Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Trump Nominated AGAIN For Nobel Prize So Media Calls For ENDING It, Kim Klacik Joins

00:00:00.000 How's it going, everybody?

00:00:26.000 Welcome to the Timcast IRL podcast.

00:00:28.000 I'm hanging out tonight with a very special guest, Kim Klesik.

00:00:32.000 Hi.

00:00:33.000 You are running for office.

00:00:35.000 Thank you so much for having me.

00:00:35.000 Yes.

00:00:36.000 In Baltimore.

00:00:37.000 Yeah.

00:00:38.000 It's going to be... You're going to win?

00:00:40.000 Of course.

00:00:41.000 You are going to win?

00:00:41.000 I feel like I've already won, you know?

00:00:43.000 Oh, yeah.

00:00:43.000 Yeah.

00:00:44.000 Yeah.

00:00:45.000 Cool, we're going to hang out, we're going to talk, and of course we're also hanging out with Atsauer Petulids, the wonderful producer.

00:00:49.000 That's correct, I'm over here.

00:00:50.000 Hey, how's it going?

00:00:51.000 And we've got a lot to talk about, but I really just want to talk about, I think there's a really interesting, your perspective.

00:00:56.000 You obviously had this very viral ad, 12 million views now, basically 163,000 retweets.

00:01:03.000 Massive.

00:01:04.000 And you basically just talk about Democrat failure in your city.

00:01:08.000 Yeah.

00:01:09.000 And I can kind of relate to that, coming from Chicago.

00:01:12.000 So we'll talk a lot about that.

00:01:13.000 But 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.

00:01:23.000 And wow, we've got huge news today.

00:01:26.000 a normalization of ties between Bahrain and Israel, which is tremendous.

00:01:32.000 Having these Arab nations recognize Israel's existence, normalized trade, travel, tourism,

00:01:38.000 this is going to be huge. And obviously it follows the United Arab Emirates deal,

00:01:42.000 which is also massive. And then of course, the Kosovo-Serbia deal.

00:01:45.000 Trump has been busy working on amazing historic foreign policy.

00:01:49.000 So, of course, now we had a Norwegian guy nominated Trump.

00:01:53.000 Now we have a Swedish guy.

00:01:54.000 I don't exactly know how the Nobel Committee works or whatever, but we have the story.

00:01:58.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:01:59.000 Of course, I can tell you all these things and you're probably saying, well, that's pretty good for Trump.

00:02:03.000 Yes, you've probably heard he's going to draw back our troops in the Middle East.

00:02:06.000 And now the Atlantic, I believe, yes, has run an article saying, end the Nobel Prize.

00:02:14.000 I couldn't believe it when I saw it.

00:02:17.000 No, I can believe it.

00:02:18.000 It's Trump derangement syndrome.

00:02:20.000 So we're going to talk about this and then we're going to talk about a bunch of issues.

00:02:23.000 We'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.

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00:02:38.000 And let's just jump right into the first story.

00:02:40.000 And this is going to be just a kind of a segue into what I perceive as like a Ultimate Trump Derangement Syndrome.

00:02:48.000 So it's actually very simple.

00:02:49.000 Here's the story from the hill.

00:02:51.000 Trump nominated a second time for Nobel Peace Prize.

00:02:54.000 Look, it's got 25,594 shares.

00:02:58.000 This is incredible.

00:02:59.000 A 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.

00:03:08.000 And I can only imagine that with this new Bahrain announcement, Bahrain-Israel, 0.82

00:03:13.000 there's going to be some more nominations and Trump maybe could win this.

00:03:16.000 So great, great.

00:03:17.000 I wonder what the reaction's been from the—oh.

00:03:20.000 Oh.

00:03:21.000 And the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:03:24.000 The Trump nomination shows that peace had its chance and blew it.

00:03:28.000 And they actually show the Nobel Prize and they've scribbled out Alfred Nobel's face.

00:03:33.000 Wow.

00:03:34.000 That's so crazy, man.

00:03:36.000 So, Kim.

00:03:38.000 Yes.

00:03:39.000 I'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.

00:03:51.000 It's one of the reasons why I've been more supportive of Trump.

00:03:55.000 He's pulling our troops out of the Middle East.

00:03:57.000 Well, the first question I have is, you're obviously a big fan of Trump.

00:04:01.000 Huge fan.

00:04:01.000 Yes, I am.

00:04:03.000 Big supporter.

00:04:06.000 I don't even know where to begin with this.

00:04:07.000 This is like the ultimate Trump derangement syndrome.

00:04:10.000 To call for ending the Nobel Peace Prize simply because Trump's been nominated for doing something good.

00:04:14.000 Right.

00:04:15.000 Well, obviously, you know, right now, like you said, it's TDS.

00:04:18.000 But at the same time, here we are coming up on elections.

00:04:20.000 Right.

00:04:21.000 And the last thing they want is a good story to come out about Trump.

00:04:25.000 This is like them trying to abolish the electoral college.

00:04:28.000 Right.

00:04:28.000 Yeah.

00:04:29.000 I mean, it's just like whatever they can do to make sure he doesn't look good.

00:04:34.000 They're going to try to push it out.

00:04:35.000 But, you know, this is what I love about President Trump.

00:04:38.000 You know, these are the things that he talked about that he was going to accomplish.

00:04:42.000 And so here you have all these countries actually acknowledging how great he is with the trade war and they can't handle it.

00:04:49.000 They can't handle it.

00:04:50.000 They 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.

00:05:02.000 I'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?

00:05:10.000 That's exactly what it looks like.

00:05:12.000 Yeah.

00:05:12.000 Exactly what it looks like.

00:05:13.000 And you know, not to talk about myself and my race, but my opponent, my opponent does the same thing.

00:05:20.000 He talks about president Trump.

00:05:21.000 He talks about me, but he has no platform.

00:05:24.000 This is like what Democrats do, you know?

00:05:27.000 And it's unfortunate because I don't know how they still have people that vote for them, you know?

00:05:31.000 And 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?

00:05:43.000 I don't get it.

00:05:43.000 I'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.

00:06:09.000 But then later he comes out and says, no, we want more funds to go to different police programs.

00:06:14.000 And I understand there's a nuance there.

00:06:16.000 Right, right.

00:06:16.000 You can reallocate funds from some areas and then fund other areas.

00:06:20.000 But it really does seem like the question being asked of him was in line with the idea of defunding the police.

00:06:25.000 Right.

00:06:26.000 It felt to me like he's just going to say what he has to say.

00:06:29.000 Oh, yeah.

00:06:29.000 That's that's what they're great at.

00:06:31.000 That's what Kamala Harris says also, you know, and it's sad because, again, it's just pandering.

00:06:37.000 Right.

00:06:37.000 But the fact that people still can't see this so many years later makes no sense to me.

00:06:41.000 So Joe Biden's what?

00:06:43.000 Almost 50 years?

00:06:44.000 Yeah, 47.

00:06:46.000 You know, what has he done to even match what he's talking about today?

00:06:50.000 Now we hear so much how he cares about black lives.

00:06:53.000 Really?

00:06:53.000 This 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.

00:07:04.000 I mean, and I'm not here to rag on Obama.

00:07:05.000 I think it's silly to be like, well, what about Obama?

00:07:08.000 What about George W. Bush?

00:07:09.000 What about Bill Clinton?

00:07:10.000 We have all these past presidents starting wars.

00:07:14.000 In 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.

00:07:27.000 You had eight years of an Obama-Biden administration.

00:07:30.000 Where were their peace agreements with Israel and any other country?

00:07:34.000 Instead, it was conflict, it was Libya, it was more wars, it was, you know,

00:07:39.000 a civil war in Yemen, drone strikes.

00:07:40.000 So anyway, I'm going to go on a tangent when it comes to foreign policy stuff. But here's the

00:07:45.000 main point. People are actually going to vote for Joe Biden when he has a legacy of war,

00:07:51.000 and Donald Trump is staring you in the face with these peace agreements and withdrawing our troops.

00:07:55.000 Yeah.

00:07:56.000 That is the crux of derangement syndrome.

00:08:00.000 I don't know if it's correlation or causation from the Democratic Party to the Democratic voter.

00:08:06.000 Do 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?

00:08:14.000 I think it's both.

00:08:15.000 I think it's both, right?

00:08:16.000 So right now, you see what's trendy, right?

00:08:18.000 Black Lives Matter.

00:08:20.000 Everyone's so upset.

00:08:21.000 It's both, right?

00:08:22.000 Is there an agenda behind it?

00:08:24.000 Is it the DNC pushing it?

00:08:26.000 I don't know, right?

00:08:27.000 I'm not gonna sit here and talk about conspiracy theories.

00:08:29.000 But you know, the fact that it comes up every four years, It's a little suspicious, you know.

00:08:35.000 But yeah, I think the DNC controls some of it.

00:08:37.000 And then there's those who get paid to also throw some fire.

00:08:42.000 So I know in Baltimore City, we have a ton of nonprofits.

00:08:45.000 You wouldn't know it by looking at Baltimore City that we have a ton of nonprofits to help with the vacant homes and the homelessness.

00:08:51.000 You wouldn't know that.

00:08:52.000 But a lot of people are getting paid a lot of money for these nonprofits.

00:08:56.000 And of course, they're going to continue voting for those Democrats because they're the ones giving them the grant money.

00:09:00.000 You are preaching to the choir, man.

00:09:02.000 that urban struggle to get that federal funding and they do it annually. So I

00:09:07.000 think it's both sides. You are preaching to the choir, man.

00:09:09.000 I used to do fundraising for nonprofits and the last run I had as a

00:09:13.000 fundraising director was for a homeless shelter that was lying to people to make

00:09:18.000 money and they were telling everyone they were at capacity and these kids are

00:09:22.000 suffering and they had nobody in their shelters because the kids didn't want

00:09:25.000 to go there. It's a much deeper problem and so what I ended up seeing is, yeah, they

00:09:31.000 had their donors and they made a decent amount. I'm not gonna act like they're

00:09:35.000 the biggest nonprofit in the world, but instead of actually solving the

00:09:39.000 problem, they just set up shelters and then went to people and said, oh man,

00:09:44.000 all these kids, there's How are we going to get them beds? 0.97

00:09:47.000 You have to give us money!

00:09:49.000 Instead 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.

00:10:01.000 They never did anything.

00:10:02.000 Yeah.

00:10:03.000 Same.

00:10:03.000 I don't want to necessarily say where it is, but of course it was a major urban, you know,

00:10:07.000 Democrat-controlled city with serious issues that they didn't care to actually deal with.

00:10:12.000 And so for me, I voted for Obama in 2008.

00:10:16.000 And you know, hope and change, end the wars, things like that.

00:10:21.000 And then it was just the same to me, a lot of the same stuff.

00:10:24.000 Because, again, for me, I think I was coming into the political realm with, like, the Iraq War.

00:10:31.000 This 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!

00:10:36.000 And I started looking into it and I'm like, yeah, the war is bad!

00:10:39.000 And the media lied to us and then they just kind of kept going with it for 20 years.

00:10:45.000 Yeah, so I don't know.

00:10:47.000 I don't know what we do to change people's minds so that they stop voting for the same thing.

00:10:52.000 You know what I mean?

00:10:53.000 No, I don't know.

00:10:54.000 I mean, I voted for Obama in 2008 myself.

00:10:57.000 I was so excited.

00:10:58.000 I was like, wow, you know, that overcoming story as a black president.

00:11:03.000 We can no longer say the white man's keeping us down.

00:11:06.000 Here he comes.

00:11:07.000 Family structure, great husband, great dad.

00:11:11.000 Done.

00:11:12.000 It's over.

00:11:12.000 We don't have that excuse anymore.

00:11:14.000 He gets in there, and what does he have?

00:11:15.000 A ton of excuses.

00:11:17.000 And I'm like, this is not why I voted for you.

00:11:20.000 This is not.

00:11:20.000 I thought hope, change.

00:11:22.000 I thought all of these things were now going to be addressed.

00:11:25.000 So I was thoroughly disappointed.

00:11:27.000 In 2009, I changed into a Republican.

00:11:29.000 Wow, really?

00:11:30.000 Yeah.

00:11:31.000 That quickly?

00:11:31.000 I was really upset.

00:11:33.000 I mean, but Obama, he was inaugurated January 20th, 2009.

00:11:37.000 Right.

00:11:38.000 At what point in 2009 did you realize?

00:11:41.000 It was, hold on, he went to some kind of meeting he had with Jesse Jackson.

00:11:48.000 And they were talking about the fact that it was so tough to be black in America.

00:11:54.000 And I'm watching this and I'm like, you're literally the president of the United States of America.

00:12:00.000 How is this even?

00:12:01.000 You can't even have this conversation.

00:12:02.000 Yeah.

00:12:03.000 You know, and it just kept continuing.

00:12:05.000 And I was just I was over it.

00:12:07.000 I was over it.

00:12:09.000 I didn't tell my parents right away because I didn't want them to be upset.

00:12:12.000 You know, usually if you're black, you're a Democrat. 0.73

00:12:14.000 And I get that.

00:12:15.000 But, you know, after talking to my dad about it, he was actually more conservative and understood.

00:12:20.000 Wow.

00:12:20.000 Why is that?

00:12:21.000 I mean, I defer to you.

00:12:22.000 I have no idea.

00:12:23.000 They say that the black community just votes Democrat.

00:12:27.000 Yeah.

00:12:27.000 So, you know, for me, it was when you're getting news filtered in through your parents, right?

00:12:32.000 They always telling you, you know, it's Democrats are the ones that are socially liberal.

00:12:36.000 They're the ones that are going to help you.

00:12:37.000 You know, if you're in a situation, they're the ones that are going to bail you out of it.

00:12:42.000 And I guess, you know, maybe in their generation, maybe that's what they saw and that's what they believed.

00:12:48.000 And so it just continued down.

00:12:50.000 But 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.

00:12:59.000 That's a conservative value system right there, you know?

00:13:03.000 And you look back at like the civil rights leaders, they were all at church on Sunday.

00:13:07.000 You know, they talked about God often.

00:13:10.000 And so, you know, I think over the years we just, you know, walked away from that.

00:13:15.000 But then we continue still being Democrats, you know, and thinking that's the way to be.

00:13:20.000 I 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.

00:13:30.000 There were a series of polls earlier this year, like 30%, which was like unheard of.

00:13:35.000 And 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.

00:13:41.000 They said the key to the black vote is the church.

00:13:45.000 And 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.

00:13:54.000 But then I thought to myself, I'm like, yeah, but the Democrats are like the opposite of Christian conservative values.

00:14:00.000 Like, they don't agree with a lot of what the church says.

00:14:01.000 In fact, they kind of insult it a lot.

00:14:05.000 Not necessarily the politicians.

00:14:05.000 I just mean like the culture.

00:14:08.000 You'll go on to social media and what do they allow?

00:14:11.000 They allow a lot of very anti-Christian, anti-church kind of rhetoric, but other religions sometimes, you know, they pretty much get a pass.

00:14:18.000 So I look at pop culture and I'm like, that doesn't make sense to me.

00:14:22.000 Why is that?

00:14:23.000 I think we're right on the cusp.

00:14:25.000 We're right there.

00:14:26.000 Like, this is why we gotta change things right now.

00:14:28.000 It is grandma and great-grandma holding on to that church lifestyle, right?

00:14:34.000 You're still going to grandma's house for Sunday dinner.

00:14:36.000 You know, you might not have gone to church that day, but you're showing up for Sunday dinner, right?

00:14:41.000 So, I think we're at that point.

00:14:44.000 Or it's like, what do we do?

00:14:45.000 We'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.

00:14:53.000 And so I think it's, honestly, you can.

00:14:56.000 Right now, I believe in two weeks, we're meeting with 30 pastors in the Baltimore City area.

00:15:01.000 And that's unheard of for any Republican.

00:15:04.000 But apparently my opponent, when he was there in his previous terms, 1987 to 1996, he went to these same pastors.

00:15:12.000 Asking for favors, you know, asking for their support.

00:15:15.000 And he went in, didn't do anything, walked out, right?

00:15:19.000 Congressman Cummings comes in.

00:15:21.000 And now he's coming back and they're like, whoa, buddy, we remember you.

00:15:25.000 You know, we were the pastor at that time.

00:15:28.000 And so now they're willing to talk to us.

00:15:30.000 And I think if we can get to his congregations that we can do it.

00:15:35.000 I mean, my opponent, his big voting block was senior black women. 0.99

00:15:40.000 Wow.

00:15:40.000 And they are the ones in the church.

00:15:43.000 So you think they're going to vote for you instead?

00:15:46.000 I'm holding out hope here, Tim.

00:15:47.000 You're hoping for them.

00:15:50.000 I think we can talk to them.

00:15:52.000 The fact that they're even having the conversation is blowing my mind.

00:15:55.000 That's exciting.

00:15:55.000 Yeah.

00:15:58.000 How 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.

00:16:07.000 It 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.

00:16:15.000 Yeah.

00:16:17.000 How do you change this?

00:16:18.000 Well, I mean, you're doing it.

00:16:19.000 You're changing it.

00:16:20.000 So what are you doing?

00:16:21.000 Yeah.

00:16:22.000 So this is what's interesting.

00:16:24.000 So, you know, I had the special election, right?

00:16:26.000 This is when I went up after Congressman Cummings passed away.

00:16:29.000 I actually ran before, you know, against now Kweisi Mfume.

00:16:33.000 He's now the incumbent because of the special election.

00:16:35.000 Anyways, what we found out through that special election, because we had the mail-in ballots, right?

00:16:40.000 The coronavirus lockdown.

00:16:41.000 Number one, we couldn't go face-to-face and talk to people, right?

00:16:44.000 Interesting.

00:16:44.000 Number two, the senior black woman isn't on Facebook looking for my virtual conversations, right?

00:16:51.000 So I didn't reach hardly anyone, but we did have a nine-point swing.

00:16:54.000 So 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.

00:17:02.000 So I'm like, wait a minute.

00:17:04.000 Wait a minute.

00:17:04.000 Somebody wants to change.

00:17:05.000 And I haven't even talked to them.

00:17:07.000 Right.

00:17:09.000 So with that, you know, now you fast forward.

00:17:11.000 We saw with the mail-in ballots, somehow 80,000 ballots went undelivered.

00:17:17.000 Yes, I saw that.

00:17:19.000 How did that happen, right?

00:17:21.000 And then, so we're like, OK, so we lost.

00:17:24.000 We got it.

00:17:24.000 You know, I know the general primary is coming up.

00:17:27.000 I'm feeling pretty confident about it.

00:17:28.000 I said, but now we got to go figure out what happened with these ballots and who didn't get them.

00:17:32.000 So we spent a lot of time in West Baltimore in the areas where you saw me take my campaign at.

00:17:37.000 And so in those areas, you know, we're talking to people like, hey, did you get your ballot?

00:17:41.000 You know, did you get anything?

00:17:42.000 And people were like, no, I didn't get anything.

00:17:45.000 We talked to them and there was two things here.

00:17:47.000 One, people move around a lot, right?

00:17:50.000 They didn't have an address where those ballots came.

00:17:53.000 And then two, the people living in the worst living conditions weren't registered to vote.

00:18:00.000 So now our team is out there seven days a week registering voters.

00:18:04.000 We were doing two days a week at first.

00:18:06.000 Now it's seven days a week.

00:18:08.000 And then my field team is out there seven days a week knocking doors and doing the sign waving and all that.

00:18:14.000 So thank goodness I have a team that is working so hard on this.

00:18:19.000 You know it's crazy but that is the issue.

00:18:22.000 We've got people living in the worst conditions not even taking part in the process.

00:18:27.000 And 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?

00:18:36.000 From what I know, only 17% have registered as Democrats.

00:18:41.000 Interesting.

00:18:41.000 Oh.

00:18:42.000 You're registering everybody.

00:18:44.000 We are.

00:18:44.000 We're registering everybody.

00:18:45.000 So, you know, independents came up a lot, and Republicans now, because they're sitting there talking to my team about what's the difference.

00:18:53.000 And this is what I was talking about in my RNC convention speech.

00:18:56.000 I go in, my team goes in, and we talk to people.

00:18:59.000 We're like, what do we have to do to get you to vote for a Republican?

00:19:02.000 And they're like, you're the first Republican I've ever met.

00:19:05.000 Wow.

00:19:06.000 Hi, my name is Kim.

00:19:07.000 So cool.

00:19:08.000 Yeah.

00:19:09.000 So, you know, it's like if we're not offering the option, I can't complain.

00:19:13.000 I can't say, hey, you know, what are you doing?

00:19:15.000 I can't talk to you like that.

00:19:17.000 I have to say, I apologize.

00:19:19.000 I am so sorry the party hasn't been out here to offer you an option.

00:19:24.000 I just asked a simple question.

00:19:24.000 Why?

00:19:27.000 Where's the GOP?

00:19:28.000 So, you know, when I said I wanted to run, I was told, and I quote, Jesus Christ could not win that race.

00:19:39.000 Do not do it.

00:19:41.000 We are not going to exhaust our donors on you.

00:19:44.000 And so I said, all right, I'm not Jesus Christ.

00:19:49.000 I know he's way better than me, but I'm gonna give it a shot, and I'm gonna just try to make my own money.

00:19:55.000 And if you're not gonna help me, that's fine.

00:19:57.000 Because I've gotten pretty far in life without, you know, a ton of help, and I think I can do it.

00:20:02.000 And now you have, I think, one of the most viral political ads ever, probably.

00:20:07.000 Thank you.

00:20:08.000 I wish I could take all the credit for it.

00:20:10.000 I'm not trying to compliment.

00:20:12.000 It's a fact.

00:20:13.000 So this is August 17th.

00:20:15.000 Democrats don't want you to see this.

00:20:17.000 They're scared that I'm exposing what life is like in Democrat-run cities.

00:20:21.000 That's why I'm running for Congress.

00:20:22.000 Because all black lives matter.

00:20:24.000 Baltimore matters.

00:20:25.000 And black people don't have to vote Democrat.

00:20:27.000 Help us win.

00:20:28.000 And of course, it's you walking through the streets of Baltimore That's amazing!

00:20:32.000 I think you struck a chord with a lot of people.

00:20:33.000 2,900 retweets, 317,000 likes.

00:20:38.000 That's amazing.

00:20:40.000 I think, I think you struck a chord with a lot of people.

00:20:43.000 Cause I'll tell you what, um, that re I know I mentioned it a lot.

00:20:47.000 I'm from Chicago, but I watched that and I was like, yup.

00:20:50.000 I know exactly what you're talking about.

00:20:52.000 And I didn't grow up in the black community or anything like that like you did. 1.00

00:20:55.000 You have a different perspective in that regard, but it's the same thing I see.

00:20:58.000 I grew up in a city that was just Democrats all day, every day, nothing else, no matter what.

00:21:03.000 And then it felt like things only ever got worse for us, or we only ever got screwed over.

00:21:07.000 You have people who would just... It's the craziest thing.

00:21:10.000 When I was told to go vote, I was told, just do Democrat all the way down.

00:21:14.000 I was like, who am I supposed to vote for?

00:21:16.000 Just vote for all the Ds.

00:21:17.000 I'm like, okay.

00:21:18.000 And that was me when I was like 18 or 19 or something.

00:21:20.000 Wow.

00:21:21.000 But that's... I don't know why.

00:21:24.000 I guess you brought it up earlier, this idea that if you're in trouble, the Democrats are the ones that help you out.

00:21:31.000 But maybe that's not really the solution.

00:21:33.000 Maybe the solution is hard work, responsibility, family values.

00:21:38.000 I had good parents, and so they instilled in me good work ethic and ambition, and that allowed me to succeed.

00:21:47.000 And 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.

00:21:54.000 So then they don't actually change their circumstance.

00:21:56.000 But maybe that's the goal, right?

00:22:00.000 I want to be careful about how I phrase this, but some people, maybe I should just say it, the Democrats create a dependency.

00:22:06.000 Yes.

00:22:08.000 I say that all the time, so you can say it.

00:22:10.000 Yes, that's exactly what's happened.

00:22:13.000 And you know what's crazy about it?

00:22:15.000 I'll talk to some people, you know, I still show up and talk to people in the streets myself.

00:22:20.000 And this one guy came up to me the other day and said, you're not gonna cut off my food stamps, are you?

00:22:25.000 He's like, you're not gonna cut off my disability, are you?

00:22:28.000 And 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.

00:22:52.000 And I said, okay.

00:22:53.000 So, you know, is it really, is the question then me cutting off these things or offering you something extremely beneficial?

00:23:02.000 An opportunity.

00:23:03.000 Yeah.

00:23:03.000 And so I think people are starting to understand.

00:23:06.000 And this is what I talk about on my platform all the time.

00:23:08.000 It is the opportunity piece.

00:23:10.000 You know, when you go in West Baltimore, there is nowhere to work.

00:23:14.000 We are a food desert, as they call it, right?

00:23:17.000 There's no grocery store around for miles, but it's a city.

00:23:19.000 That's weird.

00:23:21.000 So, it's an interesting situation.

00:23:21.000 It is, yeah.

00:23:24.000 It's, you almost feel like you're not in America, especially not in 2020.

00:23:29.000 I 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.

00:23:38.000 Creating opportunities for people who, instead of just receiving benefits, could find a way to generate revenue and help bolster their community.

00:23:46.000 Yeah.

00:23:46.000 But I guess is there anything specific about your district that you've seen?

00:23:52.000 Is 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?

00:24:00.000 Yeah, so I tried to keep it very simple for them in the very beginning, you know, by just showing the trash piling up.

00:24:08.000 I'm like, look, you know, you are getting all of this funding, right?

00:24:13.000 Baltimore City, annually, 1.1 billion dollars since 2015 when we had the riots.

00:24:20.000 You're getting all this money, but for some reason in these neighborhoods where they've got low income, they probably don't vote.

00:24:28.000 They don't donate to your campaign.

00:24:30.000 They're just being completely neglected.

00:24:32.000 For some reason, you can't seem to pick up the trash.

00:24:36.000 And this is what's interesting.

00:24:37.000 You 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.

00:24:49.000 And I said, well, so now you pay more for the trash to pile up right there down the street.

00:24:54.000 You know, rats are running everywhere.

00:24:55.000 Rats in the middle of the day.

00:24:56.000 You know, and this is what kills me.

00:24:58.000 Remember when President Trump was attacked by saying rat infested?

00:25:02.000 Yeah.

00:25:03.000 There was a young lady in my I was interviewing her.

00:25:06.000 I posted a video.

00:25:07.000 Right.

00:25:07.000 And she said it's a rat infestation.

00:25:10.000 He literally tweeted verbatim what she said.

00:25:13.000 And then all of a sudden he's attacking Baltimore.

00:25:15.000 The best part is she herself was black.

00:25:18.000 Yeah, but it was racist to say those things.

00:25:21.000 No, go ahead.

00:25:24.000 No, I was just, you know, when everything came out and this was in July 2019, I was in shock.

00:25:30.000 I didn't say anything for two days.

00:25:32.000 Like, I'm getting phone calls like, are you going to do an interview?

00:25:33.000 Are you going to do it?

00:25:35.000 I was in shock because I was like, nothing that's coming out is actually true.

00:25:39.000 So now what?

00:25:39.000 I know my voice isn't big enough.

00:25:41.000 I know CNN, MSNBC, all those stations refuse to have me on, right?

00:25:46.000 So I can't correct the record.

00:25:48.000 Wow.

00:25:48.000 So was that was that kind of eye-opening for you to watch, to know what had actually happened, and then to watch the media cover it?

00:25:55.000 Like I was already hearing about fake news, right?

00:25:58.000 Yeah.

00:25:58.000 But when it happens to you, It's like this feeling like, girl, oh my goodness, you know?

00:26:04.000 And then I loved it because Brian Stetler comes on CNN and was like, let's talk about who this Kim Klasek is.

00:26:09.000 I was like, oh yes.

00:26:11.000 I was like, tell me about myself, you know?

00:26:11.000 Yeah.

00:26:14.000 And he's like, you know, she wasn't even elected to the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee.

00:26:19.000 She lost.

00:26:20.000 I'd been on the committee at that point for two years.

00:26:23.000 I'm like, dude, you can literally just go to the committee website and see my name.

00:26:27.000 So he was just straight wrong.

00:26:29.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:26:29.000 He's just putting up.

00:26:30.000 Everything he said was wrong.

00:26:32.000 Meanwhile, at this point, you know, I had been on Fox News.

00:26:35.000 I had been on One America.

00:26:36.000 You could see any interview and hear them say Klacik.

00:26:40.000 He says, Kim Klacik.

00:26:42.000 I'm like, seriously?

00:26:44.000 So not only are all the so-called facts wrong, you couldn't even pronounce my name.

00:26:49.000 So how much how much research did you really do on this?

00:26:52.000 Well, you know, I was mispronouncing Kayleigh McEnany's name for like a month or longer.

00:26:57.000 And I just, it never occurred to me.

00:26:59.000 But to be fair, I just missed that one.

00:27:02.000 That's my bad.

00:27:03.000 In terms of CNN, I don't even think they use Google.

00:27:06.000 I don't think he actually looked into who you were or what you were talking about.

00:27:10.000 And 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.

00:27:21.000 The 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.

00:27:32.000 Now, I don't care about his race or yours. 0.71

00:27:33.000 If he's going to criticize you, I think it's fine, so long as he gets the facts right.

00:27:37.000 But it flies in the face of what their supposed narrative is really supposed to be about.

00:27:41.000 Absolutely.

00:27:42.000 And the fact that his show is called Reliable Sources.

00:27:45.000 I know, right?

00:27:46.000 Kills me!

00:27:47.000 It's amazing.

00:27:49.000 And he wrote a book called, it's called like Hoax, I think.

00:27:53.000 And he talks about the Fox News Trump pipeline.

00:27:56.000 Yeah, it takes one to know one.

00:27:59.000 It's about like the Fox News to Trump pipeline.

00:28:02.000 The craziest thing to me.

00:28:03.000 So, you know, throwing it back to the first thing we're talking about with Trump and his Nobel Peace Prize.

00:28:08.000 When 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.

00:28:14.000 So I just, I did a Google search and I tried to read a bunch of different sources.

00:28:18.000 The only source I found that had a neutral presentation was Fox.

00:28:23.000 It 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.

00:28:28.000 Here's what he said.

00:28:30.000 Then they added in a little Obama criticism.

00:28:32.000 I'm not surprised.

00:28:33.000 All the other outlets were saying he was like a far-right, you know, ultra-nationalist.

00:28:33.000 Yeah.

00:28:39.000 It was very, very loaded.

00:28:41.000 And it wasn't telling me about what the guy was saying about Trump or what his goal was.

00:28:45.000 It was trying to insult the guy or poison the well before I had a chance to even understand what was happening.

00:28:51.000 And that's the media today.

00:28:52.000 Yeah.

00:28:53.000 Well, outside of CNN, though, have you had any other run-ins with just fake news putting out misinformation about you or your campaign?

00:29:00.000 Absolutely.

00:29:02.000 So, I believe it's MSNBC.

00:29:05.000 Yes.

00:29:06.000 Tiffany Cross.

00:29:07.000 Not too long ago, I think.

00:29:11.000 Gosh, what's the young lady's name on the view? 0.95

00:29:13.000 Sunny... Hostin?

00:29:15.000 Yes.

00:29:15.000 Oh, you know that?

00:29:16.000 I don't watch the TV show.

00:29:18.000 It's a lady show. 1.00

00:29:18.000 They both said that we were tokens and that's why we were chosen to speak at the RNC convention. 1.00

00:29:26.000 And Tiffany Cross went to further and said it was a minstrel show.

00:29:30.000 Wow.

00:29:31.000 I had no idea I was pretending to be black.

00:29:33.000 I've been black for 38 years. 0.94

00:29:35.000 But yeah, no, it's insane.

00:29:37.000 And what's interesting about it is I wasn't even chosen by the RNC to speak.

00:29:44.000 It actually came from the Trump campaign.

00:29:46.000 The RNC apparently wasn't too thrilled.

00:29:48.000 They were like, oh, she had a campaign ad.

00:29:49.000 That's cute.

00:29:50.000 But I mean, this is the RNC convention.

00:29:52.000 You were kind of last minute, right?

00:29:54.000 Very last minute.

00:29:55.000 I found out almost like when everybody else found out.

00:29:58.000 And so that came from the Trump campaign. 0.75

00:30:01.000 So, 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 0.93

00:30:26.000 This is why it really is easy to criticize their fake ideology.

00:30:30.000 I think the democratic establishment is using the social justice progressive left and pretending like they care.

00:30:39.000 They've really crafted this narrative so they can weaponize it in either direction, like you just said.

00:30:44.000 But what's particularly offensive to me in this regard is The RNC was doing what they wanted, right?

00:30:50.000 To prop up marginalized voices to express themselves.

00:30:54.000 And so they insult you directly with a slur because they don't like that you're speaking as a Republican.

00:31:00.000 That's the go-to, I guess.

00:31:02.000 It is, but you know, I'm excited.

00:31:05.000 I go on The View on September 18th.

00:31:08.000 Ooh, I'm excited!

00:31:10.000 That's too exciting!

00:31:12.000 Yep, I'm gonna talk to Sunny myself.

00:31:14.000 Do it!

00:31:15.000 I'll set her straight.

00:31:17.000 I'm excited.

00:31:19.000 Well, I won't go there.

00:31:21.000 I don't want to ask about the racial components involved.

00:31:25.000 But here's what I want to do.

00:31:27.000 I want to jump over.

00:31:28.000 Actually, no, I want to show this first, right?

00:31:30.000 This is a story from The Spectator.

00:31:31.000 Kim Klesek and the urban GOP effort.

00:31:34.000 Could a simple walk through the streets of Baltimore expand the Republican Party?

00:31:39.000 Now, 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.

00:31:49.000 He's a really smart guy.

00:31:50.000 He's awesome.

00:31:51.000 And he made a really, really important point about the Republican Party and what they need to do.

00:31:55.000 He's in this district where it's, I think it's like D plus 13 or some, or even more than that.

00:32:00.000 It's like, it's Democrat.

00:32:01.000 Yeah.

00:32:02.000 And so my question to him, which is I'll have a similar question for you, is it feels like it's going to be a really uphill battle.

00:32:07.000 I mean, for you, you're in a D plus 26 district.

00:32:10.000 Right.

00:32:10.000 So for those that aren't familiar, that means it's like 26% more Democrat or something to that effect.

00:32:16.000 Like it leans in that direction.

00:32:18.000 But what he said was, no matter what happens, if I win, I win.

00:32:21.000 If I lose, I win.

00:32:21.000 You know why?

00:32:22.000 Because he's there, he's doing the work, he's talking to people, and he's spreading these ideas.

00:32:26.000 And so the crazy thing to me is, we kind of were broaching this a little while ago, why isn't the GOP doing anything?

00:32:33.000 You mentioned, they said, you can't win, don't bother.

00:32:36.000 But how do they ever expect to win if they've abandoned these areas?

00:32:39.000 Yeah, no, that's a great question.

00:32:41.000 I don't know.

00:32:42.000 And this is like, you know, even in the special election, I would do hashtag chipping away because you got to chip away, right?

00:32:49.000 Before you, you know, maybe I won't win.

00:32:52.000 But if you don't chip away.

00:32:54.000 You can't say it.

00:32:55.000 Oh, positive mental attitude.

00:32:56.000 Yes.

00:32:57.000 I am going to win.

00:32:59.000 I'm going to win.

00:33:00.000 But like he said, it's a win when you just at least chip away and expose what the other party isn't doing.

00:33:08.000 You 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.

00:33:23.000 The Department of Public Works is what picks up the trash in the city.

00:33:27.000 They went to City Hall.

00:33:28.000 City Hall was like, why aren't we picking up the trash in some of these areas?

00:33:32.000 And they said, well, we need more funding.

00:33:34.000 That's always it, right?

00:33:35.000 They always need more funding.

00:33:37.000 Then, you know, after Trump calmed down, he wasn't really talking about Baltimore anymore.

00:33:42.000 You know, Congressman Cunningham passes away.

00:33:45.000 Basically, I think it was not even five months later, we find out that they've taken that 70-something thousand backlog cases to 260.

00:33:55.000 Whoa.

00:33:55.000 And they didn't get more funding.

00:33:58.000 So I was like, wait a minute.

00:34:00.000 So you picked up the trash.

00:34:01.000 You didn't get more funding.

00:34:04.000 What happened?

00:34:05.000 Is it because you got called out on it?

00:34:07.000 Because people started looking into it?

00:34:09.000 You know, was someone investigating?

00:34:11.000 And then he thought, you know what, maybe we should go pick up the trash.

00:34:14.000 You know, this is the kind of stuff that happens.

00:34:16.000 And it's again, here's a situation where you didn't have to throw even any more money at it.

00:34:21.000 Yeah.

00:34:22.000 It's not even a question of the congressional representative.

00:34:25.000 Where's any representative for these areas to get the job done?

00:34:28.000 Did it really come down to your efforts to finally start making people... You know what?

00:34:34.000 I'm gonna stop right there and put it this way.

00:34:35.000 It's like market competition for politics.

00:34:38.000 If the Democrats have a supermajority, it doesn't matter what their goals are, they don't have to do anything.

00:34:43.000 Because they know people are going to checkmark the D on the voter form.

00:34:47.000 As 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.

00:34:54.000 That's why you said chipping away.

00:34:56.000 And that's why I think Billy was saying, if he loses, he wins, because now there's some competition.

00:35:01.000 We're going to be coming for you and we're going to go for it.

00:35:03.000 We're going to try and make these changes.

00:35:04.000 Yeah.

00:35:05.000 Well, so I'll put it this way. 0.95

00:35:07.000 Your ad specifically highlights the trash.

00:35:11.000 I'm sure you're familiar with Scott Pressler, right?

00:35:14.000 Yes.

00:35:14.000 Didn't he go to West Baltimore and he cleaned up?

00:35:16.000 Yes, as soon as I posted those videos, they came out.

00:35:19.000 Trump was talking about it.

00:35:21.000 He messages me and he's like, I'm going to come up there and pick it up.

00:35:24.000 And I was like, OK, but which street?

00:35:28.000 I don't know if you've been here, but there's a couple of streets you probably shouldn't do it on.

00:35:34.000 I will help you out.

00:35:35.000 So he came to town.

00:35:36.000 You know, I was giving him some street names of where I found the trash.

00:35:40.000 A lot of it was by Coppin University.

00:35:43.000 And he said, OK, we're going to get our team up there.

00:35:45.000 He mobilized all those volunteers.

00:35:47.000 It was amazing.

00:35:48.000 And then, you know what was crazy about it?

00:35:49.000 The local media, the Baltimore Sun, then writes, how dare he come pick up the trash?

00:35:54.000 Crazy.

00:35:56.000 That's why, when we started this show, they want to end the Nobel Prize because Trump is nominated.

00:36:04.000 It's the perfect formula of their strategy.

00:36:07.000 So Scott Pressler and a bunch of volunteers, and with you, are able to actually make this transformation, which is positive for everybody.

00:36:15.000 And I saw the videos he posted.

00:36:17.000 For those that aren't familiar, it's actually that simple. 1.00

00:36:19.000 Trump said, what did he say, it was like a rat-infested asshole or something? 1.00

00:36:23.000 A rat-infested, rodent-infested... I think he cussed at it. 1.00

00:36:29.000 He might have cursed, yeah.

00:36:31.000 But I think what happened was they dragged Trump for it, but actually someone else had previously said something similar they didn't care about.

00:36:38.000 I think it was Jon Stewart actually.

00:36:40.000 There'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.

00:36:51.000 Here's what I love, that they wrote a hit piece about a dude who got volunteers to clean up garbage.

00:36:58.000 And then all of a sudden we started seeing this narrative that they were just trying to make Trump look good or something.

00:37:04.000 And I started laughing because I'm like, oh no, you got us!

00:37:07.000 You've tricked us by going out and cleaning up trash.

00:37:10.000 Oh no, you've made Trump look good.

00:37:13.000 What?

00:37:14.000 What's the trick there?

00:37:15.000 You cleaned up trash?

00:37:16.000 OK, we're happy.

00:37:17.000 I don't understand.

00:37:19.000 That's insane to me.

00:37:20.000 No, it is.

00:37:21.000 And if people go back and look at Scott Presser's wardrobe, he wasn't even wearing anything that said Trump.

00:37:27.000 That's what another, I mean, he wasn't advertising Trump at all.

00:37:31.000 Yeah.

00:37:32.000 That's what was so crazy about it.

00:37:33.000 He was like him.

00:37:34.000 I really feel like I just got to come pick up the trash.

00:37:37.000 I can't leave kids live there.

00:37:38.000 You know, and that's what all he was trying to do.

00:37:41.000 And he's done it several times.

00:37:42.000 Oh yeah.

00:37:43.000 And whenever there's like, they always try to push the narrative that his real goal isn't

00:37:49.000 to help anybody. It's to make Trump supporters look good and help Donald Trump. And I'm like,

00:37:55.000 I don't, I don't understand how that makes, like, how is that a smear against him? He's

00:38:00.000 trying to make Trump look good by going around and cleaning up the neighborhood and helping people.

00:38:05.000 Yeah.

00:38:06.000 Is it bad that he's... You know what, man?

00:38:07.000 Look, 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.

00:38:16.000 Ha ha.

00:38:17.000 That's my evil plan to win.

00:38:18.000 It's like, it's OK.

00:38:21.000 Helping people.

00:38:23.000 Yeah, that's the weirdest, weirdest thing to me.

00:38:25.000 That's the best way to put it.

00:38:26.000 Oh my gosh.

00:38:27.000 But isn't that crazy?

00:38:30.000 They literally wrote a hit piece on that.

00:38:32.000 Yeah.

00:38:32.000 I'm impressed.

00:38:33.000 I'm impressed.

00:38:34.000 Here's what I'll do.

00:38:34.000 I 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.

00:38:40.000 So this is the overall support versus opposition and neither support nor oppose and unsure.

00:38:47.000 And what I want to do is show net support.

00:38:49.000 So this is where Black Lives Matter stands right now.

00:38:53.000 This is a really interesting thing I noticed, that before the George Floyd incident happened, 17% net support for Black Lives Matter.

00:39:01.000 It peaked around 25% when, you know, the George Floyd incident happened.

00:39:04.000 Everybody was shocked.

00:39:05.000 I mean, Sean Hannity had come out and said, this is wrong, I can't believe this.

00:39:08.000 I was shocked, yeah.

00:39:09.000 Then they riot.

00:39:10.000 And they riot more, and they riot more, and they riot more.

00:39:12.000 And now, today, net support is six points lower at 11% than where it was before the George Floyd incident.

00:39:21.000 Yeah.

00:39:21.000 So, first, I'll just ask you about the riots.

00:39:24.000 A lot of people like to say Antifa, right?

00:39:27.000 But I've said, no way, man.

00:39:28.000 These people are chanting Black Lives Matter.

00:39:31.000 They're going out in Portland with Molotovs in Seattle. 0.93

00:39:33.000 They're doing it in the name of Black Lives Matter. 0.94

00:39:37.000 Not antifa, not, you know, Marxism or whatever, you know, people think.

00:39:40.000 It's literally about police brutality and issues like George Floyd.

00:39:43.000 I'm just curious on your thoughts on that.

00:39:45.000 And then, you know, I got another question for you.

00:39:47.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:39:48.000 So first of all, I am not a fan of Black Lives Matter. 1.00

00:39:51.000 You know what's interesting?

00:39:52.000 I don't know many black Americans that are fans of Black Lives Matter.

00:39:56.000 You know, very interesting fact there.

00:39:59.000 For me, this is a situation where I feel like there is definitely an agenda.

00:40:03.000 If you look at it, you know, in 2015 after the death of Freddie Gray, we had our riots and the looting.

00:40:09.000 I was there.

00:40:09.000 And Adam, you met him earlier, he was there too.

00:40:11.000 Okay, yeah, so you saw it up close and personal.

00:40:15.000 And a lot of people that were arrested were people that didn't even live there, right?

00:40:19.000 The bad actors are almost being bused in, you know, to cause chaos and then they leave and they go to another city and do the same.

00:40:28.000 And so it's very interesting to me.

00:40:30.000 I don't think it's a real organization.

00:40:32.000 I think it's a front for something else I'm not gonna again.

00:40:35.000 I'm not into conspiracy theories.

00:40:37.000 I hear the president's Trump's administration's investigating it.

00:40:41.000 Really?

00:40:42.000 Yeah, so I'm interested to see what happens because I know that I think they have what's it called?

00:40:46.000 They call like thousand currents Oh, I'm not sure.

00:40:49.000 I'll have to look it up.

00:40:50.000 Yeah, definitely.

00:40:51.000 There's an organization that collects money on their behalf, and then it goes through ActBlue.

00:40:57.000 Here's what's fascinating to me.

00:40:58.000 We 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.

00:41:07.000 It's social justice.

00:41:09.000 But their fundraising goes through ActBlue.

00:41:11.000 Sure does, yeah.

00:41:12.000 It's the Democrats' fundraising organization.

00:41:14.000 Right.

00:41:15.000 So you're gonna tell me it's not political?

00:41:16.000 It's literally running money through their fundraising arm.

00:41:19.000 I 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.

00:41:24.000 I 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.

00:41:32.000 I don't think... Maybe there's something there.

00:41:34.000 But it definitely seems strange, to say the least.

00:41:39.000 I don't know if you knew this, but there was another Black Lives Matter foundation

00:41:43.000 based out of, I think, California, that formed in 2014, and it's very small.

00:41:48.000 And the guys brought in a couple hundred thousand dollars over the past several years.

00:41:52.000 And it was just one black dude who was like, I got an idea, I'm gonna run an organization,

00:41:56.000 I'm gonna raise money.

00:41:57.000 And he said his goal is to bring the police and the communities together,

00:42:01.000 so that the police can be more familiar with the people who live there,

00:42:04.000 and they can know who their police are.

00:42:06.000 And he was basically saying, the proximity and the familiarity will help resolve a lot of the tensions.

00:42:13.000 You know, like, a cop's less likely to attack somebody if he knows the neighborhood and he might know who that person is.

00:42:18.000 Right.

00:42:18.000 Probably not going to know everybody.

00:42:20.000 But here's the crazy thing.

00:42:20.000 They went after him.

00:42:22.000 And apparently some activists got, like, an injunction to, like, freeze his donations.

00:42:26.000 GoFundMe or something like that, like, seized his, like, fundraiser and gave it to the other organization.

00:42:33.000 Yeah, that to me was crazy.

00:42:34.000 I mean, I don't... Is it because it was also Black Lives Matter and they own that, right? 0.96

00:42:37.000 Yep.

00:42:37.000 Okay.

00:42:38.000 Well, I don't think they own it because he had it first.

00:42:40.000 They just came out and said, he's not the real one.

00:42:42.000 And he's like, but I've had the name first.

00:42:44.000 Wow.

00:42:45.000 Yeah.

00:42:46.000 Yeah.

00:42:46.000 That's interesting.

00:42:48.000 Well, that's interesting.

00:42:49.000 I'll tell you.

00:42:49.000 I'll tell you what's interesting.

00:42:50.000 You, uh, you mentioned you don't know anybody.

00:42:53.000 You said you didn't know any black people who supported Black Lives Matter?

00:42:56.000 I don't.

00:42:56.000 I don't know.

00:42:57.000 Yeah.

00:42:57.000 I don't.

00:42:58.000 Take a look at this.

00:42:58.000 This is what I wanted to ask you about.

00:42:59.000 I find this is interesting.

00:43:01.000 So this is Civics.

00:43:02.000 They've got 162,220 responses from April 25th, 2017 to September 9th, 2020.

00:43:09.000 And they say, from registered voters, Black or African-American, 88% say they support Black Lives Matter.

00:43:18.000 That's interesting.

00:43:19.000 Yeah.

00:43:20.000 And then we've got 5% oppose.

00:43:24.000 So that's interesting.

00:43:25.000 I, I don't know how I don't know the 88%.

00:43:28.000 Maybe it's not, maybe it's not real.

00:43:30.000 Yeah.

00:43:31.000 I guess this is what, this is what I say and people that I know say, like you said, it goes through ActBlue, right?

00:43:37.000 The money.

00:43:38.000 Yeah.

00:43:38.000 Does, have there any been any instances where any of that money has actually gone to the black community?

00:43:47.000 I don't think so in terms of anything I've seen in the news.

00:43:51.000 I haven't found anything.

00:43:53.000 I've tried to do some research.

00:43:54.000 Well, you know what they do?

00:43:56.000 Because this is my insight into all these nonprofits.

00:43:59.000 It's a very, very clever way to claim that all of the money is for charitable causes.

00:44:04.000 Awareness.

00:44:05.000 Oh, yes.

00:44:06.000 Oh, I love those.

00:44:07.000 It's like the big corporations, right?

00:44:09.000 When you look at Apple, you look at different organizations, they put a hundred million dollars into inclusive training, right?

00:44:18.000 That 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. 0.96

00:44:26.000 Two percent.

00:44:27.000 2% 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. 0.75

00:44:57.000 There was a post I just saw recently.

00:44:59.000 I 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.

00:45:09.000 And I think it was the New York Times.

00:45:11.000 And then someone showed that all of the top New York Times staff, it's all white people.

00:45:15.000 So they want to act like we're pointing out a serious problem, but don't look where we are.

00:45:20.000 It's seriously the rules for thee, but not for me.

00:45:23.000 It's like everything they do.

00:45:25.000 Yeah.

00:45:25.000 No, seriously.

00:45:26.000 I was shocked when I saw Twitter.

00:45:29.000 They have their main Twitter support page, right?

00:45:32.000 And it was all blacked out.

00:45:34.000 Like, they're so supportive. 0.72

00:45:35.000 But we already knew, it was already ousted, I think a year ago, that they didn't hire any black people.

00:45:40.000 So it's like...

00:45:42.000 You know, I don't understand it.

00:45:43.000 I don't get it. 1.00

00:45:44.000 I 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. 1.00

00:45:51.000 You know, we see it. 0.99

00:45:52.000 So I don't know how we got to this 88%, but I better do my due diligence and figure it out.

00:45:57.000 Do you think there's a possibility that you're in a bubble?

00:46:00.000 And you're just not around the people?

00:46:02.000 Yeah, that could be. 0.98

00:46:03.000 You know, West Baltimore, all black. 1.00

00:46:06.000 I'm not in a bubble. 0.93

00:46:07.000 Yeah, you have to, you, right, right, right.

00:46:10.000 I have to ask though, you know, because, you know, I think a lot of these journalists don't

00:46:15.000 realize they're definitely in a bubble.

00:46:17.000 Oh my gosh, yes.

00:46:19.000 Yes, this is.

00:46:21.000 So I get in a fight all the time with, you know, Richard Fowler on Fox News.

00:46:26.000 No, no, no, no.

00:46:27.000 Oh my gosh.

00:46:27.000 Who is he?

00:46:28.000 He kills me.

00:46:29.000 So he's a guy that basically lives at Fox News Studio.

00:46:34.000 Right.

00:46:35.000 And he likes to come on and tell people he's a black guy about how hard it is to be black in America.

00:46:41.000 I'm like, dude, when is the last time you've ever been in a predominantly black neighborhood?

00:46:47.000 He couldn't answer that.

00:46:48.000 He could not.

00:46:49.000 And supposedly he's from Chicago, but not like Chicago, Chicago, because Jano Caldwell called him out on it.

00:46:56.000 And I don't know what the name of the town was.

00:46:58.000 I bet it's Naperville or something.

00:47:02.000 He was like, dude, you're not from Chicago.

00:47:04.000 Don't you claim Chicago.

00:47:06.000 You know, but it's there is there's a lot of people in the media that lives.

00:47:10.000 What's his name again?

00:47:11.000 Richard Fowler.

00:47:14.000 Yes.

00:47:14.000 I actually was just in a fight with him just last week on Fox News.

00:47:18.000 What do you guys argue about?

00:47:20.000 Well, he was trying to tell me how great Biden was, but it was also telling me how America's policies were so racist.

00:47:26.000 And I'm like, interesting.

00:47:27.000 So Biden had 50 years to change some of those racist policies, but he didn't.

00:47:31.000 Yeah.

00:47:32.000 And he was vice president for Obama.

00:47:34.000 Yeah.

00:47:34.000 So tell me, tell me again, how is he for black people?

00:47:37.000 The guy that did the 1994 crime bill.

00:47:39.000 Yes.

00:47:40.000 Yeah.

00:47:40.000 Super.

00:47:40.000 Yeah.

00:47:41.000 He's that guy.

00:47:42.000 I couldn't figure out where he was from on a quick glance.

00:47:45.000 But being from Chicago, there's always people who say, they'll be like, oh, I'm from Chicago.

00:47:49.000 And I'll say, oh, cool, which part?

00:47:51.000 Well, Naperville.

00:47:52.000 Oh, it's Evanston.

00:47:54.000 Evanston!

00:47:54.000 Yes!

00:47:55.000 That's it!

00:47:57.000 Oh my gosh, that's it.

00:47:58.000 Evanston.

00:48:00.000 Look, I'm not gonna pretend like Evanston is the wealthiest place in the world, but I'm pretty sure it's like a north side, and it's nice.

00:48:11.000 It's pretty nice.

00:48:13.000 And 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?

00:48:23.000 Like, they must have had great jobs.

00:48:24.000 You 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?

00:48:31.000 But I will point something out, to be fair, although I don't think this impacted him.

00:48:35.000 It's really interesting, we have this defund the police narrative.

00:48:38.000 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked about what she envisions this will look like if you defund the police, and she says, the suburbs.

00:48:46.000 It'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.

00:49:01.000 To 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.

00:49:09.000 Right.

00:49:09.000 But you do have more violent crime in the poor areas because of the conflict between people.

00:49:14.000 Right.

00:49:14.000 So if you live in a place like Evanston, I don't think you're really in a position to criticize someone about living in a hard area.

00:49:24.000 Yeah.

00:49:24.000 I mean, to be fair, too, I was reading a tweet from, it was a woman, she was white, and she was talking about misconceptions around crime.

00:49:34.000 And for people who grow up in places like... Actually, I'll ask you your feelings on this in a second.

00:49:40.000 I grew up on the southwest side.

00:49:42.000 It was kind of bad, not the worst, because there's other parts of the south side and the west side that are way worse.

00:49:47.000 But there were shootings, there were drug overdoses and stuff, and it was normal to us.

00:49:52.000 So 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.

00:49:58.000 And then when you tell that to other people, they're shocked to hear it and they're scared of it.

00:50:02.000 Not realizing that it's not like every day someone comes out with a gun and starts firing in the air.

00:50:06.000 Right.

00:50:07.000 But you hear gunshots at night, you know, periodically.

00:50:09.000 So I'm wondering, you know, is it similar being in West Baltimore with the normalization of potential violence and things like that?

00:50:18.000 It's very similar.

00:50:19.000 It's to the point where shots are fired and nobody even turns around.

00:50:24.000 You know what I mean?

00:50:26.000 No one turns around.

00:50:27.000 But 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.

00:50:38.000 But 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?

00:50:46.000 Yeah, 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?

00:51:14.000 We know they're filled with trash.

00:51:16.000 We're used to that.

00:51:16.000 You know, it's like, you know, you don't have to live this way, right?

00:51:20.000 You know, it shouldn't be like this.

00:51:21.000 You know, there shouldn't be 17,000 vacant homes just sitting there.

00:51:26.000 I mean, it's insane to me, but I understand it.

00:51:29.000 Because like you said, it's normal everyday life.

00:51:32.000 Did Elijah Cummings live in the district?

00:51:35.000 Supposedly he did.

00:51:36.000 So this is the crazy part about the district.

00:51:38.000 There's Howard County, Baltimore County, and then West Baltimore.

00:51:41.000 Howard County is a very wealthy area, right?

00:51:46.000 And then you have Baltimore County.

00:51:47.000 You go up north, it goes all the way up to the Pennsylvania line.

00:51:50.000 Again, very wealthy.

00:51:51.000 So when this was redistricted in 2013, it looked as if he was doing great Because you had these wealthy areas attached to West Baltimore.

00:52:03.000 And then he could live in the wealthy area away from there.

00:52:05.000 Exactly.

00:52:05.000 And so when people get on me and they're like, well, she doesn't exactly live there.

00:52:09.000 And 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.

00:52:18.000 Yeah.

00:52:18.000 What would you like to come at me with?

00:52:20.000 You know what I learned about Chicago?

00:52:23.000 One 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?

00:52:44.000 And I don't wanna put you on the spot, but I'm curious what your thoughts are not living in Chicago.

00:52:49.000 Do you know what the cause of... You've heard about Chicago gun violence and they call it Chirac.

00:52:53.000 Do you know what causes the violence?

00:52:56.000 I would think everything around it, right?

00:52:59.000 The education system, the lack of opportunity.

00:53:01.000 That is the best answer I've heard so far.

00:53:06.000 People always say gangs.

00:53:09.000 It's not true.

00:53:10.000 They think that gangs are fighting over Terrence stuff and it's not.

00:53:14.000 It really does have to do with the living conditions, the standard of living, the culture, the education.

00:53:19.000 I went on what's called night crawling.

00:53:24.000 So a local journalist, we met up at like, you know, two in the morning or whatever.

00:53:27.000 This sounds so fun already.

00:53:30.000 Oh man, but I don't know.

00:53:32.000 If you want to be a journalist tracking murders and stuff and like reporting on this stuff, it takes a strong stomach, I'll tell you what.

00:53:40.000 You need a strong heart and a strong stomach to see some of these things.

00:53:43.000 But some of the stories that we went to, it was, in one instance, somebody had a personal argument on social media.

00:53:52.000 And so they drove up and started shooting into a building they thought belonged to the person and it didn't.

00:53:57.000 And two people were killed.

00:53:59.000 Another 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.

00:54:07.000 I kid you not.

00:54:08.000 So 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 0.99

00:54:17.000 problems, if you talk smack to me, I kill you. 1.00

00:54:19.000 Right. 0.96

00:54:19.000 So it really does not have a lot to do with gangs. 0.96

00:54:22.000 And if you don't understand the community, the culture, and how to solve those problems, because you're just assuming

00:54:27.000 there's like some buzzword that can be the easy...

00:54:33.000 It's like they think there's an easy solution where it's like, if I just take this one piece out of the puzzle, then the problem's solved.

00:54:39.000 Not realizing it's systemic.

00:54:41.000 It's education.

00:54:41.000 It's lack of leadership.

00:54:43.000 And I believe a lot of it has to do with what we were talking about earlier.

00:54:46.000 When there's one party rule, there's no competition.

00:54:49.000 No one has to come in and say, here's my proposal.

00:54:52.000 And when the locals try, they're completely ignored.

00:54:55.000 Yeah.

00:54:56.000 I 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?

00:55:09.000 It 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?

00:55:19.000 And so a lot of those schools are in the West Baltimore area.

00:55:22.000 But if you put those on with the schools in Howard County, which are great, right?

00:55:26.000 And in Baltimore County, Sparks, all that, then it doesn't look like the schools are that bad, right?

00:55:32.000 So 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.

00:55:39.000 Hopefully nobody sees it.

00:55:40.000 That it averages out.

00:55:41.000 Exactly.

00:55:42.000 And that's what it was about.

00:55:43.000 And that's what it was about.

00:55:44.000 And so Governor Martin O'Malley actually admitted to redistricting some areas to do, you know, that.

00:55:51.000 And so now, yeah, they're going to look at drawing the lines.

00:55:54.000 But this is why.

00:55:56.000 Chipping 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.

00:56:27.000 Yes.

00:56:28.000 And then it takes work.

00:56:30.000 I know a lot of people don't, you know, I understand politics.

00:56:32.000 Not everybody in government wants to work, but it does.

00:56:35.000 It takes grassroots efforts.

00:56:37.000 It takes you getting out there and working every single day.

00:56:40.000 So let's talk about your campaign.

00:56:43.000 You became a Republican, you said, in 2009.

00:56:46.000 Yes.

00:56:48.000 What about the Republican Party did you feel like was a better fit for you?

00:56:53.000 I think just the whole aspect of personal responsibility.

00:56:56.000 Like that's how I was raised.

00:56:58.000 My 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?

00:57:08.000 People are coming here because of the opportunities here.

00:57:12.000 Yeah.

00:57:13.000 When you look at, and this is one of my things about Black Lives Matter, but I won't go off on a tangent.

00:57:18.000 When you look at African immigrants that come to this country, right?

00:57:22.000 They are black, right? 0.99

00:57:23.000 By all appearances. 0.99

00:57:24.000 There's a lot of them that are very black, right? 1.00

00:57:27.000 And you're telling me, Black Lives Matter people are saying, you're being pulled over because you're black. 0.99

00:57:32.000 You're being stopped because you're black.

00:57:34.000 I have yet to see a hashtag Nigerian name or hashtag name from like Ghana, Cameroon, right?

00:57:41.000 You don't see names like that hashtagged. 0.76

00:57:44.000 But they're by all appearances black. 0.95

00:57:47.000 So obviously that doesn't... Did you see that NBA story where they were striking over the Jacob Blake thing?

00:57:56.000 Yahoo 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. 0.96

00:58:06.000 And it was the most ridiculous thing I heard. 0.82

00:58:09.000 Because I'm like, dude just wanted to buy a Tesla. 0.92

00:58:12.000 Right.

00:58:12.000 I don't think the cops are like, a Tesla?

00:58:15.000 Oh, it's probably a white guy driving that car.

00:58:17.000 Right, so I'll leave that alone.

00:58:17.000 He's breaking the law.

00:58:18.000 Yeah, I'll leave him alone.

00:58:20.000 Yeah, in the middle of the hood, Tesla.

00:58:22.000 Actually, I had an interesting experience when I was like, I think I was like 19.

00:58:27.000 I met a guy from Haiti.

00:58:28.000 I worked with him at O'Hare Airport.

00:58:30.000 And I didn't know him very well.

00:58:32.000 But he said he didn't like how in the U.S.

00:58:35.000 they try and do all of these politically correct terms for people like Asian-American, African-American.

00:58:41.000 And he was like, I'm from Haiti.

00:58:42.000 He's like, I'm not an African-American.

00:58:45.000 I'm Haitian.

00:58:45.000 Like, don't call me that.

00:58:47.000 Yeah.

00:58:47.000 It's very it's very weird how I think a lot of You know what, man?

00:58:53.000 It'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.

00:59:02.000 Absolutely.

00:59:02.000 I 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!

00:59:09.000 They're the ones saying things like voter ID is racist.

00:59:12.000 Right.

00:59:13.000 But actually, yeah, let's do this.

00:59:15.000 Let me ask your thoughts on voter ID.

00:59:17.000 What do you think?

00:59:18.000 So this is my idea.

00:59:20.000 So you're saying because I'm black, I can't get an ID to go vote.

00:59:27.000 If that is what you're saying, that is racist to say, okay? 0.97

00:59:32.000 So 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. 0.98

00:59:42.000 For almost everything, you need an ID, right? 0.98

00:59:45.000 This is again, just like we see with the mail-in voting, right?

00:59:49.000 Like I said, all the ballots.

00:59:51.000 It's about, you know, a way they can be fraudulent in the process.

00:59:54.000 It has nothing to do, but they love to use us as like this thing, oh, wait a minute, let's think about the blacks. 0.91

01:00:01.000 Can they can they rise to the occasion?

01:00:04.000 I don't know.

01:00:05.000 Let's put the brakes on this. 0.96

01:00:06.000 But, 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.

01:00:16.000 You know, when do we get the microphone and tell you what we can handle?

01:00:19.000 Did you see that Ami Horowitz video?

01:00:21.000 I did not.

01:00:22.000 He went to Berkeley and he asked a bunch of white college students, how do they feel about voter ID?

01:00:29.000 And they all said it's racist.

01:00:31.000 I saw this video.

01:00:32.000 I did.

01:00:32.000 Yes.

01:00:33.000 Yes, I did.

01:00:33.000 And it is one of the funniest videos for me.

01:00:37.000 Again, I didn't grow up in a black area.

01:00:40.000 I grew up in a relatively mixed poor area, but it still kind of resonated to me to see regular people understanding.

01:00:48.000 I'll put it this way.

01:00:49.000 I hate elitism.

01:00:50.000 And this progressive racism is like the epitome of ivory tower elites.

01:00:56.000 They think they're better.

01:00:57.000 If you look at the data, these progressives tend to be wealthy, college-educated white people.

01:01:03.000 And they think they're smarter than everybody.

01:01:05.000 And they think they're the saviors of all these poor races.

01:01:07.000 But in reality, that mentality is them thinking they're superior to other races.

01:01:12.000 So when I see that video, and my favorite part of it is when Ami Horowitz asks this middle-aged black dude,

01:01:18.000 Black dude, you know where the DMV's at? 1.00

01:01:19.000 He goes, oh yeah, it's over on 25th Street.

01:01:21.000 As if he's giving directions, like of course he knows where the DMV is.

01:01:25.000 Yeah.

01:01:26.000 Do you know anybody who doesn't have an ID?

01:01:27.000 I don't.

01:01:28.000 But this is, you know, I don't know if a lot of people have seen that video of Candace Owens in front of Congress.

01:01:34.000 And I think Jim Jordan was asking questions and there were three white women telling her how oppressed Black people are.

01:01:43.000 I remember that.

01:01:44.000 Yes.

01:01:44.000 She had on the blue blazer and she's like, that's interesting.

01:01:47.000 I've been black my entire life and I am not feeling oppressed today, but I'm so glad these three white women are telling me this.

01:01:54.000 Isn't Candace kind of like, isn't she rich?

01:01:57.000 Like I'm assuming she's very successful.

01:01:59.000 Yeah.

01:01:59.000 I mean, I would think so.

01:02:01.000 Um, you know, I, even if she isn't rich, she's not oppressed.

01:02:06.000 Right.

01:02:07.000 And you know, it's amazing to me, but again, this is what we see all the time.

01:02:11.000 You know, people actually look at the crowd and some of these Black Lives Matter protests or riots.

01:02:18.000 A lot of times it's white people.

01:02:20.000 Yeah.

01:02:20.000 Oh, totally.

01:02:21.000 With the Black Lives Matter shirts on. 0.75

01:02:22.000 And I'm like, well, where are the black people?

01:02:24.000 You know?

01:02:25.000 I heard a story out of, I think it was Portland, where a woman was like yelling at protesters, 0.94

01:02:31.000 where are the black people at? 1.00

01:02:32.000 Because it was a bunch of white people riding and acting a fool. 1.00

01:02:35.000 And she was like, what is this? 0.99

01:02:37.000 Like, what are you people doing?

01:02:38.000 There's, you're, you're not, there, there's actually a bunch of videos like this though.

01:02:42.000 There's one video where black women stop Antifa from trying to graffiti and start fires. 0.80

01:02:47.000 And it's crazy. 0.79

01:02:47.000 In one of them, there's like this white woman spray painting and two black women are like, stop bringing that stuff to our neighborhood. 0.79

01:02:54.000 And the white women actually say to the black woman, no, no, it's okay. 0.66

01:02:57.000 We're helping you.

01:02:57.000 And we're like, we're fighting for you.

01:02:59.000 And it's like, dude, you're destroying their neighborhood.

01:03:01.000 You're not helping them at all.

01:03:03.000 Right.

01:03:06.000 I bring this up a lot.

01:03:07.000 I have to, though.

01:03:07.000 But do you know about what's going on with repeal Prop 209 in California?

01:03:11.000 Somewhat.

01:03:12.000 It's the Democrats wanting to repeal the civil rights provisions in the Constitution.

01:03:18.000 Am 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?

01:03:32.000 Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.

01:03:33.000 If 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?

01:03:48.000 I think we definitely are.

01:03:49.000 And it's like, what are we doing?

01:03:51.000 What are we doing?

01:03:52.000 We're rolling back so much of what we fought for.

01:03:57.000 And 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.

01:04:09.000 Have you seen that book from Ibrahim?

01:04:12.000 Ibrahim X Kendi.

01:04:13.000 Is it Abraham or Ibrahim?

01:04:14.000 I-B-R-A-M. 1.00

01:04:16.000 Ibrahim? 0.85

01:04:17.000 Have you heard of him?

01:04:18.000 He's got one of the top books in anti-racism.

01:04:22.000 There's a book he wrote called How to Be Anti-Racist.

01:04:25.000 There's a passage that says, He said something like, if discrimination is creating equity, then it is racist.

01:04:36.000 If it's creating inequity, it's racist.

01:04:38.000 If it's creating equity, it's anti-racist.

01:04:40.000 Therefore, the only solution to past discrimination is present discrimination.

01:04:44.000 And the only solution to present discrimination is future discrimination.

01:04:48.000 Quite literally saying, we must discriminate based on race.

01:04:52.000 So 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.

01:05:04.000 You see Oprah Winfrey pics.

01:05:06.000 I mean, they're straight up saying we got to be racist.

01:05:09.000 Yeah.

01:05:09.000 But 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.

01:05:18.000 We want to be just friends and hang out and break bread and, you know, stand by the water cooler talking about what we like.

01:05:24.000 And they realized that if they were going to bring back segregation and discrimination, they had to alter the definition of racism.

01:05:30.000 And so that's what they've done.

01:05:32.000 Yeah.

01:05:32.000 Now it means prejudice plus power, and you have to have institutional authority or something like that.

01:05:38.000 So now when they write books, quite literally saying that, for one, they are avowed racists.

01:05:43.000 Like, you've heard of white fragility. 0.97

01:05:45.000 The woman straight up says she's uncomfortable if she walked into a room full of black people. 0.99

01:05:49.000 That's crazy to me. 0.99

01:05:50.000 Right.

01:05:50.000 And then she's going to start essentially lecturing everyone else on their behavior and people adopt this.

01:05:56.000 So for me, having grown up, I'll put it this way, I grew up pretty lefty when I was younger.

01:06:02.000 Became 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.

01:06:10.000 And 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.

01:06:17.000 No.

01:06:17.000 Yeah, like so much for that I guess and I tried to be optimistic like maybe he's got to wind things down

01:06:22.000 Because he just came in and no no No

01:06:27.000 So so for me that was like I'm out but I think there's a lot of people who have always been

01:06:33.000 outside of The Democratic Party and have viewed them as always racist

01:06:36.000 because their history was racist Yeah, and so I don't I don't I don't know what happened in

01:06:41.000 that period after civil rights up until whatever's going on now

01:06:45.000 But it definitely feels like they're going backwards.

01:06:47.000 They're rewinding the clock towards segregation.

01:06:50.000 We just had that story out of University of Michigan-Dearborn where they created a non-POC cafe. 0.98

01:06:56.000 Stop.

01:06:56.000 I wish we were joking.

01:06:57.000 You stop.

01:06:59.000 Not kidding.

01:07:00.000 Not kidding.

01:07:00.000 We were joking.

01:07:01.000 They they didn't.

01:07:02.000 They they they they fake apologized for it like they have.

01:07:05.000 So basically they did a POC cafe.

01:07:08.000 They're not physical spaces.

01:07:09.000 OK first clarified.

01:07:10.000 OK.

01:07:10.000 They were like digital digital roundtables and they had one just

01:07:16.000 for they said non POC.

01:07:18.000 I think we know what that means.

01:07:19.000 The white people. 0.67

01:07:20.000 And 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.

01:07:28.000 And then they had the POC one.

01:07:31.000 And I'm just like, yo.

01:07:34.000 Right?

01:07:35.000 Is that where we're going?

01:07:36.000 So wait, so when did they meet and hear about each other's feelings?

01:07:39.000 I don't know if it happened.

01:07:40.000 They issued an apology for the terminology they used.

01:07:44.000 They said, we're so sorry about the terms we used to describe our quote-unquote cafe.

01:07:47.000 It's not even a productive situation.

01:07:50.000 Seriously not.

01:07:50.000 I mean, this is awful.

01:07:52.000 You know what really kills me?

01:07:53.000 I love when liberals get really upset when they say, oh, someone's racist.

01:07:59.000 And then that said person is racist, that they're claiming is racist, then says, well, I'm not racist.

01:08:05.000 I have black friends.

01:08:06.000 And they're saying, oh, that's just a racist thing to say.

01:08:09.000 I'm like, no, it's not. 0.98

01:08:11.000 OK, racists don't have black friends. 0.97

01:08:13.000 Right. 0.99

01:08:14.000 They don't.

01:08:15.000 They don't.

01:08:15.000 And 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.

01:08:30.000 What does Candace Owens say that makes her a white supremacist in their eyes? 1.00

01:08:38.000 I don't know.

01:08:40.000 I mean, look, even if... I can't even say it.

01:08:45.000 She doesn't talk about anything pertaining to white people in that regard.

01:08:51.000 She talks about responsibility, conservatism, the black family.

01:08:54.000 I'm like, what, where, where, where in that is race?

01:08:58.000 Where in that is her supporting whiteness or whatever? 0.98

01:09:01.000 Yeah.

01:09:02.000 I guess when you look at the, the, the weird definitions, if you, if you've seen like there was something, um, it was in the Smithsonian.

01:09:09.000 What was it?

01:09:10.000 It was like the, the, um, National Museum of African American History or something.

01:09:15.000 Have you seen this chart where they explain what whiteness is? 0.90

01:09:17.000 I think I did see this.

01:09:18.000 Yes.

01:09:19.000 Man.

01:09:19.000 Truly amazing.

01:09:20.000 This is really a huge smack in the face for me being like, I still consider myself to be liberal.

01:09:25.000 I just don't think the Democratic Party represents what I, you know, what I look for anymore.

01:09:30.000 It said hard work is a trait of whiteness.

01:09:34.000 Oh, yeah.

01:09:35.000 Oh, I saw that. 1.00

01:09:35.000 Are you nuts? 1.00

01:09:36.000 Yes. 0.99

01:09:37.000 And then being on time.

01:09:38.000 Wasn't that a thing?

01:09:40.000 Yes.

01:09:41.000 Being on time.

01:09:42.000 I was like, wow.

01:09:44.000 I mean, it's sad.

01:09:46.000 I don't know where we're going, but you know, this is why I'm glad I'm running for office.

01:09:49.000 And I hope more people that feel like we're going in a dangerous situation run for office as well.

01:09:57.000 I always consider myself, because I've had a nonprofit for eight years, fiscally conservative, socially liberal.

01:10:03.000 Yeah, how do you, so can you tell me a little bit about your nonprofit, about your efforts there?

01:10:09.000 Because that was really interesting to me.

01:10:10.000 Thank you.

01:10:11.000 So I started it, basically I was working at a hotel in Georgetown University, Hotel and Conference Center.

01:10:18.000 I moved to Baltimore about 10 years ago when I met my husband, right?

01:10:22.000 Now, at that point, fiance.

01:10:24.000 And the commute was a long commute, two hours one way.

01:10:27.000 He's like, just stay home, you know?

01:10:29.000 But, you know, you can only do so many loads of laundry where you're just like, okay, I'm smarter than this.

01:10:34.000 Not to say it's a bad thing, but I wasn't even taking care of any kids.

01:10:36.000 I was just sitting there at home.

01:10:38.000 So I wanted to start a non-profit to help young women that might have had traumatic life experiences but were overcoming and doing well.

01:10:49.000 Very good.

01:10:49.000 And so I decided to help these young women with prom.

01:10:53.000 And 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. 1.00

01:11:02.000 And so I would collect prom dresses.

01:11:06.000 I took all these prom dresses into this high school and the girls are like looking at the dresses and they're like, oh my god. 1.00

01:11:12.000 And I'm like, yes, I got so many.

01:11:15.000 They're like, no, are these from 1982?

01:11:17.000 Where did you get these dresses?

01:11:20.000 And I'm like, OK, you've got a point there.

01:11:22.000 So we actually took those dresses.

01:11:24.000 We sold them on eBay.

01:11:25.000 And with that money, we actually bought them dresses.

01:11:28.000 And then we were able to spend money on their hair and their makeup.

01:11:31.000 And they had like these whole makeovers.

01:11:32.000 And it was awesome.

01:11:34.000 But 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.

01:11:42.000 You know, she's like, you can come and sit down.

01:11:44.000 In their living room, there was like lawn chairs for their furniture.

01:11:49.000 And, you know, I know this young woman would tell me all the time how their electricity was on and off.

01:11:53.000 And she was sometimes doing her homework by candlelight.

01:11:56.000 Yes.

01:11:56.000 And so I'm talking to the mom and she was like, I would love to go back to work.

01:12:01.000 I just don't know how to do it.

01:12:02.000 And then a light bulb comes on, right?

01:12:04.000 And you're like, oh, wait a minute, Kim.

01:12:06.000 If you get parents, you know, back to work, of course they can afford prom and everything else.

01:12:10.000 So I, I totally switched gears after the first year.

01:12:13.000 Um, and I started helping women coming out of incarceration, rehabilitation and homelessness.

01:12:19.000 through nonprofits that already existed.

01:12:21.000 Their employment specialist would call us and say, hey, can you get her ready for a job interview by Tuesday? 0.99

01:12:27.000 And so we were still collecting these donated clothing and then just selling them on eBay

01:12:31.000 and we would give them entire makeovers.

01:12:33.000 Wow.

01:12:35.000 We said wow a lot this episode.

01:12:38.000 Over 200 women become gamefully employed. 1.00

01:12:39.000 30% went on to be financially independent.

01:12:42.000 But that's, to me, the only way you're gonna lift anyone out of poverty is with employment.

01:12:46.000 And so I think people need to understand that, you know?

01:12:50.000 And, you know, that's why that's, you know, a major part of my platform is people becoming independent.

01:12:56.000 So, 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.

01:13:11.000 I think that's a wonderful thread to carry through.

01:13:13.000 Thank you.

01:13:14.000 Thank you.

01:13:16.000 And it's so simple, right?

01:13:17.000 So we didn't get any funding.

01:13:18.000 We didn't get any grant money.

01:13:19.000 We didn't get anything.

01:13:20.000 We were just like, all right, how do we make money?

01:13:23.000 eBay!

01:13:26.000 You know?

01:13:26.000 And it's just literally just taking a regular idea and saying, all right, this is how we got to tackle the issue.

01:13:32.000 But this is what's crazy about it.

01:13:34.000 Like, I'm a college dropout myself.

01:13:36.000 I didn't finish.

01:13:37.000 It wasn't for me.

01:13:38.000 I dropped out.

01:13:39.000 But here we have these politicians that with all these degrees and they supposedly know all this stuff, right?

01:13:44.000 And they could come up with these innovative ideas.

01:13:46.000 Yet no one seems to be able to tackle this situation that we see in the inner cities.

01:13:52.000 And it's like, well, are you really the smart guy?

01:13:55.000 I think you're smart enough to do it.

01:13:56.000 You just don't want to do it.

01:13:58.000 And that's where I have the issue.

01:14:00.000 Dependency.

01:14:00.000 Yeah.

01:14:01.000 If you had a bunch of free thinking, independent people, they wouldn't want to vote for you and they want guaranteed votes.

01:14:07.000 If 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.

01:14:19.000 Right.

01:14:20.000 That's a bummer.

01:14:21.000 It is a bummer.

01:14:22.000 And this is why, you know, I really started doing some research.

01:14:25.000 And I don't know if people are familiar with Duran Smith.

01:14:27.000 He works with the Trump administration.

01:14:29.000 He helped with prison reform and the First Step Act.

01:14:32.000 And, you know, everyone says, oh, he's that one black guy that works at the White House and the West Wing.

01:14:36.000 It's like, he's not the only black guy.

01:14:39.000 He's just like the one with the biggest position over there.

01:14:42.000 But, you know, he talks about how, you know, you've got Section 8, right?

01:14:47.000 Section 8 housing vouchers.

01:14:48.000 With those vouchers, it came with basically having the man leave the home so the women could get them. 0.94

01:14:55.000 And that's still how it is today.

01:14:56.000 That's awful.

01:14:57.000 But then, you know, he said, I started thinking like, you know, if you've got Section 8, is there a Section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7?

01:15:04.000 And so he looked it up and, you know, we're looking at it.

01:15:06.000 Section 3 says the same thing as Section 8, but the dad can stay in the home.

01:15:13.000 That's crazy.

01:15:13.000 Wow.

01:15:14.000 So 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?

01:15:30.000 If 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.

01:15:39.000 The father's still in the home.

01:15:40.000 You've got the family structure piece.

01:15:43.000 Why did we go with Section 8 over Section 3?

01:15:46.000 Do you see the Black Lives Matter mission statement?

01:15:49.000 How they want to dismantle the family?

01:15:51.000 Disrupt the nuclear family structure or something to that effect.

01:15:54.000 Why would they want to do that?

01:15:54.000 Yeah.

01:15:57.000 We'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.

01:16:08.000 It might just be as simple as two parents because you have double income and you have someone to be with the kid.

01:16:14.000 But 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.

01:16:23.000 Right.

01:16:24.000 And in single-parent households, they struggle.

01:16:27.000 Right.

01:16:27.000 Or they're more likely to, I should say.

01:16:29.000 Not a guarantee.

01:16:29.000 Right.

01:16:30.000 Why would you actively try to encourage that?

01:16:32.000 Right.

01:16:33.000 The only thing I can think of is there aren't actually black people writing the mission statement for Black Lives Matter.

01:16:39.000 I wouldn't be surprised.

01:16:40.000 That's the only thing I can think of. 0.79

01:16:42.000 Because if you are black, you know, what is it, about 70% black children are living in a single mother household.

01:16:49.000 We know which friends became successful and which ones didn't.

01:16:53.000 And we know what their childhood was like.

01:16:57.000 That's not news to us.

01:16:58.000 They do have that data down, right?

01:17:01.000 But we know that just based on how we grew up and who we grew up around.

01:17:04.000 So it makes no sense.

01:17:06.000 So let's go to some policy stuff.

01:17:08.000 You've got policies on your site.

01:17:09.000 What do you want to do?

01:17:10.000 First of all, what's your pipe dream?

01:17:12.000 What's your pie in the sky?

01:17:14.000 When you get elected, you've got some things you want to do.

01:17:17.000 Absolutely.

01:17:18.000 So, first and foremost, like I said, I talk about employment, right?

01:17:22.000 But not just jobs, right?

01:17:23.000 We're always talking about raising the minimum wage.

01:17:25.000 What about careers, right?

01:17:27.000 Some real good salaries with benefits.

01:17:30.000 As we saw with the lockdown, we relied on other countries for PPE.

01:17:35.000 Why not bring that billion-dollar medical equipment industry right back to America, right?

01:17:40.000 That would bring back this, you know, we were a manufacturing powerhouse at one point in Baltimore.

01:17:45.000 We have the second largest busiest port at one point right there in Baltimore City, right?

01:17:52.000 Our 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?

01:18:00.000 They've got so much going on there.

01:18:02.000 We have the same exact size.

01:18:04.000 And we've got, what, two cruise ships coming in a week?

01:18:08.000 Going back out.

01:18:09.000 We're not utilizing it all.

01:18:11.000 So this is what I talk about a lot.

01:18:12.000 This is what I talk about with Duran over at the White House.

01:18:16.000 And 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.

01:18:25.000 Opportunity zones.

01:18:26.000 A big deal.

01:18:28.000 The 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.

01:18:38.000 What'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.

01:18:53.000 And 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.

01:19:01.000 That was left up to local leaders, right?

01:19:05.000 But people believe that because they don't do their research and see, you know, who wrote this map.

01:19:09.000 So 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.

01:19:16.000 And I posted that picture not too long ago.

01:19:19.000 You know, we had something back in the day, I think it was called Empowerment Zones, which is similar. 0.91

01:19:25.000 And I actually got a lot of crap from some Republicans on Twitter.

01:19:29.000 Because I said, you know, we had something similar. 0.90

01:19:31.000 It didn't really work because we gave local leaders way too much power and control.

01:19:35.000 I 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.

01:19:46.000 Just because I said, I like Trump's Opportunity Zones, but I'm going to request a carve out.

01:19:52.000 I got a phone call from Black Voices from Trump and they said, how dare you say that?

01:19:58.000 I was like, dude, what?

01:20:00.000 No, look at Baltimore.

01:20:02.000 Look at our history.

01:20:03.000 Bill Clinton did the same thing with empowerment zones. 1.00

01:20:06.000 It didn't work.

01:20:07.000 Local officials got involved, right?

01:20:09.000 So anyways, they weren't happy about that.

01:20:11.000 But I did go down and I talked to Jaron about it.

01:20:14.000 You know, we were looking at it and he goes, you know what?

01:20:15.000 You're right.

01:20:16.000 You're right.

01:20:17.000 There needs to be a carve out or we need to change the structure here.

01:20:21.000 So that's my big push.

01:20:23.000 As we know, there is a trucker shortage across this country.

01:20:27.000 I know, you know, eventually, you know, technology will probably give us what?

01:20:32.000 Trucks that drive themselves, the drones are dropping off boxes.

01:20:36.000 But 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.

01:20:48.000 Yeah, and we, you know, the six weeks $2,000 per person.

01:20:54.000 We are supposedly getting 1.1 billion dollars a year.

01:20:56.000 I don't know where it is.

01:20:58.000 Someone's pockets are lined with gold.

01:21:00.000 Exactly.

01:21:01.000 But, you know, when I talk to people in the area, they say, you know, that would be great.

01:21:04.000 We would love to do something like that.

01:21:06.000 And that's an easy class.

01:21:07.000 There's nonprofits, Maryland New Directions.

01:21:10.000 There's all these people that actually do the behind-the-wheel training, all states involved in it.

01:21:15.000 Six weeks.

01:21:16.000 Six weeks we can get someone, you know, these trucker positions.

01:21:19.000 You know, we've got Amazon right there in Baltimore, too.

01:21:22.000 And, you know, I would hope that we would offer them more warehouse spaces that we could actually do this.

01:21:28.000 Even 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.

01:21:36.000 So that would be huge.

01:21:36.000 Right.

01:21:37.000 That's a good point there, Tim.

01:21:40.000 And then, of course, education.

01:21:42.000 I'm talking about school choice.

01:21:44.000 So this is the easiest way I've been able to explain it, where people are able to digest it.

01:21:51.000 I say, look, you know your schools are not that great in this area, right?

01:21:55.000 Sometimes schools need a little competition.

01:21:57.000 We do have some charter schools and they do great.

01:22:00.000 But I say, just think, if you say, you know, your kid has always wanted to run track and you think they'd be really good at it.

01:22:08.000 Just think if you could send your child to a school with an actual track team.

01:22:13.000 Just think if you could send your child to a school with a golf team or a swim team and you know that they would excel at this.

01:22:19.000 And they're like, yes, I want that opportunity for my child.

01:22:23.000 I mean, look at look at the way the college system is set up with minority scholarships.

01:22:27.000 You know, my stepson, he wanted to play golf.

01:22:30.000 You know, like, yes, go play.

01:22:33.000 Right.

01:22:34.000 You know, here is a black American wanting to play golf and he was good.

01:22:38.000 You know, go get those offers.

01:22:40.000 Go get the scholarships.

01:22:41.000 Those opportunities exist.

01:22:42.000 They're already there.

01:22:43.000 So there's things that you can do.

01:22:45.000 And that's how I really explain school choice.

01:22:48.000 I mean, we got to do something with the education system anyways.

01:22:51.000 Baltimore City CEO, the public school CEO, Sonia Sanchelis makes $350,000 a year.

01:22:59.000 Wow.

01:22:59.000 But why?

01:23:00.000 Oh my gosh.

01:23:00.000 A lot of money.

01:23:00.000 Exactly. Oh my gosh. Exactly. A lot of money.

01:23:03.000 You know the administrators make a ton of money. Yet the kids still graduate and I'm

01:23:08.000 able to read, write, or do basic math.

01:23:10.000 So that's a problem and then I have, I have this idea.

01:23:15.000 Alright, here we go, here we go.

01:23:19.000 I've been spending a lot of time on the streets and I came up with this idea called Survivor to Investor.

01:23:30.000 I've actually proposed this to Doron Smith at the White House and other people.

01:23:35.000 And Survivor to Investor is basically talking about, all right, you know, you're from Chicago.

01:23:44.000 You've got the corner boys and then you got the shooters.

01:23:47.000 Two totally different people, right?

01:23:49.000 The corner boys are usually corner boys because that's how they got to make money.

01:23:53.000 Well, so what's a corner boy?

01:23:55.000 Oh, the corner boy is the kid standing on the corner selling drugs.

01:24:00.000 He's not, you know, shooting up.

01:24:03.000 He's not the gangbanger that people like to talk about.

01:24:06.000 You know, he's literally maybe selling marijuana on the corner.

01:24:11.000 And he's got five siblings at home and mom hasn't been home in a week, but somebody's got to feed these kids.

01:24:19.000 Those are the corner boys, right?

01:24:21.000 It happens all the time.

01:24:22.000 We've got squeegee kids. 1.00

01:24:23.000 I don't know if you have squeegee kids. 0.95

01:24:25.000 You know, those are... Chicago also has the fundraising for jerseys, which they're not really doing.

01:24:31.000 Do you guys have that in Baltimore where they they'll go around and say like, hey, I'm fundraising for school uniforms.

01:24:37.000 Oh, yeah.

01:24:37.000 Yeah.

01:24:38.000 And they're really just selling candy.

01:24:39.000 Right.

01:24:39.000 They got the candy.

01:24:40.000 Yeah.

01:24:40.000 And I'm like so bad for them.

01:24:41.000 Yes.

01:24:42.000 Because they're I kind of don't feel bad because these are entrepreneurial kids.

01:24:46.000 They went out.

01:24:47.000 Yeah.

01:24:47.000 No.

01:24:48.000 I do.

01:24:48.000 But I just feel bad that this is their their situation.

01:24:51.000 Yeah.

01:24:52.000 I do.

01:24:52.000 I feel bad.

01:24:53.000 OK.

01:24:54.000 So Survivor to Investor.

01:24:56.000 So basically we always talk about amnesty for illegal immigrants.

01:25:00.000 Right.

01:25:01.000 Hear me out here.

01:25:05.000 It is a little edgy.

01:25:07.000 I 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.

01:25:14.000 They're not, you know, the ones with the background in history.

01:25:17.000 I talked to this guy, his name is Ro, and he goes, Kim, I would love to get involved in real estate.

01:25:24.000 And I was like, well, considering there's 17,000 vacant row homes in your neighborhood, that's an awesome idea. 0.93

01:25:31.000 So we go to his car and he like pops open the trunk.

01:25:35.000 It's got a bunch of cash.

01:25:37.000 And I'm like, oh, boy.

01:25:39.000 Yeah.

01:25:41.000 First, you know, I didn't see this.

01:25:44.000 Second, I'm like, why don't you don't have a bank account?

01:25:47.000 Like what's going on?

01:25:48.000 He goes, no, I can't put this in the bank.

01:25:50.000 You know, I don't trust anybody.

01:25:52.000 So I just ride around with it.

01:25:54.000 So I'm looking in the trunk and I'm like, dude, you, you have enough to buy probably a whole block here.

01:25:59.000 Wow.

01:25:59.000 Right?

01:26:00.000 Because a lot of these row homes, they've been vacant so long, they're maybe what, $3,000?

01:26:04.000 Right?

01:26:05.000 To buy.

01:26:06.000 So I'm like, all right, now what?

01:26:08.000 Now what?

01:26:08.000 I'm thinking, I'm thinking.

01:26:10.000 I was like, all right, what if for 365 days, we had amnesty for the corner boy? 0.96

01:26:18.000 What if for a year, We didn't ask him where the money came from.

01:26:24.000 We allowed them to invest in the property, put those homes in a program that put people on a pathway to home ownership.

01:26:33.000 What if they turned those stash houses, where they're stashing the money, and they invested those same dollars into that home?

01:26:42.000 And we only did it for 365 days, because at some point we want them off the streets, right?

01:26:47.000 Or else they'll just keep flipping it.

01:26:49.000 And so I say, what if we provide amnesty for the corner boy? 1.00

01:26:55.000 This is a really interesting idea.

01:26:56.000 I do think there's a potential shortfall in what if, what if they say they're a corner boy just selling pot or something?

01:27:03.000 Right.

01:27:03.000 And this is, and so this is different, right?

01:27:05.000 So then, and this is why I bring Jaron in, who's like a great policy advisor and he would help me write it up.

01:27:11.000 And he said, I think there's a way to work it.

01:27:13.000 I think there's a way to work it.

01:27:14.000 Because you might have someone who's actually doing something else.

01:27:17.000 Yes, absolutely.

01:27:19.000 Absolutely.

01:27:19.000 So 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?

01:27:33.000 It wouldn't literally, it would just like, you know, he could instruct the feds to ignore it or something.

01:27:36.000 Right.

01:27:37.000 And almost everybody said yes, but Some people may have taken a plea deal so their charges got reduced.

01:27:44.000 They may have been a violent offender.

01:27:45.000 Right.

01:27:46.000 But 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.

01:28:00.000 Just like... Yeah.

01:28:02.000 Like, get these people out of prison for this non-violent, you know, stuff because they wanted to smoke a plant.

01:28:07.000 We're already seeing this stuff recreationally, legally across the country.

01:28:09.000 So it's similar in that regard.

01:28:12.000 Yours 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?

01:28:20.000 I'm for it.

01:28:22.000 I'm for it.

01:28:22.000 You know, I, this is what's so crazy about Baltimore and you know, you look at, you know, 1987, 1996 when my, my opponent was in office.

01:28:30.000 This is when they were actually criminalizing those that were addicted to crack.

01:28:35.000 Right?

01:28:36.000 Drug 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.

01:28:58.000 It's usually not the woman at all, you know. 0.96

01:29:01.000 She 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.

01:29:11.000 And that all stems back from the childhood.

01:29:13.000 That's a cultural thing.

01:29:14.000 Yeah.

01:29:14.000 And so, you know, what we're doing is we're throwing this blanket constantly over everyone.

01:29:20.000 And we really got to like, you know, roll our sleeves up and figure out these situations because everybody's experience is different.

01:29:26.000 You know, when people tell me, oh, cops are racist and da da da, they might have had an experience with racist cops.

01:29:32.000 I can't take that away from them.

01:29:34.000 Yeah.

01:29:34.000 You know, but that's what we have to understand about each other.

01:29:38.000 And like you said, I think young people do.

01:29:40.000 Yeah.

01:29:41.000 I think young people do.

01:29:42.000 Um, and you know, but I don't think we can wait until it's just young people, you know, as, as the, the generation on top here.

01:29:51.000 I think, you know, we have to get everybody on board and understanding.

01:29:55.000 Yeah.

01:29:55.000 Do you have any foreign policy thoughts?

01:29:59.000 This is usually a tough one for a lot of people because I think it is important.

01:30:03.000 A lot of people are focused on our own communities.

01:30:05.000 Yeah.

01:30:05.000 And it's one of the reasons I take foreign policies so seriously.

01:30:09.000 You 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.

01:30:16.000 Right?

01:30:16.000 Yeah.

01:30:17.000 So I don't mean to put you on the spot, but I'm curious just your thoughts in general.

01:30:21.000 If you have something specific or just, you know, general thoughts.

01:30:25.000 Well, I support Trump not supporting war.

01:30:29.000 You know, as we say, it's usually the civilians that get hurt the most.

01:30:33.000 Yep.

01:30:35.000 You know, I guess I say, you know, think about if it was you living in this country, your family living in this country, right?

01:30:41.000 And here you got bombs coming down on you.

01:30:44.000 Because of some war, because something that might have happened over here.

01:30:47.000 You know what I mean?

01:30:48.000 These kids don't understand any of that stuff and I don't expect them to.

01:30:54.000 You 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.

01:31:05.000 You know, there's certain actions I think we can take without hurting civilians or hurting anyone, you know?

01:31:11.000 Definitely.

01:31:14.000 Notably, in regards to what you said about the kids not understanding the bombs coming down, the CIA has referred to this as blowback.

01:31:20.000 We take issue with a certain faction or whatever, we send drones, kids get hurt, they grow up and become enemies of the United States.

01:31:29.000 And 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

01:31:39.000 refugees, and then you get a European refugee crisis.

01:31:43.000 It's substantially more complicated than that.

01:31:46.000 The simplest way I can put it as to why I wish more people were in like...

01:31:51.000 Actually, let me stop there and say this.

01:31:53.000 Donald Trump bringing our troops back?

01:31:56.000 Negotiating these peace deals?

01:31:57.000 Why don't I see every progressives out there cheering for Trump right now?

01:32:01.000 Because they hate him so much.

01:32:04.000 And unfortunately, I think it's because they believe a lot of this fake news.

01:32:07.000 Yeah.

01:32:07.000 Trump's got his problems.

01:32:09.000 It was really funny.

01:32:09.000 I was reading something.

01:32:10.000 They said Trump is like the epitome of character defect of a president.

01:32:14.000 But 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.

01:32:29.000 So can't you accept that?

01:32:31.000 And 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.

01:32:39.000 I think it's good for us and, you know, across the board.

01:32:42.000 But it's too impossible for a lot of these people to accept Trump is doing something good.

01:32:49.000 So he does it, he gets nominated for a peace prize, they say, and the No, it's sad.

01:32:58.000 And this is basically what we're talking about is common sense and logic.

01:33:04.000 But we seem to lost a little bit of that.

01:33:06.000 And 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?

01:33:15.000 You'll believe it.

01:33:17.000 Yeah.

01:33:18.000 I know it sounds sad, but the media has a lot to play in this.

01:33:26.000 They're responsible for a lot.

01:33:28.000 Trump's running against the media.

01:33:30.000 Joe Biden's in the basement.

01:33:30.000 Exactly.

01:33:32.000 When Joe Biden can't finish a sentence, I understand why the media does this, right?

01:33:37.000 Joe 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.

01:33:50.000 So 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.

01:33:55.000 When you listen to him, It's, yo, we gotta bring back the, you know, the factory.

01:34:03.000 And you're like, but the media will write it out perfectly.

01:34:07.000 Whenever I see these stories, I get mad.

01:34:08.000 I'm like, dude, he said, you know, um, come on, like three times in that sentence.

01:34:12.000 You can't just cut that out and call it a quote.

01:34:14.000 Right.

01:34:15.000 You know, cause you're paraphrasing.

01:34:16.000 Right.

01:34:17.000 But it's the media that's crafting the narrative.

01:34:20.000 And so it's Trump versus the media.

01:34:22.000 And this election is, it's a referendum on Trump.

01:34:24.000 It is.

01:34:25.000 And, 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.

01:34:25.000 It is.

01:34:41.000 They endorsed Congressman Cummings' widow.

01:34:44.000 Maya Cummings, yeah, during the primary.

01:34:47.000 Unfortunately, you know, she didn't win, but while she was running, and they endorsed her, they talked about my opponent's sketchy past, right?

01:34:57.000 But 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.

01:35:06.000 We nominate, you know, Kweisi and Fume. 1.00

01:35:09.000 I literally go back And yeah, then they say, you know, we have heard rumors of his sketchy past.

01:35:16.000 I go back, take the article that they wrote during the special primary.

01:35:19.000 I'm like, dude, the rumor came from you.

01:35:22.000 Like, this isn't like I heard a rumor, like you wrote it.

01:35:26.000 So was it not true when you wrote it before?

01:35:28.000 Or is it just not true now because I'm the Republican nominee?

01:35:31.000 You know what I love?

01:35:32.000 I 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!

01:35:43.000 So hydroxychloroquine is a really great example.

01:35:46.000 It 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.

01:36:00.000 And so Trump's doing his speech and he goes, I heard this thing, you hear this about the hydroxychloroquine, it sounds fantastic.

01:36:06.000 Then all of a sudden the media rushes out full speed, it's bad, don't do it.

01:36:10.000 But he literally just read it on some website.

01:36:13.000 It's, it's, it's, it's, the media doesn't have a consistent narrative other than if Trump said it, it's wrong.

01:36:19.000 Right.

01:36:20.000 No matter what it is.

01:36:22.000 And that's even what most Democrat candidates are running on today.

01:36:26.000 That's so weak.

01:36:27.000 It is, it is.

01:36:29.000 So how about we take some questions and definitely try and put you on the spot as much as possible.

01:36:34.000 Yes, of course.

01:36:35.000 So Vesidious wants to know your opinion on Section 230 reform.

01:36:43.000 Ooh.

01:36:43.000 So, I know Trump is for revoking.

01:36:46.000 I think that's a bad idea.

01:36:48.000 I think it's a bad idea also.

01:36:50.000 Now I do believe there should be some reform.

01:36:52.000 Like 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.

01:37:02.000 You know what I mean?

01:37:03.000 Like and knowing that my followers are like you know people that really support what I say and usually you know my thought process.

01:37:12.000 So I know all about the shadow banning and all that good stuff, but revoking it completely doesn't make any sense.

01:37:19.000 But then this is one of those things where they just throw the blanket.

01:37:22.000 It's like, come on guys, let's put some thought behind this.

01:37:27.000 230 is really complicated because I've had a ton of conversations with people.

01:37:33.000 There's a lot of things to it that a lot of people don't understand.

01:37:36.000 We often hear from conservatives, oh, but Twitter is a publisher now because they've done this thing.

01:37:40.000 And essentially, if you get rid of 230, for those that aren't familiar, it would basically decimate conservative media.

01:37:47.000 Because now Trump would try and tweet something, and then Twitter would say, please hold while we review this for publication.

01:37:53.000 The internet couldn't function without it.

01:37:55.000 But the problem is, what 230 does It allows these companies to curate in good faith.

01:38:00.000 That's probably why you get shadowbanned.

01:38:02.000 Because Twitter's like, well, you know, this one post is objectionable, so let's just, you know, slow that one down.

01:38:08.000 But this thing from Antifa where they're calling for direct violence, well, that's totally fine.

01:38:12.000 Yeah.

01:38:13.000 So, 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.

01:38:23.000 It's rough.

01:38:24.000 Even for me, and I know a lot about it.

01:38:28.000 I think censorship is a serious issue, and that's going to impact you. 1.00

01:38:31.000 And 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. 0.99

01:38:39.000 And Republican voters agree, for the most part. 0.99

01:38:44.000 If the politicians don't protect their right to speak in some capacity, then you won't have it.

01:38:50.000 So I don't mean that as a disrespect to you or anybody.

01:38:52.000 I was trying to be, you know, kind of bombastic in that regard.

01:38:55.000 Yeah.

01:38:56.000 I 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?

01:39:04.000 We'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?

01:39:10.000 They did it on, on the Twitter?

01:39:12.000 You know, they're like, what did they do on the Facebook?

01:39:16.000 And it's like, they have no idea what's going on.

01:39:18.000 But this is another reason why we got to get some younger people out there.

01:39:22.000 Really 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.

01:39:28.000 You're like dude, both of you should have retired a long time ago.

01:39:32.000 Totally!

01:39:33.000 Don't say oh Mitch is out.

01:39:35.000 He's nursing his broken hip.

01:39:37.000 Well, what does that do for, you know, those he's supposed to represent?

01:39:40.000 Did he really break his hip?

01:39:40.000 You know what I mean?

01:39:42.000 He did.

01:39:43.000 He did.

01:39:43.000 Oh, wow.

01:39:44.000 Yeah, he was out for about four weeks last year.

01:39:45.000 Yeah.

01:39:46.000 Oh, wow.

01:39:46.000 And I was sitting there thinking like, hey, I'm a Republican, but I even know this is not cool.

01:39:52.000 I'll tell you what I care about.

01:39:55.000 I want to see millennials running.

01:39:58.000 It feels like too many people in our generation are looking at old people.

01:40:04.000 So you've got Trump, who's 74.

01:40:06.000 You've got Biden, who's 77.

01:40:07.000 Bernie, what is he, 78.

01:40:09.000 Then you've got Schumer, McConnell, Lindsey Graham.

01:40:11.000 These are not young people.

01:40:12.000 My opponent, 74.

01:40:14.000 Just throwing that out there.

01:40:14.000 74?!

01:40:16.000 Wow.

01:40:17.000 How old is Billy Prempy's opponent?

01:40:19.000 Isn't he like 82?

01:40:21.000 Was he 80 or something?

01:40:22.000 Yeah, 82 or something.

01:40:23.000 Wow.

01:40:23.000 Insane!

01:40:25.000 Why?

01:40:25.000 Yeah.

01:40:27.000 Young people, man, that's what, you know, there's two things.

01:40:30.000 Here's my kind of mentality at this point.

01:40:33.000 I think everything you've talked about in terms of policy, it's like keeping it simple and it sounds fantastic.

01:40:39.000 You know what, man?

01:40:40.000 I throw my hands up.

01:40:41.000 I'm a liberal.

01:40:42.000 That's why I'm like, we must regulate these companies.

01:40:44.000 I've always been in favor of regulating massive multinational corporations that are stealing the commons.

01:40:48.000 I meet a lot of conservatives and libertarians who are not because they're like, it's a private business.

01:40:52.000 And I'm just like, well, whatever, man.

01:40:55.000 But now you've got the mainstream liberal Democrats, you know, whatever, saying it's a private business.

01:40:59.000 And I'm like, what?

01:41:01.000 Where did you go?

01:41:02.000 I don't even know what's going on anymore.

01:41:04.000 But I'm at this point.

01:41:04.000 I'm like, listen, man, the riots, the 80 years of Chicago's single party rule failures, California's single party rule failures, Baltimore.

01:41:14.000 It's time for some change.

01:41:15.000 It is.

01:41:16.000 And look, you're much younger.

01:41:19.000 What are you, half the age of your opponent?

01:41:22.000 Yeah.

01:41:23.000 Yeah.

01:41:24.000 Let's get some people who are younger and eager and have ideas they want to implement and give it a shot.

01:41:31.000 Yeah, I agree.

01:41:33.000 I actually agree with nothing AOC says, but I respect her passion.

01:41:39.000 I respect the way she runs her campaign. 0.99

01:41:41.000 I respect her hard work and how she got to office with the grassroots efforts.

01:41:47.000 I respect it.

01:41:48.000 I think you agree with her more than you realize.

01:41:50.000 I think it's just how far into what, like, her ideas will you be willing to go.

01:41:56.000 So if AOC says everyone should have affordable health care, I think everybody agrees with that.

01:42:02.000 Yeah.

01:42:02.000 Her idea is just now we'll make the government pay for it by taxing everybody.

01:42:07.000 Whereas, you know, typically, I guess, what is the Republican position right now on health care?

01:42:15.000 Do your own thing.

01:42:16.000 Do your own thing.

01:42:18.000 And I actually do agree with AOC on one thing.

01:42:20.000 I'll take that back.

01:42:21.000 She is for over-the-counter oral contraceptives.

01:42:25.000 And I am actually for it as well.

01:42:28.000 And a lot of Republicans love it.

01:42:31.000 But 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. 0.84

01:42:39.000 And so people are familiar.

01:42:41.000 This is before conception.

01:42:43.000 Because I have a lot of people writing fake news that this is like the Plan B pill.

01:42:46.000 No.

01:42:47.000 This is before conception.

01:42:49.000 This is family planning.

01:42:51.000 We have 35 countries around the world that already have it over the counter.

01:42:54.000 11 of them do it very well.

01:42:56.000 We have free clinics all over Baltimore where you can get your pelvic exams.

01:43:01.000 We can make sure these women are good candidates. 1.00

01:43:04.000 And I think that we should push for that.

01:43:06.000 And I tell Republicans, if you're so for Defunding Planned Parenthood.

01:43:11.000 If you take that birth control pill aspect out of it, they no longer have that data to show that they need all the federal funding.

01:43:19.000 So there's more than one way to skin a cat.

01:43:22.000 Let's read some more of the questions.

01:43:24.000 Alrighty.

01:43:25.000 Let's see.

01:43:25.000 Bry 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.

01:43:36.000 I kind of disagree with that.

01:43:37.000 I really disagree.

01:43:40.000 I'm more of the fence-sitter, but what are your thoughts on that?

01:43:43.000 Um, so I understand the thought process behind it.

01:43:46.000 Was it, was it Bri?

01:43:48.000 Bri.

01:43:48.000 Yes, Bri.

01:43:49.000 I understand the thought process behind it.

01:43:51.000 Unfortunately, you have a situation like we could talk about right now, uh, food stamps, right?

01:43:57.000 So 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.

01:44:07.000 And she buys Ugg boots and some clothes, right?

01:44:11.000 I 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.

01:44:20.000 And 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.

01:44:25.000 But this is almost to make sure, in a way, that at least, you know, some kids are getting what they need.

01:44:32.000 I mean, if you gave someone, what are they saying?

01:44:35.000 Bryce saying, take the housing voucher and just make it cash?

01:44:38.000 Yeah, like a yearly payment, so you can decide what you need.

01:44:40.000 There could be lots of families living in shelters, and the parent could have, you know, a new pair of Jordans on.

01:44:46.000 I mean, it's not a good idea.

01:44:49.000 It's not a good idea, and maybe it's a cultural thing, and maybe we should pull back on it.

01:44:54.000 And I am for less government.

01:44:56.000 I am.

01:44:57.000 But I just think right now to do that, You know what I think we're getting wrong?

01:45:02.000 It seems like you've got this traditional left versus right argument, Democrat-Republican, where Democrats are for social programs, Republicans aren't.

01:45:09.000 I 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.

01:45:18.000 Correct.

01:45:19.000 So if we had government programs to teach people how to fish, you're creating independence and self-sustaining lifestyles.

01:45:24.000 Right.

01:45:25.000 I'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.

01:45:38.000 You know what I mean?

01:45:38.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:45:39.000 You know, just giving people things isn't helpful.

01:45:43.000 It's not helpful.

01:45:44.000 There's that meme where it's like a sign says, please don't feed the animals.

01:45:47.000 They'll grow dependent and keep coming back for more.

01:45:50.000 And people are like, this is a general principle.

01:45:52.000 Like, we want to foster independence and sustainability among individuals so they can provide for their families.

01:45:59.000 And I think one of the challenges is developing that mentality as well.

01:46:04.000 Yeah.

01:46:04.000 I know a lot of people I grew up around who don't understand the concept of being responsible.

01:46:10.000 So it's not just about government, it's about their jobs too.

01:46:13.000 Right.

01:46:14.000 Like they don't fathom the ability to raise, like to make money on their own.

01:46:17.000 Yeah.

01:46:18.000 They think the only way to make money is to have a job.

01:46:19.000 And I'm like, no, no, no, you can sell t-shirts.

01:46:22.000 You can, these kids selling candy bars.

01:46:23.000 Yeah.

01:46:24.000 That's why I'm like, I respect that.

01:46:25.000 Yeah.

01:46:26.000 They found a way.

01:46:26.000 Yeah.

01:46:27.000 We're gonna sell candy bars and make some money.

01:46:28.000 Absolutely, absolutely.

01:46:30.000 So we got some comments here.

01:46:32.000 Oh gosh, be nice.

01:46:35.000 Oh yeah, oh no, they're a little angry.

01:46:39.000 Bringer of D says, neither the Dems nor the Republicans give an F about America.

01:46:44.000 That's why Dems ignore areas with few electoral votes.

01:46:47.000 That's why Republicans ignore areas they see a little chance.

01:46:50.000 They don't try because they don't care about you.

01:46:54.000 Oh man.

01:46:55.000 So this was in my RNC speech.

01:46:58.000 You know, I agree.

01:46:59.000 Republicans don't try in many areas.

01:47:03.000 But do they care?

01:47:05.000 Or do they... I'm not a fan of either party.

01:47:09.000 I can't say that they all care.

01:47:11.000 Because if they did, they would have supported me when I went to run, right?

01:47:15.000 I can't say that they all care.

01:47:16.000 Are you making them mad now saying this?

01:47:19.000 You know what?

01:47:20.000 I'm one of those people going, I'll just make you mad.

01:47:22.000 I know it sounds awful, but I somewhat agree with this comment.

01:47:29.000 And I'm not saying that everyone doesn't care.

01:47:33.000 But what I will say is everybody needs to try a little harder.

01:47:37.000 You know, you do.

01:47:38.000 You do.

01:47:39.000 Some people are making a ton of money and literally just sitting there.

01:47:44.000 I don't think they care.

01:47:45.000 I think they're making a ton of money and just sitting there.

01:47:47.000 I think the establishment, Republicans and Democrats for too long have been

01:47:51.000 like, what do I got to say to get the keys to the castle and so I can sit around.

01:47:54.000 But we've seen something really interesting happen.

01:47:57.000 You've got people, many progressives that are running on the left and they're

01:48:02.000 getting all this press for upsetting, you know, winning primaries.

01:48:05.000 I think a lot of them really care.

01:48:07.000 And we're seeing the same thing with people like you.

01:48:09.000 I 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.

01:48:30.000 I'm out of here.

01:48:31.000 That's too much work.

01:48:33.000 But I think the internet has finally, our politics is finally catching up with, or the internet is finally hitting the political realm.

01:48:42.000 Where now, I feel like, you know, you mentioned you weren't getting support from the GOP.

01:48:47.000 Could you imagine if you were doing this run before social media?

01:48:50.000 No.

01:48:51.000 And I thought about that.

01:48:52.000 We only released the ad on social media.

01:48:55.000 That was not a commercial buy.

01:48:57.000 It wasn't an ad buy.

01:48:58.000 It was only on social media.

01:49:00.000 And we put it on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

01:49:05.000 That's it.

01:49:06.000 Oh, so it's got way more than 12 million views.

01:49:09.000 That's just on Twitter.

01:49:10.000 Yeah, and then people were yelling at me saying, why isn't it on YouTube?

01:49:13.000 I was like, dude, I forgot.

01:49:15.000 So, you know, it didn't go on YouTube until a week later.

01:49:18.000 You know what I think it is?

01:49:19.000 I think a lot of people saw that and they said, I know exactly what you're saying.

01:49:23.000 It like resonated.

01:49:24.000 When I watched it, I was like, yep.

01:49:26.000 I grew up in an area where they made all these promises to us.

01:49:29.000 Let me tell you a story.

01:49:30.000 Let me tell you a story.

01:49:31.000 We had a kid in my neighborhood.

01:49:33.000 He went door to door.

01:49:33.000 We wanted to build a skate park.

01:49:35.000 Raised 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.

01:49:43.000 You can rough up some of the planters that, you know, hold in the wood chips and stuff.

01:49:47.000 And we would often get in trouble because the kids were all clustering around this playground.

01:49:52.000 So 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.

01:49:58.000 He raised a bunch of money from the locals.

01:50:01.000 I'm not going to make any accusations.

01:50:02.000 All I'm going to tell you is what I was told by some of these people.

01:50:07.000 Tens of thousands of dollars are raised.

01:50:09.000 We end up getting the worst skate park imaginable.

01:50:13.000 It's like, I have no idea who built any of this stuff.

01:50:15.000 And then interestingly, around the same time, a bunch of new landscaping was done.

01:50:19.000 And so, you know, one of the kids who was raising money was like, Hey, wait a minute.

01:50:25.000 These ramps don't cost nearly as much as we raised.

01:50:27.000 And what are all of those new plants, you know, around the building?

01:50:31.000 And 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!

01:50:48.000 And that was it.

01:50:49.000 We never saw them again.

01:50:50.000 Yeah.

01:50:51.000 And 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.

01:51:01.000 I didn't do any fundraising, but you know, it was part of, it was a community effort, mostly done by this one kid.

01:51:06.000 They called the cops on me and my brother.

01:51:07.000 They were like, you're not allowed to be here.

01:51:09.000 Get out of here.

01:51:10.000 They were like only after certain hours and I'm like, what was the point of doing all this work to just be

01:51:14.000 treated this way?

01:51:15.000 So I just, it really disillusions you.

01:51:18.000 That made me go from like a 14 year old skater kid to being like super anarchist, F the system,

01:51:25.000 like angry, like how good.

01:51:28.000 And then when I was like 18 I was like, I better chill.

01:51:30.000 That's not really, you know, wait, let me just calm down.

01:51:32.000 But speaking of that, we have another question.

01:51:35.000 This is from the LaPardee says, hey Kim, what's your stance on police reform?

01:51:38.000 Oh Oh, thank you, the party.

01:51:43.000 I think police reform is necessary.

01:51:45.000 I mean, we can't ignore it, right?

01:51:47.000 There isn't, obviously there aren't just a few bad apples.

01:51:50.000 Do I have it high on my priority list?

01:51:53.000 living in an area we have over 300 murders every year, over 700 shootings just last year,

01:52:00.000 over 420 carjackings just last year.

01:52:05.000 No, it's not high on my priority list because these aren't police involved

01:52:08.000 carjacking shootings or murders.

01:52:11.000 But, should there be some police reform?

01:52:14.000 Absolutely.

01:52:15.000 Again, this is like one of those situations where I can't tell somebody about their experience in life.

01:52:21.000 You know, we gotta come together and talk about our experiences and figure out a solution.

01:52:26.000 This is why everything, I think everyone's very important.

01:52:29.000 This 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.

01:52:42.000 We can't do that.

01:52:42.000 I think it's just, I think they've overhyped the problems.

01:52:47.000 And it's crazy to me that you can mention all of those crimes, especially for the, you know, to beat a dead horse.

01:52:51.000 I'm from Chicago!

01:52:53.000 But to hear, we need police reform, I'm like, listen!

01:52:56.000 I've dealt with bad cops.

01:52:58.000 I've dealt with high crime.

01:52:59.000 If 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?

01:53:07.000 I'd be like, something must be going on, like something's being done about it.

01:53:11.000 And 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.

01:53:20.000 Yeah. 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

01:53:26.000 try and be reasonable and choose your battles. So when I get stopped by the cops, I'm just like, am I being detained?

01:53:33.000 If 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

01:53:41.000 arresting you or detaining you just comply.

01:53:43.000 I'm like, yes.

01:53:45.000 Because then you win the battle later.

01:53:46.000 Right.

01:53:47.000 But they say things like, why should I have to?

01:53:49.000 They have no right, blah blah blah.

01:53:51.000 So what do you do?

01:53:52.000 You get into a fist fight with a cop? 0.99

01:53:53.000 That's ridiculous. 1.00

01:53:54.000 You can't do that. 0.96

01:53:55.000 Anyway, the main point is...

01:53:57.000 When I think about the amount of crime in my area versus the amount of problems with police, I'm like, one clearly outweighs the other.

01:54:04.000 Yeah.

01:54:04.000 We've got bad cops in Chicago.

01:54:06.000 It's a known problem.

01:54:07.000 Right.

01:54:07.000 But for the most part, you see a cop, you're not going to have a problem, then they're probably going to be dealing with some crime.

01:54:15.000 So while I've personally, I've been messed with by cops.

01:54:18.000 Like, I've had cop plant weed in my car.

01:54:20.000 I got lucky, they found my dad's firefighter emblem and were just like, get out of here.

01:54:25.000 Yeah, it's Chicago, man.

01:54:28.000 And I've been given bad tickets.

01:54:30.000 So 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?

01:54:37.000 You said it's not high on your priority list because you have all this crime already, and I feel the exact same way.

01:54:44.000 I think it's a priority, and I'll have a conversation about it.

01:54:47.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:54:49.000 XRunner55 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.

01:54:58.000 Thank you.

01:54:59.000 Yeah, I haven't talked about it, so you know.

01:55:02.000 Thank you so much.

01:55:03.000 All right, let's see what we got here.

01:55:05.000 Thank you!

01:55:06.000 Thank you!

01:55:06.000 Ernstrom says, donate to Kim Klesek, not the RNC.

01:55:10.000 The RNC handed John McCain and Mitt Romney to the voters.

01:55:13.000 The RNC needs to get a clue.

01:55:14.000 Vote Klesek 2020.

01:55:15.000 There you go.

01:55:16.000 Thank you.

01:55:17.000 Thank you.

01:55:18.000 Awesome.

01:55:19.000 Keep preaching that, okay?

01:55:20.000 People are being very nice.

01:55:21.000 Here's one.

01:55:22.000 Now there are just a bunch of people praising you, to be completely honest.

01:55:27.000 This is Theo Frasta says, Kim is fantastic.

01:55:31.000 She's very perceptive.

01:55:32.000 I'm learning a lot from this interview.

01:55:34.000 Cool.

01:55:35.000 Someone said, good luck in Arizona.

01:55:37.000 Are you going to Arizona?

01:55:39.000 Wait a minute.

01:55:41.000 I am going to Arizona for something.

01:55:44.000 How do they know that?

01:55:44.000 Top secret.

01:55:45.000 That's from Kay Renee.

01:55:46.000 That's crazy.

01:55:48.000 I've never even posted about that.

01:55:52.000 Are you allowed to say what you're doing?

01:55:53.000 No, 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.

01:56:01.000 Oh wow.

01:56:03.000 I was like, I saw that and I'm like, what are you doing in Arizona?

01:56:06.000 That's cool.

01:56:07.000 Hey, someone, uh, what is this?

01:56:11.000 Someone says, uh, you can only like once.

01:56:13.000 Awesome live guys.

01:56:16.000 Oh, yay.

01:56:17.000 I'm sitting here thinking you guys are about to shred me to pieces.

01:56:20.000 Everybody's very nice.

01:56:21.000 All right.

01:56:22.000 Yeah. 0.93

01:56:22.000 And see, I'm actually trying to I'm looking out for anyone who's posting like comments that are silly. 0.93

01:56:27.000 No, they're all actually fairly normal.

01:56:30.000 Yeah, for sure.

01:56:33.000 There are a lot that are saying, like, keep up the good work, really appreciate the show.

01:56:36.000 It's really great. 0.78

01:56:37.000 Seth Missayan says, it's not enough to not be trash. 0.98

01:56:40.000 You have to be anti-trash. 0.99

01:56:42.000 Thank you for being anti-trash.

01:56:44.000 Love what you do.

01:56:44.000 Thank you.

01:56:46.000 Thank you.

01:56:47.000 Jerry RN says, everyone drink each time Tim says, to be fair.

01:56:51.000 You 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.

01:57:02.000 Like once a month, I'll have a new catchphrase.

01:57:07.000 Matthew Stockhausen says, my hometown of Merrimack, New Hampshire has been listed as the safest or one of the safest places in New Hampshire.

01:57:14.000 Those were years where we had the highest police per capita in the state.

01:57:19.000 That's interesting.

01:57:19.000 Interesting.

01:57:20.000 I think it's fair to say if you had like 500 cops on like one block, there'd be no crime on that block.

01:57:26.000 Yeah.

01:57:26.000 I just don't know if anybody wants to live that way.

01:57:28.000 Right, right.

01:57:29.000 Like Chicago did that response to looting.

01:57:31.000 They just apparently were like, cops everywhere!

01:57:35.000 It solves the problem, but I mean, is that comfortable, people?

01:57:37.000 Well, and I have to say, too, you know, when you look at these areas, and we had problems in our police force in Baltimore City.

01:57:44.000 We had the Gun Trace Task Force.

01:57:46.000 I know you saw that.

01:57:47.000 You know, there were four, I think, that got indicted for, you know, planting guns and drugs.

01:57:52.000 Oh, wow.

01:57:53.000 But you have to understand, these Corrupt police forces are corrupt and easily are that way because of the corruption within the entire city.

01:58:04.000 You know, when you've got a corrupt city hall, yeah, you got a corrupt police force.

01:58:08.000 It goes hand in hand.

01:58:10.000 You know, we've got to get the corruption, we've got to root it all out in all areas.

01:58:15.000 That's a job for Trump.

01:58:17.000 I think the best way for dealing with a lot of these cities is federal investigations of corrupt government officials.

01:58:23.000 It is really difficult, though.

01:58:24.000 But I think about my perspective coming from Chicago.

01:58:28.000 How do you deal with a mayor, a commissioner, and all these people who have no interest in helping the people?

01:58:33.000 Allowing some of these, you know, corrupt activities to happen.

01:58:36.000 And they say to themselves things like, well, it's bad, but at least it's better with me here.

01:58:40.000 You know what I mean?

01:58:41.000 Yeah.

01:58:41.000 Like, well, the cops are corrupt, but could you imagine if I wasn't here?

01:58:44.000 Man, the cops would be so much worse. 0.98

01:58:46.000 It's like, they're still bad.

01:58:48.000 Yeah.

01:58:48.000 You know, and I don't, I don't, I don't mean that literally.

01:58:50.000 I mean that figuratively.

01:58:51.000 Like, 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.

01:58:58.000 Yeah, for sure.

01:58:59.000 Thank you.

01:59:00.000 Thank you, PJ.

01:59:00.000 That's right.

01:59:01.000 You have to share it.

01:59:01.000 I saw your ads on Facebook and donated to your campaign, conservative white guy from

01:59:04.000 Ohio.

01:59:05.000 Thank you.

01:59:06.000 Thank you, PJ.

01:59:08.000 Let's see.

01:59:09.000 Reshab Verma says, great discussion, guys.

01:59:11.000 More leftists need to see this and walk away.

01:59:13.000 Well then share it.

01:59:14.000 That's right.

01:59:15.000 You have to share it.

01:59:16.000 If you like the show.

01:59:17.000 See ya.

01:59:18.000 SFG Cisco says, I used to live near Baltimore and be there on Friday nights for nightlife.

01:59:23.000 Once you left Fells Point and the Inner Harbor, it was all rundown, sketchy, and very rundown.

01:59:28.000 2001 to 2002, worse now.

01:59:30.000 Fix it.

01:59:31.000 Yes.

01:59:31.000 Our Inner Harbor is actually in receivership right now, so that's that.

01:59:35.000 What does that mean?

01:59:36.000 Well, so basically there's no stores left, no restaurants, and the city did nothing to replenish anything over there.

01:59:45.000 It's just sitting.

01:59:47.000 It's an eyesore now, but that used to be a gem, right?

01:59:49.000 It was right by Camden Yards.

01:59:51.000 You know, you had the Cheesecake Factory.

01:59:52.000 You had all these people that would come there every weekend and hang out with their families, and now it's just nothing.

01:59:59.000 Bricks.

02:00:00.000 That's sad.

02:00:00.000 That was pretty.

02:00:01.000 Yeah.

02:00:01.000 I was down there a while ago.

02:00:04.000 Here we go from David Meyerson.

02:00:05.000 He says, I'm a normal person lol.

02:00:07.000 Kim is amazing and fighting for her community.

02:00:10.000 What's not to love?

02:00:11.000 I wish we had that North Carolina.

02:00:13.000 Where do we donate?

02:00:14.000 Thank you.

02:00:15.000 That's a pitch right to you to go, what do they donate?

02:00:18.000 Yes.

02:00:18.000 KimKForCongress.com is the website.

02:00:21.000 I will say a little secret here.

02:00:25.000 You could also send a check, if you'd like, to our PO Box 15361, Middle River, Maryland, 21220.

02:00:34.000 And that actually goes completely to the campaign, right?

02:00:39.000 I don't think people realize how much fees some of these websites take.

02:00:44.000 Do you use WinRed?

02:00:45.000 I have WinRed and Anadot, and we've made them rich, let me tell ya.

02:00:53.000 Yeah 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.

02:01:01.000 box 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

02:01:44.000 I think Billy said it well.

02:01:46.000 If you win, you win.

02:01:47.000 If you lose, you win.

02:01:47.000 Because you're doing the work.

02:01:49.000 And it might be a tough battle, but the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single footstep.

02:01:56.000 That's the goal.

02:01:58.000 What's your social media for people if they want to follow you?

02:02:00.000 Yes, so on Twitter, it's Kim K Baltimore.

02:02:04.000 Facebook, Instagram, it's Kimberly Klasik.

02:02:09.000 K-L-A-C-I-K. 1.00

02:02:12.000 Yes, and I would say LinkedIn.

02:02:14.000 Meanwhile, LinkedIn is poppin' these days.

02:02:16.000 Has anybody noticed that yet?

02:02:18.000 I haven't noticed.

02:02:18.000 I'm hearing people talk about it.

02:02:20.000 I am getting yelled at sometimes, because they're like, you didn't see my message on LinkedIn.

02:02:23.000 I'm like, what?

02:02:24.000 Who checks LinkedIn messages?

02:02:26.000 It's kind of funny.

02:02:27.000 Don't rag on LinkedIn.

02:02:28.000 I don't use it.

02:02:30.000 But yeah, I've been getting emails about it.

02:02:31.000 I guess people are using it now.

02:02:32.000 Yeah, there's a ton of people on LinkedIn.

02:02:34.000 Wow.

02:02:34.000 Yeah.

02:02:35.000 I should look at it.

02:02:36.000 It's like, yeah, getting really hip these days.

02:02:38.000 You know what it is?

02:02:38.000 It's that we're all kind of getting older and realizing professional is more important than yelling at each other on Twitter.

02:02:43.000 You just cracked the case.

02:02:45.000 Yeah.

02:02:46.000 I think we crashed your website.

02:02:48.000 Why did it not work?

02:02:49.000 Yeah, it's not working for me.

02:02:50.000 So we'll give it some time.

02:02:51.000 Wait, KimK4Congress.com?

02:02:53.000 It just loaded and loaded.

02:02:54.000 F-O-R? 1.00

02:02:55.000 Yeah. 0.95

02:02:56.000 Crazy.

02:02:57.000 Too many people tried to go there at once.

02:02:58.000 I hope this is the case.

02:02:59.000 So at the RNC convention speech, it crashed for two hours.

02:03:03.000 Oh, come on. 0.87

02:03:04.000 All right.

02:03:05.000 Well, they'll just have to follow you on Twitter.

02:03:07.000 Too many people.

02:03:07.000 Are you serious?

02:03:08.000 I'm about to cry.

02:03:09.000 No, no, no.

02:03:10.000 Don't cry.

02:03:11.000 Well, I'm also about to text my manager.

02:03:15.000 It's a good problem to have. 0.53

02:03:17.000 I wish you could handle it.

02:03:18.000 You've got so many people trying to hook you up.

02:03:20.000 Yeah, that's awesome.

02:03:22.000 You know what?

02:03:22.000 You tell them.

02:03:23.000 But you might lose a lot of money, you know?

02:03:25.000 They should follow you on Twitter, for sure.

02:03:28.000 Yes!

02:03:29.000 Oh my gosh.

02:03:31.000 Daniel Hach says, Kim, go on HOTEP's Been Told Ya, get the message out.

02:03:36.000 Would that be fun?

02:03:36.000 Do you follow the HOTEP crew?

02:03:39.000 HOTEP Jesus and those guys?

02:03:40.000 Yeah, we got in a little fight.

02:03:43.000 Oh, really?

02:03:43.000 Well, okay, this is another thing.

02:03:45.000 I know I should Be nicer.

02:03:48.000 So this is before I started running for office.

02:03:52.000 And they kept telling me like, if you run for office, you need a black agenda.

02:03:57.000 And I was like, here's an idea.

02:03:59.000 You run for office on a black agenda. 0.82

02:04:01.000 Oh, snap. 0.99

02:04:02.000 And he goes, Well, I've been thinking about it.

02:04:05.000 And then he says nothing.

02:04:06.000 It's like crickets.

02:04:08.000 And I'm like, how are you going to tell me what to run on?

02:04:10.000 You know, it's like, I guess with the ADOS and everything.

02:04:12.000 And I understand.

02:04:13.000 This is why I say everybody has their own experience in life.

02:04:16.000 Everybody's voice should be heard.

02:04:18.000 That's just not what I'm running on.

02:04:20.000 But you feel free.

02:04:21.000 This is a free country.

02:04:23.000 Feel free to run on it if you like.

02:04:25.000 And they just did not like that I said that.

02:04:28.000 So here's a question from Garrett Ford.

02:04:30.000 Kim, what do you think Republicans can do to reach out and attract black youth?

02:04:34.000 Also, what after-school programs would help young underprivileged kids succeed in adult life?

02:04:39.000 Yes.

02:04:40.000 Your website is working, just so you know.

02:04:42.000 Oh.

02:04:42.000 We finally got it to go through.

02:04:43.000 So I just cursed at my manager for not listening.

02:04:46.000 I've done great things.

02:04:49.000 Yeah, so first and foremost, the Republican Party This is what's so crazy about it.

02:04:56.000 Okay, so right now we've got 21 black Americans running for Congress right now, right?

02:05:01.000 This is the most in history.

02:05:02.000 In Baltimore City we have four black Republican candidates running for city council.

02:05:07.000 And if you talk to probably 90% of these candidates will say it's because I felt like I could because President Trump Wow.

02:05:17.000 Was in office and was literally like, what do you have to lose?

02:05:19.000 He seems to embrace, you know, black Americans.

02:05:22.000 That is, that was Trump that extended that olive branch.

02:05:26.000 And that's what I was trying to say, I guess, in my RNC convention speech.

02:05:29.000 It wasn't the RNC that extended this olive branch.

02:05:32.000 It was Trump.

02:05:33.000 And so when we hear people talk about how racist Trump is, I'm like, if Trump wasn't there, I wouldn't be running for office.

02:05:40.000 I will be very honest with you.

02:05:41.000 Wow.

02:05:42.000 You know, and so it's interesting to me.

02:05:45.000 And I think if the RNC just would take a page out of Trump's book and just said, you know what?

02:05:52.000 Anyone 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.

02:06:02.000 Embrace them, you know?

02:06:03.000 When I was running, at this time I'd already been going on Fox News, One American News, right?

02:06:07.000 I already had press and media contacts.

02:06:10.000 So I was like, I know I can raise a little bit of money because I can go, you know, on some of these networks.

02:06:16.000 They were actually supporting my opponent who had no media contacts.

02:06:22.000 You know, she raised almost no money at all.

02:06:24.000 It was just her turn in line because she's been with the Maryland GOP for so many years.

02:06:29.000 So, 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.

02:06:40.000 They do welcome New faces and new people.

02:06:44.000 They do.

02:06:44.000 They see it as a benefit and I think the GOP would benefit from that.

02:06:47.000 Yes, we've got to do that.

02:06:49.000 We've got to do that.

02:06:50.000 As far as young people doing, you know, what they can do to help them on that track to success.

02:06:57.000 Is that what that person asked?

02:06:58.000 I'm sorry.

02:06:59.000 Yeah, I was going off on another.

02:07:01.000 Yeah, so I think, and this is what I loved about when I used to volunteer on Capitol Hill.

02:07:06.000 I used to volunteer and help out with those that were giving the tours, like the school kids.

02:07:12.000 So many kids that like came down to the Capitol to see everything was like, wow, and this is amazing.

02:07:20.000 And they got involved in politics.

02:07:22.000 But there weren't many black kids that were coming down, not many black schools that were taking the trips down.

02:07:29.000 I think exposure trips are vital, right?

02:07:32.000 If 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.

02:07:41.000 And 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.

02:07:49.000 You know, watching Congressman Trey Gowdy in person was like, Whoa, this dude is on fire.

02:07:56.000 I gotta watch this whole thing.

02:07:59.000 And that's how it all happened.

02:08:01.000 Honestly, I went to, I had the volunteer badge, went to his office and asked for an interview.

02:08:06.000 And they were like, who are you?

02:08:07.000 And I'm like, Kim Klesick.

02:08:10.000 You know, but it, you know, Trey Gowdy was such a cool guy.

02:08:13.000 He let me interview him.

02:08:15.000 And that was the night before he interviewed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking where the emails were.

02:08:20.000 Wow.

02:08:21.000 Cool.

02:08:22.000 Yes.

02:08:22.000 And I always go back to it because people are like, what was wrong with you?

02:08:25.000 Remember when that day Trey Gowdy was like sweating?

02:08:28.000 And look, he was so sick.

02:08:31.000 Oh.

02:08:32.000 He definitely, I mean, today it would be classified as the coronavirus, but he definitely had, like, the flu.

02:08:39.000 And he was so sick.

02:08:40.000 And everybody talked about how he looked, you know, sitting up there.

02:08:44.000 But I was like, I saw him.

02:08:46.000 He was sick and, you know, sleeping in his office, basically, you know, trying to put the work in.

02:08:51.000 It was.

02:08:52.000 But that is when it really took me to another level as far as politics.

02:08:56.000 And that is when I was exposed to that Benghazi committee hearing.

02:09:01.000 To the flu from Trey Gowdy.

02:09:02.000 That's awesome.

02:09:04.000 So there are a lot of people mentioning they donated to your campaign.

02:09:07.000 Thank you.

02:09:09.000 Thank you.

02:09:10.000 Thank you so much.

02:09:12.000 And 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.

02:09:19.000 Wow.

02:09:21.000 You got this.

02:09:22.000 And David Meyerson says, where's your campaign song?

02:09:26.000 My campaign song?

02:09:28.000 I guess.

02:09:28.000 Does Trump have one?

02:09:29.000 I don't know.

02:09:30.000 Oh.

02:09:32.000 I don't know, is that a thing you're supposed to have?

02:09:34.000 They asked, I don't know.

02:09:37.000 Let's see.

02:09:38.000 I'll send you one if I come up with one.

02:09:40.000 And then we have a lot of people saying, keep up the good work.

02:09:42.000 Andre Baxter, thanks for the super chat.

02:09:44.000 And T Cliff saying, just sent $50 to your campaign.

02:09:47.000 Kim, you are so inspirational and I really admire your servant leadership.

02:09:51.000 Thank you.

02:09:52.000 So if you would like to donate, once again, you can shout out, you want to shout out your website real quick?

02:09:57.000 KimK4Congress.com.

02:09:59.000 And your social medias?

02:10:00.000 Kim K Baltimore on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, Kimberly Klesik.

02:10:06.000 I really do appreciate this opportunity.

02:10:08.000 You have no idea.

02:10:09.000 Coming on here?

02:10:10.000 I was like, man, if it was so cool if Kim would come on my show.

02:10:14.000 That's what's so crazy about this.

02:10:16.000 You have no idea how long I've been like, oh, he's so cool.

02:10:19.000 He's getting his own story.

02:10:20.000 So I love when people create news.

02:10:23.000 You know, and not just going with the current events.

02:10:26.000 And you've had times where you created news.

02:10:29.000 Did I?

02:10:30.000 Yeah.

02:10:33.000 I think I used to do a lot more of that.

02:10:34.000 I would go when I used to do more on the ground stuff.

02:10:36.000 It started getting dangerous, though.

02:10:37.000 I know, but just the simple fact that you did it.

02:10:42.000 I mean, when I took those videos of the trash, right?

02:10:44.000 Yeah.

02:10:45.000 That was me being like a little Tim, like, oh, yeah.

02:10:50.000 And I wish more people would do that though because now we have the time of social media.

02:10:54.000 Your phone camera could catapult you and your career or just save lives or improve the quality of life for others.

02:11:04.000 Instead 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?

02:11:12.000 That should go viral on Worldstar.

02:11:14.000 Cool.

02:11:15.000 For sure.

02:11:16.000 Kim, thank you so much for hanging out with us.

02:11:17.000 Thanks for having me.

02:11:18.000 And say your website one more time.

02:11:20.000 KimK4Congress.com Right on.

02:11:23.000 And so we're about to ready to wrap up.

02:11:25.000 Thanks for hanging out.

02:11:25.000 Make sure you smash that like button before you go.

02:11:28.000 You can subscribe.

02:11:29.000 We do the show Monday through Friday live at 8 p.m.

02:11:31.000 We got a bunch more guests coming up all throughout next week and more conversations.

02:11:35.000 And you can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Parler at TimCast.

02:11:38.000 And of course, Lydia, who is at Sour Patch Lids.

02:11:41.000 Sour Patch L-Y-D-S on Twitter and Parler.

02:11:44.000 But again, Kim, thank you so much for hanging out, and now we're gonna sign off, so we'll see you guys Monday at 8pm live.

02:11:50.000 Again, thank you so much.

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