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Speaker 1: Native Lampard is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with

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Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, thank you all for being here, and I'm delighted

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Speaker 2: to pass a batid to my twin Angela t Rye.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, David Jermaine John.

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Speaker 3: But here we goes.

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Speaker 4: Go ahead, David Jermaine John's thank you so much for

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Speaker 4: hosting this evening, for your grand closing that's still in

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Speaker 4: the middle of the program. As you all know, Donald Jay,

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Speaker 4: not Jermaine Trump, is actually still speaking right now on

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Speaker 4: the House floor. And what I want to try to

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Speaker 4: do before we get into a critique of what he

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Speaker 4: said mostly lies, is just to be thankful for what

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Speaker 4: we've built over the course of the last year.

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Speaker 1: Can you not hear me? David?

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Speaker 3: I cared, I was just talking about the lies of

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Speaker 3: the kid.

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Speaker 5: Kid keep going okay.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, is he telling me?

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Speaker 1: I'll mom you Okay.

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Speaker 4: What I want to just deepen into is what we

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Speaker 4: built over the last year. For many of you all

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Speaker 4: who joined us for Donald Trump Trump's Freddie and Slip

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Speaker 4: joint address to Congress last year, you know that we

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Speaker 4: came together as a people for stated the people that

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Speaker 4: was our very first gathering before we gathered in person.

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Speaker 4: We gathered together virtually for twenty four hours, talking about

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Speaker 4: all of the many things that this administration promised to

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Speaker 4: do that would cause us harm, that many of us

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Speaker 4: told you about leading up to the November twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: four elections, and then of course the things that we

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Speaker 4: didn't know what happened, and that we didn't know what

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Speaker 4: happened so quickly, and so in the face of fear

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Speaker 4: and the face of terror, and the face of so

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Speaker 4: much happening against our communities, we came together. And what

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Speaker 4: I was thinking about DJ as I got ready to

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Speaker 4: come to be with you tonight virtually, and then of

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Speaker 4: course the other people who will join us, is there's

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Speaker 4: a scripture in the Bible that says, do not forsake

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Speaker 4: the assembling of yourselves together, and it is.

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Speaker 1: There where our power lies.

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Speaker 4: If we could set aside wounded ego, if we could

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Speaker 4: set aside the things that say pick.

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Speaker 1: Me, I'm here, go I let me be the one

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Speaker 1: in front.

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Speaker 4: We will actually be able to strike a mighty blow.

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Speaker 4: That's what Mary mclap Thune told us. So I thank

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Speaker 4: you for the mighty blow you have thrown through black papers,

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Speaker 4: through your intense editing work, for gathering one hundred of

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Speaker 4: the nation's greatest, black, brilliant, and excellent minds in the

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Speaker 4: shaping of these papers that will be Volume one. I

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Speaker 4: cannot wait to send you my blurb, but I no,

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Speaker 4: my homework is late. But thank you so much for

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Speaker 4: hosting tonight, DJ, for all you do for our people

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Speaker 4: seen and unseen.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very.

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Speaker 6: Much my duty and my honor.

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Speaker 1: I love you, I love you brother.

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Speaker 4: Okay, everyone, well on that point, what I wanted to

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Speaker 4: just deepen into for a moment is how important it

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Speaker 4: is for us to come together. We are in incredibly

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Speaker 4: harrowing times in this country. You are seeing some of

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Speaker 1: But some people still.

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Speaker 4: Decided to show up, and they used the platform they

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Speaker 4: is sounding more and more like an authoritarian leader. Every

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Speaker 4: single day, you saw Congressman al Green. If you all

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Speaker 4: are watching it all, my screen just went blank. Hopefully

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Speaker 4: Our Congressman Algreen today carried a sign that said black

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Speaker 4: people are not apes, referring to, of course, the post

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Speaker 4: Brock and Michelle Obama look like apes. Of course, Congressman

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Speaker 4: Algreen was escorted out the chamber. There was another disruption tonight.

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Speaker 4: I would say, good trouble Congressman John Lewis style where

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Speaker 4: can tell you all what's going on. Ilhan Omar Congressman

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Speaker 4: And my favorite thing is when Rashidasleib heard them chan

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Speaker 4: We're gonna keep going with this program, critiquing some of

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Speaker 4: what we've heard, most of Donald Trump's policies, and what

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Speaker 4: and friend, Derek Johnson. The most important news in this

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Speaker 4: Black History Month. It's one hundred one hundredth anniversary. Please

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Speaker 4: bring him up. We plan, y'all know what that is.

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Speaker 4: But hide and seek. Here we go, here's there, there

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that we talk about the

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Speaker 1: history that is most important this week. It is actually

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Speaker 1: not the state of the Union. It is the fact

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Speaker 1: that it is in Double ACP Image Wards week, d

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Speaker 1: you are celebrating black excellence when they're saying, DEEI we

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Speaker 4: Some of the most amazing black folks in this country

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Speaker 4: will be earning in DOUBLEACP Image Awards. So can you

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Speaker 4: talk about the importance of black excellence in the face

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you Angela for creating this platform.

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Speaker 2: I think it's really important in this moment that we

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Speaker 2: lean into our platforms because as other communities are seeking

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Speaker 2: to erase us, we have to be more affirmative around

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Speaker 2: seeing one another. And that's why our theme this year

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Speaker 2: is we see you despite what other people are seeking

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Speaker 2: to do. But the parallels between what's taking place now

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Speaker 2: in the founding of the nah in nineteen oh nine,

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Speaker 2: it was about people being targeted because of their identities,

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Speaker 2: They were not doing charity work. They recognized that the

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Speaker 3: It's how we're treated in the streets.

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Speaker 2: This is what's really important here. This is a parallel

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Speaker 2: The strategy of the clan to not only spread across Indiana,

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Speaker 2: That all happened because a release of a movie. The

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Speaker 3: And so that's the parallel right now.

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Speaker 2: So as we promoted Image Awards this year, the highlight

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Speaker 4: One thing that I think is so important about what

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump is taking this opportunity to show to sew

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Speaker 1: image awards week y'all.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these are the questions that need asking, and

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Speaker 7: Is making a powerful choice.

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Speaker 1: When we talk about autocrats and authoritarians, these are people

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Speaker 1: That's what Reverend Jackson did so well. That's what State

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Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, Derek, I want you to respond to how

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Speaker 2: You know, our number one focus organizationally is November election.

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Speaker 3: Secondly, everything he says tonight.

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Speaker 2: We gotta be focused on how do we pivot out

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Speaker 3: Let's build that power, Let's create the momentum, and let's

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Speaker 2: Final point, if we're performing at eleven percent of the

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Speaker 1: His name is William Lamar the Fourth.

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Speaker 1: He outsmarted the system in some ways. I know many

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Speaker 4: Boy, is the one that snatched that ip addressed in

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Speaker 1: I wish we didn't have any enemies, But if.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna show up and come for our lives, our personhood,

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Speaker 6: Well, first of all, let me thank you and for

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Speaker 6: you cannot create the theology, the politics, the economics to

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Speaker 6: They sought to intimidate us the same way that the

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Speaker 4: We definitely cannot cower again. As you all were joining,

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Speaker 1: But il han Omar, the smallest.

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Speaker 1: It might be.

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Speaker 4: Different than a Montgomery bus boycotter. It might be different

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Speaker 4: brit But where what does civil disobedience look like right now?

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Speaker 4: And who people play their role beyond that Instagram story

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Speaker 7: As we do that, we have to.

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Speaker 1: Make sure that we are following the blueprint of discipline

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Speaker 7: Move is going to be.

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Speaker 1: Civil disobedience matters all the time, but it is important

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Speaker 7: Why because it's dangerous work. Right.

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Speaker 1: But if you do it and you wilding out instead

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Speaker 7: Find your political home.

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Speaker 1: There is a role for every single person, whether you're

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Speaker 4: That's why we call our bishop and President Derrek Johnson

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Speaker 4: because he has a whole NAACP Image Awards week to

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Speaker 4: get to.

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Speaker 1: But I love y'all, I appreciate y'all.

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Speaker 4: Pastor, I'm gonna keep you because we're going to bring

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Speaker 4: on the President CEO of Planned Parenthood for America that

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Speaker 4: is Alexis, Miguel Johnson, and also our dear sister strategists

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Speaker 4: Capitol Hill, Buddy Joy Cheney.

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Speaker 1: So they will join us now.

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Speaker 4: And I wanted to keep you here, Pastor, because if

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Speaker 4: you listen to a white evangelical, you might think.

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Speaker 1: That healthcare is not important.

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Speaker 4: You can pray whatever illness is away, you know, you

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Speaker 4: can pray it away.

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Speaker 1: And then on top of that, they don't believe.

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Speaker 4: That women should be able to make choices about our

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Speaker 4: own bodies, even if it comes in the face of death.

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Speaker 4: And of course, Alexis every single day is working on

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Speaker 4: ensuring that we have that access. Not to mention big

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Speaker 4: MythBuster here plant Parenthood does full service health care in

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Speaker 4: a lot of other rare areas besides abortion. Now I

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Speaker 4: work there, so I'm gonna let Alexis tell you, but

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Speaker 4: I did want you to stick around for this part

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Speaker 4: of the conversation as well, Pastor. Alexis, you are and

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Speaker 4: the fight of your life, because this president has waged

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Speaker 4: war against a woman's body, even health care, and Joy,

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Speaker 4: I know you have a lot to say about that

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Speaker 4: as well.

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Speaker 1: So since I want to go to you first, Alexis.

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Speaker 8: Well, no, thank you, Angela thank you for all that

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Speaker 8: you're doing and just elevating all of these conversations. I mean, look,

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Speaker 8: we know, right, and I didn't pay any attention to this.

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Speaker 8: I know that whatever he talked about, it wasn't reproductive

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Speaker 8: healthcare because we know that his very omission was an admission, right,

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Speaker 8: because he knows that his administration has been nothing but

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Speaker 8: hostile to leaving people just more vulnerable in a moment

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Speaker 8: past the Dabbs decision, past the COVID crisis, like health care,

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Speaker 8: reproductive health care, health care in general is in a crisis.

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Speaker 8: And when we're talking about planned parenthood in particular, having

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Speaker 8: borne the brunt of the healthcare crisis in his signature legislation,

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Speaker 8: his big, beautiful, ugly bill, right, we have seen planned

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Speaker 8: Parenthood was the first entity to go without Medicaid funding.

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Speaker 8: The rest of it is going to happen after the midterms.

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Speaker 8: But Planned Parenthood was defunded immediately in July, and we fought,

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Speaker 8: we litigated, but it went into effect this fall, and

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Speaker 8: we know firsthand now the impact of that on people's lives.

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Speaker 8: We know that this administration is being very clearly saying

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Speaker 8: that they don't care. They like it's like literally the

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Speaker 8: audacity of our quality that they are fighting every single

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Speaker 8: day because they believe that they know better than we

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Speaker 8: do about how to control our bodies. So I am

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Speaker 8: you know, I'm sitting here thinking about the millions of

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Speaker 8: patients that are being denied access to good quality health care,

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Speaker 8: non judgmental health care. People who have literally come to

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Speaker 8: us and said, maybe, yea, I should get rid of

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Speaker 8: my Medicaid so I can stay with planned parenthood because

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Speaker 8: they are trying to actually just get the basic care

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Speaker 8: that they need. Who believe that, you know, they don't

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Speaker 8: understand why these things are happening because what they have

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Speaker 8: grown up knowing is that somebody in their community was

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Speaker 8: always going to show up for them and be available

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Speaker 8: to give that care because that was the social contract

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Speaker 8: that they had, you know, understood to be their their

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Speaker 8: health care provision. And now we're in this moment, literally

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Speaker 8: in the fight of our lives, watching this administration take

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Speaker 8: away not just rollback reproductive rights and freedom, but actually

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Speaker 8: take away all of the access to get basic health care.

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Speaker 8: Knowing that, you know, there is literally no way for

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Speaker 8: so many people to make these really hard choices. The

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Speaker 8: beginning of the year, people were making choices about whether

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Speaker 8: I should stay in the ACA or I should pay

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Speaker 8: my rent. That's the definition of the affordability crisis. And

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Speaker 8: we've been seeing it kind of all along through the

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Speaker 8: attacks on Planned parenthood, because we've been out here fighting

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Speaker 8: for folks and now knowing that this is going larger

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Speaker 8: and larger, and that is actually going to be the

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Speaker 8: real story of this year because they don't actually care

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Speaker 8: about what's happening us. They want to serve their masters.

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Speaker 8: They want to serve their insurance companies. They want to

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Speaker 8: serve their donors, they want to serve their doge folks.

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Speaker 8: They want to cut all of this out of the

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Speaker 8: federal budget. In ways they're going to really undermine how

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Speaker 8: people are just able to negotiate and navigate their lives

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Speaker 8: every day. That's what the fight is about.

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Speaker 4: And to that point, you know, tonight, Joy, Donald Trump

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Speaker 4: referenced the ACA the Affordable Care Act. We know that

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Speaker 4: the ACA, Obamacare, is the bill and the policy they

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Speaker 4: love to hate. I think we could all acknowledge that

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Speaker 4: it was not perfect, but it was what could pass

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Speaker 4: at the time. Certainly, the attempt to dismantle it eighty

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Speaker 4: something times is not what we were striving for especially

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Speaker 4: in the absence of a solution. Tonight, when he spoke,

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Speaker 4: he talked about these doggone hsas as if that's gonna

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Speaker 4: solve anything. The one thing I always think about, joy

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Speaker 4: and I love to hear thoughts on this, is like,

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Speaker 4: if you need to be airlifted from a from a

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Speaker 4: car crash, what is your flex.

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Speaker 1: Savings account gonna do for that?

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Speaker 9: Right?

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Speaker 1: Right? So I want you to talk about that because

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Speaker 1: you know a lot more than me in this area. Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, not many people know much more than Angela.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, know a lot more than me.

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Speaker 9: And the best part is she gets it all together

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Speaker 9: to talk about them. We love that.

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Speaker 1: I'm the lum of planned parenthood, and I can tell

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Speaker 1: you that everything Alessis my Sore said is correct.

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Speaker 9: The you know, the cuts to this administration.

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Speaker 1: You know the thing that he's talking about tonight, because

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Speaker 1: I did listen and it's on in the way in

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Speaker 1: the background somewhere. What he has been saying is, you know,

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Speaker 1: it sounds it can sound good if you don't read

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Speaker 1: the fine print. He in every turn gives money to

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Speaker 1: rich people and takes it from not just poor people,

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Speaker 1: middle class people, working class people, anybody who's not a billionaire.

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Speaker 1: He was willing to sacrifice everyone who goes to playing parenthood,

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Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people who are at rural hospitals,

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Speaker 1: urban hospitals, almost every place. And by the way, the

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Speaker 1: big ugly bill, it might you might say, well, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't take effectill after the you know election.

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Speaker 9: How clever.

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Speaker 1: That's true in its fullness. But hospitals are already closing.

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Speaker 1: I work with an organization called Protect our Care. We

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Speaker 1: have a hospital closure you know map.

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Speaker 9: They're closing all over This is happening.

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Speaker 1: And then, of course Alexis is also referring to these

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Speaker 1: cuts in the tax credits. Right, we know that healthcare

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Speaker 1: was already expensive. Alexi, I mean Angela alluded to the

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Speaker 1: fact that it wasn't perfect, in part because every time

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Speaker 1: Democrats tried to make changes, they would threaten to get

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Speaker 1: rid of the whole bill.

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Speaker 9: Turns out they don't want to get rid of ACA.

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Speaker 1: Some of them do, but for the vast majority of them,

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Speaker 1: they are frightened of their own constituents, which is why

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Speaker 1: they won't go to town halls.

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Speaker 9: Because it turns out people.

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Speaker 1: Need the Affordable Care Act, and if they're not on

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Speaker 1: the Affordable Care Act. They need Medicaid, and despite what

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Speaker 1: he's saying about Medicare, saying he's not gonna touch it,

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Speaker 1: he absolutely has and he is not.

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Speaker 9: His prescription drug plan again is smoke and mirrors.

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Speaker 1: It gives cuts to pharmaceutical companies.

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Speaker 9: They're the ones that benefit.

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Speaker 1: They're having a great year financially, probably better than all

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Speaker 1: of us, under the.

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Speaker 9: Guise of lowering costs, and it is not true.

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Speaker 1: What he has done was to undermine and delay the

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Speaker 1: health care, prescription drug things that were already underway through

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration.

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Speaker 9: So it's not just.

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Speaker 1: About you know, celebrating Democrats and beating up on Republicans.

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Speaker 9: But the fact of the matter is we were on.

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Speaker 1: A way to try to close health disparities, ones that

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Speaker 1: we saw just you know, exacerbated during the pandemic. We

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Speaker 1: recognized it, there was work being done to close it,

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Speaker 1: including around maternal health culturally competent care. When he talks

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Speaker 1: about getting rid of VEI, he also means shutting down

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Speaker 1: and repurposing all the HHS health equity offices, which also

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Speaker 1: impact women.

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Speaker 9: Because we know that, so Alexis knows this, I know

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Speaker 9: Angela does too.

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Speaker 1: Most of this is about attacking women, and not just

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Speaker 1: the women on this screen, white women in particular. Check

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Speaker 1: it out what they've been saying about them. This is

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Speaker 1: about disadvantaging anyone, disadvantaging any and everyone who is not

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Speaker 1: a wealthy person, and doing and lying to us about,

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Speaker 1: you know, waste fraud and abuse, talking of running people

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Speaker 1: down about work requirements when the greatest waste fraud and

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Speaker 1: abuse they are happening with his relationships with pharmaceutical companies.

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Speaker 9: And frankly is happen. We know this to be true.

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Speaker 1: Giving tax breaks to people who own yachts while saying

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Speaker 1: we don't have the money to extend tax credits. And

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Speaker 1: so to bring it round to what you're saying, No,

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Speaker 1: your health savings account is not going to help you.

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Speaker 1: If you've gotten an accident, is not going to help you.

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Speaker 1: If you have long COVID is not going to help you.

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Speaker 1: If you have a bad outcome after a pregnancy, is

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Speaker 1: not going to help you in any of those respects.

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Speaker 1: And we also know that many people have given money

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Speaker 1: will not spend it on healthcare. We know that taking

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Speaker 1: healthy people out of the insurance marketplace drives up costs

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Speaker 1: for everyone else, and brings back the bad old days.

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Speaker 1: So we you know the reasons why we had an

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Speaker 1: Affordable Care Act in Obamacare proudly to begin with. So

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Speaker 1: that's what we're dealing with here, and I'm just so

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad to be on with all of you,

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Speaker 1: and you know we.

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Speaker 9: Need your prayer. We love your church.

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Speaker 1: We thank you for what you did and Angela, thank

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Speaker 1: you for what you're doing. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: I want to come to you, pastor Reverend Lamar, because

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Speaker 4: I think this is really what I wanted you to

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Speaker 4: hear and respond to.

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Speaker 6: UH.

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Speaker 1: For so many there is.

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Speaker 4: This disconnect between the morality of health care and what

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Speaker 4: this country owes its citizens, what humanity owes its people

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Speaker 4: to ensure our health.

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Speaker 1: Our wellness, embody, mind, and soul.

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Speaker 4: And for whatever reason this country has told well we

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00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 4: know why its roots or rotten, but it's chosen to

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Speaker 4: wage war on the physical body, on the physical, spiritual

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Speaker 4: and emotional body of a people. And so I would

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Speaker 4: love for you to respond to your colleagues who wear

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Speaker 4: the cloth but they may not wear the spirit of

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Speaker 4: the thing on why healthcare is a biblical right, not just.

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Speaker 1: A policy right in this country.

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Speaker 6: This is an extraordinary question, and I want to ground it.

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Speaker 6: You mentioned white evangelicalism. I want to the term would

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Speaker 6: probably be intellectual genealogy. But check this out. I therefore

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Speaker 6: hate the corrupt slave holding women, whipping cradle plundering, partial

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Speaker 6: and hypocritical Christianity of this land. The slave auctioneer's bill

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Speaker 6: and the church going bell chime in with each other,

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Speaker 6: and the bitter cries of the heartbroken slave are dry

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Speaker 6: owned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals

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Speaker 6: of religion and revivals in the slave trade go hand

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Speaker 6: in hand together. The dealer gives his bloodstained gold to

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Speaker 6: support the pulpit, and the pulpit in return covers his

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Speaker 6: infernal business with the garb of Christianity. Here we have

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Speaker 6: religion and robbery, the allies of each other, devils dressed

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Speaker 6: in angels, robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise.

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Speaker 6: Frederick Douglass, that's Fredrick Douglass. That is Frederick Douglass.

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Speaker 1: No wonder I didn't want him on that two hundred

665
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Speaker 1: and fiftieth commemorative point.

666
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Speaker 6: This, my friends, is the most photographed man of the

667
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Speaker 6: nineteenth century, the most recognized human image of his time,

668
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Speaker 6: and let me let's would be very clear about the

669
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Speaker 6: American project, about its settler colonial roots. Early on was

670
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Speaker 6: a theological discussion. When the Portuguese especially encountered the quote

671
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,439
Speaker 6: unquote New World. Nothing knew about it, it had been here.

672
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 6: It was complex economically, it was complex philosophically, religiously. But

673
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 6: when they baptized people, well, the question they had to

674
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Speaker 6: ask Rome, because the Catholic Church ran the Western world,

675
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 6: when we baptize these natives, these people, do they become Christians?

676
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 6: And is so must we treat them as brothers and sisters?

677
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 6: And what the church says, this verifies Frederick Douglass. It's

678
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Speaker 6: the doctrine of discovery. The church says, essentially, you own

679
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 6: their bodies and the Church owns their souls. America's entire

680
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 6: political economy is based on the exploitation of human flesh,

681
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 6: the destruction and exploitation of it. So let's give a

682
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Speaker 6: modern example, city of Baltimore. If you're like me, you

683
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Speaker 6: think The Wire is an extraordinary television series, But what

684
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,439
Speaker 6: it shows is after they could no longer make money

685
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Speaker 6: off of black bodies and slavery, and in Baltimore's industrial economy,

686
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 6: which is now pretty much dwindling and destroyed. They had

687
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Speaker 6: to find ways to make money off of us, so

688
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 6: then they criminalized us, and they made money off of

689
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 6: the prison industrial complex, which our bodies again are commodify.

690
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,720
Speaker 6: Here's the problem. The church still sits at the center

691
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Speaker 6: of exploiting bodies, especially the bodies of black and brown

692
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Speaker 6: women who do the labor that keeps the world running, childcare.

693
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Speaker 6: I've had family members with health crisis. Everybody looks like us,

694
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Speaker 6: depending on us, but those bodies are exploited and right

695
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 6: now still even people who do what I do, who

696
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 6: look like us, we've not divorced ourselves from this theology

697
00:37:55,280 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 6: that Frederick Douglass so beautifully, eloquently and elegantly condemned, because

698
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 6: we're still preaching this foolishness asking people, if they die tonight,

699
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Speaker 6: where they go to Heaven or hell. Jesus never asked

700
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 6: that question. The goal of the preaching of the Gospel

701
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 6: is not what happens after you die, It is what

702
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 6: happens here. The prayer we will taught to pray, Thy

703
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 6: Kingdom Come, Thy will be done on earth as it

704
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Speaker 6: is in heaven. And heaven is not even a place

705
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 6: you drendle off to and float to when you die. Literally,

706
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 6: that word in the Greek New Testament means the place

707
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Speaker 6: where the will of God is done without human obstruction.

708
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 6: So we have to divorce ourselves from the theology that

709
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Speaker 6: enslaved our people and that kills our people to this day.

710
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 6: And there are many who done it. I to be

711
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 6: Well's divorced herself, Harriet, tell them divorced herself. James Cone,

712
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 6: pray for a haul terresur Fry Brown in our day.

713
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Speaker 6: The list is long, but some of our colleagues are

714
00:38:54,600 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 6: afraid to turn their back to their theological masters. But

715
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Speaker 6: it is the only way that we will get free

716
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Speaker 6: of remains. Three.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Thank you so much, Reverend Lamar.

718
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Speaker 9: Nobody knows.

719
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Speaker 4: To my dear sister Joy and to our dear sister Alexis,

720
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Speaker 4: I do want to just ask you, Alexis, before you go.

721
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Speaker 4: I know your itinerary is long and have a lot

722
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Speaker 4: to respond to tonight. In the absence of anything related

723
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Speaker 4: to reproductive justice in the state of the Union, what

724
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Speaker 4: would you say to people at home who feel, like

725
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 4: you know, the the fight for these rights is pointless,

726
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 4: you know, to have role obliterated, to have these clinics

727
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 4: that serve holistic needs of our folks, obliterated and challenged constantly.

728
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,959
Speaker 4: For somebody at home who's tired, you have to carry

729
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 4: dis mantle every single day. What is the thing that

730
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 4: you would say to keep us all going? And maybe

731
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Speaker 4: it's the very thing that keeps you going.

732
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Speaker 8: Oh my god, you know. Look, I mean, I think

733
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Speaker 8: for all of us, we all recognize that that hope

734
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Speaker 8: is not Hope is not like a good right, It's

735
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 8: not like this happy thing right. Hope is actually an

736
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 8: act of resistance. It's an act of defiance. It's an

737
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Speaker 8: act of saying, regardless of what is happening to us

738
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Speaker 8: right now, we are going to get through the other side,

739
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Speaker 8: no matter what we have to get through to get there.

740
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Speaker 8: Right I think that's what the pastor was alluding to,

741
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Speaker 8: that we actually have to stand in this breach and

742
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Speaker 8: bear witness to the real impact of what is happening

743
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Speaker 8: in communities. And so I think about this world right now,

744
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 8: where again, literally people are choosing am I going to

745
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Speaker 8: pay my rent? Or am I going to continue on

746
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Speaker 8: ACA this month? I don't know, Like maybe I can

747
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Speaker 8: wrap myself in a bubble, Maybe I can wrap my

748
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 8: kids in a bubble and that the you know, they're

749
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 8: little cold and right virus is not going to turn

750
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Speaker 8: into pneumonia for the next couple of months, and we can.

751
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Speaker 7: Just get through to the other side.

752
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Speaker 8: Let me just get through to the midterms, right, because

753
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 8: we're not just trying to get to the promis land.

754
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 8: We just try to get through to like let me

755
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 8: get through like six more months and then figure out

756
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,919
Speaker 8: how I re enrolled to take care of my family.

757
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,280
Speaker 8: Because people understand why it's important, but they are making

758
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Speaker 8: real time calculations.

759
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Speaker 1: They are worried.

760
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Speaker 8: They know, you know, in planned Parenthodland, our doctors are

761
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 8: bringing criminalized. There are people who are no longer going

762
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Speaker 8: into the obgyn profession because they are afraid of being criminalized.

763
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Speaker 8: We have seen declines of student residents who have come

764
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Speaker 8: in because they have a vision for you know, solving

765
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Speaker 8: and saving maternal mortality and they want to practice in

766
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Speaker 8: communities that deserve that, but they're afraid they're going to

767
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Speaker 8: be criminalized by just performing basic healthcare in those communities,

768
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Speaker 8: So they are leaving people who have been there helping

769
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Speaker 8: some of us who may have been on the later

770
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Speaker 8: age of maternal care advanced maternal age when I had

771
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 8: my kids at thirty five, you know, and you know,

772
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Speaker 8: they're leaving those states because they're like, we cannot be

773
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 8: on the other side of being criminalized. So they're making

774
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 8: choices which you're going to impact the choices that we make,

775
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,320
Speaker 8: which you're going to impact the choices of our children.

776
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Speaker 8: And when my girls, who are thirteen and sixteen right now,

777
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 8: go visit their cousins in Georgia from New York, they

778
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 8: all of a sudden have less freedoms. And so I

779
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 8: think that I want people to think about where we are,

780
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 8: as you would often say, Sis Angela, you know, in

781
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 8: the year of Our Lord twenty twenty six, how can

782
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 8: it be that people are making choices not to match

783
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 8: into programs in states with abortion bands because they don't

784
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 8: want to be criminalized. How can it be that students

785
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 8: no longer want to go to university in places that

786
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 8: have abortion bands? And how can it be that people

787
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 8: who are living in these states no longer have the

788
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 8: most basic access to reproductive healthcare, you know, not just

789
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 8: abortion care. They can't even have access to obgyns because

790
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 8: in a state like Georgia, only a third of the

791
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 8: counties have and obgyn like, it makes no sense because

792
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 8: people don't want to lose freedoms just because they are

793
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 8: functioning humans like in any way. So I think that

794
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 8: it is so important right now, in this moment for

795
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 8: us to just recognize that they are coming for us

796
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 8: in all kinds of ways they like, Let planned parentad

797
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 8: be the tip of the spear, and what's happening with

798
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 8: Ice be the tip of the sphere. That's happening in

799
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 8: the affordability healthcare crisis be the tip of the sphere.

800
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 8: Let us let us understand that we've always been the

801
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 8: tip of the sphere because our boy's always been contested,

802
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 8: and that we know that no matter what we do,

803
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 8: they will come for us. But the only ant to

804
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 8: do it for them coming for us is for us

805
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 8: to stand together to ensure that we are going to

806
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 8: show up. We are not going to listen to this rutter,

807
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 8: and we are going to ensure that we are telling

808
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 8: the truth and that we are marching our ways all

809
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,280
Speaker 8: the way through this year into the ballot box because

810
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,439
Speaker 8: that policy is the only thing that's going to change

811
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 8: these outcomes. Power is the only thing that's going to

812
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:43,919
Speaker 8: change these outcomes. And until we stand right together across.

813
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:44,760
Speaker 1: All of these issues.

814
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 8: We're not going to be right ourselves, and that to

815
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,240
Speaker 8: me feels like, you know, whatever the message was intended

816
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 8: for the state of the Union, I'm so clear for you,

817
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 8: Angela and for all that you've done to bring us together,

818
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 8: that our clear state of the union is that we

819
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 8: must stand together, because that's the only way that we're

820
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 8: going to actually fight any of the stocks.

821
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Speaker 1: That's it.

822
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 4: I love it so to Reverend Lamar, to Alexis, Miguel Johnson,

823
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 4: to Joy Cheney, thank you all so very much. This

824
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 4: is powerful. We must do this together. We would go

825
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 4: so much further if we just stand together and then

826
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 4: take a walk.

827
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: We gotta go. We got stuff to do.

828
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:27,399
Speaker 4: Thanks y'all. I'm so grateful for that incredible panel. I'm

829
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 4: sitting here and typing in the chat so you all know,

830
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 4: I'm like, Rev got bars. He's quoting Frederick Douglass. He

831
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 4: still got bars.

832
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: But let me find out.

833
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 4: I need to figure out what Frederick Douglas quote. That

834
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 4: was what an miraculous wordsmith. Before there was a hip

835
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 4: hop artist that could write a dope verse, there was

836
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 4: Frederick Douglass. So with that, I want to bring to

837
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 4: the virtual stage, someone who is truly a mentor to me.

838
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 4: One of the most powerful voices in Congress. She has

839
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 4: served as the Congressional Black Caucus Chair. She represents Ohio.

840
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 4: To y'all know, she got a side huss So it's

841
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 4: a boutique. I still need to go shopping in this boutique.

842
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 4: This is Congresswoman Joyce Batty, who decided today she would

843
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 4: not be attending this State of the Union. I want

844
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:15,760
Speaker 4: to start right there, Ms Betty. Why was it important

845
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 4: for you to sit this one out?

846
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 10: Well, it was important to me because I decided that

847
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 10: I would not legitimize a presidency that was rooted in racism, lawlessness,

848
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 10: and economic sabotage.

849
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 11: That alone was to know. But the fact that he

850
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 11: was unapologetic about putting.

851
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Speaker 10: Eight faces on President former President Barack Obama and Michelle

852
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 10: Obama and.

853
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 11: The list could go on, trying to gut medicaid, medicare.

854
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 10: Banding books that our little children can't read about people

855
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 10: like you and me and others.

856
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 11: How far you want me to go?

857
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 10: So, when I think about all of that and being

858
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,959
Speaker 10: a black woman Chair Emerita of the Congressional Black cock

859
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 10: is there is no way I could justify sitting there,

860
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 10: and after what I have witnessed tonight and watching him,

861
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 10: I could not have sat there through that. There is

862
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 10: no way I could have sat there and not have

863
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 10: behavior that I wouldn't have been proud of. So I

864
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 10: wanted to exercise my right for my grandchild, my two grandchildren,

865
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 10: to tell them that sometimes you have to make tough decisions,

866
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 10: but you can do it and still do your duty.

867
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 10: So for all of those who might challenge or question,

868
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,919
Speaker 10: why aren't you there, it's your job. No, my job

869
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 10: is to speak up for the American people.

870
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 11: My job is to fight for.

871
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 5: The least of us.

872
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 10: My job is to speak truth and power. And so

873
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 10: that's why I did not go tonight.

874
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 4: You know, MS Baby, One of the other things that

875
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 4: I've been thinking about so much is you are the

876
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 4: first and only subcommittee chair on diversity and inclusion on

877
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 4: the Financial Services Committee. You did tremendous work on and

878
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 4: off committee for honest in this particular space, and still

879
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 4: continue to do this work in the face of corporations

880
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 4: quite frankly, that are now saying in higher education institutions

881
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 4: of higher education that they want to throw out diversity,

882
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 4: equity and inclusion as a principle, as if twenty twenty

883
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 4: was so long ago.

884
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: We're talking about something not.

885
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 4: Even six years ago, where there was a tie change,

886
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 4: a paradigm shift, we thought, but it just ended up

887
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 4: being a fleeting moment. I would love to hear from

888
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 4: you on what you say to corporations who you know

889
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 4: some of them, you know some of the the CEOs.

890
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 4: What do you say to them as they continue to

891
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 4: bow to Donald Trump and turn their backs towards what

892
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 4: is right, moral and just.

893
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 11: Well, I tell them that we're not done with this.

894
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 10: And you were right, and that was very Thanks full

895
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 10: to the Congresswoman Maxine Waters, our chair at that time

896
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 10: of the Financial Services Committee that held the jurisdiction of

897
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:12,879
Speaker 10: the first ever DNI subcommittee, which she trusted me to chair,

898
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 10: and part of it was Angela. Because we had subpoena power,

899
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 10: we had to squear them in, but they understood that

900
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 10: we needed to move the needle.

901
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 11: And it was that pressure.

902
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 10: And then came George Floyd, and then came the corporations

903
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 10: who pledged millions of dollars and we only got hundreds

904
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 10: of thousands of dollars in actuality. So we took our

905
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 10: foot off the pedal and we should be putting our

906
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 10: foot on the gas. We were just talking about that,

907
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:46,280
Speaker 10: and I can assure you Donald Trump started speaking around

908
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 10: nine fifteen.

909
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 5: At nine twenty.

910
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 10: Four exactly, he said he was proud of doing away

911
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 10: with Dee and I that tells you that's at the

912
00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 10: top of.

913
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 11: His agenda, that we're so proud.

914
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 10: And if that is not enough for all of us,

915
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,800
Speaker 10: not just the members of the congressional black caucas not

916
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,240
Speaker 10: just the Democrats in the United States Congress. But because

917
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,800
Speaker 10: your show is so popular, I'm speaking to America, and

918
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,839
Speaker 10: just like Joyce said earlier on your show, they're coming

919
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:20,839
Speaker 10: after white women too.

920
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 5: So let's be clear.

921
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 10: They're coming after young white men who are young. You're

922
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 10: not going to be on that corporate ladder because they're

923
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 10: saying you have to have already been on a board

924
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 10: and if you've never done it. They're coming after LGBTQ.

925
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 10: They're coming after male and female Black Americans. We know

926
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 10: that because when you talk about the top black people

927
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 10: on Fortune five hundred communitis, I can.

928
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 11: Name all of them on one hand and I know

929
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 11: all of them.

930
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: So this baby, I want to tell you this really quickly.

931
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 1: As we're talking Donald Trump has just finished his State

932
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:55,879
Speaker 1: of the Union address. As soon as you started talking

933
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: about white women, I want you to know, he's walking

934
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 1: off the House floor and I don't know your colleague's name,

935
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: but she's wearing a pink blazer.

936
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 4: She pats his hand and it's almost like he doesn't

937
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 4: even see her. And if I can't tell you that,

938
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 4: that is exactly like the twenty twenty four election. They

939
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:14,800
Speaker 4: ran to go vote for this man and he doesn't

940
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 4: even see them. He's not supporting policies in their interest.

941
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 4: To your point, it literally happened on the House floor

942
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 4: as you were saying it.

943
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 10: Yes, he doesn't care about us. He has a fixation

944
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,840
Speaker 10: on himself, and that was clear. And here's another reason

945
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 10: I'm glad I'm not there. He was bothered when we

946
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 10: didn't recognize him. For those members who chose to go,

947
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 10: when they were silent, when they sat down, it angered him.

948
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 10: And that tells you he understands our power.

949
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 11: So we have to use that power. And so what

950
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:48,760
Speaker 11: I am calling on tomorrow.

951
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:54,240
Speaker 10: I just sat with Congressman James Kleinberg, Congressman Benny Thompson

952
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 10: and many others are here in a room with us,

953
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 10: but we just said we're going to go to the

954
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 10: House floor and to a conga line where we talk

955
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 10: about black folks. The fact that he did not lower

956
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:11,360
Speaker 10: the flag for the Reverend doctor Jesse Jackson, and I

957
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 10: would have had to have sat there and listened to

958
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 10: him talk about Charlie Kirk and honor his wife that

959
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 10: I could not have done it. At the same time,

960
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 10: a real leader, a real legend with a legacy not

961
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 10: just for black people. This man went and rescued folks

962
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 10: in foreign countries. This man has done so much, and

963
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 10: we couldn't lower the flag or let him maybe not

964
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 10: lie in state, but lie in honor in maybe Sanctuary

965
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:44,919
Speaker 10: Hall or somewhere. There is no way I could sit

966
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 10: in that seat and be respectful to someone I don't respect.

967
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 10: I have absolutely no respect for Donald Trump, and no

968
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,800
Speaker 10: probably saying that I'm in the middle of a lawsuit

969
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 10: with the President of the United States over the Kennedy

970
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 10: Center and what he did to our only living memorial

971
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:07,800
Speaker 10: for John F. Kennedy and placing his name on it,

972
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 10: saying it was a unanimous vote when he muted my

973
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 10: button as a board member. So there are so many

974
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 10: things that go on because I refuse to quit. I

975
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 10: attend virtually because I won't go to the White House

976
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 10: and I certainly won't go to Florida, but I get

977
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 10: on virtually for every meeting. So there are so many

978
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 10: things that the American people need to know and we

979
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 10: need to educate them. That's why I'm so proud of you,

980
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 10: always speaking truth to power, always speaking about the tough issues.

981
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: Thank you, miss Baby.

982
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 4: I want to just tell you before you go, I

983
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 4: know you're still responding to media requests. Even in this

984
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 4: late hour. You talked about Reverend Jackson and what he's owed.

985
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 4: I do think it's so important for our people who

986
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 4: are at home watching that know you're a fighter. There

987
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 4: are also mayors all over the country are black mayors.

988
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 4: The African American Mayors Association decided that the flags that

989
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 4: they were in charge of would be flown at half

990
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 4: Mass in Reverend Jackson's honor. So I do want to

991
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,720
Speaker 4: shout them out and thank you for all of your courage.

992
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 4: Let me tell you, y'all can run up on her

993
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 4: if you want to, but she'll be ready for the fight.

994
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 4: So Congressman Joyce Baby, I love you so much. Thank

995
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 4: you for joining us tonight.

996
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you.

997
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 4: She is absolutely a representation of what it means to

998
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 4: be the conscience of the Congress. And I'm so grateful

999
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 4: to have watched miss Baby up close and personal, fighting

1000
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 4: the good fight in Congress every single day.

1001
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: You all heard from one of our hosts earlier this.

1002
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 4: Evening she hosted a mighty strong hour with the light

1003
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:39,879
Speaker 4: giving it a glow.

1004
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 1: So she's here with the glow back. That is Karen Finney,

1005
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: legendary commentator of political strategists and communications extraordinary. Did you

1006
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:51,719
Speaker 1: watch this craziness?

1007
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 7: Girl?

1008
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 5: I had to watch a little bit of it just

1009
00:54:54,680 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 5: to say I did. But I'll tell you that true truth.

1010
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:04,640
Speaker 5: I kept clicking over back to this and over to

1011
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:10,839
Speaker 5: watch the Neighborhood on BG. That's not you were saying,

1012
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 5: because I needed some laughs because it was so outrageous,

1013
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 5: the lies.

1014
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 1: Karen. Did you hear just a minute ago when he

1015
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: said that he wanted to give himself the Congressional Medal

1016
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: of Honor and he hopes that at some point they

1017
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: changed a lot and then he'll join the people because

1018
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: he can't give it to himself right now. But I

1019
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:34,760
Speaker 1: have never seen someone so self absorbed in my life.

1020
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,399
Speaker 5: And you know what, Angel, It's such an important point

1021
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 5: because so much of this speech. I mean they had

1022
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 5: to infuse stories of real Americans to get the applause

1023
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 5: and to get the speech off of him, because every

1024
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 5: other thing he talked about how great he is, how

1025
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 5: much he's done, how you know, better than ever in

1026
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 5: the history of ever, which is all of it? Just

1027
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 5: lie after lie after lie, and I will tell you,

1028
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 5: I bet you he will try to change the law

1029
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 5: to give himself the award before this is over. And

1030
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 5: it was so I mean, especially when you consider they

1031
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,879
Speaker 5: were honoring one hundred a gentleman who's one hundred years old,

1032
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 5: who has you know, served our country in three wars,

1033
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 5: or another gentleman who has lost his legs. Right, it's like,

1034
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:29,360
Speaker 5: if you think about the people who get that award, No,

1035
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:33,359
Speaker 5: you are not eligible, nor should you be eligible, sir.

1036
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: So what did he have so that he didn't have

1037
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: to go to the army? I mean, what do he?

1038
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:39,360
Speaker 5: Bone spurs at his foot?

1039
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,319
Speaker 4: Come on, meanwhile, I should stop playing because I got

1040
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:43,880
Speaker 4: some tendonitis in my achilles.

1041
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: Even right now, I'm scared. I hope the thing don't snap.

1042
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: But let me let me ask you this too. Did you.

1043
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: There was a moment in the speech where.

1044
00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 4: He talked about he said, well, this should have been

1045
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 4: my third term, yes, and that people start chanting four

1046
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 4: more years. I'm calling them the people because they don't

1047
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:08,399
Speaker 4: deserve to be called representatives in this empty ass house floor,

1048
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:11,880
Speaker 4: House chamber. Now here's the thing that I want to

1049
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 4: point out.

1050
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: He says that he should have been in his third term,

1051
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: but then he goes on this rant about how important

1052
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: the Saved Act is. It is remarkable to me that

1053
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 1: they want to protect democracy against voter fraud that does

1054
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: not exist. They need voter ID for people who are

1055
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 1: clear about what polling location they go to, and the

1056
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: people recognize them because they volunteer every election. But he

1057
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: wants to talk about former years, which is unconstitutional. So

1058
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out what electoral law we're protecting,

1059
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: Why there's a choice.

1060
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 5: Why do they make you know it's all about protecting

1061
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 5: his power. I mean, look, I mean we know this

1062
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 5: right when you hear him talk about things like nationalizing

1063
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 5: the election. But what did he also said? He said,

1064
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 5: he said Republicans should control the elections in certain democratic places.

1065
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 5: Right when we see what he did in Georgia going

1066
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:09,160
Speaker 5: you know, you know, full scale, you know, going into

1067
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 5: Fulton County and taking all the records when he you know,

1068
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 5: he's still got this twenty twenty agreements. And I said

1069
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 5: this earlier tonight. The lesson that he learned in after

1070
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 5: January sixth was that he needed to essentially overwhelm the

1071
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 5: system so that he could get corrupt and get more power.

1072
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 5: I mean, that's really what this is about. He's not

1073
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 5: trying to protect anything he's not interested in. Like you said,

1074
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, the Heritage Foundations owned with some

1075
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 5: of their own records show there's no voter fraud. It's

1076
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 5: not real. If you're here in the country illegally, you're

1077
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 5: not going to go vote illegally. I mean, come on,

1078
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 5: that's ridiculous. So we know what this is about. This

1079
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 5: is about him trying to hold onto power. He wants

1080
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 5: another election, he wants more power. It's the reason they're

1081
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 5: doing all this redistricting all over the country. And he

1082
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 5: didn't expect Democrats to step up the way they have.

1083
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 5: I got to give credit to you know, our governors,

1084
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 5: our people who are mayors, people who have been coming

1085
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 5: out and making their voices heard to say, you know, no,

1086
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 5: we're not going to stand for this. And if you're

1087
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 5: going to do it, then we're going to do it.

1088
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 5: And you know what's going on right now in Maryland.

1089
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 5: Have every faith in Governor Wes Moore going to get

1090
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 5: it done because you know, so he's not protecting anything

1091
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 5: but himself because and he's here's the other thing he said, Andrew.

1092
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 5: He didn't say it tonight, but he has said it before.

1093
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 5: He said, because you know, they'll try to impeach me

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Speaker 5: if they get back in control. So you know, he

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Speaker 5: knows he's in trouble because he's broken the law.

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Speaker 3: Who cares about truth when the last morning's seen it?

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Speaker 4: He has And so you know, speaking of breaking the laws,

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Speaker 4: he breaks a lot of things, including just like moral sensibilities.

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Speaker 4: And so one of the things we saw tonight we

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Speaker 4: referenced this earlier as well is Congressman Green, who of

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Speaker 4: course last year stood up pointed as cane to Donald Trump.

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Speaker 4: This year, he was holding up a sign that said

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Speaker 4: that black people are not apes. He has, of course,

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Speaker 4: was removed from the chamber today. There are Republican influencers, pastors,

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Speaker 4: people who supported Donald Trump in the election who have

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Speaker 4: refused to just condemn this.

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Speaker 1: Tim Scott did, in fact condemn it, but tonight he.

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Speaker 4: Put up a video he couldn't wait for the State

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Speaker 4: of the Union address talking about America is back, America

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Speaker 4: is going backwards.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know that America is back.

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Speaker 4: I want to bring this up because Karen, I don't

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Speaker 4: know if you've been paying attention to what happened. Gavin

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Speaker 4: Newsom was in conversation with Andre Dickens in Atlanta, the

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Speaker 4: mayor of Atlanta, just yesterday, and in that conversation or

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Speaker 4: was it.

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Speaker 1: Two days ago now two days ago? It was two

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Speaker 1: days ago.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, it's a blur, But in that conversation he brought

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Speaker 4: up being dyslexic and SAT scores, and the outrage coming

1121
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 4: from Republicans was fifty two times maybe fifty two hundred

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Speaker 4: times what it was around the Ape thing, which is blake,

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Speaker 4: like literally Michelle Obama's head, Barack Obama's head are here.

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Speaker 4: But just the mere mention of a low SAT score.

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Speaker 4: I understand it was not art like it was. It

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Speaker 4: was not He could have said it a little better,

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Speaker 4: for real, for real, But I don't know that I

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Speaker 4: would call that race.

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Speaker 1: I would call some other stuff Gavin has done. He

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Speaker 1: also right, but like this is the thing that they're like,

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01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 1: how dare you this is so racist? I'm like, y'all

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01:01:51,240 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 1: did't see your boy two weeks ago.

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Speaker 5: But but you know what, Angela, this is the thing,

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Speaker 5: and I think it's so important we call it out

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01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 5: and we name it. This is this false equivalency BS

1136
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 5: that happens all the time, right, yes, because remember you

1137
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 5: know they'll like, oh, you call us racist, we'll call

1138
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 5: you racist, and somehow that makes it okay, right, I mean,

1139
01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 5: you know, just tonight, I'm sorry, I think it's racist

1140
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:22,520
Speaker 5: that Trump said we repeal d Ei, like this is

1141
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 5: some great statement and great achievement. That's racist?

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01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 1: It is, right, because then you know, like we're trying

1143
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Speaker 1: to erase you. How is a racier not racist?

1144
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 5: That's racist? So you know, you may not have liked

1145
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:40,680
Speaker 5: the way Gavin made his point.

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Speaker 6: I didn't.

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01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, I might not have said it

1148
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 5: that way. But no, they're always just looking for any

1149
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:51,080
Speaker 5: moment that they can try to say aha, you know,

1150
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 5: because they know they're wrong. I really believe the reason

1151
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 5: they keep doing it is they know that they're wrong.

1152
01:02:56,760 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 5: You cannot defend what Trump did, you cannot defend you know,

1153
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:06,880
Speaker 5: comparing the former president of the United States and his wife,

1154
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 5: by the way, who is beloved Trump will never be

1155
01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 5: loved the way they are loved. That's what really a

1156
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 5: lot of this is about. And so he's constantly this

1157
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 5: false equivalence, false equivalents. And the thing that I hate

1158
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 5: is that sometimes one of the reasons I love to

1159
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:23,720
Speaker 5: see other people we don't fall for that right, Like

1160
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 5: too often. You know, we've all been on these shows

1161
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 5: where you have to defend this and that, and it's like,

1162
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 5: that's not what this is really about. People. The man's racist.

1163
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 5: Let's just say that and just acknowledge that. I mean.

1164
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Speaker 5: And he's over and over again tonight. There were moments

1165
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 5: where he kept saying it and pointing it out and

1166
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 5: it is so obvious, So you know, and why it

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01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 5: is that some of these right wing influencers have so

1168
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 5: much influence on the White House. You know, we should

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01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 5: we should talk about I'm wondering.

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Speaker 4: Though, it pays to be right unintended? Okay, how about that?

1171
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 4: And it pays handsomely. I hear you speaking of being

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Speaker 4: paid handsomely. I'm gonna bring on this rich woman she's

1173
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 4: rich in knowledge, and I hope she let me borrow

1174
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 4: twenty dollars. That is my dear friend, legal strategist, brilliant mind,

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Speaker 4: Monique Presley has joining us, and I'm about to pitch

1176
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:24,760
Speaker 4: y'all off because here's what I'm about to tell you. So,

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Speaker 4: there's one thing that Donald Trump talked about tonight that

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01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 4: I agree with. Look at this, I'm like, actually, there's two.

1179
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 4: There's two, this one, this one, this one is. I

1180
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 4: think this is funny Trump accounts.

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01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:39,680
Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't love the name, but he stole that from somebody.

1183
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 1: He colonized that from somebody, and it wasn't on the right.

1184
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: Y'all know about Booker's baby bonds. So we agree with this.

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Speaker 4: I think we generally agree with this. Now, I don't

1186
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 4: like that he got a name everything after himself. I

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01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 4: also don't like that he just try to give himself

1188
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,160
Speaker 4: the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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Speaker 1: But Monique, what say you? Normally you my moderate friends,

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Speaker 1: So I thought, certainly I was gonna get less than

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Speaker 1: an eye row more. You're on mute in case you're

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01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:06,960
Speaker 1: ready to weigh in.

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Speaker 9: Hey, y'all, it's good to be home, man.

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01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 12: So I have two very different piton I'm holding two

1195
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 12: opinions about tonight.

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Speaker 9: One.

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Speaker 5: It was so hurtful.

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Speaker 12: As as Karen was just saying just the repeated overt

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Speaker 12: racism that the Minnesota and Somali section and representatives just

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Speaker 12: you know, just holding herself and speaking out at the

1201
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:46,360
Speaker 12: same time. All of that just could have took me.

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01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:51,720
Speaker 12: And I was watching it on camera and I had popcorn,

1203
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 12: and my cousin was texting me, I still have my bowl,

1204
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 12: and she says, people in the comments know that you're

1205
01:05:57,960 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 12: eating that popcorn, so you don't start.

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01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 9: I couldn't see the comments, but I was, like I was.

1207
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 9: It was a nervous reaction, right, and so that was

1208
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 9: deeply hurtful.

1209
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:16,560
Speaker 12: But then watching not just him but his team roll

1210
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:20,880
Speaker 12: out that reality show game show You Get a car,

1211
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 12: Enrique's here in person, three gold medals, Olympic program.

1212
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 1: Let me know.

1213
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:28,920
Speaker 9: They are very clear about how much trouble they're in.

1214
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 12: Yes, they know danger danger. We about to lose everything.

1215
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:39,920
Speaker 9: We have not done well. People are not happy with us.

1216
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 1: And so he did what he does.

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01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 9: Let me entertain you, let me make you smile, let

1218
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:48,560
Speaker 9: me give you this show, and the bigger of the

1219
01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 9: show God. I was like, Oh, that's really, that's all

1220
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:54,560
Speaker 9: they have. That's all they have, So we need to

1221
01:06:54,720 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 9: g OTV like a for No. They I think they

1222
01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 9: know we have it more than we know we have

1223
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:03,520
Speaker 9: it right now.

1224
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 5: They know we have an election.

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01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 12: Sorry, And I think they just haven't secured their plan

1226
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:13,360
Speaker 12: on that because if they, if they were on luck.

1227
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:15,400
Speaker 9: He would have thrown in there somewhere like he did before.

1228
01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:17,120
Speaker 5: We don't even need any more elections.

1229
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Speaker 9: I was waiting for that.

1230
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 12: But I think maybe seeing as how today, you know,

1231
01:07:21,560 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 12: the pedophilia lawsuit and everything came at the same time.

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01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:27,040
Speaker 5: So he wasn't like on his A game a game

1233
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 5: with that.

1234
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 11: But so I am.

1235
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:35,680
Speaker 9: I am encouraged by the buffoonery that we.

1236
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 7: Are on the right track.

1237
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 4: What about this, Karen, So this is my other point

1238
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 4: of agreement. I only got two.

1239
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:45,160
Speaker 5: I'm just like nervous.

1240
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 1: Great, I might actually have three. I think I have

1241
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:48,840
Speaker 1: one more. I think I got one more. But he

1242
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:52,920
Speaker 1: kind of is cheating with this in theory. Uh, not

1243
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:55,320
Speaker 1: taxing people on tips I think is the right thing

1244
01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 1: to do in theory, but he ain't doing this right.

1245
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:03,520
Speaker 5: No, And by the way, he touts that as if

1246
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 5: it is some master plan, economic plan that's going to

1247
01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:11,680
Speaker 5: just benefit all these people, and by the way, it doesn't. Yeah,

1248
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 5: and there's also all kinds of fine print on it

1249
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,600
Speaker 5: if you actually feet into it in terms.

1250
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:19,320
Speaker 1: Of kind of like them ice bonuses, how about that?

1251
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 5: How about that? Or all that money were supposed to

1252
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:24,360
Speaker 5: be getting back from the tariffs? Where's out? Where is that?

1253
01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 6: Right?

1254
01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:27,439
Speaker 5: He keeps someone home early retirement for the government.

1255
01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:29,679
Speaker 9: It's always fine print.

1256
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 5: Oh exactly. So I'm with you in theory. I like

1257
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:39,080
Speaker 5: the idea, but in practice, and this is the thing

1258
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 5: I have to say. And you know, I'm always weary

1259
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:45,280
Speaker 5: of poles. But when we've seen it now across the year,

1260
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:49,519
Speaker 5: we've seen it grow across the electorate and across different groups,

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Speaker 5: people are not buying it anymore. That's part of the

1262
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:56,719
Speaker 5: why they're in so much trouble. So even the people

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01:08:56,840 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 5: the no tax and tips, because I remember there was

1264
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:00,960
Speaker 5: a story of people went back to Bata because he had,

1265
01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:04,040
Speaker 5: you know, talked about it there on the strip. And

1266
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:06,760
Speaker 5: when you when people actually realize all the things they

1267
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:08,760
Speaker 5: had to do to actually try to get that back,

1268
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:11,760
Speaker 5: by the time you get that money back and now

1269
01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:15,439
Speaker 5: your health care costs are more expensive, and actually your

1270
01:09:15,479 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 5: grocery bills are still more expensive. He lied about that tonight. Okay,

1271
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:22,760
Speaker 5: you got your little no tax on tips, but what's

1272
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:23,759
Speaker 5: she going to get a piece.

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01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 6: Of bubblegum with it?

1274
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:27,720
Speaker 5: I mean, it doesn't so if it was real. And

1275
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:31,760
Speaker 5: I'm even with you on the the Trump accounts again,

1276
01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:34,680
Speaker 5: hate the name, love the idea. We should be doing that.

1277
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:37,439
Speaker 5: But can I just point out one other really cruel

1278
01:09:37,520 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 5: thing he did when he talked about I think he

1279
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 5: said something out lifting people out of poverty. I think

1280
01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:49,240
Speaker 5: that's called kicking people off of welfare, kicking people, kicking

1281
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:51,000
Speaker 5: people off of benefit.

1282
01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 7: Right, It's like you didn't.

1283
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:57,679
Speaker 5: Lift anybody out of anything anywhere. So even the things

1284
01:09:57,720 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 5: that I might agree with you, I just feel like

1285
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:03,679
Speaker 5: the devil's in the details, and that's where he agrees.

1286
01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:07,400
Speaker 4: This devil don'tso touch details at all. But I do

1287
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:09,960
Speaker 4: have one more for y'all where I agree with him.

1288
01:10:10,160 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 1: Y'all want to hear it.

1289
01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:16,639
Speaker 4: Banning Wall Street from buying single family homes.

1290
01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:23,639
Speaker 1: I do agree with this. Okay, Yeah, conceptually I don't

1291
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 1: trust him, but I agree with the idea.

1292
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 4: Let me tell y'all, there are so many folks. If

1293
01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 4: you look, there's a map that just came out. I

1294
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 4: feel like it was last week that was an overlay

1295
01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 4: of maybe twenty years ago. If it was that it

1296
01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:42,680
Speaker 4: was more affordable to own twenty years ago, it is

1297
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 4: more affordable to rent today. And part of the reason

1298
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 4: is because of how much these big private equity firms

1299
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:52,439
Speaker 4: have driven up housing costs by buying single family homes

1300
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:56,640
Speaker 4: for Airbnb, for vrbo, for all these different things that

1301
01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 4: now people can't afford to do anything but.

1302
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 1: Right, So come on, do you watch your popcorn?

1303
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 5: No, here's the thing Scott sent mmmm.

1304
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 9: Said about this and I clipped it. I meant to

1305
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:19,720
Speaker 9: put it in a show and I lost it.

1306
01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:22,120
Speaker 11: So this is this is this is God.

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01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:26,040
Speaker 1: Okay, good, he said.

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Speaker 12: We're not talking about your mom and dad or your

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Speaker 12: grandparents and they're five to seven single family homes that

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Speaker 12: they're using for their retirement. We're talking about people who

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Speaker 12: buy thirty forty single family homes at a time. Now,

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Speaker 12: first of all, offend it, right, because how out attach

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Speaker 12: her you that you're talking to a room full of

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Speaker 12: just working citizens in this country and you're saying, not

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Speaker 12: your mom and your dad with their five to seven,

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Speaker 12: they're still gonna be able to do that. We're talking

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Speaker 12: about the thirty forty, so they're already finding ways to

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Speaker 12: make it more about We're not gonna let you buy

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Speaker 12: a neighborhood full of homes. It's not gonna save the block.

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Speaker 12: But again, as you said, I also just don't trust him.

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Speaker 12: I always expect that there is some kickback involved, because

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Speaker 12: they are never interested in doing anything that doesn't favor

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Speaker 12: business interests.

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Speaker 9: So I don't know if we're back in the land

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Speaker 9: of Trump realty. We'll figure it out.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a good flag, mo I hear that it out?

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Speaker 9: They'll roll it out right after the midterms. I mean,

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Speaker 9: we're not gonna find out right now.

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Speaker 1: That's true. That's true.

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Speaker 5: Journalists to investigate.

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Speaker 1: Well, y'all.

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Speaker 4: We have been joined by two members who we love,

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Speaker 4: our dear sisters, Congresswoman Robin Kelly, who represents Illinois second District,

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Speaker 4: also a candidate for Illinois Senate.

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Speaker 1: Look at her that she is, Can you hear us? Okay, yes, perfectly,

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Speaker 1: you sound good too. You're right there. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to hear what you thought of this craziness. And then our.

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Speaker 4: Another dear sister, Congresswoman Clark. She represents New York's ninth district.

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Speaker 4: She is also the incredible Congressional Black Carcass chair. She

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Speaker 4: was with us last year too.

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Speaker 1: So I'm so happy to see my sisters, my big sisters,

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Speaker 1: back in the building with us, so I can clearly

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Speaker 1: see Congressman Clark said, I'm not going. Robin Kelly said,

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Speaker 1: I'm going. So I want to hear the reasons why

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Speaker 1: you all decided to take the path as you took,

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Speaker 1: and what you thought of what happened tonight. Well we

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Speaker 1: both went, oh yeah, I was there.

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Speaker 10: I was there, and it was as horrific as I

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Speaker 10: thought it would be.

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Speaker 11: Absolutely it was.

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Speaker 1: It was like an award.

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Speaker 10: Yo, you get a medal, You get a medal, You

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Speaker 10: get a medal.

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Speaker 1: That's literally moj just said, you get a car, you

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Speaker 1: get a car. Y'all are on the same page. Is

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Speaker 1: there something to you that felt to both of you

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Speaker 1: that felt overtly and incredibly offensive being in the room.

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Speaker 10: Well, it was a toxic environment to begin with, and

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Speaker 10: I knew that that was going to be the case.

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Speaker 10: Ironically enough, I think word went out that most of

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Speaker 10: the or a significant number of Democrats would not be

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Speaker 10: in the room. So the traditional setup of having Republicans

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Speaker 10: seated on one side of the aisle and Democrats on

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Speaker 10: the other was breached this evening. We had a number

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Speaker 10: of Republicans seated in what has traditionally been the Democratic section,

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Speaker 10: And I think that was because they wanted to preempt

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Speaker 10: the fact that we were not going to applaud the

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Speaker 10: madness of Donald Trump, and they wanted to drown out

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Speaker 10: any dissension that would come from Democrat to what was

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Speaker 10: being said.

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Speaker 11: And so much of it was, you know, just full

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Speaker 11: of lives and untruths.

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Speaker 10: You know, Donald Trump clearly was disturbed by the fact

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Speaker 10: that Democrats would not stand and applaud him this evening.

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Speaker 10: He really lost a lot of his composure throughout his

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Speaker 10: speech as a result of that.

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Speaker 1: That is so true.

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Speaker 10: You could notice it very easy because they kept commenting

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Speaker 10: on it.

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Speaker 4: Wow, what else did you see that you feel like,

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Speaker 4: you know, like I was watching, like like you could

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Speaker 4: hear a pin drop when I saw Ilhan hungresome and

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Speaker 4: Omar responding kind of heckling him, calling him out after

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Speaker 4: he had just got done saying, you know, the Somali

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Speaker 4: pirates in Minneapolis, which is so overtly offensive and racist

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Speaker 4: and xenophobic. She's having to sit through that, and she

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Speaker 4: finally had enough and said, you know, you should be ashamed.

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Speaker 4: And I was saying earlier Rashida to leave. As people

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Speaker 4: begin to chant, USA was saying KKK on far with USA.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you all can see that where

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Speaker 4: you are, But was there anything that felt overtly kind

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Speaker 4: of offensive to you?

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Speaker 1: Connerson? M Kelly, Well, when he said what did he say?

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Speaker 13: That we were frauds and cheese and he was going

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Speaker 13: to stop us from making money with the stock, saying,

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Speaker 13: you know how much money he his family and friends

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Speaker 13: have made this year, this past year.

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Speaker 11: Alan over a billion dollars.

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Speaker 5: And he's talking about us.

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Speaker 1: And that doesn't even include that little crypto coin, does it. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: they've just made so much money.

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Speaker 13: Every foreign deal that he's cut, he's gotten something out

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Speaker 13: with airplane, you know, from cutter. I mean, he's just

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Speaker 13: made so much money. It's just horrible. There's no word

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Speaker 13: for him. There's no word.

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Speaker 10: It was thought the monument's clause never existed. Is not

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Speaker 10: a part of uh, you know, the fos of our

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Speaker 10: nation and you know these are things they're going to

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Speaker 10: be held accountable to once democrats, uh get the get

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Speaker 10: the gables.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 10: The American people have some very important choices to make here.

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Speaker 10: Our community, our country has been common deered by a

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Speaker 10: group of white supremacists who have decided that ultimately, uh

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Speaker 10: you know, they cannot survive in a multicultural, uh civil society,

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Speaker 10: and so uh you know that they're doing everything they

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Speaker 10: can at the last gas uh to try to preserve

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Speaker 10: their white supremacist ideology and to impose it on the

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Speaker 10: American people. I hope that folks recognize just even in

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Speaker 10: this his his counting the Safe Act, that that is

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Speaker 10: the weapon they of choice that they have developed to

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Speaker 10: maintain one party rule in the United States of America.

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Speaker 11: So there was a lot that this evening.

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Speaker 10: Most of it was entertainment, but a significant part of

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Speaker 10: it uh has you know, a real danger to who

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Speaker 10: we are as a as a nation and to the

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Speaker 10: democratic values that has made our nation so unique in

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Speaker 10: the world. We've got a lot of work to do, uh,

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Speaker 10: to to to move us back into a space where

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Speaker 10: we're not going to be run by a tyrant, where we're.

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Speaker 11: Not going to be subjected to authoritarian rule.

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Speaker 1: Given that there weren't any real surprises in tone, in

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Speaker 1: in what he shared, most of it fact free. What

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Speaker 1: what was the impetus for both of you deciding to attend?

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Speaker 1: Why did you not sit it out like some of

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Speaker 1: your other colleagues.

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Speaker 13: I mean for me, I eminilyleadership, so trying to give

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Speaker 13: Hakim Jeffries support, but also the more of us that

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Speaker 13: didn't go, the more they would fill with his people.

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Speaker 13: So I wanted him to see some consternation in the audience.

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Speaker 13: I wanted him to see some blank starees, people that

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Speaker 13: would not stand up, that would not clap, because it

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Speaker 13: does bother him.

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Speaker 1: He talked about it so many.

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Speaker 10: Times, so I like to bother him. I thought that,

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Speaker 10: you know, it was important as the chair of the

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Speaker 10: Congressional Black HAWKUS, with members seated there, that I'd be

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Speaker 10: there as well to be a witness to what was

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Speaker 10: taking place, Understanding that there would be a lot of

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Speaker 10: vitriol coming from him that at the end of the day,

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Speaker 10: you know, his philosophy has to do with the diminution

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Speaker 10: of our humanity. I thought it was worth it to

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Speaker 10: be there to support those members who uh for whatever reasons,

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Speaker 10: had to be in that space. This evening and would

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Speaker 10: want them to be in a situation where the question

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Speaker 10: of Congressional Black Caucus leadership was not there.

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Speaker 4: You know that it's so interesting you just brought up

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Speaker 4: our humanity and what's been ever present for me since

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Speaker 4: his passing is Reverend Jackson and that those three words

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Speaker 4: he reminded us of often I am somebody. So as

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Speaker 4: you think about Reverend Jackson's legacy, you know how he

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Speaker 4: deepened into diplomacy, his leadership. The contrast, frankly, between who

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Speaker 4: he was, who he will always remain to us and

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Speaker 4: this alleged leader that you all had to it and listen.

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Speaker 1: To ramble for I don't know how long. What do

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Speaker 1: you think that Reverend would have us to do for

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Speaker 1: our next steps?

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Speaker 6: Ms?

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Speaker 4: Clark, you know as well as me, I was joking

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Speaker 4: about this on the podcast last week, saying he's the

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Speaker 4: only non CBC member who could come into a CBC meeting,

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Speaker 4: no questions asked and start talking. And as an unofficial

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Speaker 4: member of the CBC, maybe official given he was a

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Speaker 4: shadow senator DC, the shadow senator, right, what do you

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Speaker 4: think that he would be calling us to do in

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Speaker 4: this moment? Well, first of all, there is no comparison

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Speaker 4: in terms of leadership between the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

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Speaker 10: Senior and Donald Trump.

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Speaker 11: They're not in the same class with one another.

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Speaker 10: What Jesse Jackson did for black people and by extension,

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Speaker 10: the United States of America, Donald Trump is not even

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Speaker 10: worthy to dust his shoes. Donald Trump has lived a

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Speaker 10: life of privilege, oftentimes at the expense of those around him,

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Speaker 10: those workers that he stiffed, those individuals that he dehumanized

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Speaker 10: on his way to becoming the president of the United States.

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Speaker 10: On the other hand, you have the Reverend Jesse Jackson,

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Speaker 10: who put his life on the line so that we

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Speaker 10: could enjoy the freedoms that we enjoy today, who traverse

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Speaker 10: this country and this world lifting up the humanity of others,

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Speaker 10: and very successful in organizing and registering voters across this nation.

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Speaker 10: What he would want us to do is registered voters

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Speaker 10: like crazy. That's what he want us to do in

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Speaker 10: this moment. He would want us to find every seventeen

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Speaker 10: year old that's about to turn eighteen for the upcoming

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Speaker 10: election to make sure that they're registered to vote. He

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Speaker 10: would want us to be out in these streets keeping

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Speaker 10: hope alive and making sure that our people understand that

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Speaker 10: they are empowered through this franchise and that this is

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Speaker 10: their country and we have every right and every expectation

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Speaker 10: to enjoy the fruits of our labor, and that we

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Speaker 10: have to fight for it. That's what just Jackson will

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Speaker 10: want us to do in this moment, and that's what

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Speaker 10: we are all inspired to do as a result of

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Speaker 10: his life of legacy.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Congresson and Kelly, I would love to hear from

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Speaker 1: you on this. We know that the children of.

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Speaker 4: Reverend Jackson were Congressman Hakim Jeffrey's guests tonight, and this

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Speaker 4: is of course after Speaker Mike Johnson declined Reverend Jackson

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Speaker 4: laying honor in the Capitol.

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Speaker 13: So well, first of all, the Reverend is my constituent

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Speaker 13: and all his kids and my constituents too, so it's

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Speaker 13: good to see all of them. I have a close

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Speaker 13: relationship with them because in our ran for a state Rep.

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Speaker 1: Jesse Jr.

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Speaker 13: And I used to call him Big Daddy, but Reverend

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Speaker 13: Jackson both helped me when I became When I won

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Speaker 13: for a State Rep.

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Speaker 1: Styed in my life. But he's a unifier and a

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Speaker 1: coalition builder.

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Speaker 13: This guy is a divider and he loves to divide us,

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Speaker 13: you know, because that's how he can conquer us. But

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Speaker 13: I don't differ from what Chera Clark said that he

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01:24:26,439 --> 01:24:29,599
Speaker 13: will want us to not leave a stone unturned, make

1524
01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:33,880
Speaker 13: sure everyone that's eligible to vote registers and goes to vote,

1525
01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:37,240
Speaker 13: not just a register, and just try to educate as

1526
01:24:37,320 --> 01:24:41,919
Speaker 13: many people and inform as many people as possible. November

1527
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:45,559
Speaker 13: twenty twenty sixth election. You know, we always say it's

1528
01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:48,559
Speaker 13: the most important election, but this is the most important

1529
01:24:48,600 --> 01:24:51,719
Speaker 13: election because you know, the Big Ugly Bill hasn't fully

1530
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 13: gone into effect yet. A lot of things are going

1531
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:56,800
Speaker 13: to happen if we don't take that house back.

1532
01:24:56,960 --> 01:24:58,560
Speaker 6: So it is extreme.

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01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:04,120
Speaker 4: Well, I think we just lost congress Woman Clark, I

1534
01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:07,080
Speaker 4: mean Kelly. We had Congressom and Clark, but we just

1535
01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:08,160
Speaker 4: lost congress.

1536
01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:09,640
Speaker 1: Woman and Kelly. And I think we know where she

1537
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:10,800
Speaker 1: was going, and that is we.

1538
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:13,760
Speaker 4: Have an obligation to show up and to show out,

1539
01:25:13,880 --> 01:25:16,240
Speaker 4: not just in this election, but we have some policies

1540
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:18,920
Speaker 4: that we need to be fighting against leading up to

1541
01:25:19,120 --> 01:25:22,160
Speaker 4: the election. One of my favorite things about Reverend Karen

1542
01:25:22,240 --> 01:25:25,320
Speaker 4: Monique and congress Woman Clark is that he would show

1543
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:27,519
Speaker 4: up anywhere, and he did not wait for an invitation.

1544
01:25:28,160 --> 01:25:30,400
Speaker 1: He would show up to any fight. You did not

1545
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:33,240
Speaker 1: have to summoned to him. He would be there.

1546
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:36,600
Speaker 4: When we did the podcast last week, Andrew showed a

1547
01:25:36,680 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 4: picture of Reverend Jackson sitting on the ground on the

1548
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:43,400
Speaker 4: other side of a thirty day occupation by the Dream

1549
01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 4: Defenders in the Florida State Capitol.

1550
01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:47,360
Speaker 1: Reverend Jackson just came. He just went.

1551
01:25:47,479 --> 01:25:50,160
Speaker 4: And I think that our greatest obligation to our people

1552
01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:52,519
Speaker 4: in this hour is just to show up. If we

1553
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 4: start there, there's so much that we can do, especially

1554
01:25:54,560 --> 01:25:57,040
Speaker 4: when we do it together. So I want to thank you,

1555
01:25:57,120 --> 01:25:59,120
Speaker 4: Congressman Clark. I don't know if you have any parting words,

1556
01:25:59,160 --> 01:26:00,200
Speaker 4: but I know I don't want to caere keep you

1557
01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:01,880
Speaker 4: late because you got a lot of work to do.

1558
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:04,479
Speaker 4: On the other side of that. Mike God, I.

1559
01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:08,120
Speaker 10: Want to think, you know, the people's movement you all

1560
01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:14,600
Speaker 10: have continue to inspire our people to motivate, to activate,

1561
01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:19,000
Speaker 10: and that's the important part of this movement that we

1562
01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:22,720
Speaker 10: are part of. Activation is critical. You talked about what

1563
01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 10: would the Reverend Jesse Jackson Senior do. He would be

1564
01:26:28,400 --> 01:26:32,040
Speaker 10: on the ground organizing as you are. He would be mobilizing.

1565
01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:34,360
Speaker 10: He'd be looking for ways to make sure that our

1566
01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:39,560
Speaker 10: folks are receiving mutual aid in an eraror when so

1567
01:26:39,720 --> 01:26:42,240
Speaker 10: much is being stripped away. You know, I think about

1568
01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:45,599
Speaker 10: the unemployment rate for black people in this nation right

1569
01:26:45,680 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 10: now as a result of the purging of the federal

1570
01:26:49,080 --> 01:26:54,320
Speaker 10: government and the threats level leveled against Corporate America or

1571
01:26:54,400 --> 01:26:57,960
Speaker 10: a so called DEI practices, And Donald Trump had the

1572
01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:03,799
Speaker 10: nerve to bring up d during his speech this evening

1573
01:27:04,280 --> 01:27:08,519
Speaker 10: again the hatred, the bigotry, the discrimination that he's unleashing

1574
01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:10,840
Speaker 10: in this country. We've got to make sure that our

1575
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:12,920
Speaker 10: people recognize that they have the power.

1576
01:27:13,560 --> 01:27:15,720
Speaker 14: They have the power to change all of this.

1577
01:27:16,439 --> 01:27:19,760
Speaker 10: And that's what our job is between now and the

1578
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:23,400
Speaker 10: midterms and beyond that. I think we have to walk

1579
01:27:23,479 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 10: this walk every single day as the Reverend Jesse Jackson

1580
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:33,160
Speaker 10: did and all those who were disciples of Martin Luther

1581
01:27:33,280 --> 01:27:37,360
Speaker 10: King Junior and the Civil rights movement, and even prior

1582
01:27:37,439 --> 01:27:41,000
Speaker 10: to that, our people have been sacrificing to make a

1583
01:27:41,120 --> 01:27:45,080
Speaker 10: better America, to open up the spaces, the pathways and

1584
01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:48,640
Speaker 10: corridors for our people to be successful. We can't be

1585
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:52,120
Speaker 10: the generation that falls down on the job. So I'm

1586
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:55,479
Speaker 10: rolling up monthly. I'm getting in these streets and we

1587
01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:57,720
Speaker 10: all need to do that and make sure that we're

1588
01:27:57,760 --> 01:28:02,200
Speaker 10: talking with people we are they have lived experience and

1589
01:28:02,439 --> 01:28:06,360
Speaker 10: absorbing it to the point where we are strengthened by

1590
01:28:06,479 --> 01:28:11,400
Speaker 10: the power that they have through what they're experiencing in

1591
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:16,160
Speaker 10: their lives, and that we convert that into political power,

1592
01:28:16,200 --> 01:28:20,320
Speaker 10: which is what the Reverend doctor Jesse Jackson Senior did.

1593
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:25,080
Speaker 10: He converted our pain into power, and we need to

1594
01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:28,639
Speaker 10: harness that so that not only in the med terms,

1595
01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:35,080
Speaker 10: but for future elections, for the development of communities, the

1596
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:39,559
Speaker 10: development of opportunities, for all of those in our community

1597
01:28:39,560 --> 01:28:44,800
Speaker 10: who are seeking them become available and freely available to

1598
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:47,120
Speaker 10: this generation and future generations to come.

1599
01:28:47,200 --> 01:28:48,800
Speaker 11: So I'm looking forward to doing this work.

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01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:51,080
Speaker 10: I'm a joyful warrior. But don't mess with me.

1601
01:28:51,640 --> 01:28:52,360
Speaker 14: Don't mess with me.

1602
01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:54,639
Speaker 1: She means that from Brooklyn.

1603
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:58,360
Speaker 4: Okay, we love you, Congressoman Clark, thank you so much.

1604
01:28:58,439 --> 01:29:01,400
Speaker 4: You are such an incredible sea chair. We're so grateful

1605
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:04,439
Speaker 4: for this time share with you this evening and well to.

1606
01:29:04,400 --> 01:29:06,800
Speaker 10: See ladies, and thank you so much for all that

1607
01:29:06,920 --> 01:29:10,559
Speaker 10: you do and you're educating our people. You We are

1608
01:29:10,680 --> 01:29:14,160
Speaker 10: so proud of each of you and hold you in

1609
01:29:14,439 --> 01:29:16,680
Speaker 10: very high regard. Thank you so much for what you

1610
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:20,280
Speaker 10: do each and every day to lift up black excellence.

1611
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:23,599
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Miss Clark. All power to the people.

1612
01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:28,840
Speaker 4: All right, well we are we are getting to the

1613
01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:29,759
Speaker 4: end of our program.

1614
01:29:29,920 --> 01:29:33,360
Speaker 1: We have dissected what was not much of a speech

1615
01:29:33,439 --> 01:29:36,280
Speaker 1: already anyway, but we have also talked about the state

1616
01:29:36,439 --> 01:29:38,960
Speaker 1: of black people. What is next?

1617
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:42,280
Speaker 4: We have closing us out. I'm gonna get calls to

1618
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:44,879
Speaker 4: action first from my sisters Karen and Monique.

1619
01:29:45,120 --> 01:29:48,639
Speaker 1: We've had. We have the Reverend William Lamar the Fourth

1620
01:29:48,720 --> 01:29:50,840
Speaker 1: coming back, y'all. He is incredible. I have never had

1621
01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:52,680
Speaker 1: the opportunity to just hear from him. And he had

1622
01:29:52,680 --> 01:29:55,519
Speaker 1: this Frederick Douglas quote earlier. I was like, oh my god,

1623
01:29:55,560 --> 01:29:57,400
Speaker 1: this is Borrows and I need to find this quote.

1624
01:29:57,800 --> 01:29:59,960
Speaker 4: But I want you all to close us out, because

1625
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:02,519
Speaker 4: before Miss Clark and Miss Kelly came on, I was

1626
01:30:02,600 --> 01:30:04,920
Speaker 4: on here trying to make y'all mad with my points

1627
01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:06,240
Speaker 4: of bipartisan agreement.

1628
01:30:08,280 --> 01:30:09,800
Speaker 1: But it was good because we got to fact check

1629
01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:11,360
Speaker 1: some of the things. I think it is important.

1630
01:30:12,840 --> 01:30:15,160
Speaker 5: You know, I'm going to say this, Angelain and you

1631
01:30:15,280 --> 01:30:18,000
Speaker 5: said it before, and I will tell you it rings

1632
01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:21,799
Speaker 5: in my ears. I was in high school when Reverend

1633
01:30:21,880 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 5: Jackson came through in California public schools and he I

1634
01:30:26,520 --> 01:30:30,639
Speaker 5: am somebody, and he made us all say it back.

1635
01:30:31,400 --> 01:30:31,600
Speaker 10: You know.

1636
01:30:31,760 --> 01:30:34,400
Speaker 5: It was down with dope, up with hope, right.

1637
01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:36,840
Speaker 10: It was.

1638
01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:41,920
Speaker 5: So fun. But the thing that I want us to

1639
01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:46,439
Speaker 5: remember is that by saying I am somebody and making

1640
01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:49,759
Speaker 5: us say it, it is to say each and every

1641
01:30:49,920 --> 01:30:53,479
Speaker 5: one of us matters, and our voices matter, and our

1642
01:30:53,560 --> 01:30:55,519
Speaker 5: getting you know, we've been talking about getting out in

1643
01:30:55,600 --> 01:30:57,639
Speaker 5: the streets. I was saying, now what you know Congressman

1644
01:30:57,800 --> 01:31:00,439
Speaker 5: Clark was talking about. But I think part of what

1645
01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:03,920
Speaker 5: goes with that is to say, because you deserve that, Yes,

1646
01:31:04,439 --> 01:31:08,880
Speaker 5: you deserve that, don't be don't get it twisted, and

1647
01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:11,840
Speaker 5: don't listen to all the noise that might make you think,

1648
01:31:12,640 --> 01:31:15,160
Speaker 5: I don't know, I'm not sure. No, no, no, yes.

1649
01:31:15,920 --> 01:31:18,960
Speaker 5: And so I would leave us with that we deserve better,

1650
01:31:19,360 --> 01:31:22,439
Speaker 5: and we deserve to be out there and to say

1651
01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:26,200
Speaker 5: that and to take up our space and to demand better.

1652
01:31:26,920 --> 01:31:29,960
Speaker 5: And so I just I hope that folks think about

1653
01:31:30,040 --> 01:31:33,080
Speaker 5: that when they see what's going on, and think about

1654
01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:36,240
Speaker 5: the ways that they can get involved. And I have

1655
01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:39,759
Speaker 5: grace for people. Some folks it's registering voters. Some folks

1656
01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:42,439
Speaker 5: it's you know, mutual aid is whatever it is, you

1657
01:31:42,560 --> 01:31:45,920
Speaker 5: can do, it matters. So I would just leave us

1658
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:48,920
Speaker 5: with that, because we deserve so much better than this

1659
01:31:49,080 --> 01:31:50,920
Speaker 5: foolishness we got going on right now.

1660
01:31:52,760 --> 01:31:57,960
Speaker 12: Well, yeah, I Karen, Karen and I are together because

1661
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:00,200
Speaker 12: I was going to share that. It was a first

1662
01:32:00,240 --> 01:32:03,000
Speaker 12: week of July nineteen eighty four. I was thirteen years

1663
01:32:03,040 --> 01:32:08,120
Speaker 12: old and Revan jesse L. Jackson Senior came to Galveston, Texas,

1664
01:32:08,720 --> 01:32:11,240
Speaker 12: my hometown, and he spoke in the convention center in

1665
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:13,719
Speaker 12: the Movie Civic Center, and it was standing room only

1666
01:32:14,400 --> 01:32:18,040
Speaker 12: for like the floor and the two levels up from

1667
01:32:18,080 --> 01:32:19,640
Speaker 12: the floor, and I was on the floor in the

1668
01:32:19,680 --> 01:32:22,479
Speaker 12: middle of the floor, thirteen years old, and my mom

1669
01:32:22,560 --> 01:32:23,720
Speaker 12: had taken me to be in the room.

1670
01:32:23,920 --> 01:32:25,760
Speaker 9: I had that, I had that want to do it

1671
01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:30,120
Speaker 9: in me already. But I remember standing there and looking

1672
01:32:30,240 --> 01:32:30,479
Speaker 9: up and.

1673
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:32,880
Speaker 12: Hearing him and knowing that this man was running for

1674
01:32:33,400 --> 01:32:37,120
Speaker 12: president of the United States.

1675
01:32:37,439 --> 01:32:43,040
Speaker 7: And that was like WHOA to me, we can go

1676
01:32:43,320 --> 01:32:43,880
Speaker 7: that high?

1677
01:32:44,920 --> 01:32:46,320
Speaker 9: And then to hear.

1678
01:32:47,760 --> 01:32:51,000
Speaker 12: You know, I mean, I don't know people who maybe

1679
01:32:51,160 --> 01:32:53,880
Speaker 12: have never heard him in person. I think are hearing

1680
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:56,080
Speaker 12: for the first time what it was like to get

1681
01:32:56,160 --> 01:32:59,920
Speaker 12: wrapped in the whirlwind of the way that he would

1682
01:33:00,160 --> 01:33:00,960
Speaker 12: make a case.

1683
01:33:02,160 --> 01:33:03,600
Speaker 9: And if he.

1684
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:06,320
Speaker 12: Was making the case for America right now, I know

1685
01:33:06,920 --> 01:33:10,080
Speaker 12: that he would be talking about our individual responsibilities and

1686
01:33:10,120 --> 01:33:13,240
Speaker 12: our voices and how one voice really can change things.

1687
01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:16,720
Speaker 12: And Angela, you don't even have to believe me. I

1688
01:33:16,840 --> 01:33:20,800
Speaker 12: did a little special for my show about Reverend and

1689
01:33:20,920 --> 01:33:24,000
Speaker 12: I said, I don't know if there's anybody who can

1690
01:33:24,160 --> 01:33:27,559
Speaker 12: go and bring a hundred soldiers home.

1691
01:33:28,120 --> 01:33:30,080
Speaker 9: Now, I don't know if we have that. And I'm like,

1692
01:33:30,160 --> 01:33:32,639
Speaker 9: and I don't know if they could broke her a deal,

1693
01:33:33,360 --> 01:33:37,160
Speaker 9: you know, with foreign dictators.

1694
01:33:37,200 --> 01:33:38,840
Speaker 12: And then I was like, but then there's my sister,

1695
01:33:39,040 --> 01:33:43,919
Speaker 12: Angela Rye. She's not because I was thinking about Britney Griner.

1696
01:33:44,479 --> 01:33:46,840
Speaker 12: And so I'm just saying, you know, and I know

1697
01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:49,439
Speaker 12: you don't like this, but I'm in here now, so

1698
01:33:50,720 --> 01:33:55,280
Speaker 12: I'm saying, we have He gave it to us, and

1699
01:33:55,880 --> 01:34:01,280
Speaker 12: our call now is to get real, real fast, like

1700
01:34:01,520 --> 01:34:03,920
Speaker 12: cattle to the metal about using it. Because what I

1701
01:34:04,080 --> 01:34:08,080
Speaker 12: saw from tonight was they're in trouble, and so now

1702
01:34:08,240 --> 01:34:09,360
Speaker 12: we got to act like we.

1703
01:34:09,520 --> 01:34:14,479
Speaker 1: Know and and go OTV is the only road right now,

1704
01:34:15,080 --> 01:34:19,360
Speaker 1: like I'm and registering. I'm telling people, make sure you registered,

1705
01:34:19,680 --> 01:34:21,439
Speaker 1: get your household registered.

1706
01:34:21,040 --> 01:34:23,880
Speaker 12: And then fan out like you're always telling us to

1707
01:34:24,240 --> 01:34:28,640
Speaker 12: find a home in community and you you gave my

1708
01:34:28,800 --> 01:34:30,719
Speaker 12: daughter a home with state other people.

1709
01:34:30,880 --> 01:34:34,040
Speaker 9: I mean she is forever change, which is exactly what

1710
01:34:34,120 --> 01:34:39,040
Speaker 9: I'm saying a different way, so listen.

1711
01:34:39,280 --> 01:34:44,439
Speaker 12: And she is just so black, so extra like she

1712
01:34:44,680 --> 01:34:47,160
Speaker 12: was already she showed up with her frobe but stated

1713
01:34:47,200 --> 01:34:48,880
Speaker 12: the people took her over over that.

1714
01:34:49,040 --> 01:34:51,400
Speaker 1: And Karen, you know that Monique like the nibble dabble

1715
01:34:51,479 --> 01:34:54,120
Speaker 1: in moderation. So I'm sure that she is freaking out

1716
01:34:54,160 --> 01:34:54,880
Speaker 1: right now look at it.

1717
01:34:55,720 --> 01:34:58,799
Speaker 5: I'm sure I made.

1718
01:35:00,720 --> 01:35:02,840
Speaker 1: See she like I made the most radical that she

1719
01:35:02,960 --> 01:35:05,200
Speaker 1: is not even on the.

1720
01:35:05,280 --> 01:35:07,720
Speaker 9: Spectrum is like the people the.

1721
01:35:07,800 --> 01:35:12,320
Speaker 1: Power well and for good reason, because mo, I think

1722
01:35:12,400 --> 01:35:14,760
Speaker 1: one thing that is important for you. Know, people see

1723
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:17,559
Speaker 1: you put together all the time, but you have been

1724
01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:23,240
Speaker 1: in this mighty fight advocating for your child who deserves full,

1725
01:35:23,400 --> 01:35:24,960
Speaker 1: unfettered access to healthcare.

1726
01:35:25,280 --> 01:35:27,639
Speaker 4: While I'm sitting here with you all now, my mom

1727
01:35:27,920 --> 01:35:30,720
Speaker 4: had to make me come do this tonight because she

1728
01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:33,840
Speaker 4: is in the hospital. She they found a blood clot

1729
01:35:34,479 --> 01:35:36,960
Speaker 4: last night. We choose just to you know, a run

1730
01:35:37,040 --> 01:35:40,280
Speaker 4: of the mill routine see T scan, you know, just

1731
01:35:40,360 --> 01:35:43,080
Speaker 4: to see how the cancers responding to treatment. They call

1732
01:35:43,240 --> 01:35:44,760
Speaker 4: us back and are like, y'all need to go to

1733
01:35:44,840 --> 01:35:47,679
Speaker 4: the emergency room right now. I'm supposed to be in Chicago,

1734
01:35:49,160 --> 01:35:51,519
Speaker 4: you know, but I'm like, I'm not leaving. My mom

1735
01:35:51,680 --> 01:35:54,439
Speaker 4: checked into the hospital. We can talk about as fractured

1736
01:35:54,479 --> 01:35:56,880
Speaker 4: and as jacked up as this healthcare system is, and

1737
01:35:57,000 --> 01:35:59,600
Speaker 4: it is, yes, but it can get worse if this

1738
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Speaker 4: had been continues to have its way. And so the

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01:36:02,560 --> 01:36:05,320
Speaker 4: thing that I appreciate about you, MO, is you have

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01:36:05,439 --> 01:36:10,960
Speaker 4: been unabashed about this fight, unafraid, clear, courageous, not just

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01:36:11,080 --> 01:36:13,320
Speaker 4: for your child, but for all the children who don't

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01:36:13,360 --> 01:36:16,080
Speaker 4: have moms, who are as brilliant as you, as articulate

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01:36:16,160 --> 01:36:19,439
Speaker 4: as you, as fearless as you to go and fight

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01:36:19,520 --> 01:36:21,920
Speaker 4: for their children, and for the kids in their neighborhood

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01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:23,640
Speaker 4: who need that type of advocacy.

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01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:27,040
Speaker 1: That is our most reasonable service, to fight for one another.

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01:36:27,160 --> 01:36:30,200
Speaker 1: So we can gootv all day. But if those people

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01:36:30,280 --> 01:36:34,639
Speaker 1: don't see reason, or see themselves represented, or see themselves

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01:36:34,760 --> 01:36:37,240
Speaker 1: having their basic needs take care, they're not going and

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01:36:37,320 --> 01:36:39,519
Speaker 1: so as frustrating it is to take it back to

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01:36:39,600 --> 01:36:41,640
Speaker 1: square one, it's still our obligation.

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01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:45,880
Speaker 4: We got to give them something to get something. And

1753
01:36:46,040 --> 01:36:48,800
Speaker 4: when we get something, it's not us as individuals. It's

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01:36:48,880 --> 01:36:53,920
Speaker 4: that collective fulfillment. And that is our obligation. That is biblical,

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01:36:54,240 --> 01:36:55,480
Speaker 4: that is ancestral.

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01:36:55,720 --> 01:36:58,200
Speaker 1: That's all we know. It is the village concept. You

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01:36:58,280 --> 01:36:59,640
Speaker 1: can't be like, oh, I need you go do this

1758
01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:01,720
Speaker 1: for me real quick, run down here for November for me,

1759
01:37:01,800 --> 01:37:05,320
Speaker 1: real quick? No for what what have you done for

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01:37:05,439 --> 01:37:06,679
Speaker 1: me lately? Janet Jackson?

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Speaker 4: So anyway, but I love y'all. This has been incredible.

1762
01:37:11,479 --> 01:37:13,240
Speaker 4: We got to keep doing these and we got to

1763
01:37:13,360 --> 01:37:15,720
Speaker 4: keep bringing you know, we really should do y'all.

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01:37:15,720 --> 01:37:16,240
Speaker 1: And I'm serious.

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01:37:16,240 --> 01:37:18,479
Speaker 4: I hope we can hold each other to this. Let's

1766
01:37:18,520 --> 01:37:22,640
Speaker 4: not just platform us because we know us and ourselves.

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01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:25,639
Speaker 4: Let's bring in our neighbors to hear what they need

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01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:27,920
Speaker 4: and be responsive to those needs in real time.

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01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:30,160
Speaker 1: Some of that might hurt. It's scary, you guys know.

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01:37:30,240 --> 01:37:31,960
Speaker 1: I might be a little controlling. So I don't know

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01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:34,400
Speaker 1: what they're gonna say, but I think that we probably

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01:37:34,479 --> 01:37:36,160
Speaker 1: need it, right, Karen, I think that's what we got

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01:37:36,280 --> 01:37:36,400
Speaker 1: to do.

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01:37:36,960 --> 01:37:39,120
Speaker 5: That's right. And let it be okay that they might

1775
01:37:39,240 --> 01:37:44,680
Speaker 5: say some things that are scary or uncomfortable because we

1776
01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:49,760
Speaker 5: are too comfortable with not talking about what's uncomfortable. Right,

1777
01:37:50,520 --> 01:37:53,080
Speaker 5: And we've got it. And that goes back to Rever Jackson,

1778
01:37:53,160 --> 01:37:55,160
Speaker 5: goes back to so many of our leaders who were

1779
01:37:55,200 --> 01:37:57,400
Speaker 5: willing to just say the thing that was gonna make

1780
01:37:57,439 --> 01:38:02,280
Speaker 5: folks feel uncomfortable. Yeah, right, never deal with our problems

1781
01:38:02,360 --> 01:38:04,559
Speaker 5: if we're just kind of tiptoeing around.

1782
01:38:05,240 --> 01:38:05,880
Speaker 6: So I'm with you.

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01:38:06,120 --> 01:38:09,200
Speaker 5: Let's let's do it. Let's bring in and like you said,

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01:38:09,240 --> 01:38:10,800
Speaker 5: I mean, but this is why we call you the

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01:38:10,880 --> 01:38:14,240
Speaker 5: chief of Staff of Black America. Okay, you're just you're

1786
01:38:14,320 --> 01:38:16,160
Speaker 5: always coming up with Okay, you'll.

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01:38:15,960 --> 01:38:18,439
Speaker 1: Get Tiffany Cross because this is the name. I cannot

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01:38:18,520 --> 01:38:18,960
Speaker 1: live down.

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01:38:19,080 --> 01:38:21,559
Speaker 4: I love y'all, though, I'm gonna have names for y'all

1790
01:38:21,600 --> 01:38:23,320
Speaker 4: next time we all on together. I'm gonna save them

1791
01:38:23,400 --> 01:38:26,040
Speaker 4: and surprise you. They're gonna come out of nowhere, but

1792
01:38:26,120 --> 01:38:27,160
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have them for y'all.

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01:38:27,400 --> 01:38:27,680
Speaker 6: All right.

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01:38:27,720 --> 01:38:30,720
Speaker 4: I love you, Karen and Mo, and I'm gonna bring

1795
01:38:30,840 --> 01:38:34,640
Speaker 4: back up the right Reverend William Lamar the Fourth he

1796
01:38:34,800 --> 01:38:37,240
Speaker 4: is going to close us out. You know, we gotta

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01:38:37,280 --> 01:38:39,160
Speaker 4: have a few closing because we are black and this

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01:38:39,280 --> 01:38:41,320
Speaker 4: is not Black church, but we are of the Black Church.

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01:38:41,360 --> 01:38:43,800
Speaker 1: So you're gonna be our first closing. Then we have

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01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:46,360
Speaker 1: a final closing, but we're gonna let our people go

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01:38:46,520 --> 01:38:47,759
Speaker 1: to bed before midnight.

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01:38:48,240 --> 01:38:49,799
Speaker 7: So Reverend, if.

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01:38:49,680 --> 01:38:53,040
Speaker 4: You would close this out, I really just feel and

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01:38:53,160 --> 01:38:55,800
Speaker 4: hopefully this is resident with your spirit, just like a

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01:38:55,920 --> 01:38:58,200
Speaker 4: kind of call to action type of prayer, you know,

1806
01:38:58,320 --> 01:39:00,880
Speaker 4: the kind that's not like, Okay, we're gonna leave the

1807
01:39:00,960 --> 01:39:03,439
Speaker 4: way we can, We're gonna do something different from here.

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01:39:03,600 --> 01:39:06,760
Speaker 1: We feel on fire to move to act.

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01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:09,880
Speaker 6: Definitely. Well, thank you again for the opportunity to let

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01:39:09,960 --> 01:39:11,920
Speaker 6: us pray. And I want to begin by reminding us

1811
01:39:12,000 --> 01:39:14,160
Speaker 6: that the West has taught us to pray with our minds,

1812
01:39:14,720 --> 01:39:16,840
Speaker 6: but our mothersn toadt us pray with their bodies. So

1813
01:39:17,000 --> 01:39:22,639
Speaker 6: let us begin by breathing out confusion and breathing in peace,

1814
01:39:24,600 --> 01:39:32,519
Speaker 6: breathing out hatred, breathing in love, breathing out destruction, and

1815
01:39:32,640 --> 01:39:39,320
Speaker 6: breathing in creation, and the presence of the Creator of

1816
01:39:39,600 --> 01:39:44,080
Speaker 6: all people, all things, all universes, and the presence of

1817
01:39:44,120 --> 01:39:50,320
Speaker 6: our ancestors and the presence of spirit, we come, quoting

1818
01:39:50,439 --> 01:39:54,720
Speaker 6: the great poet James Russell Lowell, truth forever on the scaffold,

1819
01:39:54,800 --> 01:39:59,280
Speaker 6: wrong forever on the throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future.

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01:39:59,360 --> 01:40:03,480
Speaker 6: And behind the dim unknown standard, God within the shadows,

1821
01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:08,519
Speaker 6: keeping watch above his own. Tonight we have heard lies.

1822
01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:16,040
Speaker 6: Equip us with truth. Tonight we have heard hatred. Give

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01:40:16,240 --> 01:40:21,920
Speaker 6: us the strength to love. Tonight we have seen destruction,

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01:40:23,040 --> 01:40:27,880
Speaker 6: Give us the joy of creation. We go forth into

1825
01:40:28,040 --> 01:40:32,360
Speaker 6: a world filled with enemies, but remind us that you

1826
01:40:32,640 --> 01:40:37,080
Speaker 6: are the God who spreads an abundant table before us

1827
01:40:37,560 --> 01:40:41,439
Speaker 6: in the presence of enemies, and remind us that we

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01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:47,160
Speaker 6: can do and face all things in your name and

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01:40:47,320 --> 01:40:50,280
Speaker 6: by your power. And so we move in the streets tomorrow.

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01:40:50,360 --> 01:40:53,600
Speaker 6: We move not as those defeated, but as those reminded

1831
01:40:54,520 --> 01:40:58,920
Speaker 6: that we took nothing and made something from it. By

1832
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:04,120
Speaker 6: your power, give us what we need to keep joyful

1833
01:41:04,720 --> 01:41:08,960
Speaker 6: and to keep vigilant, to keep laughing, to keep loving,

1834
01:41:09,520 --> 01:41:13,639
Speaker 6: and to be reminded that every day, in the words

1835
01:41:13,640 --> 01:41:17,760
Speaker 6: of Lucille Clifton, something has tried to kill us and

1836
01:41:18,160 --> 01:41:21,560
Speaker 6: has failed. In the midst of the lies, in the

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01:41:21,640 --> 01:41:26,120
Speaker 6: midst of the distraction, and the destruction. We celebrate together

1838
01:41:26,720 --> 01:41:31,880
Speaker 6: what remains possible when we come together, by your power

1839
01:41:32,040 --> 01:41:36,120
Speaker 6: and in your spirit, dispatch us forth to co create

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01:41:36,200 --> 01:41:37,320
Speaker 6: a new world with you.

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01:41:37,880 --> 01:41:43,840
Speaker 4: We pray, amen, Amen, and ashay. Thank you so much, Pastor.

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01:41:43,880 --> 01:41:44,880
Speaker 4: We're so grateful for you.

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01:41:45,000 --> 01:41:45,960
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming back.

1844
01:41:46,200 --> 01:41:47,960
Speaker 4: I was like, he's so good. And you got to

1845
01:41:48,000 --> 01:41:50,040
Speaker 4: tell me where this Frederick Douglas quote came from.

1846
01:41:51,160 --> 01:41:51,200
Speaker 10: You.

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01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:51,920
Speaker 6: I'll make sure you get it.

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01:41:52,200 --> 01:41:56,280
Speaker 4: Sure, okay, perfect, Thank you, Pastor, and pray for your mother.

1849
01:41:56,720 --> 01:41:59,160
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you so much. We will receive them.

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01:41:59,200 --> 01:42:01,320
Speaker 4: She loves on of the perey. So thank you so much.

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01:42:01,360 --> 01:42:03,439
Speaker 1: So do we you all.

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01:42:03,560 --> 01:42:05,880
Speaker 4: I got to just say thank you so much for

1853
01:42:05,960 --> 01:42:08,800
Speaker 4: tuning in with us. I know the journey has been long.

1854
01:42:09,240 --> 01:42:09,479
Speaker 1: Again.

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01:42:09,560 --> 01:42:13,160
Speaker 4: We started this a year ago, a little under a

1856
01:42:13,240 --> 01:42:17,559
Speaker 4: year ago, when we first convene for Donald Trump's joint address,

1857
01:42:17,640 --> 01:42:19,960
Speaker 4: and we refuse to watch, We refuse to be lied to,

1858
01:42:20,080 --> 01:42:24,120
Speaker 4: We refused to watch a fascist gain his power, and

1859
01:42:24,240 --> 01:42:26,920
Speaker 4: instead we decided to come together as a community to

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01:42:27,000 --> 01:42:31,479
Speaker 4: gather virtually for twenty four hours in marathon form to

1861
01:42:31,560 --> 01:42:33,880
Speaker 4: hear from some of the best and brightest among us,

1862
01:42:33,920 --> 01:42:34,439
Speaker 4: people who.

1863
01:42:34,360 --> 01:42:35,760
Speaker 1: Are doing the work every single day.

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01:42:35,840 --> 01:42:37,960
Speaker 4: Some of you may have never heard of some of

1865
01:42:38,000 --> 01:42:41,200
Speaker 4: the amazing things folks were doing, from farming to voting rights,

1866
01:42:41,560 --> 01:42:48,559
Speaker 4: to legislative advocacy protecting your constitutional rights reproductive justice. We've

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01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:51,519
Speaker 4: heard from some of those same advocates tonight, from some

1868
01:42:51,640 --> 01:42:55,680
Speaker 4: of these same elected officials doing some amazing work all

1869
01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:56,560
Speaker 4: over the community.

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Speaker 1: Podcast hosts we have when Native Lampad shout out to

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01:42:59,280 --> 01:43:03,439
Speaker 1: Native Lampot, Joy Reed joined us, Karen Finny, Monye Presley,

1872
01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:07,280
Speaker 1: Jamie Harrison, David Jermaine Johns, who is the editor of

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01:43:07,360 --> 01:43:08,559
Speaker 1: our Black Papers project.

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01:43:08,680 --> 01:43:10,519
Speaker 4: We are doing the workyout and we ask you to

1875
01:43:10,640 --> 01:43:13,160
Speaker 4: join us. We have State of the People TV the

1876
01:43:13,320 --> 01:43:16,920
Speaker 4: signal live every other Thursday. We hope that you will

1877
01:43:16,960 --> 01:43:20,000
Speaker 4: tune in if you're not subscribed yet, it's a State

1878
01:43:20,040 --> 01:43:20,760
Speaker 4: of the People TV.

1879
01:43:20,920 --> 01:43:22,920
Speaker 1: Make sure you do that on YouTube. Make sure you

1880
01:43:23,000 --> 01:43:25,840
Speaker 1: follow us at State of the PPL on social media.

1881
01:43:26,360 --> 01:43:29,519
Speaker 1: Please make sure you stay connected. The most important thing

1882
01:43:29,600 --> 01:43:31,799
Speaker 1: that we can do in this moment is stay together,

1883
01:43:32,120 --> 01:43:34,760
Speaker 1: and from there we just put one foot right in

1884
01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:39,479
Speaker 1: front of the other. We have an incredible closing segment.

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Speaker 4: We talked about this man's wonderful legacy all throughout the

1886
01:43:44,680 --> 01:43:48,360
Speaker 4: program today, Reverend Jackson reminding us we are somebody. Even

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01:43:48,400 --> 01:43:51,000
Speaker 4: when somebody stands up for more than two hours and

1888
01:43:51,160 --> 01:43:52,799
Speaker 4: tries to remind us that we're nobody.

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01:43:52,840 --> 01:43:53,599
Speaker 1: We see ourselves.

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01:43:53,640 --> 01:43:56,640
Speaker 4: There's no invisible man or woman here or person. We

1891
01:43:56,800 --> 01:44:01,360
Speaker 4: are somebody, and that somebody is Reverend S. Jackson, Senior,

1892
01:44:01,880 --> 01:44:06,600
Speaker 4: and he joined our Bishop, my sister Leah Daughtry for

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01:44:06,720 --> 01:44:09,360
Speaker 4: this incredible closing word segment.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all so much. We'll see you next time.

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01:44:12,200 --> 01:44:15,240
Speaker 15: Gather here this week to nominate the candidate and adopt

1896
01:44:15,280 --> 01:44:21,400
Speaker 15: the platform which will expand, unify, direct and inspire our

1897
01:44:21,520 --> 01:44:27,960
Speaker 15: party and the nation to fulfill this mission. My constituency

1898
01:44:29,080 --> 01:44:34,640
Speaker 15: is the desperate, the damn the disinherited, the disrespected, and

1899
01:44:34,800 --> 01:44:40,519
Speaker 15: the despise. They are restless and seek relief. They are

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Speaker 15: voted in record numbers. They have invested the faith, hope

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Speaker 15: and trust that.

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01:44:46,200 --> 01:44:47,720
Speaker 5: They have in us.

1903
01:44:48,720 --> 01:44:53,120
Speaker 15: The Democratic Party must send them a signal that we care,

1904
01:44:54,080 --> 01:44:57,320
Speaker 15: our plans, my best not to let them down.

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01:44:58,479 --> 01:44:59,720
Speaker 7: There is the call of.

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01:45:01,360 --> 01:45:08,080
Speaker 15: Redemption, expansion, healing, and unity. Leadership must heed the call

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01:45:08,880 --> 01:45:14,880
Speaker 15: of cuts, redemption, expansion, healing and unity. But they are

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01:45:14,920 --> 01:45:20,360
Speaker 15: the key to achieving omission. Time is neutral and does

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01:45:20,479 --> 01:45:26,519
Speaker 15: not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

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01:45:27,560 --> 01:45:31,920
Speaker 15: No generation can choose the age or circumstance in which

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01:45:32,040 --> 01:45:35,680
Speaker 15: it is born, but through leadership, it can choose to

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01:45:35,760 --> 01:45:38,479
Speaker 15: make the age in which it is born an age

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Speaker 15: of enlightenment, an age of jobs and peace and justice.

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Speaker 15: Only leadership that intangible cumbination of gifts, discipline, information, circumstance, courage, timing, will,

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01:45:55,600 --> 01:45:59,160
Speaker 15: and divine inspiration can lead us out of the crisis

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01:46:00,200 --> 01:46:05,120
Speaker 15: in which we find ourselves. Leadership can mitigate the misery

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01:46:05,600 --> 01:46:10,400
Speaker 15: of our nation. Leadership can part the waters and lead

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Speaker 15: our nation in the direction of the promised Land.

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Speaker 14: And that was a word the Reverend Jesse Jackson giving

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Speaker 14: his speech at the nineteen eighty four Democratic National Convention

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Speaker 14: in San Francisco following his historic groundbreaking run for the presidency.

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Speaker 14: Reverend Jackson changed a nation, changed a people, changed a party.

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Speaker 14: And we are grateful. We thank God for his life

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01:46:41,439 --> 01:46:46,040
Speaker 14: and for his legacy. Well done, good and faithful one,

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Speaker 14: Well done.

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Speaker 2: Nobody knews The troubles I've seen on.

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Speaker 15: Welcome Home to the.

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