Gov't Shutdown Looms, Jeffries Responds, Hegseth’s Military Policy Shift, GOP PA Rigging Claims

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
There's Tuesday, September thirty, twenty twenty five coming up on
roland markin uncultured streaming live on the Black Star Network.
We are hours away from a federal government shutdown. We're
joined by House Democratic Leader Hakim Jeffries to discuss what
is going on on Capitol Hill. Also on today's show,
Defend Secretary of Peter heck Saith calls all of the

(00:39):
generals from around the world, who was essentially a stupid
ass pep rally in Virginia. He made some stupid comments.
Trump made some stupid comments and it was a complete
waste of time. Also, Republicans are targeting voters in Pennsylvania

(01:02):
claiming Democrats rigged a state Supreme Court election. That's a lie.
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Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
He's right on top, and.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Best believe he's going.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Lost News to Politicsment.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Just keeps.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's roll, he's by, she's realed up. Question though he's rolling.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
We're less than six hours away from a federal government
shut down. Republicans continue to say that Democrats want to
provide healthcare to undocumented workers, even though they know that's
a lie because federal law actually prevents that from happening.
Trump finally sat down with Democratic Congression leaders after he

(02:50):
was complaining and chastising and criticizing them last week. And
then what he's done is he's gonna tris social media
uh and acting like a spoiled petulant child post thing silly,
ridiculous racist memes doing us right now? Is House Democratic
leader Hokium Jeffers, Lad to have you on the show.
First and foremost Again, I'm on social media, I'm on Twitter,

(03:12):
and all I am seeing repeatedly are Republicans saying Democrats
want to give illegal aliens healthcare. I see Eric ericson radio.
Folks members of Congress all saying that that seems to
be their driving talking point. What say you.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Do?

Speaker 1 (03:35):
We have them can you hear me? Now? Yeah, there
we go, go ahead, all right, good to be on
with you.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Republicans are aligning Roland for exactly the reasons that you
laid out.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Federal law currently prohibits.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Undocumented immigrants from being the beneficiaries of healthcare paid for
by US taxpayer, do period, full stop, and not a
single Democrat on Capitol Hill is trying to change that law.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
What we have made clear is that we're willing, we're ready,
we're able.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
To try to find a bipa bipartisan path forward in
order to reach a spending agreement that actually meets the
needs of the American people that lifts up their quality
of life as opposed to hurting every day americans, which
is what Republicans did in their One Big Ugly Bill
to try to reward their billionaire donors with massive, unjustified

(04:32):
tax breaks. We're not willing to go along with that
scheme moving forward, just like we uniformly opposed the One
Big Ugly Bill in the House and the Senate. But
we are not going to support a partisan Republican spending
bill that continues to gut the healthcare of the American people.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
In an environment where There's been an.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
All out assault on the healthcare of everyday Americans throughout
this year, unprecedented in nature, Republican healthcare crisis, largest cut
to Medicaid in American history, triggering a possible five hundred
and thirty six billion dollar cut to Medicare as well
at the end of the year if Congress doesn't act
their refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits,

(05:16):
which is going to result in more than twenty million
people in a matter of days receiving notices that their premiums, copays,
and deductibles are going to skyrocket, and they're closing hospitals,
nursing homes, and community based health clinics because of the
changes that were made in the One Big Ugly Bill

(05:37):
which is now law, and the attack on healthcare.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Saw a center from Mississippi say that it's Democrats, democratic
policies that are closing rural hospitals. And I'm sitting there
going like, what are you talking about. I mean, we
saw literally after the bill was passed a hospital in
Nebraska announced they were closing, and so it's amazing to

(06:05):
hear them claim one thing that is simply not the case.
You had the entire healthcare system of Louisiana say to
Speaker Mike Johnson, do not pass this bill, or we
are in danger. That's exactly right.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
But what I've learned over the years in terms of
this version of the Republican Party, as you've consistently and
authentically pointed out Roland One, facts don't matter, right, They'll
lie with impunity, and that's what they're doing right now.
Hypocrisy is not a constraint to their behavior. They'll say
one thing and then do the other. And of course

(06:41):
they've come to the conclusion in the trump eraror that
their shamelessness is like a superpower. But they miscalculated in
this particular instance, were less than six hours away from
a government shut down, and they assumed that Democrats were
going to blink. But we made claire from the very beginning.
We're in the midst of it, an unprecedented assault on
the healthcare of everyday Americans, and we're not going to

(07:04):
go along to get along. And the reality is, if
they want democratic votes in order to get legislation over
the finished line, then of course it's reasonable to conclude
that democratic values should be reflected in that legislation and
We've made the point, cancel the cuts, lower the costs,
save healthcare. That's the line in the sand that we've drawn,

(07:28):
fighting on behalf of the American people, because this Republican
created healthcare crisis is an assault on urban America, an
assault on working class America, an assault on rural America,
an assault on small town America, in assault on black
and brown communities all throughout America, and an assault on
the heartland of America.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
And it's got to be reversed. So you're going to
deal with the reality that I mean, look, they are
already trying to blame and impending shut down on Democrats.
Pew drop their poll that showed this, most Democrats disapprove
of congressional leader's job performance. A Republican approval of guopea
congrecial leadership spikes and so the numbers are right here.

(08:10):
Messaging is a huge part of this. And so what
is the plan of action to actually drive this home
as opposed to being bludgeoned to death by a Republicans
saying it's all on you, It's all on Democrats, it's
your fault. The government will shut down.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well, Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the presidency.
Common sense suggests that how can it be the fault
of Democrats when Republicans have complete control of government right now?

Speaker 1 (08:39):
That's illogical, It makes no sense.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
And the reality is, if Republicans were really interested in
trying to resolve this issue in advance of this midnight deadline,
then House Republicans would be here in Washington right now.
Democrats are here in the House reporting for duty. Republicans
are on vacation. Mike Johnson literally canceled votes that were

(09:04):
previously scheduled to take place yesterday and today, and Republicans
are scattered throughout the country and the world. Why because
they have no interest in actually trying to fund the government.
And most polling has shown consistently that the American people
recognize who runs the government. Right now, Republicans have been

(09:26):
firing thousands of federal workers throughout the year since January twentieth.
That's happening in the absence of a government shutdown. And
there's no reason to believe that Democrats are actually going
to be the party that bears the brunt of the blame. Yes,
of course, the MAGA extremist base is going to follow

(09:47):
along with anything that Donald Trump has to say. They
probably believe that that AI video that he put out
there yesterday.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Was in part real.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
But the American people, those who have common sense, are
those who understand the realities of a country right now
that is suffering from Republican control of government, will recognize
that Democrats are on their side fighting to protect their
healthcare and Republicans are the ones who've been gutting it

(10:16):
throughout the entirety of this year and now are refusing
to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits, which is
going to trigger these dramatically increased health care costs. In
an environment where America is already too expensive, the cost
of living is too high, the Trump tariffs are making
life more expensive for everyday Americans, and Republicans continue to

(10:40):
refuse to do anything about it.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Former White House Advisor Stafford dan Cole said this year,
Dems are getting owned on shutdown messaging. We're blowing it.
We need to fight. Here's what we could have done,
like safe travel. Trump's mass firings could mean no TSA agents,
no air traffic controls, no NTSB investigated crashes, no FBI
to investigate crimes, no prisoners to see you want to
because there'll be no correction officers, no whether people, no

(11:03):
cancer researchers, no food inspect no secret service, all particulally
in the chopping block. This list could be one hundred
times longer. We need to remove the leverage Trump keeps building.
We need to stop getting rolled. This is absurd and
I'm sick of a seeding easy wins to Trump.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
What say you, yeah, I don't even understand what this
particular individual was talking about.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
We're not in a shutdown right now.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Of course, we'll articulate the consequences as it relates to
the shutdown that Donald Trump and Republicans will own. We
certainly aren't in a position, nor should we ever, if
the goal is to win the narrative to articulate a
laundry list of items to the American people, when in reality,
the central defining issue of this fight is that we

(11:46):
are protecting the healthcare of the American people. The American
people know their healthcare is under assault. They care about it,
they care about their quality of life, and they also
care about, of course, the high cost of living in
the United States of America, and the healthcare issue relates
to these items directly, authentically and viscerally.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Speaking of Mike Josh was on CNBC. He actually said
this and love to get your response. The speaker at
that meeting yesterday did date present.

Speaker 5 (12:18):
And I don't know how much you can talk about
what went on, but did they give an entire the
Democrats an entire wish list.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
The things that they did, they say they want.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
Health care for illegal immigrants and funding some TVs.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
They said, we want all these things.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
Yes, and they put it in writing because remember they
filed a counter proposal continuing resolution. We filed a twenty
four page clean CR. They filed a dirty CR as
a kunter proposal included in it. And they brought this
up at the meeting yesterday. They want to restore taxpayer
funded benefits, American taxpayer funded benefits to illegal aliens.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Okay, we're not doing that. It goes on. CNBC says,
y'all put it in writing. Is there a document that
you've seen? What is he talking about? Yeah, it's a
stone cold lie.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
The reality is we introduce the continuing Resolution to keep
the government open, and that continuing resolution did three important things. One,
it would cancel the Medicaid cuts, which are the largest
cuts to medicaid in American history and are going to
be devastating to communities all across the country. Two, we

(13:36):
permanently extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits, which benefit
working class Americans all across the country. Ninety three percent
of the tax credits go to people who make sixty
three thousand dollars or less in the United States of America.
And Third, there are accountability provisions to make sure that

(13:58):
Republicans can't engage in an agreement that's bipartisan that then
is signed into law by President Trump, and then on
the back end, they engage in recisions to undo democratic
priorities and values that we believe will make a difference
to the American people. We would be fools to ever
enter into an agreement with them that then allowed them

(14:21):
to back in that agreement by engaging in recisions without
democratic votes. So there's a provision in the law that
of course needs to change. That's our proposal, and I
have no idea what Mike Johnson is talking about, but
the reality is because they don't have a defensible position.
That's probably the reason why Donald Trump had no cameras
in that Oval Office meeting, unlike any other high profile

(14:43):
meeting that he's done this year.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
They don't have a defensible position. They know we have
them on the run.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
They know we're on the right side of the American
people when it comes to fighting to protect their healthcare,
as Barack Obama himself noted just a few days ago.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
And we're in this fight until we win. This f
on behalf of everyday Americans. All right, Democratic Leader hokulm Jefference,
We appreciate it. Thanks a lot, Thanks man. All right,
gotta go to break. We'll be right back rolling Mark
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Central Florida out of Orlando, mostoppen. Just your thoughts again
on this impending shutdown. Everywhere on social media everywhere, all

(17:48):
I see is Democrats want to give healthcare to illegal aliens.
That is the Republican talking point. Do you think Democrats
have been effective in knocking that back?

Speaker 13 (18:00):
No, they had been effective, we wouldn't be having this
conversation now. And you know, I appreciate you know, Hakeem
coming onto the show, Representative Jeffery's coming onto the show
and sharing, but they've got to do a much better job.
The problem is is that we never put a face
on the issues that folks are talking about. So you
can talk about the numbers, you know, we can talk

(18:21):
about this eighty seven million people who are uninsured and
undershured in this country, but you got to bring it home.
It's got to actually resonate with folks about who those
individuals are, what they're going through, what they're losing, and
why we should be focused on these issues.

Speaker 14 (18:36):
So they're just not doing what they need to do.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
On that particular point there. Bishop William Barbara always talks
about this here. He says, you got to use impacted people.
You've got to have the voices of impacted people. And
so to Mustapha's point, he's right, you got to able
show who these people are. Uh And it can't just

(19:02):
be a Washington DC conversation. And again, every single time
Republicans say that, my response, my response will be lie,
lie Lie. In fact, this is how I roll. If
I was speaking, if I was Democratic Leader Jeffries, and
my staff was monitoring that CNBC interview and Mike Johnson

(19:23):
said that, I would have said, call the control room
right now, get me on the air while he's on
the air, so I can tell everybody he just lied.
That to me is the kind of response, the rapid
response that Democrats have to have in the moment, not
waiting for a news conference, not waiting for a tweet,
but literally say call the control room right now, put

(19:47):
me on the air, because he just lied.

Speaker 15 (19:51):
Absolutely, not that we need we need some more fire
behind what's happening right now, because this isn't politics, this
is the actual people's lives will be will be affected.
We need some gave and new some energy, but on
a whole new level of meeting, of meeting them where
their lives meet and make it and making it clear
that this crisis is not a bipartisan failure but as
a result of Republican obstruction and Trump's aligned extremism that

(20:14):
has really affective families and as you said before, telling
the stories of those who will be impacted, so those
of those who have to make those real life you know, uh,
you know, uh decisions when this that this will impact
what families will have to face, eviction notices and empty refrigerators,
and knowing that families will have to go lose paychecks
and delayed health care and childcare and housing assistance, and

(20:38):
really making it real so that it really relates to
folks and help them understand that this fight is not
only in Washington, but it's connecting back into communities and
how and how it will impact them.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Sense of urgency, Larry, that's what it has to be, uh,
that what has what we need to be hearing. And
again the numbers don't lie, the pulling members don't lie.
People do not feel as if Democratic congressional leadership are
meeting the moment.

Speaker 16 (21:06):
Yeah, I think one of the problems we talk about,
you know, Jeffries and Schumer, is that I think that
there are politicians in terms of the communication style that
doesn't work anymore, and it's for the age that's long gone,
and so they're going to learn they're going to have
to adapt because once again rolland in terms of you know,
the Republicans with the proposing is is not popular, but
the Democrats haven't been able to articulate an agenda, a

(21:28):
counter narrative to highlight to the American people that we
are fighting on your behalf. And if they don't get
it together, we've got midterms coming up in a short
period of time, and then a few years after that
we have the election. But once again, they don't really
have to refine a communication style. And I agree with
you it is essentially going to adopt the communication style
as more like.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Urban guerrilla warfare.

Speaker 16 (21:47):
Is that you're you're you're you're being the aggressor when
necessary to put out, you know, to communicate to the
American people what's at stake here. If you don't, you know,
you don't wake up that you know, you'll lose your
health care. And the far more you know, lose dight
health care, it'll increase mortality rates. Once again, not playing
to put food on the table, but once again, this
communication style has to be more aggressive.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
And I agree with you.

Speaker 16 (22:09):
You got to be and look if you have to
be in the studio with them as they tell some
of these lies. But you've got to have people also
out there, Roland, who are really good at communicating. And
let's be clear, sometimes the Democratic Party is trying to
mute those individuals Jasmine Crockett among others, who are excellent communicators.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
All right, hold type one second, going to break, we
come back. I can't even tell you what the hell
that thing was today that the grossly unqualified white man
Peter Peterexcept did today with America's top generals. Total waste
of money, total waste of time for what was essentially

(22:50):
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Speaker 1 (24:03):
You are checking out Roland Martin unfiltered. Something happened today
that was essentially a pep Rowley Peter X Seth, the

(24:25):
grossly unqualified white man picked the leader of the Department
of Defense, stands before a massive US flag, having his
patent moment from the movie. He's addressing the top generals
in our military. Okay, let me explain something, y'all. Do

(24:46):
you understand how stupid it is to have all of
America's top generals located in one place at a at
a an event that was public. Guys, it was a
PEP rally, it was a campaign event, and they sat
there and listened to this idiot Hecseth trash retired generals

(25:11):
talk about grooming and overweight officers and shaving your beard.
If you don't like it, you can resign. Oh, military exceptionalism,
all this bs. Then the twice impeached, criminally convicted felon
in chief, mister bone Spurs Okay, who never served. He

(25:33):
walks out there, trashes Obama, trashes Biden before people who
were sworn to uphold to protect the constitution, individuals who
are not supposed to be participating in political rallies. And
that's exactly what this was. So here's this idiot, Hecseth,
whining and complaining and bemoaningdi.

Speaker 19 (26:02):
This administration has done a great deal from day one
to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological
garbage that had infected our department.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
To rip out the politics.

Speaker 19 (26:17):
No more identity months, dei offices, dudes in dresses, no
more climate change worship, no more division distraction or gender delusions,
no more debris. As I've said before and we'll say again,
we are done with that ship. I've made it my

(26:39):
mission to uproot the obvious distractions that made us less
capable and less lethal. That said, the War Department requires
the next step. Underneath the garbage is a deeper problem
and a more important problem that we are fixing and
fixing fast. Common sense is back at the White House,

(27:01):
so making the necessary changes is actually pretty straightforward.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
One leader said in the political story, we could have
did this in an email. Doyall understand how much money
it costs to fly in the top generals from all
across the world to listen to a ninety minute to

(27:33):
our whatever the hell that was, here's this idiot, Donald Trump?

Speaker 20 (27:46):
There was really a stupid person that works for I
mentioned the word nuclear. I moved a submarine or two.
I won't say about the two over to the coast
of Russia. Just to be careful, because we can't let
people throw around that word. I call it the N word.

(28:10):
There are two nd words, and you can't use either
of them, can use either of them. And frankly, if
it does get to use, we have more than anybody else.
We have better, we have newer. But it's something we
don't ever want to even have to think about. But

(28:31):
when somebody mentions that that submarine started immediately thereafter, and
it's just lurking, but I'm sure we're not going to
have to use it. But it's an amazing it's undetectable,
totally ours. There's a totally detectable. We can detect them easily.

Speaker 9 (28:48):
We go right to the spot.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
What the hell is he talking about? We're talle of tenant.
Colonel Clil Davis joins us right now the US Army.
Her memoir is forged in battle African American officers serving
in the United States Army. Glad to have you here,
Glad to be here. I don't even know where to

(29:17):
start from the sheer stupidity of what the nation's top
brass had to endure in that pep rally. You want
me to start go right ahead.

Speaker 21 (29:35):
Yeah, I mean, we have a gentleman who is the
head of the Secretary of the Secretary of War, who
was a captain and then I understand a major in
the National Guard. He is talking to general officers, but
he's speaking from the level in which he knows. He

(29:55):
started talking about being a platoon leader, and he goes
forward to being a platoon leader, So that's what he understands.
He's talking to people who have put their lives on
the line for this country for years and that are
qualified to be general officers. So of course it was
a pep riley, nothing to be really upset about, unless

(30:17):
you want to get into the eases of.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
What he said. Well, this idiot is standing there, Bernard,
the cheer rallies and the millions, and you don't stand
in front of generals and shit on previous chairman of
the Joint chiefs of Staff, in top leaders of America's military.

(30:43):
People who folk in that room served with served under
who they actually led. That to me was that's not
what you do with the military of the United States.

Speaker 21 (30:56):
Well, obviously the whole intent was bullying excapade. I mean,
no leader brings their people forward to say Hey, I'm
the leader, and now I'm going to show you something
different or we're going to do something different. Every Secretary
of Defense as well as now this Secretary of War

(31:17):
has an opportunity when he goes into his office to
set up a national military strategy, which is in writing,
and some of those very gentlemen that we're in that
office today will help him drafted.

Speaker 13 (31:30):
So the purpose of bringing.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Everyone for him to be in front of everyone.

Speaker 21 (31:36):
And then let the world see it, it's just to
me it seems as though a little insecurity, maybe for
a young man who is really in some big shoes.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, I mean, I mean he's standing there. It was
a television presentation. This is what I keep saying about
these people. Everything is a TV show. That's all this
was as all this was, this was here I stand.
I am the mighty Peter Heickseth, and I'm the Secretary
of War leading the War Department, and sitting before me

(32:10):
of all of the people who work under me, all
of my generals. And Donald Trump has actually said before
my generals, when that's not how they should be referred
to in this country.

Speaker 21 (32:24):
No, and this would be laughable if he didn't say
other things that were even more important. First, the fact
that he's calling the Department of Defense the Department of
War is significant and should be significant to people in
this country because the defense is actually in the Constitution
and that we are sworn to protect and defend the Constitution.

(32:48):
So the fact that he put war, which he has
not explained to anyone as yet, while war replaced defense,
it's nothing we should be concerned about. But also in
his speech he pointed out a number of I don't
know it. Doing his diatribe, he pointed out a number
of things that we should be focused on. One is
when he singled out shaving as a requirement for being

(33:11):
in the army. Now, most of us know about pseudo filikolitis.
Mostly African Americans or men with curly hair have it,
and for him to require all of them to cut
and shaved smooth shaved will impact some of them. But
that's something that also can be overcome if the right
people get in and fix that problem with shaving bumps.

(33:36):
The thing is when you have someone young who doesn't
know what leadership really is other than what he read
in the book, who hasn't been challenged like the men
he had in the auditorium today, you might get this.
It would be the same if we put a private
in charge of the NCO Corps. They may have a
lot of great ideas, but those ideas aren't necessarily practical

(33:59):
for the war, the battlefield, or for any war that
we may engage in this country. Now, I want to say,
I am a retired military officer, and he placed a
few challenges there for me, but nothing that.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
I would be afraid of.

Speaker 14 (34:17):
Physical fitness.

Speaker 21 (34:18):
I've been out of the army twenty five years, so
you can imagine I was fit when I was in
the army. Women being able to do whatever job that
he wants to put out there, he's going to be
surprised because if we know our jobs and you have
a standard, they are going to meet the standard along
with DEEI that is something that didn't come from the military.

(34:40):
The military is a political DEI came from something else.
If they take it away, no one is gonna boohoo
taken that away, because once the standard is set, soldiers
and officers in the United States military are going to
meet those standards. So this was a feel good moment

(35:00):
and I appreciate it seeing it, but I don't want
anyone to be afraid that the military is in Trump
as long as he does what he says. He said
it's going to be meritorious, that it's going to be
based on merit, and that's what my book is about
being the best, but not being awarded or rewarded according

(35:24):
to merit. So if he does that, we're happy.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
This political story could have been an email officials bulking
head sets general's meeting, and in here it said numerous
defensive officials were scratching their heads, saying what the hell
was going on? More like a press conference than briefing,
the general, said one defense official. Could have been an
email ninety minutes and he said it had the feel

(35:50):
of a Hollywood production. Donald Trump comes out and tells
these generals they can have a good time. The military
code says, you don't clap, you don't laugh, you don't speak,
you just listen. I mean, that's also just what's so
stupid here? Okay that sure, there was a moment where

(36:13):
some chuckled, some had went with all sort of stuff,
But anybody who understands the code of the military knows
that when they're being addressed by the person occupying the
White House, I don't call them the president when they're
being addressed by the Secretary of Defense, not Secretary Ward.
There's a code of conduct they are to abide by.

Speaker 21 (36:35):
Yes, the military and the officers in it are a
political so it didn't matter what party the president was.
As he stands there, I mean, I'm saying that we're
going to follow the orders, We're going to fight the
nation's wars.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
This is not new.

Speaker 21 (36:57):
So this was a presentation. I from my perspective watching it,
for those two gentlemen to feel good about the positions
they're in, and maybe for the secretary to assert some
authority right over people who have really earned their rank.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Well, and also it's keep in mind, I mean, we
were dealing with individuals who who you've seen he had
said fire a number of generals, and they've removed a
lot of folks who have been in the chain of
command because they want absolute loyalists and not people. They
want loyalists to trump, not people who are loyal to

(37:38):
the constitution.

Speaker 21 (37:40):
Now that's gonna be He's gonna have to do a
lot of picking to make that happen. I mean, what
he did as far as removing the senior generals, I
don't know exactly what his thought process.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
For he had none. To us, he had none, But
to us.

Speaker 21 (37:56):
It appears that he was removing people because not their qualifications,
not because of their merit, but because he wanted a
gender neutral, race neutral leadership. That's what it appears to be,
and that's just my opinion. Of course, it's not going
to when it comes down to the military, you're not

(38:18):
going to have in all of one anything military. The
military needs diversity, even though it may not need DEEI.
The military needs women service members because we're not going
to be able to round out the force without them.

Speaker 13 (38:35):
That has been tried before.

Speaker 21 (38:37):
The people that are in the military that join as privates,
that come in as lieutenants are not getting any special privileges.
So a lot of what the Secretary is saying is
just rumor, and I guess what he's trying to project.
As I said before, DEI is not a military invention.

(39:01):
We want everyone in the military to have equal opportunity.
Weich is guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States,
and we will execute the rules, the laws that are
and the orders of the President because that's what they're
smorn to do.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Well. This was go ahead. Well, I hope the message
at the retirement a ceremony of General Milli Mark Millie
is ringing in the ears of every person. For folks
who don't remember, this is what he said.

Speaker 22 (39:34):
We don't take it over to a country.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
I've taking over to a tribe. I've taken over to
a religion.

Speaker 22 (39:42):
But I'm taking over to a king or a queen,
or the retiring or dictators.

Speaker 23 (39:49):
We don't take it off to a dictator.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
We don't take it over to an individual ado. We
take it over to the constitutions. Were taken over America
who were willing to die. Well, I certainly hope first,
for many people said, we knew exactly who he was
talking about when he made those comments. And I certainly

(40:12):
hope that troops, these generals that if they are given
frankly an unlawful order that that does not abide by
the Constitution, I hope that they will reject heck Saith
or even Trump in that order.

Speaker 21 (40:27):
I believe that the officers, because they're sworn to an
oath and we represent the people of this country, will
do that.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Well. I hope. So he's putting our military officers in
a very difficult position, but uh, that's what we're dealing with,
Attendant Colonel Kalilo Davis. I appreciate it, thanks a lot,
Thank you, Aggie. Pryme all right, I'm gonna go to
my panel here. I tell you, Larry, it's to sit
here and listen to that idiot. It was just I
couldn't imagine being one of those generals having to endure

(40:59):
the sheer stupidity of Pete Hesath talking about fitness and
shaving beards the Roland.

Speaker 16 (41:10):
I think one of the things we had the contrast
is former Secretary Austin and Hegseth. I think that's one
second of all this is. I think people are missing
something about this speech. This is a it was very political,
and it was steter, but it's my belief that Hexseth
is lining up to run for something US Senate or governor,

(41:30):
etcetera down the line. And I think that in a
year or two we'll find that out. But you're right,
a lot of this speech didn't make any sense. You know,
you watch it and you're trying to figure out exactly
what is he talking about?

Speaker 1 (41:41):
And it could have been an email.

Speaker 16 (41:44):
And I think the other thing is not only the
cost in terms of flying those individuals, you know, in
but we really need to talk about the dangers in
terms of the dangers in place to the United States.
You're taking individuals from various theaters throughout the throughout the world,
and you're flying them into one place. I mean in
terms it's like a Russian Russia or a Chinese SPI's dream.
It makes absolutely no sense. But we have the Americans

(42:07):
really need the pay close attention to the language as
being you that was used today because essentially when you're
not only in terms of you know, allegedly directing these
generals and telling them what they should and shouldn't do.
The other thing is with you know, President Trump, is
it seems really the language using about in terms of
using the military in the US jurisdictions. And we're seeing
that already and we're going to see that increasingly. Another

(42:28):
thing is wrong when people keep talking about d I.
D I includes veterans, so I working to college campus.
So when you talk about d I program that includes
you as veterans. So when you and a lot of
people don't always think about race and gender, but a
lot of veterans when it comes to programs various programs
that get higher education in other places, they're included in
those DEI programs. So when you keep talking about d

(42:51):
I programs, you're talking about veterans throughout the United States
after they used to leave the US military.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
No, when they say d they mean black people, they
mean brown people.

Speaker 9 (42:59):
Tyle it.

Speaker 14 (43:02):
Exactly. And I think it's very dangerous.

Speaker 15 (43:03):
And I think again for black like black soldiers who
have historically fought for freedoms that were denied at home,
this right here is yet another reminder of that insult,
where our military is bending towards a white nationalist agenda.

Speaker 14 (43:17):
And I think it's very dangerous.

Speaker 15 (43:18):
As we're talked about the politicization of our military, and
I think it echoes in authoritarian government, which we are
seeing day in and day out here in Washington.

Speaker 16 (43:26):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (43:26):
And as mentioned, you know, our our soldiers take an
oe to the Constitution, not to political leaders. And for
even him to say that we're we are removing anything
social justice, I think it's not just rhetoric. It demands
that our armed forces abandoned the very values that they
swear to uphold.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
With STAFFA.

Speaker 13 (43:46):
I mean for those of us who are students of history,
authoritarian leaders have always needed theater to be able to
garner the support of folks.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
So we just need to be clear.

Speaker 13 (43:58):
All you got to do is go back and take
a look at most You can look at Hitler, You
can look at a number of folks throughout history who
are now labeled as authoritarian leaders, and how they used
certain moments to be able to one show that they
had power to to get people in a line and
to read to continue to feed sort of the rhetoric

(44:18):
that would become commonplace. And many of the societies that
began to allow the erosion or the erasure of rights. So,
you know, we just need to be mindful of how
history has played out and make sure that we are
also paying attention to this moment and seeing if there
are some things that kind of line up together.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Of course, Vice President Kama Harris told people this was
going to happen while truck was going to act and
behave as she reiterated that on Saturday night when she
accepted her award from the Congression of Black Caucus Foundation
AOC Here is what she had to say when she
picked up her Phoenix Award.

Speaker 24 (44:57):
Good evening, everyone, let me thanks CBCF Foundation Chair Congresswoman
Terry Sewell for that beautiful introduction. And I thank CBC
Chair Congresswoman Evet Clark, and all of the CBC members,
all of the award winners, and everyone gathered here for.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Your long standing leadership and support.

Speaker 24 (45:22):
As a former and I consider myself lifetime member of CBC,
I am.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Deeply honored to receive this award. For more than half
a century.

Speaker 24 (45:35):
The CBC has not only been the conscience of the Congress,
but a conscience of America, fighting for opportunity, for equality,
and for freedom. With your help, seventy five million Americans
stood with us last year on behalf of a stronger America,

(46:00):
stood with a belief in the promise of America. And
today the CBC, in the tradition of its founders, confronts
an unprecedented but not unfamiliar threat to that promise. The

(46:22):
United States Congress has equal power to the executive branch
in our constitutional government, and your work then is more
important than ever, especially as your colleagues bend the knee

(46:42):
and fail to uphold.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Their constitutional duty.

Speaker 24 (46:51):
With each day, we are witnessing a president who has
lined his own pockets and those of the super rich,
while he raises tariffs on the backs of working people,
cuts snap and medicaid, ignores science, ends the war on cancer,

(47:15):
and deploys the United States military to the streets of America.
And let us be clear, we predicted all that, but CBC,
what I did not predict was the capitulation the university's
law firms, media corporations, the titans of industry who have

(47:39):
been so quick to kneel before a tyrant.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
But I'll tell you who refuses to capitulate the people.

Speaker 24 (47:53):
When a president with a fragile ego couldn't take a
joke and brought down the weight of the federal government
to silence the voice of a citizen. Folks spoke with
their pocketbooks this week, and Jimmy.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Kimmel is now back on the air.

Speaker 24 (48:18):
And when doctor Jamal Bryant issued a call to speak
with your pocketbooks, the power of the people was also demonstrated.
A time such as this demands that the leaders in

(48:40):
this room remind the people of their power, speak truth
and speak with courage, even when you don't have all
the answers. A time such as this demands that we
win the mid terms and in force checks and balances

(49:06):
on this unchecked, incompetent, unhinged president.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Yesterday, I had the joy.

Speaker 24 (49:21):
Of visiting students at my alma mater, Howard University, you know,
And while I was there, I remembered when I was
their age.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
I got to Howard when I was seventeen.

Speaker 24 (49:38):
When I was their age, Ronald Reagan was president, and
the extreme right wing was hatching the long term agenda
that is being swiftly implemented today, enhanced today by propaganda
and misinformation. And recall, they played the long game, working

(50:06):
for decades to take over state houses, gerry mander districts,
stack the Supreme Court, and create the radical blueprint currently
being used by this administration. As I have written, the
current president is their vehicle, but the road was paved

(50:31):
over decades by a hot and pungent brew, Ronald Reagan's celebrity,
the belligerent discourse of Newt Gingrich, and the nativism of
Pat Buchanan.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
CBC. We have some deep work to do.

Speaker 24 (50:56):
At First, I would offer we must prioritizeiacy, focus on
the immediate issues that people face, like the rising cost
of groceries, housing, and childcare. Second, we cannot we cannot

(51:17):
allow them to gaslight us by suggesting that the powerless
and not the powerful, are responsible for our predicament. And finally,
please let's get over the safer complex which suggests one
individual can save us. Come on, be these democrats. We

(51:43):
have so many stars. We have so many stars, and
many of them are in this room right now.

Speaker 25 (51:50):
You are the leaders who are up for the fight.
You are leaders who have rich You are leaders who
speak truth, leaders who know that at a time such

(52:11):
as this, it demands one thing for sure. We must
fight fire with fire.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
So CBC, let's get to work.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Thank you. Point she makes their mustaf I think it
is a critical one. That is, it is a call,
It is a charge what needs to happen. And to
understand that what we are looking at two blocks from
where we sit right now is an individual who is
a grave threat, an individual and a party that is

(52:49):
a grave threat to the future of Black America.

Speaker 13 (52:54):
Yeah, without a doubt. You know, I often use the
phrase you have power unless you give it away. We've
got to make sure that we are actually helping to
build power. So the Vice President talked about, you know,
a multitude of leaders are needed. You know, our dear
sister Ella Baker often, you know, made sure that we
understood that that there's not just one person who has

(53:15):
a responsibility. But that also means that we have to
have an understanding of the dynamics and the needs that
exist inside of our communities. And all the folks that
are sitting in that dinner, I hope they are actually
spending time on the ground with folks. So, yes, we
have this threat that's going on, but we have to
build up our people and make sure they understand it,
each and every one of us as a leader, and
that we can make change in our own communities. And

(53:37):
then by coming together, we can build you know, this
coalition that is so necessary, But often we don't want
to spread the power around. So I think that that
has to be a part of addressing what's going on
by the person who's now sitting in the White House,
and who are the folks who are running these agencies.
So we have the opportunity, we just got to make

(53:58):
sure that we're taking advantage.

Speaker 15 (53:59):
Of Kyle Like, Yeah, I would also say it's something
that you know, everyone in that room, you know all knows,
and I think the strategy is how we take that
out of that room, will take it to communities so
they're able to understand and comprehend that this is a
reminder to us all that our resistance must be paired

(54:22):
with vision, and we must have people who aren't scared
to fight fire with fire.

Speaker 14 (54:26):
Because we all know that fear exists, but it does
and we know it's real.

Speaker 15 (54:30):
But because we have to understand that we move with
that fear in service is something that's bigger that we
know that we're fighting for. That we know that we're
fighting for freedom and liberation for all black people, and
we deserve not only to survive, but to thrive. And
in order to do that, it requires an unafraid leadership,
willing to dream, to act out boldly into to stand

(54:54):
Tinto's down. But it requires us to move not only
in those spaces, but take it back to the community
to those who may not. You know, hear that type
of conversation every single that Larry.

Speaker 16 (55:06):
Roland really quickly here she says something that I think
a lot of people missed, and she made the connection
between New Gingrich, She mentioned them the contract with America.
She didn't say that and Project twenty twenty five. For
folks who don't understand how we got here, go back
and look at the contract with America. All she mentions
a few of the Pat Buchan, et cetera. It's been
building to this. We didn't just arrive here New Gingrich

(55:27):
and the Gingrich Revolution is part of how we got
the project twenty twenty five. So I encourage people to
go out and check out some of the you know,
go back and look at the Contract of American impact
on you know, policy in the United States, and remember
that you know, black people with felt you know, encounter
challenges like this in the past, and the CBC has
always led the way, and we need to continue to
see them to reach those heights again.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Yeah. Absolutely, Ari, folks got to go to the break,
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And I'm with Roland Martin on Unfiltered GOP Political Action
Committee in Pennsylvania are sending out mailers claiming that state
Supreme Court justices in that state illegally jerry mandered district

(58:11):
to help Democrats win. That's not quite what their role is.
The postcard sent by the Commonwealth Leader's Fund, a political
action committee tied to Pennsylvania's richest man, Jeffrey Yaz, features
a map with oddly shaped district circle in red. It's
one of several recent mailers and digital ads that have

(58:32):
sparked outraged among Democrats, who call it a deceptive tactic
in this year's high stakes judicial elections. Now the map pictured, y'all,
y'all have the map? Okay, all right, fine, the map
pictured wasn't drawn by the state Supreme Court who drew
it Republican legislators. Yeah. Now, the nation was struck down

(58:59):
by state Supreme Court calling it and constitutional jerry mander.
But you see how they're trying to play the game.
Join us right now. Nadia Graves, lead Democrat leader for
One Pennsylvania, a civic organization, glad to have you here.
So it is the thing that's crazy and people need
to understand why this matters. Because Republicans have been pissed

(59:22):
off at the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court as rule against
their shameful antics for the last several years, including the
twenty twenty election, when Trump still complains that he felt
that the State Supreme Court a just created law when
we were in the middle of COVID, Hi, how are
you great? Great?

Speaker 26 (59:45):
So yeah, I just want to kind of set the
stage because I know a lot of people aren't in Pennsylvania.
Jeffreys is a Pennsylvanian. He's actually out of state billionaire,
but I currently revise in Pennsylvania. He as a Wall
Street billionaire and he lives a little bit outside of Philadelphia.

(01:00:05):
He's increased his wealth by about four hundred percent since COVID,
and he's now worth sixty five billion dollars. He is
a major investor in TikTok and a member of Trump's
inner billionaire circle, advocating to defund public schools and pushing

(01:00:25):
a far right agenda. I think it's important to know
he's a TikTok investor because we used to hear Donald
Trump talk a lot about shutting down TikTok, and now
we don't hear anything about that, And I think that's
attributed to a meeting between Trump and Jeffrey Es.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
Yeah, I mean jeff Trump was Trump, hey TikTok until
Yes said hey, I want to buy it. He's like, hey,
TikTok is also great. But what they're doing is, you
know again, they want to try. They need to lie
in order to get people fired up. So they want
to pin the blame on the map on Democrats, but
it was Republicans.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
Yes.

Speaker 26 (01:01:04):
That has been.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Really intense to see.

Speaker 26 (01:01:11):
Because Jeffries is using dark money groups to influence PA's
Supreme Court election and precisely to do things like have
the courts Garry mander to grab more power for Republicans.
So his latest front is called Citizens for Term Limits,
and it's structured so that the public can't really see

(01:01:33):
how many millions that he's.

Speaker 23 (01:01:34):
Pumping in to the Supreme Court race.

Speaker 26 (01:01:37):
And this is exactly how billionaires like Jeffries and even
Elon Musk rigged the system. They hide their spending behind
these political action committees and use their wealth to drown
out the voices of everyday voters. So we have these
mailers coming in from the Commonwealth Leader's fund and they

(01:02:00):
have maps which are alive, the masses showing on the
Millers are the maps that the Republicans actually drew out
and proposed in twenty eighteen that got struck down by
this Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has really had freedom
for Pennsylvania's and mine and the congressional districts that we

(01:02:22):
got out of that was a lot more fair. I'm
from a small town in Pennsylvania called Colatesville, Pennsylvania, into
middle of Chester County, and it's a black neighborhood in
the richest county in Pennsylvania. And you can see on
the gerrymanderd map prior to twenty eighteen, you can see
Coltsfield and South Coatsfield intentionally taking out of Chester County's

(01:02:46):
congressional district and put into homage country to limit the
power of the black voters in the small Pennsylvania town.
This is a map that the Republicans drew that the
Supreme Court has corrected and upheld fair or maps. Now
we have fair representation in Chester County and throughout Pennsylvania
because of the Supreme Court's call to fairness.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
How is the Supreme Court race playing? First of all,
with people? When is the election? Is it?

Speaker 13 (01:03:16):
This?

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
November was twenty six, No.

Speaker 26 (01:03:19):
The Supreme Court election is Tuesday, November fourth.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
And the polls are open and how and how many
seats are up.

Speaker 26 (01:03:26):
There are three retention seats, so the Supreme Court retention
is a yes or no vote, and it's a non
partisan vote, so it's not like a traditional vote for
a Democrat or Republican. It's not listed. But the three
Supreme Court justices are Democrats that are up for retention,
and it's a simple vote yes or no. And so

(01:03:49):
that is going to likely be on the back of
your ballot in Pennsylvania because they can sometimes get buried
in the ballot. So it's important to vote yes because
there's seven people on the Supreme Court and even if
one of these Supreme Court Justices lose their seat, it
could throw off the balance of power in Pennsylvania's court system.

(01:04:10):
And we've had a very fair court so far. They've
done things like protect the right to unionize, protect tenants,
and protect workers, and so we definitely have had a
fair Supreme Court and they've been our last line of
defense against our United States Supreme Court. So we call

(01:04:33):
it SCOPA here, and we say not to be confused
with SCOTUS so people can understand what we talked about
the Supreme Court versus the US Supreme Court.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
Are are you seeing a high engagement among African Americans
regarding the state Supreme court races?

Speaker 26 (01:04:49):
Typically people aren't very involved in judicial races in general.
We anticipated because Jeffreyes had put a lot of money
into the twenty twenty three Supreme Court race, that there
would be a high influx of spending, and so an
organization like mine one Pennsylvania has been going to our

(01:05:09):
chapter meetings and talking to people about the Supreme Court race.
We also have organized a block by block program where
people talk to their neighbors about elections, and so we've
been talking to people at their doors about the Supreme
Court race because it's just that important to us.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
All right, then, well, we certainly HEP folks do get
engaged and understand that keeping Republicans from controlling state Supreme
Court are so important because again we've seen what happened
in Wisconsin, Ohio, and North Carolina. How when Republicans have
controlled the state Supreme Court at Texas as well, they
have ruled against the interests of black people.

Speaker 26 (01:05:47):
Absolutely, and I think, like what happened in Wisconsin, Elon
Musk made that the most expensive judicial race in United
States history, and must said specifically that he was interested
and redistricting in Wisconsin and that's what got him involved
in the race. We see what's happening in Texas and

(01:06:07):
we know that this is billionaire's playbooks to take a
lot of the money and continue to have wealth disparity.
They want to have so many courts and no checks
and balances so they can continue to regular deregulate, to privatize,
and make sure that specifically poor and working class black

(01:06:28):
people do not have power in this country. This is
a specific playbook that comes out of the Reagan era.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
All right, well, appreciate it up and good works. Thanks
a lot, Thank you so much. All Right, folks, gotta
go to break. We come back. The Crocket Chronicles Man
Cossom a Jasmin Crockett. Let's just say she just mapped
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This week on the other side of change, Early Kirk
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In many ways, it's become very very toxic, of which
hunt really attacking anyone who's not mourning this man.

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What we're seeing right now is the weaponization of selective
compassion and people who so often don't say anything about
the crisis of gun violence.

Speaker 13 (01:07:22):
We're going to dig into all of it.

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What this means for the state of gun violence and
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Speaker 9 (01:08:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 29 (01:08:54):
This is Tamplo Man, and this is David Mann, and
you're watching Rowland Mark untilted.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
All right, folks. So when Congress was voting on this
DC bill that dealt with the issue of crime was
introduced by Florida Congressman Byron Donald's he took to the
Florida House to share why he thought this bill should
be passed. Well Coswim and Jasmine Crockett. Let's just say

(01:09:36):
she had a few words for him, saying, m you're
a mighty hypocritical Byron. Here's what he said, and then
what she said, Thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:09:49):
Mister speaker.

Speaker 29 (01:09:50):
I rise today in strong support of my bill HR
forty nine two.

Speaker 9 (01:09:55):
The DC Crimes Act.

Speaker 29 (01:09:58):
Now, in reference to what the gentleman was just talking about,
Article one, section eight Claus seventeen of the United States
Constitution is quite clear. It grants Congress the power to
exercise exclusive, exclusive jurisdiction over the federal district, which all

(01:10:20):
Americans know now is Washington, DC, and it is the
nation's capital that is in the Constitution that was ratified
by the several states. Congress does have the constitutional authority
to regulate activities within the federal district. So when it
is said that somehow Congress is now eroding local control,
that is simply not true. Any local powers by the

(01:10:42):
DC City Council have been granted to the DC City
Council by Congress, and Congress is the seat of authority
when it comes to the federal enclave.

Speaker 9 (01:10:51):
It was also talked about Florida's laws.

Speaker 29 (01:10:54):
Well, let's be very clear, Florida has established its stealth
itself is a beacon of law and order and making
sure that our citizens are safe throughout all of our jurisdictions.
So if there are some abilities for some measures of flexibility,
Florida has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that
it knows how to keep its people safe. Very different
with respect to the DC City Council and with respect

(01:11:16):
to escalated crime here in the nation's capital. Our great
nation's capital has been played by violence, destruction, disorder for
far too long, and decades of weak pro crime leadership
has turned this once.

Speaker 9 (01:11:31):
Great city into a dystopia.

Speaker 29 (01:11:33):
I would remind my colleagues on the other side of
the aisle that some of their colleagues have been victimized
by the crime here in Washington, DC. Rather than prioritizing
the safety and the safety of law abiding and protecting
the lives of innocent residents and visitors, district officials have
actively facilitated dysfunction and chaos through their progressive.

Speaker 9 (01:11:55):
Soft on crime policies.

Speaker 29 (01:11:57):
Instead of addressing the clear epidemic of youth crime in
the city, the DC City Council increased the age of
youth defenders to individuals twenty four years old and younger,
meaning fully grown legal adults in the District of Columbia
can receive sentences meant for children. This is simply insane,
and that is why I introduced the DC Crimes Act,

(01:12:18):
which lowers the definition of youth from under the age
of twenty five to under the age of eighteen, removes
the ability of judges to sentence youth offenders below mandatory
minimum guidelines, and requires the DC Attorney General to establish
a public website containing much needed statistics on juvenile crime
in DC. The Trump administration's efforts have shown that lawlessness

(01:12:43):
is a choice, and it is time for Congress to
step up, adhere to our constitutional duty and firmly address
crime in the nation's capital. For the citizens of DC.
I would say, we wish your counsel did this the
right way, but they did not, and we will act.
Are you back to balance of my time?

Speaker 30 (01:13:04):
As I sat and listened to the beginning of this debate,
my heart simply broke. And many people know me for
being able to do alliterations, and all I could think
about was amnesia allows adolescent accountability, avoidance, agility from across
the aisles. So work with me for a second. Imagine

(01:13:27):
being a young man born to Jamaican and Panamanian parents
who messed up not once, but twice. Imagine standing in
front of a judge with your whole future hanging in
the balance, and instead of prison, you are given a
promise of mercy. Your record gets white clean. You get
a second chance at life. Now imagine taking that promise
and turning it into promotion. You go to college, you

(01:13:49):
get a job, and even become a member of Congress.
That's what redemption looks like. That's what America is supposed
to be about. And that is exactly the story of
the next want to be governor from Florida. As a
young man, he went through pretrial diversion for misdemeanor marijuana possession.
As an adult yet younger than twenty four, he was

(01:14:10):
charged with and ultimately placed on probation for felony bribery charges,
which ultimately were two expunged. He was given a third chance,
and now he's the face of a bill that would
not afford young people in Washington, d C. The same
opportunities afforded to him. Let me be real, if he
had grown up under Donald Trump's America or under the

(01:14:33):
very DC crime bill he's pushing today, he wouldn't be
standing here as a member of Congress. He'd still be
living with the weight of those charges.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
So let's call this what it is.

Speaker 30 (01:14:43):
Opportunities for me, but not for thee He climbed the
ladder of redemption, and now he's yanking it right up
from the DC youth. See, most of us were taught
to lift as you climb, but clearly some have forgotten
to lift as they climb, and now they are commit
to telling the next generation to pull themselves up by
their bootstraps. I will not sit quiet while a man

(01:15:06):
who was saved by grace turns around and tries to
snatch grace away from others. If we're going to be
real about crime, about lady about.

Speaker 6 (01:15:14):
Expired, like to yield you an additional minute, please, General woman.

Speaker 30 (01:15:20):
Is recognized about second chances and even third chances, then
it needs to start with us looking in the mirror
and remembering that even the author of this bill has
a story too, before he tries to lecture DC on safety.
And it would be complete hypocrisy to have, hypothetically someone
convicted of thirty four felonies to lecture DC on what

(01:15:44):
to do with you full offenders who have been scientifically
shown not to have fully developed brains under the age
of twenty five, especially if said multi count convicted felon
was in his seventies when he was convicted, What would
be his excuse because.

Speaker 2 (01:15:59):
His brain would be fully developed and with that, I
will yield back.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
Well, dolic seems like somebody had reminded Byron Donald's about
his past and saying, hold up, player, if if you
didn't have any mercy, your ass would beast into here
kissing Trump's ass in the house.

Speaker 15 (01:16:27):
Absolutely, as as as a saying, go uh, she ate that?
Ain't that with no left no crumbs behind. And I
think it's very clear that the same folks who are
go around arguing about about crime is the same ones
who is on the menu, per se like. And it's

(01:16:48):
just crazy to me how how clownish Byron Donalds is.
And instead of trying to tell DC what to do,
first and foremost, i'ld say free d C DC statehood.
And I totally agree with Congresswoman's Crockets righteous anger because
true community safety of investing in the breathe at and
investing in violence prevention and mental health and economic opportunity.

(01:17:10):
And yet this Congress is doing the exact opposite for
trying to patrol and control what the citizens of DC
and how they how there what safety means to them.
And so I totally agree in Congressman Crockett. Yeah, she
ate that she clocked his Tea.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
I mean, Larry, I mean, you can't make this up.
How hypocritical. The help Byron Donald's is to stay in
there knowing full well what he did before he turned eighteen.

Speaker 16 (01:17:40):
And Wan, I'm glad she she highlighted that I knew
this story and have known about obviously being in the state,
and she listen, this goes back to my point about
communication stops. You see the way she dissected him, roasted
and then put him in the oven and left him
in there, and so yeah, it's hypocritical. I'm a former Washingtonian,

(01:18:02):
you know, I've talked about it before, and my heart
aches for the young black males that if this becomes law,
are going to suffer and never have the opportunity for
first and second chances. Roland, let me highlight you just
her headset earlier talk about giving grown men who make
mistakes in the armed services and making sure that doesn't

(01:18:23):
follow from the nursing career. But they are not interested
in extending that same kind of grace to young black
and brown males and females in the Washington DC, which
is hypocritical.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
You know, it's just mustap. I mean, these folks are
amazing and for him to stand there and talk about
how proud he is of his bill. And okay, first
of all, you know what, in case the folks missed it,
let's just hear Crockett lay out again exactly the nefarious

(01:18:57):
activities by and Donald's was engaged in before he was eighty.

Speaker 30 (01:19:05):
As I sat and listened to the beginning of this debate,
my heart simply broke. And many people know me for
being able to do alliterations, and all I could think
about was amnesia allows adolescent accountability, avoidance, agility from across
the aisles.

Speaker 11 (01:19:24):
So work with me for a second.

Speaker 30 (01:19:27):
Imagine being a young man born to Jamaican and Panamanian
parents who messed up not once.

Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
But twice.

Speaker 30 (01:19:34):
Imagine standing in front of a judge with your whole
future hanging in the balance, and instead of prison, you
are given a promise of mercy. Your record gets white clean,
you get a second chance at life. Now imagine taking
that promise and turning it into promotion. You go to college,
you get a job, and even become a member of Congress.

(01:19:54):
That's what redemption looks like. That's what America is supposed
to be about, and that is exactly the story of
the next wanna be governor from Florida. As a young man,
he went through pretrial diversion for misdemeanor marijuana possession. As
an adult yet younger than twenty four, he was charged
with and ultimately placed on probation for felony bribery charges,

(01:20:15):
which ultimately were two expunged. He was given a third chance,
and now he's the face of a bill that would
not afford young people in Washington, d C. The same
opportunities afforded to him. Let me be real, if he
had grown up under Donald Trump's America or under the
very DC crime bill he's pushing today, he wouldn't be

(01:20:37):
standing here as a member of Congress. He'd still be
living with the weight of those charges.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
So let's call this what it is. Opportunities for me,
but not for thee.

Speaker 30 (01:20:46):
He climbed the ladder of redemption, and now he's yanking
it right up from the DC youth. See, most of
us were taught to lift as you climb, but clearly
some have forgotten to lift as they climb, and now
they are committed to telling the next generation to pull
themselves up by their bootstraps. I will not sit quiet
while a man who was saved by grace turns around

(01:21:09):
and tries to snatch grace away from others. If we're
going to be real about crime, about lady about expired.

Speaker 6 (01:21:17):
Like to yield you an additional minute, please, General woman.

Speaker 30 (01:21:21):
Is recognized about second chances and even third chances, then
it needs to start with us looking in the mirror
and remembering that even the author of this bill has
a story too before he tries to lecture DC on safety.
And it would be complete hypocrisy to have, hypothetically someone
convicted of thirty four felonies to lecture DC on what

(01:21:44):
to do with you full offenders who have been scientifically
shown not to have fully developed brains under the age
of twenty five, especially if said multi count convicted felon
was in his seventies when he was convicted, What would
be his excuse because his brain would be fully developed?

Speaker 9 (01:22:02):
And with that, I will yield back.

Speaker 14 (01:22:06):
Bappa. What do you say to that?

Speaker 13 (01:22:10):
I guess we start with oh, skin folk and kenfolk.
You know, kenfolk actually focus on how do we help
to heal our community. How do we make sure that
our community has the resources they need, especially young people
to navigate all the challenges that are placed in front
of them. Skin Folk forget where they come from. Skin
Folk also stand up in front of America and lie

(01:22:34):
to America. They forget the fact that they come from
a state that is in the top twenty for murders.
They forget that they also had a one thousand and
sixty six murders and the last statistics that we have
in front of us, and they had thirty mass shootings.
So ken folk love our community. They do everything in

(01:22:54):
their ability to make sure that we have what we
need to move from surviving to thriving, while skinfolks just
want to be able to fill their pockets and to
get a little bit of a master's power.

Speaker 1 (01:23:07):
And that's why I call these black face maga folks
the help, all right, going to break when we come back.
Pastor Brian Carter Concord Baptist Church in Dallas talks about
white Christian nationalism. But I'm also remind y'all what this

(01:23:29):
crazy is. White Passed has said a couple of years
ago in Texas about slavery. You need to understand how
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Speaker 8 (01:24:14):
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.

Speaker 9 (01:24:34):
They joined in.

Speaker 8 (01:24:36):
In twenty eighteen, his DOJ backed Ohio's voter purge system,
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black votes and political power.

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Yeah, that happened.

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Speaker 10 (01:25:13):
This week on the Other Side of Change, Early Kirk
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Speaker 11 (01:25:19):
In many ways, it's become very, very toxic, of which
hunt really attacking anyone who's not mourning.

Speaker 12 (01:25:25):
This man we're seeing right now is the weaponization of
selective compassion, and people will so often don't say anything
about the crisis of gun violence.

Speaker 11 (01:25:33):
We're going to dig into all of it, what this
means for the state of gun violence and the state
of free speech. You're watching The Other Side of Change
only on the Blackstar Network.

Speaker 17 (01:25:44):
Next on the Black Table with me Greg Carr an
hour of Living History was doctor Richard Marie ba Kelsey, thinker, builder, author,
and one of the most important and impactful elders in the.

Speaker 1 (01:25:55):
African American community.

Speaker 17 (01:25:57):
He reflects on his full and rich life and is
incomparable wisdom about our past president and the future.

Speaker 18 (01:26:03):
I'm a Virginia's saying that my uncle was Virginia. My
brother was a Leegenia. My neighbor was Agenia. I think
we ought to drill that in ourselves and move ahead
rather than believing that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:16):
I got it.

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Speaker 9 (01:26:54):
All right, my name is Freddy Rice. I'm from Houston, Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
My name is Sharon Williams.

Speaker 26 (01:26:59):
I'm from Dallas, Texas.

Speaker 21 (01:27:00):
Right now I'm rolling with Roland Martin, unfiltered, uncut, uncloved,
and undamned believable him.

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
All Right, You've got some really racist white preachers out here,
and they can run around they can talk about how
Charlie Kirk loved Jesus Christ and all that sort of stuff,
but he made a lot of racist comments. And these
things happen so well, I'm about to show you took
place a couple of years ago. So this white man,

(01:27:39):
his name is Mike Keller, and he was delivering a
sermon that was pretty crazy. He was speaking at fair
Park Baptist Church. Y'all, y'all got down here. Where's fair Park?
That y'all y'alln't y'all don't have the city and state here,

(01:28:01):
which I don't understand why, so I need you to
need y'all to find that and tell me. So we
tell me where this is fair Park Baptist Church. He
was a guest speaker, and this is what he had
to say.

Speaker 31 (01:28:17):
This is how you change America. Okay, in my humble opinion, Hey,
think about it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:24):
One hundred and.

Speaker 31 (01:28:25):
Fifty years ago or two hundred years ago, when the
blacks were slaves.

Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
Did they ever go to Washington, d c.

Speaker 31 (01:28:33):
And have a rally two hundred years ago to protest
against slavery?

Speaker 9 (01:28:37):
Did they no?

Speaker 14 (01:28:40):
What did they do?

Speaker 8 (01:28:44):
Well?

Speaker 31 (01:28:44):
A lot of good people in the plantations would say Hey,
it's winter time. Let's let us help build a church
for you, dear folks. And they loved him and taught
them how to read so they can read the Bible.
And here's what the Blacks did about it. One hundred
and fifty years ago. They humbled themselves, they prayed, they

(01:29:05):
sought God's face, and they turned from their wicked ways.
And God made slavery illegal through several white presidents. Right,
it worked, didn't it. They didn't protest. Maybe there's a
place for protest. I don't know, but there's sometimes It's

(01:29:27):
that was a wise pastor that warned his flock.

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
Okay, did did he say? Did the slavery's Did the
slaves not lead a protest? Run it again?

Speaker 23 (01:29:41):
This is how you change America?

Speaker 1 (01:29:43):
Okay?

Speaker 23 (01:29:45):
In my humble opinion, Hey, think about.

Speaker 31 (01:29:47):
It one hundred and fifty years ago or two hundred
years ago, when the Blacks were slaves.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
Did they ever go to Washington, D c.

Speaker 31 (01:29:56):
And have a rally two hundred years ago to protest
against slavery?

Speaker 22 (01:30:01):
Did they know?

Speaker 1 (01:30:04):
What did they do? Well?

Speaker 31 (01:30:08):
A lot of good people in the plantations would say, Hey,
it's winter time, let's let us help build a church.
For you, dear folks. And they loved them and taught
them how to read so they can read the Bible.
And here's what the blacks did about one hundred and
fifty years ago. They humbled themselves, they prayed, they sought

(01:30:29):
God's face, and they turned from their wicked ways. And
God made slavery illegal through several white presidents. Right, it worked,
didn't it. They didn't protest. Maybe there's a place for protest.
I don't know, but there's sometimes it's that was a

(01:30:51):
wise pastor that warned his flock, y'all.

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
The church released this statement. Fair Park Baptist Church affirms
a Racism and slavery are wrong sins will and violate
the scriptures. As a part of our faith, we would
never condone slavery or tolerate any kind of prejudice against
people of color. Did y'all hear any Did y'all hear
anybody in that church object?

Speaker 16 (01:31:21):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:31:22):
Did y'all do y'all see what I'm saying? This is
what we're talking about here, didn't nobody? Didn't nobody object
in the church?

Speaker 14 (01:31:32):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:31:32):
Didn't nobody say that's a nonsense?

Speaker 29 (01:31:36):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:31:36):
You saying right here, y'all see what I'm talking about.
So this is when we're talking about white Christian nationalism.
This is exactly what we're talking about. This is the
stuff that gets preached. Now. Fair Park Baptist Church, y'all
is located in foot Worth, Texas. What's Footworth, Texas? It's

(01:31:57):
the last major county in Texas. That's a county, Okay,
So we see these things. We hear these things over
and over and over again. So here's Pastor Brian Carter.
He leaves Concord Baptist Church in Dallas. You speaking in

(01:32:18):
Tulsa because we talking about white Christian nationalism.

Speaker 22 (01:32:24):
Listen, some people would rather see you and change than
to see you changed. Some people would rather see you
living below than the live above and in your full potential.
Some people don't want to see you free, don't want
to see you liberated, don't want to see you living

(01:32:45):
in all the power and the potential that God has
called you to have all your life. And sad to say,
sometimes your own family can't see all that God has called.

Speaker 3 (01:32:57):
You to do.

Speaker 22 (01:33:01):
Some of you want to see you in change, don't
want to see you changed. You don't believe me looking
around at the current administration trying to put us back
in change, trying to take us back to priest civil
rights era. They are fighting every legislative game that we've
made over the last seventy years, trying to limit economic opportunities,

(01:33:25):
eliminating dee I and other opportunities for us to get
at the table, trying to limit freedom of speech, trying
to limit the Fair Housing Act, trying to limit and
do voter suppression, trying to minimize and water down.

Speaker 9 (01:33:40):
The vote of black people.

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
There.

Speaker 22 (01:33:42):
They are trying to remove every game that we've made
and then have the nerve to talk about merit and
put the most unqualified, disqualifying people and cronies in position
talking about your doing merit you talk about they want
to see us in change.

Speaker 9 (01:33:59):
They don't want to see a change.

Speaker 22 (01:34:01):
They are trying to limit everything that we've gained over
seventy years, trying to take us all the way back
by whitewashing history, saying slavery benefited us. Listen, we were
already benefited in Africa. Black excellence is not something new.
Your white supremacy didn't bless us. We were blessed by

(01:34:23):
God from the foundations of the earth. They want to
put us in change, not see change, but what they
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
We not knew to this. We true to this, and
we will show up.

Speaker 22 (01:34:35):
We will strategize and mobilize and educate and vote.

Speaker 1 (01:34:41):
We will not have it.

Speaker 22 (01:34:43):
The more you hold us back, the more we'll rise up.
This is the world that we live in. White Christian
nationalism rowing by the day, and areada full of people

(01:35:03):
trying to make a martyr out of the man that
was obviously a racist.

Speaker 9 (01:35:08):
And devices.

Speaker 22 (01:35:10):
Some people don't want to see you liberated. They want
to take us back in time. But you and I
must keep doing the work that God has called.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
Us to do.

Speaker 22 (01:35:21):
We must keep raising up our own, keep investing in
black people, keep showing up the vote, keep serving on boards,
keep raising our kids, keep raising our schools, keep raising
our communities.

Speaker 1 (01:35:35):
We can do a lot by ourselves. The reason this
is so important and the reason we are showing y'all,
And let me real clear, all y'all are out there.
If your pastor has been speaking on white Christian Nations nationalism,
send us an email. Go to rollinismartin dot com, click

(01:35:55):
contact and send us an email. Y'all can send us
the c y'all can send us. Y'all can send us
all of that, but I need you to understand we're
showing this for a reason because we need more and
more and more preachers who were speaking against white Christian nationalism.

(01:36:18):
You need to understand what is going on. You need
to be aware of how pervasiveness is. You need to
understand and watching out for what's happening. You had so
many people Larry who were posting things such as, well,
if your pastor didn't didn't say anything about Charlie Kirk,

(01:36:39):
you should leave that church. And really what they were
talking about. This was the Sunday after he was shot
and killed. If he wasn't praising Charlie Kirk. You had
some black folks who were posting on social media that
they left some churches because you had some white pastors.
The games they were playing. But we need to understand
what these people are doing and why they are doing it,

(01:37:00):
and what they're trying to do. They are absolutely mixing
Christianity and maga politics together and they're trying to position
this whole thing as if the people who are lovers
of Christ can only be maga. Charlie Kirk literally said
you cannot be a Christian and be a Democrat. You

(01:37:23):
have that crazy Maga preacher out of Tennessee who literally said,
if you are in this church and you vote for
a Democrat, get out right now. This is who these
people are and we must understand this is their agenda.

Speaker 16 (01:37:39):
These people have attempted to distort the gospel Roland, Let's
be clear about that. And for people watching, let's remember
we talked about this intersection of violence and you know,
white Christian nationalism, the KKKA is is a great example
and throughout history, you know, we talked that Pastor and
fort Worth who talked about you know, you know, talk

(01:38:00):
about our formerly enslaved ancestors as if they didn't matter,
and you know, and also be connected to the white
savior concept. But the reality is is that these folks
will continue to use religions as a tool to beat
black folks with. And that's the bottom line. And you know,
you know, I was raised a me and I'm used

(01:38:23):
to hearing you know, past is going to pull it
and talk truth to power, and so we need to
continue to do that. We need all black leaders, whether
you know, whether it's a Christian or Muslim, et cetera,
to highlight the hypocrisy. We're seeing the United States and
the danger it is to you, not to black folks
in this country, because what we're going to see over
the next couple of months and years is more extreme

(01:38:45):
violence and we need to prepare for that. But you
can't use religion, particularly Christianity, as a shield when once again,
like I said, you're using as a tool to harm
black folks.

Speaker 1 (01:38:55):
You know, Mustafa, you know what, We dropped a video
on our YouTube channel. We dropped it, uh three weeks ago.
This is remember we were. I was in Jeffrey Osbourne
golf celebrity golf class again. The video is black Pasture's torch,

(01:39:15):
unsettling santonization of Kirk's hateful legacy. We've already crossed a
million views on that particular video. Come on, switch, we
already go. We crossed a million views on that video.
And what we've been doing is so what we're gonna do,
We're gonna be actually putting together a different video and
adding to it. The conversation with yesterday with that white

(01:39:36):
Pasture from Georgia was so powerful because he called out listen.
In ten hours, actually less than that, we were approaching
one hundred thousand that video as well. I think that's
gonna take off as well. And I really hope people
who missed yesterday's show really go to our YouTube channel
and listen to the full conversation that we had with

(01:40:01):
Pastor D's This is the video white preacher tears into
right wing embrace of white Christian nationalism. Folks, go watch this,
Go check this out. Yeah, seventy one thousand, almost seventy
two thousand views in six hours, because this is what
we're contending with. These people want to be rate us

(01:40:22):
with Christianity, and they are actually convincing some of these
crazy black folks who say, oh no, no, they love Jesus. Well,
you can't keep saying you love Jesus, but you against
the policies of Jesus.

Speaker 26 (01:40:36):
Right.

Speaker 13 (01:40:36):
These are the same folks that you know use that
type of language, but they forget. These are the same
individuals that grandchildren and great grandchildren you know, who used
to watch on Saturday night as people were being lynched
and then come sit in the pews on Sunday and
ministers knowing that individuals who are in their audience played
a role not just in the subjugation of black folks,

(01:40:59):
but actually watching black bodies burn and be castrated. So
let's be real about religion in America and the role
that it is played with devastating effects in our community.
I appreciate what you are doing and others bringing forward
the truth because real spirituality doesn't allow space for lives

(01:41:19):
or misinformation or disinformation. It doesn't allow individuals to stand
in the pulpit and not realize that there were over
two hundred and fifty revolts or uprisings by our people.
We did not sit idly by and just accept slavery
or being enslaved people. We continue to fight back. It's
not just about Denmark VC or Nat Turner, both of

(01:41:40):
those important stories, but there was many others who pushed back.
So our preachers, our ministers, our emoms have a responsibility
to push back against this. And we have a responsibility
also to support the individuals who are standing up in
this moment because they're going to take some heat, and
they should not have to take that heat without having

(01:42:03):
the understanding that we are going to wrap our arms
around them and protect them. So that's what being community
is all about, and that's why these voices that you're
bringing forward and others are so incredibly important in this moment.

Speaker 1 (01:42:15):
Pal I mean this is folk need to understand what
these right wingers are doing. You see how they're going
crazy over bad Bunny. They're like, oh, we're in the
middle of a Christian revival. No, we are in the
middle of white, right wing, conservative evangelical Christians prostituting the

(01:42:37):
word to fulfill their political desire.

Speaker 15 (01:42:43):
Absolutely, and let this be a clarion call to more
churches and faith leaders to return to the prophetic role
of speaking truth to power, because too many poolpits have
become quiet when our communities the courage. And this is
a reminder that Jesus wasn't polite in the face of
an justice. He was a table overturner. He confronted systems

(01:43:03):
of exploitation hypocrisy head on. And yet today I think,
you know, we could sometimes tiptoe around politics and afraid
to offend while people suffer under racism and poverty and violence.
And the gospel is not about it's not about comfort
for the powerful, but it's really about the liberation for
the oppress. And the church must reclaim is radical voice.

(01:43:26):
And I think what you're doing, and what many pastors
are doing to confront what's happening is important and as
I said before, the church is in a moment where
we must reclaim our radical voice and our radical love
for the liberation of the oppress, as Jesus would do.

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Speaker 9 (01:44:25):
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Then you and Sherry Shepper talk shall you're watching roland
Mark untilted.

Speaker 1 (01:44:56):
I've all of y'all who love to wash your card.
That is not me. I'm just letting y'all know I
am not spending all that damn time trying to wash
a car. But the creator of five W Auto cleansic Accessories.
It provides high performance cleaning products that delivery showroom results

(01:45:17):
without compromising your environment. Rick Pot's a CEO of five
W Auto, joining us from Crito's California. Glad to have
you here. So let's talk about it. First of all,
let me be real clear. Okay, all right, I know
that people I post this all the time. I know
that people out there they love. My homeboy called me.
He was like, man, I'm gonna wash my car old

(01:45:38):
he said, I'm old school. I gotta wash it myself.
I said, that's way too much time. Bro on the car.
I will go hit some golf balls, but knock yourself out.
I will pull into a car wash. So let's take
us through. So first of all, I guys, so do
you still wash your own car? I like, well, what
do you like? What does it do for you? I'm here,
I'm just asking.

Speaker 23 (01:45:59):
To keep It's amused for me.

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
Roland.

Speaker 23 (01:46:01):
As far as if you're stressed out, you know it's
a way to calm down. It's a way to relax.
If you've been to a tunnel car wash, it's a
way to eliminate complaints. It's to get the results that
you want. And if you're environmentally speaking like us, saving
forty gallons of water to do so makes all the
sense in.

Speaker 1 (01:46:16):
The world to us. So how long take you to
wash your car?

Speaker 23 (01:46:21):
I watch it every week, thirty five to forty minutes
every week every week.

Speaker 1 (01:46:25):
Man, please listen. If I wash my damn call once
every three months, that's a miracle. I ain't paying no
attention to that car. That's just me.

Speaker 23 (01:46:38):
That's just me Roland. On top of all that too,
there's a bit of exercise to it, you know, listen,
we're we're not here to deceive anybody. I mean, there's
a little bit of hard working exercise to it. But
you know, I think once you get your car on
a weekly regimen, it gets easier. And you know, I
say forty minutes, I can probably do it in twenty
seven minutes if i'm you know, if I'm really being
being efficient by my time, that's why.

Speaker 1 (01:46:57):
I go walk nine holes. I get the exercise, all right.
So let's talk about here, all right, So we got
a tire shine, we've got waterless wash in wax yes,
and then we've got wheel cleaner. All right, take us
through these products. What makes your products so different and unique?

Speaker 23 (01:47:21):
Roll and answer that it's a system. And when I
say a system, you know if you look at those bottles,
those bottles are color coded. We're trying to we're not
trying to confuse the public.

Speaker 1 (01:47:31):
Right, So we got orange, we got blue yes, sir,
you got red yes.

Speaker 23 (01:47:38):
And so what makes that system different is listen, when
you get the towels with those bottles, there's no confusion.
When you pick up those bottles, you pick them up
with confidence. You pick them up with Hey, listen, if
I need to clean the wheels, I clean the wheels.
If I need to do the body, the blue bottles
for the body, and then we clean it up with
the tire shine, as far as it's kind of like, hey,
let's let's put the finishing touches on it. So and

(01:48:01):
when I say the differentiated, rolling to your question, essentially,
when you take those five bottles that we have minus
the older eliminator. If you're on your front driveway and
they say you're down in Houston and Houston is having
a water restriction in your area and you want to
wash your car if they shut down, Let's just say hypothetically,

(01:48:21):
the water's your tonal car wash.

Speaker 1 (01:48:22):
What are you going to do.

Speaker 14 (01:48:24):
So that?

Speaker 23 (01:48:25):
Having that as a backdrop, we're in Los Angeles as
far as La County, drought conditions, super drop conditions here,
and it's getting more and more prescient to say, listen,
we need to find ways to conserve water, and this
system allows you to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:48:38):
Okay, So allows you to conserve water. So you're calling
this water saving, eco friendly. Okay, walk me through how
is this water saving? So if I so, when it's
time to hold almost like which one is here?

Speaker 9 (01:48:52):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:48:53):
All right, so let's see. So when it's time to
wash the car, I ain't got no water. So you're
saying that if I, if I'm not using any water,
I can use the waterless wash in wax to wash
the car and using no water.

Speaker 23 (01:49:08):
Absolutely, that's sixteen ounce bottle Roland. I can clean my car,
METSI saidan with four ounces of that magic.

Speaker 1 (01:49:15):
Hold up, hold on, you can you can wash the
whole car with four ounces of this. So this is
sixty ounces, So you're saying no water, you can you
can wash your car four times with this one bottle.

Speaker 23 (01:49:28):
That's correct, okay, fours four times a month. So that
four times a month on that we call the RTUs
which is ready to use. So four ounces of that
once a week, four times a month, you're saving forty
gallons of water and one hundred and sixty gallons a month.

Speaker 1 (01:49:43):
So okay, so what are you doing? I mean, are
you are you doing the four ounces into something else?
Are you putting other four ounces going on the on
the towel here? I mean, just walk me through that process.

Speaker 23 (01:49:56):
Good question.

Speaker 1 (01:49:57):
It's got me real clear. I ain't gonna do it,
but somebody watching gonna do it. I'm the late row
ain't washing nothing.

Speaker 23 (01:50:05):
But go ahead if you know a good point. If
you start, if you traditionally at our shops, we had
a shop over in Beverly Hills that we started in
twenty sixteen and we shut that shop down in twenty
twenty two to stop essentially washing the cars and sell
this product, and so Roland, what you would get is
if you started from your hood and work from your hood,
say down to that front quarter panel and you spray

(01:50:28):
this product on you let us sit there. This product,
it's registered and it trademarked that the US Patent Office,
so obviously there's something in it to say, listen, you
know what, we are not here to hurt the car,
We're not here to hurt the user, and we're definitely
not here to hurt the environment. And if you let
this product sit there for thirty forty seconds, you will
literally see this product breaking the light to medium soil

(01:50:50):
down on your car. You wiping horizontal lines, and you
wipe from top to bottom. If you just work your
way around the car as far as to that front door,
the back door, the back quarter panel essentially, and you
work your way around to the other side doing the
same thing from top to bottom. Spraightest sprayest magic on there.
As far as the the wash, the washpus wax, and

(01:51:11):
you let it work, it'll break down the dirt. You
We use quality, quality microfiber towels rolling. That's that's really important.
These these chemicals, these formulas, and these towels work together.
You have to you essentially together to get those professional
great results.

Speaker 1 (01:51:25):
Okay, so how do you come up with this? Like
when you're sitting around going damn we're using way too
much water? Or were you saying, man, I'm tired of
my hand shriveling up because of all this water. What happened.

Speaker 23 (01:51:39):
My uncle was a biochemist at x On Mobile and
he used to come out from Houston to I live.
I live in La now, and he used to come
out for the summers and needs to be like, hey, Rick,
you know what, let's let's clean your car. And he
had a he had a something that wasn't exactly environmentally safe,
I will admit, but he said, hey, Rick, if you
really want to get serious with this, you know, get

(01:52:00):
you a chemist, get your own formulations, run it, test it,
and essentially you know it can't be done. But obviously,
you know, if you're doing something of what I'm bringing
and using against your car, you can't do that retail.
As far as it's not it's not consumer safe.

Speaker 1 (01:52:15):
Now. Now, now, when you're looking at your uncle saying,
brou you want me to go get a chemist about
washing a car? Are you serious? What you're saying, doll
is so water in a sponge.

Speaker 23 (01:52:31):
Believe me, it wasn't so water in a sponge he
was using, but but essentially it was something that kind
of stuck rolling seriously, and as it was something that stuck.
I worked in corporate America. I worked in corporate finance,
but on the weekends I would clean cars and I
would get the comments and I would get the results,
and they're like, man, what you know your car is
always this, Your car is always at and it's just
something that's stuck role. And I left corporate America as

(01:52:51):
far as corporate finance, and I said, listen, start my
own company. And here we are, I mean, we're still
we're still at.

Speaker 1 (01:52:56):
It, all right. So we washed, so we so four ounces,
so this bottle here will get us four washes after
after y'all wash the car, I ain't gonna say we
what do we go to next? We go to the
tire shine or do we go to the wheel cleaner?
The will k all right, So the wheel cleaner is next.

Speaker 23 (01:53:17):
A very good cadence. So we would start with the
body right number two. The cadence is the wheel cleaner, right,
because essentially, if your car is like to medium soil,
we would have on gloves. So the gloves are listen,
were trying to keep your hands as clean as possible. Okay,
there's a reason for that so blue. We would start
with the body number two orange wheel cleaner. We would

(01:53:38):
start with the wheels. Spray spray up magic on thirty seconds.
Won't send your nose. Nothing harmful. As far as the chemicals,
they knowed, nothing harmful. You work your way around one, two, three,
four wheels. After you're done with the wheels, roll and
number three would be tire shine. We're gonna put that
tire shine on number three. The gloves are still long.
We're trying to protect your hands, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:53:58):
So now now do we have blood washing for wallace,
washing wax. We gloved the whole time.

Speaker 23 (01:54:07):
We recommend it.

Speaker 1 (01:54:08):
You know, is it any gloves? Is it the late
test gloves.

Speaker 23 (01:54:11):
It's just some late test gloves, some light light like
because essentially we're trying to keep your hands clean. Cause
there's a really, there's a The number four process is
really you know why we do that. And so so
if you start a number one with the washplus wax,
your gloves are on number two, you come back with
the wheel cleaner. You clean the wheels safe for all
surface types. As far as wheels number three, you use

(01:54:32):
the tire shine. Listen, some people like the tire shines.
Some people don't. We prefer it. We love it, our
customers love it. So that's one two three. Okay, when
you're done with those one two three steps, we take
those gloves off, we clean your hands. We clean your
hands with essentially a wipe.

Speaker 13 (01:54:50):
Right.

Speaker 23 (01:54:51):
We want to we want to get the moisture, we
want to get the grind, we want to get the
soil off your hands. Because when we get to step
forward as far as the windows, we want clean hands.
And we spray that yellow as far as that glass
cleaner on those windows, with that yellow glass town and
if you again wiping horizontal lines, you will see very

(01:55:11):
clearly as far as the power of like listen, these
windows will probably look it's about as good as they've
ever looked, as far as when you first brought the car.

Speaker 1 (01:55:18):
Okay, I let me go to my panel here, so
uh let me see which of these three likely spinning
tarities washing their car.

Speaker 29 (01:55:28):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:55:29):
Probably you tyl it. Uh.

Speaker 15 (01:55:34):
Look, I hear y'all take washing cars series in la
uh And I love the feeling when a car is
freshly washed or detailed, and it's that fresh clean scent.
Then ive w auto cleaning offering products that offer like
a signature fragrance or option that gives like that sensory
experience like while cleaning.

Speaker 23 (01:55:52):
Good good good question, and I will say to your
to your to your statement, La, you will see some
clean cars out here. It's first older eliminator. We saved
that for last Roland. I'm not sure if Roland can
put that up. As far as it's a purple bottle,
we have a fragrant, we have.

Speaker 1 (01:56:08):
No I think I had a purple bottle player.

Speaker 23 (01:56:11):
Hold on, wait wait, wait, no, no, no, there's there
should be a purple Mackenzie, what about that?

Speaker 1 (01:56:19):
Zie?

Speaker 23 (01:56:20):
But to answer that question, we will finish it off
with the older eliminator. You know, pets, pets thins, I'm sorry,
pets sense. If you have food sense in your car,
some people smoke it.

Speaker 1 (01:56:30):
Will You're supposed to give me all the bottles give me. See,
that's right. That's why you're TV right now. Purple is
why you're on TV. Thank You're supposed to give you
a cho Mackenzie. You're gonna be the producer. You're supposed
to produce, so so today all right, so hold, let's
going back. Hold up, Mackenzie, fine, did her job? Okay,

(01:56:51):
all right, the purple one. All right, so sir, older eliminator.
I got older eliminator. Then I got a glass cleaner. Okay, Roland.

Speaker 23 (01:57:01):
I tell you what if you if you go ahead
and open that purple and just kind of sprints it
in the air, maybe you can tell your panel what
that smells like.

Speaker 1 (01:57:08):
Man, I ain't about to spray this stuff, and then
what's wrong with you?

Speaker 23 (01:57:12):
You can smell it there too. Just smell it there
and just tell me if you smell it in your
interior Captin, what do you think that smells like? It's
pretty good?

Speaker 1 (01:57:18):
Right? What does it smell like? First of all, I'm
stuffy right now, so I really can't smell damn thing.
I really can't smell a damn thing right now. It
stuff it, But go ahead.

Speaker 23 (01:57:29):
It didn't hurt your nose, right, did hurt my nose
at all?

Speaker 1 (01:57:32):
Actually? And it's not an overpot see the part of
the problem when you get your get your call wise
it's an overpowering smell. So it's actually so it's not
it's not like a really loud smell, but it's not
a flat so it's right there in.

Speaker 23 (01:57:47):
The middle, right right, So I think to answer the panels. Question.
You know, this is what we finished the carf with.
You can spray. There's a black tail that comes with
that older eliminator. We don't suggest directly spread it on
leather or cross seats. Spread on the towel. You can
work your way around the cabin as far as the
carpet areas of the interior.

Speaker 1 (01:58:07):
Oh hold up, hold up, so hold up. We got
the color cow We got the color coated towels too, yes, sir, okay,
all right, So that go with the orange, that go red?

Speaker 23 (01:58:17):
Correct, that go with the blue?

Speaker 1 (01:58:20):
What what the hell is going with this yellow?

Speaker 23 (01:58:22):
What is this yellow? Goes with the yellow to? You're
right there?

Speaker 9 (01:58:25):
All right? Saw?

Speaker 1 (01:58:26):
Hold up? That's yellow?

Speaker 9 (01:58:28):
All right? All right?

Speaker 1 (01:58:29):
So what so what this towe go to? Hey? No
water shot?

Speaker 14 (01:58:33):
Shot?

Speaker 1 (01:58:33):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (01:58:35):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:58:35):
That one? Rolling?

Speaker 11 (01:58:35):
That one?

Speaker 23 (01:58:36):
We call it called plush dessert. So after you're done
with those windows on step four I was talking about earlier,
you're going to use that plush and if there's any
excess haze on the windows, that plush towel will get
your windows. It's absolutely crystal clear and clean.

Speaker 1 (01:58:50):
Okay, all right, hold up, Now I got the red.
I got the orange, the blue. Uh what a purple towel?
What goes with the purple? The purple?

Speaker 22 (01:58:59):
To know?

Speaker 23 (01:59:00):
Essentially, essentially, I'm just messing with this.

Speaker 1 (01:59:04):
The older eliminated ain't no tie.

Speaker 23 (01:59:06):
Right right right there you go. Essentially, I'm like, you
don't you don't you know, put their freshman sense in
your car with a towel no tie? But but you know,
black as far as black, maybe you know purple, We
couldn't make it purple but black. I mean, do you
really need a talent to put the eliminated in your car?

Speaker 14 (01:59:21):
So?

Speaker 16 (01:59:22):
Okay, all right, Larry, Yeah, so congratulations on this and
you know having you here this season, Ke you talk
about where people can can buy buy the products.

Speaker 29 (01:59:33):
Is it is there boy?

Speaker 1 (01:59:34):
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Speaker 23 (01:59:44):
You can buy it on rolling Uh, you can find it.
You can find it on shop read back.

Speaker 1 (01:59:50):
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Speaker 16 (01:59:57):
If if you get it there right and then say,
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So if you're trying to buy the five W auto products,
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(02:00:29):
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It's it's there.

Speaker 1 (02:00:49):
Let me go to Mustafa because Larry clearly don't know
what the segment is. Well, stoppa, what's the question? I
got my head down.

Speaker 9 (02:01:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (02:01:00):
So, first of all, thank you brother. This is incredibly important,
I mean getting real serious. Two hundred and eighty million
vehicles on the road, one hundred billion gallons used every
year for car washes and other folks cleaning their car rick.

Speaker 1 (02:01:11):
Just so you know, a Mustapha is one of the
biggest environmentalists, one of the probably the biggest black environmentalists.
So you know he is loving the saving of the water.
The product buttava going right ahead, Yeah, So you know, yeah,
please go ahead.

Speaker 23 (02:01:29):
No, no, brother mustampa. I agree with you on your
social and environmental concerns because you know, when we think
about future generations, it's not something just we're talking to talk.
We walk the walk, and we are serious about Listen,
we want your car clean. You want your car clean,
but we're trying to find a more responsible, sustainable way
to do it and saving of the forty to fifty
gallons of water per use. Who's going to disagree with that?

(02:01:53):
Going forward?

Speaker 1 (02:01:55):
So y'all, so we got five different bottles, you've got
five different towels, the four towers. Come on, come on,
come on, Anthony, wake up, come on, man, you gotta
be faster. Thank you? All right, I got the five bottles,
I got the four toiles right here. Then I got
the plus towel right here for your windows as well. So, Rick,

(02:02:20):
do you sell this as a package or individual?

Speaker 23 (02:02:25):
To answer question wrong, we sell both each one of
those bottles you can buy individually or that exterior bundle
which I seen you includes the five bottles in the
five towns.

Speaker 1 (02:02:34):
Gotcha? All right? Then, So folks, if y'all want this
is five w auto. If y'all want to get this
for all your car enthusiasts. Larry. Where do they go?

Speaker 29 (02:02:46):
Uh?

Speaker 16 (02:02:47):
Yeah, shop marketplace?

Speaker 1 (02:02:48):
To go to shop, Larry. They go to shop black
Start Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry. I'm trying, Larry. I'm trying
to bail you out, Larry, Larry to go, I said,
they go to the market No, Larry, No, you said
shop marketplace. No, Larry, they go to the marketplace at
shop Blackstartnetwork dot com. Repeat after me, market place, Larry.

(02:03:13):
Where do they go to the shop?

Speaker 13 (02:03:16):
Shop?

Speaker 16 (02:03:17):
They go to a black shop the marketplace? Right, they
go to the marketplace, Larry, Larry.

Speaker 1 (02:03:21):
My god, Larry, Oh my god, Larry, Larry. They go
to the marketplace at shop Black Starting Network. Tyler, can
you please do this for me? Please? Tyler?

Speaker 14 (02:03:35):
Sorry, I'm sorry. They're going to shop black Star network
dot com.

Speaker 15 (02:03:39):
You can find Look, they're already in a comment saying
they're already purchasing, so you must you sold them already.

Speaker 22 (02:03:44):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (02:03:45):
Oh my god, how is it? See see see Rick,
You can understand Larry is the professor, so he used
to giving damn lectures. He ain't used to having a
you know, do some work like his students. So y'all.
The product is five W Auto. Show the website again,

(02:04:07):
it's the marketplace, our marketplace on shop black startnetwork dot com.
No show, do not show the graphic. I want to
see the website. Thank you. Show the website. That's the product.
Larry ain't figured it out yet. Is shop blackstartnetwork dot com. Y'all,

(02:04:28):
we got a plethora of black owned businesses on the
website five W Auto. Rick, I appreciate this here, man,
thanks a bunch. Let's see, somebody told me rolling, you
can at least clean your wheels. No see, So what
I'm gonna do is what I'm gonna do is when
I when I go get the car washed, I'm gonna
bring this with me and I'm gonna tell them spray

(02:04:50):
this on the wheels to clean scream to clean the rims.
But I'm rolling.

Speaker 23 (02:04:55):
If you if you rolling, if you do, you need
to clean the windows. You get bird droppies on your car.
You can listen.

Speaker 1 (02:05:01):
We Rick make a three?

Speaker 23 (02:05:02):
Rick, Yeah, you don't do it.

Speaker 1 (02:05:03):
Let me get rick, Rick, Rick, let me explain something
to you. I just want you to understand, Rick, I
want you understand. I prayed to the Lord a very
specific prayer years ago, I said, God, I need you
to bless me with enough money to do three things.
I'm from Houston. Number One, run my air conditioner all

(02:05:25):
day because it wasn't nothing like growing up in Houston.
And my dad got that damn AC on eighty and
we're sweating in the damn heat. I'm looking this something
on sixty five. Okay, matter of fact, him and my
mama at my house right now, they freezing because I
pay the light bill. So that's number one. Number Two, Lord,

(02:05:47):
I need enough money the valet park when the hell
I want to. I couldnt stand having a my daddy
parking way the hell out we had to walk to
damn mall at long ass. No like a valet park.
In Number three, Larry, to make enough money where I
can call people to do the work that I do
not want to do. So I ain't fixing nothing. I
ain't changing nothing, I ain't washing nothing. That is what

(02:06:10):
I do. So when the wash man decides to do
the news, then I will wash my car. I ain't
taking money off his table and he ain't taking money
off my table. So stood, that's how I roll. So
for the people who love my man, Alroy sailor some
over the weekend. El Roy loves to wash his car.

(02:06:30):
I'm gonna send him, send this to him. He will
love this here. But no, Rick, I am not washing
that car.

Speaker 23 (02:06:42):
Understood, understood. It's not fair.

Speaker 1 (02:06:43):
Eitebody understood now, Rick, if you had a solution to
clean some golf shoes, I'm with you on that, But
we ain't washing that car. All right, Rick, I appreciate it. Congratulations.
Last question, when did y'all start the business?

Speaker 23 (02:07:00):
June twenty two. June twenty twenty two.

Speaker 1 (02:07:04):
All right, then, so y'all five w auto again. Let
me go down the line. Here you got since what's
her name, a little child McKenzie screwed it up, so
they put this on that end over there. So first
and foremost, y'all you got the waterless wash and mix.
Then y'all can go move to the wing wheel cleaner.

(02:07:27):
Then y'all can move to the tire shine. Then y'all
can do hold up, y'all can do the oder eliminator.
Rick I go, I spray this, Rick, I go ahead,
at least I do this. At least I do pray,
and then y'all for the glass cleaner. Y'all can move
to that you got. You got the tiels, that color

(02:07:48):
code right here. It ain't hard to mix it up
so that way you ain't one going with the other.
And then of course you need a plush towel to
add that that special shine on there on your glass,
on your win. Know all right, Rick, I appreciate it, man,
thanks a bunch.

Speaker 23 (02:08:04):
Appreciate you guys.

Speaker 1 (02:08:05):
All right, that's it for us. Let me think and
we stop for Let me think. Tyler Larry, I don't know.
I don't know why you're acting like a Sigma today
or our older come on, come on that.

Speaker 10 (02:08:21):
Oh that's right, watch it.

Speaker 1 (02:08:27):
I don't know. Come on, man, you act like you know,
I mean, it's like give it like this. You were
giving Sigma and our older vibes today. No, no, no, no, no,
always always ice cool.

Speaker 16 (02:08:41):
Come on now, come on that the long day.

Speaker 1 (02:08:43):
It's the long day. No, I forgot. That's like Tyler,
you that little youth group, you little Sigma.

Speaker 14 (02:08:49):
We strolled the right way. We don't do that that
strow you be doing.

Speaker 1 (02:08:52):
Okay, First of all, they really clear with you. First
of all, Alpha, don't stroll, we step surrarity strong. Let
me let me help you let me help you out.
We step, sororities stroll, so clearly sororities and sigmas stroll.

Speaker 14 (02:09:11):
Well, you know we are. I don't think y'all win
step show will y'all.

Speaker 1 (02:09:15):
Boy, you don't you do not want to get your
feelings hurt when it comes to stepping. Now you know
dog on, well you got three plus you got three
on one on here? You know dog on, well, y'all
you know dog on, Well, y'all can't y'all can't step that.
Don't even boy, please, don't even between you and Terrell. Y'all,

(02:09:38):
y'all can roll and stroll, but y'all can't step. So
just letting y'all know. Yeah, y'all Torell here and the
control and here another one of them listening. First of all,
I'm shocked, I really am, because you know I rarely
meet sigmas under fifty five. So between Tyler and Terrell. Uh,
that's shocking. All right, y'all, that's it?

Speaker 23 (02:09:58):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:09:59):
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Man.

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