Speaker 1: Wake that answer up in the morning.
Speaker 2: Breakfast club, Good morning's I'm a.
Speaker 1: Love, madam Vice President. How are you?
Speaker 2: I am very well. How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 1: Blessed Black and Holly favorite.
Speaker 2: Always for you. I hear an echo? Do you hear it?
Speaker 1: No, we don't.
Speaker 3: We don't hear echo will lower you down a little bit,
Speaker 3: so you don't hear your feedback?
Speaker 1: Can you hear a better? Now? Defense might have the
Speaker 1: phone tap.
Speaker 2: Well, and the Russians don't forget them.
Speaker 3: Right, Good morning everybody, the breakfast clubs, and we got
Speaker 3: a special guest on the line, the Vice President, Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning everyone. It's good to
Speaker 2: be with you again.
Speaker 1: First of all, how are you? First of all, how's
Speaker 1: your energy?
Speaker 2: You know? I am well. We are eight days out,
Speaker 2: seven well a week out practically, and I am just
Speaker 2: I'm I'm in the zone. Right. We got to cover
Speaker 2: a lot of ground. There's still a lot of people
Speaker 2: to talk with, and so I am traveling all over
Speaker 2: the country, in particular the Swing States, to talk with
Speaker 2: folks and organize them and remind folks of the power
Speaker 2: of their vote.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, Madam Vice President, you know I support you.
Speaker 1: This is Charlamagne. You know I support you. The Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club supports you.
Speaker 4: In twenty eighteen, when you came up here, I told
Speaker 4: you I thought you would be president one day that
Speaker 4: I think God is setting us up for a woman
Speaker 4: of colored president in twenty twenty. I think that the
Speaker 4: Senator Kamala Harris, I think she's off future president with it.
Speaker 4: And I hope she hoped God puts his hands on
Speaker 4: her and says, you know what, I want you to do?
Speaker 1: This all right, we thought it would be in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: I was on the campaign trail with you in twenty twenty,
Speaker 4: so I'm happy to see you in this position. And
Speaker 4: the reason I'm stressing that I'm voting for you on
Speaker 4: November fifth is because Trump has been running these ads
Speaker 4: with myself and envying them, these anti trans ads without
Speaker 4: our permission.
Speaker 1: How do we combat that?
Speaker 3: Can we?
Speaker 2: Well? Yes, I mean, look, truth is always going to
Speaker 2: prevail over the misinformation and the lies, but it takes work,
Speaker 2: right and so having this conversation right now, so all
Speaker 2: your listeners know. But there is a lot of misinformation
Speaker 2: and disinformation because they don't actually want to talk about
Speaker 2: the truth because their truth is a failing truth, and
Speaker 2: so yeah, we got to keep in minding both of
Speaker 2: the reality, which is I am blessed and honored to
Speaker 2: have your support and the support of so many communities
Speaker 2: and individuals who are their names are known, and some
Speaker 2: names you know your listeners may not know, but they
Speaker 2: are leaders in their community.
Speaker 3: Now, MS Vice President, if you were here, I would
Speaker 3: be holding up my Hampton University helmet. But we're not
Speaker 3: going to go down today.
Speaker 1: I want to take.
Speaker 5: Sorry both of you Hampton Delaware University. Honestly both of
Speaker 5: y'all should have attended. But we get it, we understand.
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask about those trends ads, you know,
Speaker 3: in the ads he's saying that, you know, Kamala Harris
Speaker 3: wants to spend tax payers money for sex changes in jails.
Speaker 3: He spent millions and millions of dollars on and like
Speaker 3: Charlamage said, have him and myself and that, how do
Speaker 3: you answer that for people at I don't know, And
Speaker 3: what is the real news when it comes to that.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, to your point, he has spent
Speaker 2: tens of millions of dollars trying to hit me with
Speaker 2: a bunch of disinformation and misinformation on this, and he's
Speaker 2: living in a glass house because the policies he's speaking
Speaker 2: about in terms of those surgeries were also his policies,
Speaker 2: and the reality of it is that it would also
Speaker 2: those ads relate to two people, versus the fact that
Speaker 2: he wants to get rid of the Affordable Care Act,
Speaker 2: which would impact forty five million people. He wants to
Speaker 2: get rid of our thirty five dollars a month cap
Speaker 2: on insulin, which would impact millions of people, including millions
Speaker 2: of our seniors. Black and brown folks. Latinos are seventy
Speaker 2: percent more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes, Black Americans
Speaker 2: sixty percent more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes. He
Speaker 2: wants to get rid of all of that. He wants
Speaker 2: to take away healthcare through Medicare, and he wants to
Speaker 2: distract from the fact that he actually not only does
Speaker 2: he have a plan on this versus no plan on
Speaker 2: anything else, but his plan is to get rid of
Speaker 2: healthcare coverage for the most needy.
Speaker 4: Well, while he was at MSG yesterday, while he had
Speaker 4: the rally at MSG, and he had people up there
Speaker 4: insulting Puerto Ricans and black people and Jewish people, you
Speaker 4: was actually in Philly reaching out to the black and
Speaker 4: Latino community.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you know, it just turned out Charlemagne to
Speaker 2: be a real coincidence, but again pointing out a stark
Speaker 2: contrast between he and I. Yes, I was in Philly
Speaker 2: meeting with leaders, many leaders in many communities, but including
Speaker 2: leaders in the Puerto Rican community, to talk with them
Speaker 2: about my long standing commitment to Puerto Rico, to the
Speaker 2: people who live on that island, who have often been overlooked.
Speaker 2: In fact they know, and we talked about the fact
Speaker 2: that even when I was in the United States Senate,
Speaker 2: knowing Puerto Rico doesn't have its own United States Senator,
Speaker 2: I was a leader in making sure that we would
Speaker 2: get really leave to people on the island when it
Speaker 2: came to like the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. And what
Speaker 2: I shared with everyone is part of my opportunity economy,
Speaker 2: as you know, which is about lifting up people around
Speaker 2: home ownership and small businesses. That I will have a
Speaker 2: specific opportunity economy task for Puerto Rico that will focus
Speaker 2: on the needs that they have in terms of fixing
Speaker 2: that electrical grid in Puerto Rico and also bringing private
Speaker 2: sector investment together with government investment and nonprofit investment onto
Speaker 2: the island to help with job creation and sustainability for
Speaker 2: the island.
Speaker 5: Now we VP Harris. This is Lauren and nice to
Speaker 5: meet you. We talk a lot up here about the
Speaker 5: black men conversation and the fact that people, you know,
Speaker 5: they keep trying to push this whole black men are
Speaker 5: not supporting Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: That's a lot.
Speaker 5: And my question to you is, is you know the
Speaker 5: fact that you know, even if it's a lie, people
Speaker 5: are still saying it. What is your strong push to
Speaker 5: any black man right now that feels like you're not
Speaker 5: speaking directly to them and about the things that they
Speaker 5: should care about for their families and for themselves.
Speaker 2: Well, Lauren, I have to tell you back to what
Speaker 2: Charlemagne is shouting in the background, The brothers aren't saying that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was just at the barbershop in Philly
Speaker 2: talking with very incredible and distinguished men who are leaders
Speaker 2: in their community in small business and education. And these men,
Speaker 2: these black men, were talking about not only their support
Speaker 2: for me, but most importantly, their support from my perspective,
Speaker 2: on what we can do that lifts up the community
Speaker 2: and taps into the ambitions and the aspiration. For example,
Speaker 2: the work that I will do that includes not only
Speaker 2: increasing access to capital for small businesses and minority owned
Speaker 2: small businesses, but part of my agenda includes a twenty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars forgivable loans for startup small businesses who are
Speaker 2: invariably gonna be the folks that you and I are
Speaker 2: now talking about who just need that startup help to
Speaker 2: be able to buy the equipment or to start up
Speaker 2: a meaningful website, you know, because it can't just be
Speaker 2: starting up a business and having your cousin set up
Speaker 2: your website, right, It's got to be something where it
Speaker 2: can actually help you access markets and customers. These are
Speaker 2: the kinds of things we talked about, and I will
Speaker 2: tell you at the rallies that I am doing where
Speaker 2: there are thousands of people. I just did a rally
Speaker 2: the other night. Thirty thousand people were there, and the
Speaker 2: number of people is cover the whole span of race, gender,
Speaker 2: and age. But the black men in particular who are
Speaker 2: at the rallies have recently been saying to me, don't
Speaker 2: you listen to that? And they got to stop with
Speaker 2: all that noise. We support you. So I'm glad you
Speaker 2: raised the topic so we could actually deal with the
Speaker 2: reality of it versus what some of the media is
Speaker 2: trying to create as a narrative.
Speaker 4: We know, you know a poll came out yesterday that
Speaker 4: said as the ABC News poll, and it said that
Speaker 4: You're winning black men eighty five percent and out performing
Speaker 4: Biden by fourteen points of black men from twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean listen, because I think listen. I
Speaker 2: have said from the very beginning black men are no
Speaker 2: different than any other voter. You have to earn their vote.
Speaker 2: And part of the challenge, I think with the perspective
Speaker 2: in this narrative has been to suggest anybody's got black
Speaker 2: men in their pocket. No, you have to earn the vote.
Speaker 2: Which is why I've been out talking with folks about
Speaker 2: not only my history of work that has had a
Speaker 2: positive impact, but also the work that has yet to
Speaker 2: be done again around lifting up the economic situation, helping
Speaker 2: young fathers with what they want to do to parent
Speaker 2: their children with an extension of the child tax credit
Speaker 2: to six thousand dollars for the first year of their
Speaker 2: child's life. What I intend to do that is about
Speaker 2: tapping into the desire for home ownership and a twenty
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars down payment assistance for first time home buyers.
Speaker 2: And that's why those numbers are eighty five percent, Charlemagne,
Speaker 2: because folks know I have a genuine commitment based on
Speaker 2: hard work that I have already done to lift up
Speaker 2: the community. Versus to your point, Donald Trump and Madison
Speaker 2: Square Garden last night with all those tropes. Versus Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: who took out a full page ad in the New
Speaker 2: York Times for the Central Park thoughts suggesting that these
Speaker 2: young black and brown and they were not young men,
Speaker 2: they were children, should be executed. Donald Trump, who in
Speaker 2: New York as a landlord, refused to rent to black families.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, who called the first black president, called him
Speaker 2: out and suggested he was not born in the United States,
Speaker 2: and then most recently referred to black legal immigrants in
Speaker 2: Ohio as though they're eating their pets.
Speaker 3: That's right, absolutely. I was going to ask, you know,
Speaker 3: we see the support you have with small businesses, We
Speaker 3: see the support you have with HBCUs. We even see
Speaker 3: the home buying voucher that is there to help especially
Speaker 3: our community get into our homes. What is your message
Speaker 3: to these undecided voters that are right now we're a
Speaker 3: week away that still don't know which way they want
Speaker 3: to go in and everything that you're trying to do
Speaker 3: that's positive, They say, Well, the home buying vouch is
Speaker 3: just going to make people a charge more money for
Speaker 3: houses and hbcuses for this and for that. What do
Speaker 3: you say to those undecided voters right now that we're
Speaker 3: a week away?
Speaker 2: So first of all, please go. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: throw out my website DJM because people have to be
Speaker 2: able to see it and read it for themselves and
Speaker 2: take their time with it. For those who are interested
Speaker 2: and want to be more informed, and if I haven't
Speaker 2: had a chance to meet with them and talk with
Speaker 2: them directly, I invite you, in your busy lives if
Speaker 2: you can take some time to look at my website
Speaker 2: KamalaHarris dot com and look at my policies. For example,
Speaker 2: twenty five thousand dollars down payment assistance for first time
Speaker 2: home buyers. Let me tell you why that's not gonna
Speaker 2: that's not going to have an unintended effect because that
Speaker 2: increases the demand for home ownership, which is going to
Speaker 2: have an impact also on supply. What we are My
Speaker 2: part of my plan is you know. I've been in
Speaker 2: public service my entire career, but I know the limitations
Speaker 2: of government. So part of my plan for affordable housing
Speaker 2: is to work with home builders and developers to give
Speaker 2: them tax credits to create incentives for them to build
Speaker 2: more homes. But I'm gonna tell you another part of
Speaker 2: my perspective on this. I also know that, in particular
Speaker 2: for high rent, a lot of it has to do
Speaker 2: with corporate corporations that are buying up all this housing
Speaker 2: and then eliminating competition and jacking up rents. And part
Speaker 2: of my plan is to also go after them. Similarly,
Speaker 2: on the price of groceries, you and I both know
Speaker 2: it's still too high. I'm going to go after price gouging,
Speaker 2: which is those bad corporations that are jacking up the
Speaker 2: price of everyday necessities folks, especially those who are, for example,
Speaker 2: in the zone of Hurricane Helen and other places that
Speaker 2: have experienced extreme emergencies, and those bad corporations, and most
Speaker 2: of them are not but those that will take advantage
Speaker 2: of the desperation of people in need. So these are
Speaker 2: the examples, and I will tell you. Look, I'm about
Speaker 2: to give a speech Tuesday night at the ellipse in
Speaker 2: front of the White House. And part of what I
Speaker 2: will be talking about is that there is going to
Speaker 2: be a new president on January twentieth of next year,
Speaker 2: and it's either gonna be Donald Trump or it's going
Speaker 2: to be me. And I would ask people to imagine
Speaker 2: the Oval Office. People have seen it on TV. You
Speaker 2: know what it looks like. It's either going to be
Speaker 2: Donald Trump sitting behind that desk writing out his enemies
Speaker 2: list of who he's going to seek revenge and retribution on,
Speaker 2: or it's gonna be me working on behalf of the
Speaker 2: American people, as I always have done, working on my
Speaker 2: to do list, to see through these policies that are
Speaker 2: about home ownership, lifting up our small businesses, lifting up
Speaker 2: families with children, and lifting up the discourse in a
Speaker 2: way that it is not about trashing people all the time,
Speaker 2: which is why, you know, even back to the point
Speaker 2: of Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny is endorsed me, right, he
Speaker 2: knows and Jennifer Lopez and they love Puerto Rico and
Speaker 2: they are proud in terms of that heritage, and they
Speaker 2: know how demeaning and destructive Donald Trump can be on
Speaker 2: things like that. I'm proud to have the support of
Speaker 2: the kinds of people not like those that Donald Trump's
Speaker 2: rally yesterday Madison Square Garden, the people supporting me Bad
Speaker 2: Bunny Fat, Joe, Quavo, Beyonce, Kelly Rowland, and I could
Speaker 2: go on down the list. So I'd invite people to
Speaker 2: just look at who is supporting who at one measure
Speaker 2: of who cares about who.
Speaker 4: How do you feel, Madame Vice President, about these major
Speaker 4: publications like the LA Times, the Washington polls refusing then
Speaker 4: doing somebody.
Speaker 2: For president, you know, Charlemagne. It's disappointing, no doubt. But
Speaker 2: the other piece of it is it gets back to
Speaker 2: my point about who is Donald Trump? Because he is
Speaker 2: the one right who is up for election with me,
Speaker 2: and you know he he I think that some of
Speaker 2: your listeners they know and others may not. Which is that. Look,
Speaker 2: it's billionaires in Donald Trump's clubs. That's who's in his clubs.
Speaker 2: That's who he hangs out with, That's who he cares about.
Speaker 2: That's why when he was last president, he put in
Speaker 2: a place a massive tax cut for billionaires in the
Speaker 2: biggest corporations, and that is exactly what he will do again.
Speaker 2: His policies are not about middle class folks. He's not
Speaker 2: sitting around thinking about what he can do to take
Speaker 2: care of your grandmother and your grandfather. He's thinking about
Speaker 2: people like himself or himself and all of his grievances
Speaker 2: and all that makes him angry about how he has
Speaker 2: personally been treated, as opposed to worrying about how you
Speaker 2: have been treated and what his responsibility is to lift
Speaker 2: you up.
Speaker 3: Well, Mad and Vice President, we appreciate it. I know
Speaker 3: you got calls to making things to do today.
Speaker 4: I do have one last quick question, though, how often
Speaker 4: do you say to yourself, man, fuck Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Let me tell you actually that my focus and honestly
Speaker 2: more is on I just love I love the American people,
Speaker 2: and I you know that people are taking time out
Speaker 2: of their so busy lives with all their demands to
Speaker 2: take the time to vote, to stand in line, especially
Speaker 2: in those places where their state leaders have tried to
Speaker 2: make it more difficult for them to vote. That's that's
Speaker 2: really where I spend my time. And the contrast point
Speaker 2: is really about that they deserve better. They deserve better,
Speaker 2: They deserve a president who actually cares.
Speaker 1: For checking appreciate you a week away. Everybody got there.
Speaker 2: Okay TOAK, y'allsam, thank you.
Speaker 1: Wake that answer in the morning Breakfast Club