

789
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 3: being his next door neighbor and talking about the videos

790
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 3: that you know he anticipated existed to blackmail people.

791
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 2: I anticipate there is some video footage.

792
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 3: We know in our conversations or our inquiry with alex

793
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 3: Acosta about what took place in Florida in two thousand

794
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 3: and eight, we know in talking to him that they're

795
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:33,479
Speaker 3: definitely like there's memos and conversations about video footage even

796
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 3: back then. So we've not received any video tapes anything

797
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:38,399
Speaker 3: like that.

798
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: Can I ask you about that? Because there's a big

799
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: GOP talking point that they don't want the files to

800
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: come out because they would never publish material of sexual abuse.

801
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: That is not what you're talking about. You're talking about committee,

802
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: like the people who are legally supposed to have oversight

803
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 1: over this material reviewing it.

804
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 3: So what I would anticipate is we would go in

805
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:11,439
Speaker 3: to whomever is holding whatever and we would review there,

806
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 3: and then what I would anticipate is the majority and

807
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 3: minority would come together and report out what we saw

808
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 3: and or if the Republicans don't want to talk about it,

809
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 3: you know, we would potentially do a minority report that

810
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 3: laid out for the public exactly kind of what was depicted,

811
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 3: because we wouldn't want names and faces anyway, right, like

812
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 3: to be out there if they're not. So no, it

813
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:45,720
Speaker 3: would be about us safeguarding and even you know, making

814
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 3: sure again, many of these women were girls when they

815
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 3: went through this, and there may have been video footage

816
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:57,439
Speaker 3: of them that they've never seen. They may have been

817
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 3: recorded without them knowing, and so at least supporting them

818
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 3: also an opportunity to go and sit and see what

819
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:07,959
Speaker 3: all is in the files and that kind of stuff.

820
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 1: Right, and now a word from our wonderful sponsors. Well,

821
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: and I think that's a really important thing for the

822
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: public unversity that all of you serve in a similar

823
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: way to you know, the things we've seen in film

824
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: and television. You know, you become the Olivia Benson of

825
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,439
Speaker 1: SVU in a way. You review the materials and then

826
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: you can testify on what's in them, But what's in

827
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 1: them does not get released to further traumatize a victim

828
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,839
Speaker 1: or do harm. The report on what is in that

829
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: material is entered into the record so the perpetrators can

830
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: accurately be charged and that's what we're calling for, and

831
00:47:56,719 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: I just think it's a really important piece of information

832
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: to give to people who are seeing a lot of

833
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: you know, clickbait, rage bait stuff on the internet that

834
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: isn't actually true. Now, I'm curious as we see them

835
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: trying to hold on to power with dirty tactics like

836
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:18,240
Speaker 1: staving off this vote, like trying to read district states

837
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: like yours. You know, we see this power play happening

838
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: in my home state in California. You know, I appreciate

839
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,839
Speaker 1: that Gavin Newsom is really coming at it and saying, Okay,

840
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,280
Speaker 1: you do this in Texas, We'll do this in California,

841
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: like we're going to fight fire with fire, no more

842
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: insane behavior on one side and decorum on the other.

843
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Prop fifty? Do you support

844
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: this initiative? Do you believe that this is a good

845
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 1: way to fight back? Give us the inside baseball?

846
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm a big fan of Prop fifty. I've

847
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 3: raised money for Cop fifty. I was just in California

848
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 3: last week, both in the Bay Area and LA making

849
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 3: sure that I could raise awareness and hopefully answer questions

850
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 3: about Prop fifty, especially as it kind of correlates to Texas,

851
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 3: and I want people to you know, I know we're

852
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 3: using the same words. So we're saying fire with fire,

853
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 3: and it is a fight. But I will tell you

854
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 3: that even in the way that California is fighting, there

855
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,280
Speaker 3: is so much more integrity in what they're doing.

856
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 2: It is not the same. It is not insidious. It

857
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 2: is in.

858
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 3: Response, but it is not the same. We don't have

859
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 3: an out of control legislature and governor that just rely, oh.

860
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 2: Here, this is what it is.

861
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 3: Instead, they are taking a grassroots approach.

862
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 2: They are giving it to the people. The people ultimately

863
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 2: get to decide.

864
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 3: And as they went through and they drew their lines,

865
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 3: they actually honored the Voting Rights Act. They did not

866
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:56,320
Speaker 3: do things to minimize the voices of people of color.

867
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 3: Whereas when we look at the map in Texas, the

868
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 3: state of Texas is sixty one percent people of color

869
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 3: and thirty nine percent Anglo. But under this current map,

870
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 3: over seventy percent, closer to eighty percent of the seats

871
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:18,240
Speaker 3: out of Texas will be chosen by Anglos. They are

872
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 3: given an oversized voice in our government, and it is

873
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 3: antithetical to our principles of equity. But we knew that

874
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 3: this was coming because they've been attacking diversity, equity, civil rights,

875
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:37,240
Speaker 3: right and for people that don't understand, they are about

876
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 3: to understand, like how bad it is.

877
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 2: Like those that have.

878
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 3: Uniquely abled children, they are affected by civil rights issues,

879
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 3: right like, So this isn't just about black folk, It's

880
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 3: not just about you know, the LGBTQIA community.

881
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 2: It is bigger than that.

882
00:50:56,040 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 3: And so by allowing them to attack certain gross and

883
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 3: being silent, you know, it's it's like the saying goes,

884
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 3: you know, they came for this group, and I was silent,

885
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 3: and they came for the you know what I mean,

886
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 3: Like ultimately, yeah, there's not even going to be anybody

887
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 3: to speak for you, right like, you'll be all by yourself.

888
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 3: So it is important again for us to focus on

889
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:25,399
Speaker 3: that grounds us, that unites us. And even if ninety

890
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 3: percent of everything else we disagree on, those are small

891
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 3: things compared to our foundational issues, and we are losing

892
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 3: our foundation right now. And I mean, you know, I

893
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 3: will accept some of the blame, not that I was

894
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 3: in office at the time, but Democrats should have been

895
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 3: fighting harder. They should have been fighting harder earlier. It

896
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 3: seems like there was just too much goodwill that was

897
00:51:55,160 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 3: given or expected of the other side, and again us

898
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 3: being good willed people, expected that of the opposition. And

899
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 3: the problem is they played us, and we had the

900
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 3: clues to see that they were playing us, and they

901
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 3: still did not adjust and fight back. We know that

902
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 3: most people were introduced to me when I broke quorum

903
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 3: as a state representative down in Texas and we were

904
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 3: fighting for voting rights then, and we were ringing the alarms,

905
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 3: and this is right before we went through redistricting, and

906
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 3: we were trying to tell them when we came to

907
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 3: DC and they passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act,

908
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 3: and they passed the Freedom of Vote Act. Freedom to

909
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 3: Vote would have meant that you could not have an

910
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 3: Elon Musk buy an election. Yes, the House, we know

911
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 3: that the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act actually would

912
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 3: replace the Voting Rights Act because they had started to

913
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 3: tear it apart. It would replace it and fortify it.

914
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 3: And it passed the House, but the Senate refused to

915
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 3: go around the filibuster for something as foundational as our

916
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 3: voting rights, and because we did.

917
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 2: Not decide that it was that important.

918
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:13,879
Speaker 3: We now are stuck in this position because we could

919
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 3: have a situation where the Supreme Court would have to

920
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 3: bend over backwards to undo law that was written in

921
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 3: and signed. We could be in that position, but we're

922
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 3: not right. We could have a situation where Elin could

923
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 3: not have spent the amount of money that he spent

924
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 3: in that election. We could have had a situation where

925
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 3: every state was required to have online voter registration so

926
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 3: that the access to your ballot looks similar, if not,

927
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 3: actually it would have equalized it and been the same.

928
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 3: Because in the state of Texas, we don't have online

929
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 3: voter registration, we don't have same day voter registration, we

930
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 3: don't have no excuse vote by mail. These are things

931
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 3: that California has. So California is able to stay blue

932
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 3: because they promote participation. But Republicans that the longest have

933
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 3: been pushing voter suppression because that is the only way

934
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 3: that they can win is if they minimize who it

935
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 3: is that is able to participate. But when we look

936
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 3: at the state of Georgia, Georgia ended up with two

937
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:21,800
Speaker 3: Democratic senators once they increase their voter participation to something

938
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 3: like eighty something percent.

939
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 1: Thanks to Stacy Abrams.

940
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 3: Thanks to Stacy Abrams, Texas in twenty eighteen had an

941
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 3: opportunity to flip a Senate seat. Bettel or Work should

942
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:38,799
Speaker 3: have won. Bettel lost by less than three points. But

943
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 3: what most people don't talk about is that we only

944
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 3: had seventeen percent voter turnout, seventeen percent and he only

945
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 3: lost by a little less than three points. Imagine if

946
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 3: we had gotten to twenty or twenty five percent.

947
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 2: I am telling you we could have won. We would win.

948
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,360
Speaker 3: I am telling y'all that we are a majority minority

949
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,879
Speaker 3: state and all they do is silence us and take

950
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 3: our power. And that is exact exactly what we are

951
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 3: experiencing now throughout this entire country, is that they want to.

952
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:10,879
Speaker 2: Have minority rule. We have minority rule in Texas.

953
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:15,839
Speaker 3: Not I can guarantee you if we had eighty five

954
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:20,479
Speaker 3: percent voter participation, Texas would not be a red voting state.

955
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:21,240
Speaker 2: We would be blue.

956
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 1: I agree with you, and then you might not be

957
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,800
Speaker 1: dealing with the kinds of you know, disasters with everything

958
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 1: down to your power grid that you're dealing with now,

959
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 1: because you have people more interested in owning the Libs

960
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: than they do in serving their constituency. Now I know

961
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: I've kept you over, so I'm gonna skip to the end.

962
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:46,760
Speaker 1: I always like to ask everybody this wonderful final question.

963
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,359
Speaker 1: I want to ask you ten thousand more questions, but like, no,

964
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 1: you have elected official business to do. I've never told

965
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:55,320
Speaker 1: someone what I want my work in progress to be

966
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: before I hear theirs. But I'm like, I just this

967
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: isn't even about me. This is just me being like

968
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,360
Speaker 1: work in progress on the pin board of America in

969
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: Sofia's brain is please tell me at some way I'm

970
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 1: going to get to vote for Jasmine Crockett for president,

971
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:12,880
Speaker 1: what is your work in progress? Because that's mine. I'm ready.

972
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm I'm tribute number one on the campaign.

973
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 1: But I want to know for you whether it's you know,

974
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: service oriented, oriented for the people, or like even just

975
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,359
Speaker 1: something personal like sometimes I want to be like, girl,

976
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 1: have you had a have you been able to go

977
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: for a walk? Do we need to get you a

978
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,880
Speaker 1: gift card for a massage? Like you need a minute?

979
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: So it can really across the spectrum of personal to professional.

980
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: What feels like you're work in progress?

981
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 3: My work in progress is getting this country back on

982
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 3: track so that I can get out of politics. I mean,

983
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 3: I you know, I promise you, I ask myself over

984
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 3: and over and over, and then I get to go

985
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 3: home and I see the faces of the people that

986
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,240
Speaker 3: I represent, or even as I travel of the country,

987
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 3: and the pure excitement and enthusiasm and hope that exist

988
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:09,359
Speaker 3: even in the eyes of some of the youngest folks

989
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:13,800
Speaker 3: that can't even vote yet, the inspiration that makes people

990
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 3: say I saw you and learn that you're a lawyer,

991
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 3: and I decided I'm going back to school, or I

992
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 3: decided now that I want to be a lawyer. Like

993
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 3: those are the things that keep me going. But I

994
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 3: never woke up any day of my life saying, you

995
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 3: know what, I want to grow up and be a politician.

996
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 3: That is not what I did, and it is not

997
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 3: where I stand today. But I truly believe that I

998
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 3: am necessary in this moment. I don't want to be necessary.

999
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 3: I just want to go out and do fun stuff.

1000
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 3: And yes, I'm a dork, so doing fun stuff means like,

1001
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 3: you know, practice in law, right, Like I actually liked

1002
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 3: going into the courtroom. And I'm pretty sure people probably

1003
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 3: read that all on me when I'm in committee. But

1004
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 3: I would like a more low key life, one where

1005
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 3: my friends and family get to see me more often,

1006
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 3: one where I get to take more trips because I

1007
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 3: always with someone and I.

1008
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 2: Actually travel a lot.

1009
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 3: I mean I travel a lot now, but it is

1010
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:22,479
Speaker 3: not for pleasure. It is all for work, and so

1011
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:27,840
Speaker 3: you know, I would like a more low key existence.

1012
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 2: I really am a girl's girl.

1013
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 3: You know this. You know I love my friends, and

1014
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,840
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm always cheating my friends because I

1015
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 3: put people that, honestly, a lot of them I've never

1016
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 3: met before, seemingly ahead of them. But the great thing

1017
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 3: about my real friends is that they have drunk the

1018
00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 3: kool aid as well, and they all believe in this

1019
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:59,439
Speaker 3: mission that is on my life, and so I get

1020
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 3: great support. But it still doesn't stop me from being

1021
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 3: very human and feeling like I'm just not doing enough

1022
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 3: for the people that love me the most. So yeah,

1023
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 3: I would love to get out. It seems like it's

1024
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 3: not going that way, but.

1025
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 2: But that that would that would be my hope.

1026
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 3: If I woke up tomorrow and everything was right side

1027
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 3: up in this country, Uh, not perfect, but normal, I

1028
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 3: would probably resign.

1029
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 2: I probably would. I believe that this is a great.

1030
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 3: Honor, and I've learned so much, but I also believe

1031
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 3: that I should make space for others to come behind

1032
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 3: me and for them to learn and experience as well.

1033
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 3: And so yeah, I'm not tied to the title. I

1034
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 3: am tied to the mission, and it is it is

1035
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 3: my hope that home that the mission is complete, Sony now,

1036
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 3: and that you know, God doesn't tell me, whoop, You're

1037
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 3: gonna have to go to another level to get more done.

1038
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:12,720
Speaker 3: I can't say yeay or nay whether or not there

1039
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 3: will be another level, but I can guarantee you that

1040
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 3: if for some reason, Trump wakes up tomorrow and he

1041
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 3: hit his head and he fires everyone around him who

1042
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 3: has been engaged in all of the fraudulent and illegal

1043
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 3: activities that they are doing, and he somehow wakes up,

1044
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 3: finds Jesus and decides that he wants to try to

1045
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 3: get into the pearly gates that he said he knows

1046
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 3: he is not going to get into.

1047
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 2: At least he knows he's the devil.

1048
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 3: You know, Listen, if he woke up tomorrow and just

1049
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 3: turn a new leaf and became the president that we deserve,

1050
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 3: I would be out.

1051
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 2: I would be thankful and I would be out.

1052
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 1: I think when you are a really dedicated public servant,

1053
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 1: you can put your own life on the back burner.

1054
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: But the people that you miss and that miss you

1055
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 1: also know you're doing it for them too, And so

1056
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 1: no matter how hard it gets, before it gets better,

1057
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:17,480
Speaker 1: you give so many of us hope, and you fight

1058
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 1: with such love at the core of your spirit, and

1059
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 1: then you know you've got all the legal ease to

1060
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:27,920
Speaker 1: back it up. And I'm just gone stillly like this

1061
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 1: watching you on the TV. So thank you. I'm going

1062
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 1: to let you get back to the floor and all

1063
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 1: the things that you're doing. I love and adore you.

1064
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 1: I'm so proud to be in the same timeline as you,

1065
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:45,480
Speaker 1: even if our timeline sucks right now, And next time

1066
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 1: you come to New York, I'm taking you out.

1067
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 2: Okay, it's good to see you, my friend.

1068
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 1: You too, Thank you for your time today.

1069
01:01:51,400 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 3: All right bye, Oh,