Trump nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? Is this the ultimate Trump Derangement Syndrome? We talk about it and more with Baltimore City Council candidate, Kim Klesik, who is running for President in the upcoming primary election.
00:01:13.000But the lead story, of course, for most of you who have been following the news, Trump has been nominated for the second time for the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:02:20.000So we're going to talk about this and then we're going to talk about a bunch of issues.
00:02:23.000We're going to talk about Kim's race and your positions and what you're hoping to do and your perspectives on the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, obviously.
00:02:32.000And make sure you hit the like button.
00:02:59.000A member of the Swedish parliament on Friday nominated President Trump and the governments of Kosovo and Serbia for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize over economic cooperation and trade talks.
00:03:08.000And I can only imagine that with this new Bahrain announcement, Bahrain-Israel,
00:03:13.000there's going to be some more nominations and Trump maybe could win this.
00:03:39.000I'm sure you've heard a little bit about these historic agreements and, you know, it just, to me, You know, I could personally go on for a million years about foreign policy, because that's one of the most important things to me.
00:03:51.000It's one of the reasons why I've been more supportive of Trump.
00:03:55.000He's pulling our troops out of the Middle East.
00:03:57.000Well, the first question I have is, you're obviously a big fan of Trump.
00:04:50.000They will not allow... This week has been insane in terms of dropping bombs to just smear and drag Trump at a time when these deals are coming out.
00:05:02.000I'm looking at the news and I'm like, is Trump's campaign strategy to do good things as president and the Democrats' campaign strategy is to just keep complaining about Trump?
00:05:21.000He talks about me, but he has no platform.
00:05:24.000This is like what Democrats do, you know?
00:05:27.000And it's unfortunate because I don't know how they still have people that vote for them, you know?
00:05:31.000And then, you know, if you're talking about, you know, just how racist America is and how you want it to change, How do you then vote for the party with no platform to change it?
00:05:43.000I've looked at a bit of what, like, say, Biden wants, and I've looked at a lot of what many Democrats offer, and some of them seem to be... There's a lot of Democrats who have, you know, obviously, like, middle-of-the-roads, approvable opinions, but then you'll see things in the media like this, but you'll also see, you know, a good example for Joe Biden, in my opinion, When he was asked if he was for reallocating funds away from the police, he said, yes, absolutely.
00:06:09.000But then later he comes out and says, no, we want more funds to go to different police programs.
00:06:14.000And I understand there's a nuance there.
00:06:53.000This is what really, really bothers me right now, is that Donald Trump has just nailed these peace agreements, is being nominated for a peace prize, and Joe Biden comes from Obama's legacy of increasing wars.
00:07:04.000I mean, and I'm not here to rag on Obama.
00:07:05.000I think it's silly to be like, well, what about Obama?
00:07:10.000We have all these past presidents starting wars.
00:07:14.000In my opinion, I don't want to say it's a waste because I don't want to be disrespectful to the troops who need this funding for their safety and security, but I don't like the idea that we spend so much of our time and energy on these foreign conflicts.
00:07:27.000You had eight years of an Obama-Biden administration.
00:07:30.000Where were their peace agreements with Israel and any other country?
00:07:34.000Instead, it was conflict, it was Libya, it was more wars, it was, you know,
00:07:56.000That is the crux of derangement syndrome.
00:08:00.000I don't know if it's correlation or causation from the Democratic Party to the Democratic voter.
00:08:06.000Do you think the Democrats do things if the voter says to do it or do you think the voters just vote for whatever the Democrat says to vote for?
00:09:49.000Instead of offering up mental health services or a real solution to the problem, I felt like their goal was just to perpetuate this mirage, this fake image of what was really needed.
00:10:03.000I don't want to necessarily say where it is, but of course it was a major urban, you know,
00:10:07.000Democrat-controlled city with serious issues that they didn't care to actually deal with.
00:10:12.000And so for me, I voted for Obama in 2008.
00:10:16.000And you know, hope and change, end the wars, things like that.
00:10:21.000And then it was just the same to me, a lot of the same stuff.
00:10:24.000Because, again, for me, I think I was coming into the political realm with, like, the Iraq War.
00:10:31.000This was when I was, like, a teenager and I'm watching this stuff and I'm hearing all this music, like, System of a Down, and I'm like, yeah, the war is bad!
00:10:36.000And I started looking into it and I'm like, yeah, the war is bad!
00:10:39.000And the media lied to us and then they just kind of kept going with it for 20 years.
00:12:50.000But then when you really look at it and you start that critical thinking for yourself, I mean, I talk about all the time, you know, most black families grow up in the church.
00:12:59.000That's a conservative value system right there, you know?
00:13:03.000And you look back at like the civil rights leaders, they were all at church on Sunday.
00:13:07.000You know, they talked about God often.
00:13:10.000And so, you know, I think over the years we just, you know, walked away from that.
00:13:15.000But then we continue still being Democrats, you know, and thinking that's the way to be.
00:13:20.000I was reading an article and they said it was around the time Kanye had done something and there were a bunch of polls coming out showing that black voter support for Trump was very, very high.
00:13:30.000There were a series of polls earlier this year, like 30%, which was like unheard of.
00:13:35.000And there was an article I was reading, and I think it may have been... I don't want to misquote somebody, but I'm thinking James Carville or somebody.
00:13:41.000They said the key to the black vote is the church.
00:13:45.000And that, to me, it sounds right based on the things I've seen on TV, where they have this trope of like, you know, the churches and the politics around it.
00:13:54.000But then I thought to myself, I'm like, yeah, but the Democrats are like the opposite of Christian conservative values.
00:14:00.000Like, they don't agree with a lot of what the church says.
00:14:01.000In fact, they kind of insult it a lot.
00:14:08.000You'll go on to social media and what do they allow?
00:14:11.000They allow a lot of very anti-Christian, anti-church kind of rhetoric, but other religions sometimes, you know, they pretty much get a pass.
00:14:18.000So I look at pop culture and I'm like, that doesn't make sense to me.
00:14:45.000We've got to make this decision to kind of come back and understand the importance of family values and family structure and just spending time with your family.
00:14:53.000And so I think it's, honestly, you can.
00:14:56.000Right now, I believe in two weeks, we're meeting with 30 pastors in the Baltimore City area.
00:15:01.000And that's unheard of for any Republican.
00:15:04.000But apparently my opponent, when he was there in his previous terms, 1987 to 1996, he went to these same pastors.
00:15:12.000Asking for favors, you know, asking for their support.
00:15:15.000And he went in, didn't do anything, walked out, right?
00:15:58.000How does it end up, you know, I come from Chicago, you're in Baltimore, that you have decades after decades after decades of the exact same things being said.
00:16:07.000It almost feels like there's a lot of people who they vote because it's kind of like a passive thing and they don't actually know or care.
00:16:44.000Number two, the senior black woman isn't on Facebook looking for my virtual conversations, right?
00:16:51.000So I didn't reach hardly anyone, but we did have a nine-point swing.
00:16:54.000So all of my votes in the city, I have Howard County, Baltimore County and Baltimore City, 42% of my votes in the city came from Democrats and Independents.
00:18:08.000And then my field team is out there seven days a week knocking doors and doing the sign waving and all that.
00:18:14.000So thank goodness I have a team that is working so hard on this.
00:18:19.000You know it's crazy but that is the issue.
00:18:22.000We've got people living in the worst conditions not even taking part in the process.
00:18:27.000And so we're out there explaining it to them, and I have to say, in the past, I think it's a month and a half, we've registered over 200 voters, right?
00:18:36.000From what I know, only 17% have registered as Democrats.
00:18:45.000So, you know, independents came up a lot, and Republicans now, because they're sitting there talking to my team about what's the difference.
00:18:53.000And this is what I was talking about in my RNC convention speech.
00:18:56.000I go in, my team goes in, and we talk to people.
00:18:59.000We're like, what do we have to do to get you to vote for a Republican?
00:19:02.000And they're like, you're the first Republican I've ever met.
00:21:24.000I guess you brought it up earlier, this idea that if you're in trouble, the Democrats are the ones that help you out.
00:21:31.000But maybe that's not really the solution.
00:21:33.000Maybe the solution is hard work, responsibility, family values.
00:21:38.000I had good parents, and so they instilled in me good work ethic and ambition, and that allowed me to succeed.
00:21:47.000And I look at a lot of other people I grew up with who did not do so well, who had this mentality of, it's not your fault, it's other people's fault.
00:21:54.000So then they don't actually change their circumstance.
00:22:15.000I'll talk to some people, you know, I still show up and talk to people in the streets myself.
00:22:20.000And this one guy came up to me the other day and said, you're not gonna cut off my food stamps, are you?
00:22:25.000He's like, you're not gonna cut off my disability, are you?
00:22:28.000And I was like, no sir, but I just I just want to ask you if you were presented with a career opportunity where even if you you know with your disability you could do that career and you made great money and you had health benefits and dental would you then say you know what I'm gonna take that over what I have right now and he said of course.
00:23:24.000It's, you almost feel like you're not in America, especially not in 2020.
00:23:29.000I think that's actually a really easy, I don't want to call it a policy position necessarily, but something to look for in terms of solving the problem.
00:23:38.000Creating opportunities for people who, instead of just receiving benefits, could find a way to generate revenue and help bolster their community.
00:23:46.000But I guess is there anything specific about your district that you've seen?
00:23:52.000Is there anything specific you would call out for the representatives as to what they should have done or things that they're not doing or that you want to do?
00:24:00.000Yeah, so I tried to keep it very simple for them in the very beginning, you know, by just showing the trash piling up.
00:24:08.000I'm like, look, you know, you are getting all of this funding, right?
00:24:13.000Baltimore City, annually, 1.1 billion dollars since 2015 when we had the riots.
00:24:20.000You're getting all this money, but for some reason in these neighborhoods where they've got low income, they probably don't vote.
00:24:37.000You know, I haven't been in the area that long, but I talk to people and they say, you know, the trash got picked up and twice a week when I paid less in taxes.
00:24:49.000And I said, well, so now you pay more for the trash to pile up right there down the street.
00:24:54.000You know, rats are running everywhere.
00:27:03.000In terms of CNN, I don't even think they use Google.
00:27:06.000I don't think he actually looked into who you were or what you were talking about.
00:27:10.000And I gotta say, you know, I take particular offense to the left social justice narrative because it's rules for thee but not for me.
00:27:21.000The idea that they could attack Candace Owens as a white supremacist, but then you could take a white man, a wealthy white man like Brian Stelter, and he could just totally misrepresent you, no one bats an eye.
00:27:32.000Now, I don't care about his race or yours.
00:27:33.000If he's going to criticize you, I think it's fine, so long as he gets the facts right.
00:27:37.000But it flies in the face of what their supposed narrative is really supposed to be about.
00:28:03.000So, you know, throwing it back to the first thing we're talking about with Trump and his Nobel Peace Prize.
00:28:08.000When the news broke, at first there were like some tweets popping up where they're like, oh, Trump's gonna, you know, he's being nominated, this is a huge deal.
00:28:14.000So I just, I did a Google search and I tried to read a bunch of different sources.
00:28:18.000The only source I found that had a neutral presentation was Fox.
00:28:23.000It was, Donald Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by, you know, this guy, he's a member of the Norwegian parliament, who's a conservative, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:29:55.000I found out almost like when everybody else found out.
00:29:58.000And so that came from the Trump campaign.
00:30:01.000So, you know, for her to say that the RNC is throwing us in there, most of the black Americans that spoke at the RNC We're a pics from Trump, you know, this wasn't like some RNC push to say oh look We've got these black people, but then it's like, you know damned if you do damned if you don't right because if we weren't there Then it's oh, we're all the black people You know
00:30:26.000This is why it really is easy to criticize their fake ideology.
00:30:30.000I think the democratic establishment is using the social justice progressive left and pretending like they care.
00:30:39.000They've really crafted this narrative so they can weaponize it in either direction, like you just said.
00:30:44.000But what's particularly offensive to me in this regard is The RNC was doing what they wanted, right?
00:30:50.000To prop up marginalized voices to express themselves.
00:30:54.000And so they insult you directly with a slur because they don't like that you're speaking as a Republican.
00:31:34.000Could a simple walk through the streets of Baltimore expand the Republican Party?
00:31:39.000Now, the general idea that we're seeing, they mentioned that, you know, you launched this ad, it goes viral, and we had Billy Prempeh on, you know, a couple weeks ago, and he's brilliant.
00:33:00.000But like he said, it's a win when you just at least chip away and expose what the other party isn't doing.
00:33:08.000You know, when we did the whole, when I uploaded the videos about the trash, and I have to say, at that point in time, in July 2019, there were, I think it came down to close to 70,000 backlog cases in the sanitation department.
00:33:23.000The Department of Public Works is what picks up the trash in the city.
00:34:22.000It's not even a question of the congressional representative.
00:34:25.000Where's any representative for these areas to get the job done?
00:34:28.000Did it really come down to your efforts to finally start making people... You know what?
00:34:34.000I'm gonna stop right there and put it this way.
00:34:35.000It's like market competition for politics.
00:34:38.000If the Democrats have a supermajority, it doesn't matter what their goals are, they don't have to do anything.
00:34:43.000Because they know people are going to checkmark the D on the voter form.
00:34:47.000As long as there's competition in any capacity, even if it's a name only, people actually have to start working for the people they represent.
00:36:31.000But I think what happened was they dragged Trump for it, but actually someone else had previously said something similar they didn't care about.
00:36:40.000There's like a clip from the Daily Show way back when where he said Baltimore was, you know, Well, our own mayor walked through the year previously and said, I can smell the dead rats as she's walking through with press.
00:36:51.000Here's what I love, that they wrote a hit piece about a dude who got volunteers to clean up garbage.
00:36:58.000And then all of a sudden we started seeing this narrative that they were just trying to make Trump look good or something.
00:37:04.000And I started laughing because I'm like, oh no, you got us!
00:37:07.000You've tricked us by going out and cleaning up trash.
00:38:06.000Is it bad that he's... You know what, man?
00:38:07.000Look, if Trump was an evil villain and he was like, you know, yeah, I'm going to win over the hearts and minds of Americans by helping them get jobs and making the economy better and getting them health care.
00:38:34.000I definitely want to ask you about some of your policies and stuff like this, but I want to show you this graph and I want to ask you about Black Lives Matter.
00:38:40.000So this is the overall support versus opposition and neither support nor oppose and unsure.
00:38:47.000And what I want to do is show net support.
00:38:49.000So this is where Black Lives Matter stands right now.
00:38:53.000This is a really interesting thing I noticed, that before the George Floyd incident happened, 17% net support for Black Lives Matter.
00:39:01.000It peaked around 25% when, you know, the George Floyd incident happened.
00:40:58.000We keep hearing from people like, I think de Blasio said this, I could be wrong, but there's been several organizations saying Black Lives Matter is not a political organization.
00:41:15.000So you're gonna tell me it's not political?
00:41:16.000It's literally running money through their fundraising arm.
00:41:19.000I know a lot of people have had, you know, thought there's a bigger conspiracy about people donating to Black Lives Matter that goes to Biden or something.
00:41:24.000I don't think that's true, because that would be a weird... That's got to be completely illegal to, like, take donations for Black Lives Matter and then give it to a political candidate.
00:44:07.000It's like the big corporations, right?
00:44:09.000When you look at Apple, you look at different organizations, they put a hundred million dollars into inclusive training, right?
00:44:18.000That whole like, oh, we're going to talk about how to... Meanwhile, you look at how many black people they have in like their top executive positions.
00:44:27.0002% like so you really care about black lives because you don't you don't hire any black people Right, you're not employing them and I'm not saying people should be employed based on their their color But that I find that interesting, you know There's a lot of corporations that say they have this this training and they're and they're raising awareness but then you look at their executive offices and you don't see any people of color and It's corporations trying to shield themselves from the latest trend, and it's going to backfire on them really, really bad.
00:44:59.000I can't remember who it was from, but I think something like the New York Times wrote a story saying, like, we mapped the most powerful people in the country, and it's like 18% are non-white.
00:45:09.000And I think it was the New York Times.
00:45:11.000And then someone showed that all of the top New York Times staff, it's all white people.
00:45:15.000So they want to act like we're pointing out a serious problem, but don't look where we are.
00:45:20.000It's seriously the rules for thee, but not for me.
00:45:44.000I know that they're not trying to be a part of that cancel culture, so they're covering their butts, but I don't think they realize people aren't stupid.
00:48:13.000And there are definitely nicer areas of Chicago for sure, but if you tell someone you're from Evanston, they're gonna be like, wow, where did your parents work?
00:48:24.000You tell people from the South Side of Chicago, and they'll be like, ah, you know, slinging burgers and working in the coal mines, huh?
00:48:31.000But I will point something out, to be fair, although I don't think this impacted him.
00:48:35.000It's really interesting, we have this defund the police narrative.
00:48:38.000Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked about what she envisions this will look like if you defund the police, and she says, the suburbs.
00:48:46.000It's really funny when, first just to provide a critique on that, well the suburbs aren't as densely populated as the cities, so you have less people per square mile, so sure, you'll need less police, it just makes sense, but more to the point.
00:49:01.000To be fair, people from the poor areas actually go to the north side and go to the wealthier areas to commit crimes because you can't rob poor people.
00:49:42.000It was kind of bad, not the worst, because there's other parts of the south side and the west side that are way worse.
00:49:47.000But there were shootings, there were drug overdoses and stuff, and it was normal to us.
00:49:52.000So when gangbangers would pull up and start firing guns, or when fights would break out and people were armed, we were kind of just like, this is normal life where we are.
00:49:58.000And then when you tell that to other people, they're shocked to hear it and they're scared of it.
00:50:02.000Not realizing that it's not like every day someone comes out with a gun and starts firing in the air.
00:50:27.000But a lot of people understand, and this is what I come to understand, just so you know, I've been spending a lot of time on the streets because I want to truly understand from their point of view.
00:50:38.000But people will say, we know it's usually a retaliation situation and if I'm not in it, Usually that bull is for someone else, right?
00:50:46.000Yeah, and I think it's sad that you know, that is the norm You know to walk up and down the streets and to see all the needles to see just everything out there and to them It's normal kids walking past it to school Normal day just walking up the street And so that's what it becomes like the quality of life becomes normalized and it's getting worse and worse And so when you're pointing out the trash, you know, you got some people that were saying I Well, how dare you point out those streets?
00:52:05.000And so when people get on me and they're like, well, she doesn't exactly live there.
00:52:09.000And I'm thinking, yeah, I can live in a mansion over in Parkton if you want, you know, or I can spend a lot of time in West Baltimore trying to understand the issues.
00:52:18.000What would you like to come at me with?
00:52:20.000You know what I learned about Chicago?
00:52:23.000One of the problems in solving the problems is that if the people who live there are not receiving any kind of support from their locals, and they're just going about their lives, and there's trash everywhere, and there's violence, what I hear from people outside saying, we're gonna solve this problem, and you ask them, Do you know why there's violence in Chicago?
00:52:44.000And I don't wanna put you on the spot, but I'm curious what your thoughts are not living in Chicago.
00:52:49.000Do you know what the cause of... You've heard about Chicago gun violence and they call it Chirac.
00:53:59.000Another story, another shooting we found was a guy was gunned down on the sidewalk because he was smack-talking the other guy on social media.
00:54:08.000So it turned out a lot of these killings were basically just people had beef and they For whatever reason, they were like, the solution to my
00:54:17.000problems, if you talk smack to me, I kill you.
00:54:56.000I wonder, you know, and when I hear about, when I asked about Elijah living in the district, do you think that they gerrymandered on purpose so that they can live in a wealthy, clean area and then represent and ignore?
00:55:09.000It was that, and then also, so you have to understand also, in Baltimore City we have 13 high schools where kids graduate unable to do basic math or read or write, right?
00:55:19.000And so a lot of those schools are in the West Baltimore area.
00:55:22.000But if you put those on with the schools in Howard County, which are great, right?
00:55:26.000And in Baltimore County, Sparks, all that, then it doesn't look like the schools are that bad, right?
00:55:32.000So it was literally like They were just making sure, like, OK, yeah, we got this problem, but, you know, put the good areas over it.
00:55:56.000Chipping away is so important because if they redistrict and you've been chipping away in some of these areas and it actually makes sense like okay Howard County and Baltimore County have a lot more in common than anybody in West Baltimore when they redistrict chipping away might equal in a Republican win you know and so it's like but if we don't chip away again we're just not in the running So it's just, and just to clarify the idea of chipping away, it's just trying to build up as much support for the Republicans slowly, even if it's a little bit.
00:56:58.000My father was a disciplinarian, but he also says when you take personal responsibility, he says, Kim, this is the greatest country in the world, right?
00:57:08.000People are coming here because of the opportunities here.
00:57:47.000So obviously that doesn't... Did you see that NBA story where they were striking over the Jacob Blake thing?
00:57:56.000Yahoo Sports included this passage where they said, some NBA players have taken to purchasing Teslas because they believe cops won't expect a black man to be driving a Tesla.
00:58:06.000And it was the most ridiculous thing I heard.
00:58:09.000Because I'm like, dude just wanted to buy a Tesla.
00:58:47.000It's very it's very weird how I think a lot of You know what, man?
00:58:53.000It's been more and more ever since, especially with Black Lives Matter, that I've started to feel like a lot of the racism we see is actually driven by the Democrats and the progressive left.
00:59:02.000I know it's kind of cliche to say to someone who's a Republican and been a Republican for a long time, but here I am being like, hey, wait a minute!
00:59:09.000They're the ones saying things like voter ID is racist.
00:59:20.000So you're saying because I'm black, I can't get an ID to go vote.
00:59:27.000If that is what you're saying, that is racist to say, okay?
00:59:32.000So you're basically saying that black people Don't get their driver's license, don't have a state ID, aren't smart enough to do it, aren't smart enough to bring it to go vote, no.
00:59:42.000For almost everything, you need an ID, right?
00:59:45.000This is again, just like we see with the mail-in voting, right?
01:00:06.000But, you know, but it's always and I hate to say it, but it's a lot of times it's white officials that are saying that blacks can't handle it.
01:00:16.000You know, when do we get the microphone and tell you what we can handle?
01:03:12.000It's the Democrats wanting to repeal the civil rights provisions in the Constitution.
01:03:18.000Am I just naive or is the Democrats opposing civil rights and they're pushing racist policies and they think many of them, not all of them, but they think they're superior and they're the saviors and all that stuff?
01:03:33.000If you take a good look at, and this is why I think we're always being divided into these little boxes, you know, like your friend was saying, the Asian Americans, the African Americans, even though he was Haitian, it's almost as if we're now pushing segregation, you know?
01:03:52.000We're rolling back so much of what we fought for.
01:03:57.000And if civil rights leaders were alive today, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was telling people, don't judge me based on my color of my skin, but the content of my character, that's the opposite of what we're doing today.
01:04:40.000Therefore, the only solution to past discrimination is present discrimination.
01:04:44.000And the only solution to present discrimination is future discrimination.
01:04:48.000Quite literally saying, we must discriminate based on race.
01:04:52.000So when I see that that book is a top, is a bestseller, and then you look at like White Fragility, and there's many other books in a similar vein, and it's not just white people who write it, it's also black people, it's also, you know, it's people of all races.
01:05:09.000But they're trying to change the definition of racist so that they like, I guess it seems like at certain points these people realized we don't like racism.
01:05:18.000We want to be just friends and hang out and break bread and, you know, stand by the water cooler talking about what we like.
01:05:24.000And they realized that if they were going to bring back segregation and discrimination, they had to alter the definition of racism.
01:05:50.000And then she's going to start essentially lecturing everyone else on their behavior and people adopt this.
01:05:56.000So for me, having grown up, I'll put it this way, I grew up pretty lefty when I was younger.
01:06:02.000Became kind of just like, around the Obama time, I was like more of a moderate, still kind of progressive, and voted for Obama the first time.
01:06:10.000And I'll tell you for me, when I snapped, it was like literally a month later when he drone bombed a village of women and children and I was like, Yeah.
01:07:20.000And they said it's facilitated by a white person for... It's facilitated by non-POC with non-POC to talk about their non-POC feelings and community.
01:08:15.000And so, you know, it's now it's like just attack everybody and anybody that is not a person of color and tell them basically they are racist and they harbor these Yeah.
01:08:30.000What does Candace Owens say that makes her a white supremacist in their eyes?
01:10:49.000And so I decided to help these young women with prom.
01:10:53.000And these are girls that basically had good grades, had a plan after high school, whether it was college or going straight to work, you know, that couldn't afford prom.
01:11:34.000But when I went to one of the prom send-off parties, one of the moms came to me and she was like, you know, I wish I could offer you something to eat.
01:11:42.000You know, she's like, you can come and sit down.
01:11:44.000In their living room, there was like lawn chairs for their furniture.
01:11:49.000And, you know, I know this young woman would tell me all the time how their electricity was on and off.
01:11:53.000And she was sometimes doing her homework by candlelight.
01:12:38.000Over 200 women become gamefully employed.
01:12:39.00030% went on to be financially independent.
01:12:42.000But that's, to me, the only way you're gonna lift anyone out of poverty is with employment.
01:12:46.000And so I think people need to understand that, you know?
01:12:50.000And, you know, that's why that's, you know, a major part of my platform is people becoming independent.
01:12:56.000So, to me, that's like, that's really unusual because it's so consistent between what you say about wanting people to take personal responsibility and your, you know, your nonprofit and getting these girls to take responsibility and rewarding them for doing so and then doing the same with women who wanted to go back to work.
01:13:11.000I think that's a wonderful thread to carry through.
01:14:01.000If you had a bunch of free thinking, independent people, they wouldn't want to vote for you and they want guaranteed votes.
01:14:07.000If you are stuck on benefits, and I know people who have gone through this where it's very difficult to get off the cycle, then you're going to keep voting for the person who says, don't worry, I'll keep it coming.
01:15:14.000So why on earth, and this is one of those things I talked about with Richard Fowler, if you could change the policies, right, to make things a little bit better in the black community like Joe Biden supposedly wants to do 50 years later, why not replace Section 8 with Section 3?
01:15:30.000If that's where you want people to be, dependent, and then to me that brings in, what, two incomes in the household, You know, then you're weaning people off of it.
01:15:57.000We've looked at a bunch of studies and right now some of the data I've read says they don't know necessarily if it's a father and a mother or just two parents in general.
01:16:08.000It might just be as simple as two parents because you have double income and you have someone to be with the kid.
01:16:14.000But regardless, the data shows that two parents, a traditional family structure, or however, as long as it ends up with the parents, you know, being able to raise their kid, they prosper.
01:17:27.000Some real good salaries with benefits.
01:17:30.000As we saw with the lockdown, we relied on other countries for PPE.
01:17:35.000Why not bring that billion-dollar medical equipment industry right back to America, right?
01:17:40.000That would bring back this, you know, we were a manufacturing powerhouse at one point in Baltimore.
01:17:45.000We have the second largest busiest port at one point right there in Baltimore City, right?
01:17:52.000Our port is the same size as a port in Connecticut where they've got the submarines, you know, they've got the windmills, all the jobs, right?
01:18:12.000This is what I talk about with Duran over at the White House.
01:18:16.000And this is why President Trump tweeted, you know, Kimberly Klasick will bring it back and bring it back fast because he knows that we've been having these conversations.
01:18:28.000The Trump administration in the past four years has taken $75 billion and invested in Opportunity Zones in these Democrat cities that have been just left neglected.
01:18:38.000What's interesting about it is when you look at the Opportunity Zone map in Baltimore City, you will see that the neighborhoods that I was walking in in my video, Sandtown, Easterwood, Carrollton Ridge, those areas were left out of the map.
01:18:53.000And what's interesting about it is my opponent writes this op-ed saying it was President Trump, but he did not, he didn't do the Opportunity Zone map.
01:19:01.000That was left up to local leaders, right?
01:19:05.000But people believe that because they don't do their research and see, you know, who wrote this map.
01:19:09.000So anyway, so I actually took some community leaders in January down to the White House to meet with Duran and talk about what they can do.
01:19:16.000And I posted that picture not too long ago.
01:19:19.000You know, we had something back in the day, I think it was called Empowerment Zones, which is similar.
01:19:25.000And I actually got a lot of crap from some Republicans on Twitter.
01:19:29.000Because I said, you know, we had something similar.
01:19:31.000It didn't really work because we gave local leaders way too much power and control.
01:19:35.000I said, if we do Opportunity Zones right in Baltimore City, we're going to have to do a carve out because our local officials are way too corrupt and we're going to be in the same situation.
01:19:46.000Just because I said, I like Trump's Opportunity Zones, but I'm going to request a carve out.
01:19:52.000I got a phone call from Black Voices from Trump and they said, how dare you say that?
01:20:23.000As we know, there is a trucker shortage across this country.
01:20:27.000I know, you know, eventually, you know, technology will probably give us what?
01:20:32.000Trucks that drive themselves, the drones are dropping off boxes.
01:20:36.000But we're not at that point yet, and we have a lot of people in the area that could benefit from going to that CDL six-week program to get their license.
01:20:48.000Yeah, and we, you know, the six weeks $2,000 per person.
01:20:54.000We are supposedly getting 1.1 billion dollars a year.
01:21:16.000Six weeks we can get someone, you know, these trucker positions.
01:21:19.000You know, we've got Amazon right there in Baltimore, too.
01:21:22.000And, you know, I would hope that we would offer them more warehouse spaces that we could actually do this.
01:21:28.000Even if we get these self-driving trucks, we need local drivers, because the self-driving trucks stop outside the cities, and then you need a driver to bring them in.
01:25:07.000I talk to a lot of corner boys, or those that are a little bit above the corner boys, but again, they're not the ones with the violent criminal activity.
01:25:14.000They're not, you know, the ones with the background in history.
01:25:17.000I talked to this guy, his name is Ro, and he goes, Kim, I would love to get involved in real estate.
01:25:24.000And I was like, well, considering there's 17,000 vacant row homes in your neighborhood, that's an awesome idea.
01:25:31.000So we go to his car and he like pops open the trunk.
01:27:19.000So I actually, I tweeted something out saying, do you think Trump should pardon all non-violent marijuana offenders at the federal level and then, you know, do an executive order essentially legalizing marijuana?
01:27:33.000It wouldn't literally, it would just like, you know, he could instruct the feds to ignore it or something.
01:27:46.000But it's similar in that regard because I'm straight up like, I think Trump should just take a big old stack of non-violent offenders for pot charges after they've reviewed so that these are not, you know, like people who pled down from violent offenders and just start rubber stamping pardons.
01:28:12.000Yours is a little different, but just to kind of, you know, graduate from that point, how do you feel about the idea of pardoning non-violent drug offenders?
01:28:36.000Drug addiction to me is you know it's a disease you know it's when you talk to people and this is what's so interesting and I found out learning you know through my nonprofit when I talked to the women that were incarcerated I would say 95% of those women were incarcerated because they were dealing with some guy that what they were helping you know commit a crime.
01:28:58.000It's usually not the woman at all, you know.
01:29:01.000She had low self-esteem, didn't understand her self-worth, didn't know that she should have been a confident woman and not in that relationship, you know.
01:29:11.000And that all stems back from the childhood.
01:30:05.000And it's one of the reasons I take foreign policies so seriously.
01:30:09.000You know, when I hear about what's going on in Flint and then hear about the amount of money we've spent overseas, most people can't tell you what we've done with it.
01:30:48.000These kids don't understand any of that stuff and I don't expect them to.
01:30:54.000You know, I read a little bit about, I guess it was Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz talking about, you know, not supporting any Lebanese government that was dealing with Hezbollah.
01:31:05.000You know, there's certain actions I think we can take without hurting civilians or hurting anyone, you know?
01:31:14.000Notably, in regards to what you said about the kids not understanding the bombs coming down, the CIA has referred to this as blowback.
01:31:20.000We take issue with a certain faction or whatever, we send drones, kids get hurt, they grow up and become enemies of the United States.
01:31:29.000And then we end up with, you know, a lot of the problems we see, particularly in Europe, was these foreign wars, the destabilization resulted in
01:31:39.000refugees, and then you get a European refugee crisis.
01:31:43.000It's substantially more complicated than that.
01:31:46.000The simplest way I can put it as to why I wish more people were in like...
01:31:51.000Actually, let me stop there and say this.
01:32:10.000They said Trump is like the epitome of character defect of a president.
01:32:14.000But if he's doing the things that are right, that are going to end these wars, bring about peace, then we have to recognize even if you don't like Trump and you think he might be bad for the U.S., you can objectively state the peace agreements in the Middle East that he's accomplished are going to be good for everybody.
01:32:31.000And I look at it like, okay, even if you think Trump is like a really bad president, you got to admit these peace deals are good and getting our troops out of these other places is a good thing for the rest of the planet.
01:32:39.000I think it's good for us and, you know, across the board.
01:32:42.000But it's too impossible for a lot of these people to accept Trump is doing something good.
01:32:49.000So he does it, he gets nominated for a peace prize, they say, and the No, it's sad.
01:32:58.000And this is basically what we're talking about is common sense and logic.
01:33:04.000But we seem to lost a little bit of that.
01:33:06.000And of course, with the fake news aspect, you know, if you if you were sitting around listening to fake news all day, you know, you might believe it, right?
01:33:32.000When Joe Biden can't finish a sentence, I understand why the media does this, right?
01:33:37.000Joe Biden will say something that's nonsensical, and you can kind of give him the benefit of the doubt on what he's trying to say, but when the media writes it up, they cut out the ums and ahs and gaffs and string the sentence together perfectly.
01:33:50.000So if you're just reading the quote Joe Biden says, it's about time we bring our factories back and build back better, and you're like, I get that.
01:33:55.000When you listen to him, It's, yo, we gotta bring back the, you know, the factory.
01:34:03.000And you're like, but the media will write it out perfectly.
01:34:07.000Whenever I see these stories, I get mad.
01:34:08.000I'm like, dude, he said, you know, um, come on, like three times in that sentence.
01:34:12.000You can't just cut that out and call it a quote.
01:34:25.000And, you know, even though I'm nowhere near, you know, what Trump is, but as far as my race and the local race and what I dealt with with the special election, you know, my opponent was not actually endorsed by the Baltimore Suns, the local newspaper.
01:34:44.000Maya Cummings, yeah, during the primary.
01:34:47.000Unfortunately, you know, she didn't win, but while she was running, and they endorsed her, they talked about my opponent's sketchy past, right?
01:34:57.000But then, you know, she didn't win, he became the nominee, and then I'm the nominee, and they're like, Kim Klacik is no good for District 7.
01:35:06.000We nominate, you know, Kweisi and Fume.
01:35:09.000I literally go back And yeah, then they say, you know, we have heard rumors of his sketchy past.
01:35:16.000I go back, take the article that they wrote during the special primary.
01:35:19.000I'm like, dude, the rumor came from you.
01:35:22.000Like, this isn't like I heard a rumor, like you wrote it.
01:35:26.000So was it not true when you wrote it before?
01:35:28.000Or is it just not true now because I'm the Republican nominee?
01:35:32.000I love the cycle where there will be like a news report and Trump will see it and then he'll be like rambling and he'll mention it and then the media will immediately flip the narrative like, that's not true!
01:35:43.000So hydroxychloroquine is a really great example.
01:35:46.000It was TechCrunch and several other outlets that wrote a study conducted by a French doctor shows that hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and Z-Pak is potentially good for COVID patients.
01:36:00.000And so Trump's doing his speech and he goes, I heard this thing, you hear this about the hydroxychloroquine, it sounds fantastic.
01:36:06.000Then all of a sudden the media rushes out full speed, it's bad, don't do it.
01:36:10.000But he literally just read it on some website.
01:36:13.000It's, it's, it's, it's, the media doesn't have a consistent narrative other than if Trump said it, it's wrong.
01:36:50.000Now I do believe there should be some reform.
01:36:52.000Like I'm a conservative and I know there's sometimes I tweet things and you know I've got I don't know how many followers now but there shouldn't be like 16 likes on it.
01:38:13.000So, you know, I think, to be completely fair, personally, I wouldn't expect you to come out with this huge list of, like, drawing up 230 and stuff, because it is complicated.
01:38:24.000Even for me, and I know a lot about it.
01:38:28.000I think censorship is a serious issue, and that's going to impact you.
01:38:31.000And I'll say this, I said this a couple years ago, that Republican politicians are too stupid to solve this problem, and it's going to come back to haunt them.
01:38:39.000And Republican voters agree, for the most part.
01:38:44.000If the politicians don't protect their right to speak in some capacity, then you won't have it.
01:38:50.000So I don't mean that as a disrespect to you or anybody.
01:38:52.000I was trying to be, you know, kind of bombastic in that regard.
01:38:56.000I mean, we, I mean, it's, it's obvious, you know, those on Capitol Hill don't seem to be really with the times, you know?
01:39:04.000We've seen a lot of those committee hearings when they were talking about social media and people were like, yeah, they're like, wait, what?
01:39:12.000You know, they're like, what did they do on the Facebook?
01:39:16.000And it's like, they have no idea what's going on.
01:39:18.000But this is another reason why we got to get some younger people out there.
01:39:22.000Really running for office because we got to be able to change for the times and this is on both sides of the aisle You know, you got Mitch McConnell against, you know, Chuck Schumer.
01:39:28.000You're like dude, both of you should have retired a long time ago.
01:41:04.000I'm like, listen, man, the riots, the 80 years of Chicago's single party rule failures, California's single party rule failures, Baltimore.
01:42:31.000But for me, again, you know, in the black neighborhoods, there are a lot of young women that depend on Planned Parenthood to get their oral contraceptives.
01:43:25.000Bry says, I think you should change all direct benefits, including housing subsidies and food stamps, to yearly cash payments and let the poor decide for themselves what to do with it.
01:43:49.000I understand the thought process behind it.
01:43:51.000Unfortunately, you have a situation like we could talk about right now, uh, food stamps, right?
01:43:57.000So you've got kids in a household, their mother gets food stamps, but the mother decides to take the food stamps, sell her, her card or snap card.
01:44:07.000And she buys Ugg boots and some clothes, right?
01:44:11.000I mean, you have these situations where if you're giving them the cash, even in this situation, a lot of times they won't actually go and get what they're supposed to be getting with it.
01:44:20.000And I know it sounds really bad and it sounds like a lot of government control, the way I'm putting it, and I probably shouldn't put it this way.
01:44:25.000But this is almost to make sure, in a way, that at least, you know, some kids are getting what they need.
01:44:32.000I mean, if you gave someone, what are they saying?
01:44:35.000Bryce saying, take the housing voucher and just make it cash?
01:44:38.000Yeah, like a yearly payment, so you can decide what you need.
01:44:40.000There could be lots of families living in shelters, and the parent could have, you know, a new pair of Jordans on.
01:44:57.000But I just think right now to do that, You know what I think we're getting wrong?
01:45:02.000It seems like you've got this traditional left versus right argument, Democrat-Republican, where Democrats are for social programs, Republicans aren't.
01:45:09.000I know there's nuance, especially, but the way I view it is the problem with the Democrats' plan for social programs is they want to give people fish instead of teaching them how to fish.
01:45:25.000I'm not going to pretend I know how you implement that program because smarter people than me have tried and probably need to try a lot harder, but it seems like that's the direction we should go instead of giving cash to people or giving direct payments.
01:48:07.000And we're seeing the same thing with people like you.
01:48:09.000I think it's very obvious you care, and so you're running in your district, and it's not just you, it's, we've got people in Florida, there's a lot of Republicans that are primaring these incumbents, a lot of Republicans are retiring because they were just the establishment do-nothings, and they're like, uh-oh, I actually gotta fight against a passionate young person who's trying to bring about change in their community.
01:49:35.000Raised a bunch of money, going to the neighbors and saying, you know, we would always go to this park and we would skate around and we would damage, you know, skateboarding.
01:49:43.000You can rough up some of the planters that, you know, hold in the wood chips and stuff.
01:49:47.000And we would often get in trouble because the kids were all clustering around this playground.
01:49:52.000So one kid got the idea to go to Auditor Fundraising so we could build a skate park in the old, you know, rundown tennis court.
01:49:58.000He raised a bunch of money from the locals.
01:50:01.000I'm not going to make any accusations.
01:50:02.000All I'm going to tell you is what I was told by some of these people.
01:50:07.000Tens of thousands of dollars are raised.
01:50:09.000We end up getting the worst skate park imaginable.
01:50:13.000It's like, I have no idea who built any of this stuff.
01:50:15.000And then interestingly, around the same time, a bunch of new landscaping was done.
01:50:19.000And so, you know, one of the kids who was raising money was like, Hey, wait a minute.
01:50:25.000These ramps don't cost nearly as much as we raised.
01:50:27.000And what are all of those new plants, you know, around the building?
01:50:31.000And so, I don't know if it was actually like they siphoned away funds for their own personal endeavors for beautification projects or whatever, but I do know that we had this big event where, like, to christen the park, we had a contest and some politicians came out and made all these promises about, don't worry, we're going to invest in your community, smile for the camera, and we're like, yay!
01:50:51.000And so I just was like, they got their flowers, they gave us nothing, and then when I went one day to skate at the park, that my friends, you know, we all came together.
01:51:01.000I didn't do any fundraising, but you know, it was part of, it was a community effort, mostly done by this one kid.
01:51:06.000They called the cops on me and my brother.
01:51:07.000They were like, you're not allowed to be here.
01:52:15.000Again, this is like one of those situations where I can't tell somebody about their experience in life.
01:52:21.000You know, we gotta come together and talk about our experiences and figure out a solution.
01:52:26.000This is why everything, I think everyone's very important.
01:52:29.000This is why I do want younger people to run for office Because we got to come together and talk about it and figure out like this is like, you know a doctor not talking to a patient But then writing a prescription We can't do that.
01:52:59.000If I saw, you know, Donald Trump's tactical gear guys in the streets, I would not be like, oh no, my neighbor, what's happening?
01:53:07.000I'd be like, something must be going on, like something's being done about it.
01:53:11.000And a lot of it, it's really interesting, there's a pride issue I see with men on the left that like, if the police come up to somebody and say, we're detaining you, put your hands behind your back, they get angry.
01:53:20.000Yeah. No, no. How dare you can't do this to me. It's like they can. It's it's you're allowed to detain you. It's like
01:53:26.000try and be reasonable and choose your battles. So when I get stopped by the cops, I'm just like, am I being detained?
01:53:33.000If I am, then I am. And but a lot of people I think the left has said when people say things like if the police are
01:53:41.000arresting you or detaining you just comply.
01:54:30.000So I do think reform makes sense, but I'm also like, man, can we deal with the gun violence and the fighting and the killing and everything?
01:54:37.000You said it's not high on your priority list because you have all this crime already, and I feel the exact same way.
01:54:44.000I think it's a priority, and I'll have a conversation about it.
01:54:49.000XRunner55 says, I live in Baltimore and would vote for you in a second if they didn't gerrymander the gentrified areas out of your district.
01:55:52.000Are you allowed to say what you're doing?
01:55:53.000No, well, because I'm waiting for the final confirmation, but there's something going on in Arizona where they're inviting some Republican candidates out there to talk.
01:56:47.000Jerry RN says, everyone drink each time Tim says, to be fair.
01:56:51.000You see, I've brought this up because there's, I go through periods where I will say like one thing a lot, whether it's, it's complicated or to be fair, or at the end of the day, I have, it just happens.
01:57:02.000Like once a month, I'll have a new catchphrase.
01:57:07.000Matthew Stockhausen says, my hometown of Merrimack, New Hampshire has been listed as the safest or one of the safest places in New Hampshire.
01:57:14.000Those were years where we had the highest police per capita in the state.
01:57:53.000But you have to understand, these Corrupt police forces are corrupt and easily are that way because of the corruption within the entire city.
01:58:04.000You know, when you've got a corrupt city hall, yeah, you got a corrupt police force.
01:58:51.000Like, I think Chicago police have, have a lot of problems, but I don't think they're, I think they're a little bit worse than a lot of other places, but they're not all bad.
02:00:45.000I have WinRed and Anadot, and we've made them rich, let me tell ya.
02:00:53.000Yeah and I'm not saying they're bad you know it's great but you know if you do you know go to the website kimkayforcongress.com you'll see right on the the bottom lower tier there you'll see our P.O.
02:01:01.000box number you know if you do want to write a check and send it to us and and please know we appreciate it I mean we're now we're able to buy you know ad space and billboards and send more mailers and I have you know very small staff we have a lot of volunteers because it's not really about you know paying people this is this is like I really feel like if we spend smart we can win this thing and that's why I've got people out there seven days a week and I know they're probably really mad at me but I'm like look guys we don't have that many days left I'm out here too we can do this we can do this and luckily we have a lot of passionate people that are like you know what I think we can
02:05:42.000You know, and so it's interesting to me.
02:05:45.000And I think if the RNC just would take a page out of Trump's book and just said, you know what?
02:05:52.000Anyone that wants to be a Republican, anyone that wants to run, you know, you don't have to wait your turn in line, you know, just, you know, embrace people.
02:06:03.000When I was running, at this time I'd already been going on Fox News, One American News, right?
02:06:07.000I already had press and media contacts.
02:06:10.000So I was like, I know I can raise a little bit of money because I can go, you know, on some of these networks.
02:06:16.000They were actually supporting my opponent who had no media contacts.
02:06:22.000You know, she raised almost no money at all.
02:06:24.000It was just her turn in line because she's been with the Maryland GOP for so many years.
02:06:29.000So, you know, they got to get out of this, you know, the good old boys club and really step into 2020 is what it comes down to because I will give the DNC credit.
02:06:40.000They do welcome New faces and new people.
02:07:22.000But there weren't many black kids that were coming down, not many black schools that were taking the trips down.
02:07:29.000I think exposure trips are vital, right?
02:07:32.000If you don't leave that neighborhood, if you don't make that track out, You're not going to ever be exposed to, you know, just some of these things.
02:07:41.000And that's when I really started getting involved in politics when I was volunteering and I got to sat in on the Benghazi committee hearings.
02:07:49.000You know, watching Congressman Trey Gowdy in person was like, Whoa, this dude is on fire.
02:09:12.000And this one person, Lass Bauer, is saying that after you've made sense of Baltimore, he wants you to go and replace the Danish prime minister.
02:10:45.000That was me being like a little Tim, like, oh, yeah.
02:10:50.000And I wish more people would do that though because now we have the time of social media.
02:10:54.000Your phone camera could catapult you and your career or just save lives or improve the quality of life for others.
02:11:04.000Instead of always just filming a fight at school, what if you filmed something really positive that could make a positive change in someone's life?