Dem Wins Rock MAGA, Jeffries & Scott React, Trump Filibuster Push, Memphis Fear Grows

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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Today's Wednesday, the fifth, twenty twenty five coming up on
Rolling Unfiltered, streaming live on the Blackstar Network. Massive wins
for Democrats on the election day will be joined by
House Democratic Leader Hakim Jeffries also Virginia House Speak of
the House Don Scott talking about those victories and what
is next. The twice in peach criminal convicted fellow in

(00:40):
the Chief, Donald the con Trump wants Republicans to get
rid of the Senate filibuster rule and move swiftly to
pass voter reform After Tuesday losses ain't gonna happen. Play
up the Supreme Court Court heard or arguments in the
legality of Donald Trump's tears imposed by as first of
all Donald Trump's tears and whether he as the authority

(01:01):
to impose them. A pro public reporter will explain how
black folks and Memphis are not feeling safe. Hiss Thubal
troops and the same task force have been patrolling the streets.
Plus a white Ohio police officer is facing a jury
for killing a black pregnant woman suspected of shoplifting. It's
time to bring the park. I'm rolling, Martin Filcher on
the Black stud Network let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
He's got whatever, whatever it is he's got, he's right
on time, and best believe he's going.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
From the posts to politics were entertainment.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Just skase, he's.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Gets roll, he's punky, stress, she's real good question. No,
he's still.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
And Memphis National Guard troops to more than thirty local, state,
and federal agencies have descended upon the streets of that
city as a result of the orders of the twice
Inpeach criminally convicted, fellon in chieved down the con Trump,
of course, partnery tendency Governor Bill Lee. The order has
some folks of Memphis saying the effort has made them
feel less safe, describing indiscriminate and intimidating and encounters with

(02:36):
law enforcement. As of October twenty ninth, the task task
Force reports one thousand, seven and forty four arrest. Officials
admit they do not track the racial democratics of those
stop or detain folks at Pro Publica publish an article
called I Don't Feel Safe. Black Memphis residents report harassment
by Trump's police Task Force. Whinnie Thomas is one of

(02:59):
the investigators on the story. Wendy joins us right now.
Wendy how's going.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
It's going well, thanks for.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
On all right, So what the hell is going on?

Speaker 6 (03:10):
Well, we're about a month in now to the Safe
Memphis Task Force, Memphis Safe Task Force, which has been
on the ground since September twenty ninth. We're talking about
thirty one law enforcement agencies, everything ranging from Tennessee.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
Wildlife Resource Agency to FBI atf.

Speaker 6 (03:30):
All your alphabet boys here in Memphis, ostensibly to fight
violent crime. But what we found out from our reporting
is that a lot of regular, ordinary folks are getting
ensnared in those task force operations just as folks were.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Going about their daily business.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Okay, and see this is the same that happened in DC.
So the setup is all they're coming to focus on
violent crime and they end up making a whole bunch
of small arrest.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
Yeah, we're seeing some of that same thing here. The data,
as you mentioned in the intro, coming out from the
Task Force is really spotty, and so it's hard to
get like a complete picture of.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
What's going on.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
But some of the data that we do have show
that there were this is about maybe two weeks ago,
they had made I'm going to say, around fifteen hundred
arrest but that's off of I think it was eight
hundred arrest. Actually, we after more than four thousand traffic stops,
and so what we're seeing is there are a lot
of a lot of traffic stops, usually initiated by Tennessee
Highway Control that then the Feds are showing up afterwards

(04:34):
and going further. And there's a concern that a lot
of these stops are pretextual stops.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Okay, and so what are people saying and are they
reporting this to anyone in terms of them feeling unsafe
and so how that are how they're tracking those complaints.

Speaker 6 (04:53):
That's a good question how those complaints are being tracked
because it is so many different federal agencies, and often
the federal officer are not wearing identifying clothing, so you
don't even know necessarily what agency it is that has
stopped you, and so I think that's.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
A barrier to following complaints.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
I'm hearing a lot of complaints from folks on the
street who were concerned about these stops.

Speaker 7 (05:15):
But as far as.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
Some kind of like formal government reporting database, I'm not
I'm not aware of one.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Okay, what here you got? You know, largely black city council.
You got a black mayor, Paul Young. We still wait
for him to come on this show to talk about this. Here,
you've got black city council members. What do they say?

Speaker 6 (05:33):
Uh, well, the Memphis City Council, some of the members
on there did try to introduce a resolution asking for
kind of just a it really was just going to
be a pro former statement, wouldn't be binding in any
way to oppose the National Guard coming. And the majority
black city council, a majority Democrat, was able to get
was able to get enough votes to pass that that motion.

(05:55):
And I think there are residents in the community, particularly
community activists.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
Organizers, who are really disappot it by that.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
It was going to be purely symbolic, purely symbolic, and
that you can't get a majority elected body in a
majority black city to support that, I think with disappointing.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
The council member that brought that forward was JB.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
Smiley and he's actually running for a county mayor and
so it'll be interesting to see how these.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Dynamics play out in the political space in next year's
county races.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
So any idea how long will this federal intervention last?
Is there a deadline.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
That's a good question.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
The governor of Tennessee, Bill Leeds, a Republican, has said
that while the surge of officers will decline at some point,
he expects the coordination with the task force to last forever.
Forever was the word that he used. And so I
think that is also creating a great deal of uncertainty
among residents.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
Who feel like they're being surveilled, like is this going
to be.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
A permanent thing or will there be some end to this?

Speaker 5 (07:02):
Insight?

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Wow, that is obviously a whole lot community groups, civil
rights groups. Are they mobilizing, organizing, or are they doing
anything to help residents?

Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yeah, you know, Memphis has a great traditional tradition of
protesting and activism.

Speaker 5 (07:20):
Of course, the organization that.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
I founded eight years ago, MLK fifty Justice through Journalism,
is in the memory and honor of doctor Martwminth King,
who of course came to Memphis to support striking sanitation workers.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
And so we have that tradition and legacy here in.

Speaker 6 (07:37):
Memphis, and so you have seen community organizers rise up
around that.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
There's specifically there's a campaign called free the nine on one.
Nine on one is the area.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
Code here in Memphis, and that's a coalition I think
more than twenty organizations that have come together to protest
what they see as an occupation and militarization of Memphis.
And I think one of their primary concerns is that
no one disputes.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Roland that crime is high in Memphis.

Speaker 8 (08:04):
No one disputes that.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
I think the challenge becomes in what is the solution
to that?

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Is it just police?

Speaker 5 (08:11):
Is it just more law enforcement?

Speaker 6 (08:12):
And I think the Free the nine on One campaign
would want to see more examination of the root causes
of crime, particularly poverty in a city that still has
a really high poverty rate, and so they're looking at
things like violence, interruption, more investment in education, mental health care,
health care access, mass transit, and those kind of broader

(08:34):
solutions I think have been absent the commerciation that's been
dominated by Task Force, federal agents, and.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
What some feel as a militization of this community.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Our panels Rebecca Caruther's president's CEO Fairy Elections Center out
of DC. Also joining us is Cameron Trimble's CEO Hip
Politics and Media and Florable House and advisor Neomb Carter
as Socialate Professional School of Public Policy, University of Mayor
and author of American while Black African Americans Immigration, the
limits of citizenship. Rebecca your question for Wendy.

Speaker 9 (09:08):
I'm Wendy as thank you for being on the show tonight.

Speaker 10 (09:11):
As we prepare for next year, I'm thinking about how
midterms elections have started right now and you're talking about
your city and a lot of people feeling scared. Do
you think there's going to be an impact in civic
engagement over the next twelve months. I mean, I hear
you about how community is doing different community care things,

(09:31):
but what is the policy action that people are going
to be pressed to move a.

Speaker 9 (09:38):
In response to what's happening in Memphis right now?

Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, I think you will see.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
I mean, I'm not a polster, I'm just an investigative journalist,
but I would be surprised if this did not result
in more political involvement here in Memphis. You know, we
are gearing up for more local races, county Commission, school board,
and so while not necessarily statewide races, we are gearing

(10:04):
up for that, and I think we're looking for a
lot of residents are looking to see where candidates are
standing on some.

Speaker 8 (10:10):
Of these key issues.

Speaker 6 (10:11):
Are they looking for more holistic solutions to crime or
do they favor an approach that the Trump and Bill
Lee and other Republicans are offering here.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
So it'll be interesting to see.

Speaker 11 (10:22):
Cameron, thank you this this is a really interesting report question.
What areas has this presence increased? Like I visit visit Memphis,
often have family there, and it feels like this is
a I mean, as it was here for us in
d C. An intimidation tactic, or it's something just showing force.

(10:47):
Like is this like just limited to say the high
traffic areas like a Bill Street in downtown or are
they really focusing on a lot of the black neighborhoods
or low income neighborhoods.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
Yeah, I think that's that's an excellent question.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
I was actually at the Grizzlies game on Monday and
walk down Bill Street and you know saw I think
it was three or four Memphis Police officers, mounted police
officers on horses, some FBI agents, Homeland Security agents, and
then National guardsmen at every kind.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
Of corner around there. And so you are seeing that
heavy presence.

Speaker 6 (11:20):
Downtown on Bill Street in a tourist area, but you're
also seeing it in a lot of Hispanic neighborhoods along
corridors where there are a lot of Hispanic or immigrant
owned communities. You are seeing it in some of the
higher crime neighborhoods, but in a lot of the lower
crime and predominantly white neighborhoods, to be frankly, you're not

(11:40):
seeing that sort of presence, and so I think it's
it's almost like the blind men and the elephant, right,
And so there are segments of the community that aren't
seeing any sort of increased law enforcement presence, and so
I think for them it's really easy to feel like
it's not a militarization.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
But then for others of us who are seeing that constantly,
I think the moor can concerned.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
About what this means, what public safety really looks like Miami.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
Thank you, Wendy. I was just curious about how you
connect the presence of the National Guard and other things
along with the data centers, like how is Memphis being
used politically right now, not just in the state of Tennessee,
but nationally for other ends? Like how do you connect

(12:27):
these various I guess you could say experiments for lack
of a better word, on the city of Memphis.

Speaker 6 (12:34):
Yeah, it's really interesting that you bring up XAI and
data centers. XAI is Elon's musk vigfora into artificial intelligence.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
It's I think, the largest supercomputer in the world.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
That's what it's been built as.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
And it's been built in Southwest Memphis in a neighborhood
that has already suffered a lot of environmental pollution, environmental racism.

Speaker 7 (12:56):
And actually the.

Speaker 6 (12:57):
Story that I wrote before this task for a story
was about that data center and the Chamber of Commerces
role in kind of smoothing the plast for Elon, Musk and.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
XI to come here. As far as some kind of.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
Larger plan, you know, I am not personally aware of one,
but I think that there are a lot of residents
who do feel like Memphis is somehow become a focus.
I don't want to say necessarily a.

Speaker 9 (13:22):
Target, but that maybe richer people have.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
Noticed and aware of some of the advantages the community has,
particularly our water supply.

Speaker 6 (13:33):
We have an amazing aquifer under here, and data centers
need a lot of water. Right A lot of people
don't think it's a mistake that Elon is here, and
they wonder if this expanded military presence is in part
to protect property and these capital investments and not necessarily
the people who live here in this community.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Well right then, all right, when did we surely appreciate
that keep us a breast to what happens.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
Of course, thank you so much, Rowan, all.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Right, thanks a bounch. All right, folks, going to a break,
we come back. Lots to talk about. Continuing drama in
DC would go to shut down. Also, of course, a
huge election last night. Lots to talk about there we're
gonna be drained by a Democratic House leader, Ho King, Jeffries,
Virginia's Peak of the House, Don Scott. It's a whole
lot to cover, folks. You're watching roland Mark gunfiltered right

(14:23):
here on the blackstud Network.

Speaker 12 (14:28):
If in this country right now you have people get
up in the morning and the only thing they can
think about is how many people they can hurt, and
they got the power.

Speaker 13 (14:38):
That's the time for morning, for better or worse.

Speaker 14 (14:41):
What makes America special, it's that legal system that's supposed
to protect.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Minorities from the tyranny of the majority.

Speaker 15 (14:49):
We are at a point of a moral emergency. We
must raise a voice of outrage, We must raise a
voice of compassion.

Speaker 7 (15:00):
And we must raise a voice of unity.

Speaker 12 (15:04):
We are not in a crisis of party versus party.
We are in a crisis of civilization, a human rights crisis,
and a crisis of democracy itself.

Speaker 8 (15:14):
And guess what. You've been chosen to make sure that.

Speaker 12 (15:20):
Those that would destroy, those that would hate, don't have
the final say, and they don't ultimately win.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
I am LaBelle Crawford downy uarre bot tie to day
because I wanted to breathe. And you're watching Roland Martin unfiltered.
All right, folks. Last night, huge, huge election took place
all across the country, a lot of races, one hundred

(15:52):
and nine different elections, statewide, races, county, racist, judicial, racist,
you name it. And if you spent in any time
on Elon Musks Twitter, you know, because he's been force
speeding the right wing to all of our accounts. Oh
my god, the tears, Oh the orange tears. It has
been hilarious to sit here and listen to all of

(16:16):
these people. Look look at this right here, my iPad,
Look at this here, and I just pulled it up. Y'all.
You got chip Roy Texas. If Texas fells, America fails,
the Muslim Brotherhood sees Dallas's ground zero for spreading Islamism
across the West. There are planning seats in Texas and
we need to root them out now. Then, had Republicans
stuck with Mark Robinson post scandal like Democrats did Jay

(16:39):
Jones post scandal, we probably could have salvaged some down
ballot races and while still losing the governorship, just saying
let's see here, where we go? Let me see help
about this one?

Speaker 16 (16:48):
Here?

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Here we go again. What about laws against fraud? Why
is no one enforcing them? Pam BONDI win some series.
Virginia has probably been stolen. Yeah, that's why you don't
have your law license, Sydney Powell. Let's see. Oh my goodness,
look at this here, Matt Walsh. That racist. This is
the enemy, wretched, evil parasites motivated by resentment and hatred,

(17:10):
openly plotting to erase our culture an identity and replace
it with a dystopian communist hodgepodge of third world dysfunction.
This is the fight for now, in the future. Get
in the game. This is it. They're all upset because
of this comment by Meddi Hassan. Let me go ahead
and actually play it. For you. This is what drove

(17:34):
Matt Walls crazy.

Speaker 16 (17:35):
Listen, everybody needs.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Well, said, I'm from the audio her Michael was jacked up.
But Meddi has said Americans have no culture except for multiculturalism.
Jennifer Welch to Meddi, she said, Americans have no culture
for multiculturalism. Crusty white people need to learn how to
embrace it. Toche, look at this here, because specially absent

(18:22):
from his list are Americans. Let's see here, Look at
this here, Look at this racist folks just admitted America
was a much better country when it was eighty five
percent white. And let me just go ahead and you
prove what's his name seventeen seventy six to to real

(18:51):
you know, I might support to do it that you
are a racist. Yes, I've been trolling their asses all day.
Look at this leftist student just flipped over a tp
USA table at University of Iowa. Iowa. Must charge the
spell her and make her famous. Let's see here, oh Zura, mom.
Donnie does four Nazi salutes in the row after his

(19:13):
New York City mayor victory speech. Isn't that what the
left plaims Elon did. We didn't make the rules. Hope
the left is consistent. Let's see here. Of course, No
Shock Steven A. Smith will be talking to Jim Jordan
and Mike Johnson on his show No Shock. He'll be
talking to Maga after the election. Let's see here. Oh,
look at old Curtis Hogg Hogan Ghettley on Democrats winning

(19:35):
in New Jersey, New York to crying high cost of living.
I think this is interesting because, as you know, prices
for gas and groceries down on a Donald Trump. That's
a lot inflations down on a Donald Trump. Hogan, that's
a lie. Interest Rachel coming down as well, that's a lie.
Come on, Hogan, you know better stop lying all they did.
I mean it's just niambi is I mean Twitter here

(19:56):
that they have been crying whiney you got, They're like,
and all of this here, Texas is full, Tolown's full,
Florida's full. Don't come here, y'all, stay in New York.
I mean the whining is amazing. I'm like, guess what
a hashtag team with that ass? Suck it up?

Speaker 4 (20:15):
Well, as you know, my father used to say, it's
no fun when the rabbit.

Speaker 13 (20:19):
Got the gun, right.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
I mean, look, This is politics, right. Sometimes you win,
sometimes you lose. But when you have a government shut down,
when you have people not getting paid, when you have
people who are furloughed, when you've laid off, you know,
thousands upon thousands of federal workers, and you keep telling
us there is no way we can afford snap. You

(20:40):
don't want to use the contingency fund, but you can
build a ballroom and you can send billions of dollars
to Argentina. You should not expect to win. You are
failing on every dimension. This is politics, pure and simple.
This is what happened when you know, quite frankly, Republicans won.
Republicans don't do half measures, right. They promised people a lot.

(21:04):
They told people what they were going to do, and
people voted for it. The same thing happened in New Jersey,
New York, Mississippi, and all these other places. People made
a promise and people voted for that promise. So this
is what happens in politics. You don't get to wind
and cry. You re up for the next election.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
I mean, I have been cracking up, laughing, Rebecca at
all of their whining. I mean, it's been the last
twenty four hours has been quite enjoyful. Roland.

Speaker 10 (21:42):
I'm in California today, and it's not every election that
California is to get to vote vote on something under
ballot that's going to impact the entire country. People are
fired up, ready to go. They're rolling up their sleeves
and like, bring twenty twenty six on. Look, you can't
cruel to people. You can't have ice agents and pickup

(22:05):
lines after school and ripping parents out of their front
seats while they're just trying to pick their kids up
from school. You cannot have a military military helicopter land
on top of an apartment building. You cannot not only
not fund snap benefits this month, but then make sure
that the remaining funds on the particular snap card is

(22:27):
turned off and doesn't work.

Speaker 8 (22:28):
It's not accessible, right.

Speaker 10 (22:30):
You can't do these things and not expect people to
react negatively to it. So I think this is what
we're seeing in this country right now. We're seeing that
Tanner has gotten so toxic and it's been driven by
the bully pulpit of this administration. And now last night
we had thirty United States and people took it out
on the ballot, and quite frankly, that's how you want

(22:53):
people to take it out.

Speaker 7 (22:55):
You want people to.

Speaker 10 (22:55):
Use the first their first amendment right to vote, to
respond to what's happen, and you don't want them to
get into those other amendments. And so you know, last
night we saw that many Americans went to the ballot
booth and said that they want to vote for the
democracy that they're yearning for, not the democracy that we've
had previously. They're not looking to vote for the satus quo,

(23:16):
but they're looking to vote for the future. And what
this whole experiment should look like.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Well, y'all to me that, well, I just think it's
been funny. It's just again that they're just losing their
shit and it's kind of like, sorry, excuse me, and
they're mad and guess what your can It sucked And

(23:43):
now as your cant the cannon suck. Cameron, he's what
also jumps out Trump like, oh, I'm bringing everything down
day one, all those lies people kind of like you
help playing what happened? So Biden got hurt, Harris got
hurt because of inflation the economy. Guess what now their turn?

(24:08):
When you're in power, guess what you get? The credit
things go wonderful. You get the blame these go bad.

Speaker 13 (24:17):
That's right.

Speaker 11 (24:18):
I think it always comes down to kind of the
economy stupid, you know that famous phrase. But it feels
good right now to get on social to see the joy.
I've seen so many different memes and so many different
things shared from around the country, even in states where
there weren't contentious selections and so forth, that people are

(24:39):
just feeling some joy.

Speaker 13 (24:41):
And I think we should revel in it for a
day or two. I love some of the historic wins.

Speaker 17 (24:46):
I know were so focused on Virginia, shout out to
Prop fifty, But when I think about some historic first,
like I'm actually here reporting from Syracuse, New York.

Speaker 11 (24:56):
Sharon Owens is the first black mayor in this city's history.
Was just elected last night. Albany elected a black woman mayor,
So there is also I think the black community has.

Speaker 13 (25:06):
A lot to be proud of, up and down the ballot.

Speaker 11 (25:09):
But I just want to offer not to tamper on
the parade, but the caution, like this is not a
time to just celebrate and let our foot off the gas.
This is our time to kind of double down, really
understand how we won this time, really understand how our
candidates won, what tactics worked, what we can learn in
this modern day and age. Because I still have a

(25:30):
little PTSD from the twenty twenty two midterms where we
saw a blue wave with Biden and we probably celebrated
a little bit too much and then we kind of
got whiplashed in twenty twenty four. So this is a
time where we must like continue our organize and continue
our double down on talk and folks continuing to show

(25:52):
up in these communities, showing up in our community and
black community, to continue the advertising blitz, like we've.

Speaker 13 (25:58):
Got to do more because the fight.

Speaker 11 (26:00):
Like while we see this as a great for like
a better term, I would say this is kind of
a great bell weather for twenty twenty six with Republicans,
And I'm sure Trump sees this as like, oh, my
tactics weren't working before. I might double down and make
it even harsher, like more voter intimidation, more ways to

(26:21):
strip and suppress votes. So I think we've got even
harder work ahead of us this year because they realize
how this blue wave and this black wave, I would
say that happened last night. There's believe you me they're
starting day one and looking for ways to reverse that
next year.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Oh man, listen, there's some people, you know who need
to recognize that. First of all, I do think you
have to you have to enjoy. You do have to
enjoy wins. Those things are important. And the reason I
think if they enjoy wins is because you deal with losing.

(27:02):
And I think, Rebecca, it's also momentum you build from that.
You see the freaking out of the right. You see
all of a sudden them going, hey, we got to
kind of start discussing affordability, and let's be real clear,
you're gonna see also them have to confront the government

(27:24):
shut down. Do y'all have the audio and live me
real clear. If you're Democrats, do me a favorite. Do
not listen to people like Charlemagne the God. Okay, So
Charlemagne was talking about this government shut down and he
made a comment as related to what Democrats should be doing.

(27:46):
Y'all have that? Okay, play it you what I don't.

Speaker 18 (27:51):
Understand, mem and I don't know, maybe you can explain
it to me that the healthcare is gonna go up
anyway because of the big beautiful bill, because that didn't
include the extension of the tax credits to keep the
cost down. So if it's going up anyway, what's the
point of Democrats taking the stand to keep the government
still close?

Speaker 19 (28:07):
At this point, you're right because the premiums which the
open enrollment started, what last this weekend November first, and
so people are getting those letters in the mail. In fact,
one person in Utah, a woman in Utah, she told
ABC News that she opened her bill and saw that
her monthly premium had already jumped from about four hundred
dollars a month Charlemagne to over two thousand dollars a month.

(28:29):
And so at this point, it's like, what's going to happen?
Is it retroactive? Like how is this going to work
as we continue to go forward? So you're absolutely right,
and the.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Premiums are set for a year.

Speaker 18 (28:39):
So at this point, if the premiums have already gone up,
if they set for a year, at least give the
people some relief and get the government back open.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Do not listen to what the hell he just said?
That to me is beyond idiotic, because this battle that
we're seeing is not solely about healthcare. Rebecca, I don't
know what the hell that was that was that was
just bullshit.

Speaker 10 (29:08):
Look what I heard was an exchange of two people
who don't understand how this works. So what they're talking
about are the health insurance premiums that are.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
In the marketplace.

Speaker 9 (29:18):
The marketplaces are the state exchanges.

Speaker 10 (29:20):
The state exchanges is because of Obamacare aka the Affordable
Care Act.

Speaker 9 (29:24):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 10 (29:25):
Those premiums are effective January one, twenty twenty six.

Speaker 9 (29:29):
You get about sixty days notice in most states.

Speaker 10 (29:32):
Some states put out their new expected premiums back in October,
some kind of at the end of September.

Speaker 9 (29:38):
But this is giving notice of hey, if you.

Speaker 10 (29:40):
Continue at the level of health insurance plan that you have,
this is what you're going to start to pay effective
January one. And so the erroneous I mean, this isn't
just misinformation here. This starts to like, this is intentional disinformation.
And for the audience, disinformation is where you have bad,
misleading information that's intentional targeted to a certain demographic.

Speaker 9 (30:02):
The demographic here is black voters.

Speaker 10 (30:03):
The reason why is the black voters are the base
of the Democratic Party.

Speaker 7 (30:08):
Right now, the.

Speaker 10 (30:08):
Democrats are in are in locksteps saying that no, we're
not going to give you the votes that you need
in order to end this government shut down. You Republicans
need to come to us and work out a deal.
And so by trying to talk to black folks, so
then black folks can then talk to Democratic members of
the House and Democratic members of the Senate to get
Democrats to back down.

Speaker 9 (30:28):
That's what Charlol Maine is trying to do here.

Speaker 10 (30:30):
What should happen if I was advising the Democratic Party
is tell them, hey, look, there's some Republicans who have
introduced Clean Resolution plus extension of the health insurance.

Speaker 9 (30:44):
Credits.

Speaker 10 (30:45):
Sorry, not health insurance credits, but some of the discounts
that the government will pay, so people aren't paying those
exorbitant health insurance prices starting January one. So this is
disinformation that we're seeing that Charlotta Maine is doing. This
is not just mistaken information. This is intentional going after
black voters.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Niambi. The reason I think is bad advice is because
when you are in political battles, you maximize your leverage,
and when you're fighting on behalf of people, they understand
that there are people who are not getting benefits. They
know they're federal workers who are not getting their paychecks
as well. But there also are dealing with an administration

(31:26):
that's been slashing and burning and firing people indiscriminately as well.
So all this is wrapped up. So what you do
not do is you do not capitulate. You do not
back down, you don't go on, well, you know what, Hey,
we're just going ahead and pack it in. No, you
try to get as much as you can.

Speaker 16 (31:47):
Well.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
Absolutely, and this is why Wendy Williams sidekick should not
be trusted with political information. I have long had a
beef with charlotmade so let's just stop there. But I
will say this is the exact point. This is why
people need to do what it is that they do well.
And when you don't understand health insurance or politics, you
don't do that. You do entertainment news. Because what this

(32:10):
is about is the fact that Republicans say want those
premiums to go up, and want them to go up permanently.
That's why we're in this shutdown fight. That's why it's protracted.
It is not on Democrats to just say, well, we'll
give up everything so we can just open the government.
That's not going to do anything for people. Come January

(32:31):
when those insurance premiums go into effect. And the reason
that people have been able to enjoy healthcare through the
Affordable Care Act exchanges has largely been because of this subsidizing.
And we did it during COVID, we can continue doing it.
Republicans don't want to do it because they want to
transfer money to their wealthy donors in the wealthy class.

(32:52):
That is the conversation. And if you're not having that conversation,
then you're not being sincere, and you are certainly doing
a disc service to the millions of listeners who come
on that show, and this might be the only bit
of political news they get. And some of those very
same listeners are getting their insurance through these exchanges. So
this is irresponsible at best, it's mouthfeasans at worst. And

(33:16):
I think this is what burns me up about this
kind of stuff is because expertise has gone out the window,
good journalism has gone out the window in favor of entertainment.
These are people's real lives. Charlemagne will be able to
pay for insurance any day of the week. He is
a wealthy man, but most people who have to rely

(33:36):
on these exchanges will not be able to do the
same if the Democrats cave in and give the Republicans
what they want right now, which is to have those
premiums go up and have them go up with permanently essentially.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
And when you are winning, when you are winning the argument,
when you are controlling the narrative of Cambell Cameron, you
don't just say here you go take it away.

Speaker 13 (34:05):
No, I mean, I.

Speaker 11 (34:07):
Think this is this is politics one on one.

Speaker 13 (34:12):
Unfortunately, like the pain is very real.

Speaker 11 (34:15):
Across the country due to the government shutdown, the pain
is very real. State to stated, so many millions of
people of all races are being hurt by snap benefits.
The pain is really real for travelers who have hours
and hours of weights and delays because of TSA workers
and air traffic controllers are not getting paid. It is

(34:37):
definitely impacting even my own family. My sister's a nurse
in the military. She has not received her paycheck. I've
got plenty of friends who are active duty who are
not receiving their paychecks. But all that aside, we have
complained and we have seen how Trump has slashed education budgets,
slashed health care budgets, has done so much to eliminate

(35:02):
tens of thousands of jobs, not just in the government,
and then all the ecosystems that when those government jobs,
it's not just the person in the house loses their jobs.
The restaurants, they go to, the childcare center. They could
afford to used to send their kids to the now
they can't. So many other people are affected when all
of these folks are losing their jobs.

Speaker 13 (35:22):
And Democrats for once have both the narrative on their
side because guess what.

Speaker 11 (35:27):
Republicans control the House, They control the Senate, they control
the White House, and even though this is supposed to
be a nonpartisan, they control the Supreme Court as well.
So they have all the levers of power that it
is on them to come up with something to if
they want to really reopen the government. But they realize
that it is so untenable, especially when these ACA subsidies

(35:49):
end at the end of the year and they are
hearing it in their.

Speaker 13 (35:52):
Districts that.

Speaker 11 (35:54):
I can't afford a fifty hundred and fifty percent increase
in my health care. I'm going to have to come
off of healthcare. And then I hopefully I keep a job.
I hope that I keep my job that may be
subsidized in healthcare, and small businesses and large businesses are
looking at at what levels they're going to fund their
employees healthcare because those costs are going on. So this

(36:16):
is an opportunity where they need to do and at
the Democratic Party, and I think they've been doing a
good job. They can continue to even do better and
do more to educate people on exactly why the government
is shut down, what they are fighting for, and what
they hope to see if they if the Republicans are
to expect any votes from Democrats to reopen the government.

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Also top of the hour, we hear from Virginia Speak
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Speaker 1 (38:48):
Because I said, huge wins last night for Democrats, Virginia,
New Jersey, local racest, school board races, all across the country,
and it bodes well heading to twenty twenty six. Joining
us right now is House Democratic Leader how King Jeffrey
is glad to have you on the show. This was
interesting with last night, and we've already seen it. You

(39:08):
got the Right and Fox News, they all go on
the face of the Democratic Party is zoram Mam Donnie
last night checked you had Mary Sheffield Detroit, Wayne last
night you had as cameras earlier, a sister in Syracuse,
assistant Albrety in New York. You had a Democrat in Cincinnati,
a Democrat in Pittsburgh, Andre Dickens in Atlanta, in incumbent

(39:33):
one in Cleveland. So this idea that you only had
one person win mayor last night who's a Democrat is
kind of stupid.

Speaker 21 (39:44):
Absolutely, Democrats won across the country and up and down
the ballot and decisively. Now, the thing that connected these
Democratic victories are one and embraced by the American people,
or the fact of the fact that we're focused.

Speaker 13 (39:59):
On the issues that matter, driving down the high cost
of living.

Speaker 21 (40:02):
Life has become more expensive under Donald Trump and Republican policies,
not less expensive, despite their promise to lower costs on
day one.

Speaker 7 (40:10):
We're focused on driving down the high cost of living.

Speaker 13 (40:13):
That was the case in New York.

Speaker 21 (40:14):
City, that was the case in New Jersey, that was
the case in Virginia, and across the country with the
mayors that you mentioned who successfully won all across America.
And of course we're going to stay on the case
as it relates to protecting the health care of the
American people and decisively addressing the Republican healthcare crisis. It
was also a rejection of Republican extremism, their assault on

(40:37):
all the things, including the economy, on voting rights, on
nutritional assistance, on veterans, on farmers, on the American way
of life, on law abiding immigrant communities, and of course
on democracy itself. So it was a big night for
the American people, and of course was a big night
for the Democratic Party, not you.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Know, not just that. And when we talk about races,
and again we spent a lot of time. Everybody, obviously
was focused on these state wide races, Cheryl winning the
governor's race in New Jersey, Span Burger in Virginia, and
of course Jay Jones, Attorney General in Virginia, the lieutenant
governor as well. But well, the thing that also jumps
out to me, this is a head gol by iPad.

(41:19):
This is the headline Charlotte Observer. Charlotte's Blue Wave tells
a national story on Donald Trump, and it details what
happened last night all across from North Carolina. Democrats also
won local races. You get the three Supreme Court races
in Pennsylvania. And so the mistake that I think people
make is that they say, well, New Jersey very blue,

(41:41):
Virginia somewhat blue. But you have to also look at
local when you start seeing big wins in school board races,
DA races, city council races, seats flipping. You saw it.
Look two wins in Mississippi where they broke the Republican
super majority of there as well. That also speaks to

(42:03):
the mood of the people on the ground. And everybody
keeps focusing on DC as opposed to what's happening locally.

Speaker 13 (42:11):
There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 21 (42:12):
And what we saw was a high degree of democratic energy,
independent voters swinging in our direction decisively, and of course,
communities that Republicans thought they had a chokehold on in
terms of the support of the Latino community broke back
towards Democrats, Working class Americans breaking back toward Democrats, young people,

(42:36):
young white males breaking toward Democrats.

Speaker 13 (42:39):
And this is happening all across America.

Speaker 21 (42:42):
In Onondaga County, which is in central New York, the
control of the state legislature was flips the first.

Speaker 7 (42:49):
Time in forty years.

Speaker 21 (42:51):
In Georgia, we saw Democrats win statewide office for the
first time in twenty years.

Speaker 7 (43:00):
Pennsylvania, a state that.

Speaker 21 (43:01):
Donald Trump just won, the Democratic candidates who are on
the ballot for the state Supreme Court, three of them,
one decisively. You mentioned Roland, what happened in Mississippi in
terms of breaking the Republican supermajority.

Speaker 7 (43:15):
This is a story that has occurred all across the country.

Speaker 21 (43:18):
And the California ballot initiative was incredibly significant in that
turnout was higher in many parts of the state for
Prop fifty to stop Trump from stealing the election than
it had been last November in a presidential election.

Speaker 13 (43:34):
That is unheard of. That's democratic energy.

Speaker 21 (43:37):
That's the American people recognizing we're in the midst of
a national nightmare and the only way to turn things
around is to throw Republican extremists out of office.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
There being a couple of reports that have come out
and last week or so saying that Democrats should be
focusing on centrist ideas and leaving identy politics, all kinds
of stuff along those lines, And this is what we
said last night. Zoron Mamdani ran an unbelievable campaign in
New York where he was focused on affordability in the

(44:11):
needs of the people. If you take a Span Burger
or a Cheryl, they run a centrist race. If you
take someone is another part of the country, you run
a different race. I think it's dumb when these and
I'm just gonna say it, when these largely white Democratic
strategists sit around and say this is how Democrats have
to run. No, you run based upon the makeup of

(44:36):
your congressional district, your state, or your state, how your
state district or your state Senate. It's I think it's
dumb to think that there's only one way to do it.
There are gonna be some places that are more progressive
than others, some places more centrist than others. And so
to me, you find the candidate who runs according to

(44:58):
their district and not some cookie cu Matt.

Speaker 21 (45:01):
I think that's exactly right Roland, And it's intellectually lazy
when some of these so called consultants think that there's
a one size fits all approach in a country that
is the most diverse in the history of the world,
across the fifty states and the multiple jurisdictions. And so

(45:22):
for us, however, I think what's going to be critical
as we are recruiting candidates to flip seats and take
back the House next year, is that those candidates and
their life experiences authentically match the districts that they hope
to represent, because, after all, the House of Representatives was
designed by the Framers to be the institution closest to

(45:44):
the American people, to reflect the hopes, the dreams, the aspirations,
the fears, the concerns, the anxieties, and the passions of
the American people. And they're four hundred and thirty five
congressional districts, and everyone is going to be different.

Speaker 7 (45:58):
That doesn't mean that we can't unite a.

Speaker 21 (46:00):
Frame of dealing with the issues that matter to the
American people, and for us, of course, that's making life
more affordable.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
We saw a lot, we saw significant black turnout last
night in Virginia, in New Jersey as well. What I
also look at last night, and matter of fact, a
lot of people were concerned about mom Donnie in New York.
Looks based upon the polling data, the highest percentage of
votes he got last night were African Americans. And again

(46:29):
I think last night, well last night says again, I'm
gonna say it again to those Democrats, white Democratic strategists,
they better understand you better put time, money and resources
into your base voters, black women, black men, young people,
reaching those folks, because if you turn out your base voters,

(46:51):
then you have a better shot as opposed to trying
to appeal to folks who are not your base. Go
after New York City. Look at those numbers, those low
propensity voters, those young voters who set out that means
a message and a candidate appealing to them. That's the
strategy to victory. Your thoughts, Yeah, for us to.

Speaker 21 (47:10):
Win elections, particularly as it relates to taking back the
House of Representatives.

Speaker 7 (47:13):
We have to do two things, keep the base.

Speaker 21 (47:16):
Energized and move swing voters in our direction. But the
foundation for any electoral success, to your point, Rowland, is
to make sure we have an energized base.

Speaker 7 (47:27):
And at the heart of that energized base are African.

Speaker 21 (47:31):
American women who once again delivered for Democratic candidates all
across the country up and.

Speaker 13 (47:39):
Down the battle.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
Last question for you, I played a clip earlier Charla
Manna God made his comment saying that Democrats should back
off what's happening with healthcare in the House and just
go ahead and in his government shut down. I called
it pretty much stupid and idiotic because I said, you're
fighting for millions of people. This is a life and
death matter when it comes to this shutdown. Did last

(48:03):
night put more wind in your sales to keep fighting?

Speaker 13 (48:07):
Yeah, We're going to.

Speaker 7 (48:07):
Continue to stay in this fight until we win this fight.
And we've made Claire.

Speaker 21 (48:10):
Look, we'll sit down with our colleagues on the other
side of the aisle anytime any place to reopen the
government to an active spending agreement that makes life better
for the American people while decisively addressing the Republican healthcare
crisis that's crushing people all across America. We've got to
ensure that we extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits.
Otherwise tens of millions of people are going to experience

(48:33):
dramatically increase healthcare premiums, copays, and deductibles.

Speaker 7 (48:36):
And it's unfortunate that some are parenting.

Speaker 21 (48:40):
Maga extremist Donald Trump like talking points.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Twenty seconds left that you have you call Speak of
the House Don Scott of Virginia to say, bruh. Even
though your cap is an alpha hell of a job
picking up thirteen seats.

Speaker 21 (48:54):
Don Scott is a great legislative leader, one of the
best in the country. He and I are in closed touch.
Of course, congratulated him. Your crap, brother, We'll all united
on this man.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
No, he pledged. He planed the same chapter, same chapter,
Texas A and M. That's my piled brother.

Speaker 21 (49:11):
He's a good man at Texas A and M and
doing that thing right now on football too.

Speaker 13 (49:14):
Roman.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Yes, sir, well, we appreciate it. He's actually up next,
and so we appreciate you joining us. Appreciate you all right,
thanks a lot, uh real quick to the panel here, listen,
this is about winning. And uh, the point there that
Democratic Leader Jeffers made, I think is important. Cameron screwed

(49:36):
these consultants forget this, you gotta do this, you gotta
do that. That speech mom Donny Last said last night
he didn't give a shit about people talking about Oh no,
don't do dentity politics. He said, he named people and again,
you run based upon your district A Connor Lamb. He
was in Congress. His district ain't the same as the

(49:58):
Maxine Waters, a Sanford bishop in Georgia. His district isn't
the same as the King of Williams. People just got
to understand that.

Speaker 11 (50:09):
No, yeah, I mean, as a consultant myself, who's who's
had to fight that fight Internally, people get a risk averse.

Speaker 13 (50:18):
I mean, you know, I'm here.

Speaker 11 (50:20):
I served as the director of Digital Engagement and in the.

Speaker 13 (50:24):
Biden White House, and I run a digital firm.

Speaker 11 (50:28):
And there's so much and there's so many people who
are scared, too scared to do anything outside of what
was approved in the last cycle, or anything outside of
outside of the Norman They don't realize they candidates and
the folks that are closest to the ground closest to
the districts understand the voice of the people. They understand

(50:48):
who the real validators are. They understand how to reach
and talk to their voters. This is not a national campaign.
This even though this is a national wave, these are
a national energy that has been siphoned and and and
that has been siphoned to individual UH votes and districts.
And I think what would hopefully soon to be Speaker

(51:10):
UH but Minority Leader A Kim.

Speaker 13 (51:12):
Jeffries UH said there is.

Speaker 11 (51:14):
That, and I really hope that his caucus and others
recruit candidates and support early investment and candidates and early
investments in talking to the black community. Black folks are
the base of the Democratic Party, hard stop. So we
can't come in and start asking for votes in August,
in September, October with just GOOTV. We need to continue

(51:38):
to stay in community, continue to show up, continue to
communicate aggressively across all channels, both in real life and
in advertising, and authentically UH community community.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
The thing, the thing from here, in the here, not
in the yombi, is authentic. Candidates with an authentic message
can win. And if I am a Democratic candidate around
the country, I would be shut the hell I would
shut the hell up complaining about a Mam Donnie, and
I would be studying every aspect of his campaign to

(52:11):
say how did he do it?

Speaker 4 (52:15):
But I think this is a point that you've made
time and time again.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Roland.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
We've talked about this before. One thing, you can never
forget that all politics is local.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
And one of the things that Mom Donnie did say,
I care about the people of New York City. I'm
not talking about this international stuff. I'm not doing this
over here. I'm talking about what my constituents in New
York City care about, affordability, childcare, food right. All of
these things are local things. And yes, does it have

(52:45):
national implication, sure, but you have to think about where
you live. Spamberger worked in Virginia because that is what
Virginia wanted, that is what Virginia needed. A more modern
democrat Mam Donnie wouldn't have worked there. And I think
think one of the things that we come to over
and over again is that people forget about the local,

(53:06):
right Tip O'Neil said it, or popularize it. And it's
been an adage for a reason, Because I don't care
about what's happening in Washington, or what is happening in
California or some other place. I care about what is
happening right here right now. If my kids can eat,
if I can't afford childcare, I don't have access to transportation,

(53:30):
that's the stuff that is going to make a difference
in my life, not any of this other stuff that
you're telling me I should care about. And I think
consultants need to listen more and talk less. And one
of the things they have to absolutely do is spend
money on black media. We talk about this over and
over again. You cannot expect black people to keep coming
to the well when you don't want to spend any

(53:51):
of those ad dollars or any of that time in
our community.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
Again, Rebecca, focus on your base voters. That is your
starting point.

Speaker 10 (54:03):
So Roland on one side, in Kentucky, we heard the
stories about their Republican voters who thought that they were
having elections this year, and then they thought the New
York mayor's race was going to be on their ballot,
and these fake elections that they conjured up and thought
that they were having. But here's the reason why they
thought the New York's of the New York mayor's race
was going to be on the Kentucky ballot is because

(54:24):
the level of misinformation and disinformation that's coming from Fox,
from Oaan, from Newsmax, and from all of those conservative voices.

Speaker 9 (54:32):
So for anybody who's on the ballot in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 10 (54:35):
Listen to the would be voters that you're trying to court,
Listen to the things that they're asking, that they're saying
that they need an effective government, and then figure out
a plan to actually deliver those things to them. You
don't have to hire a bunch of consultant Instagram and
just tell you a bunch of national issues, but you
literally need to listen to your actual voters because, after all,

(54:56):
voters should be voting for Candidatesidates shouldn't be trying to
draw up who their rower is going to be in
order to get elected. But if people keep things simple,
they could win at the ballot next year.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
I've been talking about Virginia and my next guess, Old,
trust me, he is real happy today after massive pickups
last night in the Virginia House. Two years ago, there
was a narrow, narrow victory for House Democrats in Virginia.
Don Scott as a result, became the Speaker of the House.

(55:32):
Well this time ain't narrow at all. Some of the
biggest pickups in more than forty years. Solidifying his role
as Speaker of the House, he joins us, right now,
don First of all, congrat you got to be feeling
real good, man.

Speaker 14 (55:48):
If you had my hand you cut yours off. I'm
feeling real good. You know that were what really I
was just gonna say. You know, we did something historic
last night.

Speaker 8 (55:59):
It's been.

Speaker 14 (56:01):
This is the first time in three decades that Democrats
in Virginia's House of Delegates one.

Speaker 8 (56:06):
Back to back elections.

Speaker 14 (56:08):
We grew our majority by thirteen seats from fifty one
some majority fifty one to forty nine to a sixty
four to thirty six seat she lacking.

Speaker 8 (56:18):
And so I think we're in a very very good
place right now.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
B How did you do it? Because let's be real clear,
two years ago, you had a whole bunch of people
in Virginia questioning your strategy, telling you they knew what
was best in terms of how to win the House,
And even after you squeaked out the narrow margins last year,

(56:42):
they were still trying to tell you how it should
be done. And one of the things that you kept
saying is and which I was just talking about, is
focus on your base voters and drilled down as local
as you can.

Speaker 14 (56:58):
Well, you know what we did was you take a
look at our caucus, the folks that want it's probably
the most diverse set of folks ever. We got rid
of this outdated notion that minorities and women couldn't win
in these districts. We stopped looking at identity and started
looking at the people, whether they connected to the community.

(57:18):
We have five new members of our Black Caucus, taking
us about thirty seven members of the Black Caucaus out
of one hundred and forty members. We focused on getting
women into the caucus. We focused on the communities that
have been loyal to us and that we stay lawn
to them. But we also expanded our base and talk
to everybody. I tried to tell folks that black people,
Asian people, at team people, they want the same thing

(57:40):
white people want.

Speaker 13 (57:41):
They want good.

Speaker 14 (57:41):
Jobs, good schools, and they want to make sure that
they're being heard and that their dollars are being invested
in their communities the same way that everybody else does.
And when we won that narrow majority two years ago
with Joe.

Speaker 8 (57:54):
Biden in the White House and in Virginia, his.

Speaker 14 (57:57):
Approval ratings were similar to what Donald trum approval rating guard.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Now.

Speaker 14 (58:01):
We ran last time with a head when blocking keeping
us from going where we needed to go, but we won.
We were running with Governor Younkin was at a fifty
five fifty six percent approval rating, and we were still
able to win because we drilled down and focused on
those individual races and individual communities and got the majority.
This time, with Donald Trump in office and the chaos, confusion,

(58:22):
and cruelty that he's chosen to go forward with, we
had to win at our backs, and we were able
to communicate with folks that we cared about affordability, wanted
to make life better for Virginians and Virginias. They trusted
the Democrats to deliver, and you saw in almost every
we targeted fourteen the Republican health seats.

Speaker 8 (58:45):
Last night, we won.

Speaker 14 (58:46):
Thirteen of fourteen Republican health seats and the fourteenth that's
still not decided.

Speaker 8 (58:50):
It's still kind of balance.

Speaker 14 (58:52):
It's unheard of, it's unprecedented because we ran a very disciplined,
military style campaign.

Speaker 8 (58:58):
By campaign coach as an Army guy. I'm a Navy guy.

Speaker 14 (59:02):
We ran a campaign that was focused on discipline, that
was focused on turnout, that was focused on communication, and
we overperformed because we all communicated them in every single
race sometimes two x three x on.

Speaker 8 (59:16):
TV, on radio, on digital.

Speaker 14 (59:19):
That's what we did and that's how Democrats have a
blueprint to move forward through this next cycle.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
There were races you lost last time. Take Kimberly Pope
Adams fifty three votes last time. What did you then do?
Did you go back and say, look, let's figure out
where we lost, let's figure out the people who didn't
turn out, and did y'all really sit down and study

(59:45):
this thing pre seek by pre seek to understand that,
you know what, we need to hit this area a
lot harder to turn out because she didn't have a
close victory this year.

Speaker 8 (59:55):
She sure didn't.

Speaker 14 (59:55):
And that is exactly what we did Rowland in twenty
twenty one when she, I mean in twenty three, when
she lost, she lost by fifty three votes, and we
thought we did everything that we needed to do to
get the black community out.

Speaker 8 (01:00:09):
But we didn't.

Speaker 14 (01:00:10):
We went back, we looked at those precincts where our
black turnout was low. We looked at us that was
precincts for some of our marginalized communities were low. And
this time we were laser focused on hitting them over
and over again and letting them understand what was at stake,
and her turnout improved drastically in those communities, and then
she had a resounding victory or resounded victory. I thought

(01:00:32):
it was a privileged last night to be able to
call her and tell her that she had won.

Speaker 8 (01:00:37):
I was the first one to call her to say, you.

Speaker 14 (01:00:39):
Have won, and our numbers and our modeling you will
win this election. You can call it and you just
hear screaming because she had been running for four years
and the type of relief and satisfaction that she had
was amazing.

Speaker 8 (01:00:54):
You have to spend some time with her.

Speaker 14 (01:00:56):
She's an amazing young lady and we're proud to have
her in our carus.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
The reason I asked that because this, to me is
the mistake that I think people keep making. I spoke
to the National Paneltic Council on Friday in Houston, and
what I said to them is, I said, can we
please stop doing these broad get out the vote efforts.
I said, we need to go get the data. I said,
and I don't care what city and what state, and said,

(01:01:21):
and break it down by precinct, then break it down
by block, street house. I said. If we're just going
out there saying hey, you know, get out the vote,
we want you out of voce. I said no. I said,
you gotta look at and say, uh, where where where
the vote's at? What do they say, I forgot the bank, Robert,
or why do you rob banks? He said, that's where

(01:01:41):
the money's at. Well, you gotta go. You gotta go
where the votes are. You gotta go if you lose.
If you lose, you gotta go where the potential votes
are to win next time. And that means having a
very micro strategy.

Speaker 14 (01:01:57):
Absolutely, and I think that's what we focused on this cycle.
We did it last time, but the votes weren't there,
the enthusiasms then we had ahead, when this time we
had a tailwind. Abigail Spamberger had an unprecedented field operation.
We had an unprecedented field operation, and together.

Speaker 8 (01:02:15):
We were able.

Speaker 14 (01:02:15):
I mean, we outperformed Abigail Spamberger in many of these
districts that we won last night, because we were so
laser focused on the communities that we needed to turn
out that were heavy Democratic but had not who had
felt disconnected. We reconnected with them and got them to
turn out. That is how you continue to win the elections.
You have to do data driven messaging, You have to

(01:02:37):
do data driven get out the vote field operations.

Speaker 8 (01:02:42):
It has to be data driven. And I think if we.

Speaker 14 (01:02:44):
Continue to have the type of discipline that I think
it takes and recruit the candidates, stop focusing on the
perfect little candidate, Focus on people who are connected to
their communities, whether they're Black, White, Asian, Latino. Focus on
those folks that are connected to the community, that have
a heart for service, to have the empathy to serve,

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and the leadership and discipline and do the work. The
next thing that we did rolland which I think should
be a model for every state delegation, we set down
with candidates we recruited very early two years out.

Speaker 13 (01:03:16):
I'm going to re recruiting.

Speaker 14 (01:03:17):
For twenty seven starting tomorrow, we're recruiting. We're going to
go and try to grow our majority. And what we
did was we talked to every candidate, said here's how
many doors every candidate knocked over five thousand doors themselves,
not paid fill not people, the candidate not doors.

Speaker 8 (01:03:32):
We made sure they raised them. We gave them the resources.

Speaker 14 (01:03:34):
To raise money, We gave them the time to do
car time.

Speaker 8 (01:03:38):
Then we gave them the money that we.

Speaker 14 (01:03:39):
Raised, the supplement what they did, so that they could
be free to continue to not doors. We have a
formula here, We have an MoU that we make every
candidate sign. You can't get our resources, you can't get
our help if you don't agree to the contract that
we need to make sure that you're going to hold
yourself accountable to run the type of race that we know.
If you do these things, you win. And last night

(01:04:01):
we proved that formula. If you do those things, you win.
Did I expect we win sixty four seats?

Speaker 8 (01:04:06):
No, My goal was like I at least get fifty five.
But we ran so hard in so many places.

Speaker 14 (01:04:15):
We basically ran the slate, which is unheard of anywhere
in the country, and I think the Democrats across the
country can learn.

Speaker 8 (01:04:22):
A lesson from what we did. We were bold, we
were not million mouthed.

Speaker 14 (01:04:25):
We were voted about where we stood, and the voters
were awarded us for that boats.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
A couple of years ago, and you mentioned earlier in
terms of the multi faceted strategy in a couple of
years ago. I'm not gonna name them, but you just
some big name Democrats who questioned advertising on this network
and doing town halls and then you know, you know,
why are you doing that? And because they're so fixated

(01:04:52):
on TV TV run TV ads, run TV ass run
TV ads, thinking that's it. We saw this even with
Vice President Kama Harris. Democrats ignored podcasts, they ignored digital shows.
They were not aggressive, they weren't spending money there, they
weren't understanding that people no longer are getting information in

(01:05:13):
the exact same talk about why national Democrats candidates who
are running in other parts of the country have to
understand that the landscape has now changed and you have
to put money in places that you don't think, you
don't think may get you the biggest bang for your buck.
But again, when elections come down to twenty thirty forty

(01:05:36):
fifty one hundred votes, that stuff matters.

Speaker 14 (01:05:39):
You know, a lot of the technology that we're using now,
which is why I'm so happy to be on your
show tonight and why I love working with you, you know,
and talking to you and making sure that folks know
because like last night, I'm getting calls people are watching
your show last night in North Carolina and Texas and
freaking my wife's family in Chicago there Texans and calling
me watching you and here you speaking about And what

(01:06:01):
we need to do is understand there is there's the
thing where we're using this technology, the jail fence.

Speaker 8 (01:06:05):
We know who's watching what win.

Speaker 14 (01:06:07):
And there are communities that are going to only watch
Rolding Mark.

Speaker 8 (01:06:12):
They trust to roland Mark.

Speaker 14 (01:06:13):
There are communities that may be doing you know, other podcasts,
may be doing other We want to make sure that
we're speaking everywhere.

Speaker 8 (01:06:20):
And I think it's a mistake, it's a huge mistake
not to.

Speaker 14 (01:06:24):
Be partnering with every platform that you can to get
out your message.

Speaker 8 (01:06:29):
And I think you have to be intentional about that.

Speaker 14 (01:06:32):
And you know, I'm very intentional, You know that, And
I cut through the red tape and make it happen.

Speaker 8 (01:06:36):
And I think that's why another reason why we were successful.

Speaker 14 (01:06:39):
I think that's why we won in twenty three because
it was very slim margins every boat counting, as you know,
we lost about fifty something votes and we want something
by slim margins. And this cycle we overperformed because we
invested reinvested in those same platforms and then we got
the returns for those investments and that's why you see
a sixty four seat majority here in the coming with it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
You're not quiet, You're not quiet? Are shy? And do
you plan on having some very frank conversations with the
Democratic Governors Association, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee to say, hey, y'all, y'all better sit
down and listen and understand how we did this and

(01:07:19):
how this can be replicated on the state and the
local state and the national level as well.

Speaker 14 (01:07:27):
Well, I'm not gonna tell them to sit down and listen,
and that's a Roland Martin.

Speaker 16 (01:07:31):
No, No, you should.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
You should, because again, somebody needs to tell them.

Speaker 14 (01:07:36):
Hey, I'm trying to I'm trying to be a good example,
and I'm hoping that results will speak and I'm hoping
that folks will ask, how.

Speaker 8 (01:07:44):
Did you get these results? Can we replicate them? And
if they do, and.

Speaker 14 (01:07:48):
If they ask, I'm going to tell them and I
will lay out the plan and how we need to
continue to reinvest.

Speaker 8 (01:07:53):
We're going to continue these partnerships. We're going to continue.

Speaker 14 (01:07:56):
These investments in and out of season, not only when
there's election.

Speaker 8 (01:08:00):
Time, but when there's not an election.

Speaker 14 (01:08:02):
We have to continue to do that, and we continue
to build credibility in communities that trust some of our
messagers and you'll one of them.

Speaker 8 (01:08:09):
And so I just want to make sure.

Speaker 14 (01:08:10):
I just want to thank you for having this platform,
that you this vision to do what you're doing and
take the risks that you take.

Speaker 8 (01:08:15):
Every day. People think this is easy.

Speaker 14 (01:08:17):
You're really a small business that have that's going into
a large business. And we really want to thank you
for what you've done. And we got so many other
partners out there similar to what Roland Martin is doing,
and we have to continue to invest because you're speaking
to the community that we want to continue to keep
engage and that had been at some point.

Speaker 8 (01:08:34):
You know that black people came out last night.

Speaker 14 (01:08:37):
Let let's be clear, huge we came out last night
and we overperformed.

Speaker 8 (01:08:42):
The last number I saw was ninety two eight. That's
not that's we.

Speaker 14 (01:08:45):
I mean, Abigail Spamberger, think about this outperform Kamala Harris.

Speaker 8 (01:08:50):
We outperformed Kamala Harris in Virginia last night.

Speaker 14 (01:08:53):
And I think that's because people say, oh heck, this dude,
it's crazy, you know, Oh heck, you.

Speaker 8 (01:08:59):
Know he's he was on little prices. He lied to us.
Everything has gone up, from the cost of.

Speaker 14 (01:09:04):
Housing, to childcare, to housing supplies, to restaurants, food, everything.

Speaker 8 (01:09:10):
Has gone to healthcare. We can't afford it. Everything is
going up.

Speaker 14 (01:09:14):
We have to have a change, and we wanted to
make sure that we had given people the permission structure
by communicating with them, to give them permission.

Speaker 8 (01:09:21):
Structure to coming both for us, and that's what we did.

Speaker 14 (01:09:23):
We write an environment where people will feel good to come.

Speaker 8 (01:09:25):
And vote for us.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Last question, last question before I go to my panel.
The sense that I also got with what took place
in Virginia is somebody made it clear to the consultants.
I don't need y'all to back the hell up and
let the candidates take center stage and let them be authentic,
and let them be themselves and stop trying to send

(01:09:47):
out robots who are saying the right thing, the perfect thing,
and don't want to sit here and go left the
right because that, to me, I believe has been the
biggest problem for the Democratic Party nationally over the life
decade the control of the consultants on every facet of campaigns.

Speaker 8 (01:10:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:10:06):
I mean when I took over as the minority leader
in twenty twenty two after only been an office period
for two years, the first thing that I said was,
this is crazy. We have consultants that they don't ask
what do you need? They ask how much money do
you have? And we'll figure out how to spend it?
Like they always ask USh a budget, it wouldn't say
what do you need?

Speaker 8 (01:10:25):
And so I.

Speaker 14 (01:10:26):
Totally revamp thout consulting program and how we did things,
made everybody do RFPs come back and tell us what
you can do, not how much money you can how
much money we have, but what do you need for
us to be successful.

Speaker 8 (01:10:38):
Then we spent a.

Speaker 14 (01:10:39):
Lot of energy getting the right candidates, and I think
that's what we've been able to do. I'm hopeful that
other folks will modelists. You don't have to do it
the old way, you can do it differently. In fact,
I'm going to redo.

Speaker 8 (01:10:51):
My RFP process. I'm gonna make everybody come back and.

Speaker 14 (01:10:54):
Rebid again Boom in two years so I can get
fresh blood. People get comfortable, we all do. We need
to make sure people still understand it. They need to
be hunger. We need to be hungry. We need to
have cutting edge we need to have cutting edge thinking.

Speaker 8 (01:11:08):
And so I think if we do that, we continue
to grow.

Speaker 14 (01:11:11):
And be fresh and whatever the challenging environment might be politically.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
Questions for the panel.

Speaker 10 (01:11:18):
Rebecca, you first, thank you so much for being on
the show tonight. So I want to talk about voting
rights restoration in Virginia. We saw this past session that
there was passage on the constitutional amendment in Virginia for
automatic voting rights restoration. I understand there has to be
a second reference, meaning asked to pass again in the

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next session, and then that can go to the ballot
for fall twenty twenty six. Can you tell me why
it's so important to have automatic voter registration in the
state of Virginia.

Speaker 8 (01:11:53):
At automatic voter restoration?

Speaker 14 (01:11:56):
So, yes, I had my own right restore and I had.

Speaker 8 (01:11:59):
The big the governor to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
I had.

Speaker 8 (01:12:01):
You know, there's nothing about my background that says I
should be here. I should not be in leadership.

Speaker 14 (01:12:06):
I'd gone to federal prison what thirty one years ago,
and here I stand as the first black speaker. I
was here in the coming with a Virginia and I,
you know, I did eight years in federal prison almost
and folks told me my life was over and I
just didn't believe it. And I think there and I was,
you know, coming out. I'm paying taxes, I'm doing everything,
but I can't I can't vote.

Speaker 8 (01:12:26):
Which is predictabus I'm paying.

Speaker 14 (01:12:27):
In some instance, I was paying, you know, a million
dollars in taxes, but I can't vote.

Speaker 8 (01:12:31):
Think about how ludicrous that is. You're contributing, you're taking
care of your.

Speaker 14 (01:12:35):
Family, and you don't have the franchise to have a
set in your future.

Speaker 8 (01:12:38):
Everybody deserves to have the franchise once they complete that sentence.

Speaker 14 (01:12:42):
That's what this Constitutional member would do so we can
have everybody vote.

Speaker 8 (01:12:46):
And that's why we're going to pass it.

Speaker 14 (01:12:48):
And we're going to get it done because there are
too many people who feel disconnected from the system.

Speaker 8 (01:12:54):
They feel they're walking around with their heads down.

Speaker 14 (01:12:56):
Family know that they can't vote and can engage and
let their voices be heard. Every American that's paying taxes,
that's contributed to society deserves to have that voice heard
and that's what we're going to do here in the
common Wealth of Virginia, and it's going to pass because
it's popular, people know it's fact and it's right.

Speaker 13 (01:13:13):
No, I'm b.

Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
Yeah, So crrec congratulations on last evening. I mean that
was quite a feat. But one of the people that
didn't get talked about as much was Gazala Hashmi. So
how do you encourage more Gazala Hashmi's I mean, it's
certainly clear that women in leadership is something that Virginias
have an appetite for, So how do you expand that?

Speaker 8 (01:13:36):
I mean, congratulations to Gazala Hashmi. She did a great job.
She serves as a state center and I've worked with
her for the last several years. She was able to
pull it off.

Speaker 14 (01:13:45):
I think if you look at the leadership that was
a firm last night, it's.

Speaker 13 (01:13:50):
Probably the it is not probable.

Speaker 8 (01:13:52):
It is the most diverse leadership group in Virginia's history.

Speaker 14 (01:13:57):
A female, first female governor, of first Muslim American lieutenant governor,
and first African American attorney general. So that was a
night of first Virginia. I think seeing the zalahasm Ne role,
it's going to encourage others to step in and know
that they can do it. That if they're if they're
a company, if they're smart and they work hard, they
can achieve anything. And so last night was proof positive that,

(01:14:20):
you know, this whole anti DEI stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:14:24):
We don't care about the DEI. We are excellent.

Speaker 14 (01:14:26):
We're going to continue to rise, We're going to continue
to shine, and we're gonna CREAMA is always going to
rise to the top. You can try to beat us down,
but we're going to robs to the top.

Speaker 8 (01:14:34):
And I think last night was an indication of that.

Speaker 11 (01:14:38):
Cameron, congratulations, congratulations h speaker Scott like, last night was
huge Virginia. I lived in DC, so seeing that seeing
our fellow state down there and to your point, the
diversity of the top of the ticket. But I was
in the drives by your exchange with roll In earlier

(01:15:00):
about how you went about identifying new talent. I've identifying
new tactics impairing that to the right types of candidates.
How do you the rest of the country could learn
from this? And as the owner of a digital and
an AD firm and for the last fifteen years, I
recognize when wins happened, sometimes the best lessons are not learned.

Speaker 13 (01:15:25):
Do you plan to do more learnings or teachings with.

Speaker 11 (01:15:29):
Other states, other candidates, other caucuses, because they really Rollan
mentioned it earlier in the show.

Speaker 13 (01:15:35):
We really got to learn from how people.

Speaker 11 (01:15:38):
Really engaged and really study these campaigns, both study the
candidates and study their messaging, but also study their strategies
and tactics on how we communicate it to all voters.

Speaker 8 (01:15:49):
Yeah, I thank you for that.

Speaker 14 (01:15:50):
I'm going to continue every opportunity I get. I try
to give people the blueprint on what we did. It's
not rocket sized. I try to tell people hit the
easy button, bro, hit the easy button. Like you get
the right candidates, you go out and recruit candi, You
spend the energy up front, You put the investment up
front on identifying the right candidate in the community, then

(01:16:12):
making sure that they have all of the tools around
them succeed, and then you help deliver the messaging and
do it across you know. I call it asymmetric messaging,
like you hitting everything digital, TV, radio, doing what you
can if you have the resources, and then you plan
in advance and you.

Speaker 8 (01:16:30):
Map it out.

Speaker 14 (01:16:31):
I think, you know, I told my caucus today, everybody
was celebrating, and I said, cool to celebrate. But the
election for twenty seven starts today. So that means everything
that we do we have to be intentional.

Speaker 8 (01:16:44):
What we pass, what.

Speaker 14 (01:16:45):
Policies were pushing, what we want a message it began
today for the next election in two years.

Speaker 8 (01:16:50):
If we continue to have that type of discipline and.

Speaker 14 (01:16:53):
Focus and dare I say, restraint will grow and we'll
keep it make to I want an enduring majority. You know,
when I won, when we want the majority in twenty
twenty three, I said, if you don't do it twice
as a fluke, Well I proof it's not a fluke.
Now I want an enduring majority, which means, you know,
we can continue to grow, we can hold on to
this majority. I want to win the governess mansion in

(01:17:15):
four years. I want us to keep that governess mansion.
But you have to be intentional right now, thinking about
what it.

Speaker 8 (01:17:21):
Is, what's that look like. And That's what I'm trying
to focus our focus on and.

Speaker 14 (01:17:24):
Focus our leadership team. And I'm happy to have those
conversations with everybody. I do talk to leadership across the country,
and I do say these things, but you know, I
can only control my house. I can't be ConTroll another focus.
It's hard enough to control my house.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
All right, well again, congratulations huge pickups last night six
gay Absolutely well. You know that's how Alpha's rolled, That's
how we do it. Listen, all right, little sigmals will
make us run around here. They don't know, all right,
bigga Scott, Well appreciate it. Thanks a lot, all right,
love you man, great, Thank you very much. Folks, Going

(01:18:00):
to break, we'll come back. Headlines and more to talk
about right here, Rolling mad Unfiltered on the Black Shun
Network by the moment.

Speaker 22 (01:18:09):
Next on the Black Table with me Redcoff. The United
States is the most dangerous place for a woman to
give birth among all industrialized nations.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
On the planet.

Speaker 13 (01:18:21):
Think about that for a second. That's not all.

Speaker 22 (01:18:23):
Black women are three times more likely to die in
this country during childbirth than white women.

Speaker 10 (01:18:29):
These healthcare systems are inherently racist. There are a lot
of white supremacists, ideas and mythologies around black women, black
women's bodies, even black people that we experience painless right.

Speaker 22 (01:18:43):
Activists, organized and fearless. Freedom fighter Monifa I can wile
bandelay from Moms Rising joins us and tells US. This
shocking phenomenon, like so much else, is rooted in unadulterated
racist and that's just one of their frights. Malifa Vandeley
on the next Black Table.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
Here on the Black.

Speaker 23 (01:19:04):
Star, Hatred on the streets, a horrific scene, a white
nationalists rally that descended into deadly violence.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
White people are moving their their minds.

Speaker 13 (01:19:20):
As an angry proach. Trump Monk storms the US Capital
Sin Show.

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
We're about to see the lives where I call white
minority resistance. We have seen white folks in this country
who simply cannot tolerate black folks voting.

Speaker 21 (01:19:34):
I think what we're seeing is the inevitable result of
violent denial.

Speaker 7 (01:19:39):
This is part of American history.

Speaker 21 (01:19:41):
Every time that people of color and need progress, whether
real or symbolic, there has been. But Carold Anderson at
every university calls white rage as a backlash.

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
This is the right of the proud boys and the
Boogaaloo boys America. There's going to be more of this.

Speaker 5 (01:19:57):
This country is getting increasingly racist and its behaviors and
its attitudes because of the fear of white people, the.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
Fear that they're taking our jobs, they're taking our resources,
they're taking out women. This is white Field.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
This week on a Balanced Life for Doctor Jackie. We're
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Speaker 13 (01:21:01):
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Of that stuff is cool, but you still have to
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Speaker 12 (01:21:18):
If in this country right now, you have people get
up in the morning and the only thing they can
think about is how many people they can hurt, and
they've got the power.

Speaker 13 (01:21:27):
That's the time for morning.

Speaker 7 (01:21:29):
For better or worse.

Speaker 13 (01:21:30):
What makes America special?

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
It's that legal system that's supposed to protect.

Speaker 4 (01:21:35):
Minorities from the tyranny of the majority.

Speaker 15 (01:21:38):
We are at a point of a moral emergency.

Speaker 13 (01:21:43):
We must raise a voice of outrage.

Speaker 15 (01:21:46):
We must raise a voice of compassion, and we must.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
Raise a voice of unity.

Speaker 12 (01:21:53):
We are not in a crisis of party versus party.
We are in a crisis of civilization. Humans rights crisis,
have a crisis of democracy itself.

Speaker 8 (01:22:04):
And guess what.

Speaker 12 (01:22:05):
You've been chosen to make sure that those that would destroy,
those that would hate, don't have the final say and
they don't ultimately win.

Speaker 20 (01:22:17):
They said the quiet part out loud. Black votes are
a threat, so they erased them. After the Supreme Court
gutted the Voting Rights Act in twenty thirteen, Republican legislatures
moved fast new voter id laws, polling place shutdowns, purges
of black voters from the rolls. Trump's Justice Department didn't
stop it. They joined in. In twenty eighteen, is DOJ

(01:22:41):
backed Ohio's voter purge system, a scheme that disproportionately erased
black voters. Their goal erase black votes and political power. Yeah,
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independent journalism that centers African Americans and the issues that
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Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
Hey, I'm Malcolm Lee and you're watching Roland Martin Hungfilter. Folks,
love's wing to break Down. Here's Britney Noble with headlines.

Speaker 24 (01:23:34):
Roland and Ohio jury began hearing testimony in the trial
of an Ohio police officer accused of killing a black
twenty one year old woman who was six months pregnant.
She was in a Kroger parking lot. Thirty one year
old Connor Grubbs is on trial for killing Takia Young
and a Kroger parking lot. He's facing several charges including murder,

(01:23:55):
involuntary manslaughter, and felonists assault.

Speaker 1 (01:23:59):
The No.

Speaker 24 (01:24:00):
Twenty three encounter was captured on body camera and store
surveillance video. Belisea Kroger employee, reported that several people were
fleeing from the store with stolen items. Video shows an
officer ordering Young to get out of her car, and
moments later, as she turned the wheel and began to
move forward, the officer fired a single shot. Prosecutors say

(01:24:22):
they plan to call nearly eighty witnesses and the trial
is expected to last three weeks. Well Maryland, Moore more
launches redistricting commission. Get this, Maryland Governor Wes Moore is
stepping right into a political storm over redistrict thing. He's
launching a new commission that could redraw the state's congressional

(01:24:45):
maps ahead of the twenty twenty six midterms. Moore says
it's about fairness and representation, but even some Democrats are
not on board. State tendered President Bill Ferguson Warren's reopening
the maps mid cycle could backfire and actually help her
publicans gain seats through court challenges. The new Redistricting Advisory
Commission will be led by Senator Angela also Brooks, with

(01:25:07):
former Attorney General Brian Frosch and Cumberland Mayor Ray Morris
joining the team and right down. Democrats control all but
one congressional district in Maryland, but with GOP led Stateslide, Texas, Missouri,
and North Carolina already redrawing their maps, national Democrats are
pushing back, hoping states like Maryland, Virginia, and even California

(01:25:29):
can help level the playing field.

Speaker 5 (01:25:32):
Well, the Department of.

Speaker 24 (01:25:33):
Transportation now says parts of America's air space could be
forced to close next week if the government shut down
drags on. Nearly half of the nation's busiest airports are
facing severe staffing shortages, with thirteen thousand air traffic controllers
and fifty thousand TSA officers still working without pay. Transportation

(01:25:55):
Secretary Sean Duffie is sounding the alarm, warning that a
less Congress acts mass chaos, ground stops, and waves of
flight delays and cancelations could all hit nationwide and New York.
Some facilities report eighty percent of controllers out, driving delays
across thousands of flights today alone. Duffy says, frontline aviation

(01:26:17):
workers are stretched to the breaking point, making desperate choices
between paying bills and keeping our sky safe.

Speaker 1 (01:26:26):
All right, Brittany, we appreciate it, thanks so much. All right, y'all.
So Brittany was just talking about what's happening in Maryland.
Oh my god, y'all know, I love me some sin
Luise Lucas, Oh my goodness. And so the Republican in Maryland,
Britney referenced the Senate President made this statement that you know,
in terms of you know these districts were fair, and

(01:26:48):
so this was the tweet. Y'all, this is so funny.
So Bill Ferguson posted this tweet he got good bye,
he goes. Tonight's resounding Democratic victory shows we don't need
to rig the system to win. When we provide a
better vision about the future, lower costs, better services, and
real solutions to protect against Trump, voters overwhelmingly choose our leadership. Well,

(01:27:09):
Louise Lucas well, Niambi, she didn't let this no go back.
Please stay on it, she goes, Get our victory in
Virginia out of your mouth while you echo MAGA talking points,
grow a pair and stand up to this president. This
is just embarrassing. See that's the kind of energy in niombie. Indeed,

(01:27:31):
here's Louise Lucas telling this Democrat in Maryland stop punking out.

Speaker 4 (01:27:37):
Well look, I mean, look, the only reason the rule
of law matters is that people respect it. And I
think what people are sick of, and this again is
why the Democrats who won in some of those places
won is because they're tired of this sort of mealy
mouthed kind of politics where we do the right thing
right when they go low, we go high. People are

(01:27:58):
sick of it. People want some fight, right, People want
someone to look like they're trying. This is why Gavin
Newsome and Prop fifty have resonated with people because it's like,
you know what, they play dirty, We play dirty.

Speaker 13 (01:28:10):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:28:11):
Whether this is a good strategy or not, it's beside
the point. It's what people want to see. People want
to know that when we are in a gum fight,
you're not bringing a knife. This is a slug fest.
And if you're just going to keep speaking in platitudes,
what are you really doing here? Are you up for
the fight? Because the Republicans brooke no punches and they
don't do half measures, and so you need to be

(01:28:33):
talking about this redistricting the same way they talked about
the Department of Education for some people. And that's I
think a point that is often missed. Right, whether you
agree is beside the point. But the U you look
like you have some fight in you. If it's not redistricting,
what is the alternative?

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
Well, here's what I also love about Louise Lucas so
Cameron yesterday, a lot of these right wingers were trying
to say that and battled candidate Jay Jones whu Wan
who beat Jason Mayard's said that he was all trying
to kick a dog. Well, actually he wasn't. What he
was doing was he was trying to kick a leaf away,
all right, So check this out. So Louise went ahead

(01:29:13):
and just posted this video here of well Jay kicking
her opponent.

Speaker 25 (01:29:18):
Listen, watch this this so of course, and so they
get mad at her all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:29:30):
This was a video. This year she posted this AI
video because you know she's always kicking Governor Glenn Younkin's ass,
So check this out. She posted this, Virginia, you made a.

Speaker 4 (01:29:41):
Huge mistake electing Youngkin. I needed a knee replacement from
keeping my.

Speaker 5 (01:29:44):
Foot up is ass over the last four years.

Speaker 2 (01:29:47):
Now we can do better. Get out and vote and
elect I've a guesst bander tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
And lastly, Cameron that famous video when young Kin was
standing outside of the state capital complaining about Lucas blocking
the building of a stadium for the Washington Wizards. So
she just went ahead and posted this this hold on
in one second. This is this is this is because

(01:30:14):
this was the okay, first of all, go to my iPad.
So this was the famous photo of her standing there
looking out as he held a news conference. So they
went ahead and made this video right here. See that's

(01:30:35):
what I'm saying, camera, that's that. That's how when you're
an eighty two year old black woman who knows how
to use your power. She don't give a damn.

Speaker 11 (01:30:46):
I'm super encouraged by that. I think that is the
that is AI going right. We've seen so much AI
go wrong, use for misinformation. What I do appreciate what
she's doing with it's her content and with her voice
and her platform, and she understands people want to be entertained.

(01:31:06):
And if I'm scrolling and I got to see this
talking baby, or I got to see it, use the
little app that makes me dance.

Speaker 13 (01:31:14):
At least it gives people a little chuckle and joy.
But it also gives people a little bit of neugative
information or aware.

Speaker 11 (01:31:22):
It alerts them and makes them more aware in real time.
So I hope people understand the balance she's striking with
the content.

Speaker 13 (01:31:32):
But it actually made me chuckle as well.

Speaker 1 (01:31:35):
Listen, she don't give a damn. And this actually was
the original video when she posted on Twitter. This was
Mars seven, twenty twenty four. Even when I was close
to the feet. I rose to my feet. So this
year it was the video youngkin was sitting here complaining
outside of the Capitol, and then the camera man had

(01:31:57):
one job and he did it. Let's go ahead and
pay over here to Louise. Oh, I love it. I
love it. But Rebecca, I love the fact that she
went after the Senate President in Maryland by saying grow
a pair.

Speaker 10 (01:32:19):
You know, did the Senate President actually whip his caucus
to see if they were on board with his point
of view?

Speaker 1 (01:32:25):
I don't know what he did.

Speaker 10 (01:32:28):
And here's the other thing. Can I just say one
petty thing about Virginia? So apparently the lady who snitched
and Jay Jones also lost?

Speaker 1 (01:32:38):
All right, hold on, hold on, who's typing? We can
hear all that typing?

Speaker 13 (01:32:42):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:32:42):
Go ahead, all right, camera stop typing. We can pick up.
But we can hear he's picking up all that typing. Bruh,
go ahead, Rebecca, Okay.

Speaker 10 (01:32:52):
So the lady who snitched on j Jones and revealed
the text message message.

Speaker 9 (01:32:57):
Exchange, Oh yeah, controversy.

Speaker 7 (01:33:00):
She lost last night.

Speaker 1 (01:33:01):
Oh hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on, Let you hold up. She posted
something for that too. There you go. She posted this,
Virginia is for lovers, not snitches. Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:33:18):
I hadn't seen that yet.

Speaker 1 (01:33:21):
And you remember, you remember when we win some serious
bus caught on fire? Huh. This is what Louise posted
this morning with good morning. Oh I love the petty.
I love it. Okay, go ahead, Roland.

Speaker 9 (01:33:41):
This is why I call responsive politics.

Speaker 4 (01:33:43):
If you want to get people.

Speaker 10 (01:33:44):
Engaged, then you got to get engaged and you got
to be real about it.

Speaker 9 (01:33:47):
And guess what, a lot of people are petty and.

Speaker 10 (01:33:49):
When it comes to what's happening in our politics, some
people need to respond by being petty.

Speaker 4 (01:33:54):
So I'm here for it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:55):
Oh absolutely, I'll be. I love it, but y'all, I
gotta admit that was called Virginia is for lovers not snitches.
Oh man, that was good. Oh that was good. So
I love it. I love it like this is a
bold black woman who ain't afraid to use the power.

(01:34:18):
And that's what I'm talking about. She listen when I
had on the show money, she said, that's right. My
knee feeling better, she said, my leg feeling good because
I have my foot up. Glenn Younkins ass if we
were in a church. She don't care. I love it.
I love it. I love it. And that's that's what
I want to see. I want to see more of
it because this is where we are.

Speaker 16 (01:34:41):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:34:41):
People are asking around the country now on me. They're
saying to Democrats, dammit, are you gonna fight? Are you
gonna swing? If you gonna lose, damn it, at least
losing lose fighting, But don't sit here and be all
weak inciting about this thing.

Speaker 4 (01:34:57):
Absolutely, And I mean that's what most of the the
polling is showing at least is that people don't just
view Democrats as you know, too concerned about out any politics.
That's not the thing. People view them as weak. And
even if you know the opposition is not offering a
coherent message, it's splintered as it is, they're at least

(01:35:18):
willing to fight. And it might mean that it takes
them forty years or sixty years to dismantled Roe v.
Wade or the Voting Rights Act, but they keep trying.
And I think the thing with Democrats is they have
been loath to do that out of some belief in
the norms and trying to uphold the norms and that
has its place, but it only works again if people

(01:35:40):
respect the norms. And we've seen time and time again
if the opposition Democrats and that they face, don't care
about the rules, They don't care how things look, they
don't care that they have, you know, reelected a thirty
four time convicted felon, Like I never want to hear
people talk anything else about Mary and Berry and black
people voting for him in DC again after this, right,

(01:36:02):
they don't care. And I think that's one of the
things that frustrates people is because you all are still
playing by a playbook that is outdated, outmoded and just
not useful. You want people who look like they're here
for the fight, and Louise Lucas right.

Speaker 8 (01:36:19):
Now is doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:20):
Like I said, there are other people who are doing it,
and I think if more Democrats got that message, they
would be farther along than they are right now.

Speaker 1 (01:36:28):
Absolutely absolutely all right, folks, speaking of going at it, oh,
I saw this video and said, I got to run this.
So Republican Speaker Mike Johnson goes before the camera, so
they trying to blame trying to say, mom, Donnie is
down the face of the Democratic Party and all that
sort of nonsense, and so he's just talking. He's talking. Well,

(01:36:48):
guess what Democratic Congresswoman Christie Hula Handa Main she said,
you know what, damn that, I'm gonna let his ass
know I'm here. Go ahead and roll it.

Speaker 13 (01:37:01):
Thank you.

Speaker 20 (01:37:04):
Okay, questions, Yes, but.

Speaker 26 (01:37:08):
I've called on somebody else. Go ahead, we're having a
press conference. Thank you, go ahead, yes, ma'am. And you
should respect free speech. What's the question? What's the question?
What's the question? I can't hear you because we have
someone who doesn't respect the rights of their colleagues over here.

Speaker 1 (01:37:29):
I'd love to talk with you.

Speaker 26 (01:37:30):
Wait, wait, I'd love to talk with the kind of
my office.

Speaker 4 (01:37:32):
Okay, you have an obligation.

Speaker 26 (01:37:37):
Yeah, yes, yeah, okay, let's talk about it.

Speaker 16 (01:37:39):
I've been doing that.

Speaker 26 (01:37:40):
We did that before the shutdown began. We went to
the White House. We went and sat in front of
the Resolute Desk. We brought Leader Jeffries and Leader Schumer
in and we had a discussion. The President said, please
don't shut the government down, and we calls all this
pain to the American people. This has never happened before.
It's a clean, non partisan cr that every Democrat including
you voted on in September nineteenth. You voted to shut

(01:38:02):
down the government. You voted to stop snap benefits. You
voted to not pay the troops, not pay tsa border patrol.
You may regret it now, but that's your vote and
it's on the record. So the President had his end
and they didn't want to have a dialogu or debate.
They thumbed their nose in it at him and he
had to do it.

Speaker 13 (01:38:19):
Appreciate it. Thanks for the input.

Speaker 26 (01:38:20):
Somebody give me a question that's real.

Speaker 13 (01:38:24):
I can't hear you because we have someone who doesn't
respect the right.

Speaker 1 (01:38:27):
So I love to talk with you.

Speaker 8 (01:38:30):
I love to talk with each.

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
Of You have to call the leadership of both parties.

Speaker 9 (01:38:35):
And bring us together.

Speaker 8 (01:38:37):
Yeah, yeah, okay, let's talk about it. I've been doing that.

Speaker 13 (01:38:40):
We did that before the shutdown began.

Speaker 8 (01:38:42):
We went to the White House. We went and sat
in front of the resolute desk.

Speaker 26 (01:38:46):
We brought Leader of Jeffries and Leader Schumer again and
we had a discussion. The President said, please don't shut
the government down, and he calls all this paying to
the American people.

Speaker 1 (01:38:55):
See to me, that's what you do, Rebecca, say, Dad,
I ain't gonna make your shit comfortable. I'm gonna make
it uncomfortable. I'm down with her show up and every
Mike Johnson news conference say hey, you lying. It was
like when Trump came to NABJ. I said the night before,
I said, Donald Trump started lying, I'm gonna say that
as a liar. And when he was there, people were like,

(01:39:18):
roll that you. I was like, that was me going he.

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
Line, he line, that's a lie.

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
That's a lie. That's what I need to see, Rebecca.

Speaker 10 (01:39:31):
And look what we saw next when Capitol police approached her,
she showed them her congressionals here.

Speaker 9 (01:39:37):
And said I'm a member of Congress. And guess what
they did.

Speaker 1 (01:39:39):
They backed off, turn a punkasses around.

Speaker 10 (01:39:43):
Yes, I need members of Congress to use their privilege here. Look,
this is the streets of New Jersey where it's ice
agents who aren't respecting the rule of law. This is
still Capitol Hill and those that Capitol Hill police force,
they understand who supports them and who doesn't support them.
So at the end of the day, I need every
member of the opposition to do this. Each time you

(01:40:06):
have the speaker trying to subterfuge and not answer questions,
on what's really happening for the American people.

Speaker 11 (01:40:13):
Paron No, this was a great example, and this is
a great example of how to use that congressional privilege.
We hear so many people who say they want to
see our leaders fighting back, but they don't see everything
that happens in every corner of America when they may be,
when they may be in their own districts. But when

(01:40:35):
you have all the cameras of the country focused on
the Speaker of the House, and for you to be
able to yell out each line peacefully demonstrate, maybe not
so peacefully demonstrate to cause the ruck is to make
sure your voices are heard. That is exactly how they
need to go about doing it. And then if they
were smart, they'd have more members out there calling out

(01:40:58):
the lies and me once it's over, hey, press, come
over here and talk to us. This is actually what
he was lying about, and continue and continue that. But
they people need to see way more of that and
way more of that direct confrontation, especially these times.

Speaker 4 (01:41:14):
Yandi, Absolutely, I mean decorum for what. This is not
the time to be polite. People are hurting, people are hungry,
people are tired, people want to be productive. People want
to be paid for the labor that they're producing. This
is the time to actually show up and show out
for real, right, make your voice count, make it worth something.

(01:41:37):
And again, you're not passing bills right now, you're not
doing anything else, why not be in DC applying pressure
to Mike Johnson and his cronies who would sit there
and tell a lie like well, we asked them not to,
and we told them that this would hurt the American people.
The pain is the point. That's why they keep doing
stuff like this. That's why they have icing the streets.

(01:41:57):
That's why they're deploying National Guard contradisension to what the
mission of the National Guard is. That's why they're denying
FEMA funds to Maryland for assistance with flooding. Right, That's
why they're doing all of this stuff. So they absolutely
need to have more of a presence at all of
these events. I mean, the time for acting like this

(01:42:19):
is business as usual and this is normal time is
way overdue. We need to leave that behind.

Speaker 1 (01:42:26):
Absolutely and last starve before we go. I got talked
about this here. Shout out to the black folks in Mississippi.
Last night, absolutely two black state centers were elected. Republicans
no longer have a supermajority there. That's now thirty six
thirty four. They now have to they have to negotiate

(01:42:50):
and work with Democrats on various measures. This is from
the Mississippi Free Press. Mississippi Democrats break Republicans cinema super majority.
We are a battleground state that you look at this
story right here, this was absolutely a historic Johnny Dupree
he of course, he of course was one of the folks.

(01:43:11):
He won Senate District forty five, and then also Teresa
Gillespie isisam won as well. Here's the thing, look at
this right here, y'all. Republicans that held a super majority
in the Sentences twenty nineteen have held majorities in both
chambers of legislature since we've been the two tween elevening elections.
But here's the other thing that we have to think.

(01:43:32):
We have to thank the lawyers. This happened because of lawsuits,
because of the Voting Rights Act, because the federal course
ruled that they basically were screwing over black voters when
it came to electing representatives. And so this is what happened.
This is how this happened picking up those two seats.
That's huge, huge, huge, And of course the two Africa

(01:43:54):
two Democrats, including one African American who won the Public
Service Commission job in Georgia thing as well. And so
we really have got and this we talked about this
all the time. This is not just about voting, is
not just about marging and protesting. You've got to have
a legal strategy, a political strategy, a citizenship education strategy
in order to win the under.

Speaker 4 (01:44:15):
You first, absolutely, I mean, this is what the Mississippi
friend whom Democratic Party knew, right, This is what Fandy
lou Hamer and them knew right that these black people
are energized, they understand what is happening to them in
their state, and they need people to step up for them. Right,
Because it's not, like you said, always going to be
about a vote. But this is something we've known about
places like Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, all of these black belt

(01:44:38):
states for a long time. Black folks in those states
are difference makers. They just have been disenfranchised over and
over and over again. And just because something is legal
doesn't make it right. And finally you actually had black
folks breakthrough in the state of Mississippi. So I am
hoping right that the Democratic Party is taking note and
put some resources in these places and stop treating any

(01:45:00):
of these states as foregone conclusions. We've seen what can
happen in Mississippi, but even Georgia a few years ago
with Stacy Abrams, in Florida a few years ago with
Andrew Gilla, we know it's possible, right, but you have
to keep those people motivated and energized, and you also
have to provide the resources so that the state and

(01:45:20):
the apparatus of the state doesn't continue to disenfranchise and
really screw over the black voters in those states, because
they really are a sleeping giant in that state. When
you think about their youth and their coverage in those states,
those black votes are power to be reckoned with, not
to mention all the students in those states. You mobilize
those sectors of those electorates, and those places are real

(01:45:44):
power brokers.

Speaker 11 (01:45:46):
Absolutely, Cameron, I was you saw me rooting like this
from Mississippi because I've been screaming to the high heavens
that Mississippi, for a state that has the highest percent.

Speaker 13 (01:46:00):
Of African Americans in.

Speaker 11 (01:46:02):
The country should always and always be a battleground state
for Democrats, and so I'm encouraged about g and I'm
really hoping some of this energy translates forward into next
year Senate race, where I know the Democrats are running
Scott Cologne, a young black brother out of Mississippi, against

(01:46:23):
Lindy hett Smith, who's objectively one of the most racist
senators out there. And I'm hoping that this energy can
translate into winning a seat and showing people that Mississippi
is viable and black folks and not just people who
and Democrats across the state are going to stand up.

(01:46:44):
So I'm really hoping this energy translates and rolls into
twenty twenty six, Rebecca.

Speaker 10 (01:46:51):
For black folks in Mississippi to actually have the representation
that they deserve and that they want permanently. We still
have to go back to at eighteen ninety Mississippi Constitution,
which permanently disenfranchised certain classes of convicted felons.

Speaker 9 (01:47:07):
And they picked and chose.

Speaker 10 (01:47:11):
Twenty three felony crimes that black people were more likely
to be convicted of, not that black people are more
likely to actually do and perpetrate, but these are the
things in which black people can more easily be convicted
in the state of Mississippi.

Speaker 8 (01:47:25):
And so to.

Speaker 10 (01:47:26):
Camera's point, based upon the forty percent black elector in Mississippi,
there should be a lot more black representation in the
state of Mississippi.

Speaker 9 (01:47:33):
But until there's a move to get rid of some most.

Speaker 10 (01:47:37):
Racist disenfranchisement laws that's been on the books in Mississippi
the last one hundred and thirty five years, we're still
going to see a cycle of people having to scrape
and claw just to get the barest part of representation
in Mississippi.

Speaker 1 (01:47:55):
Absolutely, and this right here is Teresa Gillespie. It shout
to her as well. I will close it out with
us here big win. Last night, first female mayor of
Detroit's history, Mary Sheffield. She comes from a long, long
family of civil rights activists there in Detroit, her grandfather,

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her father. She took home seventy seven percent of the vote,
beating Pastor Salomon ken Lock Junior. And she, of course
was counseled you city council for years, became counsel president
twenty twenty two. Here is some of her speech last.

Speaker 23 (01:48:35):
Night with tonight Detroit, we know that changes and you
changed in Detroit.

Speaker 27 (01:48:42):
And I think back to that eight year old girl
from the West side of Detroit who's third grade teacher
at the time, Missus poppas she wrote on my evaluation
that she saw a gift in her.

Speaker 4 (01:49:00):
For leading others, and.

Speaker 27 (01:49:02):
That little girl's life from that moment on will continue
to be shaped by service. And so she dared to
dream that she too can make a difference in this city.
And tonight she stands here proudly as the.

Speaker 23 (01:49:20):
First woman ever elected to lead this great city. And
now I have the awesome responsibility of ensuring that I
will not be the last, or not be the last.

Speaker 27 (01:49:33):
I don't take for granted that I stand on the
shoulders of so many warrior women who have prayed, who
have sacrificed just for us to be here in this moment.
And so I say, to every little girl watching tonight,
and to every child in this city, never doubt yourself.

(01:49:53):
You are gifted, You are powerful, You are fearfully and
wonderfully made. No mountain is too high for you to climb,
no dream is too big for you to realize. And
if you believe, and truly believe, all things are possible.

Speaker 1 (01:50:17):
Folks saying that Georgia. The Marietta mayor race. The unofficial
winner is Steve Thunder Tumblin, projecting to secure his fourth
is fifth term or less than one hundred votes, with
twenty four year old challenger Sam Foster again just under
one hundred votes separating the two in the tight race.
Final tubles could still shift as abstitute provisional ballots are accounted.
Voters have until Friday to provide the necessary documentation to

(01:50:38):
velidate those ballots. All counties must certify the election. The
official twenty twenty five election results by Monday, November tenth.
Seventy eight year old Tumblin will service final term under
term limits. Passage twenty seventeen was limited consecutive terms, but
allowed him to run again this year. All right, folks,
that is it for us. Let me thank Neon Bay,
Cameron and Rebecca been on today's show. Thanks so very much, folks.

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