1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: Every day a week. Click yours up the Breakfast. 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 2: Club, finish for y'all done morning. 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 3: Everybody is stej Envy, Jess hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 3: are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in 5 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 3: the building. Indeed, this morning we got your governor Jess. 6 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: You all righty now govern up Maryland. 7 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 3: Governor west More, welcome, it's. 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,119 Speaker 1: Going to be back back of my favorite constituent. 9 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 4: What stuff are you doing? 10 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 2: You might be related the same last name. 11 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: I'm saying, yeah, that's cousin. 12 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 2: If it's not what you say it is. 13 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 4: I always always say, yeah, makes sense, that's your cousin. 14 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 4: And everybody loves Governor west Yeah. 15 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 2: You't go ahead. 16 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: You ain't ever asking no pardon, though I didn't. 17 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 4: That was the conversation at to this interview. Expand some 18 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 4: stuff from me. 19 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 2: How are you feeling? 20 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: First and foremost, I'm feeling great, man. Everything's great. Everything honestly, 21 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: everything's good. It's like, you know, I say this, Thank 22 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: God where Maryland? You know, because I see everything that's 23 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: going on around the country, and I see the fear, 24 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: the frustration, and I see like Maryland's just moving different. 25 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: Maryland's taking care of each other. There's no state that's 26 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: taking it on the chin from this Trump administration like 27 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: Maryland has. 28 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 2: I mean, like people forget. 29 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: Before this ridiculous federal government shut down, Donald Trump had 30 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: already fired over fifteen thousand Marylanders who are federal workers, 31 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: pulled grants, I mean, you know, restricted any type of 32 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 1: aid to our folks over in western Maryland despite having 33 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: historic floods. Literally, when we put in for federal disaster relief, 34 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: which we qualified for, they literally sent a message back 35 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: saying support from Maryland is not warranted. 36 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 2: Wow, that's it. 37 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 1: So But despite all that, we have some of the 38 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: fastest job growth rates inside the entire country, one of 39 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: the lowest unemployment rates in the entire country. We're making 40 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: sure we're taking care of our ferial workers. We're making 41 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: sure we're uplifting our community. So listen, thank god we're 42 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: in Maryland. 43 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 5: I use Maryland as an example all the time because 44 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 5: I remember I was at my daughter's Chilean tournament back 45 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 5: in like February, and the amount of people who were 46 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 5: walking up to me who were concerned that they were 47 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 5: either going to lose their jobs and they already had 48 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 5: lost their jobs because the dose was insane, So I 49 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 5: can imagine what you get. 50 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 1: And Sean is crazy because like, who are we talking about. 51 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 1: We're talking about people who do things like make sure 52 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: that our food is safe, right, make sure that our 53 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 1: critical infrastructure is make sure that veterans like myself who 54 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: come back home and who need medication, that they're getting 55 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: their medication. That's who they're choosing to go after first. 56 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: And so looking at this assault that we have had 57 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: on our federal workers and again and now we're talking 58 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: about the only way that you're going to reopen a 59 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: government is by cutting people off health care, raising premiums 60 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,679 Speaker 1: by ninety five percent. Health Care is already too expensive, 61 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: and now you're talking about raising premiums by ninety five 62 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: percent for folks like, this is crazy, what's going on? 63 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: And so Maryland, you know, in many ways, Maryland really 64 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: does take it and have to take it. Like these 65 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: are not indirect blows. These are direct shots at me, 66 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 1: in direct shots at us. We get it. But the 67 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: thing that we're really focusing on is how how can 68 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: we make sure we're protecting our people and really diversifying 69 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: our economy so we're not we don't have to be 70 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: as reliant on Washington, DC, or who sits in an oval. 71 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 3: Office break it down, like how will you getting through it? 72 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 3: Because this governance in May is that are having a 73 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 3: hard time, but Maryland is making it through. So how 74 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 3: is Maryland making it through? How are you know, people 75 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 3: finding jobs? How are people paying rent and car notes 76 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 3: and putting food on their table? How are you guys 77 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 3: doing it well? 78 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: One is I think our folks realizes that we're not 79 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: been in the need of nobody. Anybody who's sitting there 80 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: saying well, if you just be quiet, they'll stop, or 81 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: if you don't, if you don't push back, they'll I'm like, listen, 82 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know a situation where it's like listen, 83 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: if you just be quiet, they'll stop beating you. Like 84 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: that's never happens. Never. And so the thing that we're doing, 85 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: we're just being We're being aggressive about what it means 86 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: to protect our people. So, for example, with our federal workers, 87 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: we've made sure that there are pipelines for our federal 88 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: workers to be able to get available in essential state 89 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: jobs or private sector jobs. We start is something called 90 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: fedes to eds, where we knew that Maryland as well 91 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: as many other states has a teacher shortage right now. 92 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: So I'm saying, if I got someone who's working for 93 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: the federal government who was interested and qualified, get them certified, 94 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: get them trained, get them in a classroom as quickly 95 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,799 Speaker 1: as possible, so we can both address the teacher shortage 96 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: as well as making sure that they're getting employment. That alone, 97 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: we've now seen since I been the governor, we have 98 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 1: clothes that teacher shortage we have by twenty five percent, 99 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 1: and a lot of that is because of these federal 100 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,159 Speaker 1: workers who are now coming on board. We have federal 101 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: workers who they are forcing to go to work, which 102 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: is this is crazy. They are federal workers that are 103 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: forcing to go to work and not paying them. So 104 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: we got folks in Maryland who are working and not 105 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 1: getting paid. We got politicians in Washington who are paid 106 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 1: and not working right, and so. 107 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 5: We still got to pay taxes, and we still got 108 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 5: to pay taxes on them while they're not doing anything right. 109 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 1: And so for federal workers who are now forced to 110 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: go to work and they're taking public transportation there paying 111 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: for public translation despite not getting paycheck. So what did 112 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: I do? I said, for all public translation for federal workers, 113 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 1: it's free. 114 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 2: Wow. 115 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 1: It's free. Just show your federal government pass and you're good. 116 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 2: Wow. 117 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: So it's like, so we are making sure we're being aggressive. 118 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: We were said, we're as long as we can, We're 119 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: going to cover down on Medicaid snap Wick, despite the 120 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: fact that the federal government is now cutting it off 121 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: from our states. I'm saying that in the state of Maryland, 122 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: we're going to make sure that our people are protected 123 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: and our people are taken care of. So I tell 124 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: our folks man, while Washington is telling this country, you're 125 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: on your own, in Maryland, we tell our people we 126 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: leave no one behind. 127 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 5: I wanted to ask you about the No King's protests 128 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 5: that were happening this weekend, and in your view, what 129 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 5: does the level of turnout say about public sentiment toward 130 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 5: executive power in America today. 131 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: Well, I tell you one of the things I was 132 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 1: really taken by. It's not even just the numbers. It's 133 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: the where some of the biggest No Kings turnouts that 134 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: we had in our state. We're in rural parts of 135 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: our state, conservative parts of our state. And I think 136 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: about it this way, man, where it's like, you know, 137 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: for example, when we just announced our reelection two weeks ago. 138 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: Some of the first people that came out and endorsed 139 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 1: us were actually Republican lawmakers. Republican lawmakers in Western Maryland 140 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: because they were like at a time, and these are 141 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 1: places that voted for Donald Trump by seventy five, seventy seven, 142 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 1: seventy eight percent, but they were like, but listen, in 143 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: our time of need, the governor showed up. We were 144 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: some of the first boots on ground when they had 145 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: historic flooding out in western Maryland. The President nowhere to 146 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: be found that we actually invested millions of dollars to 147 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 1: make sure that they can get furnaces, because I'm telling 148 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,239 Speaker 1: you right now, we're talking about some of the coldest 149 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: parts of our state and people who do not have furnaces, 150 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: people will lose their lives this winter. We put in 151 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: millions of dollars from the state to make sure they're good. 152 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: The president support from Maryland is not warranted because you 153 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 1: exactly exactly. 154 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 2: I known y'all. 155 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: But it's like, but but the point is, it's like, 156 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: so when you're going out there and you're seeing no 157 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: kings protests, when you're seeing them, like, listen, this is 158 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: is this about? You know? Is this about rule of law. 159 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: And it's about rule of law. Is it about you 160 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: came in and you'd say you make things more affordable? 161 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: And we said, how energy prices have risen by twenty 162 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: percent since he's been the president. That these terrorists are 163 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: making everything from the clothes that we're wearing to the 164 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: food that were that food that were eating more expensive. Yeah, 165 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: but you know what, it's also about you keep breaking 166 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: your promises. Man, everything you said that you were going 167 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,559 Speaker 1: to do. They are now waking up and realizing he 168 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: never cared about you. 169 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 2: Right, He promised economic change on day one. 170 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: For him, and it happened. He's great economic change he 171 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: has been. I tell you, the two greatest beneficiaries of 172 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: the Trump administration so far have been the Trump family 173 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: and China. Ooh, the Trump family in China have had 174 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: a great streak for the past ten months. 175 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 2: Why China, because it seems like they've been they've had. 176 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: Like issues because when American leadership pulls back, who's helping 177 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: to fill up the vacuum? 178 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 2: Got you that? 179 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: Oftentimes when you're talking about our foreign policy, this really 180 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: is a larger battle between the US and China. China 181 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: being one of the fastest growing economies over a period 182 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: of the past twenty years. China being a country that 183 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: is always pushed and reflected and said, like, we want 184 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: to make sure that we're having our proper respect. And 185 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: the United States, who in many ways is kind of 186 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: like this upstart. You know, they're like the startup in 187 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: the globe. Now we're about to celebrating two hundred and 188 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: fifty years. China's like two hundred and fifty years, Like 189 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:43,319 Speaker 1: that's a blink of an eye when it comes to 190 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 1: Chinese history. But also look at what has now happened 191 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: as the US has pulled away from things like foreign 192 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: aid and support and everywhere from Africa to South America. 193 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: Who's helped to fill in that China right, who has 194 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: helped to come in when we're having conversations about about 195 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: about new resources and energy supports right and come up 196 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: with long term energy supplies. When you have the Trump 197 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: administration who's pulling away from increasing energy supplies, which by 198 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 1: the way, is making energy prices more expensive on everybody. 199 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: I believe that we should be investing in solar and 200 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: wind and nuclear and all the energy technologies that can 201 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 1: help to make energy prices more affordable because when you 202 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: increase supply, you then can be able to decrease costs. 203 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: And Donald Trump is simply saying like, nah, We're not 204 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,319 Speaker 1: doing any of that stuff you know that's going to 205 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: do it continues to drive energy prices up. Do you 206 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: know who is investing in those new technologies? China? So listen, 207 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 1: the Trump family and China have done very, very well 208 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: over the past ten months. The average American family not 209 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: so much. 210 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 3: And we had a bunch of candidates up here, Mayoro, 211 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 3: candidates from New York and governors from Jersey, and everybody 212 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 3: talks about their relationship or wanting to work with Trump. 213 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 3: Is that even an option with you? 214 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: Listen, I'm very clear, man, I will work with anyone. 215 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: I will just down to no one. I'm not built 216 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,599 Speaker 1: that way. Like I'm always going to fight for my 217 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,719 Speaker 1: fi Like the people of my state, they understand like 218 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 1: like I'm not. I don't come from a political world. 219 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 1: I don't come from a political family. I don't come 220 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: from a political background. I'm a soldier. That's who I am. 221 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: That's how I'm built. And so if someone is trying 222 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: to do something that's going to benefit the people of 223 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 1: my state, if someone's trying to do something that's going 224 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 1: to benefit my community and my people, then I'm always 225 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: interested in being able to find ways of working together 226 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. The problem is, I 227 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 1: have seen nothing from this administration that shows as an 228 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: interest in that. I have seen nothing but shots at us. 229 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: I've seen nothing but talk about how you're going to 230 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: send national guards into my communities. I've seen nothing but 231 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: them turning down federal aid and federal supports that is 232 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: justified and necessary for the people of my state. I've 233 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,319 Speaker 1: seen nothing but them using them except using the constitution 234 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: like it's a suggestion box. So, you know, if you 235 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: want to have a real conversation about being able to 236 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: help the people of Maryland and lift us up and 237 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: continue the trajectory that we've been on since my administration 238 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 1: has come on board, I'm always down to that conversation. 239 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:12,719 Speaker 3: As a form of soldier talk about the negative things 240 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 3: about having sold just put into the community. 241 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: There are so many problems with this, and it's so 242 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 1: deeply performative. And here's the thing that gets me on 243 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 1: a couple fronts. If he wants to have a real 244 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: conversation about making our community safer, I'm here for that. 245 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: I've been very clear there is no higher priority for 246 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: me than making sure that our communities are safe. I 247 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: think about what's happened in Maryland, and Maryland for the 248 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: eight years before I became the governor, we saw the 249 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: homicide rate nearly double. The non fatal shooting rate did double. 250 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: Baltimore City the year before I became the governor, in 251 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, we had almost a homicide a day. 252 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: And so when we came on board, I said, I 253 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:54,559 Speaker 1: Am not going to be a governor that's going to 254 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: sit there and give eulogies and give thoughts and prayers 255 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 1: and not do a damn thing about actually making community safer. 256 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: So what do we do? I started working with Mayor Scott. 257 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: I started working with local Sorry may Scott, Mayor Baltimore. 258 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: I started working with local law enforcement. I started working 259 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 1: with count executives around the state. I started actually, we 260 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: made historic investments in predictive analytics and technologies and community 261 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: violence intervention groups, community violence interruption groups, and the results 262 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: have been this. In the past two and a half years, 263 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: we have seen how Maryland has had amongst the fastest 264 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: drops in violent crime anywhere in the United States of 265 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: America amongst the fastest drops in property crime anywhere in 266 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: the United States of America. The homicide rates in the 267 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: state of Maryland since ide and the governor are down 268 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: nearly twenty five percent that we have seen in Baltimore City. 269 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: The last time of homicide rate was this slow in 270 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: Baltimore City. I wasn't born yet. That's the kind of 271 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: drops we've seen. And now, despite the head the presidents 272 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: talk about how we have children who are natural born killers, 273 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: and he's now going to send the National Guard in 274 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: our community. I'm like, first of all, you're nineteen eighties 275 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: archie bunker men talenty mindset is not going to fly 276 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: because it goes against all data that's actually happening and 277 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: the momentum we're actually seeing. But the other thing about 278 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: it is this man is that like, I know what 279 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: it's like for these soldiers. I know what it's like 280 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: to put on the uniform. I know what it's like 281 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: to say good boy to your family. I deployed, I 282 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: let soldiers overseas in Afghanistan. And so for him to 283 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: continue to have this fetish of military uniforms like it's 284 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: a child where he's going to ask these men and 285 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: women to do something that he was never willing to do. 286 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: Say goodbode to your family, and to go to deploy 287 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 1: and to do operations and missions that a they You know, 288 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: municipal policing is not something our National Guards are trained for. 289 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 1: I'm the commander in chief of the Maryland National Guard. 290 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: I know my gods are trained for and that's not 291 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: one of them. And I also know that if you 292 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,599 Speaker 1: look at what's happening in Washington, d C. And the 293 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: deployments that they're having, you know, I can tell you 294 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: that these National Guards men and women, these citizens soldiers 295 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: who are giving up their lives because they trust them 296 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: commander in chief, have taken more selfies than they've made arrests. 297 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: They painted more fences and picked up more trash than 298 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: they've actually done drug busts. So what are we talking 299 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 1: about right now? This is what the president is doing 300 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: and Headseth and all these guys. It is just it's performative. 301 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: It's offensive. It's offensive to our communities, it's offensive to 302 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: these military personnel. It's offensive to their families because you're 303 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: now asking to leave their families and to. 304 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 5: Do what And nobody ever asked him what's the long 305 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 5: term solution, like, what's the long term solution never for 306 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 5: crime prevention? Okay, you're doing this, now, what's the long 307 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 5: term plan? 308 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 1: If he wants to have a serious conversation, I would 309 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 1: love for the President United States, and I'm not holding 310 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: my breath on this, to have a serious conversation about policy, 311 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: because listen, I tell him, you know what I would 312 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: love to do. I know for myself and the mayor 313 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: and our Acount executives, We'd love to talk to you 314 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: about banning block switches and the ability to turn these 315 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: blocks into automatic weapons. We'd love to have a conversation 316 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: about banning ghost guns. We'd love to have a conversation 317 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: with you about additional ATI n FBI resources and supports. 318 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: I love to have a conversation with you about lpr's 319 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: license plate readers so that can help to actually track 320 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: down crime. I'd love to have a conversation with you 321 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: about stop stop cutting the funding that was coming to 322 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: our communities for community violence intervention groups that were actually 323 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: on the ground doing the work. But he's not interested 324 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: in that. But what he is interested in doing is 325 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: he'll cut funding for stuff that's actually working. But then 326 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: ask the American taxpayer to pay over a million dollars 327 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: a day so they can watch National Guard take selfies. 328 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 5: Are you concerned, like when you saw the meeting that 329 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 5: you know, a Secretary of War Pete Hexf and President 330 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 5: Trump had with the US military generals and admirals. 331 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 2: Are you concerned that some of. 332 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 5: Those generals and admirals may go along with him and 333 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 5: pledge loyalty to him and not the Constitution. 334 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's the I remember I'm on a 335 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: bunch of different like group chats things with a lot 336 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: of military folks who I served with, and people were 337 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: still in and I remember getting one from a buddy 338 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: of mine and he said, listen, I've oftentimes disagreed with 339 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: the commander in chief, not often. Am I embarrassed by him? 340 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 2: Wow? 341 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 1: Because I'm embarrassed. Wow, because there's just a lack of 342 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 1: seriousness that he and accept there are taking on this. 343 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: There is, you know. And one thing I, you know, 344 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: always say is that listen, as soldiers, we know our job, 345 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: we know our oath. We took an oath to the 346 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: Constitution and always protect and defend people against all enemies 347 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: of this country, foreign and domestic. And we took an 348 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: oath that we would always honor all lawful orders of 349 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: the President of the United States. The thing that is 350 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: is uh is really challenging for a lot of people 351 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: right now. Is this blurring of a line that we 352 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: are seeing from this White House about what orders are 353 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: lawful and what orders are not. 354 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 5: And we've seen it in other countries, like we've seen 355 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 5: it in Germany. We' seen happen to jenerremies having a 356 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 5: you know, Russia under style, and like what if just 357 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 5: say thirty forty percent of those military people say, you 358 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 5: know what. 359 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 2: We gonna ride with the president. 360 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, let's say what I think this is and 361 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:14,919 Speaker 1: this this is where this is where we know that 362 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 1: we are in a really complicated and dangerous place. You know, 363 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: I take my role as Commander in chief of the 364 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 1: Maryland National Guard very seriously. I take my commitment to 365 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: these men and women. I take my commitment to their families. 366 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 1: I take it very serious. It's the reason that you 367 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,400 Speaker 1: know we have we have done everything from you know, 368 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 1: having the largest tax cut to military veterans and younger 369 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: military veterans in Maryland history, that we have double the 370 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: amount of leave that they have so they can stop 371 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: using their PTO on things like military training if they're 372 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 1: a state worker. It's the reason that we have made 373 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: Maryland the first day in the country that now has 374 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: a pathway to free dental care and health care for 375 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: members of our National Guard, because I don't know how 376 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: someone can wear the uniform of this country and have 377 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 1: to worry about their dental care. So there's a whole 378 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: lot our military communities know that I ride for them, 379 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:08,679 Speaker 1: but knowing that we are getting this type of this 380 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: type of you know, almost like comedic effort at leadership 381 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,879 Speaker 1: on our national side about the usage, about the serious 382 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: and frankly the very sobering usages of our military personnel 383 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 1: is deeply disturbing. 384 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 5: I would call it an authoritarian effort. Yeah, as opposed 385 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 5: to a comedic effort. I was gonna ask you, like 386 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 5: when you when you think about the no Kings protests, 387 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 5: what do you think about the framing and like, is 388 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 5: there a responsibility for an elected leader to address like 389 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 5: the perceptions of authoritarianism, whether it's. 390 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 2: You know, real or proceeds. 391 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think there is, and I think 392 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: people and I think people are seeing it. I think 393 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,199 Speaker 1: people are seeing it in their own real lives, and 394 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: I think people and here's the point too, is that 395 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: if people thought that this was benefiting their life, this 396 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 1: would be one thing, right if people are like, listen, 397 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: we had to clean things up and we had to 398 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: make sure that government worked, and we had to And 399 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: but you know what, I'm watching my prices go down. 400 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: I'm watching my education system being better. I'm watching transportation 401 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,719 Speaker 1: assets being built. I'm watching all this stuff. That'd be 402 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: one thing, but no one is arguing that. Everybody's just saying, 403 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,400 Speaker 1: wait a second. So we're seeing all this authoritarian takeover, 404 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: but what I'm also saying is my energy prices keep 405 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,879 Speaker 1: going up. We're seeing this takeover. But what I'm also 406 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: saying is we're now seeing books that are being banned 407 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: and things that I can't teach and things that I 408 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: can't lead. We're seeing this takeover and you know what, 409 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 1: all my neighbors are losing their jobs. Yeah, And so 410 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: they're like, so, what exactly is this and what exactly 411 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: is the point? And it goes back to the thing 412 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: that you know, I really believe about Donald Trump. And frankly, 413 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: one of the challenges we had with the Democratic Party is, 414 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: you know, Donald Trump was a great vessel for the frustration. Absolutely, 415 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: he could tell you what is wrong. He could tell 416 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,040 Speaker 1: you who is to blame. He could tell you, you 417 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 1: know what, they screwed this thing up. And oftentimes we were, 418 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: you know, we the Democrats, we're kind of sitting there like, well, 419 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: you know, well it's not true and things aren't that bad. 420 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: It's like us, like, you have to understand what people 421 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: are actually feeling right now. 422 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 2: Right, put your boots on the ground. 423 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 1: Put your boots on the ground. If you spend your 424 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: time in communities, you will understand the frustration that people 425 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: are feeling. So that Trump being the vessel for the 426 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 1: frustration made sense. It allowed that him to rise inside 427 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: this place. But I think people are very quickly realizing 428 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,640 Speaker 1: that he was a vessel for the frustration. But he's 429 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: not a vehicle for the solution at all. 430 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,199 Speaker 3: To piggyback on what Schaula Mane says, so, how do 431 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 3: you look at the judicial system now? 432 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 2: Right? 433 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,640 Speaker 3: You see Trump people get arrested and Trump's like, that's 434 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 3: my guy. I'm a part of him, and everything he 435 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 3: has is wiped off. You know, Oh, that's my guy. 436 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 3: You ain't got to pay no money back. It's wiped off. 437 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 3: It makes me look at it two ways. One nothing serious, 438 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 3: and two it makes me feel like sometimes when the 439 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 3: Democrats have a guy that went down for something that's 440 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 3: maybe not just that we just leave our people hanging. 441 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 3: Oh I should say they just leave their people hanging. 442 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 2: Yeah Maryland mold. 443 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 3: Yeah, So how does that make you feel when you 444 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 3: look at the judicial system and you look at you know, 445 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 3: somebody that you helped tried to get in office, well, 446 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 3: whether it was Biden on a second term, and then 447 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 3: you see how they take care of their people. 448 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 2: Yeah. 449 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: You know, I remember when I first when I first 450 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 1: came in the I ended up winning with more individual 451 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 1: votes than anyone whould ever run for governor in the 452 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,119 Speaker 1: history of the state of Maryland, despite literally starting at 453 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: one percent, Like I don't come from any political background 454 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: at all. Only one thing beat me on the ballot 455 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,479 Speaker 1: that year, and that was cannabis. So I was like, yo, 456 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: who is cannabis? And but the same time that I 457 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: just definitely voted yeah absolutely, But the same time that 458 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: I was I was elected governor of Maryland, Maryland voted 459 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: to have a recreational cannabis market. So I said, okay, 460 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 1: so we're going to make sure that it's rolled out 461 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 1: in a safe, in a smooth, and an equitable way. 462 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: And at the same time, there is no way that 463 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:12,199 Speaker 1: I'm going to celebrate the benefits of legalization if we 464 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: do not address the consequences of criminalization. So we got 465 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 1: to work and I ended up signing the largest mass 466 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: pardon in the history of the United States of America 467 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 1: when I pardon over one hundred and seventy five thousand 468 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: misdemeanor cannabis convictions in the stroke of a pen and 469 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: saying like, you know, you cannot we cannot treat every 470 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: sentence like a life sentence. Where we got a new 471 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: billion dollar market in the state of Maryland, but I 472 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 1: got people who can't get a barber's license, right. That 473 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,919 Speaker 1: was how we can utilize the power of the pardon 474 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 1: in a way that actually supports the people, in a 475 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: way that actually helps to right some of these wrongs 476 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: that have been taking place before. There's a very humble 477 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 1: responsibility that I know I take where I'm one of 478 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 1: fifty one people on the planet that have the ability 479 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: to part right. All of our state's governors and the 480 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 1: president of the United States, those are the only ones 481 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: that have the ability to look at somebody and say, 482 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 1: we are going to forgive you of the past issue 483 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:15,879 Speaker 1: you might have been involved with. We're going to make 484 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 1: sure we can clean up your record, to make sure 485 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: we can give you a second chance at life. It's 486 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: a very unique power. And I think about Donald Trump 487 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: man and the first thing that he did when he 488 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: got back into office his time was part of the 489 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 1: people on January sixth. There is just so everything that 490 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,159 Speaker 1: I'm seeing right now. 491 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:36,400 Speaker 2: None of it. 492 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: Surprises me, because the man told you who he was 493 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 1: and who he was going to fight for. And so 494 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: I think that, you know, I'm thankful that we have 495 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: a legal system in some cases that is helping to 496 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: hold the line. I'm thankful that we have judges that 497 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:59,120 Speaker 1: are actually honoring the law and not bending the knee. 498 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,239 Speaker 1: Yet it's the same time, you know, this, this this 499 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: weaponization of our legal system that we continue to see, 500 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: and frankly, this you know, this very loose way that 501 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: he is using a very specific and powerful ability to pardon, 502 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: I think is more just a continuation of the case. 503 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 5: Well, I got through more questions because I know you 504 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,679 Speaker 5: got Okay, how are you handling the pressure you're facing? 505 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 2: To redistrict Maryland. 506 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:28,360 Speaker 1: Well, I'm very clear. Listen, Maryland, if we have this 507 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: country and we have Donald Trump who was picking and 508 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,439 Speaker 1: choosing which states should redistrict, and people and people, remember 509 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 1: why we're even having this conversation, right, The reason the 510 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: reason why we're having this conversation is because what issue 511 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: is Donald Trump going to run on in a midterm elections? 512 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 2: Right? 513 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: I made all your prices higher. 514 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 2: Right. 515 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: I fired a bunch of people and driven up the 516 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 1: unemployment rate. We've made our communities less safe. But hey, 517 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: vote for me. You're not gonna win on that. So 518 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: what do you do? You change the rules, You rig 519 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,679 Speaker 1: the game. Frankly, it's a simple continuation of what this 520 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,919 Speaker 1: man has done his entire life. Right. And so my 521 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: point is this, if Donald Trump is calling individual states 522 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: and individual Republican states and saying, I need you to 523 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 1: find me a congress person here, I need you to 524 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: do this. I need you to find me a fair map, 525 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: then my point is this, if all these states are 526 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: going to have conversations about do they have a fair map, 527 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: so will Maryland. 528 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:27,199 Speaker 2: You have to you gotta fight fire with. 529 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 5: Fight, and former Vice Fred Kamala Harris said it last week. 530 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 2: You gotta fight fire with fight. 531 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: If these states are going to talk about do they 532 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 1: have a fair map, then you know what Maryland needs 533 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: to decide. Do we have a fair map too? Do 534 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 1: we have a fair map? And I can tell you 535 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: right now if you look at the our congressional districts 536 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: and people talk about I don't like jeremanny, I hate jeremanner. 537 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 1: I think it's ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous right now 538 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 1: that less than ten percent of all congressional seats are 539 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: actually competitive. The average congress person ends up winning by 540 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 1: like twenty thirty forty points. So all you got to 541 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: do is make it past the primary and you're good. Right, 542 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 1: So this entire system is jerrymandered right now. And so 543 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 1: if we are going to talk about what does it 544 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: mean to have fair maps and what does it mean 545 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,119 Speaker 1: to have systems where people can actually be heard and represented? 546 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,959 Speaker 1: And you have people choosing the representatives and not represented 547 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: choosing their people, then you know what add Maryland to 548 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: that list? Who should have that conversation too? 549 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 5: Absolutely, and the Baltimore Banner reported that you have a 550 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,880 Speaker 5: fifty four percent approval rate, but voters can't identify any 551 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 5: of your accomplishments, Governor, how do you plan. 552 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 2: To rectify that by the time the elections roll around. 553 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 1: Well, you know, here's the thing. 554 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 2: I think they say they like you, but they don't 555 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 2: know what you did that's actual lives. 556 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 5: No. 557 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: But you know what though, But here's here's the thing 558 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: that I think the people of our state now is 559 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: that when we first came on board, we had we 560 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: were forty third in the country in unemployment. Right now 561 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 1: we are now going on having amongst the lowest unemployment 562 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,160 Speaker 1: rates in the entire country, one of the fastest job 563 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 1: growth rates in the entire country over the past year 564 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 1: and a half, despite watching the assaults that we've seen 565 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: from the federal government that we have seen in our state, 566 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 1: that we went from having amongst the highest violent crime 567 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: rates inside the entire country to now having amongst the 568 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 1: fastest drops in violent crime anywhere in the United States 569 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: of America. That we have been able to create make 570 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: Maryland the first day in the country that has a 571 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: service year option for all of our high school graduates. 572 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 1: That we've been able to make Maryland a state that 573 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: has the first state based placed place led initiative to 574 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,639 Speaker 1: address the issue of childhood poverty, that we have been 575 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: able to actually do procriment reform and now creating over 576 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: eight hundred million dollars for black owned businesses inside of 577 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,680 Speaker 1: the state of Maryland. That we have made investments over 578 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: one point four billion dollars to Maryland's HBCUs at a 579 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 1: time when the federal government is pulling back from our HBCUs, 580 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: That we have actually raised a minimum wage and made 581 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: it easier for working people to be able to survive 582 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,919 Speaker 1: and exist within our society. That we have actually we 583 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: have actually had tax cuts for the middle class in Maryland, 584 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 1: tax cuts for military veterans in the state of Maryland. 585 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: And yes, I asked wealthy Mairee own there's millionaires to 586 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,120 Speaker 1: pay a little bit more to help to make sure 587 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 1: that we can have the best public schools inside the 588 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: entire inside of the entire country. So I think that 589 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: people see that we're doing the work. I think people 590 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,399 Speaker 1: see and are happy about the fact that Maryland is 591 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: really leading the charge. People see that, you know, they 592 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: gotta they got a governor who's ah, who's standing on 593 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: the wall and who's going to fight for him and 594 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 1: I and I and I appreciate the fact that we're still, 595 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: you know, amongst one of the most popular democratic governments 596 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 1: in the country. 597 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 5: But it is something to say for, you know, people 598 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,199 Speaker 5: to like you just because you bring them joy. 599 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: Yes, did not know anything that you've done, but I 600 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: like them unapologetic joy. And we're out in the communities, 601 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: like I'm telling you, and Jess knows like I've got 602 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: this reputation being governor outside because they're like, he's everywhere. 603 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: We're out in the community. We are out with the 604 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: people and listen. And I think that's what people have 605 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 1: come to not just appreciate about us, but expect from us. 606 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 2: Is that. 607 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: You know, when I when I first came out, and 608 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: when people said again, when people are like, well, you know, 609 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: you were not the Democratic Democratic Party's real choice when 610 00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 1: you first decided you want to run, the answer was 611 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: I wasn't. I was the only person never run for 612 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: office for my life. I was runn against state wide 613 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: elected officials. I ran against the former head of the 614 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: Democratic Party, and we ended up winning. Because I wasn't 615 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: the choice of the party. I was the choice of 616 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: the people. And that's always how I'm gonna ride for 617 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: the people. 618 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 6: Now, I want to ask you the Franciscott key Bridge, right, 619 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 6: because I saw that you got some criticism from the 620 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 6: US Transportation Secretary about what he's saying, the way you're 621 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 6: handling it. 622 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 5: P Duffy like what you're doing, what you're doing like. 623 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 2: That? I like that. 624 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: That's his name. Yes, yeah. And here's the thing I mean, 625 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 1: I remember my grandfather used to tell me, don't let 626 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 1: someone take something away from you that they never gave 627 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: you in the first place. Ye you know, a little 628 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: over a year ago, we had one of the most 629 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: traumatic moments in our state's history where you know, a 630 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: ship the size of three football fields slammed into you know, 631 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: our FRANCISCTT key Bridge and we lost six workers people 632 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: who fell who were fixing potholes, who fell one hundred 633 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: and eighty feet into dark, cold waters and lost their lives. 634 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 1: And how that first morning when they were like when 635 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 1: I was asking the workers because we're you know, on 636 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 1: the ground immediately, and I said, how long do you 637 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: think it's going to take for us to clean up 638 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: this channel? Because the Port of Baltimore responsible for about 639 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: thirteen percent of my state's economy. And they says, you know, 640 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: Governor's probably going to take about eleven months, and I 641 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 1: said that's the wrong answer, and we worked hard, we 642 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: worked together, and we got it cleared in eleven weeks. 643 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 1: When they told me the permitting for a bridge of 644 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: that size, they meant we were talking like a two 645 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: mile long bridge. Permitting alone could take two and a 646 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: half years. We got it done in months. We are 647 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 1: making historic progress on something like this. And if you 648 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: look at a bridge like the Gordy Howbridge, for example, 649 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: you know they started that in two thousand and seven 650 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: about the same size bridge. It's still not done and 651 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: we're talking twenty close twenty years. And I have said 652 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 1: we will rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge on our 653 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 1: time and I'm not going to get distracted by foolishness. 654 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: And so our people are moving at historic speed to 655 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: be able to get this bridge back up, to be 656 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: able to restore confidence in government and restore confidence in 657 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: what we can do and actually get done. So I 658 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: appreciate the commentary that we got from you know, Sean P. 659 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: Duffy and the President on this, but the thing I 660 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 1: will say is this is that we're going to do 661 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 1: our job and we're going to make sure we're going 662 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: to make the people of Maryland to make the people 663 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: of this country proud. And I'm really thankful that Congress, 664 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 1: bipartisan Republicans and Democrats in Congress were the ones who 665 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: were proved who approved the one hundred percent cost share, 666 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 1: because uh, you know, we're currently in litigation. The American 667 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 1: people are going to be made whole on this, and 668 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 1: I'm thankful to Congress because they're the ones that appropriated 669 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 1: the money. 670 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 2: This is my last question. 671 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 5: You know, I want you to talk about this because 672 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:18,959 Speaker 5: you know, I saw you get a little flack because 673 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 5: you vetoed a measure to create a commission to study 674 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 5: potential slavery reparations in the state of Maryland. But to me, 675 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 5: you had a valorie if people actually heard your home statement. 676 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: Exactly, I mean, listen what I what I said was, 677 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: I'm a person of action. I don't need more studies. 678 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: I mean, like what we have we have, we have, 679 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 1: we have done. We've done four studies over the past 680 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: twenty years on similar type of elements. Four studies over 681 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: the past twenty years, by the way, one of which 682 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: my wife worked on. And so when we're now talking 683 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 1: about doing a two year study on something that I 684 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: already know the answer to I'm like, what are we studying? 685 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 1: And this was my point. I think about the work, 686 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 1: and again I'm not saying that that this issue was 687 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: not worth working on. In fact, frankly, I've been working 688 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 1: very closely with the members of our caucus and members 689 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: of the community around a whole series of these issues. 690 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: It's the reason that we just authorize four hundred million 691 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: dollars for a Just Community Initiative, which made sure that 692 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,800 Speaker 1: we're putting four hundred million dollars of additional capital into 693 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: communities that have been that have been the subject and 694 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: have been truly hurt by racist and discriminatory policies, things 695 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 1: like redlining, things like mass incarceration, things like you know, 696 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 1: things like mass highway constructions which were cutting off neighborhoods. 697 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 1: That we said, we are going to identify all those 698 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: communities and neighborhoods, and we're starting off with is four 699 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,480 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars that's going specifically to those neighborhoods to 700 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: address the racist policies of the past. It's the reason 701 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: that we've done things like historic investments and our HBCUs 702 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,800 Speaker 1: because they've been historically neglected and pulled back on. Maryland 703 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 1: has four remarkable HBCUs we're putting a storic investment back 704 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: into them. It's the reason we've done things like the 705 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: mass pardons and giving people a second chance of life, 706 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 1: because who do people think that is going to benefit most. 707 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,720 Speaker 1: It's the reason that we've done things like procurement reform 708 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,760 Speaker 1: and created black millionaires inside of the state of Maryland. 709 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,240 Speaker 1: I am unapologetic about the support for our black community, 710 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 1: for the support for black people who oftentimes have been 711 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 1: the fabric and the backbone for so much of our society. 712 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 1: And I know right now when we are watching this assault, 713 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 1: this assault on our communities, when we're watching you know, 714 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: the Trump administration now is fire and to find more 715 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:38,960 Speaker 1: black women than we have seen in a generation that 716 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,760 Speaker 1: we have now seen seen our insurance being pulled away, 717 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,920 Speaker 1: grants going to entrepreneurs, that everything that is connected to diversity, equity, 718 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,480 Speaker 1: inclusion that they are making illegal. We don't need it 719 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,719 Speaker 1: to your study right now, man, I need action. I 720 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: need action. And so that was the point that we're 721 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,399 Speaker 1: trying to make is that in this time, in this 722 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: crisis moments, I don't need a study. 723 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 2: Let's get to it. 724 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:05,160 Speaker 1: Let's get to it. 725 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:06,360 Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's right. 726 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:07,839 Speaker 1: Absolutely, let's get on with it. 727 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 3: We appreciate you for joining us, running for re election 728 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:11,839 Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six. 729 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,239 Speaker 1: My cousin ye. 730 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 2: Govern to west More, Thank you for joining. 731 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:19,959 Speaker 1: Us, brother, appreciate y'all. Thanks the Breakfast Club. 732 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:20,480 Speaker 2: Good morning. 733 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,480 Speaker 1: Hold up every day I wake click your ass up 734 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. 735 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:26,919 Speaker 2: You don't finish for y'all. Done,