Bomb Threat at TX Dem Hotel, Amb. Young on Voting Rights, Brain Eating Amoeba Death, July Jobs Slump

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Speaker 12 (13:18):
For today's Wednesday, August six, twenty twenty five, coming up
a rollerpark unfultured streaming live the Black Start Network. I
am here in Cleveland for the fiftieth anniversary convension the
National Association of Black Journalists. On today's show, The Texas
Democrats as a bomb scare today at the hotel they're
staying at in Chicago. They continue to fight against racist

(13:39):
jerry mandering in Texas. Will talk with the chair of
the Texas Legislator the Black Caucus, Ron Reynolds. Also on
today's show, it is a six sixeth anniversary of the
Voting Rights Act.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Will talk to Ambassador Andrew Young.

Speaker 12 (13:52):
He was there in Selma on that day, bloody Sunday
when black folks were severely beaten again trying to get
the right to vote.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
A shocking story out of South Carolina where a couple
of young teens goes swimming.

Speaker 12 (14:06):
They end up dying after being exposed to a rare
brain eating of me but in a lake there. We'll
talk with the family there as well. Plus jobs report
comes out. Donald Trump is so pissed off he fires
the person over the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Folks, we
have a major economy that's going to explore in a

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downward way.

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Speaker 15 (15:32):
Folk.

Speaker 12 (15:32):
Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
Black people went through hell in order to make that
a reality. And what is the results significant black voter
turnout across the country. We have seen black elected officials
elected mayor, city council, state rep, state Senate, governor, members
of Congress, United States Senate, and even a president. We

(15:55):
continue to see the battles of the fifties and sixties
during Jim Crow play out present day as Right now,
Republicans are locked into a racist jerry mander in Texas.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
That's one of the reasons why fifty one.

Speaker 12 (16:08):
Texans have fled up the state in order to keep
the Texas House from having a quorum to being able
to pass these racist jerry mander maps showed us right
now is Ron Reynolds, State Representative out of Houston. He
is the chair of the Texas Legislated Black Caucus. Also
joining us on the show is one of his colleagues

(16:30):
who was remaining steadfast in this fight as many of
them are because this is again a very very difficult situation,
being away from their families. And so you have these
members who literally are in Chicago, you know, continuing the
battle as well representive bouts. We let them have all

(16:51):
of y'all here. Thanks a lot, Rod, I want to
start with you. Listen, this thing is real. In a moment,
I'm going to talk to the am Bachelor Andrew Young.
They put their lives death every day, and look today
you are to deal with the reality of death threat
being called excuse me, a bomb threat being called into
the hotel where you're staying there in Chicago, and so
this is a battle that is that you're going to

(17:13):
have to be in this for months. What are you
saying to your caucus? What are other Democrats saying to
keep their spirits up, because we're talking about what potentially
could be a four, five or even six month process
to keep Republicans from approving these racist Jerry Maynard maps Roland.

Speaker 16 (17:33):
It's great to be on with you, Fried, and it's
so good to see you wearing the old black and
old gold because on this sixtieth anniversary of the Voting
Rights Act of nineteen sixty five, it was our five brother,
doctor Martin Luther King, and as you said, Ambassador Andrew Young,
two great alpha men who were young soldiers on the
battlefield with other freedom fighters that made good trouble so

(17:53):
that they could push to end Jim Crow.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
And here we are in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 16 (17:58):
You know, read and our colleagues are battling this racist
gerrymander map that would disenfranchise black and brown communities particularly,
but African Americans will be hit.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Fiercely hard at Houston and Dallas. And so we're here
to stop this Trump abbot Texas takeover, to push back, to.

Speaker 16 (18:20):
Make good trouble, to do everything we can to stop this,
and we are here as long as it takes in
order to stop it. Roland, we know that those who
came before us, they made tremendous sacrifices.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
They risked at all.

Speaker 16 (18:33):
They were willing to put their lives on the lines
through Freedom Rise, through Lutch sit ins. They were willing
to march, knowing that they could be beaten, they could
be killed, and many of them did pay the ultimate sacrifice.
So here we are standing on the right side of history,
pushing back against these mega racist extremements.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
That are trying to take our country in the long
direction to hold on to the.

Speaker 16 (18:56):
Short small Republican majority that's in the House of Representative.
We will not let them do this on our watch, Rowland,
So thank you for having us on. Let's continue to
ring the alarm bell so people will wake up and
they will take.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Action and stand and fight.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
To stay read Andrew Bauers.

Speaker 12 (19:16):
Again, this seems like we are back in Jim Crow days,
having to fight tooth and nail to protect basic rights.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
What you have here are Republicans who want.

Speaker 12 (19:29):
To eradicate completely, get rid of these five districts, of
these five seats in order to achieve power, and they
want to do that the expense of black people, largely
Black people, but also Latinos.

Speaker 17 (19:43):
Yes, Roland, thank you so much for having us. As
Ron said, it's good to be on here with you
all tonight. But that's certainly what they're trying to reduce
us to. And this is a reduction of political power,
especially as you said, in the black community. Y'all know
that I represent out of Dallas now, but I am

(20:05):
homegrown in third Ward in Age Town and grew up
in the eighteenth Congressional District so it is a real
racist I don't want to call it a power graph,
so I'm gonna call it what it is.

Speaker 18 (20:21):
It's racism.

Speaker 17 (20:23):
And it is literally reducing us to a place where
now it takes four votes four votes for black people
to be equivalent to one one white vote and ain't
glow vote. So they are reducing us down to one fifth.

Speaker 19 (20:46):
And it just reminds me of the I Am a
man and I.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Am a woman.

Speaker 19 (20:51):
But it reminds me of that.

Speaker 17 (20:54):
Poem I Am a man, and I was just in
the African American Museum in Theation's capital this year.

Speaker 19 (21:01):
And we know that it's a real rollback.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Uh.

Speaker 17 (21:05):
The president is trying his best to take us all
the way back and take every right that we've had
away from us. So we're here, as you said, Roland,
fighting and I'm gonna say, we're ready to fight like hell.
We've been here and with the threats today, today's probably

(21:26):
the first day in this quorm break that I felt
a little bit uneasy. I can't even say a little bit.
But we know that it happened, and we know that
we're safe and it's not going to deter us.

Speaker 12 (21:45):
This is UH, and and represented Rentalds again explain to
the audience, were saying it from day one. Why why
we have to use the specific language like saying this
is racist Jerry.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Mandarin for Roland.

Speaker 16 (22:01):
We have to use that specific language because the US
Supreme Court had says that partisan jerrymanderin is acceptable, that
is okay. And Republicans say, well, we just did it
because we wanted to get more Republican seats. Well, the
Supreme Court is said, that's okay. But what you cannot
do legally per the Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty

(22:22):
five Section two that is still in place because the
rest of it was gutted or else. Texas couldn't have
done this in the first place, But that's another story.
But it says that they could not do it on
the basis of race. Well, this is strictly on the
basis of race. They are eviscerating black districts potential specifically.

(22:43):
And for those who don't know, I know Roland. You
have so great audience because you're always educating them. But
for those new listeners, Texas has more African Americans than
any other state. If anything, we should be expanding African
American representation, not reducing it.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
We're reducing it by fifty percent.

Speaker 16 (22:59):
So instead of having four African American seats, we're going
to now have two based on these maps. And so
this is a direct racial front, an attack on our
black and brown communities, reminiscent, like you said, rolling of
the nineteen sixties.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
And I want to remind people.

Speaker 16 (23:18):
That if it wasn't for those freedom fighters, we would
still be in those dark days.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
And President Trump, he is trying to take us back.
He wants to roll back the clock.

Speaker 16 (23:27):
He's done it with rolling back anti through a tax
on diversity, equity, and inclusion. They want to take out
the history books so you can't teach through critical race theory,
so you can't teach about slavery like they want to
race it from our existence.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
They want to race us from having a seat at
the table. So that is why we have to fight.

Speaker 16 (23:46):
We have to call out these racism when we see it,
and we have to speak truth to power, and we
have to be willing to fight because our freedom and
liberty is at stake and they literally want to do
everything they can.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
To put us back as second class citizens. And I'm
not going to have it on our watch.

Speaker 16 (24:03):
And Roland, I want to thank you for always being
willing to use your media platform when other mainstream media
doesn't want to call it racist. They want to sugarcoat
it and say, oh, it's just partisan politics. No, this
is racism, This is racial Garrett Mendering, and that is
what we are here to speak out against.

Speaker 12 (24:24):
Representing Bowers was interesting in the Republicans saying, oh, no,
we're creating you know what, Republican districts for Hispanic So
they're now trying to pit black against Latino in Texas.

Speaker 19 (24:40):
Absolutely, and.

Speaker 17 (24:43):
They know that the Texas right now, what we're thirteen
percent of the population is black. They know that the
Latino population population continues to grow, and.

Speaker 19 (24:57):
They would love to pit us against each other.

Speaker 17 (25:00):
We saw some terrible things happen in that last presidential
election where I hate to say it, Roland and Ron
you know this as well, but black and brown men
were voting against their better interests, against their best interest
when it came to who their candidate of choice should
have been. And so they would love to pit us

(25:24):
against each other. They know that the minorities, they know
they're outnumbered. And I guess you know what I really
want to say is they knew that they would not
win in twenty twenty six, so they decided they needed
to steal something in twenty twenty five. That's where we
are right now, and the best way for them to

(25:45):
do it is to change the game, change the maps, and.

Speaker 19 (25:50):
Certainly to pit black and brown people against each other.

Speaker 12 (25:55):
All right, Ben, Representative Bowers, Representative run Reynolds. I appreciate
both of you being. Appreciate that a lot. Thanks Brad,
Thank you, folks. Gonna go to break, we come back.
We're gonna talk with Ambacheldor Andrew Young. He knows a
whole lot about these battles when it comes to racism
and politics. You're watching roland markin Unfiltered on the Blackstar Network.

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Speaker 12 (30:31):
Sixty years ago, President Lennon Baines Johnson signed into law
of the Voting Rights Act that fundamentally changed voting for
African Americans, especially in the South.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
Here is some of what he said on that historic day.
Even if we pass this bill, the.

Speaker 5 (30:50):
Battle will not be over. What happened in Selma is
part of a far larger movement which reaches into every
section and state of America. It is the effort of
American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of

(31:12):
American life. Their cause must be our cause too, because
it's not just Negroes, but really it's all.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Of us.

Speaker 5 (31:26):
Who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice,
and we shall overcome.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
That's all right, folks.

Speaker 12 (31:44):
President lending Mans Johnson again with the voter, was the
speak joining us right now.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
Is someone who put his life on the line in
order to get that pass.

Speaker 12 (31:55):
Integral playing an integral role in getting that sign into law,
of course. Former Lieutenant of Reverend doctor Martin Luther King Junior.
He also Member of Congress, Mayor of Atlanta, Ambassador to.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
The United Nations. My elder brother Andrew Young and basst Young,
How you doing.

Speaker 21 (32:14):
I'm doing fat and middling as old folks say.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Well, I was, uh, I was talking to some sit again.

Speaker 21 (32:27):
I said, I got no complaints. It's just it was
nice and cool here yesterday. But it's back to one
hundred degrees almost today in Atlanta. So it's a hot
time in the.

Speaker 12 (32:38):
Who So you're saying the temperatures, the temperatures is bigger,
is higher than your age?

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Right, you're ninety three years old.

Speaker 12 (32:49):
You've seen a lot over these years, and you were
right there in the middle of this battle to get
the Bodie Rice At Civil Rights Act, Fair Housing Act,
may Law. What stands out the most of you reflecting
sixty years later after the President signed this historic bill.

Speaker 21 (33:09):
Well, it's the way that the movement was really a
spirit led movement. That we came back from the Martin
received a Nobel Prize in Norway, and we came back
and stopped by to meet President Johnson, and all he

(33:32):
could say was he agreed with everything we wanted and
we needed, but he closed every sentence with I'm sorry,
I just don't have the power. And when we left there,
he was suggested that we just kind of take it
easy and maybe doctor King, after having been through the

(33:56):
Nobel Prize and been bombed and stabbed and everything else,
said maybe he might take a take a few months off.
And actually that's sort of what I was thinking. But
as we left the White House, doctor King said, no,

(34:16):
we're going to have to get the presidents of power.
And you know he was he was even shorter than me.
And I said, you more houseman or something else. You
ain't got a pot to piss in the wepon we broke,
you know, because the Nobel Peace Prize was sixty thousand dollars,

(34:39):
but Martin decided we should divide it up against with
all six of the civil rights organization. So we only
got ten thousand apiece and that was hardly enough to
keep SCOC going for a month. So but he he
understood the social age in America is a religious process

(35:04):
as well as a political process. And what I didn't
count on, in which he didn't know, but he was
sort of counting on it was that Miss Emilia pointing
from Selma. Now he knew Selma and I knew Selva
because our wives came from Maryon, Alabama, which is thirty
miles away from Selva. So my wife and I had

(35:27):
our first date in Selva, and everybody knew Miss's appointment.
So when she came over to visit with us, she
just told all of the hell that be putting back
in Selma. And Martin said, well, we'll we'll be with
you right after. And then normally is a NAACP celebrates

(35:54):
Emancipation Proclamation on the first of the year, and we said, well,
we'll come over and we'll use that as a as
an opportunity to break the injunction and start a movement
in Selma. And three months later in March, we had

(36:21):
that Bloodish Sunday which we were going to march to
from Selma. To Montgomery because that's where Governor Wallace was,
and we got the dates wrong because we said, I mean,
it was really confusing. But the first Sunday was when

(36:48):
the preachers had to be in the in Dupids, and
that was the seventh of March, and so none of
the preachers were there, but there were about three hundred
people that had kept come from all the counties around

(37:09):
and they brought their their knapsacks with their water and
their snacks and food, and there were three or four
hundred people ready to march. And Doctor King said, can't
you all hold them up till we get there? And
we said no, because well it was a time difference

(37:32):
between Selma and Atlanta and they couldn't get there before
evening and we wanted to get the march through. So
he said, well, go ahead and march. They're probably just
going to turn you around anyway, and so that's that's

(37:52):
what we decided to do. We didn't want everybody to
go to jail, because we thought everybody and so John
Jose Williams, James Bevel and I all played odd man move,
you know, flipped the coin and it turned out to
be John Lewis and Jose Williams that led the line,

(38:15):
and we thought they were going to just turn them
around and let it go, but they were waiting on
horseback and they rode the horses into the crowd of
non violent movement who weren't weren't even budget. They made

(38:37):
no move, they were standing still, and the policeman state
troopers drove the horses right at him and were beating
everybody down with billy clubs. And that was a bloody Sunday,
and it was bloody, but were covered and were ready.

(39:06):
There was a young white man killed after the march
was over.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
He was in.

Speaker 21 (39:14):
A black neighborhood. James Reed, Yeah, James Reed, Yeah, yeah,
R E E. B. And he was an episcopal priest
I think.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
And yeah.

Speaker 21 (39:30):
People jumped him coming out of a restaurant and they
beat him by himself and we got him to a hospital,
but it was too late because there were no hospitals
around there that were open. You had to drive almost
all the way to Birmingham, which was ninety miles.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Let me ask this question.

Speaker 12 (39:57):
And when it passes, we we see massive black turnout.
Bull Connor gone, Jim Clark gone, all these folks gone.
And when we see what happened, and now we're seeing
the attacks. Now we're seeing the legal battles. Now we
saw course the Shelby Beholder decision. We see right now

(40:20):
the section two of the Voting's Rights Act hanging by thread.
Clarence Thomas has made it clear because his mission in
life is to get rid of the Voting Rights Act.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
When you see these attacks and.

Speaker 12 (40:36):
How the right wants to completely eradicate it, that has
to make you angry because we know we've already seen
the results.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
If the Voting Rights Act is invalidated, I mean, they
are going.

Speaker 12 (40:50):
To wipe out half of a congressional Black caucus.

Speaker 21 (40:55):
Well, they'll have to fight to do it. And I'm
impressed with the way Texas and California and New York
are taking up this redistrict. When I first ran for Congress,
they redistricted me out of Atlanta. I live in the

(41:18):
west Southwest Atlanta, but they took my house in my
neighborhood and put it all the way down in Noonan, Georgia,
which is forty miles away. And of course I lost
that time, but we we went back to the courts

(41:40):
in the Fifth Circuit down here in Atlanta, we got
the lines redrawn, and we had some really good people
in the Georgia Legislature who were black, black legislators and
they got into the process. And you know, it's not

(42:01):
just it's not just a few of us. This is
a nationwide struggle. This is a struggle of a people.
And we've used Donald to come up with a miracle.
And we certainly saw Lyndon Johnson because we weren't sure
about him. He had a really tough Southern accent from

(42:24):
Texas and we all have his hopes in Kennedy. But
when Kennedy was struck down, Lyndon Johnson stepped in and
did more and everything that we thought we should get
John Kennedy to do. And we're grateful to what Lyndon

(42:46):
Johnson did because he was operating for the nation. But
then we've had we've had setbacks all over the nation,
north and south, but we have stopped yet. And I

(43:10):
don't know our quote, Doctor King truth for Eirborne, the
scaffold wrong for Airborne in the future on the throne,
but the scaffold sways the future because behind the dim
unknown standing God within the shadows, keeping watch above his own.
And we rely on those maxims and principles to say

(43:38):
we're going to stay in this struggle till our last breath.
And I mean I've been out many string voters are
all over Georgia already, and we're just getting geared up
trying to keep our two Senate seats and the Congress

(44:06):
that we can add anybody from Georgia. Now that seems
to be different.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
Basilor but no right Uh to that point.

Speaker 12 (44:17):
Uh, Bishop William Barber uh sent some said something to
me a week ago that you know, when you read this,
it sort of is extremely sad, if you will. He
said that in the last election in November, some six
hundred plus thousand African Americans in North Carolina.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
Did not vote.

Speaker 12 (44:41):
He said, according to data, some one million black Georgians
did not vote.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
Yeah, what do you say, What do you say to an.

Speaker 12 (44:51):
African American who sits elections out And what must we
say to them to get them to recognize that their
vote absolutely does matter.

Speaker 21 (45:02):
Well, they can see it. In Atlanta, we've had nine
black mayors in a row. I was the second, one MANA.
Jackson was first. But we've had nine in a row
and the city is growing, the schools we have a
Hope Scholarship where anybody that makes a be average on

(45:24):
the SAT, I mean be average and on thy or
twelve hundred dollar SAT can go to any Georgia college free.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
We have.

Speaker 21 (45:35):
It's sixty percent of the Atlanta population of our workforce
has had some college training, and twenty three percent of
that has has master's degrees. And we did that through
a segregated school system and just kept on keeping on,

(45:56):
and so.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
We make it.

Speaker 21 (46:02):
The more we make and the more we do, the
easier it seems to get, and the more people begin
to think that it's altabatic. But none of them my
generation and then not many of us left, None of
us know that we can't take it for granted. When

(46:23):
I ran for Congress, it poured down rain all day
and all night on election day and it didn't stop
raining until nine o'clock at night after the polls closed.
But we had a seventy five percent of the black
voters in Atlanta turned out, and that was the biggest

(46:44):
turnout we'd ever had, and that's how I got into Congress.
And my staff stayed together and didn't come to Washington
on me. They stayed here and elected Mayna Jackson mayor
next year, and then they came to Washington.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
And so.

Speaker 21 (47:05):
There's nothing without a struggle, and we struggled too hard
that we ought to be free by now.

Speaker 12 (47:18):
Well, one of the things that it is the struggle,
but one of the things that I was on a
panel saurday in Chicago. Jannae Nelson of the NAACP Legal
Defense Fund was on there as well, and she said
a lot of people in this generation said, this is
the first time that we've had to face this level
attacks on our rights.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
But in bashetor I.

Speaker 12 (47:40):
Remember something when we were engaged in I'm here at
the National Association of Black Drums mention, we're in Cleveland.
I remember when I was last on the board and
we were aggressively going after CNN for no Black Executives
Director reporting to Jeff Zucker and I remember calling Bernard Shaw,
and Bernard Shaw said, Roland, every generation has their moment.

(48:03):
He said, it's now, it's your It's your turn. And
I think that's really the message to understand that, Hey,
you talked about we should be free by now, but
the reality is we're not, which means that this generation
Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha we got to
be in this fight because at the end of the day,
the battle today is for really a future of tomorrow.

Speaker 21 (48:29):
That's exactly true, but you have to fight for it
today to be around tomorrow, because that's trying to take
the right. Indeed, we already and and they don't make
any they're not ashamed. That seemed they they want to

(48:49):
re establish slavery almost well.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
And I wrote my book.

Speaker 21 (49:01):
Go ahead now, I said, we're we're we're working together
pretty well here in Atlanta. But again we're surrounded by well,
we're surrounded by the same people who've been here before.
Now we got together with most of the I mean,

(49:24):
I never got elected with just black votes, uh in
the into the Congress and no to as mayor. And
it was a black vote in Georgia that gave Jimmy
Carter his chance to be president and also Bill Clinton

(49:46):
and uh uh and and we we have turned out
politically and we have made progress. The the struggle can continue.
So nobody told us that the way.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
You made a point.

Speaker 12 (50:06):
You made a point moments ago where you said go ahead,
you said, go finish that thought.

Speaker 21 (50:15):
Yeah, I said, nobody told us that the way would
be easy. But I don't believe he brought us this
far to leave us, you know, unless I don't feel
no ways tired. We've come too far from where we
started from.

Speaker 12 (50:31):
And you made a point moments ago where you said,
it seems like they want to take us back to slavery.
What I said for months now is that this effort
they want to what I call they want to defund
Black America. They want to completely destroy the infrastructure, the
civil rights, the economic rights, the social justice, the political

(50:52):
infrastructure that folks like you and so many other unsung
heroes fought for it.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
That's what they're trying to do right now.

Speaker 21 (51:01):
Well, and they're wrong, and they won't be able to
do it because this economy is a strong economy in
spite of the people that are trying to resegregate it
or pick on folk, or cut people out, or take
advantage of people every time they can get. But it's

(51:26):
I mean, it's like, how could you play in the NFL?
How can the NFL have a football team without black folks?
You know, I went to down a mobile where they
were mobiles put up statues of Hank Aaron and Sachel
Page and three or four others there are five Black

(51:47):
Mobilians that are in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and
they embraced that, and they realize that that's an import
part of keeping Mobile, Alabama the city that it can be.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
And I don't know, I.

Speaker 21 (52:16):
I still go back to I don't feel no ways tired.
I'm ninety three years old, and I was tired when
I came home today because it's up and down, whether
with the heat and goal kind of got to me
a little ways. But you know, I'm here and I

(52:40):
don't feel well.

Speaker 12 (52:44):
Well, would I always say, am bashttor young as long
as as if you got bread in your body and
you can still move, there's still some work you to
do on our path to freedom.

Speaker 21 (52:57):
Well, I kind of feel that way, you know. In
Saint Augustine, Florida, which is where we had the last
march before they passed the sixty four Civil Rights Act.
The two young women who brought us down there, and
one of them they're all past one hundred now and

(53:20):
they're still driving. We have a number of people the
old civil rights fighters are all, you know, retirement age,
but nobody's shopping. And we keep on keeping on opening
doors for the younger generation and doing everything we can

(53:43):
to help prepare the way for a brighter tomorrow.

Speaker 12 (53:52):
Absolutely, Ambassador Andrew Young, is always a pleasure to chat
with you, my dear brother.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
Stay well, keep keep swinging.

Speaker 12 (54:02):
Uh and I'm right there with you, giving folks hell
and speaking truth and what we need in order to
be on that path to be free one day.

Speaker 21 (54:14):
All right, God bless you, and keep on keeping on.

Speaker 12 (54:17):
I appreciate it, all right, Yes, sir, we'll do well,
Thank you, sir. Tell the wife hello, folks, that is
Ambassador Andrew Young. Let me bring in right now my panelist.
Glad to have them here. They've been holding for some time.
We had to get with our various guests right there,

(54:42):
and let's go right to them. Pull the panelists up.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
Please.

Speaker 12 (54:48):
Pull him up, pull him up, all right? Then of course,
tell Mamilian, glad to have you here on the show.
One of our young panelists, young brother, who is doing
some good work. Glad to have him here. Like I say, folks,
we've been it has been quite the busy day as

(55:10):
we here in Cleveland, we see all of the again
the craziness going on. Let me also think Andrew Clark,
who joins as well managing partner. He is, of course
with the District Legal Group. Glad to have you both, Tyler,
I'm want to.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Start with you.

Speaker 12 (55:27):
I mean to sit there and listen to ninety three
year old Andrew Young, still in the fight.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
Trust me.

Speaker 12 (55:34):
People talk about my travel schedule, I swear that man
travels more than I do and not giving up.

Speaker 4 (55:41):
And I think what jumps out there was not losing
faith in our ability to fight for freedom.

Speaker 21 (55:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (55:53):
Absolutely, as always joy to be on Roland, but definitely
hearing from Ambassador Young. I have had an opportunity to
sit and talk with him many times, and his wisdom
and insight. I think it echoes to generations. And I
think today we say we are sixty years removed from
the passage of the Voting Rights Act, and yet we
are still fighting for these protections. We can't claim to be,

(56:17):
you know, the global standard of democracy and these standards
of barriers, but yet voter suppression runs a rampant right
here in our home. I think it's very hypocritical for
US as a nation to send diplomats to defend democracy
overseas while we are closing polling places, purging voter roles,
and ignoring the erosion of civil rights here in our

(56:39):
own country. And I think if democracy abroad is worth
fighting for, it must be worth fighting for in Alabama,
in Georgia and Texas, and for the over four hundred
thousand Washingtonians here in DC. And I think that's what
real patriotism means. And I think if we can't defend
the basic freedom of protecting the right to vote, what

(57:00):
can we protect.

Speaker 29 (57:01):
All the other uh, you know, issues are on the line.

Speaker 28 (57:06):
And it's very important that we stand up and ensure
that our rights are protected.

Speaker 12 (57:14):
Andrew what it also says to anybody who was listening
to Ambassador Young, you ain't got no damn excuse sitting
your ass on the sidelines.

Speaker 4 (57:26):
What's happening in Texas That is not just about right now.

Speaker 12 (57:31):
That is literally about the next generation of African Americans,
the voting rights battle right now. And so when I
listen to people talking about, oh, I'm tired, I'm tired
all of a sudden. No no, no, no, listen, go
take a nap, go get some risks. But this is
not a moment for us to be checking out of
a process.

Speaker 30 (57:52):
Yeah, And it really goes back to the beginning of
this administration and the types of tactics that we saw
them use and trying into rig elections. We saw them
trying to rig judicial elections and influence those elections. Now
they're trying to jerrymander out there in Texas. And kudos
to all of the representatives and Texas who banded together

(58:19):
and who are now safely in the great City of Chicago. Really,
you know, it's something that especially sixty years ago and
the types of things that sixty years ago we saw
people have to go through, not me, but at least
the previous generation, and.

Speaker 4 (58:37):
We've seen people have to go through.

Speaker 30 (58:40):
Now we're seeing similar things and then talking about FBI
warrants and arresting them and they're taking them back and
they're staying put. And I urge all of those representatives
that we all support you throughout the country so to
stay strong and to keep doing what you're doing, because
it's important not just for Texas but for the rest

(59:00):
of the country. Because if they're allowed to do this
in a state like Texas, then all of these red
states are going to follow suits.

Speaker 4 (59:08):
So kudos to that for doing.

Speaker 12 (59:09):
This absolutely, and so hey, there's a lot of work
to do, and people need to understand that. Hold type
one second, Folks, We're got to go to a break,
will be right back. Unfilts on the Black Study Network
when we chatted with Morgan Harper economists job numbers in Ooh,
Trump is losing his mind because he is taking the

(59:32):
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We're going talk about that with Morgan. Folks, don't forget
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Folks, imagine going to.

Speaker 12 (01:02:29):
A lake in South Carolina on the fourth of July
and then you're planning a funeral. That is what happened
to the family of twelve year old Jason car full
of life, enjoying the day swimming in Lake Murray in
South Carolina. Two weeks later, he was dead due to

(01:02:49):
a rare brain rare brain deadly in a rare deadly
brain infection. Now doctor s A Jaydon Jason, I'm sorry
was infected by a by a brain eating MEBA found
in warm fresh water. It enters through the nose and
attacks the brain. His family had never even heard of it,
and they said they had no idea the lake posed

(01:03:12):
any danger.

Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
There were no signs, no warning, and no water testing.

Speaker 12 (01:03:17):
Now Jason's parents are speaking out, determined to raise awareness
to know the family had to go through what they
are dealing with. Joining us now as Tyler Bailey, attorney
for the car family and the civil rights advocate, as
well as Jason's parents, Clarence and Ebony car Clans and
Ebony certainly our condolencies.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
This is I mean, look, we.

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
See this all the time.

Speaker 12 (01:03:42):
We see folks they go swimming in lakes, the whitewater,
rafting or tubing, things along those lines.

Speaker 4 (01:03:51):
And what were you told?

Speaker 12 (01:03:53):
What were you told that this body of water doesn't
have a history of this? Also where you swam, like,
was that city property, county property, of private property, state property?

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
Just give us the details of what happened here.

Speaker 6 (01:04:12):
Well, it wasn't a specific private property.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
It was Lake Murray.

Speaker 33 (01:04:19):
That's a popular tourist attraction here in this city. It's
always busy, it's always crowded. And again the only thing
he did was go swimming, hang out with his friends.
They went fishing, boating, tubing, and after he came home

(01:04:41):
a couple of days later, he complained about a headache,
and we took him to the emergency room and the
doctors checked him out, drew samples, there was nothing showing up,
giving him a shot. Went home too Later he complained

(01:05:01):
about a headache again, only this time it was a
company with vomiting.

Speaker 6 (01:05:06):
We took him back to the er.

Speaker 33 (01:05:08):
They began antibiotics, and later on through the night he
started to spike a fever. They did some spinal tap
testing and the following day it came back showing that
he was infected with the amoeba.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Yeah and rolling that.

Speaker 21 (01:05:31):
Go ahead, go ahead, Yeah.

Speaker 34 (01:05:33):
Jason was just a star of a kid, one of
a kind, Breesport athlete, singing in the choir, played in
the band, and had the whole future ahead of him
and unfortunately lost his life, as Clarence just said tragically
to his brain, eating Amba and Lake Murray is owned
by Dominion Energy.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
But it's a big big it's a huge lake.

Speaker 34 (01:05:54):
It covers five or so different counties and unfortunately, with
global warming and water temperatures, amiba can turn deadly if
waters are.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Consistently over eighty degrees.

Speaker 34 (01:06:07):
And so what Clarence that Abnue have been doing is
fighting for the legacy of their sun and wanting to
see some policy change PSAs that warn people about the
waters when they're consistently over eighty degrees and how the
meetia can be turned deadly, asking that there be signs
and warnings that would put people on notice of this,
and also asking if the stay allocate some funding to

(01:06:28):
testing our fresh body waters during the summer months.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
Right now, the South Carolina tests the one.

Speaker 34 (01:06:36):
Hundred and twenty so beaches that we have for deadly
bacteria from May to since the October, but no funding
is allocated to the lakes where majority of residents spend
their time during the summer, as opposed to tourists who
visit the beaches of South Carolina. And that's what the
cars have been fighting for, raising awareness. And I'm sure
Ebney would love to talk more about who Jason was

(01:06:58):
and Clarence would as well, But so far since he's
passed past, they had been NonStop and raising awareness and
unfortunately the state did nothing. There was no investigation from
any state or county regulatory body of where Jason was,
where he was affected.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
So we've been doing the work that the state should
have done and the county should have done. They hadn't.

Speaker 34 (01:07:19):
If the cars didn't speak out about this, nobody would
have known where Jason.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
Was, what he was infected with, how he lost his life,
and who he was.

Speaker 34 (01:07:27):
So we've been beating the pavement trying to get the
word out. We appreciate you allowing this platform for that
word to be further spread.

Speaker 21 (01:07:35):
Yes, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
Were there other families out there?

Speaker 12 (01:07:38):
I mean how you said, this is a very popular area,
so with a lot of other people who are out
there that day.

Speaker 6 (01:07:46):
Yes, sir, the lake was very busy.

Speaker 33 (01:07:49):
You have people jet skiing, other people that were tubing,
pulling on speed boats, pontoon boats, swimming.

Speaker 6 (01:07:59):
The lake was busy. It was a beautiful day. Everybody
was on the water.

Speaker 18 (01:08:05):
It was fourth of July week, so there were a
lot of people on the lake this week.

Speaker 12 (01:08:14):
This is, I mean, obviously an extremely tragic, tragic story.
Since this incident, have signs been put up, Have warnings
been put out put up at this lake?

Speaker 33 (01:08:25):
Not to our knowledge, sir, not even one phone call
from any state agency offering condolences.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Not one phone call. Yeah, bro. And since the cars
have spoken out on this, there has been some.

Speaker 34 (01:08:44):
Comments from legislators saying that they're interested in looking at
legislation to possibly change it, but as of right now,
there has been no warnings placed out there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
But they're saying that this is a rare situation, but
just to use your own pretty much judgment.

Speaker 34 (01:09:00):
But there hasn't been anything out there that said things
like when these wars are over eighty degrees consistently, that
they need to can be deadly, that these are found
in fresh body bides with water. There has been nothing
to put the public really on notice outside of the
cars speaking on it and pushing for change. And we're
optimistic that some change will come, but as of right now,

(01:09:22):
we're coming towards the tail end of the summer and
hopefully by next summer and when people get back in
the water, there will be some changes.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
But as of right now, there have been none.

Speaker 34 (01:09:30):
As Claire said, nobody has reached out from South Carolina
Department Environmental Services, any other regulatory body who has authority.

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
Over the lake, including the Median Energy.

Speaker 12 (01:09:43):
Well, we certainly hope, we hate the fact that your
son had to die, but we certainly hope some changes
are made to warn families, parents, children and others about
these daysers swimming in these fresh water lakes and Ponds.

Speaker 4 (01:10:05):
I thank all of you for being on today's show.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
Thanks a lot, Yes, sir, thank you, thank you, thank you, folks,
folks going.

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When you are now watching Roland Martin unfiltered, uncut, unplugged,
and undamn believable.

Speaker 12 (01:13:19):
You got that right, Chris Spencer, I'm rocking the al forgear,
all right, folks. July Joles Report, Donald Trump lost his mind.
It showed significant revisions. This economy is tanking. His tears
are causing massive problems. In fact, just today, Tyson Foods
announced they're laying out five thousand workers in Pennsylvania and

(01:13:41):
Kansas as a result of these tears.

Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
We're seeing this happen more and more.

Speaker 12 (01:13:47):
We're seeing companies announce they're going to be raising prices,
and so that's what we are facing now.

Speaker 4 (01:13:55):
Again. Trump doesn't want to hear that. He's trying to suggest.

Speaker 12 (01:13:59):
That, oh, his tars are fine, they're wonderful, and how
they're just bringing in all this money, but the reality
is it is causing prices to go up.

Speaker 4 (01:14:07):
When you look at this polling data. He is horrible
on the numbers.

Speaker 12 (01:14:11):
Now, when we started talking about unemployment numbers, it rose
Black unemployment rolls from six point zero to six point
eight percent. It's at seven percent for black men from
spiking from five point two seven point seven, Black women
drop to six point seven eight.

Speaker 4 (01:14:28):
All these things are happening.

Speaker 12 (01:14:29):
Morgan Harper is the director of Policy and Advocacy of
the American Economic Liberties Project, and she joins us right now.
Morgan is always glad to have you on the show. Mean, look,
here's the right thing happened here, Morgan. We saw Trump
comes in inaugurate at January twenty, so immediate tears. Companies like, okay,

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all right, we're gonna bite the bullet. Okay, so we're
gonna suck it up. So February March, April May, all
of a sudden, they like, we can't keep eating this.
Now you spegin to see companies Procter and Gambles and others,
and now it's yeah, we're gonna start increasing out prices
because the tears are real.

Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
Center Ram Paul Republican.

Speaker 12 (01:15:14):
He keeps saying it's a tax, it's a tax, but
and so it is tanking the economy, per and simple.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 35 (01:15:23):
I mean, the main point with the tariffs, or the
way that Trump has approached the terriffs, is that they
are not being done in any sort of strategic way.

Speaker 18 (01:15:31):
It's completely unpredictable.

Speaker 35 (01:15:33):
He's changing his mind months to months, sometimes week to week,
sometimes day to day, and so it's impossible for companies,
even companies that say wanted to do want to do
the right thing and actually making a plan for themselves
in a business plan, economic plan, just taking in all
the data and trying to do right by their.

Speaker 18 (01:15:51):
Employees and run a good company. It would be challenging
to do that.

Speaker 35 (01:15:55):
But I do think we also need to be real
about the fact that a lot of companies are using
this uncertainty as cover to do things that they might
have also wanted to do anyway.

Speaker 18 (01:16:03):
You know, they wanted to be able to shed some
of the employees.

Speaker 35 (01:16:07):
Their main responsibility is to make sure that their stock
prices keep going up. As long as they still are
you making their profits, then they're going to do that.
But there's no denying that the way that Trump has
approached tariffs by again doing it in an unpredictable way
and also not pairing it with any sort of domestic
investment plan. I want to come to the apple example,

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but you know just that there is no there is
no subbing in for domestic manufacturing. What are we seeing
quite the opposite actually from this latest jobs data, it's
another month where we're seeing a loss of manufacturing jobs.
We're seeing a decline in the industries that actually produce goods.

Speaker 18 (01:16:47):
Where's the only source.

Speaker 35 (01:16:49):
Of growth job growth in the economy right now? It's
coming from healthcare and social assistance. Well, that is not
an economic boom. You can't build a whole economy around
people getting sick. Now, we have a lot of companies
that are making a lot of money off of how
sick we might be getting, but that is not enough
to sustain the type of growth that we have been

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seeing for the past few years. And so this was
a jobs report that really, I agree with your Roland,
really started to show in very stark terms because we
spotted over the last couple of months some of these
indicators is like, Okay, jobs are going up, but there's
see these other indications.

Speaker 18 (01:17:26):
Of like you know, all is not well with the
labor market.

Speaker 35 (01:17:30):
But this was very very clear one correcting what the
numbers were for the past couple of months, to show
the reality that in some cases we only saw ten thousand,
you know, between ten and twenty thousand jobs being created
per month, down from estimates of over one hundred thousand,
and again that the types of jobs that being that
are being created have nothing to do with the promises

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that this administration has been making to bring manufacturing back
to the US, and.

Speaker 12 (01:18:00):
They've been lying all manufactures up is up, like stopping, y'all.
I love that video of the white man in Montana
who was touting he voted for Trump. Now he's posting
video showing that, oh yeah, dude, although your product is
made in America, the parts that you get come from overseas.

Speaker 4 (01:18:21):
As a result, boom tear tax.

Speaker 18 (01:18:26):
Yeah, and this is the other dynamic that's a play.

Speaker 35 (01:18:29):
And so I will I'll bring it back to the
Apple example because you know, so for example, like Trump
was raising announced today he's going to raise the tariffs
on India. Well, you know, there's this scenario where you're
doing that and because a company like Apple does manufacture
a lot of their products, a lot of the iPhones
that many of us might use in India. That is
going to change their calculus as a company. Can we

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continue to afford to manufacture things in India? Is it
going to be better for I'm not saying that that
was where they would have landed, that they would move
manufacturing immediately back to the US, but it would force
the conversation. What we're actually hearing from these deals is
that Apple is going to be subject to a whole
different tariff regime that they're not even necessarily going to

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have to play by the same rules as every other
company in the economy that might actually have to pay
those new higher tariffs if they are manufacturing goods in India.
So this is another example of a dynamic that we're
seeing from this administration. Is it's not deals with countries
that are bringing our manufacturing back. It's deals between companies

(01:19:33):
and this administration for the administration to get whatever they
want and the company to get for whatever they want. So, yes,
Apple has made this announcement that they're going to be
putting money into US manufacturing, but I don't think anyone's
under any illusion that this is a significant change in
how Apple is going to be producing a lot of
their products, which will continue to be almost entirely produced overseas.

Speaker 4 (01:19:59):
Bringing my pannel here. Andrew questioned for.

Speaker 30 (01:20:01):
Morgan, Yes, Morgan, So how do you see the impact
of the terrorists affecting the long term growth of the
economy as a whole? Here in Washington, DC, we're seeing
a sharp decline and well a sharp increase in restaurant

(01:20:26):
prices in a sharp decline and new restaurants opening. How
do you see that affecting the overall economy, not just
in manufacturer.

Speaker 35 (01:20:37):
Yeah, I mean the way that these terrors are being
done is going to have likely very negative effects on them.
And to your point, we're already starting to see that.
And this is something that we've discussed, you know, over
these last couple of months, that small businesses are going
to have to retract. In particular, it is just not
going to be a time where most businesses are going
to feel comfortable making any sort of expansion moves or

(01:20:59):
hiring people or oh, we're going to test out this
new product. No, because ultimately the costs of whatever a
new product you're trying have probably gone up there and
there is no alternative supply that is going to be cheaper.

Speaker 18 (01:21:12):
And so I think we are going to continue. And
this was actually one of the really.

Speaker 35 (01:21:14):
Interesting things from last week because you know, I don't
know if you saw as Andrew, but I think it
was Wednesday or so, a lot of the business press
was just like blowing, like they were so excited, like heralding.

Speaker 18 (01:21:25):
Oh, we've got GDP growth.

Speaker 35 (01:21:27):
Everybody said that Trump was taking the economy, but look,
GDP is up.

Speaker 18 (01:21:30):
So all those people were wrong, you know, kind of
f them. We made money cool.

Speaker 35 (01:21:35):
What was really going on there, It was that a
lot of companies at the beginning of administration were bringing
in a lot of imports. As those imports were going
down over the last month or so because of the
impacts of tariffs and people not feeling as comfortable bringing
goods in from other places. Then the way that GDP
is calculated, that was almost artificially making it seem like

(01:21:56):
GDP was going up, But it was just because we
had this very usual behavior do to the terrorists and
how people were importing.

Speaker 18 (01:22:03):
And so it only took one more.

Speaker 35 (01:22:05):
Day after all the business presses like Trump's on it,
We've got great GDP growth. Everybody was worried that the
economy is going to be going down, and then we
get these job numbers that, like I was saying, we're
just a really clear sign that for most of the
businesses in our economy, this is really really bad. And
as businesses are hit, then workers are hit, and then
ultimately all of us as consumers are going to see

(01:22:28):
things like increased prices, and not just increased prices, also
the lack of availability of goods. And I'm hearing from
this from people already in my network. I don't know
if you are too where you know, you try to
order something and then you get a response from the business,
especially if it's a somewhat smaller business.

Speaker 18 (01:22:44):
We just don't have that anymore.

Speaker 35 (01:22:45):
We don't know when we're going to have it again,
because companies are not able to really predict how much
longer they're going to be able to produce the goods
that they have been able to put together over the
last couple of years, or whether or not that's going
to be feasible for them, just from a money perspective
on the increased costs.

Speaker 28 (01:23:03):
Kyler, yes, thank you again, And so they throwed on
the paper numbers at as but folks lived experience for
many of us tell a different story. As we know,
wages are keeping, can't keep up with inflation, housing is unaffordable,
medication is unaffordable.

Speaker 29 (01:23:21):
Student debt remains crushing.

Speaker 28 (01:23:23):
So we can't celebrate these statistics on paper while people
are choosing between rent, medicine, and groceries. What does the
job reports miss when it comes to black and younger
and the younger workforce? And how might the proposed Taro's
hike effect working class Americans and particularly black and brown communities.

Speaker 18 (01:23:43):
Yeah, great question.

Speaker 35 (01:23:44):
I mean, I think this is one of the issues
that came up in Trump's response to this job report
data is you know, he decided he wanted to fire
the person who leads the agency because he didn't like
the numbers, which, you know, that's ridiculous, But there is
a real question to be had or a question to
be answered or over the quality of the data. Is
it reflective of businesses in the black community? Are we

(01:24:05):
getting enough of the indicators of how young people are
going or experiencing what's happening in the economy. There's been
a way of collecting this data over a very long
period of time. It involves getting survey responses from businesses,
and is that going to be enough moving forward to
give us an accurate picture of what the economy is

(01:24:26):
looking like, especially in this highly unpredictable environment. I think
the answer for a lot of people, whether you're expert
or a person out there just observing what's going on,
is is no, that maybe we do need to think
about different ways in which we are tracking what's happening,
especially again in this environment where we have it seems

(01:24:47):
very clear an administration that is not very focused on
making sure that we're getting accurate data, and it's just
so much volatility, and so you know, that's where I
really encourage all of us to embrace that we are
and to your point, we are the expert in our
own experience. We know what we are seeing when we
go to the grocery store. We need to be posting

(01:25:07):
about that. We need to be posting about that as
we're you know, as we're young people. Well I'm pointing
to you, I'm like on the borderline I think of
being young, but you know, young people, business owners, consumers,
all of it. It's like, we got to get our
stories out there because I don't think that we can
rely on the government reporting even in an environment where
we didn't have Trump, to be totally accurate. Again, just

(01:25:28):
given how unpredictable unpredictable the policy making is right now.
So we've got to get getting out there and making
sure that we're telling our own story.

Speaker 4 (01:25:40):
Right there.

Speaker 12 (01:25:41):
I mean, the bottom line is he fires the Commission
of the Beer of Labor Statistics because he doesn't like
the numbers.

Speaker 4 (01:25:48):
But he liked the numbers when they made him look good.

Speaker 12 (01:25:52):
And so I don't think I don't see how we
can trust any numbers coming out every month because Trump
can order them to rig them.

Speaker 25 (01:26:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 35 (01:26:04):
I mean now that we've gotten rid of the person
who was bipartisan confirmed by the Senate, who was also
confirmed by oh I don't know, a Senator jd vance Right,
who like current Vice President, picked from Donald Trump himself. Uh,
he supported the person who was leading this agency with
the labor statistics. And so yeah, I mean I think
you're right, Roland. You know, last month I was pushing

(01:26:25):
back on you a little bit because, you know, suggesting
something funny was going on with the numbers beyond the normal.

Speaker 4 (01:26:34):
Yeah, you you were, And I was like, Okay, I
don't trust these people.

Speaker 35 (01:26:42):
I stand by but but I think this is but
I do think that what just happened actually is probably
some So we don't know, we don't know what's every
what everything is going on in this administration, of course,
but it does seem like this was evidence that to
your point, whatever was happening before, they were cool with
as soon it went against their way, and these are

(01:27:02):
negative numbers, they are like, oh, we got to get you,
we got to get you out of here. And so
to me, that actually is somewhat persuasive that what we
just saw about July is probably accurate and they don't
know what to do about it, and they don't like
now it's very clear that it's out there, and so
they're just trying to like eliminate what they do as
the problem, which is someone who is actually trying to

(01:27:23):
do their job.

Speaker 18 (01:27:24):
Uh so yeah, where we.

Speaker 12 (01:27:26):
Go, Yeah, they which is what they're good at all.
Let's let's get rid of the bad news so we
can lie to people. And he could keep saying, oh, no,
that's very does it's great, it's wonderful, it's amazing, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (01:27:39):
The greatest number of the biggest numbers, the biggest number ever.

Speaker 35 (01:27:42):
Right, But here's the point, and this is, you know,
this is also why there's sometimes this lag or we
have to have these corrections, is yes, there's you know,
the technical survey science and blah blah blah, But what
is this. This is businesses that are reporting what their
experience is in the economy. This is households reporting what
they're experiences in economy. That is the data that feeds
up into these numbers. Turns out what are all of

(01:28:04):
us living out here, either as consumers buying things or
as people working at businesses and as employees getting laid off?
Hopefully not, but it clearly is happening at a lot
of companies right now. Are running our own business and
so again we have to be very very upfront and
loud about what the truth is, what is really going
What are the real economic impacts of all this insanity

(01:28:27):
that is happening in Washington, And that's for all of us,
no matter where you're living. To really show those those
true stories so that we can counteract all of the
hype that undoubtedly they're going to try to be pushing
and that's not based in reality.

Speaker 12 (01:28:43):
So the twice in peached, criminally convicted con Man in
chief Donald Trump, both on C ANDBC says, a bunch
of whack crazy outland is shit.

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
This was the most racist thing, he said.

Speaker 30 (01:28:57):
And national media as like, back to.

Speaker 15 (01:29:02):
Their country with a pass back in legally, and we're
doing things that are that are very difficult to do
and very complex, but it works really well. We're sending
them back and then they're schooling, they're learning, they're coming in,
they're coming in legally. We have a lot of that
going on. But we're taking care of our farmers. We
can't let our farmers not have anybody. You know, these

(01:29:24):
are very these people that there, you can't replace them
very easily. You know, people that live in the inner
city are not doing that work. They're just not doing
that work. And they've tried, We've tried, everybody tried. They
don't do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally. I said,
what happens if they get it? To a farmer the
other day, what happens if they get a bad back?

(01:29:47):
He said, they don't get a bad back, sir, because
if they get a bad back, they die. He said,
that's interesting, isn't it. You know, these are very you know,
in many ways, they're very very special people. Okay, go ahead, no, okay, So,
I mean I don't even know what.

Speaker 4 (01:30:07):
Morgan he sounded.

Speaker 12 (01:30:09):
He sounded like a plantation owner describing people of African
descent who were enslave.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 35 (01:30:23):
I think it's crazy that that interview happened. I mean,
let's just like take a step back that the President
of the United States is calling in to a morning
cable show to give his thoughts an update on the
economy like that alone. When I first saw that they
were tweeting out that that interview was happening the night before,
I thought it was I thought it was a joke.
I thought, you know, someone just like created a meme

(01:30:45):
or something that that was real. That's crazy in and
of itself, talking about who might be the next president
of the FED, just randomly at eight am on whatever
day of the week that was. But yeah, he has
no respect for the humanity. I mean, to think that
people are voluntarily wanting to work these jobs. It's like, no,
these are people that have fled wherever they're from, and

(01:31:05):
we're talking about a lot of the agricultural workers and
this is their only means of supporting themselves in their family,
and now the reason that many of them are not
working is because they are terrified that this administration is
going to capture them and send them to whatever country
they decide they want them to go to, regardless of
where they may or may not be from, or if

(01:31:27):
they're here legally or not, or if they've committed a
crime or not. Crazy suggesting that people in the inner
city gave it a shot but it didn't work.

Speaker 18 (01:31:34):
We know what that's code for, too. So it's so
beyond comprehension that this is again where we find ourselves as.

Speaker 35 (01:31:43):
A country dealing with this. But again, the main point
is this guy is not solving problems. He's creating problems,
not just for black people, but for these very farmers
that he claims he cares so much about. They are
not going to be able to sustain these businesses. Talk
about that Andrew's question impacts on all of us. Farmers
can't do their job. Food prices go up. It's already happening.

(01:32:06):
People are posting pictures about how much more they're paying
from now compared to twenty twenty two. It's like, and
then add on to all of that, the federal cuts
that are happening the most vulnerable. This is a ticking
time bomb, and it's just it really is just a
matter of time before it starts to explode for absolutely everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:32:27):
Tyler again.

Speaker 12 (01:32:29):
Mainstream me that I have no big deal, Okay, whatever,
But that was an absolutely racist comment by racist Donald Trump.

Speaker 28 (01:32:43):
Yeah, absolutely, Roly, And I think it's no surprise of
his comments. And I think he just continues to double
down on his rhetoric, and that kind of just speaks
to the person that he is and how he thinks
about migrant workers and also how he thinks about you know,
black workers and working in the fields.

Speaker 29 (01:33:01):
And I think, you know, it's it's just it's despicable.

Speaker 28 (01:33:05):
And we know the occupant we got in office, as
you said on your T shirt, around and find out, Andrew, Uh, I.

Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
Mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I don't know how.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
I don't know, I don't know how.

Speaker 12 (01:33:27):
Anybody Again, for the folk who think we're just joking,
hold up, I'm gonna play it again.

Speaker 2 (01:33:32):
I want people to.

Speaker 4 (01:33:33):
Actually just listen to the violent racism in the comment.

Speaker 12 (01:33:40):
I mean, they don't injure their backs, gods, play it again,
Play it again, back to their country.

Speaker 15 (01:33:48):
With a pass back in legally, and we're doing things
that are that are very difficult to do and very complex,
but it works really well. We're sending them back and
then they're schooling, they're learning, they're coming in, they're coming
in legally. We have a lot of that going on.
But we're taking care of our farmers. We can't let
our farmers not have anybody. You know, these are very

(01:34:11):
these people that you can't replace them very easily. You know,
people that live in the inner city are not doing
that work. They're just not doing that work. And they've tried,
We've tried, everybody tried. They don't do it. These people
do it naturally, naturally. I said, what happens if they
get it? To a farmer the other day, what happens
if they get a bad back? He said, they don't

(01:34:33):
get a bad back, sir, because if they get a
bad back, they die. He said, that's interesting, isn't it.
You know, these are very you know, in many ways,
they're very very special people. Okay, go ahead, no, okay?

Speaker 30 (01:34:49):
Is was he suggesting that they if they got a
bad back, that they would take them out back like
a horse.

Speaker 4 (01:35:00):
And kill them.

Speaker 36 (01:35:02):
I mean.

Speaker 30 (01:35:04):
That clip I've heard a lot of clips from Donald Trump,
and that clip is the most baffling. And a lot
of people are talking about the Epstein files and releasing
the Epstein files, but him saying things like this and
still being able to remain president is just so beyond comprehension. Roland,

(01:35:27):
I think we're all just out of loss some words
on how to describe the hate that he's spewing, and
his words for certain types of people, not only not
only just migrant workers, but also black people, referring to
the inner cities, right because he thinks that all black
people live in the inner cities and saying.

Speaker 4 (01:35:50):
That we tried that with them and it just didn't
work out.

Speaker 30 (01:35:54):
I mean, oh my goodness, that is that has got
to be the top five worst clips I've ever heard
from our unfortunate president.

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
It's crazy.

Speaker 12 (01:36:12):
And Morgan the anchors on NCNBC, oh okay, all right, sure.

Speaker 21 (01:36:19):
What's for lunch?

Speaker 18 (01:36:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 35 (01:36:21):
I the fact that they didn't interrupt him should be
some kind of journalistic malpractice. And here's the here's the
other main point I would say, is he's like, you know,
no one else wants to do these jobs.

Speaker 18 (01:36:32):
Why do a lot of farms have to. And by
the way, these are a lot of these aren't like
independent family farms.

Speaker 35 (01:36:39):
We're talking about big ag We're talking about a lot
of big companies. Why do they have to rely on
undocumented workers because they don't want to pay people a lot,
because they don't want to have to give benefits, and
so why do it? A lot of a lot more
Americans not work the job because they're not actually trying
to offer good jobs to people, right, And so you know,
he's right about one thing. The whole system will crumble

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without the labor of a lot of immigrants in the
agricultural industry.

Speaker 18 (01:37:06):
That's not the only thing that he got there.

Speaker 35 (01:37:07):
But the rest of it was just wrapped up in
racism and a real disregard for the humanity of millions
of people in this country.

Speaker 12 (01:37:15):
Well, absolutely, absolutely, Morgan. We appreciate thanks a lot.

Speaker 18 (01:37:20):
Thanks for having me rolling.

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And I'm with Roland Martin on Unfiltered.

Speaker 12 (01:39:22):
Well, folks of Cords, we know Trump can't stand in
black people. It surely can't stand Africans. And so now
what they are trying to do is if you're from
Zambia or Malawi, if you are a tourist or a
business traveler and you're coming to the United States, they
want you to pay a fifteen thousand dollars visa bond

(01:39:43):
when applying for US visas.

Speaker 4 (01:39:44):
Down the State Department.

Speaker 12 (01:39:45):
Says this bond doesn't guarantee visa approval and will be
refunded if certain conditions are met. It comes alongside a
new two hundred and fifty dollars visa integrity fee for
foreign separate from visa calls, but neither Zambia nor Malawi
has hired visa overstate rates or travel bans. However, travel

(01:40:08):
to the US is expected to get tougher for many
more African countries on this administration.

Speaker 4 (01:40:14):
So is that what we are Andrew, Let's just tax
to Africans.

Speaker 30 (01:40:21):
Yeah, that is a great way to deter people from
coming to the United States if they are of a
certain social economic class. I know there are a lot
of wealthy Africans, but there are even more Africans that
are not wealthy and cannot afford a fifteen thousand dollars bond.

(01:40:42):
There are a lot of Americans that cannot afford a
fifteen thousand dollars bond. So to say that someone coming
from a different country needs to pay fifteen thousand dollars
just to fill out applications for the possibility of coming here,
at that point they might as well just go to England.

Speaker 4 (01:41:06):
Tylerck, you're on mute. You're on mute. Thylick, you're on mute.
You're mute. Thylic you're talking, but your mute button is on. Thyler,

(01:41:28):
you're on mute.

Speaker 29 (01:41:28):
I'm here.

Speaker 4 (01:41:30):
My fault when't had nothing?

Speaker 37 (01:41:32):
You can say it?

Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
Oh lord see.

Speaker 28 (01:41:36):
I think it sends a strong go ahead to the
African nations uh that their citizens are to be treated
with suspicion and not respect. I think it's a racist,
you know, double standard, because we don't see the same
thing happening in other European countries. And I don't think
it's about coincidence, but it's I think it's really rooted
in outdated colonial thinking that treat African visitors as economic

(01:41:59):
grins rather than global citizens, which they are. And I
think this also it continues to widen the gap between
the global South in America, and I think it makes
it really tough for diplomacy, especially as we're trying to
increase and make the relationships better between Africa and America
African nations in America.

Speaker 4 (01:42:23):
Absolutely, all right, folks, I love me a good.

Speaker 12 (01:42:30):
Town hall and BOYD did that happened in Nebraska with
Congress and Mike Flood and his constiture was we're not
happy with him.

Speaker 4 (01:42:37):
They will lighten him up with questions.

Speaker 38 (01:42:39):
Roll the video, Congressman Flood, I come from eleven generations
of military citizens who have served this nation. I've seen
the long term effects of service on veterans health and
on well being. This budget reconciliation bill that you support

(01:43:00):
threatens to cut all of their benefits and support programs
that go along with that. How can you stand behind
this bill? It erodes the very services that people like me,
my family, our families, and younger vets coming home today
rely on to live decent, healthy lives.

Speaker 2 (01:43:18):
Well.

Speaker 39 (01:43:18):
First of all, thank you for your service to the country,
and thank you to the generations the service of the country.

Speaker 8 (01:43:27):
Please.

Speaker 39 (01:43:27):
At my first town hall, I had the opportunity next
to me at the first town hall. The main issue
that I took away from that was concerns about veterans benefits,
not only in the proposed bill, but just with the
new secretary coming in.

Speaker 8 (01:43:41):
I met personally with the Veterans Secretary. We went over.

Speaker 39 (01:43:46):
Everything, and I will tell you our veterans' affairs are
going to be better than they've been in a long
time under this president. The secretary, we sat down for
the better part of an hour, and I have I
would have to get my notes from that meeting, but
I asked a lot of questions that came from that
Columbus town hall.

Speaker 8 (01:44:07):
And when the time is right and I have that
in front of me, I will go through that.

Speaker 39 (01:44:11):
But I truly believe that our number one, our veterans,
served our country. They were made a promise that we
will provide their healthcare.

Speaker 8 (01:44:20):
I have a record of supporting as.

Speaker 39 (01:44:22):
A member of the legislature our state veterans homes, and
I have a record in our Congress of supporting veterans,
and I will be.

Speaker 8 (01:44:29):
Happy to get more information from the secretary.

Speaker 39 (01:44:32):
If you have specific programs you're concerned about.

Speaker 8 (01:44:35):
Please reach out to Taylor and get us that information.
Thank you. My question is fiscal.

Speaker 40 (01:44:44):
With four hundred and fifty million FEMA dollars being reallocated
to open Alligator Alcatraz and six hundred million taxpayer FEMA
dollars being used to now open more concentration camps and
ice burning through eight point four million dollars a day
to illegally detain people, how much.

Speaker 8 (01:45:03):
Does it cost for fascism?

Speaker 4 (01:45:05):
How much do the taxpayers have to pay for a
shift trade.

Speaker 8 (01:45:22):
Americans went to the polls in November and they had
a choice between a Democratic candidate that had.

Speaker 39 (01:45:30):
An open border, no enforcement, fedanyl drugs, human trafficking, and
they had a.

Speaker 8 (01:45:37):
Choice between that.

Speaker 39 (01:45:40):
And a candidate that said, close the border, get illegal
immigrants out of our country, stop the fedanol, stop the
human trafficking, stop the drugs.

Speaker 8 (01:45:51):
Stop the crime, stop the violence. That's what Americans voted for.
Americans voted or for a border that is secure, and
I support the president enforcing.

Speaker 39 (01:46:04):
Our immigation laws, which by the way, were written by Congress.

Speaker 41 (01:46:10):
So how can you justify taking healthcare away from seventy
eight thousand Nebraskas, As I.

Speaker 8 (01:46:19):
Explained before, when you have an additional seven hundred million.

Speaker 39 (01:46:23):
Dollars coming into the state of Nebraska for Nebraska hospitals.

Speaker 8 (01:46:30):
We have a state where our infrastructure.

Speaker 39 (01:46:33):
Is going to be supported, is going to be funded,
and is going to be available for the people that
need it. If you are able to work, and you're
twenty eight years old and you choose not to work.

Speaker 8 (01:46:43):
You don't get free health care in America.

Speaker 39 (01:46:51):
If you are in this country illegally, you do not
get free health care in America.

Speaker 42 (01:47:02):
Saying that silence is complicity. Your silence tells us that
you have no problem with the January sixth attack on
the Capitol, the.

Speaker 43 (01:47:10):
Book, the pardoning, the pardoning of all those involved, the
big lie about the twenty twenty.

Speaker 8 (01:47:20):
Election with absolutely no evidence. These are all markers. These
are markers of fascism.

Speaker 42 (01:47:28):
I have read a dozen or so books on authoritaries
and fascism. You said, ensuwered that you were not a fascist.
Your complicity says otherwise.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
Have you ever.

Speaker 42 (01:47:39):
Have you ever spoken out against this administration and it's
project twenty twenty five, which is a fascist machine.

Speaker 8 (01:47:49):
Have you ever spoken out?

Speaker 42 (01:47:51):
There are a number of people, It's been reported many
times in the news that there are a number of
your are colleagues, Republican colleagues, who do not like this man,
and they speak against him behind closed doors in private.

Speaker 8 (01:48:04):
Maybe you're one of them.

Speaker 42 (01:48:07):
There is a thing profiles encourage.

Speaker 8 (01:48:10):
Why don't any of you because you know better?

Speaker 2 (01:48:13):
What is wrong with you?

Speaker 4 (01:48:15):
What is wrong with you? Sarah?

Speaker 8 (01:48:19):
I want to be very clear with you. Give me
a chance to answer this question. I'd be happening to fascists.

Speaker 39 (01:48:47):
Don't hold town halls with open question.

Speaker 8 (01:48:49):
And answer series. And I will tell you this.

Speaker 39 (01:48:59):
I supper law enforcement and what happened on January sixth,
twenty twenty one was not right.

Speaker 8 (01:49:05):
And I'm on the record saying so.

Speaker 39 (01:49:10):
I'm sure you could google it. But here's I support
law enforcement. I have prided myself on supporting law enforcement
since I began as a member of the Judiciary Committee
in two thousand and five, and we started working on
child sexual assault, We started working on the Sex Offender Registry.
We started working on all of these different DWI laws

(01:49:30):
to make our streets safer.

Speaker 8 (01:49:32):
I believe in law enforcement. I believe in the rule
of law. I believe in the rule of law. It
matters to me.

Speaker 4 (01:49:41):
We have a lot of people.

Speaker 8 (01:49:43):
We have a lot of people the need to know.

Speaker 39 (01:49:46):
When I see something that I don't agree with, I
don't run to the TV station as my first stop.

Speaker 8 (01:49:51):
I try to stop it before it gets worse.

Speaker 39 (01:49:54):
I try to stand up and go to work to
represent the people that I have in this disc And sir,
I believe in law enforcement, Thank you.

Speaker 36 (01:50:06):
I believe in fair taxation that I disagree with personally
benefiting at the expense of lower income Nebraska citizens. Trump
is a pathological liar, and citizens can't believe a word
that comes from the convicted Fellaw's about keeping.

Speaker 8 (01:50:20):
Nebraska in mind.

Speaker 36 (01:50:22):
What actions are you going to support or initiate that
will provide healthcare and food assistance for low income families?
Protect Medicare, not increase the national debt, unmasks the ice terrorists,
closed Alligator alt O switch, and impeach Trump of the
part if he pardons delay Maxwell.

Speaker 39 (01:50:49):
We protected Medicaid and saved taxpayers millions of dollars from waste, fraud,
and abuse this program Over the long term, was spending.
We'll spend way too much money that we cannot afford
if we don't.

Speaker 8 (01:51:05):
Protect it for those that need it.

Speaker 39 (01:51:07):
There are vulnerable people that need medicaid. There are pregnant
women that need medicaid. There are folks that need to
be in a nursing home that need medicaid. We need
to figure out how to keep more people in their
home receiving care because we can't afford everybody going to
the nursing home. So, sir, we, in my opinion, as

(01:51:28):
your representative, with the seven hundred million dollars coming into
the state, the fifty billion dollar rural hospital fund that
we worked on, and the common sense protections of requiring
people to work if they want free healthcare, and no
illegal immigrants getting health care for free.

Speaker 8 (01:51:46):
I think that's entirely reasonable.

Speaker 41 (01:51:51):
Yes, how are farmers supposed to survive as a result
of this budget mail?

Speaker 8 (01:51:57):
Well, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 39 (01:51:58):
I actually have this number of here. We actually and
it was in one of my slides one year ago,
almost to this day. We were at the state Chamber
fly in and I was the first in our congressional
delegation to sound the alarm about the farm economy I've

(01:52:19):
been talking to community bankers across this state that are
worried that a lot of our producers with corn at
three dollars and eighty cents of bushel and soybeans down
from what they should be and higher inputs, are going
to have trouble making their payments. And I started to
talk talking to local bankers about what this year's operational
notes redee it would be.

Speaker 5 (01:52:40):
We made it.

Speaker 8 (01:52:41):
We made it through that. The Oh, actually, that's that's
not true. I'll talk to you about that in a second.

Speaker 39 (01:52:49):
In December, we provided ten billion dollars in economic aid
to America's farmers, mostly for the American Southeast, Georgia, Mississippi,
those states. I tell you what, though, I am worried
about next year for our farmers and ranchers.

Speaker 8 (01:53:04):
I am worried about it. And let me tell you
a couple of things that we did do. We put
an additional we put into a fifty nine.

Speaker 39 (01:53:14):
Billion dollar increase for the egg safety net programs, which
is a nine billion dollar increase over the prior fiscal year.
And you're not going to like this next part, some
of you, But President Biden did no trade deals in
four years. He did not stand up for Nebraska farmers
when it came to white corn and the ban from

(01:53:35):
the Mexican president's wife. Farmers and ranchers in this state
are going to get a far better deal from Donald
Trump's trade negotiations than we ever got under President Biden,
and this is the only way to improve our chances
to grow our farm income.

Speaker 41 (01:53:58):
A specific action are you taking to defund or continued
support to Israel and their aggressions on the Best Bank
and geniocide against Palestines living in Gaza.

Speaker 39 (01:54:17):
I have said from the start what happened on October
eighth was an abomination.

Speaker 8 (01:54:26):
October sevenths are I support Israel.

Speaker 39 (01:54:31):
America has no better ally than Israel, and they have
every right to root out Hamas and these evil terrorists.
Whether they're in Gaza, whether it's Hezbolah, whether it's the Houthis,
whether it's the Iranians. They live under threat of nuclear

(01:54:51):
and vicious attack every single day. I also believe that
our country, working with Israel, needs to do everything we
can to get.

Speaker 8 (01:55:04):
Those children food.

Speaker 39 (01:55:07):
No American wants any child, no matter the place they live,
to ever suffer. But you've got to remember we're dealing
with hamas they use these Palestinians as human shields in
their pursuit of terror and destruction against Israelis.

Speaker 8 (01:55:29):
So I support israel I support israel I support Israel.

Speaker 44 (01:55:35):
Next question, Yes, First of all, I've asked you please
not to refer it to that monstrosity.

Speaker 4 (01:55:41):
Is the Big Beautiful Bill.

Speaker 8 (01:55:44):
It's the name of the bill, though we know better,
we know better. My question concerns veterans.

Speaker 44 (01:55:53):
Again, I asked you in March about cuts for veterans,
cuts that will hurt veterans. I didn't really find your
answer to the Gentleman earlier adequate. How are cuts to
the VA going to improve VA services? Also, what about
the thousands of veterans who have lost their federal positions?

(01:56:14):
And what about how that big ugly bill? Let me finish,
how about how that big ugly bill is going to
disproportionately affect veterans who need SNAP and other benefits. Finally,
what about the veterans who are seeing family members who
have done no criminal, nothing wrong being picked up by

(01:56:35):
masked ICE agents.

Speaker 8 (01:56:40):
Okay, so, first of all, my question to you.

Speaker 39 (01:56:43):
First point there, the bill is actually called the one
Big Beautiful Bill, and I'm not going to tiptoe around.

Speaker 8 (01:56:49):
What the answers are because that's the bill to pass.

Speaker 39 (01:56:52):
And when President Biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act.

Speaker 8 (01:56:54):
That's what we called it, even though it did the opposite.

Speaker 39 (01:56:58):
As it relates to the VA cut, what are you
specific what specific cut are you talking about so I
can understand, give me a specific example.

Speaker 44 (01:57:06):
It is specifically general cuts and the VA's overall budget.

Speaker 4 (01:57:10):
I want to know when are you going to stand
up to.

Speaker 44 (01:57:13):
The bully in chief and his disrespectful on America and
cruel cuts that hurt our veterans.

Speaker 8 (01:57:20):
This issue, this issue came up in Columbus in.

Speaker 39 (01:57:25):
May, and I went to the Veterans Secretary, and the
system when we're done, will be better for veterans.

Speaker 8 (01:57:32):
It will be more efficient and will have better services.
I am confident of that.

Speaker 39 (01:57:37):
You cannot cite a specific program because I went to him.

Speaker 8 (01:57:40):
Specifically and said, show me where these cuts are. We
went through it.

Speaker 39 (01:57:44):
I've got the data, I've got the notes, I've got
all the information I need, and I will be very
public about showing you what is happening with veterans as
soon as I get the opportunity to avail myself of
my notes.

Speaker 8 (01:57:55):
But I am very.

Speaker 39 (01:57:56):
Confident President Trump, this Congress, the Veterans Administration, we are
working hard.

Speaker 8 (01:58:02):
For veterans and we will deliver for veterans.

Speaker 39 (01:58:11):
We are protecting veterans, we are protecting medicaid. We are
getting results, and we are pursuing growth. That is what's
happening right now.

Speaker 8 (01:58:19):
Protection, results and growth.

Speaker 4 (01:58:22):
Thank you. What that boy was lying and you see
they will lightning his ass.

Speaker 12 (01:58:30):
Up Here is Congress and Don Bacon on CNN laying
out how the economy in Nebraska is screwed because of
Donald Trump.

Speaker 37 (01:58:42):
And I would just say from my vantage point here
in Nebraska, we're seeing a bit of a troubled economic
must or right now, it's a troubled time. And also
in Nebraska, the GDP here is decreased by six percent
over the last here, and it's all about trade. It's
all about getting corn of soybeans out the door. So

(01:59:04):
what I hear with you know a week jobs numbers,
we're sort of seeing that Nebraska right now.

Speaker 4 (01:59:13):
So here's so isn't that quite interesting?

Speaker 21 (01:59:16):
Tyler?

Speaker 12 (01:59:16):
Here you have Don Bacon, cars are non Bacon representing
Omaha admitting they're screwed.

Speaker 4 (01:59:21):
The governor previously called Donald Trump.

Speaker 12 (01:59:23):
Because guess what those ice arrests were taking all of
those migrant workers out of Nebraska, those farmers getting screwed. Oh,
by the way, Nebraska voted for Trump. Just like Las
Vegas is a ghost town. They are down huge numbers
because a lot of those international tourists ain't coming Nevada.

(01:59:44):
You also, fa fo because y'all voted for Trump as well.
They're getting what they deserve because they they're getting what
they voted for.

Speaker 28 (01:59:55):
Absolutely, I just said, f around you find out. I
think the BackFlash the brask of remind us that even
in deep breads communities that they're just they're not monolithic,
uh uh. And and they're waking up to the extremists
in hipocrisy that they're that they're seeing from far right politics.
I don't think this just wasn't about you know, disagreeing
with policy and on many issues that I totally agree

(02:00:18):
with them. I'm glad they brought up what's happening in
Gaza and how how how children are starving. But it's
about you know, standing up for our communities and standing
up and saying enough is enough to the.

Speaker 29 (02:00:28):
Policy, to the politics that don't agree with our basic needs.

Speaker 1 (02:00:32):
Uh.

Speaker 28 (02:00:32):
When and I and I think when we see moments
like this where voters disrupt the status quo, uh, it
signals a hope that the tide is shifting, and the
shifting towards accountability and real representation, because we don't see
that happening in Washington today, and we're seeing that people
aren't afraid to challenge power face to face, and that's

(02:00:53):
the power. And I think that's a powerful sign of
democratic engagement. And I hope, I hope that it that
it that it like in this you know, continues in
this this cycle of resistance, and I think it's a
good sign. It's a good sign that conservatives are reaching
their breaking point. But my hope is that when the
ballot box comes about in midterm elections, that we can
see a tie where we can see our true values

(02:01:16):
we reflected in Congress.

Speaker 45 (02:01:19):
Andrew, Andrew Roland, you have been working hard, and it
seems like the tide is changing. When I see people
with US Army hats on yelling at their Republican leaders
that they elected into office about the policies that are

(02:01:43):
now starting to affect them in their neighborhood. Because when
they elected these people, they didn't think that it was
going to affect them. They thought it was just gonna
affect people that look like us. Now it's starting to
hit home. At least farmers are starting to see the
issues out in now. They're affected.

Speaker 18 (02:02:02):
Now.

Speaker 30 (02:02:02):
When I see this, that tells me that twenty twenty six,
I'm hoping and I love that you're shedding light on
this because I think twenty twenty six that we're going
to see a change. There's way too much happening, and
it's not just about minorities that are being affected. It
is all Americans now, and I think that we all

(02:02:25):
need to be banning together to affect change and bring
in some new leadership.

Speaker 21 (02:02:32):
I mean, the one lady.

Speaker 4 (02:02:34):
Had a shirt on that said go factory yourself.

Speaker 30 (02:02:38):
That's how upset she is that she went online to
buy that shirt knowing that she's going on this town
hall to talk to.

Speaker 29 (02:02:47):
Representative Flood.

Speaker 30 (02:02:48):
So the tide is changing and I'm very happy to
see this, And as a kudos to the hard work
that people just like you Roland are doing. So thank
you so much, dayan day out for fighting the system.
And we have a long road ahead of us. But
a clip like that shows that even in a place
like Nebraska, which we felt like we had no shot

(02:03:10):
at that in twenty twenty six, I feel like the
tide is going to be changing.

Speaker 4 (02:03:15):
People are fed up. Yep, absolutely all right. Jake's last story,
BT is announced the Soul Train.

Speaker 12 (02:03:27):
And the BT Hip Hop Awards are being indefinitely canceled
mid Rady decline and the shift in streaming. Scott mel
the CEO of BT, said to Billboard explain the network's decisions,
said they're not canceling the awards permanently, but may shift
two different platforms. Now Gordon to Pew, eighty three percent

(02:03:48):
of Americas use streaming services rather than cable TV.

Speaker 4 (02:03:52):
Court cutting is real.

Speaker 12 (02:03:53):
But also don't think for a second that the attacks
on DEI is not playing a part of this, because
a lot of those sponsors are no longer supporting black content.
All Right, folks, that is it for us, Tyler Andrew,
thanks for being today's panel.

Speaker 4 (02:04:08):
Certainly appreciated, folks.

Speaker 12 (02:04:09):
I'm here in Cleveland for fifty the anniversary of the
National Association of Black Journalist convention. Lots going on here,
so we're doing our part course and I'm running for
office Vice President Digital. So if you're a n ABJ member,
you can cast your ballot. You go online until Friday.
Everything closes at five o'clock on Friday, so we'll look
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(02:04:32):
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Speaker 4 (02:04:39):
Folks, tomorrow the congo is gonna be sitting in for me.

Speaker 12 (02:04:42):
I was speaking at the same time to African Americans
in philanthropy in Chicago, and so look forward to that.

Speaker 4 (02:04:50):
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