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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Give me everyone.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Let me first welcome House Republicans back to the Congress
after their seven week taxpayer funded vacation. These people have
been missing in action, absent without official leave, running scared,
but they can no longer hide.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
The Rules Committee is going.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
To meet shortly and then tomorrow there will be votes
on the House floor, and Democrats will continue to press
the case to say, to our Republican colleagues, you have
another opportunity to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits
and make sure that tens of millions of Americans all

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across the country, in communities that Republicans represent along with
us as Democrats, tens of millions of Americans rural America,
working class America, Urban America, small town America, the heartland
of America, and in black and brown communities all across America,

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people at risk of experiencing dramatically increased premiums, copaids in
deductibles because of the Republican refusal to extend the Affordable
Care Act tax credits before the Rules Committee. This evening,
House Democrats, led by myself and Whip Catherine Clark, will

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give the Republicans another opportunity to extend the.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Affordable Care Act tax credits.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
By introducing an amendment that will extend these tax credits
for a three rare year period of time, same period
of time that these tax credits were extended back in
twenty twenty two, Republicans have created a healthcare crisis all
across America, largest cut to Medicaid in American history. Hospitals,

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nursing homes, and community based health centers closing all throughout
the country. Because of what Republicans did in their one
big ugly bill, medicare still at risk of the largest
cut it may confront in American history unless Congress acts

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by the end of this year.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
And of course, because of the Republican refusal.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
To extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits in the
midst of a cost of living crisis that already exists
that they failed to address, healthcare for people all across
this country is on the brink of becoming unaffordable. Working
class Americans. Every day are middle class Americans unable to

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afford to go see a doctor. This is in America,
the wealthiest country in the history of the world. And
so once again, House Republicans, welcome back from your taxpayer
funded seven week vacation, you now have an opportunity to
actually take some action in an area of this healthcare

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crisis by working with Democrats before the Rules Committee this
evening to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. So
now my honor to introduce with Catherine Club.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Thank you so much, mister leader, and we are indeed
looking forward to the return of the missing House GOP.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Fifty four days.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I know the dust has settled on their desks. I
hope they can find their voting cards. And I hope,
as Speaker Johnson and said, when they were home on
their vacation doing the most quote meaningful work of their careers,
that that included talking to their neighbors, talking to their constituents,

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Because I can tell you what we are hearing from
people across this country.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
It is fear.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
It is anxiety, the thought that they may lose their
ACA insurance, the thought that they may lose their Medicaid
or Medicare because of the agenda of the House GOP
take away healthcare and give permanent tax cuts to the

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very very wealthiest in this country.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
I hope that Mike Johnson.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Talked to Morgan in Ruston, Louisiana Morgan's son needs an
inhaler that is paid for through her health insurance, and
he needs frequent trips to the doctor to be able
to survive and have a childhood he deserves. Morgan is

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so fearful that if she loses that coverage that her
son depends on.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
There are no backup plans.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
There's no Plan B.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
And so we are saying, listen, listen to the American
people and what they are telling you. I hope that
you listen to them when you were home avoiding coming
to do your jobs here in the Capitol. And I hope,
as the leader has said, you will take this opportunity tonight.

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We can't undo all the damage they've done, but extend
the ACA tax credits for three years, give small business
owners farmers across this country. Moms and dads who depend
on the ACA in order to get their coverage. Tell

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them they don't have to have sleepless nights worrying that
their cancer treatment for their spouse might not be able
to continue. They may not be able to manage their
own diabetes, and they may not be able to find
healthcare when they have a sick child. These are the
very real cries of Americans. House Democrats are going to

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remain in this fight. And I hope that on their
fifty four days they heard the American people loudly and
clearly and will come back to their senses and do
what's right and protect healthcare in this country. And now
it is my great pleasure to introduce our ranking member

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and fellow Base Stater on the Rules Committee, Jim McGovern.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
So eight weeks ago, Speaker Mike Johnson sent the House
of Representatives' home. He basically abolished the House of Representatives.
And he did so because he cares more about giving
tax breaks to billionaires than he cares about extending tax
relief to working families so they can afford their health care.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
I took the train.

Speaker 6 (07:18):
Down here today because I wanted to make sure I
got here for the Rules Committee meeting. I got an
airport for a lot of people. People are pissed. People
don't understand why this is so difficult that in the
Congress that again passes these huge benefits for corporations and
for the well off and the well connected, can't find

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it within their politics to be able to pass relief
to middle class families who are going to not people
to avoid their health insurance. I mean, this is not
a talking point, this is real life. I've had constituents
come up to me and tell me that that, you know,
they don't know what they're going to do.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
I mean, they can't afford.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
The skyrocketing costs of their health insurance.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
It's the life or death issue for people.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
I have people coming up to me and saying they're
going to go without health care for a year or two.
They're just roll the dice and maybe everything will work out.

Speaker 7 (08:14):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
Healthcare ought to be a fundamental human right for everybody
in this country. That this is so difficult tells you
everything you need to know about the character of the
people who are running this House representative right now and
the man in the White House. This is disgusting, this
is your moral We're going to go to the Rules
Committee and we're going to take the fight directly to

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the Republicans up in the Rules committee. But this should
be a no brainer. This should be a no brainer,
and yet it is becoming this enormous mountain to try
to climb in order just to get some help so
that people don't lose.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Their health insurance.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
What the hell is wrong with these people again.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
I mean, I wish Donald Trump could have been on
the train with me today and heard some of the
stories that I heard, you know, but I don't think
he ever has been on a train.

Speaker 8 (09:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
I don't know. He lives in a bubble. But I
wish some of my Republican colleagues were on that train.
How can you know, how can you not extend these
tax benefits for people who were in such desperate need?
You know, look, we're going to continue to try. The
beautiful think about politics is you don't lose. You never

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lose until you give up trying. And we're not going
to give up, and we're going to fight like hell until.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
This gets done.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
And with that, I'm happy to yield to my one
of my wonderful members of the Rules Committee, Congressman Mary
Gay Scandler of Pennsylvania.

Speaker 9 (09:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (09:42):
So we've had this fight going all year, and I've
been trying to figure out a way to break it down.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
But basically, there were two.

Speaker 10 (09:48):
Big tax issues that were coming to at the end
of this year. One was the tax cuts for billionaires
and the other was the tax credits for folks who
get the affordable care in July, Speaker Johnson called us back,
dragged us back here fourth of July weekend so they
could ram through the tax cuts for billionaires. But when

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it came time to extend the tax credits for everyday Americans,
they went on vacation.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
They went on vacation early.

Speaker 10 (10:19):
They said, oh, we don't have to really deal with that.
They were unwilling to negotiate with Democrats, and they just
left town.

Speaker 11 (10:25):
So, like my colleagues.

Speaker 10 (10:27):
Here, I've been hearing from my constituents throughout this period
of time when we have not been here in d C,
which we have regularly been in DC trying to do
the work.

Speaker 11 (10:38):
But just this morning, I was at.

Speaker 10 (10:40):
The largest Veterans Day parade in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in media, and I had veterans coming up to me saying,
keep fighting, this is killing us. Is this health insurance issue?
My daughter can't get her insurances. She's concerned about her family.
I hear from the folks I walk dogs with in
the morning that they're thinking about going without coverage because

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they've got a small business and they can't afford the
increases that they're seeing. Hearing from a veteran whose social
Security just barely covers her rent, and she doesn't know
what she's going to do for health.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Insurance for her family.

Speaker 10 (11:15):
It's hitting Americans, and they're not stupid. They know who's
fighting for them, and we're going to keep fighting for them.

Speaker 11 (11:22):
So thank you for paying attention. And this is not
over with that.

Speaker 10 (11:27):
I would like to yield to my classmate and colleague
from the Rules Committee, Joan de Goose from Colorado.

Speaker 12 (11:34):
Well, I think my colleagues articulated well, and of course
Leader Jeffares articulated well. The stakes for millions of Americans
whose premiums are skyrockety, including the many constituents that I
represent in Colorado. But I do just want to underscore
a point the Chairman of the Government, and in particular
I say this for the press that are gathered here,
many of you whom have covered the developments in this

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capital for a long time, who are here.

Speaker 13 (11:59):
When Speaker of car.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Worthy was speaker, with Speaker Gelosi was speaker, with Speaker.

Speaker 12 (12:02):
Ryan was presided, this is one of the most shameful episodes,
in my view, in the modern history of the Congress.
The decision that Speaker Johnson made to recess the House
for fifty four days. To send Republican members home on
paid vacation for eight weeks is disgraceful. It is a

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debasement of our constitution. It is unprecedented, and every Republican
member as they arrive this evening and tomorrow morning, ought
to be asked the question why they endorsed this advotation
of Congress's.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Power for the last eight weeks.

Speaker 12 (12:41):
Why they supported the Speaker's decision to send the Congress
on vacation for eight weeks as premiums are skyrocketing for
millions of Americans. There's a reason, as the Leader's articulated previously,
that Steve Bannon has compared the Congress to.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
The Duma, it's because that is the way in which.

Speaker 12 (13:02):
Speaker Johnson and House Republicans are functioning, and it is
time for accountability. As the Speaker, or excuse me, as
the leader and as the whip reference. Republicans have an opportunity,
now that they finally ended their fifty four day.

Speaker 11 (13:16):
Vacation to do the right thing.

Speaker 5 (13:18):
We're going to give them that.

Speaker 14 (13:19):
Opportunity in the Rules Committee, which.

Speaker 12 (13:21):
Is the first committee hearing in the House that will
have been held since September shameful, and I know my
colleagues on the Rules Committee feel the same way, including
my colleague from the West, my neighbor in New Mexico,
Representative Letter Finandes.

Speaker 11 (13:39):
Brett Astronauts.

Speaker 15 (13:40):
It has indeed been a file, But tonight at the
Rules Committee, as you've heard, we are going to give
the Republicans their last chance to show America whether they
are going to stand up for the working families and
the small businesses in America who need those tax credits,

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or they're going to let him die because they don't
get health care because they have to drop their health.

Speaker 11 (14:07):
Insurance because it's too expensive. You know, Madam rip Clark,
the issue of that Inhaler. One of the stories that
was told to me.

Speaker 15 (14:18):
Was a friend of mine said, I want you to
take this story back.

Speaker 11 (14:23):
My brother lost his health insurance.

Speaker 15 (14:27):
That Inhaler would cost ten dollars or twenty dollars.

Speaker 11 (14:31):
With his insurance, he'd.

Speaker 15 (14:34):
Have to go to the emergency room to get a
ten dollars in haaler because without insurance that costs four
hundred dollars.

Speaker 11 (14:41):
He died gasping for breath because he couldn't afford inhaler.

Speaker 15 (14:48):
People will die with this decision that we public see
Republicans seemed.

Speaker 11 (14:53):
To want to make, and they moved heaven and.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
Earth to pass those tax credits for.

Speaker 15 (14:58):
The billionaires before July fourth, but can't get around to
passing the tax credits for working families before they expire
in December. So we're going to be bringing these amendments
and asking them to vote, asking them to go on
the record on the extension of the health credits, on
regards to what's happening in rural America a district I represent,

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and what about those snap benefits for states have stepped
up like New Mexico to make sure there our people
don't go hungry.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
And finally.

Speaker 15 (15:32):
Addressing the fact that the Senators are giving themselves a
five hundred thousand dollars to a million or more payment.
I call it the January sixth cash out payment.

Speaker 11 (15:49):
They can't make health.

Speaker 15 (15:51):
Care affordable for a father and his children, but they're
willing to pay themselves millions of dots do. And it
is true, we only lose this fight if we give
up the fight.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
And Democrats have been.

Speaker 15 (16:06):
Fighting Republicans in a long struggle to provide healthcare to Americans.

Speaker 11 (16:12):
We have been fighting Republicans when we.

Speaker 15 (16:14):
Created Medicare, when we created Medicaid, when we created the
affordable character, and we're going to not give up that
fight because we want all Americans to be able to
have healthcare, including Marjorie Taylor's Green's kids, right.

Speaker 11 (16:29):
We want everywhere, everybody, everywhere to have healthcare.

Speaker 15 (16:32):
And with that, we're ready to go up to the
Rules Committee, but I'll pass it back to our wonderful leader.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Thank you the distinguished members of the Rules Committee, as
well as my good friend Catherine Clark for their comments,
for their leadership. Democrats have been engaged in the struggle
on behalf of the healthcare of the American people for
a long time. FDR engaged in this struggle. Johnson engaged
in the struggle. Truman engaged in this struggle, Bill Clinton

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engaged in the struggle. Barack Obama engaged in the struggle.
House Democrats are here to continue to engage in this
struggle to decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis. Standing on
the shoulders of Democrats who for decades have been fighting
to deliver affordable, high quality healthcare for the American people.

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Questions provisions into.

Speaker 16 (17:28):
The legislation in regard to potential to that Senators to
essentially suit the US government for US five hundred thousand
dollars if they proved that the data.

Speaker 15 (17:39):
Was used in investigations.

Speaker 17 (17:42):
What do you say to that?

Speaker 16 (17:43):
And is there any chance that that will be removed
from this year?

Speaker 2 (17:48):
House Democrats are going to offer an amendment before the
Rules Committee to get that self dealing sick provision out
of the spending agreement. The notion that a Republican senators
signed off by John Thoom and the Republicans apparently in
the Senate and in the House, would give themselves the

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ability essentially to rip millions of taxpayer dollars away from
the American people so they could line their pockets because
these people were insurrectionist sympathizers is insanity.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
And we're going to tattoo.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
That provision, just like we're going to tattoo the Republican
healthcare crisis on the foreheads of every single House Republican
who dares vote for this bill.

Speaker 18 (18:38):
There have been many number of members of your own
caucus will called on Senator Schumer to be replaced as
Democratic leader. Are you okay with those calls coming from
within your own caucus?

Speaker 2 (18:49):
As I've indicated we're focused right now on pressing the
case and addressing the Republican healthcare crisis. Will be before
the Rules Committee and moments will have a family conversation
as House Democrats were strongly opposed as House Democrats to
this reckless Republican effort to continue to raise the high

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cost of living on everyday Americans, which is exactly what
they're doing by failing to extend the affordable care Democrats,
as you expect any Democrats to back tomorrow.

Speaker 11 (19:23):
Like they did.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
I will have that conversation during our caucus meeting at noon,
but our strong expectation is that Democrats will be strongly opposed.
Many have issued statements. The new dem Coalition came out today.
That's the largest caucus within the House Democratic Caucus opposed
to this Republican spending built because it fails to address

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the healthcare crisis that Republicans have created.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
To make it back in town to pay.

Speaker 19 (19:57):
All Democrats will be here tomorrow to a post this
pressure on Speaker Johnson to valley all its members to
support the legislation.

Speaker 16 (20:06):
Yes, Congresswoman Congressman Left calvinkerpol By schedule to be sworn
in tomorrow and then you expect she said she will
sign the discharged the petition Nakana Nassy dis charted position.
Can you tell us when you would expect that vote
to actually happen to explain to people, we've kind of
been waiting for this for so long. Explain when you

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would expect that.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, let me defer to Whip Clark and once in future,
Chairman Jim McGovern on that, Editsu.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
It is long, long overdue that the congresswoman elect take
her place, her rightful place and be sworn in.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
So we are being.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Told by the Republicans that that will happen now, they
anticipate at four o'clock tomorrow before we begin debate on
the role. And it is just another one of those
breathtakings split screens that as they are home and we
are watching this suffering going on, that they have also

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decided to put off swearing in Congresswoman elect Grahova because
they don't want her to sign a discharge petition that
would force a vote on the Epstein files. So they
don't want to give Americans health care, and they don't

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want to find justice for the survivors and victims of
Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
It is an.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Amazingly arrogant and dangerous statement that they are making to
the American people about their own security.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
And it should write if she signed it tomorrow, it
should write in early December, so we can expect to vote.
I mean that doesn't mean that the Speaker of the
House might I try to do some you know, shenanigans
with the discharge petition, but but it all goes the
way we wanted to go early December.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
It's unbelievable that seven plus weeks Representative elect out of
Leader Grihalva was elected in late September decisively has been
denied the ability to serve more than eight hundred thousand
people in Arizona.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
And why is that the case.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program. They
are intentionally hiding the Jeffrey Epstein files. But those days
are over because as soon as Representative Elect out of
the Leader Gerhova becomes Congresswoman Grahova, her first act, as

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she's indicated, is going to be to sign that discharge petition.
It's going to force a vote on the House floor,
and the American people are going to get the transparency
that they deserve difference.

Speaker 20 (22:54):
You've not taken off the table a discharge petition on.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
So have you had.

Speaker 18 (23:06):
Any outline yet to Republicans.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
We haven't had any conversations with Republicans.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
We're going to be before the Rules Committee shortly.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
We're going to introduce an amendment that gives them an
opportunity to extend the Affordable Care AC tax credits, and
we're going to continue to make the point to our
Republican colleagues. Our position is simple, cancel the cuts, lower
the costs, save healthcare. Thank you everyone, folks.

Speaker 21 (23:46):
That was the House Democratic Leadership speaking moments before the
House Rules Committee.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
We'll meet tonight.

Speaker 21 (23:54):
Okay, they'll the meeting tonight beginning at six thirty pm,
and the whole goal, of course, is to begin to
consider the package the Team resolution passed by the Senate
to reopen the government. This meeting is the first critical
step before GP leadership can schedule a floor vote that will.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
Take place on Wednesday.

Speaker 21 (24:14):
Once the Committee approves the debate rules, the full House
must vote to adopt them before moving forward with the
final passage of this legislation. This development follows the Senate's
approval of the bill on Monday night, where eight moderate
Democrats join the Republicans, potentially bringing in into the longest
government shut down in American history. Their agreement promises to
restore the central services, including federal food aid and pay

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for hundreds of thousands of federal workers, but it also
will call for eight votes in the Senate with regards
to extending the affordable care subsidies.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
Now here's the problem.

Speaker 21 (24:52):
Republicans have already ended those subsidies when they passed that big,
ugly bill. So this promise of a vote next month
before the actual price hikes or subjectiues go away, which
will lead to massive hikes in insurance for lots of folks.

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Speaker 21 (25:26):
The bottom line is this, here, Mustafa, the votes are
not there for Democrats in the House. Republicans control that
they'll have the votes to actually uh to pass whatever
they want to pass.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
And again, yeah, the.

Speaker 21 (25:41):
Continued resolution the government will reopen. So, okay, this deal
that Democrats cut, they're going to vote in December.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
To extend the subjecties. Are these Democrats.

Speaker 21 (25:54):
Somehow thinking that Republicans are going to get skittish and
then they go into cave and vote for this. They
voted against the subsidies a couple of months ago.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
I don't see them doing anything differently this time.

Speaker 17 (26:08):
Yeah, there's no reason for Republicans to do anything different.

Speaker 9 (26:11):
You know, Democrats had the opportunity to hold the line,
to continue to push to make sure that they got
something out of the deal that actually would help folks.
You know, folks are still wondering, you know, is it
insulent or groceries, is it lights, or is it you know,
other types of things that need to be paid. And

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Democrats had the opportunity to help folks to be able
to answer that question by making sure that folks, you know,
their healthcare coverage wouldn't double a triple And it's going
to be happening in lots of places, you know, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon,
South Carolina, and Texas and I believe Tennessee are the
top eight places. And then West Virginia of course that
you know, we know are going to be hit the hardest.

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So one, it is still a matter of making sure
that people understand who's going to get hit first. But
then we are also understand as always, there's still a
racial injustice aspect to this and an economic injustice aspect.
So I don't understand what Democrats also rollly didn't bring
forward the fact that it's estimated that about three hundred
and forty thousand jobs will also be lost if they

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don't you know, move forward or making sure that people
have this healthcare because rural clinics and others will unfortunately
have to lose people. So Democrats had the opportunity, they
made the choice that they did. I guess their plan
is that they're going to, you know, try and make
sure that folks understand the Republicans are actually the one
that's taking away you know.

Speaker 17 (27:35):
Your healthcare coverage.

Speaker 9 (27:38):
But I don't know if that's enough for what they
gave up, but I guess time will tell.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
So Kelly.

Speaker 21 (27:50):
Use eight bodery Democrats. Okay, fine, the probably they Republicans
promise them a vote. They are still catching lots of
hell from lots of folks. But the problem is not
like any of them are up for re election in
twenty twenty six, So they're making a calculated guess that
all right, you know what, Hey, this is the best

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that we can get. Well, they're gonna have They're gonna
have to answer to a lot of people if this
vote goes away we expected next month and those subtes
go away and premiums jack up all across America.

Speaker 22 (28:24):
Absolutely, And I can't express how angry I am at
those eight because it is clear that this was a
safe move for them, right It almost feels as though
they didn't care one way or the other.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
And I get what Hetterman was talking about, like.

Speaker 22 (28:43):
You can't basically, you can't govern in a hostage situation.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
I understand that.

Speaker 22 (28:49):
But at the same time, you Democrats weren't the ones
holding the government hostage. It was the Republicans holding the
government hostage. They were holding people as ransom. This was
not an exchange, This was not anything positive.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
This was a shakedown on top of a shutdown.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
This was extortion.

Speaker 22 (29:13):
And the fact that eight Democrats, who people voted for,
who people trusted, don't understand that. It is infuriating because
we just spent forty two days being virtually penniless, forty
two days of miss paychecks, forty two days of grounded flights,
forty two days of hungry families, forty two days of

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hungry veterans right, Today's Veterans Day, and you're making them
line up for free groceries because your party shut down
their paychecks, right, Like, where's the.

Speaker 23 (29:46):
Judgment that.

Speaker 22 (29:49):
The shutdown hit people who hold America together? Federal workers,
service members, single parents, black and brown people, And for
what for you to do business as usual in the
hopes that business will return to a time where Republicans
were actually reasonable.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
This is absurd and it hurts.

Speaker 22 (30:14):
It feels like a betrayal because just last Tuesday we
proved that not only can we hold the line, we
can actually turn the tide. And eight people just said
I don't want it, against what their constituents want, against

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what their colleagues want, against what this party wants. You
just said screw it, and for what? And we have
to deal with you for another five six years because
you guys can't be primary come twenty six.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Like it is infuriating, So Cameron, what do you see?

Speaker 5 (31:03):
What's next?

Speaker 21 (31:04):
There are some who say, you know what, guess what
the base, They'll forget this. This is not going to
have any impact on the twenty twenty six midterm elections.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
Your assessment, I think this is.

Speaker 24 (31:19):
The base, the base and all parts of Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party, they do fill the anger and they
do feel like, what did we just spend the last
forty plus days doing and standing up for? If they
were to cave, but I expect this to cause a
extreme reckoning within the Democratic Party.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
The fact that it was isolated to.

Speaker 24 (31:40):
These these eight Democrats or an Angus King who's an
independent mostly Northeast states, but you're also in New Meerxico
and other people I'm sorry Nevada represent it, but they're
not up on the election next year. I expect every
Democrat who's up for election. There's a reason why i
as Off didn't didn't put his name behind this, is

(32:01):
the reason why Schumer and others didn't put their names
behind this.

Speaker 14 (32:04):
I expect every Democrat who.

Speaker 24 (32:06):
Is up for re election in the Senate, in the
entire House who's going to vote against this to find
significant distance between themselves. And then this sets up a
do or die vote on healthcare, point blank and period.
And I think that is the calculation. Now that we
are here, we wanted to hold the line, but now

(32:28):
that the line has no longer been held, there is
a do or die vote that Speaker Johnson first needs
to bring up in the House, and then if he doesn't.
That is something that I hope Democrats are able to
message properly, message simply, and message widely and vorociously the
entire year that these are the people who want to

(32:50):
keep your health care prices going. They're going to need
to bring families of all races hues from every part
of the country. Every individual should be looking right now
to families afore, single families, business owners, people who are
all going to have their businesses, their homes wrecked, their
budgets wrecked, people who may not be able to get

(33:11):
the kind of health care they need there, people who
may be be pushed into poverty, people businesses who may
have to close because.

Speaker 14 (33:18):
Of the.

Speaker 24 (33:21):
I would say, the gripping costs of health care and
the rise of health care, and they must message on
that for three hundred and sixty plus or however many
days until the next level.

Speaker 14 (33:30):
Make this around a single issue around health care.

Speaker 24 (33:34):
So I do expect that there will be significant distance
placed between the House dims. And also this might be
a chance, honestly to pick up some seats and to
try to hang this around the neck of every Republican,
whether it be in the Senate House, hell even if

(33:56):
even down ballot. The fact that they support it folk
not being able to have healthcare, they supported more people dying,
They supported more people not being able to get there
the necessary drugs or medications they need. They supported the
closing of rule and urban hospitals and all the jobs lost.
They need to be very crystal clear on hanging this

(34:18):
around the neck of those of everybody who's on the
ballot next year.

Speaker 5 (34:25):
Here's the question, and many people have been calling for
this and stop.

Speaker 21 (34:30):
I'll start with you. Is it time for Democrats to
replace Chuck Schumer? He couldn't keep his caucus. He couldn't
hold his caucus. Some believe that privately he sort of
gave them the nod, saying I'll vote against it, but
you guys, go ahead and vote void. Is it time
for Democrats to have new leadership in the United States Senate?

Speaker 17 (34:52):
Truly answer that this way?

Speaker 9 (34:53):
You know you have two responsibilities in that position, more
than to be able to count the votes. The second
part is to be able to hold Jack Cotton together,
and he has not been successful in being able to
do that.

Speaker 17 (35:03):
I understand that it's.

Speaker 9 (35:05):
Very challenged moment and challenging situations, but you have you
should have enough cachet to be able to have those
conversations with your folks to say this is not the
moment to do this. This is how we are going
to move forward together as a whole caucus. And you
know that's the responsibility of a leader. So you know,

(35:26):
many of us feel that a new leadership would help
to revitalize and help to bring energy back and hopefully
I also bring some focus back.

Speaker 17 (35:35):
So I guess we'll see what happens after this.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
Kelly, is it time to touch them to go?

Speaker 22 (35:44):
It's absolutely time for him to go, and we can
thank him for a service on his way out, because
at the end of the day, eight Senate Democrats crossed.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
The line that we were holding.

Speaker 22 (35:55):
Right, they crossed the line, and they handed Republicans of
victory that they didn't deserve, they didn't earn, they didn't
end the shutdown by doing this, They endorsed extortion by
doing this, And when Democrats vote for bills that gut
health care, slash worker protections, you know, shielding GLP senators
from accountability. That doesn't make you a moderate. It doesn't

(36:18):
make you a blue dog Democrat. It makes you a
co conspirator. It makes you a collaborator. And Chuck Schumer
knows that. And Chuck Schumer didn't do anything to stop it,
whether it was because he didn't have the power to
stop it, or whether he did have the power to
stop it, he was like, oh, well, it's only eight

(36:40):
Like that rationale alone is enough for me to say,
your time has come, sir.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
We need new blood.

Speaker 25 (36:47):
And frankly, last Tuesday proved that outside of all of
this rigamarole, last Tuesday proved that not only do we
need new blood, we are voting for new blood and
we want them in those seats.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
Cameron, stay, go Schumer.

Speaker 14 (37:08):
I'll say this about Schumer.

Speaker 24 (37:11):
I think the other thing to Mustapha's point, the other
thing that the head of the head of the Senate
and the House, whether it's the minority leader or Speaker
of the House, is also significantly around fundraising, and Schumer
has proven to be a fundraising force. Unfortunately, money is
throughout our politics and there are many members who struggle

(37:32):
to raise the money that is needed to compete in
today's political landscape. And he has the ears of the
donors in New York and around the country.

Speaker 14 (37:43):
So he still does that. But even that I don't
think is as effective as it once was. I think the.

Speaker 24 (37:51):
People will decide if he's going to if it's time
for him to go. I'm not a New York resident.
I don't know how well he represents New York or
not or the current news.

Speaker 21 (38:00):
Yeah, no, no, but but Kip a Camrack, Camrick, Cam Cameron, Cameron,
Kim being And I say, Senator, that's the people voting.
The Democratic Caucus chooses their leader. So the question is
is it time for the Democratic Caucus to choose somebody
else to be their leader, to be the sent to
Democratic leader in the United State Senate.

Speaker 24 (38:23):
I'll say this because of how I look at the
Democratic Party as a whole and what I think they
have the faith in the party to be able to
not handle if it happens, it has to happen organically.
I while I may disagree, I definitely disagree with how
Schumer held this and then he wasn't able to hold
the line. I'm also not confident that coming for Chuck

(38:46):
Schumer won't embroil the Democrats and an infight that will
have the mess around and lose their opportunity to win
back the Senate and win back the House. I think
if it happens and then there's all the rumblings that
congres s from a ALC is asked to primary, Chuck
Schumer is asked to come for. You've seen she's been
bringing out tens of thousands of people all around the country.

(39:08):
She all her followers online, all the energy. She's one
of easily one of the most recognizable members of Congress,
and so she has a lot of energy around her.
I think she still would have an uphill battle primary
and going after Schumer's seat.

Speaker 14 (39:23):
But I think if it.

Speaker 24 (39:24):
Happens organically, because if he if Schumer, if they will.

Speaker 21 (39:29):
I haven't can't camraon Cameron, Cameron, cam you gotta make
a decision. Cameron, you're saying, if it happens organically, Okay,
if AOC runs, bruh.

Speaker 5 (39:40):
They ain't got nothing to do with None of.

Speaker 21 (39:42):
This is either should the SATI, should the Democratic Caucus?
And Cameron, Cameron, I'm gonna ask you right now here
we are in late twenty twenty five. Should the Democratic
Caucus replace Chuck Schumer as their minority leader right now

(40:02):
through next year?

Speaker 5 (40:04):
Yes? Or no?

Speaker 26 (40:06):
No?

Speaker 7 (40:08):
Now?

Speaker 5 (40:09):
Got it?

Speaker 17 (40:09):
And that's it?

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (40:11):
No, And I think it's like I said, it's okay.
I don't think they can handle it.

Speaker 5 (40:17):
I got it all right, col all right, I don't
think we can handle I got it all right out. Well,
we'll see what happens. Well again, I.

Speaker 21 (40:34):
Don't know a lot of people to have any trust
in Chuck Schumann. I'm just saying that right now, all right,
let me go to a break. We'll be right back
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Speaker 27 (40:46):
If In this country right now, you have people get
up in the morning and the only thing they can
think about is how many people they can hurt.

Speaker 7 (40:54):
And they got the power. That's the time for morning.

Speaker 14 (40:58):
For better or worse.

Speaker 28 (40:59):
What makes it America's special, It's that legal system that's
supposed to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority.

Speaker 8 (41:07):
We are at a point of a moral emergency.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
We must raise a voice of outrage.

Speaker 8 (41:14):
We must raise a voice of compassion.

Speaker 17 (41:18):
And we must raise a voice of unity.

Speaker 27 (41:22):
We are not in a crisis of party versus party.
We are in a crisis of civilization, a humans rights crisis,
and a crisis of democracy itself. And guess what, You've
been chosen to make sure that those that would destroy,
those that would hate, don't have.

Speaker 7 (41:42):
The final say and they don't ultimately win.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
Hey, what's up, everybody.

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It's God be the funniest dude on the planet, and
you're watching.

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Speaker 15 (42:30):
Folks.

Speaker 21 (42:30):
Today's Veterans Day, and on this day, Alabama wants to
honor its black heroes. A new bill in Congress aims
to pay lasting tribute to the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, the
black fighter pilots who shattered barriers and flew with courage
during World War Two. Alabama Congressman Shamari Figures introduced the
bipartisan bill to rename the Tuskegee Post Office as the

(42:53):
Tuskegee Air Memorial Post Office, with support from the entire
Alabama congrests of the delegation. This initiative aims to permanently
recognize the bravery and sacrifice of America's first black military aviators.
Figures released the statement saying this designated Tuskegee Post Office
as Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Post Office. It's a meaningful way
to honor the legacy of these trailblazing heroes, and I'm

(43:13):
proud to do this on my first Veterans Day with
the full support of Alabama Ski Ression Delegation. Tuskegee Airmen,
whom I especially honored my first Veterans Day, not only
broke barriers in our armed forces, but also inspired generations
of Americans to serve with courage, integrity, and pride. This
recognition insures if their sacrifice, bravery, and historic contributions to

(43:34):
our nation will never be forgotten. Congressman Figures calls it
a fitting tribute to honor greatness and insure that Tuskegee
Airman's legacy continues to inspire others. All right, folks, Let's
talk about Utah, where a Utah judge hands a big
win to the state Democrats. Judge Diana Gibson rejected a
Republican past reditioning plan that created two more competitive districts

(43:57):
in the state. Judge Gibson's denial of the new bat
will create a solidly democratic district that covers Salt Lake
city given the party its second win in the redistricting
wars that swept the nation ahead of the midterms, and
a ruling judge gives to the Republican map quote fails
to abide by and conform with the requirements of a
twenty eighteen voter approved ballot measure that created non partisan

(44:22):
redigiac standards for the state legislature. Now in October, Republican
state legislators past the map of the judge ultilude denied,
which created two competitive districts that still favorite Republicans. The
case centers on a voter approved measure against partisan jerry
mandering in the state, passed in twenty eighteen, which Republicans
are now collecting signatures to undo. It's amazing how often

(44:45):
that happens, Kelly, how Republicans they really don't like these
reditioning commissions. They didn't like to want to Ohio, in Michigan,
and what can tell you that the voters approved it
and then they're like, yeah, we're going to come back
and undo what you guys approved.

Speaker 22 (45:08):
Don't like accountability and that their tricks aren't as sustainable
as they once were, you know, because this is what
democracy looks like. This is what accountability looks like, a
judge standing up to decades long hustle, rigging maps, silencing voters,

(45:30):
you know, And I feel like it is a micro
example of what's happening across the country and what can
happen across the country in terms of judges doing their
job fighting against this regime and you know, just making
sure that frankly, the law is working the way it's
supposed to be working. But I do want to give

(45:51):
credit where it to do, because this fair map came
from the League of Women Voters, specifically Mormon Women for
Ethical Government.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
And you know, I'm not a Mormon by any.

Speaker 22 (46:00):
Stretch, but women were able to do what politicians Republicans
won't do, wouldn't do, refuse.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
To do, and that's fight for democracy.

Speaker 22 (46:09):
So kudos to them, because at the end of the day,
Republicans didn't accidentally draw those maps. It was absolutely on purpose.
They carved up communities with the precision of a scalpel
to make sure that they stayed in power, to make
sure that it's stayed white and manly.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
And that is not fair, it's not right.

Speaker 22 (46:28):
And the judges saw that and overturned it as it
should have been.

Speaker 21 (46:42):
So we're seeing more of this cameon because of the
action the Democrats. Now what happening here in Utah, also
the move in California stopping the folks in Kansas or whatever.
It looks like Republicans are not going to come out
of this with a big majority that they thought. Now
we'll see what happens with this callous decision out of Louisiana.

(47:05):
That could also change a whole lot. But you know,
Republicans thought they were going to be able to try
to pick up ten to twelve twitter ten twelve fifteen
seats in Jery Mandry.

Speaker 5 (47:16):
That does not look like to be the case.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Who would have thought?

Speaker 24 (47:21):
Who would have thought we would be having a competitive Utah?
I think this this I mean you just you don't
think Democrats, you don't think you don't think people.

Speaker 14 (47:34):
Playing in Utah and heavy spind in Utah.

Speaker 24 (47:37):
I'm excited about this, even though this does still in
and around Salt Lake City. It's a wonderful city, have
been meant several times. I do think there is energy
and opportunity there to at least make it competitive, if
not win one or two of those seats, probably one,
but there has to be investment. They need to find
the right candidate that fits, that fits Utah, that it's

(48:00):
the people there that fits the sensibilities there and in
the Democratic Party needs to invest in that because at
the very least they can distract and force the Republicans
to play in a state in the state, in the
area that they didn't expect. So I think this just
makes for a more competitive nationwide race.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
And then it's.

Speaker 24 (48:21):
Also allows the country to understand what's really at stake
with this jerry mandering and redistricting all over the country.
I'm really hoping that that becomes jerrymandering becomes a word
and an understanding around all voters and non voters around
the country. And I think something like this happening in

(48:43):
Utah and picking up in a place where where we
just have it. I don't think we even really think
about Utah or Salt Lake City and stuff when it
comes to election time, you just check it and naturally
put it into the Republican's box.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
I think this.

Speaker 14 (48:59):
Opens up the app around the country and changes the math.

Speaker 21 (49:06):
Well, I think the thing here mustava that we have
to recognize is that you know, those Mormons in Utah
have not been happy with Donald Trump. Uh, they have
really been, you know, challenging him, calling him out in
the in the data. You see his numbers are not
good in that state. And so I think what Camera

(49:27):
said is certainly a positive for Democrats. How Utah being
able to have a second congressional district there, Yeah, pretty
big deal.

Speaker 7 (49:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (49:37):
I have family in Salt Lake, and you know, it's
interesting because they feel like, you know, the values that
are coming out of the White House are not in
alignment with their values. You know, we see all these
types of egregious things that this administration does, and it
just goes against the grain of many folks across our country,
not just in Salt Lake, in a number of locations.

Speaker 17 (50:00):
That's why you've got to have a fifty states strategy.

Speaker 9 (50:02):
I know that has not necessarily been the way that
the Democratic leadership has approached over a number of years,
but you know, you shouldn't just let anyone slip through
and not make sure that you have the resources and
the focus in their areas.

Speaker 17 (50:19):
So that's the first thing.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
You know.

Speaker 9 (50:21):
The other thing that we've got to make sure that
we stay mindful of is that you know, whether you're
in Salt Lake City, or you're in Sacramento, California, or
you're in Biloxi, Mississippi. A lot of folks are in
pain right now. They see the country moving in the
wrong direction. And because they see that, you know, folks
want to have fair maps. They want to make sure
that when they cast their ballot that they have the

(50:43):
ability to actually change the dynamics that are happening inside
of their communities and therefore happening inside of their families.
So that's why you've got to make sure you make
those investments everywhere, because this is the moment.

Speaker 17 (50:55):
When you can actually show real leadership.

Speaker 9 (50:57):
This is the moment where you can actually help to
change people's what's going on their lives in this moment
in the future, and we'll see if the Democrats actually
stand up to that, or maybe it'll be some independent
folks that will.

Speaker 17 (51:11):
But there is an opening and we'll see how folks proceed.

Speaker 21 (51:19):
Well, Listen, I keep saying this here. You can win
in the course, don't mean nothing the folks don't vote,
And so over the next the next year is going
to be a really really vigorous battle in this country.
All right, folks going to a break, we come back
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Speaker 21 (53:36):
Both Barbara Scotia College, they are. They were having some
serious issues. This fall, though, North Carolina's old as HBCU
launched its first ever football season, marketing a significant comeback
for the institution. Over one hundred and fifteen students have
returned to campus, resulting in the college's largest enrollment in
nearly twenty years after losing his accreditation, Barbara Scotia College

(53:58):
is now gaining momentum retrodeing football, basketball, and baseball as
part of its efforts to restore accreditation and revive the
legacy of its historic HBCU. Chris Ray, the president's CEO
Barbara Scotia, joins me right now, President Rake, let to
have you here. So how does restoring sports bring you back?
Is that not a costly venture for Barba Scotia.

Speaker 19 (54:22):
First of all, I appreciate you for having this on tonight,
and it's a part of the strategy. It was a
part of the recruitment strategy that we thought was important
to get students back involved to get students in the pipeline.
As you know or may not know that when you
are trying to get back accredited, it's critical that you
have students enroll.

Speaker 13 (54:43):
That's a part of the accreditation formula.

Speaker 19 (54:46):
And we realize that in order for us to position
ourselves for the best possible opportunity, we needed to make
sure that we had a pipeline of students that we
know that would be coming into the institution, and so
we thought sports would be the best way, and it's worked.

Speaker 13 (55:02):
We've had over one hundred students who have enrolled.

Speaker 19 (55:05):
We've got another almost one hundred in the pipeline coming
in in the spring and in the fall of next year.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
So we're really excited.

Speaker 21 (55:14):
Are these focus on full scholarship parcels partial scholarship?

Speaker 5 (55:19):
How you make this happen?

Speaker 19 (55:20):
Sure, So let me first shout out the alumni of
Barberscotia College who has done a tremendous job of stepping
up to the plate to help solidify the financial backing
of the institution. And that's the only way that this
was going to work, is that we needed to make
sure that we had the alumni stepping up.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
And so what has happened is we've been able.

Speaker 19 (55:43):
To create our own internal financial aid for our students.
Our students are able, some of them are, they're paying
out of pocket, We're able to help with partial scholarships,
and many of them are are getting other aid from
families and friends to be able to help to cover
the costs. And we've made it affordable so to attend
Barbier Scotia College now it's twenty five hundred dollars a
semester five thousand dollars a year. Because I believe that

(56:05):
affordable education is absolutely possible if you create the right
formula Ford and so it has allowed these parents to say,
you know what, I can take a chance on Barba
Scotia because it's affordable for me and my family.

Speaker 5 (56:21):
That's an extremely low amount.

Speaker 21 (56:22):
How are you able to charge that low for tuition
in this climate where we normally have skyrocketing tuition costs?

Speaker 1 (56:31):
Sure?

Speaker 19 (56:31):
So you know, when I took the job as president,
I have to sit back and try to reimagine what
the HBCU of the future should look like, and I
think we have. What we've fallen on is thinking that
we have to touch all of our students. Now, I
spent twenty two years in an army. I was a
signal officer. I had a cybersecurity background, so it is

(56:53):
a big part of my professional training. And when I
took the job and I spoke to the board of trustees,
I shared with them that we have to reimagine a
Barber Scotia that cannot return the way that it left,
and so we have to look at a hybrid formula
where we.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Have students who are in person.

Speaker 19 (57:11):
That's the traditional way, that's what we're all used to,
but we also have to have a robust amount of
students that.

Speaker 13 (57:16):
Are going to be online for the future.

Speaker 19 (57:18):
And so my goal envision for the institution is that
we'll have two to three thousand students that will live
and commute to Barbi Scotia, but we'll have thirty to
forty thousand students.

Speaker 13 (57:29):
That will be online.

Speaker 19 (57:30):
And so when you look at the formulas like a
Walden University or Southern New Hampshire University, their price point
is right within that five to six a seven thousand
dollars range that they're charging their students.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
And so gone of the days where I.

Speaker 19 (57:43):
Believe that an HBCU can survive with twelve hundred students
or fourteen hundred students. We have to look at the
next generation of what HBCU should look like, and so
we're charging a lower tuition understanding and believing that if
you build it right, that they will come. And we're
seeing that now from going from no students to now
having over one hundred plus students to having another one

(58:05):
hundred plus that's getting ready to come to the institution.

Speaker 21 (58:10):
And when we say get ready to come, do you
mean next fall or in the spring.

Speaker 19 (58:14):
Yeah, So we have we have students that already apply
for the spring, and we have our students that apply
for the fall of next year. So we're looking at
another one hundred plus students that we know will be
enrolling in the institution. You know, probably more, but we
know there'll be at least another hundred that will be
coming by the.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Fall of next year.

Speaker 21 (58:32):
Question from a panel, Kelly, First.

Speaker 4 (58:36):
First and foremost, congratulations on this feat as a HBCU
grab myself, I'm always for the preservation of HBCUs and
this is fantastic work on your end. My question to
you is.

Speaker 22 (58:50):
As far as specialties and what Barber Scotia will be
known for, as far as academics. Are there any programs
that you want to tout and advertise over others? Like
what will you guys be known for outside of your athletic.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
Sure, so thank you for that question.

Speaker 19 (59:09):
So when you think about what the future of what
the institution is going to be, you know we are
we're looking at three three, three streams.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
You know.

Speaker 19 (59:17):
Number one, I want to have a robust certificates program
for our institution, and we've just partnered with an organization
that is going to allow us the opportunity to have
an array of certificate programs and on the healthcare side,
and on the and on the IT side. And then
you have our HC Workforce Solutions, which is our next

(59:41):
huge partnership around our workforce development and our trade school
that we're going to have because I believe that Barber
Scotia needs to be the place where everyone gets an opportunity.
And then you have your traditional then you have your
traditional degrees. We are three miles away from Eli Lilly.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
This gives you a.

Speaker 13 (59:59):
Thought an idea of where we want to go. My
long term hope.

Speaker 19 (01:00:02):
Is that we'll have our own pharmacy school as an institution,
because you can't be three miles from from Eli Lilly
and there not be a pharmacy school opportunity here at
Barbara Scotia College. So we're looking at the STEM programs,
but we're also looking at making sure that there is
a strong skills training opportunity here, trade school opportunities, and

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then the traditional.

Speaker 13 (01:00:26):
So our saying is you.

Speaker 19 (01:00:27):
Can come to Barbara Scotia where you can get skilled up,
trade up or degreed up, because you can't. You have
to be a place for everybody, not just sure I
want to get a two year degree a four year
degree because everyone doesn't need a four year degree.

Speaker 5 (01:00:44):
A camera.

Speaker 24 (01:00:47):
Again, also as an HBCU grad, congratulations, love to see
more increasing the number of HBCUs in these challenging times.
I was really intrigued by your folks on online learning.
I think that is really the future. It's the now
and the future. Given we are also in a hybrid

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hybrid work environment, people are looking for more convenience and
people are looking to maybe attend to HBCU that may
not physically be close enough to campus, but still want
that education. Can you can you expand on how you
see that as an opportunity for Barber Scotia and potentially
HBCUs around the country.

Speaker 19 (01:01:29):
Yeah, you know, I think that that's one of the
areas that we have missed. The mark is HBCUs. And
there's a lot of reasons why you can say we
didn't have the formal investment in our IT infrastructure.

Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
To be able to do this.

Speaker 13 (01:01:42):
But there are over there are over five hundred thousand
African Americans that are enrolled in online programs, in programs
outside of HBCUs.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
Let that sit with you.

Speaker 19 (01:01:56):
Five hundred thousand African Americans, and we know that there
is a market of individuals who are interested in online learning.
They're not going to be the traditional I want to come.
I need to sit in a classroom, I need to
hear from a professor, you know, a life and in
life and and I have an opportunity now to finish
my degree because I didn't go to school early or

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whatever the case may be. So you know, we as
as HBCUs have to have a pipeline for our online learners,
our adult learners that clearly there is a market for that.

Speaker 13 (01:02:29):
And I recognize that when I took this job and.

Speaker 19 (01:02:31):
I said we because we the way that we left,
we might as well come back a new way and
come back in such a way that embraces the online
learning so that we can have that as a segment
that is going to be able to fuel and fund
the institution, while we also still have the traditional side.
Those students who want to come, those students who want
to be involved, those students who want to touch and

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feel the HBCU experience.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
We will be able to.

Speaker 19 (01:02:56):
Provide them with that in the in the in the
in person, in space, but then have this huge robust
online infrastructure and now imagine then taking very smart HBCU
creatives and then being able to overlay that online experience.
And I think that we can do it. There's no
question in my mind that we cannot build the right

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infrastructure to do that, because that is the future. Because
again I'm a firm believer that if you continue to
just have in person fifteen hundred, thirteen hundred, nine hundred students,
you're going to continue to have the struggles that you
continue to have. And not only on the HBCU side,
but you see pwis that are small private schools that
are closing all the time because they're having the same

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challenges and issues because they have not invested in their
online infrastructure. So my goal two to three thousand students
that will be in person and commuting and living on
this campus, and we'll have another twenty to thirty thousand
that will be online that will power the internal business
infrastructure of the college. Still giving them a great HBC

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you experienced, just that it'll be online.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
With TAPPA.

Speaker 17 (01:04:08):
President ray As. Everybody's saying congratulations. I'd love listening to
anybody who's actually trying.

Speaker 9 (01:04:13):
To create twenty first century HBCUs and you you're definitely
moving in the right direction to be able to achieve
the goals that I you know that I know that
you're moving forward on. You've got to have partners and partnerships.
What is that going to look like as you moved
down the road.

Speaker 19 (01:04:29):
Yeah, so again another great question. You know, when I
took the job, you know, we were saddled with a
lot of challenges as an institution, and so you know,
I remember the talk from you know, some of the folks.
You know, hey, you're just another president. You know we've
seen this before. You know, we owed the city, we
we we had you know, we had challenges with the county,
we owed the state of North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
We owed the federal government.

Speaker 7 (01:04:51):
Uh.

Speaker 19 (01:04:52):
You fast forward two years later, We've paid off the
debt to the city. We've we've we've you know, paid
off the debt to the state of North Carolina. You're
working with our co rational leaders right now to address
our our our federal our federal debt that we have.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
We've had some engagement.

Speaker 7 (01:05:08):
UH.

Speaker 19 (01:05:08):
We're going to be announcing soon our our resolution with
the county, which we you know, which we believe is
going to uh that is that's moved in the.

Speaker 13 (01:05:19):
Right direction for Barbara Scotia College.

Speaker 19 (01:05:21):
And so now what's happening is is that we're now
getting phone calls from other uh fortune five hundred, fortune
one hundred companies that are saying, hey, we've been following
your story. You know, we're interested now in getting involved.
We you know, we want to be a part of
your rise. You know, our our our mantra is Barbier
Scotia Rising. And so they want to be a part

(01:05:42):
of that early piece to us moving forward. But that's
how we got the workforce development piece right. Our HC
solution said, you know, we want to be there to
be the trade school.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Arm uh for you.

Speaker 19 (01:05:53):
Vision quest is the organization that we're going to be
partnering with that said, you know, we want to be
a part of making sure that we help you build
the robust Certificates initiative, you know, for Barbi Scotia College.
And then we've had a bunch of community organizations.

Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
You know, I first got a shout out to D nine. Uh.

Speaker 19 (01:06:09):
The D nine has truly stepped up in a huge way,
uh in in in helping to uh provide funding. And
I'm not just talking about my local D nine folks,
but the national D nine folks. I've had other HBCUs
who've written checks to Barbi Scotia College to help support
what we were doing. But then we've had local businesses
uh uh that have said, you know what, you need

(01:06:31):
your dorms clean. We're going to clean your dorms for you.
We're gonna help you with your electrical work. We're gonna
and it's really just been amazing to watch the community
come together, uh to say, you know what, We're not
gonna allow on another HBCU to close on our watch.
But I think that the reason why they got behind
us is because they see that we have a plan,
uh and they can now get behind that plan. And

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be a part of what is going to be something
super special here in the Concord area.

Speaker 21 (01:07:01):
All right then, well, President President Ray, we'll cirly congratulations
on that, and we'll see how things unfold over the
next few years.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
Thank you so very much.

Speaker 13 (01:07:13):
Thank you for the opportunity, and thank you for telling
our story.

Speaker 5 (01:07:17):
All right, appreciate it. Thank you so very much. All Right, folks,
gonna go tip.

Speaker 21 (01:07:21):
Break, we come back more to talk about Also, man,
it was a man. The weather was crazy today here
in Bermuda. Wins up to fifty five miles an hour. Wait,
I show y'all some of the video of us out
there playing all today. Today was the amateur amateur tournament.
Tomorrow's the program. The PGA Tour stop starts on Thursday,

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and so, but still had a ball out there. You're
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Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
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Speaker 33 (01:07:52):
Said the quiet part out loud. Black votes are a threat,
so they erased it. After the Supreme Court got it
the voting rights at in twenty thirteen, Republican legislatures moved
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Speaker 34 (01:08:52):
Me Sherry sebre and you know what you watching, Roland
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Speaker 21 (01:09:04):
All, folks, These maga people are absolutely insane doing all
they can, of course, try to race us. Let's go
to my alma mater, Texasan m University. Well, the Texan
University System regents are going to vote later this week
on a proposal to ban classes on race and gender
ideology unless these courses receive approval from the institution's president

(01:09:27):
or a designated representative. This is the latest step in
the conservative effort to eliminate what they perceive as liberal
leaning teaching from Texas universities. It passed texasanem System with
serve one hundred seventy five thousand students and as the
second largest university system in the state, will become the
first institution to explicitly prohibit teaching related to race ideology,

(01:09:50):
be the first institution to bar teaching to raise ideology explicitly.
According to these white folks, racial ideologies defined as a
concept it seeks too shaming for pticular race or ethnicity,
accusing them of being a precious in a racial hierarchical conspiracy,
a sign of them less values contributed to society, imposing
and trends of guilt, or promote activistiness instead of instruction. Okay,
So here's what's really at play here, Mustafa and people

(01:10:13):
don't understand something right here. So in Texas, these white
maga folk, they believe that the University of Texas is
just foregone being a liberal institution. So what they decided,
they decided to say, Hey, texta A and m texta
in is going to become their playground. It's going to
become the conservative institution of the state. That's really what's

(01:10:36):
going on here. And you've got these border regents who
are doing the bidding of that crazy nonsensical governor Greg Abbott,
who announced he's running for re election. And this is
the reason why I really hope people get out and
vote in serious ways. Abage should be defeated and these
border regency to stop sitting here being some scared punks,

(01:10:57):
including the ones in Texas A and M.

Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
And it goes to show you how idiotic these people are.

Speaker 21 (01:11:03):
Texas A and M has significant issues when it comes
to attracting black and other minority students and this ain't
gonna help, but it goes to show you what MAGA
is doing in America.

Speaker 20 (01:11:18):
Yeah, well, you know, for some reason, they're afraid of truth, right,
because when you look at these classes, you know, it's
all it is is really history, folks, just laying it
out for folks about what's transpired in the past, who
is impact, how has it limited.

Speaker 9 (01:11:33):
Opportunities and instances? Also about bringing forward, you know, the
excellence that exists in the black community, in the brown
community and other communities, and.

Speaker 17 (01:11:42):
Folks end up fearing that.

Speaker 9 (01:11:45):
So if you want to make sure that you're protecting truth,
if you want to make sure that you're protecting history,
and of course we have to get engaged and we
have to vote, but we also got to hold people
accountable and we talk about that on the show all
the time. So whether it's the Bard of Regents or
or other individuals who are making choices in that space,
then we've got to make sure that they understand what
the set of expectations are.

Speaker 17 (01:12:07):
And if you don't do that.

Speaker 9 (01:12:08):
Then folks will feel one if they want to do
the right thing, that they're out there by themselves too.

Speaker 17 (01:12:13):
If they don't want to do the right thing, that
there won't be any repercussions.

Speaker 24 (01:12:20):
Cameron, I think Texas A and M is in a
unique and interesting place now, Texas A and M also
with this going on, This is also juxtaposition that they
are in a major, major, major, one hundred plus million
dollar investment in their football and in their sports system

(01:12:43):
as another way to hopefully draw students, and I think
draw a lot of black students from both in state
and out of state. And it's interesting to how they
plan to look to erase our history.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
But that ain't working.

Speaker 21 (01:12:56):
That that ain't working, That ain't never worked. I'm letting
you know that ain't never work.

Speaker 5 (01:13:00):
So no, it hasn't.

Speaker 21 (01:13:01):
I mean, bottom line is it hasn't, and A and
M has a Look, look, you got a whole bunch
of you got a whole bunch of us black people
with graduom and m our kids grew up, they agguate
and ain't going through the university, so it ain't working.
But again, they love DEI Saturdays though, they love seeing

(01:13:24):
black talent on that football.

Speaker 14 (01:13:25):
Field, but they won't teach our history in the classroom.

Speaker 24 (01:13:30):
And that was the point I was making, is that
they want to continue to put all this money and
hopefully turn themselves into a larger football powerhouse in this
interesting nil world we're in, and they're looking to do
that on the back of black talent across their sports.
But then when those same students need to go into
the classroom and may want to deal with African American studies,

(01:13:53):
may want to learn something more than a whitewashed history
of our people, they won't be able to find it
in those history books.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
So it's discouraging.

Speaker 24 (01:14:03):
I'm hoping this is just another rallying cry to get
a lot of people, not just the folks who are
voting around the state, to really look at who look
at Governor Abbott, and look at who's their representatives. But
also hopefully this is another piece and something on the
board that gets people who are on the couch in
Texas because I think this all feeds into a system

(01:14:25):
in Texas has been so egregious in so many different
ways that they're looking to utilize their power to erase
our history, and quite frankly, we just can't stand for it.

Speaker 21 (01:14:39):
Hey, Kelly is It's simple. What you're seeing is the
attacks on black folks and others all across this country.
It's happened at federal level, state levels, going to a
local level, and I keep telling people, the way you
shut these people up is you throw them out of office.

(01:15:00):
Texas has the most eligible black voters in the country.
When Betto ran against Greg Abbys, seventy five percent of
young people thirty hundred to not vote. There's a way
to defeat them, and that's the ballot box. Because the
governor in Texas appoints the university border regions.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
You get a new governor, you get new regions.

Speaker 22 (01:15:22):
I mean, as far as I'm concerned, this is McCarthyism
with a Texas accent. And I'm not about to a
mimic a tex assassin because that's not my style. But
that's that's what it looks like to me. Because when
a state bans class is based on race and gender.
That's not policy, that's not in the best interests of
the student. That's political violence against black and brown people.

(01:15:44):
That's political violence against queer and women's scholars. Right, this
isn't about classrooms. It's about control. It's not ideology. You're
talking about black studies. So when you're talking about these
things and in these veiled attempts to you know, basically
pull the wool over people's eyes, like this is about

(01:16:06):
black and brown people, and you wanting to control the
narrative of y'all being ancient. Y'all don't want the world
to know that y'all ain't shit. That's really all it
boils down to. So you can ban the course, but
you can't ban reality when it comes to these things.
And to your point about the vote, I mean that
goes across the board, not just in Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:16:28):
We have to vote. We have to use the political power.

Speaker 22 (01:16:31):
That we have while we still have it to get
this type of ideology out of main discourse. We have
to use what we have to push what we want,
and what we want is diversity. What we want is inclusivity.
What we want is equity. That's what DEI stands for
and we need to start saying it just like that.

(01:16:55):
So for people who say they're anti DEI, so you're
anti diversity, that's what I'm hear it. You're anti inclusivity,
That's what I'm hearing, not your anti an acronym that
you don't want to spell out, because then we're actually
calling you out on your shit.

Speaker 5 (01:17:16):
Well, we'll see what they do.

Speaker 21 (01:17:18):
And I'm just letting them folks know right now you
ain't doing yourself no favor with black folks when it
comes to the future of Texas A and M. But again,
they want in them to be the most conservative, whitest
university in the state. That's their goal, that's their strategy.
But again they sure don't mind a black ballplayers. That's

(01:17:39):
not the gred Car always says. If black ball players
decide to say, you know what, we're not going to
reward these universities like Texas A and M don't give
a shit about black people. Trust me, they don't go
to those universities. They ain't got no sports programs. All right,
I'll be right back.

Speaker 5 (01:17:55):
Rolling unfiltered in the Black Still Network.

Speaker 27 (01:18:02):
If in this country right now you have people get
up in the morning and the only thing they can
think about is how many people they can hurt.

Speaker 7 (01:18:10):
And they've got the power.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
That's the time for morning, For better or worse.

Speaker 28 (01:18:14):
What makes America special, it's that legal system that's supposed
to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority.

Speaker 8 (01:18:23):
We are at a point of a moral emergency. We
must raise a voice of outrage. We must raise a
voice of compassion, and we.

Speaker 7 (01:18:34):
Must raise a voice of unity.

Speaker 27 (01:18:38):
We are not in a crisis of party versus party.
We are in a crisis of civilization, a human rights crisis,
and a crisis of democracy itself. And guess what, You've
been chosen to make sure that those that would destroy,
those that would hate, don't have the final say, and

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they don't pulp them up the win.

Speaker 15 (01:19:01):
This week on the other side of Change book fans
anti intellectualism and Trump's continued war on wisdom.

Speaker 35 (01:19:08):
This is a coordinated backlash to progress. At the end
of the day, conservatives realized that they couldn't win a
debate on facts. We started using our language against us.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
Right. Remember when we.

Speaker 35 (01:19:19):
Were all woke and the Woke movement and all that
kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
Now everything is anti.

Speaker 35 (01:19:23):
Woke right when we were talking about including diversity, equity, inclusion,
and higher education. Now it's antidi all this our efforts
to suppress the truth, because truth empowers people.

Speaker 9 (01:19:33):
You're watching the Other Side of Change only on the
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Speaker 30 (01:19:38):
Next on the Black Table with me Greg the United
States is the most dangerous place for a woman to
give birth among all industrialized nations on the planet.

Speaker 7 (01:19:49):
Think about that for a second.

Speaker 1 (01:19:51):
That's not all.

Speaker 30 (01:19:52):
Black women are three times more likely to die in
this country during childbirth than white women.

Speaker 36 (01:19:58):
These healthcare systems are are inherently racist. There are a
lot of white supremacists, ideas and mythologies around Black women,
black women's bodies.

Speaker 4 (01:20:09):
Even black people that we experience.

Speaker 30 (01:20:11):
Pangless right activist organizers and fearless freedom fighter Monifa I
can Wi La bande Lay from Mom's Rising, joins us
and tells us this shocking phenomenon, like so much else,
is rooted in unadulterated races. And that's just one of
her fights. Monifa Bandeley on the next Black Table here

(01:20:32):
on the Black Star Network.

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Hi, I Am Joe.

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Marie Payton, one of Sugar Mama on Disney's Louder and
Prouder Disney.

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Plus and I'm with rolland Mardin on Unfiltered.

Speaker 5 (01:21:34):
Folks.

Speaker 21 (01:21:34):
Three time NBA Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkins has died.
Wilkins was one of the finest point guards of his
era who later brought us calm and savage style to
the sideline, first as a player coach and then evolving
into one of the game's great coaches.

Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
Keep in mind Yell. He was a player coach for
several seasons.

Speaker 21 (01:21:53):
He coached two thousand and eighty seven games of the NBA,
a record that still stands. He became a Hall of
Famer as both a player and a coach, and again
as an assistant coach the nineteen ninety two YUSA Olympics team.

Speaker 5 (01:22:03):
Wilkins also coached the.

Speaker 21 (01:22:05):
Americans to goal the Atlanta Games in nineteen ninety six.

Speaker 5 (01:22:08):
Wilkins was a nine time All Star.

Speaker 21 (01:22:10):
As a player, the first person to reach a thousand wins,
and as an NBA coach, the second person inducted into
the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and
a coach. Only five people have ever done that. He
coached the Settle Superstionics to an NBA title nineteen seventy nine. Wilkins,
the nineteen ninety four NBA Coach of the Year with
the Atlanta Hawks, retired with one thousand, three and thirty

(01:22:33):
two wins a coach, one out three of the two
coaching wins, a lead record that Don Nelson and Greg
Popovich later surpassed. Will Play We'll Can played fifteen seasons
with the Saint Louis Hawks, Seattle Superstimons, Cleveland Cavaliers, and
Portland Trailblazers, and all start five times with Saint Louis,
three times in Seattle and once with Cleveland. In nineteen
seventy three figure thirty five, the statue depicting his title

(01:22:56):
with the Superstimons was installed outside Climate Playge Arena in June.

Speaker 5 (01:23:01):
Lenny attended that unveiling. This is what he said, thank
you very much.

Speaker 37 (01:23:11):
Reminds me when I first came out here. You know,
we're a better community when we're supportive of one another,
when we help each other, when we take time to

(01:23:34):
recognize one another. And early in my career, one of
the things I did a lot.

Speaker 31 (01:23:48):
Was I used to read a lot.

Speaker 37 (01:23:51):
I read books all the time, and I read some
great books history of the USA from nineteen thirty seven
to nineteen seventy something.

Speaker 31 (01:24:08):
I read a book.

Speaker 37 (01:24:12):
I got a buddy of mine to read call haunt Yo.
It was about a culture of the Native American and
I was so fascinated with it.

Speaker 31 (01:24:31):
It was unbelievable. I've been blessed. I'll be the first to.

Speaker 7 (01:24:42):
Tell you.

Speaker 31 (01:24:44):
I have a great wife, a great family.

Speaker 37 (01:24:48):
They're very supportive of everything I do, and that has
allowed me to do so much, to be able to
go everywhere, speak to everybody. Young people, I tell you
you're important, you mean something.

Speaker 31 (01:25:10):
So the young people are tomorrow's.

Speaker 37 (01:25:15):
Doctors, lawyers, politician.

Speaker 31 (01:25:19):
They're our future.

Speaker 37 (01:25:21):
And when we're supportive of each other, we make our
community better.

Speaker 31 (01:25:28):
So I just want to say, hey, thank you, thank
you so much. You don't know what you mean to me,
but thank you. I appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (01:25:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:25:47):
Lenny Wilkins was eighty eight years old.

Speaker 21 (01:25:49):
That's a good alpha man right there. Also, folks at
the NBA is mourning the passing of former All Star
guard Michael Ray Richardson. He played eight years in the NBA,
was an unbelievable player, number four, picking the nineteen seventy
eight draft of the New York next three time All
Star with them. Also the New Jersey Nets led the
league and still three times was a phenomenal scored.

Speaker 5 (01:26:12):
His career was literally cut short because of drugs. He
was just an.

Speaker 21 (01:26:16):
Unbelievable player and upon his passing, the NBA said this
on their Twitter feed. The NBA mourns and passing a
four time All Star Michael Ray Ridgarson. Michael dedicated his
post NBA career to using his life story to teach
life skills to young people. With extend our heartfelt sympathies
to his family, friends and fans. All Right, y'all, I'm
here in Bermuda and we've been having got here yesterday

(01:26:42):
and I'm gonna be here all week, and they have
the PGA tournament that's playing here this week.

Speaker 5 (01:26:49):
Lots lots of.

Speaker 21 (01:26:50):
Different things that have been happening here. See Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
Of course, the Tourism Authority, they're the ones who are
sponsors of this. And so we had an amateur amateur
tournament today at the Mid Ocean Club and boy, oh boy,
So this morning when I woke up, man, it was

(01:27:12):
it was rainy, wind, gust and I was like tey
this is gonna be a interesting day. Yeah, when we started,
the sun came out. Then we didn't see it again
for the rest of the day. If y'all want to
see what it looks like playing golf in crazy wind
and rain, well check this out.

Speaker 5 (01:27:38):
It ain't gonna die down.

Speaker 26 (01:28:11):
Okay, this really is crazy.

Speaker 21 (01:28:13):
So I probably have not played where we gonna.

Speaker 26 (01:28:18):
I probably have not played in.

Speaker 38 (01:28:20):
These conditions in really long time.

Speaker 26 (01:28:27):
Like I said that, the rain, it's not that big
of a deal. The crains not been a bigger deal.
I mean, I played in rain.

Speaker 23 (01:28:31):
Before, but.

Speaker 26 (01:28:35):
It's been a long time.

Speaker 5 (01:28:36):
So I played where the wind.

Speaker 26 (01:28:39):
Was howling this much. This is crazy crazy, you know.

Speaker 39 (01:28:45):
Okay, h.

Speaker 7 (01:29:47):
There we go.

Speaker 5 (01:29:50):
Hell the winds died down.

Speaker 26 (01:29:52):
Like I said, we can playing his ring.

Speaker 40 (01:29:56):
Fifty mind out gustin wind is a whole different conversation.

Speaker 5 (01:30:02):
So now let's see.

Speaker 26 (01:30:07):
See what happens.

Speaker 23 (01:30:42):
Oh you hear it, Romans, I.

Speaker 41 (01:30:59):
Think I'm right about.

Speaker 40 (01:31:14):
Comma cabin.

Speaker 1 (01:31:36):
The three that's far.

Speaker 7 (01:31:43):
Far right.

Speaker 41 (01:31:49):
Let me Gela.

Speaker 39 (01:32:09):
D Let's see.

Speaker 42 (01:32:14):
A ah up hill.

Speaker 26 (01:32:29):
Yeah, that's alright.

Speaker 5 (01:32:34):
That de.

Speaker 10 (01:32:40):
Hi so here.

Speaker 26 (01:32:43):
I had a great drive. I'm a hundred yards out.

Speaker 5 (01:32:49):
We're talking about we're getting did into the wind.

Speaker 26 (01:32:53):
It has to be at least.

Speaker 21 (01:32:56):
Minimum of four club win, so that means a hundred
and sixty one yard shot.

Speaker 5 (01:33:04):
You play it like it's two or one.

Speaker 26 (01:33:05):
How crazy this is?

Speaker 21 (01:33:08):
So uh, I'm going to hit my uh.

Speaker 5 (01:33:12):
Four hypers while around one ninety five club.

Speaker 26 (01:33:14):
I was gonna hit that club.

Speaker 5 (01:33:17):
Just tell you just how crazy this wind is.

Speaker 26 (01:33:20):
I let's let's see what happens.

Speaker 43 (01:34:02):
Who wow, that's a that's not a breeze.

Speaker 5 (01:34:34):
Look at that.

Speaker 23 (01:34:36):
You know all.

Speaker 5 (01:34:39):
That?

Speaker 39 (01:34:40):
You know?

Speaker 23 (01:34:41):
I mean, they can't go right back in the bunk.

Speaker 26 (01:34:46):
That gummy.

Speaker 43 (01:34:57):
Wow, that's crazy, that's cr crazy. I should have thought
his law was gonna be over all right, I got that.

Speaker 26 (01:35:10):
Out of this bunker.

Speaker 38 (01:35:16):
See the flag is a sixty degree live ledge. Oh crap, wen,

(01:36:03):
it's picked up, snow choked, choke all.

Speaker 26 (01:36:13):
The bam treas.

Speaker 29 (01:36:50):
Wow, it's bron stop. I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
This this mean want right to get to.

Speaker 44 (01:38:00):
It, alright, you know, kay, okay, parts over here all right, y'all,

(01:38:41):
it's a two hundred fieu that I would get in
to blue shaft.

Speaker 5 (01:38:51):
Alright, golf cat seeing it for Thursday.

Speaker 45 (01:38:53):
Might I would order that shaft. I'll be home Saturday.
M oh right that shot.

Speaker 26 (01:39:15):
Alright, y'all, it's our last home.

Speaker 5 (01:39:20):
It has been a wild day.

Speaker 21 (01:39:24):
I just checked the screen in there, use a right
fifty five miles an hour, fifty five.

Speaker 26 (01:39:34):
Miles an hour. So uh it's aboue to say it's
a tough look off.

Speaker 23 (01:39:41):
Today, but.

Speaker 26 (01:39:43):
It's not read or just you know, I love I
just go close this day? U when this kill joke?

Speaker 5 (01:40:06):
Man at two hundred and forty eight on.

Speaker 26 (01:40:13):
The second shot, you than that short?

Speaker 46 (01:40:25):
Think you find on what any of the ex man?

Speaker 17 (01:40:45):
Okay, he likes getting.

Speaker 26 (01:40:53):
Up plades good?

Speaker 39 (01:40:54):
Yea.

Speaker 26 (01:41:10):
I felt like we went a boxing match and of
course in the wind won.

Speaker 21 (01:41:15):
So uh that's the end of this amorage amateur we
played in the program on Wednesday.

Speaker 26 (01:41:24):
Man, I don't want to go.

Speaker 5 (01:41:26):
Throw out, try out and soak in a hot shower.

Speaker 39 (01:41:35):
This was.

Speaker 26 (01:41:39):
This is a test of endurance. But hey, little left goar.
So did it feel like like a heavyweight.

Speaker 13 (01:41:46):
Fight out there?

Speaker 4 (01:41:47):
I mean, if this is how I leave a heavyweight fight.

Speaker 5 (01:41:49):
You know who won?

Speaker 47 (01:41:50):
You came in here and callmb your hair. I saw
when you walked in here. You you trudged, y'all.

Speaker 17 (01:42:02):
Let him see struggle.

Speaker 5 (01:42:08):
Yeah, that was golfing through. It was this nikki blade
shitto damn where we were playing out there.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
It was crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
I'm sitting there read these, uh these comments in the chat.

Speaker 21 (01:42:16):
And they're like, oh, hell no unlessen most out.

Speaker 5 (01:42:20):
But I don't care about to say.

Speaker 21 (01:42:21):
If I got a choice between sitting inside and playing
outside in the rain and fifty five mile win, I'm
gonna pick the ladder.

Speaker 17 (01:42:31):
Yeah, you're a wild boy. That's all I can say.
Because that was intense.

Speaker 9 (01:42:35):
Let me put my science hat on for a second,
so you understand that tropical storm winds start at thirty
nine miles an hour and go up to about seventy three.

Speaker 31 (01:42:45):
I don't, I don't.

Speaker 17 (01:42:48):
That's wild.

Speaker 9 (01:42:49):
I was thinking about you might be and Caddy Shack
three or something like that, because some of that stuff
was wild.

Speaker 17 (01:42:55):
I think what people probably want to know is what
did you shoot for the day?

Speaker 21 (01:43:01):
Well, actually, so so the tournament we weren't keeping any well,
we weren't keeping individual score. So the tournament was it
was four players and whoever had the best score on
that whole that was the team's score on that hole. Uh,
and so so I know I had I know, I

(01:43:21):
had at least five. I had five parts. I group
didn't make a birdy all day. But man, it was
like it was like so that that first hole when that.

Speaker 5 (01:43:29):
Rain really came in. Oh man, that was a part
for I think I had a nine that when I
said when that rain and I mean that was that
was like the most the hardest rain, the most win.

Speaker 1 (01:43:42):
Yo.

Speaker 5 (01:43:43):
That was just that was that that l was crazy.
But I mean, look that that that's that's the game.

Speaker 15 (01:43:49):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:43:50):
Let's let's see Kelly. Uh, which we see you out
there playing the fifty five miles on our win?

Speaker 4 (01:43:56):
Absolutely not absolutely not no.

Speaker 22 (01:44:00):
Why because I saw that footage and I was like
that was my cue to take a nap, like you
see me outside?

Speaker 4 (01:44:13):
Yeah, not at all like for me.

Speaker 22 (01:44:16):
Like And it's funny because as a kid, I did
take golfing lessons and stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:44:20):
So it's not that I don't appreciate the game of golf.

Speaker 22 (01:44:23):
I'm just of the mindset that when I hear winds
blowing clouds, grand rain going coming down in sheets, it's
time to go to bed.

Speaker 4 (01:44:34):
It's time to go to bed. That is that is
soup weather.

Speaker 22 (01:44:36):
That is weighted blanket with my hat chick Latte Wether.

Speaker 5 (01:44:43):
That's not.

Speaker 22 (01:44:44):
Oh, let me test the elements like I'm aroa on
you know storm from X Men Like no, no, absolutely,
but kudos to you.

Speaker 5 (01:44:54):
It's a camera camrady. What camerady? Wasn't that bad.

Speaker 26 (01:45:00):
Man?

Speaker 24 (01:45:00):
It's the win though, and Roland came, we gotta hit,
we gotta hit the green. I'm an avid golfer.

Speaker 1 (01:45:06):
I don't.

Speaker 14 (01:45:06):
I don't get to hit out I don't get to
get out there much.

Speaker 24 (01:45:09):
But you way more committed than me, because holla, holda
stop right the whole stop stop, stop stop.

Speaker 21 (01:45:16):
You just said I'm an avid golfer. I don't get
out there as much, and you way more committed to me.

Speaker 5 (01:45:22):
That means you are not an avid golfer.

Speaker 14 (01:45:28):
I'm a I'm a fair weather golfer. That's what we'll say.

Speaker 1 (01:45:31):
I'm a fair weather golfer.

Speaker 5 (01:45:32):
There we go, there we go.

Speaker 21 (01:45:35):
You are fair weather inconsistent golfer, fair weather inconsistently.

Speaker 1 (01:45:41):
I'll take that. I'll take that.

Speaker 24 (01:45:44):
I'll hit the range, but it's I've done the rain
several times. It's the wins. I'm not good enough to
overcome the win, and so kudos to you.

Speaker 5 (01:45:52):
Are that what that means that means you ain't no
avid golfer.

Speaker 1 (01:45:59):
But we gotta go.

Speaker 5 (01:46:00):
Don't use that phrase again.

Speaker 48 (01:46:03):
We gotta get out there, can you You need to go,
You need to go to that range. No, we're gonna
wait till the spring from listen.

Speaker 7 (01:46:14):
We're gonna wait for rain.

Speaker 5 (01:46:17):
Listen, listen. I have played in rain, harder rain than that.
When I played in Ireland.

Speaker 40 (01:46:28):
Uh, it was snowing.

Speaker 5 (01:46:30):
Uh so I mean I'm just cold.

Speaker 46 (01:46:37):
Huh.

Speaker 21 (01:46:38):
How do you see the ball in the easy yet
a colored ball?

Speaker 14 (01:46:46):
Yellow, orange, yellow, green, orange, red.

Speaker 5 (01:46:52):
You just hit? You just hit used to hit a
color ball, So you gotta do and see. That's how.

Speaker 7 (01:47:01):
No, that's boring.

Speaker 5 (01:47:02):
That's boring. That's bored. What's a better story, Yo, I'm
in Bermuda.

Speaker 21 (01:47:07):
The wind was gusted at fifty five miles an hour.

Speaker 5 (01:47:10):
It was in the rain. We played eighteen as opposed
to all in Bermuda and the wind was blowing out
to Connat. That's a boring story. Okay, gotta go to
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Speaker 21 (01:50:08):
Folks, you're looking for that perfect fragrance, Well we have
it for you. Dojo fragrances are handcrafted and Los Angeles
inspired by the founder, Antoine Jones's grandmother, Doris Jones Antwine
birth the company during the pandemic, he joins us now
from La all right, Antoine, glad to have you here.
So when you say that I was inspired by it

(01:50:30):
was actually birth. The birth coming to the pandemic was
inspired by your grandmother, explained, Yeah.

Speaker 49 (01:50:37):
Yeah, So when I was nineteen, I was a doorman
in New York and I took a fragrance making class
from relate in the building. And I was making fragrances
and making candles for about ten years, and I promised
myself that if I ever had the time, I created
a fragrance company. And then COVID came and I had
nothing but time. So so Dojo is a promise that

(01:50:57):
I kept to myself. And when I was looking for
a name, you know, my grandmother passed away when I
was twelve, and I wanted to honor her, and that's
why the company is called Dojo.

Speaker 14 (01:51:05):
And her name was Doris Jones.

Speaker 5 (01:51:10):
So, okay, what's a fragrance class? Like what what? What
is that?

Speaker 22 (01:51:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:51:17):
So it was basically the lady in the building.

Speaker 49 (01:51:20):
She just kind of had a bunch of neighbors come
together and she like kind of taught people how to
mix fragrances. It was like her, you know, small rudimentary
class just to kind of introduce, introduce you get you
used to, you know, mixing different fragrances and things like that.

Speaker 50 (01:51:38):
Okay, and so you took that class and then how
long was it before going from that class to actually
launching your own company?

Speaker 1 (01:51:47):
About ten years? Yeah.

Speaker 49 (01:51:49):
So after the class, I just you know, experiment with candles,
fragrances and just different things. But I never really had
the time to start the company or I never had
the funds. And you know, with COVID, it kind of
gave me a break, you know, so that I can start.

Speaker 5 (01:52:03):
The company, gotcha.

Speaker 21 (01:52:07):
And so so so when you're creating a fragrance, what
are you looking for? What's smell? I mean it's with
some to some too strong, some too soft. What are
you actually looking for?

Speaker 49 (01:52:20):
Yeah, So with my fragrances, I work with a really
good uh fragrance maker, and so we work together and
we just kind of play around with things. Sometimes we
get inspired by things that are already out there. So
one of the fragrances that you actually have is very rich,
which is inspired by bakara rouge. So I get inspired
by things that are already out there.

Speaker 21 (01:52:45):
So when you okay, so you get inspired by these
different things that are out there. And so your fragrances
are they for men and women or only for women?

Speaker 1 (01:52:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 49 (01:52:57):
Everything is uni sex.

Speaker 7 (01:52:58):
Yeah, everything is unisex.

Speaker 21 (01:53:02):
Okay, So so now I'll explain that because there are
some fragrances and perfumes that are targeted to men others
targeted to women.

Speaker 5 (01:53:10):
And so how did you come up with this?

Speaker 21 (01:53:15):
Come on this frankly neutral if you will, That can be,
that could be, that could be used in warm.

Speaker 49 (01:53:22):
Yeah, so I just chose sense that, you know, men
and women will feel comfortable using, you know. So that's
kind of what I wanted to make sure when I
had all my fragrances.

Speaker 5 (01:53:33):
Okay, all right, questions from the panel.

Speaker 21 (01:53:36):
Let's see who probably wears the most cologne or perfume.

Speaker 5 (01:53:42):
It's probably gonna be camera.

Speaker 14 (01:53:50):
I mean, I do, I do wear a good cologne.

Speaker 1 (01:53:52):
I like to smell good. Congratulations on. I don't know
why that's funny? What I don't know why that?

Speaker 51 (01:54:05):
Why can't a brother smell good? Why can't my brother
smell good? What's going on here. Excuse the panel in
our host. Uh, congratulations on your business, sir.

Speaker 5 (01:54:18):
Hey, I'm hey Kelly, the one losing it.

Speaker 26 (01:54:22):
That ain't me.

Speaker 14 (01:54:27):
No, all jokes aside, come on camera.

Speaker 22 (01:54:30):
What's the question?

Speaker 24 (01:54:32):
No, My question is if you're trying to make sure
you make a statement in the room, but you don't
want to be overbearing, which one of the fragrances would
you suggest?

Speaker 1 (01:54:43):
I was Answerine thirty three.

Speaker 7 (01:54:45):
This is what the packaging looks like here.

Speaker 49 (01:54:48):
This has rose clothes, senni man, black currant, peturely, a
little bit of a nise and it's a great evening
in daytime set.

Speaker 14 (01:54:58):
I'm gonna pick some of that up.

Speaker 1 (01:54:59):
I'm a pi some of that, Yes, please do.

Speaker 7 (01:55:03):
You'll enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (01:55:04):
And I and I actually came out.

Speaker 5 (01:55:09):
Okay, I'm sorry to say it again.

Speaker 49 (01:55:11):
Yeah, I said I came out with this this particular
sense Antoine thirty three.

Speaker 1 (01:55:14):
I came out with it on my birthday.

Speaker 5 (01:55:18):
Okay, I A all right, Cole Kelly.

Speaker 22 (01:55:22):
So when it comes to uh, similar to Roland's question,
but I want to be more specific on the type,
like the elements of your sense. So I know you
know a lot of people use I think it's called
pronounced ood or yeah o U.

Speaker 4 (01:55:37):
D throws lavender. So what are your.

Speaker 22 (01:55:42):
Favorite combinations of sense like as far as like your
your base, Like when you when you create something, what
do you typically start with?

Speaker 49 (01:55:53):
So again, like I get inspired by sense that are
already out there. So one of the sens that Roland
has studio is called her scent, which is inspired by Dealina,
which is part fum Demorley and that's vanilla and has rose,
has a little bit of leechy some Bergamont. That's a
really fresh, great unisex scent. And then I also have

(01:56:16):
like you know, a sandal wood and cedar and leather
and violet and musk if you want, like a deeper,
more woody smell. Yeah, I have a wide variety of
since I have some I have things for everyone.

Speaker 5 (01:56:30):
Okay, all right, mustava and hand.

Speaker 17 (01:56:34):
Congratulations you know, and your success so far, could.

Speaker 9 (01:56:37):
You talk a little bit about because you started during COVID,
can you talk a little bit about what your greatest challenge.

Speaker 17 (01:56:43):
Has been and then what has been your greatest success
for your business?

Speaker 14 (01:56:47):
Well, you know, COVID really gave me the time.

Speaker 49 (01:56:50):
So before COVID, I never had the time or the money,
you know, but with COVID we had nothing but time,
you know, so I really utilized that time, you know,
testing different fragmancies and different that's you know, sending things
to my friends and family kind of seeing what they liked.

Speaker 1 (01:57:05):
And what was the second part of the.

Speaker 17 (01:57:07):
Question, what was about challenges and success?

Speaker 1 (01:57:11):
Oh, challenges?

Speaker 7 (01:57:13):
Well, you know, this year particular has been a.

Speaker 49 (01:57:15):
Little bit challenging, you know, like with everything going on,
so things have definitely slowed down a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:57:21):
But you know, it's definitely learning the.

Speaker 49 (01:57:25):
Pivot, learning you know, to kind of add new lines at.

Speaker 14 (01:57:28):
New fragmances, at new sense and so yeah, thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:57:35):
All right.

Speaker 21 (01:57:36):
Then well listen, folks, go to shop blackstartnetwork dot com.
Shop blackstartnetwork dot com. Uh to check out of the
fragrances dojo again, go to shop blackst network dot com.
There are there a multiple products there, so go to
the website and check it out there. Antoine, Man, we
appreciate it, man, thanks a.

Speaker 7 (01:57:56):
Lot, Thank you very much. I appreciate you having me.

Speaker 5 (01:58:00):
All right, Thank you so very much. Folks. That is
it for us.

Speaker 21 (01:58:04):
Let me thank my panel, Let me thank Mustafa, Let
me thank smooth smelling Cameron.

Speaker 5 (01:58:14):
And let me thank as well. Thank you so very much, folks.

Speaker 26 (01:58:20):
That's it for me.

Speaker 5 (01:58:20):
I appreciate tomorrow.

Speaker 21 (01:58:22):
We got the program here at the Butterfill Overmeda Championship.
We're gonna be a partner with different pro players and
so looking forward to that.

Speaker 5 (01:58:31):
And again I'll be sharing some other stories talking to
some folks.

Speaker 21 (01:58:35):
Here about this tournament, what Bermida, what their goal is
by sponsoring this. And of course it's also that golf
season is very interesting. They see that golf season. It's
September to May. I was talking to one of the guys.
He said it was too hot, and I'm like, too hot, man,
pease he said, shoot, I'll get me to heat any
day of the week. But again, so look forward to that.

(01:58:57):
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.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}ICE Raids Rock NC, Texas ER Birth Horror, Pharrell’s Take on Politics, Trump Embraces Fuentes