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Trump Attempts to Hide Past with Pedophiles Epstein and Maxwell with Multiple Distractions - TPN 9/21/25 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the week of September twenty first, twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: and this is what's on the people's news. The Texas
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Speaker 1: GOP is bowing and groveling to Trump by redistricting. What
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Speaker 1: comes next? Workers continue their strike against the Hilton Hotel
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Speaker 1: in downtown Houston. Trump's white supremacist agenda is having an
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Speaker 1: impact in black students enrolling in college. Trump's attempt to
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Speaker 1: fire FED board members fails, but is yet another crime
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Speaker 1: against the people of America. All that and more on
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Speaker 1: the People's News. I'm Steve Gallington. This is the people's News,
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Speaker 1: and the people's news starts now. The convicted felon Trump
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Speaker 1: demanded it, and GOP Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas
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Speaker 1: GOP bowed to his wishes and passed redistricting in a
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Speaker 1: explosive special session. These newly approved maps which give five
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Speaker 1: more safe Republican districts to the convicted felon and to
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Speaker 1: the Republican Party for Democrats, who are the slim majority
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Speaker 1: in the state, It affects minority communities, especially around Dallas
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Speaker 1: and Houston. For example, longtime Congressman Al Green has had
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Speaker 1: his district expanded to include Liberty County, which is a
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Speaker 1: Republican leaning area. Doctor Michael O. Adams is the director
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Speaker 1: of the Master of Public Affairs graduate program at Texas
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Speaker 1: Southern University's Barbara Jordan Mickey Leland's School of Public Affairs.
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Speaker 1: He has been speaking on the issue and the future
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Speaker 1: of democracy in Texas.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question, because, of course, in Houston
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Speaker 2: you have the largest customertration of African Americans or Blacks
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Speaker 2: in this area out of one of two metroplexes, the
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Speaker 2: other one being up in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex.
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Speaker 2: And ironically, both of those were impacted with the redistricting process.
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Speaker 2: And I'll move from Houston to talk about Dallas and
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Speaker 2: how that's implicated both Dallas County and Terring County. But
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Speaker 2: I've been interviewed back and forth on this and what
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Speaker 2: I always like to suggest, I think what we're seeing
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Speaker 2: here is a classic case or a master class in
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Speaker 2: terms of vote manipulation, in terms of where given the
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Speaker 2: growth of Latinos and the Black population in Texas following
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Speaker 2: the last census count and I think it was over
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Speaker 2: increase of over a million, there has been a concerted design,
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Speaker 2: not only with this recycle of redistricting. But the last mass,
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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty one maps that were drawn, they are
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Speaker 2: currently in litigation in federal court in El Paso. And
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Speaker 2: so the Republican Party understands the growth of the minority
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Speaker 2: population in the state of Texas, who more than likely
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Speaker 2: will not be Republican voters. So what they've done is
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Speaker 2: to excuse me to manipulate the maps to make sure
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Speaker 2: that they would have a parson advantage inside of these
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Speaker 2: congressional districts. Now, the other part of that, we know
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Speaker 2: that we have a midterm election coming up, and as
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Speaker 2: the President of the United States, Donald Trump actually reached
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Speaker 2: out to Greg Abbott and said that, well, hey, I
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Speaker 2: need five more seats. And as a result of that,
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Speaker 2: we knew that there was going to be a special
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Speaker 2: session to deal with the davastation floods that we have
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Speaker 2: and I think more than one hundred people may have
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Speaker 2: lost their lives, lives or they're missing. And so the
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Speaker 2: legislature goes back into special session, and when they're in
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Speaker 2: the special session, uh, the registricting charge is added to
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Speaker 2: the agenda. And as we know, UH that only the
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Speaker 2: government in the state of Texas. This is by the
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Speaker 2: law and I teach teach this. In Texas politics, only
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Speaker 2: the governor can call and convene a special session. And
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Speaker 2: while they're in special session, Uh, they're confined to the
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Speaker 2: governor's agenda and if something needs to be added is
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Speaker 2: up to the governor to add that agenda. So that's
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Speaker 2: that's why we hear uh in terms of looking at
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Speaker 2: the registrictant. Now moving forward, do you do you do
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Speaker 2: you have a question or you want me to move
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Speaker 2: to Houston and talk about the impact in terms of well.
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Speaker 3: I was just I was just curious if if if
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Speaker 3: Trump didn't didn't put this on the on the on
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Speaker 3: the on the plate, would we have had a special session?
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Speaker 2: Now we were going to have a special session anyway
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Speaker 2: to deal with the floods. All right, the question would
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Speaker 2: from you would be would redistrict and been on the
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Speaker 2: special session agenda? Is that understanding what you're asking?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, basically, oh, if we didn't have this flood,
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Speaker 3: would we have had a special session? Of game with you?
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Speaker 3: What do you just what do you still call the
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Speaker 3: special session?
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Speaker 2: Well, most people don't understand. According to the US Constitution,
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Speaker 2: we are supposed to count the population based on what
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Speaker 2: we call a decinial basis. That's every ten years. That's
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Speaker 2: in the Constitution to deal with the apportionment of the
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Speaker 2: House of Representatives in terms of we count people. And
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Speaker 2: I tell my students all the time because sometimes redistricting
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Speaker 2: is not understood, and I'm hoping what the only positive
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Speaker 2: things can come from this is that people will know
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Speaker 2: about redistricting and how it the implications it had for politics,
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Speaker 2: h and how it governs their their lives and also
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Speaker 2: in terms of resources coming into their state.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: Now, we have five hundred and thirty five members of
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Speaker 2: the Congress, and we have a bi camer Congress, two chambers.
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Speaker 2: In the House of Representatives. The representation there is based
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Speaker 2: upon population is proportional and in all four hundred and
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Speaker 2: thirty five members of the House of Representatives should represent
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Speaker 2: approximately the same number of people. So we know that
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Speaker 2: people move in population swales.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: So we've seen growth in populations in California, which is
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Speaker 2: the largest in terms of population. They have the largest
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Speaker 2: delegation of more than fifty members of the Congress of
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Speaker 2: the House Representatives, and in the state of Texas we
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Speaker 2: have thirty eight and the population there in Florida the
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Speaker 2: population is grown, so people will move from Rush belt states,
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Speaker 2: they'll come from Michigan, they'll come from the people. So
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Speaker 2: those states can lose representation. Because what you do, how
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Speaker 2: do you get to the desirable number of how many
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Speaker 2: people each member of the House of Representatives should represent.
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Speaker 2: You take four thirty five and you divide that into
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Speaker 2: the population of the United States of America, and so
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Speaker 2: the ideal population will be between eight hundred and nine
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Speaker 2: hundred thousand for each congressional district. And that's the way
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Speaker 2: we come up with that number, all right, And there's
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Speaker 2: no mathematical exactness, like we'll say eight fifty if that's
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Speaker 2: the number, we know that CIVI or Garcia may have
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Speaker 2: eight forty, or Algreen could have a twenty. So the
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Speaker 2: Supreme Court will allow for what we call some deviation,
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Speaker 2: and normally that deviation is within ten percent. However, you
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Speaker 2: cannot have one member of Congress representing four hundred people
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Speaker 2: and if you have one of the other congress persons
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Speaker 2: represent eight hundred because why because a person with one
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Speaker 2: hundred four hundred here's or her vote would be twice
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Speaker 2: the impact. So it has to be equal in terms
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Speaker 2: of population. So that's the standard formula, and so people
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Speaker 2: have to understand that. So when they draw these districts. Now,
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Speaker 2: the US Supreme Court doesn't restrict them from calling redistricting
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Speaker 2: the districts at any time, and most people understand that.
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Speaker 2: And normally what has happened in the past is after
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Speaker 2: the census is taken every ten years, that's in your basis,
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Speaker 2: that's in the constitution. Where then after that, normally than
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Speaker 2: the first year twenty twenty one when Texas did it,
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Speaker 2: that's when they will draw new maps to account for
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Speaker 2: population changes. All right, And so what we have seen
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Speaker 2: in recent years is mid term redistricting. And I'm going
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Speaker 2: around the world to answer your question because first I'm
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Speaker 2: an academic and I'm a professor, and I have to
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Speaker 2: teach you all of these things, right, So, uh, yes,
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Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with with what they're doing in terms
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Speaker 2: of redistricting. So to answer your question, what they have
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Speaker 2: done and now I don't think so if if top
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Speaker 2: had not make a call. So that's what.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned. You mentioned the Supreme Court and the Constitution,
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Speaker 3: And what I've seen is that what this president has
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Speaker 3: done is rechanged and restructure the Constitution and restructure the
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Speaker 3: Supreme Court all decisions. That's that they're being made right now.
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Speaker 3: So you might want to explain how some people say this.
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Speaker 2: Is racist, Well, you know, I have to and again,
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Speaker 2: and I think that's one of the reasons I said
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Speaker 2: that I wasn't going to talk about, uh, what happened
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Speaker 2: with Charlie Kirk and whatever. But we get a lot
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Speaker 2: of misinformation and everything right now, you don't you don't
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Speaker 2: restructure as a formal process, the restructure and changing the constitution,
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Speaker 2: we call that the amendment process. If they want to
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Speaker 2: do a total rewrite, they have to have a convention.
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Speaker 2: Now the provisions in the Constitution for doing both of
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Speaker 2: those things all right Now, the Constitution is a living
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Speaker 2: document that is subject to interpretation. And we believe that
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Speaker 2: we're supposed to have this neutral Supreme Court or this
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Speaker 2: umpire if you will, which is the third branch of government,
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Speaker 2: and it was given the power of judicial review. That's
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Speaker 2: what means. It has the power to interpret the constitutions
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Speaker 2: and also deal with federal questions or disputes between states. Now,
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Speaker 2: is the Supreme Court politicized? Are they human beings? Yes,
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Speaker 2: they are. They come with persuasion and the presidents will
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Speaker 2: appoint people to the Supreme Court based upon whether or
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Speaker 2: not those potential justices that they place on the bench
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Speaker 2: will reflect what we call their judicial temperament. Now what
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Speaker 2: do we mean by the judicial temperament. That's a philosophical
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Speaker 2: point of view in terms of politics, whether they're liberal, conservative,
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Speaker 2: or Republican. We've seen in recent years, and Obama didn't
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Speaker 2: get the right to appoint Mary Garland, but we've seen
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Speaker 2: I don't want to say the packing of the court,
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Speaker 2: but adding of a Republican majority. And Trump was able
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Speaker 2: to add members to the Supreme Court, and we had
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Speaker 2: one the senator from Kentucky was Adam on but then
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Speaker 2: allow Obama to appoint Mary Garland. But however, I think
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Speaker 2: you can't just really blame the senator from Kentucky. But
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Speaker 2: ruthe Bada Ginsburg. She just stayed on there forever, all right,
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Speaker 2: and then when she came off, that allows somebody. So
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Speaker 2: some of these times, if you're strategic, if you're a
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Speaker 2: Supreme Court justice, and if you know that you're a
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Speaker 2: liberal persuasion, and if you have a person, if you're
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Speaker 2: believing in terms of a Democrat, would appoint somebody more
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Speaker 2: left the center as opposed to being a writer center.
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Speaker 2: Then why you just don't stay on message forever? All right?
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Speaker 2: So you come off all right. So that's what we've
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Speaker 2: seen in terms of the remaking of the court, all right.
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Speaker 2: And but Trump is not changing the constitution all right
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Speaker 2: in terms of right, there's a formal process for that.
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Speaker 2: But he's writing a lot of executive orders to get
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Speaker 2: around a number of things now and when these challenges
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Speaker 2: are calling into place, he's winning in the Supreme Court
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Speaker 2: because there's a court that is more of a kind
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Speaker 2: of conservative Supreme Court to the right, some people say extreme.
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Speaker 2: So I'll start there right talk about textas in terms
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Speaker 2: of how the maps in terms of what we see
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Speaker 2: in Houston.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't want to talk about that. But
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Speaker 3: also I just want to back up a bit that
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Speaker 3: when you say Ginsburg, uh to the to the left earlier,
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Speaker 3: I mean I don't understand. I mean, she didn't know
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Speaker 3: what health was going to get. We're gonna get him
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Speaker 3: as he was. I've heard criticism like that, admiration for her, right,
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Speaker 3: But when you know that you're an object, uh, after
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Speaker 3: you know you're in your agies or whatever, just like Biden,
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Speaker 3: we can go. And we saw his vice president release
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Speaker 3: a book this week, and now she's come out and
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Speaker 3: said something that it was basically a disaster for him
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Speaker 3: to stay there that long. And I'm talking about Kamala
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Speaker 3: Harrison in terms of bike right and and some people
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Speaker 3: are speaking out in terms of what we may see,
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Speaker 3: what's gonna what's gonna happen in the eighteenth Congressional district.
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Speaker 3: And I'll get more into that because al Green's district, a.
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Speaker 2: Sizeable portion from the ninth has been moved into the
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Speaker 2: eighteenth Congression. Gotten that when you when we talk about redistrict,
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Speaker 2: you should have booked me for the day because that's
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Speaker 2: a lot that's that's taken place as a result of this.
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Speaker 2: So let's go back to the mass. Let's start in Houston, person.
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Speaker 2: So the nineteenth, I tell you, it's become with the
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Speaker 2: new math, will become a Republican right because they've included
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Speaker 2: more Republican votersts and so they took a large chunk
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Speaker 2: out of the ninth Congressional district the black people moved
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Speaker 2: them into the eighteenth Congressional district. So the eighteenth Congressional
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Speaker 2: district will remain even under the new mast a majority
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Speaker 2: opportunity districts for black people, all right. Actually it increased
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Speaker 2: the numbers because they were more Hispanics than Blacks in
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Speaker 2: the under the current configuration of the district. Okay, and
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Speaker 2: so what do we call that, well, in redistrict and parlast,
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Speaker 2: we call call that cracking and packing. So they cracked
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Speaker 2: the nineteenth, took the black voters, moved them into the eighteenth.
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Speaker 2: So they packed that concentrated them, all right, as opposed
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Speaker 2: to splitting them up having more blacks in the ninth
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Speaker 2: district where you get two black members of Congress, now
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Speaker 2: you will only have one. That was the aim, and
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Speaker 2: that will probably will be the eighteenth congressional district. That's
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Speaker 2: where they moved most of the black votes out of
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Speaker 2: the ninth congress districts out of that. Now, whether they
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Speaker 2: do for the twenty ninth district, they moved more Latinos
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Speaker 2: in that district and gives the appearance that it's a
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Speaker 2: Hispanic opportunity district. What we mean by what I mean
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Speaker 2: by opportunity district is where Hispanic candidate were to run
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Speaker 2: and then they have a good chance of winning a
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Speaker 2: majority in terms of the voting age, population, voting age
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Speaker 2: populations people eighteen years of age older and registered voters. Well,
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Speaker 2: a large number of citizens in the twenty ninth, and
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Speaker 2: even in the night district to a certain extent, they
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Speaker 2: may not even be citizens, or the voting age population
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Speaker 2: may may not favor Hispanics. So that's an illusion there. Now,
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Speaker 2: what they did to the twenty ninth, they did leave
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Speaker 2: a significant black population in that and then runs on
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Speaker 2: the north side. And what I think could happened is
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Speaker 2: that a black person could win that Democratic primary in
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Speaker 2: the twenty ninth district, And there are a number of
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Speaker 2: people I know who are looking into it. I think
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Speaker 2: Javis Johnson may be considering running for the twenty ninth
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Speaker 2: as opposed to running for the eighteen congress district because
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Speaker 2: he didn't file for the eighteenth congressional district in the primary.
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Speaker 2: Because Latinos and Hispanics they don't turn out, and so
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Speaker 2: that may be one of the problems. So if the
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Speaker 2: black people in that newly configured twenty ninth districts, the
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Speaker 2: one that Sevia Garcia represents, now, if they turned out
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Speaker 2: in the primary, which will more than life, it will
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Speaker 2: be a low turnout election. All Right, You can nominate
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Speaker 2: a black person. So that's where we are in the
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Speaker 2: Houston area in terms of the implication of the new maps,
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Speaker 2: of the new maps. But it's gonna so it's a
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Speaker 2: ball of confusion because you have this special elections for
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Speaker 2: you know, Turnacy and people in the eighteenth congressional district.
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Speaker 2: So oh no, I don't know. Then they change my
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Speaker 2: mat so they're listening to what happened recently. But no,
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Speaker 2: they're still in the eighteenth congressional district as it currently exists,
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Speaker 2: so they'll be able to vote in that. But whoever
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Speaker 2: win that election will have to come right back in file,
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Speaker 2: you know, and in December before yeah, right after the election,
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Speaker 2: they have to file to run in the twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: six print primaries. And so what I'm saying, the person
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Speaker 2: who win, and we know that the people in the
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Speaker 2: league who have the best chances Kristin Menefee, Amanda Edwards
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Speaker 2: and the month hel Lass running as a Republican and
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Speaker 2: we have some independent running right, but they're going to
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Speaker 2: have to come back and they have a face, al Green.
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Speaker 2: So that's what I'm saying, because a Green, you know,
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Speaker 2: people that power man, you know, you get addicted to it.
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Speaker 2: You don't want to leave Congress, right, you don't want
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Speaker 2: to retire, right. So that's where we are in terms
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Speaker 2: of day.
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Speaker 1: That was doctor Michael O. Adams. He is the director
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Speaker 1: of the Master of Public Affairs Graduate program at TSU's
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Speaker 1: Barbara Jordan Mickey Leland's School of Public Affairs. Union workers
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Speaker 1: of the Hilton Hotel in downtown Houston voted to continue
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Speaker 1: their strike until the twentieth of this month. Union workers
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Speaker 1: walked out on strike, as reported on this show, fighting
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Speaker 1: for higher wages and more benefits. Some at the Hilton
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Speaker 1: have not had a raise in more than twenty plus years.
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Speaker 1: They have been with a company. Others work two or
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Speaker 1: three jobs just to make it buy. Unite Here twenty three,
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Speaker 1: the union representing the workers, stated that the latest negotiations
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Speaker 1: only lasted a short time. Now the Mayor of Houston,
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Speaker 1: John Whitmyer, is involved by canceling his State of the
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Speaker 1: Union function at the hotel and the city run gala
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Speaker 1: that was to be at the hotel. We talked to
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Speaker 1: Francesca Caraballo, Texas Chapter President of Unite here Local twenty
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Speaker 1: three downtown on Saturday.
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Speaker 4: Yes, we decided to extend after having a conversation with
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Speaker 4: the company and them coming back with you know, we
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Speaker 4: can't even call it a real offer. When we came
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Speaker 4: back to the workers and let them know what the
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Speaker 4: company had said, workers unanimously said, we got to stay out,
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Speaker 4: we can't go back in.
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Speaker 5: So we decided to extend the strikes ten more days.
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Speaker 6: How's it gonna hold up for you guys.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we're on day to state thirteen and
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Speaker 4: workers are feeling feeling strong. I mean, they really agitated
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Speaker 4: them the news from the company, and it just shows
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Speaker 4: that the workers are standing firm.
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Speaker 5: They don't want to give up until they get what
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Speaker 5: they deserve. It's long overdue, so they're willing to do
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Speaker 5: what it takes.
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Speaker 6: Did they come to offer anything anything positive?
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Speaker 5: Or I mean not not really.
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Speaker 4: I mean they came back with like another fifty cents,
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Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean they they originally offered fifty cents
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Speaker 4: at the table, and so.
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Speaker 3: That's for that was it.
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Speaker 6: You're trying to get twenty three.
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Speaker 5: We're trying to get twenty three.
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Speaker 4: They offered, you know, over a five year span. They
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Speaker 4: want to They had originally offered three twenty five over
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Speaker 4: five years. So some of the workers again they're making
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Speaker 4: sixteen to fifty, so they won't even make it to
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty thirty.
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Speaker 5: So with the with the offer that they put.
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Speaker 4: On the table back in July, you know, under twenty dollars,
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Speaker 4: we want twenty three now. So you know, they came
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Speaker 4: back after a week of striking and said, okay, we'll
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Speaker 4: bump it up to you know, we'll pump it up another.
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Speaker 5: Fifty cents basically, So that wasn't obviously.
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Speaker 7: Three years.
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Speaker 6: It's not, it's not it's not immediate.
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Speaker 4: I'm not quite sure like how it was going to
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Speaker 4: be phased in, but I just know the total package
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Speaker 4: was three seventy five over five years. Obviously, that's that's unacceptable.
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Speaker 4: That's not that doesn't meet the needs of the workers
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Speaker 4: living in Houston in.
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Speaker 5: Twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 4: So, uh, you know, hence why workers were you know,
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Speaker 4: ready to do whatever it takes, so they voted to
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Speaker 4: extend the strike.
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Speaker 6: Does this include everybody?
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Speaker 3: It's just play.
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Speaker 5: Differently, right, Yeah, different classifications.
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Speaker 2: More.
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Speaker 5: There are tips, Yeah, there are tip workers.
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Speaker 4: So tip workers do make you know, less than the
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Speaker 4: sixteen fifty hourly workers, but you know they're wages mostly
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Speaker 4: made up by tips.
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Speaker 5: So but we are fighting for tipworkers.
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Speaker 4: We're fighting for better gratuity, right, we need higher gratuities.
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Speaker 4: The Hilton is behind when it comes to that. Most
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Speaker 4: establishments are at least twenty to twenty five you know, gratuities.
21:20
Speaker 4: Some of these workers are still having to coast by.
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Speaker 5: On eighteen fifteen.
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Speaker 4: It's just not it's not reasonable at all for a
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Speaker 4: luxurious hotel like Hilton to refuse to move up the gratuity.
21:32
Speaker 4: So we're not just ready for the hourly workers, you know,
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Speaker 4: we're also a union of tipped employees as well.
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Speaker 6: What about the aspect of the mayor supporting you guys,
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Speaker 6: I guess you guys went.
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Speaker 7: To City Hall.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so we went to city Hall.
21:43
Speaker 4: We backed the room on Tuesday, we had several powerful
21:46
Speaker 4: speakers share why they're on strike. You know, got some
21:51
Speaker 4: responses from the city Council and the mayor. But I
21:55
Speaker 4: think workers really felt that boost of support when the
22:00
Speaker 4: mayor's announcement came out. I think it was the next
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Speaker 4: day he announced that he was postponing his state of
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Speaker 4: the city at at at the Hilton. So that's a
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Speaker 4: big move, you know, where the words maybe didn't satisfy
22:11
Speaker 4: a lot of people that action spoke, you know, spoke
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Speaker 4: louder so that.
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Speaker 6: Make any statement for the for the Hilton to say
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Speaker 6: anything about.
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Speaker 5: It, not that I'm aware of.
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Speaker 4: I haven't heard any statement from the Hilton, but I
22:23
Speaker 4: know that it means a lot to the workers that
22:25
Speaker 4: you know, the mayor took this action. And you know,
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Speaker 4: this morning we had the Democrat Harrison County Democratic Party
22:31
Speaker 4: also announced that they're postponing there gala that was supposed
22:34
Speaker 4: to take place here on the twenty end, So that.
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Speaker 5: Really excited the workers.
22:38
Speaker 4: If there's a momentum, momentum right now that the workers
22:41
Speaker 4: are feeling and and are feeling.
22:44
Speaker 6: Very strong and supported meeting with.
22:48
Speaker 4: I believe we have some meetings maybe next week. I'm
22:51
Speaker 4: not too sure, but I believe there's gonna be some
22:54
Speaker 4: some conversations hapening.
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Speaker 6: Next week that's going and any possible to come out
22:59
Speaker 6: of that.
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Speaker 4: Or I think so, I mean, they have to be
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Speaker 4: feeling the pressure. I mean, all eyes are on them
23:05
Speaker 4: right now. The city, you know, slowly but surely her
23:08
Speaker 4: coalescing around the workers, and I think that the Hilton's
23:12
Speaker 4: feeling and how do you not, I mean, it's a
23:14
Speaker 4: city owned hotel and the City Council, the mayor, the
23:17
Speaker 4: Democratic Party, like they've come out very strongly in support
23:21
Speaker 4: of the workers, So I think that's going to move
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Speaker 4: the needle.
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Speaker 6: All says the city run hotel explain.
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Speaker 4: It's yeah, it's owned by the by the City by
23:28
Speaker 4: Houston First, which is like a quasi you know, governmental agency, So.
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Speaker 5: They are the owners of the hotel. Hilton manages the hotel.
23:38
Speaker 4: We bargain with Hilton, but ultimately Hilly Houston person the
23:41
Speaker 4: City of Houston have a lot of influence over what
23:44
Speaker 4: happens here and so for them to you know, take
23:47
Speaker 4: these actions now, it's it shows, you know, the pressure's.
23:50
Speaker 5: Mounting on Hilton management to come to the table with
23:53
Speaker 5: a real offer.
23:54
Speaker 6: What do you mean is for support from the community.
23:57
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, like I said, we have extended the right.
24:00
Speaker 4: Workers are out of work. It's a big sacrifice. So
24:03
Speaker 4: we do have go fund me out there that's being
24:06
Speaker 4: shared on social media. So anybody that can that's a
24:08
Speaker 4: that's the biggest way to support right now because people
24:10
Speaker 4: still got to pay their bills and support their family.
24:12
Speaker 4: So we're a lot of workers are depending on these
24:15
Speaker 4: donations to roll in and otherwise I.
24:18
Speaker 5: Mean coming to the picket line.
24:19
Speaker 4: Sharing, sharing our stories on social media is a big
24:22
Speaker 4: is a big help as well.
24:25
Speaker 6: Go fund me is unite here.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it was created by by us by unite here.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's on our social media pages.
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Speaker 6: Social media pages unit here twenty.
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Speaker 5: Three Local twenty Yeah, you know, I hear Local twenty three.
24:37
Speaker 6: That's where you can find find out about donating. Yes, correct, cool? Yes, cool?
24:42
Speaker 6: And they can come down and people want to come
24:44
Speaker 6: down and help out and.
24:45
Speaker 3: Do that too.
24:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. We have people coming down every day
24:48
Speaker 4: to the picket line. We're out here usually from seven
24:50
Speaker 4: am to like seven pm.
24:51
Speaker 5: We have picket lines.
24:52
Speaker 4: We do take breaks because it's hot out here, but
24:54
Speaker 4: you know, come by and stick around for for picketing.
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Speaker 1: That was Francesca carballa Texas chapter president of unite here
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Speaker 1: Local twenty three. They are continuing their strike against the
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Speaker 1: Hilton Hotel in downtown Houston. Their Facebook page is unite
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Speaker 1: here Local twenty three.
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Speaker 1: dot com. Months after targeting schools like Harvard with anti
25:45
Speaker 1: Semitism allegations which have since been found false, and denying
25:50
Speaker 1: federal funds to the school, now the convicted felon's criminal
25:55
Speaker 1: administration is saying that schools are using proxies for race
25:59
Speaker 1: in admission, even though there is no proof of that.
26:03
Speaker 1: In late July, Attorney General Pam Bondi warned in a
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Speaker 1: memo against using unlawful proxies for race, such as geography
26:11
Speaker 1: or applicants essays on overcoming hardships in admissions. Soon after,
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Speaker 1: the US Education Department announced that it would require universities
26:20
Speaker 1: to report new data on applicants broken down by race
26:24
Speaker 1: to ensure race based preferences are not used. Universities have
26:29
Speaker 1: been prohibited from using racial preferences in admission since the
26:32
Speaker 1: Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in twenty twenty three.
26:37
Speaker 1: The Trump administration suggests that schools may be flouting the ban.
26:41
Speaker 1: In the end, this results in fewer black students being
26:44
Speaker 1: accepted to higher education. We talked to Dante King, author
26:48
Speaker 1: of the new book Diagnosing Whiteness and Anti Blackness. He
26:52
Speaker 1: spoke on what he sees is happening, what I see here.
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Speaker 8: When I'm looking at this, especially when we look at
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Speaker 8: the memo that was issued by Pam Bondi in July,
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Speaker 8: the Attorney General, and they are targeting what they are
27:10
Speaker 8: calling unlawful proxies for race. So go with me, unlawful
27:15
Speaker 8: proxies such as geography or applicant essays on overcoming hardships,
27:21
Speaker 8: all right. So in their minds, they have ideas about
27:25
Speaker 8: what they're projecting is associated with certain races based on
27:31
Speaker 8: these what they're calling unlawful proxies. This is all about
27:35
Speaker 8: them projecting racist ideas and trying to find various ways
27:39
Speaker 8: based on their projections with not roots in reality, to
27:44
Speaker 8: try and limit the access to these institutions by black
27:49
Speaker 8: and brown people. What is so interesting about this is
27:53
Speaker 8: we know that by the numbers, there are more poor
27:56
Speaker 8: white people in this country, because there are more white
28:00
Speaker 8: people in this country by the numbers, all right, So
28:03
Speaker 8: if we're talking about the likelihood of people who would
28:07
Speaker 8: potentially you know, write more of these hardship essays or
28:13
Speaker 8: you know, if they're coming from environments where they're writing
28:17
Speaker 8: about how they had to overcome situations such as poverty,
28:21
Speaker 8: et cetera. The likelihood of that there are more white
28:24
Speaker 8: people doing that is very likely and very high. So
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Speaker 8: you know, this is all about to me, and I
28:30
Speaker 8: write about this in my book, Diagnosing Whiteness and Anti Blackness.
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Speaker 8: This is all about psychological projection. You've got the other guy,
28:38
Speaker 8: Edward Bloom, going on record. He's the one who brought
28:41
Speaker 8: who got behind those Asian students and they were able
28:43
Speaker 8: to bring that case that struck down affirmative action to
28:46
Speaker 8: the Supreme Court in twenty twenty three. He says, I
28:48
Speaker 8: suspect a goodly percentage are using illegal proxies because to
28:54
Speaker 8: your point, black enrollment didn't fall in certain schools, and
28:57
Speaker 8: so he's saying, I suspect the percentage are using ill proxies.
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Speaker 8: This is all about suspicion. This is all about ideas,
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Speaker 8: psychological projection, ideas that are that are not rooted in reality,
29:11
Speaker 8: and it is in alignment with what this country is
29:16
Speaker 8: all about, the legacy of this country, which is targeting
29:19
Speaker 8: black people using American institutions and the predominance of the
29:24
Speaker 8: white race and community using white institutions and manipulating institutions
29:29
Speaker 8: to target black people. The legacy of this country is
29:32
Speaker 8: anti black racism and white supremacy. And I think we
29:36
Speaker 8: need to unpack this through both the historical and current
29:39
Speaker 8: lens if we're ever to understand how these things have
29:42
Speaker 8: been programmed and trained in over centuries.
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Speaker 3: What why do you say this, but the predominant classes
29:54
Speaker 3: are or still you know, the special major universities are
29:57
Speaker 3: still being attach bio by so called allowing more afric
30:03
Speaker 3: Commericans to go to school there. And I'm talking about
30:06
Speaker 3: major university like Howard Howard, but like Harvard, Berkeley and
30:11
Speaker 3: those types of schools. Those are the schools that are
30:12
Speaker 3: being attacked by the time.
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Speaker 8: Well, it's it's not and I'm not trying to you know,
30:19
Speaker 8: assert or put forth any type of conspiracy theories. But
30:24
Speaker 8: you know, one of the things that I thought about
30:28
Speaker 8: over the last few years, especially when Trump was being
30:32
Speaker 8: you know, before he ran for office, he decided to
30:35
Speaker 8: run for office, and then they brought forth you know,
30:37
Speaker 8: they started bringing forth those investigations regarding you know, January
30:42
Speaker 8: sixth and so the other things. He's he's he was
30:46
Speaker 8: prosecuted by you know, three top officials who happened to
30:50
Speaker 8: be black, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James Fini, Fannie uh I
30:57
Speaker 8: forget her last name, Willis. And then you've got you know,
31:02
Speaker 8: Joe Biden coming along, and he appoints, for the first
31:05
Speaker 8: time ever, the first black female Supreme Court justice. And
31:10
Speaker 8: if we go back in history and we look at
31:13
Speaker 8: when Lyndon B. Johnson, you know, after he was out
31:18
Speaker 8: of office, they elected Nixon right after him, and that
31:21
Speaker 8: had to do with a lot of wide America who
31:24
Speaker 8: were very angry and upset about the Civil Rights build
31:27
Speaker 8: of nineteen sixty four, the Voting Rights Act of nineteen
31:30
Speaker 8: sixty five, and the Fair Housing Act of nineteen sixty eight.
31:34
Speaker 8: In mind, you there's a Supreme Court ruling that actually
31:38
Speaker 8: upheld the Civil Rights Act of eighteen sixty six, that
31:41
Speaker 8: said that racial discrimination in housing was unjust because of
31:44
Speaker 8: the Civil Rights Act of eighteen sixty six. And so
31:47
Speaker 8: you have all of these things converging at that time,
31:50
Speaker 8: and then Lyndon B. Johnson for the first time ever
31:52
Speaker 8: appoints the first black Supreme Court justice, which is third
31:55
Speaker 8: good Marshall wider America lost its mind and so we're
31:58
Speaker 8: seeing the same thing here. And they don't want us
32:02
Speaker 8: at these IV League institutions, and they are finding ways
32:05
Speaker 8: to ensure that black people are not able to attend. Ever,
32:11
Speaker 8: they just do not want a black presence at these
32:13
Speaker 8: iv LEU institutions because they don't want another Fannie Willis.
32:17
Speaker 8: They don't want another Katanji Brown Jackson. They don't want
32:20
Speaker 8: another joy and Reid. We I mean, we have to
32:23
Speaker 8: look at this through both the political and economic lands.
32:28
Speaker 3: What do you know, like at us also women the
32:31
Speaker 3: speritin the HBCU schools and help more people attending the
32:36
Speaker 3: HBCU schools making it as stronger.
32:39
Speaker 8: Well, you know what's very interesting you know about HBCUs
32:44
Speaker 8: and this is very unfortunate I have you know, my
32:48
Speaker 8: background is in human resources management, and I can say honestly,
32:52
Speaker 8: I mean I've worked for some pretty national large corporations.
32:57
Speaker 8: American institutions and degrees from HBCUs are not recognized the
33:03
Speaker 8: same across this country. There are institutions just as well,
33:07
Speaker 8: you know, geographically, just as well as you know, having
33:12
Speaker 8: a certain brand right that when they are looking at
33:17
Speaker 8: or assessing one qualifications for a position. They will look
33:22
Speaker 8: and say, Okay, this person went to a first race school,
33:26
Speaker 8: which is our Ivy League institutions, which are historically white institutions.
33:32
Speaker 8: And then they will say, oh, this person wish to
33:34
Speaker 8: a went to an ABC HBCUs And they're almost saying
33:37
Speaker 8: it in ways that well, this is looked upon as
33:41
Speaker 8: somewhat of an immigrant degree. It does not hold the
33:43
Speaker 8: same weight. And so I think we have to look
33:46
Speaker 8: at that too, because blackness in this country is seen
33:50
Speaker 8: as something politically that is not that does not hold
33:53
Speaker 8: the same value as things that are historically white and
33:57
Speaker 8: or predominantly white.
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Speaker 3: And I was going to say, but they still take
34:02
Speaker 3: in our athletes.
34:04
Speaker 8: You know, right, well.
34:08
Speaker 2: We want the earlier you don't.
34:11
Speaker 3: By the way, those those athletes graduation rate.
34:13
Speaker 2: Is still low.
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Speaker 8: Wow, And what And that's a great point. That is
34:18
Speaker 8: a great point. What I've always said to that though, too,
34:21
Speaker 8: is that white people are comfortable with diversity as long
34:26
Speaker 8: as they're able to exploit that diversity, as long as
34:29
Speaker 8: they're able to see themselves as superior over that diversity.
34:34
Speaker 8: So they're fine with black people being the entertainment. We've
34:37
Speaker 8: always been the entertainment. They're comfortable. We can sing, dance,
34:40
Speaker 8: we can record music, we can hold concerts, we can
34:43
Speaker 8: host comedy shows, we can be athletes. They're fine with
34:47
Speaker 8: us within that context. You can be from the breakfast
34:50
Speaker 8: club to stephen A. Smith. They're fine with us in
34:53
Speaker 8: positions of entertainment. But when we step outside of that
34:56
Speaker 8: and we try to access positions to hold real influ
35:00
Speaker 8: and power, they are not fine with that at all,
35:03
Speaker 8: especially when that power compromise their own ideas about themselves
35:07
Speaker 8: and their standing. You know, and I think we have
35:09
Speaker 8: to understand that this is about uplifting and the resurgence
35:16
Speaker 8: of you know, employing white inadequacy in white mediocrity across
35:21
Speaker 8: American institutions. You know, the guy that is in the
35:24
Speaker 8: Trump administration, Dan Batty. He talks about how American institutions
35:28
Speaker 8: need to be run by competent white men.
35:30
Speaker 2: But what have we've seen.
35:32
Speaker 8: We've seen Pete heck Seth in Signal Gay. We've seen
35:35
Speaker 8: Donald Trump, who is an admitted predator, who can't string
35:38
Speaker 8: five citizens to get coherent citences together, who probably did
35:42
Speaker 8: not take his own tests to write his own dissertation
35:45
Speaker 8: to get out of college, who most likely didn't take
35:47
Speaker 8: his own SAPs. What have we've seen. We've seen grifters.
35:50
Speaker 8: We've seen grifters be funneled through these institutions because they
35:54
Speaker 8: function on white affirmative action systems and processes of wide
35:58
Speaker 8: affirmative action and have to say, a white sponsorship.
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Speaker 3: We'll see this though. It puts it puts miss of
36:09
Speaker 3: for the Americans in a spot because if you're not accepted,
36:13
Speaker 3: you're not accepted in those those ivor league schools or
36:15
Speaker 3: even even the state fund the state schools when it's
36:19
Speaker 3: the same time you're defunding HBCU schools. Where those kids
36:23
Speaker 3: to go if they're not an athlete or or or
36:27
Speaker 3: or something to to to benefit that school.
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Speaker 8: Well, let's be clear. These are people, I mean, over time,
36:34
Speaker 8: we can just look back historically and watch what they've said.
36:38
Speaker 8: For for the most part, especially those that make up
36:44
Speaker 8: Donald Trump's followers, many of these people think don't don't
36:49
Speaker 8: think highly of education at all. They want the educational
36:53
Speaker 8: system defunded, They want these schools and institutions defunded. They
36:57
Speaker 8: don't believe that they have value, and they really look
37:01
Speaker 8: down or are quite bitter in terms of the sentimentality
37:05
Speaker 8: that is expressed or conveyed when you know you're talking
37:08
Speaker 8: about someone, even a white person that went to an
37:12
Speaker 8: Ivy League school, they think that, you know, those individuals
37:15
Speaker 8: for the most part, are classes that you know, education
37:20
Speaker 8: people believe that they are better because they have gone
37:22
Speaker 8: to these schools, and particularly liberal people. They believe that
37:25
Speaker 8: many of these institutions have turned liberal because of philosophies
37:29
Speaker 8: that are taught at these schools. Many of them have
37:31
Speaker 8: ethnic studies departments. Many of them teach history that's very
37:35
Speaker 8: you know, his disciplines in history within the history discipline
37:39
Speaker 8: that are very expansive and don't just tell the white
37:44
Speaker 8: narrative of you know, our country and the cherish narratives
37:48
Speaker 8: that we hear about this country. And so they want
37:52
Speaker 8: to dismantle those programs within these institutions, and they want
37:55
Speaker 8: to dismantle some of these institutions. There's a lot of
37:58
Speaker 8: ire and retribution that is felt where these institutions are concerned.
38:02
Speaker 8: So some of these people that we're talking about would
38:04
Speaker 8: rather not have education in this country.
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Speaker 2: And so where are we at?
38:13
Speaker 3: What do you tell a young young black students just
38:16
Speaker 3: graduating in high school.
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Speaker 8: Well, I don't know where we are I mean, I
38:20
Speaker 8: think we also have to contend with and deal with
38:23
Speaker 8: the fact that education in this country has been a business,
38:28
Speaker 8: but it's been sold as something that everyone should do
38:31
Speaker 8: and once you do it, once you go through that process,
38:34
Speaker 8: you will have access to opportunity. And yet we see
38:39
Speaker 8: that that's not the case. We see that even while
38:42
Speaker 8: many times there can be more jobs being produced to
38:45
Speaker 8: the economy through the economy, that many people are still jobless.
38:51
Speaker 8: Many people are in this country are still jobless. And
38:53
Speaker 8: you want to know why, because you're recruiting people internationally.
38:56
Speaker 8: Even though those jobs reports talk about jobs that are
39:00
Speaker 8: directly impacting the American economy, many of those jobs are
39:03
Speaker 8: not located here. Many of them are located internationally. And
39:07
Speaker 8: so we have to understand that people go into debt
39:10
Speaker 8: trying to access this opportunity, and then most people don't
39:13
Speaker 8: even find jobs. I'm not going to say most of
39:15
Speaker 8: many don't find jobs in the disciplines that they study.
39:18
Speaker 8: Many people go through that process, go through the educational
39:22
Speaker 8: process expecting that they're going to be able to make
39:25
Speaker 8: a livable wage to afford not only liveability, but to
39:28
Speaker 8: also pay back their student loans. In many cases, that
39:31
Speaker 8: does not happen. So we have to think about, you know,
39:34
Speaker 8: what is education set up to do in this country,
39:37
Speaker 8: who is it for and who really is able to
39:39
Speaker 8: benefit from it in terms of exercising it to access opportunity.
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Speaker 1: That was Dante King, author of the new book Diagnosing
39:47
Speaker 1: Whiteness and Anti Blackness, and yet another move to distract
39:51
Speaker 1: away from his decades long relationship with convicted sex predator
39:57
Speaker 1: and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Lane Maxwell. The convicted felon, criminal, corrupt,
40:04
Speaker 1: and incompetent. Donald Trump has called on his toady, Bill Poulty,
40:10
Speaker 1: to go after his perceived enemies. Bill Poulty of Poulty Holmes.
40:16
Speaker 1: Yes that Bill Poulty was named by Trump as the
40:19
Speaker 1: director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and as such
40:24
Speaker 1: has been filing criminal referrals to the Justice Apartment against
40:28
Speaker 1: Trump's perceived enemies, Adam shift Letitia James and now finally
40:35
Speaker 1: one of the Fed Governor's Lisa Cook, Congressman of the
40:39
Speaker 1: ninth Congressional District in Houston, Al Green, the top Democrat
40:43
Speaker 1: on the US House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight
40:47
Speaker 1: and Investigations, which oversees the federal Reserve system. The FED
40:52
Speaker 1: condemned the felon's unjustified and unprecedented firing of doctor Lisa Cook,
40:58
Speaker 1: the first black woman appointed to the fed's Board of Governors,
41:02
Speaker 1: as well as his unbridled efforts to undermine the independence
41:06
Speaker 1: of the FED. The Federal Reserve is the central bank
41:09
Speaker 1: of the United States. Its dual mandate is to promote
41:13
Speaker 1: maximum employment and insure stable prices. In pursuing this dual mandate,
41:19
Speaker 1: the FED was designed to function independently of political pressure
41:23
Speaker 1: from either the President or Congress. Doctor Cook was appointed
41:28
Speaker 1: to the fed's Board of Governors by President Biden and
41:31
Speaker 1: approved by the Congress in twenty twenty two. He spoke
41:34
Speaker 1: on this and his thoughts on not representing the district
41:38
Speaker 1: because of the new redistricting map in Texas Quora.
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Speaker 9: Thanks the members of the press for appearing on what
41:46
Speaker 9: I consider short notice, but I do believe that there's
41:49
Speaker 9: good reason for us to have this press event.
41:53
Speaker 7: The President has said that he has fired FED board
41:58
Speaker 7: member Lisa Cook.
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Speaker 9: The board member list the Cook has indicated that she
42:09
Speaker 9: is suing the President and in fact has done so.
42:13
Speaker 9: The FED chair Powell, has indicated that he will abide
42:18
Speaker 9: by the court's decision, President says he's fired her this.
42:23
Speaker 9: Cook has indicated that she is suing the President with
42:27
Speaker 9: regards to what she believes to be an unjust firing,
42:31
Speaker 9: and the Chair of the FED has indicated that he
42:37
Speaker 9: will abide by the court's decision. I think that the
42:41
Speaker 9: Chair Chair Powell, did not say enough. It is my
42:45
Speaker 9: opinion that he is surrendering some of the independence of
42:50
Speaker 9: the FED by giving an incomplete statement. I believe he
42:55
Speaker 9: should have gone on to indicate that until the court
42:59
Speaker 9: renders a decision, he will consider her.
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Speaker 7: A member of the FED. The President is playing with
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Speaker 7: economic fire.
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Speaker 9: In doing this, the President is putting the credibility of
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Speaker 9: our central Bank, which is thought to be an independent agency.
43:22
Speaker 9: The President is putting the credibility of our independent bank
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Speaker 9: at risk. Global markets do not want our central bank
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Speaker 9: to become a presidential tool, something that he can at
43:39
Speaker 9: a whim decide that interest rates may escalate or they
43:43
Speaker 9: may decline, and the President does do things on a whim.
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Speaker 9: It seems in doing this, the President is demonstrating once
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Speaker 9: again that he has little respect for due process.
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Speaker 3: Ms.
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Speaker 7: Cook has not been charged with a crime.
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Speaker 9: She has not obviously been convicted if she hasn't been charged,
44:04
Speaker 9: she hasn't been convicted of any crime, not charged with
44:07
Speaker 9: any crime. The President does not have proper respect for
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Speaker 9: a process, a due process. The President does not have
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Speaker 9: respect for the independence of the FED. The independence of
44:22
Speaker 9: the FED is the means by which the FED maintains
44:26
Speaker 9: its credibility. Global markets depend on this independence, and the
44:31
Speaker 9: President is eroding the independence of the FED. And unfortunately,
44:36
Speaker 9: mister Powell, in not standing with his Governor Cook, has
44:42
Speaker 9: to a limited extent, surrendered some of that independence. The
44:47
Speaker 9: President has demonstrated to us that he believes he is
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Speaker 9: more than the president of the United States. He is
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Speaker 9: the jury president, but he sees himself as a de
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Speaker 9: facto king, a de facto authoritarian president who.
45:07
Speaker 7: Can do anything that he wants, and has said as much.
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Speaker 7: The President cannot.
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Speaker 9: Be allowed to destroy the dollar as the world's supreme currency.
45:21
Speaker 9: It is the currency of choice, the reserve currency of choice,
45:25
Speaker 9: and it is the currency of choice because people have
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Speaker 9: faith in the FED, and they have faith in the
45:30
Speaker 9: FED because they don't believe the FED is tied.
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Speaker 7: To the President. The President is playing with economic fire.
45:39
Speaker 9: If we lose dollar supremacy, it will have an impact
45:43
Speaker 9: on our bond market.
45:45
Speaker 7: Our bond market is sought after globally.
45:48
Speaker 9: The bond market is what is used by municipalities when
45:53
Speaker 9: they're issuing new debts, by corporations when they issue new debt.
45:58
Speaker 9: The bond market is something that is not only helping
46:01
Speaker 9: to stabilize this country, it really is important in geopolitical stabilization.
46:07
Speaker 9: We have a duty and a responsibility to protect the
46:12
Speaker 9: independence of the FED. Now let me define the we
46:16
Speaker 9: and use a personal pronoun. I have served on the
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Speaker 9: Financial Services Committee since I arrived in Congress. I've had
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Speaker 9: the pre eminent honor and privilege of being the chairperson
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Speaker 9: of Oversight and Investigations, the subcommittee of the Financial Services Committee.
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Speaker 9: I am now the ranking member of the Oversight Subcommittee
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Speaker 9: of Financial Services.
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Speaker 7: It is Financial Services that has jurisdiction of oversight for
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Speaker 7: the FED.
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Speaker 9: When I say we, I'm talking about now members of
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Speaker 9: the Financial Services Committee. We have a responsibility to take
46:53
Speaker 9: the stand to protect the independence of the FED. I
47:00
Speaker 9: as a member of that committee, I'm going to do
47:02
Speaker 9: all that I can, especially as the ranking member on Oversight.
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Speaker 7: That means that I'm the top Democrat on the Oversight Subcommittee.
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Speaker 9: And I'm gonna do everything that I can to protect
47:14
Speaker 9: the independence of the FED, because in so doing, I'm
47:18
Speaker 9: protecting the independence of our economy, our sovereignty. This is
47:23
Speaker 9: bigger than the President simplifying a person. This is an
47:27
Speaker 9: assault on the institution that has made our economy the
47:33
Speaker 9: envy of the world. Yes, we in Congress play a role,
47:37
Speaker 9: Yes we do. Yes, the President plays a role. But friends,
47:41
Speaker 9: that independence of the FED is what global markets and
47:46
Speaker 9: leaders look to when they want to invest in the
47:50
Speaker 9: United States of America. So I'm calling them the President
47:55
Speaker 9: to cease and desist with this unreasonable behavior. He has
48:02
Speaker 9: gone too far. He's playing with economic fire, and he
48:07
Speaker 9: he must retract what he is doing. If he does not,
48:13
Speaker 9: then it's up to the courts. And I say the
48:16
Speaker 9: courts because this could matriculate to the Supreme Court, and
48:21
Speaker 9: it's up to these courts to do what they must
48:24
Speaker 9: to protect the independence of the FED. Because the FED,
48:27
Speaker 9: as it was designed, was to be an independent agency
48:30
Speaker 9: within the federal government. It's not a separate government and
48:33
Speaker 9: to itself, but it is an independent agency within the
48:36
Speaker 9: federal government, and that independence makes all the difference. Now,
48:42
Speaker 9: I want to close with something before I take your questions,
48:51
Speaker 9: it's important for us to note that our president is
48:59
Speaker 9: going after agency after agency, and in so doing, he
49:05
Speaker 9: is taking away the credibility of these agencies. He has
49:11
Speaker 9: looked at the labor markets in the sense of the
49:18
Speaker 9: way he behaves when he sees a report that he
49:24
Speaker 9: doesn't like. If it indicates that employment is great, it
49:29
Speaker 9: is valid, it's legitimate. If the number is not something
49:33
Speaker 9: that he finds favor with, he not only expresses his displeasure,
49:38
Speaker 9: he goes after the entity, the agency that has acquired
49:43
Speaker 9: the empirical evidence to produce the numbers that he finds.
49:47
Speaker 7: This favor with. The President believes that only he is
49:52
Speaker 7: right and the world is wrong.
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Speaker 9: This cannot continue. The president has it's got to be
50:00
Speaker 9: brought back into control. If the courts can't do it
50:07
Speaker 9: because he disrespects them, and the Congress won't do it
50:11
Speaker 9: because he controls the Republican majority, then.
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Speaker 7: We the people have the final option, and we have to.
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Speaker 9: Say to the President and know on certain terms you
50:24
Speaker 9: will not miss the president destroy the American economy.
50:28
Speaker 7: We the people can do this with many things.
50:31
Speaker 9: We have our voices, but we also have the right
50:35
Speaker 9: to protest I'm a believer in Protestation. It was Protestation
50:41
Speaker 9: that brought me to Congress. It was the Edmund Pettis
50:45
Speaker 9: Bridge on bloody Sunday in nineteen sixty five, when persons
50:49
Speaker 9: were beaten back to the church where they started as
50:52
Speaker 9: they approached this bridge, they were beaten back to the
50:54
Speaker 9: church where they started. John Lewis was there and he
50:56
Speaker 9: told me the story, said he thought he was gonna
50:57
Speaker 9: die on the end the Petts Bridge that the Voting
51:00
Speaker 9: Rights Act was signed. Many of us who are in
51:04
Speaker 9: Congress now are there because of the Voting Rights Act.
51:06
Speaker 9: President is assaulting the Voting Rights Act. The courts are
51:11
Speaker 9: abiding with his assault, and unfortunately Section two is under
51:17
Speaker 9: great threat. Just today the governor has signed I believe
51:21
Speaker 9: his new jerry mandering, unlawful jerry mandering that will challenge
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Speaker 9: in court.
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Speaker 7: But the point is the President is doing all that
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Speaker 7: he can to destroy these.
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Speaker 9: Institutions, and many of us in Congress because of these institutions.
51:42
Speaker 9: So we have to protect what has caused us to
51:46
Speaker 9: have the greatest economy in the world, and we have
51:50
Speaker 9: to protect it with all lawful means necessary. And Protestation,
51:55
Speaker 9: what happened that the Edmund Pettis Bridge is a supreme
51:57
Speaker 9: superb example of how Protestation can be a difference because
52:00
Speaker 9: it's made a difference in who's in the Congress of
52:03
Speaker 9: the United States of America. The diversity in the Congress
52:06
Speaker 9: of the United States of America. Protestation lead, legal, lawful, peaceful,
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Speaker 9: non violent. Protestation is a methodology by which change can
52:19
Speaker 9: be made. And I believe that the President is going
52:22
Speaker 9: to see more and more of this as he continues
52:26
Speaker 9: his unbridled assault on American institutions. I welcome your questions.
52:38
Speaker 10: Why do you, in your opinion, why do you think
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Speaker 10: he did what he did to becong reserve. Well, let's
52:44
Speaker 10: hear from the American Banker. The American Banker published an
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Speaker 10: independent piece and it is styled Fan's Independent Hangs on
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Speaker 10: Meaning of four Calls, published on August twenty nine, twenty five.
52:59
Speaker 10: Let's read some of what they say here to answer
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Speaker 10: the question. The question is why do I believe he
53:06
Speaker 10: has done this committed this act of firing. Let's read
53:12
Speaker 10: what the American Banker says.
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Speaker 9: It's indicates here in part ms Cook has not been
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Speaker 9: charged with the crime, let alone convicted of what.
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Speaker 7: The claim that she listed two homes as her primary residence.
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Speaker 9: Was first made by someone with another agency, the Federal
53:31
Speaker 9: Housing Finance Agency.
53:33
Speaker 7: And then he loudly.
53:36
Speaker 9: And publicly demanded interest rates cuts, and he blames the
53:41
Speaker 9: FED for constraining the housing market with high interest rates.
53:45
Speaker 7: The President wants the FED to do his bidding.
53:49
Speaker 9: The President wants the FED to lower interest rates because
53:52
Speaker 9: he understands that if this happens, there would be a
53:54
Speaker 9: better demand for homes because people can use low interest
53:57
Speaker 9: rates to buy their homes.
53:58
Speaker 7: So he wants lower interest rates.
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Speaker 9: Well, mister Powell and the members of the Fed have
54:04
Speaker 9: not decided to cut interest rates, and they haven't because
54:07
Speaker 9: they have concerns with the tariffs that the President continually manipulates.
54:15
Speaker 9: One day they're high, the next day they're low. The
54:18
Speaker 9: markets are responding as he raises tariffs and lords tariffs.
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Speaker 9: The President is fiddling with the economy, fiddling. It would
54:30
Speaker 9: be too polite to say that he is managing. He
54:34
Speaker 9: is just doing things in a willy nilly way with
54:38
Speaker 9: the economy. They go on to indicate in this article,
54:43
Speaker 9: Marcus have become more skeptical of America during his second term.
54:50
Speaker 9: The dollar has fallen nine percent against other rich world currencies.
54:55
Speaker 9: They go on to indicate, although short term treasury yields
54:58
Speaker 9: have fallen as the American economy has softened, longer term
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Speaker 9: yields have stayed high, reflecting investor concern about America's death
55:09
Speaker 9: load and threatens the economic institutions such as the FED.
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Speaker 9: This is what the American banker has said. So yes,
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Speaker 9: the rationale for his behavior appears to be his desire
55:22
Speaker 9: to see interest rates lord.
55:24
Speaker 7: But the governors at.
55:25
Speaker 9: The FED seem to understand that keeping these interest rates
55:30
Speaker 9: where they are until they get a better sense of
55:33
Speaker 9: what the tariffs are going to do to the economy
55:35
Speaker 9: makes sense. And quite frankly, that makes sense to me,
55:39
Speaker 9: makes sense to a good many other persons who are
55:42
Speaker 9: supposed to know how to manage our currency. I hope
55:48
Speaker 9: that the President understands that he's playing with economic fire.
55:53
Speaker 7: This impacts all of us.
55:55
Speaker 9: Every person in this country should be concerned about what
55:57
Speaker 9: the President is attempting to do to governor cook. You
56:02
Speaker 9: should be concerned because it can impact your interest rates.
56:06
Speaker 9: It can impact your ability to buy a car, to
56:09
Speaker 9: buy a whole. It can impact your ability to borrow
56:12
Speaker 9: money to start your business or to maintain your business.
56:16
Speaker 9: This is the through line to almost everything that we
56:21
Speaker 9: do in this economy. We have to be concerned about
56:24
Speaker 9: what the president is doing, and the course should be
56:28
Speaker 9: the last stand against this. But if the court should
56:32
Speaker 9: fail us, then we have to do what the Republican
56:36
Speaker 9: Congress won't do, and that is to take our calls to.
56:42
Speaker 7: The streets of America in a peaceful.
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Speaker 9: Way, in a peaceful, non violent way, to show the
56:49
Speaker 9: country that Americans are concerned about what's happening.
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