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- 0:00Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
- 0:03Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
- 0:07Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
- 0:11Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
- 0:15Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
- 0:19Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
- 0:23Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
- 0:28Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
- 0:31Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
- 0:35Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fined nearly
- 0:39Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
- 0:43Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
- 0:46Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
- 0:55Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Let's talk about the Affirmative Action ruling. This is something
- 1:02Speaker 3: that we recovered a few weeks ago, and you mentioned it.
- 1:06Speaker 3: So how will this how will that ruling? In your opinion,
- 1:11Speaker 3: what's the potential impacts on the education and employment opportunities
- 1:16Speaker 3: for every every American. And why why is that ruling
- 1:19Speaker 3: so important?
- 1:21Speaker 4: So for a couple of reasons. So the the the
- 1:25Speaker 4: most prestigious institutions in our country no longer have to
- 1:31Speaker 4: take race into account as it relates to applicants coming
- 1:35Speaker 4: into their schools. And because of that, those institutions are
- 1:42Speaker 4: going to continue to be They're already super white, but
- 1:45Speaker 4: they're going to continue to be even more disproportionately white.
- 1:49Speaker 4: So what that does. These prestigious institutions are the beacons
- 1:54Speaker 4: of power in our country, not just from an education perspective,
- 1:59Speaker 4: but from an economic and political perspective. So we are
- 2:03Speaker 4: going to have brilliant black and Latino students across the
- 2:07Speaker 4: country who will no longer have access to these institutions
- 2:10Speaker 4: because of this recent ruling. So they will no longer
- 2:13Speaker 4: have access to the power centers of America. We have
- 2:18Speaker 4: a bill, my office has a bill that we're reintroducing
- 2:21Speaker 4: this week that says, Okay, you want to end affirmative action,
- 2:25Speaker 4: you need to end legacy admissions at these institutions as well,
- 2:29Speaker 4: because legacy admissions disproportionally benefit white people. White men. In particular,
- 2:36Speaker 4: seventy percent of those who benefit from legacy admissions are
- 2:39Speaker 4: white people, white wealthy people. But the Supreme Court didn't
- 2:43Speaker 4: deal with that. Because the Supreme Court is illegitimate because
- 2:48Speaker 4: it takes gifts from billionaire donors who support legacy admissions
- 2:54Speaker 4: in the higher education space.
- 2:56Speaker 3: So when you say the Supreme Court illegitimate, it's interesting
- 3:02Speaker 3: you shouldn't work.
- 3:06Speaker 4: There is no way to hold the Supreme Court accountable
- 3:10Speaker 4: for unethical behavior. There's also no way to hold the
- 3:15Speaker 4: Supreme Court accountable when it takes on a case that
- 3:19Speaker 4: isn't within this jurisdiction, like the student loan case, because
- 3:24Speaker 4: the case does not the person bringing the case is
- 3:29Speaker 4: not harmed by the lawsuitent in which they're pursuing. There's
- 3:32Speaker 4: no way for us as Congress to hold the Supreme
- 3:34Speaker 4: Court accountable. So when it takes gifts from billionaire donors,
- 3:38Speaker 4: it has now become a political body where supposed to
- 3:43Speaker 4: be a body. It's supposed to be a body that
- 3:46Speaker 4: acts outside of the political arena. It's also not supposed
- 3:51Speaker 4: to be a party that a body that makes policy,
- 3:55Speaker 4: which is what it has done with not just this
- 3:58Speaker 4: recent student loan decision, but also epa decision. Let me
- 4:01Speaker 4: also mention what you what it means for the economics
- 4:06Speaker 4: and jobs in our communities. There are many companies that
- 4:10Speaker 4: were moving more towards UH diversity, equity and inclusion and
- 4:14Speaker 4: minority hiring and understanding the benefits of that. Now those
- 4:18Speaker 4: companies do not have to do that anymore, right and
- 4:22Speaker 4: will not even look in that direction, so they will
- 4:26Speaker 4: be least likely to hire African American latinos in certain companies.
- 4:31Speaker 4: The last thing I say about this is this, this
- 4:33Speaker 4: is why our own self determination and building our own
- 4:38Speaker 4: collective wealth and our own sovereignty matters so much. Because
- 4:43Speaker 4: what we're going to see now hopefully is arise and
- 4:47Speaker 4: kids going to HBCUs. But what we also what I
- 4:51Speaker 4: also want to see, and I've talked a little bit
- 4:53Speaker 4: more about this is black enterprise growing exponentially across this
- 5:00Speaker 4: country to hire more Black people and develop more workforce
- 5:04Speaker 4: development programs into black institutions to help us build historic
- 5:09Speaker 4: black wealth. And there's a political aspect to that as well.
- 5:12Speaker 3: Can I just do so what kind of gift through
- 5:14Speaker 3: the Supreme Court get you said, like they get gifts from.
- 5:17Speaker 4: Yes, So, Clarence Thomas had a billionaire pay his child's
- 5:24Speaker 4: tuition into a private school. Clarence Thomas took strips on
- 5:31Speaker 4: yachts with Republican billionaire donors. This is documented, This is fact.
- 5:37Speaker 4: There were other gifts given to I believe Kavanaugh Roberts
- 5:40Speaker 4: as well that have been documented. And so once the
- 5:45Speaker 4: Supreme Court begins to take gifts, political gifts, they have
- 5:48Speaker 4: lost their legitimacy as a court. And add on top
- 5:53Speaker 4: of that, some of the decisions they they they made
- 5:57Speaker 4: recently supersede what Congress has codified into law. When you
- 6:03Speaker 4: just when you take away the Secretary of Education and
- 6:07Speaker 4: presence ability to cancel student loans as per federal law
- 6:11Speaker 4: that was passing two thousand and three, the Heroes Act,
- 6:15Speaker 4: then you are now making policy. If you're making policy,
- 6:18Speaker 4: you are no longer legitimate as a court. And that's
- 6:21Speaker 4: why there's so many in this country calling for Supreme
- 6:23Speaker 4: Court reform. And again, the only way to get that
- 6:27Speaker 4: is for every person to engage in our political process. Vote, vote, vote,
- 6:32Speaker 4: so we can hold people accountable and change the Court
- 6:35Speaker 4: and Congress.
- 6:37Speaker 2: That's a lot, there's a lot to unpack there.
- 6:39Speaker 5: Right when we talk about job creation and we talk
- 6:42Speaker 5: about the influx of potential students now going to HBCUs.
- 6:45Speaker 5: One of the things that we have to combat is
- 6:47Speaker 5: the technology that's going to be at those HBCUs. So
- 6:50Speaker 5: I want to know your thoughts on because we've seen
- 6:53Speaker 5: the reports about what AI is going to do to
- 6:55Speaker 5: the job economy, not just here domestically, but from a
- 6:58Speaker 5: global standpoint. So what is your thoughts on AI and
- 7:02Speaker 5: technology specifically for our community, but even at a collegial level,
- 7:07Speaker 5: what that looks like for students of color.
- 7:10Speaker 4: Well, I'm incredibly concerned because eighty percent of HBCUs are
- 7:16Speaker 4: broadband deserts, so the broadband in their colleges don't work
- 7:21Speaker 4: the same as the broadband in Harvard and mostly white institutions.
- 7:26Speaker 4: That's number one. Number two. You all are from Greenberg,
- 7:31Speaker 4: you know, in this district we also have Scarsdale and
- 7:34Speaker 4: Rye and very very wealthy communities. Those wealthy communities, in
- 7:39Speaker 4: terms of their school curriculums, they've been way ahead of
- 7:42Speaker 4: the game in comparison to certain schools and places like Greenberg,
- 7:46Speaker 4: Mount Vernon, the Bronx because of historic underfunding. That's also
- 7:51Speaker 4: a part of policy and federal law that's attributed to
- 7:57Speaker 4: the redlining of our communities. In many ways, we are
- 8:01Speaker 4: already behind the eight ball in terms of funding and
- 8:04Speaker 4: curriculum and resources and now AI. If we don't like
- 8:08Speaker 4: step up and do something right now, we will be
- 8:10Speaker 4: even further behind the eight ball. So I'm very concerned
- 8:14Speaker 4: about that government is not ready for this right now.
- 8:20Speaker 4: There are ten fellows in Congress who work in Congressional
- 8:24Speaker 4: offices focusing on the issue of AI. Ten there are
- 8:29Speaker 4: five hundred and thirty five members of Congress, so that
- 8:32Speaker 4: shows you just how behind we are. I'm lucky we
- 8:36Speaker 4: got one of those fellows, so we are you all
- 8:39Speaker 4: know I think you know. I sit on the Science,
- 8:40Speaker 4: Space and Tech Committee as well, so not just education
- 8:43Speaker 4: and workforce, so we are hyper focused on A.
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- 10:38Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
- 10:42Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from El Salvador
- 10:46Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
- 10:50Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
- 10:54Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught. Because of President
- 10:58Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership and Christy Noman, the United States
- 11:01Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
- 11:06Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
- 11:10Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
- 11:13Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
- 11:17Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported. You will
- 11:21Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
- 11:25Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
- 11:28Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
- 11:33Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
- 11:38Speaker 4: GI and we're going to be coming out with legislation
- 11:41Speaker 4: to deal with the issue of AI because it's not
- 11:43Speaker 4: just the replacement of workers in certain fields. That is
- 11:48Speaker 4: an issue and that will happen, but we need to
- 11:52Speaker 4: make sure that certain workers are protected. Like writers in
- 11:56Speaker 4: the Writers Guild were striking right now, and AI is
- 11:59Speaker 4: one of the com stations as it relates to their
- 12:03Speaker 4: new contract. But it's also about using AI, understanding AI,
- 12:07Speaker 4: using it as a tool. We don't even know what's
- 12:10Speaker 4: on the back end of AI in terms of its
- 12:12Speaker 4: development and what biases are a part of that. So
- 12:15Speaker 4: we got to get in on the ground level to
- 12:18Speaker 4: understand how this technology works so we could build our
- 12:21Speaker 4: own technology and then build the wealth that comes with that.
- 12:25Speaker 4: So we use it as a tool, yes, absolutely understanding it,
- 12:28Speaker 4: but we also have to create the new technology in
- 12:31Speaker 4: order to build the wealth we need to build and
- 12:33Speaker 4: their lasting. We still don't have comprehensive legislation when it
- 12:37Speaker 4: comes to technology, social media, safety, security, privacy, none of that.
- 12:43Speaker 4: We don't have that at a federal level because Zuckerberg
- 12:46Speaker 4: and others have been lobbying to stay away from that
- 12:50Speaker 4: because a lot of their wealth is built on their
- 12:54Speaker 4: advertising dollars that they get because there's no legislation, so
- 12:58Speaker 4: it's mad work to do there. And that's why we're
- 13:01Speaker 4: pushing a lot of STEM education into the K twelve
- 13:04Speaker 4: space and doing a lot of workforce outside the KFEL
- 13:08Speaker 4: space so that people are aware of, you know, what's
- 13:12Speaker 4: there and can get in on the ground floor in
- 13:14Speaker 4: terms of jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities.
- 13:18Speaker 6: I'm not stating that it's right for I don't think
- 13:20Speaker 6: Clarence should be taking vacations or being on yachts with billionaires.
- 13:23Speaker 6: But what's the difference between lobbying and them receiving an
- 13:27Speaker 6: inducement or gifts to put a policy in place.
- 13:32Speaker 4: I mean, they're not an elected body, right, So the
- 13:36Speaker 4: Supreme Court, they're unelected, they're appointed. They're appointed by the
- 13:41Speaker 4: president who's elected. And the Supreme Court's role is to
- 13:45Speaker 4: interpret the Constitution and hear arguments and cases in situations
- 13:51Speaker 4: where the Constitution may have been violated. That is all
- 13:55Speaker 4: they're there for. They are part of a system of
- 13:57Speaker 4: checks and balances. Lobbying, especially when we're talking about big
- 14:02Speaker 4: money lobbying that moves us away from a democracy and
- 14:06Speaker 4: moves us into a space of a dictatorship in fascism.
- 14:10Speaker 4: So there was another Supreme Court case decided a few
- 14:14Speaker 4: years back called Citizens United that determined that corporations are
- 14:20Speaker 4: people and money is free speech. And when you have
- 14:25Speaker 4: dynamic in play when it comes to our democracy, think
- 14:30Speaker 4: about it. How many black billionaires are there if you
- 14:34Speaker 4: combine them, Jeff Bezos alone got way more money than them,
- 14:40Speaker 4: like way more so when you talk about the history
- 14:43Speaker 4: of wealth inequality, if we allow wealth to dictate politics
- 14:48Speaker 4: through lobbying, then those who have always had wealth and
- 14:52Speaker 4: power will continue to have wealth and power. And the
- 14:55Speaker 4: wealth and power was built on the backs of enslaved Africans.
- 15:00Speaker 4: And so that's why we got to get big money
- 15:02Speaker 4: out of politics overall, but particularly as it relates to
- 15:06Speaker 4: the Supreme Court. I mean, look at the last few
- 15:08Speaker 4: years decisions alone. I mean, they made a decision that
- 15:12Speaker 4: makes it easier to carry concealed weapons in states like
- 15:16Speaker 4: New York. And we know the data shows that the
- 15:19Speaker 4: more concealed carry permits you have, the more accidents happen
- 15:24Speaker 4: related to gun balance, and the more gun depths you
- 15:26Speaker 4: have overall, So big money in politics is a is
- 15:30Speaker 4: a major major issue. The good thing is when we
- 15:32Speaker 4: talk about black wealth is grown a lot recently, and
- 15:36Speaker 4: if it is consolidated and qualified, we can exercise real
- 15:39Speaker 4: power in politics from a congressional level all the way
- 15:43Speaker 4: down to local school boards.
- 15:45Speaker 3: Yeah, the Supreme Court is extremely disturbing because you said
- 15:48Speaker 3: that they're supposed to be above politics, so you can.
- 15:51Speaker 4: Not political and just really real quick points on that,
- 15:56Speaker 4: we can't hold them accountable ethically, so we need ethics
- 15:59Speaker 4: reform on the Supreme Court. They have lifetime appointments, so
- 16:03Speaker 4: like whoever Trump appointed three people, they'll be there for
- 16:05Speaker 4: the rest of their lives. That's unacceptable. And then look
- 16:09Speaker 4: at the size of the Supreme Court nine members. They've
- 16:12Speaker 4: been nine members since eighteen sixty nine. There's thirty million
- 16:17Speaker 4: people there countries three hundred million people now three hundred
- 16:20Speaker 4: and thirty million people. They don't even have the capacity
- 16:22Speaker 4: to hear cases in the way they need to hear cases.
- 16:25Speaker 4: And so there needs to be complete Supreme Court reform,
- 16:29Speaker 4: just like there needs to be complete democracy reform with
- 16:32Speaker 4: the filibuster and electoral college and many other things. I mean,
- 16:36Speaker 4: we're more diverse, dynamic country than we've ever been, and
- 16:40Speaker 4: that's why we got to change a lot of these things.
- 16:42Speaker 5: Guys have a follow up just to that, and then
- 16:44Speaker 5: I'm trying to take this question because I wonder if
- 16:47Speaker 5: there was legislation that was put in place behind that. Right,
- 16:49Speaker 5: when we look at all of our elected officials, they
- 16:51Speaker 5: all have terms, whether it's a mayor, it's the governor,
- 16:54Speaker 5: it's a congressman, it's the president design outside of the
- 16:57Speaker 5: Supreme Court, congressmen don't have terms.
- 17:01Speaker 4: Well, we're got to run every two years, but they could.
- 17:05Speaker 5: Congressmen, I'm saying that they have to be re elected
- 17:08Speaker 5: every and that's for anything. They could lose their job, right, Like,
- 17:12Speaker 5: the only way, yeah, the only way the Supreme Court
- 17:15Speaker 5: can lose their job is if they pass away. So
- 17:18Speaker 5: what type of support do you think would be behind
- 17:21Speaker 5: legislation like that that puts terms on Supreme Court and
- 17:23Speaker 5: increasing the number.
- 17:25Speaker 4: A lot like So, there's a huge disconnect between the
- 17:29Speaker 4: people and members of Congress. Members of Congress are trying
- 17:35Speaker 4: to maintain the status quo. And the status quo is
- 17:40Speaker 4: corporate power, white wealthy male power, evangelical power, and the
- 17:46Speaker 4: power of many lobbies like fossil fuels and pharmaceuticals and
- 17:51Speaker 4: other lobbies they want to maintain that power. The people
- 17:56Speaker 4: want democracy, reform, and they want justice. The people can't
- 18:00Speaker 4: understand why every time there's a mass shooting with assault
- 18:04Speaker 4: rifles and then we in Congress don't do anything about that,
- 18:07Speaker 4: the people are like, what the what the hell is
- 18:09Speaker 4: going on? They become disenchanted. Congress ain't doing shit. So
- 18:12Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna stay home and not vote. And
- 18:15Speaker 4: what I've been saying everywhere I go, I'm gonna give
- 18:18Speaker 4: you just a couple of quick examples. Florida, Texas, Nebraska, Missouri, Mississippi, Indiana.
- 18:27Speaker 4: Who am I missing? Few other states big Senate races
- 18:32Speaker 4: this year. The biggest issue in those states, the all
- 18:34Speaker 4: Republican states is voter turnout. Yeah, we increase turnout in
- 18:39Speaker 4: those states and suppression and suppression right both. If we
- 18:44Speaker 4: can increase turnout in those states, those states go from
- 18:47Speaker 4: red to blue. And again, Democrats ain't perfect. But if
- 18:51Speaker 4: we had a supermajority in the Senate, you would see
- 18:54Speaker 4: George for justice and policing. You would see on voting rights,
- 18:58Speaker 4: you see something on reparation, you will see something of
- 19:01Speaker 4: so many issues. Because now Senate majority leaders don't have
- 19:06Speaker 4: no excuse right, The excuse now is, oh, we don't
- 19:09Speaker 4: got the numbers. We got the filibuster. We don't want
- 19:12Speaker 4: to go around to Philibusta. If we increase the numbers.
- 19:15Speaker 4: Now we got to go around to Philibusta. But that
- 19:17Speaker 4: don't happen if we don't increase voters turn out. And
- 19:19Speaker 4: that's why I like next year is huge for this,
- 19:24Speaker 4: it's huge.
- 19:24Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
- 19:28Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from El Salvador
- 19:32Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
- 19:36Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
- 19:40Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
- 19:44Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States
- 19:48Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
- 19:53Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
- 19:56Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens.
- 19:58Speaker 2: Have been arrested.
- 19:59Speaker 1: If you or here illegally your next you will be
- 20:03Speaker 1: fine nearly one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported,
- 20:07Speaker 1: you will never return. But if you register using our
- 20:10Speaker 1: CBP home app and leave now. You could be allowed
- 20:14Speaker 1: to return legally. Do what's right. Leave now. Under President
- 20:18Speaker 1: Trump America's laws, border and families will be protected.
- 20:22Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,