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Rapper Nicki Minaj joins ‘The Ingraham Angle’ · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: It's time to bring in one of the other judges
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  Speaker 1: of Million Dollar Pitch Competition.
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  Speaker 2: The queen of.
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  Speaker 1: Rap, Nicki Minaj, is here exclusively along with SBA administrator
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  Speaker 1: Kelly Loeffler, who made this all happen. Ladies, it is
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  Speaker 1: great to see you this Friday night. Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for joining us.
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  Speaker 3: It's my pleasure to be here. Thank you for having us.
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  Speaker 1: Nicki, let's start with you. First of all, I wish
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  Speaker 1: I was in D.C. because I live in D.C. and
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  Speaker 1: I leave D.C. and you come to D.C. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: really mad about that. But I'm furious as a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact. But why is it so important for you
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  Speaker 1: to be involved in this show at this time at
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  Speaker 1: our 250th birthday year to promote these small businesses?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think, you know, small business represents the heart
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  Speaker 3: of the country. Everyone can see themselves in these pitch
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  Speaker 3: ideas and it'll help to motivate people other small businesses,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to maybe give them that little extra inspiration
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  Speaker 3: that they needed and to see that you don't have
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  Speaker 3: to be a huge household name to be recognized by
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  Speaker 3: the president and to be recognized by us and for
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of people to gather around and root for
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  Speaker 3: you to win.
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  Speaker 1: And Nikki, you've had a lot of jobs before you
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  Speaker 1: became a rap superstar. I know you worked as a administrator,
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  Speaker 1: I think, in, you know, building management. You worked at
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  Speaker 1: Red Lobster, and I know you had an issue with
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  Speaker 1: people ordering too many of the biscuits that bothered you,
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  Speaker 1: which was one of the funniest comments ever after working
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  Speaker 1: at Red Lobster. But you worked in these businesses as
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  Speaker 1: a young girl in New York, and you were in
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  Speaker 1: and out of these companies. What do you tell young
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  Speaker 1: people today who are just thinking about getting their first job?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's important to save your money. Even
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  Speaker 3: when I was younger, I would save up. So no
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  Speaker 3: matter how little I was making, I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to have something put aside for a rainy day. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I did customer service for, like, telephone companies.
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  Speaker 3: I was a telemarketer. I sold fire extinguishers. I did everything. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what I would tell young people is this
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  Speaker 3: is not the... best part of your life, but it
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  Speaker 3: is probably the most, one of the most important parts
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  Speaker 3: of your life. The things that I learned during that
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  Speaker 3: time in my life, it still helps me today. Like
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  Speaker 3: all the people skills and the communication skills and all
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  Speaker 3: the problem solving that I learned then, it still applies
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  Speaker 3: now when I'm around, you know, you know, superstars or
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  Speaker 3: rich people or, you know, all of those skills, they,
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  Speaker 3: carry over into the rest of your life. So don't
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  Speaker 3: look at that part of your life as something that
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  Speaker 3: you can't wait to fly by because you're doing some,
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  Speaker 3: you might not be making the biggest money, but you're
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  Speaker 3: doing the real, nitty gritty work that is going to
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  Speaker 3: help you for the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I love that. Like I picked blueberries. I did
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  Speaker 1: a paper route. I worked at McDonald's. Those are all
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  Speaker 1: great jobs. I mean, they were great because I learned something.
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  Speaker 1: And Madam Administrator, look, I love this because we hear
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  Speaker 1: that people are turned off by business and business is
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  Speaker 1: too greedy and all of this. But as we said
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  Speaker 1: with Grant Cardone, small business gets really high ratings on
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  Speaker 1: the trust scale. The highest of any of our institutions
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  Speaker 1: are small business owners. So Is this going to be
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  Speaker 1: a one-time competition, or can we look forward to more
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  Speaker 1: of these happening?
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  Speaker 3: Great question.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Laura, this has been incredible to see from start
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  Speaker 2: to finish and to be able to be sitting here
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  Speaker 2: by Nicki Minaj, who built her American dream through hard
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  Speaker 2: work and is an entrepreneur herself. I mean, not just
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  Speaker 2: a music mogul, but an entrepreneur that built a business.
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  Speaker 2: And this is important that Main Street America know that
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  Speaker 2: this administration is fighting for them. And so I hope
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  Speaker 2: we can do more of this, having built this from
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  Speaker 2: concept to reality. And we got to be with President
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  Speaker 2: Trump today. And I'm so grateful to him, his support
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  Speaker 2: for this effort. And to Nikki, because she's dedicating her
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  Speaker 2: time to this. She believes in the American dream just
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  Speaker 2: as the president does. And it's so important that every
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  Speaker 2: American know that the American dream is available for them
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  Speaker 2: because of free enterprise, because of small businesses that take risk,
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  Speaker 2: that put it on the line every day. And there
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  Speaker 2: are employees who work so hard. And I know we've
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  Speaker 2: all worked for small businesses, had our own small businesses.
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  Speaker 2: And we know that is the path to the American dream.
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  Speaker 2: So we want much more of this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I love it. I think it's a competition. It's fun.
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  Speaker 1: People are going to learn something from this and people
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  Speaker 1: are going to make some money, which we're all for. Nikki,
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  Speaker 1: you get some grief for partnering or working with President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: whether it's on your appeals for Nigerian Christians or other
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  Speaker 1: issues at home. But you've kept your politics off the stage.
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  Speaker 1: You don't go on stage and lecture people about politics.
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  Speaker 1: When you perform, it's about performance. What do you say
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  Speaker 1: to the critics of you for working with a sitting U.S.
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  Speaker 3: President? Absolutely nothing. I am honored to be able to
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  Speaker 3: have an opportunity to work with this administration and to
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  Speaker 3: work with President Trump. He has inspired many people, not
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  Speaker 3: just me, and he's fun. He's not just smart and
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  Speaker 3: he's not just the president, but he's also someone that
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  Speaker 3: I can relate to, someone that every time I see
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  Speaker 3: him or every time I see him speaking to other people,
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  Speaker 3: he's just himself he's very he's very he's very grounded
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  Speaker 3: it's easy to connect with him it's easy to feel
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  Speaker 3: like he heard you he understands you and um i
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  Speaker 3: just i just love him and um i'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to ever make excuses for that i love it because
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  Speaker 3: i don't know why I should.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, apparently they can say anything they want and
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  Speaker 1: no one, you know, everyone's supposed to just shut up, but.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But, but, but, but the point is.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, we're not, we're not shutting up.
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  Speaker 1: No, but you know, I wrote a book years ago
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  Speaker 1: called shut up and sing. But my point was when
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  Speaker 1: you go to concerts, You want to be entertained. But
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  Speaker 1: if you do stuff in your private time for a
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  Speaker 1: candidate or go perform at a candidate's event, that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Springsteen wants to do that for Kamala. That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to do your own thing, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: no problem. Nikki, we're all my staff wants to know.
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  Speaker 1: They're begging for this answer. When are you going back
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  Speaker 1: on tour? Because you didn't tour this year. You toured
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  Speaker 1: in 2024, but they're desperate for you to tour. Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Can we get an answer?
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  Speaker 3: Who set you up to asking this question? Who set
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  Speaker 3: you up to asking this question? It was one of
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  Speaker 3: the Barb's back there. Whitney did. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 3: out as soon as I present the Barb's with this
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  Speaker 3: next body of work, whenever that will be. And no,
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  Speaker 3: I will not be on stage lecturing anyone. I will
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  Speaker 3: be on stage... trying to have fun and remind people
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  Speaker 3: how blessed we are to live in this country and
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  Speaker 3: to remind people how blessed we are to wake up
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  Speaker 3: healthy and in our right minds every day and how
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  Speaker 3: much we take for granted. I love performing because that's
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  Speaker 3: like the only time when all of us are in
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  Speaker 3: this big place and we don't have a care in
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  Speaker 3: the world. We're making memories and we'll never forget those memories.
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  Speaker 3: And Barbz, I love you very much if you're watching.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't want any more questions about concerts. I'm
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  Speaker 3: in my businesswoman era.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you just have a lot of fans out there, Nicki.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in New York, so everybody's a Nicki Minaj fan
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  Speaker 1: on my staff. So it is great to see you both.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on this incredible show. Nicki, Madam Administrator, thank you
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  Speaker 1: both very much.
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