This is Gavin Newsom - And, This Is Trump’s Attack on Voting Rights With Jasmine Crockett

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00:02:41.660 This is Gavin Newsom.

00:02:53.040 She's been called a rising star.

00:02:54.720 Donald Trump referred to her as the future of the Democratic Party.

00:02:58.900 Couldn't think of someone better to talk about what's going on in Texas and the gerrymandering,

00:03:03.780 what's going on in Washington, D.C. with the National Guard than the one and only Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.

00:03:13.640 Thank you for doing this.

00:03:14.980 I appreciate it.

00:03:15.660 Absolutely.

00:03:16.300 Absolutely.

00:03:16.920 At this remarkable time.

00:03:18.280 So we'll just, we'll jump right in because I, you know, I can't even imagine.

00:03:23.540 You spent time in the Texas legislature.

00:03:26.260 I was watching last night, a brief interview, one of the members of the legislature, Nicole Collier, was in the chambers.

00:03:33.800 She's not walking out because she doesn't want to be assigned a member of law enforcement to watch every move.

00:03:41.760 And I just, I couldn't even imagine what that experience is like, but I couldn't imagine a better person to talk about it than you.

00:03:49.740 So watching all of this from afar, the impacts indirect to democracy, the direct impacts to you as a representative, watching your own district lines changing.

00:04:04.260 Give us a sense of what you're feeling right now, what this moment means to you.

00:04:09.900 So I'm feeling overwhelmed.

00:04:11.760 And if you are paying attention, you should also feel that way.

00:04:15.580 This isn't about me as an individual.

00:04:17.680 This is about our collective democracy.

00:04:20.200 It's one of the reasons that I think the country has galvanized behind what California has decided to do, because this isn't just about Texas.

00:04:27.960 It's not just about the representatives in Texas.

00:04:30.760 It's about the people.

00:04:32.220 And so when you look at the lengths that they will go to decimate our democracy, that is when people should really have their hair on fire.

00:04:40.740 And I don't care what kind of state you live in.

00:04:43.060 And I personally don't care what your political affiliation is, because we are setting a dangerous precedence, one that could forever dismantle our democracy.

00:04:52.780 So here we are as a Black woman civil rights attorney, and I'm looking at a state that is taking state actions against a duly elected Black woman to basically incarcerate her against her constitutional rights.

00:05:08.300 And everybody is just kind of like, you know, Texas gets to do whatever they want to do, because we have a minion for a governor instead of a governor for the people of Texas.

00:05:20.140 And so now, because he wants to do everything that he can to kiss the raggedy feet of Donald Trump, this is where we stand, to the extent that he is disrespecting Texans over and over and over, whether we're talking about the map or whether we're talking about the threats that were waged against these members and their family members,

00:05:40.580 or whether we're talking about a woman, or whether we're talking about a woman, a Black woman that decided that she wanted to be free in the year of 2025.

00:05:48.620 And basically, she had someone who decided that he wanted to act like she is on a plantation, and so therefore, she had to sign documents if it was that she was to have some semblance of freedom.

00:06:00.480 And look, I appreciate how you just laid that out, and with vivid and clear lines.

00:06:08.460 I mean, a Black woman being told she has to have someone from a white governor.

00:06:15.640 I mean, you can't, the racial components of this cannot be overstated.

00:06:19.720 And as you say, people are kind of rolling their, I mean, shrugging their shoulders, rolling their eyes.

00:06:26.100 I mean, the fact that not everything is stopped in real time to sort of measure this moment, the fact that so much is being normalized in this country as we're watching democracy slip through our hands.

00:06:38.480 I mean, what do we need to do to create the proverbial pattern interrupt?

00:06:42.900 What do we need to do to wake people up to understand what's really at stake, what the hell is really going on, not just in Texas, increasingly across this country?

00:06:51.160 I think we all have to collectively fight back, and I think that we have to take it back to elementary school, where everything legitimately was Black or white.

00:06:58.980 It was right versus wrong.

00:07:00.740 We, right now, are having a moral, catastrophic, you know, combustion, right?

00:07:09.940 Like, it is insane to see the lack of morality.

00:07:13.720 Like, this really isn't about whether or not you believe in, you know, the Democratic platform or the Republican platform.

00:07:23.340 This is truly about whether or not we believe that as Americans, that freedom should be real, that we should treat everyone as equals,

00:07:34.060 that we should not diminish our democracy because that is why we stand out and why we have been a beacon of hope around this entire world, not just in this country, for people that are here.

00:07:46.260 The reason that we've had so many immigrants that have always decided that they wanted to come to the United States is because historically we have been the land of the free and the land of opportunity.

00:07:56.140 We are slowly just losing our standing on the national stage, whether we're looking at a president that is rolling out a red carpet for a war criminal or whether or not we are looking at a governor that has decided that a woman would be stuck and could not leave because she had the audacity to think that her colleagues would engage in real debate and they would come back and they would fight for fair maps.

00:08:23.440 Not fair maps for her, but fair maps for the 30 million Texans whose voices deserve to be heard considering the fact that we are a majority minority state.

00:08:34.440 We're 60% of the people that are there are people of color, yet every single day they are so happy to take in people of color day after day to the extent that we ended up gaining two new seats in the last time that we did the census.

00:08:48.760 We took those seats from other states that were growing and those seats were taken because there were black and brown bodies that came into the state of Texas, yet they then minimized their voices.

00:09:01.600 So yes, they want their bodies, but they absolutely do not want to hear from them.

00:09:05.860 And that is wrong.

00:09:06.920 And again, it is why we applaud California and your leadership, because you said not on our watch, two can play this game.

00:09:14.760 Now, should we be playing a game when it comes to something like democracy?

00:09:18.740 Absolutely not.

00:09:20.000 But can we afford to take the high road as they continue to take away more and more rights and we start to look more like a government that is run by Vladimir Putin than a government that is run by a respected and honorable president of the United States?

00:09:36.140 No, we shouldn't stand idly by.

00:09:37.740 And so you don't buy the argument, two wrongs don't make a right.

00:09:42.020 No, I don't.

00:09:44.400 Two wrongs are about to make it right in two seconds.

00:09:46.940 That is for sure.

00:09:48.060 And I appreciate the level of thoughtfulness that went into this, because I think at the core of who we are as Democrats, regardless of what others may say about us, we really want to do what's right.

00:10:00.260 The question is usually whether or not we have the courage to push forward, even in the face of adversity, to get it done.

00:10:09.300 And this is ugly.

00:10:10.920 This is messy.

00:10:11.860 That is for sure.

00:10:13.020 But it is the right thing.

00:10:14.480 If you're going to take away five voices in a state in which I have been engaged in litigation since 2021 over the current lines, because we have argued that these lines were terrible and illegal.

00:10:29.140 And the state consistently argued for the last four years that they were racially neutral, that they were perfect and beautiful lines.

00:10:36.620 And then all of a sudden they get a letter from the attorney general of the United States.

00:10:41.200 Imagine that the attorney general of the United States decides that instead of, say, building up the civil rights division that she decided to tear down, the attorney general of the United States that is under pressure to release the Epstein files that are within her control.

00:10:58.740 She decides to prioritize going after Texas and telling Texas that they actually have not been race neutral, and they decide to act based upon her instruction.

00:11:10.380 And we know that her instruction came directly from him.

00:11:15.540 And so now we're looking at a situation in which no matter what happens, I can tell you that these maps are illegal.

00:11:22.600 The question is, will we have these branches of government continue to fail us?

00:11:28.280 Will we have a court that will strike this down in time and say, never mind, we're going to have to draw the maps?

00:11:36.980 Because historically, when we've had all three branches working, that's what happens when one of the states does wrong.

00:11:43.880 And there's no way to say that the state of Texas is doing right.

00:11:48.920 You bring up 2021 and your efforts in relation to the maps.

00:11:53.200 But you also, for those that may not be familiar, you really made a name for yourself nationally the last time when you were in the legislature.

00:12:00.420 I think it was 2021 when you guys did a similar quorum break.

00:12:04.860 And that was on different issues, but related to voting access and the like.

00:12:10.040 I mean, how do you paint?

00:12:11.060 What do you paint as a contrast or the paint the picture?

00:12:13.500 Is this part of the same narrative?

00:12:15.000 Is this sort of the extended narrative from 2021?

00:12:19.220 Is this represent something that's more dramatic from your perspective?

00:12:23.700 Or is this the same thread that's being pulled?

00:12:26.980 No, we absolutely tried to ring the alarms.

00:12:31.380 And unfortunately, we collectively did not ring those alarms loud enough.

00:12:36.040 When we left, we went to D.C.

00:12:37.860 When we went to D.C., we asked a democratically controlled House, a democratically controlled Senate that had a Democrat in the White House to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

00:12:47.960 That particular bill would have replaced the current Voting Rights Act.

00:12:52.260 It would have shored up everything that we lost in Shelby B. Holder.

00:12:55.540 And we wouldn't be sitting on the edge of our seats wondering whether or not we would lose Section 2.

00:13:00.340 So for anybody that's listening, Section 2 just says, basically, we want to go ahead and further codify what is in the Constitution as it relates to people of color being able to have representation.

00:13:12.620 And so I have a Section 2 seat.

00:13:14.860 What we know came out of Louisiana and Alabama for this last election was two Section 2 seats because they looked at a state like Louisiana and said,

00:13:25.660 hey, 30 percent of the population is African-American and y'all only gave them an opportunity to elect one lawmaker to the federal level.

00:13:35.060 So they had to add one. Same thing happened in Alabama.

00:13:37.880 So they had to add one. So both states now have two seats where African-Americans are allowed to choose their representation.

00:13:44.900 Well, what they are doing right now, they got rid of all of the issues around preclearance,

00:13:49.060 which means that when states go through all of this craziness and they've had, say, a history of being racially discriminatory, such as Texas,

00:13:57.320 Texas has been found to be racially intentionally discriminatory ever since the Voting Rights Act was passed,

00:14:04.640 which is so wild for me to think of considering the fact that it was a Texan that signed the Voting Rights Act into law 60 years ago.

00:14:11.840 So to see that we basically were like, hey, we're ringing the alarms past the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

00:14:19.420 and we wouldn't have to deal with this fight over redistricting past the Freedom to Vote Act

00:14:23.900 and we wouldn't have had to deal with Elon Musk being able to actually buy an election.

00:14:28.720 We were trying to throw up our democracy and scream to the top of our lungs at that point.

00:14:34.300 And unfortunately, at that time, the House did their part.

00:14:38.020 A democratically led House does their part.

00:14:41.680 Unfortunately, it was in the Senate where we did not have the support to go ahead and move past the filibuster for the purpose of voting rights.

00:14:50.020 And I think that if we don't have voting rights, we get no other rights whatsoever.

00:14:54.960 And so I think if there's ever a need for a carve out, it is on behalf of making sure that we can expand access to the ballot box for those that are eligible to vote.

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00:15:16.280 The holiday rush.

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00:15:19.420 Kids gripping their new Christmas toys.

00:15:21.940 Then, at 6.33 p.m., everything changed.

00:15:26.020 There's been a bombing at the TWA terminal.

00:15:30.540 Apparently, the explosion actually impelled metal glass.

00:15:36.040 The injured were being loaded into ambulances.

00:15:38.840 Just a chaotic, chaotic scene.

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00:20:55.120 It begs the question of your reaction to what President Trump said yesterday as it relates to mail-in ballot,

00:21:04.700 where he now is asserting that he's got his lawyers drafting an executive order,

00:21:09.460 and he's going after mail-in ballots, something that he is very well known for having used himself in Florida.

00:21:17.740 He was an absentee ballot, meaning he was someone who went and got an absentee,

00:21:23.540 mailed that in, like millions and millions of Americans.

00:21:27.100 By the way, 80% in the last big election in California folks used mail-in ballots.

00:21:34.200 Overwhelming number.

00:21:35.700 What do you make of this latest effort by the President?

00:21:39.620 Yeah, so first of all, I think that California, number one, is a direct target.

00:21:43.660 We know that California has expanded access to the ballot box in ways in which some of us get frustrated,

00:21:50.080 to the extent that you do have so many mail-in ballots,

00:21:54.680 and you definitely had some nail-biter congressional races that came down to, you know, the last batches being counted.

00:22:03.020 And we know that this Postal Service isn't necessarily the best run under the current leadership.

00:22:08.660 And so, yeah, it can be frustrating because it can make it to where if there's tight races, it's going to take us a little time.

00:22:18.840 But I think that that is what democracy looks like.

00:22:21.880 It makes sure that you hear from everybody, no matter whether or not you're home at the time,

00:22:27.300 no matter whether or not you are encumbered because if you leave your job,

00:22:32.820 you have fear of retaliation, even though legally they're not supposed to.

00:22:37.220 Whether or not you are a caretaker for your children or your ailing parents,

00:22:42.920 it allows you an opportunity to participate.

00:22:45.880 And what they have decided is that participating in elections should just be reserved for the privileged few.

00:22:52.140 They don't want it to be something that allows the masses to participate in.

00:22:57.360 We talked about 2021, but ultimately what it was is they were passing new voting law standards in the state of Texas

00:23:04.960 because for the first time they weren't going to have to deal with preclearance whatsoever and get the authority.

00:23:11.220 And so they decided to decimate access to ballot boxes, especially after COVID-19,

00:23:17.220 which in the midst of COVID you had even in states like Texas,

00:23:20.880 you had very creative secretaries that were going out and they were saying,

00:23:24.740 hey, we need to make sure that people can vote and be safe.

00:23:28.160 You should not have to risk your life to cast your vote.

00:23:31.220 And so they decided that they were going to expand hours in Harris County where they had 24-hour voting.

00:23:37.240 They had drive-through voting.

00:23:38.900 They did all these things to make sure that it was easier.

00:23:41.700 They had multiple drop boxes so that you didn't have to worry about putting it into the mail itself.

00:23:46.840 You could drop it at a drop box throughout the country or throughout the county.

00:23:51.000 Well, they didn't like that because the numbers showed that working class folk were absolutely able to participate.

00:23:58.080 And if you look at the platform or if you just look at the actions of the Republicans,

00:24:03.500 they don't have anything good, number one, for people of color.

00:24:06.400 And definitely they don't have anything good for working class people.

00:24:10.660 So the things that they are trying to do is like, yeah, if you've got the luxury where you don't have to worry about losing your job,

00:24:17.000 you don't have to worry about taking care of that kid.

00:24:19.180 You don't have to worry about taking care of your mom.

00:24:21.460 No, you can just go to the ballot box and just vote.

00:24:24.760 And they feel like those are the only people that they want to participate.

00:24:27.480 And so it is very intentional.

00:24:30.600 It is disgusting.

00:24:31.960 And it is one of the reasons that people are so disenchanted, in my opinion, with politics,

00:24:37.240 because they'll say one thing and do another.

00:24:40.080 And I just want people to know that, like, there is a difference between Democrats and Republicans,

00:24:45.460 regardless of what it seems like.

00:24:47.600 Republicans will say whatever it is to convince you to vote.

00:24:50.540 They won't go out there and campaign and say, oh, yeah,

00:24:53.440 we're going to lower the taxes on the super rich, the super wealthy.

00:24:58.400 At the same time, we're going to go ahead and take away your health care.

00:25:01.900 We're going to go ahead and take away your access to education, which is your pathway to upward mobility.

00:25:07.840 They're not going to tell you, like, the real story,

00:25:09.960 that they're going to take food off the tables of people that are hungry in this country,

00:25:13.840 while at the same time complaining about unhoused people and trying to shuffle them off their streets.

00:25:19.580 They're not going to tell you that they're going to decimate the economy as they always do.

00:25:24.100 And then we have to wait on a Democrat to come in and clean it up.

00:25:27.200 They're not going to tell you the truth, but they will go after the things that they really want to go after.

00:25:31.860 Now, that is now that is real.

00:25:33.720 But Democrats, we will tell you and we can give you a dissertation of all the great things that we want to do.

00:25:39.800 But we also have this inclination to do things and be like, well, we want to be bipartisan.

00:25:44.000 No. At the end of the day, if we've got the numbers and they don't want to get on board,

00:25:50.220 we're not only taking care of our constituents, but frankly, a lot of times we're doing the hard work to take care of their constituents.

00:25:57.520 A lot more work and heavy lifting than they're doing.

00:26:00.400 And so what people want to see nowadays, and I get it, is they want to see Democrats be just as aggressive

00:26:06.880 as Republicans are when they are trying to introduce regression into this country.

00:26:12.360 They want us to be as aggressive, trying to make sure that we can actually uplift this country.

00:26:19.360 There's so much to unpack there in the word regression.

00:26:22.140 I mean, it's about rights regression.

00:26:23.800 It's about rolling, putting America back in reverse, bringing us back to pre-1960s world

00:26:28.680 as it relates to voting rights, women's rights, LGBTQ rights across the spectrum.

00:26:33.660 I don't think that's exaggeration, nor what you said about jobs.

00:26:36.780 And for folks listening, since 1989, the end of the Cold War, it's important to be reminded of this.

00:26:42.080 Bill Clinton made this point at the DNC in his speech.

00:26:45.380 52 million American jobs have been created since the end of the Cold War.

00:26:48.880 Three Republican administrations, three Democratic administrations.

00:26:52.540 96 percent, 96 percent have been created under Democratic administrations.

00:26:58.720 The last three Republican administrations have one thing in common, recessions.

00:27:03.420 1.9 million jobs created in the last three Republican administrations, over 16 million in the Biden

00:27:10.180 administration, just as another proof point to the extent you needed it.

00:27:13.840 But Congresswoman, I want to talk about another proof point on our democracy.

00:27:17.680 We talk about gerrymandering.

00:27:19.720 We talk about what you guys did in terms of voting in the John Lewis Act, which was about

00:27:24.040 an independent national redistricting commission, which the Democratic Party, Republicans were nowhere

00:27:29.520 to be found.

00:27:29.960 The Democratic Party has supported, and they're on record supporting.

00:27:33.960 We talked about what he's trying to do on mail-in ballots, and I referenced the last election

00:27:38.700 was 2020.

00:27:39.940 You reminded me of that, where we were at 80 percent coming out of COVID in terms of the

00:27:44.100 vote by mail.

00:27:45.120 And the convenience and the opportunity and the security that exists, barcodes, requirements

00:27:50.620 on signatures.

00:27:51.840 There is a process where you actually can track where your mail-in ballot is.

00:27:56.000 And once one ballot is cast, there is no other ballot that can be cast.

00:28:00.680 All the BS Trump is suggesting is a lie otherwise.

00:28:05.300 As it relates, though, to the National Guard, it seems to me all this stuff is connected.

00:28:10.440 It's not, none of this is in isolation.

00:28:12.520 Everyone has to pay attention.

00:28:14.020 These dots need to be connected.

00:28:15.960 You've got the National Guard being sent now, and you talk about what Republicans don't tell

00:28:20.540 you.

00:28:21.060 Those governors didn't tell you they're going to send them from Tennessee, South Carolina,

00:28:25.200 send them from all of these other states into Washington, D.C.

00:28:31.080 You work there.

00:28:33.320 You spend your day, you have a lot of your time there.

00:28:36.420 Tell me what it's like in D.C.

00:28:38.540 Tell me what you think this is really all about.

00:28:42.240 And tell me if you think this is a preview of things to come, particularly, dare I say,

00:28:48.620 around election in the midterms and beyond.

00:28:51.500 Yeah, so it's very dystopian to see.

00:28:55.660 It's funny because I used to watch like The Handmaid's Tale, and I can't, right?

00:29:01.920 I never finished, and I can't watch it because it is too close to reality.

00:29:06.960 And so what we're seeing is this militarization.

00:29:11.060 And obviously, it started in your state.

00:29:14.880 That was kind of the testing grounds.

00:29:17.420 Going to your state, going to a Black woman mayor's city first.

00:29:23.440 And now we are in yet another Black woman-led city and taking over.

00:29:29.640 And to me, it goes, again, to the level of racism and hate that is constantly spewed out

00:29:37.260 of this administration.

00:29:38.840 Now, they hate for you to call them what they are, but listen, I mean, if it walk like a

00:29:42.940 duck, quack like a duck, then I guess it is a duck.

00:29:45.560 So like racism is racism, and you are specifically targeting these Black-led areas.

00:29:52.500 But more importantly, when you start to connect the dots, one of the things that we didn't

00:29:58.540 talk about as much when we were trying to push forward against the draconian legislation

00:30:05.320 that was coming out of the state of Texas at the time, back in 2021, was there was this

00:30:10.380 provision about having basically people be able to monitor you while you were voting.

00:30:17.340 And there was like recordings that came out where these like groups had gotten together

00:30:23.420 and they're like, we're going to go down there.

00:30:25.360 And they were talking about going into the areas that were predominantly people of color

00:30:31.120 and monitoring them while they were voting.

00:30:34.500 And they were limiting the ability of the election judges and the election workers to actually

00:30:41.620 remove those people, even if they were interfering with someone's ability to vote.

00:30:46.780 So it was like, nope, you got to give them one pass.

00:30:49.300 So they could break one law for free.

00:30:51.460 And then you could only get them out when they committed the second violation.

00:30:56.000 And at the same time, they were changing access to firearms.

00:31:02.340 And so essentially, in these locations, you can have all these rogue actors that are armed

00:31:08.700 as people of color are trying to go in and cast their votes.

00:31:11.960 If nothing looks like pre-Civil War in this country, that does, like that imagery, right?

00:31:20.200 So now you have someone who believes in this type of philosophy, who now has control of

00:31:27.420 our National Guard.

00:31:29.440 And so, you know, the idea that we thought January 6th was a problem and we thought, oh,

00:31:35.160 man, that's bad.

00:31:36.020 And, you know, his army then was a bunch of white nationalist races, whether we're talking

00:31:41.900 about the Proud Boys or the neo-Nazis or whomever.

00:31:45.160 Those guys were the ones that made up his army on that day to try to pull a coup.

00:31:50.980 Now you're talking about a guy that every time he disagrees with something, he uses the

00:31:56.660 power that he has because no one around him is checking him, whether we're talking about

00:32:01.640 those in his administration or whether we're talking about the courts or if we're talking

00:32:05.880 about the Congress.

00:32:07.040 That is one of the reasons he is so desperate to make sure that he can win in the midterms

00:32:13.180 is because he knows that Democrats, it's not even about partisanship.

00:32:17.580 It's about doing what's right.

00:32:19.260 It's about doing the American thing.

00:32:21.420 And to be clear, you can wave all the flags you want to.

00:32:24.920 But I am telling you right now that the most unpatriotic people that we have in this country

00:32:29.000 are MAGA and this president.

00:32:31.920 We are the real patriots.

00:32:33.740 And it is time for us to take our flag back and show people what America is about.

00:32:38.900 You can't say that you love the Constitution while decimating it with every single stroke

00:32:44.220 of a pen for an executive order while decimating it while you are disrespecting our troops that

00:32:50.880 have signed up to protect our freedoms, not just here, but abroad.

00:32:55.020 And then you're taking people's freedoms away using those exact same troops.

00:33:00.040 Like, I just don't understand.

00:33:02.300 You know, it's funny as people have been talking about what's happening with Rep Nicole Collier

00:33:06.780 and I've been watching some of the influencers online and people are asking,

00:33:12.480 what is the red line for you?

00:33:14.420 Like, what will be a bridge too far?

00:33:16.840 Like, why is it that people are still confused about what is happening?

00:33:20.540 And why is it that no Republican will publicly come out and just say,

00:33:25.760 you know what, I'm going to do what's right.

00:33:28.080 When it came down to Senator Tom Tillis, instead he said, well, listen, I'm going to just go ahead

00:33:32.740 and not run for re-election and I'm going to vote against your ugly bill.

00:33:36.440 But why is it that those that know that this is wrong,

00:33:40.080 why is it that they won't just say that I never swore an oath to any wannabe king?

00:33:45.520 I swore my oath to the Constitution and I'm going to honor that.

00:33:48.620 Why is it that we don't have that happening right now amongst the Republicans in the House and in the Senate?

00:33:56.120 Congresswoman, do you hear privately things differently?

00:33:59.700 I mean, do you have casual conversations where people have at least have some courage of their convictions

00:34:05.780 and a little bit of character and say, hey, you know, you know, I just, you know, I got to do this.

00:34:10.840 You know, hey, we're just, it's temporary.

00:34:12.660 We just, you know, we can't, what, I mean, what do they say?

00:34:14.680 Oh, absolutely. I remember right before he won, because one of the things he did campaign on was tariffs.

00:34:23.860 Now, most people didn't understand. And of course, he lied about who would be paying the taxes.

00:34:28.040 But he did actually campaign on tariffs. And I remember walking into oversight of all places.

00:34:36.780 And I remember a member saying, just so you know, if y'all end up taking the house,

00:34:42.900 because they were nervous that they were going to lose the house.

00:34:45.440 If y'all end up taking the house, we'll stand with you against the tariffs.

00:34:48.960 Like, this is what a member said, because that member remembers what happened to our soybean farmers,

00:34:54.360 our soybean farmers who never recovered.

00:34:56.600 And ultimately, they ended up giving them a subsidy for all that they lost.

00:35:00.300 But once you lose your ability to participate in a certain market, it is gone.

00:35:05.820 Like, and we can't continue to just subsidize you to stay in existence.

00:35:09.720 They actually want to be able to sell their products and be able to profit in that way.

00:35:15.680 And so I'm like, this is so interesting. You absolutely were against the tariffs.

00:35:21.700 And when given an opportunity to do what's right, because you know that this is going to directly impact,

00:35:27.040 it impacts all of us. But when you're talking about rural America that is already bleeding population

00:35:32.240 so badly, when we know that we're losing farms consistently,

00:35:36.120 and these are the people that have directly elected you, and then you're not going out front on that issue,

00:35:42.300 that's been one of the issues. They, for sure, were struggling with the big, ugly bill.

00:35:49.120 That is why we ended up, you know, they finally decided they wanted to try to pass it in the middle of the night.

00:35:54.160 They were struggling. And I was like, listen, you guys have put out a memo saying no more town halls,

00:36:01.040 because you know that when you walk in, your constituents are mad at you.

00:36:05.560 Ours aren't mad at us. Like, it's bad legislation.

00:36:08.480 But they were afraid about being primary. They were afraid about money being spent against them.

00:36:15.380 And it is one of the worst parts of having such gerrymandered districts.

00:36:20.340 Because ultimately, they are having to go as far right as possible to end up making it out of their primary.

00:36:27.420 And ultimately, they don't have to worry about the general election,

00:36:30.560 because it is drawn to be such a far right, deep red district.

00:36:35.340 That is yet another bad byproduct of doing gerrymandering.

00:36:46.320 December 29th, 1975. LaGuardia Airport.

00:36:50.940 The holiday rush. Parents hauling luggage. Kids gripping their new Christmas toys.

00:36:58.000 Then, at 6.33 p.m., everything changed.

00:37:03.420 There's been a bombing at the TWA terminal.

00:37:06.580 Apparently, the explosion actually impelled metal glass.

00:37:12.080 The injured were being loaded into ambulances. Just a chaotic, chaotic scene.

00:37:16.780 In its wake, a new kind of enemy emerged.

00:37:20.360 And it was here to stay.

00:37:22.260 Terrorism.

00:37:24.420 Law & Order Criminal Justice System is back.

00:37:28.220 In Season 2, we're turning our focus to a threat that hides in plain sight.

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00:38:53.800 I got a podcast, and I explain those fake headlines like your uncle would,

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00:39:15.340 And I'm watching everything.

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00:39:27.840 You kidding me.

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00:40:43.800 You'll hear from people like Congresswoman AOC.

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00:40:58.480 Hi, everyone.

00:41:01.220 It's Janae, aka Cheekies, from Cheekies and Chill Podcast.

00:41:05.500 And I'm launching an all-new mini-podcast series called Sincerely, Janae.

00:41:09.540 Sure, I'm a singer, author, businesswoman, and podcaster.

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00:41:18.240 Hi, guys.

00:41:19.240 I was sitting here recording episodes of Dear Cheekies and Cheekies and Chill,

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00:42:00.560 I'm going to get to you in a second,

00:42:02.580 because I'm fascinated by your approach to politics

00:42:05.540 and how you've come on the scene in such sort of vivid ways.

00:42:12.680 And I say vivid, very complimentary,

00:42:14.620 meaning you're a person of conviction,

00:42:16.900 you share your passion with action,

00:42:19.220 you call people out.

00:42:21.480 And I think this conversation only underscores as well,

00:42:24.560 your willingness to call balls and strikes too,

00:42:26.840 as it relates to not being about Democrat,

00:42:28.720 not being about Republican.

00:42:29.620 You talk in terms of patriotism.

00:42:31.380 I love Democrats.

00:42:33.060 How the hell do we lose this battle on patriotism?

00:42:36.960 Just because you put a flag on your lapel,

00:42:39.500 all of a sudden you're patriotic,

00:42:40.860 our party's not.

00:42:41.720 So I want to get back to all that in a second,

00:42:43.680 but I do want to get just,

00:42:45.120 you know, there's three legs of the stool

00:42:46.560 as it relates to what's happening with the National Guard,

00:42:48.560 what's happening with gerrymandering,

00:42:49.960 what's happening vote by mail.

00:42:51.480 But there's also something that,

00:42:53.000 speaking of vivid,

00:42:53.880 came to us in very vivid ways last week,

00:42:56.840 where we were at the Democracy Center in California.

00:43:00.020 We launched our campaign to try to neuter

00:43:01.920 what's happening to you individually,

00:43:04.580 what's happening to all of your former colleagues collectively,

00:43:08.480 and what's happening to our country on gerrymandering in Texas.

00:43:11.540 But we were there at the site where people were being bused in the 1940s

00:43:16.440 to Japanese internment camps.

00:43:19.160 And at that exact site,

00:43:20.180 at the exact moment of our press conference,

00:43:22.380 Donald Trump sent what is increasingly being referred to

00:43:25.460 as a private army,

00:43:27.760 funded unprecedented ways

00:43:29.900 by the Big Beautiful Betrayal,

00:43:32.220 Big Beautiful Bill,

00:43:33.120 Big Beautiful Ugly Bill,

00:43:34.020 whatever it's referred to

00:43:35.520 by those same colleagues you were referencing

00:43:37.900 that allows him to further resource Border Patrol and ICE.

00:43:42.460 And they showed up with the regional director

00:43:44.640 of the Border Patrol as their PR flack

00:43:47.400 at the exact same site

00:43:49.620 that people were being bused

00:43:51.760 to internment camps in this country.

00:43:56.760 It was, to me, chilling in this respect,

00:43:59.340 that for me it was obvious

00:44:01.080 this is also a preview of things to come.

00:44:03.720 We said it about the National Guard

00:44:05.100 when they were federalized.

00:44:06.400 4,000 online people

00:44:07.660 listening and watching.

00:44:09.320 4,000 National Guard were federalized.

00:44:12.320 It was the first time

00:44:13.400 that President of the United States,

00:44:15.060 Donald Trump,

00:44:15.900 didn't do this in his first term,

00:44:17.520 sent 700 active military Marines,

00:44:20.600 not overseas,

00:44:21.940 but to a city in the United States of America.

00:44:24.980 The city, yes, you're right,

00:44:26.360 and I think it is absolutely legit,

00:44:28.220 run by an African-American woman.

00:44:29.660 You start to find those dots

00:44:30.880 and they have a lot in common

00:44:32.280 with what you were referring to

00:44:33.760 and what he's doing across this country as well.

00:44:36.140 But I see a future where ICE shows up

00:44:41.080 to those lines that you were referencing,

00:44:44.380 to those voting booths,

00:44:45.660 not just the National Guard being called out

00:44:48.280 under a quote-unquote declaration of emergency.

00:44:51.280 Am I overstating that concern

00:44:53.880 or do you see tenets of that?

00:44:56.660 Are you concerned about that as well?

00:44:58.320 I think that there are no limits

00:45:00.860 that ICE will not go.

00:45:03.080 I do feel like this is definitely his personal army.

00:45:07.080 We know that we've seen reports

00:45:08.940 about January Sixers

00:45:10.660 that have somehow been offered jobs

00:45:12.660 within the Department of Justice

00:45:14.320 and within various kind of spaces.

00:45:16.820 I think that there may have even been some reports

00:45:19.580 as it relates to ICE.

00:45:21.820 One of the reasons that, you know,

00:45:24.240 I argue that they are hiding their faces

00:45:26.420 is because these are people

00:45:28.240 that should not be law enforcement at all.

00:45:31.700 In fact, I recently dropped one of my bills

00:45:35.180 that was an amendment

00:45:35.960 as we were going through the process

00:45:37.920 of the Big Ugly Bill

00:45:39.480 where I was trying to get an amendment

00:45:42.040 in judiciary as it relates to Homeland

00:45:45.860 and what was going on

00:45:47.420 as they were trying to increase

00:45:49.040 the dollars going to Homeland.

00:45:51.020 And obviously, ultimately,

00:45:52.900 when the budget came out

00:45:54.200 or when we got through reconciliation,

00:45:56.140 they did increase the amount of monies going there.

00:45:58.700 But I basically did an amendment that said,

00:46:00.820 hey, if you end up covering yourself,

00:46:04.620 then no, you don't get the monies.

00:46:06.640 Like, you can't be out there.

00:46:08.200 You've got to be clearly identified.

00:46:09.680 And frankly, it is for the safety,

00:46:12.880 not only of the officers,

00:46:14.260 but also of the general public

00:46:15.860 as we've seen so many reports

00:46:17.520 of people that are cosplaying as ICE

00:46:20.540 and they are then kidnapping people.

00:46:23.080 They are then vandalizing homes and cars.

00:46:26.320 And so it is emboldening the bad actors

00:46:29.740 to continue acting bad.

00:46:31.820 But the question is,

00:46:32.920 how many of the bad actors

00:46:34.080 are actually on the inside right now?

00:46:36.320 And they don't,

00:46:37.860 because they're not, in my opinion,

00:46:39.280 in real law enforcement,

00:46:40.420 so many of them,

00:46:41.240 like, we're not talking about the people

00:46:42.300 that have been there for a very long time

00:46:44.640 and understand how ICE works.

00:46:46.840 Because I'm like, honestly,

00:46:47.980 the stuff that y'all are doing is crazy anyway.

00:46:50.240 Like, people look at law enforcement

00:46:53.060 or people with guns and badges

00:46:54.780 and they think they're all the same.

00:46:56.960 But they are not trying the same.

00:46:58.360 Whether we're talking about our Marines,

00:47:00.620 whether we're talking about our Army,

00:47:02.300 whether we're talking about our Navy,

00:47:03.920 like, whoever we're talking about, right?

00:47:05.960 Or whether we're talking about,

00:47:07.140 like, our Air Force

00:47:07.900 and whether we're talking about

00:47:08.780 our local law enforcement versus ICE.

00:47:12.340 They are not trained the same.

00:47:14.060 Local law enforcement is always going to be

00:47:16.100 your investigative group.

00:47:17.700 These are the guys that go out

00:47:19.340 and find the criminals.

00:47:20.540 And I got news for you.

00:47:21.960 If you're a criminal,

00:47:23.540 they don't first determine your status

00:47:25.980 and whether or not it's legal

00:47:27.600 or whether or not there's some issues

00:47:30.260 as relates to your documentation

00:47:31.500 and then decide,

00:47:32.660 well, you know what?

00:47:33.680 We only go after the citizens.

00:47:35.620 We don't go after the non-citizens.

00:47:37.500 ICE does that.

00:47:38.260 That is wrong.

00:47:40.040 Investigative bodies,

00:47:41.140 they do this work all the time.

00:47:43.020 If there is evidence of a murder,

00:47:44.700 if there is evidence of a rape,

00:47:45.940 a robbery, a DWI,

00:47:47.760 whatever it is,

00:47:49.260 they look at the evidence,

00:47:51.060 they follow the facts,

00:47:52.020 and then they get to a perpetrator.

00:47:54.020 And it's only once that perpetrator

00:47:55.620 is then in custody.

00:47:57.220 ICE, for the most part,

00:47:58.220 is nothing but a ride.

00:47:59.420 That's all they were supposed to do

00:48:00.600 for the most part, right?

00:48:01.800 It's like, you know what?

00:48:03.000 This person is undocumented

00:48:04.560 or this person reentered the country illegally,

00:48:08.780 all the things,

00:48:09.960 and then they have an ICE hold.

00:48:11.540 And then ICE gets them

00:48:12.740 so they can then send them out.

00:48:14.080 That's all ICE is supposed to do.

00:48:15.420 Look at them as a fancy Uber driver

00:48:17.180 for immigrants.

00:48:18.100 That's all they're supposed to do.

00:48:19.660 And now they're running into places

00:48:21.840 and doing raids

00:48:23.480 and they're falling all over each other,

00:48:25.280 injuring each other.

00:48:26.480 Like, we are a joke,

00:48:28.160 but it is a bad nightmare of a joke.

00:48:30.600 And so I don't think

00:48:32.560 that this president

00:48:33.400 has any limits that he won't go to.

00:48:35.900 So I agree with you.

00:48:37.380 Ultimately, if there's something

00:48:38.600 that he wants to accomplish,

00:48:40.260 he has, you know,

00:48:42.080 I don't even want to say her name,

00:48:43.660 but he's got her leading

00:48:44.860 the Department of Homeland Security.

00:48:47.700 And again, you know,

00:48:49.240 this is where our checks and balances

00:48:50.720 failed us again,

00:48:51.840 because these senators

00:48:53.380 allowed for these persons

00:48:55.800 to be,

00:48:56.960 go through the confirmation process.

00:48:58.480 And they're not qualified.

00:49:01.740 Like, there should have been

00:49:02.560 more senators.

00:49:03.640 And, you know,

00:49:04.220 I will give love

00:49:05.120 to the few Republican senators

00:49:07.120 that refused to sign off

00:49:09.160 on the confirmation

00:49:09.780 of some of these appointees

00:49:12.400 within this cabinet.

00:49:13.760 But this is yet another reason

00:49:15.400 that we are being failed right now,

00:49:17.660 because we don't have someone

00:49:18.900 that is currently over homeland

00:49:20.440 and will tell the president

00:49:21.700 this is a violation

00:49:22.680 of people's constitutional rights.

00:49:24.580 Like, the whole idea of due process,

00:49:26.180 you don't even know what it means.

00:49:27.260 And you are leading like homeland.

00:49:29.920 Like, this doesn't make sense.

00:49:31.500 So we've got a series of failures.

00:49:35.220 And frankly, it feels like

00:49:36.960 it was the perfect storm

00:49:38.240 for him to come in at this time,

00:49:41.100 because people are just too afraid of him.

00:49:44.200 And they are bending the knee.

00:49:46.100 So I absolutely can see a scenario

00:49:48.040 where ICE does too much.

00:49:51.080 Well, if you were referring

00:49:53.960 to Kristi Noem, you may have been,

00:49:56.500 and I would suggest you should.

00:49:58.400 And I hope you were.

00:49:59.900 This is the same Kristi Noem,

00:50:01.080 Governor Noem, that just last September,

00:50:03.040 less than a year ago,

00:50:04.160 was on Fox with Sean Hannity,

00:50:07.360 outraged by the rumor

00:50:09.240 that then-President Joe Biden

00:50:11.900 was going to federalize

00:50:13.920 her National Guard.

00:50:15.100 And she was waxing on

00:50:16.660 about the Constitution

00:50:18.260 and the 10th Amendment

00:50:19.640 and federalism.

00:50:20.880 And Sean Hannity was sitting there

00:50:22.820 shaking his head

00:50:23.840 as a puppy dog saying,

00:50:25.660 boy, Governor, isn't that true?

00:50:27.880 Fast forward to today.

00:50:29.700 It is a remarkable moment.

00:50:31.660 But I want to just,

00:50:32.580 for a brief moment,

00:50:34.280 talk again about you.

00:50:35.380 Talk about, one, doing your job.

00:50:37.820 I imagine a lot of people said,

00:50:39.200 you're new into Congress.

00:50:40.700 Your job is just to get along,

00:50:42.740 sit back, be quiet,

00:50:44.680 get to know folks,

00:50:45.940 take your time.

00:50:46.840 Because time's really

00:50:47.800 the currency in D.C.,

00:50:50.160 eventually, maybe 20,

00:50:51.940 30 years from now,

00:50:53.520 you'll be chair of a committee.

00:50:55.460 I don't see that

00:50:56.580 with you at all.

00:50:58.280 You didn't take any time

00:50:59.600 to sort of just come out,

00:51:01.960 just say like it is,

00:51:03.500 call out people.

00:51:05.500 Is, I mean,

00:51:06.140 just motivation,

00:51:08.080 nature, nurture.

00:51:09.200 Was this mom and dad?

00:51:10.740 Was this who you were as a kid?

00:51:12.240 Or is this who,

00:51:13.740 you know, life is sort of,

00:51:15.020 you know,

00:51:15.520 is the world

00:51:16.800 sort of creating your,

00:51:19.100 I mean,

00:51:19.280 are you sort of meeting

00:51:20.240 this moment

00:51:20.840 because you're so,

00:51:22.820 you're just,

00:51:23.380 you need to be held

00:51:24.460 to a higher level

00:51:25.100 of accountability

00:51:25.720 because you need to call out

00:51:27.540 what the hell's going on?

00:51:28.400 Yeah, well, Governor,

00:51:29.200 you've been involved

00:51:30.240 in politics

00:51:30.720 for a very long time.

00:51:32.140 And with that,

00:51:34.280 you have seen

00:51:35.300 a lot of different

00:51:36.460 types of politicians.

00:51:38.360 People enter this arena

00:51:40.080 with different goals.

00:51:42.380 And I can tell you

00:51:43.940 that I was not born

00:51:45.480 into a family

00:51:46.120 that was super involved

00:51:48.420 in politics.

00:51:49.020 My parents voted for sure,

00:51:50.540 but they never aspired

00:51:52.200 to be politicians.

00:51:53.340 They never pushed me

00:51:54.140 to be a politician.

00:51:55.340 I never took

00:51:55.920 one poli sci class

00:51:57.460 when I was in college.

00:51:58.860 I was not interested

00:52:00.560 whatsoever.

00:52:02.080 And so I think

00:52:03.480 every once in a while

00:52:04.320 you do run across

00:52:05.620 some of those

00:52:06.760 that have literally said

00:52:09.020 this moment,

00:52:10.080 calls for me

00:52:11.860 to step up

00:52:12.560 and who knows

00:52:13.820 what will happen.

00:52:15.020 And ultimately,

00:52:15.860 that's the story

00:52:16.580 of me being involved

00:52:17.540 in politics.

00:52:18.860 Even by the time

00:52:20.120 I got to the state house

00:52:21.720 and I was so happy

00:52:23.560 to be there,

00:52:24.060 it was the closest

00:52:24.700 state house race.

00:52:25.760 I was the barely

00:52:26.820 state representative

00:52:28.620 in the state of Texas.

00:52:30.720 I always tell people

00:52:31.800 I was a thank you,

00:52:32.600 Lottie,

00:52:33.320 into the state house.

00:52:35.380 I won my election

00:52:36.640 by a mere 90 votes.

00:52:39.040 I think that was

00:52:40.200 the ultimate number.

00:52:41.920 And so I won

00:52:42.380 by 90 votes.

00:52:43.800 And I was an underdog.

00:52:45.140 I was outspent

00:52:45.740 five to one,

00:52:46.980 but I was not outworked.

00:52:48.460 And I was able

00:52:49.460 to convince

00:52:50.300 about 300 volunteers

00:52:52.860 to get involved

00:52:54.020 in a state house race,

00:52:55.780 which was unprecedented.

00:52:56.920 But people believed

00:52:58.240 in my vision

00:52:59.500 and they believed

00:53:00.620 in my grit

00:53:02.120 and grind.

00:53:02.840 And it was only

00:53:04.500 after one term

00:53:05.840 in the state house

00:53:06.780 that I was called

00:53:07.960 up to the federal level,

00:53:08.980 which I had no intention

00:53:10.220 whatsoever of going to.

00:53:11.880 That was not my aspiration,

00:53:13.780 even though so many people

00:53:15.260 use these positions

00:53:16.460 as stepping stones

00:53:18.260 to get somewhere else

00:53:19.940 that they're trying

00:53:20.440 to get to.

00:53:21.100 In fact,

00:53:21.440 I remember people

00:53:22.180 telling me,

00:53:22.940 like,

00:53:23.340 oh,

00:53:23.460 you can't be a state rep.

00:53:24.680 You've got to go be

00:53:25.480 like city council first.

00:53:26.680 And I was like,

00:53:27.660 why?

00:53:28.000 I was like,

00:53:28.720 I don't want to do

00:53:29.580 city stuff.

00:53:30.260 Like,

00:53:30.420 I want to do

00:53:31.080 the state stuff.

00:53:31.960 So why would I do that?

00:53:33.700 And to me,

00:53:34.280 it does a disservice

00:53:35.100 for the people

00:53:35.940 that you're serving

00:53:36.680 if you're literally

00:53:37.840 just there trying

00:53:38.720 to get somewhere else.

00:53:40.300 And so when I got called

00:53:42.160 by my predecessor,

00:53:43.280 along with the former

00:53:44.200 ambassador under Clinton

00:53:45.500 and so many other people

00:53:47.020 were calling

00:53:47.540 and I tell people

00:53:48.180 all the time

00:53:48.660 that God has to yell

00:53:49.460 at me to get me to move.

00:53:51.120 But they were like,

00:53:51.960 you should go to Congress.

00:53:54.160 And I was like,

00:53:55.380 no.

00:53:56.060 I was like,

00:53:56.660 I just,

00:53:57.340 you know,

00:53:57.620 barely got out

00:53:58.640 of this election.

00:53:59.800 I don't want to

00:54:00.340 sign up for another

00:54:01.100 hard one.

00:54:02.260 And I knew

00:54:02.760 it was going

00:54:03.080 to be difficult

00:54:03.620 because my predecessor

00:54:05.020 is the only person

00:54:06.580 that ever served

00:54:07.740 the district.

00:54:09.740 She was actually

00:54:10.860 in the Texas Senate

00:54:11.960 and she was

00:54:13.100 on the redistricting

00:54:13.740 committee

00:54:14.220 when the seat

00:54:15.400 was created.

00:54:17.180 And so she then

00:54:17.920 ran for the seat

00:54:18.780 and she served

00:54:20.020 for 30 years

00:54:21.220 on the federal level.

00:54:22.820 And so there have

00:54:23.640 been people

00:54:24.140 waiting for decades

00:54:25.420 to run for this seat.

00:54:27.480 And so there ended

00:54:28.520 up being 10 of us

00:54:29.720 but I believed

00:54:31.520 that for whatever

00:54:32.520 reason God

00:54:34.120 was really saying,

00:54:35.780 no,

00:54:35.980 you've got to do it

00:54:36.920 even though you

00:54:37.760 don't really want

00:54:38.820 to do it.

00:54:40.120 And never did I

00:54:41.040 imagine a scenario

00:54:42.000 where I would be

00:54:42.940 one of 435

00:54:44.360 and a freshman

00:54:46.660 where anyone

00:54:47.460 would know my name.

00:54:48.760 When you talk

00:54:49.680 to the average person

00:54:50.660 and you ask them

00:54:52.120 name,

00:54:52.600 you know,

00:54:53.100 five,

00:54:54.020 name 10 members

00:54:55.200 of the house,

00:54:56.280 they can't do it.

00:54:57.320 So why would I think

00:54:58.560 that somehow

00:54:59.240 I would end up

00:55:01.060 in this situation?

00:55:02.620 And as I told

00:55:03.720 the story

00:55:04.220 at the DNC

00:55:05.160 about my encounter,

00:55:06.480 my first

00:55:07.040 in-person encounter

00:55:08.720 with the vice president,

00:55:10.420 I was really struggling

00:55:12.240 with whether or not

00:55:14.380 I really had done

00:55:15.400 the right thing.

00:55:16.260 I mean,

00:55:16.520 I had gone through

00:55:17.160 a lot,

00:55:17.660 I had won.

00:55:19.440 I didn't really know

00:55:20.780 that I was really fitting

00:55:22.140 and I just didn't know.

00:55:24.180 And I still struggle.

00:55:26.080 I'll be honest.

00:55:26.780 I still struggle.

00:55:27.600 I don't struggle

00:55:28.260 like I initially did

00:55:30.000 because when I go home

00:55:31.920 or even when I go

00:55:32.800 other places,

00:55:34.160 whether it is

00:55:35.380 kids that have

00:55:36.520 no ability whatsoever

00:55:37.420 to vote

00:55:38.160 but love me

00:55:40.040 and are telling me

00:55:41.320 that they're watching me

00:55:42.100 and I'm like,

00:55:42.580 what is wrong

00:55:42.960 with your parents?

00:55:43.560 Because I sometimes

00:55:45.000 say things that I shouldn't.

00:55:47.200 You know,

00:55:47.720 but like them being inspired

00:55:49.760 or whether it is

00:55:51.520 how everything unfolded

00:55:53.440 with the Marjorie Taylor Greene

00:55:54.660 scenario

00:55:55.140 and having like

00:55:56.660 black women executives

00:55:57.980 that are sitting

00:55:59.160 in these rooms

00:56:00.100 and these tables

00:56:00.840 where the micro

00:56:01.540 and sometimes macro

00:56:03.100 aggressions

00:56:03.880 are so real

00:56:04.960 with their colleagues

00:56:05.720 but feeling like,

00:56:06.720 you know what?

00:56:07.480 If a congresswoman

00:56:08.380 could stand in her power,

00:56:09.780 I can stand in mine.

00:56:11.120 Now, you know,

00:56:11.820 the advice is not

00:56:12.600 to call anybody

00:56:13.400 a butch body

00:56:14.260 or a big back

00:56:14.840 or nothing

00:56:15.160 but nevertheless,

00:56:17.860 like letting them know

00:56:19.220 that you won't cower

00:56:20.580 because you know

00:56:21.860 that you had to work

00:56:22.780 so hard to get

00:56:23.240 in those rooms

00:56:23.720 and so like understanding

00:56:25.440 my impact on the outside

00:56:27.460 gives me my fuel

00:56:28.560 to stay on the inside

00:56:29.660 but it's tough

00:56:31.360 because as you know

00:56:33.060 how these systems work,

00:56:34.400 it is a matter of,

00:56:36.540 well,

00:56:36.640 you got to be here forever

00:56:37.620 and that's how

00:56:38.680 you'll get something done

00:56:40.000 and I'm like,

00:56:41.080 I'm not here

00:56:41.560 to be here forever.

00:56:42.440 Like I didn't know

00:56:43.100 I'd be here at all,

00:56:44.240 right?

00:56:44.560 So I need to make

00:56:45.440 the best of this moment

00:56:47.260 and I think

00:56:48.280 that it does a disservice

00:56:49.540 to my constituents

00:56:50.360 to say,

00:56:51.620 well,

00:56:52.300 unfortunately,

00:56:53.140 since I just got here,

00:56:54.480 nothing's going to happen.

00:56:55.600 Like that's not

00:56:56.220 full representation

00:56:57.360 whatsoever.

00:56:58.780 So,

00:56:59.420 you know,

00:57:00.420 I think if enough people

00:57:01.740 push against the system,

00:57:04.300 then you can start

00:57:05.120 to reshape the system

00:57:06.480 but we still got

00:57:07.860 a lot of pushing to do.

00:57:10.380 We love your clarity,

00:57:12.060 your conviction,

00:57:12.900 love your authenticity

00:57:13.940 and Republicans

00:57:16.340 have been watching

00:57:17.000 and that's why

00:57:17.520 they have your,

00:57:18.680 I mean,

00:57:19.220 let's,

00:57:19.600 let's,

00:57:20.260 and we'll end on this,

00:57:21.580 they're trying to end

00:57:22.820 your political career

00:57:24.080 in Texas.

00:57:25.620 One of the five maps

00:57:26.980 that they've put forward

00:57:28.860 excludes your current district,

00:57:31.280 right?

00:57:31.560 You would no longer

00:57:32.340 be quote unquote

00:57:32.900 living in the district

00:57:34.300 that they're redrawing.

00:57:35.500 Is that accurate?

00:57:36.140 Yeah,

00:57:36.360 so what they did

00:57:37.240 is they drew me

00:57:38.100 out of my district

00:57:39.100 but since it's federal,

00:57:40.640 I can run anywhere

00:57:41.400 in the state.

00:57:42.020 So,

00:57:42.440 so long as there is a seat,

00:57:44.540 I could most likely

00:57:45.940 run anywhere in the state

00:57:46.980 but right now,

00:57:48.400 the seat that they

00:57:49.800 drew me into

00:57:50.820 is also a Democratic seat

00:57:53.320 and then my old seat

00:57:55.260 is still a Democratic seat.

00:57:57.000 So,

00:57:57.360 I feel confident

00:57:58.280 that if I decide

00:57:59.860 that I'm going back

00:58:00.840 to the House

00:58:01.300 that I'll be able

00:58:01.860 to go back to the House.

00:58:04.040 The thing is,

00:58:04.600 we have three Democrats

00:58:05.700 that served

00:58:07.800 the Dallas area,

00:58:09.340 the Dallas-Fort Worth area

00:58:10.460 and now there's only

00:58:11.860 two seats

00:58:12.860 for Democrats

00:58:13.940 to really kind of

00:58:14.880 be able to run in

00:58:15.840 and so I've got to have

00:58:17.900 a conversation

00:58:18.780 with my colleagues

00:58:19.920 to figure out,

00:58:20.720 you know,

00:58:21.420 what are we doing

00:58:22.100 and where.

00:58:24.060 Yeah,

00:58:24.620 but I'm probably in,

00:58:26.240 to be honest,

00:58:26.780 I'm probably in the best

00:58:27.840 situation

00:58:28.560 of the three of us

00:58:29.940 because both seats

00:58:33.280 are easy enough

00:58:34.960 for me to win

00:58:35.540 and at least I live in one

00:58:36.860 and I used to represent

00:58:37.740 the other.

00:58:38.740 The other two colleagues

00:58:39.740 that I have

00:58:40.240 are both in Republican

00:58:41.420 drawn seats now

00:58:42.500 so they would have

00:58:43.720 to run

00:58:44.340 from outside

00:58:45.620 of their districts

00:58:46.900 or move

00:58:48.140 to make people

00:58:49.900 feel comfortable

00:58:50.520 with like them

00:58:51.380 representing their areas.

00:58:54.000 And tell the truth,

00:58:55.480 I, you know,

00:58:56.240 I'd be remiss

00:58:57.100 that a lot of rumors

00:58:58.180 about the United States Senate

00:58:59.580 and I mean,

00:59:01.720 just,

00:59:02.420 you've had to have

00:59:03.060 some conversations

00:59:04.040 about it, right?

00:59:04.800 I have,

00:59:06.200 I mean,

00:59:06.620 I will tell you

00:59:07.380 that there are always

00:59:08.260 people that are,

00:59:09.540 you know,

00:59:10.160 yelling and screaming

00:59:10.920 for me to go higher.

00:59:12.880 I will tell you

00:59:14.020 ever since I got

00:59:14.840 to the House,

00:59:15.520 they were yelling

00:59:16.020 and screaming

00:59:16.460 for me to go higher

00:59:17.400 and I can tell you

00:59:19.780 that even

00:59:20.240 when I was a freshman,

00:59:22.180 they did not want me

00:59:23.040 to seek re-election

00:59:23.880 but instead go

00:59:24.820 after Ted Cruz

00:59:25.660 and I was like,

00:59:27.200 I just got here.

00:59:28.500 I'm not going to do that.

00:59:29.460 And so obviously

00:59:30.580 Colin Allred

00:59:31.340 went after Ted Cruz

00:59:33.460 and Colin Allred

00:59:34.640 is now going again

00:59:36.120 after most likely Paxton

00:59:38.840 and Paxton makes

00:59:41.320 the seat vulnerable

00:59:42.160 but it would have to be,

00:59:44.620 I will tell you

00:59:45.260 that if I were

00:59:46.120 to run for Senate,

00:59:47.480 it would be

00:59:48.120 because I am convinced

00:59:49.900 of the data

00:59:51.300 that my team,

00:59:52.600 not external data,

00:59:55.060 but the data

00:59:55.860 that my team

00:59:56.940 is able to pull together

00:59:58.500 that shows

00:59:59.720 that I can do it

01:00:00.880 and I think

01:00:02.860 that anyone

01:00:03.680 who believes

01:00:04.740 that they can win

01:00:05.440 the Texas Senate seat

01:00:06.420 without expanding

01:00:07.280 the electorate,

01:00:08.460 they already have lost

01:00:09.980 because when we look

01:00:10.920 at the electorate,

01:00:12.060 it always goes one way

01:00:14.120 and so you have

01:00:15.320 to have the ability

01:00:16.100 to expand

01:00:16.820 and I also agree

01:00:18.240 with Beto O'Rourke

01:00:19.200 who believes

01:00:20.620 that we need

01:00:21.620 an actual ticket.

01:00:23.260 We typically run

01:00:24.380 and whoever's

01:00:25.060 at the top of the ticket

01:00:25.920 is like it

01:00:26.920 instead of really

01:00:28.620 having like a very

01:00:29.640 strong ticket

01:00:30.620 where different people

01:00:31.880 can bring together

01:00:33.060 different constituencies.

01:00:35.520 So there would be

01:00:36.320 a lot that would

01:00:36.900 go into it.

01:00:38.100 It is not impossible

01:00:40.060 to do in Texas.

01:00:42.320 It is definitely

01:00:43.460 a difficult hill

01:00:45.520 to climb

01:00:46.060 but I just don't

01:00:47.720 really know

01:00:48.140 where we're going

01:00:48.760 in this country

01:00:49.480 when, you know,

01:00:50.840 we've got a 34-count

01:00:52.180 convicted felon

01:00:52.960 in the White House

01:00:53.660 and we've got,

01:00:55.180 you know,

01:00:55.720 a guy who was impeached

01:00:56.860 by his own party

01:00:58.060 that is leading the way

01:01:00.640 who was under

01:01:02.020 felony indictment

01:01:03.860 for almost a decade

01:01:06.140 and who had been

01:01:07.800 under federal investigation

01:01:09.520 forever

01:01:10.620 and he's their

01:01:12.200 leading candidate

01:01:13.160 to be the next senator

01:01:15.900 from the state of Texas.

01:01:17.260 It just seems like

01:01:18.180 there is no low

01:01:20.380 that some of these people

01:01:21.700 just won't go

01:01:22.520 just to say

01:01:23.540 that they have

01:01:25.100 a Republican

01:01:25.680 versus looking

01:01:27.340 at people's policies

01:01:28.420 and figuring out

01:01:29.500 who will do best

01:01:30.660 by me

01:01:31.280 regardless of

01:01:32.860 the label

01:01:33.480 that is on them

01:01:34.280 and I want people

01:01:35.360 going forward

01:01:36.460 one of the things

01:01:37.240 that I said

01:01:37.720 during the last campaign

01:01:38.560 is I want people

01:01:39.460 to be selfish.

01:01:40.720 I want you to be selfish

01:01:41.540 and decide

01:01:42.460 that you're going

01:01:43.460 to look at

01:01:44.120 what somebody

01:01:44.580 is going to do

01:01:45.300 for you

01:01:45.840 and if they don't

01:01:46.800 have an answer

01:01:47.520 about why

01:01:48.360 you don't have

01:01:48.900 health care

01:01:49.320 in rural America

01:01:50.220 they may not

01:01:51.420 be your candidate.

01:01:52.080 if they don't

01:01:52.660 have an answer

01:01:53.340 about where

01:01:54.060 you are going

01:01:54.720 to get new markets

01:01:56.240 as they are

01:01:56.960 cutting out

01:01:57.740 government funding

01:01:58.840 for things

01:01:59.660 such as USAID

01:02:00.700 with these contracts

01:02:02.100 where we were

01:02:02.700 getting farmers

01:02:03.380 to actually farm

01:02:05.420 and then sell

01:02:06.340 those items

01:02:06.900 and then send

01:02:07.700 them over

01:02:08.300 where we know

01:02:09.940 that our free

01:02:10.920 school lunches

01:02:11.780 are about to be

01:02:12.460 decimated as well

01:02:13.720 and so many farmers

01:02:15.420 had contracts

01:02:16.400 with so many schools

01:02:18.740 or I mean

01:02:20.120 the list goes

01:02:20.900 on and on

01:02:21.540 and on

01:02:22.040 and so

01:02:22.880 it is time

01:02:23.720 for people

01:02:24.080 to be selfish

01:02:24.740 and decide

01:02:26.100 that they

01:02:26.760 first of all

01:02:27.420 understand

01:02:27.920 what government

01:02:28.480 is supposed

01:02:29.000 to do

01:02:29.340 which government

01:02:29.880 isn't supposed

01:02:30.920 to take you

01:02:31.320 to church

01:02:31.760 if you need

01:02:33.120 to go to church

01:02:33.620 go find your

01:02:34.160 pastor

01:02:34.560 and I'm down

01:02:35.460 for it

01:02:35.820 because I love

01:02:36.300 my pastor

01:02:36.840 I ride

01:02:37.700 with my pastor

01:02:38.320 and my pastor

01:02:38.760 shows up for me

01:02:39.480 I am not saying

01:02:40.960 there's anything

01:02:41.460 wrong with you

01:02:41.840 but if you

01:02:42.440 are seeking

01:02:43.120 a good church

01:02:44.180 and a good

01:02:45.020 spiritual leader

01:02:45.700 go to church

01:02:47.240 if you are

01:02:48.520 seeking this

01:02:49.220 thing that we

01:02:50.060 refer to as

01:02:51.680 separation of

01:02:52.400 government and

01:02:52.900 church or church

01:02:53.820 and state

01:02:54.400 then you probably

01:02:55.560 need to go find

01:02:56.120 you an actual

01:02:56.620 statesman

01:02:57.180 who absolutely

01:02:58.720 understands what

01:03:00.140 it is to take

01:03:01.060 care of us

01:03:02.300 in this country

01:03:02.920 and make sure

01:03:03.560 that we've got

01:03:03.960 a stronger economy

01:03:04.780 and that we are

01:03:05.800 investing in our

01:03:06.760 future so that

01:03:07.880 we can remain

01:03:08.880 that beacon of

01:03:10.120 hope for the

01:03:10.640 entire world

01:03:11.300 I love it

01:03:12.980 well it's faith

01:03:13.760 and works

01:03:14.460 as they say

01:03:15.400 as you pray

01:03:16.020 move your feet

01:03:16.680 and we've been

01:03:18.000 watching you

01:03:18.680 and it's remarkable

01:03:20.040 to see your success

01:03:21.680 and I think

01:03:22.700 everybody listening

01:03:23.500 knows why

01:03:24.580 you are quote unquote

01:03:25.560 one of the rising

01:03:26.460 stars as most

01:03:28.460 observers have

01:03:29.360 acknowledged in the

01:03:30.180 Democratic Party

01:03:30.920 and why Donald

01:03:32.400 Trump himself

01:03:33.640 Congresswoman

01:03:34.680 yes

01:03:35.520 get over it

01:03:36.680 called you the

01:03:37.660 future

01:03:38.040 of the Democratic

01:03:40.320 Party

01:03:40.760 thank you for

01:03:42.100 joining us

01:03:42.740 today

01:03:43.000 thanks

01:03:43.400 December 29th

01:03:54.300 1975

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