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INTERVIEW: Jasmine Crockett Says Our Freedoms Are On The Line, Talks Kamala's Running Mate, Supreme Court + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's DJ n V Jesse Larius Charlamagne the guy. We
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  Speaker 2: are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest.
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  Speaker 3: In the building.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.
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  Speaker 1: She's back a morning, Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How you feeling it's too early?
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  Speaker 3: You told to be in the jibe? Okay, your party
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  Speaker 3: is in the job, So beings.
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  Speaker 1: In a job is your party? Congress Woman just at
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  Speaker 1: Broccoli Festival party.
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  Speaker 4: And I was it was amazing too, and they let
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  Speaker 4: me on stage. So black people with their black job
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  Speaker 4: is this November?
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  Speaker 1: How did they react to that? Were they energized? They
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  Speaker 1: were energized. It was great. I did a couple of things.
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  Speaker 4: I asked them if they had heard of Project twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty five, and the crowd was like yes, So that
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  Speaker 4: made me really happy. I also kind of did this
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  Speaker 4: calling response where I was like, already, so your black
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  Speaker 4: job this November is to vote. And so I came
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  Speaker 4: back right before Meg got on stage and I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just back to make sure that y'all remember what
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  Speaker 4: your job is.
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  Speaker 1: And they did.
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  Speaker 4: So they were engaged the entire time. It was really
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  Speaker 4: a great crowd, and it was talking to people that
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  Speaker 4: I feel like politicians don't take the time out to
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  Speaker 4: talk to.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, So yeah, very happy to be there.
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  Speaker 3: Where were you when you got the news that Democrats actually,
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  Speaker 3: you know, summoned up some courage and said, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: the time for President Biden to move aside, which they
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  Speaker 3: should have done a year ago. But we're not judging
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  Speaker 3: where were you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing this with you.
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  Speaker 4: I actually was in bed, so I don't remember where
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  Speaker 4: I've been traveling so much.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: I had just been to Phoenix with the Second Gentleman.
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  Speaker 4: We had just done an office opening. I had just
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  Speaker 4: come back from Africa, actually did over thirty hours to
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  Speaker 4: go out there to campaign for the Biden Hairs ticket,
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  Speaker 4: and so I had just fallen back on a red eye.
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  Speaker 4: I got back like Saturday morning, wee hours of the morning,
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  Speaker 4: and then Sunday I was like, okay, I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 4: a day a risk. It was nothing like dead, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 4: but I was literally laying in bed when I found
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  Speaker 4: out because I.
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  Speaker 3: Saw the tweet that you put on and you weren't
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  Speaker 3: that happy about them making the decision.
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  Speaker 4: So for me, it's all about how you do stuff
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  Speaker 4: and you know, like you're like, hey, this is a
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  Speaker 4: conversation that should have took place a year ago if
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  Speaker 4: there were concerns. I agree with you that this is
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  Speaker 4: something that should have been part of the conversation earlier.
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  Speaker 1: But I also felt like it was very disrespectful.
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  Speaker 4: This is a man who really does have an exemplary record,
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  Speaker 4: like the record that I am going to put out
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  Speaker 4: there as a campaign for.
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  Speaker 1: The vice president.
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  Speaker 4: They share this great record of accomplishment, but for them
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  Speaker 4: not to have more tact about this and not to
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  Speaker 4: look as crazy as we look where everything was Democrats
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  Speaker 4: kind of doing this in fighting.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: The Republicans, they have lined up with a rapist convicted
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  Speaker 4: you know, fell in like they fraud, Like they have
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  Speaker 4: lined up behind this guy who we know was telling
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  Speaker 4: us ignorant stuff like inject yourself with bleach and y'all
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  Speaker 4: want to tell me because he was stumbling and fumbling
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  Speaker 4: over words in a debate when we know that he
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  Speaker 4: was born with a stutter. I mean, these are people
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  Speaker 4: that are justifying January sixth. I'm like, if they can
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  Speaker 4: say that those people were just on the little tour
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  Speaker 4: and they were good patriots. Then y'all can stand by
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  Speaker 4: this record. And you know, if you have concerns about
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  Speaker 4: the lack of excitement for the base, then this is
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  Speaker 4: a conversation that I think it still would have went
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  Speaker 4: the same way if it was behind closed doors.
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  Speaker 1: But we really did.
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  Speaker 4: Ourself our own harm. Like that's where the harm. It
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  Speaker 4: wasn't coming from Republicans. It wasn't Republicans attacking us. It
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  Speaker 4: was us attacking us. And so I think that it
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  Speaker 4: does set a bad precedence.
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  Speaker 3: Right, But now a week later, a couple dollars raised,
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  Speaker 3: voters people excited.
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  Speaker 1: Listen.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you and I have talked about the VP before.
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  Speaker 4: You know that, like I ride and rock hard with her,
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  Speaker 4: always have, right, So the way that I describe it
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  Speaker 4: is a rollercoaster of emotions.
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  Speaker 1: Right, It was definitely a low the way that it happened.
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  Speaker 2: That showed a lack of unity.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely showed a unity outside the house like the house.
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  Speaker 2: I like that either I felt like people were switching sides,
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  Speaker 2: which I think it needed to be done, but I
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  Speaker 2: just felt like, let me, let me.
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  Speaker 4: Let me, let me give you some in house info.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna snitch on nobody because I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't say I don't. I don't do that all
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  Speaker 1: right most of the time. But here's the deal.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's great that the vice president is the
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  Speaker 4: presumptive nominee. Let me tell you something. As people were
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  Speaker 4: calling for the president to step down, it wasn't that
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  Speaker 4: they were all like, oh, yeah, we want Kamala. I
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  Speaker 4: had a lot of coworkers that were like, it can't
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  Speaker 4: be either one of them, okay. So that was another
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  Speaker 4: reason that I was riding so hard because I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: wait a minute, what we not gonna do is in fact,
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  Speaker 4: in that tweet, I made it clean. I'm not messing
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  Speaker 4: with nobody else. It's the vice president or y'all go
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  Speaker 4: figure this out. Like I'm not going out there. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not getting out there because y'all are playing games. So
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  Speaker 4: what we had to do is like behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 4: we had to strategically get ourselves together quickly. So I
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  Speaker 4: sent out a letter of endorsement to all of the
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  Speaker 4: delegates out of the state of Texas to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that they knew where I stood, and tried to get
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  Speaker 4: them to stand on business as well. And so we
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  Speaker 4: as Black Caucus members and some other caucus members immediately
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  Speaker 4: started getting in touch with delegates because if there was
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  Speaker 4: any daylight between his announcements and her coming out strong,
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  Speaker 4: then they would have tried to get somebody else. In fact,
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  Speaker 4: they were trying to get other people. I know y'all
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  Speaker 4: saw the Joe manchiinton By he was talking about, well,
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  Speaker 4: I may need to be president, the hell you do
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  Speaker 4: not in the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: The child child.
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  Speaker 2: Are you surprised us of the energy Doe, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, a lot of people necessarily didn't think
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  Speaker 2: that that ticket, k wim. Now the energy is different,
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  Speaker 2: but when they first announced, were you surprised that the
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  Speaker 2: energy immediately? She raised so much money immediately and people
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  Speaker 2: are coming out and droves immediately.
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  Speaker 1: I was surprised.
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  Speaker 4: I was surprised, but I was pleasantly surprised because I
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  Speaker 4: think that a lot of us, especially like black folk,
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  Speaker 4: we get nervous, right because we have seen the level
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  Speaker 4: of racism and vitriol that Trump has ushered in and
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  Speaker 4: he wins over voters that way. So now when we
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  Speaker 4: start talking about people of color, I mean, we know
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  Speaker 4: that the entire movement started with Obama, right, Like it
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  Speaker 4: was like this backlash type situation. So yes, I was nervous,
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  Speaker 4: but I am happy that thus far we've got the energy.
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  Speaker 4: Now the question is can we keep this energy through November?
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  Speaker 4: Can we transform this energy into votes? And I'm hoping
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  Speaker 4: that we can.
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  Speaker 3: How long do you think this honeymoon shase with the
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  Speaker 3: vice president is going on? Because it's still the same
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  Speaker 3: old Democratic Party? So what changes would you like to
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  Speaker 3: see in the Democratic Party? Since they made this massive
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  Speaker 3: change at the top of the ticket, what other changes
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  Speaker 3: would you like to see the keep that energy going.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think that there's a clear signal
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  Speaker 4: that overall we're wanting younger leadership, and there has been
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  Speaker 4: a gatekeeping for a very long time throughout every level
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  Speaker 4: of government. When it comes to the Democratic Party, we
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  Speaker 4: don't really allow for the younger voices to get in.
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  Speaker 4: The fact that I'm considered young is really a problem
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  Speaker 4: in my opinion. The only young person that I see
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  Speaker 4: in Congress is Maxwell Frost.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I know he's gen Z, so he's super young.
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  Speaker 4: But overall, I think that we should start to engage
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  Speaker 4: in more partnerships and mentorships where you're actually training somebody up.
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  Speaker 4: I think that there's always this fear that if I
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  Speaker 4: start to mentor somebody then they will then try to
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  Speaker 4: leap frog me instead of recognizing like, this is your strength,
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  Speaker 4: this is your power, you over here. But at the
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  Speaker 4: same time, we need an actual pipeline, and we need
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  Speaker 4: to start promoting like what that pipeline looks like. One
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  Speaker 4: of the issues that we have in the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 4: is everybody sits around and says, Okay, who's next. There
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  Speaker 4: is no pipeline, right Like, everybody's sitting around asking questions,
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  Speaker 4: and we should say this person got next because we've
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  Speaker 4: seen them doing this and that. So that's one of
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  Speaker 4: the things that I would like to see.
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  Speaker 3: And who's planning the festivities at the d n C.
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  Speaker 3: The DNC got to be piped up to seriously because
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  Speaker 3: the r n C say what you want.
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  Speaker 1: It looked lived, Yes, it.
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  Speaker 2: Looks it looked like it look yes, not that I
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  Speaker 2: know that's a problem.
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  Speaker 3: That's a problem because.
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  Speaker 1: I said not that I know.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm not saying no, you're correct, because you know,
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  Speaker 4: if I'm gonna have to do a speech, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: have to do a speech, right like it's gonna to
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  Speaker 4: be a good one. But no, I have no idea.
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  Speaker 4: They have not laid that out. The entire DNC program
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  Speaker 4: has to change though, right every day. Everything was built
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  Speaker 4: around Joe Biden, and now it's going to be built
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  Speaker 4: around Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 3: But it should and it should be built around Kamala Harrison.
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  Speaker 3: It should be built around the next generation of Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see Governor Whitmore on the stage. I
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  Speaker 3: want to see govern Shapiro, Governor Wes Moore, I want
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  Speaker 3: to see you. You know. I want them to go
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  Speaker 3: get people like John Stewart, like the same way that
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  Speaker 3: you know the RNC was using nostalgia and had people
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  Speaker 3: like Hulk Hogan. That's what I would like to see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well I will have the right musical acts.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Now as we start looking for vice presidents, who
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  Speaker 2: do you like and not just one person, but who
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  Speaker 2: do you like and who do you think will be
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  Speaker 2: the best fit. Because people are realizing this is like
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  Speaker 2: a I don't want to say, like a basketball game, but
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  Speaker 2: you have to size up who's going to be the
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  Speaker 2: best fit and who's going to be the best help.
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  Speaker 3: For that got to be a white man. You have
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  Speaker 3: to do a DEI hire and hire a white man.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think it has to be a white man.
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  Speaker 2: Could it be a white woman from Michigan? Can it
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  Speaker 2: be somebody else that's black? But what are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 4: The majority of the picks look like or the majority
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  Speaker 4: of the options look like white men. So I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to assume it's going to be a white man, right,
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  Speaker 4: you know? I us the Vice President and her.
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  Speaker 1: Ability to pick.
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  Speaker 4: I think the characteristist that she's going to look for
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  Speaker 4: as a good partner because when it came down to
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  Speaker 4: her and Joe Biden, it was more of a partnership.
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  Speaker 4: Same thing with him and Barack Obama. It was a partnership,
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  Speaker 4: and so I think that that's what she'll look for.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what her relationships are like with some
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  Speaker 4: of the governors. I can say that, in my mind,
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  Speaker 4: Senator Kelly is somebody that she's consistently worked for or
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  Speaker 4: worked with because she has been the president of the Senate,
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  Speaker 4: and so she probably understands how he works. She understands
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  Speaker 4: his relationships in the Senate. The governors haven't worked in
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  Speaker 4: the Senate, so I would think that she has a
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  Speaker 4: natural inclination to potentially go with him, But I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: In addition, to the fact that when we start looking
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  Speaker 4: at the map, right, you take a governor for sheer, Well,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that we gonna get another democratic governor
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  Speaker 4: over in Kentucky, right, But when you look at Arizona,
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  Speaker 4: if for some reason Mark Kelly comes out of that spot,
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  Speaker 4: then we have a democratic governor, and she's the one
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  Speaker 4: that appoints another Democrat to that spot. So we don't
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  Speaker 4: end up messing with the balance of power in the
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  Speaker 4: Senate either.
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  Speaker 3: Like mar Kelly, he looks he looks Maga White's an astronaut.
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  Speaker 4: Now he's an astronaut, and he's a veteran, and he's
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  Speaker 4: very big on gun violence, and it's something that she's
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  Speaker 4: very passionate about.
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  Speaker 1: And we know that it's something that gen Z is
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  Speaker 1: very passionate about.
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  Speaker 4: And honestly, old black folk and hood we want to
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  Speaker 4: get the guns off the streets too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 4: So, I think that all of those things make for
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  Speaker 4: a really decent pig. But I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what they're looking at. I would imagine that they
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  Speaker 4: are also doing some internal polling. I would guess that
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  Speaker 4: they're doing some internal polling to kind of try to
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  Speaker 4: figure out who moves the scale where and how well
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  Speaker 4: known somebody is too, because we're not talking about a
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  Speaker 4: lot of time to introduce your vice president.
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  Speaker 1: You got one hundred days.
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  Speaker 4: And Mark Kelly is also probably the best known, and
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  Speaker 4: he is very strong when it comes to fundraising. He
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  Speaker 4: did ninety million dollars to raise for his last Senate race,
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  Speaker 4: So I think that that also will end up factoring in.
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  Speaker 3: I'm two a all day, by the way, but I
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  Speaker 3: do believe in common sense gun reform.
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  Speaker 1: Oh listen, I me too. I'm licensed to carry right.
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  Speaker 4: But like the fact that everybody and anybody got access
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  Speaker 4: to any and everything, which is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It is a problem, especially in Texas. Congress Woman in Texas,
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  Speaker 1: that's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Now, when you say freedoms are on the line, that's
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  Speaker 3: something you say a lot. Explain to our audience. What
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  Speaker 3: do you mean when you say freedoms are on the line.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that's the thing that you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: keep saying with this campaign. As we know that the
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  Speaker 4: theme song is Beyonce's Freedom Right, So when we start
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  Speaker 4: looking at diversity, equity, and inclusion, they keep trying to
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  Speaker 4: attack it.
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  Speaker 1: But let's be real about it.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that it's been good to have the
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  Speaker 4: conversation because when we look at things like affirmative action,
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  Speaker 4: it's been white women that have benefitted more than anybody.
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  Speaker 4: So when they start saying things like we're gonna get
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  Speaker 4: rid of affirmative action, even though they are taking aim
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  Speaker 4: at us, we still had not gotten our do when
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  Speaker 4: it came to it. So that's why a lot of
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  Speaker 4: black folk are like, Yo, affirmative action needs to stay
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  Speaker 4: in place, because we still haven't gotten to where we
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  Speaker 4: needed to get to.
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  Speaker 1: So that's number one.
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  Speaker 4: And when we start talking about affirmative action and diversity, equity,
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  Speaker 4: and inclusion, it's not just getting into schools.
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  Speaker 1: While most people know the Supreme.
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  Speaker 4: Court case as it relates to Harvard, it's not just
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  Speaker 4: that they are trying to bleed this over into business opportunities. Right,
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  Speaker 4: So when we start looking at contracting and whether or
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  Speaker 4: not black contractors are going to get contracting opportunities, they're
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  Speaker 4: trying to.
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  Speaker 1: Use this as the catalyst.
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  Speaker 4: For why we can't then say, oh, we've got to
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  Speaker 4: make sure that we have metrics that we're trying to
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  Speaker 4: hit for black businesses. This is affecting us economically. When
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: we look at the Fearless Fund and what they done
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  Speaker 4: in the courts to them, The Fearless Fun was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 4: we know that black women are underinvested in no matter
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  Speaker 4: what we look at, whether it's politics or otherwise. Even
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  Speaker 4: though Kamala is breaking all the stereotypes for that one,
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  Speaker 4: they said, no, it's not okay for you to go
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  Speaker 4: out and decide that you're going to invest in black
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  Speaker 4: women businesses. So we need to understand that they are
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  Speaker 4: trying to attack us economically as well as they're trying
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  Speaker 4: to attack our educational opportunities. When we start looking at
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  Speaker 4: reproductive freedom, that also is an economic conversation if we're
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  Speaker 4: going to be real about it, right, because there are
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  Speaker 4: people that decide that they're not going to have children
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  Speaker 4: because economically they can't afford to have children, and so
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  Speaker 4: then we're talking about potentially holding people back economically, but
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  Speaker 4: also we're talking about literally putting women's lives on the line.
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  Speaker 4: We know that the black maternal mortality rate in this
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  Speaker 4: country has always been abysmal, and when we look at Texas,
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: we are leading the way and the wrong way again
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  Speaker 4: when we look at that, when you look at people
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  Speaker 4: like Serena Williams, like this comes down to a situation
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  Speaker 4: and where it doesn't matter how much money you have.
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  Speaker 4: We have a problem in this country. And now you're
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  Speaker 4: saying I am going to take away some of those
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  Speaker 4: options that are available to doctors and women as they
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  Speaker 4: are trying to basically live.
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  Speaker 1: So we're talking about the freedom to live.
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  Speaker 3: Overall, Why more people talking about the Supreme Court. I've
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  Speaker 3: been saying that the Supreme Court is a legitimate, it
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  Speaker 3: is completely corrupt, because what my fear in November is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, let's just say the vice president wins, Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump challenges it. In light of all of their recent rulings.
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  Speaker 3: What makes us think they're not going to side with
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump in overturn the results of an election.
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  Speaker 1: I have no faith in the Supreme Court, So I'm
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, but I do know that we've got
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: to talk about the Supreme Court in general. That was
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: actually another concern about who became the nominee, because we
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: already knew that they were going to sue, and so
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: I was like, y'all can play fantasy president all y'all
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: want to, but ultimately you may end up with a
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: ticket and then your votes may not count because they
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: have already do. They are going to court, and the
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: court belongs to Donald Trump. So that was yet another
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: concern that we had. If for some reason it ended
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: up being a nominee that was not the Vice president,
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: I thought that it could get really iffy because this
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: would be the first time in history, which means that
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: they literally don't have any precedents, which means that they
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: start planning our faces. In addition to that, I think
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: it is a very salient point that we have to
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: make on the campaign trail, and that I do make
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: is that it's not just the presidency that's on the line.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: It's this dag on Supreme Court.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Because he's already made it clear that he's going to
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: put two more justices on this court.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: They get lifetime appointments.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: So that's why I'm happy that the President started talking
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: about Supreme Court reform. I'm a part of the Supreme
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Court or the Court Reform task Force, and so we've
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: got three bills that we are trying to get passed.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: We know that this Republican House ain't about this life.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: But so long as we take back the House and
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: hopefully hold on to the Senate, hopefully we can move
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: some of this stuff. But one is term limits. They
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: don't need lifetime appointments. That's clear. Number two is expanding
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: the court. This court has been expanded seven times, but
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: the last time it was expanded was I think over
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: a hundred years ago. We've grown a little bit in
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: the last hundred years, so we need to expand the court.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: And then finally, we need some kind of ethics reform
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: because they just out here while and the only people
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: to get in trouble is everybody with them, So we
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: need to make sure that they have some sort of
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: ethics that they have to abide by.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: But I'm absolutely with you.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: I think that we are already preparing for the legal challenges.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: As Donald Trump is out on the stump saying things
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: like if I don't win this state, it's because they cheated,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: he is already laying the groundwork. But I will say,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: the good work of say Fannie willis down in Georgia.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Let's clap it up for her.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: I think that he may not have as many people
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: that are willing to ride with him in his ridiculousness
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: because it may lead them to prison. I think that
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: they may be fearful. We also know in Arizona. They
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: just did some indictments. So I think I think people
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: may say, never mind, I ain't doing fake electors. I
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: ain't doing none of this stuff because I ain't got
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: time to risk my freedom.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Besides the Supreme Court, Do you have any other fears
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: with this election? You already know they attacking her as
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: a prosecutor. They called her a dei higher, they said
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: childless cat ladies.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with that?
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: What's wrong? Definitely earned it, definitely earned it is what
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: that means.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: We know she's overly qualified. But if the president said, hey,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I wanted a black a woman the color vice president's.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Wrong with that?
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: It's not wrong because honestly, that is what it's always
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: been about. When we look at diversity, equity and inclusion,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: or when we look at affirmative action type of platforms,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: what it's been about is saying, hey, we need to
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: make sure that we look at all the talent, because
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: essentially our talent had been limited to what you just said,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: white men, right, that's the only pool that we were
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: looking at. So this this all it's ever been about.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: It's never been about people that were unqualified. It's been
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: about making sure that you were forced to take a
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: look look at somebody other than a white man.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: That's it. But you still had to measure up.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: And still when we look at it, it's not even
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: a measure of it's not even a matter of measuring up.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: You have to exceed the qualifications because again, when you
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: start talking about oh boy and the cat ladies come
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: on now like JD. Vance has what what does he have? Listen,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: I am older than JD. Vans And everybody's like, oh,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: look at the young baby in Congress, right, But when
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: you look at the Republicans, they're like, oh, yes, this
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: can be the next Vice president of the United States.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: And the reality is that this dude has never done anything.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: He just got elected for the first time a year
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: and a half ago.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Well, Jasmine Crockett, we appreciate Congresswoman Jess. We appreciate you
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: for joining us this morning. Thank you so much.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Have you spoken to the VB. Did she call you
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: this week? She called me the day that it happened.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, man, and you can stay at what us. Please
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: let us know, keep up a breast of what's going on.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: You can check in any time if you in town.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Pull up on this.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, giving me your website to think about.
• 19:56
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• 19:58
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• 20:00
  Speaker 2: All right, it's Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. It's the Breakfast Club.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Good morning, wake that ass up in the morning.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club