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INTERVIEW: Scott Colom Talks 2026 Midterms, Affordability, Fighting Corruption In The Justice System + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Every day I wake up.
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  Speaker 2: Wake your ass up.
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  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all finished or y'all done?
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  Speaker 1: Morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
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  Speaker 4: We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest
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  Speaker 4: in the building.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 4: We got the brother, as Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Would say, Scott Column.
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  Speaker 5: That's not his name.
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  Speaker 1: It's Scott Column. Welcome, brother. How you feeling? I'm honored. Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. We made it. We did it.
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  Speaker 6: We did it.
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi pride. The people did it. They didn't believe in us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're at the breakfast club. That's right. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: make history, November 3rd.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, Mississippi hasn't elected a Democrat to the U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Senate since what, 82?
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  Speaker 1: I was born in 82. You see what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: And no black candidate has won statewide since Reconstruction.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So what do you think people outside of Mississippi misunderstand
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  Speaker 5: about the state and its voters?
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  Speaker 1: Well, one, the Democratic Party hasn't been tried, Charlemagne.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, we got the highest African-American population, 38% of
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  Speaker 8: the population. You were Justin Jackson. You saw the vibes.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we got a lot of white Democrats that
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  Speaker 8: get ignored. And for so long, we've ridden off the South,
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  Speaker 8: and Mississippi in particular, and that's hurt the country. I
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  Speaker 8: don't understand why people don't realize Mississippi in the South
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  Speaker 8: is the epicenter or the direction of our country. When
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  Speaker 8: we take care of people in Mississippi, we make sure
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  Speaker 8: they have good education, good jobs, good opportunity. The country
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  Speaker 8: does well. When we ignore Mississippi and we let people
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  Speaker 8: like our dream senator, I call her Cindy High Prices
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  Speaker 8: because that's all we get from her. When you let
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  Speaker 8: her betray the people of Mississippi, you let her take
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  Speaker 8: away health care, take away jobs, take away education, that's
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  Speaker 8: a poor reflection on the country. And so what's great
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  Speaker 8: about this campaign is I did over 60 town halls.
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  Speaker 1: Our Junior Center hasn't done one. Not one town hall
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  Speaker 1: in six years.
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  Speaker 8: I did 60 in a year. And the people of
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  Speaker 8: Mississippi got behind me. I went to the music festivals.
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  Speaker 8: I went to the housing projects. I got a food truck.
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  Speaker 8: Went to the college campuses. We built a different type
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  Speaker 8: of campaign because I understand you got to make sure
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  Speaker 8: the voters trust you.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you get them excited. And that's why we're
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  Speaker 1: going to win.
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  Speaker 4: What is the most important thing for... I would say
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  Speaker 4: the residents of Mississippi.
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  Speaker 3: When I was out there, the biggest thing they just
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  Speaker 3: said was they were saying gas was too expensive.
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  Speaker 4: They were saying food prices were too expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Money, baby.
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  Speaker 3: Just living is just super duper expensive. I know we
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  Speaker 3: had an Uber driver out there and traffic was a
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  Speaker 3: little crazy because it was the game. And we had
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  Speaker 3: a long conversation and she was just like, she feels like.
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  Speaker 3: There's more resources need to be put back into Mississippi
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  Speaker 3: because people feel like they were missing that.
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  Speaker 1: 100 percent. Yeah. I mean, our junior said she's the
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  Speaker 1: number one corporate.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, the other thing we got to understand is
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  Speaker 8: why we're going to win, Charlemagne, is Americans were promised
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  Speaker 8: America first.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 8: There's Mississippians who believe that the president was going to
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  Speaker 8: lower prices on day one. Well, he did the exact opposite.
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  Speaker 8: He increased taxes on day one. He got everything more expensive.
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  Speaker 8: There's Mississippians who believe that he was going to stop
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  Speaker 8: us from getting.
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  Speaker 1: The endless wars. He said Vice President Harris was going
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  Speaker 1: to start a war.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we're back at war with no end in sight.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 8: You know, and people are paying more at the gas station.
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  Speaker 8: Diesel's through the roof. Truckers, farmers are struggling. We're promised
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  Speaker 8: the release of the Epstein files. It's been anything itself.
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  Speaker 8: It's been protecting pedophiles, not protecting victims. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 8: what I said, I went to the Trump rally. You know,
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  Speaker 8: he came to Mississippi on Monday. The people of Mississippi
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  Speaker 8: got in there, not Cindy Highsmith, because she's scared. And
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  Speaker 8: I did a press conference in Corinth, Mississippi. And then
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  Speaker 8: I went and walked the Trump rally, talking to the
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  Speaker 8: Trump voters. They were saying the same thing the voters
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  Speaker 8: in Jackson were saying. Gas too expensive. They feel like
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  Speaker 8: the country's being sold out by APAC and other corporate
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  Speaker 8: donors and PACs.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, one of them wanted to take a
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  Speaker 1: selfie with me.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're not falling for the lies this time. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Mississippi... It's a great state with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of potential, and they just need a fighter on the
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  Speaker 1: issues that matter.
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  Speaker 5: I know Cindy Hyde-Smith, you were nominated to be a
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  Speaker 5: federal judge by President Biden, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: And then Cindy Hyde-Smith blocked your nomination. Now you're running
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  Speaker 5: against her for Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not personal.
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  Speaker 8: Honestly, I'm a Christian. You know, I forgive people. I'm
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  Speaker 8: a district attorney. I have to prosecute people that have
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  Speaker 8: taken somebody's life. And I've seen the mother. Of, you know,
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  Speaker 8: of a, you know, who's lost her child to gun violence.
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  Speaker 8: Forgive the person that took her. So for me, it's
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  Speaker 8: easy to forgive her. But, you know, that experience was
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  Speaker 8: interesting because I'm a guy elected district attorney. I was
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  Speaker 8: 32 years old, represent a district that they said I
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  Speaker 8: had no chance to win, running on, being smart on crime.
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  Speaker 8: I was able to get the senior Republican senator to
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  Speaker 8: support me, Roger Wicker. And I got the senior Democratic congressman,
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  Speaker 8: Benny Thompson. That's hard to do, y'all. And then it
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  Speaker 8: didn't matter how much local support I had in support
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  Speaker 8: of my nomination. She blocked me because basically politics. But
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  Speaker 8: what's important for the listeners to know is there were
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  Speaker 8: two other black gentlemen that were nominated. I'm the only
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  Speaker 8: one that gets talked about. But there was two black
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  Speaker 8: guys who were nominated to be marshals. They had excellent credentials.
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  Speaker 8: great guys, perfect examples of what's best for Mississippi. She
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  Speaker 8: blocked them too.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, wow, wow, wow.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you know, so it's shameful what she's doing
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  Speaker 8: to the people in Mississippi. And we deserve better.
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  Speaker 2: You said it's not.
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  Speaker 5: Personal, but how much did that experience influence your decision
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  Speaker 5: to run?
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  Speaker 2: Like, I'm going to get at her since you.
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  Speaker 1: Want to block me. Well, obviously, if I was a
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  Speaker 1: federal judge, I wasn't going to resign from the bench
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  Speaker 1: to run against her.
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  Speaker 8: But, you know, it was, you know, it's hard for
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  Speaker 8: that to be the prime motivation because You know, she
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  Speaker 8: voted to take health insurance from 200,000 Mississippians. Just this year,
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  Speaker 8: our Republican Insurance Commissioner, he admitted that when she voted
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  Speaker 8: for the federal support of Obamacare to go away, she
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  Speaker 8: took health insurance from 200,000 of her own constituents. Next year,
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  Speaker 8: because of the Big Beautiful Betrayal, another 100,000 are going
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  Speaker 8: to lose health insurance. We're going to have eight rural
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  Speaker 8: hospitals at risk of closing. That's the greatest betrayal that
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  Speaker 8: you could get from somebody who's supposed to represent the people.
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  Speaker 2: I love Big Beautiful Betrayal. It is.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is. He betrayed his own voters. His
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  Speaker 1: own voters. Word up.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, there's working class Mississippians that thought President Trump
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  Speaker 8: was going to look.
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  Speaker 1: Out for them. He betrayed them.
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  Speaker 6: And I read it's hitting y'all really, really hard there
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  Speaker 6: because of the income level in Mississippi. And it's so rural.
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  Speaker 6: They feel it so heavily.
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  Speaker 1: 100%.
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  Speaker 8: And that's why we got all the momentum in the world.
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  Speaker 8: I had Vice President Harris down in my hometown at
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  Speaker 8: an awesome rally. People were very excited. I had people
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  Speaker 8: to judge down yesterday. He told me to tell you
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  Speaker 8: what up.
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  Speaker 1: Who? Pete Buttigieg.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Luther Pete. Luther Pete and the VP. They're
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  Speaker 2: my people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And we're excited.
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  Speaker 8: Mississippi was never a lost cause, y'all. It was always
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  Speaker 8: a betrayed cause. I mean, we always had the potential
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  Speaker 8: to win Mississippi. I just was able to convince the
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  Speaker 8: people of Mississippi through hard work, through showing up, through
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  Speaker 8: letting their inspiration inspire me that we could do it
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  Speaker 8: and then all of a sudden people start paying attention
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  Speaker 8: to it.
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  Speaker 6: So the voters have this fatigue and they feel betrayed
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  Speaker 6: by Donald Trump, right? So there's a lot of expectations.
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  Speaker 6: People think that you can break this red wall.
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  Speaker 2: The first.
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  Speaker 6: Six months on the job, what's the biggest thing that
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  Speaker 6: you focus on? Because everybody has things that they need.
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  Speaker 6: It's like life or death for a lot of people
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  Speaker 6: right now.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, we've got to get costs down. The first
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  Speaker 8: thing I'm going to do is we're going to get
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  Speaker 8: the tariff policy back to Congress. Because the way the
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  Speaker 8: president is using tariffs are terrible for everybody. Like, he
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  Speaker 8: just gets mad at the Prime Minister of Canada. Well,
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to do 45% tariff. That's not how business works, right? Like,
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  Speaker 8: you've got to make sure that tariffs are low so
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  Speaker 8: people can have– Lower goods. If you're going to have tariffs,
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  Speaker 8: they have to be done in a way where business
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  Speaker 8: can prepare for it, where consumers can be looked out for.
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  Speaker 8: And he's also hurting farmers. So the first thing we're
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  Speaker 8: going to do, and we've had some senators that are
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  Speaker 8: Republicans that have voted to get the tariff policy back
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  Speaker 8: to Congress, like Senator Rand Paul. So I would join
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  Speaker 8: him and others to get the power back and then
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  Speaker 8: fight for lower tariffs. The second thing we've got to
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  Speaker 8: do is we've got to get out of war in Iran.
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  Speaker 8: He promised no more endless wars. We're back at another
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  Speaker 8: endless war. We've heard this story before. I came of
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  Speaker 8: age watching The Breakfast Club, that's why it's such an
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  Speaker 8: honor to be here, and the Iraq War.
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  Speaker 1: And I lived through that disaster. Which one was a disaster?
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  Speaker 5: Breakfast Club or Iraq?
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  Speaker 8: Definitely the Iraq war turned out a lot worse for
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  Speaker 8: the country than the Breakfast Club. This has been an institution.
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  Speaker 8: Kudos to y'all to keep this going for so long.
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  Speaker 8: It's really hard to do this. My question is, it's
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  Speaker 8: really difficult because I used to watch the Breakfast Club
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  Speaker 8: when it was about Jay-Z and Nas. Now you guys
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  Speaker 8: have expanded it to comedy, entertainment, politics. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 8: hard to do.
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  Speaker 2: Still very much about Jay-Z.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I love Jay-Z.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of you know Jay-Z. He works for Rock Nation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yo, shout out to Jay-Z.
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  Speaker 8: Listen, they were mad that he picked himself to be
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  Speaker 8: the Super Bowl halftime show.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, he should have done it the first time.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted it the first time. I was like, yeah, Jay-Z.
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  Speaker 1: Why'd you wait so long, Jay?
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  Speaker 3: I think it makes sense this year with everything that's
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  Speaker 3: going on, his album, 30-year anniversary, 25th at Blueprint. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like what he was doing is like his... It's
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  Speaker 3: rehearsal for the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I feel.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to ask you, you know, as a
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  Speaker 4: former district attorney, how do you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still a district attorney. As a district attorney.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: How do you respect the judicial system of the United States? Like,
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  Speaker 3: because you see what goes on. And now it's not
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  Speaker 3: whether who's right or who's wrong, who's guilty, who's not guilty.
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  Speaker 3: It's who has enough money to pay to get themselves out.
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  Speaker 1: Man, shameful.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, when Boosie went on 60 Minutes, it was
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  Speaker 8: just like, yeah, I was paying to get my pardon.
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  Speaker 8: I was like, is anybody going to talk about the
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  Speaker 8: fact that that's bribery? Like, we're just going to accept
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  Speaker 8: that people can buy pardons?
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  Speaker 2: Like, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: But I tried to live my values, right?
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  Speaker 8: So can I tell a quick story about a case
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  Speaker 8: I had that I'm really proud of? So about two
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  Speaker 8: or three years into my term as district attorney, I
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  Speaker 8: had a family come to me and say that their sister,
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  Speaker 8: their daughter, was in prison for a murder she didn't commit.
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  Speaker 8: And they said, listen, we know you hear this all
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  Speaker 8: the time, but we're going to pray over you that
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  Speaker 8: you just look into the case. And so after they
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  Speaker 8: prayed over me, I looked into the case, and I said, man,
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  Speaker 8: a lot of stuff they were telling me is right.
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  Speaker 8: There's not a lot of evidence here. So I said,
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  Speaker 8: all right. I called the Innocence Project at the University
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  Speaker 8: of Mississippi, and I said, would y'all please just look
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  Speaker 8: into this case, maybe possibly represent her. Just make sure
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  Speaker 8: there's nothing here that we're missing. So they took the case.
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  Speaker 8: They did some research, found out that. the medical examiner
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  Speaker 8: made a key error in the assessment of the cause
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  Speaker 8: of death. And they asked me to sign an affidavit
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  Speaker 8: in support of having her get a new trial. And,
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  Speaker 8: you know, I had the courage to do that. Even
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  Speaker 8: though people were like, man, don't let sleeping dogs lie.
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  Speaker 8: You know, the jury made its verdict, right? Just let
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  Speaker 8: it go. And I said, no, that's not right. You know,
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  Speaker 8: we got to do right. And so I signed an affidavit.
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  Speaker 8: Fast forward three years later, she's exonerated. Tamisha Shelton, she's out.
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  Speaker 8: And that's what we got to have in our justice system.
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  Speaker 8: You got to have people that have the courage to
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  Speaker 8: do the right thing, even when it's difficult. That's what
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  Speaker 8: we're missing in D.C. There's so much corruption.
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  Speaker 1: It's embarrassing. I mean, like, how can the Republicans stand this?
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  Speaker 8: You know, they've lost all credibility. I mean, they're allowing
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  Speaker 8: the president and his family to make money. They're not
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  Speaker 8: looking out for our families. They're betraying the voters that
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  Speaker 8: elected them. And they need to lose all across the
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  Speaker 8: board because these are not the values that actually make
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  Speaker 8: our country great.
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  Speaker 7: And you just saw what Trump said, right? When he
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  Speaker 7: was like, yo, the oil companies, we're making billions and
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  Speaker 7: trillions of dollars. And he said, my team told me
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  Speaker 7: not to say that. That's like you're just shitting in
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  Speaker 7: our face, pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're making money off our money. We're paying
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  Speaker 1: for the gas. Right, right. You know, when I walked,
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  Speaker 1: it was interesting, when I walked the line.
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  Speaker 8: The rally.
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  Speaker 1: The rally.
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  Speaker 8: It was mostly people from Alabama and Tennessee. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: I wasn't surprised because people in Mississippi couldn't afford the
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  Speaker 8: gas to get the car in Mississippi. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 8: too expensive.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know why what Jess just quoted isn't, like,
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  Speaker 5: that should be on everybody's campaign commercial if you're a Democrat. Like, literally,
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  Speaker 5: the fact that he essentially said we're making a fortune
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  Speaker 5: and that's more important than fixing gas prices.
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  Speaker 2: That should be.
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  Speaker 5: In every campaign ad that Democrats run from now until 2028. Well,
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  Speaker 5: it's in mine, that's for sure. You've called yourself a
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  Speaker 5: common sense capitalist.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Right. And you also support an increase in the minimum wage.
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  Speaker 5: What does capitalism need to do different for the working
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  Speaker 5: class folks in Mississippi?
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  Speaker 8: Well, one, we got to make sure we support union rights,
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  Speaker 8: people's ability to collectively bargain. You know, we need to
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  Speaker 8: be a party that supports that. We also have to
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  Speaker 8: make sure we democratize capital. I mean, part of what's
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  Speaker 8: the problem in our country is our banks have gotten
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  Speaker 8: too big. Most of the capital is in urban centers.
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  Speaker 8: Rural America has been left behind. And it's too difficult
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  Speaker 8: for people to get access to loans so that they
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  Speaker 8: can actually provide opportunities and build communities and I'll tell
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  Speaker 8: you a quick story about what that means.
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  Speaker 1: I had a couple guys.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you doing the quick stories? Why do you
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  Speaker 2: like quick stories so much? You're a senator. Learn how
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  Speaker 2: to fill a book. I'm a quick story.
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  Speaker 4: Let's talk.
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  Speaker 1: I can talk now.
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  Speaker 8: But, you know, it's the type of guys that you
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  Speaker 8: guys are like. It was two entrepreneurs in Clarksdale, Mississippi,
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  Speaker 8: young brothers that went to community college and afterwards said,
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  Speaker 8: you know, they wanted to start a cell phone repair
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  Speaker 8: business because they realized there was a need in the
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  Speaker 8: Delta for that. And so, I asked them, well, did
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  Speaker 8: y'all go to a bank? And they said, yeah, we
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  Speaker 8: put together a business plan and went to the bank.
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  Speaker 8: And the bank said, we can't help you. And so luckily,
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  Speaker 8: one of them had an uncle who was able to
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  Speaker 8: give him enough starter money to start the business.
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  Speaker 1: And it's doing great, right? And I said, well, you
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  Speaker 1: need to expand that, right? Just don't stay.
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  Speaker 8: Because once you learn how to do cell phone repair,
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  Speaker 8: you can start that, train other people, expand it. And
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  Speaker 8: I said, just go to a bank. And he was like, well,
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  Speaker 8: we don't trust the banks after the way they treated us.
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  Speaker 8: And we got to make sure people have access to
• 13:11
  Speaker 8: capital and particularly in these rural areas. We've got to
• 13:13
  Speaker 8: make sure the banks know the people because the way
• 13:16
  Speaker 8: it's working now is it's only benefiting people with money
• 13:19
  Speaker 8: because all they care about is who has leverage. It's
• 13:22
  Speaker 8: got to be who has dreams, who has hustle. If
• 13:25
  Speaker 8: people didn't believe in you guys, you wouldn't be here.
• 13:28
  Speaker 8: Somebody had to take a chance on y'all. We've got
• 13:31
  Speaker 8: to go back to being a country that takes chances
• 13:32
  Speaker 8: on people so we can have communities grow and people
• 13:36
  Speaker 8: take care of themselves.
• 13:37
  Speaker 5: I also saw you say that you want to get
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: rid of federal income tax for families earning under $ 75, 000.
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: How would you pay for that?
• 13:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, here's the thing. We always find money
• 13:46
  Speaker 8: for wars, for tax breaks for billionaires, right? We always
• 13:49
  Speaker 8: find money for that. You know, the reality is because
• 13:52
  Speaker 8: I can't pay so much, I'm hearing people tell me
• 13:55
  Speaker 8: how much they're struggling. The mother in George County has
• 13:58
  Speaker 8: got three kids that's worried about, I mean, at the
• 14:01
  Speaker 8: end of the month, she's relying on family and friends
• 14:03
  Speaker 8: every month, and she's worried that's going to run out.
• 14:06
  Speaker 8: We got to get people relief right away. You know,
• 14:08
  Speaker 8: costs are one thing, but also money in your pocket.
• 14:12
  Speaker 8: And making sure we put money in our pocket right away. So,
• 14:15
  Speaker 8: you know, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, they can stop, you know,
• 14:17
  Speaker 8: living off. Because what they're doing, for everybody that doesn't know,
• 14:19
  Speaker 8: this is how they're hiding their income. What they're doing
• 14:22
  Speaker 8: is they're living off debt from stock, right? They're borrowing
• 14:25
  Speaker 8: against their stock. They're never really getting income. And because
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: it's borrowed money, they don't have to pay taxes on it.
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: And that is cheating the tax system. We got to
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: stop that.
• 14:36
  Speaker 8: We got to make sure people like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos,
• 14:39
  Speaker 8: all these people, they shouldn't be allowed to borrow against
• 14:42
  Speaker 8: stock and wage to avoid paying taxes.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: I support that. Taxing the billionaires, right?
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: I support taxing the wealthy Americans and the wealthy corporations
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: to offset some of those costs.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: The only problem I have is.
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: America makes trillions of dollars in taxes now, and that
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: money doesn't go to the people who actually need it.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: So what would.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: Be the point of taxing the billionaires more if there's
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: not legislation in place to make sure that that money
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: goes to the people who need it?
• 15:06
  Speaker 8: Well, one of the things we've got to do is
• 15:08
  Speaker 8: make sure the dollars go to the people and not
• 15:10
  Speaker 8: to bureaucracy. Let me tell you what that means. Because, like,
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: in Minnesota, they talk about the fraud with welfare. Well,
• 15:16
  Speaker 8: we had our own fraud in Mississippi. It didn't get
• 15:18
  Speaker 8: that much coverage. But Phil Bryant, you know, Brett Favre,
• 15:22
  Speaker 8: the people that were getting the welfare money— The way
• 15:25
  Speaker 8: that happened is the federal system gave a block grant
• 15:29
  Speaker 8: to the state of Mississippi. They gave them the ability
• 15:31
  Speaker 8: to have discretionary use of those funds. And my wife,
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: she was the local CEO of the Boys and Girls
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: Club in my area. And she was applying for those funds.
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: to try to support the Boys and Girls Club, and
• 15:44
  Speaker 8: she couldn't get it.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: She was so frustrated.
• 15:47
  Speaker 8: And it turns out she couldn't get the money because
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: people like Phil Bryan were giving up money to all
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: these cronies, stealing, basically.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: And so what we got to.
• 15:56
  Speaker 8: Do is we got to have on the federal level,
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: we don't need to give the state of Mississippi with
• 15:59
  Speaker 8: their performance, block grants where they control the money.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: We need to give it straight to the people so
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: they can.
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: Decide what to do with the money, and they'll actually
• 16:06
  Speaker 8: grow the economy or go back into the economy. It'll also,
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: they'll take care of, making sure the boys and girls
• 16:11
  Speaker 8: club gets their money.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 16:13
  Speaker 8: So we got to stop the, some of the block
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: grants are, are not working because we don't have leadership.
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: That's actually looking out for people.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: I love, uh, I saw you propose a pause on
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: new data centers.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: Until those companies agree to cover their own energy and
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: water costs and make commitments, the local workers.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy. I was on the way in here.
• 16:33
  Speaker 8: I was watching a, uh, a podcast that Tucker Carlson
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: did with, uh, One of these billionaires, I forget this guy.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: He used to be on Shark Tank. I forget his name.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Leary? Yeah. Kevin O'Leary.
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: And Tucker Carlson called him out because he basically said
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: to him, why do you need special tax deals to
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: bring your data center to these communities?
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: And he was like, oh, well, it's competition.
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: If this state won't do it, this other state won't
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: do it. And Tucker was like, man, listen, I mean,
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: I start my business. I don't get special tax deals.
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: Why do you get it? I mean, and the guy
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: really had no answer. He just kind of said, well,
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: you got a good point. Well, listen, Kevin, have the
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: courage to say, I don't need a special tax deal.
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: Stop trying to negotiate against these states to get some
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: special tax deal for you and your shareholders. Look out
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: for the people. You should pay your way just like
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: everybody else. You should pay your utility costs just like
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: everybody else. And that's why people are frustrated with these
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: type of leaders is because they show they're not looking
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: out for people. They're only looking out for the bottom line.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: What would a fair agreement between a data center and
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: a Mississippi community actually look like? I'm asking that question
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: because I want to see what that's going to be
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: replicated throughout the country.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Somebody will have to figure this out.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: I mean, one of the things you got to do, Charlemagne,
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: is we have to give the leverage to the communities.
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: The way it is right now, like a place like
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: Mississippi is top down. They don't even have the ability
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: to stop the data center if they want. And what
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: we got to do is make sure Clarksdale, Mississippi, if
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: they get a data center, they have the leverage to say,
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: all right, you got to help us with our water
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: infrastructure because we do need that. You got to make
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: sure these jobs are in the local community. You got
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: to invest in the school district so we can have
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: better pay for our teachers. We need to give the
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: power to the local people and we need to make
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: sure they know they can say no, because if you
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: can't say no in a deal, you don't have any leverage.
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: They got to be willing and able to say no.
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: And if we give the people the power to do that,
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: you know, we're going to get better, much better outcomes.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: Do you think all the national attention on Mississippi right
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: now helps with that leverage? And if so, how do
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: you continue that momentum once the election is over and
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: People do or don't get what they're asking of the people.
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: Well, you know, the great thing about my campaign is
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: that people did it, right? Like I didn't get attention
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: right off the bat. It was hard to raise money.
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: And that actually was an important lesson that God was
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: giving me because he taught me that what I need
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: to do is go out there and campaign, listen to people,
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: earn their trust. And it's important for people to know
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: that after we win this election, because we are going
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: to win. I mean, I have all the confidence in
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: the world we're going to win. After we win, we
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: can't change that leadership style. We have to be a
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: party that does town halls, that does roundtables, that makes
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: sure we have veteran liaisons who understand what's going on
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: with the veterans. We have to stay close to the people.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: We can't try to out-advertise the Republicans.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: It sounds good, but I feel like anytime somebody has
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: a problem with something that the Democratic Party has done,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: people get mad and upset, right?
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: But it affects people.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: So when people are upset about somebody that they voted
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: for and they feel like that person is not moving
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: for them, it feels like people... are always attacks to
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: people like, well, you can't attack him. You can't go
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: against him. You can't say this.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: But I think that's the only way you hold these
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: people for what they've done.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: 100%. Listen, I'm all about accountability.
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: As district attorney, it's not easy to be a black
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: district attorney in a majority white district where you got
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: to keep the support of your core Democrats, but also
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: expand your base. And the way I did it, I
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: was just honest and transparent. I just, you know, told
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: them what I felt was right, explained it, you know,
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: live with the outcome. I mean, I got a beautiful wife. Listen,
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: I wish y'all could see her. She's a knockout.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I got two beautiful daughters.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: I'm good.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I'm good. You know what I mean? If I lose offense,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm back home.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Man, you sound like Trump talking about Nicki Minaj.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I know, right?
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: I know, Nicki. Yo, ass. Let them see.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Listen, if you saw her, y'all didn't know why I'm
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: saying that. I'm telling you, she's a knockout.
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: But, you know, shout out to Jackson State. Shout out
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: to J-Set. She was a captain of the J-Sets. And, uh, uh, anyways,
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: but I said to say, I got my.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Own beautiful wife.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: You talking about it like this.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I need to see you married up to, you know,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: it's all about married up.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: I know that's right.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: No, for real.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: We know it's true. Right now.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: You got a queen, for sure. And she's black.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: And the dreads is beautiful. I've got two beautiful daughters.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: They're locks.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: They're dreads. They're locks. My wife got locked too. Sorry, Nadia.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: She said the same thing. It's not dreadlocks.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: It's locks.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: But I'm okay.
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: If this stuff doesn't work out for me politically, I'm
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: going to be okay. My parents love me. They're proud
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: of me. I got an identical twin. He's proud of me.
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: We're having fun with the campaign. My wife loves me.
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: I got two beautiful daughters. You got to have that
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: type of energy if you're going to be in public service,
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: because if you're scared to lose, you'll compromise yourself. That's right.
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: I ain't scared to lose.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I want to ask you about Nolan Wells, man.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: When you look at the Nolan Wells case, as a
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: black man from Mississippi, as a prosecutor, what concerns you
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: about how that investigation was handled?
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: Well, the first thing that concerns me is the breakdown
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: of trust. you know, like right away, the Nola Wells
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: family didn't trust law enforcement because of how the investigation
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: was done. They felt like it was a jump to
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: conclusion and it wasn't a lot of transparency. And man,
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: the people that investigated, they dropped the ball because that was,
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: that caused hell for them. They got a bunch of
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: hell as a result of that. And, you know, we
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: still don't really have answers as to what happened. Terrible tragedies,
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: you know, just my heart goes out to the family. Unfortunately,
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: I've had to counsel so many families through difficult situations.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: It's a, It's the hardest thing to do as district
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: attorney is to talk.
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: To a mom who's lost her child to gun violence
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: and talk to a mom who doesn't have answers to
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: what happened to her son. He seemed like a beautiful kid,
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: had a wonderful smile. People say great stuff about him.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: The district attorney, you know, I think what I call
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: for is in six months she can release the investigative file.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: And I would ask her to do that because. Until
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: you have transparency as to what the evidence actually is,
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: the unanswered questions are not only going to cause pain,
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: for the Nolan Wells family, but it's also going to
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: cause distrust for you with law enforcement. Because the dirty
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: little secret in law enforcement, if the people don't trust
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: the police, if they don't trust the system, it breaks down.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: You don't get witnesses. You can't get indictments. Look, President Trump,
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: he can't get an indictment. He tried to indict this lady.
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: He couldn't get an indictment. The grand jury wouldn't indict.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: You can't get convictions. And so you've got to have trust.
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: That's why I'm so proud that I got a 94%
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: conviction rate.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I tried 35 jury trials.
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: Only lost one. Because people trust me. And that's the
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: ultimate sign of trust is when they find somebody guilty
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: because they say, what you're saying makes sense. You presented
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: the evidence in a compelling way. You're looking out for
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: keeping our community safe and our courtroom fair. So, you know,
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: they got to be transparent.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: How many cases came across your desk where people, it
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: looked like the person was guilty, but when you dove
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: into it, you found out that it wasn't guilty and
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: you let it go?
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Because I feel like.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: The judicial system got to a place where it was
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: more about conviction rates and not about what's right or
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: what's wrong, who's guilty, who's not guilty. Because the whole
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: idea is to find out if the person is guilty
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: or not. And if they're not.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: It should be gone.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: I mean, so part of the issue there is the
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: way the system is set up. So the police make
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: an arrest and to make an arrest, all they got
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: to do is have probable cause, which means they just
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: swear an affidavit to a local judge.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: They say this is true. Right.
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: And, you know, the first time they really could potentially
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: get a no as far as there's not enough evidence.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: It's the grand jury system and the district attorney. And
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: so for me, part of what I had to do
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: was make sure investigators know, listen, the job is not
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: just to get an arrest.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: That's easy, right?
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: The job is to get a conviction. To get a conviction,
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: you got to get 12 people to agree that somebody's
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Let's not indict them if we can't do that.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: Like, let's go ahead and just say we can't charge
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: or let's get the note, the grand jury to no
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: bill the case, because there's no point of making a
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: person where you don't have enough evidence go through a
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: system where, you know, you can make a mistake. And
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: so that's one thing I'm proud of. I've empowered the
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: grand juries. I've tried to make sure we don't indict
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: cases that don't have evidence. I've raised a bar when
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: it comes to work with the police to make sure
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: they understand what getting the conviction looks like. And the
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: other thing that's happened, and I'm telling you, it's happened
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: all across the country, even with Republican voters, because I
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: got a bunch of them in my district. They're also
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: standing up and saying, I would not build this case.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: They're asking the police officers, where's the body camera footage?
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: You know, you said you put over for this reason. Well,
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: what made you think that? Like, they are standing up.
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: in ways that you don't typically see in our criminal
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: justice system. It goes back to what you're saying. They're
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: concerned about making sure we get the right person.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Arrest could have ruined somebody's life.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Just an arrest, not even being guilty, just the police
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: saying we think this is it and a company drop
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: them if they have insurance look at them differently.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: Have you ever been arrested before?
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: It could have ruined somebody's life.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I understand that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: I'm just going back to the case of Noel and Wells.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: The reason I think there should have been some type
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: of indictment or arrest made because, to me, the evidence
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: is that there is a dead human being, right? And also,
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: the medical examiner couldn't determine what the cause of death was.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: So watching people go through whatever that due process is
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: would put all the evidence on the table and give people,
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: not just the family, the closure they need, but it
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: would make people have a lot more trust in the system.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Because there's no trust in the system right now when
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: nobody gets indicted and you don't even know how he died.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: I don't know what y'all got going on in Mississippi.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Y'all need to make Mississippi burn apart too.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, I would say we've made a lot of
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: progress now, Charlamagne. Don't do that.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: We've made a lot of progress. This is one situation.
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: It's an awful situation. But, you know, you also, you
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: do have to have evidence to prove something. The absence
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: of evidence is not enough to indict somebody.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: The dead body not enough, though?
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: I mean, unfortunately, we don't know how he died, right?
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: We don't know who caused it, what were the circumstances.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: I'm not saying that there isn't evidence. I'm just saying
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: we don't know what that evidence is. And the absence
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: of evidence is not enough to indict somebody.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: I guess my thing is, how do you close an investigation?
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: if a cause of death has been undetermined. An investigation
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: should not be closed.
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, and I think that that's a fair question.
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: You know, I think that we've got to make sure
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: we get the evidence. I mean, we've got to have transparency.
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: I mean, I still don't know how he died myself.
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: I mean, there's no evidence of who was there, who
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: saw it. I mean, the grand jury report gives you
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: some information, but we need to know exactly what happened.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: And obviously the Nolan Weld family doesn't trust it because
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: they lured it up. And we may find out some
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: stuff from the civil litigation. But, you know, I do
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: understand that you do have to have due process. You've
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: got to protect people's rights. You've got to do it
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: the right way. And, you know, the absence of evidence
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: is not evidence.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I heard you call.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: You want the autopsy report to be released, and you
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: just said the investigator filed.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: What do you think the public needs to see?
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: Well, they need to know exactly. The first thing is,
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: was anybody there when the death happened, right? Because right
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: now we don't have any firsthand accounts of exactly what happened, whether,
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: you know, it was an accident.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: It's not clear, right? I'm sure there's got to be
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: some witnesses that saw what happened.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: They came back with his phone.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: But it's not clear that they were with him at
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: the time he died, the people that had his phone.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of rumors about that.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: But should we have those answers, though? Like, was he
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: with them?
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Even, like, we've seen the video of the guy cleaning
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: the boat after. Like, I just feel like there's so
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: many unanswered questions.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: And that was after midnight.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: That was, like, supposedly, that was, like, 1, 2 o'clock
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: in the morning.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, the best way to get to the truth
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: is to have the investigative file release where we can
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: actually get what evidence was told to the police.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Because, you know, you say stuff online that's not sworn statements.
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: You got to actually have, you know, people giving a
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: statement to the police as to what occurred. So hopefully
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: we'll get that. And that's going to tell us a lot.
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: Without that, you're right, we do have some big trust
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: issues that are gonna be hard to rebuild.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: And I know you said Mississippi has gotten better, which
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: they have, but they do have a painful history of
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: black families struggling to get answers when their loved ones die.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Especially under suspicious, unclear circumstances.
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: That's why I called at the very beginning. I knew
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: it was gonna be a lot of distrust. I knew
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: it was gonna have to be really handled carefully. And,
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: you know, you can't jump to conclusions because people were
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: gonna be suspicious. And also we've had some other situations
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: the last year and a half that are very suspicious.
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: They got people really concerned. But, you know, unfortunately, there
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: was a breakdown of trust somewhere.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what happened.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: I know in my situation, I really do a lot
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: to make sure victims understand. I care about them. I'm
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: going to be transparent. You know, I do tree plants
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: for victims when they lose their loved one. We do
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: grief counseling for victims, survivors of gun violence. So, you know,
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: you got to make sure you're looking out for those people.
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: And the important thing is that we come together. And
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: it was because there was a lot of people that
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: knew Nolan Wells, both black, white, in between, that were
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: supportive of justice. And so that's progress. I mean, there
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: was a time where it would become, you know, in
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: the 60s, it didn't matter what the evidence was.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Not guilty.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I care about the system more than I care
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: about the court of public opinion.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Three measurable improvements you believe a U.S. senator should be
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: held accountable for delivering over six years.
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely. The first one, we got to raise the
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: minimum wage. That's a simple one. I don't know why
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: we haven't done this.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Crazy. $ 7. 25. We still have that in Mississippi because we
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: go with the federal minimum wage.
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: Second, we've got to lower costs. We've got to make
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: sure healthcare costs are down. We've got to make sure
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: it's affordable and accessible. We've got to get the subsidies
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: back for people to get insurance on Obamacare. We've got
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: to make sure we restore the insurance for people to
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: get it through Medicaid. The one that's the most important
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: to me, and I really hope your audience hears this,
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: because in the South, it's going to be the most
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: important thing for our future, is we have to end
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: partisan gerrymandering and restore the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: Because what we're seeing right now, just take Memphis, for example.
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: They took that city and they carved it up in
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: a way where those voters really don't get to pick
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: their congressman. And they did that not because they were
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: trying to look out for Memphis or even the people
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: of Tennessee. They're trying to look out for the Republican Party.
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: And they didn't do it in Mississippi because we already
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: had our primary. But they've already said at the end
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: of this election, they're going to try to redraw the
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: line so the people of Jackson, the people of the
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: Delta can't pick the congressman they want. Tate Reeves want
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: to say who represents those areas. And thank God our
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: ancestors gave us the one thing we need in this moment.
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: In Mississippi, we know about that sacrifice. People died. People
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: went to prison. People lost their jobs because they knew
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: in this moment we needed the right to vote. So
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: if you've ever thought your vote doesn't matter, if you're
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: tired of hearing about your ancestors' sacrifices, If you don't
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: do something now in this moment to end partisan gerrymandering,
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: you're going to go through what your grandparents, your great
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: grandparents went through because you're going to have no power
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: at the ballot. And when you don't have power at
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: the ballot, there is no accountability. You want the minimum
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: wage raised? They're going to be like, so what? You
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: want lower costs?
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: So what? You want health care? So what? You want
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: better schools? So what? Because they're telling you they don't
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: have to care. They don't have to answer to you.
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: That's how you get people like the junior senator who
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: doesn't campaign, doesn't do town halls, votes against everything, best
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: for Mississippi. So we've got to win this election. We've
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: got to end partisan gerrymandering, and that's my commitment.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Word.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Well, tell them how to donate to your campaign, Scott.
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: ScottColombe.com. Listen, it's an honor to be at the Breakfast Club.
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: It's a dream come true. Mississippi, we made it.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: We did it. Let's go win November 3rd. Show the
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: country Mississippi matters. All right.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: It's Scott Colombe.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Scott Colombe. That's okay. Scott Colombe. It's Scott Colombe. It's
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: Good morning.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I know you're MAGA on that.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely not on damn MAGA. I don't know. Every
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: day I wake up. Wake your ass up. It's the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Y'all finished or y'all done?