Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Rep. Ilhan Omar Talks Congressional Firestorms, Political Attacks, ICE, Trump, Marjorie Taylor Green, Kristi Noem + More

Transcript

INTERVIEW: Rep. Ilhan Omar Talks Congressional Firestorms, Political Attacks, ICE, Trump, Marjorie Taylor Green, Kristi Noem + More · The Breakfast Club

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Every day I wake ago clicks up the Breakfast Club.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: You don't finished for y'all done.
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: Yep, it's the world most Dangerous Morning showed to Breakfast Club. Charlamagne,
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: the God Envy and Jesse Hilarius on here today. But
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: Laura Larro Say and Mimi Brown is in and we
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: got a special guest. She has the United States representative
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: from Minnesota's fifth congressional district, I han Omar's here.
• 0:20
  Speaker 3: Heck, good morning, good morning.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: You know, every time you're supposed to come here, something happens.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: I know, two show thumbs. Every single time she was
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: supposed to come, a snowstorm happens.
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: That's that's my story with New York. Every time I'm
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: trying to make it here, something happens. It's either's there's
• 0:36
  Speaker 3: some emergency vote, there's some shutdown, or there's weather problems.
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: I came in for my daughter's graduation last May, and
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: I was here for one day and then we had
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: an emergency vote and I had to like literally leave
• 0:50
  Speaker 3: and not attend the graduation. So some something is in
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: the water in New York for me.
• 0:54
  Speaker 4: Ma, Grandma says, my stuff like that happens. God is
• 0:57
  Speaker 4: redirecting you for some reasons a protection.
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, my and my dad used to say that too.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: So how are you? How's your energy?
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: I'm god? I'm god? Yeah.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Do you ever feel comfortable? Do you ever feel like
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to use the words safe,
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: but do you ever feel safe everywhere?
• 1:13
  Speaker 3: Internally? I do, okay, but you know, we have to
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: worry about the external, so we try to take the
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: precautions that are necessary and have security when it's needed.
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: And I actually had capital police detail that was going
• 1:30
  Speaker 3: to come with me the last time I was going
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: to come here. But things look good, so I don't
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: I don't have them right now.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: What makes it look good though?
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know? They figure out the threat levels, I've
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: somebody is in.
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: Charge of that.
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, especially when it's Mike Johnson making that decision.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely.
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: I got a lot of questions about Congressman Yes in general, like, well,
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: first of all, what are the most urgent issues facing
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: you think a lot of your constituents right now?
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: Affordability life is just really hard for people to afford.
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: You'd be surprised Minneapolis, outside of New York City and
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: LA is one of the most expensive non coastal cities
• 2:14
  Speaker 3: to live in, and so it's very hard for young
• 2:18
  Speaker 3: people to want to start a family. It's very hard
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: for people who want to start small businesses. It's hard
• 2:23
  Speaker 3: for people to buy a home. And so that's the
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: biggest challenge we have. And then obviously with what's been
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: happening with the federal government essentially punishing us because we
• 2:36
  Speaker 3: have refused to vote for Trump as Minnesotans, we have
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: dealt with Operation metro Search that has literally cost us
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: about a billion dollars or more in revenue to our state. Wow.
• 2:56
  Speaker 5: You know, congress Woman, I was in Minnesota. I went
• 2:59
  Speaker 5: to the around and I covered you know, Operation metro Search,
• 3:02
  Speaker 5: and I talked to some of your constituents. And first
• 3:04
  Speaker 5: of all, I just want to know, how are people
• 3:06
  Speaker 5: doing now that some of those ICE agents, some of
• 3:08
  Speaker 5: that federal operation has been pulled back.
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: Ah. That's a really tough question to answer, right because
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: you know, when Operation metro Search started, we had over
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: four thousand ICE and CPP agents on the ground. That
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: meant we had you know, tens, maybe twenty agents walking
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: every block in the city of Minneapolis. You know, schools
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: were shut down, people were not going to church, people
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: were not going to businesses. People were being snatched, people
• 3:49
  Speaker 3: were being disappeared. It was really hard for us to
• 3:51
  Speaker 3: figure out because they were taking them out of Minnesota
• 3:55
  Speaker 3: within hours after picking them up to Texas or Louisiana
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: or Arizona. So it's very hard for us to figure
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: out what was happening with people. And now we have
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: the reisual effects. You know, one of my business corridors
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: was losing thirty million dollars a month. That's going to
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: take long time for them to recover from that. Like
• 4:17
  Speaker 3: I said earlier, with our schools, we had only a
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: third of the students attending. So for two months you
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: had students that were either virtual or not getting any
• 4:29
  Speaker 3: education at all. So now that they are coming back
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: to the schools, there's a lot of adjustment that has
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: to happen. There's the loss of resources to the schools
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: to create the adjustment that's needed. There's a lot of
• 4:43
  Speaker 3: mental health support and trauma that people are dealing with.
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: There are still people who are afraid who are citizens,
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: some that are born here, some that have proper documentation
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: to stay in this country, that are still afraid to
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: go to work, that are still afraid to send their
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: kids to school, that are still afraid to shop or
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: have their their businesses open. And so, you know, we
• 5:03
  Speaker 3: have a rough estimate of about a billion dollars that
• 5:07
  Speaker 3: the impact economic impact is, but that personal and human
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: impact we might never really know what what that costs
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: will look like.
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: What about the human impact of when when when Trump
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: called for the deportation.
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: Of Yeah, I mean, so he's got a weird fascination
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: with Somali's You know, we were still trying to figure
• 5:28
  Speaker 3: out where where that's from. Some say that no, I
• 5:32
  Speaker 3: think now the rumor is he had a crush on
• 5:35
  Speaker 3: the model Ymon and she rejected him. And apparently, you know,
• 5:40
  Speaker 3: decades later, we're all being punished because she chose David
• 5:46
  Speaker 3: Bowie over him. And you know that that that man
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: holds a grudge. Yes, yes, yeah, it's out there. I
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: don't know, I didn't start.
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 6:04
  Speaker 3: But anyway, so he convinced himself that there was this
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: community that he can punish, right, make an example of,
• 6:11
  Speaker 3: And he didn't realize that ninety eight percent of us
• 6:14
  Speaker 3: are either born in the United States, are people who
• 6:17
  Speaker 3: became naturalized citizens like myself, or have legal documentation or
• 6:22
  Speaker 3: refugee status to be in this country. And so when
• 6:25
  Speaker 3: he came in, you know, he sent these people. They
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: were going to these shopping centers, they were going to
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: these neighborhoods. They were looking essentially for anyone that looked Somali,
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: which meant, you know, a lot of people were getting
• 6:37
  Speaker 3: caught up in that. And when all of it was done,
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: we know that less than three percent of the four
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: thousand people that they eventually detained were Somalis. Uh And
• 6:53
  Speaker 3: you know, they picked up about four thousand Somalis with
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: refugee status. They took him Texas to revet them, and
• 7:02
  Speaker 3: almost all of them will returned back because when you
• 7:06
  Speaker 3: are going through the refugee processing system and you're coming
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: to the United States, that vetting takes three four sometimes
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: up to ten years for people to be clear to
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: come to the United States. And so it was just
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: another waste of money. And he's convinced these people that
• 7:27
  Speaker 3: you know, there are hundreds of thousands of Somalis that
• 7:31
  Speaker 3: are in this country illegally, when just even the whole
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: number of Somalies that are in the United States is
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: less than two hundred thousand. And you know, when you
• 7:42
  Speaker 3: look at that number. Like I said, sixty percent of
• 7:46
  Speaker 3: Somalis that are in the United States are people like
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: my children who were born in the United States to
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: US citizens. So there isn't really much that he can do.
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: And then he went after the temporary protective status that
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: some Somalis had, and he thought it was going to
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: be as big of a number like the Venezuelans or
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: the Hasians, where it's in the hundreds of thousands. Well
• 8:08
  Speaker 3: it was only like less than three hundred Somalies that
• 8:12
  Speaker 3: were impacted in that temporary protected status. And now the
• 8:17
  Speaker 3: courts are telling him that he can't cancel the temporary
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: protecting status unless he gives a reason why they shouldn't
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: be protected anymore. So it's a loss loss for him.
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: But I know that his megabase still very much believes
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: the lies that he's selling. They're very much upset. You know.
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: The man who attacked me at my town hall. One
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: of the reasons that he told his neighbors that he
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: was upset with me is that he was very much
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: looking forward to the mass deportation of Somalis.
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 8:48
  Speaker 3: And because there was no mass deportation, he said, it
• 8:52
  Speaker 3: was my fault that I was protecting them. Somehow I
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: was more powerful than Trump. Wow, And so that he
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: then he had to come and punish me for.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: What was that about? Do you have like an are
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: you allergic to applesider or something?
• 9:05
  Speaker 3: I really don't know. I mean, he's currently being held
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: without bail awaiting trial in federal prison, federal jail, and
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: so we'll see, you know, when his trial gets underway.
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: What he actually thought the vinegar was supposed.
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: To do to me? People A lot of people thought
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: that was stage.
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't I don't understand the
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: kind of conspiracy theories people sometimes come up with.
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: You think, if you think he was close to you
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: have stole a on because you did cock back a
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: little bit like I did.
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: I thought he spit on me and was walking away
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: after spitting on me. And if you know anything about me,
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: there is no way you're going to spit on me
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: and walk away.
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: So when I saw it, I was like I would
• 9:52
  Speaker 4: have been so like nervous that it was like acid
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: or something, but you were so like, yes.
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: It didn't touch me. I just saw his mouth and
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: I saw some liquid before I could feel because it
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: was on my sweater. I think a lot of my
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: locally elected colleagues like had stuff hit their hands and
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: you know that's why they were freaking out because they
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: could see it. To me, my thought was, Okay, he
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: just spit on me, and this man thinks he's gonna
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: walk away and I'm a beach ass like that must.
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: Have happened to you before in life. No, okay, okay, okay,
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: because you had a visceral reaction immediately that.
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: You I did. That's the level of disrespect that you
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: know where I come from, It's not okay.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: Do you ever get tired of like fighting back? I
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: mean yeah, do you ever get tired of fighting back
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: within like the media wars that happened because of like
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: the words that they use, like a JD event's on
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: the podcast and you know you committed immigration fraud in
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: like do you.
• 10:47
  Speaker 6: Ever just be like, oh, Maverick.
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: No, because if they want to have the fight, I'm
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: ready to have the fight. I'm also really secure and
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: the fact that I didn't do anything, and I know
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: that it's about giving like red meat to their deranged
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: base that tends to believe stuff like that. They tend
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: to think, you know, somehow we African immigrants are shady
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: in some kind of way. And it's not surprising to
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: me when you have you know, Trump and JD fans saying,
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: you know, Haitians are eating cats and dogs, and then
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: people believe it, and then you ask them, they're like, well,
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: you got to make up a narrative, you know, for
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: people to go along with, Like that tells you the
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: kind of people that they are. And I'm not the
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: kind of person that's like, oh, that's a hurtful thing
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: for you to say, and I'm gonna cry about it.
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: I'm the kind of person that's like, oh, you said that,
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say some shit about you too. I like that.
• 11:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, actually too.
• 11:50
  Speaker 5: You know, with Christina I'm no longer leading, Oh my god,
• 11:53
  Speaker 5: that your eyes with her no longer leading Department of
• 11:57
  Speaker 5: Homeland Security though, But do you think that that will
• 12:00
  Speaker 5: were form ICE in any kind of way? Do you
• 12:02
  Speaker 5: think they we're still going to see that same level
• 12:04
  Speaker 5: between ICE and custom border control that we saw with
• 12:07
  Speaker 5: her under Mark Waynemuller.
• 12:10
  Speaker 3: You know, I believe as Senator Tilli's and Senator Kennedy said,
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: she took an issue that for them was an eighty
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: twenty issue. And made it a twenty eighty issue. I
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: think they underestimated the victorial reaction people would have to
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: seeing a militarized messed men with machine guns roaming the
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: cities of America and what it would look like once
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: they murdered to white people in a state that is
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: a majority heavily majority white state. And so I do
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: believe believe that they are going to restrain themselves. I
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: believe that they understand that they can no longer do
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: what they did not in Chicago, not in LA and
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: certainly not what they did in Minneapolis. I am optimistic
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: that when we have the majority, the reforms that we
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: propose will ultimately become low.
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: So with that being said, though, do you think something
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: will happen now with the partial government shutdown? You know,
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: Senate Democrats want one thing. House Republicans want something else,
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: like where House Democrats want something? So where where do
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: you think that will land?
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: It is my belief that when we are back in
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: session tonight, yes, that the Republicans are going to approve
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: the rest of the funding like we've been asking for
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: for the Department of Homeland Security without funding for CPP
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: and ICE. We understand that CPP and ICE has a
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: slush fund that was given to them in the big
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: Ugly bill. Those are you know, that's seventy seven billion
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: dollars that they can utilize essentially for the next five
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: to eight ten years. So it is I think unreasonable
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: to hold the rest of the department hostage to fund
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: part of that department that already has resources. When you
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: have TSA agents who haven't been paid, who are losing
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: their homes, you know, who are filing for bankruptcy, who
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: haven't been able to pay their credit card bills, who
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: haven't been able to have you know, are like now
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: getting food that's being donated to them when they are
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: actually working in a dignified job. We also have the
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: Coastguard that is cut up in that, the Secret Service
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: that watches over the cabinet and the President is caught
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: up in that. We also have, you know, our security
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: apparatus that you know, our National security apparatus that is
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: tied into that. So I think it's been too long
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: for them to come to the table. I do believe
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: that the senators, both on the Republican and Democratics side,
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: were right to send us the bill that they did.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: I was shocked that as we were going on recess,
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: that the Republicans in the House chose to not approve
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: that bill and were willing to just have this suffering
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: continue for another two weeks, just again to be back
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: to the same table. So I do believe that either
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: tomorrow or Thursday, we will be able to pass something.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: And to your point, because especially since both the Senate
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Democrats and House Republicans they voted together to send it
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: to you guys.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean after refusing, right, because Democrats, I think
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: there was like nine or eleven times they put these
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: single bills for a vote and the Republicans, you know,
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: John Thune said no in the Senate, and then eventually
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: they realized, Okay, we've got two weeks where we're not legislating.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: It is not fair for these hardworking Americans to not
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: continue to get paid, so we'll just say yes and
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: allow for this to happen, hoping that their counterparts in
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: the House would do that. And then they called them stupid,
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: they called them idiots. They said they don't know how
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: to read a bill, they don't know how to write
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: a bill. And then you had, you know, a couple
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: of days ago where Mike Johnson is like, yeah, I
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: think they were right, and just the president wants us
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: to do it, like now they're going to do it,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: and it's just it's it's a silly game, and you know,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: it's one of those things that makes people really frustrated
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: when it comes to Washington, DC.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: You said something earlier, you said, you know, when Democrats
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: get the majority, why do elected officials talk like that's.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Going to be so easy?
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: That is Donald Trump and his administration isn't going to
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: try everything in their power to make sure that doesn't happen.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: What makes us think there's going to be free in
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: fair elections?
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Like you mentioned ice, right, I already saw the sigh
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: up when they put ice in the airport.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: There's no way those were the same people in the street.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: They were so nice, they were so welcoming, they were
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: so helpful.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: That is all to a plan.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: So when he says, hey, we're putting ice at the
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: voting boosts come November, now you're going to see them
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: back in their mask, you know, throwing people to the ground.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: So why do we act like it's just going to
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: be so easy to vote in November?
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: So I'll use Minnesota as an example. In the height
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: of Operation Metro Search we have. We had our caucuses,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: So Minnesota is a Caucaus state just like Iowa, except
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: in Minnesota we caucus for every single office, and so
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: we thought, you know, there was a lot of talk
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: about making it virtual that they were going to show
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: up in caucus rooms, that they were going to stage
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: because these causes happen in school rooms right and community centers,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: and so we were very much convinced that this was
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: going to happen. Nothing happened. We had one of the
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: highest caucus turnouts since the Eight Causes, which just tells
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: you just how excited people were and how much they
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: weren't going to allow fear to dictate whether they were
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: going to participate or not. And so I have faith
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: in the fact that people one will show up regardless
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: of what the threats look like. And two, I don't think,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: like I said, the public sentiment is no longer with them,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: and they're not going to risk losing any more public
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: sentiment in that regard. So that's where, at least for me,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: where my optimism comes that elections will go as planned
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: and that if everything goes accordingly, we should be able
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: to take back the House and you know the Senate.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: You know, it gave me optimism when Donald Trump said
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: he would pardon all his people when he said I
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: think he said that. He said last week he would
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: your pardners to everybody that came basically close to the
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: White House, because that lets me know, like.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, they may not have a plan to be able
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to take.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Things over, so you know, let me make let me
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: make sure I pardon all my people so we don't
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: end up going to jail.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he also probably doesn't think they will be a
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Republican that gets into the presidency after him.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to talk to you about Congress. Do
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: you think Eric was that how he pronounced the last him?
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: You think he should have stepped down from Congress.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know there was a way for him to
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: explain away the level of evidence that was being presented
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: in those kind of cases. Ethics moves a lot faster.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Republicans never explained, I know.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: But you have Gonzalez also resigning, who doesn't who doesn't
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: have as much of a visible evidence against him as
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: much as Eric had h And I also think, you know,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: when you've got three little ones, and you know you
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: have a wife that you're possibly trying to make amends
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: with having the kind of videos that are leaking out
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: there is worth it, and I you know, I can
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I can understand that the desire to want to hold
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: on and to fight, But I don't know what it
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: looks like to subject your little children to images of
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: you at a hotel with a young woman that that
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: that that's just not something I think a lot of
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: young children.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I agree with that personally, I guess just politically, I
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: guess I don't know what consistency looks like, right, because
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: you can have Trump and so many Republicans with these accusations.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: You can have even Biden can have accusations, but nobody
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: asked them to step down. Like it doesn't seem to
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: harm certain people politically, but it seemed to have really
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: hurt Eric politically.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Well. I mean, you know, Christinome once she was asked
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: in committee whether she was having an affair, that seemed
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: like that was the thing that led to it when
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: she couldn't answer. And so I just think that there's
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: some there are rumors that can linger, and there might
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: be you know, not nothing here and there, and then
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: there's videos of you in a hotel room being inappropriate
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: with a young woman and that has I think an
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: different impact and a call collation. And like I said,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: I haven't gotten a chance to talk to Eric. That
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: to me, knowing him, knowing how little his children are
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: and how protective he is of his young kids, I
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: understand why he decided to just not continue to have
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: this this be part of their life.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: And I'm not just as not in any defensive Eric.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Do you think that Democrats are too quick to cannibalize
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: their own.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, certainly, certainly. I mean, you know, you had Katie
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Hill that you know that was part of my class,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: that was doing adult things that had nothing to do
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: with her work. I don't remember any of her constituents
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: calling for her to resign, but there was a lot
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: of pressure from Congress, from her colleagues, especially on the
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: dem side, for her to do so. There there is
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: a slow walk on the Republican side with Gonzales. There
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: were you know, it took a really long time. There
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: were few women on the Republican side who called for
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: his resignation. A lot of them were just asking him
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: to not run for re election. And so yes, I mean,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: you know, even in Minnesota, when you you know you
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: remember Al Frank, Like you know, people were very quick
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: and now that comparison to all the all the stuff
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: that's out there today. But yes, I do, I do
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: think that there is this desire to have the moral
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: high ground in in these situations without realizing that, yes,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: it is a battle and you know everybody's got shit sorry,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: and you know, like you you have to figure out
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: what what the weaknesses are for your your team players,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: how to insulate them from you know, some of those things.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Uh and and yes we we it's all numbers. You know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: we're we're going to be down by by one vote.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I know they will be too, but it those those
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: things matter. It's a matter of whether we are able
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: to get at discharge, petition and and govern as as
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: a minority as if we're in the majority or not.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: The numbers are way slim for for the majority. So
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: every single vote matters in this moment.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: And speaking of every single vote matters, you're running for reelection,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: you So what do you want people to know about
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: your congressional leadership?
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, in in what regard and just you know, we.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: See you, we see you about fighting, We see everything that
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: you're doing. You're very very outspoken, is you know, and
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: there are certain things that are that are coming up
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: and you're fighting against Trump?
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Will that continue?
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: What are you hoping to fight against this administration for
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: going forward?
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, I believe that it is really important for
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Democrats to take this fight seriously. You know, we always
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: talk about democracy being on the line, but it's real.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: We're seeing it every single day, right, Like Charme wouldn't
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: ask me about elections taking place fear and freely if
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: it wasn't because of everything that we're seeing that is
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: very worrying to to all of us. Uh And obviously
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: we understand that there is these unjust wars that he's
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: starting in Iran, the kidnapping of the president of Venezuela,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: the threats to Cuba, you know, whatever he is saying
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: about Greenland that you know, what he's doing with our alliances,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: how he's destroying our economy. There's just a lot for
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: us to challenge this administration on. But that can't be
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: the only thing we do, right. We also have to
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: figure out where are the opportunities, right, That's that's why
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: we've been utilizing discharge petitions because we see an opportunity
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: and we're like, Okay, here's a place where we can govern.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: And I serve as the deputy chair for the Progressive Caucus,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: and we lead a lot of these efforts because it
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: takes the Progressive Caucus oftentimes to see those opportunities right
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: to say, like, here's a chance where there's this fight.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I know that some of our moderate members within the
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Democratic Caucus are cautious and you know, sometimes scared because
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: they represent districts where they rely a lot on you know,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: moderate Republicans or independents to vote for them, where we
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: don't have that fear. And so we take the charge
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: in in in many of those cases. Uh and and
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: so you know, we we led the charge on holding
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Christinum accountable in creating the ten point demand for DHS
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: reform before we vote for the full bill. And so
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: I see my role and my leadership in that. I
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: also serve as a ranking member for the for the
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: House the Education and Workforce we used to call it
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Labor the Workforce Committee, and I'm I serve as the
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: ranking member for the Workforce sub Committee. I'm a former
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: labor union member, I'm a former educator, and so I
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: you know, I represent a very young one of the
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: youngest districts in in Congress, very heavy Union State and
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: UH district Uh. And so I I see my role
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: in bringing a lot of those voices, bringing a lot
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: of that fight and making sure that we have creative
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: ways that we're building not just relationships within our cocase
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: so that we fight like a family, but also that
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: we're building the relationships with the outside groups, you know,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: with our outside family, so they understand the kind of
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: fights that we're having in Congress and why they're important
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: in that.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: As you talk about you as a leader, I was
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: reading an article today about your comments on a major
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Marjorie Telegreen and the fact that, like we should have
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: empathy for people like her who've realized all this stuff,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: right as a leader, Like I understand the overall point
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: of that, Like it's two sizes and at one point
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: we all got to combine. But like, when she's a
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: person that has like said horrible things about you, right,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: has accused you of like you know, everything that Trump
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: is administration lean on, why do you get to that point?
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Like why not just like leave her where she is
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: and let her do what she thinks she's doing.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm good to leave her where she is when
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: do what she's doing.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: I guess no.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: I mean my point is this, if you were let
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: stray and you are adult enough, honest enough to say
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: I was wrong into believing that this was the right
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: direction for our country, and I want to join you
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: all because I now understand that you had it right.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: I'm like, welcome, right, I'm glad you finally got here
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: because we believe that we are on the right side
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: of history. And so if you know this person that
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: was leading this mega movement that has been about the vision,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: that has been about conspiracy theories, that has been about
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: you know, figuring out who is American and who you
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: know it's not depending on what their political opinions were,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: it's now saying no, Actually, the person who made us
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: believe and called us to this movement is the person
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: who is an American, who is the person who doesn't
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: want the best interest for all ama in this country.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: And I want to join those that now that I
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: now understand want the best for all of us. Now,
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: am I gonna be key keying with her? No?
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Because that was gonna be my next question, because it's
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: like you make a comment like that headlines pick it up,
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: so now it's like, I know, like Obama got so
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: much like slack when he sat next to you know, Trump,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: and they right. But my point is is if you
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: make comments like this and then and then they pick up,
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: and then you do see her out and about and
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: she wants to have these conversations and it's positive and
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: she's smile Like, how do you avoid that when you've
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: kind of opened the door for her to try and
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: do things like publicly be seen meshing and that's not
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: the message you want to send.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think there is a difference between
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: saying you have a change of heart politically and your
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: policy point views now aligned with mine, then saying you
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: just hate who I hate and we're friends now, or
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to be cordial because we're in public
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: and I'm just going to like greet you normally. I
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: think those three things are very different. What I'm saying
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: is that politically and policy wise, where she has arrived,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: it's not much different than what we have been calling
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: for all along. She is not the kind of person
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: that if she was where she was, that I would
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: be sitting next to her funeral or not right, and
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: like high fiving and giggling with like that just I
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: think does send the wrong message because we are in
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: a political environment. And I also don't think like the
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: fact that you just don't like Trump or you're never
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Trumper if you do not see things the way that
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: we see or what the direction that we want to
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: take this country policy wise, I don't. I don't think
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: like the list Cheney, like, that's not you still are
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: who you are politically, You're still are who you are
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: policy wise. So there is no reason just because you
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: don't think Trump should be president that you and I
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: should have anything in comment. So that's what I'm saying.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: So when you're when you're calling for Democrats to show
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: grace to form of Trump supporters, what grace I am not.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, No, it's not the Trump supporters. That's not what
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I'm saying. I'm saying if you had a change of
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: heart in regards to policy.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: What if you're a Trump supporter who had a change
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: of heart policy Okay.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Not, you know, I mean, if you're List Cheney and
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: you're like, I'm not voting for Trump, but I I'll
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: vote for Harris, But you still hold right the all
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: of your policy views that align with Trump. That means
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: that means nothing to me. I don't so what about.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Former Trump supporters like the Marjorie Tailor Greene.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: But if you're marginally tailed green and you say this
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: man is taking us to wars that will destroy us
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: and our resources in the future of our children, that
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: is a policy position I have. I'm anti wall right.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: I've got little kids. She's got, you know, like young adults.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I've got young adults. And this is one of the
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: we had a conversation about this when we were talking
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: about the genocide in Gaza. You know that that's why
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: she came to it. She was like, my daughter was
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: talking to me about it, showing me the images, and
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: I told her about my daughter, you know, in her
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: advocacy when she was at Columbia as a student. And
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: so I believe if you have changed the way you
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: see policy, there is a difference that makes a difference.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: I do not think it's okay if you've just changed
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: who you like and dislike.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: What does grace look like without letting those people off
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: the hook.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Grace looks like saying I agree when they make a
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: policy point of view. Grace looks like not dismissing when
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: somebody wants to join your coalition not just as a
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: voting block, but as an advocate for the policies that
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: you believe will create a better world for all of us.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Grace means that we find places of agreement, and we
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: work together to try to further those places, to expand
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: those places, and so that we can include others, because ultimately,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: you know, why do I make the sacrifices I make.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: I've got little kids, I'm mama for you know, there's
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: a lot of things I could do in my life
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: that is not about being on a flight two to
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: three times a week. That is not you know, being
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: on the House floor voting until you know two three
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: in the morning, missing my daughter's graduation celebration, or not
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: being able to go to my youngest daughter's track meet
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: her nationals. That sacrifice is so that I can fight
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: to create a world that is better than the one
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: we have today. That it's about creating a promised future
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: that is better for my kids and their kids and
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: for all of our kids. And so if I can
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: find anyone and everyone that is willing to work with
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: me to create that better future, not just here in America,
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: but for the people around the world, you're my partner
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: in that. And so to me, I don't you know,
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: somebody said in Congress, if you in Washington, if you
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: want a friend, get a dog, you know, Like people
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: ask me, like, who are your friends in Congress? Like,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: my friends are the people on the House floor that
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: I talk to about how we get people to vote
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: the right way. Like That's That's why I'm there in Congress.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: I'm not there to you know, hang out with people
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: and and do these kinds of things. I'm there to vote.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: I'm there to influence policy. I'm there to have conversations
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: with colleagues in a respectful way to try to get
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: them where they need to go. And I'm there to
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: advocate for my point of view and the point of
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: view of the people that I represent. And there are
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: a lot of people in Washington where that is not
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: their objective. Their objective is you know, who who is
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: in my coalition in regards to you know, the special
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: interest groups that fund us. Who's in my coalition of
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: like you know, the next roommates I'm going to find
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: and the people I'm going to go to the receptions
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: and the happy hours with like, that's you know, I
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: take my votes, I go home. You rarely will see
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: me out and about in any of those Washington DC circles.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Because that's that is. That is not why I make
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: the life sacrifices that I make to be there. I
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: make those sacrifices because I love the idea of influencing
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: policy and being able to, as Pelosi used to say,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: being part of the arena.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I love this conversation because I feel like we're going
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: to see a lot of this come November. Right, So,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: if somebody spent years fueling division, what responsibility do they
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: have before they can be embraced again? Or doesn't even
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: matter if they're embraced. Do we have to embrace No,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: I don't think.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: You have to embrace them. I think embrace is you know,
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: It's like when people look at politicians as like role models,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: they are not role models. These are people who make
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: decisions on behalf of you, sometimes that are positive and
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: sometimes that are negative. You need to pay attention to
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: how they vote, and you need to pay attention to
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: how they do not vote, the fact that they are
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: nice people when they come to your cookout, Like no,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: that that has nothing to do with anything. And so
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: to me, that's that's always been my north star. I
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: don't I don't care if you are you know, the
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: most angry, frustrated human to talk with. If you vote
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: like I vote, if you care about the things I
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: care about, then I consider you an ally. You know,
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: you you might be the last person I want to
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: say hello to. You know, I'm not going to invite
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: you to the cookout, but like I will respect the
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: fact that you do the right thing and you can
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: be you know, I've I've we're in the minority. I
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: have chairmen in my committees that are you know, respectful,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: they're kind, they send nice gifts to our offices. But
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: that's that. That has nothing, no bearing on the fact
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: that you are still voting to destroy my children's future. Yes,
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: and so that that to me, when I'm in that committee,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: that is all I care about. And I'm you know,
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: people say, like my friend on the other side of
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: they all like that, that means nothing really in reality,
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: because the end of the day, we are all there
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: to do a job, and that job is two represent
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: our constituents. And that's that's that's all I'm there for.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: You think Republicans would show you the same grace you're
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: asking for.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I care, you know, I don't.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: I was never the kind of person who's like I
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: want to be liked. I'm never concerned myself with those
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: kinds of things. I'd like to be respected, and so
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: to me that you know, that's you know, I don't
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: if you know. There's some Republicans who'll say stuff on
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: TV and I'll go up to them, I'm like, do
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: you would you like to say this to my face?
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: And when they'll walk away and then walk away right,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: And so to me it's like you you know, or
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: some that are like nice to me in person, and
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: then they'll go on TV and they'll say something and
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: then I'll find them on the floor and I'll say, like,
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: this is the last time you say hello to me?
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Because to me, you know, like respect matters. But we
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: don't gotta like each other, but you do have you
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: have like that's all I care for, it's respect.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Do democrats risk alienating their own base by extending grace
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: the people that the base may see is harmful?
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Not when it comes to policy. I think there is
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: a risk in alienating your base when you embrace someone
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: like Liz Cheney without without without there being any accountability
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: or any sort of articulated change in a policy view.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: To me, just wanting to save our democracy alone is
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: not enough. You'll have people who will criticize is a
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: progressive or a Bernie supporter, and they will say I
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: want them out of the party, but will be very
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: happy and celebrate to have someone like this Liz Cheney
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: as part of their team, who I believe is like
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: probably more one of the most harmful. Her and her
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: dad were one of the most harmful politicians we've had
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: in this country.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Do you remember that? I remember, Oh, I.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Remember that when Bush and Cheney with the anti Christ.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Oh god, But I mean they they were in a
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: certain way, right and and and Trump and JD. Fans
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: and Steven Miller are in their own way. I don't
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: think we've had one kind of anti Christ show up
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: the anti Christ show up in in our political life
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: at least. I think we're probably around the same age.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: And so I do believe that it is. It's it's
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: different when you have somebody like Marjorie. And again in
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: that interview, I specifically picked her because people asked about
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: the Carlson and others like that's what I was. Yes,
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: I didn't know. No her because she was asked to apologize,
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: she you know she So I do think that when
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: people are like, yes, I did contribute to harm, Yes
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: I was wrong, Yes, I'd dedicated ten years of my
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: life in advocating for this man. Yes, you know all
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: of these things. But now like, I was wrong. This
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: is not like who I am. This is not what
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: I believe as opposed to you know, someone who's just like, Okay,
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm worried about our democracy and Trump can't get elected.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: It's like, okay, what about all the other harmful policies
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: you've advocated for that that has cousted harm to so
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: many people that are part of our base. Because as Democrats,
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: we say we're a big ten. And so if you've
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: advocated for forever wars, you've got all of these immigrants
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: in this country that are victims of those wars that
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: are mostly part of the Democratic coalition. If you've advocated
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: for the war on drugs, you've got a whole coalition
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: of people within the Democratic Party that have been the
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: victims of those policies. If you've advocated for anti you know,
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: queer policies. That's part of the democratic So there has
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: to be some accountability in say in at least asking
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: this person like, are you willing to take some of
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: this back? Have you reformed your way of thinking? And
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: if that's not what they're doing. And I'm not saying
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: like I can't for president, but hypothetically if I was
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: running for president, I don't know if I would want
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: marjoritailored Green at a rally with me, right Like, that's
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: the there's a difference between saying like, thank you for
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: coming to this position, and there's a difference between saying
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: thank you for coming to this position and now, let
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: me like highlight you as like this hero, which Liz was.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: And I don't think any of us are thinking about
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: highlighting marjor Retailer Green as like a hero.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: I think that's the like for people who at a
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: basic level or understanding politics right now because it's affecting
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: them directly. The part that's probably still a little gray.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: I know for me is like when I see the
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: interview like that, but I know when it comes to
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: policy and voting and working together on things, y'all have to.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, I'm watching you be attacked
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: from all these different ways, and you're one of the
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: people that's in the front for us. I'm like trying
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: to make you know, like where does that line you know,
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: get drawn? Because even with all the conversations right now
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: about you know, the oversight commit you and your husband
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: and your businesses, and I've seen you say that you
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: think that this is just a distraction, right, But like
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: when things like that happen, it's like, but those saying
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: people are the people you're telling us to have empathy
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: for and want to go have conversations with, like people
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: on the other side who are suggesting that you be investigated.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean, and I listen suggest all you want.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: Please investigate what you want right, Like to me, I'm
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: not like I'm above the law, and how dare you
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: you know? Like I understand politics, I understand what these
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: people have to do in order to feed their base.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: I the other day was listening to somebody who I've
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: traveled with, who've met his wife, who you know, we
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: spend a whole week doing a codel together, and he
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: was on a podcast saying Ohan hates me and Ohan
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: hates you, And I was like, man, that's some wild
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: stuff to say. But I realized, Yeah, I realized that
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: he was on this right, like he was on this podcast,
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: and like that was like his way of you know,
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: let me get some click right and and and I
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: mean I wouldn't be that person. I wouldn't be like
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: this person hates me, because I like, we wouldn't have
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: had all these conversations if you hated me and so
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: to me. I get that stuff. What I'm talking about is,
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: are you going to vote for these things that we
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: want voted on? Right? Are you going to oppose the
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: things we want a post on?
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: You know, if if you and I are like cursing
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: each other out, but at the end, you know, like
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: if we're siblings, right and we're cursing each other out,
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: we're battling, someone else comes and says something to you,
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be like, what you want to fight? Right? Like,
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: I'm not so to me. There, if we if we
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: can be on a team to get these policies that
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: are helpful for the bottom line for every struggling American,
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: let's do that.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: I get it, I think.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: But if it is about like all the other stuff, yes,
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: then we'll battle because that's necessary. And so that's kind
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: of my distinction between those two buckets, if that makes sense.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: Just let's stay here for a second.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Republicans, like Lawrence said, they are pushing this ethics probe
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: over your family's finances and your.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Husband's business felings. What do you think that's really about?
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: It the accountability of politics.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: Well, it's not accountability because they haven't done anything formally, right,
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: So it is just politics. It's like we're gonna subpoena,
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: We're going to do that. It's like it's all of
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: these things that are not they're never going to do.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: So they're they're just saying it because then that gets
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: them an interview on Fox or Newsmax or you know,
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: you'll see they tweet in like five minutes later if
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: you check, they already got a clip of themselves being
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: interviewed five seconds later. H And so it is more
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: about and and it's usually like a lot of members
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: that struggle to get or are like really desiring, right, Like,
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: there are a lot of members who come to Congress
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: and there they are colms heavy. Their office is very
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: colms heavy. You know, they're trying to get on every
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: TV show that they can and so I that's that's
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: what a lot of it is like driven by since
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: I got there. You know. It's like you say something
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: about Ohan people fundraise, you know they got They're buying
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: me a ticket back home. It's like it's all of
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: this stuff.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: I joked with Nancy May so she could drop off
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: the ticket because I'm next door to her office. She
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: hasn't off a ticket yet. If you mean it, send
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: me that ticket, you know. But it's all about, you know,
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: how do I get this click? How do I you know,
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: then send the fundraising email? How do I say?
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: I'm holding Ihan accountable? There's never really anything that they're
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: so do you holding onto you? So?
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: Are you saying that some of these investigations are more
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: partisan than others. I haven't seen the Justice Apartments is
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: that they're also going to look into your husband.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: Are you concerned about that? They haven't said, I haven't
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: seen a single investigation I've If you know of something,
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: let me know.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it an investigation.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: There's has been a focus on the rapid increase in
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: your household wealth tied to your husband's company.
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: Well, they have to make a choice to investigate, right, Like,
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: do they choose?
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you've done something illegal, you would.
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: Investigate, But they're not investigating you.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: I am not being aware made aware of an investigation
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: into me or my family.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: But when you look at the reason your household wealth
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: tied your husband's companies, you understand why that raises questions
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: for people watching from that.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's but that's again one of the it's
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: there saying right like, there is no wealth increase. If
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: you look at my husband's income, it's almost non existence.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: Is you know, helped make sure our children are you know,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: going to college and our young one is taking care
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: of there There there is no there is no wealth.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: There are ranges to businesses that he was invested in.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure. I don't even know what what do
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: you say?
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they said you reported a network between six million
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: and thirty million, and they said your twenty twenty three
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: disclosure was roughly forty thousand, between forty thousand and a quarterment.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're not they're not net worths. They're like
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: the asset things for the companies, And so I don't
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: know what percentage of it my husband actually has investment
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: in Like that's not you know what I mean, it's
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: not a a full picture of the numbers in the
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: way that it is presented in the document, because in
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: the documents, we have to do ranges and we have
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: to like report in a way that is not details.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: It's not like your tax return that you're submitting for
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: the public record to see.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: But that is a big increase, So you could understand
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: why people would.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but I'm pretty sure it'll get like adjusted
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: at some level when those ranges are looked at.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: And I think I saw that your husband was asked
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: to turn over some documents but didn't comply.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: So is that true?
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: Two from who?
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know? I guess I don't know.
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: The household Side Committee committee. That was what was reported that.
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: I think it was early on in like January February
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: that he was asked to turn over like emails and
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: different things.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is no over there There is no oversight
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: that the oversight committee has over my husband or me.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: So why would you submit documents to an entity that
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: has nothing to do with you? Okay, yeah, Like that's
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: they have oversight over the government, and and Ethics is
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: the one that has oversight over the member, not the spouse,
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: and so yeah, I mean that's the thing. It's like
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: I get I remember, like I I've had maybe, like
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know, five campaign finance complaints, like they file
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: a complaint every other day and it and they want
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: the headline. And then once those things get closed, no
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: one writes about the fact that there was nothing there.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: And I'm pretty sure once you know this over, whatever
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: happens with whatever COMA and them were trying to insinuate
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: like nothing will be reported out of it because there's
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: only the accusations that ever get picked up that I've like,
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: never been fined. I've never had any sort of like
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: financial issue.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: What about the fraud case of Minnesota with the feeding.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Which is again I think that is the reason they
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: are trying to create this thing is because they think
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: this suppose that thirty million or what of the presidents say,
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: forty four million is because of the fraud in Minnesota.
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: They think like I've somehow gotten something, which is insane,
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: but it's a it's a huge problem. I think it's
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: what now, two hundred and thirty million that has been
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: is it?
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Well, well fifty is what they say.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for child literrition. Yeah, two thirty to two fifty.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: There's been about seventy seven or so h that have
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: been indicted. Many of them have taken plea agreements.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: That makes it They're got to make it hard for you, right,
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: just in general. Not not because you're you're you got
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: anything to do with it. Yeah, but when he can
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: point and say, well, this is this actually happened.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: I mean it, it doesn't make it hard for me,
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: but it does make it hard for you know, the
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: the the average Somali business owner there. It makes it
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: hard for the average immigrant business owner. It makes it
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: hard for the average black business owner because it does
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: create this cloud of suspicion. Uh. And you know, and
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: obviously it's become very politicized and it will continue to
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: be politicized as we get closer to November and the
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: level of harassment people are dealing with. You know, even
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: you'll have people go to restaurants, coffee shops with their
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: their cameras harassing all of these business owners and daycarees
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: and daycare centers where people have not been able to
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: take their children because they're scared. And so that aspect
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: of it is hard. When people ask like what can
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: I do? You know, how can you help? Like that
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: is where the where it's challenging because there isn't again,
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: there aren't any There isn't anything happening to them, but
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: they are afraid, and then they're asking for help. And
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: then because the government is not doing anything, we can't
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: get any information for them or we can't tell them
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: it's going to be okay. So it's just it creates
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: a lot of flog for us as their liaison to
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: the federal government. But it also creates a lot of
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: fog as they think about growth, development, sustainability, especially in
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: an economy where everything is hard. Because in Minnesota we're
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: also very much hit by tariffs. We're a border state.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: We have a lot of a lot of entrepreneurs who
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: get goods from places like China and others. The tariffs
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: are also causing a lot of economic heartache.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: I've got a few more questions you. You've been a
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: frequent target in misinformation. Yes, what's the biggest lie I
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: told about you that people still believe.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: People believe.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: I still spread maybe.
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: That I'm illegal in this country, which is like the
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: easiest one to prove, but people still hold on to
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: the fact that I'm I'm not a citizen, that there's
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: fraud in my immigration or I committed immigration fraud. Yeah,
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: that's probably the biggest one because that that's what fuels
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: my deportation headlines. That's why they're offering me tickets.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: They use that any criticism you have whenever you have
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: in the country, they're like you've seen.
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: American you read at the bottom of says we investigated
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: this and it found no evidence.
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: But yet like, no, it doesn't. Yeah, no, it's a
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: it's a it's a it's it's I mean, it's again
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: like the Obama birther hoax, right he produces his birth certificate,
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: there's still you know, still lingers or I don't know
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: if you guys saw Hillary Clinton's deposition where they were
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: asking her about the children in the basement that doesn't
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: actually exist. There is no basement, and so the you know,
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: there's stuff like that that that that's that's out there
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: that probably will never go.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: You think the.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: Media holds you to a different standard than your than
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: your colleagues, and if soul media in what way, Like
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: I said, it's media in general, especially conservative media.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, I don't think media holds me too
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: too much to a different standard. I think when you're
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: different than everyone else in some ways, Uh, there's a
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: little there's always suspicion, you know, there is like always misunderstandings.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: I've always been comfortable in the fact that you know,
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: I'm I come from a country whether you know, a
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: lot of Americans are not exposed to you know, I
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: have a faith that has always been demonized in pop culture.
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: So I you know, I'm the first black woman to
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: represent my state. You know, you just it comes with
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: you know, a lot a lot of new or first
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: comes with challenges. But the right is is obsessive and
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: that you know they're there. There's different kinds of obsessive.
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: And I noticed that they usually have those essions with
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: like women of color who have a platform. Uh yeah,
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: but also just have like name recognition, right because they're
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: the clicks are tied. Like I think if I if
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: nobody really knew who I was and I was a
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: member of Congress, Like, would I get this the attention
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: that they give me, because I don't think so, right,
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: I think they know, you know, if you put onhan
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: Omar in a headline, that people will open it, people
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: read it. And so I do think that they have
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: different levels of obsession. You know, they've got their weird
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: sexualized obsession with AOC or Alex. They have their you know,
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: angry black woman obsession with yeah or whatever weird awful
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: racists that I'm not going to say on the radio
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: that that they think black women are that they have
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: for her. And then they've got this scary immigrant Muslim
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: obsession with me. So you know, it's it's it's a
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: it's a it's a it's a thing. And I do
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: believe it has a lot to do with the fact
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: that they have no exposure culturally too much, the fact
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: that they are missing something in their in their lives
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: and just cannot understand how women that that they deem
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: less have achieved more than them. And I do believe
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: it also has to do with like the the like
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: who they think deserves what. It's it's weird because in
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: some in some ways, our our ability to stay in
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: the news is like mostly because of their obsession. But
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: then they get upset that people pay attention to us.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: So it's it's a it's like, just maybe leave us
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: alone and then you know, we could have a peaceful
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: life too.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess my last ques.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: How do you fight those narratives when they spread fasted
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: in facts?
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, I know who I am. I know that
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: my constituents know who I am. I've had you know,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: my my first primary, they spent twenty million dollars. Wow.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: I had had one of the most expensive primaries in
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: the history of Congress. I was I'll spend four to one,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: crazy stuff on TV. And I won that primary by
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: over twenty points.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: And so I feel blessed in the fact that I
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: have a very engaged constituency and very active constituency. You know,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: we have one of the highest vote to turn out
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: in my district and in our state. And so I
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: the way I fight it is by knowing that my
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: people got me. My people know who I am, my
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: people know my story, and you know what I get it.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: And you know, we laugh about a lot of this stuff, actually,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: you know, because it's just almost every single thing they
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: say I did wrong is something that if you were
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: part of an administration, it would take you two minutes
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: to indict me, right, like if I'd committed immigration fraud,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: Like there's no reason that you shouldn't be able to
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: That's huge job. That is what we do more than
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: it is about. And like if I you know, if
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: you looked there, you know they looked at my finances.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: If you looked at my finances, you indict people for less.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: If you say, and somehow I sold the thirty million, sure,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: like by all means, you know, everybody you've indicted in Minnesota?
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: What are they like million each or something? Like the
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: member sitting member of Congress who you're saying is tole
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: thirty million is not the person you're gonna you know,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: Like so so to me, I believe that there's a
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: level of intelligence that is required in order to civically participate.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: And I am blessed that I am elected and represent
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: people that have that level of intellect to understand that
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: these things are created for a reason and you know
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: that they are not They're not there. And I also
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: will say, and I know Jasmine used to talk about this,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: their desire, to quote us with all of this garbage
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: is to stop future ambitions that we might have. And
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: that's kind of what they do, right, Like if there's
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: a rising star that is a person of color, they
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: like try to find some way to make them a boogeyman,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: and and it it hasn't worked and I'm I'm still
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: here better than ever.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Thank you for joining US, Congresswoman, Yes, thank you. What's
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: what's the website if they want to donate to your campaign?
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, il hanomar dot com. I L H A N
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: O M A R dot com.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for joining us. We wish you nothing
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: but peace, prosperity, and safety.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you all.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: This was fun. Is the Breakfast Club? Every day?
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 5: Up?
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club. Finish