1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:02,760 Speaker 1: Every day a week ago. 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 2: Click your ass up the Breakfast Club. You know I'm 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 2: finish for y'all. 4 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Dune morning, everybody. It's dj NV just hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 3: We are the breakfast Club Law on the roses here 6 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 3: as well. We got a special guest in the building. 7 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 2: Indeed, he's back. 8 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 3: Commers from Missouri ladies and gentlemen, Corey with an eye welcome. 9 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: How are you feeling this morning? 10 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 4: Oh, I'm amazing. 11 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: They feeling good. 12 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 4: I'm feeling so good. I'm so glad to be here 13 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 4: today with you all again. 14 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 2: What made you want to get back into to this fight? Corey? 15 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 4: So, first of all, I wasn't ready to leave, and 16 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 4: I should not have lost my seat. I should still 17 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 4: be there right now. 18 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 2: They spent a lot of money to beat you. 19 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 4: They spent fifteen million dollars to beat me, and and 20 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 4: for context, it only costs about one million dollars. This 21 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 4: race costs anywhere from one to two million dollars to 22 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 4: win and run. I mean to run and win. So 23 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 4: for them to spend fifteen million to give me out 24 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 4: and only one and they only won by five points. 25 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 4: They they couldn't even get me by double digits like 26 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 4: it took that much. And when I beat the person 27 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 4: that my predecessor, their family had been in that had 28 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 4: helped that seat for fifty two years, I beat them 29 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 4: with one million dollars. Wow, So that's just how hard 30 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 4: it was for them to get me out. 31 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 2: When you say them he was a pack fund, he was. 32 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 4: He was totally a pack funded. But big crypto and 33 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 4: big real estate they came in to help, but it 34 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 4: was it was mostly a. 35 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 5: Pack whid Like why did they why did they need 36 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 5: to spend so much money to take you up? 37 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 4: So first of all, when the insurrection happened, it was 38 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 4: my third day in office. We didn't even have like 39 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 4: water in the office yet, Like we didn't I didn't 40 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 4: have a panic button, but barricaded in my office, and 41 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 4: I mean barricaded like and I said, you know, like 42 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 4: if these folks come down the hallway, if they come, 43 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 4: if they come for me, because my name is on 44 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 4: this door, if they come for me, like we bang 45 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 4: it to the end. Like I meant, I was going 46 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 4: to fight these people if they came, if they came 47 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 4: for me and my team. But I sat there so 48 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 4: pissed off that I introduced my first piece of legislation 49 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 4: to investigate and expel any member of IRESs participated in 50 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 4: the insurrection. So first of all, so that pissed off Trump. Yeah, 51 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,559 Speaker 4: you know, pissed off the administration. It picks off pissed 52 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 4: off his administration. They were already upset with me before that, 53 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 4: because I'm the Ferguson protester, you know. So, But after that, 54 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 4: I just kept doing things that was upset in the right. 55 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 4: But it wasn't until I introduced the Ceasefire Now resolution 56 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 4: when there was about to be this ground and invasion 57 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,399 Speaker 4: in Gaza. How can I, as a human being sit 58 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 4: back and just say How can I, as a human 59 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 4: being just sit back and say, like it's cool to 60 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 4: bomb people? You know, when I have a when I 61 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 4: have a decision to make. When if if it wasn't, 62 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 4: if I didn't have a decision to make us different. 63 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 4: But I had a decision to make whether I would 64 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 4: vote to send money there, whether I would stay silent 65 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 4: or not, because if bombs was about to drop in 66 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 4: this country, you know, in my city, I would want 67 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 4: somebody else to speak up and say something. So so 68 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 4: APAC got mad. They decided we want somebody that's more 69 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 4: aligned with us, and we're gonna use somebody that looks 70 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 4: like you to help trick people, you know, And so 71 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 4: that's what they did. So they wanted me out. They 72 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 4: wanted me out so bad. And not only that, Big 73 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 4: real Estate wanted me out. So they worked together because 74 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,239 Speaker 4: I'm the one that camped out on the steps of 75 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 4: the US Capitol back in twenty twenty one when the 76 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 4: eviction moratorium was about to expire, and I stayed out there. 77 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 4: Activist Corey was out there on the ground four nights 78 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 4: and five days. But we pushed the Biden administration, the 79 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 4: CDC and all of those folks to extend that moratorium. 80 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 4: So people were just mad. 81 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 6: You know, I was going to ask, so this time around, 82 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 6: you know, running, what are you doing differently knowing that, like, 83 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 6: you know, they don't want you there and they're going 84 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 6: to use everything they can. 85 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: You know, you're under attack. 86 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So first of all, they made 87 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 4: me stronger. So I'm a different person than I was then. 88 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 4: I mean, I'm better than I was then. So I 89 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 4: see things, I think I see things better. I'm doing 90 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 4: things faster. We have a team that is bigger right 91 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 4: now than we had when we ended the campaign last time, 92 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 4: like we started off with the heavy team. We are 93 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 4: making sure that our message is getting out there. That's 94 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 4: really different too, is I had to be in DC 95 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 4: and trying to run a race and work in Congress 96 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 4: at the same time. Now I'm on the ground, I'm 97 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 4: with the people. I'm you know, I'm where people know, 98 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 4: you know, Corey usually is I'm out in the street. 99 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 4: So that changes a lot because people said, well, Corey, 100 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 4: I really couldn't hear your message, like I didn't know, 101 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 4: like it didn't seem like you were fighting. And it's 102 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 4: because I had to be away. Now I'm not away 103 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 4: and I'm with the community. The community is saying we 104 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 4: so many people have come up to me and said, Corey, 105 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 4: we made a mistake, like we were listening to those ads. 106 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 4: We you know, we just didn't know what to think. 107 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 4: And so and the tide has turned, and so now 108 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 4: people are like, oh, I understand why you were talking 109 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 4: so much about, you know, keeping our money here and 110 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 4: not in our money, not going to bond people in 111 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 4: another country. We just thought that you were saying you 112 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 4: cared more about another country. Now we understand you were 113 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 4: saying that you care that that money stays here in 114 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 4: Saint Louis, So. 115 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 3: Besides the money, and what is the other reason, because 116 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,919 Speaker 3: I'm sure you analyze it, why you feel that you lost? 117 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 3: Was it the ads that they put out, because it 118 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 3: had to be just something besides the money. Were people 119 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 3: not coming out like what do you think the reason was? 120 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 3: Because it wasn't by that much? 121 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, so some people said that they thought I 122 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 4: had it in the bag because I had won my 123 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 4: other race, the race previously by forty points, you know, 124 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 4: and so people were like you, like, there's no way 125 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 4: you can then turn around. So many people said that. 126 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 4: And then the other part, which is something we're changing now, 127 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 4: people said, Corey, we thought that you were running in November, 128 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 4: so we were waiting for the November election, and your 129 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 4: your election was really in August, and so we missed 130 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 4: a lot of people that way. So we've been hammering 131 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 4: it now. 132 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,239 Speaker 2: It was a special election, right, No, No, that's. 133 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 4: That's the primary, the Democratic primary, and so for me, 134 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 4: we're in a Democratic district, so the general election is 135 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 4: a lot easier to win. 136 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: How did you get that? 137 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 2: How did they get that mixed up? 138 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: Though? 139 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 7: August from November? 140 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 4: Because all of the talk about the presidential election of 141 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 4: presidential elections on people's focus was I just need to 142 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 4: show up in November. 143 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: Elections or November so people just automatic I could think of. 144 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 2: Did it hurt the loose? 145 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 4: It tore me up like it was really it was devastating, 146 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 4: and not because I lost an election I had. I 147 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 4: had lost elections before, and it's it's tough either way. 148 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 4: Let me just say, but this one like broke me 149 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 4: down because I didn't lose because I wasn't doing my job. 150 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 4: I didn't lose because I was a bad congresswoman or 151 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 4: a bad candidate. I lost because fifteen million dollars of 152 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 4: dark money, of corporate interest money made the decision of 153 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 4: who was going to represent Saint Louis and the person 154 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 4: ran on live. So fifteen million dollars worth of ads 155 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 4: saying Corey wants children to drink contaminated water from lead pipes. 156 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 4: You know, Corey hates Joe Biden. Those were most of 157 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 4: the ass None of the ads spoke about Israel, none 158 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 4: of the as spoke about Gaza or anything else. They 159 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 4: stay it was mostly about Joe Biden. And so my 160 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 4: thing is this, if you run in on truth, like 161 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 4: if you believe you better than me, and you're gonna 162 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 4: do more for the community. Say that, Say what you're 163 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 4: gonna do, Like, I respect that, but don't lie because 164 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 4: if you lie, then you're deceiving the very people that 165 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 4: you claim you want to represent. And it's about you, 166 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 4: not the people. 167 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 3: Now, a gentleman you lost to is a brother. Do 168 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 3: you have any relationship with him at all? Do y'all 169 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 3: know each other at all coming up or anything like that? 170 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 7: Oh? 171 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, we you know, we were friends. We were friends, 172 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 4: and so much so to where my dad even went 173 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 4: to one of his events when he was because so 174 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 4: first he came out saying he was running against Josh Holly. 175 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 4: We all know Josh Holly, Republican out of Missouri who 176 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 4: became you know, I think he he got some more 177 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 4: notoriety at the insurrection when he put up the fists 178 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 4: outside the capitol. So he said he was running against him. 179 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 4: He called him the greatest threat to America and to democracy. 180 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 4: He actually wasn't really running against him. He used that 181 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 4: to raise money, but to run against me. But so 182 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 4: my dad was so excited, like, Okay, somebody's gonna take 183 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 4: out Josh Holly, And my dad got all of his 184 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 4: friends to come to one of his fundraisers, and my 185 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 4: dad gave him a check. Two weeks later, he announced 186 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 4: he was running against. 187 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: Me, and you's money to run, you know, and. 188 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 4: So I But but before that, we had worked together 189 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 4: on different issues, you know, we had been at events together. 190 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 4: We were cool, like we would talk on the phone, 191 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 4: you know, republic and well, you know, he played like 192 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 4: he wasn't a Republican, but he really, you know, I 193 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 4: think in his heart he really is. But yeah, we 194 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 4: were like, we weren't see this coming in all. No, 195 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 4: like I wouldn't have never thought that. And so, but 196 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 4: what I did though, because people kept calling me saying Corey, 197 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:34,719 Speaker 4: he's running against you, like it's a lie that he's 198 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 4: running against Josh Holly, and so I called him one day. 199 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 4: I called him and I said, Hey, getting this, yeah, 200 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 4: you know, but I was like, okay, let me just 201 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 4: let me just tell you what people are saying. Because 202 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 4: the whole, a whole article came out in our in 203 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 4: our biggest newspaper in town saying that he was it 204 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 4: was really a lie. So I called him. I'm like, hey, 205 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 4: why am I hearing all of these things about you 206 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 4: running against me, and you said, you run against Josh Holly. 207 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 4: Oh sis, No, I'm not. I would never run against you. 208 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 4: I wouldn't you won your race the way I did. 209 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 4: I would never run against you. And so I so 210 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 4: I because he started doing and then I hit record 211 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 4: and I recorded it, and so so it turns out, 212 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 4: you know, he he was, he lied, and you know, 213 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 4: so I lost all respect for dude. Because the thing is, 214 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 4: if we're friends, you can run against. This is a democracy. 215 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 4: You can run against somebody like that's not my issue, 216 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 4: but at least like be upfront say that, hey, this 217 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 4: is what I want. But when Apac comes to you, 218 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 4: he'll harper sack with you all. And what a year 219 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 4: or two years ago and talked about how Apac came 220 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 4: to him and asked him to run against to run 221 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,559 Speaker 4: I think against Rashida to lead for twenty million dollars 222 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 4: and he turned it down. Well, the guy that's in 223 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 4: the seat now in my community, he didn't turn the 224 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 4: money down. 225 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:52,959 Speaker 1: Wow, and he's a Democrat. I just want to say, 226 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: I said Republican. 227 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 4: Before he was the campaign manager to a Republican that 228 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 4: was trying to restrict abortion rights in Missouri. 229 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,719 Speaker 6: So's yeah, I was gonna say, just listening to it 230 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 6: is it literally is like the shows that we watch 231 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 6: on TV, like What Goes Down by the Seas. And 232 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 6: I know that that because you guys's race was one 233 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 6: of the most expensive primaries in American history. 234 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 4: Literally, yes, yes, just because they were trying to get 235 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 4: you about it. There only because they wanted me out, 236 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 4: you know, and they knew that I had already been 237 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 4: been like doing a lot to try to uncover what 238 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 4: was gonna happen with Project twenty twenty five had Trump 239 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 4: got in and people were like, oh no, it's not 240 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 4: real Trump, you know, Project twenty twenty five won't happen, 241 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 4: And so they were just trying to stop that. So, yeah, 242 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 4: they spent all of that money, you know. And the 243 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 4: thing is this, why would they why would they spend 244 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 4: Why would they need to spend all of that money 245 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 4: in a Democratic district one that's going to go to 246 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 4: a Democrat anyway, and APAK is primarily funded by Republicans. 247 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 4: But why would they get involved in the race like that? 248 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 4: And you got two black folks running, why get involved? 249 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 2: You know? 250 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 4: Why did they get involved in my race and Jamal 251 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 4: Bowman's race and make us, the most expensive US house 252 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 4: races in history, primaries in his street, why are you 253 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 4: coming for two black people? 254 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 3: And they said they spent over eight point five million 255 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 3: dollars from APEX spent more than that. 256 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 2: I know you said it. 257 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 7: I know you said it made you stronger, right, strong 258 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 7: enough to run this time? But did you ever feel 259 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 7: discouraged to the point where you're like, no, I'm not 260 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:16,199 Speaker 7: doing this. 261 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, up until I made the day, it took me months. 262 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 4: You know, I was broken. So I lost the race 263 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 4: August I think it was August sixth of twenty twenty four, 264 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 4: and I still had to be in Congress for another 265 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 4: several months until January. So I had to, you know, 266 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 4: move out of the office. 267 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 2: They put you in. 268 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 4: This little cubicle, like you you don't even have an 269 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 4: office anymore. They're trying to transition you out. And so 270 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 4: I had to still show up as a congress person, 271 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,199 Speaker 4: still do all of my work and know that I 272 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 4: was that I was leaving, and I was trying to 273 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 4: figure out, like what do I do with my life? 274 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 4: Because I didn't like I had been working for this 275 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 4: for ten years, you know, so like what like what 276 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 4: am I going to do now? So that was just 277 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 4: really I just didn't know what to do. But it 278 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 4: was after I left my sister in service for Shida Tale. 279 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 4: She came to me like that February and she said, Corey, 280 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 4: are you gonna run again? And I was like no, 281 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 4: you know, I'm talking to my husband. We're like, you know, 282 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 4: we're trying to get ourselves like grounded. And then the 283 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 4: people of Saint Louis were coming up to me on 284 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,559 Speaker 4: the street, like everywhere. I would be walking down a 285 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 4: street and people would stop and jump out of cars. 286 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 4: You gotta run again, like you know. And so that's 287 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 4: what helped to build me back up is seeing the 288 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 4: community like we messed up, we didn't do right by 289 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 4: you last time. We want to beat We are here 290 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 4: for you now, and so that really helped. But I 291 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 4: to climb out of that, you know it. You know, 292 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 4: it's hard because my heart wasn't for My heart wasn't 293 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 4: for me. My heart was for the community. Everything I did, 294 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 4: I have been I have been shot at, beat up, 295 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 4: like so many things have happened to me and my family. 296 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 4: To be able to do this work, we needed security 297 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 4: because we needed security, you know, like like I put 298 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 4: my life on the line for the people of my 299 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 4: community in this country, and then to get kicked in 300 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,959 Speaker 4: the back like that, it was it was hard. 301 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 7: What did the pastor do you like? The pastor? You like, 302 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 7: you know the pastor in you? What did that kick in? 303 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 2: Like? 304 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely no, that's what did it. I So first 305 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 4: I had to check with my family and my husband 306 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 4: more directly, because how things impacted us, you know, and 307 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 4: how like the DJ was being weaponized against us. You know, 308 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 4: we want to make it seem like you're a criminal 309 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 4: and you did this and all of that kind of stuff. 310 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 4: So I had to make sure that home was good first. 311 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 4: But it was my faith that kept me from feeling 312 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 4: like I needed to go hide in a corner somewhere. 313 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 2: You know. 314 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 4: It was like Corey, you know who you are and 315 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 4: who you are. You know you got God and you 316 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 4: know you have a purpose. The only reason I ran 317 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 4: for that seat in the first place was my mission. 318 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 4: I knew that it was my mission. Even right now, 319 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 4: even right now, it's like, you know, like like you 320 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,439 Speaker 4: asked Charlamagne, like you know, you put yourself out there 321 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 4: doing this again. Some people have asked me about Ayana 322 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 4: Presley had asked me She's like, Corey, why would you 323 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 4: want to do this to yourself again? You know? And 324 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 4: for me? And what I said to her was because 325 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 4: it's not about me, It's about the mission. It is 326 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 4: what I know that the Lord is sending me to do, 327 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 4: you know. And so whether however it goes, I gotta 328 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 4: I gotta say yes, like I gotta say yes because 329 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 4: on the other side of this, yes, people are helped. Whatever. 330 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 2: It looks like, I'm glad. 331 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 5: You're saying this, and I'm glad you just asked those 332 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 5: questions because I've seen so many people just become bitter 333 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 5: and all they do now is complain on Instagram. 334 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm like, yo, why don't you get back 335 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 2: into the fight? 336 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 5: Yeah? You know what I mean, Like, get back into 337 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 5: the fight. Okay, you lost a couple of races, Get 338 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 5: back into the fight. 339 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. 340 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 3: But they got to be depressed. It gotta be difficult, 341 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 3: it gotta be heard, but stay. I gotta feel like 342 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 3: you would, you know, people switch sides on you. It 343 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 3: gotta hurt, you know, because especially when all you want 344 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 3: to do is do something positive for your community and 345 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 3: you see all these ads. You gotta get to a 346 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 3: point where you were like, f this, I rather my piece, 347 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 3: but you know you you decided to say, na, I'm 348 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 3: gonna get back in there for But like. 349 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 7: You said, people was coming up to you on the 350 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 7: streets though, like the people. That's what the connection is, right, Yes, 351 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 7: these whether it's politics, pastoring, like, it's people, as long 352 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 7: as you connect to them. 353 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's service. All of it is service. And 354 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 4: you know there are days when I'm like this, this 355 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 4: still hurts because when you know that you've helped people, 356 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 4: Like there are people in the community that I help, 357 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 4: organizations that I helped financially, where I put my name 358 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 4: on the line, where I put I was a freshman 359 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 4: trying to help put I was pushing leadership, saying no, 360 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 4: my community needs this, no I need you know, even 361 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 4: President Biden would say, here, okay, Corey, here she comes, 362 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 4: she's gonna talk about Saint Louis again. Like people knew, 363 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 4: like I was putting my name on the line, making 364 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 4: sure that these folks that said we need X amount 365 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 4: of dollars that they were able to get those dollars. 366 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 4: And to see them turn on me when this other 367 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 4: person decided to run against me, it was so easy, 368 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 4: Like they didn't even reach out to say, Sis, you know, 369 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 4: we got to make a different decision this time because 370 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 4: of X. It was just like stab you in the back, 371 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 4: you know. So that's what it was. It was really 372 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 4: hard and even some days now and I've had to 373 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 4: get myself together to forgive, you know. I had to, 374 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 4: like I had to really sit with forgiveness and understand, like, 375 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 4: forgiveness is not for them. Forgiveness it's for me. Forgiveness 376 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 4: is so that I can go out and do the 377 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 4: work with the clean heart. Because the thing is this 378 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 4: the night that I won my election in twenty twenty, 379 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 4: when I find when I won the last election that November, 380 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 4: the general, I said, I don't in my speech, I 381 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 4: don't care if you voted for me. I don't care 382 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 4: if you like me. I don't care if you villainize 383 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 4: my name. My question for you is do you have food? 384 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 4: Did you eat? Do you have shelter? Do you have water? 385 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 4: Do you have so that and so today that is 386 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 4: still the same. 387 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 2: Were you ever considered a member of the squad? 388 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: Yeah? 389 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 4: Absolutely. 390 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 2: Do you feel like they had your back after you 391 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 2: lost in four Oh? 392 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, we've never stopped communicating. They are you know with me? 393 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 4: You know, as far as like we talk all the time. Yeah, 394 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 4: there's no distance between me and the Squad. And I 395 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 4: know some people have said you all having but some 396 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 4: people have said, oh, former Squad member Corey, but I'm 397 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 4: still squad. 398 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: Squad. 399 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 4: Sure. The Squad started off in twenty eighteen with four 400 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 4: black and brown women who were able to win, and 401 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,680 Speaker 4: some of them against incumbents, were able to come in 402 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 4: as full on progressives and win these seats in Congress 403 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 4: where people where they didn't come from money and wealth 404 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 4: and didn't have the quote unquote pedigree that you would 405 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 4: think would win these seats. But they came in and 406 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 4: they won, and they held you to their progressive values. 407 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 4: And once they got in, the Trump administration came for them, 408 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 4: but they held strong, like they never let go of 409 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 4: their values, and they started to People called them the Squad, 410 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:56,120 Speaker 4: and I knew most of them already at that point, 411 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:58,919 Speaker 4: and so but I lost. I ran to twenty eighteen too, 412 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 4: but I lost my race, and so in twenty twenty, 413 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 4: in twenty twenty, Iran Jamal Bowman ran and we were 414 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 4: able to become part of the Squad. Jamal so far 415 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 4: has been the only the only guy in the squad. 416 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 2: How do you. 417 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 5: Respond to critics who say, you know, voters already made 418 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:17,439 Speaker 5: their choice in twenty twenty four, so why should they 419 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 5: change their mind. 420 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 4: Then, because you know, like Es said, voters are coming 421 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 4: up to me saying, we need you to be our 422 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 4: congress person. We messed up, we failed you, you know, 423 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 4: And this is actually what they're saying, and they say 424 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 4: it all the time. We're getting our lick back, that's 425 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 4: what they say. We're getting our lick back because this 426 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:38,679 Speaker 4: was stolen. Had you lost this fair and square. We 427 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 4: understand that that elections get dirty and all of that, 428 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 4: but fifteen million dollars being one of the most expensive 429 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 4: house races you know in US history, primaries in US history, 430 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 4: that was intentional, and that was that was designed to 431 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 4: hurt Saint Louis. So that's why that's why, like, you can't. 432 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 4: And the thing is, I'm a fighter. I went in 433 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 4: as a fighter. You know, everybody's a fighter. Now, everybody's 434 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 4: a fighter. When I was, you know, coming into when 435 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:05,640 Speaker 4: I was moving into politics, and I'm like, but I'm 436 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 4: the fighter, they was like, oh no, you gotta be 437 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 4: a statesman, o the quorum and be nice and you're 438 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 4: too aggressive. Not everybody, you know, everybody's a fighter. But 439 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 4: if I say I'm a fighter, if I say I 440 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 4: get knocked down and I get back up, if the bullets, 441 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 4: if the tear gas, the noise munitions, if the dogs, 442 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 4: if me getting getting assaulted by the police, if none 443 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 4: of that knocked me down, if me living in my car, 444 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,479 Speaker 4: if me being left for dead by an abusive partner, 445 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:31,159 Speaker 4: if all of those things have happened to me in 446 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 4: my life and I didn't give up, then why would 447 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 4: I give up? 448 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 6: Now? 449 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 4: I'm going to ask you about messaging. 450 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 2: But I mean, shoot, how are you going to defeat 451 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 2: the machine? 452 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 4: Though? Yeah? 453 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 2: Because I mean the machine is still here, you know 454 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 2: what I'm. 455 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 5: Saying, Like, you're still still your stance has not changed, right, 456 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 5: So how are you going to defeat the machine? 457 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 2: Because they're back still they spending money now. 458 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, they're spending money. Yeah, what we're seeing right now, 459 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 4: they're spending like somewhere around two million dollars in a 460 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 4: lot of these races. But back in twenty twenty four, 461 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 4: people didn't really know like a on a mass level anyway, 462 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 4: on a mass scale, who apack was at the time, 463 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 4: you know, and we weren't able to spend the money 464 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,880 Speaker 4: to get to make the connection to just like message 465 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 4: that we had to talk about other things as well. 466 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 4: Now the tide has turned and people know who a 467 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 4: Pack is. People are pissed off now that they know 468 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 4: who a Pack is. There was a town hall in 469 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,439 Speaker 4: my community that the current congressman held his town It 470 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 4: was in person, his town hall back in August. Most 471 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 4: of the questions were around a pac money and it 472 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 4: was around his support for a genocide. And when I say, 473 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 4: he was hammered over and over again at people asking 474 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 4: about that because they were like, we just didn't know 475 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 4: that this is this is who you would be. But 476 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 4: also at the end of that and I don't know 477 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 4: if you all saw it went viral, but at the 478 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 4: end of that time hall, some of his constituents were 479 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 4: brutalized by local his security and local law enforcement just 480 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 4: waiting to talk get a chance to talk to him, 481 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 4: to ask him more questions. And so the community is 482 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 4: already upset. Also, we had a devastating tornado that came 483 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 4: through the inner city in Saint Louis and devastated homes 484 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 4: and people. That was in May of last year. People 485 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 4: are still living in tents. People who are homeowners still 486 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 4: don't have a place to live right now, and the 487 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 4: community has been fighting for more dollars. He has not 488 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,439 Speaker 4: shown up. He has not shown up, and so people. 489 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 4: So that's what's different, you know, is that people are saying, 490 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 4: we know that we don't have the right person. So yeah, 491 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 4: APAC can try to put all of this money into 492 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 4: our community. But the people are saying, we're watching now. 493 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 4: We want to see if they're given, how much money 494 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 4: they're given, because we don't want our candidates to take 495 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,400 Speaker 4: that money. So that's what's different, too, is and we're 496 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,679 Speaker 4: seeing it all across the country. Different members of Congress 497 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 4: are saying, I'm not this time, I'm not going to 498 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,399 Speaker 4: take the money because they're getting pressure from their communities. 499 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 5: For people who are listening who don't know what APAC is, like, 500 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,919 Speaker 5: explain to people, you know what a pack is, because 501 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:05,919 Speaker 5: I'm hearing a lot of folks now say they're not 502 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 5: voting for any candidate. 503 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 2: Yeah takes money from APAC. 504 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 4: Yeah. A PAK is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. 505 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 4: It is an organization, but are they also have affiliated 506 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 4: packs with political action committees where they can get funnel 507 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 4: money to candidates to run for office. But their whole mission, 508 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 4: to paraphrase, is basically to make sure that there is 509 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 4: one hundred percent support for Israel and the agenda to 510 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 4: be this big ally to the United States, but basically 511 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:48,360 Speaker 4: supporting Israel. So if you, you know, if you won't 512 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 4: vote exactly the way they want you to vote on 513 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 4: every single bill that prioritizes Israel, even if it deprioritizes 514 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 4: the United States, you're in trouble with them. And for me, 515 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 4: when my community is you know, in need of health 516 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 4: people in my community don't have health care, when people 517 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 4: in my community are sleeping on the street, when people 518 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 4: in my community are still trying to figure out how 519 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 4: to end gun violence, and you know, and we have 520 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 4: all of these issues. You know, we don't have clean 521 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 4: water all the time. We have you know, we have 522 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 4: issues with water, We have issues, we have fringing. People 523 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 4: dying right now in our community from a radioactive waste 524 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 4: dumping our community from the federal government that's been happening 525 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 4: for decades. And people are literally dying. And you're telling 526 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 4: us to give money to to prioritize another country, you know, 527 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 4: And so that so people I need people to understand 528 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 4: that this is not something that is against a people. 529 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 4: We're not against another country. What we're saying is the 530 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 4: United States deserve, we deserve to take care of our people, 531 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 4: you know. But can we help Congo? 532 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:56,640 Speaker 5: Yes? 533 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 4: Can we help? You know, the Sudan Can we help Gods? 534 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,199 Speaker 4: Or can we help Syria? Can we help Yemen? Can 535 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 4: we help? Who? Can we help these other countries? Can 536 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,679 Speaker 4: we help Hating? And can we help? We should be 537 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 4: helping who we can help. Can we help Honduras? We 538 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 4: should be helping who we can help. But we take 539 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 4: care of our people. 540 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 5: I mean, I mean that's why America first messaging works, right. 541 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 5: And you know I said all the time, nobody would 542 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 5: care where America sent money if people in. 543 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 2: America were taken care of. 544 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 5: Yeah, the people basically needs in America would care, and 545 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 5: they had money in their pocket, they could care less 546 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 5: where you send money. 547 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 4: Right, But they want to defund the social safety that 548 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,120 Speaker 4: when you want to when this country says, you know what, 549 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 4: we're gonna knock people off a snap, snap is fool 550 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 4: Like it's you need food to live to survive. Nobody 551 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 4: is becoming a millionaire or getting rich off of snap. 552 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,399 Speaker 4: You know, people just need to eat. So when you 553 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 4: say we would rather prioritize, you know, giving tax breaks 554 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,400 Speaker 4: to the rich and the wealthy, and we're gonna we're 555 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,679 Speaker 4: gonna help do that by defunding SNAP. 556 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 5: When I saw Trump said the stated other day when 557 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 5: he was like bragging about cutting food stamps, like that's 558 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 5: a good thing, I'm like, oh, yeah, he has no idea, 559 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 5: who's who even basis? 560 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 1: Because I was gonna. 561 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 3: Ask, you know, when you have you know, your district, right, 562 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 3: what do you tell them because they have to be 563 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 3: discouraged from all the politics and even young leaders out 564 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 3: there that want to get into it. So what do 565 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,400 Speaker 3: you tell those young leaders and people from your district 566 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 3: how to not get discouraged? 567 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: Like what is your message to them? 568 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 2: Yeah? 569 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 4: So the thing is right now, and I know that 570 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 4: there has there had been a lot of discourse for 571 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 4: a while like we're going to sit this out, like, 572 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 4: you know, let somebody else do it. And I understand 573 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 4: that sentiment and people feeling really discouraged. But I look 574 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 4: at it like this, for all the things that we've 575 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 4: gone through over the last ten years, fifteen years, but 576 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 4: especially the last ten to me, it was in preparation 577 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 4: for this moment. It was us getting in place, It 578 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 4: was us learning so that we could be ready for 579 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 4: right now. Are we tired? Are we discouraged? Are we 580 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 4: tired of our politicians, you know, being hypocrites? Are we 581 00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,679 Speaker 4: tired of all of this? 582 00:25:59,760 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: Yeah? 583 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 4: We are. But then this is the moment that we 584 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 4: step up, because if we do not, what are we 585 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 4: leaving to our children and our children's children? What world 586 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 4: are we leaving to them? And so I understand feeling 587 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,119 Speaker 4: discouraged and to our youth too. What I tell them is, look, 588 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,199 Speaker 4: there are parts of Missouri where there are children. There 589 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 4: are students who go to school four days a week. 590 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 4: There are students who go to school five days a week. 591 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 4: I said, that was a decision that a person made. 592 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 4: A person said this is what I want. They went 593 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 4: to talk to their friends and they made a law 594 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,640 Speaker 4: and changed and changed how kids go to school in Missouri. 595 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 4: I said, that is how these laws happens. It's somebody's idea. 596 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 4: It didn't come from, you know, up in the sky. 597 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 4: So somebody's going to get in the seat. Somebody is 598 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 4: going to be your your voice, somebody's going to be 599 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 4: the person to write these laws to legislate for you 600 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:49,919 Speaker 4: to speak for you. Don't let them do it without you, 601 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 4: you know, and don't and start showing up. So I 602 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 4: let them know, like get in on the ground floor, 603 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 4: because this is your world to create and it's right now. 604 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 2: I want I want to ask you. 605 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 5: You know, I'm sure you saw the DNC autopsy that 606 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:08,119 Speaker 5: said Kamala Harris's silence song the Gaza genocide cost her votes. 607 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 2: That was the headline. 608 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 5: What should the messaging be from Democrats in regards to 609 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 5: Israel and Gaza moving forward? Because most of them that's 610 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 5: gonna run in twenty twenty eight, they're not gonna pivot 611 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 5: on they support for Israel. 612 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I don't know about I think that there's 613 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,160 Speaker 4: going to have to be a shift because so many 614 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 4: people are saying that they're paying attention to a PAK. 615 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 4: There's a lot of talk that if the twenty twenty 616 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 4: eight candidates are taking money from APAK, that they're not going. 617 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 2: To get the votes. 618 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 4: So I think what they're going to have to do 619 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 4: is reckon with what they did wrong. Look at this autopsy, 620 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 4: be real with it, because not listening to the polling 621 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 4: that was telling them this and people like me saying, hey, 622 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 4: we're all over the country. This is what people are saying, like, 623 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 4: in order to win, we need you to start listening 624 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 4: and make some different decisions. You know. The fact that 625 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,919 Speaker 4: they didn't listen then to me, if they continue the 626 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 4: way that they're doing, then they don't want to win. 627 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,959 Speaker 4: Like you're not being serious about winning. You have to 628 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 4: make a change, You have to do something different. So 629 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 4: the message, the message has to be that you know 630 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 4: there is this is the United States. Can we support 631 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 4: people who need our help? Yes, we can. Do we 632 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:30,120 Speaker 4: make anybody more? Does anybody get the priority over anyone else? No? No, 633 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 4: you know, but will we support where we need to? Yes? 634 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 4: And we need to make sure that the aid is 635 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 4: getting in. We shouldn't be cutting programming. We shouldn't be 636 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 4: cutting money going to groups like unrun so many others 637 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 4: who are providing the support that's needed. People are still starving, 638 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 4: people are still cold, people are still living in tents. 639 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 4: People are still being bombed, you know, so that has 640 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 4: to end. And the thing is this, when you want 641 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 4: to be the most when you want to be the 642 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 4: quote unquote most powerful person in the world, you are 643 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,959 Speaker 4: saying I'm signing to do the hard work. I'm signing 644 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,479 Speaker 4: up to make difficult decisions that other people probably wouldn't 645 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 4: want to make. So let's start with that. Yes, it's 646 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 4: a difficult decision to make. Yes, it's going to be hard. 647 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 4: Yes you might get you know, you might get you know, 648 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 4: demonized and dragged for it. But do the right thing. 649 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 4: So I think that hard, you know, like hard things 650 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 4: are hard. 651 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 2: How are you doing anything of your campaign, Corey? 652 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 4: Look Coreybush dot org. It's co RI I b U 653 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 4: s H dot org. Yes. Please, you know, small dollar donations, 654 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 4: you know, we don't you know, if you got five dollars, 655 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 4: twenty dollars, whatever, you have, all the way up up 656 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 4: to thirty five hundred dollars, pheel, please reach out to us. 657 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 4: We can use volunteers. You know, you don't have to 658 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 4: be in Saint Louis a volunteer for us because you 659 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 4: can get on the phones. You know, there are so 660 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 4: many things that a campaign needs. We're a grass roots campaign. 661 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 4: We have never taken a dollar of corporate pack money. 662 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 4: So we are totally one hundred percent people powered and 663 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,080 Speaker 4: this is for the people. So if you if you 664 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 4: can donate, please please go to Coreybush dot org. 665 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: That's right. Congresswoman Corey Bush, thank you for joining us 666 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 1: this morning. 667 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 4: Thank you for having me and love you look. Thank you. 668 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 2: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. 669 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 5: Hold every day I wake picks up the Breakfast Club. 670 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 2: You don't finish for y'all done,